2001 Readings
- The innocent dead in a coward's war (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Call grows to ban cluster bombs (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Going Down the Dark Ladder (www.latimes.com)
- ACLU Exec Voices Concerns (Wired)
- Letter From Ground Zero (www.thenation.com)
- U.S. Airstrikes Kill Over 100, Say Afghan Villagers (www.bayarea.com)
- Diagnose common runtime problems with hprof (JavaWorld)
- ps2linux (caf.netgod.net)
- Euro bank notes to embed RFID chips by 2005 (www.eetimes.com)
- FreeBSD Foundation Announces Java License for FreeBSD (daily.daemonnews.org)
- FBI, Pentagon Quiz Microsoft on XP (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Slashdot | Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Quest... (slashdot.org)
- Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet (cryptome.org)
- 10 Linux predictions for 2002 - Dec 27, 2001 (www.linuxworld.com)
- Dmitry Sets the Record Straight (www.oreillynet.com)
- Retail gift cards often unprotected (www.msnbc.com)
- SGI sets sights on turnaround (12/24/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- US tribunals to allow hearsay in terrorist trials (The Independent)
- Surf 'N Hemp: Feel the Power (Wired)
- IT: A Language From Beyond India (Wired)
- Weird science (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Joel on Software -
Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Joel on Software - Two Stories (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- BayArea.com: Afghans Seek End to U.S. Bombing (www.bayarea.com)
-
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Orlando fliers face high-tech security scrutiny (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Hewlett lays out detailed case against HP's bid for Compaq (www.siliconvalley.com)
- IBM's quantum baby step (news.com)
- Six million people in Afghanistan are facing a food crisis (The Independent)
- Ramsey Clark Interview (www.thesunmagazine.org)
- Scrap new telecom bill and fix the old one (1... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- A Pitch for Smart Postal Stamps (Wired)
- New U.K. terror laws used for first time (The Independent)
- Yemen attacks al-Qa'ida hideout as hunt spreads (The Independent)
- Giants team for wireless Web via Java (news.com)
- National ID Card Gaining Support (Washington Post)
- Universal copy-protected CD shuns players (news.com)
- Bin Laden videotape was result of a sting (www.observer.co.uk)
- Microsoft to build common data store (www.idg.net)
- MacOSX Week: Tales of a BeOS Refugee
(OSNews.com)
- Cracking the code (sunspot.net)
- At the core of Apple's OS X (digitalmass.boston.com)
- Quantum crypto edges closer (The Register)
- Religion's misguided missiles (www.guardian.co.uk)
- GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform Beta: "Everyone's Excited and Confused" (news.gnome.org)
- MS releases mother of all IE security patches (The Register)
- Americans 'covered up massacre of 280 Taliban' (The Independent)
- How Afghan art was doctored to save it from Taliban censors (The Independent)
- User Interface Design for Programmers
Chapter 9: The Process of Designing a Product (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- User Interface Design for Programmers
Chapter 7: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Two (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Gun-buy database being purged
Terrorism probes will suffer, officials argue (www.nolalive.com)
- User Interface Design for Programmers
Chapter 6: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives
(www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- HP petition irks some employees (news.com)
- Security hole found in Sun, IBM Unix servers ... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun saturated with StarOffice advice (news.com)
- Riding into the sunset (InfoWorld)
- Army Working on Weapons-Grade Anthrax (Washington Post)
- Kicking the Petroleum Habit (Wired)
- Deal to give Russian programmer freedom (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Transcript reveals bin Laden's terror planning (The Independent)
- Bush rips up 'obsolete' missile treaty. Is this another case of America riding roughshod over the world? (The Independent)
- Bush releases bin Laden's 'smoking gun' video
(The Independent)
- Distributed computing strikes gold (news.com)
- Wham, Bam, Thank You Spam (Wired)
- U.S. plans new raids on file swappers (news.com)
- Microsoft To Plug Devastating Browser Download Hole (www.newsbytes.com)
- Axed Intel Man Loses E-Mail Case (Wired)
- MS TV: It'll Be Watching You (Wired)
- New Suit Targets Obscenity Law (Wired)
- Military Wary of Map's Release (Wired)
- Feds Zero In on Piracy Ring (Wired)
- Betty Holberton Dies; Helped U.S. Develop Computer Languages (Washington Post)
- Money, Money, Money (philip.greenspun.com)
- Joel on Software - Three Wrong Ideas From Computer Science (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Joel on Software - Back to Basics (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Antivirus firms balk at FBI loophole (news.com)
- Kid Porn Suspect's Strange Saga (Wired)
- Microsoft to amend schools settlement plan (news.com)
- Packard Foundation opposes HP-Compaq (news.com)
- He's Not in It for the Profit (www.pbs.org)
- Bruce Anderson: A confident America is choosing its next targets (The Independent)
- My beating by refugees is a symbol of the hatred and fury of this filthy war (The Independent)
- Athens airport shows how lax U.S. airport security is (web.realcities.com)
- UK journalist beaten by Afghan mob (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Anonymous e-mails still untraceable (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Companies need to be kept in check (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Israeli Youths Confess to Writing 'Goner' Internet Worm (news.com)
- Spam out, cookies tolerated, data retention remains: EU (The Register)
- Intelligence services wanted me killed, says journalist (The Independent)
- 'Anarchy' leaves 1m without food (The Independent)
- States use source code to press Microsoft (news.com)
- Video shows CIA threatened to let prisoner be killed (The Independent)
- Who Says Java Programmers Don't Have A Sense of humor (www.theonion.com)
- Sun: Quarter going as expected (news.com)
- Apple: Microsoft should pay $1 billion--cash (news.com)
- Matthew Lewin: Don't rely on my support just because I'm Jewish (The Independent)
- Rise and fall of village cleric who fought 'criminals and traitors' (The Independent)
- Frankenbugs in the Wings (Wired)
- What About Kamen's Other Machine? (Wired)
- Bush gets trade bill victory to tech industry (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Holding auditors accountable (www.siliconvalley.com)
- AmEx joins Sun's Liberty Alliance (news.com)
- When Pro Forma Is Bad Form (Wired)
- U.S. approves stronger encryption standard (news.com)
- Astronomers 'See' Dark Matter (Wired)
- States to sharpen claws in Microsoft case (news.com)
- Ellison donates software for U.S. security (news.com)
- An Interview with Joel Spolsky of JoelonSoftware (www.softwaremarketsolution.com)
- Plans to limit civil liberties reflect W.W. II practices (San Jose Mercury)
- Arafat will gamble on Israel's 'war' failing again (The Independent)
- Occupation Propels Conflict (www.latimes.com)
- Geeks and Spooks (www.viridiandesign.org)
- A village is destroyed. And America says nothing happened (The Independent)
- Who EU Calling a Terrorist? (Wired)
- Justice Kept In the Dark (www.msnbc.com)
- HP philosophy gets political with Compaq deal (news.com)
- Secret US plan for Iraq war (www.observer.co.uk)
- Another war on terror. Another proxy army. Another mysterious massacre. And now, after 19 years, perhaps the truth at last... (The Independent)
- A start-up's true tale (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Twelve dead, 150 injured in Israel suicide blasts (The Independent)
- The Taliban are gone, but the hunger and cold remain (The Independent)
- Love across the Israeli divide (The Independent)
- US bomb error 'kills 70' (The Independent)
- School case generates criticism of DA's office (San Jose Mercury)
- An Interview with the Creator of Ruby (www.oreillynet.com)
- Free the airwaves! (news.com)
- INS memo cites possible detention for those questioned in terror probe
(www.cnn.com)
- The Other Side of .NET
Why Microsoft Could Still Fail With .NET and How They'd Likely Recover From That Failure
(www.pbs.org)
- INTERVIEW WITH MARC FLEURY (www.jboss.org)
- Ballmer discusses Xbox's "broader concept" (news.com)
- Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Computer (Wired)
- The Castle of Death (The Independent)
- Abortion Clinics on New Net Alert (Wired)
- DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems (Wired)
- Q&A, Part II: Sun's McNealy discusses NDA policy, software strategy (computerworld.com)
- How our Afghan allies applied the Geneva Convention
(The Independent)
- AV vendors split over FBI Trojan snoops x
- Robert Fisk: We are the war criminals now (The Independent)
- NASA: Smelling the Coffee (Wired)
- Visitors to U.S. can expect probing terrorism questions (www.detroitfreepress.com)
- This Flag Idea Won't Fly (www.latimes.com)
- What Went Wrong in the Arab World? Ask Yourself (www.latimes.com)
- Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians (www.observer.co.uk)
- Q&A: McNealy defends Sun reliability, personal privacy views (computerworld.com)
- Resignation (www.geocrawler.com)
- Keeping a Who's-Naughty List (Wired)
- Worm hitting home for the holidays (news.com)
-
Rage against the File System Standard (www.mosfet.org)
- Message from Kabul (slashdot.org)
- Red Hat Proposes to Enhance Microsoft Settlement Offer By Providing Open Source Software to All U.S. School Districts (biz.yahoo.com)
- Freedom Or Power? (www.gnu.org)
- FBI Develops Eavesdropping Tools (Washington Post)
- Proposed Microsoft deal to take hot seat (news.com)
- Russian programmer gets April court date (news.com)
- NASA spaceship gets close-up look at Sun (web.realcities.com)
- Kunduz falls, and a bloody vengeance is executed (The Independent)
- Definitions of the SI units: The binary prefixes (physics.nist.gov)
- FBI software cracks encryption wall (www.msnbc.com)
- Microsoft admits IE security alert lapse (ZDNet)
- Osama's Nuclear Plans Half-Baked (Wired)
- Open-source approach fades in tough times (news.com)
- The Next Computer Interface (www.techreview.com)
- C# From a Java Developer's Perspective (www.prism.gatech.edu)
- Mary Dejevsky: Lifting the veil does not liberate women (The Independent)
- David Aaronovitch: Don't rely on spies to protect us
(The Independent)
- News: UltraSparc III to break 1GHz barrier (ZDNet)
- Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us (www.latimes.com)
- Carpet bombing 'kills 150 civilians' in frontline town
(The Independent)
- Mass grave 'contains bodies of Taliban's victims' (The Independent)
- Our friends in the North are just as treacherous and murderous
(The Independent)
- J2SE 1.4 premieres Java's assertion capabilities (JavaWorld)
- Master Merlin's new I/O classes (JavaWorld)
- ICANN: To Serve and Protect (Wired)
- Terror 'Mules': Bombs in Bodies (Wired)
- In Pakistan, It's Jihad 101 (New York Times)
- No surprise at rumours of new atrocities by our 'foot-soldiers' (The Independent)
- Lords may block 'Draconian' Bill against terrorism (The Independent)
- Mastering the classpath with JWhich (JavaWorld)
