Topic: COMPUTER - on September 14, 2004 at 7:23:00 PM CEST
Taiwan teen nabbed for running sex service website
A 13-year-old boy was arrested in Taiwan for allegedly running an online sexual services site and recruiting minors to join it, reports said last Saturday.
Police said more than 100 boys and girls had signed up for the website, called "elementary and junior high school students enjokosai ring," over four months, according to reports in several newspapers.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 14, 2004 at 3:39:00 PM CEST
Germans broadcast news in Klingon
Those readers thinking of making their way to this year's Munich Oktoberfest to enjoy a bit a light stein-sucking are warned that the 2004 beer beano may a livelier affair than usual.
Indeed, expect much guzzling of blood wine and spontaneous combat with the aD'k Tagh after German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle decided to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its website by offering content in Klingon and inviting the bellicose galactic warriors to enjoy the simple pleasures of a German short-break holiday.
theregister german shitKlingon Language Version DW qo': wa'maH ben chen 'ach wej Doy'
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 14, 2004 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
FirefoxIE - All the speed of Firefox All the comfort of IE
Create FirefoxIE
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 14, 2004 at 3:02:00 PM CEST
Proud Father - WWW::BugMeNot
Making its way around CPAN, my first upload: WWW::BugMeNot. It’s a Perl interface to BugMeNot.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 14, 2004 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Mozillas Webbrowser Firefox ist (so gut wie) fertig
Die Mozilla Foundation hat eine Preview-Release des Standalone-Webbrowsers Firefox 1.0 freigegeben. Firefox entstand unter dem Namen Firebird aus dem Mozilla-Projekt, nachdem die Kritik am aufgeblähten und nur noch schwer wartbaren Code der Websuite von Mozilla immer lauter wurde. Nach heftigem Namensstreit mit dem Projekt für die Open-Source-Datenbank Firebird wurde der Browser dann schließlich in Firefox umbenannt.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 14, 2004 at 8:59:00 AM CEST
Groups Warns About the Growing Threat of "Cyber Bullying"
The group Wired Safety says that parents need to watch that their children aren't victims of "cyber bullying." Examples of this practice are harassing people through IMs, posting nude pics of classmates and sending death threats to people.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:33:00 AM CEST
The Chinese Firewall
proxy help
I was wondering why so many of my favorite feeds weren't coming into my news reader and I realized (duh!) that I'm in China and Blogger and TypePad are blocked. It's one thing blogging about it from Japan, it's another thing actually being blocked and realizing how much of my world just sort of disappears.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:30:00 AM CEST
Gizza job, virus writers ask AV industry
The unknown authors of the latest variant of the MyDoom email worm have embedded a hidden message inside their code, asking for a job in the anti-virus industry.
Like previous variants, the MyDoom-U and MyDoom-V worms spread via email with a malicious file attachment. Opening the attachment results in the activation of the worm and an attempt to download a backdoor Trojan horse called Surila onto infected machines.
Hidden inside these worms' code is a message that states "We searching 4 work in AV industry". No contact details and any other information is appended to the curious message. Neither of the new variants is spreading in large numbers since their appearance on the Net yesterday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:27:00 AM CEST
Going price for network of zombie PCs: $2,000-$3,000
In the calculus of Internet crime, two of the most sought-after commodities are zombie PCs and valid e-mail addresses.
One indication of the going rate for zombie PCs comes from a June 11 posting on SpecialHam.com, an electronic forum for spammers. The asking price for use of a network of 20,000 zombie PCs: $2,000 to $3,000. Such networks typically are used to broadcast spam and phishing scams and to spread e-mail viruses designed mainly to create yet more zombies.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:09:00 AM CEST
Apple lovers start attack against Cornell's Napster trial
A small revolt has broken out at Cornell University over the school's use of the Napster music subscription service.
The Cornell Daily Sun has been bombarded with letters from current and past students with many of the missives complaining about the anti-Apple stance of Napster. Cornell is currently running a trial of the Napster service, which leaves close to 20 percent of its students without access to the free music downloads. Napster only supports the Windows 2000 and XP operating systems.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:06:00 AM CEST
Hitachi SANRISE 32 Petabyte Array
Using Hitachi's "world's first" virtual disk array system, this device can manage up to 32PB (Petabytes) of external storage. Those of you not in the know about storage will now learn that a petabyte is approximately 10^15 (one quadrillion) bytes, and is quite step up from the terabytes following gigabytes. Got all that? To put it in consumer-ese, 32PB can hold nearly 7 billion MP3s (assuming 5MB per). This would be about 49 million movies, if they are encoded to 700 megabytes. In comparison, imdb.com currently lists a mere 411,447 titles.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 11, 2004 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
40-jähriger Raubkopierer mit tausenden von Raubkopien gefasst
Wie berichtet wird, wurden in Rüsselsheim in der Wohnung eines 40-jährigen Raubkopierers insgesamt über 550 Raubkopien in Form von DVDs und CDs und 7.700 Videokassetten, wovon 50 Prozent mit Raubkopien bespielt waren, beschlagnahmt.
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