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Thursday, March 31, 2005
GPMidi.net | bobLAN
GPMidi.net | bobLAN: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953"
Schneier on Security: ID Theft is Inescapable
Schneier on Security: ID Theft is Inescapable: "ID Theft is Inescapable
The Register says what I've been saying all along:
While this is nothing new, there is an important observation here that's worth emphasizing: none of these cases involved online transactions.
Many people innocently believe that they're safe from credit card fraud and identity theft in the brick and mortar world. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The vast majority of incidents can be traced to skimming, dumpster diving, and just plain stupidity among those who 'own' our personal data.
Only a small fraction of such incidents result from online transactions. Every time you pay by check, use a debit or credit card, or fill out an application for insurance, housing, credit, employment, or education, you lose control of sensitive data.
In the US, a merchant is at liberty to do anything he pleases with the information, and this includes selling it to a third party without your knowledge or permission, or entering it into a computerized database, possibly with lax access controls, and possibly connected to the Internet.
Sadly, Congress's response has been to increase the penalties for identity theft, rather than to regulate access to, and use of, personal data by merchants, marketers, and data miners. Incredibly, the only person with absolutely no control over the collection, storage, security, and use of such sensitive information is its actual owner.
For this reason, it's literally impossible for an individual to prevent identity theft and credit card fraud, and it will remain impossible until Congress sees fit to regulate the privacy invasion industry."
Yahoo! News - Barcode That Baby, Maybe Says Embryology Body
Yahoo! News - Barcode That Baby, Maybe Says Embryology Body: "LONDON (Reuters) - Sperm and eggs from couples trying for a test-tube baby could in future be barcoded to avoid emotionally devastating mix-ups, according to Britain's human fertility watchdog.
The move is designed to prevent a repeat of the case in 2002 when two white parents using IVF had mixed race twins after a clinic error.
'We are always looking for new ways to ensure safety and consistency in laboratory practice,' a spokesman for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said on Wednesday."
Yahoo! News - Woman, 83, Wrestles, Shoots at Intruder
Yahoo! News - Woman, 83, Wrestles, Shoots at Intruder: "KINGSPORT, Tenn. - An 83-year-old woman fought with an intruder in her home and fired two shots at him before he fled with her gun and purse.
Mark Foulk, 44, of Fall Branch, was pulled over by a Sullivan County Sheriff's deputy about 20 minutes later and charged with DUI and speeding."
Yahoo! News - What's So Good About Sex? Ask Yeast
Yahoo! News - What's So Good About Sex? Ask Yeast: "They found that under normal conditions, both sorts of yeast fared just as well. But under extreme conditions, the sexy yeast did better.
'Our results indicate that sexual reproduction can provide a selective advantage during adaptation to new environments, and these data are consistent with Weismann's ideas,' they wrote in the journal Nature. But there is still more to study.
'A challenge now is to understand the nature of the mutations that underlie adaptation, and to extend these techniques to larger plants and animals,' they wrote."
Yahoo! News - Size Matters in Ban on Sandwich Ad
Yahoo! News - Size Matters in Ban on Sandwich Ad: "LONDON (Reuters) - A television commercial for KFC was banned by Britain's advertising watchdog because it said the fast food chain misled customers into thinking its mini chicken sandwiches were larger than they really are."
Yahoo! News - Size Matters in Ban on Sandwich Ad
Yahoo! News - Size Matters in Ban on Sandwich Ad: "LONDON (Reuters) - A television commercial for KFC was banned by Britain's advertising watchdog because it said the fast food chain misled customers into thinking its mini chicken sandwiches were larger than they really are."
Yahoo! News - Barcode That Baby, Maybe Says Embryology Body
Yahoo! News - Barcode That Baby, Maybe Says Embryology Body: "LONDON (Reuters) - Sperm and eggs from couples trying for a test-tube baby could in future be barcoded to avoid emotionally devastating mix-ups, according to Britain's human fertility watchdog.
The move is designed to prevent a repeat of the case in 2002 when two white parents using IVF had mixed race twins after a clinic error.
'We are always looking for new ways to ensure safety and consistency in laboratory practice,' a spokesman for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said on Wednesday."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in Los Angeles are searching for two women observed via security cameras taking a plastic-coated human foetus from the travelling 'Body Worlds' exhibit at the California Science Centre over the weekend.
The 13-week-old 'plastinated' foetus was part of Gunther von Hagens' popular and controversial 'Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies.'"
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in Los Angeles are searching for two women observed via security cameras taking a plastic-coated human foetus from the travelling 'Body Worlds' exhibit at the California Science Centre over the weekend.
The 13-week-old 'plastinated' foetus was part of Gunther von Hagens' popular and controversial 'Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies.'"
Yahoo! News - Woman Insists She's Not a Day Over 105
Yahoo! News - Woman Insists She's Not a Day Over 105: "RED LION, Pa. - Minnie Stein had just one complaint on her 106th birthday. She was sure she was only 105. 'She always thought that she was a year younger,' Stein's daughter, Joan Gillespie, said on her mother's birthday Tuesday.
But Gillespie said a birth certificate obtained from Harrisburg showed that her mother was born in 1899. 'She was not happy about it at all!'
Stein struggles to hear and see. She makes her way around her small apartment, 26 steps up from the street, slowly but steadily and resists entreaties to move in with family members or into an assisted living home. 'She won't hear of it,' Gillespie said."
Yahoo! News - Thief Steals Poop From Woman Walking Dog
Yahoo! News - Thief Steals Poop From Woman Walking Dog: "SAN DIEGO - The hunt is on for a turd burglar. Police in San Diego are searching for a gunman who swiped a bag of poop from a woman out walking her dog.
The woman told police that she was out walking her dog, Misty, on Monday night when a man in his 20s ran up behind her and grabbed the bag she was holding."
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
WMTW.com - Irresistible Headlines - Harvard Study: Hitler Held Grudges, Craved Attention
WMTW.com - Irresistible Headlines - Harvard Study: Hitler Held Grudges, Craved Attention: "ITHACA, N.Y. -- He held grudges, couldn't stand criticism, craved attention and had a tendency to bully others.
That's how a 1940s psychological profile described Adolf Hitler.
The analysis by the Harvard Psychological Clinic was conducted for a U.S. intelligence agency at the height of World War II.
The rare 1943 document was among the papers discovered in Cornell University Law School's collection from the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
The psychological profile of the Nazi dictator is now available on the law library's Web site."
'Most important ever' MySQL reaches beta - ZDNet UK News
'Most important ever' MySQL reaches beta - ZDNet UK News: "A beta of the next major version of open source database MySQL was released on Monday and includes supports for a number of features that could appeal to corporate users.
David Axmark, a co-founder of MySQL, told ZDNet UK that all the enterprise functionality that MySQL has lacked in the past have been added to MySQL 5.0.
'People have been criticising MySQL since we started [in 1995] for not having stored procedures, triggers and views,' said Axmark. 'We're fixing 10 years of criticism in one release.'
'It's the most important release we've ever done in the company,' Axmark added."
Wired News: Camera Maker Becomes Lifesaver
Wired News: Camera Maker Becomes Lifesaver: "Canon plans to branch out into biotechnology by commercializing DNA chips for use in medical diagnosis, aiming to build a new pillar for future growth.
Canon (CAJ) will seek approval at its shareholders meeting to include 'production and sales of pharmaceutical products' in its operational objectives, getting ready for the commercialization of biotechnology products."
Yahoo! News - First Cousins Get Married in Maryland
Yahoo! News - First Cousins Get Married in Maryland: "ALTOONA, Pa. - First cousins who were denied a marriage license by a Pennsylvania judge earlier this month were wed in a civil ceremony in Maryland, the couple said Monday.
Tonight Show host Jay Leno and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh both commented about the story after Blair County Judge Jolene Kopriva refused to marry Eleanor Amrhein, 46, and Donald W. Andrews Sr., 39, of Logan Township.
The couple petitioned the judge March 14, three days after a court clerk refused to marry them after learning they were first cousins. The couple's mothers are sisters. But they hoped the judge would grant an exception to the Pennsylvania law, which was meant to prevent birth defects and other problems caused by marriage of close relatives, by telling the judge they didn't plan to have children.
'Everybody thought I should be ashamed of it,' Amrhein said. 'I am not.'"
Yahoo! News - First Cousins Get Married in Maryland
Yahoo! News - First Cousins Get Married in Maryland: "ALTOONA, Pa. - First cousins who were denied a marriage license by a Pennsylvania judge earlier this month were wed in a civil ceremony in Maryland, the couple said Monday.
Tonight Show host Jay Leno and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh both commented about the story after Blair County Judge Jolene Kopriva refused to marry Eleanor Amrhein, 46, and Donald W. Andrews Sr., 39, of Logan Township.
The couple petitioned the judge March 14, three days after a court clerk refused to marry them after learning they were first cousins. The couple's mothers are sisters. But they hoped the judge would grant an exception to the Pennsylvania law, which was meant to prevent birth defects and other problems caused by marriage of close relatives, by telling the judge they didn't plan to have children.
'Everybody thought I should be ashamed of it,' Amrhein said. 'I am not.'"
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half of all U.S. children live in a house where a parent or other adult uses tobacco, drinks heavily or uses illegal drugs, according to a report released on Tuesday.
These adults are three times more likely to abuse their children and four times more likely to neglect them than parents who do not abuse alcohol or drugs or use tobacco, said the report from Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
'Children of alcohol and drug abusers are at increased risk of accidents, injuries and academic failure. Such children are more likely to suffer conduct disorders, depression or anxiety, conditions that increase the risk children will smoke, drink and use drugs,' the center said in a statement."
Yahoo! News - Legally Blind Golfer Gets Hole-In-One
Yahoo! News - Legally Blind Golfer Gets Hole-In-One: "CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A man who is legally blind has heard it before, so he was naturally skeptical when he was told he scored a hole-in-one while golfing at a local golf course. 'They've said it before,' said Joel Ludvicek, 78.
Only this time it was true.
Ludvicek aced the 168-yard No. 11 hole at Twin Pines golf course with a driver.
He had to rely on his three golfing partners to confirm the feat, because Ludvicek is legally blind."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - An advert for KFC has been banned by the country's advertising watchdog because it misled customers over the size of its mini burgers.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld five complaints from viewers that the advert for the 0.99 pence KFC mini fillet burger portrayed a product that was much bigger than it actually was in reality."