- UCITA opposition turns up heat (www.computerworld.com)
- Rebels move toward Kabul; Bush urges restraint (web.realcities.com)
- Bin Laden interview (The Independent)
- We asked then, we ask now: what are we fighting for? (The Independent)
- Terror suspects to be interned (The Independent)
- Yossi Beilin: Give the Middle East a reason to make peace
The world can no longer afford to ignore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
(The Independent)
- Muslim leaders warn of riots over anti-terror law (The Independent)
- Bill Kauffman: I love my country. But perhaps not this one (The Independent)
- Smallpox plan grants sweeping power (www.bostonherald.com)
- Black Blocs for Dummies (www.infoshop.org)
- Comparison of Linux Distributions (www.distrowatch.com)
- The state of airline security (web.realcities.com)
- IE security hole leads to cookie jar (news.com)
- Letter from Ralph Nader and James Love to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly regarding the USDOJ/Microsoft proposed settlement (www.cptech.org)
- How tenacity kept monopoly intact (www.msnbc.com)
- Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection (www.microsoft.com)
- Nanocomputers Get Real (Wired)
- Gov't Networks Get an 'F' (Wired)
- Hidden Messages: Any There There? (Wired)
- Beware of Icebergs (New York Times)
- Irish Know Where You've Been (Wired)
- Pontiff walks ethical tightrope (www.guardian.co.uk)
- IBM pads supercomputer lead (news.com)
- Student hackers access bank computer codes (The Independent)
- Feds Monitor Lawyer-Client Calls (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Grove details early life under Nazis, fleeing... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Stealth layoffs under way at IBM, Apple (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Large Limits to Software Estimation (www.idiom.com)
- Caught in a .NET
Don't Expect Microsoft to Give Up One Weapon Without Acquiring Another -- How .NET Assures the Continuation of Monopoly (www.pbs.org)
- Debunking Microsoft (www.computerworld.com)
- Bin Laden network 'plotted hundreds of attacks' (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Back beneath the veil (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Barbed wire and cold await the thousands fleeing bombardment
(www.guardian.co.uk)
- Hypocrisy, hatred and the war on terror
(The Independent)
- Companies reluctant to take on Linux (ZDNet)
- Taliban training suicide squads to confront invasion of ground troops (The Independent)
- UN fears 'disaster' over strikes near huge dam
(The Independent)
- Europe Reruns Through Spy Bill (Wired)
- Lovin' Hydrogen
Maverick energy guru Amory Lovins says a profitable, pollution-free hydrogen economy is just over the horizon. It's merely a matter of taming the most powerful gas on the planet (www.discover.com)
- Author's Note: Welcome Back to MathWorld (mathworld.wolfram.com)
- Massachusetts declares war on MS deal
(ZDNet)
- Linux future still (ZDNet)
- Nine states balk at Microsoft deal (11/06/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Heir attack targets HP-Compaq deal (11/06/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Torture Seeps Into Discussion by News Media (New York Times)
- Microsoft settlement hits dead end (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Hitachi DVD drive leaps language barrier (news.com)
- Afghan Archivist of Culture (Wired)
- Apple Hit With Racial Lawsuit (Wired)
- Molecular Farming Under Fire (Wired)
- Massachusetts raps Microsoft deal (news.com)
- The Americans have left it too late to send in ground troops before winter
'One way to conduct a ground campaign without risking casualties is to back someone else's army'
(The Independent)
- ICANN may delay talk of public's role (news.com)
- Comdex without laptops? (news.com)
- Microsoft tries to cage security gremlins (news.com)
- Big Blue's $40M giveaway (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Is Microsoft losing its grip in Asia? (ZDNet)
- UltraSparc III drives low-end Sun servers (ZDNet)
- Linux desktop KDE 2.2.1 rivals Windows (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Ready for an MS war between the states (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- MS to force IT-security censorship (www.theregister.co.uk)
-
Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations (news.telegraph.co.uk)
- Andreas Whittam Smith: Was Guy Fawkes a terrorist?
'The Gunpowder plotters were a 17th-century version of the well-educated, fanatical young men who follow Osama bin Laden'
(argument.independent.co.uk)
- The Americans don't know what they're getting into ... People here think nothing of killing
(news.independent.co.uk)
- Microsoft still a target of EU investigation ... (news.com)
- Security problems open Microsoft's Wallet (news.com)
- Transmeta: Are the chips down? (news.com)
- We British Muslims must reclaim our faith from the fanatics
'Let us ask how Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists or Jews retain their faiths without bullying the nation'
(argument.independent.co.uk)
- The Tiniest Dots on the Web (Wired)
- `Shammies' honor best corporate spin (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Settlement disappoints Sun's CEO (11/02/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Barbara Lee's dissent unlikely to unseat her (www.contracostatimes.com)
- Air fare system at the brink (11/05/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- The Counterterrorist Myth (www.theatlantic.com)
- Whither Now C++? (www.byte.com)
- Microsoft deal won't solve revenue concerns (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Media Beat: War Needs Good Public Relations (www.fair.org)
- Farewell to democracy in Pakistan (www.independent.co.uk)
- A vision to lift the spirit (www.ahram.org.eg)
