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2005-10-28T12:26:00.000-07:00

Exterminating White People Selwyn Duke It has long been an assertion of mine that there’s only one difference between Adolph Hitler and some of the misbegotten souls who lurk among us: means. I don't know that I subscribe to the notion that power corrupts, but I do know that it releases inhibitions, causing one’s true colors to shine through. Inhibitions, however, don’t seem to bedevil one Dr.

2004-06-03T18:19:00.000-07:00

Mutant son of MyDoom plans three-pronged attack By John Leyden Published Thursday 3rd June 2004 14:27 GMT Virus writers have used code from the infamous Mydoom worm to create a potentially dangerous new Internet worm which uses multiple methods to spread. Plexus-A spreads using three different methods: infected email attachments, file-sharing networks and Windows vulnerabilities (the LSASS

2004-06-03T18:18:00.000-07:00

New Worm Exploits Multiple Windows Flaws By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of TechWeb News A new worm that may be double the trouble was spotted in the wild Thursday by several anti-virus firms. Dubbed Plexus, by Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs, and Explet.a, by Symantec, the worm uses multiple methods to infect PCs, including exploiting a pair of

2004-06-03T18:16:00.000-07:00

First 64-bit Windows Virus Hits By TechWeb News Security firms on Thursday reported that they had discovered the first virus that targets PCs running 64-bit versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system. Both Symantec and Network Associates have captured samples of Rugrat.3344, a virus that uses Thread Local Storage structures within the

2004-06-01T08:06:00.000-07:00

Not just free software under threat By Team Register Published Tuesday 1st June 2004 14:13 GMT Letter Dear Editor, In my speech about the danger of software idea patents, I explained how these patents obstruct all software developers, restrict all computer users, retard software progress, and tie up e-commerce in unnecessary bureaucracy. Your article describes a very different speech from

2004-06-01T08:05:00.000-07:00

Comparison of Linux code with MINIX code A message I received from Alexey Toptygin "Around the middle of April, I was contacted by a friend of mine who asked me if I wanted to do some code analysis on a consultancy basis for his boss, Ken Brown. I ended up doing about 10 hours of work, comparing early versions of Linux and Minix, looking for copied code. My results are here. To summarize, my

2004-06-01T06:43:00.000-07:00

Zimbabwe blocks emails By John Oates Published Tuesday 1st June 2004 12:55 GMT Robert Mugabe's government is trying to force Zimbabwean ISPs to block politically sensitive emails. So far ISPs claim to be resisting such moves. The move is important because the Web has become the only uncensored source of information now that opposition newspapers and other media have been closed down. The

2004-06-01T00:34:00.000-07:00

Federal agency faulted for weak security By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Published Monday 31st May 2004 21:04 GMT The federal agency that insures US bank deposits suffers from network security holes that make it vulnerable to cyber thieves and saboteurs, a report by congressional investigators concluded Friday (May 28). Though the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has made

2004-06-01T00:14:00.000-07:00

Though AMD's choice to market an Athlon 64 3800+ is questionable, it's certainly a very good CPU albeit at a "very high end" price. But in many ways, the 3800+ seems almost an orphan. Speaking of the FX-53, it would have been good if AMD had named the new version FX-53a or something similar, to more clearly separate the socket 939 variant from the 940. The company has served no real purpose but

2004-02-06T07:37:00.000-08:00

At the Sagebrush Saloon 02.06.04 Hosted by Henrietta Bowman Lower the flag to half-mast. Bugler, sound taps...do I hear the haunting strains of the Navy Hymn? America, shed a tear...for you have lost a hero this day, one of a dying breed and one we can sore afford to loose. The Associated Press reports, "Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, a Pearl Harbor veteran who became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

2004-02-05T20:11:00.000-08:00

Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don’t tell the world your email and home address By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 05/02/2004 at 22:13 GMT Stay up to date wherever you are, with The Register Mobile If you don’t tell the world your email, home address and telephone number you could face a seven-year jail sentence and a $150,000 fine under new legislation that the US Congress is trying to push