Wired News: Secure Flight Faces Uphill Battle
Wired News: Secure Flight Faces Uphill Battle: "An airline passenger-screening program that the government plans to roll out in August has not yet met criteria Congress requires before the program can be deployed, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office.
Critics said this meant the program could not go forward, but the Transportation Security Administration said the GAO report was simply a progress report indicating what remains to be accomplished."
Wired News: RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment
Wired News: RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment: "Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years.
Instead, the government will use 'contactless chips.'"
Yahoo! News - Symantec's Anti-Virus Vulnerable To Crashes
Yahoo! News - Symantec's Anti-Virus Vulnerable To Crashes: "Symantec's Norton AntiVirus line has a pair of vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit to crash or hang a targeted PC, Symantec announced Monday."
Yahoo! News - Macs More Vulnerable, Spyware A Danger
Yahoo! News - Macs More Vulnerable, Spyware A Danger: "Enterprises using Apple's Macintosh shouldn't smirk too much over their perceived immunity to the kind of security problems that plague Windows users, a research analyst said."
Yahoo! News - Study: Salmon From Farms Breed Sea Lice
Yahoo! News - Study: Salmon From Farms Breed Sea Lice: "WASHINGTON - Salmon farms help stock supermarkets but also breed parasitic sea lice that infect young wild salmon and could endanger other important ocean species such as herring, scientists said Tuesday."
Yahoo! News - Panel: VeriSign Should Retain Domain Name
Yahoo! News - Panel: VeriSign Should Retain Domain Name: "NEW YORK - An independent advisory firm recommended Monday that VeriSign Inc. be given another six years to run the Internet's third most popular domain name suffix."
Yahoo! News - Court Ruling May Not Hinder Music Theft
Yahoo! News - Court Ruling May Not Hinder Music Theft
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although stretching is part of the warm-up routine of athletes everywhere, the practice may actually be counterproductive in certain cases, research suggests.
Most people stretch before hitting the court, trail or slopes because they believe that it reduces their odds of injury and boosts their athletic prowess.
There is, however, no clear evidence that a pre-game stretch prevents injuries during the game. And in some instances, stretching right before activity may actually detract from an athlete's performance, according to Dr. Ian Shrier, of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies at SMBD-Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
Shrier, who is also a past-president of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine, reviews the research evidence on stretching in the March issue of The Physician and Sportsmedicine."
Yahoo! News - Social Factors Affect Prostate Cancer Therapy
Yahoo! News - Social Factors Affect Prostate Cancer Therapy: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being married increases the likelihood that a man will choose prostate surgery or radiation therapy rather than 'watchful waiting' in the event of a prostate cancer diagnosis, new research suggests."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A 'probiotic' preparation containing the beneficial microbe Bifidobacterium infantis relieves symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, a common problem that usually involves cramping, diarrhea and constipation, new research shows.
In contrast, treatment with another probiotic microbe, Lactobacillus salivarius, appears to have no effect."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Detrimental blood flow and breathing changes are common in obese patients undergoing laparoscopic, or 'keyhole,' gastric bypass surgery. Therefore, invasive monitoring with a blood vessel catheter may be warranted to assure a safe operation, new research suggests.
As reported in the Archives of Surgery, Dr. Sebastiano Cassaro, at Cabrini Medical Center in New York, and colleagues performed laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery on 13 obese patients. The patients' blood flow and breathing changes were monitored during surgery with a device called a pulmonary artery catheter."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cold therapy, or cryotherapy, is an effective treatment for retinopathy of prematurity, a potentially blinding disease that affects premature babies, and the benefits are maintained for at least 15 years, a new report shows.
In the Archives of Ophthalmology, Dr. Earl A. Palmer from Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, and colleagues describe the outcomes of 254 preterm children with severe retinopathy of prematurity. The children were treated with cryotherapy, which works by destroying the abnormal inner surface of the eye.
One hundred sixty-three children were available for evaluation at 15 years of age. In some cases, one of the patient's eyes was treated with cryotherapy, while the other was not, providing a suitable comparison."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "KAMPALA (Reuters) - President Yoweri Museveni is jeopardizing Uganda's giant strides against HIV/AIDS by backing U.S.-funded 'abstinence-only' programs, a New-York based human rights group said on Wednesday.
Museveni has been widely praised for reducing infection rates to around six percent today from 30 percent in the early 1990s, a reversal most Ugandans attribute to his government's frankness about the role of condoms in tackling the disease.
But Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Uganda had recently stopped giving out vital information on HIV/AIDS in primary schools, older children were being misinformed about condoms, and U.S.-sponsored rallies were spreading 'falsehoods.'"
Wired News: Baby Sputnik Flies the Coop
Wired News: Baby Sputnik Flies the Coop: "No dramatic rocket blasts marked the launch of the tiny 'Nanosputnik' satellite Monday morning. It simply floated away from the International Space Station like a balloon caught in a breeze.
'Off it goes,' said cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, after tossing the 1-foot, 11-pound satellite away from the space station during a scheduled spacewalk."
Yahoo! News - Cop Suspended for Ticketing Doctor on Call
Yahoo! News - Cop Suspended for Ticketing Doctor on Call: "FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A police officer who stopped a doctor for speeding on his way to deliver a baby, and then took him to the maternity ward in handcuffs, has agreed to an unpaid suspension for lack of judgment.
Dr. Anthony Chidiac was driving his motorcycle 10 miles above the 25 mph speed limit last March when he was stopped by 15-year veteran Officer William Lilliston."
Yahoo! News - Cocaine, Not Octane Found in Car's Tank
Yahoo! News - Cocaine, Not Octane Found in Car's Tank: "SLIDELL, La. - A reliable family car suddenly developed a tendency to decelerate, leading to the discovery that it had been driven for years with $40,000 worth of cocaine stashed in the gas tank.
A suburban New Orleans family had bought the 1996 Toyota Camry from a used car lot in 1997.
'They hadn't had any major mechanical difficulties with it until last week,' he sheriff's spokesman James Hartman said Tuesday.
When the car started losing speed, it was taken to a mechanic, who discovered two bricks of cocaine wrapped around the vehicle's fuel line. The wrapping had apparently come loose recently."
Yahoo! News - Cocaine, Not Octane Found in Car's Tank
Yahoo! News - Cocaine, Not Octane Found in Car's Tank: "SLIDELL, La. - A reliable family car suddenly developed a tendency to decelerate, leading to the discovery that it had been driven for years with $40,000 worth of cocaine stashed in the gas tank.
A suburban New Orleans family had bought the 1996 Toyota Camry from a used car lot in 1997.
'They hadn't had any major mechanical difficulties with it until last week,' he sheriff's spokesman James Hartman said Tuesday."
Yahoo! News - Woman Sells Her Name on EBay for $15K
Yahoo! News - Woman Sells Her Name on EBay for $15K: "SEYMOUR, Tenn. - A mother of five put her name up for bid on eBay and got an offer. Terri Iligan, 33, sold her name to Internet site Golden Palace Casino, and she will officially be named goldenpalace.com once the legal work is complete.
The casino paid $15,199 for the name."
Yahoo! News - Teens Use Improvised Stun Guns on Bus
Yahoo! News - Teens Use Improvised Stun Guns on Bus: "ROCKPORT, Maine - Three students at Camden Hills Regional High School face charges for using improvised stun guns on fellow students, police said.
The culprits, all freshmen boys, used the devices to shock fellow students on the bus, leaving visible burns and blisters on some of them, said Kip Bickford, an officer with the Rockport Police Department who works at the high school.
Two were charged with aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, and the third was charged with carrying a concealed weapon because he allegedly took the device to school, Bickford said.
'These kids are not bad kids,' Bickford said. 'They're not kids who have been in trouble. They're not doing it maliciously. They're being stupid.'"
Yahoo! News - Poll: Harvard Students Mostly Unhappy
Yahoo! News - Poll: Harvard Students Mostly Unhappy: "CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A long-held stereotype that Harvard undergraduates feel neglected by their professors and don't have as much fun as students at other colleges now has some data to back it up.
Student satisfaction at Harvard College ranks near the bottom of a group of 31 elite private schools, according to survey results outlined in a confidential memo obtained by The Boston Globe and reported in Tuesday's editions.
The group of 31 colleges, known as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, or COFHE, includes all eight Ivy League schools, other top research universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford, and liberal arts colleges like Amherst and Wellesley."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily has said, creating a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.
Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his 'dragon sabre', used in the popular online game, 'Legend of Mir 3', the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told on Tuesday."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four male models who appeared in an ad campaign against domestic violence are suing New York City, saying the posters stayed up beyond the agreed time, leading people to think they really were wife beaters.
Christopher Dorm, Triple Edwards, Daniel Royer and Javier Velarde appeared in posters throughout the city to promote awareness of domestic violence. The men were pictured behind bars with captions such as 'Successful executive. Devoted churchgoer. Abusive husband.'
The four agreed to the October 2002 photo shoot on the condition that the ads be posted only in New York City buses and subways and be taken down after five weeks, the lawsuit says. They were each paid between $1,500 to $2,000."
Photonics Startup Pegs Q2'06 Production Date
Photonics Startup Pegs Q2'06 Production Date: "Startup Luxtera has announced its plans to enter the CMOS photonics market, anticipating the day when microprocessors will transmit information via light, not electrons.
The company claims that its optical modulator for transforming electrons into photons runs at 10-GHz, ten times the speed of an optical modulator Intel Corp. researchers began talking about last year. Beginning in mid-2006, Luxtera hopes to enter production of photonic devices using standard CMOS manufacturing processes."
Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea: "Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
A frequently occurring idea for IP tunneling applications is to run a protocol like PPP, which encapsulates IP packets in a format suited for a stream transport (like a modem line), over a TCP-based connection. This would be an easy solution for encrypting tunnels by running PPP over SSH, for which several recommendations already exist (one in the Linux HOWTO base, one on my own website, and surely several others). It would also be an easy way to compress arbitrary IP traffic, while datagram based compression has hard to overcome efficiency limits.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work well. Long delays and frequent connection aborts are to be expected. Here is why.
