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walktalker · 11-01-02, 05:51 PM

TV Filter Negates Naughtiness

The ProtecTV unit, which is on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, is only available online for $69.95, resembles a slim cable box that connects like a VCR to any television set. The black box contains a dictionary of 400 "nasty to naughty" words that it mutes and barricades with "Xs" in closed caption. In closed caption, for example, the four-letter "f" word appears in the form of four Xs and is muted when spoken.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49505,00.html

IMac: What's in a Design, Anyway?
When Apple decided in 1999 to start selling its already popular iMac in five candy colors, Wired News called on several industrial designers to see what they thought about the move. Almost unanimously, they declared it a watershed moment in computer design. Computers were becoming commodities, the designers explained, and increasingly, computer makers needed to find a way to make their machines stand out. Tinkering with the look of the computer, more than its speed or specific technical capabilities, was a good way to appeal to people.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49652,00.html

'Trojan' Company Changes Horses
Early on the morning of Dec. 28, advertising executive Michael Calderone came to the unhappy realization that many people believed him to be the embodiment of all that is evil on the Internet. Calderone is the president of NetupProfits, an online ad agency that, among other things, distributes a lottery game program called ClickTillUWin. Users of some versions of file-sharing applications BearShare, LimeWire, Kazaa and Grokster noticed in late December that a small program called "Dlder" had been installed on their computers without their permission.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49561,00.html

DVD for Home and Away
Parents looking to distract the kids during those long rides to the mountains have more gadgets than ever to choose from at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Vendors showed off more than 20 LCD televisions and DVD players for in-car entertainment. At an entry level price of $1,000, these systems, which hide the LCD screen in the back of headrests or fold down from the roof, are primarily selling to families that frequently take 2-hour or longer drives, according to Stephen Witt, vice president of brand marketing for Alpine.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49635,00.html

Ireland Plans Largest Wind Farm
Ireland on Friday approved a 640 million euro ($571.4 million) plan to build the world's largest offshore wind farm, capable of generating 520 megawatts of electricity. Marine and Natural Resources Minister Frank Fahey said the wind farm, in the Irish Sea off County Wicklow on Ireland's east coast, would be three times the size of all the existing wind farms in the world put together.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49662,00.html

Elmo So Tickled He Can Sing
Tickle Me Elmo Surprise not only giggles like a maniac, but as of Wednesday, he sings. As part of a promotion for the toy, Fisher-Price programmed all Elmo Surprise dolls to change their behavior patterns on Wednesday. In addition to the five tickle spots on Elmo's tummy, underarms and feet, Elmo's nose is now an active tickle spot, and he sings a song and laughs when a child squeezes his schnozz.
http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,49647,00.html

Non-military satellite views Earth
most detailed freely-available pictures ever taken of our planet. Quickbird is the world's highest resolution commercial imaging satellite and its first images show details never before seen by a non-military satellite. Flags surrounding the Washington Monument in Washington DC, trees in the garden of the Imperial Palace in Bangkok, and even the lines of a tennis court in a Washington park, show its potential.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1755356.stm

"Resource wars" ignite around the world
A favourite prediction of environmentalism has bitten the dust - too many natural resources, rather than too few, are the cause of an increasing numbers of wars in the 21st century. Many greens had predicted that the new century would see a rash of wars in countries where natural resources such as timber, water, minerals and fertile soils are running out. But far from it, says the 2002 State of the World report from the prestigious Washington-based think-tank, the Worldwatch Institute.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991778

Internet Week Magazine Folds; Web Site Remains
Internet Week magazine has produced its last print edition, a source close to the publication told Newsbytes today. The source, who asked not be identified, said parent company CMP Media notified employees yesterday that the Jan. 7 issue would be the last. "The Web site, InternetWeek.com, will proceed, they are not closing that," the source said. "But the print publication is deceased."
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173592.html

Computer Security Vulnerabilities Double In '01
Hackers and system administrators alike were busier than ever in 2001, a year that brought a 200 percent increase in computer security incidents and vulnerabilities, according to statistics published Thursday. More than 52,000 “incidents, including Web site attacks, malicious viruses and network intrusions, were reported in 2001, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the federally funded computer security clearinghouse at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. The numbers are up from 21,756 the previous year, CERT indicates.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173590.html

Tools Take On New Linux Trojan
Utilities for detecting and removing a new Trojan horse that targets Linux systems have been posted on the Internet for free download. The tools, created by managed security provider Qualys, battle a new variant of the Remote Shell Trojan, dubbed "RST.b," which creates a backdoor on infected Linux computers, giving a remote attacker full control. RST.b was first discovered in the wild last December by independent security researchers who identified it as a variant of RST, a Linux Trojan announced in September by Qualys.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173589.html

