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Intel 2nd-Quarter Profit Doubles (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of computer chips, announced yesterday that its profit nearly doubled in the second quarter as the company reported strong sales for a type of memory chip commonly used in consumer gadgets such as cell phones. |
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Norton Virus Definitions July 13, 2004 |
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NEW 'OFF THE WALL' ONLINE |
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All-reality TV channel to be launched by Fox. Fox is starting a cable channel devoted exclusively to the programming genre everyone loves to hate. They're actually not the first to take a crack at 24/7 reality TV -- I wrote this piece for Wired Magazine last year about Larry Namer's Reality Central, a startup network that's still having a tough time getting off the ground. Pass me a pig bladder and a box of mealworms -- gonna be a long night in front of the tube. Link to more on the Fox reality channel launch. (Thanks, Jon) |
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Briefly: Commerce Department names privacy officer. roundup Plus: Supercomputing center adds more power...Oracle extends PeopleSoft offer again...Cape Clear fills out ESB line...Ampex targets Sony in infringement suit. |
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Commerce Department names privacy officer. Dan Caprio, currently a deputy assistant secretary for technology policy, will become chief privacy officer.
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Red Hat alums try new Linux angle. Entrepreneurs get Specifix with software to modify and manage the kind of Linux software offered by their old employer. |
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Digital Entertainment Dominates Macworld (PC World). PC World - IPod cases, chargers, and other accessories, plus digital music tools sing at the show. |
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Intel's 2Q Earnings Nearly Double (AP). AP - Intel Corp.'s second-quarter earnings nearly doubled as stronger-than-expected demand for flash memory chips for cellular phones helped offset seasonal weakness in the company's main microprocessor business. |
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DragonFlyBSD 1.0 Released |
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Cape Clear touts business processes in ESB. Cape Clear Software on July 21 will ship Cape Clear 5, an upgraded version of the company’s ESB (enterprise service bus) product package that adds support for BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). |
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Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code |
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Microsoft HTML Help Input Validation Error Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code |
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Microsoft issues seven security patches, two critical |
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Yahoo hitches onto Rogers for broadband. The deal is meant to give the Web portal a foothold into broadband markets and revenue from subscriptions. |
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Intel shares fall on earnings report. Chipmaker roughly meets expectations for the second quarter, but its outlook has slightly dimmed. |
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Congressional panel to vote on bill to ban VoIP taxes. Next week, a move to block states from taxing Internet-connected phone service faces its first test. |
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Microsoft spearheads latest security partnership. Software, security, and networking vendors are banding together to provide more comprehensive network protection.
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Supercomputing center adds more power. National Center for Supercomputing Applications buys an SGI machine that sports 1,024 Itanium 2 processors. |
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Accounting Change The Latest Surprise From Red Hat Brass (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - A month after a surprise announcement that its chief financial officer is leaving, the No. 1 Linux seller riled analysts and investors again Tuesday, saying it will restate earnings for the last three years. It also faces an unrelated regulatory inquiry into its latest annual report. |
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Intel's 2Q Earnings Nearly Double (AP). AP - Intel Corp.'s second-quarter earnings nearly doubled Tuesday as stronger-than-expected demand for flash memory chips for cellular phones helped offset seasonal weakness in the company's main microprocessor business. |
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Al Qaeda Messages Posted on U.S. Server (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - An Internet computer server operated by an Arkansas government agency was transformed last weekend into the online home of dozens of videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Islamic jihadist anthems and terrorist speeches. |
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Progeny Releases Beta 1 of Progeny Debian 2.0 |
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PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too |
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Can Your Car Get 1,700 MPG? |
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Google acquires photo-management company Picasa. Google Inc. has acquired a company called Picasa Inc. that makes software for organizing and managing digital photos and that runs a peer-to-peer network for sharing digital photos, Google announced on Tuesday. |
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Microsoft issues seven security patches, two critical. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released seven security patches covering a wide array of the company's products. Two of those patches fix holes that Microsoft deemed "critical" and warned could allow remote attackers to take control of vulnerable Windows systems. |
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BBC News: UK military denies ban on iPods "The Ministry of Defence has denied reports that it ha... |
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IHT: Man is indicted in Verizon hacking case "William Quinn, 27, of Eastchester, New York, obtai... |
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Computer Cops: How Secure Are You? "You've got your SPAM filters, Anti-popups, Anti-spyware, Ant... |
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K-Otik: Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Wscript.Shell Exploit |
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Mozilla Zine: Malware Authors Target Mozilla, Developers Respond with Enhanced Safeguards |
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Secunia: phpBB Two Unspecified Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft Project comes under open source attack |
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Symantec buys firm that blocks spam |
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SSL VPNs energise security sales |
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Hackers breached Defence Department computers: report on security lapses |
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Microsoft Releases Virus Removal Tool |
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Microsoft Products Share Mozilla Flaw Says Danish Company |
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Windows XP SP2 To Be Released in August |
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Craphounds in Manhattan: NYC Mongo. Mongo: Adventures In Trash is a new book by Ted Both, a South African who moved to NYC and furnished his apartment with goodies found in kerbside trash ("Mongo" in NYC picker-parlance), then chronicled his adventures with Manhattan's trashers, divers and pickers.
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Like good mongo, the New Yorkers of Botha's book were hard to find. It took him two years to collect the cast of New Yorkers portrayed in his book. Some were open to talking about collecting other people's trash and reusing it, others were more reserved.
"It was a gradual process. I approached a lot of crazy people. They swore at me, they chased me away and they started running. You start to know how people are going to act," Botha said while on his way to visit one of the collectors in his book -- a New Yorker named Dave who uses a metal detector to parse through silt from sewers.
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Red Hat stock dives on earnings restatement. CEO says new auditor moved company to recalculate subscription revenue on daily, not monthly, basis. |
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Microsoft finds more 'critical' flaws in Windows. Latest patch batch meant to fix vulnerabilities to denial-of-service attacks, a security firm says.
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Ballmer talks up Denmark at partner conference. The company is in Toronto whispering sweet nothings into developers' ears, but consumers waiting for security updates got bad news. |
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Cisco exec promoted to CTO. The company chooses a 10-year Cisco veteran for the post, which had been vacant for four years. |
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Oracle, Justice Dept. write up opposing views. A week before closing arguments, the foes submit paperwork putting their own spins on antitrust debate.