2004-02-03T18:33:00.000-08:00

Got a ticket? Get a record. EU-US data handover deal leaks By John Lettice Posted: 03/02/2004 at 16:19 GMT Stay up to date wherever you are, with The Register Mobile Statewatch has obtained a copy of the draft agreement on the transfer of EU airlines' passenger records to the US Department of Homeland Security. The text gives full details of the deal struck between the European Commission and

2004-02-02T07:27:00.000-08:00

Today's American Soldier: Read it an weap for America By Carl F. Worden An American soldier named Henry Newton CPT wrote to tell me he thought an article I wrote critical of the Iraq War was "repulsive". I never sent the article to him, so obviously somebody else did. He's not on my mailing list. However, just to test the character and mettle of a typical American volunteer soldier,

2004-01-28T22:57:00.000-08:00

IT giants criticised for running third world 'sweatshops' By John Leyden Posted: 28/01/2004 at 19:53 GMT Stay up to date wherever you are, with The Register Mobile IT giants HP, IBM and Dell have been criticised for running third world factories blighted by "dire working conditions". Development agency Cafod says it has obtained proof that IIT workers in Mexico, Thailand and China suffer "

2004-01-28T22:53:00.000-08:00

The Web: Hacktivists behind MyDoom worm By Gene J. Koprowski United Press InternationalPublished 1/28/2004 12:00 PMView printer-friendly version A weekly UPI series examining the global telecommunications phenomenon known as the World Wide Web. -- CHICAGO, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Internet-based hacker-activists -- known as hacktivists -- seem to be behind the mass e-mailing this week of the MyDoom

2004-01-28T22:47:00.000-08:00

Help! I've been Web-jacked! By DEBORAH RADCLIFF JANUARY 28, 2004 On Dec. 22, an Internet investigator got a tip that child pornography was being housed on an adult Web site. When he visited the site to

2004-01-28T22:27:00.000-08:00

Update: New Mydoom worm discovered By LINDA ROSENCRANCE JANUARY 28, 2004 A new variant of the Mydoom.a (Novarg.a) worm, which has been spreading swiftly across the Internet since Monday, emerged today,

2004-01-28T07:47:00.000-08:00

THERE IS NO TERRORIST THREAT Carl F. Worden Ladies & gentlemen: Following the coordinated attacks orchestrated on 9/11/2001, in which passenger aircraft were hijacked by a small group of Muslim extremists to destroy the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and to damage the Pentagon, there have been no significant terrorist attacks that have occurred in the entire

2004-01-28T07:34:00.000-08:00

In His Own Words By Lex Concord If you're an incumbent politician, you have it made. Your every move is reported to the public, ensuring name recognition. Campaign donations are easy to come by, since you are already in a position to reward contributors. No one can question whether you possess the requisite gravitas for the job -- you already hold it. Yet, being an incumbent has it

2004-01-26T19:55:00.000-08:00

Who told Dean to lock down the network, boost TCPA? By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 27/01/2004 at 02:53 GMT Get The Reg wherever you are, with The Mobile Register Last week we noted how "empowering the edges of the network" had become a mindless mantra for techno-utopian pundits eager to profit from Howard Dean's presidential campaign. As we wrote then, this kind of New Age

2004-01-22T20:45:00.000-08:00

January 22, 2004 Internet Voting Inherently Flawed, Researchers Say Security weaknesses make it impossible to ensure a fair and valid vote count, a group of computer scientists said in a report. By George V. Hulme The U.S. government should abandon plans to allow absentee voting over the Internet because security weaknesses in software applications and the Internet itself make it

2004-01-19T07:53:00.000-08:00

Some Dare Call It Treason (GOT ROPE?) By Liz Michael President George W. Bush along with Senator John McCain, want to give some eight to ten million illegal aliens, most of them from Mexico, legal status. Theoretically, the plan would legalize these aliens as "temporary workers," which would allow them to work freely in the United States without fear of deportation. I hear some

2004-01-15T18:59:00.000-08:00

Jobs Americans Won't do By Keith Allison, D.Dn I keep hearing and reading about how politicians and the liberal elite tell us that because low paying American jobs are going begging, we should open our borders to illegal aliens, give them drivers licenses, let them pay college tuition under resident status and pay social security benefits to those who have never paid into the fund.

