Topic: e-bay - on March 14, 2003 at 5:53:31 PM CET
Chile is selling UN Security Vote
Soon, the United Nations Security Council, of which we are a member, will be asked to vote on whether or not to authorize the world, well, mostly the US, to wage war against the Republic of Iraq.
It has come to our attention that some nations (such as Turkey) have obtained healthy financial packages for their physical support, and others (such as Mexico) have garnered financial consideration in exchange for a "yes" vote authorizing war.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 5:46:08 PM CET
Does File Trading Fund Terrorism?
A congressional hearing on the links between terrorism, organized crime, and the illegal trading of copyrighted material produced more complaints about college students using peer-to-peer networks and other governments sanctioning copyright violations than it did evidence of nefarious connections.
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Topic: 911 - on March 14, 2003 at 2:52:52 PM CET
Is NY bank hacking linked to 9/11?
I think Andrey is not alive already. The stakes were too high in the game in which the computer genius mixed up because of his avarice. The team with whom he worked is probably also liquidated. And this is the reason why I decided to publish this mysterious and strange article. And I would like to emphasize that I don’t assert anything, I just tell facts and enumerate strange coincidences that developed into the awful chronology. God save the soul of Andrey and the souls of victims perished in the WTC disaster...
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 14, 2003 at 2:28:38 PM CET
Password-stealing e-mails spread
Scam widens; latest seeks Discover Card accounts
Beware any e-mail, however professional in tone, that asks for personal account information. Internet users continue to be flooded with legitimate-looking e-mails that ask recipients to enter account numbers, passwords, and other data. A new con aimed at Discover Card holders is just the latest in a long line of scam e-mails sent by con artists trying to hijack accounts at AOL, PayPal, eBay and other online firms.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 14, 2003 at 2:02:09 PM CET
The World Health Organisation issues global alert after outbreak of pneumonia in Hong Kong
Singapore and Taiwan have warned citizens against travelling to Hong Kong amid fears over the spread of a deadly flu.
Singapore has also urged its population not to travel to Hanoi in Vietnam or China's Guangdong province "unless absolutely necessary".
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 14, 2003 at 1:33:09 PM CET
Happy Birthday Albert
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 14, 2003 at 1:27:36 PM CET
Media stink over Lithuania toilet-paper "Rasputin"
Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas has flown into a media storm over his faith in a mystic who wraps people in toilet paper to cure their ills.
Paksas' claims of being a "believer" in mystic Lena Lolisvili has sparked uproar in the Catholic former Soviet country, which is sensitive about its image in the outside world after being invited to join the European Union and NATO in 2004.
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Topic: MDA - on March 14, 2003 at 1:11:12 PM CET
CF-Karte mit 4 Gigabyte
Sandisk, Spezialist für Speichermedien, stellt auf der CeBIT neue CF-Karten mit 2 und 4 Gigabyte vor. Dabei sind beide Neuankömmlinge der CF-Familie im dünnen CF-I-Format ausgeführt. Die schon jetzt erhältliche 1-GByte-Karte wird es zudem in der Ultra-Version mit einer schnelleren Schnittstelle geben. Die 2- und 4-GB-Variante soll ab Herbst zu einem Preis von 500 beziehungsweise 1000 US-Dollar verfügbar sein.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 10:55:09 AM CET
Open News bei ORF.at
Die Schlagzeilen einiger ausgewählter Sites des ORF.at Networks werden in einem standardisierten, auf der Beschreibungssprache XML basierenden Austauschformat – Rich Site Summary (RSS) – angeboten.
Ständig aktualisiert bietet dieses Service Schlagzeilen und Links zu den neuesten ORF.at Meldungen und Berichten aus Politik, Österreich-Chronik, Kultur, Sport, IT, Wissenschaft, Musik und Lifestyle.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 9:31:30 AM CET
Indian hackers target Pakistan
A new e-mail virus has been released on the internet in the latest cyber war of words between rival hackers in India and Pakistan.
A variant of the Yaha internet e-mail worm has been written by a group of hackers calling themselves the Indian Snakes.
It has been attacking websites in Pakistan, including government sites, internet service providers and the Karachi Stock Exchange, said anti-virus firm Sophos.
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