] WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
] unanimously voted today to require Internet telephone
] companies to provide emergency 911 service to all their
] customers.

FCC Mandates 911 VoIP Service

] Nintendo of America has announced the Nintendo World
] store, located in the heart of New York City%u2019s
] Rockefeller Center, will open on May 14, 2005. Nintendo
] World will celebrate with a grand opening block party
] outside the store in Rockefeller Plaza.

That's this Saturday, apparently.

Nintendo to Open Store in New York

] The Public Radio Exchange is a nonprofit service for
] distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio pieces.

The Public Radio Exchange

] A locally exploitable flaw has been found in the Linux
] ELF binary format loader's core dump function that allows
] local users to gain root privileges and also execute
] arbitrary code at kernel privilege level.

This affects all of 2.2/2.4/2.6.

Linux ELF Core Dump Priviledge Escalation

With dmv and my departures from Pittsburgh in the no-longer-so-distant future, we've come to the last installment of Total Information Awareness in its current incarnation.

Listen at www.wrct.org -- 6:00pm edt. Call us: 412-621-WRCT.

]
] The Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is designed to
] securely extend the single-sign-on approach from internal
] systems to external business partners and suppliers.

IBM Rolls Out Federated ID-Management Software

] White House and Pentagon officials are closely monitoring
] a recent stream of satellite photographs of North Korea
] that appear to show rapid, extensive preparations for a
] nuclear weapons test, including the construction of a
] reviewing stand, presumably for dignitaries, according to
] American and foreign officials who have been briefed on
] the imagery.

U.S. Cites Signs of Korean Preparations for Nuclear Test

] Two small explosions went off in a large cement planter
] outside a building housing the British Consulate on Third
] Avenue in Midtown Manhattan early today, causing some
] property damage but no injuries.

Small Explosives Go Off Outside British Consulate in Manhattan

]
] The Fish and Game Commission, the wildlife regulatory
] body, in an effort to curb animal hunting over the
] Internet, has instructed the Department of Fish and Game
] to urgently draw up rules banning the sport, bypassing
] the three-year cycle usually followed for reviewing
] hunting regulations. The development follows a Texan Web
] site%u2019s offer of firing at real animals through mouse
] clicks.

Ban proposed on online hunting

] The Federal Trade Commission has charged a Utah-based
] company, five related corporations, and three individuals
] operating as a common enterprise with making numerous
] false and unsubstantiated claims for weight-loss and
] fat-loss gels and supplements. The complaint focuses on
] six of the respondents%u2019 heavily promoted products:
] Dermalin, Cutting Gel, and Tummy Flattening Gel (topical
] fat-loss gels with the same active ingredient); Leptoprin
] and Anorex (identical weight-loss supplements for
] %u201Csignificantly overweight%u201D people which
] contained ECA [ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin], an
] additional patented ingredient and calcium); and
] PediaLean (a glucomannan weight-loss supplement for
] children). In an administrative complaint announced
] today, the FTC alleges that the respondents violated the
] FTC Act by making unsubstantiated fat and weight loss
] claims, false claims that clinical testing proves certain
] efficacy claims, and false claims that Daniel B. Mowrey,
] Ph.D, is a medical doctor.

Having seen the commercial for "Leptoprin" dozens of times
on late night TV, I just had to know what was up... nice
to see the feds going after these people for once.

Ads for Various Diet Supplements and Topical Gels Don't Cut the Fat, Says the FTC