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Olivier resurrected for film role. Footage of Sir Laurence Olivier will be used to create a villain in new fantasy film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. |
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International sales boost eBay. The online auction firm, eBay, increases its revenues from outside the United States by 76% in the second quarter. |
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U2 'may release on iTunes early'. Rock band U2 could rush-release their new album on iTunes if pirated material turns up on the internet. |
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Customer boost at Vodafone. The mobile phone giant reports a bigger-than-expected rise in user numbers but problems remain at its Japanese unit. |
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Sudan web appeal hits record high. Donations to a UK appeal to help the Sudan humanitarian crisis are flooding in over the internet. |
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RealNetworks Says Files Can Play on IPod (AP). AP - RealNetworks Inc. says it has created technology that allows songs purchased through its online music services to be played on Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod player, just a few months after complaining that Apple was rebuffing attempts to form an alliance. |
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Bloggers Offer Inside View of Convention (AP). AP - The food at receptions, the wonkish policy details debated over breakfast, the gossip on the convention floor — in an age when the personal is political, blogs and conventions are a natural fit. |
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Real Networks Hacks iPod; .rm & Real Store for iPod |
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HP Releases New iPAQs |
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E-commerce attack is imminent, warn security experts |
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An eye opener on open source Internet security |
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Skype preps pre-pay service for the world. Anytime, anyplace, anywhere.... |
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Sage co-founder goes to Glasgow. Wylie picks up another reseller, and a chief exec |
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IBM said to be readying dual-core G5. The PowerPC 970MP could finally get Apple to 3GHz |
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McAfee Names Worst Viruses (PC World) |
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Success of Bagle Virus Puzzles Researchers |
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Customer number boost at Vodafone. The mobile phone giant reports a bigger-than-expected rise in user numbers but problems remain at its Japanese unit. |
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Bloggers take on US conventions. While some traditional media are treating US political conventions with contempt, webloggers are being welcomed. |
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HP Unveils New IPaqs (PC World). PC World - Pocket PC PDAs target everyone from digital entertainment enthusiasts to corporate travelers. |
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Unix's Founding Fathers |
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RealNetworks breaks Apple's hold on iPod. Real's Rob Glaser and Apple's Steve Jobs have feuded before. RealNetworks' iPod hack is likely to ruffle feathers again. |
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RealNetworks Says Files Can Play on iPod (AP). AP - RealNetworks Inc. says it has created technology that allows songs purchased through its online music services to be played on Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod player, just a few months after complaining that Apple was rebuffing attempts to form an alliance. |
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Canadian Music Industry Drills Dentists |
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HP to Dick Tracy: Bet your phone can't do this. Gadget can switch from cellular networks to Wi-Fi. Also plays and stores MP3s, takes photos.
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Vulns: Sun ONE Application Server Plaintext Password Vulnerability. Sun ONE Application Server is the application server solution distributed and maintained by Sun Microsystems. It is available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft platform... |
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Vulns: HP Distributed Computing Environment Buffer Overrun Vulnerability |
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Online Media Drop Gimmicks for Conventions (AP). AP - Gone from Internet coverage of the political conventions are most of the gimmicks, like 360-degree cameras that Web surfers can control from their homes. Also gone are television-style reports at USA Today's Web site and an original newscast from America Online Inc. |
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Attention Bonds Gain Momentum |
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The Houston Airport Rangers. Opinion Perimeter security. On horseback |
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Security Focus: Lexmark Network Printer HTTP Server Denial Of Service Vulnerability |
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Pushing computers to the limit. Computing power has risen phenomenally in the past 40 years and new approaches could help to keep it growing. |
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Operation Moon Bounce |
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Bin Laden 'suicide' virus on net. A virus purporting to show images of Osama bin Laden's suicide has been unleashed on the internet, experts warn. |
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Parents Reconsider Technology for Kids (AP). AP - Amanda Cunningham started her daughter on computers at 2 1/2 with "Reader Rabbit" software and Web sites like Sesame Street. Like any parent, she was proud Madeline could master the mouse so young. But Cunningham soon realized Madeline, now 4, wasn't really learning anything. She just kept clicking, dragging and playing the same games over and over. Now, she's in no rush to get her 1-year-old son, Liam, on computers or the Internet. |
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Bin Laden 'suicide' virus appears. A virus purporting to show images of Osama bin Laden's suicide has been unleashed on the internet, experts warn. |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - July 8, 2004 Issue |
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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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."
