2004 Readings

Prevayler: There really must be one born every minute (www.pyrasun.com)
Streamlined Cable TV in a Card (New York Times)
Terminating Spyware With Extreme Prejudice (New York Times)
Murphy’s Law and Open Source Software Development (weblogs.java.net)
In death, imperialism lives on (The Guardian)
China launches largest IPv6 network (news.com)
A Happy Tale for the Birds: Wings Wide, Pierre Is Free (New York Times)
The Graphing Calculator Story (www.pacifict.com)
Apple developing FireWire audio interface for GarageBand (www.appleinsider.com)
Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature (news.com)
How to Lose Treo 650 Customers, by Sprint (www.oreillynet.com)
Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic (news.com)
WEP:Dead Again, Part 1 (securityfocus.com)
Book Review: Effective XML (adtmag.com)
New F.B.I. Files Describe Abuse of Iraq Inmates (New York Times)
Wall St. Lobby Quietly Tackles Social Security (New York Times)
A Fatal Blow to Shrinkwrap Licensing? (www.gripe2ed.com)
Wal-Mart debuts $498 Linux laptop (news.com)
Hundreds of bird species going the way of the dodo (The Guardian)
Hunters leave Bonobo on brink of extinction (The Guardian)
Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble (Wired)
rein in the lawyers (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Rice University Computer Scientists Find a Flaw in Google's New Desktop Search Program (New York Times)
How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading (New York Times)
Officials Describe Secret C.I.A. Center at Guantánamo Bay (New York Times)
Where are the flying cars? (weblogs.java.net)
Between an xBox and a Hard Place (PBS)
Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue (New York Times)
I'm calling it Java '05 (members.capmac.org)
Why Solaris x86 Continues to Suck (www.amber.org)
InfoWorld: IPv6 marches forward (InfoWorld)
How the law lords reached their conclusion in one of the most important cases of recent years (The Guardian)
Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell (news.com)
Prepping to Pull the Plug on GPS (Wired)
Ex-Military Lawyers Object to Bush Cabinet Nominee (New York Times)
A Flood of Troubled Soldiers Is in the Offing, Experts Predict (New York Times)
Because Unanswered Problems Are Always Hard (blog.ianbicking.org)
Python Is Not Java (dirtsimple.org)
Camels and Rubber Duckies (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Renewable Energy - The Next Opportunity for Silicon Valley (www.oreillynet.com)
Moving to NetBeans 4.0 (weblogs.java.net)
Wartime Chinese sex slaves lose compensation fight (The Guardian)
The iceberg cometh (The Guardian)
The Digital Person (www.schneier.com)
Profile: 'hinky' (www.boston.com)
J2SE Compatibility Test Sources Released (weblogs.java.net)
Identification of Birds through DNA Barcodes (www.plosbiology.org)
The New York Times > Science > A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA 'Bar Codes' (New York Times)
What's New in the Legal World? A Growing Campaign to Undo the New Deal (New York Times)
The New York Times > New York Region > Birds' Nest Will Be Saved, if Co-op Architect Says Yes (New York Times)
Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws (news.com)
Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream? (news.com)
Britain is conniving in torture (The Guardian)
Rights Group Reports Deaths of Men Held by U.S. in Afghanistan (New York Times)
The New York Times > Interrogations: C.I.A. Order on Detainees Shows Its Role Was Curbed (New York Times)
Modelling the real world. (www.artima.com)
Learn to speak Jamaican (JavaWorld)
Louisiana town awaits telephone age (news.com)
More Questions for Florida (Wired)
Money Spied Off a Vanishing Coastline (www.latimes.com)
The Other Guantanamo Bay (www.worldpress.org)
Firefly movie delayed until September 2005 (www.geos.tv)
U.S. Soldier Jailed for Murdering Iraqi (story.news.yahoo.com)
Social Security Reform, With One Big Catch (New York Times)
Mystery Cloaks Couple's Firing as Risks to U.S. (New York Times)
Europe presses ahead on sat-nav (BBC)
Brother, Can You Spare a Brigade? (New York Times)
No Fighting the Co-op Board, Even With Talons (New York Times)
Is This Software On Your Hard Drive? (www.msnbc.msn.com)
File Sharing Goes to High Court (Wired)
Guantánamo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton (The Guardian)
The China Syndrome If You Want to Understand IBM Selling Its PC Division, Just Look East (PBS)
Ellison: Censorship ain't my problem (news.com)
Tax-privacy case a tangled web (www.democratandchronicle.com)
9 in 10 survive wounds in Iraq (www.cnn.com)
Muslim Scholars Increasingly Debate Unholy War (New York Times)
New York Was His Nest. And Then... (New York Times)
Patent Prescription (www.spectrum.ieee.org)
Learn the essentials of debugging (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Bad experience with Eclipse, Part 2 (joust.kano.net)
Still no Java5 on Mac OS X (www.logemann.org)
Mastering Mustang! (weblogs.java.net)
Internet hoax hoodwinks McNealy (news.com)
Newly Homeless Above 5th Ave., Hawks Have Little to Build On (New York Times)
Please, Sir, May I Have Some Armor? (New York Times)
Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies (New York Times)
Vendors: Stop threatening us (www.nwfusion.com)
Is BoingBoing a Legal Honeypot? (naeblis.cx)
Dynamic Java (www.tbray.org)
Abuse 'continued after Abu Ghraib' (The Guardian)
'We have to protect people' (The Guardian)
Hawks' Nest, a Fixture in New York, Is Destroyed (New York Times)
Passage to China (www.nybooks.com)
C# Gets Sharper (www.sdtimes.com)
Two things I hate about Java I/O (madbean.com)
TV buying guide (reviews.cnet.com)
In interview, programmer details what led him to file vote-rigging affidavit (www.bluelemur.com)
Tiger and Beyond, the Future of the Java Platform (java.sun.com)
The New Red-Diaper Babies (New York Times)
F.B.I. Memos Criticized Practices at Guantánamo (New York Times)
Seeking Quick Loans, Soldiers Race Into High-Interest Traps (New York Times)
Spyware on My Machine? So What? (Wired)
Sunlight to Fuel Hydrogen Future (Wired)
Roads Gone Wild (Wired)
Site Bars Black Box Voting Head (Wired)
Florida E-Vote Study Debunked (Wired)
BBC NEWS | Europe | France investigates airport gaffe (BBC)
Why I'm a wolf man (The Guardian)
Baghdad Burning (riverbendblog.blogspot.com)
Python Is Not Java (dirtsimple.org)
Abusive E-Mail Subpoenas Are Actionable Under Federal Law (research.yale.edu)
From honeypot to bot in minutes (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft and Sun's difficult dance (news.com)
Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier (news.com)
You Can't Buy Your Way Out of a Bureaucracy (New York Times)
Bad code smells - A Taxonomy (www.soberit.hut.fi)
You Don't Know Beans (weblogs.java.net)
The Bjarne Stroustrup C++ Interview (www.just2good.co.uk)
Fate of Guantánamo Detainees Is Debated in Federal Court (New York Times)
The Nascar Nightly News: Anchorman Get Your Gun (New York Times)
For Wildlife With Wanderlust, Their Own Highway (New York Times)
Evidence on Cold Fusion Remains Inconclusive, New Review Finds (New York Times)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (linuxintegrators.com)
Voting errors tallied nationwide (www.boston.com)
Under All That Ice, Maybe Oil (New York Times)
U.N. Report Urges Big Changes; Security Council Would Expand (New York Times)
Free online credit reports begin Wednesday (news.com)
Bino George's Blog: Hi-Fi Swing (or improving the native fidelity of Swing System L&Fs) (weblogs.java.net)
Maven: Jump Start (weblogs.java.net)
Don't get mad with spammers. Get even (The Guardian)
TRed Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo (New York Times)
Douglas Adams's Mac IIfx (www.mandrake.demon.co.uk)
Battling the Copyright Big Boys (Wired)
Save Your Site from Spambots (www.webtechniques.com)
Using Apache to stop bad robots (www.evolt.org)
anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript (www.xs4all.nl)
A weapon against ourselves (The Guardian)
Alabama clings to segregationist past (The Guardian)
Phones as Hackable Platforms (www.thefeature.com)
Drug safety has its own side effects (www.denverpost.com)
Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs (www.asktog.com)
Web on watch for common enemies (news.com)
Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some (New York Times)
TiVo Their Way: Ads, Copy Brakes (Wired)
Passport Privacy Protection? Nope (Wired)
Electronic Voting 1.0, and No Time to Upgrade (New York Times)
Hydrogen Production Method Could Bolster Fuel Supplies (New York Times)
Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail (yro.slashdot.org)
The IDE Divide (osteele.com)
Faster Java UTF8 input processing (h21007.www2.hp.com)
Loophole would let messages penetrate Do Not Call list (www.suntimes.com)
MySQL: A threat to bigwigs? (www.cnn.com)
Linux PR: SolarPC Announces the $100 Personal Computer (linuxpr.com)
New High-Tech Passports Raise Snooping Concerns (New York Times)
The LGPL and Java (www.gnu.org)
James Baker's Double Life (www.thenation.com)
Kill Bill (www.splitreason.com)
Smoking while Iraq burns (The Guardian)
The Dream Factory (Wired)
Suspicion of a Mad Cow Case Proves Unfounded, Tests Find (New York Times)
Unnatural Abundance (New York Times)
In My Next Life (New York Times)
The Great Indecency Hoax (New York Times)
Sandia pushes limits of solar technology (news.com)
Judge puts Microsoft deal under scrutiny (The Guardian)
Who Profits from Security Holes? (www.benedelman.org)
Performance of JDK (1.4) String.intern()... (blogs.sun.com)
EFF: E-voting Petition (www.eff.org)
HPROF: A Heap/CPU Profiling Tool in J2SE 5.0 (java.sun.com)
Torvalds comes out against EU patent directive (www.macworld.com)
Outgunned on copyright? (news.com)
Snookering the Taxpayers (New York Times)
Top 25 Executives (www.crn.com)
Airlines Cough Up Passenger Data (Wired)
Dear President Bush, (linuxintegrators.com)
An Introduction To JPackage.org (www.weiqigao.com)
Java Virus Jumps Out of Sandbox (Internet News)
Open Letter to Sun from Eric Raymond (www.oreillynet.com)
CBI cries foul over UN human rights code (The Guardian)
A Mother Deported, and a Child Left Behind (New York Times)
New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses (New York Times)
In Bold Experiment at Canyon, a River Rips Through It (New York Times)
Many Women Say Airport Pat-Downs Are a Humiliation (New York Times)
Law may snag Philadelphia Wi-Fi rollout (www.macworld.com)
SunRocket fires off new low for Net phone rates (news.com)
Bill adds 20,000 H-1B visas (news.com)
Open source's next frontier (news.com)
Judge dismisses keylogger case (www.securityfocus.com)
Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents (story.news.yahoo.com)
Software Detects the True Artist (Wired)
A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill? (Wired)
Help me make code that is a webapp, uses a DB, and is secure (weblogs.java.net)
Self-enforcing Patent Sanity (weblogs.java.net)
Art tips for programmers (www.blueskyonmars.com)
Lexmark accused of installing spyware (news.zdnet.co.uk)
7 Simple Ways to Add a Little Agile without Going to Extremes (www.stickyminds.com)
Over 60 nations agree to protect sharks in the Atlantic (www.katc.com)
The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel (www.popsci.com)
Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong (www.eweek.com)
Eliica eight-wheeler (www.autoexpress.co.uk)
Create intelligent Web spiders (JavaWorld)
Economic View: Does a Free Download Equal a Lost Sale? (New York Times)
The Plastic Trap: Soaring Interest Compounds Credit Card Pain for Millions (New York Times)
My Honey Pot catches first spam harvester (mikesejournal.com)
