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Security hole found in Mozilla browser. A security flaw could theoretically allow attackers to crash computers or launch unauthorized programs. |
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Sprint, IBM Agree to $400 Million IT Deal (AP). AP - Sprint Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. have agreed to a five-year, $400 million deal under which IBM will provide information technology development and support to Sprint. |
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Intermec Claims RFID is Proprietary |
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Newspaper discovers moderately happy Wi-Fi user. Sponsors on a Train |
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VAEXPOS.COM Denial of Registrar Service Attack |
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Moogul wants you to share your shovel. From CDs to power tools, site does for renting and borrowing what eBay does for selling. |
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LG.Philips LCD Profit Jumps on Robust Screen Sale (Reuters). Reuters - LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., the world's
number-two flat-screen maker, said on Friday its profit nearly
quadrupled in the second quarter, powered by strong sales of
flat displays for televisions and computer monitors. |
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Nextel and FCC Swap Bandwidth |
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Analyst: UN Needs Warriors in Spam Battle |
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StorageTek warns of disappointing results. In another grim investor alert, data-storage specialist predicts worse-than-expected revenue and earnings. |
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Computer Associates warns on lower revenue. The software company cuts guidance by up to 5 percent, citing weak performance of the services business. |
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HP sets new e-waste recycling target. The PC maker says it wants to recycle 1 billion pounds of aged computer gear by 2007. |
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FCC OKs Plan to Swap Nextel's Bandwith (AP). AP - A plan aimed at ending cell phone interference that has affected hundreds of public safety systems around the country won approval Thursday from federal regulators. |
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Fujitsu Phone Calls on IP, Cellular Networks (PC World). PC World - 'Phone-shaped PDA' has Compact Flash slot for various cellular network cards. |
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Ridge Warns of Election Terror Plot (AP). AP - A steady stream of intelligence, including nuggets from militant-linked Web sites, indicates al-Qaida wants to attack the United States to disrupt the upcoming elections, federal officials said Thursday. |
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Network Security Hacks |
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Microsoft to pitch security as 'competitive advantage'. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. will pitch security as a "competitive advantage" at its worldwide partner conference in Toronto next week, but it may be a tough sell to attendees who are still waiting for the software maker to deliver on some of last year's security-related promises |
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CA lowers Q1 revenue forecast. MIAMI - The list of enterprise software companies warning they will miss financial goals got longer on Thursday, when Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) lowered its revenue expectations for the first quarter of its 2005 fiscal year. |
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FCC OKs spectrum swap by Nextel. SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to solve interference with public safety radio networks by moving some of Nextel Communications Inc.'s mobile phone spectrum to another band. |
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Web servers still doling out "Scob" code. BOSTON - More than 100 Web servers are still distributing the "Scob" malicious code, first identified two weeks ago as code used in a widespread attack to plant Trojan horse programs on vulnerable computers, according to one computer security company. That attack used compromised Microsoft Corp. Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers to distribute the Trojan horse programs. |
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Microsoft to pitch security as 'competitive advantage'. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. will pitch security as a "competitive advantage" at its worldwide partner conference in Toronto next week, but it may be a tough sell to attendees who are still waiting for the software maker to deliver on some of last year's security-related promises |
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Stolen a film? MPAA wants to know. One in four online has illegally downloaded a feature film--and it's slicing into box-office and DVD sales, industry group says. |
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D-Link antennas expand Wi-Fi range. Maker of networking equipment says new products will increase range of Wi-Fi networks. |
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Briefly: D-Link antennas expand Wi-Fi range. roundup Plus: PalmOne opens Mac center...Samsung audio players to support Audible...Linksys expands reach of wireless networks...Apple names new retail VP. |
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Stick It in Your Ear (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Enrique Montalvo is a technosexual--a geek who isn't afraid to accessorize. The 33-year-old lives in San Francisco, works for a dot-com giant and swears his Motorola V600 phone, Sony Ericsson P900 handheld and silver Tumi laptop case say as much about him as do his nine pairs of Prada shoes. A heavy cell phone user, Enrique wouldn't dare be seen in the headsets that came free with his various mobile phones. Rather, he alternates among three headsets that cost as much as $300 apiece. His favorite is a sleek Bang & Olufsen earpiece made of hard rubber and anodized aluminum. ... |
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Ridge Warns of Election Terror Plot (AP). AP - A steady stream of intelligence, including nuggets from militant-linked Web sites, indicates al-Qaida wants to attack the United States to disrupt the upcoming elections, federal officials said Thursday. |
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Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview |
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Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution |
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Niku to launch open source Windows application. Next week, Niku, a vendor of IT management and governance software, will announce an open source version of its project scheduler, Workbench, re-named Open Workbench, for Windows-based desktops. |
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SAP, MySQL prepare new version of MaxDB. Application vendor SAP and its partner MySQL are readying enhancements to the former's open-source database that will offer support for 64-bit computing, along with new monitoring and management features. |
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Columnists: Service Pack Deux?. Microsoft should make SP2 available to all users and backport the changes to older operating systems, or they risk putting profits ahead of security yet again. |
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Vulns: IlohaMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability. IlohaMail is a freely available, open source web e-mail package. It is available for the Unix and Linux platforms.
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Vulns: BasiliX Webmail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability. BasiliX is a web-based mail application. It offers features such as mail attachments, address book, multiple language and theme support.