- Sharper Than Ever
Microsoft's C# Language Might Be the Death of Java, but Sun's the One to Blame (www.pbs.org)
- Waiting for Windows XP (InfoWorld)
- XP dawns; More Windows ahead (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Security problems open Microsoft's Wallet (news.com)
- Fergal Keane: My job is to report what I see, not what people want to hear
(argument.independent.co.uk)
- This war is about Islam, insists Rushdi (news.independent.co.uk)
- Microsoft admits serious flaw in 'e-wallet' . (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Terror Law Foes Mull Strategies (Wired)
- The agreement: Devil's in the details (news.com)
- Sami Amarah: US Attempting To 'Recruit' Russian Veterans of Afghan War (www.counterpunch.org)
- Alexander Cockburn: FBI Eyes Torture (www.counterpunch.org)
- Green Party USA Coordinator Detained at Airport; Prevented by Armed Military Personnel from Flying to Political Meeting in Chicago (www.counterpunch.org)
- Winamp locks onto Windows title bars (news.com)
- Settlement is "a reward, not a remedy" (news.com)
- Wall Street yawns at Microsoft settlement (news.com)
- What the Microsoft-DOJ deal means (news.com)
- Sun threatens suit against Microsoft (news.com)
- Put Saudis on the spot (www.baltimoresun.com)
- OS Choice Could Be a New Option (Wired)
- Mac Music (www.msnbc.com)
- New law contains ID-card proposal (www.washingtontimes.com)
- Microsoft, Govt. Reach Settlement (www.abcnews.go.com)
- Microsoft settlement expected Friday (news.com)
- States cool to Microsoft settlement (11/01/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Ruling a blow for DVD industry (11/02/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Amazon: Linux saved us millions (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Earthweb Networking and Communications: Java: Class of the Month: JDK 1.4 Supports Regular Expressions (softwaredev.earthweb.com)
- IBM risks Linux strategy with W3C RAND demands (www.kuro5hin.org)
- The algebra of infinite justice (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Meet the computer criminals: they'll see you in your
office (news.independent.co.uk)
-
Interview: Michael Phipps on OpenBeOS (www.osnews.com)
- The Threat Of Microsoft’s .Net (www.kingpublishing.com)
- Interview with WINE's Alexandre Julliard (www.osnews.com)
- Slashdot | Wil Wheaton Responds to your Questions. (slashdot.org)
- Developers: What .Net will cost you (news.com)
- FBI Terror Detentions Questioned (Wired)
- Windows NT/2000/XP / Linux threatens Unix, not Windows (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Why Linux is a credible solution (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Linux / Linux desktop KDE 2.2.1 rivals Windows (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Give Peace a Website (Wired)
- How Safe Are Your Illegal Drugs? (Wired)
- Suppression Stifles Some Sites (Wired)
- Let's Stop Wasting $78 Billion a Year (www.cio.com)
- Canada Works on Terror Bill, Too (Wired)
- Surveillance Switcheroo
How the anti-terrorism bill got passed (reason.com)
- Terror Act Has Lasting Effects (Wired)
- Puff, the Magic Genome (Wired)
- Lindows: Linux meets Windows (Wired)
- Open source programmers stink at error handling (www.linuxworld.com)
- Low-end Sun servers get UltraSparc III (news.com)
- Sharp readies Linux handheld (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- The rhetoric isn't resonating (techupdate.zdnet.com)
- Doom for .NET? InterTrust opens up on the MS lawsuit (www.theregister.co.uk)
- The CNN of the Arab World Deserves Our Respect (www.latimes.com)
- Microsoft to hackers: Don't publish code (news.com)
- China On Pirates: Blow 'Em Down (Wired)
- Binary Freedom: Go Free or Go Home (www.binaryfreedom.com)
- Inside Apple's core (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Online music wars inspire new weaponry (news.com)
- Questions Swirl Around Men Held in Terror Probe (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
- Many Held in Terror Probe Report Rights Being Abused (www.latimes.com)
- Joel on Software - In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (www.joelonsoftware.com)
- Story: My travails with Office XP: Finally, the end of my tale (ZDNet)
- Yet again, Downing Street displays an instinct for
wartime censorship (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Robert Fisk: Is this war against Islam? (argument.independent.co.uk)
- RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC (Wired)
- Rivals IBM, Sun land big contracts (news.com)
- Anthrax found in Microsoft office (news.com)
- Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty (www.theonion.com)
- Anatol Lieven: Endgame Afghanistan
Only a Muslim UN force can secure peace after the
bombing (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Robert Fisk: 'Will a few holes in the runway of
Kandahar airport make a difference?' (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Alan Watkins: Bin Laden: the Conan Doyle connection (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Surprise at large turnout for national anti-war rally (news.independent.co.uk)
- How Lutris betrayed the Open Source Community (instantdb.tripod.com)
- Think Fast, Clever Robot (Wired)
- House Endorses Snoop Bill (Wired)
- How much are you worth? (news.com)
- Microsoft charts new course round Java (ZDNet)
- Senate Passes Expansion of Electronic Surveillance (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
- Sun Micro CEO Sees More Support for National ID (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Slashdot | Net: Now Our Most Serious News Medium? (slashdot.org)
- Why this war in Afghanistan will
redraw the map of Europe (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Egypt is a nation caught between Islam and
