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Biting the hand that feeds IT
$74m in CEO pay, $29bn in loses
Sprint Nextel executives are the most "overpaid" in corporate America, according to a study by investor advisory firm, Glass Lewis & Company.…
Customer data beamed overseas
Hundreds of card swipers used by retail stores across Europe are believed to have been tampered by organized crime syndicates in China and Pakistan, according to US National Counterintelligence Executive Joel Brenner.…
Larry Ellison searches sofa for change
It seems that tech's billionaires are sharing the privations of ordinary citizens, whose savings are vanishing and pensions becoming worthless as stock markets tumble.… 
DRM servers open 'for the present time'
For digital music vendors, protecting files with digital rights management (DRM) is like a lobster trap. It's easy enough to enter into, but getting back out is another matter entirely.…
Domain vuln + frame injection = dead ringer spoof pages
Google's Gmail service suffers from security flaws that make it trivial for attackers to create authentic-looking spoof pages that steal users' login credentials, a security expert has demonstrated. Google Calendar and other sensitive Google services are susceptible to similar tampering.…
Debian: 'We're almost there'
Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian – codename Lenny – could be delayed until June 2009. Based on the number of outstanding release-critical bugs and the time it has taken to fix them on previous releases, Debian developer Bastian Venthur estimated it will take a further eight or nine months to bring Lenny up to release quality.…
Volunteers asked to put anger into words
Volunteer mountain-rescue staff in Scotland are being asked to write to the UK regulator Ofcom to complain about increased spectrum prices that could drive them out of the life-saving business.…
Blames The Meltdown
Imation has issued preliminary third quarter figures badly affected by the financial market turmoil in September.… 
Giant has 'no plans' to bring the format to its console
Microsoft has once again poured cold water over the latest rumour that it’ll launch a Blu-ray Disc drive add-on for the Xbox 360.…
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Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.
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Lifehacker loading down your RSS reader with more noise than signal? Switch to our trimmed-down top stories feed to skip the extras and get right to the good stuff. Don't care about Mac-only...
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Reader skarhead187 has submitted several desktops to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell pool, and the thing that always stands out most—aside from a great eye for minimalism—is that...
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YouTube is now offering 15 50-minute episodes of classic TV shows including Star Trek, MacGyver, and Beverly Hills, 90210 with "prominent new ads." Coupled with YouTube's newly-launched theater view,...
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Reader Justin writes in with a clever idea for quickly launching downloads with the popular command-line download manager, wget. His method: Make wget available to Launchy, then pass the URL of the...
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Windows only: Microsoft Office Labs has released an open source multi-touch application framework called Touchless that uses your webcam as the input. Right now the Touchless Demo lets you play with...
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Tester invites started going out to the dramatically-overhauled new Yahoo Calendar beta, and we were one of the lucky ones to give it a spin. The new look and feel brings YCal into 2008 (finally!)...
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Windows only: Free applicaiton inSSIDer scans networks within reach of your computer's Wi-Fi antenna, tracks signal strength over time, and determines their security settings (included whether or not...
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Thanks to this week's sponsors: Adobe, Casio, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Energizer, Gyration, HP TouchSmart, IE8, The Last Remnant, Little Big planet, Sharp Aquos, Starwood Hotels, T-Mobile, and TiVo....
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It's Friday—finally!—which means it's time to let your hair down, loosen the tie, and get nuts in the comments. We're opening up our weekly say-anything comments thread here, where you...
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MeetWays is a Google Maps mashup with one simple but useful goal in mind: to help you find the perfect meetup point. In use it's simple—just enter the your address and the address of the person...
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News for nerds, stuff that matters
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bsk_cw writes "Sprint's newly launched Xohm service is now offering America's first WiMax network. Computerworld's Brian Nadel went to Baltimore to try it out, and he reports that Xohm delivered data smoothly to a car moving at highway speeds, played YouTube videos flawlessly, and on average, pushed through more than 3Mbit/sec., compared with 1.3 Mbit/sec. for the AT&T network Brian used as a comparison. But right now, coverage is only planned in a few U.S. cities; if Sprint isn't able to ramp up its coverage quickly, it may lose its advantage." 
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rsk writes "Justin Voskuhl, a Google engineer, in a 2-fold bid to fight boredom and figure out something to cover a large barren wall in his living room, one weekend developed a Java program using an annealing algorithm to figure out the best layout and colors of Lego blocks to reproduce a source image exclusively in Lego blocks inside a frame. He plans to release the source code soon. I probably would have just painted the wall ..." 