BasiliX Webmail is reported to ... |
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BugTraq: [GLSA 200407-06] libpng: Buffer overflow on row buffers |
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Vulns: XFree86 XDM RequestPort Random Open TCP Socket Vulnerability |
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Vulns: Horde IMP Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability |
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Book Review: Degunking Windows |
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Fully Patched Internet Explorer Still Vulnerable |
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NEW: GIs killed in mortar attack |
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New Guestblogger: Author/Screenwriter/Mad Genius John Shirley. 
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Many thanks to our outgoing guestblogger, filmmaker Christopher Coppola, for a fantastic job -- complete with audblog posts from the road.
The BoingBoing gang is very proud to welcome our next guest, legendary author John Shirley.
His most recent novels are Demons and Crawlers, both from Del Rey books. He wrote the cyberpunk novels City Come A-Walkin' and the Eclipse trilogy (now out from Babbage Press). His first non-fiction book is Gurdjieff: An Introduction to his Life and Ideas from Tarcher/Penguin. He was also co-screenwriter of THE CROW. He won the Bram Stoker award for his story collection BLACK BUTTERFLIES (Leisure Books). The authorized fan-created website is here. His blog is at johnshirley.net. John, it's an honor to welcome you to the BoingBoing guestbar!
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Tomorrowland Today.  Disney's 1950s television show Tomorrowland, a stunning example of the future's history, is now out on DVD. This morning, National Public Radio aired a nice history of the program by commentator Andrew Chaikin. The story goes that famed Disney artist Ward Kimball pitched Tomorrowland to Walt after reading a series of articles about space exploration in Collier's Magazine. Real rocket scientists like Wernher Von Braun were then brought in to Disney as consultants on the show. The first episode, Man In Space, aired March 9, 1955. From the NPR piece:
"Man In Space got rave reviews. President Dwight Eisenhower personally requested a copy of the show to screen for military brass at the Pentagon to help them understand plans to launch a satellite."
Link (Thanks, David "Swapdrive" Steinberg!)
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'World's biggest bootlegger' jailed. A man who made and sold counterfeit CDs, ripping off some of entertainment's biggest names, is jailed. |
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PalmOne opens Mac center. Handheld maker sets up section on its Web site for Mac enthusiasts who own its handhelds. |
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Briefly: PalmOne opens Mac center. roundup Plus: Samsung audio players to support Audible...Linksys expands reach of wireless networks...Apple names new retail VP...Yahoo media exec steps into new role. |
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Media Bigs Head to Sun Valley, Idaho (AP). AP - This mountain resort is no stranger to celebrity, having been the backdrop of several movies and a playground for Hollywood stars since being founded in 1936 by a railroad executive. |
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FCC OKs Plan to Swap Nextel's Bandwith (AP). AP - A plan aimed at ending cell phone interference that has affected hundreds of public safety systems around the country won approval from federal regulators Thursday. |
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Yahoo Stock Plunges Despite Strong Profit (AP). AP - Yahoo Inc.'s stock tumbled nearly 8 percent Thursday after the Internet giant released a second-quarter earnings report that met analyst expectations but didn't impress investors. |
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Bossa, a Framework for Scheduler Development |
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OpenBSD Review at DistroWatch |
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Slow Q2 nothing unusual for most hardware firms. BOSTON - As the weather heats up in the Northern Hemisphere, revenue from IT hardware tends to cool off. Despite a slew of recent earnings warnings from their software counterparts, the IT hardware industry should improve upon last year's second quarter amid the usual seasonal slowdown, according to analysts. |
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Web servers still doling out "Scob" code. BOSTON - More than 100 Web servers are still distributing the "Scob" malicious code, first identified two weeks ago as code used in a widespread attack to plant Trojan horse programs on vulnerable computers, according to one computer security company. That attack used compromised Microsoft Corp. Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers to distribute the Trojan horse programs. |
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The Allure and Curse of Complexity |
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Columnists: Service Pack Deux |
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Vulns: XFree86 XDM RequestPort Random Open TCP Socket Vulnerability. xdm is the X Display Manager with support for XDMCP.
xdm is reported prone to a potential security vulnerability that may lead to a false sense of security. Normally xdm... |
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Vulns: Horde IMP Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability. IMP is a set of PHP scripts designed to implement a web based IMAP email interface. IMP is implemented using PHP supporting IMAP and it will run on Unix and Unix variant... |
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Vulns: SqWebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability. SqWebMail is a web-based e-mail application.
SqWebMail is reported to be prone to an email header HTML injection vulnerability. This issue presents itself in the 'print... |
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Vulns: Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability. Open WebMail is an open-source web mail package written in Perl.
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Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace. Analysis It slices, it dices, it spins, it whirls |
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The Allure and Curse of Complexity |
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Dedicated-loop DSL poised for a comeback in the US. Spurred on by the FCC's decision to phase out DSL unbundling, Covad had begun offering dedicated-loop DSL again. Also known as naked DSL, the service does not require the customer to have an active voice line. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Kick-ass cover-art for Cory's next novel. 
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My next novel is called "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and Tor Books will publish it next spring (here's an excerpt). It's a bit of a departure for me: it's a fantasy novel -- well, more of a magic realist thing, actually -- about community wireless networking. I'm really happy with how it's come out. Really, really happy.
Happy as I am with it, I'm unbelievably ecstatic over the cover-art. Tor Books commissioned superstar Dave McKean (whom you may know from the covers of Neil Gaiman's Sandman books), and then the genius art-director Irene Gallo applied her skill and turned it into this wonderful work of art (my editor's strapline, "A miraculous novel of secrets, lies, magic -- and Internet connectivity" doesn't hurt either!).
Colour me ecstatic.