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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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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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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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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.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
HULK AT LIBRARY USING COMPUTER.
SHHHH.
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Online Crime, Compliance Issues, Worker Mobility, SOA, and Open Source Are Mega-Trends for IT Security, Says Burton Group |
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Lucent scores $5bn Verizon Wireless contract. Network upgrades for mobile computing |
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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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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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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
overseeing the case was requesting, traders said. |
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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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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 |
| 21. |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise |
| 23. |
@stake advisory: WebSTAR (5.3.2 and below) Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 24. |
Microsoft Releases Virus Removal Tool (AP) |
| 25. |
Elsewhere: The network is the security |
| 26. |
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 |
| 29. |
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. |
| 5. |
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. |
| 7. |
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. |
| 10. |
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. |
| 11. |
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. |
| 12. |
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. |
| 13. |
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. |
| 14. |
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. |
| 15. |
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 |
| 17. |
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. |
| 20. |
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] |
| 23. |
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.
Java applets downloaded fr... |
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UK military bans iPods - some places. Updated In the line of fire |
| 25. |
Ballmer has seen the future, and it’s Danish. Toronto Microsoft gees up the channel |
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FaceTime Secures IM For SMBs |
| 27. |
Worm Tries To Foil Anti-Virus Researchers |
| 28. |
Unix, Meet Power5 |
| 29. |
New Worm Protects itself from Anti-Virus Software |
| 30. |
Critical Product Vulnerability - July 2004 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release |
| 31. |
Microsoft Outlook Express Header Validation Denial of Service Weakness |
| 32. |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
| 33. |
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. |
| 8. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Advice to hackers: Do no harm |
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Cisco inks Boeing VoIP deal |
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Microsoft Predicts 1 Billion Windows PC Users by 2010 |
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'Smart' worm lies low to evade detection |
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Windows XP SP2 delayed. Again! |
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AIDS vaccine years away, researchers warn |
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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
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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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Man is indicted in Verizon hacking case |
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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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Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 |
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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 |
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LA court demolishes Paris Hilton. $30m invasion of privacy lawsuit dismissed |
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Developers sneak peak of SQL Server 2005. Site Offer Save 30% at the Reg Bookshop |
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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. |
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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. |
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'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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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). |
| 5. |
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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Weird sticker on my DSL modem. I just got my Yahoo! DSL self-install kit in the mail, and the modem has a red sticker on it that reads:
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"ATTENTION To maximize connection speed, leave this modem on for 10 days after DSL installation is complete. Please Note: You can use your DSL service during this time. It is not necessary to leave your computer on, only the modem."
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Asia Carrera's hothothot barely legal casemod.  Retired porn superstar, geek, and mom-to-be Asia Carrera whipped up this nifty casemod. More on the lovely Ms. Carrera and her homebuilt PC here. |
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Pac-Mondrian competition. 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!) |
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WebMD acquires skills in high-end services. Purchase of ViPS gives health-care services provider a more diverse portfolio. |
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Symantec snaps up antispam firm. TurnTide's spam-sniffing router becomes another weapon in Symantec's security arsenal, after a multimillion-dollar takeover. |
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Microsoft gets specific with partner program. Looking to foster the expertise of its resellers, the company offers new incentives. |
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Ampex targets Sony in infringement suit. Having made similar claims against Sanyo, the company seeks to bar the importing and selling of digital cameras in the United States. |
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Microsoft Worker Charged with Taking AltaVista Data (Reuters). Reuters - A Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) employee
working on the world's largest software maker's search
initiative was arrested last week on charges that he stole
source code from the AltaVista search engine two years ago,
authorities said on Friday. |
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Report: Toshiba to Offer New Laptops to Help PC Unit (Reuters). Reuters - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) plans to
strengthen its ailing personal computer business with a new
series of notebook computers with advanced audiovisual
capabilities, a business daily said on Tuesday. |
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Disney Settles Patent Suit with OpenTV (Reuters). Reuters - Walt Disney Co. has settled a suit
by OpenTV Corp. and agreed to license patents to use the
Internet to supplement television broadcasts, the companies
said on Wednesday. |
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Vulns: Mozilla External Protocol Handler Weakness |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities |
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Blog :: Using Viruses to ATAK Piracy |
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ettercap-NG-0.7.0.tar.gz |
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Potential US buyer eyes MCI stake. MCI, which as Worldcom became the world's largest corporate bankruptcy, gets an approach from a potential buyer. |
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Canadian record labels appeal P2P ruling. A court said file-swapping was OK in Canada. The music business objects. |
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Judge's order may be good for Oracle. Judge's focus on fine points of antitrust analysis may mean Justice Department's case is shaky. |
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MSNBC News Site to Post First Profit -Microsoft (Reuters). Reuters - MSNBC.com, the eight-year-old online
news Web site joint venture between Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O)
and NBC News, will post its first profit in the latest quarter,
the world's largest software maker said on Monday. |
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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 from August, two months after its
originally scheduled date, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on
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Forget the PDA, Here Comes the TDA |
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Bethesda Licenses Fallout Franchise, To Make Fallout 3 |
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News: Senate Bill Targets Phishers. 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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Windows XP SP2 slips into Fall. As we told you here |
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Global Net regulators aim to turn the tide on spam |
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Update: CyberGuard makes bid for Secure Computing |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw |
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Olympic-size security demands advance planning |
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Real-time GPS tracking of released prisoners. I wrote a short piece for TheFeature about the increasing use of GPS ankle bracelets to track parolees' whereabouts. Link |
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Fahrenheit 911 factchecks. Here are Michael Moore's extensive factchecking notes on Fahrenheit 911.
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1975 underground cartoonist button series.  In 1975, a bunch of underground cartoonists were asked to submit self-portraits for a button series. Denis Kitchen is selling the set of all 54 buttons for $195, or you can buy individual ones for $4.Link (Thanks, Gary!) |
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Apple's absence nibbles core at Macworld. Company chose not to come to Macworld Boston, but organizers think there's still much food for thought at confab. |
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Oracle Extends PeopleSoft Offer (Reuters). Reuters - Software maker Oracle Corp.
(ORCL.O) on Monday said it extended its $7.7 billion hostile
bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O) until Aug. 27 as it
awaits a U.S. District Court judge's ruling on whether the
takeover attempt can continue. |
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Microsoft Apps Share Mozilla Bug (PC World). PC World - Vulnerability patched in browser last week also exists in Messenger, Word. |
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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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Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
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Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers. The wireless industry insists that customers are clamoring for directory assistance for mobile phone numbers, although critics - including IT executives - say the move carries unacceptable risks for businesses. |
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Vulns: Mozilla External Protocol Handler Weakness. Mozilla Internet Browser is reported prone to a weakness that may permit an external protocol to be called without any user interaction. This may expose Mozilla users to ... |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities. Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, including an iSNS protocol dissector vulnerability, a SMB protocol dissector vulnerability, and a S... |
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MSN search guru 'stole AltaVista code'. More Borlandgate than Watergate |
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iAnywhere Offers Security for SmartPhones |
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Critics Sue Electronic Voting Company |
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New Removable Media Security Solution Ships from Pointsec |
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Microsoft gets jump on early DRM market |
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Diagonal Security docks at IronPort |
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Online file swapping endures |
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CyberGuard Makes $297M Bid for Rival |
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Pirates cost $1.6bn a year |
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Dancing almond optical illusion. Here's a nice optical illusion. A bunch of almond-looking things arranged in a particular pattern appear to undulate. (Also, don't miss the link to the confounding checkershadow illusion, which I wrote about a couple of years ago in BB.) Link |
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To do Tuesday night in LA: RES screening. OK, look -- even if this description of tomorrow night's monthly RES screening in Hollywood doesn't get you worked up, consider this: it's followed by an afterparty featuring a DJ duo who CONVERTED AN ICE CREAM TRUCK INTO A MOBILE DUB REGGAE SOUNDSYSTEM. That is the wickedest most baddassed thing I've ever heard of in my life at least the last three hours. The screening program features:
special guest Geoff McFetridge who will share a retrospective of his video work including his music videos for the Avalanches, Simian, Plaid and his quirky spots for Jinro, X-Games, Burton and HP. The program will also include new short films from Suk & Koch, Brett Simon and Cheryl Dunn who will present the world premiere of Come Mute. Also screening: breaking new music videos for Placebo, Mr. Lif, Armand Van Helden, Supergrass, Los Amigos Invisibles, Colder and Floria Sigismondi's latest for the Cure.
