Berkeley, Calif. Web hosting service Tiger Technologies has accused several big Internet domain name registrars of unjustifiably blocking customers who want to transfer domain names from one registrar to another. http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218600521&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News Registrar Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy http://www.icann.org/en/transfers/dispute-policy-12jul04.htm

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After 90 minutes of troubleshooting, Nash traced the problem to TeamViewer, which he used to remotely administer the client’s servers. It turns out the program had opened up its own webserver on the client’s machine as soon as Apache went down and in the process made it impossible for the client, a large provider of [...]

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“I don’t think any of us [developers] have ever seen encryption implemented so poorly before, which is why it’s hard to describe why it’s such a big threat to security,” Jonathan Zdziarski told Wired. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10295348-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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They’re not going to relax their efforts for one minute (every one of which sees four new pieces or malware, at current rates) and neither can you or your business. http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/07/malware_numbers.html

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The “600 billion” figure, he says, presumably refers to the total number of comparisons that are performed on the 200,000 fingerprint sets received each day against the 60 million sets that are stored in the database. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/fbifingerprints/

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Chime is a tool that all users of OpenSolaris should take the time to install. Chime is a graphical user interface for DTrace that makes viewing DTrace output enjoyable. It has traces that can provide valuable feedback on your system (and you don’t even have to know DTrace to use it). http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/chime

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Researchers reporting in the journal Science have revealed that, with no green pigments, these structures make the beetle appear iridescent green. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8166157.stm Good.  Now I can stop spray painting them.

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It has long been thought that the heart was incapable of repairing itself. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8162838.stm

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The return to common textile suits, men in shorts and women in suits above the knee and to the shoulder strap, would mean world records would be almost impossible to better in the short term. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/swimming/8161867.stm

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Confronted with a dumbfounding 90% drop-off in revenue at his high-end, custom bicycle business in San Antonio, Texas, Kevin Saunders could easily have closed his shop and resumed a career in finance or aircraft component design. Or he could have put KGS Bikes into retrenchment mode, suspending its marketing and promotional activities until the economy [...]

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