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Zarf writes "I'd like to file a bug report on the US educational system. The New York Times reports on a recent study that shows the US fails to encourage academic talent as a culture.'"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."' While we've suspected that the US might be falling behind academically, this study shows that it is actually due to cultural factors...
SmarkWoW writes "The university I attend is currently looking to change the way in which is provides its students with an email service. In the past they used a legacy mail system which can no longer fit their needs. A committee has narrowed the possibilities down to three vendors: Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Representatives from these three vendors will be coming to our college and giving a presentation on the advantages of their systems. We're looking at other services these companies provide such as calendaring and integration with existing software that our university runs. What questions would Slashdot readers ask...
thefickler writes "Scientists at the University of Dayton have created a peel-on, peel-off glue which mimics the wall-climbing abilities of Spiderman. The substance, based on the feet of the Gecko lizard, is three times stickier than existing adhesives. The material is so strong that a 4×4mm pad would be enough to hold a 1.5kg object such as hardback book. However, it's likely too expensive for consumer use: one British scientist calculates that a single Post-it note using the glue would cost around a thousand dollars." We've mentioned the possibilities of synthetic gecko technology several times before, including as applied in...
Blizzcon is officially underway today, starting with a presentation showcasing the Worldwide Invitational tournament held earlier this year. A company spokesman went on to talk about the tournaments being held for World of Warcraft 3v3 Arena, Warcraft 3, and Starcraft 2, followed by word that Starcraft 2 was not yet ready for beta, but that Blizzcon attendees would be included in the first round of testers when the beta program starts. The big news of the presentation, though, was the unveiling of the Wizard class — the third such class to be announced, along with the previously mentioned Barbarian and...
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages. Verizon has informed content partners that it will levy a $.03 charge for messages sent to customers, effective November 1. From RCRWireless: 'Countless companies could be affected by the new fee, from players in the booming SMS-search space (4INFO, Google Inc. and ChaCha) to media companies (CNN, ESPN and local outlets) to mobile-couponing startups (Cellfire) to banks and other institutions that use mobile as an extension of customer services.'" 
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netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect the personal information of those you invite. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the 1,200 email addresses to everyone on the list ... and they did it 17 times." 
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Barence writes "Engineers working on Windows 7 have admitted Vista's User Account Control was too intrusive, and are promising to tone it down in the forthcoming Windows 7. 'We've heard loud and clear that you are frustrated,' says Microsoft engineer Ben Fathi. 'You find the prompts too frequent, annoying, and confusing. We still want to provide you control over what changes can happen to your system, but we want to provide you a better overall experience.' According to Fathi, when Vista first launched, 775,312 unique applications were producing prompts — so some may be annoyed that it won't be scrapped...
Slashdot has one of the best discussion systems there is. It's grown and adapted over the years to meet various challenges and suit the needs of our users. A lot of time and effort has gone into it and we are always open to user input to help make it better. Some of our best ideas start as user suggestions and we appreciate the feedback. Of course they can't all be gems and sometimes the suggestions we get are unworkable or just bizarre. Here are a few of my favorite unhelpful, helpful suggestions. 
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Welcome to Ward Mundy's Technology Blog aka Nerd Vittles: Food for Thought for Techno Geeks.
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In this second installment, we document all of the terrific components that comprise this one-of-a-kind, Asterisk build: automatic ISO backups, faxing, the PiaF Software Update Service, Visual Voicemail for Asterisk, a dozen text-to-speech applications, and much more...
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Want a turnkey Asterisk system, a fax machine, and every other telephony and text-to-speech bell and whistle on the planet in 15 minutes flat? Well, today's your lucky day...
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Just pick up a phone connected to your Asterisk system, dictate a message, enter either a phone number or the first three letters of any contact in your AsteriDex database, and poof. Your FONmail is delivered in your own voice to the email account of your recipient. And it's all ...
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To celebrate the new school year, today we'll walk you through transforming a Nokia N95 cellphone into the world's best and least expensive SIP VoIP traveling companion... with a little help from Gizmo5 and Asterisk.
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Today we introduce two new post-dial applications for Asterisk. The first lets you decipher whether to place free calls through Gizmo based upon a database lookup. The second provides email alerts whenever anyone places a 911 emergency call on your Asterisk PBX.
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What do Asterisk calls to Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile cellphones plus 40 million Asterisk systems around the world have in common? They're all free calls! And today we'll show you how...
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Nerd Vittles today introduces a plug-and-play, VPN-enabled telephony server for anyone on the go or with a remote office needing telephone connectivity...