With Data Recorders, Big Brother is Riding Shotgun (www.cars.com)
Once a Model, a Health Plan Is Endangered (New York Times)
Interview with TableLayout creator Daniel Barbalace (www.clientjava.com)
Sun in need of good business advice (InfoWorld)
Totally Gridbag (madbean.com)
Melba Phillips, 97, Physicist Who Worked With Oppenheimer, Dies (New York Times)
Running Extra Mile Sets Humans Apart in Primates' World (New York Times)
House G.O.P. Acts to Protect Chief (New York Times)
Sun to offer utility pricing for desktops | CNET News.com (news.com)
Man in Americas earlier than thought (www.cnn.com)
Why are there two of everything? (weblogs.java.net)
Variation on a theme by Cyril Northcote Parkinson (www.itworld.com)
In Texas, 28,000 Students Test an Electronic Eye (New York Times)
Vote Recount to Settle Doubts? (Wired)
Natural programming languages and environments (www.acmqueue.com)
Unused PC Power to Run Grid for Unraveling Disease (New York Times)
Inquiry into shooting of wounded Iraqi shown in television footage (The Guardian)
David Rupp's Blog: Code Generation (weblogs.java.net)
Eitan Suez's Blog: Java Development on MacOSX Pretty "Swell" to Me (weblogs.java.net)
Framing the Media (www.aaronsw.com)
METI Endorsement Furthers Sun's Linux Lead, and Commitment to Linux Market. Now why? (blogs.sun.com)
Content negotiation (www.456bereastreet.com)
MySQL error logging (linuxintegrators.com)
How to Fight Terrorists (blog.zmag.org)
Noam Chomsky and the War on Terror (www.joegrossberg.com)
Cattle, the Research Catalyst (Wired)
Senate May Ram Copyright Bill (Wired)
Former G.I.'s, Ordered to War, Fight Not to Go (New York Times)
Computer Security and Liability (www.schneier.com)
A Watchdog Follows the Money in Iraq (New York Times)
Feed the Billionaire, Starve the Students (New York Times)
Teamsters Find Pensions at Risk (New York Times)
Sun aims at Red Hat with new Solaris pricing (news.com)
At tech firms, time again for flextime? (news.com)
Gaim Filesharing Plugin (downhillbattle.org)
VoIP backers should celebrate Bush win (news.com)
'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread' (Wired)
Sun to Roll Out Free Solaris OS (Wired)
JDK 5 in Practice (www.theserverside.com)
Entrevista com Gavin King, o criador do Hibernate (Inglês) (www.javafree.com.br)
Perspectives on Tomcat/Apache and mod_jk (linuxintegrators.com)
Duncan Campbell meets Mordechai Vanunu (The Guardian)
Slapping the Other Cheek (New York Times)
Robot Helps NASA Refocus on Hubble (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
Study: Supercomputer clusters shortchange security (news.com)
Java: GUI - Swing vs. AWT (www.leepoint.net)
Airlines Ordered to Expose Data (Wired)
Die, then vote. This is Falluja (The Guardian)
Where Is Sun Going with Linux? (LinuxWorld) (www.linuxworld.com)
The True Story of Audion (www.panic.com)
Configuring Tomcat and Apache With JK 1.2 (www.onjava.com)
Web Database Access with Apache/Tomcat (www.akadia.com)
Even a chimp can write code: A close look at immutable objects (nerddawg.blogspot.com)
Iraq seeks to curb press freedoms (english.aljazeera.net)
Fuck the South (www.fuckthesouth.com)
Wanted by the Police: A Good Interface (New York Times)
Has TiVo Forsaken Us? (Wired)
Blogs Fuel Election Fraud Fears (Wired)
Wind power not all pleasant breezes (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Sunni Party Leaves Iraqi Government Over Falluja Attack (New York Times)
Our Not-So-Free Press (New York Times)
Skype ready for both telephone worlds (news.com)
Patron Saint of the Nerds (Wired)
Fun With Prime Numbers (www.troubleshooters.com)
'From Baghdad':A Wall Street Journal Reporter's E-Mail to Friends (www.commondreams.org)
Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger (www.onjava.com)
U.S. Judge Halts War-Crime Trial at Guantánamo (New York Times)
Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked (www.commondreams.org)
G.O.P. Plans to Give Environment Rules a Free-Market Tilt (New York Times)
New Economy: One Internet, Many Copyright Laws (New York Times)
The Lessons of Software Monoculture (www.sdtimes.com)
Living Free and Easy (Wired)
Ohio Provisional Ballots, Recounts, and Fraud (www.dailykos.com)
My day as an election judge - take 2 (www.avirubin.com)
The New York Times > National > For Railroads and the Safety Overseer, Close Ties (New York Times)
The Values-Vote Myth (New York Times)
Wired News: House Dems Seek Election Inquiry (Wired)
More e-voting glitches surface (news.com)
Activists Slam Homeless Tracking (Wired)
Fanatical Apathy: Concession Speech (www.felbers.net)
Democrats, Give Thyselves a Break (www.artsjournal.com)
Neo-Totalitarianism (home.earthlink.net)
Bob Don't Know Diddy (PBS)
Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development (martinfowler.com)
Java Coding Conventions on One Page (xp123.com)
E-voting passes biggest test, mostly trouble-free (msnbc.msn.com)
Two Nations Under God (New York Times)
Worst WiFi Hotels 2004 (www.hotelchatter.com)
Best WiFi Hotels 2004 (www.hotelchatter.com)
Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers (www.joelonsoftware.com)
The war on Iraq has made moral cowards of us all (The Guardian)
NetBeans - Software Reality (www.softwarereality.com)
Living Poor, Voting Rich (New York Times)
Microsoft debates spoofing as security flaw (news.com)
Sun reclaims Apple exec for Solaris marketing (news.com)
Pols, Don't Count on Recounts (Wired)
Reports of Muddled E-Voting (Wired)
Coalition Tackles Ghost Ships (Wired)
Watchdogs Spot E-Vote Glitches (Wired)
format c: (hohle.net)
Chomsky backs 'Bush-lite' Kerry (The Guardian)
Drought Unearths a Buried Treasure (New York Times)
Gunmen seize US and Arab hostages (The Guardian)
Empty promises and tech's future (news.com)
Xandros: An Excellent Desktop Replacement (LinuxWorld) (www.linuxworld.com)
Yoran and Spaf's Law (www.eweek.com)
Check This Out (New York Times)
Exhibit Documents Newton's Pull (Wired)
Can Openness Save the Internet? (freshmeat.net)
Taking Bush at His Word (New York Times)
Protecting Troops: Along With Prayers, Families Send Armor (New York Times)
Things that scare Sun's Schwartz (news.com)
Cheney oil firm faces UK inquiry (The Guardian)
Missing Explosives: Video Shows G.I.'s at Weapon Cache (New York Times)
Homeland Security Agents Visit Toy Store (story.news.yahoo.com)
100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study (The Guardian)
You Arent Gonna Need It (c2.com)
New Apache Tomcat Eclipses Sun (Internet News)
OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships (The Register)
U.S. Forces Intensify Attacks on Insurgent Strongholds, U.S. Death Toll Surpasses 1,000 (PBS)
The High Price of Not Listening (www.asktog.com)
Prisoners: U.S. Action Bars Right of Some Captured in Iraq (New York Times)
U.S. moves closer to e-passports (news.com)
Linus Torvalds: "Desktop Market has already started" (www.linuxtimes.net)
No Paper Trail, No Problem (Wired)
Wired News: System X Faster, but Falls Behind (Wired)
techno.blog("Dion"): The truth behind the SPACE PEN technology (www.almaer.com)
Tough Justice: Administration Officials Split Over Stalled Military Tribunals (New York Times)
Stupid Scanner tricks... (weblogs.java.net)
One Step to Improve Your Online Security (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
After Terror, a Secret Rewriting of Military Law (New York Times)
SATELLITE PICS GOING DARK? (www.defensetech.org)
IBM security providers: An overview (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Vulnerability hits Java for cell phones (news.com)
Sun to add JFluid profiling tool to Java Studio (www.computerworld.com)
The Baghdad Blogger goes to Washington: day one (The Guardian)
Sergeant in Abu Ghraib Case Pleads Guilty to 8 Counts (New York Times)
Good Bad Attitude (paulgraham.com)
Is the software license dead? (news.com)
Hacker strikes university computer system (news.com)
Digital Agenda: Homeland security--A global assault on anonymity (news.com)
Defections Rattle Java Alliance (www.eweek.com)
Tallying the Dead: How Many Iraqis Are Dying? By One Count, 208 in a Week (New York Times)
U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers (New York Times)
E-Voting Still a Florida Bugaboo (Wired)
Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark (Wired)
Patriot Act redux? (news.com)
Broad Use of Harsh Tactics Is Described at Cuba Base (New York Times)
A Plan to Torpedo the Trawlers (Wired)
Why is war-torn Iraq giving $190,000 to Toys R Us? (The Guardian)
Sun rises above Wall Street goal (news.com)
E-Vote Snafu in Florida (Wired)
Smaller Can Be Better (Except When It's Not) (New York Times)
Sun releases Solaris-based desktop software (news.com)
VeriSign's conflict of interest creates new threat (www.financialcryptography.com)
Scoble says - tell me why our products suck (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Even a chimp can write code: How to determine the calling class in Java (nerddawg.blogspot.com)
Reel Courage (www.blaserco.com)
The New York Times > Business > How Tax Bill Gave Business More and More (New York Times)
F*** the FCC! (Wired)
Diebold and the Disabled (Wired)
'The Benefactor' behind HDTV (news.com)
Security Grants Still Streaming to Rural States (New York Times)
T U.S. Releases Saudi-American It Had Captured in Afghanistan (New York Times)
East of West and West of East: Engaging Other Academic Cultures (www.artima.com)
Style is Substance (www.artima.com)
It Is Generic After All (www.weiqigao.com)
Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses (New York Times)
In DeLay Case, Prosecutor Welcomes Spotlight (New York Times)
Major Assaults on Hold Until After U.S. Vote (story.news.yahoo.com)
Templates vs. Generics (mindview.net)
Roaming charges: Taken with BREW (IBM DeveloperWorks)
alt.lang.jre: Take a shine to JRuby (IBM DeveloperWorks)
The Problem with Unit Testing (weblogs.java.net)
Mac OSX Panther Maintenance Tips at Forever Geek (forevergeek.com)
Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: 10-8-04 Templates vs. Generics (mindview.net)
SpikeSource, SourceLabs, "professional Open Source" (www.drunkandretired.com)
Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates (www.npr.org)
The Chris Phillips Deal (PBS)
Patentably idiotic (weblogs.java.net)
A cool new text editor - TextMate - Mac OS X (www.xmldatabases.org)
Campaign 2004: The Big Issues: The Poll Tax, Updated (New York Times)
The Battle of the Pump (New York Times)
After Convictions, the Undoing of a U.S. Terror Prosecution (New York Times)
Iraq had no WMD, inspectors conclude (The Guardian)
Senate Wants Database Dragnet (Wired)
How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) (www.engadget.com)
Chris Adamson's Blog: Why Mac Developers are Concerned About the J2SE 5.0 Wait (weblogs.java.net)
Open-Source Java Brewing in Brazil (www.eweek.com)
Passport radio chips send too many signals (www.iht.com)
What a Story Lice Can Tell (New York Times)
Death Puts Spotlight on a Doctor and Regulators (New York Times)
Tuna's Red Glare? It Could Be Carbon Monoxide (New York Times)
Bush allies admit war blunders (The Guardian)
Decision2004: In so many words, image made (www.sptimes.com)
National IDs for everybody? (news.com)
Ethics and open source (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Michael Moore's letters from Iraq (The Guardian)
Republicans Try to Dilute Provisions in Tax Bill (New York Times)
Kodak Wins Java Lawsuit Against Sun (www.groklaw.net)
Kodak wins Java lawsuit (www.democratandchronicle.com)
High-speed Hotels (www.inc.com)
How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence (New York Times)
The real truth about Camp Delta (The Guardian)
Guantanamo has 'failed to prevent terror attacks' (The Guardian)
Honors for Nude Lit, Fish Farts (Wired)
