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walktalker · 16-07-01, 05:27 PM

It's never all

U.S. government wants a few good hackers
We're from the government and we want you to help us. That was the message from a seven-member "Meet the Fed" panel, where government officials answered the questions of a roomful of hackers at the Def Con conference here Saturday. Including members of law enforcement, a congressman and security experts, the panel illuminated the problems the government has in securing systems and appealed to hackers not to make it any harder -- both to help the government and to help themselves.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=ch_mh

Cell phones tunneling in
The San Francisco Bay Area this week joined the growing number of metropolitan areas taking steps to allow people to make cell phone calls while traveling through tunnels and other wireless dead zones. The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board of directors voted to begin negotiating with a company that wants to install the antennas and cables necessary to use cell phones in the 33 miles of the system that run underground, including one tunnel that travels underneath the San Francisco Bay.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_pr

Phone makers to publish radiation levels
The world's leading mobile phone makers said Monday they will start publishing information later this year about the level of radiation emitted by their phones in response to concerns from consumers. The largest cell phone maker Nokia, the second-largest Motorola and the fourth-largest Ericsson, have agreed with the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization on a way to measure radiation absorption on phones.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Web, music giants march to different tunes
An agreement between Microsoft and online music service Pressplay intensifies the war brewing between Internet and music giants, raising concerns that consumers will become the real casualties.The deal, announced Thursday, allows Microsoft to offer Pressplay's online music-subscription service on its MSN Music Web site. In addition, Pressplay will use Microsoft's Windows Media technology to offer music to MSN Music customers. Because Pressplay is backed by some record companies and Microsoft is in a pitched battle with RealNetworks, the move draws a distinct line between rivals in the Internet and recording industries.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_pr

MusicMatch settles with RIAA
MusicMatch on Sunday said it struck a licensing deal with the recording industry to broadcast musical performances on its Web radio service, paving the way for both parties to drop lawsuits against each other. "Entering into this license made the lawsuits unnecessary," said Bob Ohlweiler, senior vice president of music development for MusicMatch. MusicMatch was one of several Webcasters embroiled in an escalating legal battle over the royalty structure for Internet radio stations.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Revolutionaries press the mute button
On a sunny university plaza here, a band played punk rock songs for a dwindling lunchtime crowd of businesspeople, code writers and copyright lawyers. The music fit the event, the fourth -- and probably last -- annual MP3.com Summit, or what used to be one of the chief gatherings of online music's revolutionaries. Entrepreneurs and engineers once spun visions here of overturning the behemoths of the traditional music business with new online music services, new formats and new ways of distribution. It is a more practical, a more subdued and certainly a far smaller bunch this year. Like punks continuing to rail against an indifferent music world, a few revolutionaries remain.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh

Malaysian group: PCs bad for kids
A Malaysian consumer group wants computers kept away from young children, saying youths will suffer if PCs replace human contact. "We're calling for a moratorium on the use of computers in early childhood and the lower primary grades," said Lim Jee Yuan of the Consumers Association of Penang. "The children are losing out a lot when computers take the place of human contact." The group said U.S. studies have found that early exposure to computers can damage thinking skills and creativity and reduce children's attention span.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

From Netscape to Nightclub
One of San Francisco's most popular nightclubs has reopened after a two-year refurbishment financed by an ex-Netscape millionaire. The grand reopening of the DNA Lounge on Friday the 13th marked the end of owner Jamie Zawinski's two-year struggle to transform the listing, duct-taped bar into a state-of-the-art club and music venue. Minted with Netscape stock options, Zawinski bought the dilapidated night spot in San Francisco's trendy SOMA (South of Market Street) district in April, 1999, shortly after his much-publicized split with Netscape/AOL and the Mozilla project.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45264,00.html

People Make the Best Robots
Not everyone with a browser can attend Wednesday's fifth annual Webby Awards, but that doesn’t mean they can’t join in the hoopla. Up to 1,000 online party-crashers will be able to press flesh with the digerati, touch up their lipstick in the ladies lounge, and explore backstage using a remote-control human robot equipped with a camera and audio called the Tele-Actor. The Tele-Actor is not technically a robot. She’s a human being -- raver-fave DJ Pollywog -- who is assigned to obey human commands just like a robot. By registering on tele-actor.net, participants will be able to follow her activities through a series of still images transmitted from a wireless camera attached to the Tele-Actor’s head.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45137,00.html

