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AOL Says It Will Let New Acquisition Maintain Its Course (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The head of America Online Inc. said yesterday that he plans to take a hands-off approach to running Advertising.com Inc., the growing, profitable online ad firm that AOL is buying for $435 million. |
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EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? |
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Akihabara is geek sex paradise. The Japanese town of Akihabara has become a legendary gadget shopping destination. But this Japan Today story examines its odd brand of nerd sociology, in which fantasizing about sex is of far greater importance than actually having sex. Spotlight on girls named "Pudding," synthetic paramours, and the scarcity of 'no-pan' cafes -- in which miniskirted hottie waitresses going commando serve you rice cakes with a smile.
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The area has undergone something of a makeover recently with posters and figures of animated beautiful girls plastered all over the place and the emergence of cafes and restaurants devoted to "cosplay," featuring girls dressed as animated heroes, maids, etc. Even a public area, such as the floor space of JR Akihabara station, has got into the act, with a 3-meter-round poster of the face of a beautiful girl appearing in an animation video. Kiichiro Morikawa, a professor at the Kuwasawa Design Research Institute, said, "An increasing number of animation goods and game shops have opened their doors and changed the area into an 'otaku' (geek) Mecca." Psychologists say these "otaku" or geeks are regressive, have poor social ability, and have never fully matured as adults. "Therefore, they are not good at communicating with others, cannot date real human beings, and instead adore an imaginary character," said one.
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IT workers' salaries slip in middle. Study finds compensation drops for IT middle managers, rises modestly for execs and staff. |
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Summer means back-to-school desktops from HP. The computer giant serves up seven new PC lines, moving newer technologies into lower-price models. |
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Justices Oppose Internet Porn Law (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to extend a ban on enforcement of a federal law designed to shield minors from Internet pornography, ruling for the third time in seven years that a congressional effort to curb online obscenity threatens free speech. |
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Spider-Man 2 Reviewed |
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Tekmark Announces Strategic Changes |
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What's the New IE Flaw All About? |
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iPod based foreign language phrasebook. Talking Panda is a new language translation app designed for the Apple iPod. Comes with over 300 common words and phrases of whichever language you want to speak. French, Spanish, and Japanese for $10 per language. RFID News editor John Wehr, who is helping out with the project, says "The fun thing is that the idea is so straightforward it could be used (or pre-installed?) with any portable player." Flash demo here, and website here. |
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Akihabara is geek sex paradise. The Japanese town of Akihabara has become a legendary gadget shopping destination -- this story examines its odd brand of nerd sociology. Spotlight on girls named "Pudding," synthetic mating rituals, and 'no-pan' cafes where miniskirted hottie waitresses going commando serve you rice cakes with a smile.
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The area has undergone something of a makeover recently with posters and figures of animated beautiful girls plastered all over the place and the emergence of cafes and restaurants devoted to "cosplay," featuring girls dressed as animated heroes, maids, etc. Even a public area, such as the floor space of JR Akihabara station, has got into the act, with a 3-meter-round poster of the face of a beautiful girl appearing in an animation video. Kiichiro Morikawa, a professor at the Kuwasawa Design Research Institute, said, "An increasing number of animation goods and game shops have opened their doors and changed the area into an 'otaku' (geek) Mecca." Psychologists say these "otaku" or geeks are regressive, have poor social ability, and have never fully matured as adults. "Therefore, they are not good at communicating with others, cannot date real human beings, and instead adore an imaginary character," said one.
Link (Thanks, Steve) |
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IT salaries stuck in the middle. Study finds compensation drops for IT middle managers, rises modestly for execs and staff. |
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Broadcom unveils single chip 802.11g part. The part combines the capabilities of three chips into one, making it smaller and less expensive. |
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Briefly: Matsushita names new CEO of U.S. unit. roundup Plus: Broadcom unveils single chip 802.11g part...Downloads get U.K. top 20 chart...Apple pares AirPort Extreme prices...BigBand Networks swings to tune of $25 million. |
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Banking on Java. At JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun looks to the future of its flagship software product. A big private win for JDS could give it a boost. |
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Summer means back to school desktops from HP. The computer giant serves up seven new PC lines, moving newer technologies into lower-price models. |
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Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC (MacCentral). MacCentral - When Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's next generation operating system, Mac OS X Tiger, at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday, many of the new features were met with applause and cheers from the crowd. But one new feature, Dashboard, generated an equal amount controversy for the company as Apple demoed a feature that many onlookers claim share many similarities to a shareware application called Konfabulator. |
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Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams (AP). AP - Ever wished you could decide what to dream at night? |
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Legal Fight Is No Fun for Amazon, Toys R Us (Reuters). Reuters - The legal wrangling between two of the
biggest players in toys and online retailing -- Toys R Us Inc.
(TOY.N) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O) -- could end their
partnership, leading analysts to wonder what is next for the
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glabels: Ready For Prime Time |
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Press Release: 2004 E-Crime Watch Survey Shows Significant Increase in Electronic Crimes |
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New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq: Under Steel Rain. A new weblog dispatch from NBC correspondent and blogger Kevin Sites, about life in the militarized zone with the distinction of having been mortared more than any other in Iraq -- 400 times in the last three months
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[S]oldiers aren't the only ones in danger. Civilian employees of Kellog. Brown and Root -- which provide many of the civilian services on base -- are also at risk. Many of the food service employees, mostly foreign workers from poor nations like the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh; say theyre very frightened by the mortars. One says he sleeps on the ground pulling sandbags around him, but while the mortars haven't got him yet, the sand fleas have. He shows me the red bites on arms.
Four Philippine workers were killed at the largest Army supply base in Iraq last April when insurgent rockets hit their living quarters at Camp Anaconda. But those inside the camp aren't completely surrounded by hostility. At dusk in Guard Tower 7, soldiers watch Iraqi boys play soccer not more than a hundred yards away. Some Iraqi civilians even live in shacks right next to the massive walls surrounding the base.
"Hi Nora," one of the soldiers says, waving to a shy ten year old Iraqi girl popping her head out from behind a sheet that covers the opening to the mud and clapboard shack. "Hi Michael," she says in a high-pitched voice, waving then quickly ducking back inside.
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Five pounds of Silly Putty for $60.  You can buy five pound chubs of Silly Putty from Binney & Smith for $60 plus shipping. Egg not included. (But you can buy 144 glow in the dark plastic eggs from the Oriental Trading Company for $5.) Link |
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World's First Large-Scale Ogg Theora Stream |
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Business Objects updates suite with Crystal integration. Business Objects SA released an upgraded version of its "business intelligence" software suite Tuesday, featuring deeper integration with the reporting tools it picked up last year through its acquisition of Crystal Decisions Inc. |
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Microsoft settles another class-action suit. Microsoft Corp. has settled a class-action lawsuit with customers in Massachusetts for as much as $34 million, the company announced Tuesday. |
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ISO endorses key security certification |
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US Supreme Court bars enforcement of Child Online Protection Act |
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Microsoft puts mobile developers on the map. Partnership with U.K. wireless operators gives developers more range in using data based on cell phone location. |
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TI teams to hang up cell phone crackers. Texas Instruments and ARM are "burying the security into the hardware," following the emergence of the first virus to target cell phones. |
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Sun's Kitty Hawk aims high. The company plans to retool its back-end Java software and tools to enable system designs that are more modular and flexible. |
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Siebel Charged With Violating SEC Rule (AP). AP - Federal regulators charged Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday with violating a rule barring companies from revealing information to Wall Street before the general public — the second such accusation against the software maker. |
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Amazon to Cut Jobs in France, Move Some Operations (Reuters). Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com
(AMZN.O) on Tuesday said it is cutting jobs and relocating
workers from its office in Guyancourt, France, as it
centralizes some operations in the United States and the UK. |
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iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition |
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DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' |
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IBM leads shifting apps deployment market, IDC says. IBM Corp. continued to lead the market for application deployment software in 2003, but the field will become far more competitive as customers migrate away from IBM's mainframe and OS/400 systems, according to new figures released Tuesday by IDC. |
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SEC smacks Siebel again over disclosure rules. NEW YORK - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Siebel Systems Inc., charging the company and two top executives with violating disclosure rules for the second time. |
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Flextronics takes over Nortel manufacturing. Nortel Networks Corp. will shift the last of its manufacturing operations to Flextronics Corp. when a deal announced Tuesday is completed next year. |
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Sun launches IGRTN program. Monkeys - to your typewriters! By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Oracle secures Collaxa purchase. Bringing home the BPEL By Ashlee Vance . |
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TechXNY Becoming Many Shows In One |
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Chapura Introduces TurboPasswords |
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Photoblogging London's Tube strike. The bloggers at London.Metblogs.com have been doing an admirable job of covering the subway strike in London. Link (Thanks, Sean) |
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Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords. Trojan horse installed through pop-up ad has watch list of banking sites. Victims visit sites, type in passwords, hand info to hackers. |
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Briefly: Downloads get U.K. top 20 chart. roundup Plus: Apple pares AirPort Extreme prices...BigBand Networks swings to tune of $25 million...Digital Envoy wins geotargeting patent...SBC bundles in BlackBerrys. |
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RIM reports profit, soaring sales. BlackBerry maker's in the black for the fourth quarter in a row as revenue from its paging device and wireless service doubles. |
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SEC charges Siebel with disclosure breach--again. Siebel Systems charged with breaking disclosure laws two years after being fined for similar violation. |
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Earnings alert: RIM doubles sales. Plus: PalmOne hits high note...Mixed results for Adobe...Red Hat reports profit growth. |
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Microsoft Settles Mass. Class-Action Suit (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on
Tuesday it would provide up to $34 million in vouchers to
settle claims it broke Massachusetts laws on unfair competition
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Cisco to Acquire Software Company for $82 Mln (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the
world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet
traffic, on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy the rest of a
privately held software maker it does not own for about $82
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PluggedIn: Look Closely - the Picture May Tell a Story (Reuters). Reuters - The adage that a picture is worth
1,000 words still holds, but look very carefully -- that same
picture may also contain an illicit love note, a recipe for
bomb-making or the secret location of buried treasure. |
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New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL |
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US Supreme Court bars enforcement of Child Online Protection Act |
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NIST aims to ease XP security setup |
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ARM, TI enter technology security collaboration |
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Windows XP Service Pack 2: "A victory for the security guys" |
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Patent filed for voice spam blocking technology |
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Sevenfold increase in phishing attacks |
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Elsewhere: NIST aims to ease XP security setup |
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Elsewhere: Cyber-loafing boss sacks office spyware detective |
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News: CoolWebSearch is winning Trojan war |
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Intel launches 90nm Xeon. Intel has taken the wraps off of Nocoma, the newest Xeon processor. Along with the 90nm process, the new Xeons feature Intel's 64-bit answer to AMD's x86-64 By Eric Bangeman. |
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Lucas Arts makes a Make-A-Wish kids-wiith-leukemia game. A kid with leukemia worked with the Make A Wish foundation and Lucas Arts to produce a leukemia-themed kids-game.
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The game he created is about fighting cancer, and it reflects Ben's own battle with leukemia. It takes place inside the body, on a playfield of mutating cells. The hero, a boy on a hovering skateboard, uses high-tech weapons to destroy these cells by collecting the seven shields that protect against common side effects of chemotherapy.
It's not easy to get the shields -- they're in the hands of monsters that have to be zapped. FireMonster guards the fever shield and hurls molten lava. VampMonster guards the bleeding shield and sends out vampire bats. Robarf guards the vomit shield "with big smelly green globs." And QBall, guardian of the hair-loss shield, shoots out billiard balls.
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Java desktop wins over major bank. Deal with Allied Irish Bank gives Sun seal of approval from a big private client for its version of desktop Linux. |
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Comcast reports 35 percent decline in spam. Cable giant says recent decision to block a port has dramatic results--but it still ranks highest in bulk e-mails sent. |
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Banking on Java. At JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun looks to the future of its flagship software product. A big private win for JDS could give it a boost. |
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Music downloads get U.K. pop chart. A chart of the most popular U.K. downloads will be available from Sept.1, with numbers gleaned from song-shop staples such as iTunes. |
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Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals banking data. Trojan horse installed through pop-up ad has watch list of banking sites. Victims visit sites, type in passwords, hand info to hackers. |
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Siebel Is Charged With Violating Rule (AP). AP - Federal regulators charged Siebel Systems Inc. on Tuesday with violating a rule barring companies from revealing information to Wall Street before the general public — the second such accusation against the software maker. |
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Apple's RSS Embrace Could Bolster Adoption (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - With Safari RSS, Apple has become the latest browser maker to support XML syndication and attempt to simplify feed reading. |
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Design Wanted For Antarctic Base |
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Sun’s McNealy chides Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat. SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the 2004 JavaOne conference here on Tuesday extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Linux OS vendor Red Hat to join the Java Community Process (JCP), and also stressed that Sun, which has struggled financially lately, is not going away. |
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ISO endorses key security certification |
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Elsewhere: Cyber-loafing boss sacks office spyware detective. Can't help thinking the wrong man got the bullet? You're probably not the only one...
A man who became so frustrated at the extent of his boss's 'cyber-loafing' has been... |
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News: CoolWebSearch is winning Trojan war. Merijn Bellekom has abandoned developing software that removes one of the nastiest browser hijackers on the planet: CoolWebSearch, a trojan that converts your PC into a source of revenue for fly-by-night porn sites not capable of generating legitimate Web traffic. |
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INDUCE Act Legislation. Senator Hatch is once again introducing legislation aimed at providing broad power to the RIAA and MPAA to fight their war against the P2P networks such as Kazaa and Grokster. The INDUCE (Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act) bill... |
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Free MP3 of parrot-fronted deathmetal act HATEBEAK. 
Ladies, gentlemen, budgies: I present to you a free MP3 from the new album by HATEBEAK -- the world's only deathmetal band with an avian vocalist.
Link to Beak of Putrefaction MP3. Buy a clear vinyl 7" for $5 postage paid at this Link. (Thanks for hosting, Leonard Lin! And special thanks to Chris -- founder of Reptilian Records and manager of HATEBEAK's feathered frontman Waldo.) |
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President Bush accidentally allowed to be interviewed by a real journalist. The President's handlers foolishly granted a Presidential interview (requires RealPlayer) to a non-White House Press Corps journalist, Carole Coleman, the Washington correspondent for RTE, the Irish public television network. When she asked him pointed, pertinent questions, he became upset when his stock answers failed to satisfy her. An aide to the President later complained that Coleman had "overstepped the bounds of politeness."
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Coleman is a mainstream European journalist who has conducted interviews with top officials from a number of countries - her January interview with Secretary of State Colin Powell was apparently solid enough to merit posting on the State Department's Web site.
Unfortunately, it appears that Coleman failed to receive the memo informing reporters that they are supposed to treat this president with kid gloves. Instead, she confronted him as any serious journalist would a world leader.
She asked tough questions about the mounting death toll in Iraq, the failure of U.S. planning, and European opposition to the invasion and occupation. And when the president offered the sort of empty and listless "answers" that satisfy the White House press corps - at one point, he mumbled, "My job is to do my job" - she tried to get him focused by asking precise follow-up questions.
The president complained five times during the course of the interview about the pointed nature of Coleman's questions and follow-ups - "Please, please, please, for a minute, OK?" the hapless Bush pleaded at one point, as he demanded his questioner go easy on him.
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Vidiot sez: The White House complained later that Coleman was disrespectful and didn't ask the "suggested question" about what Irish PM Ahern was wearing that day.
Coleman has responded to White House criticism, noting that she submitted her questions three days in advance.
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SENT gallery show opens in LA July 10. 
The gallery show for SENT, the phonecam art project I'm co-curating with Sean Bonner and Caryn Coleman of sixspace, opens Saturday July 10 in LA. Images from 25 invited artists, filmmakers, and celebs will debut alongside digitally-displayed images submitted by the public.
The SENT exhibition takes place in the "Brunette" Meeting Room on the fourth floor of the Standard Hotel Downtown LA, 550 South Flower Street. SENT will debut for public viewing at a reception from 7-10 pm on Saturday, July 10. The exhibit will be open for public viewing from Sunday, July 11 through Saturday July 17 from 12pm to 5pm daily. Admission is free of charge, and the project is sponsored in part by Motorola. Oh! and did I mention that the Downtown Standard now offers free WiFi throughout the hotel? Come all ye bloggers.
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Cisco to buy caching start-up. Networking giant will dole out $82 million in cash for Actona Technologies, its second acquisition in less than a month. |
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Microsoft documents detail SAP buyout plan. Microsoft described star-crossed "Project Constellation" as its only shot at the high-end market for business software.
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Elsewhere: Playboy 'hacker' just a shelf-stacker slacker. "I'll bring down your business unless you pay me... [dramatic pause] .... $100"
A Southampton man has been jailed for convincing legendary 'jazz-mag' Playboy that he'd h... |
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Elsewhere: NIST aims to ease XP security setup. Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology hope their new publication will help simplify the process of setting security controls on Microsoft Corp.'... |
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BugTraq: Re: Java applet crashing with native assertion. Sender: Cesare D'Amico [cesare at ngi dot it] |
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Sun nabs AIB desktop contract. MS left out in the cold By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry |
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Flight information |
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Missing Open Source Security Tools? |
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Registered Traveler Program Open For Business |
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Registered traveler program takes off |
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FCC: Only We Can Regulate Unlicensed Spectrum |
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Lotus Notes URL Argument Injection Vulnerability |
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MPlayer GUI Filename Handling Buffer Overflow |
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Microsoft Blames Hackers, Not Zero-Day Vulnerability, For Web Attack |
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Security: The root of the problem |
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Fast Company's new linking policy still broken. Fast Company has amended its atrocious linking policy, but the one they've put in its place is only slightly better.
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Fast Company permits links to the Fastcompany.com Web site. However, Fast Company reserves the right to withdraw permission for any link and requests that you not link for any impermissible purpose or in a manner that suggests that Fast Company promotes or endorses your Web site.
Fastcompany.com does not allow framing of its Web site content.
The Web exists because there is no permission needed to create a link (and that includes a framing link). This is enshrined in the RFCs that defined the Web. It has been the guiding principle of the Web since the first page went online.
That permission-free world made the economy that Fast Company services possible. It is dangerous and irresponsible for Fast Company's lawyers to tell the lie to Fast Company's readers that there is a legitimate basis for asserting the right to control who may link to your website (you don't need a policy to tell people that links that create the fraudulent impression of an endorsement are illegal -- fraud is illegal even if you're not on notice about it).
This is a step in the right direction, but only a small one. The faxed-permission-form was ridiculous, but the real evil in it wasn't the ridiculousness, it was this damaging lie about permission being required for links.
I really hope that Fast Company acts like the heroes I know they can be here, changing their linking policy to something like:
The Web exists because no one has the right to grant or withhold permission for links. Fast Company exists because of the Web. Accordingly, we neither grant nor deny permission to link to our site, and urge you to do the same.
I would buy twenty FC subscriptions for twenty friends if they would do this. I'd settle for removing the linking policy entirely (but I wouldn't buy the subs).
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President Bush accidentally allowed to be interviewed by a real journalist. The President's handlers foolishly granted a Presidential interview (requires RealPlayer) to a non-White House Press Corps journalist, Carole Coleman, the Washington correspondent for RTE, the Irish public television network. When she asked him pointed, pertinent questions, he became upset when his stock answers failed to satisfy her. An aide to the President later complained that Coleman had "overstepped the bounds of politeness."
Coleman is a mainstream European journalist who has conducted interviews with top officials from a number of countries - her January interview with Secretary of State Colin Powell was apparently solid enough to merit posting on the State Department's Web site.
Unfortunately, it appears that Coleman failed to receive the memo informing reporters that they are supposed to treat this president with kid gloves. Instead, she confronted him as any serious journalist would a world leader.
She asked tough questions about the mounting death toll in Iraq, the failure of U.S. planning, and European opposition to the invasion and occupation. And when the president offered the sort of empty and listless "answers" that satisfy the White House press corps - at one point, he mumbled, "My job is to do my job" - she tried to get him focused by asking precise follow-up questions.
The president complained five times during the course of the interview about the pointed nature of Coleman's questions and follow-ups - "Please, please, please, for a minute, OK?" the hapless Bush pleaded at one point, as he demanded his questioner go easy on him.
