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Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement
Microsoft today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com. The agreement provides each company with access to the other’s patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon’s popular e-reading device, Kindle™, which employs both open source and Amazon’s proprietary software components, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers. Although specific terms of the agreement are confidential, Microsoft indicated that Amazon.com will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money under the agreement.
“We are pleased to have entered into this patent license agreement with Amazon.com,” said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft. “Microsoft’s patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry, and this agreement demonstrates our mutual respect for intellectual property as well as our ability to reach pragmatic solutions to IP issues regardless of whether proprietary or open source software is involved.”
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How about a this day in tech? Have not done this in a while!
1473: Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland, of German parents, leading both countries to claim him as their own.
The astronomer was not so eagerly embraced by the Catholic Church, however, after becoming the most prominent advocate of the heliocentric theory that placed Earth in orbit around a stationary sun, an idea that stood in direct opposition to both conventional wisdom and Catholic dogma.
The heliocentric theory had existed for centuries but in largely fragmented form, buried by time and religious repression. In what is now known as the Copernican system, Copernicus outlined seven basic theoretical principles and presented them in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, or in English, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres:
- There is no one center of all the celestial spheres [orbits].
- The Earth’s center is not the center of the universe.
- The center of the universe is near the sun.
- The distance of the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars.
- The rotation of the Earth accounts for the apparent daily rotation of the stars.
- The apparent annual cycle of movements of the sun is caused by the Earth revolving around the sun.
- The apparent retrograde motion of the planets is caused by the motion of the Earth, from which one observes.
Unsurprisingly, Rome banned the book.
Copernican theory not only obliterated the universe as understood by Ptolemy and the ancients, it had a profound effect on other astronomers of the scientific age, including Galileo and Johannes Kepler. It is thus considered a defining moment in the history of science.
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Skype and Verizon to Make Announcement on Tuesday
Skype and Verizon have announced a joint news conference during the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Speaking will be John Stratton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Verizon Wireless, and Josh Silverman, chief executive officer of Skype.
To listen to a teleconference of the news conference, participants may call:
877-883-4690 (toll free within the U.S. and Canada) or +1 706-758-5386 (international) at 5:15 p.m. CET (11:15 a.m. EST / 8:15 a.m. PST) on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
It’s believed that the two companies will announce a partnership to allow Skype over Verizon’s network and possibly preload the app on some phones.
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Download every Sports Illustrated 2010 swimsuit photo with a Perl script
Don’t you just love random tips?
Justin, a Download Squad reader, just pointed out a rather neat Perl script that downloads every Sports Illustrated 2010 swimsuit photo. It’s a tiny script of just a few lines, and it works a charm — I’m currently downloading some 1200 titillating high-res photos. I just took a brief look at the photos and there’s a lot of ‘behind the scenes’ type stuff, along with the moist, glossy, post-processed stuff that will make it into the final set of photos.
I have no idea how long the script will work for, so you probably want to run it now rather than later. To run it, you’ll need an installation of Perl — ActivePerl is a good bet for Windows and Mac, and most Linux distros will have Perl already installed.
Update: the script uses ‘wget’, which isn’t available on a normal Windows
install (download it here). I guess these buxom beauties were destined to be consumed by Linux geeks!
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Open source disk tool UltraDefrag hits version 4.0
If you haven’t heard it mentioned before with other disk defragmenters, UltraDefrag is a solid open source alternative to tools like MyDefrag and Auslogics’ Disk Defrag.
Ultra Defrag is packed with functionality, offering whole disk defragmentation and optimization, file and folder defragging (via your right-click context menu), boot-time defragging, and scheduled jobs. The boot-time job allows UltraDefrag to take care of locked system files like pagefile.sys and your registry hives, which are locked while Windows is running.
While UltraDefrag v4.0 isn’t the project’s first major release, its developers consider this to be the first ‘non-beta’ due to past issues with reliability. The new version is fast, and after testing it on three different Windows 7 systems (including x64) those problems seem to have been fixed.
Downloads are available for both 32 and 64-bit Windows versions, and both an installer and portable option are provided.
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How Legal Wiretaps Could Let Hackers In
A scheme that gives U.S. law enforcement authorities with a warrant access to networking equipment could also be exploited by illegal snoopers.
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Tom Cross, manager of X-Force research, a security unit at IBM, discovered this after reviewing details of a lawful intercept scheme used to access equipment made by the networking giant Cisco. Cross says he identified weaknesses in the communication protocol that could let hackers perform illegal wiretaps. Cross focused on Cisco because it’s the only company to have made the details of its system public, but he believes similar vulnerabilities exist with other intercept schemes.
“It’s not just the router vendor and the [Internet service provider] who have an interest in how this interface is built,” Cross said during a presentation at Black Hat DC, a computer-security conference held in Washington, DC. “We all do.”
