Windows XP is set to go gold on Friday in a big, stupid PR event. Windows XP definitely seems ready for prime time to me. The buggiest thing in RC1, from my experience, is Internet Explorer 6.
Jesse Helms may be headed out to pasture, but unfortunately there are always more loathesome bigots around to pick up where he left off.
Someone must have written a tool that allows you to launch a Denial of Service attack on Windows 2000 machines via the IR port, because Microsoft has released a patch that fixes the problem.
The National Security Archive has published documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing the degree of the United States’ foreknowledge of the Rwandan genocide, and the options that were considered before deciding to do nothing. The price of our complacency is, of course, well known: 800,000 people brutally murdered.