"Got
hacked? Blame it on the software: There's only one problem with
software development these days, according to security analyst and author
Gary McGraw: It isn't any good." -By Paul Festa
-ZDNet>News Afghanistan "Endgame
in Afghanistan: On the ground and at the bargaining table, it
looks like the U.S. battle against terrorism is going to be a lengthy drama."
-By Lee Walczak, Stan Crock, Paul Magnusson, & Frederik Balfour
-BusinessWeek "Excite@Home
cleared to disconnect: Bankruptcy judge
clears way to turn off Excite@Home Internet service."
-CNN /fn "A
Smarter Web: The Web is huge but not very
smart. Computer scientists are beginning to build a "Semantic Web" that
understands the meanings that underlie the tangle of information." ...
"the ultimate goal [dream;-] of the Semantic Web is to give users near
omniscience over the vast resources of the Internet, turning the millions
of existing database islands into a single gigantic database Pangea." (1,
2)
-By Mark Frauenfelder (200111--)
-TechnologyReview "Gilmore
Resigns as GOP Chairman." -By R.H. Melton -WashingtonPost "Travel
blood clot warning issued." Sitting still for long periods of time
"dubbed "economy class syndrome"" may increase the risk of of deep vein
thrombosis (DVT) a "potentially deadly blood clotting condition." -BBC
/News /health Afghanistan "Airstrikes
slam Kandahar as ground assault threatened."
-CNN "George
Harrison dies : Former Beatle George Harrison,
the singer, songwriter and guitarist for one of the world's most famous
pop groups, dies aged 58." -BBC
/News
"FBI
software cracks encryption wall: ‘Magic Lantern’ part of new
‘Enhanced Carnivore Project.’" ... "Magic Lantern is one of a series of
enhancements currently being developed for the FBI’s Carnivore project,
the source said, under the umbrella project name of Cyber Knight."
-By Bob
Sullivan -MSNBC
- "Fixing a Noisy International Space Station: Noise has become a
problem on the International Space Station, and some astronauts have experienced
temporary hearing loss. All
Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer talks with space station
acoustic expert Mike Engle." -NPR
/News / ATC "Arguments
on Ashcroft order that blocks Oregon assisted suicide law."
-AP via -CNN "Hackers
access Playboy.com's credit card data: Computer
hackers broke into the Playboy Enterprises' Web site -- playboy.com --
gaining access to the credit card numbers of several customers, a company
spokeswoman said Tuesday." -CNN "Extreme
Distance Learning: Program allows Chinese
to get an American education without leaving their homeland. The payoffs
can be high, but the colleges' reputations can be at stake." -By Henry
Chu -LAtimes "In
War, It's Power to the President: In Aftermath of Attacks, Bush
White House Claims Authority Rivaling FDR's." ...
"On a wide variety of fronts, the administration has moved to seize power
that it has shared with other branches of government." -By Dana Milbank-WashingtonPost ANTHRAX
NEWS "Protocol
to Preserve Clues in Anthrax Letter Is Sought."
-By Susan Schmidt -WashingtonPost
"Suspect
in custody in Atlanta airport incident: Authorities have in custody
a man accused of breaching security at Atlanta Hartsfield International
Airport, causing it to shut down for hours while delaying flights across
the nation." -CNN Afghanistan "Air
Raids Continue on First Day of Ramadan: The Pentagon today said
U.S. air and ground assaults against Afghanistan's Taliban militia would
continue as usual, despite the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan."
-PBS /NewsHour "The
Army's $1 Billion Video Game. War Games: The Military Uses Its Combat
Simulators for Afghanistan Training. It's the
Big Daddy of combat simulations: the Army's Simulation, Training and Instrumentation
Command, known as STRICOM." -ABCNEWS.com Afghanistan "Rumsfeld:
U.S. Forces in Ground Combat." ... ""They have
gone into places and met resistance and dealt with it," Rumsfeld said.
He declined to say specifically how many forces are there. "We have hundreds.""By
Pauline Jelinek -AP
via-LAtimes Afghanistan "Afghanistan
turns a corner: As war shifts, both relief and foreboding ripple
from London to Islamabad." -By Scott Baldauf-CSMonitor Afghanistan "For
many Afghan women, bare faces and lives resumed."
... "With the Taliban on the run, the word "freedom" is breathed repeatedly
through the mesh shrouds of head-to-toe burqas. The change for Afghanistan's
women is not just a revolution – it is an emancipation." -By Scott Peterson-CSMonitor "Building
Bionic Noses: Researchers Develop Super-Sensitive Sensors to
Sniff Out Explosives." -By Paul Eng
-ABCNEWS "Why
Congress is quiet on liberties: Unilateral steps by Bush raise
eyebrows, but so far little opposition, on Capitol Hill."
-By Gail Russell Chaddock -CSMonitor "The
End of the Net: In his new book, cyberlaw pioneer Lawrence Lessig argues
huge corporations are ruining the Internet." Discusses
the restrictive nature of copyright and the loss of privacy since Sept.
11. 20011116(19)
-MSNBC
20011115
Tuesday
"Record
jump in retail sales buoys economy: October is biggest-ever month
for auto sales - and outlook for holiday spending may be brightening as
well." ... "Retail sales soared a record 7.1 percent
in October as shoppers showed resilience in the face of a war abroad and
concerns about anthrax and other dangers at home." -By David R. Francis-CSMonitor
"Prophet
of Evil: 'Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin
Laden' by Peter L. Bergen." ... "... the only book
you need to read about Osama bin Laden, at lest for now.... a work that
is at once lively, literate and authoritative -- equal parts journalism,
history
and even whimsical travelogue...." 20011107(11)
-Reviewed by Jeff Stein -WashingtonPost "Handheld
Echocardiography Device Could be Stethoscope of Future."
-Duke.edu /News/Med
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- Scout
Report Description: "... access episode summaries, read about the songs
and artists (as well as read interviews -- oral histories -- with selected
artists)...." [TK](Copyright
Internet Scout Project, 1994-2001. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/)
"A
Talk with the Brain behind Blue Gene: William
Pulleyblank on how IBM's ultraspeedy supercomputer will take on one of
biology's toughest problems -- and lots more." ... "With Blue Gene, IBM
is trying to set a new supercomputer speed limit -- a petaflop, or a thousand
trillion floating calculations per second."
-BusinessWeek
"Suspect
in O’Hare weapons incident held on new charges."
... "The incident is expected to energize the debate whether the federal
government should take over security screening at the nation’s airports.
The Senate has approved a measure that would make security screeners federal
employees. The House version adopted Thursday increased federal oversight
of the 28,000 screeners, but stopped short of federalizing them." -By Matt
O’Connor and Jon Hilkevitch -ChicagoTribune