This is interesting (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
DebianJava (martinfowler.com)
Guantánamo Bay prisoner's letter claims he was witness to murders (The Guardian)
H-1B visa limit for 2005 already reached (news.com)
Saudis oppose release terms (www.registerguard.com)
Groovy Ambiguities, Optional Elements, and Syntax Shortcuts Considered Sucky (jroller.com)
> Its Recruitment Goals Pressing, the Army Will Ease Some Standards (New York Times)
Tigers and Mustangs and Dolphins, Oh My! (weblogs.java.net)
Sun makes run for supercomputing title (news.com)
Open-source process server set for release (news.com)
Satan's little helper drinks Diet Coke (news.com)
The technologist who has Michael Powell's ear (news.com)
Diebold Loses Key Copyright Case (Wired)
ID Rule Exists, But Can't Be Seen (Wired)
All's Fair in Space War (Wired)
But Macs Are Slower, Right? (www.linuxinsider.com)
New Runoff System in San Francisco Has the Rival Candidates Cooperating (New York Times)
Judge disarms Patriot Act proviso (news.com)
Desktop Linux a vehicle for pirating Windows (news.com)
MP3 Creator Warns on Format Wars (Wired)
Fleury on open source "girly men" (www.rollerweblogger.org)
US-bound Britons fly into security revolution (The Guardian)
BayStar begins selling SCO stock (news.com)
Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future (news.com)
IBM releases source code (news.zdnet.com)
Simplicity and ubiquity matter (or, How reality mugged Joel Spolsky) (www.shorewalker.com)
Start-up banks on Java hardware boost (news.com)
Start-up banks on Java hardware boost (news.com)
Senate weighs H-1B visa changes (news.com)
What's in the Box? Radio Tags Know That, and More (New York Times)
To Tip? Not at Starbucks, Not Anywhere (New York Times)
F.B.I. Said to Lag on Translations of Terror Tapes (New York Times)
Survey Says: Cell Phones Left Out (Wired)
Law Sends Sharers to Slammer (Wired)
A Letter to the Java Technology Community (java.sun.com)
Interview with Jeff Waugh On Ubuntu Linux (www.osnews.com)
'Backdoor' trials for Britons in Guantánamo (The Guardian)
Puzzling Through Erasure IV (mindview.net)
On why the Mac's small population is not a defense against an attack (www.bynkii.com)
Carter fears Florida vote trouble (BBC)
Sex in Games: Rez+Vibrator (www.gamegirladvance.com)
Agencies Postpone Issuing New Rules Until After Election (New York Times)
Wired News: U.S. Makes Spy Images Inside U.S. (Wired)
The machinery of an anxious democracy (BBC)
The Case for Open Source/Closed Standards (www.oreillynet.com)
Pentagon was wrong to pursue Gitmo case (www.airforcetimes.com)
Travis airman pleads guilty -- not as a spy / Minor charges only after long legal struggle (www.sfgate.com)
Al Halabi unfairly singled out, defense says (www.airforcetimes.com)
Airman says he did 'a dumb thing' but was no spy (story.news.yahoo.com)
Case against airman was full of holes (www.thereporter.com)
Al Halabi discharge ordered (www.sacbee.com)
Airman Al Halabi pleads guilty to three minor charges (www.sacbee.com)
Judge denies request to drop Al Halabi charges (www.dailyrepublic.com)
The New Silicon Valley: A Dog-Eat-Dog World (New York Times)
Can Biotech Crops Be Good Neighbors? (New York Times)
The Genesis Project (New York Times)
Why We Fear the Digital Ballot (New York Times)
Idea Lab: Free to Clone (New York Times)
Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law (New York Times)
Can you say 'offshore' anymore? (news.com)
Big boss is watching (news.com)
Red Hat exec takes Sun to task on open source (news.com)
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power (The Guardian)
Touchscreen Hack Effort Called 'Monkey Business' (www.foxnews.com)
DRM Punishes Little Kids, Too (www.gripe2ed.com)
Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong (comment.zdnet.co.uk)
GROKLAW (www.groklaw.net)
Sun Charms Us Further (Wired)
The S-Word How Microsoft Hopes Its New Emphasis on Security Will Lead to Global Domination (PBS)
U.S., Bowing to Court, to Free 'Enemy Combatant' (New York Times)
When Candidates Pick Voters (New York Times)
Pay for Sun's Schwartz jumps 56 percent (news.com)
U.S. to Free 'Enemy Combatant,' Bowing to Supreme Court Ruling (New York Times)
E-Vote Fears Soar in Swing States (Wired)
US jet sent 600 miles to keep Cat Stevens away (The Guardian)
Pepper-Spray Case Goes to Jury in California (New York Times)
Exclusive Interview: Lead Yoper Linux Developer (www.linuxforums.org)
Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws (Wired)
Airlines Told to Cough Up Data (Wired)
Logging is evil (www.lastcraft.com)
Forgotten casualties (The Guardian)
Two bugs in two years, new features every week, deadlines met each and every time… and what’s with these ruby slippers? (weblogs.java.net)
Cheap Hack I: rename your jar file, get a different Main-Class (weblogs.java.net)
Sun: We've turned over a new leaf (news.com)
Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers (politics.slashdot.org)
MP3 Insider: The Secret Behind the iPod's Scrollwheel (www.mp3.com)
Military Service: Portrait of George Bush in '72: Unanchored in Turbulent Time (New York Times)
Sun Looks to Wall Street in a Comeback Bid (New York Times)
Mr. Gates Goes to Washington - Microsoft's agenda on spam and open source (www.cio.com)
2004 National Convention: Bill Moyers (www.spj.org)
Foo Camp and Electronic Voting (shiflett.org)
A hierarchy of suffering (The Guardian)
Swallowing the Elephant (New York Times)
No Stars, Just Cuffs (New York Times)
Expansion Sank Terror Screening Program, Officials Say (New York Times)
Nuclear Elephant: The File Sharing Report (www.nuclearelephant.com)
Comparing Linux Compilers (www.coyotegulch.com)
Voting Machines Missing In New Orleans (www.theneworleanschannel.com)
Ignore Garbage In, Catch Garbage Out (freshmeat.net)
Tax Break Bringing Businesses, and Fraud, to the Virgin Islands (BBC)
Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict (The Guardian)
Go to the Back of the Bus How Microsoft Plans to Use a New USB Standard to Cripple Linux (PBS)
The Prisons: New Charges Raise Questions on Abuse at Afghan Prisons (New York Times)
Taxing Global Profits (New York Times)
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Lock (New York Times)
Twist a Pen, Open a Lock (Wired)
Bring your iPod to life by killing auto-sync (www.billpalmer.net)
Q&A: Microsoft's Linux strategist Martin Taylor (www.computerworld.com)
AOL drops Microsoft antispam technology (news.zdnet.com)
What are they like inside? (The Guardian)
The Worst Interface Ever (www.asktog.com)
The Reconstruction: U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future (New York Times)
Pre-emptive Paranoia (New York Times)
On Death Row, a Battle Over the Fatal Cocktail (New York Times)
Russians Cite Porous Security in Terror Bombings of 2 Planes (New York Times)
Mercenaries in Afghan Case Get 8 to 10 Years in Prison (New York Times)
.DS_Store (rixstep.com)
Linux standard gains big-name backers (news.com)
'Open Source Solaris' to debut this year (news.com)
Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs (news.com)
The Baghdad Battery (www.unmuseum.org)
Taxes for an Ownership Society (New York Times)
Freedom Tower Will Be Green Giant (Wired)
Iraq: a descent into civil war? (The Guardian)
Incrementalists & Completionists (www.randsinrepose.com)
Spolsky 1: Scoble 0 – Stegman’s Video, while Great, doesn’t apply to the API war (www.danappleman.com)
Evolving the Java Language (weblogs.java.net)
US troops face new torture claims (The Guardian)
Microsoft e-mail proposal dealt setback (news.com)
Fraud: Absentee Votes Worry Officials as Nov. 2 Nears (New York Times)
Conflicting mindsets of C# vs. Java (weblogs.java.net)
Operation Ignore (www.avatara.com)
The Top Ten Subversion Tips for CVS Users (www.onlamp.com)
On the Voting Machine Makers' Tab (New York Times)
New Book Says Bush Officials Were Told of Detainee Abuse (New York Times)
The Great Divide | Rural Wastelands: Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer (New York Times)
JunitNewInstance (martinfowler.com)
Rotten Statics (www.brunningonline.net)
Closures (martinfowler.com)
Author of FuzzyJess Talks About AI and Java (www.devx.com)
The DRM Debacle (www.tbray.org)
Java Faster Than C++? No Way! (www.weiqigao.com)
Getting your point across (www.siliconvalley.com)
Bad legislation threatening privacy, innovation, accounting (www.siliconvalley.com)
UserLinux releases first beta CD (www.desktoplinux.com)
The futility of arguing with paid advocates (www.newsforge.com)
Bush Piloted Guard Trainers Before He Quit (story.news.yahoo.com)
CIA May Have Held 100 'Ghost' Prisoners (story.news.yahoo.com)
Bush under pressure over military record (The Guardian)
Dichotomy's Purgatory: When I Learned to Love Perl: Perl Sucks (www.alpha-geek.com)
Stabilizing the Tiger Release (weblogs.java.net)
Calif. to Sue Diebold Over False Claims (story.news.yahoo.com)
Flight ID Rules Fuel Fresh Furor (Wired)
Slide Rule Still Rules (Wired)
Inquiry Proposes Penalties for Hiding Medicare Data (New York Times)
Hollywood to Help NASA Catch Space Probe (New York Times)
Confronting Insurgents: U.S. Conceding Rebels Control Regions of Iraq (New York Times)
The Cellphone That Doesn't Work at the Hotel (New York Times)
Learn from Victorians (The Guardian)
In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema (The Guardian)
US military death toll in Iraq hits 1,000 (The Guardian)
Seeing double in software licensing (news.com)
Project Censored 2005 - Story #12 The Destabilization of Haiti (www.projectcensored.org)
Project Censored 2005 - Story #11 The Media Can Legally Lie (www.projectcensored.org)
It's Not Just Usability (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Wal-Mart Hit By Gift Card Scam (www.komotv.com)
Iraq extends al-Jazeera ban and raids offices (The Guardian)
Paul Berczeller on the man who inspired Steven Spielberg's Terminal (The Guardian)
Amnesia in the Garden (New York Times)
Louisianian a veteran of civil rights war (www.2theadvocate.com)
Does a Tiger Lurk in the Middle of a Fearful Symmetry? (New York Times)
Spammers using sender authentication too, study says (InfoWorld)
Strange Bedfellows in E-Mail Case (Wired)
WinXP SP2 = security placebo? (The Register)
Hungarian notation: an outdated concept (majere.gotdns.com)
A Tale of Two Dialogs - Replacing Text in Netbeans and Eclipse (weblogs.java.net)
The great IDE debate (InfoWorld)
Beating the Averages (www.paulgraham.com)
Iran Sees Nuclear Lesson in Iraq, N.Korea (www.reuters.com)
Securing Pebble #3 : Use the Java 2 security model (www.simongbrown.com)
Unit Tests Manage Complexity (www.cmdev.com)
Processing command line arguments in Java: Case closed (JavaWorld)
Have you hugged your Jini developer lately? (weblogs.java.net)
Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill (news.com)
Apache, open-source groups wary of Sender ID (news.com)
NetBeans 4.0: Perfect Enough for the Lazy and Demanding (weblogs.java.net)
Tough and Trustworthy Tigers (weblogs.java.net)
Hands-On: Is JBoss Ready for Your Enterprise? (oetrends.com)
Is Encryption Doomed? (www.technologyreview.com)
Permanent Lenses in Sight (Wired)
Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom (Wired)
Justice Dept. Seeks End to Its Detroit Terror Case (New York Times)
Tactics by Police Mute the Protesters, and Their Messages (New York Times)
Florida Vote Is Calm, for Once (Wired)
Tests reveal e-passport security flaw (www.eetimes.com)
Surviving the Running Man Competition at Defcon 12, Las Vegas (www.watchguard.com)
Microsoft slammed over misleading Windows Linux claims (www.theinquirer.net)
Anatomy of a Software Bug (blogs.msdn.com)
TSA launches Secure Flight (www.fcw.com)
Scientific Method Man (Wired)
The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III (mises.org)
Too Scary for the Classroom? (New York Times)
Apple puts the squeeze on new iMac (news.com)
U.S. sues firm over Do Not Call list (news.com)
A Chill in Florida (New York Times)
E-Vote Machines: Secret Testing (Wired)
Is Real a Real Hypocrite? (Wired)
My Turn: Defending Our Skies Against the Elderly (www.msnbc.msn.com)
90% of all Statistics are Wrong, and other Junk Research Facts (www.alwayson-network.com)
Lies, Damn lies and Davanum Srinivas (linuxintegrators.com)
Perl.com: The State of the Onion (www.perl.com)
misbehaving.net: RAPUNSEL - learning programming as a first language (www.misbehaving.net)
Standardising Annotations (www.almaer.com)
JXTA Yields an Application for P2P Backups (weblogs.java.net)
The Boys From 'South Park' Go to War (New York Times)
Why Java isn't cool : triggered by "Great Hackers" (sachinhejip.blogspot.com)
Java Runtime Environment for Linux Offered in Eclipse 3.0 (SYS-CON) (www.sys-con.com)
A perfect example of how IDEA *just works* (madbean.com)
Army doctors faulted in Iraqi prisoner abuse (www.iht.com)
Iran Says It May Pre-empt Attack Against Its Nuclear Facilities (New York Times)
Campaign 2004 > Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad (New York Times)
Senator? Terrorist? A Watch List Stops Kennedy at Airport (New York Times)
After Hurricane Charley, a New Look at Stiffer Building Codes (New York Times)
Threadaches (weblogs.java.net)
Serializing Java Objects with XStream (www.xml.com)
From JavaOne to JavaOne-Half (www.sdtimes.com)
John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs (grep.law.harvard.edu)
We could have stopped him (The Guardian)
4x4s replace the desert camel and whip up a worldwide dust storm (The Guardian)
Immigrants Face Loss of Licenses in ID Crackdown (New York Times)
For Post-9/11 Material Witness, It Is a Terror of a Different Kind (New York Times)
Pro Plus for Eclipse (www.brunningonline.net)
Will Paper Checks Become Extinct? (www.eweek.com)
Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance (The Guardian)
Saving TiVo (www.business2.com)
The perils of cygwin and classpaths (www.magpiebrain.com)
Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes (news.com)
AT&T Wireless Self-Destructs (www.cio.com)
Bag It (New York Times)
Crypto researchers abuzz over flaws (news.com)
Blu-ray burns for interactive content (news.com)
Safety Gap Grows Wider Between S.U.V.'s and Cars (New York Times)
Wired News: Real Bites Apple on Downloads (Wired)
Wired News: Flight ID Fight Revived (Wired)
Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: 8-16-04 Process Patterns (mindview.net)
When gay Americans marry (The Guardian)
BugMeNot (sandbox.rulemaker.net)
The ATM keypad as security portcullis (The Register)
Bank account may not be as safe as you think (business.bostonherald.com)
Anti-identity theft freeze gaining momentum (www.cnn.com)
Something to Say (jroller.com)
Election: Science Plays Politics (Wired)
Just Don't Say 'Synergy' to a Hewlett Investor (New York Times)
Windows easier to 'own' (news.com)
California urged to use open source, VoIP (news.com)
Wrong Time for an E-Vote Glitch (Wired)
netbeans 3.6 (weblogs.java.net)
Euro filing reveals Apple 'handheld computer' (The Register)
Fred Nold's Legacy (PBS)
Immigration: U.N. Report Cites Harassment at American Airports of Asylum Seekers (New York Times)
The American Detainee: U.S. Signals End to Legal Fight Over an 'Enemy Combatant' (New York Times)
Why Mac OS X is Better (x180.net)
Capitalization: Should you use ID or Id (dotnetjunkies.com)
Battle Torrent (www.downhillbattle.org)
A Conversation with James Gosling - James Gosling talks about virtual machines, security, and of course, Java. (acmqueue.com)
The Python Paradox (www.paulgraham.com)
Great Hacker != Great Hire (www.ericsink.com)
New Jersey Governor Resigns, Disclosing a Gay Affair (New York Times)
Why Games Matter (www.osnews.com)
Covad adds new line--VoIP (news.com)
4 Baggage Screeners Arrested; TV Stars Were Among Victims (New York Times)
Congressional economists tackle copyright issues (news.com)
Fit to Be Tied (New York Times)
Immigration: U.S. to Give Border Patrol Agents the Power to Deport Illegal Aliens (New York Times)
Terror detainees lose appeal (The Guardian)
Nasa to rescue Hubble (The Guardian)
Beggars and drug addicts disappear in Athens 'clean-up' before games (The Guardian)
Health Plan That Cuts Costs Raises Doctors' Ire (New York Times)
Five countries to get cheap Windows XP (news.com)
Making sure classes are in your project CLASSPATH via ant (www.almaer.com)
KISS and The Mom Factor (www.adambosworth.net)
Quu's Walkabout - my professional life in Cingular (www.livejournal.com)
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know (www.fastcompany.com)
Groovy features in Nice (www.xoltar.org)
Copyrighting the President (Wired)
Tech Company Settled Tax Case Without an Audit (New York Times)
Crucial Unpaid Internships Increasingly Separate the Haves From the Have-Nots (New York Times)
Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing (www.newscientist.com)
Millions in U.S. Face Mega-Wave from Island Collapse (abcnews.go.com)
U.S. Is Ending Haven for Those Fleeing a Volcano (New York Times)
Big Business Becoming Big Brother (Wired)
Mac Keeps Lead on Linux (Wired)
Cloudscape Version 10: A technical overview (IBM DeveloperWorks)
IBM to make Java database open source (news.com)
Lost Florida Voting Records Found (Wired)
Homeland Security Given Data on Arab-Americans (New York Times)
When zombies attack (The Guardian)
SWT Creates Fast, Native-looking GUIs for Your Java Apps (www.devx.com)
RFID tags become hacker target (news.com)
Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an F.B.I. Firing (New York Times)
The Java Debate at OSCon (weblogs.java.net)
Open letter to the EJB 3.0 expert group: Please review the EJB 2.0 CMP and JDO FAQ (weblogs.java.net)
Great Hackers (www.paulgraham.com)
Lost Record of Vote in '02 Florida Race Raises '04 Concern (New York Times)
Group Warns DVRs Endangered (Wired)
Designing Games for the Wage Slave (www.gamedev.net)
Annotations are not for configuration (www.neward.net)
Apache's Java server delayed (zdnet.com.com)
Microsoft, Dividends and Stock Buybacks (www.blogmaverick.com)
Progeny to Offer Red Hat 9 Support (www.eweek.com)
Competing Against A Social Movement (blogs.sun.com)
Crash-Only Software (www.usenix.org)
Sun helps AIB close barn door; cows still at large. (blog.ziffdavis.com)
Sun has software plans for rival servers (news.com)
Israel expands West Bank settlements (The Guardian)
Free Speech Behind the Razor Wire (Wired)
Debian Installer - Beta 3 - Usability Review (www.thiesen.org)
BayStar sets lawyers on SCO (The Register)
Sun Exec Discusses Plans for Open-Source Solaris (www.computerworld.com)
Who's a Pirate? Russia Points Back at the U.S. (New York Times)
SCO, BayStar resume squabbling (news.com)
House to FASB: Drop dead! (news.com)
Militants Force Palestinian Family Into an Agonizing Choice (New York Times)
Hail to the 'coder in chief' (news.com)
Microsoft pays to end Lindows suits (news.com)
IlluminatiLand: Dell Needs Serious Help (www.ddconsult.com)
What's Next: For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum (New York Times)
SCO flops in DaimlerChrysler Unix lawsuit (news.com)
Richard Stallman: Builder AU: Program (www.builderau.com.au)
Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? (Wired)
Listen to the flip side (The Guardian)
Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET and Java (www.onjava.com)
SCO loses first anti-Linux lawsuit (www.desktoplinux.com)
Holistic Design: PalmOne Tungsten T3 Case Study (www.asktog.com)
GUI now too complex — Longhorn designer (computerworld.co.nz)
Myth: There aren't any commercial apps written in Java. (weblogs.java.net)
The World of Java printing (www.logemann.org)
Sun ponders Solaris for Power, Itanium (news.com)
Identifying Compromised Websites (InfoWorld)
GNOME 2.6 Usability Study and Review (www.userinstinct.com)
Basic Training Doesn't Guard Against Insurance Pitch to G.I.'s (New York Times)
Sun to build servers on Rock in 2008 (news.com)
Our lies led us into war (The Guardian)
HP memo forecasts MS patent attacks on free software (www.newsforge.com)
Sun's Gosling: New Java Flavors Brewing (www.eweek.com)
Elliotte doesn't like Groovy or my work (radio.weblogs.com)
Tiny Agency's Iraq Analysis Is Better Than Big Rivals' (New York Times)
Are Mac Users Smarter Than PC Users? (www.linuxinsider.com)
Germany to drop 9/11 plot charges (The Guardian)
Sun: A CEO's Last Stand (www.businessweek.com)
Dress Code May Hinder Their Work, Air Marshals Say (New York Times)
JBoss airs expansion plans (news.com)
Sun desktop software exec moving to Linux specialist (news.com)
Microsoft: Sun deal unsigned; Feds look at Longhorn (news.com)
Apache's Maven Comes of Age (Internet News)
The Chronicle: 7/9/2004: Is There a Science Crisis? Maybe Not (chronicle.com)
MSNBC - They Might Be Onto Something (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Java Developers Aren't Buying Sun's Tools Pitch (java.ittoolbox.com)
Failure Is Not an Option, It's Mandatory (New York Times)
Irish police planted bogus IRA weapons (The Guardian)
Letter to Warner Brothers: A Night in Casablanca -- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (www.chillingeffects.org)
Small Values of Cool: Eclipse: Mark Occurrences (www.brunningonline.net)
Dichotomy's Purgatory: Perl/Java Programmers (www.alpha-geek.com)
Software That Lasts 200 Years (www.bricklin.com)
Microsoft finds more 'critical' flaws in Windows (news.com)
Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace (The Register)
A faster alternative to batchtest with JUnit in Ant (www.wrytradesman.com)
Radio ID cards track Japanese pupils (The Guardian)
iPod undermines Microsoft on copy-locked CDs (news.com)
why we dropped java web start (www.dynamicobjects.com)
Java Issues & Directions (mindview.net)
Court refuses to lift California e-voting restrictions (news.com)
Of perf degradation with try-finallies and poor VM option docs ... (www.me.umn.edu)
The Doctor Is In (java.sun.com)
Java pulling ahead? Java versus C++ benchmarks (www.idiom.com)
DrunkenBlog: Rich Wareham of Desktop Manager (www.drunkenblog.com)
Automatic Backups with rsync and Anacron (linuxgazette.net)
The customer is always right? Not anymore (www.sfgate.com)
Intelligence: C.I.A. Held Back Iraqi Arms Data, U.S. Officials Say (New York Times)
Virtual Camp Trains Soldiers in Arabic, and More (New York Times)
WHERE'S THE CHICKEN? (weblogs.java.net)
You've heard of the flights, but would you buy a no frills CD? (The Guardian)
Iraq gets fraction of US aid billions (The Guardian)
ex post javaone (weblogs.java.net)
McNealy at JavaOne: "Somebody Has to Be in Charge of Java, or No One Is." (www.sys-con.com)
Is Java Bigger than Sun? - The Java Ecosystem Debates the Future of Java (www.linuxworld.com)
Al Jazeera: Out-Foxing Fox (New York Times)
Sun wrestles with open-source Java (news.com)
Eclipse 3.0 by the numbers (eclipse.org)
JDBC 4.0 is a tigress (weblogs.java.net)
Defense bill could stifle computer trade (news.com)
The latest and greatest from Jini-land (weblogs.java.net)
Sun puts Java into gear for cars (news.com)
Reality Intrudes on Promises in Rebuilding of Iraq (New York Times)
In F.B.I., Innocent Detainee Found Unlikely Ally (New York Times)
Apple @ JavaOne (weblogs.java.net)
Sun's Kitty Hawk aims high (news.com)
European cell carriers get some Sun (news.com)
Java desktop wins over major bank (news.com)
Sun's McNealy swings at rivals (news.com)
JavaOne Jini session MUCH larger than I expected... (weblogs.java.net)
EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired)
Tiger's Children (weblogs.java.net)
Airlines win Wi-Fi management battle with airports (www.computerweekly.com)
Sun puts Java into gear for cars (news.com)
Solar to Keep Army on the Go (Wired)
Microsoft to Offer Streamlined Products Aimed at Programmers (New York Times)
Justices Affirm Legal Rights of 'Enemy Combatants' (New York Times)
The multibillion robbery the US calls reconstruction (The Guardian)
Jini Network Technology Fulfilling its Promise (java.sun.com)
Sun Dabbles in Open Source (Wired)
The Trillion-Barrel Tar Pit (Wired)
Virus Designed to Steal Windows Users' Data (TechNews.com) (Washington Post)
The It Depends What the Meaning of 'Liberal' Is (New York Times)
For Young Gays on the Streets, Survival Comes Before Pride (New York Times)
The Fear Factor: In an Age of Terror, Safety Is Relative (New York Times)
The Pragmatic Programmers Interview (www.onlamp.com)
The Tools and the Trade: A Conversation with James Gosling (java.sun.com)
::Java class literals:: (members.capmac.org)
The Unexpected Newborn Adult (weblogs.java.net)
Preview of Sun Java Studio Creator (www.osnews.com)
Open Source Initiative OSI - Doc11:Halloween Documents (www.opensource.org)
JWSDP 1.4 is out! (weblogs.java.net)
Sun raves about $99 developer tool plan (news.com)
Eclipse to buzz BEA's Java Beehive (news.com)
Sun to push developer package, Opteron (news.com)
Penal Law: Legal Scholars Criticize Memos on Torture (New York Times)
JDNC Overview (jdnc.dev.java.net)
Author of '02 Memo on Torture: 'Gentle' Soul for a Harsh Topic (New York Times)
Digging for E-Voting Skulduggery (Wired)
More False Information From TSA (Wired)
Bush memos show stance on torture (The Guardian)
Intelligence Insider: Book by C.I.A. Officer Says U.S. Is Losing Fight Against Terror (New York Times)
When Think Tanks Attack (www.cse.unsw.edu.au)
Apache Leader: Berkeley DB Java Edition Eases Hand-Rolling (www.eweek.com)
Democrat shrink takes unflattering look into depths of Bush (The Guardian)
Court: Names Must Be Revealed (Wired)
Theft probe nets luggage screeners at airport (www.nola.com)
JGrid: Jini as a Grid Technology (www.clustercomputing.org)
My new opensource project: Flying Saucer, an all Java XHTML renderer (weblogs.java.net)
Pentagon Seeks U.S. Spy Powers (Wired)
House Rejects Extra Security Aid to High-Risk Cities (New York Times)
France eyes la vie en open source (news.com)
re we ready for when the oil runs out? (The Guardian)
Hiding Behind Certification - Making I.T. Work (www.cio.com)
Antipiracy bill targets technology (news.com)
GC Portal (java.sun.com)
Prisoners: Rumsfeld Admits He Told Jailers to Keep Detainee in Iraq Out of Red Cross View (New York Times)
Questioning Nearly Every Aspect of the Responses to Sept. 11 (New York Times)
Mozilla (cpp.student.utwente.nl)
Java pulling ahead? Java versus C++ benchmarks (www.idiom.com)
International conference targets Internet hate speech (www.cnn.com)
Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte (www.businessweek.com)
Contractor Indicted in Afghan Detainee's Beating (New York Times)
CompUSA Can Retract Extended Service Plan (www.gripe2ed.com)
Don't Make me Eat the Elephant Again (today.java.net)
Prison Abuse: Rumsfeld Issued an Order to Hide Detainee in Iraq (New York Times)
CLEARly muddying the fight against terror (news.com)
Judge Scolds U.S. Officials Over Barring Jet Travelers (New York Times)
Java vs C++ "Shootout" Revisited (www.sys-con.com)
Fixing or Nixing the Fax Laws? (Wired)
State Sets Standard for E-Voting (Wired)
Writing with XML (martinfowler.com)
Friends of T. Rex? (New York Times)
Travesty of Justice (New York Times)
British soldiers face abuse court martial (The Guardian)
Women Vote for Paper Trail (Wired)
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Internet News)
Wired News: The Son of Patriot Act Also Rises (Wired)
Wired News: Florida Faces Election Fracas (Wired)
Wired News: Clean Cars Lean on Dirty Old Gas (Wired)
Red Cross ultimatum to US on Saddam (The Guardian)
Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw (news.yahoo.com)
Why Users Blame the Spatial Nautilius (osnews.com)
Java feed readers? (www.dehora.net)
Diversity Plan Shaped in Texas Is Under Attack (New York Times)
Errors Are Seen in Early Attacks on Iraqi Leaders (New York Times)
Get the New SaverBeans Screensaver Pack (java.sun.com)
A Troubling Dissent (New York Times)
Making Votes Count: The Disability Lobby and Voting (New York Times)
League of Women Voters Is Split on Paperless Computer Voting Systems (New York Times)
Sun's Java Desktop System 2 is No Improvement (www.osnews.com)
User exchanges: It's good to share (news.com)
Physician, Turn Thyself In (New York Times)
An American in The Hague? (New York Times)
U.S. to EU on software patents: 'We sold out, you should too' (trends.newsforge.com)
Feds want e-voting source code disclosed (news.com)
Step Aside TiVo, Here Comes Freevo (story.news.yahoo.com)
Tuning Garbage Collection with the 1.4.2 Java Virtual Machine (java.sun.com)
Rules of Success. #1: Sweat Equity is the best equity! (www.blogmaverick.com)
Suicide by Pseudoscience (Wired)
Hotel Key Cards That Are Encrypted With Your Secrets. Or Maybe Not. (New York Times)
Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush (New York Times)
Sexual Humiliation: Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as a Pervasive Pattern, Not Isolated Incidents (New York Times)
'Father of the computer' honoured (BBC)
Manchester honours Alan Turing (The Register)
JavaDesktop: The JDIC Project (javadesktop.org)
Diebold Bans Political Donations (Wired)
Why the FCC should die (news.com)
Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow by Jeff Reifman (www.seattleweekly.com)
Beating Specialist Baker (New York Times)
Spain and U.S. at Odds on Mistaken Terror Arrest (New York Times)
Cold Turkey (In These Times)
Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic (Wired)
American homeland security (The Guardian)
Sun: No decision on open source Java (InfoWorld)
Three Minutes: Godfathers of the Spreadsheet (www.pcworld.com)
Preaching to the Anti-Corp Choir (Wired)
Smarter Than the CEO (Wired)
RMI, Dynamic Proxies, and the Evolution of Deployment (today.java.net)
Sun to open-source Java (ZDNet)
An open-source call to arms (news.com)
Sun adds Java tools to RFID menu (news.com)
Organized: Local 226, 'the Culinary,' Makes Las Vegas the Land of the Living Wage (New York Times)
The New York Times > Science > NASA Weighs Robot Mission to Telescope (New York Times)
Simple passwords no longer suffice (www.cnn.com)
Sun to expand unusual pricing model (news.com)
Sun warms to open source for Solaris (news.com)
The Little Engine That Could (PBS)
'Too nice' Guantanamo chief sacked (BBC)
The Secrets of Surveillance (www.counterpunch.org)
Drivers Want Code to Their Cars (Wired)
Stallman: Accusatory Report Deliberately Confuses (www.linuxinsider.com)
E-Vote Printers' High-Stakes Test (Wired)
'Pirate Act' raises civil rights concerns (news.com)
Lawmaker tones down anti-Gmail bill (news.com)
Mac OS fix fails to plug security hole (news.com)
Area 51 hackers dig up trouble (www.securityfocus.com)
WEAPONS OF MASS PHOTOGRAPHY (www.southernillinoisan.com)
Wired News: Wartime Wireless Worries Pentagon (Wired)
Java Sketchbook: The HTML Renderer Shootout, Part 1 (today.java.net)
Human rights climate 'worst in 50 years' (The Guardian)
Friends Invent Best Seller From Renaissance Tale (New York Times)
About the Finder... (arstechnica.com)
The Rise of Interface Elegance in Open Source Software (osdir.com)
Thirty Years With Computers (www.useit.com)
MBTA set to begin passenger ID stops (www.boston.com)
TechEd 2004, Day 02 (weblogs.java.net)
Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies (news.com)
Failing to Disband Militias, U.S. Moves to Accept Them (New York Times)
Bomb Case Against Oregon Lawyer Is Rejected (New York Times)
Usenix president: Linux needs better paper trail (searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com)
Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government' (www.sacbee.com)
Cooper: Can Programmers Do Interaction Design? (www.cooper.com)
'I will always hate you people' (The Guardian)
U.S. Disputed Protected Status of Iraq Inmates (New York Times)
Michael Moore's Candid Camera (New York Times)
Iraqi-Born Swede Says U.S. Returned Him to Prison for No Reason (New York Times)
Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for Electronic Votes (New York Times)
Using JDK 1.5 features on Mac OS X (homepage.mac.com)
Monsanto Prevails in Patent Fight (Wired)
'Stranger danger' drive harms kids (The Guardian)
Iraqis lose right to sue troops over war crimes (The Guardian)
Tiny Linux startup sees through HP-Dell "Recycle" scheme (www.linuxdevices.com)
First look: Sun Java Desktop System Release 2 (www.linux.com)
Diebold knew of legal risks (www.oaklandtribune.com)
Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle (www.cs.vu.nl)
Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle (followup) (www.cs.vu.nl)
Yet more photos of US brutality published (The Guardian)
Database Tagged 120,000 as Possible Terrorist Suspects (New York Times)
Detainees: Pentagon Approved Intense Interrogation Techniques for Sept. 11 Suspect at Guantánamo (New York Times)
Geneva Conventions: Justice Memos Explained How to Skip Prisoner Rights (New York Times)
Cellular automata and music (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Mac Hole Has Users, Hackers Abuzz (Wired)
New photos show Abu Ghraib abuse (The Guardian)
Thriving Bald Eagle Finding Its Way Off Endangered List (New York Times)
THE GRAY ZONE (www.newyorker.com)
The Hawks Loudly Express Their Second Thoughts (New York Times)
Linus Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux (LinuxWorld) (www.linuxworld.com)
Frogs and Fish: Not the Best of Friends (New York Times)
Interrogations: M.P.'s Received Orders to Strip Iraqi Detainees (New York Times)
EU hands over data on air travellers (The Guardian)
Children of Bush's America (The Guardian)
Nielsen Rating System At Odds With RIAA's Claim Of "Lost Sales (www.kensei-news.com)
Getting Naked for Big Brother (Wired)
Data Scant for Watchlist Usage (Wired)
Did Rumsfeld OK Prison Tactics? (Wired)
Election-Year Shuffle on the Minimum Wage (New York Times)
Saving Private England (New York Times)
The Accused: Prison Guard Calls Abuse Routine and Sometimes Amusing (New York Times)
Customers await Sun-Microsoft integration (news.com)
Cryptic Code Stumps Experts (www.cbsnews.com)
If it quacks like a tax ... it probably isn't (www.msnbc.msn.com)
US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp (The Guardian)
IBM Dreams of Pushing Microsoft Off the Desktop and Stomping its Clinging Fingers (www.linuxworld.com)
Dabber exploits Sasser flaw (The Register)
AOP and annotations: just say no (beust.com)
Introduction to Multicasting (freshmeat.net)
Mirror editor sacked over hoax (The Guardian)
UBL 1.0 (www.tbray.org)
Documents Show U.S. Relationship With Nazis During Cold War (New York Times)
Nanny knows best (The Guardian)
Psychology: Pressure to Go Along With Abuse Is Strong, but Some Soldiers Find Strength to Refuse (New York Times)
Scratch Refactoring (weblogs.java.net)
When to release (weblogs.java.net)
ACLU Was Forced to Revise Release on Patriot Act Suit (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post)
How can America get out of Iraq? Part 2 (The Guardian)
Open Source Revolution (www.canada.com)
Interview with Brother Guy Consolmagno : (www.astrobio.net)
Egyptian Linux Advocates' Replies (interviews.slashdot.org)
Bill Aims To Scale Back Controversial Copyright Act (www.informationweek.com)
Get the message: Messaging in J2EE 1.4 (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Trouble in Tablet Land? (www.microsoft-watch.com)
