Tuesday, April 16, 2002
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Machines Are Filling In for Troops
James Dao and Andrew C. Revkin
Rapid advances in technology have brought an array of sensors, vehicles and weapons that can be operated by remote control or are totally autonomous.
R.I.P for D.I.Y Or Long Live Open Source?
Scientific American has an article on the decline of science hobbyists. It presents a long litany of woe you'd expect about the "Good Old Days" (the death of classic electronic tinkering magazines, Edmund Scientific's corporate changes, and the cancelation of SciAm's own "Amateur Scientist" column), but also discusses some of the real trends in technology that have caused these changes.
Deutsche Bahn to sue Google; Yahoo, AltaVista next up
Joris Evers
Deutsche Bahn AG, the German national railway operator, Wednesday will file suit against Google because the company's search engine provides links to a Web site that offers instructions on how to sabotage railway systems, Deutsche Bahn said Tuesday.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Liability and Security
Bruce Schneier
Security has a technological component, but businesses approach security as they do any other business risk: in terms of risk management. Organizations optimize their activities to minimize their cost/risk ratio, and understanding those motivations is key to understanding computer security today.
In defense of copyright
Damien Cave - Q&A with Morton David Goldberg
If those enactments are unconstitutional, then we're in a state of chaos as it relates to those works that are still under copyright. It's also even more disastrously a case of chaos as to what the limited scope of congressional power really is.
