<CONTENT /> v.3

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

EBay Scam Uses IPods as Bait. If you find an offer on eBay for an iPod that's too good to be true, it probably is. EBay is swamped with supposed buyers clubs that promise cheap iPods. Beware: It's a classic pyramid scheme. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
11:35:03 AM

"SCOTUSblog" to post online the entire finding aid.... "SCOTUSblog" to post online the entire finding aid for Justice Blackmun's papers: Tom Goldstein reports the exciting news in a post you can access here. I'll try to keep you updated as the document itself becomes available online there. [How Appealing]
11:20:21 AM

Security Patch Tuesday: Serious Windows Flaw Uncovered. As part of the latest batch of security bulletins, Microsoft acknowledged what could be one of the most serious Windows vulnerabilities ever. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
10:08:24 AM

PR: OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO Lawsuit with Novell The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today published a position paper that indicates Linux customers will likely ignore SCO Group's legal threats until a court decision is rendered in the litigation brought by SCO Group against Novell on copyright ownership. [Linux Today]
10:07:08 AM

Jessica and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Jessica links to an article form the Chronicle of Higher Education on RSS. She dispels many of the misconceptions about RSS that are in the article. While author did do his homework on RSS, I'm afraid he misconstrued a lot of points that Jessica corrected. So, I'd read her comments after reading the article.
[Library Stuff]
10:04:12 AM

InformationWeek > Security > Microsoft Warns Of Major Windows Security Flaws > February 10, 2004 - Microsoft on Tuesday alerted users to a trio of new security vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer, one of which is characterized by its discoverer as even more dangerous than the flaws that spawned some of the biggest worms of all time, Nimda and Code Red.
9:27:30 AM