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IRS notice sparks VoIP taxation fears. Agency seeks input on significant changes in telecom industry but says it never planned to target Net phone services. |
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Ridge Warns of Election Terror Plot (AP). AP - A steady stream of intelligence, including nuggets from militant-linked Web sites, indicates al-Qaida wants to attack the United States to disrupt the upcoming elections, federal officials said Thursday. |
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Bypassing Intel's Overclock Limit Reveals DDR2-667 |
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Interview: Sun’s Gosling defends Java open source stance. James Gosling is a 20-year veteran of Sun Microsystems and wears many hats at the company, including vice president and Sun fellow and CTO for the vendor’s Java Development Platform and Tools group. But the T-shirt-clad Gosling is perhaps best known as the father of the ubiquitous Java programming language. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Gosling at the 2004 JavaOne Conference last week about Java, including the current open source controversy, and about other technology issues, such as his feelings about rival Microsoft. |
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BugTraq: [GLSA 200407-06] libpng: Buffer overflow on row buffers. Sender: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen [jaervosz at gentoo dot org] |
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Opera Browser Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability |
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BugTraq: Re: Public Review of OIS Security Vulnerability Reporting and ResponseGuidelines |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-07 ] Shorewall : Insecure temp file handling |
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Vulns: Multiple Vendor Internet Browser User Action Prediction/Interception Weakness |
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Vulns: Unreal IRCD Cloak.C IP Address Disclosure Vulnerability |
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5 Steps to Setting Up a Wireless Network |
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Backdoor Menu on Conexant Chipset Dsl Router (Zoom X3) |
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Old-school worm loves Windows applications |
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Another day, another IE flaw... |
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Mozilla Flaw Lets Links Run Arbitrary Programs |
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Book Review: Degunking Windows. Degunking Windows by Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann won't help you be more secure per se, but it will definitely help you to remove files and programs you don't need and clean up the stuff you do need to put... |
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Tom Waits performed in Austrian idiom. My pals Johannes and Evelyn sent me a fantastic early birthday present today, a CD of Tom Waits covers recorded by Wolfgang Ambros, a 1970s Austropop great. Austropop was an Austrian musical movement who recorded music from all genres in Austrian slang.
My German's pretty rotten, but I quite liked hearing Tom Waits standards like "Romeo Verliert Bluat" (Romeo is Bleeding) and "Es Is Vorbei" (Ruby's Eyes) sung in soulful Austrian German.
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Anil kicks linkspammers' asses. A bunch of blog-spammers and google-spoofers (the euphemism is "Search Engine Optimization" -- no doubt you've received spam offering you this "service") set up a competition to see who could become the number one Google result for the previously unused phrase "nigritude ultramarine." So they set about creating their link-farms and so forth.
Then Anil Dash, a blogger who works for SixApart, decided to kick their asses. These spammers' google-whuffie was puny relative to Anil's popular, much-linked blog, and when he created a post and asked his readers to link to him using "nigritude ultramarine" as the link-text, he won the competition handily.
To Dash, then, winning the flat-screen television awarded to the second-round victor was testament to the power of good content and a longstanding online presence.
"A lot of people are trying to increase their page rank unethically," said Dash. "I think if we show them (that) the best thing you can do is to write really good material, then hopefully, they'll spend their time doing that (instead of) spending time coming up with ways to graffiti other people's pages."
Furthermore, Dash maintained, his victory proves one thing: That the Web is a meritocracy.
"A page that's read by people instead of robots is going to do better," he said.
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China, U.S. resolve chip tax issues. Will China honor its WTO obligations? Its decision to ax a disputed value added tax for chips suggests it might. |
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AOL debuts service for disabled. IM-based service lets those who are hard of hearing or speech disabled place relay phone calls from computers. |
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Commentary: The state of software spending. Businesses are still laying out money for applications, but not the way they used to--especially in the enterprise sector. |
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Bumpy Ride for Software Vendors in Q2 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - As expected, the recovery in the software industry has been gradual and guarded, as evidenced by a number of company profit warnings. PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) is the latest vendor to warn that its second-quarter performance did not meet projections. |
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Software Piracy Hurts End-Users Too (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - A study released by the Business Software Alliance provides some sobering statistics to software vendors: Thirty-six percent of the US$80 billion in software installed on computers worldwide was pirated in 2003, a loss of nearly $29 billion. In other words, only $51 billion was purchased legally. |
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New Wi-Fi Standard May Boost Security (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Although a number of Wi-Fi security systems have been around for some time, no single one could address all outstanding security issues on its own. |
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Apple Set for iPod Mini Global Launch (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Music fans outside the U.S. wanting to get their hands on Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod mini digital-music player do not have too much longer to wait. Apple says the iPod mini will be available internationally from July 24th, at a price of US$249. |
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Googles Getting Tough with Google (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Googles, the rights owner of four-eyed aliens Oogle, Iggle, Oggle and GooRoo, has filed legal action against Internet-firm Google for breach of its trademark. |
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VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall |
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FCC OKs spectrum deal with Nextel. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a deal to grant Nextel Communications Inc. a chunk of radio spectrum in the 1.9GHz range in exchange for the mobile operator leaving other frequencies where its network has caused interference with public safety communications, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in its online edition. |
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Debian: pavuk Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Debian: webmin Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Vulns: Tri Dung Nguyen Free Perl Guestbook BBCode HTML Injection Vulnerability. Tri Dung Nguyen Free Perl Guestbook is a CGI guestbook application for the Web.
