News – Iraq Instability, No International Help #2

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News continues

General

Need a ‘cheap’ supercomputer? Go Mac cluster.

A study faults Microsoft’s monoculture for the difficulties in PC security. Microsoft denies this and says the report is looking too much at the negatives and not the positives of a monoculture when it comes to software.

The RIAA retreats after it is found their lawsuit against a 66 year old sculptor was targeting the wrong person. With their Mac, they can’t even run Kazaa. The owners of Kazaa, in other news, are filing suit against the RIAA for using unauthorized versions of his software to track down its users. You know.. copyright infringement. Bask in the irony. 😉

Explainer expounds upon what military crimes can get soldiers the death penalty.

Day to Day: Wesley Clark’s buzzwords, letters and more.

A review of The Rundown. Seems to be no solid good or bad to it. Pros and cons of this, the Rock’s third shot at the movies. Personally, I plan to see it, I liked the previews.

Explainer goes to bat or JetBlue over its privacy misstep. I don’t know about concrete harm, but it is a matter of trust at the very least.

William Saletan elaborates on his ballot box commentary as many get the message of his note of Democratic lying wrong. I’m not surprised Rush read only what he wanted to see into it. What a doof. 😉

Today’s Papers shows things aren’t going too well for Bush. No WMD, no international troops. Came away with nothing in his recent attempts to regain friends. Not even after he and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder decided to be come buddy-buddy again. And some other interesting tidbits.

Amusements

Steve Bell puts it best on WMD (Cartoon)

Relative Complexity

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