The Rise of Telecities
Europe Blames Weaker U.S. Law for Spam Surge
Brightmail estimates that more than half of all email in the European Union is spam, and Europeans claim U.S. anti-spam laws, which are far more lax than European regulations, are chiefly to blame. Eighty percent of EU spam is written in English, and that same percentage apparently originates from ...
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Rock the Vote
Four computer experts recommended that the Defense Department halt its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) on the grounds that the system is susceptible to hacking and errors. But though they were invited by the Pentagon to appraise the SERVE system, Defense officials and ...
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PC Makers Set to Face Costs of Recycling
Computer manufacturers are bracing for two major directives on the disposal of personal computers by the European Union that will have a significant impact on the cost of doing business. "It's the sheer cost that will be most damaging to our members," explains Dudley Ollis, program manager for ...
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High-Speed Internet's Hurdles Still Considerable
University students and researchers at 205 U.S. universities enjoy a next-generation Internet experience using the Internet2 network. Students consume as much bandwidth as is allowed them and will take their need for Internet speed into the working world, says Georgia Institute of Technology ...
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Q&A: Open-Source Guru Eric Raymond
Open Source Initiative President Eric Raymond, author of "The New Hacker's Dictionary" and the more recent "The Art of Unix Programming," notes that programmers in school are now being trained on both Windows and Linux. He adds that "it's all PCs today," meaning that the next crop of programmers ...
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Firms Develop Gesture-Operable Digital Home Electronic Devices
Development of gesture-operable input devices for home electronics is accelerating in a variety of industries, including gaming and automotive. The Remote Controller for Wearable Home Electronics Appliance developed by Toshiba's Human Centric Laboratory allows users to activate and deactivate ...
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Matrix Plan Fuels Privacy Fears
The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (Matrix), a quick-access information repository that integrates state-based data with privately held data, is currently in use by six states and being considered for use in several others despite privacy worries and concerns that the system is too ...
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Unpopular Argument: Sending Tech Jobs Abroad Is Good
Many U.S. technology executives believe the offshore outsourcing of programming and other IT jobs will bolster the economy and raise Americans' security and standard of living. Subscribers to this belief follow the theory of comparative advantage, which posits that countries that ...
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Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) LifeLog project, an initiative to chronicle every aspect of a person's life in a single database, was quietly disbanded in January by the decree of the Pentagon, much to the relief of civil libertarians who argued it could be used as an ...
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Why This One Is Scarier
The Mydoom computer worm's success in shutting down the SCO Group's Web site through a denial-of-service attack waged by 25,000 to 50,000 infected
zombie" computers raises the bar for malware in terms of damage and sophistication, but some security experts believe Mydoom was created as a ...
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Neural-Chaos Team Boosts Security
Researchers at Israel's Bar-Ilan University have integrated a neural network encryption scheme with chaotic signal synchronization to generate code that is very difficult to crack. The scheme involves two identical synchronized systems--one at the sender's location and one at the ...
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DARPA-Funded Linux Security Hub Withers
The Sardonix project, a two-year-old Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-backed research project designed to track Linux code for security audits, has been largely abandoned, says Sardonix founder and computer scientist Crispin Cowan, chief research scientist at WireX ...
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The Internet2 Commons: Supporting Distributed Engineering Collaboration
The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) project started by the National Science Foundation three years ago is an initiative to leverage the national cyber infrastructure to conduct research aimed at making built environments more resistant to earthquakes. ...
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Twentysomething
IT jobs in the federal government are proving very attractive to younger-generation information professionals, particularly those facing unemployment or underemployment in the private sector because of the economy. Such interest is vital when measured against the imminent ...
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Dual Curses: Viruses and Spam
A Web-based survey of senior executives conducted by Computerworld and Ferris Research finds that viruses and spam are the biggest email-related headaches. IT managers are fearful of zero-day attacks because virus authors are exploiting software vulnerabilities faster. Meanwhile, spam is ...
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Computer Makers Tackle E-Waste
The mounting problems of electronic waste and the introduction of e-waste legislation in more than 50 percent of U.S. states over the last 12 months is spurring IBM, Gateway, and other computer manufacturers to ramp up their recycling initiatives. International Data estimates that typical PCs last ...
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Where Have All the Programming Jobs Gone?
IEEE-USA contends that the trend to offshore engineering is partly responsible for the job losses programmers and other IT professionals have sustained in recent years. Ron Hira, who chairs IEEE-USA's R&D Policy Committee, reported that American IT workers are suffering from ...
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The Rise of Telecities
Arthur C. Clarke Institute executive director Joseph N. Pelton argues that the trend toward megacities characterized by faster transportation systems, centralized infrastructure, and increased urbanization is wrong-headed and will only increase populations' vulnerability to terrorist attacks, natural ...
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