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Alternative Web Browsers Popular After Discoveries of Security Holes in Internet Explorer |
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Rootsecure.net Info: Automated Caller ID / ANI Spoofing has been added to the reports page "ANI ... |
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Securing the Mobile Real-Time Enterprise |
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Opera Browser Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability |
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House of Representatives pushing for more American Supercomputing prowess. The US House of Representatives gave the collective thumbs-up to two bills aimed at stimulating supercomputing in the United States. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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How to Bittorrent Fahrenheit 9/11. Aliased BoingBoing reader "humboldt 11" provides instructions for obtaining a digital copy of Michael Moore's latest film:
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1. download BIT TORRENT 3.4.2.exe (Link) and install
2. download Fahrenheit.911.CAM-POT(1).torrent (Link) on your desktop
3. open it with BitTorrent
4. start download
5. download "wrar330d.exe" (Link) open it
6. unpack the file "pot.911a.rar" in the CD1 file (as well as the "pot.911b.rar" in the CD2 file - this is why there are 36 parts on each desk. In order to assemble it, opening the file will automatically identify all the segments and put them together) this will create a "pot.911a" (and a "pot.911b") file
7. download "vlc-0.7.2-win32.exe" (Link) install
8. open "CD1.cue" from the "pot.911a" file
LinkUpdate: BB reader antrix says: "You provided a link to a Fahrenheit 9/11 torrent with split rar files - and a bin/cue which needs vlc. That's too much work when there's a torrent available with convenient mpeg's playable in any player. No rars, nothing. Link." Alternately, you could try this BT client, says reader G1ZM0.
And reader Jaap Vermeulen adds, "Daemon Tools is a utility for windows that will allow you to mount CD / DVD images from windows. This way you can open the .CUE files from the Fahrenheit 911 images with Daemon Tools, which will then mount a new drive. Then these can be played with Windows Media Player, or Media Player Classic. I think many people would rather use the media player of their own choice. I haven't used VLC, but I can say that especially for Camcorder recorded movies Windows Media Player is good because the graphic equalizer allows you to remove a lot of the noise in the sound recording."
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Photoblog banned in Iran. Persian blogger Hossein Derakshan says, "It's confirmed now that the bastards at TCI (Telecom Iran) have filtered my photoblog. I first got suspicious when I saw a major decline in its visitors. This is really amazing! How far they are going to go?" Link |
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First Avenue to acquire Teligent. Purchase will bring spectrum and technology to First Avenue's broadband wireless network.
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FCC OKs Plan to Swap Nextel's Bandwith (AP). AP - Federal regulators unanimously approved a plan Thursday aimed at eliminating cell phone interference with hundreds of public safety communication systems around the country. |
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Fans Slam George Michael in His Chat Room (AP). AP - Pop singer George Michael might have expected some praise from adoring fans when he set up a chat room on his Web site. |
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Backup Tapes: Alive And Kicking |
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Microsoft's Midlife Crisis |
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Siemens: New CEO, new merged division. Siemens AG, Germany's biggest technology company, plans some big managerial and structural changes. |
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Fedora: 2,1: kernel Privilege change vulnerability |
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Suse: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-07 ] Shorewall : Insecure temp file handling. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org] |
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Vulns: Unreal IRCD Cloak.C IP Address Disclosure Vulnerability. Unreal ircd is a popular IRC server.
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Ghost Host performs gospel. Thurl Ravenscroft, the amazing baritone voice of the Haunted Mansion's Ghost Host and Tony the Tiger (among others) recorded an album of gospel, called "Great Hymns In Story And Song." The Basic Hip Digital Oddio archive has MP3s of every track on the disc. (Lots of other great stuff on this page -- Gershwin performed on bongo drums, vintage IHOP and Sears radio ads, and nice linkage).
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As Brett points out, the Ghost Host is voiced by Paul Frees -- Ravenscroft's contribution to the Haunted Mansion was as the lead baritone in the theme song, "Grim Grinning Ghosts" (he's the singing bust that bears a striking resemblance to Walt Disney) |
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'World's biggest bootlegger' jailed. The world's "biggest bootlegger" who ripped off some of entertainment's biggest names, is jailed. |
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Satellite data 'could save fish'. Fish could be saved from over-exploitation by putting satellite monitoring data on the internet, an author suggests. |
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Microsoft dresses up mice. They come in colors from cobalt to "mood ring," and one's by industrial designer Philippe Starck. |
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Adobe reveals patent suit. A small software maker claims Acrobat uses its technology. |
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Paid search feels growing pains. As the euphoria fades, the industry may be starting to experience a slowdown. Get ready for the summer doldrums. |
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Museum to Offer Photos of Art to Download (AP). AP - Art lovers may soon be able to dial "M" for masterpiece. The State Hermitage Museum plans to offer cell phone users an opportunity to have reproductions of the museum's masterpieces on their screens, the museum's director said Wednesday. |
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Digital Video Makes Inroads With Police (AP). AP - A TiVo-style digital video system makes it easier for officers to record law breakers and avoid frivolous lawsuits, while saving them valuable storage space unlike bulky analog tapes. |
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Detailed Reviews Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview |
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Securing the Mobile Real-Time Enterprise |
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BugTraq: Re: Public Review of OIS Security Vulnerability Reporting and ResponseGuidelines. Sender: ET LoWNOISE [et at cyberspace dot org] |
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Vulns: Linux VServer Project ProcFS Weak Sharing Permissions Vulnerability. The Linux VServer Project is implemented with a Linux kernel patch and a group of tools that facilitate the partition of a single Linux server into multiple virtual serve... |
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Vulns: 12Planet Chat Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. 12Planet Chat Server is a web-based Java chat application that runs on Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and HP UNIX.