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Apple pares AirPort Extreme prices. Prices of wireless base station and card go down. |
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BigBand Networks swings to tune of $25 million. The developer of multimedia services for broadband networks ups its investment total past $100 million. |
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Net, tech to juice up global entertainment market. PwC says online ads, broadband, mobile communications, and other tech areas will help ring curtain down on years of slow growth. |
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Briefly: Apple pares AirPort Extreme prices. roundup Plus: BigBand Networks swings to tune of $25 million...Digital Envoy wins geotargeting patent...SBC bundles in BlackBerrys...Sun names Intuit chief to board. |
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SEC to Siebel: You Broke Law Again! (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission charged Siebel Systems Inc. (SEBL.O) on Tuesday with
violating for a second time a rule aimed at disseminating
market-moving news equally to all investors. |
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Elgato opens EyeTV to developers with new SDK (MacCentral). MacCentral - Elgato Systems LLC makes EyeTV, a series of digital video recorder (DVR) devices designed to enable Macs to record television shows to their hard drives. On Tuesday Elgato introduced a Software Development Kit (SDK) to enable third-party developers to extend the EyeTV's core functionality with plug-ins. |
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Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML |
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Telus Puts A Stop To 'Modem Hijacking' |
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Elsewhere: Windows XP Service Pack 2: "A victory for the security guys". 'Shorthorn' security features on show at Tech Ed
Microsoft has hailed Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) as a "victory for the security guys" and its new features have been... |
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BugTraq: TSSA-2004-012 - apache. Sender: tinysofa Security Team [security at tinysofa dot org] |
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US Supreme Court bars enforcement of Child Online Protection Act. In the final decision of its current session, the US Supreme Court barred enforcement of COPA, a law designed to keep adult content on the Internet inaccessible to children. The case is being sent back to Appeals court for a trial. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Supreme court rules web porn is free speech. Today, America's highest court ruled that a law intended to punish child pornographers is an unconstitutional restriction for online free speech.
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The high court divided 5-to-4 over a law passed in 1998, signed by then-President Clinton and now backed by the Bush administration. The majority said a lower court was correct to block the law from taking effect because it likely violates the First Amendment. The American Civil Liberties Union and other critics of the law said that it would restrict far too much material that adults may legally see and buy, the court said. "Today's ruling from the court demonstrates that there are many less restrictive ways to protect children without sacrificing communication intended for adults," said ACLU associate litigation director Ann Beeson in a statement. Beeson argued the case before the court in 2001 and again last March.
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Snapshots from the "other" Hollywood.. 
Here are the rest of the snapshots I took at a recent porn industry convention in Los Angeles. Shown here: an inflatable swimming pool full of disembodied plastic genitalia. This, by the way, was art.
Link , and previous BoingBoing posts: 1, 2, 3 |
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Free MP3 of parrot-fronted deathmetal act HATEBEAK.
Ladies, gentlemen, budgies: I present to you a free MP3 from the new album by HATEBEAK -- the world's only deathmetal band with an avian vocalist.
Link to Beak of Putrefaction MP3. Buy a clear vinyl 7" for $5 postage paid at this Link. (Thanks for hosting, Leonard Lin! And special thanks to Chris -- founder of Reptilian Records and manager of HATEBEAK's feathered frontman Waldo.) |
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Disabling autorun in Windows yields bliss. Endgadet's Phillip Torrone sez: "By default Windows will automatically look for a file called Autorun.inf on any CD you pop in to your system, we’ve always known this is a big security issue as there are a lot of spyware and viruses distributed on CDs, you read about this every week. In fact, Microsoft is even disabling this in their next security focused service pack. Add to that, record companies are adding Autorun software which won't allow Windows users to make MP3s from the CDs they've purchased. So in an effort to protect people from Spyware, viruses and other nasty things we're suggesting everyone disables autorun." Link |
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US court bars internet porn law. The US Supreme Court blocks enforcement of a law designed to protect children from web porn. |
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Application deployment grows leisurely. IBM, BEA and Oracle continue to dominate the $7 billion market, according to IDC. |
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Supreme Court keeps Net porn law on ice. In a close vote, the justices rule that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violates Americans' free-speech rights. |
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Nortel agrees to outsource manufacturing. Company will hand over most of its manufacturing operations and 2,500 employees to Flextronics as it continues to cut costs. |
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Two at Chicago Sun-Times Out in Circulation Flap (Reuters). Reuters - The Chicago Sun-Times said on Tuesday
its circulation chief has resigned and the man who formerly
held the post has been placed on leave in the wake of
disclosures that its circulation figures were inflated. |
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Cisco to Acquire Software Company for $82 Mln (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the
world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet
traffic, on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy the rest of a
privately held software maker it does not own for about $82
million in cash. |
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Apple cuts AirPort Extreme prices (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple has cut prices on its AirPort Extreme Base Station and card. The AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Extreme Card enable Macs to network wirelessly using the IEEE 802.11g Wi-Fi standard. The AirPort Extreme Base Station, equipped with both an Ethernet interface, a 56K modem and an external antenna port, known as the "Modem + Broadband Edition," is now listed on the Apple Store Web site for US$199 -- $50 less than before. The AirPort Extreme Card, compatible with Macs that have an internal AirPort Extreme slot, costs US$79 -- $20 less than before. |
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Ah, the Sound, but Oh, the Bumps on the Road to Digital Radio (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Digital radio broadcasts, after years of dreaming and development, are finally arriving on the air. And at first, this technology might not seem terribly enticing: The hardware needed to tune in these new signals is laughably expensive and few stations transmit in digital anyway. |
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Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law |
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BugTraq: JS.Scob.Trojan Source Code .... Sender: K-OTiK Security [Special-Alerts at k-otik dot com] |
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BugTraq: DoS in popclient 3.0b6. Sender: Dean White [incidents at oneguard dot com] |
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BugTraq: SUPER SPOOF DELUXE Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft and Security. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200406-21 ] mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in krb5_aname_to_localname. Sender: Kurt Lieber [klieber at gentoo dot org] |
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Intel's new Xeon undergoes reconstructive nomenclature. Letters STALON? STOLON? XEOPTERON? By Ashlee Vance . |
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Microsoft goes after hobbyists with Express developer tools. Microsoft announces its Express developer tools. Aimed at the hobbyist, Express consists of streamlined versions of Visual Studio and other Microsoft developer tools By Eric Bangeman. |
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Adobe targets piracy in Asia. Company says it antipiracy efforts led to a 10 percent increase in its revenue in the region last year. |
