The Newspaper Shop -- Wednesday edition

[walktalker]

Experts warn of IE Gopher hole
A Finnish security company on Tuesday warned that hackers could exploit an outdated, little-used Internet protocol to seize control of computers running Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. The new exploit involves Gopher, a protocol for fetching data on remote servers popular before the explosive growth of the Internet. Gopher has largely disappeared from use, for the most part replaced by the HTTP protocol accessed using Web browsers.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-932663.html

It's finally here -- Mozilla 1.0
More than four years after the launch of the Mozilla.org open-source project, Mozilla 1.0 is ready to browse. The group released the software on the Web for download Wednesday. Mozilla 1.0 isn't the first browser to market based on Mozilla code. Netscape Communications, a unit of AOL Time Warner, released Netscape 6.0 in November 2000. That release was largely judged to have been premature.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-932847.html

$1 movie site finds shelter in Iran
A video-on-demand site that was shut down earlier this year with the help of Hollywood has seemingly sprouted a new head in Iran, underscoring vexing problems of Internet copyright enforcement for movie studios. Taiwan-based Movie88.com, which sold access to thousands of films for $1 each, went dark in mid-February after a powerful motion picture lobbying group worked with the local government to pull its plug. The site, which offered movies owned by the major studios without their authorization, was deemed to be infringing on their copyrights.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-932785.html

New viruses aim to cross multi platforms
A new virus called Simile.D may not be much of a threat to computer systems, but some of its technical tricks could lead to a rethinking of the principles underlying antivirus software. The program has code that not only works hard to hide the virus' presence, it also randomizes the program's size so as to make it harder to identify. On top of that, the fourth and latest variant of the virus can spread to both Windows and Linux computers, according to a recently released analysis.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-932447.html

IBM calls on micro-machines
IBM, long known for its computers and microchips, has developed new kinds of machines for wireless phones: microscopic frequency tuners and other devices that fit on a chip. The company's researchers have developed a technique to graft these tiny machines onto chips. Within a few years these hybrid chips, which IBM calls "active components," could be used to increase the performance and battery life of wireless devices such as cellular phones. The microscopic machines, technically known as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS, do the work of current components such as radio frequency receivers.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-932604.html

Oracle develops 9i software for Linux
Oracle on Wednesday boosted its support for the Linux operating system with a new version of its database software. The software maker said that it has developed a version of its 9i database software that can run across multiple Linux servers in a configuration called clustering. Clustering allows businesses to harness multiple servers to run a very large database, so servers can share work or take over from each other if one fails. As expected, Oracle also said Release 2 of Oracle 9i, a revamping of its flagship database software, is now available.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-932575.html

Steve Jobs: MPEG-4 is the next big thing
Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? Apple Computer's Steve Jobs thinks so. On Tuesday the company released a public preview of QuickTime 6, Apple's proprietary media player. What was unusual about it was the absence of a final licensing agreement with a patent group that holds the rights to MPEG-4, a next-generation compression format for video and audio and the technology that QuickTime is built around. Jobs says that Apple is close to making a pact with MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders that have claims on MPEG-4 technology. Yet prior delays and debates with the group could still derail those plans.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-932474.html

Off-key efforts hinder paid Net music
As the Internet upends the recording industry's traditional distribution system, some computer makers and retailers have been stepping into the music delivery business. Last month, for instance, Gateway signed up with EMusic, which sells music from independent labels online, to bundle music with its direct-order PCs. The announcement was just the latest in a string of deals aimed at bringing music to the masses legally while spurring new sales of computers and extras such as CD burners, MP3 players and broadband Internet service. But as hardware manufacturers, retailers and online music services sign deals at a breakneck pace, the question remains: What will it take to get consumers to bite?
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-932412.html?tag=fd_top

How to beat the record labels on the Web
As a venture capitalist who has done time in the music industry, I'm surprised by the number of entrepreneurs who want to talk about digital music. A week doesn't go by that some smart entrepreneur doesn't call me up to discuss an idea. These conversations got me thinking about the opportunities for start-ups in the emerging digital music arena, and about why all past efforts at revolutionizing the music industry have failed. Even in the dot-com era, investors made very little money on digital music start-ups (except for the rare frenzy-driven acquisition or quick-flip initial public offering). But besides losing money, most of these start-ups were bound by another common thread: the vast majority focused on distribution technology and services.
http://news.com.com/2010-1075-932414.html?tag=fd_nc_1

A new teenage wasteland?
Behold the glory of the "Web site defacement," a truly modern act of juvenile delinquency. Ludicrous (replacing a Baptist Church Web page with an invocation to Satan, for example) and yet troubling in their signal of arcane technological mastery, Web site defacements are apparently all the rage among angry young computer users. In the wake of real terrorist acts -- anthrax sent through the mail, jetliners piloted into buildings, suicide bombers -- messing with a Web site's HTML shouldn't rank very high on the list of threats to the public safety. And yet, for the teenagers profiled in "The Hacker Diaries," Web site defacements are symbolic acts of power, statements of real political purpose and rage. There is something going on here, and it deserves attention.
http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002...s/index.html?x

Chia Pet seeks Web name ch-ch-change
A fight to be top dog among pretend pets has hit the courts in California. The maker of Chia Pets -- those terracotta planters that grow into bushes resembling bunnies, pigs and even Mr. T -- has sued NeoPets, the wildly popular virtual pet site, alleging cybersquatting. Joseph Enterprises Inc. (JEI), which markets the planters through TV commercials with the "Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pet" jingle, argues NeoPets has illegally registered domain names including chia.info and chia.biz. The Web addresses resolve to the NeoPets site. JEI claims the virtual pet site is trying to trade unfairly off the Chia name. The Chia Pet maker is seeking a domain transfer and damages.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-932914.html?tag=cd_mh

World Cup shows its cheekier side online
For Americans who were asleep during the U.S. team's stunning upset against top-seeded Portugal in this year's FIFA World Cup, there's a way to relive the rest of the world's shock minute by minute: Sites barred from offering live television and unwilling to pay astronomical Net radio costs are turning to real-time text commentaries, creating a quirky new form of on-the-fly sports writing. Many sites covering the World Cup in Korea and Japan are using online text commentary to add color to otherwise static coverage. Sites such as U.K.-based Sports.com and ESPNSoccernet.com, among others, allow fans to launch a separate window that constantly refreshes with up-to-the-minute commentary of the match.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-932890.html?tag=cd_mh

Sports site fouls out as funds dry up
Sports.com is close to getting the red card after the Internet sports site was placed in administration by the U.K. courts last week. The company is hoping to sell the U.K. site as a going concern, but the feeling within the dot-com industry is that this is unlikely and that Sports.com will close this summer with the loss of up to 150 jobs. Sports.com went into administration Friday morning, shortly before the start of the World Cup--which had been expected to generate a boost in the number of people visiting the site. It is expected to stay in operation until the World Cup finishes at the end of June.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-932880.html?tag=cd_mh

Gracenote finds its place on RealOne
RealNetworks said Tuesday that it would incorporate song-recognition technology from Gracenote into its media player, renewing a deal between the two companies. The deal extends RealNetworks' license so it can include Gracenote's software in its RealOne Player for devices ranging from car stereos to digital jukeboxes. Gracenote's software, dubbed CDDB, recognizes songs listed on CDs and allows applications to display their titles as well as album art and reviews, music news, biographies, and tour information.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-932275.html?tag=cd_mh

Dead Men Tell No Passwords
The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway's most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. So the director of the Norwegian cultural center is pleading for hackers to help him crack the center's password-protected database. The problem started when the technician responsible for the archives at Norway's National Center of Language and Culture never divulged the password before he died a few years ago.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,52997,00.html

Homeless Fight Club Miffs Critics
One bloodied homeless man, his pants sliding off his back end, pummels a foe into the corner of a public toilet. Another rips his front tooth out with pliers. A third shows off the tattoos coating his penis. That's entertainment? For thousands of people who have forked out at least $22 each for a copy of Bumfights: A Cause For Concern, apparently so. The reality flick, a one-hour parade of gratuitous violence and gore depicting the worst imaginable behavior of homeless people in Las Vegas and Southern California, has reportedly sold 250,000 copies since its mid-April debut and turned its 24-year-old producers into sudden millionaires.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52971,00.html

How to Thank Kenya for 9/11 Cows
Sometimes a cow can say more than an e-mail. Fourteen cows were given to the people of the United States this week by members of a Masai tribe who live in a remote village near Kenya's border with Tanzania. The tribe sent the cows -- the most precious gift they can give -- to help America recover from the terrorist attacks nearly nine months ago. It was one of the most unusual and belated gestures of sympathy related to the attacks.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52984,00.html

Glass Is the Gas for Architects
Hate the glass ceiling? Get over it. New kinds of glass -- for ceilings, floors, walls -- are helping define the latest architectural look at home and at work, according to a survey of some 500 exhibitors at the recent American Institute of Architects' national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. In this sleek new world, lightweight woven metals, user-friendly electronics, low-profile photovoltaic hardware, structural-weight fabrics, tough but lightweight polycarbonate panels, and all that glass will enable architects to create a rich but uncluttered look.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,52851,00.html

Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare?
Authors of a new report on the perils of open source software are being very closed-mouth about their funding sources. "Opening the Open Source Debate," a white paper slated to be released Friday by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, indicates that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software. The report warns governments against relying on open-source software for national security. Open-source advocates wondered if the white paper is actually a veiled Microsoft response to recent reports of rising government and military interest in open-source systems.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html

Fuel Cell Car Coasts Across U.S.
Call it the little fuel cell engine that could. DaimlerChrysler's Necar 5 completed the first transcontinental journey of a fuel cell powered vehicle on Tuesday. Even its owners weren't sure the feat was possible, considering the technology's nascent state of development. Although renewable-energy backers hailed the accomplishment, most agree that it's too early to tell when or if hydrogen will replace petroleum as the predominant source of transportation energy.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,52877,00.html

Has time run out on Einstein's theory?
Experiments with high-precision clocks in space could help shed light on whether Einstein's theory of relativity is ... well, relative. "I don't think it's really possible to throw Einstein's theory out entirely, because it certainly holds to a fantastic degree of precision," says Dr. Alan Kostelecky, professor of physics at Indiana University in Bloomington. "The question is whether at very small scales you would need to adjust the theory to account for adjustments in space-time." Atomic clocks that are scheduled to be placed on the international space station within the next few years could help researchers find out -- if station crews perform the tests Kostelecky and his colleagues are proposing.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/0...ong/index.html

Europe heads for space
The European Space Agency (Esa) is to probe the depths of space, travel to the inner edge of the Solar System and hitch a ride on a comet during the next decade, according to plans recently given approval. Esa's science director, Dr David Southwood, said the exploration package had been quite a struggle to put together. "I feel immensely proud of what we have been able to achieve, but don't ask me to do it again," he told BBC News Online. One casualty, however, has been the proposed mission to Venus. This had to be dropped because it could not be done in time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/2018619.stm

Lost in Space
Critics of human spaceflight have a saying: "If God had wanted people to go into space, He would’ve given them more money." This reworked adage has never seemed more appropriate than during the recent battles in Washington, D.C., over the future of the space shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). Both programs are facing severe cutbacks as NASA’s new administrator, Sean O’Keefe, tries to bring order to the space agency’s troubled $15-billion budget. It is likely that NASA will have to reduce the number of shuttle flights and scale back the assembly of the space station, at least temporarily. After a decade of poor planning, the space agency is hoping to salvage what it can.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ex...02/052702nasa/

Ahlalalala the next paper's tomorrow gang !

[SiXXGuNNZ]

wow, how long have you been doing this?

[TankGirl]

Thank you very much, esteemed Mr. Walktalker! An excellent news package once again.

- tg

[walktalker]

Originally posted by SiXXGuNNZ
wow, how long have you been doing this?

As far as I remember, I've been writing papers since the Napster's Speak Out Forum. The official birthday of my little shop is october 15th, 1999

I lost a lot of good thread when the forum was shut down
And I don't know what happened to those eh

Anyway, when the Speak Out Forum was shut down, I simply jump to the Underground Forum, and here am I.

[JackSpratts]

i can't find film88.com right now. here's their domains but nobody's home...

NSIR1.FILM88.COM................213.29.62.33
NSIR2.FILM88.COM................213.29.62.36

- js.

[JackSpratts]

kewl. found 'em on redirect:

http://cache.<a href="http://www.fil...ilm88.com/</a>

edit-just watched harry potter!

- js.

[tbozfan]

Do you wanna make that link work js? Im trying to figure out what you were thinking when you typed that so I can go too!