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Cisco-backed start-up launches new tool. Product samples network data every few milliseconds to make sure resources are allocated properly. |
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MSNBC.com goes into the black. The news Web site says it's hit profitability for the first time since launching eight years ago. |
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Robot uses minesweeping technology to clean rugs. The newest incarnation of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner "listens" to dirt with vibration sensors. |
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Briefly: MSNBC.com goes into the black. roundup Plus: Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi...Video-on-demand startup raises funds...Computer cluster company catches cash. |
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Microsoft to Launch Online Store (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. is planning an online store to sell Windows-compatible products — and promoting it in prime real estate right on the Windows XP start menu. |
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Accounting Reform Said Hurting Software Sales (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. companies have been spending
more money to comply with new accounting laws, taking executive
attention away from major software purchases and helping
trigger a flurry of recent profit warnings by software
companies, an analyst said on Monday. |
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Tour De France Showcases Multitude Of Tech |
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Senator introduces 'phishing' penalties bill. WASHINGTON - Fraudsters who create authentic-looking Web sites in an effort to get customers of a legitimate e-commerce site to provide financial or other personal information could go to jail for up to five years under legislation introduced by a U.S. senator. |
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NEW: "Thumbs up" private in court |
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Mozilla vs. Microsoft in Browser-Flaw Debate (NewsFactor) |
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Securing your Storage Assets |
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Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions |
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Enterprise Security Calling MS-Powered Smartphones |
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BugTraq: MSOE Javascript Execution Vulnerability |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability |
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Purple Rain movieoke. Paging Anil "I was a Prince fan when being a Prince fan was uncool" Dash! Cool SF metroblog post about an upcoming screening of film classic Purple Rain this weekend in San Francisco. The host, Peaches Christ (not to be confused with that other Peaches), is projecting lyrics on the wall, transforming the whole Princetacular deal into a Rocky Horror-like sing-a-long/Movie-oke/karaoke orgy of '80s nostalgia. Show up early for the unmissably rad "80's Slut Pageant." Link |
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Google registers to list on Nasdaq. The search company chooses to list on the tech-heavy Nasdaq rather than the NYSE for its hotly anticipated IPO. |
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Dog days in the enterprise sector. The earnings warnings point to a slump in corporate software. Is Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork part of the problem? |
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IBM to bring bar codes up to code. Services offer help to retailers that aren't ready for Jan. 1 revamp of venerable product IDs. |
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Study: Online-gaming revenue to skyrocket. The industry is getting a boost from "massively multiplayer online games," especially in Asia. |
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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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PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship |
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Modding Laser Tag Gear? |
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A faster, stronger, redundant Olympic network. ATHENS - A steady stream of taxis grinds up the hill to the headquarters of the Athens Olympic Committee headquarters, on the northern edge of the city. In the lobby it's all bustle as visitors mill around the accreditation desk and pass through security controls. But on the second floor the glass-walled technology operations center sits idle -- most of the 135 seats in the control room are empty, and all but one of the screens on the video wall are dark. ADVERTISEMENT  Download Strategic Value of Moving to Linux Business White Paper
Find out how your company can reduce IT costs or improve efficiency, you are probably considering Linux and what role it will play in your company.
