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Cars (Dec 31 2003 00:47 GMT) - This article explores the privacy concerns car owners could have with the new safety features technology allows.This from the article" Privacy advocates say the rise of new technologies like electronic toll areas, location-tracking devices, "black box" data recorders like those found on airplanes and even tiny radio ID tags in tires is changing the nature of people's relationship with their cars." A former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board,Mr James Hall, said the monitoring systems presented a subtle blend of benefit and risk. "We are moving toward a kind of automobile that nobody's ever known," he said. Technology may put Big Brother in driver's seat |
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- Just as SMS was spawned, there's a new craze that's spreading across parts of Europe. Reportedly, it's more prominent in the UK, but popular elsewhere too. "It's fun for kids at school and even for adults on the train if they're bored. In fact, anywhere there's a large crowd of people - airports, bars, malls - you can bluejack to your heart's content..." Here is a Simple How-to Bluejack Guide Enable Bluetooth on your handset or device. |
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- Dr. Ali Okatan of Bahcesehir University in Turkey, hopes to save lives with his new invention called the 'smart bracelet'. People who are unable to leave their homes, especially the sick and the aged, can communicate with their relatives using the bracelet, according to Zaman. This device, which I call the smart bracelet, follows elderly people who live alone or ill people's health conditions by merging GSM technology with electronics. It looks like a normal watch but it communicates body temperature, blood pressure and pulse rate to a central location periodically. |
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- The Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) has a great article on the bias shown by CBS's Bob Simon on Israel's security fence:... |
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- China has started building a new section of a multibillion-dollar project to bring water to Beijing and other parts of its dry north, the government says. Work on the latest phase of the South-North Water Diversion Project began Tuesday in Hebei province, which surrounds the Chinese capital, the official Xinhua News Agency said. |
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- As federal deadlines loom for states to upgrade their voting systems, authorities including the FBI probe an intrusion into a computer network at VoteHere, a maker of electronic-voting software. |
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- Name: Thomas Hochstein Email: thh@interSTOPSPAM.net Company Name: Company URL: |
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- Bojan Zdrnja (Dec 30 2003) |
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- Nick FitzGerald (Dec 30 2003) |
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- Russ issued a call to all americans: please try text messaging! His idea was to make people realize that there's more to mobile phones than voice calls. Unfortunately, judging by the comments he gets, his call falls on deaf ears: it seems Americans prefer voice calls, as they are much cheaper. |
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- Okay... Tell me the truth. Are you someone who is reading this site, has a modern mobile phone but has never sent a text message? Come on... let it out. |
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- Instead of adding them to the comments, I'll just post them here and continue updating: Happy holidays and a happy textual new year. Here's a gratuitus text message from my 9290. --Matt - Hello World! (What, you were expecting Knuth? |
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- Okay... Tell me the truth. Are you someone who is reading this site, has a modern mobile phone but has never sent a text message? Come on... let it out. |
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- The Seattle Times is reporting (Electronic-voting firm reveals hacker break-in) that Bellvue, Washington based Electronic-Voting VoteHere was the victim of a hacker break-in. The intruder accessed internal documents and software blueprints the company says were eventually to be made public. |
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- In a press release on their web site (Motorola Selected to Supply Secure TETRA Public Safety Radio System for the 2004 Athens Olympics) Motorola has announced they will be joining with SAIC and Siemens to provide C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence) services to support the Athens Olympics. Motorola will be supplying the games with TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked Radio) based handsets that support the DVI-XL encryption standard(s). The value of the contract is reported at $25 million. |
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- Former Air Force Cryptanalyst Diana Zinn apparently has a new gig. According to a SunHerald.Com story (Local psychic Dianna Zinn offers predictions,) Zinn has adopted a more intuitive approach to codebreaking. |
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- MIT's Technology Review magazine is hosting a blog entry from Simson Garfinkel (Another Open Wireless Network (mine) gets closed) describing how his wireless network was "borrowed" to trade music files via the Kazaa network. |
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- The idea of using one-way functions to produce "email stamps" is not exactly new (Email stamps are bit strings that prove that the sender computed some "hard" computational problem.) Cynthia Dwork and Moni Noar introduced the concept over a decade ago, and recommended their use to combat spam. Dwork is now working for Microsoft at their Silicon Valley research facility, and is one of the principals on the Penny Black project. At the core of the email stamp concept is the requirement that the sender of an email perform some complicated calculation. Ideally one that takes a fair amount of time to compute, but is easy to verify. |
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- IT Sec City is running a story (Protect Mobile Devices With a Access Control And Encryption Solution) reporting that PointSec has won 1.2 Million Euro contract to secure mobile devices managed by AstraZeneca, a leading pharma. |
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- As part of an assault on poverty in Sub-Saharan African countries, Beninhas been assigned sovereign credit ratings by one of the United NationsDevelopment Programme's (UNDP) partners, Standard & Poor's, joiningGhana and Cameroon which were recently also rated for the first time. |
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- Couple of things wandered through my brain this morning, and I figured I might as well share them. Don't try to read anything into them; you'll just hurt yourself. They are what they are, and nothing more. The first thought... |
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- Three people die and three others are injured on New Zealand's highest mountain, Mount Cook. |
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More Photos (Dec 31 2003 00:44 GMT) - Family Christmas photos... |
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- Canadian Bene Diction relects on having the USA as a neighbour ... |
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- SING to the great Jehovah's praise! All praise to him belongs: Who kindly lengthens out our days Demands our choicest ... |
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- TI-99 4A the first 16bit machine was my first! I remeber that i spent Hours in programming games(basic). It really was something I learned to read codes (f33ff45e...) and managed to make my own adventur game long before Mario and his brother arrived. This machine gave me so much fun in that time. |
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- After being gone for two weeks now... I woke up at 4:00am this morning just to get home and work on TabletPCBuzz. Ok, not really. I did wake up a 4: |
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Friendster (Dec 31 2003 00:40 GMT) - Anyone else signed up at Friendster?? If so, add me to your list "sralphyATyahoo.com". Change the AT to @ obviously.... |
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