Hacker hits university employee records server (MacCentral). MacCentral - About 1,600 current and former employees of the University of Georgia are being notified that their Social Security numbers, stored on a campus server, may have been seen by a hacker operating from a foreign country. In an announcement yesterday, the Athens-based school said the security breach was discovered Sept. 19 by university IT staffers and that the intrusion was stopped. No credit card information was accessed during the incident, the university said. [Yahoo! News: Technology News]
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Comment: John Harris asks why Labour has become so scared of debate.
AP - A white farmer convicted in the murder of one of his former black workers who was thrown into a lion enclosure was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
Judith Miller agreed to testify in the C.I.A. leak case after she obtained a waiver offered by her source, I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.
A post over on Search Engine Watch's forums is quite fun (and makes you realize just how bogus counts are on search engines): Google has indexed itself.
David has a point. As a US taxpayer, I wonder why my government is doing deals to help one technology company and not all technology companies. Who bribed who to make that happen. Further, I don't understand why Google's search engine doesn't understand RSS. Shouldn't they take care of that before they worry about space travel, if that's what they're doing? And why don't their competitors' search engines take advantage of the billions of feeds out there? Come on MSN, Yahoo, Jeeves, let's go, there's some butt to kick here. And they say this industry is driven by innovation. Feh. It's driven by press releases. [Scripting News]
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David Mercer, via email: "I think that the Google/NASA deal stinks to high heaven of all sorts of unfair advantage to Google. Everything NASA does should, as all non-classified things are in Federal Agencies, be public domain. Sounds like Google are trying to get a super-cozy sweetheart deal on collaborations that sound to me a lot like they will help their core businesses, which have nothing whatsoever to do with NASA or their mission. Which is unlike, say, Boeing working with NASA, as things Boeing develops have to do with what NASA is up to, not merely in the other direction." [Scripting News]
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Boeing Workers OK Contract, End Strike . SEATTLE -- Less than a month after they hit the picket lines, Machinists at Boeing Co. approved a new contract and ended a strike that shut down the company's commercial airplane assembly plants. By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE. [washingtonpost.com - Business]
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Katrina, High Energy Prices Hit Pocketbooks . WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Katrina caused $100 billion in uninsured losses in August while consumer spending plunged by the largest amount since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, the government reported Friday. By MARTIN CRUTSINGER. [washingtonpost.com - Business]
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David Mercer, via email: "I think that the Google/NASA deal stinks to high heaven of all sorts of unfair advantage to Google. Everything NASA does should, as all non-classified things are in Federal Agencies, be public domain. Sounds like Google are trying to get a super-cozy sweetheart deal on collaborations that sound to me a lot like they will help their core businesses, which have nothing whatsoever to do with NASA or their mission. Which is unlike, say, Boeing working with NASA, as things Boeing develops have to do with what NASA is up to, not merely in the other direction." [
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