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US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed. A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites." CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScript Malicious code, dubbed variously as...

As our troops liberate towns, the flag of Saddam's Iraq should come down. But, as happened earlier, replacing it with the U.S. flag has connotations not helpful to the war effort. So…Why not have a new flag for liberated Iraq – perhaps one designed by the Iraqi dissident groups?Then when towns/territory are taken by coalition forces, this flag can fly over free Iraq – and just perhaps help inspire the citizens of Iraq.

A teenage Welsh hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has been sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation with psychiatric care for what the defense called an obsessive medical condition. Raphael Gray, a 19-year-old from Clynderwen in West Wales, called himself the "Saint of E-Commerce", and said he was on a mission to highlight security dangers on the Internet. The only problem was that to do this, he cracked thousands of computer networks and gained access to more than 23,000 credit card numbers. He posted thousands of the numbers on the Web, leading to roughly ...

Microsoft is launching a two-pronged offensive against what it sees as its chief competition on the Internet: open source code. In a preliminary license for its wireless Internet tools, the software giant appears to be floating a trial balloon by explicitly banning the use of open source code. Microsoft's language, which could become part of its commercial licensing terms, specifically bans use of the Linux open source operating system (OS), which Microsoft seems to find especially objectionable. But in a bid to attract more software developers to its Internet initiatives, Microsoft last week announced a "shared source" program, in which ...

July 6, 2001 10:33 AM PT  HONG KONG--Software giant Microsoft, whose image in China was tarnished over fears that its flagship Windows product was not fully secure, said on Friday it had entered a venture with a government-owned software firm to provide an extra encryption "lock" tailored for Windows in China.  China National Computer Software & Technology Service will develop a security enhancement for Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional products to support corporate and government-level secure data transactions.  Once the product receives approval from the State Encryption Administration of China, it will be packaged with Windows XP software ...

Februrary 9, 2001 LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, she blew the lid off a presidential scandal and shattered her life. Linda Tripp, for the hour, next on LARRY KING LIVE. Good evening. Our special guest tonight, for the full hour, is Linda Tripp, her second -- I think your second -- your second visit with us on this program. It's always great to have her with us. We are in rural Virginia. When did you move out? We're not going to say where you live, so you don't get bugged. But when did you leave the city environs? LINDA TRIPP: Last ...

In the summer of 1925, suffering from a bout of hay fever and exhausted from wrestling with the perplexities of atomic spectral lines, Werner Heisenber — then only 24 years old — took a short vacation from the Physics Institute at Gottingen University, where he was studying with Max Born and traveled to the hills of Helgoland. There, in one fevered day and night, he invented what was to be known as matrix quantum mechanics… In 1932, Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his crucial and brilliant contributions. [Heisenberg was also an excellent philosopher publishing “Physics and ...

This is the Twelth continuation of Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3, Thread 4, Thread 5, Thread 6, Thread 7, Thread 8, Thread 9, Thread 10 and Thread 11 Below is Predictions 4 & 5 (jennyp posted #2 & #3) in a series of 29 different lines of evidence that all living organisms are related by common descent. That makes 29 predictions that the Theory of Evolution makes about what we should find in the world. 29 opportunities for it to be falsified. [See the full article here] Prediction 4: Possible morphologies of predicted common ancestors Any fossilized animals ...

Gore Ad Uses Subliminal Message, Calls GOP Leaders: 'Senate Rejects' New York (FR) — At first glance, the Democrat television commercial on arms treaties looks like a run-of-the-mill attack advertisement. The announcer starts by lauding JFK's efforts at arms control, and criticizes GOP senators votes against ill-advised treaties on nuclear testing . Fragments of phrases, newspaper articles and headlines — deriding GOP senators — then scan quickly and slightly out of focus on the screen. Then, if the viewer watches very closely, something else happens. The words "Senate Rejects" pops up. And though the image lasts only a fraction ...

Coop's Corner: Who's to blame for 'ILOVEYOU' By Charles Cooper, ZDNet News May 4, 2000 1:07 PM PT   Microsoft deserves a hard slap in the head. More about that later, but the fact is you shouldn't blame anybody but yourself. The "ILOVEYOU" bug, which most probably originated in the Philippines (NPR wins today's Cute Headline of the Day award with its "Killa from Manila") once again proves the truth of the adage, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." You can't plead surprise anymore. More than a year ago the wildfire spread of the ...

Outlook vulnerability feeds MS flames By Rebecca Buckman, WSJ Interactive Edition May 5, 2000 7:27 AM PT Microsoft Corp. has been busy deflecting charges that it's a monopoly lately, but its dominance in one corner of the software market became glaringly obvious Thursday. The "ILOVEYOU" or "Love Bug" virus spread so fast mainly because it was designed to replicate through Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) popular Outlook e-mail system, a fixture on most desktop PCs. "When over 90% of the world's computers are on the same platform, the same software, they become extremely vulnerable to attack," says Carey Nachenberg, a research director ...

The Mystical Core of Organized Religion by David Steindl-Rast Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., is a monk of Mount Savior Monastery in the Finger Lake Region of New York State and a member of the board of the Council on Spiritual Practices. He holds a Ph.D. from the Psychological Institute at the University of Vienna and has practiced Zen with Buddhist masters. His most recent book is Gratefulness, The Heart of Prayer (Ramsey, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1984). Copyright (c) 1989 by David Steindl-Rast. Used by the Council on Spiritual Practices with permission. First appeared in ReVision, Summer 1989 12(1):11-14 (Heldref ...

MR. WOODWARD: Because Freeh, the FBI director, was recommending an independent counsel in the campaign finance investigation because Freeh is an independent person and believes that the FBI should not be politicized by the White House. And Bill Clinton’s middle name is politics, and there are times when they tried to get the FBI to do simple little political things and Freeh wouldn’t play. He said, “That is not our job.” Scroll down to read Woodward Interview. ‘Meet the Press’ transcript Sunday, June 20, 1999 GUESTS:                Former Senator WARREN RUDMAN, (R-N.H.)     ...

"The word "soul" is now the hottest item in the title of book sales--but all "soul" really means, in most of these books, is simply the ego in drag. For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast." Translation Versus Transformation            In a series of books (e.g., A Sociable God, Up from Eden, ...