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Cisco Names Giancarlo Technology Chief (AP). AP - Networking-equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. named veteran executive Charles H. Giancarlo its chief technology officer, and reshuffled several other engineering posts. |
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UAE's Etisalat on course to win license for Saudi GSM after making best bid (AFP). AFP - A consortium led by the UAE's Etisalat made the highest bid to become Saudi Arabia's second mobile phone operator, routing a rival backed by a Saudi prince and putting itself on course to win the coveted license. |
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Toshiba to Unveil TV Capable Labtop (AP). AP - Toshiba Corp. plans to announce a new laptop model next week that allows users to watch TV on it without having to boot up the computer's Windows operating system — the first in what analysts say will be a new crop of multimedia notebooks to come. |
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Paris Hilton Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed in LA (Reuters). Reuters - A Los Angeles judge has thrown out
an invasion of privacy lawsuit brought by socialite Paris
Hilton against an Internet company that distributed a video of
her having sex with an ex-boyfriend. |
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Progeny Releases Beta 1 of Progeny Debian |
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Intel slightly off Q2 revenue estimates. Intel Corp. narrowly missed analyst estimates for its second-quarter revenue, but increased revenue by 18 percent compared to last year's second quarter on a strong increase in flash memory shipments and expressed confidence about its prospects in the third quarter, the company said in a press release Tuesday. |
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Online Crime, Compliance Issues, Worker Mobility, SOA, and Open Source Are Mega-Trends for IT Security, Says Burton Group |
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HP OpenVMS DCE Buffer Overflow May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code |
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Shorewall Uses Unsafe Temporary Files That May Allow a Local User to Gain Elevated Privileges |
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Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges |
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IE Shell URI Download and Execute, POC |
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Companies adapt to a zero day world |
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UK military bans iPods - some places |
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Microsoft's Patch Count Climbs For July |
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In absentia, Jobs still towers over Macworld. The Mac's original design team gives Steve Jobs a public beating, but on the show floor, the CEO still wins praise from die-hards. |
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Intel shares fall on earnings report. Chipmaker roughly meets expectations for the second quarter, but its outlook has slightly dimmed. |
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Microsoft Releases New Batch of Patches (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp. today issued two "critical" software updates for its Windows operating system, bringing to 12 the total number of critical software fixes the company has released so far in 2004 and putting the focus once again on the security of Microsoft's widely used Internet Explorer Web browser. |
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Microsoft Expands Media Center Options (PC World). PC World - More PC makers will be able to build and sell the multimedia systems. |
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Brokerage's CMO Has IPG Leanings (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - E*Trade Financial's new chief marketing officer is an "Interpublic Group loyalist," according to a source, and that's where he may look first for a shop to work on the online brokerage's estimated $90 million marketing account, half of which is paid advertising. |
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Hacking the RFID Network |
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Microsoft issues seven security patches, two critical. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released seven security patches covering a wide array of the company's products. Two of those patches fix holes that Microsoft deemed "critical" and warned could allow remote attackers to take control of vulnerable Windows systems. |
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Online Crime, Compliance Issues, Worker Mobility, SOA, and Open Source Are Mega-Trends for IT Security, Says Burton Group |
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EnGarde: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Vulns: Apache Mod_Proxy Remote Negative Content-Length Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Apache Web server includes a proxying module (mod_proxy) to provide a proxy/cache for FTP, HTTP, and SSL.
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Lucent scores $5bn Verizon Wireless contract. Network upgrades for mobile computing |
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Major BBS Unauthorized Module/Menu Access |
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Major BBS Forum Op File Credit Bypass |
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phpBB Avatar Gallery Non-descript |
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phpBB modcp Multiple Non-descript |
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super Local Format String |
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phpGroupWare Mail Failure Path Disclosure |
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NetMRG recache.php Manual SNMP Arbitrary Command Execution |
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VMWare vmware-log.USERNAME Information Disclosure |
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JAWS gadget Variable Arbitrary File Access |
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MySQL Crafted Packet Authentication Bypass |
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KAME-derived IPsec Forged IPv4 Packet Forwarding |
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Bugzilla Has Several Bugs, Permitting Privilege Escalation, SQL Injection, and Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Same Name Javascript Bug Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Javascript in the Domain of an Arbitrary Site |
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INweb Mail Lets Remote Users Deny Service By Multiple Connections in Rapid Succession |
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BugTraq: Re: MSIE Similar Method Name Redirection Cross Site/Zone Scripting Vulnerability |
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BugTraq: Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise |
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BugTraq: Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges |
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Vulns: Microsoft JVM Cross-Domain Applet Unauthorized Communication Vulnerability |
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13 Jul W32/Korgo-U |
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13 Jul W32/Rbot-DR |
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GeoTrust vs. VeriSign: An SSL Controversy |
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Group Offers to Sell Supposed Dragon IDS Code |
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Hackers breached Defence Department computers: report on security lapses (Canadian Press) |
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Mexico's Bionic Attorney General. Dave sez: El Universal (Mexico City) is reporting that the Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo, had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted.
