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[osdn starter] April 16, 2003
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
NASA Wires Chips With Nanotubes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0034246
carstene writes "SpaceDaily reports that NASA has come up with a way to
[0]wire microchips with nanotubes instead of copper interconnects.
Aparently this could keep Moore's law a reality well into the next
decade."
Links
0. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/chip-tech-03g.html
Robotic Massage, Anyone?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2250248
[0]Migraineman writes "[1]These folks have built a small robot designed
to [2]walk around on your back. The website includes a short video of
the machine roaming around. There's [3]another that's suspended from
the ceiling and performs 3-D solid mapping of the person beneath.
Warning - the website contains 'artsy' stuff, and doesn't include
technical tidbits. Dang."
Links
0. mailto:migraineman@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/index.html
2.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html
3.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/TickleSalon.html
AOL Sues Spammers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/003256
mabu writes "Prompted by what they're reporting as over eight million
complaints and the result of over a billion inbound junk e-mails,
according to [0]this press release, America Online is now stepping up
its battle against spam by initiating five lawsuits against over a
dozen companies and individuals. Let's hope this is the beginning of a
more aggressive effort on the part of ISPs to prove to their users that
they are seriously interested in addressing this issue, and at its
source. I've maintained that this has never been a freedom of speech
issue. It's more an issue of mail relay hijacking, forging header
information, and exploiting third-party networks and resources. Perhaps
if more ISPs took action, we might see the backbone providers doing so
as well?"
Links
0. http://media.aoltimewarner.com/media/newmedia/cb_press_view.cfm?release_num=55253129
Interesting and Educational Web Pages for Children? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2139257
[0]watashiwananashidesu asks: "I am a teenager with no siblings and a a
good number of little cousins. Being something of a nerd, I'm
incredibly popular with these cousins, especially the ones who are
8-11. Recently, when my first cousin (female, 8) was over, I began a
collection of links that she might enjoy--sites that were appropriate
and fun. Now that the Cold/Flu season is over, I can expect more visits
from my first, second, and third cousins, and I'm left with a dismally
small collection of links (eight, to be specific) for them to peruse.
Also, the few I have are unsatisfactory; they're mainly corporate sites
like [1]Barbie.com and [2]Lego.com with a few non-corporate games mixed
in. None of the sites have any educational value, least of all about
the things that I really want to expose them to--science, math,
literature, and computers. In fact, I especially need sites that will
teach them about computers, so that they'll be able to better keep in
touch with me, when we're all older. What are some good sites I can
bookmark for my cousins that are: educational, appropriate for children
aged 5-11, (mainly three boys and two girls), fun, not a security
threat, non-corporate (though this last one is optional) Also, how can
I make my friends/protégé(e)s/cousins make the best of what few links
I have or manage to find?"
Links
0. mailto:turbinesmine69@yahoo.com
1.
http://barbie.com/
2.
http://lego.com/Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2230252
FrzrBrn writes "Whitfield Diffie and Ronald Rivest raised concerns about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (formerly Palladium) at the [0]RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They are (naturally) concerned about vendor lock-in and having computers turned against their owners. See the [1]story at EE Times." Links
0. http://www.rsaconference.net/rsa2003/
DOS Attack Via US Postal Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2027225
Phronesis writes "Bruce Schneier [0]reports in [1]Crypto-Gram about the
slashdot-inspired [2]Post-office DOS attack on SPAM-king [3]Alan
Ralsky. More interesting, Schneier writes, is a recent paper on
[4]Defending against an internet-based attack on the physical world,
which generalizes this attack and discusses how it could be automated
and how one might defend against it (you can't stop it, but you could
make it harder to effect). From the abstract of the article: 'The
attack is, to some degree, a consequence of the availability of private
information on the Web, and the increase in the amount of personal
information that users must reveal to obtain Web services.'"
Links
0.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0304.html#1
1.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
2.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/06.11.shtml
3.
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm
4.
http://www.avirubin.com/scripted.attacks.pdfTop Physicist Advocates Scientific Self-Censorship http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/186203
spamania writes "The [0]San Francisco Chronicle is running this article
about a new book by Britain's astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees, that
advocates [1]restricting scientific research in certain fields in the
interest of public safety. In "Our Final Hour", Rees lends a sober,
respectable voice to the oft-irrational ranting about nanotech,
biotech, and other fields."
Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle
The Post-OOP Paradigm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1745243
[0]Kallahar writes "American Scientist has an article up about
[1]Computing Science: The Post-OOP Paradigm. The article has a great
overview of how OOP works, and then goes on to a brief outline of the
possible successors to OOP such as Aspect, Pattern, and Extreme
Programming. Also a [2]pretty picture of OOP Spaghetti."
Links
0. mailto:kallahar@quickwired.com
1.
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-03Hayes.html
2.
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-03Hayescap3.html
Review: QCast Tuner for PS2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1925250
With TiVo's release of the much anticipated [0]Home Media Option
(anticipated by me, anyway), I renewed my quest to find a way to
integrate my computer's media files with my TV. TiVo's solution is not
an option for me, because I don't have a Series2, and even if I did,
the TiVo solution doesn't work with DirecTV units (for now, anyway). So
I looked into something I saw a few months ago on ThinkGeek: [1]QCast
Tuner for PlayStation 2.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/183216&tid=129
Analyzing the Microsoft Tablet PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1517203
An anonymous reader writes "[0]ZDNet UK has an amusing - but accurate in my view - [1]review of the Microsoft Tablet PC. It may not be the first, but it is the most incisive because of the way it dissects the many fundamental flaws in Microsoft's latest creation." Links
Linux.com
CEO conversation: Jim Curtin of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/1824235
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Jim Curtin, President and CEO of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse, says, "We're seeing people who've moved to Linux workstations and are finding they have a 20% gap on average between the functionality they're used to in a Windows environment and what they get in Linux." Curtin claims Win4Lin is the best way to bridge that 20% gap; that with Win4Lin it is almost as easy to upgrade from Windows 98 to Linux as it is to ...
Corel debuts new WordPerfect
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0430231
Corel will begin selling the new version of its WordPerfect office software Wednesday, but analysts don't expect the package to make much headway against Microsoft Office.
The "Open" Road
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0228221
Clinton Goveas writes "The free software movement has formally existed since 1983. Followers of it's philosophy have been distributing their code under GNU licenses since 1984. Why then did a group of free software enthusiasts set out to establish an Open Source Initiative? And why is it still going strong today?
PROOF That File Trading Sells DVDs...Sort Of http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0359228
Anonymous Reader writes "MP3newswire.net has an article that mocks the RIAA's claims that file trading is hurting the record industry. The music industry has been wailing that the proof comes from the direct correlation between the rise in file trading and the fall of record sales. OK, guess what? DVD sales are up 61% this year alone. So the author has used the exact same logic (a direct correlation between the rise in file trading and the rise ...
MontaVista Linux Powers New Panasonic Broadband TV http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0143235
Annette Oevermann writes "TOKYO, April 15, 2003 MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the selection of MontaVista® Linux® as the development platform and operating system for Broadnow, the new broadband TV tuner from Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd: NYSE: MC; TSE: 6572).
Interview with Jordan Hubbard of Apple and OpenDarwin http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2251237
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews hosts an interview with Jordan Hubbard (or Apple, OpenDarwin and FreeBSD fame) and they discuss about the OpenDarwin Ports and how they compare to Fink's. There is also a hint from Jordan that there might be some of the FreeBSD 5.x advancements to be found on the next Mac OS X 10.3 Panther that is coming out, reportedly, this autumn."
Why Mandrake 9.1 Makes Me Laugh
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1814209
Anonymous Reader writes "Thoughts about Mandrake 9.1"
Tonight Live: Pay Taxes and then we die Plus The http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1812256
Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!! Tuesday, April 15th, 2003, from Chicago IL, Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com. At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!
IBM Linux sequences the deadly SARS virus http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1811223
Anonymous Reader writes "This weekend, using IBM technology running Linux, scientists at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, in collaboration with the BC Centre for Disease Control and the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg -- accomplished a breakthrough in the race the stop the spread of the deadly SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome): They completed the world's first genetic ...
SCO Ships SCO Linux Server 4.0 for the Itanium(R) Processor Family http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1712225
Designed for Use With Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2-Based Systems, SCO Linux Server 4.0 for the Itanium Processor Family Provides Reliable and Easy-to-Use Business Services for the Enterprise
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