Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Hack a PC, Get Life in Jail. Look out, online miscreants: A House panel voted unanimously to make some forms of illegal computer intrusions a crime punishable by life in Club Fed. Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report from Washington. [Wired News] 12:36:26 PM

Greenspan cautious on US recovery. The influential chairman of the Federal Reserve says that the US economy is on the mend, but says the recovery could be slower than normal. [BBC News: world] 12:35:34 PM

O'Reilly Network: Steven Johnson on "Emergence". Q&A with Steven Johnson. Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. It's what happens when you have a system of relatively simple-minded component parts -- often there are thousands or millions of them -- and they interact in relatively simple ways. [Tomalak's Realm] 12:34:26 PM

Bitter row dominates Enron hearing. After five hours of heated discussion and conflicting evidence, a senator admits his committee is no closer to knowing what went wrong. [BBC News: world] 12:33:08 PM

Baby Bells Cry for Broadband Bill. The House of Representative is expected to vote on a bill that would remove restrictions on Baby Bells offering broadband services. Smaller companies are lobbying against it. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News] Hmm, which side do you think will win? 12:31:57 PM

Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad?. The universe of Weblogs has grown more quickly, with media analysts praising "blogs," as the sites are known, for bringing a new type of expression to the Internet. [The New York Times: Technology] Gosh, I hope this isn't a fad! I'm not a fad kinda guy, am I? 12:30:21 PM

At Hewlett, New Anger in Run-Up to the Vote. In its final weeks, the Hewlett-Packard proxy fight is becoming increasingly tough and increasingly personal. [The New York Times: Technology] See below 12:29:21 PM

Clueless about Kabul. World dispatch: Post-Taliban Afghanistan faces a daunting array of problems but there is little consensus on how to tackle them, writes Simon Tisdall. [Guardian Unlimited] 12:27:40 PM

Terror suspects 'to avoid military courts'. The Pentagon concedes that few - if any - of its 500 detained al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects are likely to face US military tribunals. [BBC News: world] But they're not backing down from their previous position. 12:26:38 PM

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Hewlett: CEOs may reap merger windfall. HP director Walter Hewlett says Carly Fiorina and Compaq's Michael Capellas stand to net more than $115 million from a proposed package linked to the companies' successful deal. [CNET News.com] Not that this has anything to do with why they won't back down. 12:23:02 PM

Willow releases flat panel iMac case [MacCentral] Or...you could buy an iBook. 12:16:36 PM

Go-ahead for UK stem cell research. Science: Controversial stem cell research on embryos is given the green light by a House of Lords committee. [Guardian Unlimited] Another positive from the EC. 12:13:31 PM

Problem Solved! my new company may be getting some work. I just fixed a client's Windows 98 machine--optimized, removed problem programs etc., and he is recommending me to his accounting firm. Just my luck, I'm going to end up working on those @!&*?! Windows machines after all! 12:09:28 PM

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