US Army xBot programme halted by IP fracas
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'He stole our robot' A major American military push to get more combat robots into the field has ground to a halt following a bitter dispute between rival mechanoid makers.â¦
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MICROTHOFT&#39;S bid to get its anti-thpam Sender ID accepted by the open thource community was dealt a bit of a blow when Apache rejected the idea.
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Pentagon retrocopter sent back to drawing board DARPA*, the Pentagon warboffinry outfit for whom the only field worthwhile is the left one, is having some problems with its "Heliplane" programme.â¦
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Many-headed foe hard to combat Network security analyst Lawrence Baldwin has helped take down his share of bot nets, but he worries that those days may largely be over.â¦
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Under a little-known project called Xenon, several nations are deploying sophisticated bots to troll web businesses in search
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Sell it to the Marines boys Two US brothers have been charged with various crimes after they allegedly sold counterfeit Cisco equipment to several government agencies including the FBI, the Federal Aviation Authority and the Marine Corps.â¦
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By Bob Cox, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 10--The fleet of 54 V-22 Osprey aircraft used by the Marines and Air Force was grounded this week after a faulty computer chip was discovered in flight-control computers.
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In what was speculated to be a reaction to a possible DoS attack, the Bush Administration has blocked at least some foreign visitor access to its official campaign Web site.
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Universities and schools worst hit University security experts warned administrators on Monday that a bot program has started to spread by exploiting five patched Microsoft vulnerabilities and a six-month-old flaw in Symantec's anti-virus software.â¦
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Fix prevents users from sharing their files and printers with the entire Internet.
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Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project management.  This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure. Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of finding it.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.  In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to specify relative paths not full paths.  For example if y ...
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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Sanctions against botnet operators The Federal Trade Commission, the US consumer rights watchdog, has succeeded in shutting down four illegal spamming operations judged to have breached federal anti-spam laws. Targets of the lawsuits included an operation that offered the supposed chance to "date lonely wives" and two outfits that allegedly bombarded unwilling recipients with lurid ads for pornographic web sites, sent via compromised PCs.â¦
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FBI investigating contractor negligence Unisys, the IT computer services biz, is in hot water with the US government for allegedly twiddling its thumbs while foreign hackers had their way with Department of Homeland Security computers.â¦
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On a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect.
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Mod chips such as the Xecuter allow the Xbox to perform unauthorized tricks.
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US authorities issued a court order on October 7 to Rackspace to physically remove Global Indymedia servers in the US and UK. The agency requesting the seizure was the Federal Bureau of Investigation.