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Supreme Court curtails Net porn law. In a close vote, the justices rule that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violates Americans' free-speech rights. |
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Sun names Intuit chief to board. Sun Microsystems taps Stephen Bennett to join its board based on his experience developing "growing and diverse businesses." |
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Briefly: Sun names Intuit chief to board. roundup Plus: zSeries checks into hospital...QLogic, Emulex settle legal spats...JBoss expands Java ambitions...Java gets ready for 3G. |
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Apple Readies Search Technology For Macs (TechWeb). TechWeb - CEO Steve Jobs says the technology, called Spotlight, will be part of next year's Mac OS X upgrade and will let users easily search the contents of their computers. |
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Justices Leave Online Porn Case Unresolved (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Supreme Court today said that a law aimed at protecting children from Internet pornography probably violates free-speech rights, but for the second time the justices sent the case back to a lower court for a new trial. |
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Cassini-Huygens Saturn Orbit Insertion Imminent |
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Microsoft drums up developers at Tech Ed Europe. AMSTERDAM -- Microsoft Corp. kicked off its Tech Ed Europe conference in Amsterdam Tuesday to the thundering cacophony of thousands of developers and other IT professionals beating on small African drums. The fact that the drums were provided by Microsoft could be seen as a move by the company to get customers dancing to its beat, but for many attendees it represented a change in Microsoft's tune -- the software giant was finally listening to them. |
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Gates gives progress report on fight against spam. Customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service play an integral part in the company's fight against junk e-mail, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an open letter Monday. He also dismissed the idea of generating revenue from spammers by imposing a charge for sending e-mail. |
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Security: The root of the problem |
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BugTraq: Re: Java applet crashing with native assertion. Sender: Jack Lloyd [lloyd at randombit dot net] |
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Vulns: WebSoft HelpDesk PRO SQL Injection Vulnerability. HelpDesk PRO is a web-based help desk application commercially available for the Windows platform.
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Bayesian spam rumination: when word-frequency-histograms attack!. Ed Felten has posted an intriguing rumination on the possible failure modes of Bayesian spam-filtering -- filtering that uses word-frequency statistics to classify email as spam or ham. As Ed points out, Bayesian filters are trained by the spammers, who, by choosing the vocabulary of their messages carefully, can make messages containing certain words or phrases undeliverable on the Internet.
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Now suppose a big spammer wanted to poison a particular word, so that messages containing that word would be (mis)classified as spam. The spammer could sprinkle the target word throughout the word salad in his outgoing spam messages. When users classified those messages as spam, the targeted word would develop a negative score in the users' Bayesian spam filters. Later, messages with the targeted word would likely be mistaken for spam.
This attack could even be carried out against a particular targeted user. By feeding that user a steady diet of spam (or pseudo-spam) containing the target word, a malicious person could build up a highly negative score for that word in the targeted user's filter.
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BT struggles on broadband price. BT dominates in the supply of broadband lines but its own broadband services are priced too high according to research. |
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In Southeast Asia, Adobe targets piracy. The problem is so widespread that last year the company's antipiracy efforts added 10 percent to its revenue in the region. |
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Oracle snaps up Collaxa. The database giant plans to fill out its integration software line with Collaxa's business process automation tools. |
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RalliSport Challenge 2 Goes to New Heights (AP). AP - Rally racing is a test of focus and endurance that demands an expert balance between raw horsepower and precision driving. "RalliSport Challenge 2" for the Xbox does a great job of recreating the challenge and exhilaration of this often chaotic racing style. |
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Court Bars Internet Pornography Law Enforcement (Reuters). Reuters - A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court
on Tuesday barred enforcement of a 1998 federal law designed to
keep Internet pornography away from minors because it likely
violates constitutional free-speech rights. |
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Programs: Spam-Fighter 'ChoiceMail' Altered Outgoing Mail (Reuters). Reuters - Ooops. In my last column, I
had some very kind words for "ChoiceMail Free," the no-cost
program designed to keep spam out of your electronic mailbox by
requiring senders who aren't in your address book to ask your
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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Express, VS 2005 Beta |
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Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP |
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Gates gives progress report on fight against spam. Customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service play an integral part in the company's fight against junk e-mail, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an open letter Monday. He also dismissed the idea of generating revenue from spammers by imposing a charge for sending e-mail. |
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Vulns: vBulletin newreply.php Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. VBulletin is a commercially available web based bulletin board application. It is implemented in PHP and may be run on Unix and Unix variants operating systems as well as... |
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D-Link DI-614+ DHCP Request Flooding Denial of Service |
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D-Link DI-614+ DHCP Request Flooding Denial of Service |
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In Southeast Asia, Adobe targets pirates. The problem is so common that last year the company's antipiracy work added 10 percent to its revenue in the region. |
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Software CEO tells of buyout talks with Oracle (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - A hotly anticipated showdown of the Oracle antitrust trial was canceled Monday when the Redwood Shores software giant said it would not call PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway to testify about Oracle's hostile takeover attempt of his company. |
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Buy data service, get a free car? (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - People are used to the idea that they can get a free cell phone by signing up for a service contract. But how about a free car? |
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Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released |
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Apple previews Mac OS X 'Tiger,' Tiger Server. SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Computer Inc. is giving attendees of this week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2004 in San Francisco, a first look at the next major revision to Mac OS X v10.4, known by its code-name "Tiger." Version 10.4 is the forthcoming release of the company's operating system that is expected to be released some time in the first half of 2005, and it touts more than 150 new features, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who took the wraps off the software at a keynote address on Monday morning. |
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Sun dancing SOA tune with Project Disco. SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems at the 2004 JavaOne conference this week is previewing prototype tools technology, code-named Project Disco, for visually developing Web services that would be used in service-oriented architectures (SOAs). |
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NewsIsFree: Your own Advanced News Reader and Feed Publisher. Read news from thousands of news sources updated every 15 minutes on the most powerful news aggregator.
