] The iMac G5 is completely user serviceable. With its
] simplified, modular interior, the machine was designed to
] make it easy for consumers to perform their own repairs.
]
] If something goes wrong, Apple dispatches a spare part,
] and the owner performs the do-it-yourself repair, from
] swapping out a faulty hard drive to installing a new flat
] screen.

The first iMac was a big step for computers, when Apple demonstrated that people would pay a premium for a non-upgradeable desktop -- manufacturers were killing themselves over PCs that the saavy customer would just keep self-upgrading. Apple sold people laptops for the desk.

Now they are trying to demonstrate that the superior case designwork they do (and we just took a couple of Dells apart -- functional to service but no G5 joy) can save on customer service too. Interesting.

Wired News: You Broke It, You Fix It

] Doghouse: Merced County
]
] Merced County is in California, and they explained why
] they chose electronic voting machines Election Systems &
] Software (ES&S). There are a bunch of vague selection
] criteria, but this one is quite explicit: "Uses 1,064 bit
] encryption, not 128 which is less secure."
]
] I am simply too appalled to comment further.

This kind of material is almost certainly better for a blog.

Schneier on Security: Doghouse: Merced County

] Dan Colby, general manager of IBM's storage systems
] group, stood next to a refrigerator-sized EMC Clariion
] CX700 as he unveiled IBM's TotalStorage DS6000, a unit a
] little larger than a home VCR.

Boston.com / Business / Technology / IBM unveils new arms in EMC war

] We got some queries on what our F-Cabir tool looks like
] from people who don't have a Symbian Series 60 phone to
] check it out. Here's a picture of F-Cabir in action.

A look at the next wave of antivirals.

F-Secure : News from the Lab

] The minute your mail starts flowing, a dedicated team of
] over a hundred trained Screening and Preselection
] Specialists, working 24 hours a day**, will begin
] manually reviewing, hand-picking and approving important
] correspondence, vigilantly discarding all junk mail.

Like Pigeon-Ranking. Would be effective, if a dreary job.

Can you imagine what you'd actually have to pay people to spend their lives skimming email and deleting spam? I know when I clean out my sites' spamtraps, after about 1000 messages I want to KILL.

eProvisia LLC - Spam Eradicator

] The old bromide that promises you can't get a computer
] virus by looking at an image file crumbled a bit further
] Tuesday when Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability
] in its software's handling of the ubiquitous JPEG
] graphics format.

Microsoft security... making the theoretically implausible possible.

SecurityFocus HOME News: Microsoft warns of poisoned picture peril

] A lobby group called Downhill Battle has set up a link
] using file-sharing software to distribute the SP2 update.

Exactly.

BBC NEWS | Technology | File-sharers offer Windows update

] A type of wallpaper that prevents Wi-Fi signals escaping
] from a building without blocking mobile phone signals has
] been developed by a British defence contractor. The
] technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining access
] to a secure network by using Wi-Fi networks casually set
] up by workers at the office.

Very cool. Lots of potential for this kind of thing, I think.

Article: Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe�| New Scientist

] I.B.M. plans to announce today that it is contributing
] more than half a million lines of its software code,
] valued at $85 million, to an open source software group.
]
] The move is one of the largest transfers ever of
] proprietary code to free software, and I.B.M. is making
] the code contribution to try to help make it easier and
] more appealing for software developers to write
] applications in the Java programming language.

The New York Times : Technology : In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in Public Domain

] Buried near the bottom of an article in last month's
] Wired is this little gem; Friendster rep Lisa Kopp
] insists, "We have a policy that we are not being hacked."
]
] I don't know if it's sad, scary or funny, but I can see
] someone in some corporate highrise somewhere actually
] saying this with a straight face.

Friendster: We Have a Policy that We Are *Not* Being Hacked || kuro5hin.org