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Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | What's wrong with the music biz? |
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12:29 am EST, Jan 25, 2002 |
Next time you hear that file swapping is responsible for the decline in music industry revenues in 2001, take a look at this. Declines in concert revenues tracked declines in sales of recorded media. Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | What's wrong with the music biz? |
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Information Security Magazine |
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11:54 pm EST, Jan 24, 2002 |
JLM: Author and professor Dorothy E. Denning explains why good biometrics systems will succeed without keeping secrets. Both direct and concise, it's worth reading. She mentions two startup companies whose biometrics technologies look promising. Decius: There are so many problems with this I don't even know where to start. I just LOVE how she brushes off the privacy concerns with a few words at the bottom of the essay, and she doesn't even mention the accuracy problems and the difficulty of accuratly determining "liveness." In network computers there is a huge problem with trust of remote biometric identifiers... The key problem with this essay is that biometrics don't eliminate passwords in most implementations and really don't have anything to do with the problem with passwords. Basically, a single sign on infrastructure is the problem, biometrics or no. Fortunately, Biometrics are not the least expensive solution to the "password problem" and for that reason law enforcement is likely to be denied their dream of having your fingerprint taken every time you engage in a commercial transaction. Information Security Magazine |
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Spyware, In a Galaxy Near You |
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2:11 pm EST, Jan 24, 2002 |
Many popular p2p programs include very intrusive spyware. Spyware, In a Galaxy Near You |
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How to Become an Unsuccessful, Burned-Out SysOp |
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1:46 pm EST, Jan 23, 2002 |
"It seems as if everyone who gets a modem and calls bulletin boards toys with the idea of running his own BBS at some time. The plain truth is that bulletin boards come and go with alarming regularity. A few stick around, but for every one that reaches its second birthday, five will appear and vanish. Here are a few simple tips to insure that your effort at running at bulletin board places you in the majority." A simpler time.... Oh how wonderful it was.... How to Become an Unsuccessful, Burned-Out SysOp |
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Vision series - CNET News.com |
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2:26 pm EST, Jan 22, 2002 |
Yahoo has apparently been systematically taken over by a bunch of guys from hollywood. It will be interesting to see what happens. IMHO Yahoo could have been profitable with some fat cutting. The problem with this "philosophy change" is that hollywood guys usually get the internet about as well as internet guys get business. And the pendellum swings... Vision series - CNET News.com |
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Network Spending by Businesses Seen Rebounding |
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9:31 pm EST, Jan 18, 2002 |
"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After months of spending cuts, North American companies are getting ready to ramp up purchases of communications equipment for wide-area networks to link far-flung offices and other facilities, according to a survey released by Infonetics Research Inc. on Friday." Wishful thinking??? Network Spending by Businesses Seen Rebounding |
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