Floridians Mock Cop Cams
Wearing masks and making obscene gestures at police cameras, about 100 people protested a new security system that scans faces in the city's crime-ridden nightlife district to search for wanted persons. "Being watched on a public street is just plain wrong," said May Becker, wearing a bar code sticker on her forehead. Becker joined demonstrators in the Ybor City district Saturday night, wearing a sign reading: "We're under house arrest in the land of the free."
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45270,00.html

EU Drives Privacy Global
Thanks to the European Union, globalization could be improving your privacy. Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Procter & Gamble have recently pledged to provide European-grade privacy protection to their customers in the United States and around the world, even though no law requires them to do so. Along with 69 other companies, these four have signed an EU/U.S.-brokered arrangement called Safe Harbor. Designed to provide U.S. companies with a mechanism to comply with EU privacy law, companies that sign receive the right to transfer personal data collected on European citizens to the United States.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,44922,00.html

Teachers Vie to Be Mr. Wizard
Science teachers battle to build the best on-the-spot experiment at the San Francisco Exploratorium Iron Science Teacher competition. Also: Teachers meet to discuss how to improve math education, in Katie Dean's education notebook.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45236,00.html

When Privacy and Science Collide
Public policy makers and those who study human biology are getting to know each other better than ever now that researchers are getting intimate with our DNA. The learning curve for both parties can be steep: Privacy, education, and ethics must be balanced against the potential for life-saving treatments. On Friday, members of the New Democrat Network gathered in South San Francisco at the headquarters of biotechnology pioneer Genentech. They were there to exchange ideas with a panel of executives from four leading biotech companies.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,45256,00.html

Wired up for wealth
Technology is not just for developed nations, it is a must for developing nations to help educate citizens, make them healthier and escape poverty. So says a report from the UN Development Programme published this week. It argues that technology has real potential to help struggling nations - if used in the right way. But it warns that the digital divide is in danger of growing ever wider unless more effort is made to help certain countries get more out of communications technologies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1441539.stm