2004-01-13T18:29:00.000-08:00

I'm coming to regret that, when the choice was made available to me, I went with neither hugs nor drugs. -F

2004-01-13T18:24:00.000-08:00

Democrats Aren’t the Only Hypocrites By Jack Rhodes It wasn’t too long ago that Republicans were all waxing eloquent about the rule of law and the importance of maintaining a society based on the rule of law. Talk radio was awash with hosts and guests pontificating about respect for the rule of law being one of the major differences between Republicans and Democrats. Republican

2004-01-08T18:35:00.000-08:00

Flight Sim enquiry raises terror alert By Andrew Orlowski in Las Vegas Posted: 08/01/2004 at 22:39 GMT Get The Reg wherever you are, with The Mobile Register A mother's enquiry about buying Microsoft Flight Simulator for her ten-year-old son prompted a night-time visit to her home from a state trooper. Julie Olearcek, a USAF Reserve pilot made the enquiry at a Staples store in Massachusetts,

2004-01-02T07:06:00.000-08:00

How Much Worse Can It Get? When will mainstream America wake up? Jay Shaft While most of America goes blindly about their daily routine of numbing their minds with lies and false feelings of complacency, the crisis deepens. While the masses dream of that new car , or the 60’ plasma screen TV with the hip new surround sound system, we sink deeper into the muck of endless war and

2003-12-31T07:27:00.000-08:00

Judicial Subversion Keith Allison, D.Dn. The fall of the Holy Roman Empire was brought about, in part, through corruption, excessive taxation and repressive government. In the twilight of what was once the greatness of Rome, the empire became little more than a system through which a few politically powerful individuals inflated their personal fortunes at the expense of the majority;

2003-12-30T19:18:00.000-08:00

Patriot Act II: WITH A WHISPER, NOT A BANG David Martin - San Antonio Current Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law — stealthily On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. A White House

2003-12-30T19:14:00.000-08:00

TERROR ALERT: Beware of The Farmer’s Almanac News Analysis by J.J. Johnson Would the last person leaving America please turn out the lights? If this isn’t evidence that this war on terrorism has gone a bit too far, I don’t know what is. The title of this article is not a joke - according to the FBI. A Farmer’s Almanac may be the new weapon of Team Jihad. The Associated Press reported

2003-12-30T19:00:00.000-08:00

Beware of strangers carrying books, warns FBI By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 30/12/2003 at 20:05 GMT Get The Reg wherever you are, with The Mobile Register The FBI has issued a terror warning to police to look out for individuals carrying almanacs or maps, reports AP. The warning was sent to 18,000 officers before Christmas. Almanacs, warns the FBI, may be used "to assist with

2003-12-30T13:46:00.000-08:00

2003-12-28T08:34:00.000-08:00

THE IRAQ MODEL FOR RETAKING AMERICA Carl F. Worden Having had a hand in forming the Southern Oregon Militia back in 1993, a curious news reporter from back east contacted me to ask if I really thought it possible that a raggedy group of American citizens could band together, overthrow the existing government and return America to the constitutional rule the Founding Fathers

2003-12-20T10:46:00.000-08:00

Song Swappers Win a Big One Associated Press Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61670,00.html 08:53 AM Dec. 19, 2003 PT WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court ruled Friday the recording industry can't force Internet providers to identify subscribers swapping music online, dramatically setting back the industry's anti-piracy campaign. The three-judge panel from the U.S.

2003-12-19T10:03:00.000-08:00

U.S.judges blast music labels' attack on ISPs and users By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 19/12/2003 at 17:12 GMT Get The Reg wherever you are, with The Mobile Register A U.S. federal appeals court has dealt the RIAA a long awaited kick to the groin in its pursuit of file swappers, saying the music label lobby group can no longer force Internet providers to turn over their customers names.