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Fujitsu adds fingerprint sensor to LifeBook P series. BOSTON - Fujitsu Ltd. introduced a new model in its line of ultraportable LifeBook notebooks on Monday with almost as many features as a regular-sized notebook, including a DVD drive and a fingerprint sensor. |
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Pivotal CEO departs. NEW YORK - Pivotal Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bo Manning said Monday he has left the company and been replaced by four-year Pivotal veteran Divesh Sisodraker, who most recently served as the company's chief financial officer. |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw. BOSTON - Popular Microsoft Corp. products may be vulnerable to a security vulnerability that is similar to one patched for the Mozilla Web browsers last week. |
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Olympic-size security demands advance planning. If there's one thing the Atos Origin team understands as lead contractor for the Olympic IT infrastructure, it's that you must learn from your mistakes. |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw. BOSTON - Popular Microsoft Corp. products may be vulnerable to a security vulnerability that is similar to one patched for the Mozilla Web browsers last week. |
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Olympic-size security demands advance planning. If there's one thing the Atos Origin team understands as lead contractor for the Olympic IT infrastructure, it's that you must learn from your mistakes. |
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BugTraq: MSOE Javascript Execution Vulnerability. Sender: Paul [paul at greyhats dot cjb dot net] |
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BugTraq: Re: HijackClick 3. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability. The Linux kernel is reported prone to a data disclosure vulnerability. The issue is reported to exist because the Kernel context switch code checks only the psr.mfh bit a... |
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The Finger Server Shell Metacharacter Arbitrary Command Execution |
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NAI PGP Keyserver LDAP Overflow |
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ethereal-0.10.5.tar.gz |
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BugTraq: RE: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability |
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Very long NYT magazine article about "serious" comic books. Every couple of years, some newspaper or magazine runs an article about how comic books aren't just for kids anymore. The latest one is from this Sunday's NYT Magazine. It's over seven thousand words long! I haven't read the whole thing yet, but it looks like a great intro to the "graphic novel" genre. There's also a good group photo of Seth, Chester Brown, Adrian Tomine, Speigelman and Joe Sacco. Don't miss the slide show with audio commentary by the cartoonists.
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There was a minor flowering of serious comic books in the mid-80's, with the almost simultaneous appearance of Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking ''Maus''; of the ''Love and Rockets'' series, by two California brothers, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez; and of two exceptionally smart and ambitious superhero-based books, ''Watchmen,'' by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and ''Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,'' by Frank Miller. Newspapers and magazines ran articles with virtually the same headline: ''Crash! Zap! Pow! Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!'' But the movement failed to take hold, in large part because there weren't enough other books on the same level.
The difference this time is that there is something like a critical mass of artists, young and old, uncovering new possibilities in this once-marginal form, and a new generation of readers, perhaps, who have grown up staring at cartoon images on their computer screens and in their video games, not to mention the savvy librarians and teachers who now cater to their interests and short attention spans. The publicity that has spilled over from movies like ''Ghost World,'' originally a graphic novel by Dan Clowes, has certainly not hurt. And there is much better distribution of high-end comics now, thanks in part to two enterprising publishers, Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal and Fantagraphics Books in Seattle, which have managed to get their wares into traditional bookstores, not just the comics specialty shops. Some of the better-known graphic novels are published not by comics companies at all but by mainstream publishing houses -- by Pantheon, in particular -- and have put up mainstream sales numbers. ''Persepolis,'' for example, Marjane Satrapi's charming, poignant story, drawn in small black-and-white panels that evoke Persian miniatures, about a young girl growing up in Iran and her family's suffering following the 1979 Islamic revolution, has sold 450,000 copies worldwide so far; ''Jimmy Corrigan'' sold 100,000 in hardback, and the newly released paperback is also moving briskly.