Even more news later on

16-07-01, 05:27 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	It's never all U.S. government wants a few good hackers We're from the government and we want you to help us. That was the message from a seven-member "Meet the Fed" panel, where government officials answered the questions of a roomful of hackers at the Def Con conference here Saturday. Including members of law enforcement, a congressman and security experts, the panel illuminated the problems the government has in securing systems and appealed to hackers not to make it any harder -- both to help the government and to help themselves. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=ch_mh Cell phones tunneling in The San Francisco Bay Area this week joined the growing number of metropolitan areas taking steps to allow people to make cell phone calls while traveling through tunnels and other wireless dead zones. The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board of directors voted to begin negotiating with a company that wants to install the antennas and cables necessary to use cell phones in the 33 miles of the system that run underground, including one tunnel that travels underneath the San Francisco Bay. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_pr Phone makers to publish radiation levels The world's leading mobile phone makers said Monday they will start publishing information later this year about the level of radiation emitted by their phones in response to concerns from consumers. The largest cell phone maker Nokia, the second-largest Motorola and the fourth-largest Ericsson, have agreed with the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization on a way to measure radiation absorption on phones. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_mh Web, music giants march to different tunes An agreement between Microsoft and online music service Pressplay intensifies the war brewing between Internet and music giants, raising concerns that consumers will become the real casualties.The deal, announced Thursday, allows Microsoft to offer Pressplay's online music-subscription service on its MSN Music Web site. In addition, Pressplay will use Microsoft's Windows Media technology to offer music to MSN Music customers. Because Pressplay is backed by some record companies and Microsoft is in a pitched battle with RealNetworks, the move draws a distinct line between rivals in the Internet and recording industries. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_pr MusicMatch settles with RIAA MusicMatch on Sunday said it struck a licensing deal with the recording industry to broadcast musical performances on its Web radio service, paving the way for both parties to drop lawsuits against each other. "Entering into this license made the lawsuits unnecessary," said Bob Ohlweiler, senior vice president of music development for MusicMatch. MusicMatch was one of several Webcasters embroiled in an escalating legal battle over the royalty structure for Internet radio stations. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh Revolutionaries press the mute button On a sunny university plaza here, a band played punk rock songs for a dwindling lunchtime crowd of businesspeople, code writers and copyright lawyers. The music fit the event, the fourth -- and probably last -- annual MP3.com Summit, or what used to be one of the chief gatherings of online music's revolutionaries. Entrepreneurs and engineers once spun visions here of overturning the behemoths of the traditional music business with new online music services, new formats and new ways of distribution. It is a more practical, a more subdued and certainly a far smaller bunch this year. Like punks continuing to rail against an indifferent music world, a few revolutionaries remain. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh Malaysian group: PCs bad for kids A Malaysian consumer group wants computers kept away from young children, saying youths will suffer if PCs replace human contact. "We're calling for a moratorium on the use of computers in early childhood and the lower primary grades," said Lim Jee Yuan of the Consumers Association of Penang. "The children are losing out a lot when computers take the place of human contact." The group said U.S. studies have found that early exposure to computers can damage thinking skills and creativity and reduce children's attention span. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh From Netscape to Nightclub One of San Francisco's most popular nightclubs has reopened after a two-year refurbishment financed by an ex-Netscape millionaire. The grand reopening of the DNA Lounge on Friday the 13th marked the end of owner Jamie Zawinski's two-year struggle to transform the listing, duct-taped bar into a state-of-the-art club and music venue. Minted with Netscape stock options, Zawinski bought the dilapidated night spot in San Francisco's trendy SOMA (South of Market Street) district in April, 1999, shortly after his much-publicized split with Netscape/AOL and the Mozilla project. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45264,00.html People Make the Best Robots Not everyone with a browser can attend Wednesday's fifth annual Webby Awards, but that doesn’t mean they can’t join in the hoopla. Up to 1,000 online party-crashers will be able to press flesh with the digerati, touch up their lipstick in the ladies lounge, and explore backstage using a remote-control human robot equipped with a camera and audio called the Tele-Actor. The Tele-Actor is not technically a robot. She’s a human being -- raver-fave DJ Pollywog -- who is assigned to obey human commands just like a robot. By registering on tele-actor.net, participants will be able to follow her activities through a series of still images transmitted from a wireless camera attached to the Tele-Actor’s head. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45137,00.html Floridians Mock Cop Cams Wearing masks and making obscene gestures at police cameras, about 100 people protested a new security system that scans faces in the city's crime-ridden nightlife district to search for wanted persons. "Being watched on a public street is just plain wrong," said May Becker, wearing a bar code sticker on her forehead. Becker joined demonstrators in the Ybor City district Saturday night, wearing a sign reading: "We're under house arrest in the land of the free." http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45270,00.html EU Drives Privacy Global Thanks to the European Union, globalization could be improving your privacy. Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Procter & Gamble have recently pledged to provide European-grade privacy protection to their customers in the United States and around the world, even though no law requires them to do so. Along with 69 other companies, these four have signed an EU/U.S.-brokered arrangement called Safe Harbor. Designed to provide U.S. companies with a mechanism to comply with EU privacy law, companies that sign receive the right to transfer personal data collected on European citizens to the United States. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,44922,00.html Teachers Vie to Be Mr. Wizard Science teachers battle to build the best on-the-spot experiment at the San Francisco Exploratorium Iron Science Teacher competition. Also: Teachers meet to discuss how to improve math education, in Katie Dean's education notebook. http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45236,00.html When Privacy and Science Collide Public policy makers and those who study human biology are getting to know each other better than ever now that researchers are getting intimate with our DNA. The learning curve for both parties can be steep: Privacy, education, and ethics must be balanced against the potential for life-saving treatments. On Friday, members of the New Democrat Network gathered in South San Francisco at the headquarters of biotechnology pioneer Genentech. They were there to exchange ideas with a panel of executives from four leading biotech companies. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,45256,00.html Wired up for wealth Technology is not just for developed nations, it is a must for developing nations to help educate citizens, make them healthier and escape poverty. So says a report from the UN Development Programme published this week. It argues that technology has real potential to help struggling nations - if used in the right way. But it warns that the digital divide is in danger of growing ever wider unless more effort is made to help certain countries get more out of communications technologies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1441539.stm Even more news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies