Sunday, September 07, 2003

With Politeness, Easing the Pain of E-Mail Mishaps. The recent torrent of e-mail messages unleashed by worms and viruses has revealed an ususually polite e-mail program. By Alan Krauss. [New York Times: Business] 10:17:58 PM    comment []

Showdown over money in politics. Supreme Court takes up issue of 'soft money,' which may reshape campaigning. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 5:42:04 PM    comment []

xian: Someone's attacking Blogger. According to a message from Evan Williamson the BloggerDev mailing list, Blogger is being subjected to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack right now. 12:37:45 PM    comment []

The watershed moment for RFID. Eric Peters says Wal-Mart's measured approach toward radio frequency identification technology is a harbinger that will play out across many industries in the next few years. [CNET News.com] 12:35:55 PM    comment []

In Computer Security, a Bigger Reason to Squirm. Many computer networks, and the power grids and nuclear plants they control, are still ill equipped to ward off infections. By Brendan I. Koerner. [New York Times: Business] 12:34:36 PM    comment []

Girls? Check. Cristal? Check. iPod? Check.. As Microsoft has been cast in the role of Goliath in the personal computing wars, Macintosh has been playing David. And right now the stone in its slingshot is music. By Neil Strauss. [New York Times: Technology] 12:31:33 PM    comment []

I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Vote That Way. Plastic::Politics::Politics: 57 of Diebold Election System's voting machines phoned home the results of a California county's election early to a Diebold employee, while the MS Access files from the machines were stored on an open FTP site, where anyone could retreive them. [Plastic: Most Recent] 12:30:31 PM    comment []

X1 is "free PC software that uses an advanced indexing process that lets you find any word in any email or file on your computer, in under a second." [Scripting News] 12:27:04 PM    comment []