Topic: SECURITY - on March 14, 2003 at 10:56:52 PM CET
How to avoid the online snoopers
Where is the line to be drawn when it comes to protecting privacy and respected the law in the digital world, asks technology consultant Bill Thompson.
Last June the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, admitted that his department had made a mistake when they put forward plans to allow a wide range of public bodies to tap into details of who was sending e-mails to whom and which websites people were visiting.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 14, 2003 at 9:54:35 PM CET
2 ½ Tons Of Marijuana Seized From Home
Six people were in custody Friday after an anonymous tip led authorities to an El Monte home where 2 ½ tons of marijuana was shrink-wrapped in small bundles ready for distribution to local dealers, police said.
"It's a pretty good size bust," said El Monte police Lt. George Hopkins.
Investigators in an unmarked cruiser went to watch the house at 3010 Cogswell Road about 5:45 p.m. Thursday after a caller tipped them off that drugs were there, Hopkins said.
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Topic: W A R - on March 14, 2003 at 9:43:51 PM CET
Risking Everything for Independent Journalism
Sporting a cameraman's vest and lugging a satellite phone, Christopher Allbritton may be no match for heavy artillery. But he's apparently got enough guts to be the Web's first independent war correspondent.
Allbritton, a former New York Daily News reporter living in the East Village, plans to file stories directly to his weblog, Back to Iraq 2.0, next month as part of an independent news-gathering expedition to Iraq.
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Topic: Terror - on March 14, 2003 at 9:24:02 PM CET
Cyber terrorism 'overhyped'
The threat posed by cyber-terrorism has been overhyped and the net is unlikely to become a launch pad for terror attacks. That was the conclusion of a panel of security and technology experts brought together at the CeBIT technology fair to consider the threat posed by net attacks on businesses and consumers.
Panel members said companies faced far more serious threats from ordinary criminals, fraudsters and pranksters than they did from technology-literate terrorists.
Combating these real threats would take work by almost everyone involved in the running and use of the net.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 7:57:29 PM CET
10 years ago NCSA Mosaic for X 0.10 was released
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Sun, 14 Mar 93 03:00:45 -0800
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Beta version 0.10 of NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System, a networked information systems and World Wide Web browser, is hereby released: file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic/xmosaic-0.10.tar.Z
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 7:46:20 PM CET
Zweiter Patentverletzungs-Programmierwettbewerb
Am kommenden Wochenende startet der Zweite Deutsche Patentverletzungs-Programmierwettbewerb. Bis zum 3. Mai 2003 dürfen wieder "möglichst absurde europäische Software-Patente dokumentiert und eingereicht werden", teilt die Essener Linux User Group mit. Alle Programmierer sind zum Mitmachen eingeladen. Als Preis ist unter anderem eine Miniatur-Toilettenschüssel mitsamt Brille ausgelobt.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 14, 2003 at 7:27:53 PM CET
Squash Appears Filled With Letters, Symbols
Cutting into a 15-pound banana squash Thursday, Kasim Barakzia thought perhaps he had lost his gourd. The owner of Salt Lake City's Baba Afghan Restaurant, 55 E. 400 South, noticed strange white etchings on the normally smooth seeds, which resemble those from a pumpkin, inside the thick-skinned winter squash.
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Topic: ART - on March 14, 2003 at 7:13:36 PM CET
Künstler will in Berlin "Hundebordell" eröffnen
Ein deutscher Aktionskünstler will in Berlin eine "Hundebordell" eröffnen. "Wenn die Menschen ins Bordell gehen können, warum nicht die Hunde?" sagte der Euskirchener Karl-Friedrich Lentze heute auf Anfrage.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 14, 2003 at 7:09:14 PM CET
Litauens Präsident wegen Klopapierheilerin kritisiert
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Litauens Präsident Rolandas Paksas ist wegen seiner Kontakte zu einer angeblichen Wunderheilerin in die Kritik der Medien geraten. Lena Lolisvili behauptet, Kranke heilen zu können, indem sie sie mit Toilettenpapier umwickelt.
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Topic: W A R - on March 14, 2003 at 6:58:10 PM CET
Kevin Sites Syndicated Journalism
First-person account of a news correspondent's life on the front lines.
Kevin Sites is a CNN correspondent, often working as a one man unit, using portable, digital technology to report, write, edit and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. He has reported from war zones in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Sunday, March 09, 2003 This post marks the beginning of my blog. Kevin 11:46 PM
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 6:36:28 PM CET
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Microsoft explores self-managing software
Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company plans to unveil the initiative, called Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), at a Las Vegas conference next week when it debuts its new systems management tools.
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Topic: e-bay - on March 14, 2003 at 6:13:23 PM CET
Instant Girlfriend Kit!
Is this you? Nerdy? Creepy? Alone?
Don't have a girlfriend? Do your other imaginary friends mock you incessantly for your total lack of female companionship, love, acceptance, or even casual human contact?
What if there were a simple kit that would silence the piercing voices and echoed braying laughter of your detractors once and for all?
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