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Vulns: Multiple Vendor Internet Browser User Action Prediction/Interception Weakness. Multiple vendor Internet Browsers are reported prone to a weakness where user actions may be used to commit unintentional actions. It is reported that if a malicious webs... |
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GIs killed in mortar attack on base |
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K-Otik: Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Application.Shell Exploit |
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C-BAND=BS. On September 24 2001, stock in Stewart Kaiser's start-up company R-Tec was selling for 46 cents a share. That day, Kaiser issued a press release about R-Tec's new device called C-BAND (Chemical & Biological Alarm and Neutralization Defense System.) Four days later, R-Tec shares had risen to $2.40 each and Kaiser sold the 50,000 shares he had just given to his mother. The funny thing is that C-BAND was actually nothing more than a filing cabinet painted yellow and outfitted with a flashing red light. Today, Kaiser and his wife were indicted for securities fraud, obstructing justice, and other bad things. Link |
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How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11. Aliased BoingBoing reader "humboldt 11" provides instructions for obtaining a digital copy of Michael Moore's latest film:
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1. download BIT TORRENT 3.4.2.exe (Link) and install
2. download Fahrenheit.911.CAM-POT(1).torrent (Link) on your desktop
3. open it with BitTorrent
4. start download
5. download "wrar330d.exe" (Link) open it
6. unpack the file "pot.911a.rar" in the CD1 file (as well as the "pot.911b.rar" in the CD2 file - this is why there are 36 parts on each desk. In order to assemble it, opening the file will automatically identify all the segments and put them together) this will create a "pot.911a" (and a "pot.911b") file
7. download "vlc-0.7.2-win32.exe" (Link) install
8. open "CD1.cue" from the "pot.911a" file
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Samsung audio players to support Audible. Samsung's upcoming digital audio players will be compatible with content provider Audible's download service. |
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Briefly: Samsung audio players to support Audible. roundup Plus: Linksys expands reach of wireless networks...Apple names new retail VP...Yahoo media exec steps into new role...Starbucks adds wireless service to stores. |
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Critic pans IRS suggestion on VoIP. A 1898 Spanish American War tax must not be extended to Internet phone calls, a key Republican politician says. |
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Hong Kong Officials Bust Software Pirates (AP). AP - Customs officials busted an alleged software piracy syndicate Wednesday and said they will try to freeze the counterfeiters' assets. |
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Fujitsu Flashes Megapixel PDA (PC World). PC World - Handheld features Windows Mobile OS, built-in wireless, and 1.3-megapixel camera. |
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Yahoo! More Than Doubles Its Profit (AP). AP - Yahoo! Inc. more than doubled its profit from a year ago, but the Internet giant's results still worried some investors accustomed to even more robust earnings growth and rosier management forecasts. |
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High-Tech Vehicles to Drive Automotive Chip Demand (Reuters). Reuters - Take a spin in Toyota Motor Corp.'s
(7203.T) Prius hybrid sedan and you'll get an idea of why
Japan's chip makers see a huge growth opportunity in the auto
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Synthetic Biology May Spawn Biohackers |
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Cisco to acquire Parc for improved traffic routing. Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire London-based traffic engineering and routing software provider Parc Technologies Ltd. in an effort to gain better traffic management in its systems and products, the company said Thursday. |
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Elsewhere: Bugwatch: Reducing the risk from P2P downloads. Each week vnunet.com asks a different expert to give their views on recent virus and security issues, with advice, warnings and information on the latest threats.
This w... |
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Elsewhere: E-voting security: getting it right. As we noted in our previous story - E-voting security: looking good on paper? - the much-celebrated voter verifiable paper trail is useless as a security measure for Dire... |
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BugTraq: Security contact wanted. Sender: S G Masood [sgmasood at yahoo dot com] |
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Cisco gobbles up Parc Technologies. $9m for UK university spin-off |
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Ghost Host performs gospel. Thurl Ravenscroft, the amazing baritone voice of the Haunted Mansion's Ghost Host and Tony the Tiger (among others) recorded an album of gospel, called "Great Hymns In Story And Song." The Basic Hip Digital Oddio archive has MP3s of every track on the disc. (Lots of other great stuff on this page -- Gershwin performed on bongo drums, vintage IHOP and Sears radio ads, and nice linkage).
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Clear concrete.  The Associated Press has an interesting article about the translucent concrete developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi. During the mixing process, glass fibers are added to the traditional stone, cement, and water. This enables light to shine through the material. Several variations of the new material are on display as part of a National Building Museum exhibit called Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete. Judging from the Web site, it looks to be a stunning exhibit. Link (to AP article) Link (to Liquid Stone) (Thanks, Gabe!)
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Labels warned over ringtones. The big record labels should be careful of exploiting the lucrative ringtone business, say analysts. |
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Mobile scheme aims to stop spam. The mobile industry has launched a scheme to give mobile users more control over premium rate texts. |
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Cisco to buy routing specialist Parc. Acquisition will give Cisco access to Parc's multiprotocol label switching, a technology that the industry bills as the ultimate convergence tool. |
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Study: Broadband market to triple by 2008. DSL will drive worldwide growth, though the picture looks slightly different in the U.S. than in other parts of the globe. |
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Jumping From Computer To Computer |
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Indian president calls for open source in defense |
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Vulns: MySQL Password Length Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. MySQL is prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability.
