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walktalker · 17-09-01, 02:01 PM

I'm feeling a little down today. Must be the onion I ate on dinner

Wall Street is back to business
The stock markets reopened Monday with a moment of silence and the strains of "God Bless America" as New York police officers and firefighters rang the opening bell, a sound that hasn't been heard in a week since last Tuesday's terrorist attacks. The Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq both suffered early declines, which analysts noted was normal considering historical reactions to catastrophes and given that international markets have fallen anywhere from 5 percent to 10 percent since the attack. The Dow opened lower, stumbled to the lows of the day, trading down 639.49 points to 8,966.02 at 11:00 a.m. PDT. The Nasdaq slumped 99.42 to 1,595.95 after falling more than 100 points earlier. The stock markets had their longest closure since World War I, when the New York Stock Exchange was shut down from July through mid-December of 1914.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp01

HP packing PCs with Windows XP
Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to debut new PCs loaded with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The company plans to begin shipping the systems next week. In a move following Gateway, HP also will take preorders on custom-configured systems starting Sept. 21, with anticipated delivery as early as next Monday. The company also expects to begin selling new Windows XP systems in retail stores on the same day. Microsoft has cleared PC makers to begin selling new Windows XP desktops and portables starting Sept. 24, about one month before the new operating system's Oct. 25 official launch.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Open source rocked by patent dispute
The Free Software Foundation on Friday took aim at RTLinux and FSMLabs, the company that distributes it, claiming that FSMLabs has used a patent license to violate the GNU General Public License. The issue revolves around an FSMLabs patent for real-time interrupt handling using a software emulation layer for interrupt masking, so that interrupts can be prioritized. The Free Software Foundation claims that Victor Yodaiken, the CEO at FSMLabs, has used the patent to impose restricted terms on distribution of this program. "Yodaiken has attempted to use the patent to impose restrictive terms on a GPL-covered program [Linux, the kernel used in the GNU/Linux operating system]. These terms conflict with the GNU General Public License, and imposing them is a violation of the GPL," Foundation spokesman Bradley Kuhn said.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Companies fear wave of cyberterrorism
Corporations are taking steps to protect computer networks after this week's strikes on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, fearing that the next attacks might be launched online, experts said. Although many companies were in shock, some executives did not waste any time in preparing for possible cyber attacks, which often follow closely on the heels of international conflicts, experts said Friday. In a recent example, there were numerous defacements of U.S. Web sites after the April 1 collision between a Chinese jet fighter and a U.S. surveillance plane. "A lot of people are concerned about cyberterrorism since the attacks," said Joel Pogar, director of information security at Calence Inc., a computer network consulting firm in Phoenix.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Time to crack down on Internet content?
HowStuffWorks.com is a fascinating Web site where people can learn how televisions work, or what a surprisingly small amount of gold exists in the world. The Web site also has informative sections like "How airport security works" and "How much fuel does an international plane use for a trip?" There's no reason to believe that the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Tuesday used Web sites like HowStuffWorks in their plotting. And there's no evidence that HowStuffWorks even contains the level of detail that could compromise security. But in the aftermath of Tuesday's tragedy, the presence of such information on the Internet raises an important question: Will the terrorist attacks have a chilling effect on what is available on the Internet, out of fear that terrorists could use the medium to launch future attacks?
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Bush calls for justice "at any cost"
President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" and warned Monday of American casualties in the gathering war on terrorism. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates to shore up the economy as the nation grappled with the aftermath of the worst terrorist strike in its history. "We will win the war and there will be costs," the president said in a midday visit to the wounded Pentagon, where military planners were readying call-up orders for 35,000 reservists. He said he was confident the armed forces were prepared to "defend freedom at any cost." The president spoke as Attorney General John Ashcroft called on Congress to help authorities track elusive terrorist networks such as those that carried out last week's destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers and attack on the Pentagon.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7163858.html

Islamic clerics to rule on extradition
The supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban will let a grand council of Islamic clerics decide whether to hand over Osama bin Laden to the United States, Taliban-run radio said Monday. Mullah Mohammed Omar's announcement, read by a broadcaster on Radio Shariat, came after a day of meetings with a Pakistani delegation that included the head of the country's secret service. The Pakistanis were in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar to press Omar to deliver bin Laden as a way of avoiding a U.S. retaliatory attack. Bin Laden, a millionaire Saudi exile who has lived in Afghanistan since 1996, is the prime suspect in last week's attacks in New York and Washington.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7203980.html

Ashcroft urges stricter anti-terrorism laws
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that numerous federal agents would be flying on commercial jetliners to help guard against further terrorist acts, as he pleaded for Congress to enact new anti-terrorism laws this week. Ashcroft called for expanded wiretap authority and stiffer penalties for those who harbor terrorists to further the global investigation of Tuesday's attacks. "We need these tools to fight the terrorism threat which exists in the United States and we must meet that growing threat," said Ashcroft.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7196996.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=tp_pr

