Universal Rule

Book Reviews

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Don't expect Microsoft to protect your network -- Comment()
Biggest beta test--Windows: "We've all been part of the biggest beta test the world has ever known--Windows. Microsoft will not solve all of the security problems, no matter what the richest man in the world says."

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The Little Website that Couldn't: "There once was a boy who for no apparent reason went around knifing his classmates. [...] [The doctors] said that the boy was only pretending to be cured. [...] According to the canon of academic orthodoxy, Wikipedia has no right to be as well written, professional, and accurate as it is." [kuro5hin.org]

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Distorting what was said: "It fell, it seems, to David Brooks to start the effort to distort what John Kerry said in his speech yesterday and pull the debate back from any discussion of what is actually going on in Iraq."[Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall]

Fighting about Gaussian - banning, hypocrisy, and cowardice -- Comment()
There is great controversy about the Gaussian software used by computational chemists. The site Banned By Gaussian wants "to shed light on some practices of Gaussian, Inc. that can undermine basic scientific ideals." On the other hand, the Gaussian company has responded with claims of hypocrisy and cowardice: "The web site is a collection of half-truths and outright misstatements. To address every misrepresentation would produce a very long document, so I will limit myself to addressing some of the more outrageous statements and implications."