Tuesday, April 9, 2002
The Function of the Drug War
J. Orlin Grabbe
The function of the Drug War is to create the Drug Crisis. The Drug Crisis involves billions of dollars of hidden cash flow. Addicted to this flow of money are law enforcement agencies, drug producers and distributors, covert agencies who use it as a source of black funding, and politicians and bankers who are hired to protect the drug revenues. Addiction to drug revenues requires that the drug war be fought so as to be lost. Failure thus becomes the criterion of success.
OPML Debugger
Masukomi
Wouldn't it be great if there was an OPML debugger?
Just How Trusty Is Truste?
Paul Boutin
Yahoo's recent announcement of sweeping changes in the way it will use customer data collected under previous policies has many calling Truste's seal as meaningless as an Andersen audit.
ID Cards for 'Trusted Travelers' Run Into Some Thorny Questions
Matthew L. Wald
The idea seemed simple: figure out who the good guys are, give them easy-to-recognize and hard-to-counterfeit ID cards and let them breeze past airport security. It wasn't.
So Much for Doctors' Bad Handwriting on Drug Prescriptions
Milt Freudenheim
An Internet-based system being introduced will allow doctors to send prescriptions directly to a pharmacy's computer from a hand-held or desk-top computer, wireless telephone or text pager.
Anti-Trustworthy computing
Paul Boutin
Microsoft's new security drive aims to appease Hollywood, comfort consumers and reinvigorate the PC. But will the price for such safety be too high?
Discussion at Slashdot.