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Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi service. Business travelers will have wireless Internet access in 29 U.S. airport lounges. |
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Briefly: Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi. roundup Plus: Video-on-demand startup raises funds...Computer cluster company catches cash...Apple sells 100 millionth download...Accenture says federal probe looming. |
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EarthLink broadens its Wi-Fi net. Deal will give 5 million of the ISP's subscribers access to Boingo's worldwide network. |
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Planning a VoIP Tech Infrastructure (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - There is little doubt that VoIP will be the bedrock of corporate communication in the future. "Ten years from now, we won't be questioning VoIP," says Yankee Group vice president of enterprise infrastructure Zeus Kerravala. "It will be the status quo." |
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Windows XP to Get Major Security Upgrade (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. will release a major update to the Windows XP computer operating system in August that focuses on boosting protection against malicious intrusions. |
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Mozilla vs. Microsoft in Browser-Flaw Debate (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The gods are having a good laugh at the expense of Mozilla enthusiasts right now. An open-source alternative to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer, the Mozilla browser has long been embraced by techies disdainful of Microsoft technology, and more recently by users fearful of the onslaught of viruses and worms aimed at Microsoft. |
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Sony Sets Launch Date for New PlayStation (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The new Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation games console will be on display at the May 2005 E3 Expo, the annual video games trade show in Los Angeles. |
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iTunes: 100 Million Songs Served (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes online music store is celebrating its 100 millionth download since its launch in the U.S. in May 2003. The company said that Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas, had downloaded the 100 millionth song, a version of dance act Zero 7's "Somersault." |
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NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels? |
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PC Magazine Reviews Firefox, Opera |
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OIS Fights Internet Danger |
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IE Flaws Should Come as No Surprise |
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CyberGuard Bids For Rival Secure Computing |
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TI Readies Fingerprint Biometrics Tool |
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IE's Market Share Drops, Security Gaffes To Blame |
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iAnywhere Secures Enterprise Smartphones |
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Laurie Anderson, NASA artist-in-residence. 
Newsweek's Brian Braiker recently did a Q&A session with legendary geek art goddess Laurie Anderson, who is currently -- of all things -- NASA's first-ever artist-in-residence. The woman many remember best for "O Superman" is as superfly as ever, and happily cooking with multiple pots: composing garden music for Japan's world expo, planning a fall tour and going on ten-day long walks. So cool. Link |
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Wget helps you cope with MP3 blog overload. Great item on Jeffrey Veen's blog last week -- a helpful tech tip for compulsively-downloading MP3 blog junkies:
[H]ow to keep up? For a while, I just visited a couple of interesting and well written mp3 blogs, but then they'd link to a couple more, and I'd start reading those. And then that happened a few dozen more times. My desire to stay in touch was in conflict with my increasingly limited free time.
Wget to the rescue. It's a utility for unix/linux/etc. that goes and gets stuff from Web and FTP servers -- kind of like a browser but without actually displaying what it downloads. And since it's one of those awesomely configurable command line programs, there is very little it can't do. So I run wget, give it the URLs to those mp3 blogs, and let it scrape all the new audio files it finds. Then I have it keep doing that on a daily basis, save everything into a big directory, and have a virtual radio station of hand-filtered new music. Neat.
Link (Thanks, Skye Ashbrook) |
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Robert Yager's gang photos. 
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An online gallery of gang photography by Robert Yager. Not new, just something rediscovered that kicks the ass of my eyes all over again. Link (thanks, Siege) |
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Living replica of set for TV show "Dallas" -- in Romania. Blogger and journalist Emmanuelle Richard just got back from Romania, where she photoblogged these incredible snapshots of what must be the Nth great wonder of the world -- a gigantic, sprawling replica of the set of the TV show "Dallas." Even Larry Hagman said it's a perfect match of the real thing, according to Emmanuelle:
The florid theme park is not as glorious as it used to be! "Southforkscu" as locals call it was opened in 1996 in Slobozia, South-Est of Bucharest, by the King of Romanian cheddar, Ilie Alexandru: he's one these egomaniac and corrupt nouveau-riche entrepreneurs typical of post-Communist Eastern European countries. It's like a cross between an amusement park and a luxury resort. Originally, visitors could tour the ranch, ride horses, swim in the swimming pools, visit a small zoo, enjoy the lake and climb the 50 meters Eiffel Tower. And of course, spend a night in the Dallas ranch. Larry Hagman even visited! But Alexandru went to jail for fraud. A string of investors have failed to revive the place. One of them, a Russian dude even painted the ranch in ORANGE! The zoo is closed, the horses are gone... The Romanian hotel chain now in charge wants to remodel it, open a night-club. We interviewed the manager - pure Commie style, just unbelievable. I don't have much faith in this guy's management!
This artist Sean Snyder produced an exhibit about the esthetics of the place "Script For Dallas Southfork In Hermes Land, Slobozia, Romania (2001)" It went to Paris and Berlin (Link). This page contains details about the place and a pic of the ranch before the paint job. It's quite surreal, especially when you see the Eiffel Tower from the road, behind rows of cornfields.
Link to Emmanuelle's moblog, Link to related gallery exhibit, and more on the moblog of Emmanuelle's husband and travel companion, journalist/blogger Matt Welch: Link 1, Link 2. |
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Briefly: Video-on-demand startup raises funds. roundup Plus: Computer cluster company catches cash...Apple sells 100 millionth download...Accenture says federal probe looming...IBM tweaks e-mail for midsize businesses. |
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Yahoo acquires Oddpost to bolster e-mail. Massive portal buys small vendor that sells low-priced Web mail accounts and news aggregation services.
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StorageTek wins copyright injunction. In latest twist in controversial "anticircumvention" law, federal judge orders tape backup maintenance company to cease and desist.
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OpenScape builds presence. Siemens presents an update to its application for managing office communcations. |
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Apple Reinvention Transforms Stock Value (Reuters). Reuters - The more than 50 percent rise in
Apple Computer Inc.'s stock price this year has mirrored the
brisk sales of its market-leading iPod digital music player and
growth at its retail stores. |
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Evite Revamps Web Site, Mulls Social Networking (Reuters). Reuters - Evite, an online party invitation
and event planning service, expects to roll out a new version
of its Web site on Monday and is considering adding social
networking features, the president of the InterActiveCorp
(IACI.O) unit said. |
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Blair's Government Urges BBC Over Content (AP). AP - A British government report suggests that the British Broadcasting Corp. drop some features from its popular Web site to better concentrate on news. |
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Apple Crosses 100 Million Tracks Sold on iTunes (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. has sold 100
million songs on its iTunes Music Store, solidifying its
position as the leading legal music download site, the maker of
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Ask Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales About Online Collaboration |
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Isn't Now the Time to Try a Linux Desktop? |
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Infocus: Metasploit Framework (Part One). This article provides an elaborate insight into the Open Source exploit framework, the Metasploit Framework, which is meant to change the future of penetration testing once and for all. Part one of three. |
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BugTraq: Media Preview Script Execution Vulnerability. Sender: Paul [paul at greyhats dot cjb dot net] |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-10 ] rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon. Sender: Kurt Lieber [klieber at gentoo dot org] |
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Scientists horrified by Bush's Bad Science. She blinded me with politics |
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NEW: Utah Marine questioned |
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NEW: More time for Filipino hostage |
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ADV: Free White Paper: Search and the Strategic Value to the Enterprise |
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BugTraq: Re: Covert Channels allow Cross-Site-Java in Microsoft VM |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-10 ] rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon |
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Freeculture.org has launched an official site for the National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day project, at www.barbieinablender.org. Users are invited to submit artistic pieces inspired by Forsythe's "Food Chain Barbie" series to 