2003-12-19T09:20:00.000-08:00

News Nuggets © 2003 Ray Thomas See more Copyright Information Below IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION:I get mad whenever I see yet another unconstitutional law made, I can't see straight. Yet they make them every day, and no one does or says anything about it. The Constitution can only rule if there is a mechanism set up to enforce its provisions, and there isn't There is no "commission" to

2003-12-18T07:45:00.000-08:00

Long goodbye begins for Win2k Server By John Lettice Posted: 18/12/2003 at 14:32 GMT Microsoft will begin tightening the squeeze on Windows 2000 Server users from April of next year, at which point the product will cease to be available via retail or volume licensing. This is a fairly standard first step for the phase-out of Microsoft operating systems, and is more of an inconvenience for

2003-12-18T07:44:00.000-08:00

A better class of shadow By Jan Libbenga Posted: 18/12/2003 at 13:47 GMT A newly-developed algorithm can create computer generated shadows of a much better quality than ever. Shadows are extremely important in making the graphics in 3D games and Virtual Reality applications more natural. Soft shadows in real-time applications have largely been an unsolved problem, according to Ulf Assarsson,

2003-12-18T07:43:00.000-08:00

Lehman moves help desk out of India By Datamonitor Posted: 18/12/2003 at 11:55 GMT The partial backlash against offshore IT outsourcing has gained another convert: Lehman Brothers has stopped outsourcing its IT helpdesk to Indian services giant Wipro, due to poor quality of service. The trend towards offshore outsourcing is still in full flow, but companies may start to be more skeptical of

2003-12-17T09:11:00.000-08:00

The “Gun Issue” EXAMINING THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE By Ted Lang © 2003 What is it precisely that gives government power over us? Is it the continuous and ongoing enlightenment that is foremost in our minds that we are a government of, by and for the people? Or is it the threat of fees, fines, penalties, punishment, confiscation of property, and even the potential of violence that can

2003-12-17T09:10:00.000-08:00

Saddam's Capture Means Nothing By Carl F. Worden So there's President G.W. Bush on television, trying to be oh-so low key about the capture of Saddam Hussein. You know, it's all a victory for the Iraqi people, and all that baloney. The problem is that Saddam's capture won't make a bit of difference in the coming months. Saddam was a figurehead of state in Iraq. He appeared to be the

2003-12-10T08:52:00.000-08:00

Americais a Police State! -AND YES, WE ALL KNOW THE MEAINING OF”IS!” Ted Lang But we are the freest nation in the entire world! Yes, but that’s only for the immediate moment! And it is only because of the cultural constraints placed upon a soon to be totally out-of-control bureaucracy poised for just the right moment! And as General Tommy Franks recently suggested, that moment

2003-12-03T02:25:00.000-08:00

If you or a family member receive a Dell PC as a gift this Christmas, you may be in for a surprise, if it becomes infected with spyware. Dell has instituted what has to be the most misguided tech support policy I have ever seen. Not only will Dell refuse to tell you how to remove the spyware, they won't even refer you to web sites that can help. Why does Dell do this? Dell cites the possibility

2003-11-20T12:51:00.000-08:00

UScybercrime push 'imperils personal security' of Americans By John Leyden Posted: 20/11/2003 at 12:27 GMT White House plans to ratify a Council of Europe Cybercrime treaty will be a disaster for the privacy and security of Americans, Privacy International (PI), the human rights watchdog, claims. President Bush this week urged Senators to back the adoption of the mutual assistance Treaty

2003-11-17T23:36:00.000-08:00

Attack code surfaces for latest Windows vulnerability By Paul Roberts NOVEMBER 17, 2003 Computer code that exploits a critical new software vulnerability in the Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems

2003-11-12T14:36:00.000-08:00

2003-11-12T11:34:00.000-08:00

BooneCounty Vote count marred by computer woes Star report November 9, 2003 Lebanon -- Boone County officials are searching for an answer to the computer glitch that spewed out impossible numbers and interrupted an otherwise uneventful election process Tuesday. "I about had a heart attack," County Clerk Lisa Garofolo said of the breakdown that came as an eager crowd watched

2003-11-11T11:47:00.000-08:00

Eudora users warned over 'reply to all' trick By John Leyden Posted: 11/11/2003 at 13:57 GMT A buffer overflow vulnerability in Eudora, the popular email client, creates a mechanism for crackers to compromise targeted PCs. The problem stems from a failure to properly verify the "From:" and "Reply-To:" when users of vulnerable versions of Eudora select "Reply-To-All". This shortcoming creates

2003-11-11T11:36:00.000-08:00

Future Maxtor Hard Drives To Use Native Serial ATA November 11, 2003 Agere Systems said it had developed a Serial ATA system-on-a-chip solution with Maxtor Corp., which the drive maker will include on the company's next-generation MaXLine and DiamondMax hard drives. Recent ExtremeTech tests found that many Serial ATA drives, including

2003-11-10T17:04:00.000-08:00

2003-11-07T15:48:00.000-08:00

AV vendors shun MS bounty hunters By John Leyden Posted: 07/11/2003 at 18:14 GMT Anti-virus vendors are resisting any involvement in Microsoft's scheme to offer rewards for the arrest and conviction of virus writers. This week Microsoft placed two $250,000 bounties on the heads of the virus authors responsible for unleashing the infamous Sobig and Blaster worms this summer. The application

2003-11-07T13:02:00.000-08:00

New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells By Steve Kubby A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells. The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals

2003-11-05T10:39:00.000-08:00

A Bad Omen for Windows By Mary Jo Foley Netcraft has published its November Web server survey data. The November numbers offer a stark contrast to the past few months, when Windows looked like it was gaining on Linux. According to the latest results, a number of companies – led by register.com and Network Solutions – are

2003-11-04T11:57:00.000-08:00

Mimail variants spreading, target antispam sites By Paul Roberts NOVEMBER 03, 2003 New versions of the Mimail e-mail worm are circulating on the Internet, according to alerts issued today from leading

2003-11-02T13:46:00.000-08:00

Worries grow over new voting machines' reliability, security Touchscreen machines not the cure-all some expected (AP) --Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000. With just over a year to go before the next presidential race,

2003-10-31T23:39:00.000-08:00

E-mail virus turns PCs into spam machines By Reuters OCTOBER 31, 2003 A new e-mail virus capable of turning infected PCs into "spamming machines" emerged today, targeting corporate and home users in Europe

2003-10-30T16:06:00.000-08:00

IBM's Palmisano says U.S. must innovate to keep jobs By Reuters OCTOBER 30, 2003 IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano said today that the U.S. needs to step up the pace of innovation to help stem the flow of technology

2003-10-30T12:48:00.000-08:00

2003-10-29T16:59:00.000-08:00

Midsize German firms say ja to Linux By John Blau OCTOBER 29, 2003 Momentum to migrate from Microsoft Corp. products to open-source software is rapidly gaining in Germany, where numerous companies are

2003-10-29T16:57:00.000-08:00

Developer interest piqued by Microsoft technologies By CAROL SLIWA OCTOBER 29, 2003 LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft Corp. certainly whetted the appetite of those attending its Professional Developers Conference

2003-10-29T10:22:00.000-08:00

Microsoft shoots the Windows Messenger By John Leyden Posted: 29/10/2003 at 12:16 GMT Microsoft is to disable Windows Messenger service and activate Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) by default on XP boxes, in a move to better shield Windows PCs against hostile attack. Windows Messenger service, a function used to exchange data between computers unrelated to MSN Messenger, has become more

2003-10-28T15:11:00.000-08:00

NGSCB, aka Palladium, in next generation of CPU, says Gates By John Lettice Posted: 28/10/2003 at 22:22 GMT Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB, aka Palladium) will be built into the next generation of CPUs, Bill Gates claimed yesterday, effectively making security via hardware ID an integral part of the Windows PC platform. And Microsoft is talking to the chip and PC

