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Monday, January 24, 2005 |
Many pages of celebrity remembrances of Carson up now at Salon.
"If he liked you, America liked you":
How his famous guests and peers -- some in awe, some in anger --
remembered Johnny Carson, including Cavett, Warhol, Cher, Gabor,
Rivers, Reynolds and Leno. By Dana Cook.
Also, this by Jack Boulware,
Johnny Carson:
On the good nights, he was the second best thing you could do in bed
-- but on his best nights, he was the best.
4:44:44 PM 
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Four from BNA News (today):
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EXEEM OPENS NEW DOORS FOR FILE-SWAPPING
Underground programmers hoping to capitalize on the
BitTorrent file-swapping community have unveiled highly
anticipated software that some P2P advocates believe could
blunt recent legal attacks from Hollywood. Called eXeem, the
software aims to merge the speedy downloads of BitTorrent
with the powerful global search capabilities of Kazaa or
eDonkey.
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US SUPREME COURT TO HEAR GROKSTER CASE IN MARCH
The US Supreme Court has set March 29 as the date for oral
arguments in the closely watched Grokster and StreamCast
Networks case. A decision from the Supreme Court is expected
by early July 2005.
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CHINA BUSTS ALMOST 600 IN INTERNET GAMBLING CASE
Authorities in China have arrested 597 people in connection
with an underground Internet gambling network thought to
involve funds totalling more than $60 million. The Ministry
of Security said the gambling network, spanning 22 provinces
and major cities, was allegedly run by a Taiwan-based
company in collaboration with criminal syndicates on the
Chinese mainland.
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ISNA OFFICIAL CRITICIZES SITE TERMINATION
Ahmad-Reza Yusefi, the deputy director for technical affairs
of the Iranian Students' News Agency, says the recent
decision by an American ISP to terminate access to the
official ISNA Web site is a violation of international law.
The US server, The Planet, sent an e-mail to ISNA on January
14, giving it a 48-hour deadline to terminate its site on
the server. Yusefi said the server does not have the right
to stop hosting a site permanently without any reason.
1:44:16 PM
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Get DefCon 10 Capture the
Flag Data
What is Capture the RootFu! ?
The Shmoo Group sniffs and captures all the data on the RootFu!
network, in a project cleverly called Capture the RootFu! (CRF). Since
DC brings the best and brightest in the security community together,
and CRF is the "cutting edge" of the Underground, we figured there is
great value in saving the packets for posterity. Hopefully, the end
result is not better IDS's and such... the end result should be a
wakeup call for application developers to write more secure apps that
don't need an IDS in front of them.
FOR THE RECORD, TSG will not be "selling" the capture data. We are
giving it away. The only money that will change hands will be for
purchasing media if folks want a burn. TSG and the DefCon organizers
strongly discourage any company from using the capture data provided by
TSG for any reason other than research. This project exists so that
everyone in the security community can benefit from analysis of the
capture. This project does not exist to help IDS Company XYZ to sell
more software. Here is the license that will be distributed with any
burns we do, as well as being posted here as a "clickthrough" for any
of the downloads.
More info (and the links): http://www.shmoo.com/cctf/
11:43:56 AM
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From BNA News (last week):
AOL GIVES PARENTS TOOL TO HELP RATE CONTENT FOR KIDS
AOL has released a new tool designed to help parents
evaluate entertainment for children. The Family Friendly
programming guide will appear initially in AOL's Moviefone
and CityGuide services, which provide listings of films,
DVDs and events suited to families. The option will be
extended later to other channels such as AOL Music, Games
and Books.
9:43:37 AM
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William Safire, on leaving his op-ed space at the Times:
- How to Read a Column. At last I am at liberty to vouchsafe to you the dozen rules in reading a political column.
- First Lady Follies. My relationships with first ladies were varied. Pat Nixon was a pal, but not so that "congenial lawyer," Hillary Clinton.
- Win Some, Lose Some. Here's how some of my journalistic crusades turned out, from State-sponsored gambling to Kurdish autonomy.
- 'Never Retire'. Why am I bidding Op-Ed readers farewell today after more than 3,000 columns? Two bits of counsel might help explain the path I'm now taking.
[NYT > Opinion]
6:50:48 AM
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In Suit, BlackBerry Maker Pleads Canadian. Having lost a recent patent case in Virginia, Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry device, has turned to an unusual appeal strategy: We’re not based in the United States, so you can’t touch us. By IAN AUSTEN. [NYT > Technology]
6:49:58 AM
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- Stem Cell Lines Compromised?. Nonhuman molecules from the culture medium used to grow stem cells have contaminated the human embryonic stem cells available for research, a new report shows.
- Many Faces of the Mac Mini. Though available for only a few days, Apple's versatile Mac mini is already being put to a wide array of uses, from server racks to in-car computing. By Leander Kahney.
- Gambling Sites Hedging Bets. Super Bowl Sunday is two weeks away, so online gambling venues are getting ready. Not just for the usual rush of punters, but to also fend off denial-of-service extortion schemes. By Michael Myser.
[Wired News]
6:45:11 AM
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