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walktalker · 13-09-01, 05:49 PM

IBM empties Malaysia office in bomb scare
At least 600 employees of IBM Malaysia were asked to vacate their offices here early Wednesday morning after a bomb threat. Several bomb squads started combing the area shortly after employees were notified about the threat around 11:45 a.m. local time, according to an IBM Malaysia representative. Other tenants of IBM's 23-story building include IT companies such as VADS, Silver Lake and Global Impact. "The building is still off-limits now," the representative said, adding that the total number of workers affected could not yet be determined.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=ch_mh

Could E911 have helped in disaster?
Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States and a new federal report are generating fresh debate about a system used to pinpoint a cell phone user's location that wireless carriers are supposed to begin using Oct. 1. The system, called Enhanced 911, or E911, was proposed in 1996. In 1998, carriers were supposed to have the first phase in place, which would help police learn a cell phone caller's phone number and the nearest cell site. That was for an area anywhere within 1 to 5 miles. But the next phase would locate a cell phone caller within 100 yards. The tragedy at the World Trade Center in New York is supplying anecdotal evidence of the need for the system. Many survivors, some buried in the rubble, have used cell phones to call for help.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_pr

U.S. skies reopen
Airlines returned to the nation's skies with limited service Thursday as airports opened their doors to sparse, anxious crowds amid the tightest security since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. At Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Sam Hemphill was among a dozen people lined up at a TWA ticket counter. He said he was nervous about flying but was determined to get home to Jacksonville, Fla. "Whatever happens, happens," Hemphill said. "You have to keep going. If you stop living life, they've won." The U.S. aviation system was shut down Tuesday after hijacked planes were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

The day the Internet grew up
During Tuesday's terrorist attack on the United States, the Internet demonstrated that it is capable of fulfilling its function as a means of communication during a crisis. Every business should consider the Internet an integral component of its communications infrastructure. During an emergency, a business will employ every communications path available. Although parts of the Internet use telecommunication facilities, the manner in which messages are routed makes the Internet less dependent on a single enterprise, carrier or geographic location.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=ch_mh

Sonicblue releases CD players for MP3s
Sonicblue on Wednesday released two RioVolt players for CDs that store digital-audio files. The $179 RioVolt SP250 comes with an FM tuner, rechargeable batteries and enough memory to store up to eight minutes of audio to protect against skipping. The $99 RioVolt SP90 has up to 120 seconds of audio protection and runs on two AA batteries. They both play CDs burned with up to 350 digital-audio files, or 20 hours' worth of material. The new devices come after more layoffs at the company. On Monday, Sonicblue laid off 90 of its 540 employees, or about 17 percent of its staff. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company cut about 500 jobs earlier this year.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Videophones give reporters an edge
From amid the rubble in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman used a videophone to relay exclusive interviews of emergency staffers searching for survivors of the previous day's carnage. And only hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, CNN also used a videophone to transmit an interview with the Taliban's leaders in Afghanistan as they sought to allay suspicions that Saudi exile Osama bin Laden was involved in the unprecedented terrorist attacks. These were just two marks of a crisis brought viscerally close to home, boosted by the media's use of satellite communications technology that continues to stretch and speed reporters' reach. For the past day, much of the world has watched as reporters have been able to send back video reports from places where satellite camera trucks and ordinary camera crews couldn't go.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws
The encryption wars have begun. For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police wiretaps and U.S. intelligence agencies. Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil than any event since the Civil War, appears to have started that process. Some politicians and defense hawks are warning that extremists such as Osama bin Laden, who U.S. officials say is a crypto-aficionado and the top suspect in Tuesday's attacks, enjoy unfettered access to privacy-protecting software and hardware that render their communications unintelligible to eavesdroppers.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html

Making It Harder for Hijackers
As Americans began to question the safety of air travel in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks, several aviation safety and security experts on Wednesday echoed a grim reality: No new technology or security measures can make flying infallible. There are many technologies on the market that can bolster flight security, including an increased use of biometric devices, advanced scanning equipment and profiling databases. But it's unclear, experts said, how much safer these systems would make the skies, and they would have done little in preventing the four hijackings that led to Tuesday's carnage.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,46782,00.html

Web Vents Open on U.S. Muslims
As the volume of anti-Arab hate speech on the Internet cranked to full blast Wednesday, U.S. Muslims reported rampant harassment on- and offline. Although the U.S. government has yet to finger a perpetrator in Tuesday's attack, several lines of investigation point to the involvement of an Arab country. Now America's estimated 7 million Muslims are bracing for the backlash. "We've got reports from all over the country," said Joshua Salaam, the Civil Rights coordinator for the Council on American Islamic Relations, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting a positive image of Muslims in America. "People are reporting stuff to us from chat rooms that is absolutely hateful. Our own website has been bombarded with death threats."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46778,00.html

Civil Liberty the Next Casualty?
In the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, scholars fear that Americans will sacrifice civil liberties that could be difficult to win back. Many civil liberties watchdogs say freedom in the United States have been slowly eroding for the past several decades. But they say Tuesday's attacks will redouble efforts by the government to infringe on civil freedoms, and now people won't resist. Internet service providers have reported that they are working with the FBI to monitor traffic, something they were reluctant to do before.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46784,00.html

Eerie Image Pulled From CD
The cover for the upcoming CD from a popular hip-hop group portrays an eerily familiar sight. Against a backdrop of morning skies, the towers of the World Trade Center stand engulfed in flame from the impact of twin explosions. Clouds of smoke spew from the upper stories, all but obscuring the tip of what was once the epicenter of the New York City skyline. If it weren't for the super-imposed images of the Oakland, California, hip-hop duo known as The Coup, the scene could pass for a remarkably precise replica of the horrific tragedy that befell New York City on Tuesday morning.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46771,00.html

New Idea for Targeted TV Ads
If General Motors could zap ads directly to TV sets, it would undoubtedly promote different cars to different people: a minivan to parents with two kids, a convertible for the recent college graduate, an economy model for a low-income family. New set-top boxes being developed by Canal Plus and Scientific Atlanta will allow advertisers to do that -- while giving consumers a measure of privacy they don't normally get from interactive television services. The key is set-top software developed by Fremont, California's Metabyte Networks that filters ads, e-coupons and video-on-demand based on a household's demographics and viewing preferences. The information can then be stored on a TiVo or other personal video recording device for viewing at the user's pleasure.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,46765,00.html

They can't see why they are hated
Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become painfully clear that most Americans simply don't get it. From the president to passersby on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy, which must be answered with overwhelming force - just as soon as someone can construct a credible account of who was actually responsible. Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty. But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, sacrificing their own lives in the process - or why the United States is hated with such bitterness, not only in Arab and Muslim countries, but across the developing world - seems almost entirely absent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...551036,00.html

Paper Documents Destroyed but Electronic Records Survive
The destroyed World Trade Center was the repository of countless reams of financial information on companies and individuals. But disaster-recovery experts said Tuesday that most of the largest financial services firms routinely back up data and store it in remote locations, ensuring that the bulk survived the attack. Some companies have contracts for information to be duplicated instantaneously, as soon as it is entered on a broker's or banker's personal computer.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la...s%2Dtechnology

How hard is it to fly an airliner?
"You haven't got to be superhuman. You don't need a brilliant academic mind," says John O'Hara, Chief Flying Instructor at the BBC staff club's flying section. Learning basic flying skills in a light aircraft is something many people pick up very quickly, he says. "What you need is someone that is sensible, alert, has good eye-hand coordination and motivation." "If you can drive a car, then with sufficient training, you can do it," he told BBC News Online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1542204.stm

