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The United States warned Thursday it would seek to use its extradition treaty with Japan to secure legal custody of Jenkins if and when he flew to Tokyo for medical treatment.

From this:
Charles Jenkins to be extradited

This browser warning page thoroughly trashes MSIE, but every phrase is linked to a news article that uses the exact same verbiage in order to demonstrate that it isn't just anti MS FUD - It's the honest truth. It's designed and maintained for webmasters to deliver to the IE-using visitors to their webpages. You can read the source code for some more information about that. In case you're curious, here's a paste of the text and links that it has - This should prove quite effective with anyone you're trying to convince to stop using IE:

Your web browser - a version of Microsoft Internet Explorer - may not function properly on this website, and could have a large number of problems that allow hackers to hijack it with viruses. These viruses could be used by criminals to secretly take over your computer, download child-pornography, or to commit acts of terrorism and fraud. You may automatically update it now with Microsoft's available patches, however, there is a possibility that a necessary patch will not be available due to Microsoft's somewhat sluggish development schedule.

The US Department of Homeland Security strongly suggests that you stop using Internet Explorer immediately.

There are several standards-compliant web browsers that you may use instead of Internet Explorer. Please install one of them as a replacement.

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If you suspect that your computer is already being used for criminal activity, it is critical that you seek help from a computer professional in your local area. You may also try one of the free web-based virus scanners that are available.

When on earth is tax money spent on outsourcing? :)
How about the new, who has their headquarters in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes, are notorious proponents of offshoring, but don't have any qualms about sticking their hands into the pockets of US taxpayers?

You wouldn't happen to be refering to this , would you?

This just in: Israel helicopter gunship kills 10 Palenstinians at demonstration.

Ugh!!! Sorry

here you go - my bad :)

~m

This is probably the US part of the big raid in Europe where some Fairlight sites went down.. rumors have said that sites in both .nl och .us got busted.

I seem to recall a similar debate over the U.S.'s attempt to push the use of CDMA at the expense of of GSM in Iraq.

Perhaps, but that was then (when we all imagined a groovy peaceful Iraq starting a domino effect of democratisation across the Arab world), And this is now, when I can't see the mobile phone market in Iraq being very relevant for the next few years.

This is more akin to how the US has berated china over keeping its currency artifically low against the Dollar, while doing the same thing to Europe.

Or the Way the US has slammed the EU's fine against Microsoft as the 'opening shot of a trade war', While ignoring its own illegal subsidies and tariffs which have been in place for years.

The saying was, 'war is an extension of politics by other means', Today it has an addition of... " And, Politics is an extension of economics by other means".

Shocking! Volvo Trucks inaugurates first Chinese plant. Smells like a beloved "Social Democracy" citizen's net loss.

"Microsoft needs to keep Sun alive, kill him, Steve needs to keep Scott alive, twist his head off, mustn't kill Scott, kill him kill him, no no Steve must be nice..." Steve Ballmer was heard to say throughout the press conference.

"The hypersonic aircraft, a cross between a jet and a rocket, was dropped from the wing of a modified B-52 bomber, boosted by an auxiliary rocket to an altitude of nearly 100,000 feet (30,000 meters) and flew on its own power for 10 seconds, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

"After the 10-second test firing, the X-43A glided through the atmosphere conducting a series of aerodynamic maneuvers for about six minutes before plunging into the Pacific Ocean, as planned."

Channel News Asia: Experimental hypersonic aircraft breaks world speed record, flies at Mach 7

"A minute before 2 p.m., the craft was dropped from 40,000 feet. A few seconds later, the rocket flared, boosting the jet skyward on a streak of flame and light. At about 100,000 feet, the rocket was dropped away.

"The scramjet then took over, using up about two pounds of gaseous hydrogen fuel before it glided and then plunged into the Pacific Ocean about 400 miles off the California coast."

Mercury News: Preliminary data shows NASA jet streaked 5,000 mph in test flight

As much as I d onot think that ours is the government that it should be (see U.S. Constitution), I still think it beats any other form out there today.

Dutch parliament approves expulsion of thousands of asylum seekers


THE HAGUE : The Dutch parliament approved a controversial bill calling for the forcible expulsion of 26,000 asylum seekers, many of whom have lived in the country for years, despite strong opposition from the public and human rights groups.

Lawmakers adopted only minor amendments to the bill presented by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk.

Under the legislation, the 26,000 asylum seekers will be forced to return to their home countries within the next three years, even if they have been living in the Netherlands for some considerable time.

But about 2,300 people whose cases have been judged to be especially serious will be allowed to stay and will be granted residency papers.

The new law had been bitterly opposed by large sections of the Dutch population and by human rights groups. It has also caused despair among asylum seekers, one of whom, an Iranian, has sewn up his eyes and mouth in protest.

The new law will cover all asylum seekers who arrived in the country before April 1, 2001, when refugees from Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan topped the list of nationalities applying for asylum.

Many of those who will now see their applications turned down are likely to come from those countries and several African countries, a spokesman for the Dutch ministry of justice said.

The new law has deeply divided Dutch society, which has a reputation for its easy-going attitude, and has set the government and opposition at loggerheads in a political system more usually known for consensus.

Last week, several demonstrations were held across the country to press for a more generous package but to no avail.

The law was approved after strong criticism of the length of time it was taking the government to process asylum demands under the previous immigration legislation, which left candidates uncertain about their future for several years. When they were finally told to leave, they had virtually settled in the country.

