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'Digital shoplifting is becoming a big problem as camera-equipped mobile handsets are spreading fast and their quality is improving greatly,' said Kenji Takahashi, an official at the Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Will entry into a bookstore soon include a 'cell-phone patdown?'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1056959460701B215 Telemarketers Plan Counterattack http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/0038234 Chris Hoofnagle writes "CNN reports that companies who heavily use telemarketing are [0]planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage of spam and junk mail in October, when the new [1]do-not-call registry goes into effect. Slashdotters should be aware that, as well as [2]anti-spam email software, there are tools to avoid junk snail-mail, such as Junkbusters' free [3]Declare, Private Citizen's [4]excellent service and the Postal Service's Prohibitory Order service, which is described at [5]the EPIC privacy page." Links 0. http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/02/news/companies/telemarketers/ 1. http://donotcall.gov/ 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1942207&tid=111 3. http://www.junkbusters.com/declare.html 4. http://www.private-citizen.com/ 5. http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling Are You Using 802.1X? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2330259 WirelessMan asks "I work for a certain university in the US, and our IT department has just deployed IEEE 802.1x authentication for our wireless network. One of the benefits is that all users' sessions are encrypted using tumbling WEP keys. One of the (major) drawbacks is the 'newness' of 1x. As far as I can tell (Google, etc) there aren't a whole lot of places out there who have taken the plunge. [0]Google it, or check out [1]this brief description. Does the Slashdot community have any experience with 1x?" Links 0. http://www.google.com/search?q=802.1x 1. http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/1041171 Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2235226 [0]jaime g. wong writes "[1]Scott McCloud's latest comic, 'The Right Number', is finally [2]available online... for just 25 cents! McCloud [3]has discussed the concept of micropayment for online comics before; let's all hope this idea, using [4]BitPass technology, will succeed." There's more info via a [5]a Comic Book Resources article, and Tycho over at [6]Penny Arcade also has opinions on the micropayment route: "..if you have enough readers who care about your work to go through all that rigmarole, you could succeed with any business model... I see it as a model for compensation, lined up with the other models for compensation, like at the police station." Links 0. http://people.paperclip.com.pe/jaguar/ 1. http://www.scottmccloud.com/ 2. http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html 3. http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-5/icst-5.html 4. http://www.bitpass.com/learn/ 5. http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2421 6. http://www.penny-arcade.com/ HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/227248 theoddball writes "HP just announced a new PC model (HP Compaq d220) that's [0]available preloaded with Windows or Mandrake 9.1. The machine appears to be targeted to business users, although it's on the lower-end of the scale - [1]specs are here. Mandrake also has a [2]press release announcing the deal, which will grow to include four other HP models. Is this a sign that top tier manufacturers are taking Linux more seriously, or at least seeing a profitable niche?" We commented on [3]MandrakeSoft's status update yesterday. Links 0. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030702a.html 1. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-64287-89301-321860-f9-337529.html 2. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2426 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/225223&tid=147 July 6th - Website Defacement Day? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2149226 [0]pabl0 writes "According to an article from SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle), a challenge has been posted, inviting web-site defacers to [1]alter the content of as many web sites as possible on July 6th, with an apparent limit of 6,000 websites per contestant. Looks like this would be a good time to make sure all those web-server security patches are applied!" Links 0. http://www.gotclue.net 1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/07/02/financial1239EDT0109.DTL&type=tech USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2126230 Zentalon writes "The United States Postal Service has [0]announced that it will provide In-Person Proofing (pdf) to physically authenticate individuals before a digital signature certificate is issued to that person. This has a bunch of interesting ramifications; for instance, I could create a simple spam filter that only accepts mail from individuals and organizations that have an authenticated certificate. It could also allow for more secure financial transactions. Anyone know if any other national postal services are planning the same thing?" Funny, they don't seem to always know where to deliver so-called first-class mail ... Links 0. http://www.ribbs.usps.gov/files/fedreg/usps2003/03-15211.PDF Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1940226 geekee writes "An article on CNET claims that a technique whereby a user enters a code word displayed in an image in order to register for a service such as an e-mail account [0]discriminates against the blind. Advocacy groups for the blind are even hinting at lawsuits against companies using this practice. A proposed audio workaround for the blind still has problems since it has to be garbled to the point where most people can't understand it to prevent a computer from recognizing the letters. Brings up some interesting issues surrounding the Turing test." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1022814.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed Open Source Project Management Lessons http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1817220 [0]cpfeifer writes "Paul Baranowski [1]takes a moment to reflect on Open Source Project Management in his blog. His reflections are based on the first two years of the Peek-a-booty project." Interesting comments on media coverage, choice of programming language, when to release a project, and more. Links 0. http://www.cpfeifer.org 1. http://www.peek-a-booty.org/pbhtml/index.php Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/170245 [0]Craig Newmark (craigslist) writes "In California, we had a pretty good antispam bill proposed by Sen. Debra Bowen, which was killed yesterday. A pro-spammer bill, backed by the big media sites including Microsoft, passed through committee. [1] Here's a quick round up. We're considering a big feedback campaign, based on conversation with staffers on what works for them, since they want to hear from constituents, as opposed to spam. More to come ..." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.google.com/news?q=bowen+spam&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G&edition=&scoring=d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
