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Australia admitted the existence of Echelon, and it's part in the global surveilance network some years ago. The reason? The US demanded access to all data from Australia, whereas Australia wanted to remove the names of Australian citizens and businesses not under investigation. They would provide the details when asked, just not up front, to protect against the US using the info for corporate espionage. The Australians refused, the US said "Oh yeah, what are you gonna do?" and the Aussies responded, "Tell the world."

Here's a link, but you can google 'echelon australia' for more info

This reminds me of a bluetooth joke:
Link
I'm sure you get the joke without translation :D

Sasser was only a new type of worm for him - the police found evidence (Google Translation here) that he is also responsible for the netsky virus.

Microsoft then called the German police.

they shoulda waited until MS announced a reward for it first!

I am sure the person who called Microsoft was doing this because s/he wanted the reward. Otherwise s/he would have gone directly to the police.

Translated quote from the article:

The first pointer to the writer came from the direct environment of the arrrested. In a phone call to Microsoft a person claimed to know the identity of the Sasser-author. After requests s/he also delivered parts of the source code, which Microsoft categorised as authentic in forensic analysis.

Oh, by the way: after admitting the crime, he has been set free for now. Quote: "Keine Verdunkelungsgefahr" (Unlikely to disappear from the hands of police). See the Heise.de newsitem (german, use babelfish and the like to translate).

See here in german and the google translation. Official say, there is no connection. Well ...

... knoppix 3.4 was handed out at the cebit in march. at the booth of heise publishing house.

Well, take a look at this

This topic was the april fool's joke this year of the german computer magazine c't (Google translation). I was relieved after notecing that it was a joke, but now I'm a bit scared...

About the same story was on telepolis (German online magazine) on April 1st 2004 ("Europa und Russland starten 2009 erste bemannte Mars-Expedition" (German) (Europe and Russia launch the first manned expedition to Mars in 2009)). The article on telepolis was obviously a joke and I guess this story also.

As for Intel's processor, I haven't heard good things. I saw an article on either The Register or The Inquirer that pointed to an article in c't about the Noncona (English thanks to Google) that Noncona is in trouble. According to the article in c't, a beta tester described the performance of the chip succintly: "It sucks." The article also states that HP has decided to only use Opteron chips, so perhaps it knows this fact too. The article doesn't say why (although it speculates that it's only emulating parts of the 64 bit instruction set). The article also has some info on some other things.

All in all, after all their foot dragging, I've lost interest in Intel. I'm worried that it won't perform as well as an Opteron. I'm worried it will be a blast furnace (Opteron's aren't cool by any means, but they look only luke-warm compared to Presshot). And I have read speculation (which I believe) that Intel is going to move to an integrated memory controller (like the Opteron) for performance reasons. Let's not forget that Intel is pushing a whole new form factor (BTX) just to help controll heat (or at least that seems to be it's major contribution to the world). AMD used to look like a "me too" company to me, making knockoffs. But over time (starting with the Athlon) I've been watching them and I no longer see them as an "also ran", they seem to be the REAL innovators these days.

AMD vs. Intel:

• Intel says Rambus. AMD says DDR. The industry uses DDR.
• Intel says "no one needs 64-bits". AMD says "here, have 64-bits". People buy AMD, so Intel says "wait for me!"
• Intel makes MMX, AMD makes 3DNow! and it spanks MMX, so Intel has to make SSE.
• Intel says "faster processors (ghz) are faster, performance ratings confuse people". AMD says "faster processors (ghz) aren't always faster, performance ratings help people see past speeds". AMD's chips are faster than Intel's and Intel has to admit it won't keep pumping up clockspeeds. Result? Intel says "faster processors (ghz) aren't always faster, performance ratings help people see past speeds".
• AMD released the Opteron and Athlon 64 which races past the P4. Intel has to release the P4 Emergency Edition just to stay competitive at the top end. How did they improve the processor? They didn't, they just added cache. They're 3ghz processor needs extra cache to keep up with a 2ghz one from their compeditor that runs cooler and has 64-bits.

