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Links 0. http://blog.sergiocarvalho.com/ 1. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5074041.html 2. http://new.blogger.com/feature_giveaway/pro_email.pyra 3. http://new.blogger.com/feature_giveaway/announcement.pyra Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/0251209 Lord Prox writes "Edward Teller, one of the 20th Century's greats in physics, [0]died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Stanford. He was 95." Newsforge.com also has [1]one of the final interviews with Teller, who was "a principal architect of the hydrogen bomb, [and] passionate advocate of nuclear power and antimissile defense." Links 0. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6737920.htm 1. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/0037257&tid=1 Products Seek Antiterrorism Certification http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/015226 Makarand writes "According to ABCNews/Forbes, businesses with antiterrorism products for which they are unable to find insurers to provide liability coverage are lining up to [0] seek the Homeland Security Department's seal of approval. Products certified as antiterrorism products enjoy some protection from liability suits and an official 'seal of approval', making them easier to sell. The Department has started accepting applications for certification, many likely to come from technology companies such as Qualcomm, Unisys, and others, starting Sept. 1." Links 0. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/SciTech/forbes_terrorism_030909.html Satellite-Assisted European Road Tolls Next? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/228208 [0]Roland Piquepaille writes "In '[1]Pay-as-you-go motoring just around the corner,' the European Space Agency (ESA) says that "road tolls could be made fairer if satellite-assisted distance pricing is implemented." Experiments are currently underway in Ireland, Portugal and Germany, before a possible extension to other countries. Potential benefits of such a road tolling system would be fairer implementation of charging on a 'pay for use' basis. All these experiments are using the US-operated [2]Global Positioning System (GPS). But in 2010, when the system is fully implemented, it will use the [3]Galileo satellite system." Links 0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/ 1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/esa-pmj090903.php 2. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/faq/gpsfaq.htm 3. http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/GGGMX650NDC_navigation_0.html Wind River To Stop Selling BSD/OS http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/2317249 David writes "According to an article on Bsdnewsletter.com, OS company [0]Wind River has said it [1]will be stopping sales of [2]BSD/OS on this December 31st, and product support exactly one year thereafter. Only 15 more weeks to grab the final 5.1 update before this piece of history might be gone forever..." Links 0. http://www.windriver.com/ 1. http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2003/09/News105.html 2. http://www.bsdi.com/ RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/2222214 wo1verin3 writes "CNET News is reporting that the RIAA is [0]being sued because of 'Clean Slate' filesharing amnesty program that was [1]announced on Monday. 'Clean Slate' allows people to (supposedly) avoid legal action by stepping forward and forfeiting any illegally traded songs. The suit, filed in the Marin Superior Court of California, charges that the RIAA's program is deceptive and fraudulent business practice." The suit claims that the amnesty is "designed to induce members of the general public... to incriminate themselves... while (receiving)... no legally binding release of claims", a statement the EFF [2]also agrees with. Links 0. http://cnet.com.com/2100-1027_3-5073972.html 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/1712256&tid=141 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/2349252&tid=158 New Breed Of Web Accelerators Actually Work http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/2047230 axlrosen writes "Web accelerators first came around years ago, and they didn't live up to the hype. Now TV commercials are advertising accelerators that speed up your dial-up connection by up to 5 times, they say. AOL and EarthLink throw them in for free; some ISPs charge a monthly fee. Tests by [0]PC World, [1]PC Magazine and [2]CNET show that they do speed up your surfing quite a bit. They work by using improved compression and caching. The downside is they don't help streaming video or audio." And they require non-Free software on the client's end, too. Links 0. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,107372,00.asp 1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1090228,00.asp 2. http://www.cnet.com/internet/0-3762-8-21179366-1.html Microsoft Identifies, Patches Another Critical RPC Hole http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/200232 [0]Dynamoo writes "Microsoft have [1]another critical vulnerability in the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 line of OSes, allowing a remote attacker to run arbitrary code. In other words, this probably carries about the same risk as the well-documented RPC hole exploited by MSBlaster and Nachi. A [2]Knowledgebase article is also available. Given the experience of the RPC exploit, this probably gives administrators a couple of weeks to patch all the systems in their organisations. Again. Shucks, we haven't even finished patching the RPC flaw yet." You might want to keep your laptop's batteries charged; this NewsForge article suggests that the [3]Blaster worm may have played a role in the August 14th blackout affecting the eastern U.S. Update: 09/10 20:41 GMT by [4]T: Reader AcquaCow suggests that administrators with multiple machines to patch visit Microsoft's [5]Software Update Services [6](whitepaper), a tool for "managing and distributing critical Windows patches." Links 0. http://www.dynamoo.com/ 1. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.asp 2. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=824146 3. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/09/1526221.shtml?tid=2 4. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/ 5. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp 6. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/susdeploymentasp Back To SCO http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/1459243 [0]wampl3r writes " [1]Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens deliver a great response to SCO's recent [2]Letter to the Open Source Community. Their response does a good job of presenting many of the finer points we have been arguing about around here, but it's nice to see them in such a formal, well-thought-out letter." [3]Munchola adds "Meanwhile, ComputerWire, from where [4]McBride misquoted Perens in the first place, sets the record straight: 'In his statement McBride appears to have attributed a ComputerWire paraphrase as a quote from Perens.'" [5]stefan points to this [6]response to McBride's letter from Kevin Bedell, LinuxWorld Magazine's Editor. Below, find one reader's idea about the "stolen lines" SCO claims are in the Linux kernel, and one expert's claim that SCO might not know some of its own source code very well. Links 0. http://`jwampler' `at' `iwamp.com' 1. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-09-10-016-26-OS-CD-CY 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/123246&tid=88 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/3a35523d036458f180256d9d0018bdec 5. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. http://linuxworld.com/story/34011.htm Good Guys 2, Spammers 0 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/1836234 JoeJob writes "A couple of victories in the legal war against spammers. First, a Washington resident has been [0]awarded a $250,000 decision against a spammer that sent him 58,000 copies of a spam. Second, looks like the spammers who are [1]trying to sue Spamhaus, SPEWS, and other spam blacklists have decided to [2]tuck their tails and run. Let's hope this trend continues." If you care to celebrate this, [3]one food springs to mind. Links 0. http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3075271 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1717224&tid=111 2. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60357,00.html 3. http://www.hawaii.edu/recipes/misc/spam.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
