29. januar 2005

Indian ocean nations debating where to locate tsunami warning center The Indian Ocean nations are naturally united in wanting to create an early warning system, but they are already quarrelling over where to locate the center controlling the warning system: But delegates from 57 countries struggled over where to base the center that would collect seismic and oceanographical data from nations on the Indian Ocean's rim and issue alerts to coastal areas in danger. Thailand pushed hard to make a Bangkok-based disaster prevention center the hub, but faced opposition from India and Indonesia. In the end, delegates eager to maintain broad support for the warning system and distribute responsibilities chose a decentralized network. Some officials argued that such a set-up would make better use of the capabilities in the region. A compromise that may not be the best solution, really. 8:17:15 PM    comment []  trackback []

Spybot ivq It's not only Microsoft products that are vulnerable. More than 8,000 Windows computers running the MySQL database were probably infected with the worm program, referred to as the MySQL bot worm or by the name of the executable file, SpoolCLL, that the worm installs on vulnerable machines. The program did not spread on its own, but downloaded targets from several Internet relay chat (IRC) servers. Those several have been made inaccessible, virtually stopping the worm, said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager for incident response at security technology maker Symantec. The MySQL people says this is no hole in the software, but bad username/password practicses by its users. Apparently, it only affects the Windows version of MySQL. 4:54:51 PM    comment []  trackback []

EU constitution EU citizens don't know much about the new EU constitution, but most plan to vote for it anyway. Except in Britian, where they don't know that much either, but they don't like it. 4:23:06 PM    comment []  trackback []

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