There are tons more. I saw an article on it the other day. Intel is not on sure footing, if you ask me. Between the problems above, the trend to sub $500 computers, and just AMDs gaining reputation, Intel could be in trouble. It has recently admitted that it can't continue to use the P4 and is going to build it's future chips off of it's mobile chip because they can't keep speeding up the P4, it's not worth it.

As for Intel's processor, I haven't heard good things. I saw an article on either The Register or The Inquirer that pointed to an article in c't about the Noncona (English thanks to Google) that Noncona is in trouble. According to the article in c't, a beta tester described the performance of the chip succintly: "It sucks." The article also states that HP has decided to only use Opteron chips, so perhaps it knows this fact too. The article doesn't say why (although it speculates that it's only emulating parts of the 64 bit instruction set). The article also has some info on some other things.

All in all, after all their foot dragging, I've lost interest in Intel. I'm worried that it won't perform as well as an Opteron. I'm worried it will be a blast furnace (Opteron's aren't cool by any means, but they look only luke-warm compared to Presshot). And I have read speculation (which I believe) that Intel is going to move to an integrated memory controller (like the Opteron) for performance reasons. Let's not forget that Intel is pushing a whole new form factor (BTX) just to help controll heat (or at least that seems to be it's major contribution to the world). AMD used to look like a "me too" company to me, making knockoffs. But over time (starting with the Athlon) I've been watching them and I no longer see them as an "also ran", they seem to be the REAL innovators these days.

AMD vs. Intel:

• Intel says Rambus. AMD says DDR. The industry uses DDR.
• Intel says "no one needs 64-bits". AMD says "here, have 64-bits". People buy AMD, so Intel says "wait for me!"
• Intel makes MMX, AMD makes 3DNow! and it spanks MMX, so Intel has to make SSE.
• Intel says "faster processors (ghz) are faster, performance ratings confuse people". AMD says "faster processors (ghz) aren't always faster, performance ratings help people see past speeds". AMD's chips are faster than Intel's and Intel has to admit it won't keep pumping up clockspeeds. Result? Intel says "faster processors (ghz) aren't always faster, performance ratings help people see past speeds".
• AMD released the Opteron and Athlon 64 which races past the P4. Intel has to release the P4 Emergency Edition just to stay competitive at the top end. How did they improve the processor? They didn't, they just added cache. They're 3ghz processor needs extra cache to keep up with a 2ghz one from their compeditor that runs cooler and has 64-bits.

There are tons more. I saw an article on it the other day. Intel is not on sure footing, if you ask me. Between the problems above, the trend to sub $500 computers, and just AMDs gaining reputation, Intel could be in trouble. It has recently admitted that it can't continue to use the P4 and is going to build it's future chips off of it's mobile chip because they can't keep speeding up the P4, it's not worth it.

It'll say a lot about the gullibility of the news media if this is indeed a joke...

Heise (of c't fame) have twice verified with Google people that they're serious about this. If this is still a joke, it's a bad one.

I'm trying to keep a list of all the sites pulling pranks for 2004. Visit the site to see the up to the minute list and to submit new ones.

Current list:

www.urgo.org
mrtwig.net
southparkx.net
www.suprnova.org
www.cowsponge.com
Google
Slashdot
fark.com
www.thinkgeek.com
www.pimpworks.org
www.whirlpool.net.au
planetnintendo.com
Google Job
evercrest.com
www.heise.de (not sure if its a joke.. german)
www.homestarrunner.com
Weekly World News

The german newsmagazine HEISE a very popular and creditible organisation was reporting about that as well. As they got told from first hand QT/KDE is doing the run.

You can read more here on their site.

Reputable german geek magazine c't has an great comparison of 7 word processing programs this month.

Surprising result: The biggest commercial text processors cannot produce a diploma thesis with 120 imgages and 240 footnotes. They all died at different stages of image insertion.

Word 2003 managed to add about just over 40 images before dying a horrible death. WordPerfect didn't fare much better.

OpenOffice.org stood out in that it imported all graphics and footnotes without problems.

The german computer magazine c't reviewed word processors in it's last issue. They especially looked into large documents by inserting hundrets of images and footnotes into a document. MS Word's layout falled apart after 52 images (rendering the document in an unreparable state) while OpenOffice.org didn't show any problems at all.