TCP's retransmission algorithm
TCP divides the data stream into segments which are sent as individual IP datagrams. The segments carry a sequence number which numbers the bytes in the stream, and an acknowledge number which tells the other side the last received sequence number. [RFC793]
Since IP datagrams may be lost, duplicated or reordered, the sequence numbers are used to reassemble the stream. The acknowledge number tells the sender, indirectly, if a segment was lost: when an acknowledge for a recently sent segment does not arrive in a certain amount of time, the sender assumes a lost packet and re-sends that segment.
Many other protocols using a similar approach, designed mostly for use over lines with relatively fixed bandwidth, have the 'certain amount of time' fixed or configurable. In the Internet however, parameters like bandwidth, delay and loss rate are vastly different from one connection to another and even changing over time on a single connection. A fixed timeout in the seconds range would be inappropriate on a fast LAN and likewise inappropriate on a congested international link. In fact, it would increase the congestion and lead to an effect known as 'meltdown'.
For this reason, TCP uses adaptive timeouts for all timing-related parameters. They start at conservative estimates and change dynamically with every received segment. The actual algorithms used are described in [RFC2001]. The details are not important here but one critical property: when a segment timeouts, the following timeout is increased (exponentially, in fact, because that has been shown to avoid the meltdown effect)."
SourceForge.net: Project Info - SSL-Explorer
SourceForge.net: Project Info - SSL-Explorer: "SSL-Explorer is a fully-featured, web-based SSL VPN server. This practicable remote access security solution includes SSL tunneling, intranet website proxying, Microsoft Windows file sharing and Java application deployment through a standard browser"
SourceForge.net: Project Info - CIPE-Win32
SourceForge.net: Project Info - CIPE-Win32: "Implements a Windows NT VPN peer to Olaf Titz's CIPE VPN for Linux NOTE: The distribution must be downloaded from the home page"
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Yahoo! News - Asteroid Impact Fueled Global Rain of BBs
Yahoo! News - Asteroid Impact Fueled Global Rain of BBs: "The asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago presumably initiated the extinction of the dinosaurs. The huge collision also unleashed a worldwide downpour of tiny BB-sized mineral droplets, called spherules.
The hard rain did not pelt the dinosaurs to death.
But the planet-covering residue left behind may tell us something about the direction of the incoming asteroid, as well as possible extinction scenarios, according to new research. The falling spherules might have heated the atmosphere enough to start a global fire, as one example.
How the spherules formed in the first place, though, has been a bit of a mystery. One theory is that these half-millimeter-wide globules precipitated out of a giant cloud of vaporized rock that circled the planet after the collision."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People on strict raw food vegetarian diets are thin but healthy, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Although nutritionists and the food industry have warned that a diet without dairy foods can lead to the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, the team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found the vegans they studied had many of the signs of strong bones.
Dr. Luigi Fontana, who led the study, said they had thin bones but none of the other signs of osteoporosis.
'We think it's possible these people don't have increased risk of fracture but that their low bone mass is related to the fact that they are lighter because they take in fewer calories,' Fontana said in a statement."
Yahoo! News - Pentagon Invests in Unmanned 'Trauma Pod'
Yahoo! News - Pentagon Invests in Unmanned 'Trauma Pod': "SAN FRANCISCO - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is awarding $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned 'trauma pod' designed to use robots to perform full scalpel-and-stitch surgeries on wounded soldiers in battlefield conditions."
Yahoo! News - Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate
Yahoo! News - Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate: "Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many Americans are so sleepy that they are having problems in their marriages, making mistakes at work and even going without sex, according to a report.
The poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that 75 percent of adults frequently have a symptom of a sleep problem such as frequent waking during the night or snoring. But few believe they have a sleep problem and most ignore it.
'Half of the country sleeps pretty well -- the other half has problems,' Foundation chief executive Richard Gelula said in a statement."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California university, once ranked by Playboy magazine as the top U.S. party school, is probing a fraternity for a party where a hard-core sex film was made, a school spokesman has said.
California State University Chico has suspended its 25-member chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, while it investigates the party at which professional porn actors were filmed having sex last October, said school spokesman Joe Wills.
Shane's World, a Southern California maker of adult films, including ones featuring partying college students, provided four female and two male actors for the film, a spokeswoman said."
Yahoo! News - Porn Star Allegedly Gives Nude Autographs
Yahoo! News - Porn Star Allegedly Gives Nude Autographs: "PEABODY, Mass. - An adult video store may have violated city ordinances when a porn star gave more than her John Hancock to autograph-seeking fans, Peabody's police chief says.
The X-rated actress allegedly stripped and posed for photos after Peabody police detectives entered the Video Warehouse on Route 1 to investigate a complaint about a store promotion.
Video Warehouse is in a location zoned for adult entertainment, but the store isn't licensed for live nude performances, said Police Chief Robert Champagne."
Yahoo! News - Tankless Toilet Makes a Fashion Statement
Yahoo! News - Tankless Toilet Makes a Fashion Statement: "SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A tankless toilet unveiled by Kohler Co. promises to make a fashion statement while still staying functional. The company has unveiled the Purist Hatbox, a toilet that aims to bring the throne to your home into the 21st Century.
'Over the past couple decades we've witnessed the television's transformation from bulky boxes to slim, streamlined plasma screens and appliances change from typical white to commercial inspired stainless steel and even retro colors,' said David Kohler, president of Kohler's Kitchen & Bath Group, in a news release."
Yahoo! News - Two Charged for Forcibly Tattooing Boy
Yahoo! News - Two Charged for Forcibly Tattooing Boy: "NORWICH, N.Y. - A man and a teenager have been charged with forcibly tattooing an obscenity on the forehead of a 17-year-old boy, police said Monday.
Officer Craig Berry declined to describe the tattoo, except to say it was a phrase.
'It's just ludicrous that someone would do something like this to another person,' Berry said.
Kenneth D. Peer, 23, and a 17-year-old boy were charged with assault and unlawful imprisonment. Police were withholding the name of the 17-year-old, who was charged as a youthful offender, Berry said."
Yahoo! News - Alaska Zoo to Install Elephant Treadmill
Yahoo! News - Alaska Zoo to Install Elephant Treadmill
Yahoo! News - Tractor Driver Dies Under Load of Manure
Yahoo! News - Tractor Driver Dies Under Load of Manure: "PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported.
The 34-year old man, identified only as Martin T, suffocated after the load fell on him while he was dumping it in a field near the western Czech city of Karlovy Vary, news Web Site www.novinky.cz reported Sunday. 'It absolutely beats me how this could happen,' said Vladimir Erps, chief of the company employing the victim.
'The truck is operated from the tractor cabin, using hydraulics. There was nothing for him to do under the truck, but it's tough to blame him now that he is dead,' the news site quoted him as saying.
Police are investigating the death as a work-related accident."
Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes: "HOLLYWOOD (Reuters) - They really said it -- notable quotes from the news:
'I want him to think about me naked - not some woman he can throw money at.'
-- JESSICA ALBA, who plays a stripper in the movie 'Sin City' telling the New York Post why she doesn't want her boyfriend going to strip clubs.
- - - -
'I think they're doing a terrific job. I was always pulling for them. I'm pulling for them now.'
--DAN RATHER on how things are going on 'The CBS Evening News' now that he's no longer behind the anchor desk, quoted in USA Today."
Monday, March 28, 2005
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picotux 110 with picotux 100 module
The picotux 100 is the world's smallest Linux computer, only slightly larger (35mm�19mm�19mm) than an RJ45 connector. Inside, there is an ARM7 CPU at 55 MHz running uClinux kernel 2.4.27 and Busybox 1.0. Two communication interfaces are provided, 10/100 Mbit half/full duplex Ethernet and a serial port with up to 230.400 baud. Five additional lines can be used for either general input/output or serial handshaking."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rolling out next generation's net: "The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.
'In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population,' the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. "
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The bright lights and fast living of China's richest city have taken a heavy toll on the local sperm count.
Shanghai's sperm bank had managed to collect just 6,000 samples in two years and many of those were of 'poor quality', the Shanghai Daily said on Monday.
'More than 2,000 people came here for physical checks and only 400 were found to be qualified' to donate sperm, the newspaper quoted the sperm bank director, Li Zheng, as saying."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a holidaying neighbour have been pushing ice-cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet -- named Lucky -- alive.
The Daily Express on Monday said the black-and-white cat was spotted fast asleep in the neighbour's house after she went missing from her home near Bristol.
'I just hope our neighbour has gone away for a week and not for months,' owner Tracey Venables, 31 told the newspaper."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a holidaying neighbour have been pushing ice-cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet -- named Lucky -- alive.
The Daily Express on Monday said the black-and-white cat was spotted fast asleep in the neighbour's house after she went missing from her home near Bristol.
'I just hope our neighbour has gone away for a week and not for months,' owner Tracey Venables, 31 told the newspaper."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a holidaying neighbour have been pushing ice-cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet -- named Lucky -- alive.
The Daily Express on Monday said the black-and-white cat was spotted fast asleep in the neighbour's house after she went missing from her home near Bristol.
'I just hope our neighbour has gone away for a week and not for months,' owner Tracey Venables, 31 told the newspaper."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The bright lights and fast living of China's richest city have taken a heavy toll on the local sperm count.
Shanghai's sperm bank had managed to collect just 6,000 samples in two years and many of those were of 'poor quality', the Shanghai Daily said on Monday.
'More than 2,000 people came here for physical checks and only 400 were found to be qualified' to donate sperm, the newspaper quoted the sperm bank director, Li Zheng, as saying."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The bright lights and fast living of China's richest city have taken a heavy toll on the local sperm count.
Shanghai's sperm bank had managed to collect just 6,000 samples in two years and many of those were of 'poor quality', the Shanghai Daily said on Monday.
'More than 2,000 people came here for physical checks and only 400 were found to be qualified' to donate sperm, the newspaper quoted the sperm bank director, Li Zheng, as saying."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a holidaying neighbour have been pushing ice-cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet -- named Lucky -- alive.
The Daily Express on Monday said the black-and-white cat was spotted fast asleep in the neighbour's house after she went missing from her home near Bristol.
'I just hope our neighbour has gone away for a week and not for months,' owner Tracey Venables, 31 told the newspaper."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a holidaying neighbour have been pushing ice-cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet -- named Lucky -- alive.
The Daily Express on Monday said the black-and-white cat was spotted fast asleep in the neighbour's house after she went missing from her home near Bristol.