More news later on

13-09-01, 05:49 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	IBM empties Malaysia office in bomb scare At least 600 employees of IBM Malaysia were asked to vacate their offices here early Wednesday morning after a bomb threat. Several bomb squads started combing the area shortly after employees were notified about the threat around 11:45 a.m. local time, according to an IBM Malaysia representative. Other tenants of IBM's 23-story building include IT companies such as VADS, Silver Lake and Global Impact. "The building is still off-limits now," the representative said, adding that the total number of workers affected could not yet be determined. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=ch_mh Could E911 have helped in disaster? Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States and a new federal report are generating fresh debate about a system used to pinpoint a cell phone user's location that wireless carriers are supposed to begin using Oct. 1. The system, called Enhanced 911, or E911, was proposed in 1996. In 1998, carriers were supposed to have the first phase in place, which would help police learn a cell phone caller's phone number and the nearest cell site. That was for an area anywhere within 1 to 5 miles. But the next phase would locate a cell phone caller within 100 yards. The tragedy at the World Trade Center in New York is supplying anecdotal evidence of the need for the system. Many survivors, some buried in the rubble, have used cell phones to call for help. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_pr U.S. skies reopen Airlines returned to the nation's skies with limited service Thursday as airports opened their doors to sparse, anxious crowds amid the tightest security since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. At Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Sam Hemphill was among a dozen people lined up at a TWA ticket counter. He said he was nervous about flying but was determined to get home to Jacksonville, Fla. "Whatever happens, happens," Hemphill said. "You have to keep going. If you stop living life, they've won." The U.S. aviation system was shut down Tuesday after hijacked planes were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed in a Pennsylvania field. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh The day the Internet grew up During Tuesday's terrorist attack on the United States, the Internet demonstrated that it is capable of fulfilling its function as a means of communication during a crisis. Every business should consider the Internet an integral component of its communications infrastructure. During an emergency, a business will employ every communications path available. Although parts of the Internet use telecommunication facilities, the manner in which messages are routed makes the Internet less dependent on a single enterprise, carrier or geographic location. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=ch_mh Sonicblue releases CD players for MP3s Sonicblue on Wednesday released two RioVolt players for CDs that store digital-audio files. The $179 RioVolt SP250 comes with an FM tuner, rechargeable batteries and enough memory to store up to eight minutes of audio to protect against skipping. The $99 RioVolt SP90 has up to 120 seconds of audio protection and runs on two AA batteries. They both play CDs burned with up to 350 digital-audio files, or 20 hours' worth of material. The new devices come after more layoffs at the company. On Monday, Sonicblue laid off 90 of its 540 employees, or about 17 percent of its staff. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company cut about 500 jobs earlier this year. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh Videophones give reporters an edge From amid the rubble in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman used a videophone to relay exclusive interviews of emergency staffers searching for survivors of the previous day's carnage. And only hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, CNN also used a videophone to transmit an interview with the Taliban's leaders in Afghanistan as they sought to allay suspicions that Saudi exile Osama bin Laden was involved in the unprecedented terrorist attacks. These were just two marks of a crisis brought viscerally close to home, boosted by the media's use of satellite communications technology that continues to stretch and speed reporters' reach. For the past day, much of the world has watched as reporters have been able to send back video reports from places where satellite camera trucks and ordinary camera crews couldn't go. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws The encryption wars have begun. For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police wiretaps and U.S. intelligence agencies. Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil than any event since the Civil War, appears to have started that process. Some politicians and defense hawks are warning that extremists such as Osama bin Laden, who U.S. officials say is a crypto-aficionado and the top suspect in Tuesday's attacks, enjoy unfettered access to privacy-protecting software and hardware that render their communications unintelligible to eavesdroppers. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html Making It Harder for Hijackers As Americans began to question the safety of air travel in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks, several aviation safety and security experts on Wednesday echoed a grim reality: No new technology or security measures can make flying infallible. There are many technologies on the market that can bolster flight security, including an increased use of biometric devices, advanced scanning equipment and profiling databases. But it's unclear, experts said, how much safer these systems would make the skies, and they would have done little in preventing the four hijackings that led to Tuesday's carnage. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,46782,00.html Web Vents Open on U.S. Muslims As the volume of anti-Arab hate speech on the Internet cranked to full blast Wednesday, U.S. Muslims reported rampant harassment on- and offline. Although the U.S. government has yet to finger a perpetrator in Tuesday's attack, several lines of investigation point to the involvement of an Arab country. Now America's estimated 7 million Muslims are bracing for the backlash. "We've got reports from all over the country," said Joshua Salaam, the Civil Rights coordinator for the Council on American Islamic Relations, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting a positive image of Muslims in America. "People are reporting stuff to us from chat rooms that is absolutely hateful. Our own website has been bombarded with death threats." http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46778,00.html Civil Liberty the Next Casualty? In the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, scholars fear that Americans will sacrifice civil liberties that could be difficult to win back. Many civil liberties watchdogs say freedom in the United States have been slowly eroding for the past several decades. But they say Tuesday's attacks will redouble efforts by the government to infringe on civil freedoms, and now people won't resist. Internet service providers have reported that they are working with the FBI to monitor traffic, something they were reluctant to do before. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46784,00.html Eerie Image Pulled From CD The cover for the upcoming CD from a popular hip-hop group portrays an eerily familiar sight. Against a backdrop of morning skies, the towers of the World Trade Center stand engulfed in flame from the impact of twin explosions. Clouds of smoke spew from the upper stories, all but obscuring the tip of what was once the epicenter of the New York City skyline. If it weren't for the super-imposed images of the Oakland, California, hip-hop duo known as The Coup, the scene could pass for a remarkably precise replica of the horrific tragedy that befell New York City on Tuesday morning. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46771,00.html New Idea for Targeted TV Ads If General Motors could zap ads directly to TV sets, it would undoubtedly promote different cars to different people: a minivan to parents with two kids, a convertible for the recent college graduate, an economy model for a low-income family. New set-top boxes being developed by Canal Plus and Scientific Atlanta will allow advertisers to do that -- while giving consumers a measure of privacy they don't normally get from interactive television services. The key is set-top software developed by Fremont, California's Metabyte Networks that filters ads, e-coupons and video-on-demand based on a household's demographics and viewing preferences. The information can then be stored on a TiVo or other personal video recording device for viewing at the user's pleasure. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,46765,00.html They can't see why they are hated Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become painfully clear that most Americans simply don't get it. From the president to passersby on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy, which must be answered with overwhelming force - just as soon as someone can construct a credible account of who was actually responsible. Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty. But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, sacrificing their own lives in the process - or why the United States is hated with such bitterness, not only in Arab and Muslim countries, but across the developing world - seems almost entirely absent. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...551036,00.html Paper Documents Destroyed but Electronic Records Survive The destroyed World Trade Center was the repository of countless reams of financial information on companies and individuals. But disaster-recovery experts said Tuesday that most of the largest financial services firms routinely back up data and store it in remote locations, ensuring that the bulk survived the attack. Some companies have contracts for information to be duplicated instantaneously, as soon as it is entered on a broker's or banker's personal computer. http://www.latimes.com/technology/la...s%2Dtechnology How hard is it to fly an airliner? "You haven't got to be superhuman. You don't need a brilliant academic mind," says John O'Hara, Chief Flying Instructor at the BBC staff club's flying section. Learning basic flying skills in a light aircraft is something many people pick up very quickly, he says. "What you need is someone that is sensible, alert, has good eye-hand coordination and motivation." "If you can drive a car, then with sufficient training, you can do it," he told BBC News Online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1542204.stm More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies