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walktalker · 29-06-01, 09:13 PM

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Another Hate Site Trial in France
A potentially landmark Internet content trial opens Friday in the same courtroom where Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez made worldwide headlines last November by ordering Yahoo to prevent people in France from accessing sites that sell Nazi memorabilia. This time, a French group is suing a group of French Internet service providers for denying a request to block access to a portal called Front14.org that proudly bills itself, at the top of its homepage, as "Online hate at its best."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44908,00.html

This Jail Looks for Sunny Days
Inmates at Dublin, California's Santa Rita Jail will soon get a boost to protect them from the energy crisis hitting California. The jail will be home to the nation's largest roof-mounted solar array. "The bills have started to go through the roof," said Matt Muniz, energy program manager at the Alameda County General Services Agency. "We were paying $1 million per year for electricity. With the June 1 increases this would go up by at least 50 percent. ...With the solar array we will be saving about $300,000 per year," Muniz said.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,44558,00.html

Ignore This Letter, Please
Everyone has been getting them lately, and if you're the average American household, you've already received 15. The "them" here is the often misleadingly titled "privacy policies" from banks, credit cards, insurance companies, mortgage providers and other financial companies. Buried beneath a host of confusing legalese is the bottom line: We reserve the right to sell and/or share information we have about you to telemarketers, credit card companies, spammers and others unless you tell us not to.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,44893,00.html

What He Said, She Said, They Said
Everyone who knew anything about the Microsoft antitrust case was talking about it on Thursday afternoon, and both the company and the Justice Department claimed victory. Read on to hear what everyone's been saying about what was supposed to be the antitrust case of the century -- until the appeals court short-circuited it this week.
http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/...,44899,00.html

Mass ICQ hack has security seething
AOL's ICQ servers were hacked on Monday for the second time this year, it was revealed Thursday night. The ICQ homepage was defaced by the hacking group Innocent Boys, while a separate server ICQgroup01.icq.com was simultaneously attacked by the notorious Men in Hack (MiH) crackers who added a defaced page to the community page. The free peer-to-peer ICQ software uses the Microsoft IIS Web server. "This has more holes than Swiss cheese," said Mark Read, systems security analyst for computer security company MIS Corporate Defence Solutions. "It seems that Microsoft doesn't understand the terms of bounds checking -- I strongly suspect that within the next couple of weeks another hack of this system will be found."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...781338,00.html

Hackers delay censorship-busting software
A group of hackers has delayed introducing its planned Web software that is meant to allow users to evade government censorship of the Internet. The delayed project, code-named "Peekabooty," was originally scheduled for launch next month at the hackers' convention Def Con, the group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said in an e-mail message to journalists. Peekabooty still needs to be fine-tuned in order to ensure user safety, wrote the hacker known as Oxblood Ruffian, who is identified as CDC's "Foreign Minister." It would be irresponsible to release the program in its current state, he continued.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/interne...idg/index.html

The price you pay for free Net access
When you sign up for this “free” Internet service, your computer becomes hostage to cloaked Juno programmers doing the bidding of cackling account execs. For starters, Juno subscribers must agree to turn over control of their computers to “one or more pieces of software” that the company says it will install automatically. Subscribers have no “opt out” provision for this except ditching the service altogether. This mystery software is dubbed “computation software,” which Juno describes as “designed to perform computations, which may be unrelated to the operation of the service.” Yeah, that’s real comforting.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/593347.asp

3G phones to become ultimate crime-busting tool
The next generation of mobile phones may prove to be the ultimate eye-witness thanks to modern technology and the RIP Act. Under the much-criticised legislation, the police and security services will be able to request all communications data on someone they believe has committed a crime or is going to commit a crime. This includes an individual's mobile phone data. With next generation 3G phones, however, this data will include the ability to pinpoint people anywhere in the UK within 10m.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/20067.html

Patients to get health advice via digital TV
People with digital televisions in the west Midlands will be able to get free on-screen consultations with an NHS nurse under an experiment announced yesterday. The service will be aimed initially at 50,000 homes in Birmingham. Patients will be able to link up to NHS Direct, a service that handles about 100,000 telephone calls a week from people wanting advice on health problems. Hazel Blears, the health minister, said patients would see and speak to a nurse, who could then show them pictures of symptoms and videos of medical procedures.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/i...514264,00.html

Quest for Universe's oldest light
An unmanned spacecraft is due to take off on Saturday to look for clues about how the Universe will end. The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Map) will journey into deep space on a voyage to explore some of the mysteries of the Cosmos. With it astronomers hope to determine the content, shape, history, and the ultimate fate of the Universe. The American space agency Nasa's $145m (£103m) spaceprobe will construct a full-sky picture of the oldest light in the Universe. It is designed to capture the afterglow of the Big Bang, which comes to us from all directions in space and from a time when the Universe was a very different place.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1413707.stm

What 'Smart Dust' Could Do for You
In the high-tech industry, less has always been valued as more. That is, the smaller the computational device, the better. And nowhere is the emphasis on miniaturization better illustrated than in the lab of Kris Pister, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He's busy shrinking sensors - tiny, bottle-cap-shaped micro-machines fitted with wireless communication devices - that measure light and temperature. When clustered together, they automatically create highly flexible, low-power networks with applications ranging from climate-control systems to entertainment devices that interact with handheld computers.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27573,00.html

The ultimate optical fibre could carry two billion phone calls at once
All our telephone calls, Internet traffic and electronic data travel as a stream of laser light pulses down glass optical fibres. The ultimate optical fibre could carry an order of magnitude more information than do today's, US researchers have calculated. Knowing the theoretical upper limit for the amount of information that a single fibre can carry should help those trying to meet the world's growing hunger for bandwidth.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010628/010628-13.html

The Measure of Power
California's winter of rolling blackouts left its citizens outraged, its utilities in crisis and its politicians pointing fingers. Enter Steven Leeb and Les Norford, two MIT professors with a plan to help electricity suppliers and consumers figure out where power is going and how to conserve it. Leeb, a professor of electrical engineering, and Norford, a professor of architecture, are working together to test a system called non-intrusive load monitoring, or NILM (rhymes with "film"), which uses a wallet-sized blue box, a PC and some very advanced software to measure fluctuations in voltage and current hundreds of times each second.
http://www.techreview.com/web/leo/leo062801.asp

More news later on

29-06-01, 09:13 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	More stuff to read Dedicated to my devoted readers Another Hate Site Trial in France A potentially landmark Internet content trial opens Friday in the same courtroom where Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez made worldwide headlines last November by ordering Yahoo to prevent people in France from accessing sites that sell Nazi memorabilia. This time, a French group is suing a group of French Internet service providers for denying a request to block access to a portal called Front14.org that proudly bills itself, at the top of its homepage, as "Online hate at its best." http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44908,00.html This Jail Looks for Sunny Days Inmates at Dublin, California's Santa Rita Jail will soon get a boost to protect them from the energy crisis hitting California. The jail will be home to the nation's largest roof-mounted solar array. "The bills have started to go through the roof," said Matt Muniz, energy program manager at the Alameda County General Services Agency. "We were paying $1 million per year for electricity. With the June 1 increases this would go up by at least 50 percent. ...With the solar array we will be saving about $300,000 per year," Muniz said. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,44558,00.html Ignore This Letter, Please Everyone has been getting them lately, and if you're the average American household, you've already received 15. The "them" here is the often misleadingly titled "privacy policies" from banks, credit cards, insurance companies, mortgage providers and other financial companies. Buried beneath a host of confusing legalese is the bottom line: We reserve the right to sell and/or share information we have about you to telemarketers, credit card companies, spammers and others unless you tell us not to. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,44893,00.html What He Said, She Said, They Said Everyone who knew anything about the Microsoft antitrust case was talking about it on Thursday afternoon, and both the company and the Justice Department claimed victory. Read on to hear what everyone's been saying about what was supposed to be the antitrust case of the century -- until the appeals court short-circuited it this week. http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/...,44899,00.html Mass ICQ hack has security seething AOL's ICQ servers were hacked on Monday for the second time this year, it was revealed Thursday night. The ICQ homepage was defaced by the hacking group Innocent Boys, while a separate server ICQgroup01.icq.com was simultaneously attacked by the notorious Men in Hack (MiH) crackers who added a defaced page to the community page. The free peer-to-peer ICQ software uses the Microsoft IIS Web server. "This has more holes than Swiss cheese," said Mark Read, systems security analyst for computer security company MIS Corporate Defence Solutions. "It seems that Microsoft doesn't understand the terms of bounds checking -- I strongly suspect that within the next couple of weeks another hack of this system will be found." http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...781338,00.html Hackers delay censorship-busting software A group of hackers has delayed introducing its planned Web software that is meant to allow users to evade government censorship of the Internet. The delayed project, code-named "Peekabooty," was originally scheduled for launch next month at the hackers' convention Def Con, the group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said in an e-mail message to journalists. Peekabooty still needs to be fine-tuned in order to ensure user safety, wrote the hacker known as Oxblood Ruffian, who is identified as CDC's "Foreign Minister." It would be irresponsible to release the program in its current state, he continued. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/interne...idg/index.html The price you pay for free Net access When you sign up for this “free” Internet service, your computer becomes hostage to cloaked Juno programmers doing the bidding of cackling account execs. For starters, Juno subscribers must agree to turn over control of their computers to “one or more pieces of software” that the company says it will install automatically. Subscribers have no “opt out” provision for this except ditching the service altogether. This mystery software is dubbed “computation software,” which Juno describes as “designed to perform computations, which may be unrelated to the operation of the service.” Yeah, that’s real comforting. http://www.msnbc.com/news/593347.asp 3G phones to become ultimate crime-busting tool The next generation of mobile phones may prove to be the ultimate eye-witness thanks to modern technology and the RIP Act. Under the much-criticised legislation, the police and security services will be able to request all communications data on someone they believe has committed a crime or is going to commit a crime. This includes an individual's mobile phone data. With next generation 3G phones, however, this data will include the ability to pinpoint people anywhere in the UK within 10m. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/20067.html Patients to get health advice via digital TV People with digital televisions in the west Midlands will be able to get free on-screen consultations with an NHS nurse under an experiment announced yesterday. The service will be aimed initially at 50,000 homes in Birmingham. Patients will be able to link up to NHS Direct, a service that handles about 100,000 telephone calls a week from people wanting advice on health problems. Hazel Blears, the health minister, said patients would see and speak to a nurse, who could then show them pictures of symptoms and videos of medical procedures. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/i...514264,00.html Quest for Universe's oldest light An unmanned spacecraft is due to take off on Saturday to look for clues about how the Universe will end. The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Map) will journey into deep space on a voyage to explore some of the mysteries of the Cosmos. With it astronomers hope to determine the content, shape, history, and the ultimate fate of the Universe. The American space agency Nasa's $145m (£103m) spaceprobe will construct a full-sky picture of the oldest light in the Universe. It is designed to capture the afterglow of the Big Bang, which comes to us from all directions in space and from a time when the Universe was a very different place. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1413707.stm What 'Smart Dust' Could Do for You In the high-tech industry, less has always been valued as more. That is, the smaller the computational device, the better. And nowhere is the emphasis on miniaturization better illustrated than in the lab of Kris Pister, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He's busy shrinking sensors - tiny, bottle-cap-shaped micro-machines fitted with wireless communication devices - that measure light and temperature. When clustered together, they automatically create highly flexible, low-power networks with applications ranging from climate-control systems to entertainment devices that interact with handheld computers. http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27573,00.html The ultimate optical fibre could carry two billion phone calls at once All our telephone calls, Internet traffic and electronic data travel as a stream of laser light pulses down glass optical fibres. The ultimate optical fibre could carry an order of magnitude more information than do today's, US researchers have calculated. Knowing the theoretical upper limit for the amount of information that a single fibre can carry should help those trying to meet the world's growing hunger for bandwidth. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010628/010628-13.html The Measure of Power California's winter of rolling blackouts left its citizens outraged, its utilities in crisis and its politicians pointing fingers. Enter Steven Leeb and Les Norford, two MIT professors with a plan to help electricity suppliers and consumers figure out where power is going and how to conserve it. Leeb, a professor of electrical engineering, and Norford, a professor of architecture, are working together to test a system called non-intrusive load monitoring, or NILM (rhymes with "film"), which uses a wallet-sized blue box, a PC and some very advanced software to measure fluctuations in voltage and current hundreds of times each second. http://www.techreview.com/web/leo/leo062801.asp More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies