Friday, October 3, 2003

Robert Novak's desperate damage control The conservative columnist's attempts to downplay the Valerie Plame scandal are raising more questions than they answer. [Salon] 1:43:31 PM

North Korea says it is making nuclear bombs North Korea said Thursday it is using plutonium extracted from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods to make atomic weapons, a move that could dramatically escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula and strengthen its hand in negotiations with the United States. [Salon] Ummm...these would be real weapons of mass destruction, wouldn't they...? 1:33:37 PM

"Do you know what 'powerless' means?" My wife was deployed to the Middle East six months ago. Now it's up to me to explain to our 9-year-old daughter why our family is being sacrificed for a war I don't believe in. [Salon] 1:30:51 PM

Women say Arnold groped, humiliated them LA Times scratching for a stunning revelation from a bunch of highly unforthcoming women that a Beeg Hollywood star behaved like, well, a big Hollywood star .. Arnold Schwarzenegger .. [blogdex] 8:37:59 AM

Outlook not so good Yesterday, the Half-Life 2 source code was leaked (all 100 MB of it). Today comes the news from Valve that the leaked version is indeed the real thing, and that the leak was almost certainly the result of keystroke recorders installed remotely on Valve machines using a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. [Simon Willison's Weblog] Here is concrete evidence that being dependent on Microsoft software can have direct, negative consequences for your organization. For public companies, this means that if you have standardized on Microsoft software, you're being negligent in your fiduciary responsibilities to your shareholders. If you have a major security breach, your shareholders should sue you. 4:56:40 AM

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