Create custom feeds with more items, descriptions, select your version of RSS...
Check out NewsIsFree's services!
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BBC affirms Creative Archive in Charter Renewal plans. The BBC has submitted its Charter Renewal documents to the UK Government, outlining its plans for the next ten years. It's a long and comprehensive document, and most excitingly, it describes a free and open Creative Archive intended to provide Britons with access to the material in the BBC's vaults for free viewing, remixing and reuse.
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Imagine being able to view and listen -- and even download and own -- extracts from the world's largest television and radio archive.
53% of internet users download content for their own compilations 55. For the first time, the BBC will open up its treasure chest of programmes to the public who own it and make its contents available to individuals and to families for learning, for creativity and for pleasure. Two-thirds of current and prospective broadband users say they are interested in the Creative Archive service.
The BBC Creative Archive will establish a pool of high-quality content which can be legally drawn on by collectors, enthusiasts, artists, musicians, students, teachers and many others, who can search and use this material non-commercially. And where exciting new works and products are made using this material, we will showcase them on BBC services.
Initially we will release factual material, beginning with extracts from natural history programmes. As demand grows, we are committed to extending the Creative Archive across all areas of our output.
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zSeries checks into hospital. A New Orleans hospital en route to paperless medical records is one of the first customers for IBM's new eServer zSeries 890 mainframe. |
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Briefly: zSeries checks into hospital. roundup Plus: QLogic, Emulex settle legal spats...JBoss expands Java ambitions...Java gets ready for 3G...Microsoft to release next version of CE. |
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Offshoring: A view from both shores. Wipro Technologies CEO Vivek Paul is a U.S. citizen who also happens to spearhead outsourcing efforts for one of India's biggest IT companies. |
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Sun-Times Circulation Chief Leave Post (AP). AP - The executive in charge of circulation for the Chicago Sun-Times has resigned, two weeks after the paper's parent company announced it had inflated its circulation numbers for several years. |
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Gadget May Help Sleepers Choose Dreams (AP). AP - Ever wished you could decide what to dream at night? |
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Telecom Italia subsidary boosts stake in Webfin Internet group (AFP). AFP - Telecom Italia Media, the Internet-television subsidiary of Telecom Italia, said it had boosted its stake in the Internet company Webfin with the purchase of a 40-percent interest for 325 million euros (395 million dollars). |
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Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath? |
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Microsoft to support IT development in Japan. TOKYO -- Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit is planning to support development of IT skills and venture companies in Japan under two initiatives announced Monday. |
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BEA to enter fray over open-source Java. SAN FRANCISCO -- BEA Systems Inc. will jump into the debate over whether Java should be made open source on Wednesday, and comments from one of its senior executives suggest the application server vendor is leaning in favor of the move. |
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Microsoft woos new developers with Visual Studio 'Express'. Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down "Express" editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages. |
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MPlayer GUI Filename Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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CuteNews "id" Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft targets amateur programmers. Among the perks the software giant will offer are lightweight development tools and a free version of SQL Server.