This isn't a new problem BTW. I remeber having lost a document in Office 97 a few years ago...

NOVELL has decided to go with KDE as desktop rather than GNOME.

Read more here. This is a direct quote from Novells Chris Stone.

I have been trying to find more info. But I only managed to find one German site.

Excerpt:

Mail the anti-Spam Community Registry with the project, which is supported among other things bySpamhaus.org founder Steve Linford, dedicates itself to the fight against Spam. Enamels are in the future over for the Mailverkehr register sTLD to be dispatched: The Mailserver of the sender registers his address in sTLD and the receiver servers starts a DN S inquiry. With the in such a way won information the receiver can determine easily whether it concerns with the sender server around the correct server and not a Spam centrifuge. Domaininhaber would have to register for it additionally to the own Domain the appropriate mail TLD, thus about heise.de.mail.

Technical partner of the suggestion, whose technical load-carrying capacity must be only still proven however, is VeriSign. The confirmed Chuck Gomes, one of the VeriSign vices-president, opposite heise on-line. Like info. Registry Afilias has VeriSign several iron as bake end Provider in the fire: It is also still partner of job, which is gesponsert by the personnel mediator roof federation The Society for human resource management with.
(Perhaps a kind German user can translate the original German text for us)

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This article (in German) says that you can make cheap, flexible electronics with this stuff.

Is there a way to trace back the master of these trojans and do something about it? Surely these trojans need to do something for their masters at some stage, probably waiting for commands somewhere.

Actually, there is a way. The German computer magazine c't had a story a few weeks ago (not aviable online) about a CS student who found out pretty much about a virus author. He disassembled the code, found an IRC channel hardcoded in the virus and then contactet those guys, pretending being interested in renting spambots.
At some point, he asked c't for asistance. After some more investigation, they gave all the acquired data to Scotland Yard. The virus author was arrested.

As it seems, virus authors aren't that smart and make mistakes because of their greed. So there is hope to catch a few more of'em...

Heise c't article has an abstract of the article. Note: the link points to a german site.

It's what he said, no? Indeed, in China misspellings such as Tiempo for Tempo are admissible (whereas in western countries, they are not, as shown by the Triton vs. Tricon lawsuits).

Indeed. As the saying goes, " Zukunft schaffen, Politiker toeten"

Article 146 of the "Grundgesetz" stipulates that the Grundgesetz may only be changed via a decision by the people (referendum), which did not happen when the Grundgesetz was subordinated under the European laws (specifically the passus that European right overrides national right). This is a non-trivial change in constitution which was not approved by the people (because the people was not asked!). Thus, it can be argued that any directive that must be transcribed in national law is unconstitutional, because the people never relinquished this kind of authority to the European Institutions. (Not to mention that this particular directive flies flatly in the face of free expression, due process, freedom from unreasonable search & seizure, etc.)

Moreover article 20.4 of the Grundgesetz grants the right of "resistence" for the case where institutions become corrupt, and no longer act in the spirit of the constitution:

Art. 20 Grundlagen staatlicher Ordnung, Widerstandsrecht

(1) Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist ein demokratischer und sozialer Bundesstaat.

(2) Alle Staatsgewalt geht vom Volke aus. Sie wird vom Volke in Wahlen und Abstimmungen und durch besondere Organe der Gesetzgebung, der vollziehenden Gewalt und der Rechtsprechung ausgeubt.

(3) Die Gesetzgebung ist an die verfassungsmaBige Ordnung, die vollziehende Gewalt und die Rechtsprechung sind an Gesetz und Recht gebunden.

(4) Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht moglich ist.

1. The Federal Republic Germany is a democratic and social Federal State
2. All power of States is rooted in the People. This power is exerced by the people in Elections and Votes, and by special institutions of the legislative, executive and judicial branch.
3. The legislative is bound by the constitutional rules, the executive and the judicial are bound by law and justice.
4. All Germans are entitled to exerce resistance against anybody who sets out to remove this order, if no other resort is possible

Consequently, some of the more vocal participants in the heise.de boards have called for more drastic ways to show their disapprovment.

For those of you who read German, here is a more detailed analysis: GG Art. 20 - der deutsche Bundestag untergrabt seine eigene Legitimation!.