'I just hope our neighbour has gone away for a week and not for months,' owner Tracey Venables, 31 told the newspaper."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of a cat trapped for a week in the home of a holidaying neighbour have been pushing ice-cubes and cat food through the letter box to keep their pet -- named Lucky -- alive.
The Daily Express on Monday said the black-and-white cat was spotted fast asleep in the neighbour's house after she went missing from her home near Bristol.
'I just hope our neighbour has gone away for a week and not for months,' owner Tracey Venables, 31 told the newspaper."
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Wired News: Hybrid Locomotive Gains Traction
Wired News: Hybrid Locomotive Gains Traction: "Hybrid cars, trucks and buses have already hit the road. Now, make way for the Green Goat, the world's biggest hybrid. It's a 2,000-horsepower locomotive that radically reduces fuel consumption and emissions of pollutants.
The Green Goat is a diesel-electric hybrid in which the normal massive diesel locomotive engine is replaced by a 290-horsepower inline 6-cylinder diesel truck engine and a 600-volt battery bank. The batteries supply the power needed to drive the electric traction motors on the wheels of this 280,000-pound 'goat.' "
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - Silver disco balls spin red lip-shaped lights around the room and Britney Spears' 'Oops I did it again' blares as Debbie gives herself a cheeky slap on the left buttock.
In school uniform, suspenders and high heels, she struts confidently around the pole, hooks her leg around it and swings to the ground before rippling back up. Flicking her long hair aside, she pauses to glance over her shoulder at the audience.
But contrary to appearances, Debbie is no pole pro. She's a 42-year-old married banker in London who has just completed a six-week beginners' course in pole dancing at My Pole Dance School in London."
Saturday, March 26, 2005
OnList - Download
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Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a rule on Tuesday to cut U.S. utilities' emissions of toxic mercury through a cap-and-trade system, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday editions.
The system would allow some power plants to make deep pollution cuts while others make none and was likely to be contested in court by environmental groups, the newspaper said.
The report said the rule sets broad limits on mercury emissions that enable power companies to decide which plants will receive pollution controls. That could mean that even as many states reduce their emissions, some could see increases in emissions of mercury, the Post said."
Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "The firm has sent 60 Mercedes-Benz A-Class cars to Japan, Germany, Singapore and the United States for tests. Many car companies are developing hydrogen-powered cars to help wean the globe off diminishing oil supplies.
The Mercedes car uses fuel cell technology where electricity is generated through the chemical reaction between hydrogen and air, emitting only water vapor.
'It (commercialization) will start in 2012,' Herbert Kohler, Vice President of the Body and Powertrain research unit at DaimlerChrysler told reporters in Brussels, on the margins of a hydrogen car technology exhibition."
Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even if people stopped pumping out carbon dioxide and other pollutants tomorrow, global warming would still get worse, two teams of researchers reported on Thursday.
Sea levels will rise more than they have already risen, worsening the damage caused by extreme high tides and storm surges, and droughts, heat waves and storms will become more severe, the climate experts predicted.
That makes immediate action to slow global warming even more vital, the teams at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado report in the journal Science."
Washing hands with soap and water best protection against disease-causing viruses
Washing hands with soap and water best protection against disease-causing viruses: "The largest, most comprehensive study ever done comparing the effectiveness of hand hygiene products shows that nothing works better in getting rid of disease-causing viruses than simply washing one's hands with good old-fashioned soap and water.
Among the viruses soapy hand washing flushes down the drain is the one that causes the common cold. Other removable viruses cause hepatitis A, acute gastroenteritis and a host of other illnesses.
A separate key finding was that waterless handwipes only removed roughly 50 percent of bacteria from volunteer subjects' hands.
'We studied the efficacy of 14 different hand hygiene agents in reducing bacteria and viruses from the hands,' said Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett, a public health epidemiologist with the University of North Carolina Health Care System and the UNC School of Public Health. 'No other studies have measured the effectiveness in removing both bacteria and viruses at the same time.'
For the first time, too, the UNC researchers tested what happened when people cleaned their hands for only 10 seconds, Sickbert-Bennett said. That represented the average length of time researchers observed busy health-care personnel washing or otherwise disinfecting their hands at work. "
The Dirty Truth about Washing Your Hands
The Dirty Truth about Washing Your Hands: "Busy health-care workers typically wash their hands for just 10 seconds, according to a new study. Thankfully, they use soap.
The combination is effective.
But don't waste your money on that alcohol-based, water-free hand-cleaner. Convenient, yes, but less effective.
Billed as the most comprehensive study of its kind, involving 62 volunteers and 14 different hygiene products, the research found that soap and a few seconds of scrubbing washes most trouble down the drain.
'Previous studies have had people clean their hands for 30 seconds or so, but that's not what health-care workers usually do in practice, and we wanted to test the products under realistic conditions,' said Emily Sickbert-Bennett, a public health epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina (UNC).
With 10 seconds of scrubbing, soap and water gets rid of the common cold virus, hepatitis A, and a host of other illness-bearing germs, the study found.
Anti-microbial agents -- the soap in a bottle you pay more for at Safeway -- were best at reducing bacteria, the research found. Waterless, alcohol-based agents had variable and sometimes poor effects, becoming less effective after multiple washes, Sickbert-Bennett said. "
New Scientist Breaking News - Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles
New Scientist Breaking News - Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles: "If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two.
That is the extraordinary behaviour observed for the first time in two species of octopus by Christine Huffard's team from the University of California, Berkeley, US.
Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.
The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current. "
New Scientist Breaking News - Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles
New Scientist Breaking News - Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles: "If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two.
That is the extraordinary behaviour observed for the first time in two species of octopus by Christine Huffard's team from the University of California, Berkeley, US.
Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.
The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current. "
Yahoo! News - Police: Former Chief Tried to Eat Evidence
Yahoo! News - Police: Former Chief Tried to Eat Evidence: "IMPERIAL, Pa. - A former police chief accused of stealing tried to eat a piece of evidence � a receipt � during a court hearing, authorities said.
Darryl Briston scuffled with a state trooper during a preliminary hearing Thursday and elbowed the officer when he tried to stop Briston from eating the receipt, police said. Briston was later charged with aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.
The theft allegations relate to Briston's off-duty work at a tavern.
He was working as a security guard in October 2003 when the tavern's owner, Raymond Hovan, tried to get his attention by tapping on his cruiser's windshield with a beer cooler gasket. The chief accused him of damaging the cruiser's windshield. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution: "ROUND ROCK, Texas - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.
An arrest affidavit said Copenhaver offered to represent a woman's husband if she and her sister-in-law would perform sex acts with him and each other.
'I am deeply apologetic to my family and friends,' Copenhaver said in a statement Thursday. 'I hope that all of them will support me during this difficult time. I intend to work through the legal process to get this behind me as soon as possible. Please keep me in your prayers.'
Copenhaver, vice president of the Round Rock school board, has served 15 years during two stints on the board. He has practiced law for 20 years. "
Yahoo! News - Easter Bunny Gets Pummeled by Boy at Mall
Yahoo! News - Easter Bunny Gets Pummeled by Boy at Mall: "BAY CITY, Mich. - The Easter Bunny is hopping mad. Bryan Johnson, who portrays the furry character at the Bay City Mall, says he was pummeled in an unprovoked attack on the job. Police say the attacker was a 12-year-old boy who sat on Johnson's lap the day before the March 18 incident.
Johnson, 18, suffered a bloody nose. He kept his cool during the attack, deeming it inappropriate for the Easter Bunny to fight back. But he's not willing to forgive and forget.
'They (the sheriff's deputies) told me it was up to me, and I feel that the boy should be prosecuted,' Johnson told The Bay City Times.
Johnson told Bay County Sheriff's deputies that the boy hit him in the face at least six times before running away. "
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution: "ROUND ROCK, Texas - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.
An arrest affidavit said Copenhaver offered to represent a woman's husband if she and her sister-in-law would perform sex acts with him and each other.
'I am deeply apologetic to my family and friends,' Copenhaver said in a statement Thursday. 'I hope that all of them will support me during this difficult time. I intend to work through the legal process to get this behind me as soon as possible. Please keep me in your prayers.'
Copenhaver, vice president of the Round Rock school board, has served 15 years during two stints on the board. He has practiced law for 20 years. "
Yahoo! News - Police: Former Chief Tried to Eat Evidence
Yahoo! News - Police: Former Chief Tried to Eat Evidence: "IMPERIAL, Pa. - A former police chief accused of stealing tried to eat a piece of evidence � a receipt � during a court hearing, authorities said.
Darryl Briston scuffled with a state trooper during a preliminary hearing Thursday and elbowed the officer when he tried to stop Briston from eating the receipt, police said. Briston was later charged with aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.
The theft allegations relate to Briston's off-duty work at a tavern.
He was working as a security guard in October 2003 when the tavern's owner, Raymond Hovan, tried to get his attention by tapping on his cruiser's windshield with a beer cooler gasket. The chief accused him of damaging the cruiser's windshield. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - Easter Bunny Gets Pummeled by Boy at Mall
Yahoo! News - Easter Bunny Gets Pummeled by Boy at Mall: "BAY CITY, Mich. - The Easter Bunny is hopping mad. Bryan Johnson, who portrays the furry character at the Bay City Mall, says he was pummeled in an unprovoked attack on the job. Police say the attacker was a 12-year-old boy who sat on Johnson's lap the day before the March 18 incident.
Johnson, 18, suffered a bloody nose. He kept his cool during the attack, deeming it inappropriate for the Easter Bunny to fight back. But he's not willing to forgive and forget.
'They (the sheriff's deputies) told me it was up to me, and I feel that the boy should be prosecuted,' Johnson told The Bay City Times.
Johnson told Bay County Sheriff's deputies that the boy hit him in the face at least six times before running away. "
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution: "ROUND ROCK, Texas - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.
An arrest affidavit said Copenhaver offered to represent a woman's husband if she and her sister-in-law would perform sex acts with him and each other.
'I am deeply apologetic to my family and friends,' Copenhaver said in a statement Thursday. 'I hope that all of them will support me during this difficult time. I intend to work through the legal process to get this behind me as soon as possible. Please keep me in your prayers.'
Copenhaver, vice president of the Round Rock school board, has served 15 years during two stints on the board. He has practiced law for 20 years. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested
Yahoo! News - 'Pioneer' With Weapons and Bibles Arrested: "ST. LOUIS - Two sheriff's deputies checking on a motorist stopped along Interstate 70 in the predawn darkness were puzzled at first by what they found � a driver dressed like an old-time pioneer, saying he was headed for South Dakota with Bibles and 'supplies' for American Indian children.
It's only after the West Virginia man got mouthy and smelled of marijuana, according to police, did the deputies uncover a staggering arsenal of firepower inside the sport utility vehicle, including loaded pistols and an assault rifle with a 30-round clip and a bullet in the chamber. "
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution: "ROUND ROCK, Texas - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.
An arrest affidavit said Copenhaver offered to represent a woman's husband if she and her sister-in-law would perform sex acts with him and each other.
'I am deeply apologetic to my family and friends,' Copenhaver said in a statement Thursday. 'I hope that all of them will support me during this difficult time. I intend to work through the legal process to get this behind me as soon as possible. Please keep me in your prayers.'
Copenhaver, vice president of the Round Rock school board, has served 15 years during two stints on the board. He has practiced law for 20 years. "
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution: "ROUND ROCK, Texas - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.
An arrest affidavit said Copenhaver offered to represent a woman's husband if she and her sister-in-law would perform sex acts with him and each other.
'I am deeply apologetic to my family and friends,' Copenhaver said in a statement Thursday. 'I hope that all of them will support me during this difficult time. I intend to work through the legal process to get this behind me as soon as possible. Please keep me in your prayers.'
Copenhaver, vice president of the Round Rock school board, has served 15 years during two stints on the board. He has practiced law for 20 years. "
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution
Yahoo! News - School Board VP Charged With Prostitution: "ROUND ROCK, Texas - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.
An arrest affidavit said Copenhaver offered to represent a woman's husband if she and her sister-in-law would perform sex acts with him and each other.
'I am deeply apologetic to my family and friends,' Copenhaver said in a statement Thursday. 'I hope that all of them will support me during this difficult time. I intend to work through the legal process to get this behind me as soon as possible. Please keep me in your prayers.'
Copenhaver, vice president of the Round Rock school board, has served 15 years during two stints on the board. He has practiced law for 20 years. "
Friday, March 25, 2005
freshmeat.net: Project details for Database Manager
freshmeat.net: Project details for Database Manager: "Database Manager is a Web-based interface for managing files on a remote server. It can list, create, edit, copy, rename, delete, and change the permissions on files, and it can create, rename, and remove directories. It allows you to upload up to 5 files at once, find and replace text within certain file types in a directory, password protect a directory with .htaccess/.htpasswd/.htgroup protection, and track how much space the site is taking up. There is a facility for managing error documents for 401, 403, 404, and 500 errors, and it also features an easy-to-use interface for adding users, changing existing users passwords, and removing users. "
freshmeat.net: Project details for FileMan
freshmeat.net: Project details for FileMan: "FileMan is a full-featured, Web-based file manager featuring htpasswd protection, ability to create/extract .tar(.gz) files, multiple file search (and replace), multiple file upload, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, the ability to copy, move, and delete directories in one click, tail, diff, and much more. "
freshmeat.net: Project details for CGI::Uploader
freshmeat.net: Project details for CGI::Uploader: "The CGI::Uploader Perl module is designed to help with the task of managing files uploaded through a CGI application. The files are stored on the file system, and the file attributes are stored in a SQL database. The distribution includes a 'Cookbook' with a detailed example, as well as a complete sample application. "
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian police have found a homemade submarine capable of carrying $200 million (107.8 million pounds) worth of cocaine on a Pacific Ocean smuggling mission, police say.
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, the Administrative Security Department detective force said on Friday
It was the second publicized case of Colombian drug smugglers trying to use submarines. In 2000, another underwater vessel was found far from the coast in the Andean mountain capital, Bogota.
'They started building the submarine about six months ago, using small pieces so as not to make people suspicious. They wanted to have it ready for Easter because they thought the police would drop their guard,' said Eduardo Fernandez, head of the DAS in the southern province of Valle del Cauca."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian police have found a homemade submarine capable of carrying $200 million (107.8 million pounds) worth of cocaine on a Pacific Ocean smuggling mission, police say.
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, the Administrative Security Department detective force said on Friday
It was the second publicized case of Colombian drug smugglers trying to use submarines. In 2000, another underwater vessel was found far from the coast in the Andean mountain capital, Bogota.
'They started building the submarine about six months ago, using small pieces so as not to make people suspicious. They wanted to have it ready for Easter because they thought the police would drop their guard,' said Eduardo Fernandez, head of the DAS in the southern province of Valle del Cauca."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian police have found a homemade submarine capable of carrying $200 million (107.8 million pounds) worth of cocaine on a Pacific Ocean smuggling mission, police say.
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, the Administrative Security Department detective force said on Friday
It was the second publicized case of Colombian drug smugglers trying to use submarines. In 2000, another underwater vessel was found far from the coast in the Andean mountain capital, Bogota.
'They started building the submarine about six months ago, using small pieces so as not to make people suspicious. They wanted to have it ready for Easter because they thought the police would drop their guard,' said Eduardo Fernandez, head of the DAS in the southern province of Valle del Cauca."
Yahoo! News - The Downside to Virginity Pledges
Yahoo! News - The Downside to Virginity Pledges: "Young people who make pledges of virginity begin having sex later and have fewer sexual partners. But oddly they are infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) just as often, a new study found.
One reason is that they are less likely to use condoms when the first enter the world of sex, scientists said."
Sex in High School Involves Long Chains of Relations
Sex in High School Involves Long Chains of Relations: "A study of sexual and romantic relations at a high school found students connected by long chains, rather than in a tight network with a core group of a promiscuous few.
Sharing of partners was rare, but many students were indirectly linked through one partner to another and another.
The unexpected result could help shape strategies for combating sexually transmitted diseases among young people."
Wired News: Mendel's Law May Be Flawed
Wired News: Mendel's Law May Be Flawed: "Challenging a scientific law of inheritance that has stood for 150 years, scientists say plants sometimes select better bits of DNA in order to develop normally even when their predecessors carried genetic flaws.
The conclusion by Purdue University molecular biologists contradicts at least some basic rules of plant evolution that were believed to be absolute since the mid-1800s, when Austrian monk Gregor Mendel experimented with peas and saw that traits are passed on from one generation to the next. Mendelian genetics has been the foundation of both crop hybridization and the understanding of basic cell mutations and trait inheritance."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - Six mainly preventable diseases account for 73 percent of child deaths each year, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Pneumonia accounts for 19 percent of the under-fives who die, followed by diarrhea, pre-term delivery, malaria, blood infection and lack of oxygen at birth.
'New estimates show that worldwide more than seven in 10 of the 10.6 million annual deaths in children younger than 5 years are attributable to six causes, and that four communicable disease categories account for more than half of all child deaths,' said Robert Black, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is flouting ethical practice by proposing that international guidelines protecting patients need not apply to clinical trials conducted abroad, critics said on Thursday.
Peter Lurie, of consumer group Public Citizen, and Dirceu Greco, of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, said plans to exempt overseas trials from the Declaration of Helsinki were an example of Washington ignoring global rules."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men with a history of depression long before the onset of any memory or other cognitive problems have a substantially higher risk of developing dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease (AD), later in life, a study indicates. This risk is not observed in women.
Dr. Gloria Dal Forno, of University Campus BioMedico and Associazione Fatebenefratelli per la Ricerca, Rome, Italy, and colleagues examined the association between premorbid symptoms of depression and the development of dementia and AD over a period of 14 years in 1357 subjects enrolled in a study on aging.
Researchers assessed the frequency and severity of depressive symptoms every 2 years using standard instruments."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eyedrops made from a person's own serum are superior to artificial tear preparations for relieving signs and symptoms of severe dry eye disease, according to results of a study.
This study indicates that so-called autologous serum 'contains essential components' for maintaining eye surface health, Dr. Takashi Kojima, who led the study, said in an interview with Reuters Health.
None of the commercially available artificial tear preparations contain growth factors, vitamin A and other natural components, which have been shown to play an important role in maintaining eye health."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eyedrops made from a person's own serum are superior to artificial tear preparations for relieving signs and symptoms of severe dry eye disease, according to results of a study.
This study indicates that so-called autologous serum 'contains essential components' for maintaining eye surface health, Dr. Takashi Kojima, who led the study, said in an interview with Reuters Health.
None of the commercially available artificial tear preparations contain growth factors, vitamin A and other natural components, which have been shown to play an important role in maintaining eye health."
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthcare workers are at risk for occupational asthma, according to new data from four state-based surveillance systems that monitor work-related asthma cases. Latex and disinfectants are the main culprits.
The findings are important due to the 'size and projected growth of the healthcare industry,' investigators note in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Over a 5-year period, healthcare workers accounted for 16 percent (n=305) of all confirmed cases of work-related asthma (n=1,879) reported in the four states, but only 8 percent of the states' workforce, they report."
Yahoo! News - Study: Fewer Using Peer-To-Peer Systems
Yahoo! News - Study: Fewer Using Peer-To-Peer Systems: "NEW YORK - Use of peer-to-peer systems like Kazaa for sharing music and other files online has dropped as more Americans who use the Internet turn to such alternative methods as downloading files from a friend's iPod, a new study finds. "
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has clipped the wings of its religious police, warning that it did not want to be like Afghanistan under Taliban rule, and ordered national police supervision of their controversial raids.
The religious police stirred a storm of protest with heavy-handed behaviour during a January raid on a nightclub in the Malaysian capital, and in another incident by detaining a transsexual person visiting the home of Muslim friends."
Recognition of Visual Invariants
Recognition of Visual Invariants: "This brief note suggests a new approach to the recognition of invariant patterns in visual data, which is based on taking the conceptual framework underlying Dileep George and Jeff Hawkins� recent work (2004), and implementing this framework in the context of the powerful learning and inference mechanisms provided by the Novamente AI Engine (Looks et al, 2004).
This new approach has not been implemented yet; details on the (not too serious) obstacles in the way of practical implementation will be mentioned at the end.
The basic idea underlying George and Hawkins� work is that object recognition and other aspects of visual-invariant-recognition occur via the hierarchical recognition of patterns in temporal sequences. I agree that this is an interesting and quite possibly correct approach, but, I think the way George and Hawkins have modeled the details of their conceptual approach is somewhat oversimplistic � and oversimplistic in a way that artfully conceals the real difficulty of the type of pattern recognition that their conceptual approach entails.
