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In this issue:
* McCaw's WIreless ISP Begins Trial Run This Summer
* Will There Be A Winning Autonomous Robot in 2005?
* Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux
* Software Livre, Anyone?
* 80,012 Text Messages In One Month
* SUSE 9.1 FTP Version Available
* British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites
* A New Look For Firefox
* Distributive Worm Blocking
* Mandatory Banknote Detection Code?
* More Cringley on Linux Embedded Hardware Hacking
* Bill Joy On His Own Future, And The World's
* You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It
* Old Toy Modding?
* Is Microsoft Money Crushing Microsoft?
* Apple Previewing New Power Mac?
* Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans
* Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked

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| McCaw's WIreless ISP Begins Trial Run This Summer |
| from the more-wireless-always-good dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, @20:23 (wireless) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/05/2336247 |
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[0]prostoalex writes "Wireless legend and billionaire [1]Craig McCaw is
moving into broadband wireless business with [2]his new company.
ClearWire will launch the service this summer in Jacksonville, FL and St
Cloud, MN. The offerings [3]will include 512 kbps, 786 kbps and 1.5 Mbps
plans. Pricing is not revealed yet, but Business Week cites industry
insiders claiming it's going to be [4]in $40-50 range. ClearWire will
rely on [5]WiMAX (802.16) technology."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/05/2336247

Links:
0. http://techinterviews.com
1. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mcc0bio-1
2. http://www.clearwire.com/
3.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&e=9&u=/zd/20040604/tc_zd/12\
8795
4. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_21/b3884110_mz063.htm
5.
http://www.commsdesign.com/design_corner/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17500156


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| Will There Be A Winning Autonomous Robot in 2005? |
| from the time-for-a-darpa-change dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, @21:38 (robotics) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/0059219 |
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An anonymous reader submits "This summer is heating up the [0]DARPA Grand
Challenge as multiple top notch schools begin to announce their entry
into the competition. The newest organization to announce its entry was
the [1]Florida Institute of Technology. Their project is known as
[2]Oasis - Autonomous Racing, and they have a team of over 45 students,
professors, and advisors that are currently hard at work designing their
vehicle and raising funds to pay for it. The DARPA Grand Challenge is a
race between vehicles that should be designed to travel up to 300 miles
in less than 10 hours through the desert or other harsh medium without
any human interaction. The 2005 competition has a $2 million grand prize
as authorized by congress. With all of the new entrants does anyone think
that the competition will be won the second time around?"

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/0059219

Links:
0. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
1. http://www.fit.edu/
2. http://www.oasis-racing.org/


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| Red Hat Introduces NX Software Support For Linux |
| from the founder-and-leader dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, @22:58 (security) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/0223217 |
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abertoll writes "In this story at ZDnet, Red Hat has apparently [0]added
NX support to Linux. [1] NX security technology is a hardware attempt at
stopping malicious code." (We recently posted about [2]Transmeta's
announcement that its chips will incorporate the NX bit as well.)

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/0223217

Links:
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5227102.html
1. http://hardware.earthweb.com/chips/article.php/3358421
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/2346228&tid=172


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| Software Livre, Anyone? |
| from the one-lump-or-emilio-umeoka dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @02:02 (gnu) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/0340255 |
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[0]tbray writes "They just had this [1]huge OSS conference in Brazil. One
good write-up by Simon Phipps is [2]here. And hey, down there, OSS and
Java [3]play nice together."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/0340255

Links:
0. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
1. http://www.softwarelivre.org/forum2004/
2. http://www.webmink.net/2004/06/fisl-government-that-gets-it.htm
3. http://www.webmink.net/2004/06/fisl-java-everywhere.htm


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| 80,012 Text Messages In One Month |
| from the persistent-is-a-nice-way-to-say-stubborn dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @04:58 (humor) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/0523227 |
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[0]webguru4god writes "According to an article on AZCentral.com, a man in
New Zealand sent an average of [1]2,580 text messages a day for a whole
month to protest his cell phone provider cancelling their unlimited text
messaging plan. I recently received a faulty cell phone bill for $2000
claiming that I sent 40,000 text messages in one month, which I thought
was physically impossible. But apparently this man has doubled that
number and managed to get 8 hours of sleep each night for the month!"

