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SDR News Extra – Feeling your Pain
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
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SDR News Extra Edition has been running for a week, and there are growing pains in evidence. You can sign up on the red badge on the site or by dialing the hotline number 408-731-6848. It is going to be quite useful for overflow articles and information but it is creating a bit of a problem right now. The past two nights at about 1:48AM Eastern time it has gone off, dialing everyone on the list. Some sort of bug, not controllable from here. My apologies – I expect a quick answer from the SayNow people on Monday. BE assured that I am NOT sending you messages at that hour, and that since I monitor the list with my own phone line, I feel your pain.
The decline in first-class mail is forcing the U.S. Postal Service to remove tens of thousands of underused mailboxes from city streets.
Mp3 newswire
‘We have run the iPod Killers for Christmas/Summer series since 2004. In that time we [have] reported on 149 portable players and NOT one iPod killer from the bunch
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Zune portable and SanDisk’s 8GB e280 flash unit is compelling high-end users.
the best portable media player on the market in our opinion. That player is the Sony PSP
Only 10% of households have a digital music portable presently.
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911 Call Tracking Site Stirs Concern
Site that tracked 911 calls displayed on map
Seattle911.com
Obj:could make things easier if terrorists were planning an attack
The information continues to be publicly available on the Fire Department’s Web site. It is just now being displayed in a manner that is harder for people to use
Bruce Schneier
illusion of protection for them,” he said. “If they are really worried about it, they should pull the whole thing off the Web entirely.
Recall item -Nedap voting machine -90
Hacked on live TV – playing chess
Gov’t reaction
ordered (Dutch) all software to be replaced, all hardware to be checked,
unflashable firmware to be installed,
iron seal to be placed on voting machines.
A certification institute will double-check all measures, and on election day will cull random machines to check them for accuracy.
{USA the story fell off weeks ago, supplanted by IM from congressmen / sex scandel}
French : Linked higher BMI to lower IQ
five-year study of more than 2,200 adults
Neurology journal
taking four mental ability tests that were then repeated five years later.
Body Mass Index – a measure of body fat – of 20 or less could recall 56 per cent of words in a vocabulary test,
BMI of 30 or higher, could remember only 44 per cent.
hormones secreted from fats could have a damaging effect on cerebral cells
since obesity is a widely known cardiovascular risk factor, due to the thickening and hardening of the blood vessels in the brain,”
Facts, causality, and politics – what a story
Airport To Tag Passengers With RFID
Debrecen Airport in Hungary- University College London 2.6 yr EU Program
Tags round their necks when they get to the airport. Identity and whereabouts network of high definition cameras.
10m to 20m,, 1000′s at a time
BBC: ensuring the tags cannot be switched between passengers or removed without notification.’
1. He is not “Paule Wilke” which is the name he was sued under.
2. He has never possessed on his computer any of the songs listed in exhibit A [the list of songs the RIAA's investigator downloaded].
He only had a few of the songs from exhibit B [the screenshot] on his computer, and those were from legally purchased CDs owned by Mr. Wilke.
3. He has never used any “online media distribution system
{ham fisted / soft targets / no defense}
Wal-Mart is telling the music industry to lower prices.
While Wal-Mart represents nearly twenty percent of major-label music sales,
music represents only about two percent of Wal-Mart’s total sales.
“If they got out of selling music, it would mean nothing to them,”
Future-Industrial Espionage
2006 Virus Bulletin Conference is currently taking place in Montreal,
the highly targeted, tightly focused, small scale Trojan attack that is causing the biggest headache.
keyloggers and screen-scrapers, using highly focused emails to just one or two well researched addresses at the target business.
the normal detection systems sound no bells because no attack pattern is detected: it’s just another email.
3 million bits of malware extracted from email by MessageLabs every single day, only 7 will be a targeted Trojan.
By including a link to a zero day exploit infected MS Office document, gateway security, signature based security can all be sidestepped
FCC Lets Wireless Devices Use Empty TV Channels
switch to digital broadcasts in 2009,
to wireless devices that operate in vacant television channels;
Channel 37 is out — it’s used by radio astronomers.
52-69 are also out, since they have been allocated for public safety use.
14-20 might be out because 13 US cities currently use parts of that spectrum for public safety communications.’”
Vista and VM
Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use
allows you to only move it to another device once
Ex replace motherboard
Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtual machine
Home Basic users can’t copy ISOs to their hard drives, can’t run in a virtualized environment, and can only share files and printers to a maximum of 5 network devices.”
CNEt -How HP bugging to find boardroom leak
Web bugs – 1 pixel square
ReadNotify, which operates as an online service, provides a free trial that lets anyone send 25 bugged e-mails, according to its Web site. Subscriptions are offered starting at $24 per year.
But it turns out the vulnerability they represent is far worse than first thought. Microsoft Outlook won’t have a patch until 2007.
YouTube SDR
Sony e-Reader E Book
NYT had review
Leave it on -7500 page turns
No current displayed
Few rough edges, cumbersome SW
Laern from itms
Advantages of wood pulp substrate
Pop Science
Russian plans Arctic territories
$200-million floating plant—slated for construction next year—could provide relatively inexpensive, reliable electricity to 200,000 people.
workers will empty every 10 to 12 years during regular maintenance overhauls.
Two 60-megawatt KLT-40S reactors adapted from those already in use on three Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers
Hurricanes not a problem
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