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Bloomberg news added "about 160 Mexican officials will carry the microchip" and that "the chip can't be removed, but will be deactivated after Macedo's term as attorney general expires." Link
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IE usage drop--slip or blip?. Microsoft's market-leading and Netscape-eating browser has slipped slightly in popularity, a researcher says. |
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Survey: Movie-swapping up, Kazaa down. CacheLogic says BitTorrent is the new king of peer-to-peer. Hollywood's not happy. |
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Pioneer doubles down on DVD recorder. The company follows Sony with a dual-layer machine able to cram 8.5GB on a disc, and boasts of fast single-layer burning. |
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Humax, TiVo team on 300-hour recorder. New DVR has the potential to be the enlightened consumer’s “home server,” one executive says. |
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PeopleSoft Shares Up on Takeover Chances (Reuters). Reuters - PeopleSoft Inc. shares rose 6
percent on Tuesday after a report speculated it was now more
likely Oracle Corp. would succeed in its $7.7 billion hostile
takeover bid for PeopleSoft, based on the information the judge
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Lucent Gets $5B Verizon Wireless Contract (AP). AP - Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from wireless services provider Verizon Wireless to supply at least $5 billion of network equipment, software and services. |
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Red Hat Shares Down on Restatement News (AP). AP - Shares of Red Hat Inc. tumbled Tuesday after the software maker said it plans to restate its financial results for the past three years. |
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Qualcomm Declares 2-For-1 Stock Split (AP). AP - Wireless communications company Qualcomm Inc. declared a two-for-one stock split Tuesday and increased its quarterly dividend by 40 percent. |
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IIALP - Abuse Logging Protocol |
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Wi-Fi to get print services. With the promise of the paperless office still light years away, Silex Technology will introduce in the fourth quarter its WiPrint device, a wireless print hardware and software solution for sending print jobs over the air to standard printers. |
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BugTraq: Re: MSIE Similar Method Name Redirection Cross Site/Zone Scripting Vulnerability. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise. Sender: Mind Warper [mindwarper at linuxmail dot org] |
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BugTraq: Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges. Sender: Vivek Rathod (Application Security, Inc dot ) [vrathod at appsecinc dot com] |
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Vulns: OpenSSL Denial of Service Vulnerabilities. Three security vulnerabilities have been reported to affect OpenSSL. Each of these remotely exploitable issues may result in a denial of service in applications which us... |
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Companies adapt to a zero day world. Patchy record |
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Intel flashes investors with Q2 revenue jump. Smooth sailing |
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Microsoft Windows / Internet Explorer File Download Extension Spoofing |
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Microsoft Windows POSIX Subsystem Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Outlook Express Header Validation Denial of Service Weakness |
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise |
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@stake advisory: WebSTAR (5.3.2 and below) Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft Releases Virus Removal Tool (AP) |
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Elsewhere: The network is the security |
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News: Companies adapt to a zero day world |
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Elsewhere: Worm sleeps to avoid detection |
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Microsoft Windows POSIX Subsystem Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Internet Information Server Redirection Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Windows / Internet Explorer File Download Extension Spoofing |
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Microsoft Windows showHelp and HTML Help Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Sterling's Singularity speech audio. Bruce Sterling's speech to the Long Now Foundation on the Singularity is a corker. He really is a *hell* of a speaker.
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Hummer H2 finger flipping photo gallery. Countless pictures of people flipping the bird at Hummer H2's.
 The H2 is the ultimate poseur vehicle. It has the chassis of a Chevy Tahoe and a body that looks like the original Hummer; i.e. it's a Chevy Tahoe in disguise.
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Japanese geek status hierarchy. Fascinating chart of the Japanese geek status hierarchy. Link (Thanks, Zed!) |
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Cape Clear fills out ESB line. Version 5 of the company's integration software will support more management and communications protocols. |
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Oracle extends PeopleSoft offer again. Offer of $21 per share now has Aug. 27 deadline. |
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Briefly: Oracle extends PeopleSoft offer again. roundup Plus: Cape Clear fills out ESB line...Ampex targets Sony in infringement suit...MSNBC.com goes into the black...Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi. |
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New Hampshire: E-mail free or die...for now. Tax collectors say the Granite State can live up to its libertarian motto: They won't target Internet phone calls, chat rooms, Web mail and instant messaging. Yet.
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IE slide: a blip or a bomb?. Microsoft's market leading and Netscape eating browser has slipped slightly in popularity, a researcher says. |
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Is Siebel on the Rocks? Or Is Siebel About To Rock? - Part 5 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - CRM market maker Siebel Systems (Nasdaq: SEBL) is standing at a crossroads these days. As CRM Daily notes in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this series, Siebel -- which, in effect, defined CRM as we know it -- is contending with market forces that ultimately will mean change -- not only for the company, but also for the rest of the industry. |
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File-Sharers Prefer Movies and Software (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Movies and other software are being downloaded from file-sharing
networks more than music, according to a new report from the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Some industry
experts say that lawsuits against file-sharers of movies are just around
the corner. |
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IBM Launches Power5 Unix Hardware (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) has introduced its latest Power5-based servers, offering three new
Unix machines that use Big Blue's p5 chip technology for both AIX and
Linux operating systems. |
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TI, DoCoMo Collaborate on 3G Chipset (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - With the much-hyped third-generation wireless (3G) networks finally being rolled out across the globe, Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) (TI) and Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) have joined forces to develop a multi-mode UMTS (W-CDMA/GSM/GPRS) chipset for forthcoming handsets. |
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Product Review: HP d325 Business Desktop (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Hewlett Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) d325 Business Desktop stands apart from other business computers in today's market. While many of its hardware and software components are similar to those in other PCs, the design of the d325 makes it a desirable computer for many I.T. purchasers and small-business owners. |
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S.D. Pulls Plug on Part of Library Site (AP). AP - The governor shut down the teen section of the South Dakota State Library's Web site, saying it included links to material he doesn't believe young people should see. |
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Nokia Price-Cuts Seen Eroding Industry Profits (Reuters). Reuters - After years of stealing market share
from weaker rivals, global mobile phone leader Nokia is trying
to fend off advances by its more innovative competitors by
slashing prices on its older phones. |
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Matrix Decision Making |
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Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed |
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Companies warn of mass Trojan distribution. Antivirus and e-mail security companies sent out warnings on Tuesday about a new Trojan horse program that they claim is being mass distributed on the Internet using unsolicited commercial, or spam, e-mail. |
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Microsoft plans to release tool to remove Trojan. Microsoft Corp. plans to release a software tool to clean computers infected by a Trojan horse program linked to recent, widespread Web-based attacks on Windows users. |
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Companies warn of mass Trojan distribution. Antivirus and e-mail security companies sent out warnings on Tuesday about a new Trojan horse program that they claim is being mass distributed on the Internet using unsolicited commercial, or spam, e-mail. |
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News: Companies adapt to a zero day world. Financial institutions with critical systems and cash on the line are reorganizing to deal with the closing gap between the hole and the patch. |
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BugTraq: @stake advisory: WebSTAR (5.3.2 and below) Multiple Vulnerabilities. Sender: Advisories [advisories at atstake dot com] |
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Vulns: Microsoft JVM Cross-Domain Applet Unauthorized Communication Vulnerability. It has been reported that the Microsoft JVM is vulnerable to an access validation error that may result in a violation of its security policy.
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UK military bans iPods - some places. Updated In the line of fire |
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Ballmer has seen the future, and it’s Danish. Toronto Microsoft gees up the channel |
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FaceTime Secures IM For SMBs |
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Worm Tries To Foil Anti-Virus Researchers |
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Unix, Meet Power5 |
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New Worm Protects itself from Anti-Virus Software |
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Critical Product Vulnerability - July 2004 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release |
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Microsoft Outlook Express Header Validation Denial of Service Weakness |
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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Symantec to Turn Tide on Spam |
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MS Patch Day: 7 Alerts; 2 Critical |
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Security holes result in first-ever market share drop for Internet Explorer. Are security vulnerabilities beginning to take their toll on Mozilla? It could be, as IE's market share dipped for the first time ever. By Eric Bangeman. |
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How to complain to Patriot Act flipfloppers. Jim sez: "Late last week, the House rejected an amendment to the USA Patriot Act that would have curtailed some of the more contentious provisions. It turns out that the GOP kept the vote open for 23 minutes in order to strong arm persuade a few of the more vertebrate-challenged congressfolk. Nine congresspeople, all Repbulican, changed their vote from supporting the ammendment to rejecting it, most likely after being pressured by the White House and/or Republican attack dog Tom deLay. This site lets you know who these waffling flip floppers are and how to give 'em a piece of your mind." Link |
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"Happy Talk From Hell" -- Salon reviews Outfoxed. Salon has a review of the new documentary about Fox news, called Outfoxed, which went on sale today and is now the 11th best-selling DVD on Amazon.
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Take the network's "some people say" mantra (as used in my first paragraph, above). I had watched plenty of Fox News without ever noticing this -- it's a way of introducing commentary, and specifically the reflexive right-wing views of the presumptive Fox core audience, into what is supposed to be news coverage, while appearing to not quite endorse it. "Some people say that criticizing the war at a time like this is letting down our men and women in uniform," or "Some people say Richard Clarke is a political operative who's trying to sell books." (Or, yes, "Some people are saying that John Kerry looks French!" -- uttered with a peculiar mixture of consternation and delight. Gosh, what a weird idea! But now that you mention it ...!)
Also, here's Fox's scary rebuttal to the documentary.
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Backyard Coaster.  The Blue Flash is a roller coaster that John Ivers constructed in his rural Indiana backyard.
"I love to go to amusement parks and ride the the rides, but I can't stand waiting in line... To be honest with you, I'm not an educated engineer or mathematician or anything like that. It was more or less trial-and-error."
Here's a radio piece on Ivers and his coaster from WYNC's "The Next Big Thing." Link
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Spambaiter takes idiot 419er for a ride. BBC article about a Nigerian scammer who was tricked into painting his chest with a red "9" on it. Link (Thanks, Stresspuppy!) |
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Verizon calls on big customers with Treo 600. Verizon Wireless sells PalmOne's new smart phone to large business in prelude to wider consumer release.
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Japanese Demand Microsoft Drop Provision (AP). AP - Japan's anti-monopoly agency demanded on Tuesday that Microsoft Corp. drop a clause from contracts with Japanese electronics makers, wording it suspects allows the U.S. software giant to unlawfully appropriate patented technology. |
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UAE's Etisalat on course to win license for Saudi GSM after making best bid (AFP). AFP - A consortium including the UAE's Etisalat made the highest bid to become Saudi Arabia's second mobile phone operator, putting it on course to win the coveted licence, a source in one of the consortia said. |
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Office Depot Wants to Recycle Your Old Computer |
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Red Hat shares fall on accounting revamp. Red Hat Inc. warned investors on Tuesday that it will restate three years' worth of financial results to reflect a change in how it accounts for subscription revenues. Red Hat said that although the change won't affect the total revenue ultimately collected by the company, it will shave the vendor's reported sales and profits over the last few years. |
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Ballmer quizzed by partners. TORONTO - Steve Ballmer rallied Microsoft Corp. partners in his trademark, high-energy style Tuesday morning, but not all partners got what they wanted from the software maker's chief executive officer (CEO). |
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PHRACK #62 Released |
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BugTraq: RE: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eEye dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise. Sender: Philliph [bugtraq at regedit dot sk] |
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Google and Yahoo! go shopping. Photos and feeds on tap |
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Microsoft preps Marketplace. Toronto Psst! Need an approved dealer? |
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DNS changes to take minutes (instead of hours). Atlas shrugged |
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MS04-019: Vulnerability in Utility Manager Could Allow Code Execution (842526) |
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MS04-020: Vulnerability in POSIX Could Allow Code Execution (841872) |
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MS04-021: Security Update for IIS 4.0 (841373) |
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MS04-022: Vulnerability in Task Scheduler Could Allow Code Execution (841873) |
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MS04-023: Vulnerability in HTML Help Could Allow Code Execution (840315) |
| 23. |
MS04-024: Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (839645) |
| 24. |
MS04-018: Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (823353) |
| 25. |
Linksys Wireless Internet Camera File Disclosure (main.cgi) |
| 26. |
PHRACK #62 Has Been Released |
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HP-UX Xfs Daemon Port Buffer Overflow |
| 28. |
Half-Life Server/Client Denial of Service Vulnerability |
| 29. |
MSDXM.DLL Media Preview Script Execution Vulnerability |
| 30. |
Microsoft Outlook Express Javascript Execution Vulnerability |
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PHRACK #62 Released |
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BugTraq: RE: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability |
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BugTraq: Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise |
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Digital movieblog includes short films from Chernobyl and Ethiopia. Luuk Bowman's collaborative movieblog Tropisms is starting to move again, after a long silence.
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Tropisms started in 2002 as a personal videolog or "vlog," a weblog that integrated streaming video-files with a travel diary. The site has grown into a collective movieblog with a small group of participating filmmakers. Peter Boonstra and Marcel van Brakel (NL) are currently in Chernobyl, where they upload movies in an internet cafe. Josh Koury (VS) traces his aunt and uncle that have been stationed to a small section of backwoods Tennessee by the military. Earlier this year, Luuk Bouwman (NL) went to Ethiopia to find out about computer love in a place usually associated with famine. Tropisms is a heavy site, it uses flash and quicktime streams, so a broadband connection is needed. On Macs, Mozilla is preferable.
