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News Bytes Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:08pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Gunfire kills two protesters in Kirkuk; car bomb in Baghdad targets U.S. convoy. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:05pm EST Supreme Court sets limit on obscenity prosecutions. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a person can be convicted only once for possession of obscene material no matter how many pictures he had when arrested. In an 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that struck down nine of the 10 convictions against David A. Girard of Baldwin County. In October 2001, a Baldwin County jury convicted Girard of 10 counts of possession for obscene material involving boys under 18. The obscene material was contained on a computer discs. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:04pm EST New state porn law may face challenge. A New York-based First Amendment advocacy group is considering filing a lawsuit over a new Michigan law, which takes effect Thursday, requiring store owners to cover up sexually explicit magazines or put them in restricted areas.The law, intended to keep pornographic material away from children, is one of a few new laws taking effect on the first day of 2004. Others will make it a felony for throwing objects at moving vehicles causing an injury and using or producing an experimental electromagnetic pulse device called an "e-bomb," which fries electrical equipment. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:03pm EST Judge throws out AOL spam suit Judge throws out AOL spam suit. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by AOL against a group of Florida computer technicians that the leading Internet provider charged with helping deliver spam e-mails, lawyers for the technicians said Tuesday. Judge Claude Hilton of the U.S. District Court in eastern Virginia dismissed the lawsuit Dec. 24, Albo & Oblon, the firm representing the defendants, said in a statement. Hilton ruled that Virginia courts did not have jurisdiction over the Florida-based defendants, even though AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc.along with CNN/Money, does business in Virginia and the unwanted e-mails were directed there, lawyers for the alleged spammers said. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:02pm EST Adam & Eve Launches CNWB-Powered Credit Card Program. Adult Internet retailer Adam & Eve and Internet credit card creator CNWB, Inc. have released the Adam & Eve Private Label Credit Card. "A private label card, or an affinity card, is a payment vehicle licensed by a brand from CNWB," Bene't Garcia, director of marketing for CNWB, explained to AVN.com. "This payment vehicle license allows the brand to extend an entire portfolio of card options to its consumers. These options include credit cards, secured cards, even gift cards. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:00pm EST Judge throws out AOL spam suit Judge throws out AOL spam suit. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by AOL against a group of Florida computer technicians that the leading Internet provider charged with helping deliver spam e-mails, lawyers for the technicians said Tuesday. Judge Claude Hilton of the U.S. District Court in eastern Virginia dismissed the lawsuit Dec. 24, Albo & Oblon, the firm representing the defendants, said in a statement. Hilton ruled that Virginia courts did not have jurisdiction over the Florida-based defendants, even though AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc.along with CNN/Money, does business in Virginia and the unwanted e-mails were directed there, lawyers for the alleged spammers said. Resource Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:59pm EST ASACP reports 100 validated CP sites in November. In November ASACP received over 2.2 million hits with 175,000 unique visitors, 4000 suspect child pornography (CP) reports, and reported 100 validated CP sites to the FBI, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and several hotlines in Europe. With the new AI software, ASACP is able to more accurately track information on the suspect CP leads. Breakdowns of identification from the new AI system to better identify legitimate sites, illegal sites and sites previously reported, benefits ASACP and the information it provides to the FBI. "Since ASACP forwards only validated CP reports to the FBI, their agents can focus their investigations on apprehending these criminals. ASACP does not forward reports of legitimate adult sites." News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:57pm EST Vivid Cigars Coming to a Smoke Shop Near You. The newest product to bare the Vivid brand is a line of premium cigars from Club De Players. Vivid Sophisticate Premium Hand Made Cigars will be sold in gentlemen’s clubs, adult retail outlets, traditional smoke shops and via the Internet, including VividCigars.com. Michael P. Hachikian, presidentof Club de Players, noted that there are about 14 million cigar smokers in the United States who consume at least one or two cigars a week. “The largest segment is in the affluent, professional 25-55 year-old demographic, which is an excellent fit with the Vivid consumer. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:56pm EST 101 Ways to Save the Internet. Where's a superhero when you need one? The Net, which once seemed so invincible, is under attack by the forces of evil. Viruses knock servers to their knees. Spammers hijack our inboxes. Hackers and identity thieves menace our collective security and personal privacy. Desperate solutions range from abandoning email to requiring a license to log on. Halt, fools! The Internet's problems stem from the same virtues that make it great: open architecture, the free flow of information, peer-to-peer cooperation, and a bias for linking strangers, not disconnecting them. Take those away and the Net might cease to infuriate us - but it will also cease to amaze us.Here's a smarter approach: 101 proposals that harness the Net's own superpowers to defeat its foes. Up, up, and away! News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:51pm EST Police slap Web designer with public nudity ticket. Melissa Harrington's part-time porn gig caught up with her on Monday, as Nebraska police ticketed the lass for posting nude photos of herself taken at a local bar up on the Internet.  News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:50pm EST Some Microsoft IE Digital Certificates Near Expiration. The digital certificate for Internet Explorer's Java 2 Runtime Environment has expired, while several more are set to lapse January 7. Digital certificates from vendors like VeriSign (Quote, Chart) let online users verify that they're dealing with real companies or persons. They also can secure all communications to and from the Web server where they're installed, via public key (define) encryption. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:49pm EST Lesbian-run hotel sued for discrimination. Two Los Angeles, USA men have filed a reverse discrimination suit against a lesbian-run Palm Springs hotel, claiming that they were denied reservations on account of their gender. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:48pm EST Court: 25 To Life Term For Internet Child Porn Not Warranted. The state Court of Appeals vacated the sentence of a man convicted in an Internet child porn case, ruling his term of 25 years to life was not warranted. The appeals court said Wednesday that there was not enough evidence to justify an indeterminate sentence for Roger Jacobs, who was found guilty of two counts of soliciting for child prostitution. Jacobs was convicted after a detective in California set up an Internet site at which he offered "very young, very attractive escorts," and Jacobs, who lived in Westminster, responded. Resource Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:47pm EST Shufflings and promotions at YNOT and TAW. A slew of personnel changes at YNOT and The Adult Webmaster (TAW) announced as the followup to the purchase of the latter by the former in November. LAJ has added VP of Project Development to his VP of Marketing and Communications. TAW magazines Chief Editor Connor Young takes over the helm of YNOT News. Twinkley has been promoted to VP of Sales for YNOT as well as TAW; additionally Danielle becomes Executive Producer of TAW Radio News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:46pm EST Low-cost Net provider carves cozy niche. Goldston runs United Online Inc., a purveyor of no-frills, low-cost dial-up Internet access that has secured a cozy little niche operating in the shadows of established giants such as America Online Inc., EarthLink Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.Through heavy national television marketing of its NetZero and Juno brands, United Online, based in Westlake Village, Calif., has more than doubled its subscriber base from 1.2 million to 2.7 million over the past two years. It has done so profitably and efficiently: Company officials cited the ability to generate tens of millions of dollars in sales growth over the past year while keeping the payroll for about 460 employees essentially flat. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:45pm EST Israel stops buying Microsoft software. In an apparent showdown over price, Israel's government has suspended purchases of Microsoft productivity software and is encouraging the development of an open source alternative. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:43pm EST Bank of England hit by hoax e-mail. The Bank of England is mounting an urgent investigation after falling victim to a hoax e-mail that asked business and the public to download software to protect their cash accounts. The UK central bank said it had acted Tuesday after more than 100,000 replies to the e-mail were blocked overnight by its internal computer system, which did not recognize the sender's address. News Article Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 1:41pm EST The duel of the dual-layer DVD formats. One side of the ongoing recordable DVD format battle is expected to be first with products that nearly double the amount of data held on one disc. But that victory may not put an end to the feud. The DVD+RW camp, which includes Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Philips, plans to put so-called "double-layer" DVD recording devices on the market by next spring. Discs on these systems are expected to hold 8.5GB, or four hours of DVD-quality video (16 hours of VHS-quality video). That's about the same amount as the DVDs studios use to issue movies. News Bytes Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:11pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continously. Airspace over Las Vegas Strip to be closed New Year's Eve. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:08pm EST Google's Latest 'Dance,' Looks More Like ' Slam Dancing '. Google's recent November changes to its algorithm, now known as the "Florida Update", have left many site owners in a quandary. Many who were enjoying top placements, have lost their spots, and apparently, for no real reason.  Sponsor Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:06pm EST Sunny Dollars Launches Sunny Mondays in January. Sunny Dollars launches Sunny Mondays starting in January, 2004 for all affiliates. We will be paying $40 per signup for all trials and 80% for the recurring program on Mondays.There is no limit to the amount of money you can make. We will pay the payout rates for ALL sales, one or 1,000! News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:05pm EST Confessions of a web-cam girl. When I was 18 I moved to a new place and was pretty lonely. The internet became my social life. I got pretty addicted to it and loved going to the cam-girl websites to read their diaries. I bought a web camera so I could take part in online chats and then I thought I may as well do my own site. I update my stills about once a day, but I don't do anything live. Sometimes it's pictures of me just sitting typing at the computer, other times I might put on a show. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:04pm EST Paris Hilton Offered Vivid Contract; Vivid Sales Opening. Howard Levine, LFP’s national sales manager for Vivid Video, extended an offer for a Vivid contract to an amateur adult performer – Paris Hilton. The offer follows a recent article in the New York Post that suggested that Paris Hilton looked as if she were trying to audition for Vivid Video in her amateur porn with cyber-gambling entrepreneur Rick Solomon. The tape was leaked onto the Internet earlier this year with much fanfare, raising Hilton’s profile just in time for the debut of her Fox reality series The Simple Life. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:03pm EST Scandal More Popular Than Porn. Lycos UK’s Review of 2003 reveals that celebrity gossip and scandal has replaced “CHEAP FLIGHTS“ and “BOOBS“ as the most searched for terms on the internet. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:02pm EST Computer crime investigations face year delays. Police who check computers for evidence of child pornography, fraud, stalking and other crimes face a money shortage as a backlog of cases awaiting investigation stretches to 80.That's according to the chairman of Maine's Computer Crimes Task Force police board, Lewiston Police Chief William Welch. Welch says police departments across the state are being told they may face long waits before investigators can get to their cases. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:01pm EST November 2003 Internet Usage Stats. The average Internet activity — both at work and at home — in November 2003 for surfers in the U.S., UK, and Australia, as reported by Nielsen//NetRatings Inc. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:01pm EST Look out Recording Industry Association of America. Web surfers wanting information about the Kazaa peer to peer file sharing program pushed the software to the top of Yahoo's list of the most popular search terms in 2003, beating out media heavyweights such as Harry Potter and Britney Spears, Yahoo said on Monday. The annual report lists the top 10 most frequently searched-for terms on Yahoo's search engine over the entire year and is one measure of consumer interests and trends, Yahoo says. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 1:00pm EST Woman ticketed for appearing naked on Internet. It may be legal to appear naked in cyberspace, but police ticketed a Lincoln woman Monday for posting nude pictures of herself on the Web that were taken in downtown bar. "It's unlawful to be naked in public in Lincoln," said police chief Tom Casady. Melissa J. Harrington, 21, was ticketed for violating Lincoln's public nudity ordinance by posting pictures on her Web site "showing her naked at one of our downtown bars and in several other locations around the city," Casady said. "They're not going to stop me from doing what I'm doing. I enjoy what I do and they really don't have any grounds now to go off of," to prosecute the case, she said. Hosting Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 12:59pm EST NationalNet, Inc., a leading provider of Web Hosting services to the Adult Internet, today announced the acquisition of Mach10 Hosting of Austin, Texas. The terms of the sale were not disclosed. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 12:56pm EST Spam Fighters Digesting Newest Tactics. Spam is a pain in the neck for e-mail users, but it's good business for software filtering companies.Sales are booming for services that shield people from junk e-mail pitches. Computer users are sick of ads for online pornography, discount mortgages and Viagra, says Brad Garlinghouse, vice president of communications products for Yahoo Inc., (YHOO) a Web portal that provides an anti-spam feature as part of its e-mail subscription service.  News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 12:55pm EST Today: A few snow flurries possible through mid morning then mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers for the rest of the day. Highs around 50. Northeast wind around 10 mph. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 12:55pm EST eBay, Tumbleweed settle patent suit. Capping a year of patent acrimony, eBay put one legal struggle behind it by settling with plaintiff Tumbleweed Communications. Tumbleweed, an enterprise e-mail, file-transfer and firewall services provider based in Redwood City, Calif., sued eBay subsidiary PayPal last year, alleging infringement of two patents related to electronic notification processes and document storage and retrieval. PayPal, an online-payment service, responded with counterclaims, also dismissed in the settlement. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. News Article Tuesday, December 30th 2003, 12:53pm EST Writing an end to the bio of BIOS. Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer--the boundary where software and hardware meet--during 2004. The companies will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before its operating system begins loading, a process that kicks in every time a PC is switched on or restarted. News Bytes Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:10pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continously Saddam Giving Info on Weapons and Funds-Official. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:07pm EST Other people may wish to 'gorge' on porn. Should we care? There are reportedly more than 8 million X-rated sites on the internet. The loneliness of the persons who set out to count all these sites is disturbing, but there you have it. Pornography has become a do-it-yourself industry, producing more broadcast content than all the home renovation shows on TV combined. It's that big. Simon Castles, in his article ("A society gorging on porn"), has called for a debate on porn. Citing what he calls "perversion fatigue", he claims that the glare of sex in our everyday lives has dimmed the simple pleasures of sex. He cites the endless influx of lewd emails to our inboxes and the fact that photos of Paris Hilton are the No. 1 search request on Google. (I will admit, I've stayed at the Paris Hilton - it's worth all the fuss. Try the buffet.) Simon says he is not a prude, but all this gorging is too much (and I'm not talking about the blanquette de veau, which is excellent), so we should talk about it. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:06pm EST A new virus is spreading by email in Malaysia, combining threats of terrorist plans and a Trojan horse virus. Victims receive an email that claims to warn of five planned terrorist attacks, with the times and places leaked by an anonymous Malaysian government source. The email's subject line is "Urgent message to all citizens of Malaysia", and the email says it seeks to minimise the number of terrorist victims by spreading the terrorist attacks information, reported the Star, a Malaysian daily. Inside the email is an embedded link that purports to link to a site with important information regarding the attacks. However, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (myCERT) said that clicking on the link instead installs three malicious files that appear to be Trojan horse virus files and adds a new key to the computer registery. Then the virus attempts to connect to three internet hosts set by the virus. MyCERT's website said the virus was similar to the Backdoor.Tofger Trojan horse reported in early December 2003. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:05pm EST What's the Deal with Paris Hilton? I used to hear about Paris Hilton fleetingly. She was at this premiere, or that event. Someone got a picture of her. But since she wasn’t actually in the industry, I never paid much attention. She didn’t act, she didn’t even model. She was just somebody’s daughter. Now, of course, she’s the biggest news of anything. I actually saw her sex video because a publicist e-mailed it to me. You’ve got to love an industry where passing around pornography is considered research. And it legitimately is, because I would be terribly uninformed if I hadn’t seen the Paris Hilton sex tape. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:04pm EST Adult Entrepreneur Seeks $300,000 From Texas City in Permit Dispute. Ernest C. Doyon Jr. has just upped the stakes in his legal battle to open an adult store in Waxahachie – he’s now seeking not only his permits, but is also seeking $300,000 in damages. Doyon is also seeking a temporary restraining order and injunctions enjoining the city from denying him a certificate of occupancy for the store he built. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:03pm EST Firms scramble in face of spam law. Businesses that send marketing e-mail have huddled with their lawyers in recent weeks, trying to figure out how to comply with the nation's first antispam law when it takes effect Thursday. They face an unusually tight deadline. President Bush signed the bill, known as the Can Spam Act of 2003, on Dec. 16, leaving companies with little time to study the law and tweak their e-mail marketing plans. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:02pm EST Rural towns targeted as easy places to set up X-rated business. Until the 61-foot-tall sign appeared one morning along Interstate 70, no one from Abilene, Kan., knew that the former Stuckey’s truck stop outside of town had been remade into an “adult superstore” that sells X-rated videos, lingerie and sex toys. “It was a sneaky deal,” said Karen McMillan, the county official in charge of zoning. “They came in in the middle of the night. We thought it was a boot outlet.”  News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:01pm EST The Who's Townshend mulled suicide over child porn. British rock legend Pete Townshend contemplated suicide during a police inquiry into his use of child pornography, he said in an interview published on Sunday. The 58-year-old guitarist from the Who was arrested in January during a high-profile crackdown on Internet child porn and was formally cautioned in May after a four-month investigation. Announcement Monday, December 29th 2003, 1:00pm EST Raven named Webmaster of the Year finalist. AdultChamber.com and the Webmaster of the Year Contest Sponsors are proud to announce the Winter 2003 Webmaster of the Year Finalist, Re "Raven" Highland of Sin-Text.com. Raven is an extremely active member of the Adult Internet Industry. Often seen on message boards like Cozy Campus where she is a moderator helping webmasters by answering questions and bringing up news and noteworthy topics to adult webmasters. Raven is primarily a writer, owner of Sin-Text, an adult business and website copy writing service, Raven is also a CozyFrog.com Staff Writer contributing 2 articles per month directed at helping adult webmasters. The Webmaster of the Year winner will be announced in January 6th 2004 at 1:30pm at the AdultChamber booth in the showroom floor at InterNext. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:59pm EST Blackmailers threaten to install porn on workers' PCs. Cyber blackmail artists are shaking down office workers, threatening to delete computer files or install pornographic images on their work PCs unless they pay a ransom, police and security experts said. The extortion scam, which is believed to have surfaced one year ago, indiscriminately targets anyone on the corporate ladder with a PC connected to the Internet. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:58pm EST Legal tortoise edges up on on IT hare in 2003. The second of the big legislative bricks in the continuing effort to bring New Zealand law reasonably up to date with ICT (information and communications technology) was cemented into place this year, with the Crimes Amendment Act 2003 criminalizing "unauthorized" intrusion into computer systems. Hacking, in theory at least, is now punishable by a prison term of up to two years, even when no damage has been caused to the system and no gain has accrued to the hacker. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:57pm EST Internet users calling up a police force website found PORN instead. Pranksters put the pictures on the Sussex Police information service. An item on a burglary in Chichester was replaced with the words “free porn” and three pictures of couples bonking. Content Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:56pm EST Six sets of new brunette babe at UltraXGirls Six broadband sets of brand new model, Jolie, a "dark-haired bombshell", just added to UltraXGirls. Pics go for a buck a pop at 1200x900 broadband size. Sets vary in number of images but tend to contain roughly 40 in each. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:54pm EST Communication breakdown threatens VoIP. As cable and telephone companies begin offering Net telephony services to consumers in earnest, complications on the back end threaten to crimp cost savings for providers and ultimately dampen expectations for the much-hyped technology. Broadband providers with dreams of nationwide voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services are already encountering unexpected difficulties stemming from subtle differences in the way various carriers have set up technology used to carry voice calls over the Internet, executives said this week. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:53pm EST HP readies notebook price attack. A report in Taiwanese magazine Digitimes said that Hewlett Packard will go head-to-head against Dell in January with a range of notebooks set to take on the 15.4-inch Inspiron 8600 range. It will introduce the Presario R3000T, the Pavilion ZV5000 and the Pavilion ZX5000, the wire said – these machines are all made by local original design manufacturer (ODM) Compal. The cheapest models with be the 15-inch Presario and Pavilion ZV5000, both of which use a P4 2.4GHz chip, with prices tagged at $999. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:52pm EST Guide on how to set up various e-mail accounts. Nearly all Internet service providers offer multiple e-mail accounts. America Online provides seven for each subscriber. Cox Communications also includes seven, while EarthLink has eight. Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape Mail and America Online make it easy to set up private accounts protected by passwords. Microsoft Outlook can also provide private accounts, if you're using Windows XP or 2000. You have to set up individual user accounts in Windows. Outlook then recognizes the individual user accounts. News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:51pm EST Display Ads Back From the Dead. Display ads, originally known as banners, are the Lazarus of online advertising. They're staging a comeback, just after being given up as dead. Perhaps it's more accurate to call these ads, the first type of Internet advertising to appear back in the 1990s, a sort of Mark Twain phenomenon. Reports of their demise are greatly exaggerated.  News Article Monday, December 29th 2003, 12:50pm EST North Korea discovers the internet. A Berlin entrepreneur claims to have signed a deal with North Korean officials to bring internet access to the beleagured communist nation country beginning in mid-February. The service's start date was chosen to coincide with leader Kim Jong-Il's birthday. News Bytes Saturday, December 27th 2003, 1:21pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Up to 11 Die as Attacks Shatter Fragile Calm in Southern Iraq. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 1:01pm EST Acacia Licenses With General Dynamics Interactive. General Dynamics Interactive Corp., a video-on-demand and high-speed Internet access subsidiary of the General Dynamics aviation and technological conglomerate, has signed a licensing deal with Acacia Research Corp. involving Acacia's claimed streaming media patents, which Acacia calls Digital Media Transmission. "We have said all along that this was not just about the adult entertainment industry, and that we would be approaching mainstream companies," Acacia executive vice president Robert Berman told AVN.com. "General Dynamics is just one example. They are one of the leading technology companies in the world and their decision to license our DMT patents speaks for itself." News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 1:01pm EST Simple inventions can be patentable. The simpler the idea, the more profitable it is. Sound too good to be true? It all depends on the idea, the market, and the inventor's enthusiasm. The idea of blocking sunlight through a car windshield with a piece of cardboard reportedly made a couple guys several million dollars.The fact that such inventions are simple enough to copy doesn't stop people from buying them. And if the product is patented, competitors cannot legally copy them. Those who do must either have permission, or risk being sued for patent infringement. When it comes to patenting a simple invention, several competing influences are activated. If the invention is not obvious, it can be patented if no public use, disclosure, sale or offer for sale of the invention has occurred for more than one year before. But the simpler the invention is, the more likely it will be deemed obvious by the Patent Office. Determining with precision whether a simple invention is patentably novel and nonobvious if a difficult legal matter. If the invention really is new and not suggested by prior public knowledge, then a patent is usually granted. On the other hand, it wouldn't be fair to the public for the Patent Office to allow a patent that claims something already in the public domain. And yet, patents for simple inventions are often obtained by clever patent attorneys who succeed in claiming the novel essence of the invention, without ensnaring the prior public knowledge in the patent claims. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:56pm EST Lenny Bruce Granted Posthumous Pardon. Gov. George Pataki has pardoned the late stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce for a 1964 obscenity conviction. "The posthumous pardon of Lenny Bruce is a declaration of New York's commitment to upholding the First Amendment," Pataki said Tuesday. "I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror." Sponsor Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:54pm EST TopBucks Announces Bonus Days-Double Payouts. TopBucks Bonus Days is offering webmasters the opportunity to earn up to $90 per sale by promoting some of the highest quality mainstream products that go hand in hand with porn surfing. From January 14th-28th. TopBucks will be paying out twice the normal rate on software products sales. TopBucks Hot Products line includes: Evidence Cleaner Gold, Data Shredder Gold, Adware Remover Gold, Extractor & Burner, Email Spam Block, Modem Speed Booster, PC Speed Booster, How 2 Pick Up Girls, How 2 Please Her, and How 2 Enlarge Penis. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:53pm EST Legal setbacks hamper local gay rights fight. Gay men and lesbians watched as key legal victories — from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision throwing out sodomy laws to the highest court in Massachusetts backing gay marriage — drove national news headlines throughout 2003, but gays in Atlanta weren’t as fortunate. The family of one slain gay man watched the alleged killer walk free after the accused man’s attorney used allegations of unwanted sexual advances to justify the attack. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:52pm EST "What is a suitable punishment for hacking into a stranger's wireless network?" Jake wondered. Still fuming over the audacity of such a crime, Jake was finding it easy to imagine a host of satisfying punishments, from a long prison sentence to a good old public flogging. "Why shouldn't severe suffering be attached to such personal violations?" Jake muttered to himself. A hacker had broken into Jake's wireless network on Halloween. Not content with mere cyber-trespass, the hacker had then reformatted Jake's hard drive. To add insult to injury, Jake had been shocked to discover that his neighbor's son was the culprit. Tim's father had agreed to pay for any damages—so long as Jake didn't press charges. That had been three weeks ago. Jake still hadn't decided what punishment was adequate. But with Tim's return from college just before Christmas, Jake knew that he must do something. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:51pm EST Protect Marriage Without Constitutional Amendment. In Massachusetts, historic cradle of American liberties, the state Supreme Court has become the contemporary incubator of libertines, decreeing that the Legislature, like it or not, must draft a law to legitimize homosexual coupling. In Washington, DC, just a few weeks before, the U.S. Supreme Court had set the predicate for the Bay State's perversion of marriage when it decreed that states may not criminalize private and consensual adult homosexual acts. Such radical departure from the norms of society has provoked an overriding majority of Americans to demand a constitutional amendment or something to undo what the people see as unwarranted and dangerous mischief by a willful gang of sanctimonious judges Hell bent to turn the culture upside down and inside out. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:50pm EST Erotica festival hits the spot in Scotland. An erotic extravaganza is set to become a permanent feature in the city’s festival calendar. Organisers of Festival Erotique, held in the Capital this August, want to run the event for the second time next year after it was billed a great success. It was the first adult industry trade fair to be held in Scotland and was attended by thousands of visitors. The three-day event was originally the brainchild of city sex shop owner Vincent Delicato but has now been taken over by city venue the Corn Exchange, which hosted the event. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:49pm EST Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging and, as Kalsey found, Web log comments. Spammers are flocking to new communications tools like moths to light, threatening to cripple these tools just as they are beginning to take off. News Article Saturday, December 27th 2003, 12:48pm EST Microsoft settles in whiteboard patent dustup. Microsoft agreed to pay $60 million and to license a plaintiff's whiteboard technology following a somewhat stiffer but not yet finalized jury verdict against the software giant. The settlement, announced by SPX and its Imagexpo unit Wednesday, gives Microsoft the right to use technology covered under patent #5,206,934, "Method and apparatus for interactive computer conferencing." News Bytes Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:33pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continously U.S. Quarantines Calves From Diseased Cow. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:31pm EST Canadian Firm Barred From Misleading Domain Name Marketing: FTC. A Canadian Internet domain name re-seller stands to be barred by a federal court from misrepresenting its domain-name registration service marketing and ordered to pay consumer redress, the Federal Trade Commission announced December 23. The stipulated order awaits only a judge's signature to take full effect. Domain Registry of America, Inc., which resold domain names for a company called eNom, Inc., "told consumers that their domain registrations were expiring, leading many consumers unwittingly to switch their domain name registrar," the FTC said. DROA was also accused of failing to reveal they'd charge processing fees if consumer transfer requests weren't finished, and of failing to provide timely refunds. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:29pm EST Year in review: Patent smack-down. Controversy over software patents threatened to turn the Web upside down in 2003. The biggest set-to pitted one-man Eolas Technologies against mighty Microsoft. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:28pm EST Corporate Trademarks and the Future of Domain Disputes. What's in a name? Not much, according to Shakespeare. But today, the answer is "plenty" -- especially when you're talking about the intersection of domain names with trademarks. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:27pm EST Penthouse May Emerge from Bankruptcy. Penthouse may soon be revived from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new group of creditors taking ownership of the company, according to a published report today. Founder Bob Guccione told the New York Post he would remain editor-in-chief. General Media, the magazine's publisher, has filed for a bankruptcy reorganization plan that is pending final approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Manhattan, the report said. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:26pm EST Netscape Readies Cheap ISP Service. America Online is entering the low-priced ISP market with a service under the Netscape name that will be priced at about $10 monthly. Customers can get the Netscape unlimited Internet access service for just $1 per month until March 1, according to a registration page on the Web site of AOL, a division of New York-based Time Warner. After that, the price will go up to $10 monthly. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:26pm EST Security experts are warning of a new Internet scam that preys on Visa credit card holders, using e-mail and a specially designed Web site to harvest customer account numbers and personal identification numbers. The ruse is the latest example of "phisher" scams and comes as one e-mail security company reports a jump in such scams. Such hoaxes typically use decoy Web pages and spam e-mail messages to trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive information. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:25pm EST Domain names once again fetch top dollar. One more sign the technology sector is rebounding: An Internet domain name is again commanding seven figures. Last week, a Florida man sold men.com for $1.3 million, a healthy profit over the $15,000 he paid for it in 1997. The buyers, largely entertainment industry folks who have opted to remain anonymous behind the acquiring company, men.com LLC, want to create a portal for men. Paysite Content Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:23pm EST Hustler Content releases 'Trailer Trash' feed. Jackass attitude? Jeff Foxworthy-esque humor? Slutty nympho cuties from Jerry Springer? Finally, a hilariously innovative series combining the best of all three worlds: Trailer Trash. The new series follows the hardcore adventures of redneck hero "Jonny Cocksville" as he screws his way around the trailer parks of the USA. This first-of-its-kind niche package will be updated biweekly and is playable in QuickTime and Windows Media. Trailer Trash video feeds start at $249 per month. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:21pm EST Calling around the world -- on your nickel. "Can you shed some light on how "international calls" using the Internet are made? I have had these calls occur twice this year in the amounts of $115 and $515. The telephone line these calls are made on is dedicated to Internet use only. In fact, there is no telephone at the computer"?. Is your husband sweating bullets yet? I bet he knows what I'm about to tell you. One of the sleazier tricks porn sites use involves bamboozling someone into downloading a dialer program, which calls up the smut dealer directly instead of going through the Internet. Most of the more notorious sites are halfway around the world, where John Ashcroft and his boys can't get to them. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:21pm EST Voice over IP is cheap, easy, and available. Here's how it works. It started as a geek-out for corporate penny-pinchers. But now making phone calls using voice over Internet protocol is resonating with consumers. VoIP startups are promising cheap - sometimes free - calls to anywhere in the world. Stick wireless networking in the mix and voilŕ, voice over Wi-Fi. Add it all up and you get a disruptive technology that's making conventional phone companies nervous. Already 10 percent of all calls are transmitted with VoIP, and the adoption curve is arching steeply skyward. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:20pm EST Chinese search engine to compete with Google, Yahoo. A search engine in Chinese was launched yesterday with the aim of taking on American giants Google and Yahoo! China Search Online, has already picked up a chunk of business from Far Eastern portals. Some serious investment money has also gone into the engine. News Article Friday, December 26th 2003, 1:19pm EST 'Get me rewrite!' Now, computers can play along. In the famous sketch from the TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus," the actor John Cleese had many ways of saying a parrot was dead, among them, "This parrot is no more," "He's expired and gone to meet his maker," and "His metabolic processes are now history." Computers can't do nearly that well at paraphrasing. English sentences with the same meaning take so many different forms that it has been difficult to get computers to recognize paraphrases, much less produce them. Now, using several methods, including statistical techniques borrowed from gene analysis, two researchers have created a program that can automatically generate paraphrases of English sentences. |
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