How can America get out of Iraq? (The Guardian)
An Afghan Gives His Own Account of U.S. Abuse (New York Times)
Code Inspection (carlsbadcubes.com)
Browser Hijackers Ruining Lives (Wired)
Tourists and Torturers (New York Times)
Inspectors: Red Cross Found Abuses at Abu Ghraib Last Year (New York Times)
Online intrusions more than criminal (www.boston.com)
Roemer: 9/11 report will be revealing (www.southbendtribune.com)
Red Cross Says Military Explained Abuse as `Part of Process' (quote.bloomberg.com)
Pixel Peepers (luminous-landscape.com)
IBM plans Web-based desktop software (news.com)
Rejected iPod Engravings (www.methodshop.com)
Cats (www.swapmeetdave.com)
Arrest in Bombing Inquiry Was Rushed, Officials Say (New York Times)
The SCO Group Receives From Royal Bank of Canada Notice of Conversion and Transfer of Shares of Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock (biz.yahoo.com)
SCO Shrinks as Other Linux Companies Expand (www.linuxinsider.com)
SCO Group lays off 12 S.C. workers (www.santacruzsentinel.com)
UK forces taught torture methods (The Guardian)
When It Comes to Selling Virtual Property, PayPal Isn't Always Your Pal (PBS)
James Gosling makes silly Linux comment (joust.kano.net)
Interrogation Methods in Iraq Aren't All Found in Manual (New York Times)
Photos of Dead May Indicate Graver Abuse (New York Times)
FBI investigates underground tunnel requests (www.dailytexanonline.com)
Nato force 'feeds Kosovo sex trade' (The Guardian)
CDs, DVDs: Human After All (Wired)
E-Voting Commission Gets Earful (Wired)
$50 MILLION IN ROYALTIES RETURNS TO ARTISTS (www.oag.state.ny.us)
Poles apart (The Guardian)
DRM 'will be cracked' says iTunes hacker (The Register)
Mike Gunderloy's Coder to Developer (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Army Discloses Criminal Inquiry on Prison Abuse (New York Times)
SCO cuts jobs to reach product profit (news.com)
Record Industry Wants Still More (Wired)
Business Buys Into Fuel Cells (Wired)
Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush (New York Times)
Fallout from Alleged Prisoner Abuse in Iraq (PBS)
Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft (news.com)
Irish gov't says, 'No source code, no e-voting' (www.newsforge.com)
Military Defenders for Detainees Put Tribunals on Trial (New York Times)
Right Face, March! (New York Times)
The New York Times > Science > Hollywood Star's Wartime Secret Becomes a Screenplay (New York Times)
Contract Workers Implicated in February Army Report on Prison Abuse Remain on the Job (New York Times)
Sun considers GPL license for Solaris (InfoWorld)
Big Brother to Watch Over Island (Wired)
Army Punishes 7 With Reprimands for Prison Abuse (New York Times)
OSeven Low-Cost Ways to Improve Legacy Code (www.onjava.com)
Former diplomats attack Bush (The Guardian)
Star US banker faces jail after guilty verdict (The Guardian)
Jython (www.tbray.org)
U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist (news.com)
Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight (New York Times)
Secret Warrant Requests Increased in 2003 (New York Times)
Give It Up: Info for Protection (Wired)
Torture commonplace, say inmates' families (The Guardian)
Westerners flee as Saudi terrorists kill six (The Guardian)
George Monbiot: Their beliefs are bonkers (The Guardian)
Officer Suggests Iraq Jail Abuse Was Encouraged (New York Times)
Voting Software Firm Gets Sued (Wired)
Shock new details of torture by US troops (The Guardian)
Speed Bump While Moore's Law Isn't About to be Repealed Soon, We Might See It Slowing Down a Little (PBS)
MacGimp (www.wpdfd.com)
California Bans E-Vote Machines (Wired)
Mutiny is the only way out of Iraq's inferno (The Guardian)
British troops in torture scandal (The Guardian)
Silicon Insider: Sun Microsystems (abcnews.go.com)
F.B.I. Got Records on Air Travelers (New York Times)
Armament: A Full Range of Technology Is Applied to Bomb Falluja (New York Times)
File-swapping gets supercharged on student network (news.com)
People in the Open World: Stacey Quandt, Industry Analyst, Quandt Analytics (www-1.ibm.com)
MSNBC - ACLU battles FBI over ISP customer data (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed (www.cbsnews.com)
US military in torture scandal (The Guardian)
Rebate Bait (www.gripe2ed.com)
Geek Trivia: Riders of the storm (techrepublic.com.com)
sAustralia's leading job search and career website. (it.seek.com.au)
Let's talk about Word (weblogs.asp.net)
Merill Fernando's Web Log - What Anyone works in IT should remember every day (www.merill.net)
Shadow Protest (www.shadowprotest.org)
ITunes Birthday Gift: More Songs (Wired)
RIAA Sues 477 More People (Wired)
Open Source portabilit (weblogs.java.net)
Real Dialogue: The Tech interviews Jack Valenti (www-tech.mit.edu)
Russian site is music to the ears (smh.com.au)
Saving Ali (The Guardian)
Secret Justice: Terror Suspect's Path From Streets to Brig (New York Times)
Extinct List for Species Says Hawaii Had the Most (New York Times)
Praise God and Pass the Music Files (New York Times)
Sun's Second Java Desktop System Slated for May Release (www.eweek.com)
Gay row dean attacks prejudice in church (The Guardian)
Fast track for ID cards (The Guardian)
Diebold May Face Criminal Charges (Wired)
Oracle delivers simplified Java tools (news.com)
java.net: Is an avalanche coming? (weblogs.java.net)
Sun ousts top server executives (news.com)
JSR 133 in Public Review (today.java.net)
Convictions Dropped for Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay (New York Times)
Marines to inform reservist of probe into Internet photograph (www.marinetimes.com)
Clearing Up The Confusion (Wired)
War Games: Pentagon Rejected Pre-9/11 Hijacking Exercise (New York Times)
No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture (New York Times)
Bush May Accept West Bank Plan (New York Times)
The rise of Sun services (news.com)
Feds seek limits on wiretap costs (news.com)
Fundamental issues with open source software development (firstmonday.org)
Sun plots Java comeback (news.com)
Data Disclosure Contradicts Feds (Wired)
Death by UML Fever - Are you (or your developers) sick? (www.acmqueue.com)
Free but shackled: The Java trap (programming.newsforge.com)
Xfree86 turns 4.4.0 (www.theinquirer.net)
XFree86 gets underwhelmed by Linux distro support (www.theinquirer.net)
Microsoft: Not enough XPerienced PCs (news.com)
Exceptionally speaking, that is (udidahan.weblogs.us)
Anti-U.S. Outrage Unites a Growing Iraqi Resistance (New York Times)
'The Shame' That Lincoln Steffens Found Has Not Left Our Country (New York Times)
Diversity's False Solace (New York Times)
Now Blunkett plans to jail friends of terrorist suspects (The Guardian)
Will HDTV antipiracy plan unplug digital networks? (news.com)
Sun kills UltraSparc V, Gemini chips (news.com)
Tracking the blackout bug (www.securityfocus.com)
Java to gain multitasking improvements (InfoWorld)
Insanely Destructive Devices (Wired)
Face value (www.economist.com)
Suicide on Web site prompts calls for controls (news.com)
Millions more for Sun from Microsoft patent pact? (news.com)
Downloading music gets more expensive (www.azcentral.com)
Suit Contests Military Trials of Detainees at Cuba Base (New York Times)
For the IRS There's No EZ Fix - business unit accountability critical to complex project; costs of ever-changing project leadership; Lessons from IRS's failures (www.cio.com)
Inside the bubble (The Guardian)
Apple As Innovator (www.oreillynet.com)
IDE project system based on Apache Ant (www.javalobby.org)
Sing or be sacked (The Guardian)
Arrests key win for NSA hackers (www.globetechnology.com)
Administration wages war on pornography (www.baltimoresun.com)
Travelers Feel Pressure at Car Rental Counters (New York Times)
Sun's Java prince refuses Redmond relocation (The Register)
Stealth DSL price increases loom (news.com)
The battle the US wants to provoke (The Guardian)
The Myth of the Secure Operating System (www.technewsworld.com)
Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft (The Register)
He said what? McNealy's war of words (news.com)
VoIP's broadband bottleneck (news.com)
Cox closes wiretap hole for VoIP (news.com)
Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry (Wired)
Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws (Wired)
Google is watching you (The Guardian)
Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war (The Guardian)
I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes (The Independent)
Oracle's patch issuance policy: bad (www.e2ksecurity.com)
US-Visit Spares No One (Wired)
Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit (Wired)
Timing is Everything (PBS)
Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffs (news.com)
Ronco Spray-On Usability (daringfireball.net)
How to design Good APIs and Why they Matter (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Practical NIO (www.jroller.com)
Eclipse M8 Thoughts... (jroller.com)
Sun: Door still open on open source Java (InfoWorld)
Sun plans Solaris subscription pricing (news.com)
House panel approves copyright bill (news.com)
Wal-Mart sells PCs with Sun's Linux (news.com)
SpecificationByExample (martinfowler.com)
One Step Beyond (diary.recoil.org)
Sun to hand out Web-ready Java tool (news.com)
TURNER'S VIEWPOINT: Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard? (LinuxWorld) (www.linuxworld.com)
Music sharing doesn't kill CD sales, study says (news.com)
'He is not guilty and he is not innocent' (The Guardian)
Human-Oriented Architecture (www.artima.com)
NASA Test Jet Hits 5,000 Mph (Wired)
If You're Going To Localize, Localize Properly - John Topley's Weblog (www.johntopley.com)
NASA Seeks New Frontier in Jet Engines (New York Times)
FBI up for private screens (www.washtimes.com)
Six barriers to open source adoption (techupdate.zdnet.com)
Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P (Wired)
The Value of an Open Java (weblogs.java.net)
The Long Strange Trip to Java (www.blinkenlights.com)
SecurityFocus HOME News: Would-be whistleblower indicted for keyboard tap (www.securityfocus.com)
Running scared (The Guardian)
Suing Customers Operation (www.gripe2ed.com)
Open-source Java doesn't mean incompatibility (joust.kano.net)
Branching open-source software: a bad thing? (weblogs.java.net)
The Wrong Stuff (www.nybooks.com)
Hewlett-Packard to Launch Linux-Based PCs Globally (www.reuters.co.uk)
EU set to agree sweeping counter-terror policies (The Guardian)
Sun’s McNealy: Java won’t be open source (gcn.com)
Newly Released Documents Shed Light on Microsoft Tactics (New York Times)
EU slaps record fine on Microsoft (news.com)
IBM bets on software development technique (news.com)
LXer: Java Desktop crashes during Sun's CEO keynote at CTIA (lxer.com)
Three's allowed (The Guardian)
Top Ten Tomcat Configuration Tips (www.onjava.com)
Army Rebukes Muslim Chaplain Over Adultery and Pornography (New York Times)
Ex-Bush Aide Sets Off Debate as 9/11 Hearing Opens (New York Times)
Driving to Laptopia (www.ssc.com)
Passport to nowhere? (news.com)
How to Argue about Typing (mindview.net)
Chomsky backs 'Bush-lite' Kerry (The Guardian)
9/11 hijackers could have been stopped, says ex-aide (The Guardian)
Gravity Rules: The Nature of Planethood (www.spacedaily.com)
What I learned at SD Expo West 2004 (weblogs.java.net)
The UN Is Not A Morality Play (english.mehrnews.com)
Bush ignored terror threat, claims ex-aide (The Guardian)
Free, as in for Profit (www.sdtimes.com)
Open-Source Java Now (www.sdtimes.com)
Community VS. Company (www.sdtimes.com)
Type Safety and IDEs (www.scruffles.net)
Will's Weblog (www.cascadetg.com)
Low Labor Standard Leads South Africans to Export Jobs (New York Times)
Wrong Turn (www.vanderburg.org)