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Howard Rheingold's bad experience with the Treo 600 and Sprint. Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs and a lot of other wonderful books about the social effects of new technologies, recounts his frustrating customer service experience when he took his broken Treo 600 to Sprint:
[T]he indifferent young man I talked to at the Sprint store in the Bonair shopping center in San Rafael, California then said that they didn't do repairs or diagnostics and didn't know who did. He actually SURFED THE WEB to give me the phone number of Palm. So I called Palm, who told me they could deal with everyone's Treo 600 except Sprint's. They directed me to a third party repair service whose voicemail sends you to the web.
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Mothersbaugh's happy mutants.  Mark "Devo" Mothersbaugh has created a stunningly surreal series of manipulated antique photographs. Many of them are displayed in vintage daguerrotype frames. From the artist's statement:
"It was in the early 1900's that Rorschach and other psychiatrists developed hunches regarding symmetry and the internal workings of man. Humans, great pretenders to bi-lateral symmetry, are in actuality, closer to potatoes in their lack of precise symmetry. A close look reveals what is truly inside the people around us."
Mothersbaugh's Beautiful Mutants collection is currently touring galleries around the United States. Link |
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US demand boosts India's Infosys. Surging demand in the US helps Indian software group Infosys boost its first-quarter net profits by almost 40%. |
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UK military denies ban on iPods. The MOD has denied reports that it has banned Apple's iPod due to fears it could be used to steal files. |
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Dell, HP offer recycling deals. Customers can dump obsolete electronics goods at retailer shops or home, keeping bad elements out of landfills. |
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Ballmer: Nothing's rotten in Denmark. Microsoft's CEO says the company and its partners should strive to expand its midmarket success with Danish customers. |
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Google picks up photo management firm. Privately held Picasa will help round out the search giant's blogging service. |
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'High-rise' chips sneak on market. Chips with stacked transistors have been floating around the theoretical realm for years. Now they're appearing in products. |
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Infosys Raises Forecast for Fiscal Year (AP). AP - Leading Indian software firm Infosys Technologies raised its forecast for the current fiscal year Tuesday, citing a 44 percent surge in first-quarter revenues amid strong demand for its outsourcing services. |
| 11. |
Japan's DoCoMo launches 3G phone that works in local area network (AFP). AFP - Japanese cellphone giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. launched the world's first 3G mobile that also works as an Internet Protocol phone within buildings. |
| 12. |
Sony to unveil next generation PlayStation in spring (AFP). AFP - Sony Computer Entertainment said it will unveil its next-generation PlayStation machine in spring of next year. |
| 13. |
CORRECTED: Apple Crosses 100 Million Tracks Sold on iTunes (Reuters). Reuters - (Corrects third paragraph to include that songs can also be
played on personal computers.) |
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419 Scammer Gets Scammed |
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Microsoft plans to release tool to remove Trojan. Microsoft Corp. plans to release a software tool to clean computers infected by a Trojan horse program linked to recent, widespread Web-based attacks on Windows users. |
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Elsewhere: Worm sleeps to avoid detection. The latest mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it suspects that antivirus software is trying to detect it.
Atak was first discovered Monday. Although a... |
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Elsewhere: The network is the security. Remember computing in the 1980s?
This was an era when stand-alone IBM mainframes and VAX minicomputers dominated the computing landscape. Each system ran an application ... |
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NEW: Utah Marine home soon |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Access Control Flaw in popup.show() Lets Remote Users Execute Mouse-Click Actions |
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IE suffers security concerns, loses market share |
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Malicious attacks now a fact of life |
| 22. |
Advice to hackers: Do no harm |
| 23. |
Cisco inks Boeing VoIP deal |
| 24. |
Microsoft Predicts 1 Billion Windows PC Users by 2010 |
| 25. |
'Smart' worm lies low to evade detection |
| 26. |
Windows XP SP2 delayed. Again! |
| 27. |
AIDS vaccine years away, researchers warn |
| 28. |
Mozilla Firefox Roadmap Targets 1.0 Release for September 14th |
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100 million songs downloaded on iTunes |
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Metasploit Framework (Part One) |
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Have a flutter on a worm |
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Microsoft announces enhanced network protection |
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FINAL CALL FOR TRANSLATORS FOR "FREEDOM DOWNTIME" |
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'HOMELAND SECURITY' TOWN HALL MEETINGS TO BE HELD |
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UN INTERNET SUMMIT HELD; DISSENTERS IGNORED |
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A NEW HOPE ON THE HORIZON |
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UPDATE ON NEW MITNICK BOOK |
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WINTER ISSUE RELEASED |
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ONLINE REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR 5TH HOPE |
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SPRING 2004 ISSUE AVAILABLE |
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Worm sleeps to avoid detection |
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Microsoft receives slap on the wrist from Japan. Japan's investigation into Microsoft's business practices in that country seems to have ended with a relative fizzle. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Pac-Mondrian competition concept doc. From the project website: "Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man. The project offers gamers a chance to compete for $2000 worth of cash prizes for high score and level design." Link (Thank you, Snoodles!) update: Francis Hwang of Rhizome.org points out that this web page contains a proposal for a competition -- apparently, the project never secured the funding needed, so there is no actual competition, prize, or Pac Mondrian face-off. A geek can dream, though, can't s/he? |
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Now that's mobile entertainment: eccentric dude's piano bar on wheels. Following up on yesterday's post about the ice cream truck converted into a reggae dub soundsystem on wheels, Bill Pollock says: "Harrington King (whose business cards read "Spiritual Optimist") regularly parks his custom piano bar on wheels at various places down midtown [Sacramento, California] most weekend nights. Its cozy inside, appropriately piano bar-y with assorted bongos for those who feel moved to play. An awful photo but decent writeup avaialble via the News & Review (Link) and the traveling piano bar has its own website (Link)."
