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Entries from August 2001
August 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
August 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
In other EverQuest news, another youth decided to make his wishes come true without Verant’s help — by breaking into their corporate computer systems, and the home computer of Brad McQuaid, the original producer of the game.
August 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
Lots of DMCA news this week. First, Salon has the reactions of various parties to the release of the U.S. Copyright Offi ce’s release of a report to Congress on the DMCA. Disappointingly, they hewed to the industry line on this bought and paid for legislation. NPR ran a story yesterday on [...]
August 31st, 2001 · Comments Off
Verant teams with the Make A Wish foundation to make a child’s dream come true …
August 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
I am still getting lots of Code Red requests — I got 36 yesterday. Reuven Lerner has written an article explaining how to write a mod_perl program that listens for Code Red requests and automatically submits the infected site to Security Focus so that the admin can be notified. The program is called [...]
August 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
RIP, Michael Dertouzos.
August 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
The cross-site scripting vulnerability is rearing its ugly head again. Be warned.
August 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
Andrew Leonard gives Breaking Windows, David Bank’s book on Microsoft, a mixed review. The book falls prey to the problems that plague many of this “history as it happens” business books — the events in the book are still unfolding, so the analysis is discredited by the time the ink dries. Still, I [...]
August 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
Scot Hacker’s column on Microsoft’s OEM license agreements and how they prevented the BeOS from succeeding has some interesting details, as long as you can get past his laments about the undeserved death of the BeOS and his backseat driving in the DOJ’s prosecution of the antitrust case against Microsoft. You can’t really blame [...]
August 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
I’m kind of obsessive about food safety, and that obsessiveness was only magnified after I read Fast Food Nation. One of the most disturbing current agricultural practices is the use of antibiotics in animal feed. This isn’t one of those things that you can ignore if you’re a vegetarian, either (I’m not a [...]