I read on the Interesting People list that David McOwen, the guy from Georgia who was brought up on criminal charges for running a Distributed.net client, has been indicted. The case is utter and complete insanity … the district attorney who agreed to take it should be disbarred.
Entries from November 2001
November 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Somebody has gotten KDE 2.2.1 running under Windows using Cygwin. I’m not sure I understand why someone would do that, other than for the “because it’s there” factor.
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
How do you turn a terrorist into a regular old citizen? The PLO did it by getting the terrorists to start families. The English did it by showing them what they were missing out on by spending their lives in prison. Bruce Hoffman’s Atlantic article recounts these successful programs for reforming terrorists (link via [...]
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
I successfully followed up on this item from last year by not travelling for Thanksgiving this year.
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
McAfee denies working with the government to prevent their products from detecting FBI-created trojan horses like Magic Lantern.
Laili Helms
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Today, the New York Times has a story on Laili Helms, the self-appointed US envoy to the Taliban. She’s been working the United States on behalf of the Taliban for years, and is surprised to find that she has few friends now. (I first discovered her back in September when I saw a [...]
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Yesterday I linked to an Economist article by Bjorn Lomborg in which he debunks (or, I should say, attempts to debunk) many commonly held beliefs among environmentalists. In it he challenged the ideas that the world faces problems of overpopulation, pollution, global warming, and mass extinction. That’s actually an oversimplification of his argument, but [...]
November 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Lawrence Kaplan asks why the State Department won’t give the Northern Alliance its due. Contrary to widely held fears that the US would ignore the past crimes of the Northern Alliance, we’ve in fact been obsessed with them since the war in Afghanistan began. While I have utmost respect for organizations like [...]
November 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Spotted at Kausfiles: a pointer to this Economist correction.
November 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Meet Khalid Abu-al-Dahab, the Silicon Valley’s former Al Qaeda operative. Currently doing a 15 year hitch for terrorism in Egypt, Dahad was charged with recruiting Muslims with US passports into Al Qaeda, and also helped to smuggle Ayman al-Zawahiri, the former head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, into the United States for a fund raising [...]