Article 146 of the "Grundgesetz" stipulates that the Grundgesetz may only be changed via a decision by the people (referendum), which did not happen when the Grundgesetz was subordinated under the European laws (specifically the passus that European right overrides national right). This is a non-trivial change in constitution which was not approved by the people (because the people was not asked!). Thus, it can be argued that any directive that must be transcribed in national law is unconstitutional, because the people never relinquished this kind of authority to the European Institutions. (Not to mention that this particular directive flies flatly in the face of free expression, due process, freedom from unreasonable search & seizure, etc.)

Moreover article 20.4 of the Grundgesetz grants the right of "resistence" for the case where institutions become corrupt, and no longer act in the spirit of the constitution:

Art. 20 Grundlagen staatlicher Ordnung, Widerstandsrecht

(1) Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist ein demokratischer und sozialer Bundesstaat.

(2) Alle Staatsgewalt geht vom Volke aus. Sie wird vom Volke in Wahlen und Abstimmungen und durch besondere Organe der Gesetzgebung, der vollziehenden Gewalt und der Rechtsprechung ausgeubt.

(3) Die Gesetzgebung ist an die verfassungsmaBige Ordnung, die vollziehende Gewalt und die Rechtsprechung sind an Gesetz und Recht gebunden.

(4) Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht moglich ist.

1. The Federal Republic Germany is a democratic and social Federal State
2. All power of States is rooted in the People. This power is exerced by the people in Elections and Votes, and by special institutions of the legislative, executive and judicial branch.
3. The legislative is bound by the constitutional rules, the executive and the judicial are bound by law and justice.
4. All Germans are entitled to exerce resistance against anybody who sets out to remove this order, if no other resort is possible

Consequently, some of the more vocal participants in the heise.de boards have called for more drastic ways to show their disapprovment.

For those of you who read German, here is a more detailed analysis: GG Art. 20 - der deutsche Bundestag untergrabt seine eigene Legitimation!.

Zehn kleine UNIX Zeilen
Reicht man ein zur Klage.
Die eine die auf griechisch war,
War leider viel zu vage.

Neun kleine UNIX Zeilen
Sollten es begrunden.
Die eine war trotz groBter Muh'
In LINUX nicht zu finden.

Acht kleine UNIX Zeilen
Dienten zum Beweise.
Die eine war aus BSD,
Pech fur Anwalt Heise.

Sieben kleine UNIX Zeilen,
Kamen vor Gericht.
Die eine war 'ne Fehlernummer,
Die taugte dazu nicht.

Sechs kleine UNIX Zeilen,
Sollten es belegen.
Doch eine kam zur GPL
Durch SCO Kollegen.

Funf kleine UNIX Zeilen
Waren noch dabei.
Die eine kam von einem Band
Mit Aufschrift System Drei.

Vier kleine UNIX Zeilen,
Doch eine, sonderbar,
Gehorte nicht zum dem Programm,
Sie war ein Kommentar.

Drei Kleine UNIX Zeilen,
Waren das Problem.
Eine war zwar System Five,
Doch kam von IBM.

Zwei kleine UNIX Zeilen,
Waren noch geblieben.
Die eine war schon reichlich alt
Und kam von System Sieben.

Eine kleine UNIX Zeile
Wurde angefuhrt.
Die hatte Linus Torvalds selbst
Am Anfang programmiert.

Ohne eine UNIX Zeile
Kann SCO nichts machen.
Doch eines muss man zugestehn:
Wir hatten was zu lachen.

Schlussbemerkung:
Hier zeigt sehr schon ein Kinderlied,
Warum McBride die Wahrheit mied.

stolen from Heise forum

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I read an interesting article lately about a company in Vienna, Austria, which has developed a machine called "cable runner" that can deploy fibre cables in sewage tunnels. This eliminates the need for digging. It mentions though, that this is not meant for a wide network but rather for point to point connections. Oh, here's the company's website.

Looked like an interesting idea to me.

A Toronoto newspaper says that Steve Balmer says that Munich is having trouble switching to Linux. Boy, that's great investigative journalism there.

The primary source is German: c't.