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/0523227

Links:
0. http://achurch&nmt,edu
1. http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0603Text-Messages-ON.html


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| SUSE 9.1 FTP Version Available |
| from the teutonic-download dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @07:33 (suse) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/0533233 |
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twener writes "The SUSE 9.1 FTP version is now available on [0]SUSE's ftp
mirrors for free installation via FTP/HTTP ([1]installation instruction).
It's almost identical to [2]SUSE 9.1 Professional except some few
packages which are missing due to licence reasons. Also don't miss "[3]SUSE
9.1: The Complete Review" recently published by [4]DesktopOS.com."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/0533233

Links:
0. http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html
1. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/README.FTP
2. http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/prof/index.html
3. http://www.desktopos.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=17
4. http://www.desktopos.com/


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| British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites |
| from the this-is-scary-stuff dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 06, @09:11 (censorship) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/132200 |
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An anonymous reader writes "British Telecom has taken the unprecedented
step of [0]blocking all illegal child pornography websites in a crackdown
on abuse online. The decision by Britain's largest high-speed internet
provider will lead to the first mass censorship of the web attempted in a
Western democracy."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/132200

Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1232506,00.html


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| A New Look For Firefox |
| from the not-so-extreme-makeover dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 06, @09:56 (mozilla) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/136235 |
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ben writes "Regular users of [0]Mozilla Firefox may be interested to know
[1]a new default theme is planned for 0.9 in preparation for [2]the road
to 1.0. 0.9 will also feature new improved [3]theme and extension
management, which will make it easy to make Firefox look the way you want
it to."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/136235

Links:
0. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
1.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=82385&postdays=0&postorder=asc&pos\
tsperpage=15&start=0
2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html
3. http://update.mozilla.org/


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| Distributive Worm Blocking |
| from the anyone-speak-the-dutch dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 06, @10:57 (security) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1338225 |
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[0]wdebruij writes "According to [1]this source (unfortunately in dutch),
a number of dutch ISPs are bundling their forces to fight the spread of
worms. The technology, called virbl, blocks all accesses from IP
addresses from which at least 2 worms were sent for 24 hours, naturally
excluding known large email servers. Background info on the project can
be found at [2]the developers' project site. So, does anyone have useful
remarks on why this may succeed or fail? It appears to me as a simple to
implement yet powerful, albeit stopgap, solution."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/1338225

Links:
0. http://www.wdebruij.dds.nl
1. http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/18686.phtml
2. http://virbl.bit.nl/


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| Mandatory Banknote Detection Code? |
| from the this-just-won't-work dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 06, @11:48 (software) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1448246 |
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[0]metamatic writes "The European Union is planning to introduce
legislation to make it mandatory for software developers to add black-box
[1]banknote detection code to their graphics software.How will this apply
to open source software? Is it time to get writing to your Euro-MP?"

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/1448246

Links:
0. http://www.pobox.com/~meta/
1. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1232480,00.html


+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| More Cringley on Linux Embedded Hardware Hacking |
| from the get-your-hack-on dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 06, @12:35 (hardware) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1435251 |
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[0]enrico_suave writes "[1]I , Cringley on Linux hardware hacking (the
good kind). Some neat points on what enterprising individuals are doing
with [2]Hauppauge [3]MediaMVP streaming content settop box/client
thingie." The story is mostly about Micro ISPs, including a few choice
digs on Slashdot readers.

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/1435251

Links:
0. http://www.byopvr.com
1. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040603.html
2. http://www.hauppauge.com/
3. http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html


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| Bill Joy On His Own Future, And The World's |
| from the he's-an-optipessimist dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @13:30 (tech) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1655234 |
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geeber writes "There is an interesting [0] interview with Bill Joy in the
current edition of the Magazine in the New York Times. He is still
obssesed with what he calls a 'civilization-changing event' brought on by
the fast pace of research into dangerous technologies such as genetic
engineering and nanotechnology. Another interesting tidbit: he has
flirted with the idea of going to work for Google."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/1655234

Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/06ENCOUNTER.html


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| You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It |
| from the city-that-reads-remember dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @14:28 (spam) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1817224 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]Daniel Goldman writes "The Baltimore Sun has an article about [1]the
City of Baltimore's email problem." A snippet: "Millions of old e-mail
messages are clogging Baltimore's municipal computers, so the city is
going to start automatically deleting any messages older than 90 days. A
common practice in private business, the move raises questions when made
by a municipality, which has a responsibility to retain certain public
records." Goldman points out "Just think about all the potential law
suits; 'if it's not there, they can't subpoena it.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/1817224

Links:
0. http://d-goldman.org
1.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-md.email06jun06,0,2882458.story?coll=\
bal-local-headlines


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| Old Toy Modding? |
| from the hello-kittty dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @15:24 (toys) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1845201 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

Sqwubbsy writes "[0]Stumbling through Google, looking for info on the
[1]Big Trak by Milton Bradley, I came across [2]an article about one that
was retrofitted with an [3]OOPic controller. I was wondering if anyone
else had a good story about a retrofitted toy that they beefed up?"

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/1845201

Links:
0.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=big+trak&btnG=Google+Sear\
ch
1. http://www.80snostalgia.com/memories/bigtrak.html
2. http://www.robotprojects.com/bigtrak/bigotrak.htm
3. http://www.oopic.com/


+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Is Microsoft Money Crushing Microsoft? |
| from the stifle-y'self-edit' dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @16:32 (microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/2031239 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]JoshuaDFranklin writes "The latest Seattle Weekly has an article by a
former Microsoft project manager titled [1]Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow.
It argues that Microsoft, addicted to its Windows and Office revenue, is
stifling innovation within the company: 'new, better ideas that would
take business away from Windows or Office don't really have a chance at
Microsoft.' Apple, in contrast, has [2]embraced Open Source and is
delivering a better consumer experience." Update: 06/06 21:24 GMT by [3]T:
Sorry, [4]it's a dupe.

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/2031239

Links:
0. mailto:joshuadfranklin...NOSPAM@@@yahoo...com
1. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0422/040602_news_microsoft.php
2. http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ps-faq.html
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/03/1225241&tid=109


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| Apple Previewing New Power Mac? |
| from the looks-pretty-similar dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @17:33 (desktops) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/2132246 |
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[0]dunric writes "CNET.com reports that Apple Computer may be
[1]previewing a new Power Mac, complete with dual G5 processors and a
more advanced memory configuration." The "previewing" isn't intentional,
though -- the report is based on service and repair documents distributed
last month and reported on AppleInsider.com. AppleInsider has [2]taken
down at least one image from their report, but have added an [3]artist's
rendering.

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/2132246

Links:
0. http://www.geocities.com/dunric/westfront.html
1.
http://news.com.com/Apple+readying+new+Power+Macs%3F/2100-1042_3-5226969.html?ta\
g=nefd.top
2. http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=474
3. http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=477


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| Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans |
| from the adapt-or-die-die-die dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 06, @18:33 (microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/2228201 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]prostoalex writes "Microsoft is introducing significant changes into
its licensing program, faced with competition from Linux, [1]as Reuters
article suggests. First, Microsoft starts giving away free server
licenses to its Software Assurance Program customers, if the PC is not
actually used in production and is not present on the network. Such
licensing would be convenient for disaster recoveries, where it's
important to replace a failed server as soon as possible without calling
Microsoft support or licensing partner. Support lifecycle is also
[2]extended to 10 years for a variety of products, including Windows
2000, Windows XP and SQL Server 2000."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/2228201

Links:
0. http://www.itfacts.biz/
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20040605/tc_nm/tec\
h_microsoft_licensing_dc
2.
http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=23957&Catid=2&su\
bcat=19


+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked |
| from the home-mini-brew dept. |
| posted by simoniker on Sunday June 06, @19:41 (portablegames) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/2325257 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]Team Pokeme writes "Nintendo's [1]Pokemon Mini LCD mini-handheld
[2]has been hacked by us - you can check out the videos on our site for
more information. The [3]cartridge pinout has been reverse engineered by
using logic analyzers (thanks to [4]DarkFader), and also the instruction
set by disassembling (thanks DaveX!) the Pokemon Mini emulator that is
built into [5]Pokemon Channel, a GameCube game. DaveX wrote [6]the first
homebrew game, SokoMini, after finding out the tilemap stuff."

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/06/06/2325257

Links:
0. http://pokeme.shizzle.it/
1. http://www.pokemon-mini.com/
2. http://pokeme.shizzle.it/?button=infos
3. http://darkfader.net/pm/files/cartridge.txt
4. http://darkfader.net/pm/
5. http://www.pokemonchannel.tv/
6. http://pokeme.shizzle.it/?button=projects



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