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A Great Patch Solution, but Is It Kosher? |
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New Bagle Variants Spread |
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Fully Patched Internet Explorer Still Vulnerable. After the recent Scob Trojan mysteriously started infecting computers that visited well-known web sites it was discovered that malicious code had been planted on these web servers. While it initially appeared to be some sort of zero day exploit of... |
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Farenheit 9/11 available for download at archive.org. Someone's taking Mr. Moore at his word. You can download the entire film here, while it lasts. Link
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Punk Vaudeville show goes back on the road. My pal Jim Munroe is taking his punk performance Vaudeville show back on the road with a seven city US/Canada tour that includes Gavin Grant, co-publisher of Small Beer press and all-round swell guy, sign language poet Liisa Ladouceur and "off-kilter ranter" Geoffrey H. Goodwin -- with a "movie shot on location in Antarctica shown between the acts."
If you're in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, NYC, Cleveland, Cincinnati, or Chicago be sure to catch 'em!
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Groove remodels its 'virtual office'. Among other perks, Groove's collaboration software now lets workers send alerts whenever a shared document or "workspace" changes. |
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Deutsche Chief Lawyers Seek Acquittal (AP). AP - Lawyers for Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann called Thursday for his acquittal on charges that he authorized improper payouts in Vodafone's 2000 takeover of German cell phone company Mannesmann, arguing that prosecutors hadn't proved key elements of their case. |
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Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Tired of Internet Explorer's risks? Try one of these browsers (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The Web browser nearly everyone uses has gaping security holes. That's why security experts are recommending people ditch Microsoft's Internet Explorer and seek an alternate browser. |
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THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut |
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Building a Better Mozilla With Plugins |
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Deutsche Telekom ventures into global Wi-Fi roaming. The more, the merrier. That's the motto of a new roaming service that T-Systems International GmbH, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, is targeting at providers of wireless Internet services worldwide. |
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Linksys touts Wi-Fi signal boost upgrade. Replace your aerial - legally |
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Elitegroup preps 'transition' Socket T mobos. Move to Grantsdale without ditching your old RAM, graphics card |
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Male teleworkers do it all over the place. It was five years ago today... 8 July 1999 |
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E-voting security: getting it right. Not cheap, but easier than we think |
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DrinkorDie suspect back in Oz jail. Legal reversal in extradition fight |
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Security spending rises, as do risks |
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Security threat growing in UK |
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Guardian on Gyford. The Guardian has published a wonderful profile of my pal Phil Gyford, whom you may know from the Pepys's Diary blog -- but who has also helped hack together some of the UK's best political advocacy websites.
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His latest project, TheyWorkFor You.com, was launched last month with the intention of bringing parliament closer to the British people. With a team of almost 20 volunteers, Gyford helped build the site, which provides information on members of parliament and a readable version of Hansard, the parliamentary record.
"There's lots of interesting stuff," he says, explaining the motivation behind the site. "But it's so unappealing to read the Hansard site. For example, there's no way that webloggers can link into it. Presenting it in a readable way was something that had been talked about a lot before, but never done. We started making plans for it last August or September, but we probably started working on it properly just before Christmas."
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Summer start for Half Life 2 code. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate. Suspected leader of DrinkorDie, which illegally copied and distributed online $50 million worth of software, faces 10 years of prison in United States. |
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Yahoo's Profit Soars, But Stock Price Falls (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Yahoo Inc. announced yesterday that it more than doubled its profit from a year ago, thanks to increasing interest from advertisers wanting to pitch products to users of the popular Internet portal and search engine. |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much |
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Fujitsu unveils combo wireless IP, cellular phone. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has developed a prototype wireless IP (Internet Protocol) telephone handset that can also be used with conventional cellular telephone networks. |
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How the world is learning to love ICANN. As ICANN learns to play fair with redelegations |
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Learn English with Apple - at a price. More e-commerce madness |
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Linksys touts Wi-Fi signal boosting upgrade. Replace your aerial - legally |
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Judge waves through MS $1.1bn California settlement. Fair, reasonable and adequate compensation |
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DVD Jon releases FairKeys. Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen has released FairKeys, a program for extracting your iTunes DRM FairPlay keys from Apple's servers.
