June 2, 2004

News.com reports that the recording industry is currently testing technology that would limit the number of times that a given CD (or copies of that CD) could be burned. The idea is to let consumers 'make a limited number of copies of their music -- enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example -- without allowing for uncontrolled duplication.' Currently, Macrovision and SunnComm International are developing competing versions of such 'secure burning' technology, with BMG Music Group already testing the latter company's software." [Slashdot] 11:32:59 PM

McCaw Places New Bet On Faster, Cheaper Access Washington Post - Craig O. McCaw yesterday told an audience of wireless experts that after years of investing in cellular, satellite and local phone upstarts, he has come up with a new strategy for delivering high-speed wireless Internet access at a price lower than that charged by cellular companies. 11:07:04 PM

The english language Saudi Arab news asks: "Does that mean that Al-Qaeda has expanded its operation and intends to attack everyone, anywhere and everywhere? " Well, Duh! 10:20:57 AM

Benon V. Sevan, the former executive director of the United Nations' Office of Iraq Programs oil-for-food program says the Security Council prevented him from effectively administering the multibillion-dollar-a-year program that is now the focus of several inquiries into allegations of a 10 billion dollar corruption scandal. 10:05:46 AM

Glen at Instapundit reports: U.N. ambulances used by terrorists. "According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies, senior UNRWA employee Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attalah confessed to using his official U.N. vehicle to bypass security and smuggle arms, explosives and terrorists to and from attacks. . . . Moreover, according to Rep. Smith, a UNRWA school hosted a Hamas rally by a key Hamas leader in July 2001 and another UNRWA employee praised homicide bombers, proclaiming: 'The road to Palestine passes through the blood of the fallen, and these fallen have written history with parts of their flesh and their bodies.'" There's a link to the video. Are we still waiting for the UN Security Council condemnation?   UN vehicles aren't the only ones being used by terrorists. An intensive-care ambulance carrying the acronym of the Palestine Red Crescent Society was used to deliver an explosive belt found underneath a stretcher on which a sick child was lying in spring 2002. 9:33:20 AM