] More info about the fastest-spreading worm of all time, which
] enters a new phase today, trying to download unknown code to 20
] specific home computers:

] The worm infected close to one million computers via
] e-mail attachments in e-mails with spoofed addresses
. . .
] Now, those infected
] computers are programmed to start to connect to machines
] found on an encrypted list hidden in the virus body.
] F-Secure said the list contains the address of 20
] computers located in United States, Canada and South
] Korea and is expected to start at 3:00 EST Friday.

I can't beleive they are unable to locate and turn off the servers! There are only 20. Also, if the "web address" in question is under the control of the attackers, then it was paid for by the attackers, and this is a very easy place to start a criminal investigation (possibly the web address was bought using a fake or stolen identity). However, claiming that this "must be the work of organized crime" is silly. Technical sophistication and criminal sophistication are not always directly proportional.

New Phase of Sobig.F Set for 3 p.m. EST Friday 8/22/2003

] U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the book — "Lies and the
] Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right"
] — is a parody protected by the First Amendment (search).
]
] "There are hard cases and there are easy cases," the judge said.
] "This is an easy case. This case is wholly without merit, both
] factually and legally."

Ahhh, victory! The First Amendment still wins over corporate interests. Thank you Judge Chin...

Judge Denies FOX's Injunction

Decius wrote:
] ] The "translator of a baby's cry" for an elementary mama
] ] appeared. This equipment that analyzed and made the kind
] ] of a baby's cry shows a baby's feeling by five, a hungry
] ] feeling, sleepiness, stress, and inconvenient, and the
] ] degree of correctness exceeds 90%.
]
] You knew this was coming soon... (Wasn't this a Simpson's
] episode??)

Yes that was the theme of a simpsons episode 8F23 to be exact. http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-146/epid-1344/
Also it will be out on DVD tuesday (8/26/03) http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=FXD006970

RE: Japaneese Baby Translator

] The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at
] Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and
] disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five
] hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the
] network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has
] learned.

Luckily the plant was offline due to other problems and has been since Feb 2002. But systems like this really should have better protection than what is described here.

The Register | Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant net

] It came and went before anyone knew what happened.
] Nashville's first "flash mob" took place at the Mall at
] Green Hills on Saturday. Confused onlookers stood around
] wondering what was going on as a crowd of about 35-40
] people gathered around a large clock in the mall to
] celebrate 2:00 like it was New Years. Then, it was over.

Nashville Flash Mob

] JENIN, West Bank, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to
] the email received today from the Motion Picture
] Association of America (MPAA) to Earthstation 5 for
] copyright violations for streaming FIRST RUN movies over
] the internet for FREE, this is our official response!
] Earthstation 5 is at war with the Motion Picture
] Association of America (MPAA) and the Record Association
] of America (RIAA), and to make our point very clear that
] their governing laws and policys have absolutely no
] meaning to us here in Palestine, we will continue to add
] even more movies for FREE.

Dare I make a suicide bomber joke?

PRWire | Earthstation 5 Declares War on MPAA

Laughing Boy wrote:
] Peer down at your house!
]
] ] TerraFly ® changes the way you view your world. Simply
] ] enter an address, and our system will put you at the
] ] controls of a new and innovative way to explore your
] ] digital earth.
]
] Not for terrorist use.

Pretty cool, IE only though. I can see some interesting uses for it when trying to get a hotel close to a location. Nifty

RE: TerraFly Puts You Over Any Land Address

] An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his
] hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up
] as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a
] fence.

Ouch!

CNN.com - Man killed when hair catches on roller coaster car - Aug. 17, 2003

] The code in question is found in
] arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c in the 2.4 tree. It carries
] an SGI copyright. It seems that SGI was not entirely
] forthcoming in documenting the source of its source; some
] of the code in question was, indisputably, not written at
] SGI. So where does it really come from?
]
] This code is from sys/sys/malloc.c in V7 Unix. It has
] been widely published; among other things, it can be
] found in Lion's Commentary on Unix (if you can get a
] copy). It featured in this 1984 Usenet posting. And,
] crucially, it has been circulated with the V7 Unix
] source, which was released by Caldera (now the SCO Group)
] under the BSD license. SCO would like the world to forget
] about that release now, but the Wayback Machine
] remembers.

LWN: Why SCO won't show the code

] NEW YORK, Aug. 13 -- It was the summer of 1998. The bull
] market was kicking into full swing. Wall Street banks
] barely gave a second thought to hiring young whiz kids
] straight out of college.
]
] Historically staid brokerage giant Merrill Lynch & Co.
] sensed an opportunity to make big money in the new Wild
] West world of deregulated energy trading. But no one at
] the firm understood the market. So Merrill went out and
] hired people who said they did.
]
] Among the recruits was a 22-year-old wonder boy named
] Daniel L. Gordon. At an age when many students are just
] finishing college, Gordon already had a master's degree
] in international economics from Yale and had spent a year
] working at an energy-trading firm in Baltimore.
]
] Within two years of joining Merrill, prosecutors allege,
] Gordon would steal $43 million. If true, it would be one
] of the most audacious heists in Wall Street history.
] Gordon has not been charged with any wrongdoing. His
] attorney, Alan Levine, declined to comment on the
] allegations and said Gordon would be unavailable for
] comment. Merrill would not comment on either the
] allegations or Gordon's tenure with the firm.

Interesting read.

A Merrill Lynch Whiz Kid, and Then a Suspect (washingtonpost.com)