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When standards don't apply. A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies. |
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Jobs Unveils Mac Operating System Upgrade (AP). AP - Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs previewed the next release of the Mac OS X operating system on Monday, claiming it will boast some coveted features that Microsoft Windows won't include until 2006. |
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Microsoft, Fujitsu to Develop Servers (AP). AP - U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. and Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. will collaborate to develop servers for the next-generation Windows operating system, the companies said Monday. |
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Review: Nokia N-Gage QD Still Needs Work (AP). AP - Nokia Corp.'s new N-Gage QD is a vast improvement over the company's first all-in-one cell phone/gaming device. But that's not really saying much. |
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Meshcube: A New Mesh-Routing Wireless Device |
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Linux VM guide at 30% off. Site Offer Plus big discounts on 4000 titles By Team Register . |
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Cassini runs rings round Saturn. Dropping into orbit this week By Lucy Sherriff . |
| 9. |
419ers score football lottery winner. World Cup 2010 - gooooooal! By John Leyden . |
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ITNet in Cabinet contract blow. Shares crash as £83m deal cancelled By John Oates . |
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Playboy 'hacker' jailed for two years |
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Lawson exec supports Oracle (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - Lawson Software's John Coughlan says the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger won't harm his company's competitiveness. |
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Texas Company's Legal Troubles Hold .iq In Limbo |
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Tyan readies 64-bit Xeon mobo. Thunder for Nocona By Tony Smith . |
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Operators beg Sweden for 3G mercy. Lower targets and lower signal strength, please By John Oates . |
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Gates offers Asia slimmer Windows. Anti-piracy and counter open source By Lucy Sherriff . |
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BT's DSL market share carries on falling. That's why price has to fall By Tim Richardson . |
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Elpida boosts DRAM to SRAM speeds. Fast random data access By Tony Smith . |
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Oracle trial won't call PeopleSoft boss. Lawson boss testifies, previous merger talks revealed By John Oates . |
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Anti-phishing group backs email authentication. Still rising By electricnews.net . |
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How the Microsoft Hoax Took Off. Is Bill Gates offering big bucks to track your e-mail? Jonathon Keats from Wired magazine is on the trail of the most forwarded hoax in Internet history. |
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Speedy, Tiny and Troublesome. Pocket bikes -- tiny motorcycles that look like rejected props from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids -- are all the rage with California teens and retailers. But cops want to keep the tiny vehicles off the roads. Rachel Metz reports from San Francisco. |
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Teched-Out Cars Bug Drivers. As car companies compete for buyers, they add more and more electronics to their offerings. But with the advances come the bugs. By Julia Scheeres. |
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Apple Lets Cat out of the Bag. Apple's Steve Jobs wows programmers with a preview of the next major release of OS X, code-named Tiger. Leander Kahney reports from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. |
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Solar to Keep Army on the Go. Seeking ways to keep troops more mobile and harder to detect, the U.S. military is leaning more and more on solar technology. By John Gartner. |
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World texting record. A Singaporean woman has set a world record for mobile-phone texting, keying in the benchmark phrase (below) in 43.24 seconds, without the benefit of any predictive text utilities.
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The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.
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How to hack Blogger. Blogger has published an article on how to hack the service to add greater customization by tweaking its template vocabulary:
For instance, most of our default templates display archive links in a list. But really, the archive tags simply provide the names and URLs of all the archive files, and we can do whatever we want with them. Do you know how to make a pull-down menu in HTML? Think that might be a more efficient format for your three years of daily archives? Great! Move the archive tags out of the list and into a menu.
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Scion of genius Imagineer posts on Slashdot?. Here's an amazing post on Slashdot from someone who claims his father designed many of the coolest widgets and gizmos in Disneyland:
Some of the Disneyland items he's made...
- Invented/installed the fireflys in Pirates of the Carribean
- Came up with putting the green-eyed rats at the end of Pirates as you go up back to ground level. We have a bunch of them at home and put them in windows and under the Christmas tree
- Invented the light flicker-ers that have been used at Dland for almost 30 years to make plain lightbulbs in opaque houseings look like they are flame
- Real-time population counter for Disneyland. Even went to the president's office and installed the LED display on his desk (prior to the popularization of "computer networks")
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How Free Software won the hearts of hackers, capitalists, commies and academics. My friends Biella and Mako have written a good, short academic paper on how it is that "Free and Open Source Software" can be seen as tactically advantageous to big corporations, Starbucks-smashing anti-globalists, and liberal commons-oriented IP wonks.
While the money behind IBM's advertising machine makes their take on FOSS particularly visible, they hold no monopoly on the interpretation of FOSS's meaning and importance. This is evidenced by the extensive use of FOSS as an iconic tactic by leftist activists around the world. Also bearing a three letter acronym, the Independent Media Centers (IMC) are a socio-political project whose mission and spirit are completely contrary to the goals of a large corporation like IBM.
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Microsoft settles anti-trust case. Computer giant Microsoft gets approval to settle a class-action anti-trust case in Arizona for $105m in product vouchers. |
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Microsoft sets sights on spam. The man behind Microsoft's anti-spam program details the software giant's strategy. |
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Iraqis seek self-rule on the net. Iraq is trying to take control of its internet domain name, .iq, from the firm in Texas which runs it. |
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Nvidia migrates Quadro line to PCI Express. Ready for 64-bit Xeon workstations By Tony Smith . |
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MS squares Arizona with rebate. Vouchers all round... By John Oates . |
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CoolWebSearch is winning Trojan war. Programmer bows out By Jan Libbenga . |
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Cart32 "GetLatestBuilds" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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IBM HTTP Server mod_proxy "Content-Length:" Header Buffer Overflow |
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BEA WebLogic Crystal Reports Web Viewer Directory Traversal Vulnerability |
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Backdoor.Hacarmy.D |
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Mac OSX Tiger: It's your birthday, get busy. BoingBoing pal Paul Boutin points us to the euphemism du jour for online porn, clipped from today's preview of the Mac Tiger browser with built-in RSS. Emphasis is mine.
"Go ahead and shop for birthday presents on the family Mac. No
information about where you visit on the Web, personal information you
enter or pages you visit are saved or cached."
Shop for birthday presents. Heh. What, is that like a "happy ending"? Link |
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U.S. handover bequeaths woes |
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Iraqis greet handover news with silence |
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"Sovereignty" is up to Americans |
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IBM cozies up to wireless providers. Big Blue's new software provides a platform for wireless phone companies to help launch new data services. |
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Microsoft reaches beyond professional programmers. Microsoft targets nonprofessional programmers with lightweight "Express" editions.
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Gregg Doherty.
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