I�ll explain here how one can remove their simplifications in a way that better reveals the cognitive depth of the invariant visual pattern recognition problem -- and in fact better reveals the power of George and Hawkins� ideas for coping with this depth . The result is a novel design for a vision processing system, and some novel twists on George and Hawkins� hypotheses about the neuroscience of vision."
Thursday, March 24, 2005
MIT Media Laboratoy: Press Images - Clocky
MIT Media Laboratoy: Press Images - Clocky: "PROFILE: Clocky
Clocky is, quite simply, for people who have trouble waking up.
When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will roll off the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until it eventually finds a spot to rest. Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky. This ensures that the person is fully awake before turning it off. Small wheels that are concealed by Clocky's shag enable it to move and reposition itself, and an internal processor helps it find a new hiding spot every day.
I don't like being told when to wake up but I've come to terms with the idea that I have to. In designing Clocky, I was in part inspired by kittens I've had that would bite my toes every morning. Clocky is less of an annoying device as it is a troublesome pet that you love anyway. It's also a bit ugly. But its unconventional looks keep the user calm, and inspire laughter at one of the most hated times of the day.
I've been known to hit the snooze bar for up to two hours or even accidentally turn it off. I've known people who put the alarm clock in the living room, but then forget to set it before going to sleep. Others say they are trying to wean themselves off of snoozing, as if it was a bad habit like smoking or drinking. In the foggy logic of our drowsiness, we disable the very device that is meant to wake us up. Having the alarm clock hide from me was just the most obvious way I could think of to get out of bed.
Clocky is not trying to solve all of the problems of alarm clocks�for example how they disrupt other people in the room�but I think maybe someday it can. I think the answer rests in the usage of multiple Clockies. Let's say there are two people with different sleep sched"
MIT Media Laboratoy: Press Images - Clocky
MIT Media Laboratoy: Press Images - Clocky: "DEVELOPED BY: Gauri Nanda, Research Associate, MIT Media Lab
RESEARCH GROUP: Object-Based Media
PHOTO CREDIT: MIT Media Lab
DOWNLOAD IMAGES: clocky.zip "
Clocky
Clocky
Clocky
Clocky is a clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed. When the snooze bar is pressed, Clocky rolls off the table and finds a hiding spot, a new one every day.
Materials: carpet, velcro, foam
smoot
smoot: "smoot: /smoot/, n.
[MIT] A unit of length equal five feet seven inches. The length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is famously 364.4 smoots plus an ear (the ear is allegedly the width of the earhole in the side of the football helmet the victim was wearing when he was rolled over the bridge). This legend began with a fraternity prank in 1958 during which the body length of Oliver Smoot (class of '62) was actually used to measure out that distance. It is commemorated by smoot marks that MIT students repaint every few years; the tradition even survived the demolition and rebuilding of the bridge in the late 1980s. The Boston police have been known to use smoot markers to indicate accident locations on the bridge. Apparently Smoot's experience as a unit of measurement led to a life-long career; he eventually became Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute."
smoot
smoot: "smoot: /smoot/, n.
[MIT] A unit of length equal five feet seven inches. The length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is famously 364.4 smoots plus an ear (the ear is allegedly the width of the earhole in the side of the football helmet the victim was wearing when he was rolled over the bridge). This legend began with a fraternity prank in 1958 during which the body length of Oliver Smoot (class of '62) was actually used to measure out that distance. It is commemorated by smoot marks that MIT students repaint every few years; the tradition even survived the demolition and rebuilding of the bridge in the late 1980s. The Boston police have been known to use smoot markers to indicate accident locations on the bridge. Apparently Smoot's experience as a unit of measurement led to a life-long career; he eventually became Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute."
smoot
smoot: "smoot: /smoot/, n.
[MIT] A unit of length equal five feet seven inches. The length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is famously 364.4 smoots plus an ear (the ear is allegedly the width of the earhole in the side of the football helmet the victim was wearing when he was rolled over the bridge). This legend began with a fraternity prank in 1958 during which the body length of Oliver Smoot (class of '62) was actually used to measure out that distance. It is commemorated by smoot marks that MIT students repaint every few years; the tradition even survived the demolition and rebuilding of the bridge in the late 1980s. The Boston police have been known to use smoot markers to indicate accident locations on the bridge. Apparently Smoot's experience as a unit of measurement led to a life-long career; he eventually became Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute."
Monday, March 21, 2005
SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Linux Kernel Security, Again
SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Linux Kernel Security, Again: "While investigating some reports of recent Unix compromises, I ran into a message from the SecurityFocus Incidents mailing list that was forwarded to me by the moderator, Daniel Hanson. It was a lengthy post detailing the compromise of a Linux machine. The post contained an awkward IRC-based discussion between the server administrator and the guy who had broke into the machine. "
Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia
Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia: "Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software - for free - with a global community of creative individuals.
Get your works noticed and recognized. Make your voice heard. Register now - here's why."
mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server
mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server: "Summary
``The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.''
-- Brian Behlendorf
Apache Group
`` Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo. ''
-- Brian Moore
bem@news.cmc.net
Welcome to mod_rewrite, the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation!
This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. It supports an unlimited number of rules and an unlimited number of attached rule conditions for each rule to provide a really flexible and powerful URL manipulation mechanism. The URL manipulations can depend on various tests, for instance server variables, environment variables, HTTP headers, time stamps and even external database lookups in various formats can be used to achieve a really granular URL matching.
This module operates on the full URLs (including the path-info part) both in per-server context (httpd.conf) and per-directory context (.htaccess) and can even generate query-string parts on result. The rewritten result can lead to internal sub-processing, external request redirection or even to an internal proxy throughput.
But all this functionality and flexibility has its drawback: complexity. So don't expect to understand this entire module in just one day.
This module was invented and originally written in April 1996 and gifted exclusively to the The Apache Group in July 1997 by"
The New York Times > National > A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano
The New York Times > National > A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano: "The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen.
Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.
The number of theaters rejecting such films is small, people in the industry say - perhaps a dozen or fewer, most in the South. But because only a few dozen Imax theaters routinely show science documentaries, the decisions of a few can have a big impact on a film's bottom line - or a producer's decision to make a documentary in the first place.
People who follow trends at commercial and institutional Imax theaters say that in recent years, religious controversy has adversely affected the distribution of a number of films, including 'Cosmic Voyage,' which depicts the universe in dimensions running from the scale of subatomic particles to clusters of galaxies; 'Gal�pagos,' about the islands where Darwin theorized about evolution; and 'Volcanoes of the Deep Sea,' an underwater epic about the bizarre creatures that flourish in the hot, sulfurous emanations from vents in the ocean floor.
'Volcanoes,' released in 2003 and sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and Rutgers University, has been turned down at about a dozen science centers, mostly in the South, said Dr. Richard Lutz, the Rutgers oceanographer who was chief scientist for the film. He said theater officials rejected the film because of its brief references to evolution, in particular to the possibility that life on Earth originated at the undersea vents.
Carol Murray, director of marketing for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said the museum decided not to offer the movie after showing it to a sample audience, a practice often followed by managers of Imax theaters. Ms. Murray said 137 people participated in the survey, and while some thought it was well done, 'some people said it was blasphemous.'
In their written comments, she explained, they made statements like 'I really hate it when the theory of evolution is presented as fact,' or 'I don't agree with their presentation of human existence.'"
naim: An ncurses-based console AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily client
naim: An ncurses-based console AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily client: "naim: An ncurses-based console AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily client"
Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit
Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit: "Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies. Trinux contains the latest versions of popular Open Source network security tools for port scanning, packet sniffing, vulnerability scanning, sniffer detection, packet construction, active/passive OS fingerprinting, network monitoring, session-hijacking, backup/recovery, computer forensics, intrusion detection, and more. Trinux also provides support for Perl, PHP, and Python scripting languages. Remote Trinux boxes can be managed securely with OpenSSH.
Trinux gives you the power of Linux security tools without requiring a full-blown Linux install or the need to download, compile, install, and update a complete suite of security tools that are typically not found in mainstream distributions."
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Phrealon Distribution
Phrealon Distribution: "Phrealon is a bootable linux CD based on Slackware Linux 8.0 (now 9.0)designed to allow the easy imaging of multiple workstations. It utilizes the udpcast set of Linux tools to accomplish this.
I am Phillip J Rhoades, please feel free to contact me
The zipped Phrealon 0.81 ISO image. You will have to decompress this and burn it to a cd. This is the old tried and true version.
02-27-2003 The zipped Phrealon 0.82 ISO image. This has quite a few improvements over the 0.81 release. All of the modules are available, though not allare autoscanned, so you'll have to do things semi-manually for some cards. There is an attempt at NFS, but it does not do anything of use yet. Also the scripts udp-up, init-up, and nfs-up exist on the CD directly instead of initrd.img for easier modification. Let me know of any new/old problems, please. More to come.
08-11-2003 The zipped Phrealon 0.90 ISO image. This has quite a few improvements over the 0.82 release. It has been upgraded to the 2.4.20 kernel via a new base takenfrom slackware 9. It has pcmcia support now; image those laptops folks! Also it ejects the CD again. Things aregoing nicely. Let me know what you think.
01-29-2004 The unzipped 0.96 ISO image. Added DHCP server ability."
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Yahoo! News - Retirement Home Prepared for Prostitutes
Yahoo! News - Retirement Home Prepared for Prostitutes: "MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Distressed to find aging homeless women still working as prostitutes in downtown Mexico City, women's' groups are preparing a roomy retirement home to take 65 of them off the streets.
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Rejected by their families and stripped of much of their earnings by policemen and pimps, the elderly sex workers say they have no choice but to keep working, sometimes for less than $2 a day or just a plate of food.
'I may have two or three clients a day but I can't charge what the young ones do. Sometimes I just ask for food or a hotel room,' said Gloria Maria, a kindly faced woman of 74 who mostly sleeps outdoors in a grimy downtown food market."
Yahoo! News - Fighting Crime the 11th Century Way....
Yahoo! News - Fighting Crime the 11th Century Way....: "JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Tighter gun ownership laws are pushing South Africans to buy crossbows, spears, swords, knives and pepper sprays to protect themselves from violent crime.
'We've had to build an entirely new shop because the demand from people is so great,' Justin Willmers, owner of Durban Guns and Ammo, told Reuters. 'It can be anything from a Zulu fighting spear, battle axes, swords, crossbows.'