Test Driven Design: some myths as to why it shouldn't be used (www.jnsk.se)
"Century City" Premiers On CBS As Futuristic Legal Drama (www.sciscoop.com)
Overreaction (www.russellbeattie.com)
Election ad 'plays on fear of Arabs' (The Guardian)
This creeping sickness (The Guardian)
Briton accuses American captors (The Guardian)
Lost E-Votes Could Flip Napa Race (Wired)
Wisconsin, New York Unplug Matrix (Wired)
FBI adds to wiretap wish list (news.com)
The new Pentagon papers (Salon)
Prints of Darkness (PBS)
Why Sugar Pills Cure Some Ills (Wired)
Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (www.onlamp.com)
Q&A: Raymond Expounds on Open Letter to Sun, McNealy (www.eweek.com)
MS moves to purge Lindash from Benelux (The Register)
Reflection on Tiger (today.java.net)
UWYN's blog: The dangers of auto-unboxing (www.uwyn.com)
YAGNI (www.artima.com)
Text Files: Computing's Internal Combustion Engine (www.cardboard.nu)
RE: JCP 2.6 - Are we there yet? (linuxintegrators.com)
The world's two worst variable names (www.oreillynet.com)
Army to Gates: Halt the free software (news.com)
Generics Aren't (mindview.net)
Britain Frees 5 Citizens Sent Home From U.S. Jail (New York Times)
JCP 2.6 Evolution: New Process Released (www.theserverside.com)
Hope crumbles in Rafah as homes are ground to dust (The Guardian)
Britain bows to US boycott of war crime court (The Guardian)
Returning Guantanamo detainees face days of questioning (The Guardian)
Programmers So Far Underwhelmed by JSF (Internet News)
7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots (news.yahoo.com)
Contract-Driven Development (www.artima.com)
Effective Java Programming Language Guide: Random Thoughts (java.sun.com)
SCO's failing case against IBM (news.com)
Defying Psychiatric Wisdom, These Skeptics Say ’Prove It’ (New York Times)
On the Road: Biting Back at Barking Security Agents (New York Times)
Ex-President in Mexico Casts New Light on Rigged 1988 Election (New York Times)
RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them (www.prisonplanet.com)
EE Times - Euro bank notes to embed RFID chips by 2005 (www.eetimes.com)
Linux for Suits: Showtime (linuxjournal.com)
Job Security You Can Buy (Wired)
SoftwareDevelopmentAttitude (martinfowler.com)
Java as an interruption (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
View from the Trenches: Looking at Thread-Dumps (dev2dev.bea.com)
Five held Britons to arrive home today (The Guardian)
Sun Adopts RSS (www.eweek.com)
Microsoft, SCO have a lot more explaining to do (www.newsforge.com)
Why Linux? Why Debian? (people.debian.org)
davidflanagan.com: Java 1.5 Enum Line Noise (www.davidflanagan.com)
Official Tells of Investigation Into Mad Cow Discrepancies (New York Times)
Lawless US troops are killing and abusing Afghans, rights body says (The Guardian)
Relatives of Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay Tell of Anger and Sadness at Detentions (New York Times)
Paedophiles could be barred from net (The Guardian)
Sun Microsystems Debt Cut to ’Junk’ (New York Times)
Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp (The Guardian)
TWiki . Javapedia . AlwaysUseStringBufferMisconception (wiki.java.net)
Crossing the threshold (www.bostonphoenix.com)
Java Swing Survival Guide - Software Reality (www.softwarereality.com)
9/11 families disgusted by Bush ads (www.reuters.co.uk)
Software Development Blog: JBoss Hell: Population You (www.stoddardtech.com)
Leaked Memo Revives SCO-Microsoft Connection Furor (www.eweek.com)
Document shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofA (news.com)
TDD: Tension, Release, and Generalization (weblogs.java.net)
How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web (New York Times)
Open Source Initiative OSI - Doc10:Halloween Documents (www.opensource.org)
Spitzer’s Opinion Mixed on Status of Gay Marriage (New York Times)
SCO Launches Dual Legal Attacks (Wired)
Snafus Aplenty in E-Voting (Wired)
Need Stem Cells? We Got 'Em (Wired)
Wired 12.03: Some Like It Hot (Wired)
Cannibals Descend on MP3 Players (Wired)
Senators: Hands Off Kids' Data (Wired)
My day as an election judge (www.avirubin.com)
God Hates Shrimp (godhatesshrimp.com)
E-Vote Glitches Found in Election (Wired)
Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine (Wired)
David Kay's final report (The Guardian)
Did Your Vote Count? New Coded Ballots May Prove It Did (New York Times)
Macromedia Flash effort does slow burn (news.com)
Microsoft cuts prices for Malaysia (news.com)
Bioethics Shuffle Ignites Outcry (Wired)
I want to bomb the real world into oblivion (linuxintegrators.com)
A First Look at JSR 166: Concurrency Utilities (today.java.net)
Javapedia . ClassPath (wiki.java.net)
IBM releases new Java structure analysis tool (www.newsforge.com)
Microsoft ends 'unfair' contract (BBC)
Mars: A Water World? Evidence Mounts, But Scientists Remain Tight-Lipped (www.space.com)
Adapt the Java style for your own (weblogs.java.net)
What to think about before getting your eyes lasered (LASIK) (www.hanselman.com)
Mac Word 6.0 (weblogs.asp.net)
A Frenchman or a Jew? (New York Times)
Harvard Says Poor Parents Won’t Have to Pay (New York Times)
Black day for capitalists (The Guardian)
Nick Paton Walsh on the rise of Putin (The Guardian)
Army chiefs feared Iraq war illegal just days before start (The Guardian)
Court: DeCSS ban violated free speech (news.com)
JDJ Readers are clearly out of touch (jroller.com)
Static Import Surprises (www.davidflanagan.com)
Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal Editing of the Enemy (New York Times)
Microsoft may bow to overseas price pressure (news.com)
Our most dangerous export (The Guardian)
Unit testing (tersesystems.com)
A Farm in Queens? For Now, Yes (New York Times)
One Producer of U.S. Beef Wants to Test All Its Cattle (New York Times)
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger (radio.weblogs.com)
Fighting for Right Not to Show ID (Wired)
The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (www.catb.org)
Weapons inspectors' phones 'bugged' (The Guardian)
Ask Joel - Pricing Products (discuss.fogcreek.com)
Rapes Reported by Servicewomen in the Persian Gulf and Elsewhere (New York Times)
UK spied on Kofi Annan (The Guardian)
Qantas Flight Reports (www.merill.net)
Beyond an Open Source Java (linuxtoday.com)
Sun's Sueltz shifts to Salesforce.com (news.com)
Microsoft faces antitrust probe in Japan (news.com)
Lawmakers Alarmed by RFID Spying (Wired)
Java theory and practice: Fixing the Java Memory Model, Part 1 (IBM DeveloperWorks)
IBM urges Sun to make Java open source (news.com)
Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse (news.com)
Revising SCBCD (www.revisingscbcd.co.uk)
Essay: When Your Doctor Goes to the Beach, You May Get Burned (New York Times)
U.S. Scientist Tells of Pressure to Lift Bans on Food Imports (New York Times)
Finding a way to fry spam (news.com)
California lawmaker introduces RFID bill (news.com)
U.S. Charges Two at Guantánamo With Conspiracy (New York Times)
Watson (weblogs.asp.net)
A Buyer's Guide to Code Coverage Terminology (www.testing.com)
How Catapults Married Sciences With Politics (New York Times)
A Lawyer’s Role Must Be Defined, and Also the Fees (New York Times)
Memo Pad: Airline Passengers May Face Hefty Fines (New York Times)
FBI Shutters Web Host (Carrier Hotels) (www.carrierhotels.com)
Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer (slashdot.org)
A Wall as a Weapon (New York Times)
Nader, Gadfly to the Democrats, Will Again Run for President (New York Times)
Hey, Gang, Let’s Make Our Own Supercomputer (New York Times)
U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools (news.yahoo.com)
Vegetarians vs. Atkins: Diet Wars Are Almost Religious (New York Times)
Now Preening on the Coffee Table: The TiVo Remote Control (New York Times)
Risking Death, 2 Afghan Women Collected and Detonated U.S. Cluster Bombs in 2001 (New York Times)
U.S. Payrolls Change Lives in Bangalore (New York Times)
The trouble with Rover is revealed (www.eetimes.com)
Sweeping new powers in UK war on terror (The Guardian)
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us (The Guardian)
To hell - and back (The Guardian)
Beijing Says Only ’Patriots’ Are Fit to Rule Hong Kong (New York Times)
Intelligence: C.I.A. Admits It Didn’t Give Weapon Data to the U.N. (New York Times)
Ex-Officer’s Book Attacks C.I.A. Legal Tactics (New York Times)
Last Bastion Of the Old Way - obfuscation vs reverse engineering (www.livejournal.com)
BEA's Bosworth: The World Needs Simpler Java (www.eweek.com)
Students Stung As Computer Schools Shut (customwire.ap.org)
Look Me in the Eye (www.dw-world.de)
It's time you primates quit making a monkey out of me (www.smh.com.au)
Program shields anonymous flaw sleuths (news.com)
Troops accused on Iraq killings (The Guardian)
Mexico Seizes Official in ’Dirty War’ Case of 70’s (New York Times)
JBoss investment paves way for flotation (uk.news.yahoo.com)
SCO's Linux User Deadline Puts Lehman Brothers in Spotlight (www.cbronline.com)
Intel promises more speedy Linux releases (news.zdnet.co.uk)
Outsourcing: Danger to Privacy (Wired)
Bush feared court judgment, lawyers claim (The Guardian)
Guantanamo Britons emerge from their legal purgatory (The Guardian)
Serialization Throughput (c2.com)
Muslim Chaplain's Case Sparks Questions (abcnews.go.com)
Sun wins big with China Mobile Java gig (The Register)
Microsoft goes after Linux kernel downloaders? (www.linux.net.nz)
Abstraction and Efficiency (www.artima.com)
Open, Independent JCP? (weblogs.java.net)
Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance (IBM DeveloperWorks)
RIAA sued under gang laws (news.com)
Is there lightness after death? (The Guardian)
We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (www.kuro5hin.org)
Software Bug Contributed to Blackout (www.securityfocus.com)
Code attacks Windows vulnerability (news.com)
Exploit based on leaked Windows code released (www.securityfocus.com)
Move to Block California E-Vote (Wired)
U.S. Prosecutor Sues Ashcroft (www.cbsnews.com)
End of the peer show (The Guardian)
State's new technology gathers information to find tax cheats (www.boston.com)
Se habla open source? (news.com)
We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (www.kuro5hin.org)
To API designers/spec developers: pity those of us who have to LEARN this... (weblogs.java.net)
Groovy - Scripting for Java (www.ociweb.com)
Sun starts Solaris 10 salutations (The Register)
The Computer Ate My Vote (Wired)
Warning: Microsoft 'Monoculture' (Wired)
Writing Genx (www.tbray.org)
Talking Tiger, generically speaking (madbean.com)
Cell jammers declare war with signal (www.chron.com)
GNOME if you want to (www.computerworld.com.au)
The Next Move in Programming: A Conversation with Sun's Victoria Livschitz (java.sun.com)
Coding from Scratch: A Conversation with Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier, Part One (java.sun.com)
ESR on Opening Java (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
British spy op wrecked peace move (The Guardian)
Scientists Advance Hydrogen Tech (Wired)
Sun plans Java ID cards for PCs (news.com)
Open letter to Sun: Let Java Go (www.catb.org)
Sun CEO: Open source is our friend (zdnet.com.com)
F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet (New York Times)
Intelligence: Stung by Exiles’ Role, C.I.A. Orders a Shift in Procedures (New York Times)
Cuba Detentions May Last Years (New York Times)
Continuous Integration (www.martinfowler.com)
What I Want To Know About Your Process (today.java.net)
200 days to fix a broken Windows (news.com)
Sun to buy Opteron server maker, reclaim co-founder (news.com)
Sun Giving Away Hardware to Java Tools Subscribers (www.eweek.com)
Justice Dept. Seeks Hospitals’ Records of Some Abortions (New York Times)
