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Location Tracking: They Know Where You Are
You carry a beacon twenty-four hours a day that broadcasts your location. We are being tracked wherever we go by dozens of companies, mostly unregulated. It is an unparalleled surveillance system, but it wasn't created by sinister forces in an authoritarian...
CHEAP FLAT PANEL MONITORS
Prices are still dropping all over. Costco has two 17" flat panel monitors for $599.99, the Princeton LCD17 and the Sylvania L17. That's awfully tempting if you're short on...
MSN WEB-BASED E-MAIL WOES
MSN subscribers are being forced to use web-based e-mail, instead of the standard POP3 e-mail that was previously available. It's similar to Hotmail, although the default...
NO WINDOWS XP BUSINESS SYSTEMS UNTIL OCT 25
Most of the PC manufacturers have started to take orders for Windows XP systems targeted at home users. Dell is selling home systems from its web site with Windows XP Home...
INTERNET UNDER ATTACK
There's at least one nasty new worm attacking Windows 2000 Servers today, and as near as I can tell it's causing problems all over the Internet. Details are hazy, but apparently...
CHRISTMAS IN THE PC INDUSTRY
This is a fairly silly article from The Nation written by a Linux zealot - and my, they do get overwrought about Microsoft. But I think it's generally right about the upcoming...
PRICE CUTS ON PENTIUM III SYSTEMS
If you're looking for a new computer, you should wait another two weeks and then buy a Windows XP system from Dell. But if your budget simply requires a discount, look for cheap...
DISASTER: MORE ON BIN LADEN
I mentioned a couple of background articles on Osama Bin Laden earlier this week, but here's what wasn't covered by those articles - a concise (and scary) description of what he...
NEWS JUNKIES
I find I'm spending more and more time at Slate Magazine for news and politics. A particularly valuable daily feature is called "Today's Papers," which compares the front pages...
DISASTER: RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Despite past differences, you may have the impression that America has been united by this tragedy. I offer this without further comment. According to The Washington Post and the...
DISASTER: CIVIL LIBERTIES
The nation is entering into a debate about the relationship between privacy and national security. Regardless of where you stand, encourage the debate to be fair, reasonable, and...
DISASTER: E-MAIL HOAXES
The World Trade Center disaster has already generated a tremendous amount of e-mail spam and chain letters. As this article points out, you can count on a lot of hoaxes to be...
DISASTER: COMMENTARY
A thought-provoking commentary on the disaster and the reactions to it. You may want to hit the author, Alexander Cockburn, by the end of it (complain to him, not me), but I...
DISASTER: VICTIMS
For some reason, this list of World Trade Center tenants touched me more deeply than some of the horrific photos.
DISASTER: OSAMA BIN LADEN
I found these to be helpful - a short article about Osama Bin Laden's background, and a list of questions and answers about bin Laden.
DISASTER: PHOTOS
If the news sites are slow to load, this site has all of today's AP photos collected together.