New gun controls came into force last year under South Africa's Firearms Control Act, but some weapons shop owners say high crime rates are pushing law abiding citizens to look for alternative means of defending themselves.
Despite official figures showing the murder rate falling 10 percent in the year to March 2004, South Africa's Arms and Ammunition Dealers Association says individuals face a one in 60 chance of being the victim of a violent crime in any given year.
Many houses are surrounded by razor wire and electric fences, but with police turning down 80 percent of firearms license requests after an 18-month application process, Association spokesman Alex Holmes said people were forced to look at other options.
'It's not really a matter of choice,' Holmes said. 'Licensed firearms are not used in crime at any great rate.'
Estimates of the number of illegal firearms in South Africa vary between 1 and 4 million, he said, but the real problem is from some 30-40,000 hardcore criminals using a small number of illegal guns.
SILENT CROSSBOW"
Auditors Find IRS Workers Prone to Hackers
Auditors Find IRS Workers Prone to Hackers: "Internal Revenue Service employees and managers who were contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians provided their computer login and changed their password, a government report said Wednesday.
The report by the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration reveals a human flaw in the security system that protects taxpayer data."
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Wired News: Need a Building? Just Add Water
Wired News: Need a Building? Just Add Water: "In a world with millions of refugees, numerous war zones and huge areas devastated by natural disaster, aid agencies and militaries have long needed a way to quickly erect shelters on demand.
Soon, there will be such a method. A pair of engineers in London have come up with a 'building in a bag' -- a sack of cement-impregnated fabric. To erect the structure, all you have to do is add water to the bag and inflate it with air. Twelve hours later the Nissen-shaped shelter is dried out and ready for use."
Friday, March 11, 2005
Lenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenna (or more properly Lena) is a portion of a picture of a naked woman from the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine. It is one of the most widely used standard test images for image compression algorithms, with a portion showing the model's face and bare shoulder having become the de facto industry standard. The name "Lenna" comes from Playboy's naming in the original article—the spelling change was made so that English readers would read the name closer to the true pronunciation of the Swedish "Lena".
The picture is so well known that the model, Lena Soderberg (née Sjööblom) of Sweden, was a guest at the 50th annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science in Technology in 1997.
The use of this image has produced some controversy, with some people concerned about its prurient content, and Playboy at one time threatening to prosecute over the unauthorized use of the image. The magazine has since abandoned the threats and has embraced the use of "Lenna" for publicity reasons. Wired says [1] (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,4000,00.html) "Although Playboy is notorious for cracking down on illegal uses of its images, it has decided to overlook the widespread distribution of this particular centerfold".
Coincidentally, Playboy says the issue was its best-selling ever: 7,161,561 copies.
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History
The picture's history was described in the May 2001 newsletter of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, in an article by Jamie Hutchinson:
"Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the USC Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. They had tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.
"The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512 x 512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders."
See also: Cornell Box, Utah teapot, Stanford Bunny
Computer Laboratory - Xenoservers
Computer Laboratory - Xenoservers: "The Xenoserver project is building a public infrastructure for wide-area distributed computing. We envisage a world in which Xenoserver execution platforms will be scattered across the globe and available for any member of the public to submit code for execution. The sponsor of the code will be billed for all the resources used or reserved during the course of execution. This will serve to encourage load balancing, limit congestion, and hopefully even make the platform self-financing.
A global infrastructure such as we propose is essential to address the fundamental problem of communication latency. By enabling anyone to run programs at points throughout the network we can ensure that their code executes close to the entities with which it needs to interact. As well as reducing latency this can be used to avoid network bottlenecks, to reduce long-haul network charges and to provide a platform over which code provided by transiently-connected mobile devices can maintain a network presence."
Computer Laboratory - Xen virtual machine monitor
Computer Laboratory - Xen virtual machine monitor: "Modern computers are sufficiently powerful to use virtualization to present the illusion of many smaller virtual machines (VMs), each running a separate operating system instance. Successful partitioning of a machine to support the concurrent execution of multiple operating systems poses several challenges. Firstly, virtual machines must be isolated from one another: it is not acceptable for the execution of one to adversely affect the performance of another. This is particularly true when virtual machines are owned by mutually untrusting users. Secondly, it is necessary to support a variety of different operating systems to accommodate the heterogeneity of popular applications. Thirdly, the performance overhead introduced by virtualization should be small."
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Yahoo! News - Tenn. Man Sues Neighbors Over Fowl Noise
Yahoo! News - Tenn. Man Sues Neighbors Over Fowl Noise: "FAIRVIEW, Tenn. - After nine years of cock-a-doodle-do, a judge is being asked to rule cock-a-doodle-don't. Richard Milardo has filed a civil warrant against his neighbors, Jon Jackson and Kimberly Roberts, seeking to force them to get rid of four crowing roosters.
'I've heard enough,' Milardo said. 'I shouldn't have to listen to this anymore.'
Milardo said the hens, turkeys, donkeys, geese, swans and dogs Jackson and Roberts keep on their 2 acres of land don't bother him. But the roosters have him at wits' end."
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper has reported.
Charles Gonsoulin, 41, will have the fingers and toes amputated because of severe frostbite suffered during a 100-hour trek from Pembina, North Dakota, across the border to Emerson, Manitoba, where he was found wandering on a golf course on February 23, suffering from hypothermia.
'It is better to have loved and to have lost than never to have loved at all,' the Sun quoted Gonsoulin as saying. 'It was all worth it for me. It's the difference between sitting around dreaming about things and going out and getting them.'"
Monday, March 07, 2005
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq: "Hello, everyone.
Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2 (with Windows Firewall turned off) are vulnerable
to LAND attack.
LAND attack:
Sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source
and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition.
Tools used:
IP Sorcery for creating malicious packet, Ethereal for sniffing it and tcpreplay
for replaying.
Results:
Sending single LAND packet to file server causes Windows explorer freezing on all
workstations currently connected to the server. CPU on server goes 100%. Network
monitor on the victim server sometimes can not even sniff malicious packet. Using
tcpreplay to script this attack results in total collapse of the network.
Vulnerable operating systems:
Windows 2003
XP SP2
other OS not tested (I have other things to do currently ? like checking firewalls
on my networks ;) )
Solution:
Use Windows Firewall on workstations, use some firewall capable of detecting LAND
attacks in front of your servers.
Ethic:
Microsoft was informed 7 days ago (25.02.2005, GMT +1, local time), NO answer received,
so I decided to share this info with security community. "
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq: "Hello, everyone.
Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2 (with Windows Firewall turned off) are vulnerable
to LAND attack.
LAND attack:
Sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source
and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition.
Tools used:
IP Sorcery for creating malicious packet, Ethereal for sniffing it and tcpreplay
for replaying.
Results:
Sending single LAND packet to file server causes Windows explorer freezing on all
workstations currently connected to the server. CPU on server goes 100%. Network
monitor on the victim server sometimes can not even sniff malicious packet. Using
tcpreplay to script this attack results in total collapse of the network.
Vulnerable operating systems:
Windows 2003
XP SP2
other OS not tested (I have other things to do currently ? like checking firewalls
on my networks ;) )
Solution:
Use Windows Firewall on workstations, use some firewall capable of detecting LAND
attacks in front of your servers.
Ethic:
Microsoft was informed 7 days ago (25.02.2005, GMT +1, local time), NO answer received,
so I decided to share this info with security community. "
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq: "Hello, everyone.
Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2 (with Windows Firewall turned off) are vulnerable
to LAND attack.
LAND attack:
Sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source
and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition.
Tools used:
IP Sorcery for creating malicious packet, Ethereal for sniffing it and tcpreplay
for replaying.
Results:
Sending single LAND packet to file server causes Windows explorer freezing on all
workstations currently connected to the server. CPU on server goes 100%. Network
monitor on the victim server sometimes can not even sniff malicious packet. Using
tcpreplay to script this attack results in total collapse of the network.
Vulnerable operating systems:
Windows 2003
XP SP2
other OS not tested (I have other things to do currently ? like checking firewalls
on my networks ;) )
Solution:
Use Windows Firewall on workstations, use some firewall capable of detecting LAND
attacks in front of your servers.
Ethic:
Microsoft was informed 7 days ago (25.02.2005, GMT +1, local time), NO answer received,
so I decided to share this info with security community. "
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Yahoo! News - China says cancer-causing red dye Sudan I found in Heinz products
Yahoo! News - China says cancer-causing red dye Sudan I found in Heinz products: "BEIJING (AFP) - China said that a cancer-causing agent at the center of a European health scare has been found in edible products made by a subsidiary of the American multinational food giant Heinz Company. "
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Health News Article | Reuters.co.uk: "CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian baby who had an operation to remove a second head last month has had a second operation to extract excess fluid from her brain, one of her doctors said Sunday.
Ten-month-old Manar Maged had the operation because she developed hydrocephalus, a condition in which fluid accumulates in the cerebral ventricles causing convulsions and an enlargement of the skull, said Nasif Hifnawy, head of paediatrics at Benha Children's Hospital north of Cairo.
'We planted a valve in her brain in a one-hour operation on Friday that managed to stop her convulsions ... Manar's case is now stable with normal heart beat, blood pressure, enzyme level and reflex actions,' he added."
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie
Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie: "Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, Kim Jong Il, and these weird 'travel transition' shots -- in which a tiny red plane icon appears to attack a larger passenger plane. "
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Yahoo! News - Cat Survives 10-Mile Trip Atop Car
Yahoo! News - Cat Survives 10-Mile Trip Atop Car: "INKOM, Idaho - Torri Hutchinson's cat might just have one less life to live. Hutchison was driving along Interstate 15 one day recently when a motorist kept trying to get her attention and pointing to the roof of her car. She said she was wary of the man, but wondered if perhaps her ski rack might have come loose.
She pulled over to the side, but kept her doors locked and the motor running.
The man pulled up behind her. Hutchinson rolled down her window to hear the man frantically shouting, 'Your cat! Your cat!'
He reached for the roof of her car and handed the shocked Hutchinson her orange tabby.
She had driven about 10 miles with the cat on top of the car, and didn't even notice the feline when she stopped for gas.
Hutchinson said Cuddle Bug, or C.B. for short, had climbed into the back of her car as she was getting ready to leave. She put him out, but he must have jumped on the roof while she wasn't looking, she said. "
Yahoo! News - Woman Needs Lift, Allegedly Takes Cruiser
Yahoo! News - Woman Needs Lift, Allegedly Takes Cruiser: "CARNEGIE, Pa. - A woman who apparently needed a ride home from a bar drove off in a police cruiser that was parked outside a police station, an officer said.
Theresa E. Zygula, 49, was charged Wednesday with theft and driving under the influence for stealing a police car that morning, said police Chief Jeff Harbin.
Zygula left a bar after it had closed and walked across the street to the Pittsburgh suburb's police department, Harbin said. She knocked on the offices' door, but when she didn't get a response, Zygula drove away in the police car, he said. "
Yahoo! News - Boy Sets Off for School at Dead of Night
Yahoo! News - Boy Sets Off for School at Dead of Night: "BERLIN (Reuters) - Astonished German police picked up an 8-year-old boy at 3 a.m. who had accidentally set off to school thinking he was late, authorities said Thursday.
'He seemed to have got into a panic he was late and went off to school by himself with his rucksack,' said a spokesman for police in the western city of Aachen. 'You'd think the parents weren't looking after him, but that wasn't the case here.' "
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "OTTAWA (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Canada has denied a newspaper story saying Canadian Defence Minister Bill Graham had trouble boarding a plane because his name was on a U.S. no-fly list designed to deter terrorists.
Wednesday's Globe and Mail article said Graham had to wait while his staff found ways to vouch for his identity and ensure he made it on to the scheduled flight to the United States in January."
Yahoo! News - Construction Worker Shoots Himself in Eye
Yahoo! News - Construction Worker Shoots Himself in Eye: "PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A construction worker accidentally shot himself in the eye with a nail gun and then pulled the 2 1/2-inch nail out of his face, according to a police report and a co-worker.
Joseluis Franco, 19, was using an air-powered, Hitachi nail gun to help build a home Wednesday when a nail bounced back and lodged in his eye, crew leader Rogelio Ocampo said. Franco was nailing a two-by-four to concrete when the nail ricocheted.
Franco was conscious when police arrived at the scene and was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he was treated and released. Police said Friday they don't know the condition of Franco's eye. "
Yahoo! News - Ill. Lawmakers Take on 'Eyeball Jewelry'
Yahoo! News - Ill. Lawmakers Take on 'Eyeball Jewelry': "SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Some Illinois lawmakers want to make sure the twinkle in your eye doesn't come from jewelry.
Repulsed by a body modification offered at a Dutch institute � where tiny metal hearts and half-moons are surgically embedded in the whites of the eye � one lawmaker has proposed banning the practice in Illinois.
A House committee Thursday approved legislation that would make it a felony to implant jewelry in someone's eye. "
Yahoo! News - 8-Year-Old Arrested After Alleged Tantrum
Yahoo! News - 8-Year-Old Arrested After Alleged Tantrum: "WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Police arrested an 8-year-old boy who allegedly had a violent outburst in school, head-butting his teacher and kicking an assistant principal, when he was told he couldn't go outside to play with other students.
The 4-foot pupil was led away from Rawls Byrd Elementary School in handcuffs Tuesday and charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery.
'It's not something that happens every day,' Maj. Stan Stout said of what could be the department's youngest arrest ever. "
Yahoo! News - Get Into Biz School? Hacker Offers Crystal Ball
Yahoo! News - Get Into Biz School? Hacker Offers Crystal Ball: "BOSTON (Reuters) - A computer hacker helped applicants break into records at some of the most prestigious U.S. business schools to see if they were acce`ted weeks before official offers were sent out, officials said on Friday.
A person who applied to Harvard Business School posted instructions on how to check the application status at several business schools, including Stanford, Duke and Dartmouth, on Business Week's online technology forum this week. "
Yahoo! News - Quirky Festival Honors Frozen Dead Guy
Yahoo! News - Quirky Festival Honors Frozen Dead Guy: "BOULDER, Colorado - Over the last three years, the cryogenically frozen body of a Norwegian man has become the centerpoint of a quirky winter festival in a small Colorado mining town.
'Grandpa' Bredo Morstoel, who died in 1989, was frozen by his grandson and stored in a shed in Nederland, a town 35 miles northwest of Denver that began celebrating 'Frozen Dead Guy Days' in 2002 to increase tourism. "
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - 'Wanna be an anarchist'?
At least one of the Sex Pistols, now middle-aged and a father of two, no longer does.
Former Pistols Bassist Glen Matlock has called for swearing on television to be curbed, nearly 30 years after the provocative punk rockers sent shockwaves through Britain by using derivations of the dreaded 'f'-word on live TV."
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California man sent to prison for 26 years for lying on a driver's license application has won a new hearing in a case that revived debate over the state's 'three strikes' law, which imposes lengthy terms on repeat offenders.
Santos Reyes was convicted of perjury for filling out a driver's license under a cousin's name in 1997. Convicted of burglary in 1981 and armed robbery in 1987, he was sentenced to 26-years-to-life. Reyes appealed, arguing such a sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco ordered the case returned to a lower court to review Reyes's previous crimes."
Friday, March 04, 2005
Why I Will Never Have A Girlfriend -- nothingisreal.com
Why I Will Never Have A Girlfriend -- nothingisreal.com
Tristan Miller
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence1
20 December 1999
Why don't I have a girlfriend?
This is a question that practically every male has asked himself at one point or another in his life. Unfortunately, there is rarely a hard and fast answer to the query. Many men try to reason their way through the dilemma nonetheless, often reaching a series of ridiculous explanations, each more self-deprecating than the last: "Is it because I'm too shy, and not aggressive enough? Is it my opening lines? Am I a boring person? Am I too fat or too thin? Or am I simply ugly and completely unattractive to women?" When all other plausible explanations have been discounted, most fall back on the time-honoured conclusion that "there must be Something Wrong™ with me" before resigning themselves to lives of perpetual chastity.2
Not the author, though. I, for one, refuse to spend my life brooding over my lack of luck with women. While I'll be the first to admit that my chances of ever entering into a meaningful relationship with someone special are practically non-existent, I staunchly refuse to admit that it has anything to do with some inherent problem with me. Instead, I am convinced that the situation can be readily explained in purely scientific terms, using nothing more than demographics and some elementary statistical calculus.
Lest anyone suspect that my standards for women are too high, let me allay those fears by enumerating in advance my three criteria for the match. First, the potential girlfriend must be approximately my age — let's say 21 plus or minus three or four years. Second, the girl must be beautiful (and I use that term all-encompassingly to refer to both inner and outer beauty). Third, she must also be reasonably intelligent — she doesn't have to be Mensa material, but the ability to carry on a witty, insightful argument would be nice. So there they are — three simple demands, which I'm sure everyone will agree are anything but unreasonable.
That said, I now present my demonstration of why the probability of finding a suitable candidate fulfilling the three above-noted requirements is so small as to be practically impossible — in other words, why I will never have a girlfriend. I shall endeavour to make this proof as rigorous as the available data permits. And I should note, too, that there will be no statistical trickery involved here; I have cited all my sources and provided all relevant calculations3 in case anyone wishes to conduct their own independent review. Let's now take a look at the figures.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Yahoo! News - Prank Shuts U.S.-Canadian Border for Hours
Yahoo! News - Prank Shuts U.S.-Canadian Border for Hours: "LYNDEN, Wash. - A practical joke shut down U.S.-Canadian border crossing for nearly four hours just as the weekend was getting under way. A 42-year-old man was stopped at the border around 4:40 p.m. Friday.
During an inspection of his vehicle, 'a crude device thought to be an explosive' was found under a seat, Corporal Dale Carr of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a news release.
The inspection area and a duty-free shop were immediately evacuated, spokeswoman Paula Shore with the Canadian Border Services Agency said. The RCMP closed southbound Highway 13, and, at Canada's request, U.S. officials closed their side of the border to vehicles northbound on Highway 539. "
Yahoo! News - Berkeley Teachers Won't Give Homework
Yahoo! News - Berkeley Teachers Won't Give Homework: "BERKELEY, Calif. - Students in the Berkeley school district aren't getting written homework assignments because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time after two years without a pay raise.
So far, a black history event had to be canceled and parents had to staff a middle-school science fair because teachers are sticking strictly to the hours they're contracted to work.
'Teachers do a lot with a little. All of a sudden, a lot of things that they do are just gone. It's demoralizing,' said Rachel Baker, who has a son in kindergarten. "
Yahoo! News - Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Now: a Porn Star
Yahoo! News - Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Now: a Porn Star: "LONDON (Reuters) - In its 183-year history, the august Oxford Union debating society has heard the wisdom of Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) and Mother Teresa.
Now its members are to hear from Ron Jeremy, star of 1,700 adult films, including 'Bang Along With Ron.'
'Ron is the biggest and apparently the best in the business, so I'm sure he'll have some fascinating stories to tell,' said Oxford Union librarian Vladimir Bermant, who organized the event.
Jeremy, who claims to have slept with more than 4,000 women, will address the union on Wednesday, joining many British prime ministers, three U.S. presidents and prominent figures from the Dalai Lama to Malcolm X in its archival guest list.
Peter Cardwell, spokesman for one of the English-speaking world's most respected debating societies, said U.S. porn star Jenna Jameson also addressed the union a few years ago. "
Yahoo! News - Town Opens Doors to 5 Million New 'Citizens'
Yahoo! News - Town Opens Doors to 5 Million New 'Citizens': "BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A small town in Hungary is set to become the country's biggest, on paper at least, by offering honorary citizenship to all ethnic Hungarians living abroad.
Peter Koszo, the deputy mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, said his town decided to grant the civic honor to an estimated five million Hungarians overseas after a referendum in December failed to grant them national citizenship. "
Yahoo! News - White House gets tapes of Bush "marijuana" chat
Yahoo! News - White House gets tapes of Bush "marijuana" chat: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An author who secretly taped conversations in which George W. Bush indicated he had used marijuana has turned the tapes over to the president's private counsel, the White House says.
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The White House was irritated last month when Doug Wead released portions of his recorded conversations with Bush from 1998 to 2000, when Bush was governor of Texas and planning his White House run.
Wead was an old friend who had worked in the White House of Bush's father, and many of the conversations dealt with issues of religion and politics. Wead had quoted from the tapes in a recent book on presidential childhoods and said he had recorded them out of historic interest. "
