2003 April 24

“Job-hunters at Monster.com who happened to go to school in Syria or Iran may be in for an unpleasant surprise on Thursday.
So might employers using the popular job-search site, which boasts more than 800,000 job postings, to advertise open positions in Sudan, Burma and five other countries.
In a move the company claims is designed [...]

“Australian police said on Thursday they had closed down an Internet music piracy site and arrested three students over an alleged copyright scam that cost the music industry at least $37 million.
The three students — two Australians aged 19 and 20 and a 20-year-old Malaysian — are accused of running a dedicated Web site known [...]

“A Canadian programmer says he will go ahead with plans to hold a “hackathon” for participants in an open-source project, despite a decision by the U.S. military’s civilian research arm to yank funding for the event.
Theo de Raadt, project leader for OpenBSD, an effort to develop a Unix operating system with a security emphasis, [...]

“AOL Time Warner returned to profit in the first quarter and will hope to have closed the door on a brutal year that destroyed reputations at the firm and saw it fall to record losses.
“The world’s largest media company, the home of Madonna’s latest album and the Harry Potter films, reported a net profit of [...]

You may remember how Microsoft openly admitted that Windows NT 4.0 was too broken to be able to patch a security vunerability that would allow an attacker to run code on a target machine. Well, there’s now a patch available for NT 4.0 users.

Activision is currently holding a public test of its newest game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the test game currently offers 1 of 6 maps that will be included in the final version, and the test game is available for both Windows or Linux.
The interesting thing about this game is that it is going to be released [...]

Some high quality magazine scans are appearing on the net for the upcoming Half-Life 2 game, expected to ship this September. It will also be shown at this year’s E3 Expo.
I hate scans and would love to see some good screen caps, but this is the best you can expect until the story breaks on [...]

“Ok, there’s no way to do this gracefully, so I won’t even try. I’m going to just hunker down for some really impressive extended flaming, and my asbestos underwear is firmly in place, and extremely uncomfortable.
I want to make it clear that DRM is perfectly ok with Linux!
There, I’ve said it. I’m out of the [...]

“The long awaited Catalyst 3.3 driver suite has been released earlier by a large OEM partner of ATI, which leaves the conclusion that the official generic drivers will see the light of day this week. The high anticipation results from ATI’s unofficial announcement that the driver will include the R350 rendering path for R300 hardware, [...]

If you have a blog, you need this tool. Mostly cosmetic things and minor bug fixes have been fixed in this release (as well as support for a couple of new blogging systems), but there have been a few more features (including one that can use MT’s extended entries feature, which was highly request for [...]

This is the site I refer all my friends to when they send me those emails that will do something good for me if I forward it to 100 other friends. Yeah, right.
This is a website off of the US Department of Energy, Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) department. Definitely some of the [...]

“The war in Iraq was supposed to dramatically raise the likelihood of a major cyberterrorist attack against the US and its allies. Some even predicted a ‘digital Pearl Harbor’, an electronic assault that could have shut down power plants, crippled the banking system, or disabled the air traffic control network.”