Two thirds of the population are in favour of a wider amnesty for asylum seekers who have been living in the country for more than five years, according to an opinion poll by the NIPO Institute released on Saturday.

But after a heated parliamentary debate last week, Verdonk would only promise to watch out for cases of "harrowing circumstances", where she has discretion to grant an amnesty.

International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed the new law as a "deportation law violating international standards".

HRW said many of the asylum seekers -- Somalis, Afghans and Chechens -- would be sent back to places that were not safe, which was illegal.

- AFP

I can't get to the story at the moment but this was already reported here on the 29th with regards to F-Secure's work. In the linked story it says that the message is "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry". This looks to me like the author is addressing the message to Andy, not signing the message as Andy.

A report covering F-Secure's work on the virus reveals this interesting comment imbedded in the virus:

Buried in its programming code -- and only readable after it has been decrypted -- was also the message "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry" from the creator

My tinfoil hat says it's some poor guy at SCO!

"As technology advances, fitting more and more into smaller and smaller spaces... Why do cars keep getting bigger and bigger?"

Customers are getting fatter.

This suggestion is so creative that I start wondering what's wrong with a country like Taiwan (ROC) that allows its people to protest against its own name, and what's right about a country like China (PRC) that made its people do something like this

That we may never get rid of this worm completely, at least not for a long time...

Patches for the hole, except for Windows NT 4.0, which the company no longer supports, were put online by Microsoft.

Source: Channel NewsAsia

There are A LOT of companies still running NT on both servers and workstations, last time I was in a major server room at Big Blue, well I won't name clients, but several large name clients have NT based server solutions. Yes I know blocking certain ports will stop it from getting in, but there is still potential for many NT systems not to have those ports blocked now, or in the future.

You do know that Nintendo had TEN TIMES the profit of Sony's last quarter, right?

Nintendo profits of $95 million

Sony's profits of $9.4 million

Nintendo is doing fine.

Questions Swirl Around WMD Charges

US said to twist its data on Iraq

Some analysts doubt US theory of Iraqi germ trailers: NYT

Intelligence Historian Says CIA 'Buckled' on Iraq

Ex-official: Bush administration distorted intel on Iraq arms

I don't recall any Islamic "terrorist" ever attacking Germany.

Hijacking is an interesting indicator. Hijackers prefer American craft, because if they pick on (say) Israeli vehicles, they're dead - guaranteed.

BTW - terrorist attacks - Germany cops one and another, and a German citizen is killed by hijackers, Germany fights hijackers and so on. They get their share, you just don't hear about it because you're not German.

Three days after Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld charged night-vision goggles had been supplied by Syria to Iraq, a top US commander said Monday he was unaware of any Iraqi battlefield use of such devices. "What I know is that we have not to my knowledge seen any at this point," Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told a briefing at the Central Command's forward headquarters in Qatar in reply to a question. "I'm just not aware of any that have been encountered."

1) How the hell did the flights get DOWN once the radar died? It said they disappeared from radar, and you don't keep radar on the planes that are on the ground, so....?

Big airports DO have ground radar... they like to keep track of everything either in the air or on the ground. I would imagine they use different displays for each radar given the differences of scale, but the data is probably merged. A plane attempted to take off in Taiwan in a storm in low visibility, ended up on the wrong runway and people died. The lack of ASDA radar meant the tower couldn't track their ground path and spot the pilot error.

2) Whose bright idea was it to do a "systems upgrade" while there were large, flying metal objects carrying many people still in the air?!?! Wouldn't you do a test run, install it on a backup system, or one that's not systems-critical?

I would expect a control tower's computer systems to have the tightest change control procedures possible. Unforeseen situations can occur no matter how careful you are. What matters is what procedures you have in place to deal with it when everything goes pear-shaped. Given no planes fall-down-go-boom I think their procedures worked out quite nicely. There's nothing in the article to say the "glitch" occurred at the time of upgrade or whether the upgrade was done earlier and the computer waited until 7am to stick it's finger in it's ear....

A Control Tower's ability to identify planes isn't magically connected to their ability to fly... and I think they're fairly good at teaching pilots how not to bump into things...

First things first. Singapore has a (Government-linked?) cable company that delivers satellite television and internet over cable. It also has a local English-language news channel, three primetime English channels (one of them being 24 hours), delivered by two media companies. In fact, I seem to be finding a lot of familiar names out there in those pages; do the names "Con Air", "Seinfield", "CSI", "Star Trek - Enterprise" and "Survivor" ring any bells?

And oh, if you are worried about censorship in Singapore, consider the webcast of a familiar news channel. Not all video content there is free of course, but heck, it's still $39.95 a year.

Now you were saying....?

Obligatory Warning:- SCV's crummy webpages are apparently designed to perform best in IE alone. I don't know if it's me, but the pages are rendering bad in Opera.

Here are a few things I found while reading about this a few months ago. What's interesting is this stuff is already in prototype in China and some other medical institutions. enjoy!

http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/24/robot.heart.s urgery.ap/
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/regionalnews/eastas ia/china-15-11-00_01.htm
http://www.abcnews.go.com/local/wabc/oncall/40340_ 7252000.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_69581.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2000/0 7/24/newscolumn1.html
http://www.office.com/global/0,2724,61-17731,FF.ht ml
http://dross38040.users2.50megs.com/page28.html

But he lost. I should be surprised, but I am not.