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Ad revenue boosts Yahoo profit. The internet portal sees profits soar, but a disappointing outlook pulls its shares back from their 85% rise in the past year. |
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Call for mobile tracking controls. A coalition of charities is pushing for legal controls on services which let parents track children's mobiles. |
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Budget woes plague Net administrator. Handling the Net's naming system may prove easy for ICANN compared with revising a record $15.8 million budget. |
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Sun pushes Java brand harder--but uphill. What to do when John Q. Public has heard of your programming environment but doesn't seem to care? Why, make it the star of a TV show. |
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Software firms stumble in second quarter. The latest quarter was unkind to many software companies, but hardware appears to be in better shape. |
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Bad tech advice for the president. Telecom expert Lawrence Spiwak warns that the Bush administration is relying on poor input in the formulation of its broadband policy. |
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PeopleSoft blames Oracle for its slump (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Another software company warned of slumping sales Wednesday. But PeopleSoft (PSFT) blamed rival Oracle (ORCL), not a soft market, for its financial woes. |
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Museum to Offer Photos of Art to Download (AP). AP - Art lovers may soon be able to dial "M" for masterpiece. The State Hermitage Museum plans to offer cell phone users an opportunity to have reproductions of the museum's masterpieces on their screens, the museum's director said Wednesday. |
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Dell to Offer Linux-Loaded PCs in Europe (AP). AP - A line of Dell Inc. desktop computers running a version of the Linux operating system will be sold in Europe by a reseller, broadening alternative offerings to Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Windows software. |
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Spam can hurt in more ways than one (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Small businesses that depend heavily on the Web and e-mail to market products are increasingly caught in a spam squeeze. Hackers and spammers hijack their PCs - and then Internet providers wrongly shut down the victims' e-mail. |
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Update: Siebel, BMC warn of lower-than-expected results. Siebel Systems Inc. on Wednesday warned that it expects second quarter revenues to fall approximately $50 million short of analyst expectations, blaming "unexpected delays in purchasing decisions." |
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California antitrust deal with Microsoft approved. A U.S. judge gave final approval Wednesday to the $1.1 billion settlement between Microsoft Corp. and plaintiffs who filed a class-action lawsuit against the company in the state of California. |
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Orange flogs Danish ops to TeliaSonera. Sound the retreat! |
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Show me the way to go 127.0.0.1. Cash'n'Carrion Geddit? Then get the t-shirt |
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France lifts MS Imagine Cup. The Microsoft Games |
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LA plans cybercafe teen curfew. Gang violence and homicides prompt clampdown |
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Secure cores provide extra-smart cards |
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NEC's "smart" batteries: invitation to monopolistic DMCA nightmare. NEC has announced that its batteries will have cryptographic authentication schemes to prevent "low-quality counterfeits." Jason Schultz comments on the way that the DMCA turns such a sytem into a license to screw your customers by shutting out competitors who make cheaper batteries:
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The software will be introduced in Japanese digital cameras by year's end and is expected to be used in 50 million units by 2007. The software is ideal for use in mobile phones and batteries, but NEC Electronics is also considering extending this technology to "smart" keys, printers and ink cartridges, as well as bundling the technology into hardware options.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, software-based authentication is the wave of the future. And now, with the DMCA, a near-monopoly! Future, here we come.
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Guardian on Gyford. The Guardian has published a wonderful profile of my pal Phil Gyford, whom you may know from the Pepys's Diary blog -- but who has also helped hack together some of the UK's best political advocacy websites.
His latest project, TheyWorkFor You.com, was launched last month with the intention of bringing parliament closer to the British people. With a team of almost 20 volunteers, Gyford helped build the site, which provides information on members of parliament and a readable version of Hansard, the parliamentary record.
"There's lots of interesting stuff," he says, explaining the motivation behind the site. "But it's so unappealing to read the Hansard site. For example, there's no way that webloggers can link into it. Presenting it in a readable way was something that had been talked about a lot before, but never done. We started making plans for it last August or September, but we probably started working on it properly just before Christmas."
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Video diary from the grave. A US inventor has come up with a system that enables dead people to leave a video message played out on their tombstone. |
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A New Mart for Original Art (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Like a relay race, some Internet commerce plans get handed off a few times before they cross the line to become real businesses. |
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FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows |
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Sony ships lifelike colour X-brite LCD panels. Reg Kit Watch Closest LCDs to a CRT yet? |
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High tech oven-mitts. 
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This month's "Play" section in Wired reviews three super-sexy high-tech oven mitts -- a synthetic rubber one, a translucent silicone one, and a kevlar-and-nomex fingered glove adapted from a welder's glove. It's a sweet application of new materials science to housewares.
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Patriotic music for MoveOn.org. Great interview with They Might Be Giants from Wired Magazine, about the a compilation album of patriotic songs they've put together to benefit MoveOn.org. TMBG recorded a cover of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" for the disc!
We did an electronic version of a song from the 1840s called "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." It was originally used during the Harrison-Van Buren presidential race, and it's really harsh, like a drinking song. It was the very first hip campaign song! Lots of the music on the compilation was recorded specifically for the album, and all of it will be new material.
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They Might Be Giants's new album as $0.99 MP3s. They Might Be Giants have put their new album online as MP3s, for $0.99 each, with the whole disc available for $9.99. The disc costs $18, and the band has refused to withhold material from the Web version to make up for the discrepancy, listening to fans who insisted that they wanted to buy the disc online.
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Gizmodo on automated circumcision device. Gizmodo has posted a screamingly funny review/commentary of a new automated circumcision device:
I'm a penis slicer luddite, I know, but no, for real, no. So why do the people that make SmartKlamp think that -- when I wouldn't let a robot, which can maneuver with mathematical precision, touch me -- I would use a Bris-O-Matic on my or my progeny's spurters? Is there a market need here? Are scapel-wielding doctors and rabbis not fast enough to get the job done? Is there a worldwide circumcision shortage?