On the piano bar website, an archived interview in the Sacramento Bee, in which the eccentric dude says:
(Reporter) Do you have a favorite weekend song to play?
(King) I've got a Sacramento song that people like.
(Reporter) What's that?
(King) I don't know. I guess it's called "Sacramento Song."
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(Reporter) You go to any music spots around town?
(King) I am a music spot around town.
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SAP snaps up catalog publisher. The German software giant will use A2i’s technology to add features its NetWeaver product. |
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Verizon Wireless, Lucent renew contract. Under $5 billion deal, Lucent will supply equipment, software and services for Verizon's next-generation voice and data network.
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Macworld Expo kicks off with 20 years on the Mac (MacCentral). MacCentral - The first Macworld Conference & Expo to be held in Boston, Mass. since 1997 officially kicked on Tuesday with a feature presentation the Macintosh at 20. The presentation, hosted by New York Times columnists David Pogue, featured original Macintosh designers Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Jerry Manock and Jef Raskin. |
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Red Hat Shares Down on Restatement News (AP). AP - Shares of Red Hat Inc. tumbled Tuesday after the software maker said it plans to restate its financial results for the past three years. |
| 8. |
Boeing Picks Cisco for Internet Voice Gear (Reuters). Reuters - Boeing Co. (BA.N) has picked Cisco
Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the world's largest maker of gear that
directs Internet traffic, to install its Internet voice
transmission equipment in Boeing's communications network,
Cisco said on Tuesday. |
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Senate Bill Targets 'Phishers' (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Internet scam artists who use fake Web sites to dupe people into revealing sensitive financial information could face up to five years in jail and forced to pay $250,000 in fines under a bill introduced late last week in the Senate. |
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Lucent Signs $5 Billion Pact with Verizon Wireless (Reuters). Reuters - Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU.N) has
signed a contract worth at least $5 billion to supply
equipment, software and services to help Verizon Wireless
improve its network, the companies said on Tuesday. |
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4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities |
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Fedora Core 3 Test 1 Released |
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Verizon Wireless to spend $5 billion with Lucent. Verizon Wireless Inc. will spend $5 billion on a wide variety of networking equipment, software, and services from Lucent Technologies Inc., in an agreement announced Tuesday. |
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BugTraq: Moodle XSS Vulnerability. Sender: Thomas Waldegger [morpheus at buha dot info] |
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IBM gives Unix servers a Power5 injection. Sun and HP under the gun |
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UK military bans iPods |
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Mozilla Patches Vulnerability |
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Extreme doctoring. Kevin Fong was dubbed "Spacedoc" by Esquire magazine's list of "most influential men under 40." From Everest to orbit, Fong studies how the body reacts to extreme environments. He hopes his research on trauma will help physicians treat all critical care patients. New Scientist has a long interview with Fong:
"When you get down to the nuts and bolts, critical care is chiefly about one thing - getting oxygen molecules and putting them into the cellular machinery so that they can be used to make energy. At high altitudes, for example, you have healthy people who have extremely low levels of oxygen in their bloodstream by virtue of their physical environment. And somehow they manage not just to be alive but to climb mountains. If you show measurements of the blood oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in a mountaineer on top of Everest to a critical care physician, they will say: "When did this patient die?" The numbers don't look compatible with life. How someone can go to the edge of human survival and come back to live a healthy and productive life is what critical care is all about. I've begun to regard intensive care as another extreme environment."
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Microsoft delays SP2, woos partners. The company is in Toronto whispering sweet nothings into developers' ears, but consumers waiting for security updates got bad news. |
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India's Infosys Net Rises on U.S. Demand (Reuters). Reuters - Infosys Technologies Ltd.,
(INFY.BO) (INFY.O) India's software bellwether, on Tuesday beat
market forecasts with a 39 percent quarterly profit jump and
raised its full-year earnings forecast on strong demand from
key U.S. clients. |
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Semiconductors, consumer electronics boost Philips profit (AFP). AFP - The Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips recorded earnings of 616 million euros (762 million dollars) in the second quarter of this year, more than 14 times the same period of 2003, the company said. |
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Beckham penalty miss ball goes up for sale (AFP). AFP - A Spanish football fan who caught the ball which England captain David Beckham missed in the penalty shoot-out against Portugal which resulted in his team's exit from Euro 2004 has put it up for sale on the internet. |
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Microsoft CEO Touts Security Push at Conference (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) is taking a
big step toward boosting the security of its flagship Windows
product in August with the release of a major software update,
Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday. |
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Security evaluation of 802.11i |
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Microsoft announces enhanced network protection. TORONTO -- Microsoft at its Worldwide Partner Conference here on Tuesday will announce enhancements to the company’s Network Access Protection technology, expected to be a key piece of its next major release of Windows Server 2003. As part of the rollout, 25 business partners will pledge support for the technology. |
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BugTraq: RE: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability. Sender: Polazzo Justin [Justin dot Polazzo at facilities dot gatech dot edu] |
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BugTraq: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise. Sender: Mind Warper [mindwarper at linuxmail dot org] |
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NHS squares EDS over nixed email deal. C&W picks up the reins |
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UK military bans iPods. In the line of fire |
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Data glitch halts satellite launch. Ariane 5 back to the shed for repairs |
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SSL VPNs energise security sales |
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Worm sleeps to avoid detection |
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Man is indicted in Verizon hacking case |
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13 Jul W32/Rbot-DP |
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CyberGuard makes bid for Secure Computing |
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Plea for Filipino hostage's freedom |
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Worm Wars |
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Sidebar: More Than Signatures Needed |
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E-voting's Rush to Failure |
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Security Log |
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Four Steps to a Secure Budget |
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Windows XP SP2 to go gold in August |
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Windows XP SP2 To Be Released in August. As is usual with software in general and Microsoft software in particular the release date of upcoming software seems to be somewhat of a moving target. Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been in testing as Release Candidate 2... |
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Red Hat restates earnings. Linux company revising earnings formula, restating two years worth of results |
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Verizon Wireless Signs Pact with Lucent (Reuters). Reuters - Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it
awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU.N) a contract worth at
least $5 billion for software, network equipment and services
to help it build high-speed Internet services. |
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Red Hat Restates Results Back to 2002 (Reuters). Reuters - Linux software developer Red Hat Inc.
