] Some NetNewsWire 1.0.4 users reported crashes and hangs
] with NetNewsWire - and some reported problems with
] Safari - that came from a bug in the system code that
] shares cookies between Safari and other applications that
] use the same URL downloading code.
]
] In NetNewsWire 1.0.5 we disabled cookie sharing, which
] fixes these crashes and performance bugs.
]
] Unfortunately, this means you can't read
] cookie-protected feeds (such as Manila Editor's Only
] sites). We do intend to bring this feature back as soon
] as possible, but the important thing was to fix the
] crashes and performance bugs.

I noticed that it was sharing cookies with Safari. I was all excited about it, because that means its possible to make an RSS feed for the Agent. At least they will have that feature at some point..

Ranchero Software: What's New in NetNewsWire 1.0.5

] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Broadband service provider
] Charter Communications Inc. on Tuesday said it has sued
] the recording industry to block it from getting names of
] its customers for alleged song-swapping on the Internet.

Yahoo! News - Charter Sues to Block RIAA from Getting Names

More comments from Decius:

] The giant recorder of Web addresses sure sparked a fire
] when it redirected site-not-found messages to its own
] search engine. It's a bum rap.

Businessweek doesn't get it. This guy oversimplifies the objections to the service, explains away his oversimiplification, and then claims that sitefinder should be allowed. This is what is known as a straw man arguement. Read the IAB's comments on the servie. Read verisign's technical response. Even Verisign hasn't managed to provide a coherent explanation of how services other then HTTP and SMTP are supposed to handle this change. If you think the internet is made up of SMTP, HTTP, Ping, and Traceroute then you don't understand the internet, and therefore you don't know what you're talking about.

BW Online | October 7, 2003 | Verisign Didn't Deserve This Spanking

This site does everything that Friendster does, only it does it better. And its not focused solely on dating. I'm going to have to actually use this before I have any solid feedback, but it is safe to say that Friendster is irrelevant now.

I made a MemeStreams Tribe, and this is the link to it.

tribe.net | MemeStreams Tribe

] Go to the Federal Election Commission homepage at
] www.fec.gov.
] On the left of their homepage is a link labeled
] "Campaign Finance Reports and Data", click it.
] Scroll down a ways to Image/Query System, under that
] choose "View Financial Reports"...
] Under the intro paragraph choose "Search the Report
] Image System"
] In the dialogue box type "Clinton" and click "Get
] Listing"
] 20 entries down you`ll see "CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM",
] click on the blue number "P00003392" beside her name.
]
] Guess what? "Presidential Candidate 2004 ".
]
] Hillary Rodham Clinton filed late Friday, Oct 3rd, with
] the Federal Election Commission to run for President in
] 2004.

Instapundit.com: Hilllary Running?

] Should we blame the teenager? Sure, we can point the
] finger at him and say, 'Bad boy!' and slap him for it. Will that
] actually fix anything? No. The next geeky kid frustrated about not
] getting a date on Saturday night will come along and do the same thing
] without really understanding the consequences. So either we should make
] it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I
] was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and
] install the systems that are quite that fragile."

Linus is in a position to say things directly that some of us cannot be trusted to say objectively.

[IP] Torvalds: geeky kids need dates [risks] Risks Digest 22.92

] A lovesick hacker brought chaos to America's busiest
] seaport after launching a computer attack on an internet
] chatroom user who had made anti-American comments,
] a court heard yesterday.

] "The defendant's girlfriend was an American called
] Jessica. The defendant was deeply in love with her - in
] fact somewhat obsessed with her. He named his computer
] after her and he dedicated parts of the attack script to
] her rather like the way some adolescents draw graffiti
] on walls with 'I love so-and-so'. This defendant managed
] to weave into the script a sentence about his girlfriend
] Jessica."

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Hacker attack left port in chaos

I don't think I could respond to this any better then Decius has:

] This is a significant test for the entire community
] because if the community can't find a way to introduce
] new services while reaching a resolution on technical
] matters that might arise, then the Internet
] infrastructure will never improve. It's tantamount to
] saying that the Internet world is flat and therefore
] there is no need for further exploration.

Look asshole, if you were interested in reaching resolution on the technical matters that might arise, you would have proposed your change to the community rather then making a unilateral decision. You would have pre-announced a date for the cutover so that people would be prepared to make any changes that they needed to make beforehand. The only people who are buying into your bullshit are people who own stock in your company and have a vested interest in beleiving in you. The rest of us are simply more and more sure that we are never going to do business with you for any reason. The rest of us aren't your shareholders. We're your customers. And you can rest assured that we are quite capable of continuing to deploy innovative services on the Internet without you.

Tell me why I should do business with a company that was not just forced to settle in a fraudulent marketing scheme, but also made significant, unannounced changes in a critical infrastructure service in violation of your contract without prior notification? Your business is about TRUST, and I'd be CRAZY to TRUST you after pulling a stunt like this!

Innovation and the Internet | Verisign Speaks to the technical community

] “The most crucial aspect of Silicon Valley is its networks.”
] There is no proposition so universally agreed upon and so
] little studied. We see two main reasons for this. The ?rst is
] that the analysis of social networks has been mainly the
] province of sociologists, but only in recent years have they
] become interested in industrial organization. The second is
] that methods for systematic study of social networks are of
] very recent origin.

] Thus, in this chapter we will introduce some key ideas about
] social networks, sketch some of the vital institutional sectors
] in Silicon Valley where they operate, and present an initial
] exploration of the formal analysis of how these sectors
] articulate with one another.

Social Networks in Silicon Valley

] On its own, Allen's experience seems easy to dismiss, but
] it's part of a pattern, the voting activists say, that
] reveals the voting industry's desire to keep people off.
] The worst transgression, one that almost everyone
] interviewed pointed to, occurred in a conference call on
] Sept. 16. The agenda for that meeting was sent to
] participants before the call, and it clearly states that
] the first order of business would be to approve new
] members, after which the committee would decide whether
] or not the draft standard was ready to be approved. The
] new members up for approval that day were Jim Adler,
] Alice Allen, Chuck Corry, David Dill, G.D. Miller, Ted
] Selker and Barbara Simons -- many of whom are in favor of
] verifiable audit trails in voting machines.
]
] But when people got on the phone that day, Vern Williams,
] a voting security expert at SAIC, an information
] technology consulting firm, suggested that the agenda be
] switched so that new members were approved after the
] committee voted on the draft standard -- a move that
] would ensure that the new members would have no say on
] the proposed standard. Williams' motion passed. Then the
] committee decided to open the draft standard for voting.
] And after that, the new members were approved.
]
] The activists were outraged at this maneuver. "I kept
] saying, 'We've been disenfranchised!'" says Simons, a
] computer scientist who worries about the security of
] electronic voting systems. Simons and others tried to
] reopen the vote on the standard, but one of the committee
] leaders then proposed a motion to adjourn the meeting.
] According to Roberts Rules of Order, an adjournment
] motion takes precedence over other motions. The motion
] won by one vote, and the meeting was adjourned.

This situation concerns me..

Another case of electronic vote-tampering?