Slashdot's audience is anglo-american, primarily, and the useless Babelfish-translations of this article would only have added to the confusion.

First off... Go look at this site http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1999/01/010/ By look at, I mean read it... in part it says "After some adaptations, the necessary Linpack- Benchmark ran on an Alpha subcluster with 48 nodes." Note also that 60 of the machines were (then) top-of-the-line DEC Alphas (I guess they only had a 48 port top switch). This is not "512 normal home PCs," unless Frau Blucher happens to own an Alpha Server farm :-) It also says, "Many computers and the complete infrastructure (switches and so on) came from sponsors." Like: 50 Alpha's from Samsung, 5 4-way SMP Xeon servers, a lowly 2-way SMP Xeon server, etc.. 128 PIII from SEH GmbH, etc... So, well over half their machine was corporate servers and not quite as heterogenous as "kb" would have you think. They also had to install Debian 2.0(!) on the hardrives. So, that wasn't a "spontaneous supercomputer with home machines." It was a bunch of sysadmins in a hackfest. The FlashMob boots off CD (no install to a hard drive). Its plug and go. Reboot and you can have your old Windoze box back. That's spontaneous.

DRM simply cannot work without enforcement in the hardware.

Bzzzt. Wrong! DRM serves as an anchor for legal enforcement. You are right in that it certainly won't work without hardware support. However, that's not the point. The whole point is to make you, or anyone who does manufacture devices without DRM support in their hardware, look like a villain -- a "hacker", a thief, a criminal.

An example: German news site Heise reports that the music industry here started to go after people who sell software able to copy music CDs. So this is what does happen:

1. Music industry claims there is copy protection (aka DRM) on some of their CDs,
2. Music industry claims this copy protection is "circumvented" if certain tools are used,
3. Music industry sues those who sell those tools,
4. Music industry assumes new_world == old_world - evil_tools, and claims that there is a working copy protection scheme (aka DRM).
5. Repeat ad infinitum.

It does not matter what works and what doesn't from a technical point of view. What matters is that the legal system accepts claim No. 1, and is sufficiently forgetful to not notice the loop when they return to claim No. 1 for the next iteration.

DRM simply cannot work without enforcement in the hardware.

Bzzzt. Wrong! DRM serves as an anchor for legal enforcement. You are right in that it certainly won't work without hardware support. However, that's not the point. The whole point is to make you, or anyone who does manufacture devices without DRM support in their hardware, look like a villain -- a "hacker", a thief, a criminal.

An example: German news site Heise reports that the music industry here started to go after people who sell software able to copy music CDs. So this is what does happen:

1. Music industry claims there is copy protection (aka DRM) on some of their CDs,
2. Music industry claims this copy protection is "circumvented" if certain tools are used,
3. Music industry sues those who sell those tools,
4. Music industry assumes new_world == old_world - evil_tools, and claims that there is a working copy protection scheme (aka DRM).
5. Repeat ad infinitum.

It does not matter what works and what doesn't from a technical point of view. What matters is that the legal system accepts claim No. 1, and is sufficiently forgetful to not notice the loop when they return to claim No. 1 for the next iteration.

Here is the original paper on RSA's idea of blocking the RSA tags.
I posted a link to this a few months ago, after heise.de posted an article on that very thing.

paranoia? In a german supermarket (just bigger, for people who have their own store), they have actually built this into some products and cards.
read this or just look at the pictures

Maybe somebody should point out that is not the first time somebody has done such a thing... back in 1998 there was a quite similar event at the University of Paderborn where 512 normal home PCs brought by people were connected for one night (the event was even broadcasted live on German TV). I have to admit that the "flash mob" element here is more predominant (back then people knew about this two weeks in advance), but it's definitely not the first attempt to create a spontaneous supercomputer with home machines. The cluster even made it into the Top250 IIRC. :)

More info...

A low-cost alternative is a bootable copy of Knoppix, escpecially usefull if equipped with a virus scanner - like
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_wallpapers_full/ 93.php>Knopicillin - sorry no ISO Image found - it was once in the C'T magazine...

