Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:43:50 PM CET
Sony drängt blaue Laser zur Serienreife
Sony und Nichia, ein japanisches Unternehmen, das blaue Laser entwickelt, wollen bereits im ersten Quartal 2003 Blue-Laser-Dioden auf den Markt bringen. Im Wettstreit der Formate Blu-ray und AOD könnte das ein Vorteil sein.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:41:50 PM CET
Sicherheitslecks im Audio-Player Winamp
Im populären Medien-Player Winamp sind Sicherheitslecks aufgetaucht, die das Handling von ID3v2-Tags bei MP3-Dateien betreffen. Sowohl in Version 2.81 als auch die Ausgabe 3.0 des Players können Buffer Overflows bei bestimmten Tags auftreten, die Angreifer zum Ausführen von Code mit den Rechten des Anwenders, der am lokalen Rechner angemeldet ist, nutzen können.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:35:35 PM CET
Kidnapped in Canada: One lawn Santa
Canadian thieves calling themselves Grinch Enterprises kidnapped a Santa Claus figure off an Ontario family's front lawn and are holding the jolly icon for ransom, the owner said Wednesday.
The group -- who have struck at the same family home before and demanded a similar ransom -- want the owners to collect canned goods for a food bank in return for getting their plywood Santa back before Christmas Day, Evelyn Hussey said.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:32:45 PM CET
German drinkers face beer shortage
German drinkers could be about to face their worst nightmare -- a beer shortage. The potential trickle in the supply of the nation's favourite tipple is due to new government regulations restricting deposits of disposable cans and bottles which takes effect in January.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:31:06 PM CET
More armed police in London
London to try to stop the growing problem of gun crime. Illegal use of firearms rose by 20% this year compared to 2001. The Metropolitan Police will increase its number of armed vehicles from 12 to 15, and there will be 50 more armed officers.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:26:09 PM CET
NORAD tracks Santa
Deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, engineers with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, daily track missile launches all over the world. Special attention goes to the skies over North America.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:19:28 PM CET
eBay Sues Operator of eBaytoo.com
The online auction house eBay has sued a man for allegedly operating a similar business on the Internet. John Wederman, of Schenectady, who operates eBaytoo.com, allegedly violated eBay's copyright in an attempt to "trade on the eBay name and to take advantage of initial consumer unfamiliarity and confusion," according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:12:21 PM CET
Music file flaws could threaten traders
A security firm on Wednesday warned that people using Windows XP or popular music player WinAmp could fall prey to a vulnerability, enabling a modified music file to take control of a person's PC. Flaws in both pieces of software could introduce malicious MP3 or Windows Media files--which sound identical to unmodified music--into the file-swapping systems, said George Kurtz, CEO of Foundstone.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:06:44 PM CET
Sony settles with Nintendo
"Console Talk has the story on a settlement between Sony and Nintendo over the rights to the "PlayStation" name, which was originally a joint owned copywrite, given to a CD and Cartridge based system to play SNES games. The settlement is for 10% of Sony's proceeds, past and present on the "PlayStation" name, currently amounting to approximately $2.3 billion. Nintendo is allowing Sony to pay it off in installments over the next 20 years.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:00:57 PM CET
Former lesbian partner must pay child support
The former lesbian partner of a woman who bore five children during their relationship must pay child support, a state Superior Court panel has ruled. The couple, identified only by initials in the three-judge panel's opinion, lived together in Carlisle from the mid-1980s until 1997 and agreed to have children together through artificial insemination.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 7:57:17 PM CET
Lollies kill man
A TURKISH man died after eating two kilograms of sweets following a bet with a friend, Anatolia news agency reported. Necati Ceylan, a 45-year-old father of five, died in hospital in the southern city of Gaziantep after spending three weeks in coma, the agency said.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 7:54:11 PM CET
The 4.1 GHz PC From Tom's Hardware
At the start of this ambitious project, our engineers asked themselves the question: how fast is fast? Or, how fast does a PC fitted with the most powerful hardware have to be in order to show a clean pair of heels to the world's best PC systems? Isn't the nondescript box of tricks on display in your local superstore fast enough already? Well, for most people the answer would be 'yes.'
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