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IBM to let Linux fans use mainframe -- for free
Still saving up for your own mainframe computer?
IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems. IBM will announce late in the week that it has made one of its 10-processor zSeries mainframe computers available via the Internet for access by people interested in working with the Linux operating system.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...083323,00.html

Researchers shed light on DoS attacks
Online vandals intent on lashing out at companies and rivals stage denial-of-service attacks more than 4,000 times every week, researchers from the University of California at San Diego said Tuesday. Among the common targets are some names that come as no surprise: Amazon.com, America Online and Microsoft's Hotmail. However, a large number of individual users and small businesses were targeted by attacks as well, the researchers found.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...083326,00.html

Net TV firm set to guard Canadian border
A looming copyright battle in Canada could soon offer one of the first major tests of technology that promises to establish national borders on the Net. At issue is a plan by Canada's JumpTV to offer live network TV over the Internet -- a strategy that recalls an earlier venture by Toronto-based iCraveTV, which collapsed in a chaos of lawsuits last year.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=tp_pr

Vivendi cues up Duet
The purchase of MP3.com by Vivendi Universal centers on the issue of control, and it sets the stage for the Duet music-subscription service in which Vivendi is participating. The music industry has a formidable body of law it can use to protect music from unauthorized reproduction and distribution by consumers.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Woe Unto White House Site
Malicious hackers appear to be responsible for forcing whitehouse.gov offline for much of Tuesday, preventing visitors from connecting and briefly replacing the austere graphics with a near-empty black page and references to a previous break-in.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43993,00.html

A 'White Hat' Goes to Jail
Max Butler lived three lives for five years. As "Max Vision," he was an incredibly skilled hacker and security expert who boasted that he'd never met a computer system he couldn't crack. As "The Equalizer," he was an FBI informant, reporting on the activities of hackers who considered him a colleague and, in some cases, a friend. And now Max is a number in the federal prison system.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44007,00.html

Nanotech Looms Large for Meds
Nanotechnology was a big buzzword in the 1990s, but scientists still can't inject a teeny robot into a person's veins and tell it to fix malfunctioning cells with its teeny screwdriver. But that was never what nanotechnology was about in the first place, academic and industry scientists said Monday at the International Biotech and Infotech Summit.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,43975,00.html

Cheese beats crackers
A helpful virus is making its way around the web, checking computers for vulnerabilities and closing them. The "cheese worm" targets computers running Linux that have been attacked by a similar, but malign, program earlier this year. As it grows in popularity, Linux is increasingly being targeted by virus writers and malicious hackers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1344344.stm

Is your credit card being cloned ?
If you think cloning is just about creating identical sheep, you better grab hold of your wallet. Cloning, also known as skimming, is a burgeoning and highly effective form of credit card fraud. Skimming is costing credit card users stateside and worldwide millions in phony charges, as stolen clones are sold and used in the United States and elsewhere around the globe.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/busin...ud_010521.html

World's 1st Internet 'nation'
What is Sealand? It is a concrete fortress built in 1940 as a part of the British Empire’s air-defense infrastructure. The fortress was known as Roughs Tower. It rests in the North Sea, 9.6 kilometers, or six miles, offshore. During World War II, troops shot down Nazi bombers from their posts on Sealand. Rather than enemy aircraft, the residents of Sealand are now battling national governments who refuse to recognize their home as a sovereign entity.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=21962

Talking to Computers
A short black line blinks in front of you on the screen. One hand rests on a keyboard, the other on a mouse. You stand poised to scroll, reload, double click—perhaps to open a spreadsheet or the newest installment of Tomb Raider. So ubiquitous are the computer monitor, keyboard and mouse that hardly a person alive in the industrialized world cannot relate to that setup. And yet a host of new technologies that promise to make personal computing even easier — among them voice recognition, handwriting recognition and touch screens — are emerging.
http://sciam.com/explorations/2001/052101compu/

Flip Side Of Digital Jukeboxes: Music For A Fee
Today, that "jukebox" program on your computer is most likely a free piece of software that plays CDs, transforms your music into digital files, helps you record tracks onto CDs and plays hundreds of Internet radio stations. You don't even have to put in a quarter. Yet. But eventually, if these companies have their way, you'll be dropping a lot more than two bits as the PC jukebox morphs into a Sony-stereo-meets-Tower-Records. They envision their software as the gate through which you listen to and manage your existing music, sample new stuff, pay for subscription services and buy digital downloads.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166001.html

Souping up gadgets
Segler is the digital era’s version of the amateur mechanic. But instead of souping up cars for power and show, he and his ilk prefer appliances that depend on digital processors and software instructions. With gadgets like game players and cell phones becoming more like computers, Segler and other hobbyists aren’t about to run out of targets.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/576023.asp?0nm=T13Q

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Thanks newsman. As usual, I will read the paper in the morning with my coffee.

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