Topic: COMPUTER - on September 25, 2004 at 4:11:00 PM CEST
Move over spam, make way for "spit"
A new plague of unwanted messages threatens internet users, according to a US company. Spam and spim - spam by instant messenger – are about to be joined by "spit" - spam over internet telephony. Qovia, based in Frederick, Maryland, have recently filed two patent applications for technology to thwart spit.
Internet telephony involves making phone calls using the internet instead of traditional phone lines. Also known as voice-over IP (VoIP), it is rapidly rising in popularity thanks to the fact that internet connections are becoming faster, and because it is cheap - it avoids the taxes levied on landline calls.
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Topic: Universe - on September 25, 2004 at 4:09:00 PM CEST
New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online
The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday.
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Topic: W A R - on September 25, 2004 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
Lens to pierce fog of war
A Melbourne company rated a world leader in advanced phase imaging technology has been given $2.7 million by the Defence Department to fund development of a military spy camera capable of seeing through fog, smoke and dust storms.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 25, 2004 at 3:57:00 PM CEST
Science Visualization Challenge
On 24 September 2004, Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation once again honor the creators of some stunning scientific images, drawings, and multimedia environments, in the second annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. This year's winners -- in categories including photography, illustration, instructional graphics, and interactive and noninteractive multimedia.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 25, 2004 at 3:43:00 PM CEST
Hackers use Google to access photocopiers
Making copies of something important? Photocopiers are the latest networked devices to fall prey to hackers armed with nothing more than Google's search engine
Hackers are using search engines to watch what people photocopy.
Using Google hacks -- requests typed into the search engine that bring up cached information on networks -- hackers are discovering and using login details for networked photocopiers so they can watch what is being copied.
"You don't have to be a genius to do this," said Jason Hart, security director at Whitehat UK. "You can see what people are photocopying on your monitor. You just have to search for online devices on Google."
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 25, 2004 at 1:29:00 PM CEST
Long-necked sea monster resurfaces after 230 million years
Scientists on Thursday announced the fossil discovery of a very odd creature that swam the oceans 230 million years ago.
It looked sort of like a dinosaur, but actually was another type of reptile.
It lived in the sea, but might have waddled up on land on four flippers to lay eggs.
Strangest of all was its neck -- very long and thin, connecting a small head and a massive body. In murky water, fish might mistake the skinny neck for a harmless fish.
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Topic: TV - on September 25, 2004 at 1:28:00 PM CEST
BBC sends up the Pope
The Pope will not be pogoing. Britain's BBC television has scrapped plans to broadcast an animated series that depicts the Pope on a pogo stick in a fictional Vatican after complaints from outraged Catholics.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 25, 2004 at 1:23:00 PM CEST
Monster Mushroom Sprawls in Switzerland
Europe's biggest mushroom growth, spanning an area 800 by 500 meters, has been discovered in a Swiss national park, scientists said Friday.
The 1,000-year-old fungus, covering an area equivalent to around 100 football pitches, was found near the Ofenpass in the mountainous southeastern canton (state) of Grisons and judged to be a single growth after a detailed survey.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 25, 2004 at 1:20:00 PM CEST
JPEG exploit toolkit spotted online
A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net. The toolkit (screen shot from AV firm F-Secure here) makes it trivially easy for maliciously-minded attackers, however unskilled they might be, to exploit unpatched Windows systems and run malicious code.
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Topic: STRANGE - on September 25, 2004 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
Cleaning Pennies with taco sauce
When I was in high school back in the 80s, I worked at Taco Bell. Work was not really tough at Taco Bell, so I had lots of time to goof off. One of the things I discovered was that the hot sauce would clean pennies. I've showed the trick to people many times over the years, but never really understood why it works so well.
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Topic: Phone - on September 25, 2004 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
Chest challenged chicks ring in bigger breasts
Hideto Tomabechi -- who first made headlines in Japan almost a decade ago after he cured brainwashed members of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult that unleashed deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system -- claims to have developed a tune for ring tones that promises to increase the breast measurements of those who listen to it.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 25, 2004 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
The 400 Richest Americans
The U.S. economy's recovery may be a little shaky, but you wouldn't know it from looking at this year's Forbes 400. The combined net worth of the nation's wealthiest climbed to $1 trillion, up $45 billion in 12 months.
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