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http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm it’s a hoot; take a look: It was a long and boring flight to Moscow’s Sheremetevo Airport and when Special Agent Jasper Smoot debarked and walked into the restroom marked “Dama” in Cyrillic he might have found the woman there attractive except she had more whiskers than a Civil War general and was pointing

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1204079 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers’ malpractice insurers doing business in Connecticut can breathe a sigh of relief — They do not have to pay claims against attorneys who spank their clients. A federal judge has ruled spanking is not covered by lawyers’ malpractice insurance policies, even if it is done under the bizarre pretext

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this one: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52666,00.html A Good Sequence, Easy to Dance To By Noah Shachtman Scientists may soon be downloading our DNA from Kazaa and Audiogalaxy, if a California biotech firm has its way. Companies doing genomic research, like Redwood City’s Maxygen, have a problem. To make money, the companies feel they need to control the rights

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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci838639,00.html Palladium is a plan from Intel, AMD, and Microsoft to build security into personal computers and servers at the microprocessor level. Assuming that enough users buy computers with Palladium capabilities, each user may now for the first time be able to effectively filter out spam, ensure that only authorized programs can ever be run

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This fiddling has been going on now for over a year year (the ever vigilant RISKS digest noted it back in March 2001). But because of Yahoo’s underhand methods, very few people have spotted the turnabout – certainly far fewer than if Yahoo had done the sensible thing and, say, “**”‘ed out the vowels in

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When you invite the world to try to hack into your Microsoft network, what’s the major security challenge you face? In the case of MCP TechMentor’s Windows Security Challenge, it might be the security guard protecting the room where the servers are physically located, who keeps falling asleep. http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=502

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yay! here i sit, having partaken of my statutory celebratory pint of cheriton best bitter, cod from the chippie, and a ice-cream cone on the common in the fading bronze sunlight, for today i have passed my direct-access motorcycle test. the test was one of the most nerve-wracking 40 minutes that i have suffered in

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I’ve been neglecting the blog for a few days, and thought this an appropriate juncture to apologise (sorry) and to explain why… Much of last week has been whipped up in a swirl of multimedia; David, Ray and I have undertaken a subversive project to improve the state of communications for security within Sun UK,

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History is wonderful… See our definition with hyperlinks at http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci837181,00.html The Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) is a standard for encrypted communications that was approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1994 and is better known by the name of an implementation called the Clipper chip. The significant feature of EES is its so-called key

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from http://www.ntk.net/ Lot of talk this week about Microsoft’s new bluesky project: In the softest of previews in Newsweek, Steven Levy banged on about PALLADIUM, alluding to the sacred (but as it turns out, a bit horse-blind) guardian of Troy. British readers will know the term better as the fancy West End theatre that spawned

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bwahahahahahahahaha… Big noises at odds over the sound of silence By David Lister Media and Culture Editor 21 June 2002 ‘The Sound of Silence’ may have prompted engaging harmonies from Simon and Garfunkel – but a more literal appreciation of the absence of noise has prompted one of the more curious copyright disputes of modern

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the iMac has landed.

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