2003-10-28T14:31:00.000-08:00

Security in Hardware October 27, 2003 While some would have us believe that computer hardware at its core is no more than a race to commoditization—best exemplified by the prevalence of industry-standard, high-volume microprocessors—a visit to the recent Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., offered abundant proof otherwise. The maker of the largest family of industry-standard

2003-10-28T14:28:00.000-08:00

A perfect description of "Windows"? I found this perfect description of "Windows", it's contained in a terrific online book, The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond, which is hosted at, http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/, Mr. Raymond is describing the perfect antiUnix OS in chapter 3 and it stuck me that this describes "Windows" to a T................................. To

2003-10-28T11:29:00.000-08:00

THINK "LAND GRAB" AND HANG ON! - is it worth it? By Dorothy Anne Seese © 2003 The US media, even the alternative media, have been more than reluctant to admit that the US is not in Afghanistan and Iraq for merely oil, but for the territory in the Middle East and Central Asia, strategic land that under US control would afford us easy striking distance to Russia, China, the entire

2003-10-28T11:25:00.000-08:00

Endgame By William Stone, III "When will it end? How can we return to a time when there are no terror alerts, no Department of Homeland Security?" One of the Republican talk-show whores uttered this question this week. As is increasingly the case, the host's conclusions were 100% wrong. This question has troubled me far more than it has the Republican whores. The difference between

2003-10-23T19:54:00.000-07:00

All the Rage: Patches Aren't the Answer To MS Holes Prepping next year's budget? Factor in those hours spent on Windows Patches By Don MacVittie Courtesy of When Microsoft introduced its Trustworthy Computing initiative 18 months ago, those who wanted to believe that Windows could be made secure without major changes found some hope. Since then we've seen MSBlaster and countless Internet

2003-10-23T10:54:00.000-07:00

US Senate cans spam By Tim Richardson Posted: 23/10/2003 at 13:31 GMT The US Senate voted unanimously yesterday to get tough on spam. The vote gave the green light to a number of anti-spam measures including tagging all emails with an abbreviation enabling punters to filter them out. It also passed measures that would attempt to stop spammers remaining anonymous and providing false return

2003-10-23T02:57:00.000-07:00

The Case for Coolie Labor By Amit Asaravala Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60940,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 23, 2003 PT SAN FRANCISCO-- Despite the growing backlash over shipping American IT jobs to less-expensive overseas firms, the practice is necessary to help U.S. companies remain competitive, said a Department of Commerce representative here on Tuesday. The comments,

2003-10-22T20:36:00.000-07:00

Intel's Barrett warns IT execs on tech education, job drain By ROBERT L. MITCHELL OCTOBER 22, 2003 In a wide-ranging keynote at Gartner Inc.'s IT Expo yesterday, Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett slammed the

2003-10-22T18:24:00.000-07:00

2003-10-22T15:31:00.000-07:00

Ballmer Says Commercial Software is Better Because Someone's Rear End is on the Line Wednesday, October 22 2003 @ 06:44 AM EDT You know I couldn't resist covering this story. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer picked up his glove and slapped Linux across the face in a speech given at an industry conference

2003-10-22T13:47:00.000-07:00

Georgia Won't Join Anti-Terror Database Associated Press ATLANTA-- Amid cost and privacy concerns, state officials backed away from an anti-terrorism database that officials initially considered joining -- a decision that makes Georgia the sixth state to abandon the Matrix project. The move also casts doubt on the future of a database that tracks

2003-10-21T17:23:00.000-07:00

Limbaugh Says Drug Addiction A Remnant Of Clinton Administration WEST PALM BEACH, FL—Frankly discussing his addiction to painkillers, conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience Monday that his abuse of OxyContin was a "remnant of the anything-goes ideology of the Clinton Administration." "Friends, all I can say is 'I told you so,'" said Limbaugh, from an undisclosed

2003-10-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

Salary-Negotiation Tips Be sure to type out a list of your demands in advance. You may forget to add the cold-cuts tray if you go by memory. As a rule of thumb, always roll your eyes and sigh loudly at your employer's first two offers. Determine the current market's salary range for positions in your field of expertise. Do this by looking at the per-hour wage posted in the front window. Only

2003-10-21T11:56:00.000-07:00

Real-time IT heading offshore By Patrick Thibodeau and Lucas Mearian OCTOBER 20, 2003 Some of the largest financial services firms in the country are banding together to develop a set of best practices for

2003-10-20T19:14:00.000-07:00

E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60864,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 20, 2003 PT In the wake of concerns raised about security flaws in electronic voting systems, a lobbying group is strategizing a public relations and lobbying campaign to help voting companies "repair short-term damage done by negative reports and media coverage.

2003-10-20T15:18:00.000-07:00

Los Alamostries object-based storage By LUCAS MEARIAN OCTOBER 20, 2003 Los Alamos National Laboratory today plans to announce that it's installing a 1,400-node Linux cluster that uses a new object-based

2003-10-20T15:16:00.000-07:00

2003-10-16T11:04:00.000-07:00

AMD re-iterates plan to offer multi-core Opterons By Tony Smith Posted: 16/10/2003 at 11:39 GMT AMD has confirmed it will ship multi-core processors - almost a month after admitting it was "inevitable" that the company will make such a move. Interviewed by CNet, AMD CTO Fred Weber said: "We will have a multi-core product." No surprise there. Chairman Jerry Sanders, speaking at September's

2003-10-16T10:59:00.000-07:00

VeriSign's Site Finder is undead By John Leyden Posted: 16/10/2003 at 13:02 GMT VeriSign is to relaunch Site Finder, its highly controversial domain typo redirection service. VeriSign suspended Site Finder earlier this month, following an order from ICANN, the Net governing body, which claimed the company was in breach of its terms of operation. Site Finder was launched in September when

2003-10-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

Beefed-up firewall, new version of Update for XP SP2 By John Lettice Posted: 16/10/2003 at 15:22 GMT The nature of the mysterious components of the 'security update' to ship with Windows XP Service Pack 2 is becoming clearer, and SP2 itself could be becoming nearer. Steve Ballmer told us approximately what the update was supposed to do, but not how, in his security manifesto last week, but

2003-10-16T10:50:00.000-07:00

New Windows, Exchange and XP Rollup Patches Ready to Go By Mary Jo Foley From Microsoft Watch:Remember that elusive Windows XP Rollup? A collection of the 20+ security and other critical patches on which Microsoft declined to comment last month? It's out and ready for download, as of today. Microsoft also made Wednesday

2003-10-15T13:17:00.000-07:00

Microsoft gets 64bit OS beta happy By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 15/10/2003 at 19:25 GMT Microsoft gave AMD top billing in a Wednesday statement announcing beta versions of 64bit Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Right atop Microsoft's brief marketing blurb is news that AMD's 64bit chips will be supported with both Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Server 2003. The beta

2003-10-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

New Internet speed record set GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) --Two major scientific research centres said on Wednesday they had set a new world speed record for sending data across the Internet, equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD film in seven seconds. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, said the feat, doubling the previous top speed, was achieved in a nearly 30-

2003-10-14T20:03:00.000-07:00

Transmeta Unveils "Efficeon" Chip Details October 14, 2003 By: Mark Hachman At long last, Transmeta Corp. has taken the wraps off of the TM8000, the company's next big chance to move back into mainstream computing. Transmeta will launch the TM8000 or "Efficeon" processor at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose today, after hinting, tipping off, and disclosing various details about the

2003-10-14T20:02:00.000-07:00

Via Discloses A Penny-Sized Processor October 14, 2003 By: Mark Hachman Via Technologies Inc. continued its push to undercut Intel Corp. on price and power, announcing a tiny PC processor about the size of a penny. Via's C5P didn't even appear the company's roadmaps a year ago, admitted Glenn Henry, founder of Centaur Technology, and now the microprocessor subsidiary of Via. The C5P is

