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Digital Identity World
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - July 8, 2004 Issue |
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Boing Boing
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Show of support for Seattle photoblogger harassed by authorities. Kate from Seattle.metroblogging.net says:
In a follow-up to your Boing Boing post about the photography student's odd run-in with Homeland Security , a peaceful protest is being organized in response.
More details about the public show of support here: Link. (Ed.: "Photoblogging is not a crime" t-shirts are inevitable...) |
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Study: States doing plenty of offshoring. Foreign companies are nabbing millions in U.S. state contract work, and the trend is likely to grow, report says. |
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HP lands $500 million in outsourcing. The latest deals are coming the PC maker's way just after a windfall quarter in its outsourcing business. |
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Tech, Hollywood heavyweights create content coalition. IBM, Intel, Disney and others will work on rules for ensuring the security of content in home networks. |
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Tech, studio giants team on new DVD locks. New technology would let high-definition videos be copied, moved into home networks. |
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EU Approves $138M in Aid to Mobilcom (AP). AP - The European Commission on Wednesday approved 112 million euros ($138 million) in German government aid to troubled cell phone operator Mobilcom AG provided the company stop online sales of mobile phone contracts for seven months. |
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Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet |
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Elsewhere: Defence Department computers hacked: report. OTTAWA ? Determined computer hackers broke through federal firewalls several times last year, gaining access to Defence Department networks.
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Elsewhere: Hacker group hawks hooky software. A hacker group claiming to have stolen source code from many Fortune 100 software companies says it is attempting to drum up business by offering the complete source of a... |
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BugTraq: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: IE Shell URI Download and Execute, POC. Sender: Ferruh Mavituna [ferruh at mavituna dot com] |
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BugTraq: [security bulletin] SSRT4741 rev.1 DCE for HP OpenVMS Potential RPC Buffer Overflow Attack VU#259796, VU#568148, VU#326746. Sender: Boren, Rich (SSRT) [rich dot boren at hp dot com] |
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Backdoor.Xebiz |
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BugTraq: RE: HijackClick 3 |
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Re: Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges |
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Analysis: The network is the security |
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Microsoft warns of seven Windows flaws |
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South Korean government agencies cyber attacked |
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Microsoft: 'Real progress' on security |
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The art of UNIX programming - book review |
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Microsoft announces security partnerships |
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Hacking for profit |
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OpenVMS - hack-proof and crash resistant? |
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Worm wars |
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'Important' Windows flaw could turn critical |
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Business faces growing loss from identity theft |
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Microsoft warns of seven Windows flaws |
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Firms ignore MP3 and memory stick security risk |
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Business faces growing loss from identity theft |
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Elsewhere: Microsoft hails "real progress" on improving security |
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Music to Phonecam by: Kill Bill Vol. 2 Mashups. 
During this weekend's launch of the SENT phonecam photography show (press coverage here), pics submitted by the public were displayed on iMac screens, refreshing automatically every few minutes (link), while iTunes blasted some groovy mashups. Many at the show asked about the tunes, so here is one highlight from the playlist. I'll post more over the next few days -- don't want to spoil you with a jam overdose.
The tracks people seemed to dig most were all from an amazing mashup album by a group of DJs called Hanzo Steel -- all remixes from the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume 2. My favorite track: "Bang Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down" (Link to free MP3 track). The track includes samples from: "Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down" by Nancy Sinatra, "Big Beat" by Billy Squier/"Fix Up Look Sharp" by Dizzee Rascal, "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band (as used by Nas), "Take Me To The Mardis Gras" by Bob James/"Peter Piper" by Run DMC and audio samples from many of the original Kung Fu films which are referenced in Tarantino's movies. I can't stop playing this track. It scratches the funk spot in my brain.
Here are two more freebies from the same disc: "Twisted Nerve (Biter's Revenge)" (Link to free MP3). Includes "Twisted Nerve" by Bernard Herrmann and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. And "Ironsides" includes "Ironsides" by Quincy Jones plus Divine Styler. (Link to free MP3).
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Link to Hanzo Steel home (check the fine cover art! Buy the CD!). Check out SENT in person through Saturday July 17 (12-15 daily) at the Downtown Standard Hotel in LA. Oh, and the image shown here is one of the 1500 +/- phonecam snapshots submitted by the public. You can never have enough phonecam pics of hot electroclash babes licking themselves in the mirror, I always say. (Thanks for the free tracks, Hanzo Steel!) |
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Ballmer: Xbox 'can take Sony'. Microsoft CEO discusses Longhorn concerns, IBM comparisons and Sony gaming bets.
