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Submission + - Comment Spammers Watch Out! We're Tracking You

Submitted by girish
girish writes: Project Honey Pot just announced that they've begun to track comment spammers. Using its network of honey pot web pages installed around the world, the service has tracked spammers and email harvesters for some time now. Today's announcement adds another malicious web robot to the bad guys Project Honey Pot is protecting websites against. What's particularly cool is that they're publishing stats on the top countries for comment spamming and top keywords being spamvertized. It looks like the top comment spammers are posting from #1 US, #2 Korea, #3 Russia and spamvertising "replica rolex watch", "cialis", and "free sprint ringtones". Check it out!
United States

Journal Journal: Abortion Decision 1

Journal by pudge

I've seen many people on both sides of the abortion debate say the recent decision is one step toward the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

They are all wrong. :-)

Remember what Roe actually said, which Casey affirmed, which now Carhart has affirmed (explicitly, in all cases): the "confirmation of the State's power to restrict abortions after fetal viability, if the law contains exceptions for pregnancies which endanger the woman's life or health."
Bug

Submission + - QuickTime the culprit in Mac hack

Submitted by
jcatcw
jcatcw writes: "Safari, Firefox, IE on Mac or Windows are probably all vulnerable if QuickTime is installed, but disabling Java stops the vulnerability, according to a Computerworld report. Shane Macaulay got a MacBook Pro and Dino Di Zovie took the $10,000 prize offered by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative at last week's Mac hacking contest for exploiting the bug. On Friday, Sean Comeau, one of the CanSecWest organizers, said the bug was in Safari, the Apple browser bundled with Mac OS X. But Monday, researchers at Matasano Security LLC, a New York-based consultancy, said the flaw is actually in QuickTime. Di Zovie is a former Matasano researcher."
Republicans

Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers 688

Posted by kdawson from the something-rotten-in-the-state-of-Ohio dept.
goombah99 writes "Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished." Update: 04/25 01:24 GMT by KD : ePluribus Media published a piece called Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again on election eve 2006, when a similar DNS switch to Smartech occurred. They have been investigating the larger story of IT on Capitol Hill and elsewhere for two years.
Media

Submission + - Univ. Akron to Provide Free Music Downloads

Submitted by while1noop
while1noop writes: From https://www.uakron.edu/zipmail/index.php:

"The University of Akron through the efforts of Associated Student Government and Information Technology Services has just partnered with the online music service Ruckus Network to provide UA student population with unlimited download access to a library of over 2.5 Million songs."

I imagine that this is meant to cut piracy and stem the RIAA.
Windows

Journal Journal: Sudo for Windows

Journal by robin850
Bring *nix security to Windows! Stop running Windows as "administrator" or even "power user", but yet have the ability to run needed programs with elevated rights. Sudo for Windows. Finally, a way to operate Windows in a "mostly" secure manner. This project allows running as a restricted user but permits running a predefined list of programs with elevated rights. sudowin.sourceforge.net

Feed China Hoping That A Little Marxist Propaganda Will Clean Up The Internet (techdirt.com)

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At some point, you have to just think that Chinese officials will say anything about the internet and it need not be based in any sort of reality. Earlier this week, of course, China was blaming the internet for youth violence, making the very weak case that since many kids caught doing crimes used the internet, that obviously it was at fault. However, President Hu Jintao is kicking things up a notch. Earlier this year, he suggested that the internet needed to be purified, and now he's provided some details. Apparently the way to purify the internet is to make sure that there's plenty of Marxist and socialist ideas online which will somehow entice people away from the decadent aspects of the internet. He even admits that its propaganda he's talking about. Perhaps it's just a cultural thing, but if it seems like you should be able to support your position with facts rather than admitting it's propaganda.

Feed Buffalo's WZR2-G300N and WHR-G125 802.11n and g routers (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Wireless, Networking


Wireless adapters wasn't the only new gear Buffalo loosed today. Also hitting the streets are two new AirStation routers, one 802.11n (Wireless-N Nfiniti Router WZR2-G300N offers 802.11n), the other g (Wireless-G High Speed Router WHR-G125). Expect both units to have the usual Buffalo AOSSTM (and DS Lite support), a four port 10/100 switch (where the hell is the gigabit?), WPA2, NAT, SPI firewall, and all the rest of the usual router features that ring in on this gear. The price, however, is somewhat noteworthy: $100 for the n, and $50 for the g, both landing in May.

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Feed Hitachi sues LG over plasma patent infringement, tries to halt US sales (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Displays, HDTV

Just when Hitachi had us all believing that it was planning on reaching new heights in the plasma market thanks to a ginormous PDP set and a thirsty overseas crowd, now we're seeing the fallback plan. Of course, we can't really suggest that Hitachi's latest lawsuit on LG's (surprise, surprise) plasma displays have anything to do with the firm's dreary numbers, but it has nevertheless filed a lawsuit in the ill famed "district court in Texas" (read: patent troll heaven) saying that "the South Korean company infringed its plasma display-related patents." The suit seeks the obligatory "monetary compensation for damages," but more interesting is the tidbit that requests a "permanent injunction prohibiting LG's plasma display panel product sales in the United States." According to a Hitachi spokesperson, the two outfits had "been in talks regarding the appropriate licenses for these seven patents," but apparently, neither side is backing down anytime soon.

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Feed Nova Media intros Mac-ready GlobeTrotter Express 7.2 card (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

It's refreshing to see high tech wizardry with Apple flavor hitting the shelves; if you have a hankering for travel and need fast connectivity no matter where you go, the GlobeTrotter Express 7.2 Ready has you covered. This Mac-compatible ExpressCard will bring triple band HSDPA / UMTS -- up to 7.2 Mbps -- and quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE to your Book, and thanks to the "Zero-CD" feature, drivers and software are auto-magically installed from the card's memory on first use (no worries, Windows users, you are covered here as well). The simple "launch2net" software provides instant detection and configuration of 300 network providers around the globe, meaning less time spent fiddling with APNs and passwords and more time online -- we know your provider's support team and accounting depts. will love this feature. The Nova Media site shows this as pre-order right now for roughly $400 US, but it should start shipping in early May.

[Via Macworld]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Submission + - waiting for: support.intuit.turbotax.com... again?

Submitted by
mwilliamson
mwilliamson writes: "I just got a phone call here at work playing back a pre-recorded message stating I hadn't completed filing with Turbotax and gave me a URL to finish. Like many others, I waited until the last night, could not file electronically so had to opt for the paper route. Although I used their system to download the mailable documents, they don't seem to know. Now the funny part...this URL seems to be down, probably due to overload this time evidently generated by their own call center. Bad turbotax! hehe The URL they had given was http://support.turbotax.com/efhelp."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Mystery safe full of original Star Wars figures

Submitted by TheGeneration
TheGeneration writes: Just in case you happened to lose your large safe full of 70 unopened original Star Wars figures the Fremont, CA Police Department may have found it.

"Nearly 70 collectible Star Wars action figures were strewn about the Glenmoor neighborhood Friday morning when thieves dropped a 5-foot safe off the back of their truck and left it in the middle of the road, Detective Bill Veteran said.

Police on Friday were still trying to figure out to whom the safe belonged, and how exactly it got to Lombard Street, the detective said. The safe looked like it had been pried open and dumped there by thieves, Veteran said.

``We have not had any reports of missing safes,'' he said."

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