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Help Wanted: Hack Our One $100 2B1 Laptop Per Child Laptop

The 2B1 “one laptop per child” initiative, also known as the $100 laptop project, is looking for experienced hackers to try to hack the $100 2B1 laptop, so that they can trouble shoot its security issues. But what I want to know is, how many of those laptops will stay with the children, and how many will get sold by their families for food?

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Hormel Loses Law Case Over the Word “Spam”

In a move which may have surprised nobody more than it surprised canned meat company Hormel, Hormel lost their legal effort to regain control over their trademark “SPAM”.

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Sony Charged with Knowing that Their Laptop Batteries Would Overheat and Start Fires

Sony sure is a PR nightmare, not to mention their careless disregard for the safety and security of their customers. Apparently knowingly installing rootkit software on their music CDs which opened up their customer’s personal computers to hacking (which ultimately lead to a lawsuit and recall) wasn’t quite enough for them, as it’s now coming to light that with the current issues that Sony faces with their laptop batteries catching on fire, they apparently knew that the batteries were flawed and vulnerable to overheating and catching on fire!

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9/11 and the Internet

As we observe the anniversary of 9/11 – the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States and the toppling of the World Trade Center – we note some Internet legacies and reminders of 9 /11.

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New York Times Bars British Internet Surfers from Online Article About British Terror Investigation

The New York Times this week barred web surfers coming in through UK-based IP addresses from reading an article about the terror investigation which is currently ongoing in Britain. “Details Emerge in British Terror Case” read the Times headline, but surfers in the UK could get no further.

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The Power of the Internet and One Paperclip – Kyle MacDonald Trades His One Red Paper Clip for a House (and a Part in “Donna on Demand”)

Some of you may recall Kyle MacDonald and his quest to trade one red paper clip for a house. Well guess what. Kyle MacDonald has done it! In fact, in not quite a year, Kyle MacDonald has managed to parlay one red paperclip, through a series of trades including a part in the movie “Donna on Demand”, into a real house.

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“Limited Link Marketing” – New Pixel by Pixel Marketing Takes Internet by Storm

“Limited link marketing”, or “pixel marketing”, all started witih the Million Dollar Homepage created by Alex Tew. Then came the 1000 Word Page, and now we have expert Internet marketers creating the 500 Word page, the 1024 Ad page, and a new software program to allow even a beginner to put up their own limited link or pixel marketing page.

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First Clinic for Online Gaming Addiction Opens

The first clinic specializing in addition to gaming – and in particular video and online computer games – opened this week in Amsterdam. “It can start with a Game Boy… From there, it can progress to multilevel games that aren’t made to be won”

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Blue Frog Croaks as Blue Security Closes it’s Anti-Spam Program in Wake of Relentless Attacks from Spammers

Blue Security and their controversial Blue Frog program suffered a fatal blow when Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef concluded that the cost to the Internet of their ongoing battle with spammer PharmaMaster, and possibly others, was too high.

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Gary McKinnon, the NASA Hacker Known as Solo, to be Extradited

Gary McKinnon, the hacker known as “Solo”, who infamously hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers, and who claimed that once there he found dozens of other hackers, and proof of aliens, has lost his fight against extradition to the United States for prosecution.

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Chinese Writer Arrested for Posts to the Internet

Chinese writer Yang Tianshu was arraigned this week for posts which he made to the Internet. Yang Tianshu was just released in January 2005 following a Christmas Eve, 2004 detention for similar writings.

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One out of Ten Telecommute in the Buff

A study just released by Internet security device company SonicWALL reveals that an average of one in ten people who telecommuute do so in the nude.

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Yahoo Bans Any Username Containing “Allah”

Yahoo is being accused of banning the name “Allah” as or in any Yahoo username, and it looks as if the accusations are true. Nobody has been able to register any username containing the string “allah”.

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Web Suicide Pacts Lead to Thousands of Deaths

Online suicide pacts are leading to an increased number of suicides. These Internet suicide pacts encourage those who might otherwise not take that final step. In Japan, the problem of web suicide pacts has reached such a proportion that ISPs now watch for and report “suicide circles”.

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Burning of Embassies in Damascus Incited by SMS Text Messages

The most recent outbreak of violence connected to the Danish publication of what Muslims consider to be a blasphemus cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed was provoked by rumours spread by SMS text messages.