Brits Flocking To Net Gaming Sites
British Internet users seem to signing up for online gaming sites in ever increasing numbers, says a report published Thursday. The NetValue study found that more than 3 million Brits accessed games online during November, an increase of 500,000 on the figures from a year earlier. Researchers concluded that more than 20 percent of home Internet users now access gaming sites at least once a month.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173582.html

Russian Supreme Court Rejects Tech Spy's Appeal
The Russian supreme court has rejected an application to overturn a high-tech spying verdict against former high-level diplomat, Valentin Moiseyev. Moiseyev, who was convicted of spying for South Korea, has been in jail since July 1998, after the Russian federal security service detained him, along with Cho Sung-woo, a South Korean diplomat. Russia subsequently expelled Cho, claiming he was a spy. Moiseyev subsequently was convicted on state treason charges in December 1999.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173580.html

Philips says copy-protected CDs have no future

Philips, the inventor of the Compact Disc, does not expect controversial attempts by the music industry to introduce CD "copy protection" technologies to last very long, because of consumer complaints. Philips is opposed to the use of copy protection systems. The technology is designed to stop CDs playing or being copied on personal computers but it can also prevent them from playing on many normal systems. As inventor of the CD standard and the industry's licensing body, Philips could refuse to license such copy protected discs as genuine CDs, or pursue some other legal obstruction to the practice.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991783

Deals to prevent Chernobyl-style disaster collapse
Western Europe's efforts to prevent another Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster among its eastern neighbours are foundering. Two deals under which the European Union promised to finance technical help on safety in return for early reactor closures have collapsed. Bulgaria has just announced a four-year delay in shutting two old Soviet nuclear reactors built in 1980 and 1982 at the country's Kozloduy nuclear power plant. Meanwhile Armenian ministers have told New Scientist that its Metsamor nuclear plant, operating in an earthquake zone west of the capital Yerevan, will not shut in 2004 as promised.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991782

The Universe is turquoise, say astronomers
Astronomers have revealed the true colour of the Universe - it is somewhere between "pale turquoise and medium aquamarine". The discovery may appear to be as useless as the "answer" to life, the Universe and everything given in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - 42 - but the colour is helping the astronomers trace the history of star formation. Ivan Baldry and Karl Glazebrook at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found the cosmic colour by combining light from over 200,000 galaxies within two billion light years of Earth. They worked with data from the Australian 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991775

More news later on

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walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	TV Filter Negates Naughtiness The ProtecTV unit, which is on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, is only available online for $69.95, resembles a slim cable box that connects like a VCR to any television set. The black box contains a dictionary of 400 "nasty to naughty" words that it mutes and barricades with "Xs" in closed caption. In closed caption, for example, the four-letter "f" word appears in the form of four Xs and is muted when spoken. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49505,00.html IMac: What's in a Design, Anyway? When Apple decided in 1999 to start selling its already popular iMac in five candy colors, Wired News called on several industrial designers to see what they thought about the move. Almost unanimously, they declared it a watershed moment in computer design. Computers were becoming commodities, the designers explained, and increasingly, computer makers needed to find a way to make their machines stand out. Tinkering with the look of the computer, more than its speed or specific technical capabilities, was a good way to appeal to people. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49652,00.html 'Trojan' Company Changes Horses Early on the morning of Dec. 28, advertising executive Michael Calderone came to the unhappy realization that many people believed him to be the embodiment of all that is evil on the Internet. Calderone is the president of NetupProfits, an online ad agency that, among other things, distributes a lottery game program called ClickTillUWin. Users of some versions of file-sharing applications BearShare, LimeWire, Kazaa and Grokster noticed in late December that a small program called "Dlder" had been installed on their computers without their permission. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49561,00.html DVD for Home and Away Parents looking to distract the kids during those long rides to the mountains have more gadgets than ever to choose from at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Vendors showed off more than 20 LCD televisions and DVD players for in-car entertainment. At an entry level price of $1,000, these systems, which hide the LCD screen in the back of headrests or fold down from the roof, are primarily selling to families that frequently take 2-hour or longer drives, according to Stephen Witt, vice president of brand marketing for Alpine. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49635,00.html Ireland Plans Largest Wind Farm Ireland on Friday approved a 640 million euro ($571.4 million) plan to build the world's largest offshore wind farm, capable of generating 520 megawatts of electricity. Marine and Natural Resources Minister Frank Fahey said the wind farm, in the Irish Sea off County Wicklow on Ireland's east coast, would be three times the size of all the existing wind farms in the world put together. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49662,00.html Elmo So Tickled He Can Sing Tickle Me Elmo Surprise not only giggles like a maniac, but as of Wednesday, he sings. As part of a promotion for the toy, Fisher-Price programmed all Elmo Surprise dolls to change their behavior patterns on Wednesday. In addition to the five tickle spots on Elmo's tummy, underarms and feet, Elmo's nose is now an active tickle spot, and he sings a song and laughs when a child squeezes his schnozz. http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,49647,00.html Non-military satellite views Earth most detailed freely-available pictures ever taken of our planet. Quickbird is the world's highest resolution commercial imaging satellite and its first images show details never before seen by a non-military satellite. Flags surrounding the Washington Monument in Washington DC, trees in the garden of the Imperial Palace in Bangkok, and even the lines of a tennis court in a Washington park, show its potential. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1755356.stm "Resource wars" ignite around the world A favourite prediction of environmentalism has bitten the dust - too many natural resources, rather than too few, are the cause of an increasing numbers of wars in the 21st century. Many greens had predicted that the new century would see a rash of wars in countries where natural resources such as timber, water, minerals and fertile soils are running out. But far from it, says the 2002 State of the World report from the prestigious Washington-based think-tank, the Worldwatch Institute. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991778 Internet Week Magazine Folds; Web Site Remains Internet Week magazine has produced its last print edition, a source close to the publication told Newsbytes today. The source, who asked not be identified, said parent company CMP Media notified employees yesterday that the Jan. 7 issue would be the last. "The Web site, InternetWeek.com, will proceed, they are not closing that," the source said. "But the print publication is deceased." http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173592.html Computer Security Vulnerabilities Double In '01 Hackers and system administrators alike were busier than ever in 2001, a year that brought a 200 percent increase in computer security incidents and vulnerabilities, according to statistics published Thursday. More than 52,000 “incidents, including Web site attacks, malicious viruses and network intrusions, were reported in 2001, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the federally funded computer security clearinghouse at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. The numbers are up from 21,756 the previous year, CERT indicates. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173590.html Tools Take On New Linux Trojan Utilities for detecting and removing a new Trojan horse that targets Linux systems have been posted on the Internet for free download. The tools, created by managed security provider Qualys, battle a new variant of the Remote Shell Trojan, dubbed "RST.b," which creates a backdoor on infected Linux computers, giving a remote attacker full control. RST.b was first discovered in the wild last December by independent security researchers who identified it as a variant of RST, a Linux Trojan announced in September by Qualys. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173589.html Brits Flocking To Net Gaming Sites British Internet users seem to signing up for online gaming sites in ever increasing numbers, says a report published Thursday. The NetValue study found that more than 3 million Brits accessed games online during November, an increase of 500,000 on the figures from a year earlier. Researchers concluded that more than 20 percent of home Internet users now access gaming sites at least once a month. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173582.html Russian Supreme Court Rejects Tech Spy's Appeal The Russian supreme court has rejected an application to overturn a high-tech spying verdict against former high-level diplomat, Valentin Moiseyev. Moiseyev, who was convicted of spying for South Korea, has been in jail since July 1998, after the Russian federal security service detained him, along with Cho Sung-woo, a South Korean diplomat. Russia subsequently expelled Cho, claiming he was a spy. Moiseyev subsequently was convicted on state treason charges in December 1999. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173580.html Philips says copy-protected CDs have no future Philips, the inventor of the Compact Disc, does not expect controversial attempts by the music industry to introduce CD "copy protection" technologies to last very long, because of consumer complaints. Philips is opposed to the use of copy protection systems. The technology is designed to stop CDs playing or being copied on personal computers but it can also prevent them from playing on many normal systems. As inventor of the CD standard and the industry's licensing body, Philips could refuse to license such copy protected discs as genuine CDs, or pursue some other legal obstruction to the practice. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991783 Deals to prevent Chernobyl-style disaster collapse Western Europe's efforts to prevent another Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster among its eastern neighbours are foundering. Two deals under which the European Union promised to finance technical help on safety in return for early reactor closures have collapsed. Bulgaria has just announced a four-year delay in shutting two old Soviet nuclear reactors built in 1980 and 1982 at the country's Kozloduy nuclear power plant. Meanwhile Armenian ministers have told New Scientist that its Metsamor nuclear plant, operating in an earthquake zone west of the capital Yerevan, will not shut in 2004 as promised. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991782 The Universe is turquoise, say astronomers Astronomers have revealed the true colour of the Universe - it is somewhere between "pale turquoise and medium aquamarine". The discovery may appear to be as useless as the "answer" to life, the Universe and everything given in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - 42 - but the colour is helping the astronomers trace the history of star formation. Ivan Baldry and Karl Glazebrook at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found the cosmic colour by combining light from over 200,000 galaxies within two billion light years of Earth. They worked with data from the Australian 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991775 More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies