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Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet
An Estonian Internet service provider that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, which is responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts. Starline Web Services, based in Estonia's ...
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Fear of more terror attacks could hurt business in India
Mumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left about 195 people dead and close to 300 injured. But there are questions about whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be uttered by a smiling machine at the order counter. In a report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" that was released last week, the National ...
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Swiss Voters Approve Legal Heroin Program, Program Allows Addicts To Receive Supervised Doses; Voters Also Uphold Marijuana Ban
The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers across Switzerland. It has helped eliminate ...
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Under Pressure [from banks and mortgage lobbyists], US Eased Lending Rules
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to ...
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Swiss Voters Approve Legal Heroin Program, Program Allows Addicts To Receive Supervised Doses; Voters Also Uphold Marijuana Ban
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Wonder how much the cost of this program is in comparison to the cost of criminalization (addict deaths / family impacts, disease, prisons, international terrorism and crime subsidized by Afghan and other poppy area and heroin production, etc.)? Of course, the Swiss DO have and use nationally ... -
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Under Pressure [from banks and mortgage lobbyists], US Eased Lending Rules
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Yet more proof that the Bush administration - kowtowing to banks and mortgage lending lobbyists - was the real culprit in the subprime mortgage mess via their de-/no-regulation stance, and NOT Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, the Community Reinvestment Act, or Democrats [barely in control for two years] ... -
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Inventor Says 'Stolen' Patent Cost U.S. Jobs, Money
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Possibly yet more proof that "intellectual property" isn't! On the one hand, one might argue that an idea in an of itself is insufficient (but what does that say about all those mathematical, software, and process patents!?) - only a tangible, working, and sell-able product that embodies the ... -
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No way to stop us, pirate leader says - CNN.com
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Considering some reports of pirates now becoming fabulously wealthy (at least in Somali terms), this may be a facile and old excuse for their current actions. However, as a reason for the piracy having started in the first place, it may have some validity. The depletion of fishing resources ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025