July 31, 2001 - House
votes to ban all human cloning - MSNBC NEWS
SERVICES, WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives
on Tuesday approved a sweeping ban on human cloning that would
make it a federal crime to clone people to produce children or
to create embryos for medical research. The bill, which
opponents said was so broad it would impact promising
research, now awaits action in the Democratic-led Senate...
July 5, 2001 - Self-employment:
Empty promise? Or paradise?
July 5, 2001 - By Porter
Anderson CNN Career, (CNN) -- You're
self-employed. Do you have it made in the palm-fronded
shade? Or are you about to be washed away as soon as
the current tide of available work goes out? You
hear people talking about self-employment these days
as if it's an island of career sanity they're all
swimming for. Maybe that's inevitable as mergers and
acquisitions bring more and more workers under
corporate rule. Restlessness is a logical outcome...
July
23, 2001 - Study:
Net use doesn't increase depression, after all
- By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY - Updated 08:23
AM ET, Using the Internet at home doesn't make people
more depressed and lonely after all. A new,
longer follow-up from a study that linked Web use to
poor mental health - heavily publicized three years
ago - shows that most bad effects have disappeared...
July 24, 2001 - MS:
Broadband crucial for .Net success - By John Borland,
News.com 5:30 PM PT - Microsoft President Rick Belluzzo
outlined a vision of a high-speed Internet world with his
company as its foundation Tuesday, in remarks aimed at cable
industry executives. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company
is betting much of its future on its ambitious .Net strategy,
which involves moving many of its software products into a
service mode, where customers might rent access to Office
or subscribe to music from MSN...
July 24, 2001 - Was
DeSalvo the Boston Strangler? - NBC NEWS,
Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz reports, Despite his
confession and newly uncovered letters, many in Boston
say the real killer has never been found. Before
Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy or even Charles Manson,
there was the Boston Strangler. His real name, or at
least the name of the man who claimed to be the
Strangler, was Albert DeSalvo. If you believe him, he
raped and murdered as many as 13 women. The problem is
there are those who don't believe him and they make a
surprisingly strong case, as you're about to see.
You're also about to see for the very first time
letters written by DeSalvo to a young penpal. Now,
decades later, she has her own theories about the
Boston Strangler...
July 23, 2001 - Microsoft,
U.S. dispute nuke software threat - By
Wylie Wong, CNET News.com 7:40 a.m. PT,
Microsoft and the U.S. Department of
Energy are disputing claims that bugs
in Microsoft's database software
threatened nuclear security in the
United States and Russia...
June 29, 2001 - Microsoft's
Stranglehold on the Desktop - By Richard
Karpinski INTERNETWEEK, The unexamined truth of
this week's much-hyped vacating of the Microsoft
breakup is that the case concerns an industry that
doesn't even exist anymore. The industry we refer to,
of course, is the Web universe of the mid-1990s. You
remember: Netscape reigning supreme with its browser;
Sun pushing hard with Java; dotcoms launching daily.
That world is dead now. Microsoft surely helped bury
part of it. Over-exuberant public markets--giving and
taking away IPO riches at whim--put the nail in the
coffin...
July 17, 2001 - WinXP
product activation cracked: totally, horribly, fatally
- By John Lettice THE REGISTER Posted: 12:35 GMT,
Since Microsoft introduced Windows Product Activation
(WPA) the crackers have gone through a series of WinXP
beta builds, finding new ways to at least circumvent
the protection system. But now, taking an entirely
different approach, Germany's Tecchannel has
demonstrated that WPA as shipped in RC1 is full of
gaping holes, and can be fooled almost completely...
July 20, 2001 - The
Microsoft standard is anything but - By
Henry Kingman ZDNET.COM, If you work in an office
in the United States in 2001, Microsoft products are
almost certainly standard issue. That doesn't make
them true standards, however, despite the fact that
Microsoft does everything it can to set, rather than
follow, standards. Arguably, Microsoft's control over
standards sets it up to both dominate and, one day, to
fall...
July 20, 2001 - Fugitive
returns to the United States - AP, PHILADELPHIA, After two decades on the run, convicted murderer Ira
Einhorn arrived in Philadelphia from Paris under armed
guard Friday to face a new trial in the 1977 bludgeoning
death of his girlfriend..."
July 20, 2001 - Privacy
Matters - By Jane Black, A Victory, of
Sorts, for Spouting Off, Judges are freeing
anonymous Internet posters to speak their minds, but
that doesn't mean their words can't be used against
them. Anyone who uses online message boards
knows they have their own set of rules. The
discussions are freewheeling, breezy, often
confrontational. Yet for most Netizens, that's the
attraction. People want to get the dirt -- and dish
it, too. All well and good if the subject happens to
be celebrities or sports. But with financial message
boards, the information and rumors can be the
difference between companies making money or losing
it...