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Six telecoms giants form alliance to merge mobile and fixed-line phones (AFP). AFP - Six telecommunications giants in Europe, Asia, South and North America have formed an alliance to encourage convergence between mobile and fixed-line services, Switzerland's top operator Swisscom revealed. |
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'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis |
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Review: Elgato EyeTV 500 |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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HP accelerates recycling ahead of law. As environmental concerns grow over rising levels of electronic waste and governments begin to take action, one of the world's largest suppliers of IT products is taking steps to accelerate its recycling efforts. |
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China solicits applications for high-tech R&D grants. China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced a tender for 19 high-technology research and development projects to be funded by the government's Electronics and Information Industry Development Fund (IT Fund). |
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Microsoft's ISA Server 2004 hits the streets. Amid a concerted effort to heighten the profile of its security offerings, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. |
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Odeon rolls credits on copycat website. Hasta la vista, accessible cinema service |
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Welsh open sourcerers get language boost. Online techie translator |
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IBM ups rates on server financing deals. One per cent hike |
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NRC pleads case for Hubble mercy mission. 'Compelling scientific returns' from manned rescue |
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BugTraq: Ref: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367866, Jul 1 2004 1:19PM, Subj: Brightmail leaks other user's spam |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-11 ] wv: Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler '.job' Stack Overflow |
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Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll |
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Ref: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367866, Jul 1 2004 1:19PM, Subj:Brightmail leaks other user's spam |
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Tech and Hollywood heavyweights create content coalition. From John Borland at CNET:
Several high-profile technology companies and movie studios are expected to announce Wednesday that they have formed a coalition to ensure that high-definition video and other content cannot be pirated in home networks.
Sources familiar with the group's formation said the initial members include IBM, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, Warner Bros., Disney and Panasonic.
The announcement is scheduled to be made at the cross-industry Content Protection Technology Working Group (CPTWG) meeting in Los Angeles, although last-minute membership changes could occur before then.
The alliance marks the culmination of years of tentative and often suspicious contact between the high-tech industry and Hollywood. It will be aimed at developing specifications to protect copyrighted content such as movies inside home networks. If the group is successful, a consumer might be able to download a high-definition movie, store it on a PC, watch it on a television and transfer it to a mobile device to watch while traveling.
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New issue of RU Sirius' NeoFiles. RU Sirius has just published his eighth issue of NeoFiles, a mind-bending online magazine about technology and human potential. In the new issue, transhumanist Max More talks about the Extropians, Pat Kane discusses play as work, and Tom Greco explores the real value of money. Link |
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Miniscule of Sound. This sounds pretty funny en pixel, and I'm sure it'd be even more if you stumbled on it at a humongoid ravefest with e'd out dancing bodies as far as they eye can see. It's a parody of techno music industry media gigantor Ministry of Sound.
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Following on from the ice-cream van dub sound system and the piano bar on wheels, i'd like to draw your attention to the Miniscule of Sound.
i've been going to summertime festivals in the uk for years, and these guys have been on the circuit for almost a decade. It's basically a converted horsebox kitted out on the inside with disco ball, coloured lights, day-glo fluffy roof, light-panelled dancefloor, and a dj (usually) dressed as one of the vilage people playing something cheesey on a tiny pair of decks. The door staff on the outside advise us they are "'avin it tiny!" on the way in. Club capacity is about 8, maybe 9 at a squeeze. As clubbing experiences go, it's one of the best and it's free. If you see them at a festie this year, pay them a visit.
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Moblogging Fortune's Brainstorm Con in Aspen. 
Cameron Sinclair, the man who co-founded a very interesting organization called Architecture for Humanity, is mo-pho-blogging Fortune Magazine's
Brainstorm Conference. Here's a Link to the blog. |
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More Roomba hacking.  Another group of hardware hackers have at a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner:
"For higher level control, we've attached a Virgin Webplayer. The Webplayer was sold as a loss leader for Virgin's internet service in the late 90s, and thus can be found on ebay for under $100. It has two serial ports, a 200MHz Geode processor, 64M ram, and a miniPCI port. Thus, we can give it an 802.11b card, a webcam, and a usb-serial adapter." Link (via MetaFilter) |
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IBM to pick up data analytics firm. Alphablox will be the fifth company company Big Blue has bought to bolster its DB2 data management products. |
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Mark Pesce: Open Source Television |
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IBM buys BI company. IBM added another piece to its ongoing business intelligence initiative on Wednesday, acquiring Alphabox Corp., a small software company in Mountain View, Calif. that specializes in analytics software. |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-11 ] wv: Buffer overflow vulnerability. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: Re: Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges. Sender: Chris Paget [ivegotta at tombom dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: Ref: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367866, Jul 1 2004 1:19PM, Subj: Brightmail leaks other user's spam. Sender: Sym Security [secure at symantec dot com] |
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Sony turns to video to boost music service. Connect to offer movies 'within a year' |
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Intel, MS and co. to tout copy-friendly DRM tech. Would-be content-management standard |
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MS hatches July patch batch. Unmagnificent seven |
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Firms ignore MP3 and memory stick security risk |
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Druid busted for possession of a sword. A 26-year-old druid was arrested in Portsmouth for going to the hardware store while wearing his ceremonial sword:
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About a dozen fellow members of the Insular Order of Druids sat in the court's public gallery, while chief druid King Arthur Pendragon, wearing white robes with a red lion emblazoned on the front, acted as Williams's legal adviser.
The sword, named Talisen, has been confiscated by police as evidence.
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Cyber Dissident Jailed for 19 Months (Reuters). Reuters - A Vietnamese court sentenced a
73-year-old former colonel to 19 months in prison on Wednesday
for using the Internet to criticize government policies as
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Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR |
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Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm |
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Oracle, DOJ file closing briefs in merger trial. Oracle Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed their closing trial briefs late Tuesday in the government's case to block Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., paving the way for closing arguments next week. |
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China solicits applications for high-tech R&D grants. China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced a tender for 19 high-technology research and development projects to be funded by the government's Electronics and Information Industry Development Fund (IT Fund). |
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Microsoft's ISA Server 2004 hits the streets. Amid a concerted effort to heighten the profile of its security offerings, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. |
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Adaptec forks out $100m for Snap Appliance. Spending spree continues |
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PHP "strip_tags()" Function and memory_limit Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft Patch Day - 2 Critical, 4 Important |
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Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game!. Waxy's dreamt up a fine net.sport: viewing Amazon reviews ranked from lowest rating to highest: he calls it the "Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game!" and he's posted some of his faves and invited his readers to do the same.
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Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds"
* "This is not the Beach Boys. It can't be. Why? No beach songs! I thought it was some kind of joke. All 'Pet Sounds' offers is the opportunity to hear Brian Wilson whine for forty minutes, backed by elevator music."
* "It's full of bland harmonizing by guys that could barely swim."
* "The lyrics consist of commonplace rhyming conversational prose, totally lacking in imagery, metaphor and anything else that separates verse from poetry."
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Oracle chooses its new CFO (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Software maker Oracle said Tuesday that it has hired an Accenture executive to be its new chief financial officer, filling a key management slot being vacated by one its most respected executives. |
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Lord of the Rings domain fight enters realms of fantasy. Warner Bros puts claim to 1,000 years of history |
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Dell and HP have a green moment. Free recycling, while stocks last |
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UK WISP moots IPO. Broadreach rolls out rail subsidiary too |
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Sony to expose PSP insides at September show. Programming seminar to be 'most detailed technical discussion' yet |
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Philippines withdrawing from Iraq |
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Moodle "help.php" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Spam out weighs terrorism as security threat: survey |
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Stealth virus is stealthiest of all |
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Before weblogs, "blog" was a kind of cocktail at sf cons. Ev searched Google's Usenet archives for early uses of the term "blog" and uncovered a science-fiction fannish cocktail called the "blog" that predates weblogs by years:
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You should be aware that Blog was originally devised by British fans in the 1950s. There were two versions. A Liverpool fan named Peter Hamilton came up with the recipe for Blog Mark I, which consisted of "a brandy and egg flip base, to which was added black currant puree, Alka Seltzer, and Beechan's Powder. It effervesced." A second, simplified version (Blog Mark II) was produced by hotel barmen at the first Kettering Eastercon (1955) and consisted of "a half-pint of cider and a measure of rum." Anybody know what `egg flip' and `Beecham's Powder' are? (Quoted material taken from p.168 of A WEALTH OF FABLE, by Harry Warner, Jr.)
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Virtual Oz theme-park created in online game. 
A player in Second Life (a highly user-modifiable massively multiplayer online game) converted her private in-game island into a virtual Oz themepark as a gift for another player. The elaborate project involved in-game collaboration between virtual costumers, set designers, programmers, and musical scorers.
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Sega Saturn emulator in open source. 
Cassini is an open source Sega Saturn emulator that plays a number of commercial Sega games.
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Futuristic sleep-pods at Empire State Building: $14/20 min. 
MetroNaps is a business that operates an urban napping service in the Empire State Building, offering customers the opportunity to reclilne in a hooded, electrified Bond-villain "MetroPod" and get a "lotion, facial spritz and lemon-scented hand towels" when you're done. They'll even deliver lunch to your pod. The rate is $14 (and up) for a 20 minute nap.
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Deaths at Disneyland. Here's a trip through all the deaths that have taken place at Disneyland, with photos of the widowmaking apparati. The author does a good job of separating the urban legends from the truth, and pointing the finger at whomever it deserves to be pointed at (sometimes Disney, sometimes foolhardy guests). The over-the-top cussin'-and-rantin' style is very nice.
Although the presumed allure of the PeopleMover during a graduation takeover of the Magic Kingdom would be hopes for a nice view of the Anaheim skyline and a hummer, the usual proliferation of the drunken testosterone penned another chapter of the ride's storied existence in blood during the summer of 1980.
Gerardo Gonzales had presumably never heard of the name Ricky Lee Yama when he boarded the sluggish trail of candy-painted tram cars that night, which is a shame. Aside from sparing his parents the embarrassment of recounting his story to relatives at the wake, it would have also denied an opportunity for ironic history to repeat itself. Sadly, this wasn't the case.
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Patent-scammers use bad analogies to defend worse business practices. My cow-orker Jason Schultz is running EFF's patent-busting project, and high on his list of damaging Internet patents is Acacia Research's patent on streaming media. Acacia has pursued this patent by targetting porn companies and extracting settlements in order to fund a war-chest that it is now using to sue bigger media entities -- presumably this trail ends with orgs like the BBC, CBC, and Live365.
Adult Video News (AVN) interviewed Jason and some of the Acacia people about the ongoing work to bust the patent, and the Acacia people busted out this bizarre analogy about stealing SUVs. Jason's repsonse was classic:
Acacia executive vice president Robert Berman said he found it interesting that the EFF is interested in preserving some rights, like free speech, while being willing to ignore others, like property rights... "For example, if someone broke into your garage and stole your SUV, and put a speaker on the top, and was driving around the neighborhood making some political statement, trying to get your SUV back wouldn't be trying to stifle free speech, it would be you trying to get your property back. If somebody is using your property, you have a right to stop them or receive a license or receive royalties..."
"There's no question now that an SUV in your garage is something you own. But here there's a real question as to whether Acacia actually invented anything new or simply is claiming monopoly on technology that millions of people use every day to express themselves," Schultz told AVNOnline.com.
"And the other thing is, I don't have to break into your garage to steal your SUV to express myself in the physical world. But I can't think of a modern Website, especially news Websites, that don't depend on streaming some kind of audio or video to express themselves on the Web. It has become a fundamental part of free expression online," he continued. "And I would say it has become the predominant method for artists and news organizations to connect to their audiences. [Acacia] doesn't want to own just the SUV, [they] want to own every single automobile and stereo system in the world, to use [their] contorted analogy."
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32,000 "Why I'm Tired" Emails |
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Brown promises £1bn for UK science. Pumped and primed |
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No news is good news for Nortel. Our closet is empty |
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Stealth virus is stealthiest of all. Under Atak |
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Your data is at risk - from everything. Chilling evidence of corporate vulnerability |
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UK DVD rental firms merge. Two become one... |
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Aura Launch Delayed Yet Again. NASA postpones the launch of the 6,542-pound satellite due to a problem with its recorder, which will store the information Aura collects and beam it back to Earth. When ready, Aura will study the health and pollution of Earth's atmosphere. |
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State to Shadow Parolees With GPS. Tennesee moves ahead with a $2.5 million pilot program that will use a global positioning system to track violent sex offenders who have been paroled. The state is expected to award a contract for the project by the end of the year. |
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Mexican Officials Get Chipped. The attorney general of Mexico and several of his staff implant microchips in their arms. The chips provide access to a crime database and track their bearers if they are kidnapped -- assuming their abductors don't slice out the chips. |
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Hactivism and How It Got Here. Hactivists at the HOPE gathering remember their roots while pointing out that grass-roots, tech-enabled resistance is a viable way to fight repression. Michelle Delio reports from New York. |
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Airline Screening System Delayed. Bowing to privacy concerns, the Transportation Security Administration says the airline passenger-screening system it had in mind will be restructured, meaning it may not be deployed any time soon. By Ryan Singel. |
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Searching for The New York Times. Newspapers are one of the most definitive sources of information, and there's none more powerful than The New York Times. But you wouldn't know it in the online world. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. |
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Macworld Boston Opens Loudly. There were concerns that this summer's expo for everything Mac would be a dud, what with Apple not attending and all, but flocks of fans say otherwise. Leander Kahney reports from Boston. |
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Cable a la Carte Still Half-Baked. Why can't you buy only the channels you really want to watch? The answer is different depending on who's asked. Congress tries to sort it out Wednesday. By Michael Grebb. |
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Bugzilla Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Movie and tech industries unite!. Hollywood and tech companies ally for an advance content system. This new system may allow consumers to make back up copies of movies while allowing the flexibility of viewing on multiple devices. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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Tolkien estate claims trademark for "shire". The Tolkien estate and Warners have sent out a lawyergram to the owner of shiremail.com, arguing that the word "Shire" belongs to them. The Register traces over 1,000 years of usage of the word "Shire" in England, and enumerates many towns with the word "shire" in their names across the English countryside.
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n fact, we don't think it would be too provocative to suggest that JRR Tolkien may have been inspired by over a thousand years of common history when he first came up with the name "The Shire" as the idyllic home country of the books' main protagonists, the hobbits.
However, the legal letter claims that "goodwill in the name has been achieved through sales of such books". Certainly The Shire sounded rather nice as presented in the fictional books, but we suspect the goodwill towards the area in which people live was there before Mr Tolkien even put pen to paper.
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Hulkblog SMASH!. The Incredible Hulk's blog is incredibly funny -- I actually snarfed.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Hulk saw movie about bug-man and it was good but needed more smashing.
AND HULK DID NOT GET SNIFFLY DURING ROMANTIC SCENES SO IF YOU HEAR IRON MAN OR THOR TALKING ABOUT IT THEY ARE LIARS.
Posted by: Incredible Hulk / 4:15 PM // Comments (3) | Trackback (0)
Thursday, June 24, 2004
HULK AT LIBRARY USING COMPUTER.
SHHHH.
Posted by: Incredible Hulk / 10:32 AM // Comments (4) | Trackback (0)
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Before weblogs "blog" was a kind of cocktail at sf cons. Ev searched Google's Usenet archives for early uses of the term "blog" and uncovered a science-fiction fannish cocktail called the "blog" that predates weblogs by years:
You should be aware that Blog was originally devised by British fans in the 1950s. There were two versions. A Liverpool fan named Peter Hamilton came up with the recipe for Blog Mark I, which consisted of "a brandy and egg flip base, to which was added black currant puree, Alka Seltzer, and Beechan's Powder. It effervesced." A second, simplified version (Blog Mark II) was produced by hotel barmen at the first Kettering Eastercon (1955) and consisted of "a half-pint of cider and a measure of rum." Anybody know what `egg flip' and `Beecham's Powder' are? (Quoted material taken from p.168 of A WEALTH OF FABLE, by Harry Warner, Jr.)
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Lord of the Rings domain fight enters realms of fantasy. Warner Bros puts claim to 1,000 years of history, entire UK countryside |
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Juniper in $250m shares buyback. Makes loss, but beats estimates |
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Philippines withdrawing from Iraq |
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N.Korea Opens Pilot Web Portal, Glitches Remain (Reuters). Reuters - Reclusive North Korea has been testing
its first Web portal for the past month, but so far visitors
have not been able to access the entertainment, shopping and
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NASA Urged to Reconsider Shuttle Mission to HST |
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BugTraq: RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise. Sender: Darren Pilgrim [dmp at bitfreak dot org] |
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BugTraq: RE: Norton AntiVirus Denial Of Service Vulnerability [Part: !!!]. Sender: Sym Security [secure at symantec dot com] |
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NES Classics: retro gaming, at a price. Game.Ars returns with a hefty edition. This time, Calvin and WyldKard look at Nintendo's repackaging of classic games, government-funded video games, more Xbox 2 talk, and much more. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Adaptec to snap up Snap Appliance. Maker of components plans to buy storage device company for about $100 million.
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Macworld Best of Show awards announced (MacCentral). MacCentral - Macworld magazine has announced its Best of Show awards for Macworld Conference & Expo 2004 in Boston, Mass. The awards are given to products either making their public debut at Macworld Expo or recently introduced and generating excitement on the show floor. This show's roundup of Best of Show recipients include five products from five different companies whose products were on display on the show floor. This year's honorees included: |
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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
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Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID |
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