the West (argument.independent.co.uk)
- fghanistan has a chance of a better future. But it is
only a slender chance (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Commentary: J#.Net will be ignored (news.com)
- A First Look at Visual J# for .NET [October 11, 2001] (www.oreillynet.com)
- Microsoft takes new tack on Java (news.com)
- Experts fear widening war in Arab world
U.S. strikes could ignite unstable area (www.nolalive.com)
- Circuits That Bug Out Bugs (Wired)
- Ballmer Disses Sun Maneuver (Wired)
- After Bullets Fly: War of Words (Wired)
- At ground zero, no joy for U.S. attacks
Voices for revenge silent in New York (www.nolalive.com)
- Snoop Bill Heads to Final Vote (Wired)
- As Net fraud grows, so do e-tailers' fears (news.com)
- INS Culls Foreign Student Info (Wired)
- SlugBot: Enemy of Slugs (Wired)
- AOL Cookies, Web Bugs to Track Advertising (www.latimes.com)
- 'Why do they hate us?' (www.csmonitor.com)
- 'Send in the historians,' cry critics of sound-bite news (www.csmonitor.com)
- Our friends are killers, crooks and
torturers (argument.independent.co.uk)
- A little more politics and less religion,
please (argument.independent.co.uk)
- A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance (New York Times)
- Sun absorbing iPlanet staff, functions (news.com)
- Sun ready to show messaging software (news.com)
- US and Britain accused of creating heroin trail (news.independent.co.uk)
- This loose conjecture is unlikely to cut
much ice with the Arab nations (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Way is open for bold strategy in
new kind of war (argument.independent.co.uk)
- There is no such thing as a friendly
tyrant (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Talking about a war against all terrorists only causes
confusion (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Microsoft Steps Up Software Security (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Patriot Bill Moves Along (Wired)
- Thought Police Peek Into Brains (Wired)
- FTC Backs Off Privacy Regs (Wired)
- Net users lose a secret-alias tool (news.com)
- Sun's McNealy misses out on bonus (news.com)
- Enterprise Crew May Intervene in Earth Affairs (www.satirewire.com)
- Time to stand up to Microsoft (ZDNet)
- What Muslim would write: 'The time of fun and waste is
gone'? (news.independent.co.uk)
- Chomsky interview 5 (www.zmag.org)
- The Theatre of Good and Evil (www.zmag.org)
- Not the end of the world (www.zmag.org)
- We need to get bin Laden, but alive and in
the dock (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Penn & Teller search for ancient magic origins in new
three-part series (www.canada.com)
- A great wall for North America (www.canada.com)
- The weight of history (www.canada.com)
- Biometrics in Airports (www.extremetech.com)
- Talking To Your Child About The WTC Attack (www.theonion.com)
- American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie (www.theonion.com)
- Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell: 'We Expected Eternal Paradise For This,' Say Suicide Bombers (www.theonion.com)
- U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With (www.theonion.com)
- Dave Kopel on antiterrorism & war (www.nationalreview.com)
- God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule (www.theonion.com)
- Microsoft Steps Up Software Security (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Patriot Bill Moves Along (Wired)
- Thought Police Peek Into Brains (Wired)
- FTC Backs Off Privacy Regs (Wired)
- Net users lose a secret-alias tool (news.com)
- Sun's McNealy misses out on bonus (news.com)
- Enterprise Crew May Intervene in Earth Affairs (www.satirewire.com)
- Time to stand up to Microsoft (ZDNet)
- What Muslim would write: 'The time of fun and waste is
gone'? (news.independent.co.uk)
- Chomsky interview 5 (www.zmag.org)
- The Theatre of Good and Evil (www.zmag.org)
- Not the end of the world (www.zmag.org)
- We need to get bin Laden, but alive and in
the dock (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Penn & Teller search for ancient magic origins in new
three-part series (www.canada.com)
- A great wall for North America (www.canada.com)
- The weight of history (www.canada.com)
- Biometrics in Airports (www.extremetech.com)
- Talking To Your Child About The WTC Attack (www.theonion.com)
- American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie (www.theonion.com)
- Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell: 'We Expected Eternal Paradise For This,' Say Suicide Bombers (www.theonion.com)
- U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With (www.theonion.com)
- Dave Kopel on antiterrorism & war (www.nationalreview.com)
- God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule (www.theonion.com)
- Does Osama Have a Nuclear Bomb? (Wired)
- Bush wants National Guard in airports; governors start call-up (web.realcities.com)
- America the ignorant (Salon)
- 'United We Stand' -- Or Else (Wired)
- Wiretap Bill Gets Third Degree (Wired)
- Sun reveals partners for online effort (news.com)
- Vatican: U.S. Action Could Be Seen as Self-Defense (www.bayarea.com)
- White House Spokesman Chastises Maher (www.bayarea.com)
- This is not a war on terror. It's a fight
against America's enemies (www.independent.co.uk)
- Justice Dept. Uses Arrest Powers Fully (Washington Post)
- Sun alliance targets Microsoft's Passport (news.com)
- Victories over terrorism are possible, past
shows (www.nolalive.com)
- We need to read your e-mail (ZDNet)
- Inline Review With Miguel De Icaza (slashdot.org)
- Sun debuts Starcat server (news.com)
- A punitive puppeteer? (InfoWorld)
- Enforcing the GNU GPL (www.gnu.org)
- Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (slashdot.org)
