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Ok, this was the first page.. I got bored copy'n'pasting afterward.

When are we going to trust the government.

When they stop spying on us, lying to us, and stealing from us, for a start.

"One alternative is to change the law to allow non-law enforcement agencies to investigate without complying with the Fourth Amendment and numerous other constitutional principles such as due process, and allow those agencies to take the necessary steps to protect their own systems and to protection national security,"

Thats from the director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. They say they are not endoresing this or any other proposal, but the fact that they could even think of such a thing is insane.

A bunch of Pinkertons ignore my 4th amendment rights and come storming into my home are gonna find out they can't ignore the 2nd quite so easily. Granted such a likelyhood is remote at best, but corporate rights to make money should never trump our basic civil rights.

-=RR=-

Does anyone else remember this article from a year ago about the first "photonic circuits" being developed by a company called Nanovation? The link to the story in that article is dead, but I found another one. Ever since then, I've been pondering how to get around the hideous bottleneck that modern memory is, and the only solution I've arrived at is to make an optical RAM equivalent based on similar technology. The only problem is that, I haven't been able to figure out a way of connecting it to the CPU without basically including it as an unupgradeable L2 or L3 cache with normal slow memory beyond it.

Now, however, we have a device capable of nicely interfacing with an optical cable for 100 GB/sec speeds. This may be the interface we need for making "slots" for upgradable optical RAM. Cool! I can't wait to get to move to fully optical computers. This is the technology of the future. I just hope that the people creating these technologies will be willing to license their patents out to other companies.

Although we are responsible for any editorial that appears on our site (and yes, we should have scrutinized this item before we posted it), keep in mind that this was in fact a "feed" from the Newsbytes service, much like an AP or Reuters feed. And as such, we don't typically have control over the content.

Now how many half-truths are reapeated day-in and day-out without any scrutiny?

Thus is the prime ingedient of FUD's.

Check this. &nbsp Here's the text:

"Solaris and Linux Vulnerable To Hack -- An Amendment By Staff February 11, 2000 As many readers have pointed out, the February 11, 2000 article titled, "Solaris and Linux Vulnerable To Hack," posted on our site (www.computercurrents.com) was in error. Although we are responsible for any editorial that appears on our site (and yes, we should have scrutinized this item before we posted it), keep in mind that this was in fact a "feed" from the Newsbytes service, much like an AP or Reuters feed. And as such, we don't typically have control over the content. We naturally contacted Newsbytes about the error, and they pulled the article from their site, as did we. Computer Currents sincerely regrets the error. Based on our own research, we can note that Network Associate's MyCIO.com service (which was created in response to the recent flurry of Denial of Service attacks against Yahoo, eBay, and other major Web sites) can scan Unix-based systems for three DoS agents: TFN, Trinoo, and Stacheldraht. Since these agents do not currently run on any version of Microsoft Windows, there is no need to scan Windows servers with this service. We'd also like to address a few points raised by readers. Computer Currents is in no way associated with Microsoft. In fact, the Computer Currents Web server is run on Linux/Apache/PHP. And Computer Currents is dedicated to accurately reporting on all products, services, and events-- including those related to Linux, Sun, FreeBSD or other *nix products. But yes, we screwed up in not properly screening this feed. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, as painful as that was! Sincerely, Robert Luhn Editor-in-Chief Garth Gillespie Webmaster Computer Currents Magazine www.computercurrents.com"

The article has been pulled!

By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes. February 11, 2000

Due to flagrant inaccuracies this article has been pulled and is being re-written.

Occasionally one of these slips through the editorial process. Computer Currents regrets the error.

February 11,2000 11:17:00 AM PST

Computer Currents has yanked the story, complete with apology for the inaccuracies:

Them being used for DoS attacks, you mean? I dunno. Last time I used '95 its networking sucked so bad (it would sort of forget about any DL that took more than a minute or two) I doubt it's powerful enough to deny anyone except its immediate user of anything.

I wish I could read the Linux/Solaris blamed article... I think the simplest answer to that is along the lines of "It's like the difference between a baby carriage (Winduhs) and a Porsche (Solaris/Linux/etc). Both will get you where you want to go, eventually. The Porsche's somewhat more likely to kill you and/or someone else in a very ugly way. Yet most people that care about getting from A to B still prefer the Porsche to the carriage because it can get the job done with much more speed, grace, and comfort." I suppose the analogy breaks down when extends it to prices, and then gets dangerous when one remembers which platform's use is gov't licensed :(

Red Flag Linux was developed jointly by the Software Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Peking University Founder Group, and Compaq Computer Corp.

See more at: http://prcitr.work.upi.com/html/Issue_33/story4_i3 3.html and http://www.currents.net/newst oday/99/09/01/news4.html