Friday, January 03, 2003

Democrats to Refute Bush's Economic Plans. WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush won't unveil his latest economic stimulus proposal until next week but already it is drawing fire from Democrats who say they are putting together a rival proposal that will be fairer and do less harm to the government's budget. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Politics] 6:10:48 PM

Microsoft To Sell XP Add-On Online: "Chris Hoofnagle, legislative counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told NewsFactor that consumers should be concerned about using product activation codes." [Google Top Stories] Ugh, this again? One would have thought that this had been figured out with the release of XP. The whole point of using hardware based activiation codes with no personal information is to avoid capturing personal information. The only other option that tries to address both the privacy and piracy angles is to have "neutral" third party activation code clearing houses, the question with such a solution is if you as a consumer really wants to pay for that type of service. 11:27:40 AM

Regarding Bush, Korea, and nukes: Josh Marshall's comments today are worth reading. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 10:02:32 AM

Macro and script viruses dying off. New faces of malicious code for 2003 [The Register] 9:33:56 AM