USA messes with UN Report on Global Warming

"The United States, China and Saudi Arabia lodged objections to sections of text and graphics [...] members of the panel sought to include stronger language and hard statistics about the dangers of global warming, the US preferred general statements instead."

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Clipperz - Single sign-on for all your websites - Free and anonymous

Store and manage your passwords and online credentials. Log in to your web services without entering any username or password. Clipperz lets you submit confidential information into your browser, but your secrets are locally encrypted by the browser itself before being uploaded to Clipperz. It uses standard encryption schemes like SHA-2 and AES

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Check your harddisk's SMART health under linux

If your harddisk isn't the youngest any more, you can use smartmontools to check it's SMART health and using the "Bad block HOWTO", you can force the disk to reallocate bad blocks (if you have any)

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New Putty 0.59 - best Windows SSH client

From the changelog: Improved speed of SSH on Windows, better Vista support, can now connect to local serial ports, local proxying, Improved SFTP throughput and many more.

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BlackBerry Pearl (8100) dissected - see what's inside

See the mainboard of the Pearl and a detailed analysis of the components.

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Berlin (Germany) Concerned about Huge New Scientology Center

The controversial Church of Scientology is to open a massive six-story center in Berlin. Local residents are concerned and politicians are calling for the organization to be placed under closer surveillance.[...] Police have received one complaint claiming that members of the organization have been harassing passersby with religious literature.

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Fat German rabbits to feed the poor in North Korea

An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.

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InPhonic / Wirefly Launches on Amazon.com

Beginning today on Amazon.com, InPhonic now offers a full suite of activated cell phones, smartphones, PDAs and aircards with service plans from Cingular Wireless with all the nation’s leading wireless carriers being added over the next 30 days.

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BlackBerries addicts and their families

There is a new member of the family, and, like all new siblings, this one is getting a disproportionate amount of attention, resulting in jealousy, tantrums, even trips to the therapist: It's the BlackBerry.

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Your input required: ICANN Whois Data reform

Currently name, address, e-mail and phone number are public record for every domain. Should this be changed? I for one would be happy, if my data wasn't accessible for anyone knowing my domain name ....

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The Bastard Operator from Hell #1

It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not.

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PIN transmission at ATMs less safe than expected

Security experts Omer Berkmann and Odelia Moshe Ostrovsky from the School of Computer Science in Tel Aviv have jointly published attack scenarios for account PINs whereby only two attempts would be needed to guess correctly the PIN for a bank account.

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Are you using too many smileys?

Do you over-use the smiley in e-mails? Do you know someone else who does? It's time to stage an intervention...

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Running Movable Type? Better upgrade to 3.33

A serious security flaw has been found in Movable Type by the SixApart Team. You can upgrade your installation before they disclose the details of the vulnerability - they announced to do this "in a couple of days".

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Donate some of your time to Spam-Research

On Ham or Spam all you have to do is look at one email at a time and decide if it's a Spam Mail, or a Ham Mail. All of the emails have been previously filtered through various Spam-Filters and you'll help to verify their accuracy, by donating some of your time.

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Microsoft to take away epmloyee\'s admin accounts with Vista-rollout

"At Microsoft, for a very large population of our employees, we have decided that admin rights is the right balance for us," Mark Estberg, director of Microsoft's internal security, said in an interview.

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Da Vinci Code Cryptex Dissected

A picture of all the parts in the Google Da Vinci Code Cryptex. I count 13 metal parts, 5 white alphabet dials, 1 spring and 6 screws.

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InPhonic

InPhonic has signed a five-year deal to sell pre-activated wireless phones and service plans through Amazon.com.

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digg - Submit Item

With the new tighter integration of Google Talk and GMail, you get an easy way to archive information, like interesting Websites/URLs, quotes, addresses, etc.

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Huge list of Torrent Sites

This was in the forums at niteshdw sci-fi fansite.I have put the list on a new blog so you can view it without signing up.

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