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Army game hits its target. A new video game originally designed for army training purposes is now commercially available. |
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Kerry taps into e-mail. Net-using followers of John Kerry were the first to be told the US presidential hopeful had picked a running mate. |
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Nano-team spins tomorrow's yarn. Cambridge scientists develop a way to make and spin ultra-strong carbon nanotubes into continuous fibres. |
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Music firms warned over ringtones. The big record labels should be careful of exploiting the lucrative ringtone business, say analysts. |
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Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight. Using terahertz light to detect weapons could improve security at airports and cut down on queues. |
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PeopleSoft faults Oracle (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The software company said it would miss second-quarter estimates, partly because of the Oracle antitrust trial. |
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Virgin Mobile IPO ranges over $1B (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The company is a virtual mobile network operator that sells airtime on the networks of established mobile phone companies. |
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Two Vietnam Cyber Dissidents Face Trial -Groups (Reuters). Reuters - A professor and a retired army colonel
who used the Internet to criticize communist Vietnam's policies
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Intel to add NX security to Pentium 4 in Q4. E-0 stepping to support WinXP SP2 feature |
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PlusNet takes AIM at stock market. Flotation device |
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Yahoo! profits double. Shares! slide! |
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Police keelhaul world's thickest DVD pirate. 'Psst, officer, wanna buy some movies?' |
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Intel forecast to cut P4 price by up to 34%. 22 August is Celeron D day |
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Groups Sue to Allow Vote Recounts. The ACLU, Common Cause and voters' rights groups sue Florida election officials to reverse a rule that bans manual recounts of touch-screen ballots. Plaintiffs say the rule is illogical and the voting machines are faulty. |
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Coalition of the Billing. Military contractors will gladly fight terrorists -- for a price. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. |
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SpaceShipOne Back on Course. Burt Rutan's craft in the X Prize race had control problems in its initial launch, but that's fixed now, and SpaceShipOne is on target for another space attempt. By Dan Brekke. |
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Single Post Wins Google Contest. A blogger comes out the victor in a contest to garner the top Google ranking for the term 'nigritude ultramarine.' His strategy: one blog entry asking readers to link the term to his site. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Bloggers Suffer Burnout. Authors of some of the most popular political and general-interest weblogs are calling it quits or scaling back their sites, claiming that the pressure to post or moderate reader feedback is too much to handle. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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GMO-Food Foes Turn to Film. Opponents of genetically modified crops are attracting support for their movement with a controversial film, The Future of Food, which argues that the practice undermines the safety of our food supply. By Jason Silverman. |
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Feds Weigh Role in Net Telephony. Federal legislators attending a hearing on Internet telephony consider the role state governments should have in controlling the technology. Some argue states should stay out of VOIP regulation entirely. By Michael Grebb. |
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Data Nightmare at Pentagon. The General Accounting Office looks at how the Defense Department keeps track of its supplies and finances, and the picture is not pretty -- even with more than 2,000 databases and billions spent. By Noah Shachtman. |
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Comersus Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting and Price Manipulation |
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Photography student's odd run-in with Homeland Security. Seattle-based blogger and photogger Ian Spiers says:
About a month ago I had a little run-in with 3 Homeland Security agents, 3 Seattle Police officers, 2 security guards and a German Shepherd while I was at a local park with my camera. The DHS agent told me that it's illegal for me to take pictures of federal property. The ACLU of Washington disagrees. My blog is my attempt to chronicle this outragous situation and bring some common sense and public awareness to it.
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Farenheit 9/11 available for download at archive.org. Someone's taking Mr. Moore at his word. You can download the entire film here, while it lasts. Link |
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Sprint introduces first megapixel phonecam for US consumers. Jon Gales says, "Finally a megapixel cam phone for the US, but too bad it's on Sprint. Looks pretty stocked, but could be better. It's progress though!" Link |
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FCC to Require Broadcasters to Retain Copies of Broadcasts up to 90 Days. Blogger Ernest Miller says:
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The FCC has been cracking down on supposedly indecent broadcasts (and chilling free speech) ever since Bono was really impressed by the Golden Globes and Janet had her malfunction. Under the current rules, in order to send in an indecency complaint, the complainer had to provide a "tape, transcript or significant excerpt." Broadcasters weren't required to maintain copies of a show, so complaintants faced a minimal burden to complain. However, now the FCC is going to require broadcasters to maintain copies of broadcasts for 60-90 days. They are considering letting people issue complaints with no evidence (since the broadcaster will be able to produce the tape), and if the complaint is late (after the 60-90 days) broadcasters can still be hit. This will really open the floodgates to indecency complaints.
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New Chief Shakes Things Up at Wind River (AP). AP - Wind River Systems Inc. is a software company that has never lived up to its potential. But some investors are betting that the company, started in a Berkeley, Calif., garage 23 years ago, has found the kind of leader it has long needed: an experienced outsider willing to revamp the company's strategy. |
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Business Web Search Wins Official Chinese Backing (Reuters). Reuters - A crack software development team
backed by the former chief of Compaq Computer and China's
official English language Web site plans to unveil on Thursday
a Web search system covering 30 million businesses worldwide. |
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Counter-Strike Source Beta Set for Late Summer |
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Two Men Accused of $11M Internet Scam |
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Google Puts Kibosh On Gmail Account Resale |
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Bang the DRM |
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Staying Ahead of IT Security |
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Official Rules For The Ziff Davis Media eWEEK Network Security Survey Sweepstakes |
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McAfee Sends Out More Pink Slips |
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ADV: Learn more about a Xerox Phaser ® 8400 and WIN a 50â HDTV |
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Two more from NIST |
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The Net's Getting Messy |
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The Network Imperative |
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It Don't Come Easy |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - June 24, 2004 Issue |
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BSA: Piracy "losses" totaled $US29 billion globally in 2003. New study on global piracy claims one-third of all software has been pirated. The BSA points the finger at P2P applications, but unlicensed business software and street corner counterfeits may be more likely culprits. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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A New Mart for Original Art (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Like a relay race, some Internet commerce plans get handed off a few times before they cross the line to become real businesses. |
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Kerry Relies on E-Mail for Edwards Announcement (Reuters). Reuters - The hottest political news of the
summer arrived on a tide of spam Tuesday morning as Democratic
presidential candidate John Kerry sent an e-mail announcing
Sen. John Edwards would be his running mate. |
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IE Exploit Attacks Another Piece of ActiveX |
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Death of Anti-Virus Software |
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Rubber Ducky Stole NSA Secrets |
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