(RHAT.O), on Tuesday said it had corrected the way it
recognizes revenues for certain of its subscription agreements
and it would restate its results for the past three years. |
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Lucent, Verizon Enter $5 Billion Deal (AP). AP - Lucent Technologies Inc. said Tuesday that it received at $5 billion contract from Verizon Wireless to supply equipment, software and services to expand Verizon's wireless voice and data network. |
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Nasdaq Snares Google IPO (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - NEW YORK, July 12 -- Internet search firm Google Inc. said Monday it would list its hotly anticipated $2.7 billion initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market, dealing a blow to the New York Stock Exchange, which had campaigned hard to win the coveted listing. |
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The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop |
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Fujitsu plans world's fastest database. Fujitsu Ltd. and Japan's National Institute of Genetics are working on building what they expect will be the world's fastest database when it opens later this year. |
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SAP acquires A2i. German business software vendor SAP AG has bought the privately held software company A2i Inc., in an effort to broaden the data management capabilities of its NetWeaver platform, the company announced Tuesday. |
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Japan FTC: Microsoft is violating Antimonopoly Act. TOKYO -- The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) said Tuesday that certain provisions in license agreements between Microsoft Corp. and Japanese PC vendors violate Japan's antimonopoly code. |
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BT broadband users can't find Geocities. Mysterious outage |
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Sony to launch e-money scheme. It was five years ago today... 13 July 1999 |
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Sony sued in digicam patent clash. Not by Kodak, for a change |
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Sharp turns to Symbian. Smart-phone OS to boost international sales - hopefully... |
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Symantec snaps up antispam firm |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw |
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Symantec buys anti-spam firm TurnTide |
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Save your vote: get off your ass and get counted. 
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A reminder: today is the US nationwide "Computer Ate My Vote Day," with rallies across the country to raise awareness of the dangers of paperless electronic voting and the need for election integrity. Click below to find out where you can show up to save your vote.
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Disney World "pirate style" trousers on eBay. An eBay seller is getting rid of ten pairs of Disney World Animal Kingdom "pirate style" trousers -- 32" waists. I don't rightly remember there being pirates at the Animal Kingdom, but they are swell renfaire-esque pantaloons.
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Sterling's Singularity speech audio. Bruce Sterling's speech to the Long Now Foundation on the Singularity is a corker. He really is a *hell* of a speaker.
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Afghans sell to the world valign="top">5. |
Google shares to debut on Nasdaq. The search engine giant says it will make its market debut on the technology-laden Nasdaq market in the US. |
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Windows update hits a new delay. A major update to the Windows XP operating system will be available from August, later than expected. |
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British Military: iPods Pose Security Risk (Reuters). Reuters - Music fans, beware: Britain's Ministry
of Defense has become the latest organization to add the iPod
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CeCILL: La Licence Francaise Du Logiciel Libre |
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mmO2 hunts prepaids with German coffee chain. JV with Tchibo |
| 10. |
LA court demolishes Paris Hilton. $30m invasion of privacy lawsuit dismissed |
| 11. |
Developers sneak peak of SQL Server 2005. Site Offer Save 30% at the Reg Bookshop |
| 12. |
Have you downloaded movies from the Internet?. Poll We give the MPAA a helping hand |
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Wall Street bears take a swipe at chip stocks. Merrill Lynch downgrades industry |
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Chip-making kit vendors toast bumper year. And reduced but still strong growth in 2005 |
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Geolocation: Don't Fence Web In. As geolocation -- technology that can track the location of computers surfing the Internet -- improves, corporations and governments are increasingly able to limit what people can view on the Web. |
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Senate Stem-Cell Vote Unlikely. Although valign="top">17. |
A Gathering to Hack the System. Hackers gather in New York City at the fifth annual Hackers on Planet Earth conference to discuss all the little ways that the government and corporations are turning technology against the people. Michelle Delio reports from New York. |
| 18. |
Google Chooses Nasdaq Over NYSE. The search-engine stud says it plans to list its $2.7 billion initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Bummer for the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 19. |
'Bucky' Gets Lucky With Stamp. Richard Buckminster Fuller was always considered to be 50 years ahead of his time. Ever in sync with the zeitgeist, a half century after Fuller received the patent on his famous geodesic dome, the U.S. Postal Service issues a stamp in his honor. By Danit Lidor. |
| 20. |
Yahoo Buys Web E-Mail Firm. The world's biggest website acquires Oddpost, a Web-based e-mail provider that has a cool interface. The combined service could give Google's Gmail a run for its money. By Amit Asaravala. |
| 21. |
Florida Felon List Down, Not Out. Florida election officials say they are relieved that the state won't require them to purge felons from voter rolls in this election cycle. But the purge will be reinstated in 2006, and lots of problems remain, critics say. Jacob Ogles reports from Orlando. |
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Cell-Phone 411: Boon or Bane?. A mobile-phone industry group plans to launch a wireless directory-assistance service next year, but consumer groups want federal rules to protect people's privacy and ensure that users must opt in to the database. By Ryan Singel. |
| 23. |
Movie, TV Fans Ogle Video to Go. Forget DVDs. Leave the iPod at home. The latest in consumer electronics is portable video players that let people watch recorded movies and TV programs anywhere. Microsoft is leading the charge with its small-screen format. By John Gartner. |
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Bettors: Election Will Be Tight. valign="top">25. |
Elephants, Donkeys Seek Love. Opposites may attract, but not in politics. A slew of sites are popping up that cater to singles who are seeking mates with the same political ideology. By Louise Witt. |
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Militants will face "sharp sword" |
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Old-school Transformers as homemade, detailed 3D models. 
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Ben sez, "Generation One Transformers (and others, such as from the War Within series) have been rendered into detailed 3D models, and the artist has also provided short films where they, as Transformers must, transform."
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Radiators from England with much sexiness. 
Fun Furde has written a short illustrated appreciation of high-end, design-y English hot-water radiators. These things cost a fortune, but some of them are very pretty indeed.
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Braille t-shirts with anti-groper countermeasures. 
