] A second variant of the Atak worm, which goes to sleep to
] avoid detection by antivirus software, has been linked to
] an al-Qaida sympathizer who once threatened to release a
] powerful worm if the United States attacked Iraq.

] Mihai Radu, communications manager at BitDefender, said
] the virus, discovered Friday, is signed by Melhacker, which
] is the moniker of a Malaysian-based coder called Vladimor
] Chamlkovic, who in 2002 threatened to release an
] "uber-worm" if the United States attacked Iraq.

'Atak' worm variant linked to al-Qaida sympathizer | CNET News.com

Acidus wrote:
] ] This demo is the first peek of the comic book adaptation
] ] of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four. As you will
] ] see, it's still in the penciling stage. Inking and
] ] colors (sort of) are yet to come

I've always wondered about "Emmanuel Goldstein's" handle. Given his role in the scene and his character's role in the story. I wonder if they'll finish this comic.

RE: 1984 Comic Demo

]
] Recently, the news that China is adopting IPv9 is making
] rounds on the Internet. While some of them write off as
] an April Fool's joke (in July?) like RFC 1606, others
] wonder if there is more than meets the eye. But most of
] them wonder what this IPv9 is and how does it actually
] work. And some of the English translated articles are so
] badly done that it is impossible to get any useful
] technical information except that 'It is developed and
] supported by Chinese government!'

Explaining China's IPv9

] Authorities charged Councilman with violating the Wiretap
] Act, which governs unauthorized interception of
] communication. But the court found that because the
] e-mails were already in the random access memory, or RAM,
] of the defendant's computer system when he copied them,
] he did not intercept them while they were in transit over
] wires and therefore did not violate the Wiretap Act.

[ Is this total bullshit, or should they have gone after this guy under a different guise? -k ]

I made a comment about the ECPA yesterday. I'm not sure what the implications of that are here. However, I hadn't paid enough attention to this article at the time. I just read the summary.

Turns out, this IS total bullshit. Its one of those cases again where we are making laws that have to do with how technology is designed rather then how people behave. That is always the wrong approach.

The line between communications "moving" on a wire and communications "stored" in RAM is so gray in modern telecommunications networks that to draw a line between them is to, as one author effectively put it, eviscerate the wiretap law. Data moves in and out of RAM over and over and over again as it moves between point A and point B. As all networks, including the phone network, are digital, there essentially is no more wiretap law at all in any area where this decision is effective or affirmed.

This decision is an absolute nightmare scenario.

E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible

] To use the "Wiki It!" bookmarklet, simply highlight the
] word or words you wish to look up, and click the
] bookmarklet. A separate, minimalist window will open with
] the Wikipedia entry for it.

] Just drag the Wiki It! link onto your personal toolbar.
] It has been tested on Mozilla 1.5 on Linux and Windows
] systems, as well as Firefox 0.7, and Internet Explorer 6.
]

Most Significant Bit :: Wikipedia Bookmarklet

"Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage.

This idea is very simple. If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent."

Cool stuff

Optical Camouflage

] VisitorVille employs a graphical, urban metaphor to
] present information about customers' real-time
] Web-traffic flow. A company's entire Web presence is seen
] as an urban or suburban neighborhood, with each
] individual Web page presented as a building. The more
] visitors on a site, the taller the buildings, and the
] brighter the lights on each floor.
]
] Continuing the metaphor, visitors who have found a site
] using popular search engines arrive in the "city" on
] virtual buses emblazoned with their logos.

This is neat. Really neat. Worth looking at. Unfortunately it works by using a web-bug. Their website is slow. Really slow. I don't want to tie the performance of my site to theirs. I don't want their server holding complete logs for my website. I also don't want to pay bling bucks host their software. Nor do I want to put their bug into all of my pages. You'd think they could handle Apache logs. Apache has something like 60% of the market.

Wired News: Website Analysis Isn't a Game

Prepend http://freecache.org/ to your url and archive.org will cache it for you. No more problems with slashdottings...

Internet Archive: FreeCache

] Editing documents in groups can be a challenge.
] Versioning systems like subversion or cvs help your group
] to keep a consistent copy of your document, but don't
] provide realtime collaboration. Wouldn't it be great to
] edit the same document, live, in realtime, together with
] everyone in your group?

SubEthaEdit - Collaborative Editing Software for OSX

] Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of
] your house. Share a single broadband Internet connection
] and USB printer without inconvenient and obtrusive
] cables. Create an instant wireless network on the go.
] Extend the range of your current wireless network. How
] many devices do you need to do all this? Just one.
]
] Presenting AirPort Express.

This does everything a AP/Router should do and is the same size as the Apple power adapter. Not only is this great for the home, but its perfect for travel. I'd much rather have one of these then the AP I carry around..

Apple - AirPort Express