Day August 5, 2005

We posted yesterday about the new Microsoft policy of checking if your copy of Windows is legal before doing Windows updates. How does the update work, a tech friend asked, and indeed, I was wondering that too. There seemed no obvious…

Miami – This week, [Luis] Diaz, who in 1980 was convicted of seven rapes and sentenced to life in prison, walked free. Defense lawyer Barry Scheck, whose New York-based Innocence Project helped free Diaz, called the former cook’s release from…

CNN suspended contributor and conservative columnist Robert Novak on Thursday after he cursed and stormed off a live studio telecast of the cable network’s program “Inside Politics.” In suspending Novak, the network called his on-air actions “inexcusable.”

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on charges they received classified national defense information from a Pentagon analyst. AIPAC is the most powerful of the pro-Israel lobbies. This…