Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 7:11:25 PM CEST
Analysis: The Golden age of hacking rolls on
OVER THE LAST eight months major new hacker tools have been released or revealed, ending a lull in activity among hackers that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the enactment of legislation that enhanced law enforcement's ability to prosecute people who break code and wreak havoc on networks by exploiting software vulnerabilities, hacking consultant Ed Skoudis said Thursday.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 7:05:59 PM CEST
Report: U.S. Unprepared for Attacks
"In all likelihood, the next attack will result in even greater casualties and widespread disruption to American lives and the economy" than the Sept. 11 attacks, said the task force chaired by former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H. The report was released late Thursday.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 7:02:46 PM CEST
Closing the net: How they cracked the case
After a 22-day waking nightmare that saw deadly sniper attacks turn the gas stations and shopping malls of the Washington suburbs into a killing field, D.C.-area residents can once again sleep soundly.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:52:44 PM CEST
Popcorn - How much is inside a bag
On Friday night, I got together with Steve and Elise to watch a movie. We visited the store to buy some essential movie-watching supplies. Besides the beer, cigarettes, olives and chopsticks, we bought a 2 pound bag of popcorn.
¬> <a href="www.cockeyed.com"target="_blank">How much is inside
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:42:18 PM CEST
PC-tossing Mac freaks
more fun @ Holland Mac conference. Oud Hollandsch PC-werpen, een goede gewoonte onder Apple-adepten.
¬> <a href="www.schlijper.nl"target="_blank">Mac freaks
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:37:18 PM CEST
'Baby formula' cocaine ring leaders get 10 years in prison
Orville Wilson, 31, and Selena Johnson, 30, were among 48 defendants convicted in the case. Female couriers carrying rented babies and formula cans regularly breezed through customs en route from Panama and Jamaica until a customs inspector in Atlanta opened one of the cans. Inspectors discovered rock heroin in the can and liquid cocaine in others taken from the same courier, who was returning to Chicago from a trip to Panama. Other couriers made trips to England, prosecutors said.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:34:31 PM CEST
Über dorks at Holland Mac conference create 'Mac prOn"
X-rated Mac Erotic
¬> 'Mac prOn
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:30:58 PM CEST
Sex Pistols' Shock Album Grows Old Disgracefully
On October 28, 1977, the Sex Pistols unleashed their debut album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," on an unsuspecting world.
It shot straight to the top of the album charts and stayed there for an astonishing 47 weeks.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com "target="_blank">White punk on dope
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:26:22 PM CEST
CIA puts two sites in Kurdish areas
The CIA this week beefed up its presence in northern Iraq, establishing two formal field offices in the Kurdish-controlled territory protected by U.S. and British fighter jets, according to Iraqi opposition officials. As of Monday, one CIA station was established in territory controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the other was set up in territory controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:24:33 PM CEST
IBM's "Blue Gene" to run on Linux
IBM's $100 million Blue Gene program is directed at creating, by late 2005 or early 2006, a new family of supercomputers that will be able to perform a quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop).
Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the system for performing nuclear weapons simulations.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:22:38 PM CEST
Rumsfeld creates new spy organization.
The Pentagon's civilian leadership has ordered a small team of defense officials outside regular intelligence channels to focus on unearthing details about Iraqi ties with al Qaeda and other terrorist networks, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:14:47 PM CEST
Google goes Picasso
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