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MojoKid writes “Believe it or not, it wasn’t internet.com or dot.com that was acquired when the Internet was young. Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized [...]

Not anytime soon, bub. But when you eventually get your iPhone 4G, they should be included in your rate plan.
Which is weird, because it’s probably been a long time since you nervously eyed the clock while on the phone with your granny in Smallville. Long distance has been all-you-can-eat since cell phones and [...]

There’s nothing wrong with the earbuds you’re listening to. Except for the fact that they completely suck. For $1,100 (yes that much) JH audio has ‘buds that blow all other in-ear audio devices completely away.

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saw a thread recently where a person wanted to upgrade their evaluation edition to the full edition of SQL Server. There were various pieces of advice, but eventually it came down to an uninstall and reinstall of SQL Server. The person with the problem was clearly annoyed by this and said it was a bunch [...]

This wild concept from BMW accelerates like an M3, sips gas like a Prius and is so wild you’d think Chris Bangle designed it.

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The software maker says it is looking into a potential vulnerability that could allow attackers to take over machines running older versions of Microsoft’s Web server.
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AP - Carl Icahn, one of Yahoo’s largest stockholders, has sold 12.7 million shares to whittle his holdings in the slumping Internet company to a 4.5 percent stake.,Icahn pares Yahoo stake with sale of 12.7M shares
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We are aware of a new 0-day exploit that was posted on Milw0rm today.
According the exploit, it was suppose to work on both IIS 5.0 and 6.0, on the FTP module.
Also according it, it affects IIS 6.0 with stack cookie protection.
The latest on this is that HDMoore is porting it to the MetaSploit framework.
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Police use social networks for community policing.

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Vulnerability Note VU#276653
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) FTP server NLST stack buffer overflow
OverviewThe Microsoft IIS FTP server contains a stack buffer overflow in the handling of directory names, which may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
I. DescriptionIIS is a web server that comes with Microsoft Windows. IIS also [...]