These Braille t-shirts (49 Canadian pesos each) say things like "naughty" and include an ASCII translation under the front bottom seam so that you can flip up the hem and pre-empt gropers who try to read your chestular region.
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Open source programmer blesses "ripoff" of his code. Jaleco, a Gameboy Advance cartridge vendor, released a vintage game-pack that included a public-domain NES emulator written by Loopy. They didn't credit him in the release, and a lot of hackers and gamers were affronted on Loopy's behalf, but Loopy doesn't care. As Waxy says, "his message embodies the spirit of the open-source movement":
Let someone take an idea, do something cool with it, and not have to hesitate because of legal nitpickings. If a company can take something that I made, and turn it into a product that other people enjoy, I'm all the happier for it. Why should I care if someone else profits off of something I made? It's already free.
Demanding that someone pay homage to my work is just ego-stroking, and I'm not into that. Sure, as a courtesy it would have been nice for Jaleco to tell me "hey, thanks for the source", and they didn't, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it, because I didn't write PocketNES so people would pat me on the back.
I wrote it so people could have fun playing old games. And that's exactly what's happening here. Mission accomplished.
I'm with him. After all, this guy used the holes in copyright to make an emulator that relied on Nintendo's (and its suppliers') IP.
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Samurai epic is a cut above. Onimusha 3: Demon Siege is a good old-fashioned hack'n'slash video game adventure. |
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Surfers Find War Images Online (PC World). PC World - The Internet offers easy access to pictures and video the mainstream media won't show you. |
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Apple 'close' to accord with indie labels. iTunes may at last get White Stripes et al |
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China tosses out Viagra patent. China has revoked Pfizer's patent over Viagra, a move that Lawmeme argues is a precursor to widespread dismissal of pharmaceutical patents.
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In what appears to be the first pharmaceutical patent revocation, China has revoked the patent. Not long after the patent was granted, pharmaceutical producers (12 in this account) requested re-examination. It isn't quite clear yet exactly what happened at that re-examination. Some claim the patent failed the detailed description required by Article 26 of China's patent code. Others claim it failed the novelty requirement. Pfizer claims its patent still stands pending appeal. The Viagra patent was already poorly enforced, and now the prognosis looks even more bleak for Pfizer.
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Dilbert for 13 Jul 2004.  |
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Egg gets out of France. The internet bank says it is withdrawing from the French market to make it a more attractive target for potential suitors. |
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India's Infosys earnings jump 39.2 percent (AFP). AFP - India's second largest software exporter Infosys Technologies first quarter net profit jumped 39.2 percent from a year earlier to 3.8 billion rupees (86 million dollars). |
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Japan Warns Microsoft on Anti-Trust (Reuters). Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp. received a
warning from Japan's anti-trust regulators about unfair
business practices on Tuesday, but the decision did not carry
the heavy fines the U.S. firm was given in Europe. |
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Micron: Memory Chip Prices Yet to Peak (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. chip maker Micron Technology Inc.
said on Tuesday prices of computer memory chips have yet to
peak and gave an upbeat outlook for demand that contrasted with
growing investor worries about the semiconductor sector. |
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Microsoft Windows Update Set for Aug., After Delay (Reuters). Reuters - A major update to Windows XP, offering
security enhancements and better stability, will be available
for download and on CD-ROMs in August, two months after its
originally scheduled date, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on
Monday. |
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Gadget-Hungry Asia to Lead Demand for Smartphones (Reuters). Reuters - Hoang Anh Tuan, a self-confessed
"handphone freak" in Vietnam, calls his Sony Ericsson
smartphone his pride and joy. |
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IBM Unveils eServer Computers Using Power 5 Chip (Reuters). Reuters - IBM Corp. unveiled on Monday
powerful business computers using the company's latest
microprocessor, the Power 5, and technology that lets each chip
run as many as 10 servers. |
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Security Focus: Metasploit Framework (Part One) "walk-through of the various exploitation techni... |
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Secunia: Microsoft Java Virtual Machine Cross-Site Communication Vulnerability "breach of sandbo... |
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Secunia: Linux Kernel Floating Point Leak Vulnerability "can be exploited by malicious, local us... |
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Computer World: More Than Signatures Needed "the technologies don't work against previously unkn... |
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Computer World: Hacking for profit "Virus writers are getting more professional... A small but g... |
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Wired: A Gathering to Hack the System "There was a darker note than usual at HOPE this year, wit... |
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iDefense: Adobe Reader 6.0 Filename Handler Buffer Overflow Vulnerability "could allow remote at... |
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Happy Birthday, Bucky!.  Today would have been R. Buckminster Fuller's 109th birthday. It's also the 50 year anniversary of his patent for the geodesic dome. The Bucky Fuller commemorative postage stamp that Mark posted about here is now available from the United States Postal Service.
"Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all, to feed everybody, clothe everybody, give every human on earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before—that we now have an option for all humanity to 'make it' successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment."
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Cisco inks Boeing VoIP deal. The deal is one of the router maker's biggest IP telephony contracts to date. |
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IBM attacks Unix rivals with Power5. The systems boost performance and can run many operating systems simultaneously. |
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IBM Corp. Upgrades Server Line (AP). AP - IBM Corp. is upgrading an important line of computer servers Tuesday in a bid to vault over rivals Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. and cash in on a multibillion-dollar bet. |
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Japan Watchdogs Slap Warning on Microsoft (AP). AP - Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog slapped a warning against Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday, demanding that the U.S. software giant remove what it said was a restrictive clause from contracts with electronics makers. |
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Pilgrimage 2004 American Demoparty Announced |
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Monoculture wars |
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Ars Technica System Guide. The Ars Technica System Guide returns again. This month, we update the Hot Rod, Budget Box, and God Box. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Sony to Unveil New PlayStation in May (AP). AP - Sony Corp. says it expects to demonstrate a working version of its next-generation PlayStation video game console at a trade show next May. |
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Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro |
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Microsoft further delays patching product, service. TORONTO - Microsoft Corp. has delayed a significant update to its patch management tool and its single patching service until the first half of next year because of security work it had to do first related to Windows XP, a company executive said Monday. |
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Guide :: Linux Forensics Software |
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Guide :: PC Forensics Software |
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Guide :: PDA Forensics Tools and Techniques |
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