July 11, 2001 - The
day the brands died - Salon.com By
Ruth Shalit and Robin Danielson Hafitz, For their
customers, the demise of the dot-coms has proved
strangely painful. In recent months, newspapers have
devoted hundreds of column inches to the economic,
social and sartorial impact of the dot-com collapse.
Top-flight reporters have been dispatched to Silicon
Valley to document the pathos of the boarded-up lofts,
the shuttered trattorias, the boy millionaires who
have gone back to working at Starbucks. But one aspect
of the crash has gone unexplored: the effect of the
death of so many brands on consumers themselves...
July 17, 2001 - Windows
XP puts a call on Net phones - By Wylie Wong, Special to ZDNet, 4:41
AM PT - Gavin Cowie isn't in the Net phone business, but
it didn't take him long to figure out why the technology
has never taken off. "It's worth it because
it's so cheap, but sometimes it sounds like I'm
underwater," said Cowie, a 28-year-old San Francisco
Web consultant who uses Net2Phone's service to call his
family in the United Kingdom. "You need a headset or
microphone, and I don't think people will be happy talking
into a computer screen..."
July 12, 2001 - Librarians
targeted in latest copyright battles - By
Lisa Bowman, ZDNN, 4:56 AM PT, Gone are the days
when a librarian's worst offense was hushing patrons
one too many times. In this digital age, the
custodians of published works are at the center of a
global copyright controversy that casts them as
villains simply for doing their job: letting people
borrow books for free. Their leading opponents are the
very people who supply the books that fill their
shelves--the publishers. And now that the high-stakes
battle over copyrights has moved beyond music and
movies to books, librarians are finding themselves the
subject of rhetoric usually reserved for terrorists or
revolutionaries...
July 18, 2001 - Tampa's
Digital Frisking - Privacy expert
Richard Smith explains exactly why Tampa's video
surveillance software is a threat to individual and
collective freedoms. - I have never participated
in a police line-up, but my next trip to Tampa, Fla.,
will change all that. The police department there made
a big splash recently when it installed a new
high-tech line-up system in Ybor City, the
entertainment district of Tampa. This system uses a
network of 36 video cameras installed on the streets
of Ybor City to help police spot the bad guys and
arrest them...
July 18, 2001 - African
Regional Conference July 2-4, 2001, Gaborone, Botswana
- Interpol recently held its 16th African
Regional Conference in Gaborone, Botswana. The meeting
gathered senior police officers from the entire
African region in order to enhance police co-operation
between African nations. Issues discussed included a
new threat assessment for the African region and
contemporary crime trends in the region. Other topics
were trafficking in human beings, arms trafficking,
stolen motor vehicles, highway robbery, fraud drugs
and environmental crime...
July 16, 2001 - Group
led by Ralph Nader accuses search engines of deception
- By Michael Liedtke, Salon.com - Attacking
an increasingly popular Internet business practice, a
consumer watchdog group Monday filed a complaint with
the Federal Trade Commission asserting that many
online search engines are concealing the impact
special fees have on search results by Internet
users...
July 16, 2001 - US
Missile defense scores a hit - 09:51. Jeff
Hecht, The Pentagon has claimed success in
shooting a missile out of the sky, high over the
Pacific ocean, on Sunday. The test of the
controversial US missile defense system was a repeat
of an experiment that failed a year ago...
July 16, 2001 - Web
at risk from new MS flaw
- Microsoft said Monday that a "serious
vulnerability" in its flagship Web server
software used by computers running more than 6 million
sites could allow hackers and online vandals to take
control of the computers...
July 11, 2001 - Larry to Everyone: King Me! -
Oracle's Larry Ellison thinks he knows how to simplify matters for corporations: Just buy everything from him. Historically, enterprise software has been mind-numbingly complex. Different packages manage everything from financials to manufacturing to human resources. But Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, thinks he knows how to simplify matters for the corporations that purchase the stuff and then rely on it completely: Just buy everything from him...
July 11, 2001 - Doing
the normal thing - Can George Bush and Vladimir Putin agree to disagree constructively? AP - SOULMATES they are not, for all the backslapping bonhomie of last weekend's first meeting between George Bush and Vladimir
Putin. America's new president needed to reassure critics that he was not spoiling for an unnecessary fight with Russia. Mr. Putin was keen to dispel the notion that Russia was too set in its old ways of thinking to be worth a serious chin-wag with the leader of the world's pre-eminent power. But there is more at stake for both in the American-Russian relationship than that, especially for Russia...
July 11, 2001 - Hillary,
you won the war - But will health care get any
better? HERE we go again. In 1994, the Democrats lost
control of the Senate thanks to Hillary Clinton's
disastrous attempt to reform American health care. Now
they are back in control of the Senate by a
whisker-and they've put health care right at the top
of their agenda. Are they mad? Or have they discovered
a formula for turning a sow's ear into a silk
purse?...