Before buying a tablet PC, please remember that they have touchscreen. Due to this, the displays look quite bad. On some models, if you hold them upright (like you would hold a notebook), you see different colours with each of your eye! I've read a review about them in c't 1/2004, not sure if you can buy the article online. They tested most up to date Tablet PCs. Oh, and one model you didn't list is Fujitsu Siemens. They haev the Stylistic ones, really crap, and a Lifebook T or something, which is quite ok. I for myself chose to buy an Apple Powerbook, which a) has a better Display, b) has a better OS, and c) attracts more women.

heises browsercheck

has a list of many (if not all) known browser exploits, with demo code.

Make the conclusion yourself.

About a year ago, German email users have been spammed with similar e-cards, which claimed to need a special presentation plugin. The "plugin" actually dialed an expensive premium-rate service number. Despite thousands of victims complaining about high phone bills, it took about a year to stop this kind of fraud.

About a year ago, German email users have been spammed with similar e-cards, which claimed to need a special presentation plugin. The "plugin" actually dialed an expensive premium-rate service number. Despite thousands of victims complaining about high phone bills, it took about a year to stop this kind of fraud.

You can boot Windows 95 and 98 from CD as well. There's just a lot of busywork involved in setting it up. And it probably won't work as well on significantly different hardware.

Current c't magazine includes a knoppix cd with new-fangled "use original windows NTFS.SYS via wine" drivers. So writing to NTFS in linux is no worse idea than writing to NTFS in windows :)

When you rely on proprietary products you often get the shaft, especially if you cannot audit and compile the code yourself. See:

• AARD
• NSA key in Lotus
• NSA key in MS-Windows

according to ct-magazine they are using SuSE-Linux. german article: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/34859

A READER WRITES to bring our attention to latest issue of German magazine, c't.

According to the magazine's own tests, a new Intel V8 compiler can give a boost to the performance of applications running on Intel platforms by between 5 and 10 per cent.

The chipmaker may be miffed to learn, however, that its compiler can help boost the same apps by a similar margin on rival AMD's Athlon64 platform, when suitably tweaked.

According to our correspondent, the compiler switch -QxN produces x86 code which runs only on P4 CPUs, not on AMD CPUs. However, the boffins at c't used the -QxN to produce code, patched out the CPU type inquiry and so managed to get the code to run on the Athlon64.

As a result the chip notched up a record-breaking Spec score.

According to the tests, under Windows, the P4 3200 gets a SPECint2000base value of 1286 while the Athlon64 3400+ scores 1404. Although, in SPECfp2000base, the P4 3200 scores 1257, against the Athlon64 3400+'s score of 1227.

Hmmm.

Here's a link to c't where you'll find no mention of these shenanigans whatsoever.

Link: You will find more information here. (German only) Die EU will Microsoft laut Focus zudem dazu verpflichten,der Konkurrenz wichtige Informationen zur Verfugung zu stellen, damit diese Programme erstellen konnen, die problemlos mit Microsoft- Produkten harmonieren. Dies hatte der Konzern in dem vierjahrigen Mammutverfahren bis zuletzt abgelehnt. US-Politiker und Lobbyisten werfen der EU vor, Microsoft auf kaltem Wege zu enteignen und europaischen Firmen einen Vorteil zu verschaffen.

According to heise.de(in English) MyDoom.B is not nearly as widespread as the A-version. According to the article the A-version just had a good start, because it was distributed through an IRC-Botnet. So we will probably not see microsoft.com going down.

Are you referring to items such as this:
"By patenting the Advanced Streaming format (ASF) Microsoft obstructs the development of the free video working on program VirtualDub, explained its developer Avery Lee." (translated from Heise by Google)
Yah, a <patent> licensing thing..
Microsoft took issue with virtualdub's ability to convert AV from one format to another. (not just that virtualdub was Free software).. I.E. they were relying on the threat of patent litigation to provide the data protection which was a touted feature of ASF.

In germany the Ct magazine comes with a full fledged (ct customized) Knoppix cd.

The next one, due on 6-2-2004 (6. february 2004)
will be a knoppix with 2.6.1 default kernel, yeah!

If there had not been a journalist of the magazine C't taking
pictures of the slides, he would gotten away
with it...

Kudos to C't... One of the reasons I got a
subscription recently.