] Apple Computer Inc., maker of the sleek Macintosh line of
] personal computers, said Wednesday that former U.S. Vice
] President Al Gore had joined the company's board.

The world just keeps getting stranger and stranger...

Gore Joins Apple Computer's Board (TechNews.com)

Nanochick wrote:
] Hey...just out of curiosity, hows your radio show going? Tom
] and I tried to listen in awhile back, but due to basketball or
] something, you didn't go on....
] If you are doing it, will you send me the URL? I would be
] interested in listening in:)
]
] -Marie (Toms sister)

We finally got on 2 weeks ago. http://www.wrct.org

] Several cryptographic vulnerabilities exist in the basic
] Kerberos Version 4 protocol that could allow an attacker
] to impersonate any user in a Kerberos realm and gain any
] privilege authorized through that Kerberos realm.
] Knowledge of the key shared between two realms for
] Kerberos 4 cross-realm authentication or the ability to
] create arbitrary principals in a realm is sufficient to
] print any ticket in the realm.

Maybe this will finally kill krb4 ... AFS has been the big
holdout and its finally starting to get krb5 support though
it only works with MIT krb5 and not heimdal (from kth.se) right
now.

[Full-Disclosure] Vulnerabilities in the Kerberos version 4 protocol

] The Superman star, paralyzed from the neck down after a
] near-fatal horseback-riding accident eight years ago,
] underwent an experimental procedure on February 28 that
] doctors say will allow him to regain the ability to
] breathe on his own.

More neat medical tech.

E! Online News - Christopher Reeve Gets to Breathe

] Edwards said that Office 2003 beta's handling of the XML
] file format means that firms will not be able to tap the
] rich collaborative features of Open Office 2003 without
] resorting to proprietary Microsoft file formats. And to
] truly unlock its collaborative potential, firms will have
] to standardize on the Windows XP operating system (Office
] 2003 won't run on Windows 9x), as well as Windows 2003
] Server, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, etc. As for
] the file formats, he called Office 2003's XML "crippled,"
] because it strips XML files of all presentation and
] formatting information when saving them in the XML file
] format. It does not do this when saving files in
] Microsoft's proprietary file formats.

Hardly surprising but anyway...

Will Office 2003 Lead to Lock-in?

] The legislation includes an exemption in cases in which
] the procedure is necessary to save the mother's life.
] Abortion rights supporters say the ban is an attempt to
] restrict women's reproductive rights and vow to challenge
] it in court.

Senate Votes to Ban Late-Term Abortions

] The world's first brain prosthesis - an artificial
] hippocampus - is about to be tested in California. Unlike
] devices like cochlear implants, which merely stimulate
] brain activity, this silicon chip implant will perform
] the same processes as the damaged part of the brain it is
] replacing.

World's first brain prosthesis revealed

] Command-and-control organizations, Hock says, "were not
] only archaic and increasingly irrelevant. They were
] becoming a public menace, antithetical to the human
] spirit and destructive of the biosphere. I was convinced
] we were on the brink of an epidemic of institutional
] failure."

This is a starting point for some extremely rich and interesting ideas.

The founder of Visa on Corporations

] BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Aviation officials said they could
] not disclose the purpose of a small aircraft whose night
] flights over Bloomington have raised terrorist worries
] among residents.
]
] The white, single-engine propeller airplane has been
] circling the city of 69,000 late at night and about noon
] recently, The Herald-Times reported today.

Weeeeeeird

Flights around Bloomington raise concerns

] The Republican-backed measure would outlaw cloning
] experiments — or, more precisely, the scientific
] procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer — either
] for baby making or medical research. Scientists who
] cloned human embryos would face up to 10 years in prison
] and a $1 million fine. The bill would also prohibit the
] importing of medical therapies derived from cloning
] research.

A blanket ban on all cloning is a Bad Idea as it will cripple
US biotech interests compared to e.g. China which has no such
compunctions.

The medical technology that will develop
from cloning in the next 50 years will be spectacular. Need
a new heart? Give us some blood, come back in a few weeks
and we'll implant a fresh, new cloned one. No immunosupressing drugs, no waiting for a donor, no compatibility. Its your own damn tissue! Congenital heart defect? We'll patch the bugs in your DNA.

House Is Set to Make Cloning of Humans a Crime