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Today we provide a quick update on the Asterisk landscape and celebrate the introduction of FreeSwitch and the return of open source fax and text-to-speech applications for Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6...
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Today we solicit your feedback on the new Software Update Service proposal for PBX in a Flash...
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Today we'll walk you through installation and setup of awstats for use with any of the Asterisk LAMP distributions: PBX in a Flash, Elastix, or trixbox...
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azcentral.com Business contains business, stock market and financial information about the Phoenix metro area, Arizona and the rest of the world.
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Historic step announced after global stock markets sank despite efforts to slow the selling stampede.
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Will Americans return to their gas-guzzling ways?
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Shell joins effort to curb cigarette sales to minors.
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Banking basics pay off for Wells Fargo amid chaos.
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Street caps worst week ever with wild session.
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Government to take equity ownership in banks.
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LONDON - World stock markets fell sharply Friday, as Wall Street headed toward its eighth straight day of losses over fears the global economy is set for a protracted recession.
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Automaker mulls more production cuts next week.
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NEW YORK - Federal antitrust regulators on Friday cleared Wells Fargo's $11.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia Corp., capping a weeklong battle for the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank.
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$6.4B deal may benefit Boeing, Raytheon plants.
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azcentral.com's the buzz contains offbeat news and entertainment information about people, places and things from around the United States and the world.
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A Minneapolis radio station said Friday it would air public service announcements on HIV/AIDS after a pair of talk hosts accused Magic Johnson of faking AIDS.
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Scot Grassette of Rumford hopes to make it into the Guinness Book of Records with a 25- by 100-foot letter to Santa.
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Ever wonder what happens after you yank the chain on the old commode?
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The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as ''Barack Osama'' and ''John McCain.''
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bus driver saw the woman and officials thought she was an armed student on school property. So they kept students and staff inside the Balfour Education Center for about an hour until police determined she was hunting rats on her own property.
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The question of whether to choose an official book for the state of Massachusetts made for a whale of a debate.
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The family was living in the house about two weeks when the real owner showed up.
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If EU lawmakers have their way, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, along with the 12-star flag and the motto ''Unity in Diversity,'' will become the official symbols of the 27-nation union.
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A woman is recovering in Florida after a dolphin hit her when it leaped aboard the boat she was in.
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Jacquie Jones is the motivated homeowner offering a real deal: A brick bungalow built in 1910 with a pitched roof of new shingles, three bedrooms, a kitchen updated in the 1990s, a front porch and a garage.
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A quartet of baseball enthusiasts (whose respective teams still have a shot at the World Series) kicks off the postseason edition of our weekly mug shot roundup.
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Angered by a delay in the receipt of his voter registration card, a Louisiana man today threatened election officials, claiming that he urgently needed to cast a ballot to "keep the nigger out of office," according to police.
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A Tennessee college student has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly hacking into the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Days after federal officials agreed to an $85 billion bailout of American International Group, the insurance firm spent more than $440,000 for a corporate retreat at a swanky California resort.
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Defending himself against a slander lawsuit brought by a cookbook author, Jerry Seinfeld argues that his work has often mocked the "litigious nature of society" and points to the fictional antics of one Cosmo Kramer to explain his sharp televised gibes against the writer.
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A Tennessee man was so plastered Sunday afternoon that he directed a 10-year-old boy to drive his van, which eventually crashed after the child hit speeds of upwards of 90 mph.
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O.J. Simpson posed for a new mug shot following his October 2008 conviction on armed robbery and kidnapping charges in Las Vegas. Simpson, 61, was immediately taken into custody at the Clark County Detention Center after the jury verdict was read.
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This week's mug shot roundup begins with a beaming 19-year-old perp who appears to have been lightly breaded before being booked by Georgia cops (he was arrested Tuesday for, among other things, obstructing an officer and criminal damage to property).
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A Washington man is facing an assault charge for allegedly smearing peanut butter on the forehead of a fellow student who is severely allergic to peanuts.
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Denied sex by his girlfriend, a Florida man yesterday responded by shooting himself, threatening the woman, and then passing out on the kitchen floor (after hitting the oven on the way down).
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The National Cyber Alert System provides timely
information about current and emerging threats and vulnerabilities as
well as advice about protecting your computer and
networks.
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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 29, 2008
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Understanding Hidden Threats: Rootkits and Botnets
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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 22, 2008
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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 15, 2008
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Preventing and Responding to Identity Theft
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Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 8, 2008
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Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
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