Why the E-Free-Speech Debate Matters
When it comes to aiming a blow at a contentious copyright protection law, using a Russian hacker as your hammer doesn't seem like the best way to go about it. But opponents of the law that programmer Dmitry Sklyarov allegedly violated, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, see his very public arrest in July as a good opportunity to bring attention to the DMCA's deficiencies. And while the issue is extremely complex and his case seemingly cut and dry, these opponents from library, programmer, and civil-liberties groups, have good reason to keep the case in the public eye. At first glance, the facts don't seem very contentious.
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...10912_1569.htm

Amazon fixes daylong hardware glitch
Amazon.com suffered a "hardware failure" that crashed several of its departments for about 24 hours, including the area where the company was accepting donations to help victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Amazon's Auctions, Z-Shops and Marketplace areas went down about 10 p.m. PDT Saturday, said Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith, and were back up by late Sunday night. The glitch also shut down Amazon's Honor System, a payment method that allows Web sites to solicit small donations from Amazon customers. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and New York's World Trade Center, Amazon began using its Honor System to receive donations on behalf of the Red Cross.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh

WTC search yields wireless signals
Technicians have confirmed that dozens of wireless signals have originated from the wreckage of the World Trade Center since Tuesday's attack as they deploy technologies in hopes of finding survivors, officials said Saturday. "We do have 50-plus open cases where we have had signals detected at ground zero since the attack," said Kark Rauscher, who is heading up a coalition of wireless companies helping look for survivors. "We realize that we may be the only hope that some people have, so we're going to do everything we can," said Rauscher, Lucent Technologies' director of system reliability.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Standards body pushes accessibility online
Advancing its initiative to make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities, a major standards body has issued draft guidelines for designing browsers, multimedia players and other Web-based user interfaces. The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is nearing the completion of its tripartite system of recommendations as making the Web accessible becomes an increasingly urgent task for site creators, authoring tool makers, and browsing software vendors. Federal Web sites, for example, must conform to Section 508, a 1998 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act that requires technology procured by the federal government to be accessible to people with disabilities. The section also states that Web sites maintained by U.S. departments and agencies must be accessible.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

News, federal sites flooded during attacks
The most visited Web destinations during the week of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks were news and government sites, as people turned to the Internet for the latest developments. After hijacked airplanes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last Tuesday, major news Web sites were flooded with Internet traffic, leaving many extremely slow or inaccessible. Keynote Performance, which measures Internet traffic, said ABCNews.com, CNN.com and The New York Times on the Web were inaccessible between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. PDT on the day of the attacks as people attempted to view the sites.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

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17-09-01, 02:01 PM	#1
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	The Newspaper Shop -- Monday edition I'm feeling a little down today. Must be the onion I ate on dinner Wall Street is back to business The stock markets reopened Monday with a moment of silence and the strains of "God Bless America" as New York police officers and firefighters rang the opening bell, a sound that hasn't been heard in a week since last Tuesday's terrorist attacks. The Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq both suffered early declines, which analysts noted was normal considering historical reactions to catastrophes and given that international markets have fallen anywhere from 5 percent to 10 percent since the attack. The Dow opened lower, stumbled to the lows of the day, trading down 639.49 points to 8,966.02 at 11:00 a.m. PDT. The Nasdaq slumped 99.42 to 1,595.95 after falling more than 100 points earlier. The stock markets had their longest closure since World War I, when the New York Stock Exchange was shut down from July through mid-December of 1914. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp01 HP packing PCs with Windows XP Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to debut new PCs loaded with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The company plans to begin shipping the systems next week. In a move following Gateway, HP also will take preorders on custom-configured systems starting Sept. 21, with anticipated delivery as early as next Monday. The company also expects to begin selling new Windows XP systems in retail stores on the same day. Microsoft has cleared PC makers to begin selling new Windows XP desktops and portables starting Sept. 24, about one month before the new operating system's Oct. 25 official launch. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Open source rocked by patent dispute The Free Software Foundation on Friday took aim at RTLinux and FSMLabs, the company that distributes it, claiming that FSMLabs has used a patent license to violate the GNU General Public License. The issue revolves around an FSMLabs patent for real-time interrupt handling using a software emulation layer for interrupt masking, so that interrupts can be prioritized. The Free Software Foundation claims that Victor Yodaiken, the CEO at FSMLabs, has used the patent to impose restricted terms on distribution of this program. "Yodaiken has attempted to use the patent to impose restrictive terms on a GPL-covered program [Linux, the kernel used in the GNU/Linux operating system]. These terms conflict with the GNU General Public License, and imposing them is a violation of the GPL," Foundation spokesman Bradley Kuhn said. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Companies fear wave of cyberterrorism Corporations are taking steps to protect computer networks after this week's strikes on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, fearing that the next attacks might be launched online, experts said. Although many companies were in shock, some executives did not waste any time in preparing for possible cyber attacks, which often follow closely on the heels of international conflicts, experts said Friday. In a recent example, there were numerous defacements of U.S. Web sites after the April 1 collision between a Chinese jet fighter and a U.S. surveillance plane. "A lot of people are concerned about cyberterrorism since the attacks," said Joel Pogar, director of information security at Calence Inc., a computer network consulting firm in Phoenix. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Time to crack down on Internet content? HowStuffWorks.com is a fascinating Web site where people can learn how televisions work, or what a surprisingly small amount of gold exists in the world. The Web site also has informative sections like "How airport security works" and "How much fuel does an international plane use for a trip?" There's no reason to believe that the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Tuesday used Web sites like HowStuffWorks in their plotting. And there's no evidence that HowStuffWorks even contains the level of detail that could compromise security. But in the aftermath of Tuesday's tragedy, the presence of such information on the Internet raises an important question: Will the terrorist attacks have a chilling effect on what is available on the Internet, out of fear that terrorists could use the medium to launch future attacks? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Bush calls for justice "at any cost" President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" and warned Monday of American casualties in the gathering war on terrorism. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates to shore up the economy as the nation grappled with the aftermath of the worst terrorist strike in its history. "We will win the war and there will be costs," the president said in a midday visit to the wounded Pentagon, where military planners were readying call-up orders for 35,000 reservists. He said he was confident the armed forces were prepared to "defend freedom at any cost." The president spoke as Attorney General John Ashcroft called on Congress to help authorities track elusive terrorist networks such as those that carried out last week's destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers and attack on the Pentagon. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7163858.html Islamic clerics to rule on extradition The supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban will let a grand council of Islamic clerics decide whether to hand over Osama bin Laden to the United States, Taliban-run radio said Monday. Mullah Mohammed Omar's announcement, read by a broadcaster on Radio Shariat, came after a day of meetings with a Pakistani delegation that included the head of the country's secret service. The Pakistanis were in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar to press Omar to deliver bin Laden as a way of avoiding a U.S. retaliatory attack. Bin Laden, a millionaire Saudi exile who has lived in Afghanistan since 1996, is the prime suspect in last week's attacks in New York and Washington. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7203980.html Ashcroft urges stricter anti-terrorism laws Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that numerous federal agents would be flying on commercial jetliners to help guard against further terrorist acts, as he pleaded for Congress to enact new anti-terrorism laws this week. Ashcroft called for expanded wiretap authority and stiffer penalties for those who harbor terrorists to further the global investigation of Tuesday's attacks. "We need these tools to fight the terrorism threat which exists in the United States and we must meet that growing threat," said Ashcroft. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7196996.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=tp_pr Why the E-Free-Speech Debate Matters When it comes to aiming a blow at a contentious copyright protection law, using a Russian hacker as your hammer doesn't seem like the best way to go about it. But opponents of the law that programmer Dmitry Sklyarov allegedly violated, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, see his very public arrest in July as a good opportunity to bring attention to the DMCA's deficiencies. And while the issue is extremely complex and his case seemingly cut and dry, these opponents from library, programmer, and civil-liberties groups, have good reason to keep the case in the public eye. At first glance, the facts don't seem very contentious. http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...10912_1569.htm Amazon fixes daylong hardware glitch Amazon.com suffered a "hardware failure" that crashed several of its departments for about 24 hours, including the area where the company was accepting donations to help victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Amazon's Auctions, Z-Shops and Marketplace areas went down about 10 p.m. PDT Saturday, said Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith, and were back up by late Sunday night. The glitch also shut down Amazon's Honor System, a payment method that allows Web sites to solicit small donations from Amazon customers. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and New York's World Trade Center, Amazon began using its Honor System to receive donations on behalf of the Red Cross. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh WTC search yields wireless signals Technicians have confirmed that dozens of wireless signals have originated from the wreckage of the World Trade Center since Tuesday's attack as they deploy technologies in hopes of finding survivors, officials said Saturday. "We do have 50-plus open cases where we have had signals detected at ground zero since the attack," said Kark Rauscher, who is heading up a coalition of wireless companies helping look for survivors. "We realize that we may be the only hope that some people have, so we're going to do everything we can," said Rauscher, Lucent Technologies' director of system reliability. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_mh Standards body pushes accessibility online Advancing its initiative to make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities, a major standards body has issued draft guidelines for designing browsers, multimedia players and other Web-based user interfaces. The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is nearing the completion of its tripartite system of recommendations as making the Web accessible becomes an increasingly urgent task for site creators, authoring tool makers, and browsing software vendors. Federal Web sites, for example, must conform to Section 508, a 1998 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act that requires technology procured by the federal government to be accessible to people with disabilities. The section also states that Web sites maintained by U.S. departments and agencies must be accessible. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh News, federal sites flooded during attacks The most visited Web destinations during the week of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks were news and government sites, as people turned to the Internet for the latest developments. After hijacked airplanes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last Tuesday, major news Web sites were flooded with Internet traffic, leaving many extremely slow or inaccessible. Keynote Performance, which measures Internet traffic, said ABCNews.com, CNN.com and The New York Times on the Web were inaccessible between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. PDT on the day of the attacks as people attempted to view the sites. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies