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[osdn starter] February 18, 2003
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Uni Students Slammed For Music Swapping
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/036207
[0]jomaree writes "The SMH Online reports that Sony, EMI and Universal
will be in the Federal Court today, in an attempt [1]to stop students
using uni computers to swap music files. Michael Speck, the director of
Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is quoted as follows: 'And we're
not talking about one track here, one track there,' he said. 'We're
talking piracy, significant examples of piracy.' By contrast, Sydney
Uni says it knows of one student with a handful of files on a website,
which does actually sound quite a bit like one track here, one track
there."
Links
0. mailto:jomareewade@yahoo.co.uk
Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/0210203
[0]Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker [1]bypassed the
security system of a company that processes credit card transactions
and gained access to approximately 2.2 million Visa and MasterCard
credit cards. Fortunately, none of them seem to have been used
fraudulently."
Links
uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/0130203
An anonymous reader writes "The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of
the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid
individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no
Web presence or email. I saw this on nvnews.net, which originally came
from the register, but since the domain is wiped out, you can no longer
reach the article." Actually, [0]you can read the story fine on
theregister.co.uk. ;)
Links
0. http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29359.html
Kasparov OpEd On His Latest Match
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/008256
molrak writes "[0]Garry Kasparov has [1]written his thoughts and
observations on the difference between [2]his recent battle with Deep
Junior as opposed to his battle against [3]Deep Blue, including some of
the fundamental differences between the two programs. If you missed out
on the event, you can [4]catch up with it at the [5]site of the event's
sponsor, including both 2d and 3d viewing options. (Note, viewing
options require both site registration with x3dworld and proprietary
Microsoft software.)"
Links
0.
http://www.kasparovchess.ru/
1.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003081
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/1731219&tid=127
3.
http://www.chess.ibm.com/
4.
http://www.x3dworld.com/Entertainment/CI_X3DEvnt_MvM_Big_Frameset.html
5.
http://www.x3dworld.com/Baby Bell Deregulation Bill Fails To Pass In Kansas http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/2140247
Masem writes "A rather interesting debate has been happening in Kansas
recently that has been mirrored across the country, in that the baby
Bells have been trying to urge state governments to remove the
restrictions for them to offer their lines to outside parties; in
exchange, the Bells have been promising to develop a strong broadband
network in the state. (See, for example, [0]this and [1]this story on
DSL Reports for efforts in Missouri and South Carolina.) However, the
legislative commission in the Kansas House of Representatives that
oversees the telecomm industry has [2]voted against such deregulation,
citing concerns on monopolies and competition, despite heavy lobbying
by SBC in favor of the bill. SBC has stated that they will now put
their broadband deployment plans in Kansas on hold, but look towards
the outcome of similar discussions on the same bill on the Senate side
of the Kansas Congress."
Links
0.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/25684
1.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/25965
2.
http://cjonline.com/stories/021403/bre_broadband.shtml
The Reality of Online Reputation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/2113217
Nicholas Carroll (of [0] Why Unicode Won't Work On The Internet fame)
has written a piece for [1]Mindjack entitled "[2]Spinning The Web: The
Realities of Online Reputation Management". Trust me - the actual
subject matter is a lot more interesting then the title *grin*. The
essay is aimed toward companies online, but is applicable to
individuals as well.
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/20/1431230&tid=95
1.
http://www.mindjack.com
2.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/spin.html
Two New Handhelds From Sony
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/215256
[0]MeatWad writes "Sony has announced the [1]SJ33 Palm OS 4 model with
a high res color screen and mp3 player for $299. At the same time the
FCC has leaked info on the next Palm OS 5 Clie with bluetooth and an
integrated keyboard called the [2]TG50. Sony can sure crank out the
cool gadgets."
Links
0. mailto:meatbeatmanifesto@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5020
2.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5021
Computers Will Be Built By Living Cells
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1937205
[0]axxackall contributes a link to [1]Richard Black's report on BBC
suggesting that "Computers of the future will be built not by factory
machines, but by living cells such as bacteria. Scientists 'have
described how wires can now be made by yeast organisms, and how solar
panels could be built using substances produced by sea sponges.
Researchers believe these kind of technologies will be essential if we
are to continue to shrink the size of electronic devices.' But
'Computers made with these natural processes are not just around the
corner -- it will be many years before the technologies can be
developed that far.' While scientists think about small sizes and
environmental benefits, I also think if it would be possible to implant
such bacteria for additional computational power in human brains --
just in case we have to upgrade them." Update: 02/17 20:23 GMT by [2]T:
I chopped out that link accidentally, sorry.
Links
0. mailto:axxackall@yahoo.com
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2765077.stm
2.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
CEE2003: A One-Vendor Trade Show
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1851240
[0]Billy Stephens writes "Few people knew about the CEE2003 event put
on by Chaintech this year. They flew some of the top media analysts and
resellers out to Spain to show off their new K8 motherboards and Nvidia
Geforce FX based video cards. Unfortunately there was a lot of bad news
to be had as well. AMD pushed back their Athlon 64 CPU until September
so there were no motherboards based on it to show off, and Nvidia
announced they would only release around 4,000 of their Geforce FX
GPUs, primarily for preorders only. It looks like ATI has rattled
Nvidia more than what people thought. Monkey Review has a great
[1]summary of this event with plenty of pictures. Overall I am
impressed with the quality Chaintech has put into their products from
an aesthetic point of view, it's a shame that both Nvidia and AMD are
having product issues."
Links
Palladium's Power To Deny
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1740211
[0]BrianWCarver writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has the most
[1]detailed article I've yet seen on Microsoft's Palladium
architecture. The article discusses the potential Palladium has to give
publishers power to eliminate fair use and the potential for software
manufacturers to use Palladium to enforce shrink-wrap licenses.
Comments from several great sources including, Ed Felten ([2]Freedom to
Tinker), Eben Moglen (pro-bono counsel for the [3]Free Software
Foundation and recent [4]Slashdot interviewee), and Seth Schoen
([5]Electronic Frontier Foundation) among many others. Key quotations
from article: Palladium could create 'a closed system, in which each
piece of knowledge in the world is identified with a particular owner,
and that owner has a right to resist its copying, modification, and
redistribution. In such a scenario the very concept of fair use has
been lost.' 'Palladium will "turn the clock back" to the days before
online information was widely available.' and 'Microsoft could decide
to lock everything up.'"
Links
0.
http://home.earthlink.net/~bwcarver/home
1.
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i24/24a02701.htm
2.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
3.
http://www.fsf.org/
4.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/0550205&tid=123
5.
http://www.eff.org/
Linux.com
ICEM to Offer Linux Version of ICEM Surf
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/218230
ICEM Ltd. announced that its ICEM Surf 3D surface modeling and evaluation software suite is to be made available for the Linux open source operating system. All of the ICEM Surf core software modules and ICEM-developed software options will be offered on Linux.
Northwest Software Expo Highlights Open Source Software http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1913222
LinuxFest Northwest, a regional exposition for computer users interested in the Linux operating system and other Open Source software, will be held on April 26 at Bellingham Technical College (BTC) in Bellingham, Washington. This event is being organized by Linux User Groups from Bellingham, Kitsap Peninsula, Seattle, and Tacoma, and hosted by BTC.
New day for Linux on the desktop
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1846208
It started off as a conference about the Linux desktop. In the end, it may be considered the event that accomplished its goal in spite of itself.
Linux Advisory Watch - February 14th 2003 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1836247
This week, advisories were released for w3m, wml-net, hypermail, postgresql, lynx, python, pam_xauth, fileutils, and mozilla. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, and Red Hat.
What the Linux World Needs Now
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1829214
When I first got in touch with the Linux world - it was back in 1998 -, I started with an old Slackware distribution. Of course I cannot say it was a wise choice for a beginner, and I soon moved to Red Hat, and then tried various SuSE, Mandrake and Debian flavours; now I am using this good Slackware 8.1. Everyone can see the Linux world has been making giant steps towards usability during the last five years. Applications have dramatically ...
Australia at Linux leading edge
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1824232
THE Australian Government is a "leader" in guiding public sector Linux implementations, the head of IBM's global public sector Linux program says. Mary Ann Fisher is speaking at an open source seminar for government CIOs in Canberra tomorrow, which is being organised by the National Office for the Information Economy and will also feature speakers from Microsoft, Gartner and the Australian Unix Users Group.
Oracle and Red Hat work on securing Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1821201
Oracle is working with Red Hat to gain an internationally recognised Linux security certification, hoping to woo security conscious public sector customers.
Software Learns Language Using Visual Perception http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1811200
Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software system that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos.
Open Source & Taxes in Geneva
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/184202
miladus writes "The Tax Office of the canton de Genève is apparently distributing Mozilla and OpenOffice (in French & Linux, for Linux & Windows) along with its GEtax 2002."
Opera unleashes Linux preview of version 7 browser http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1645237
On Friday Opera announced the first Linux preview edition of Opera 7, the company's next-generation browser, which recently shipped for Windows. The company stresses that the Linux version's a preview, so there are rough edges, but it means that we're moving, and Linux users can more or less keep pace with what Opera's up to on the Windows platform.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Gruvstick MP3 Player
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5cac/
Gadgets: Portable Lie Detector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce6/
Electronics: Mustek Gsm@rt Mini 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5c9e/
Tshirts: I Didn't Get the Memo
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5cba/
Tshirts: Esc
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5cc0/
Tshirts: Network Security Staff
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/5cb5/
Interests: O'Reilly Coaster Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c2c/
Cube Goodies: Meetings
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cd9/
Gadgets: Radiation Detection Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cef/
Cube Goodies: Indifference
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cdb/
Cube Goodies: Motivation
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cd7/
Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/
Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/
Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/
Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/
Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
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