2003-10-14T10:14:00.000-07:00

Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer By Leander Kahney Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 14, 2003 PT A small chip-design firm will unveil a new processor Tuesday it says will transform ordinary desktop PCs and laptops into supercomputers. At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, startup ClearSpeed Technologies will detail its CS301

2003-10-13T11:36:00.000-07:00

Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election? By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60563,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 13, 2003 PT Diebold Election Systems has had a tumultuous year, and it doesn't look like it's getting any better. Last January the electronic voting machine maker faced public embarrassment when voting activists revealed the company's insecure FTP server was

2003-10-12T00:51:00.000-07:00

Kazaa backs plan that could spell an end to the days of free music By Sue Lowe October 10, 2003 The world's most popular song-swapping network, Kazaa, has thrown its weight behind a plan to start billing song swappers for their music downloads. The proposal, which could finally end the days of the free lunch for millions of music fans, has been put to big US record labels at the same time as a

2003-10-11T12:25:00.000-07:00

It's Official: No Longhorn Until 2006 By Mary Jo Foley Microsoft execs at last have admitted publicly, at last, that Longhorn will not ship in 2005. Does it matter? At Microsoft's worldwide partner conference this week, Microsoft finally admitted that Longhorn won't see the light of day until 2006. This isn't a guess on my part, educated or otherwise. Or flame bait. Or

2003-10-10T21:54:00.000-07:00

This isn’t idle chatter, this is a warning, the greed in upper management is about to gut IT in the same way they gutted the mechanical industries in the 80’s. None dare call it treason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -F- Intel's Grove: US software, services face meltdown By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 11/10/2003 at 00:03 GMT Acknowledging that it was National Depression Day, Intel

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Grove Says U.S. Is Losing Edge In Tech Sector Jonathan Krim,10.10.03, 1:18 PM ET One of the founding fathers of the nation's high-technology industry warned in dire terms yesterday that U.S. dominance in key tech sectors is in jeopardy, threatening the country's economic recovery and growth. Speaking via satellite to a global technology summit in Washington, Intel co-founder and chairman

2003-10-10T12:39:00.000-07:00

Microsoft : MS "Study" Dissected Posted by Webmasteron 2003/10/8 15:02:36 MS yesterday released a funded report (PDF) prepared by Veritest that alleges to show the differences between setup and deployment time between Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 and Microsoft SBS 2003. Unsurprisingly, the results heavily favor the Microsoft solution, often by very wide margins. In fact, the margins

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VeriSign blinks By James Lewin VeriSign announced Friday that it will temporarily remove the controversial changes that it had recently made to the .com and .net domains. This came following an outcry from across the Internet, the filing of three lawsuits, and a demand from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In September, VeriSign made changes to the .com and .

2003-10-08T12:50:00.000-07:00

How Computer Chips Keep Cool By Leander Kahney Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60733,00.html 02:00 AM Oct. 08, 2003 PT A Silicon Valley startup has developed a miniature water-cooling system for computer chips that functions much like a radiator in a car. Cooligy, a company launched by three Stanford University mechanical engineering professors, said its Active

2003-10-08T12:36:00.000-07:00

Bio-terror kit going cheap - from the Pentagon By Drew Cullen Posted: 08/10/2003 at 12:51 GMT The Pentagon has halted sales of redundant low-end laboratory equipment following accusations that they could be used to develop instruments of biological warfare. Buyers of the surplus kit came from, among other places, Egypt and the Philippines, where terrorist groups are known to operate. The

2003-10-08T12:31:00.000-07:00

Shift key breaks latest CD anti-rip tech - grad student By Tony Smith Posted: 08/10/2003 at 15:53 GMT A Princeton PhD student has published a paper detailing the music industry's latest CD copy protection scheme - and how the technique can be bypassed by simply holding down the host computer's Shift key when a 'protected' CD is inserted. The copy-protection mechanism in question is

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"They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life." --Will Rogers