- Gates at Appomattox (www.thenation.com)
- Valley mourns apparent backlash killing (www.azrepublic.com)
- To Attacks' Toll Add a Programmer's Grief (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
- In Defense of Freedom (www.indefenseoffreedom.org)
- Why Liberty Suffers in War Time (Wired)
- Defending Your Life Why Terrorists Trade Stocks (www.pbs.org)
- Microsoft customers balk at license changes (news.com)
- Oracle boss urges national ID cards, offers free software (www.siliconvalley.com)
- KOffice falls short of Microsoft Office standard (ZDNet)
- Talks with Osama bin Laden (1) (www.thenation.com)
- A Hole in the World (www.thenation.com)
- Terror in America (www.thenation.com)
- Gates at Appomattox (www.thenation.com)
- The Dark Smoke (www.thenation.com)
- The Cost of an Afghan 'Victory' (1) (www.thenation.com)
- Pax Americana (www.thenation.com)
- Senate OKs FBI Net Spying (Wired)
- Brother, if you don’t mind........ (www.e46fanatics.com)
- Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws (Wired)
- To a Man With a Hammer: Some Thoughts on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks (www.pbs.org)
- Attacks and Harassment of Middle-Eastern Americans Rising (New York Times)
- Email groups warn of terrorism-related scams online (www.cauce.org)
- Computer recovery companies go to work (news.com)
- Making It Harder for Hijackers (Wired)
- Civil Rights the Next Casualty? (Wired)
- Web Vents Open on U.S. Muslims (Wired)
- States warn of rift in Microsoft case (news.com)
- Protecting Judges Against Liza Minnelli: WebSENSE at Work (censorware.net)
- New Copyright Bill Heading to DC (Wired)
- Drug War Casualty: Privacy? (Wired)
- With Microsoft breakup out of picture, DOJ to focus on remedies (ZDNet)
- Microsoft Still Faces Feds' Regs (Wired)
- U.S. won't seek Microsoft breakup (cnnfn.cnn.com)
- U.S. drops Microsoft breakup plan, browser claim (ZDNet)
- A report on the privacy practices of TMP/Monster.com (www.privacyfoundation.org)
- The Relationship Between Software Aesthetics and Quality (www.chc-3.com)
- Pioneer Steps Out of Net Rutt (Wired)
- Chipmakers angle for Linux support (news.com)
- How to Become a Victim of Identity Theft (www.moreprivacy.com)
- Borderhack: Barbed and Unwired (Wired)
- Heading MS Off at the Passport (Wired)
- Ready to Delete the Border (Wired)
- Windows XP rush bypasses Sun's Java (news.com)
- EFF Action Alert: Stop Hollywood Forcing Technology Ban on 34 Countries (www.eff.org)
- Does this article violate the DMCA? (www.newsforge.com)
- IBM to open source WebSphere Linux tools (ZDNet)
- Felten SDMI presentation: No cops, but lingering questions about DMCA (www.newsforge.com)
- How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java (www.pbs.org)
- Study: Java to overtake C/C++ in 2002 (ZDNet)
- IBM to Microsoft: Give Java your support (ZDNet)
- Case shines light on tech injuries (news.com)
- Microsoft slaps back at Sun in Java spat (news.com)
- Sun asks workers to use vacation time (news.com)
- The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (www.conceptlabs.co.uk)
- High Speed, Freed by Peter Meyers (www.villagevoice.com)
- Linux Today - Guest Column: Will Open Source Lose the Battle for the Web? (linuxtoday.com)
- Secretaries use Linux, taxpayers save millions (www.newsforge.com)
- New CEO arrives during good times for Google (8/11/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Windows, Windows Everywhere (latimes.com)
- Sun takes Java fight to the public (news.com)
- Companies eager to review McAfee patent (ZDNet)
- Microsoft appeals antitrust case to Supreme Court (ZDNet)
- New programming tool born from HTML and Java (www.cnn.com)
- More dangerous 'Code Red II' on the loose (ZDNet)
- Sun says UltraSparc V two chips in one (news.com)
- Congress No Haven for Hackers (Wired)
- Microsoft, Borland look to next generation (ZDNet)
- Adobe: Free the Russian programmer (news.com)
- Ballmer talks .Net; McNealy scoffs (news.com)
- Throw the E-Book at Sklyarov? (Wired)
- Sklyarov Release in Fed's Hands (Wired)
- Microsoft's Java moves stir fresh accusations (ZDNet)
- Sun to back new open-source project (ZDNet)
- Internet Winter (www.pbs.org)
- Free-speech lawsuit charges ahead (news.com)
- A Challenge to Computer Makers (web.siliconvalley.com)
- Boycott Adobe campaign launches (www.theregister.co.uk)
- Sun beats by a cent; revenue down (news.com)
- Microsoft's welcome Java jump (ZDNet)
- Java is Essential to the Software Ecosystem (www.oreilly.com)
- Russian software developer arrested in Vegas (www.lasvegassun.com)
- Hacker Arrest Stirs Protest (Wired)
- Windows Spills Java Off Its Sill (Wired)
- Microsoft backs off support of Java (ZDNet)
- Russian crypto expert arrested at Def Con (news.com)
- Sun issues new beta of J2EE (ZDNet)
- Sun, AOL prep corporate instant messaging (news.com)
- The elements of style (news.com)
- Open source tries .Net; future unclear (ZDNet)
- Why Is Your DNA Their Secret? (Wired)
- Back to the future? (ZDNet)
- XP Not Privy to Computer Privates (Wired)
- Messenger woes cast cloud over Hailstorm (ZDNet)
- 'Time bomb' strikes Visual Studio.Net beta (ZDNet)
- Marimba gains on new CEO, earnings (news.com)
- Sun replaces defective Sun Ray devices (ZDNet)
- Assessing Microsoft's collateral damage (ZDNet)
- UCITA running on empty (InfoWorld)
- `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego' (www.lineone.net)
- After the wild IPO ride, some say winnings rigged (7/08/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Online 'Browse-Wrap' Software License Agreement Not Binding (www.law.com)
- KDE 2.2beta1: Ready to Roll (dot.kde.org)
- SunForum shines with VOIP vigor (ZDNet)
- Britain's sad decline of liberty a warning for U.S. (7/03/2001) (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Microsoft to Open Source editor: Register licenses, or else (www.newsforge.com)
