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Crowd-sourcing the e-car
HELSINKI - AFTER the wikipedia, the wikicar. 'eCars - Now!' is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year.
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Day Around the Bay
Many still waiting for iPhone 3G climax. [ Curbed ] Google Maps’ "Walking Directions" will most certainly make you less fat. [ Mission Mission ] Is pin-thin Steve Jobs ill? [ Valleywag ] Muni caught on tape! [ SFGate ] Nike hates gay sex, or crotch rot, or something like that. [ Gawker ] Stevenson Street sexual outlaw at work. [ Jameth ] Rubicon to shutter its doors? [ Eater ] ...
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Potentially Serious Security Flaws Found In Most Bank Websites, Including Large Bank Sites, Study Shows
More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity. These design flaws aren't bugs that can be fixed with a patch. They stem from the flow and the layout of these Web sites, according to the study. The flaws include placing log-in boxes and contact information on insecure ...
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6 trips that'll thrill your family, even your teen
Need help booking that family vacation? Jeanne Muchnick of Parenting Teens Online shares a list the whole family will enjoy.
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Rick Ross - Rick Ross Still Denying Prison Guard Claims
LATEST: Rapper RICK ROSS is still denying reports he once worked as a prison officer, despite photos and payroll records posted online as evidence. The Hustlin' star ...
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With DNS Flaw Now Public, Attack Code Imminent
Hackers say that they will soon develop attack code that exploits a recently published, critical DNS bug.
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Yahoo profits fall amid company turmoil
Buffeted by a souring economy and Microsoft Corp.'s failed courtship, Yahoo Inc. said that second quarter profits fell 18 percent. The results highlight the slowdown in the U.S. online advertising industry and keep the pressure on the Sunnyvale Web portal's...
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IAC To Take $170M In Charges For Spinoffs
Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp, preparing to spin off four of its operating units, said late Tuesday it plans to take about $170 million in charges because the housing crisis has diminished the value of its mortgage and real estate businesses.
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Microsoft strikes deal for Xbox films
Microsoft has struck deals with five horror movie directors for a series of short films in a move aimed at boosting the original entertainment content available on its Xbox console.
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IAC to take $170M in charges for spinoffs
Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp, preparing to spin off four of its operating units, said late Tuesday it plans to take about $170 million in charges because the housing crisis has diminished the value of its mortgage and real estate businesses. The...
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IAC to take $170M in charges for spinoffs
Tue, Jul 22, 2008 (6:03 p.m.) Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp, preparing to spin off four of its operating units, said late Tuesday it plans to take about $170 million in charges because the housing crisis has diminished the value of its mortgage and real estate businesses.
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1 ‘spam king’ sentenced; another escapes
Tue, Jul 22, 2008 (6:06 p.m.) There seems to be a lot of spam royalty out there: A Seattle man known as the "spam king" was sentenced to prison Tuesday, while federal officials said someone else with the same criminal nickname escaped from a prison camp in Colorado.
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Earnings
Yahoo Inc. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company earned $131 million, or 9 cents per share, from April through June. That was down 18 percent from $161 million, or 11 cents per share, at the same time last year.
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Computer tech hands over secret codes to Newsom in jailhouse visit
The San Francisco computer engineer accused of withholding access codes to the city's network surrendered the password during an unusual jailhouse visit by Mayor Gavin Newsom, authorities said Tuesday. Newsom came away with the access codes Monday night after...
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Postmortem debugging of embedded RTOS applications
Postmortem debugging in desktop operating systems (OSes) such as Windows and Linux has been around for some time. If the OS crashes, a kernel dump file is written to the disk for postmortem debugging of the crash.
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end users
Emphasis mine. Apple is not suing people who have made their own hackintosh for private use, or people who jailbroke their iPhone, or even the people who distribute the methods to do so on the Internet. They're suing Psystar.
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N.Y. Vows Legal Action Against Comcast Over Child Porn
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has pressured Internet service providers to block access to child pornography, said his office would pursue legal action against Comcast Cable Communications LLC if it did not quickly agree to reforms.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Aug 2006 17:51 UTC
Microsoft will release new versions of its Windows operating system in South Korea on Thursday to comply with an antitrust ruling , a company source said Wednesday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 20:19 UTC, submitted by Mitarai
"The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell . The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. That's the one I poked with a stick."
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Horror helmers do comedy for Xbox Live
Safran Digital Group and Microsoft announced a deal Tuesday that will have some of the leading directors in horror/supernatural filmmaking trying their hand at comedy as the first original programming on Xbox Live.
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With DNS Flaw Now Public, Attack Code Imminent
Hackers say that they will soon develop attack code that exploits a recently published, critical DNS bug.
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Features and Case Studies
Here’s what you need to know when it comes to installing, configuring, and managing SBS 2003 e-mail accounts. From server-level software, to appliances, to managed services, we review the latest anti-spam solutions to help enterprises manage the onslaught of unsightly spam.
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Features and Case Studies
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
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1 'spam king' sentenced; another escapes
There seems to be a lot of spam royalty out there: A Seattle man known as the "spam king" was sentenced to prison Tuesday, while federal officials said someone else with the same criminal nickname escaped from a prison camp in Colorado. Robert Alan Soloway,...
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After staunch resistance, NAT may come to IPv6 after all
With the end of the supply of IPv4 addresses in sight and no IPv6 deployment to speak of, the IETF is working on a way to let IPv6 users connect to the IPv4 Internet. This may even involve the dark art of Network Address Translation, which was supposed to be kept out of IPv6. Read More...
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