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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13231

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/63/34550.html

Neighbors unsecured wireless network.

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1071387307.html

http://www.theregister.com/content/61/34523.html

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,128...tw=wn_tophead_5

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../ibm_offshoring

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13174

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113862,00.asp

I'm waiting for an unattended CD to finish, so I thought I'd flood the news board! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2003Dec12.html

Ripped from http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13166 SOURCES CLOSE to MSI tell the INQUIRER it was – as Fuad Abazovic revealed earlier this week – about to play the old let's produce ATI cards as well as Nvidia cards game. But frantic negotiations between both Taiwanese CEOs have saved the MSI bacon at the last moment, we understand, and the deal set to start in mid-January is no more. As far as we understand, no financial incentive is involved. The CEOs of MSI and Nvidia delicately talked to each other and the distributors waited for bated breath for the decision. Still, the fact it got so far is quite interesting, we think. Is there much money in graphics processors any more, now Intel's GFX3 will be on the cards in May? No doubt ATI's CEO is spitting blood as we write...

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61513,00.html

Ripped from http://www.theregister.com/content/54/34498.html A job advertisement posted on Microsoft's careers website suggests that the company may be considering moving to a proprietary disc format for its next console, in an effort to make piracy on the device more difficult. According to the ad, Microsoft's Xbox team is seeking an engineer "to manage the design and development of the Xbox Game Disc for the next generation Xbox console", with the job description going on to mention anti-piracy as the first in a list of key factors for the new game disc specification. Although it's possible that the role will simply involve devising a copy protection mechanism for games on existing DVD media, similar to that used by the current generation Xbox and the PlayStation 2, the description of the role hints strongly at the company developing a more proprietary format. Microsoft may be planning to follow in the footsteps of Nintendo, whose mini-DVD format has been highly successful in preventing piracy on the GameCube. It's widely expected, however, that whatever media the next Xbox console (codenamed 'Xenon', apparently) uses will be the same size as DVD media, since the system will be expected to play back DVD movies and provide backwards compatibility with Xbox games. Although preventing piracy which results from the copying of game discs is obviously an important consideration, Microsoft will also be thinking very hard about how to prevent piracy which uses the hard drive on the system. Many mod chips for the current generation of Xbox allow users to copy games to their hard drives and then play them without the original game disc, or simply download copies off the Internet directly onto their console - a new avenue for piracy which has potential to be hugely damaging if it becomes popular.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13101

http://www.theregister.com/content/4/34386.html

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9881339273.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/346880

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13098

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13063

I love the Mac, but I have to agree Panther (OS X 10.3) is garbage. The proposed features are nice, but it killed my iBook. Apparently I'm not the only one either. One of the authors at Wired wrote an article (Panther roars... in pain) about the weekend he had to spend trying to bring his iBook back from the dead. I also tried to integrate my Mac authentication with AD. Bad idea. My iMac is about 3x slower now and it won't authenticate. Let's not forget the FireWire 800 drives that were formatting themselves. I recommend sticking with Jaguar (OS X 10.2) until at least 10.3.2. I like my Mac for websites and for web browsing. I like Windows for gaming, business applications and bringing home the bacon! load "*",8