- Opening Up .Net to Everyone (Wired)
- LTSP brings Linux to X Window desktops (ZDNet)
- Open-source fans try to outflank .Net (news.com)
- The Standard: Linux Makers in China Allegedly Violating Terms (www.thestandard.com)
- Cee Plus Plus (www.pythonic.org)
- Copyrights and copywrongs (www.msnbc.com)
- Kodak tangles with Microsoft over Win XP (ZDNet)
- When Non-Free is "Free Enough" (linuxtoday.com)
- Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper (Wired)
- Denial of Service with Windows XP (grc.com)
- The Attacks on GRC.COM (grc.com)
- Linux standard eases programming (news.com)
- Critics hit Microsoft move (ZDNet)
- Appeals court victory fleeting for Microsoft (news.com)
- Right verdict, wrong remedy (ZDNet)
- Buying into trouble (news.com)
- A Future According to Microsoft (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
- EU Ratifies Long Data Retention (Wired)
- Dodge tips hat to Judge Jackson (ZDNet)
- Microsoft and Corel join forces on shared source implementation (ZDNet)
- Appeals court kicks back Microsoft break-up order (ZDNet)
- Louder Call for Echelon Probe (Wired)
- India to Compute on the Cheap (Wired)
- Microsoft Tech Support vs. Psychic Friends Network (www.bmug.org)
- Manifesto for Agile Software Development (www.agilealliance.org)
- .Net to support Linux? (ZDNet)
- Ellison's NIC Co. to team with Sun (news.com)
- ARM licenses Sun's Java for chips (news.com)
- Privacy guru: Watch your back; collect your own data (www.usnews.com)
- Microsoft license spurns open source (news.com)
- ARM, Sun broaden Java-chip effort (news.com)
- Microsoft: Audit, or else there's trouble (ZDNet)
- Interview with Bob Young, Chairman of The Center for the Public Domain (freeipx.org)
- Global treaty could transform Web (news.com)
- Does Europe Covet Own Echelon? (Wired)
- Gates touts Microsoft's "most solid beta" (ZDNet)
- The case of the homeless dot-commer (Salon)
- Famed open-source compiler upgraded (news.com)
- MSNBC doctors anti-MS WSJ story (www.theregister.co.uk)
- Why Microsoft is wary of open source (news.com)
- A widening divide (San Jose Mercury)
- Former dot-com workers crowd homeless shelters (Salon)
- Toys Are Made for Tinkering (Wired)
- Censorship High (Salon)
- Visual Basic.Net: Is it too complex? (ZDNet)
- Harm from the Hague (www.gnu.org)
- New Scientist: Smoked out (www.newscientist.com)
- Did so many get it so wrong? (news.com)
- Java moves to silicon for better phones (news.com)
- Battle rages over Windows XP security (ZDNet)
- Ellison plugs open source (and Oracle's app server) (ZDNet)
- Microsoft messaging tactics recall browser wars (news.com)
- Microsoft ties XP to the Web (news.com)
- Code-Breakers Go to Court (Wired)
- IBM bringing 64-bit Java to AIX (ZDNet)
- Sun to change Java language (ZDNet)
- Hey, Bill, What's the Big Idea? (Wired)
- Sun finds Jxta fan in start-up (news.com)
- Silicon Island: A Cuban Fantasy? (Wired)
- PGP: Happy Birthday to You (Wired)
- Java One: Let's Get Small (Wired)
- Sun promotes Java on Cobalt servers (news.com)
- Sun counts on programmers to push Java (news.com)
- Motorola offers new phone gear for Java junkies (news.com)
- Say Ahh, Then Remain Silent (Wired)
- Java's Hot, and Going Strong (Wired)
- MacInTouch Special Report: JavaOne 2001 (www.macintouch.com)
- Services battle to heat up (ZDNet)
- Sun's Zander: Java doing fine, thank you (ZDNet)
- Coders to Get With Guild Program (Wired)
- Services battle to heat up (ZDNet)
- Warning over e-mail snooping (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Amazon debuts Honor System (news.com)
- A tiny virus changed how we live and love (San Jose Mercury)
- Tech titans tout new Java tools (news.com)
- Cell phone industry infiltrates JavaOne show (news.com)
- Linux dogs MS at the XP expo and wins (the battle, not the war) (www.newsforge.com)
- The Case Against Absolute Privacy (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
- What are those words that trigger Echelon? (www.theregister.co.uk)
- Sun loses two key executives (news.com)
- The music revolution will not be digitized (Salon)
- The Taj Mahal of Out-Sourcing (Wired)
- microsoft.gov.ok? (www.linuxuser.co.uk)
- Council of Europe wraps up cybercrime treaty (www.cnn.com)
- Maybe we need a corporate death penalty (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Borland rejoins the Mac team (ZDNet)
- Spy agency taps into undersea cable (ZDNet)
- Sun offers Gnome preview for Solaris users (ZDNet)
- Jobs serves up OS X at WWDC (ZDNet)
- Congress, critics wrinkle noses at spam bills (news.com)
- No recession for free software (Salon)
- It works for Microsoft. Does it work for you? (ZDNet)
- Metrowerks to arm Mac OS X programmers (ZDNet)
- Free Software Leaders Stand Together (perens.com)
- Open-source advocates answer Microsoftm (news.com)
- Easy Linux pioneer Eazel closes shop (ZDNet)
- Red Hat and Ximian polish Linux apps (ZDNet)
- Torvalds blasts Microsoft on open source (ZDNet)
- XP pros take it to the extreme (ZDNet)
- Eazel faces the eraser (news.com)
- The Worst Of Times (slashdot.org)
- Coming clean (news.com)
- Caldera to introduce modified open-source license (ZDNet)
- Mac: Ripe for a Hack? (Wired)
- A once and future union? (www.cnn.com)
- Workers and the New Deal (www.netslaves.com)
- The StartX Files: How Linux Could Lose to Microsoft - Electrocuting the Elephant (www.linuxplanet.com)
- Sun's sarcasm sets Kitty to snickering (ZDNet)
- Bush's Energy Plan: A Fossil? (Wired)
- Sun finds new manufacturer for processors (news.com)
- Live From N.Y.: Security Cam Hams (Wired)
- For Mac Users, the End of Innocence (www.businessweek.com)
- Heat is on Windows (ZDNet)
- Researchers Pull Hacker Report After Lawsuit Threat (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Tech visionary gets inventor prize (news.com)
