Month August 2004

RNC I plan to be in NYC this coming weekend for the RNC protests. The big march will be Sunday, yet with no permit granted for a rally after the march, hundreds of thousands will end the march in the middle…

IE Flaw Affects Windows XP SP2 Systems The “highly criticial” vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 on fully patched PCs running either Windows XP SP1 or the newer SP2. Precisely the kind of flaws that SP2 was supposed…

Walt Sheasby Long time California Green Party activist Walt Sheasby passed yesterday from West Nile disease, the seventh fatality from West Nile in California this year among 250 reported cases. He and I were members of the Green Party of Los…

CIA, having failed miserably once, tries again Having failed to find banned weapons in Iraq, the CIA is preparing a final report on its search that will speculate on what the deposed regime’s capabilities might have looked like years from…

File-sharing systems in legal win  Fans of file-sharing have been handed a significant victory by a US court. Federal appeal court judges have ruled that the makers of peer-to-peer software are not responsible for what users do with their network.…