Many networking and Internet companies have built backdoors into their systems to deal with a growing number of Internet wiretap requests. These backdoors provide members of law enforcement who have a warrant with immediate access to communications. But there is growing concern that these avenues could inadvertently make it easier for hackers to steal information. The espionage that prompted Google to consider pulling out of China last month drew attention to the existence of these wiretap backdoors after a prominent security expert suggested that such a system may have been used to infiltrate Google’s network.
The Cisco wiretap system uses a simple protocol, details of which have been published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. A law enforcement agency submits a request to a representative of an Internet service provider. This representative then sends a request to the device used to perform the surveillance, which is known as the intercept access point. For certain Cisco routers, the wiretap request is sent as a single packet of information, using a networking service called the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Cross identified a collection of problems with this setup.
First, he says, it’s too easy to bypass the authentication built into the system. The SNMP protocol provides a lot of information when access is denied, which can help an attacker guess the correct username and password for accessing the system. Worse yet, he says, a vulnerability disclosed in 2008 would allow an attacker to gain access to one such system with only 256 attempts (a trivial number for an automated system). Though patches have been issued for this flaw, service providers often do not keep routers patched because of the difficulty of taking them offline, Cross says.
Furthermore, while it would be possible to block repeated attempts at unauthorized access, and alert an administrator, the system that Cross analyzed isn’t designed to do so. And finally, although Cisco recommends that encryption be used, the system doesn’t require it. Without encryption, Cross says, it’s impossible for a lawful intercept system to function safely.
Cross suggests that simple changes to the SNMP protocol could make it much more secure. He also calls for companies to implement the system in a more secure way–by separating lawful intercept requests from regular network management traffic, encrypting data, and enforcing stricter controls over where requests come from and where intercepted data is sent.
Jennifer Greeson Dunn, communications director for Cisco, says the company published its lawful intercept infrastructure in 2004 so that it could receive this type of peer review. She also says that Cisco has already addressed many of the software and hardware vulnerabilities that Cross has found. She adds that Cisco has been talking with Cross, and plans to review his recommendations for changes to the architecture and infrastructure employed.
Although some experts say the entire concept of a permanent interface for intercepting communications undermines security, Cross believes that a system such as Cisco’s can help ensure that intercepts are performed lawfully, providing it is properly protected against unauthorized access.
Steven Bellovin, a professor of computer science at Columbia University who researches network security, says that if lawful intercept systems must exist, he would like to see them offer better protections. “It’s engineering a vulnerability into your network, and the question is how well you can protect it,” he says.
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Crazy Headspoding Animation Defies Any Classification
VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli – Sound Design on Vimeo.
This is not stop motion. This is not animation. I don’t have a clue about what this thing is. I do know that 1) it’s for mature audiences only—for graphic violence and grossness—and 2) it’s mind/headblowing
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Verizon Terminating Copyright Infringers’ Internet Access
Verizon is terminating internet service to an unknown number of repeat copyright scofflaws, a year after suggesting it was not adopting a so-called graduated-response policy.
While it was not immediately clear whether other internet service providers were following suit, the move comes as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are lobbying ISPs and Congress to support terminating internet access for repeat, online copyright offenders.
All the while, the United States has been privately lobbying the European Union to “encourage” so-called three strikes policies, according to leaked documents surrounding a proposed international intellectual property accord.
Verizon was not immediately prepared to comment in detail on the developments, first reported by CNET, or to detail how many of its more than 8 million broadband subscribers it has terminated — although CNET said the number was “small.” The RIAA declined comment.
“We reserve the right to do that,” Verizon spokeswoman Bobbi Henson said in a telephone interview regarding the terminations.
The RIAA announced a year ago it was ending its litigation campaign against individual file sharers, about 30,000 lawsuits in all. Instead, the music industry’s lobbying and litigation arm said it would rely on a series of accords it had reached with “leading” internet service providers, in which ISPs have agreed “on principle” to shut off internet access to customers the RIAA catches file sharing repeatedly.
At that time, in a Jan. 5, 2009 interview, Verizon spokeswoman Ellen Yu said that, in reference to the RIAA announcement: “We are not working with them on this.”
Cara Duckworth, an RIAA spokeswoman, said the same day that “We have an agreement on principle with several leading ISPs but not all, and the agreement on principle is confidential.”
Other than Verizon, none of the leading ISPs have acknowledged practicing what the content industry is calling “graduated response.” Under Verizon’s plan, the ISP notifies customers that unlawful file sharing allegedly is taking place on their accounts — file sharing discovered by the RIAA or other intellectual property holders who actively police networks and IP addresses. Internet service could be terminated perhaps after several warnings.
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