Scripting flaw threatens Web servers

I read the headline on this article, and knew this was a Linux problem. When they find a security flaw in Windows, the word Windows or Microsoft will appear in the headline. And was I right?

A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the Internet, an open-source developer group announced Monday.

Yep.   

BUSINESS
	Stock Analysts Revise Ratings for Companies Under Investigation While Being Sued, Going Bankrupt Downgrade from "strong buy" to "buy."

From our friends at Ironic Times

  

NY Times: Investors May Have Repudiated the Internet, but Consumers Have Not

But as old-line media celebrates its return to power and to vogue, some analysts and executives caution that the Internet's capacity to change the rules should not be discounted too quickly. Investors may have repudiated the Internet, they say, but consumers have not.

"The Internet may not be doing so great on Wall Street, but it's doing great on Main Street," said Marshall Cohen, senior vice president for research at America Online. "As far as the people who are online, they're using it more and valuing it more."

For consumers, that may be a good thing. But for media companies looking to the Internet for profits, it remains a frustrating reality. The "digital revolution" that many traditional media executives were convinced would topple them or make them rich has not materialized.

In part, that is because the Internet has turned out to be more of a souped-up telephone than a delivery vehicle for media and entertainment. E-mail messaging is by far the medium's most popular feature.

What gall! These ungrateful consumers are using the Internet in ways they can't figure out how to make a huge profit on. It's un-American, I tell you!

The Internet is not really different from the roads. Roads are not inherently profitable activities, but the benefits provided by the roads are tremendous.

Christopher hits the nail on the head:

It seems that the problem is that the business plans are not properly lined with up the way the net is used. Much as the cell phone industry destroyed the long distance busienss by combining (virtually) unlimited night and weekend calling with free long distance, so much of web content is free that sadly, perhaps that is becoming people's habit and expectation of the value of web material.