- In the eye of the H-1B visa storm (news.com)
- Sun, HP mandate vacation time to cut costs (news.com)
- Publish Free or Perish (www.scientificamerican.com)
- IBM Bets a Billion on Informix (Wired)
- Sun to open "expanded Web" with Jxta (news.com)
- Apple looks to new QuickTime for video spark (news.com)
- Chess When You've Heard It All (Wired)
- IBM jabs at Sun in Unix clash (news.com)
- Compatibility issues dog XP (ZDNet)
- Protection policies: food for thought (ZDNet)
- Desktop Linux / Eazel Inc. Could Change the World Or Go Broke Trying (www.sfgate.com)
- Easier approaches (ZDNet)
- New Samba improves Windows mimicry (news.com)
- Sun exec hopes to elevate storage (news.com)
- Ruling could be a boon to H-1B workers (news.com)
- From Teen Hackers to Job Hunters (www.washtech.com)
- Microsoft wakes up to security (ZDNet)
- New ACLU Advertisement Highlights Massive U.S. Government Electronic Surveillance (www.aclu.org)
- On Butterfly Wings (www.thenation.com)
- How the GOP Gamed the System in Florida (1) (www.thenation.com)
- Transferring Files? Be Careful (Wired)
- Houston, Windows Has Problems (Wired)
- Open-source firm reverses strategy (news.com)
- Privacy terms revised for Microsoft Passport (news.com)
- Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good (www.perl.com)
- More flaws found in wireless LAN protocol (ZDNet)
- All your data (and biz plans) are belong to Microsoft (www.theregister.co.uk)
- More programmers going "Extreme" (news.com)
- Anti-piracy plans for hardware fail (news.com)
- Nextel's Java jive (news.com)
- New version of GNOME desktop set to go (ZDNet)
- BroadVision wakes up and smells the Java (news.com)
- Eazel: After the earthquake (www.linuxpower.org)
- MS To Users: Pay Up (www.internetweek.com)
- 24 Hours With Mac OSX (www.kuro5hin.org)
- IE security hole launches e-mail attachments (news.com)
- Hardwiring copyrights (news.com)
- Anti-piracy battle moves to hardware (ZDNet)
- "Lion" worm stalks Linux machines (news.com)
- Microsoft warns of hijacked certificates (news.com)
- Has demand for foreign workers fallen? (news.com)
- Amazon patent naysayers come up empty (news.com)
- Tim O'Reilly's Open Letter: One-Click Patent Bounty (www.oreillynet.com)
- Sun sends Java Web Start out the door (ZDNet)
- Scientists, engineers rail at PC industry (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Nautilus 1.0 is out, you're all fired, have a nice day (www.newsforge.com)
- Eazel lays off more than half its staff (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Schmidt out as CEO as Novell buys CTP (ZDNet)
- News: Sun developing Java applications for mobile phones (www.computeruser.com)
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (www.norvig.com)
- Sun warning rattles techs (ZDNet)
- Next on PGP creator's agenda: a secure phone (ZDNet)
- Here's the scoop on whether to snoop (ZDNet)
- iContract: Design by Contract in Java (JavaWorld)
- Stanford's Lessig: Shame on Napster opponents (ZDNet)
- Reused Java: Stronger And Longer-Lasting (Techweb)
- O'Reilly Network: A Conversation with Bill Joy (www.openp2p.com)
- Cheaters Bow to Peer Pressure (Wired)
- Sun's Joy sheds light on P2P project (ZDNet)
- After Java and Jini, Bill Joy unveils the Third J (www.theregister.co.uk)
- XP Just Another Apple Clone? (Wired)
- XP: 'Your Mother's Windows' (Wired)
- Sun CTO eyes 'next step' in Web services (ZDNet)
- Microsoft downplays .Net at XP debut (ZDNet)
- You, Too, Can Write an Anna Worm (Wired)
- Amazon Loses Patent Suit Round (Wired)
- Gates takes the wraps off Windows XP (ZDNet)
- Java Jockey Going to Space (Wired)
- Sorry, Wrong President (www.thenation.com)
- Atoms from Bits: The Digital Revolution in Manufacturing (www.ennex.com)
- The Jungle by Jonathan Cohn (www.tnr.com)
- Sun to Fed: Don't Settle With MS (Wired)
- Sun Micro Unveils Vision for Smart Web Services (dailynews.yahoo.com)
- Sun to unwrap Web services game plan (ZDNet)
- Qualcomm brews Java alternative for cell phones (InfoWorld)
- Java's future lies with Linux (www.linuxworld.com)
- Macworld report: Big news for Macintosh enthusiasts (JavaWorld)
- MS Goes After Java Geeks (Wired)
- Microsoft: Silence of the Flaks (Wired)
- OS Has a Face You Can Love (Wired)
- Voices From The Hellmouth Revisited: Part Ten (slashdot.org)
- Sun outlines J2EE strategy Story (computerworld.com)
- NTT DoCoMo launches first Java cellphones (computerworld.com)
- ThinkFree Delivering on Java's Promise (sfgate.com)
- The Parable of Umbrellas and Taxicabs (openp2p.com)
- Stopping light could lead to quantum advance in computing (news.com)
- Sun steers clear of computing slump (news.com)
- Desktop Linux company wins funding (news.com)
- Sun invests $5 million in Tripwire (news.com)
- Internet worm squirms into Linux servers (news.com)
- Sun under the microscope with earnings, new products (news.com)
- Labor pains (news.com)
- Make Your Vote (Machine) Count (Wired)
- Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl for the XXIimum Century (www.csse.monash.edu.au)
- Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant (Salon)
- Solar Power (www.forbes.com)
- Union to Etown: Threats Unfair (Wired)
- Union vote at dot-com company postponed (news.com)
- Coalition makes concession on anti-piracy technology (1/04/2001) (San Jose Mercury)
- The dawning of Sun's commercial Web software (news.com)
- NSA abandons wondrous stuff (www.sunspot.net)
- At long last Linux 2.4 (news.com)
- Sun sambas into Web-based software field with "Brazil" (news.com)
- 10 Questions with Miguel de Icaza (www.linuxorbit.com)
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Copyright 2001 Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Last Modified January 19, 2001