Denying Crime, Cuba Prisoner Says He Drove for bin Laden (New York Times)
Human Clone Produces Stem Cells (Wired)
Freed Afghan, 15, Recalls a Year at Guantánamo (New York Times)
Wired News: Hubble Space Telescope: 1990-2007 (Wired)
10 Goto 10: Core Dumps are Coming to Tiger (www.laurentm.com)
Big enhancements to Crypto in JDK1.5 (talk.org)
Car-Rental Agencies Talk of Realistic ’Total Pricing’ (New York Times)
An Antiwar Forum in Iowa Brings Federal Subpoenas (New York Times)
U.S., Voicing Confidence, Ends Search for More Mad Cow Cases (New York Times)
Political Money Said to Sway Pension Investments (New York Times)
Insights into the .NET Architecture (www.artima.com)
JSR 166 Case Study: A Transparent Expert Group (jcp.org)
Some interesting files in the JDK1.5 beta javadoc (joust.kano.net)
Sharman to challenge court order (news.com)
Government agency exposes day-care data (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Cable modem hackers conquer the co-ax (The Register)
Md. Vote Machines Flawed, Consultant Says (story.news.yahoo.com)
E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots (Wired)
Microsoft developing new 'light' version of Win XP (www.bangkokpost.com)
Groking Enum (aka Enum<E extends Enum<E>>) (madbean.com)
Disney and Microsoft strike internet deal (The Guardian)
Report Questions Bush Plan for Hydrogen-Fueled Cars (New York Times)
’Out of Gas’: They’re Not Making More (New York Times)
Britain spied on UN allies over war vote (The Guardian)
Exception Handling in Web Applications (weblogs.java.net)
MyDoom Boom Boom (www.woodyswatch.com)
CLR Design Choices (www.artima.com)
How We Are Fighting the War on Terrorism / IDs and the illusion of security (www.sfgate.com)
Secret Obsessions at the Top (New York Times)
Assassinations Tear Into Iraq’s Educated Class (New York Times)
Michigan Dems Vote Online (Wired)
Why Europe Has No Taste for the Future (Wired)
Eclipse 3.0 to Get More Mature, Open Look (www.eweek.com)
Red Hat CTO: Can Eclipse End 'Java Apartheid'? (www.eweek.com)
EclipseCon 2004 Report (www.theserverside.com)
Free as in 'no job' (www.javageek.org)
ShardsO'Glass (www.shardsoglass.com)
Microsoft Lawyer to Be on Antitrust Panel (finance.lycos.com)
Floyd Norris: Help Grandparents of Rich Kids Now. Deal With Real Problems Later (New York Times)
Public Lives: Ex-Judge vs. the Government’s Law-Free Zone (New York Times)
Another Clash on a Judicial Nominee, but the Issue Is New (New York Times)
Playing with the Tiger: Measuring the size of your objects (weblogs.java.net)
MIPI raids Sharman Networks, Brilliant Digital Entertainment (ZDNet)
Turf wars on the Java front (techupdate.zdnet.com)
Unplugged interview: Sun software czar Jonathan Schwartz (techupdate.zdnet.com)
Pentagon Cancels Internet Voting System (news.yahoo.com)
Great Taste, Less Privacy (Wired)
Ban Urged on All Animal Protein for Cattle (New York Times)
Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off (New York Times)
What's Next: Protecting the Cellphone User’s Right to Hide (New York Times)
German Court Acquits Man Accused of Aiding 9/11 Attack (New York Times)
The Trouble with RFID (www.thenation.com)
J2SE 1.5 in a Nutshell (java.sun.com)
Last Hurrah for Stock Options (Wired)
Spyware cures may cause more harm than good (news.com)
Where Does Apple Go from Here? (workingknowledge.hbs.edu)
The SWIPE Toolkit (turbulence.org)
Travel Privacy Probe Spins Wheels (Wired)
Man Who Killed the Mad Cow Has Questions of His Own (New York Times)
US army was 'overcharged' for Kuwaiti camp meals (The Guardian)
Stacking the Deck Against Science (Wired)
Salon | 21st (Salon)
What's Bugging Ellen Ullman? (www.acm.org)
Ellen Ullman interview - Close to the Machine (www.stayfreemagazine.org)
Matrix Plan Fuels Privacy Fears (Wired)
Smartly load your properties (JavaWorld)
Antarctica's resources 'at risk' (BBC)
Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq (interviews.slashdot.org)
p2pnet.net (p2pnet.net)
The Farewell Dossier (New York Times)
Engineering geek names son version 2.0 (www.cnn.com)
Tune Recycler - Support Indie Music with the iTunes + Pepsi Super Bowl Promotion (tunerecycler.com)
Dossier program alarms Utahns (deseretnews.com)
Israel's 'execution' troops face death quiz (The Guardian)
Microsoft in human rights row (The Guardian)
The Mac lovers of Microsoft (seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Netherlands Nabs Nigeria Scammers (Wired)
Firm Posts Dip in E-Vote Sales (Wired)
Bipartisan Request Seeks Halt to Internet Voting (story.news.yahoo.com)
The Halliburton Shuffle (New York Times)
Veto Threatened on Bill to Restrict Powers Under Terrorism Law (New York Times)
Alpha Java geek returns (news.com)
3 Teenagers Are Released From Guantánamo and Sent Home (New York Times)
Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Weirder & Weirder (www.computerworld.com)
Making JUnit friendlier to AgileDox (joe.truemesh.com)
E-Vote Still Flawed, Experts Say (Wired)
Thinking on Mars: The Brains of NASA's Red Planet Rovers (www.space.com)
SecurityFocus HOME News: 'Warspying' San Francisco (www.securityfocus.com)
$4.5 Billion Award Set for Spill of Exxon Valdez (New York Times)
Generics in C#, Java, and C++ (www.artima.com)
Mood Ring Measured in Megahertz (Wired)
Microsoft shines more light on Longhorn (news.com)
Please Sir May I Have a Linker? (www.joelonsoftware.com)
If it went to the West End they'd call it Whitewash (The Guardian)
Attrition Security Rant: Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers (www.attrition.org)
The Eagle Is Grounded (Wired)
The art and science of software testing (InfoWorld)
The State of Perl (www.perl.com)
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: MacBasic (www.folklore.org)
Macintosh Stories: Round Rects Are Everywhere! (www.folklore.org)
Red Ink Realities (New York Times)
Built for the Arctic: A Species’ Splendid Adaptations (New York Times)
Panel Says a Deported Saudi Was Likely ’20th’ Hijacker (New York Times)
Who told Dean to scream for lock-down, TCPA computing? (The Register)
Court Rules Against Patriot Act (Wired)
Just Say 'No' to Record Labels (Wired)
Leak against this war (The Guardian)
Iraq war unjustified says human rights group (The Guardian)
Iraqi who gave MI6 45-minute claim says it was untrue (The Guardian)
Commons Collections 3.0 ha ha ha! (www.jroller.com)
Study used census information for terror profile (www.washingtontimes.com)
A Visit from the FBI (www.securityfocus.com)
Ex-Inspector Says C.I.A. Missed Disarray in Iraqi Arms Program (New York Times)
The Tyranny of Copyright? (New York Times)
Plans for Wireless Directory Raise Concerns About Privacy (New York Times)
Dean should come clean on privacy (news.com)
Risky E-Vote System to Expand (Wired)
Spam Law Generates Confusion (Wired)
Living with Britain's population timebomb (The Guardian)
Linuxworld 2004 (www.ninenines.org)
Providing Good Feedback for Bug Reporters (freshmeat.net)
Software patents 'threaten Linux' (BBC)
Chronicle of Acute PVR Disorder (isography.com)
Sun Java Desktop (www.oreillynet.com)
Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War, Departing Inspector States (New York Times)
Cosmic Rays, Who's Yer Daddy? (Wired)
With This Law, You Can Spam (Wired)
For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule (Wired)
Inspector Says WMD Are Vaporware (Wired)
IDEA 4.0 - Is It Worth The Money? (www.oreillynet.com)
Too late for two states? (The Guardian)
Of course the White House fears free elections in Iraq (The Guardian)
A Dozen Ways to Get the Testing Bug in the New Year (today.java.net)
Mars: water, river valleys, but was there life? (The Guardian)
New WMD blow for Blair (The Guardian)
ARCH ENEMY (www.nypost.com)
MF Bliki: VeryLowDefectProject (martinfowler.com)
Thick as a (Campaign) Plank (PBS)
Military Voting System Excoriated (Wired)
Virtual Cash Breeds Real Greed (Wired)
Linux Takes on the Windows Look (Wired)
Infiltration of files seen as extensive (www.boston.com)
RIAA Strikes Again at Traders (Wired)
Gay Marriage Poll Gets Annulled (Wired)
Tech firms fail to squelch database bill (news.com)
AOL tests caller ID for e-mail (news.com)
The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work (www.artima.com)
More on getters and setters (JavaWorld)
Microsoft gets boost in defense of case (www.boston.com)
NBC Offered Jackson Deal to Pre-empt Documentary Criticizing Him (New York Times)
Northwest Lands in Hot Water (Wired)
NASA's New Anti-Terrorism Mission (Wired)
SCO sues Novell over copyright claims (news.com)
Bush immigration plan could affect techies (news.com)
Bush wants Patriot Act renewed (news.com)
Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
Drug Companies Get Too Close for Med School’s Comfort (New York Times)
Using the Right Bait to Catch a Comet (New York Times)
'No blister agent' in Iraq shells (BBC)
11 Civilians Reported Killed In a U.S. Raid In Afghanistan (New York Times)
Arrest Startles Saleswomen of Sex Toys (New York Times)
The future of security (www.computerworld.com)
Spam Filters Grab Good With Bad (Wired)
Meat Stripper Gets Third Degree (Wired)
Hate mail (The Guardian)
Airline Gave Government Information on Passengers (New York Times)
In Protest, Professor Cancels Visit to the U.S. (New York Times)
Is Internet Voting A ’High-Tech Poll Tax’? (New York Times)
Brazilian Slums Seen as Pawns in Political Games (New York Times)
A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class (New York Times)
Workers Assail Night Lock-Ins by Wal-Mart (New York Times)
Sun Blade 1500 :: The Jem Report :: The Internet's Best Computer Review Site (www.thejemreport.com)
The Fishbowl: Testing private methods (don't do it) (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
Overly Mocked (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
Some Unit Testing Remarks (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
US sugar barons 'block global war on obesity' (The Guardian)
US stars hail Iraq war whistleblower (The Guardian)
Seeds of destruction (news.com)
NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom (New York Times)
Java Guru Speaks Out On Interoperable Tools Efforts (www.crn.com)
Search may be Microsoft's next target, court told (news.com)
Building bridges between P2P networks (news.com)
Open Source in Government: Newport News, Va. (linux.oreillynet.com)
Gamepad aims to build up muscle (BBC)
Diebold Gets Stay in California (Wired)
Who Gets It? (New York Times)
Java runs remote-controlled Mars rover (news.com)
Open Up a Can of Spam (Wired)
Server giant Sun narrows its loss (www.siliconvalley.com)
Fingerprinting Visitors Won't Offer Security (www.newsday.com)
HP declares war on sharing culture (The Register)
First semester grades for J2ME MIDP 2.0 (www.burningdoor.com)
Oracle, Sun, BEA head list of vendors forming Java Tools Community (www.computerworld.com)
Out of Repression, Into Jail (New York Times)
Baghdad hotel killings result of 'criminal negligence', says media watchdog (The Guardian)
What have the Arabs ever done for us? (The Guardian)
A Taste of Our Own Poison (Wired)
MIDP 2.0 is just too much fun. (weblogs.java.net)
80/20 Point (www.tbray.org)
Yanks will see your tax data (cnews.canoe.ca)
Yahoo's Risky Antispam Gambit (businessweek.com)
A Swiss Woman Steps Forward Again to Aid Refugees (New York Times)
The Royal Scam (www.artima.com)
SCO, Novell publish Unix disputes (news.com)
Oracle chief weds romance novelist (www.siliconvalley.com)
Some Rental Cars are Keeping Tabs on the Drivers (New York Times)
Supreme Court Roundup: Justices Allow Policy of Silence on 9/11 Detainees (New York Times)
Rights issue dogs CD protection (news.com)
A networked strategy can defeat epidemics - if the world will let it. (Wired)
To Plan or Not To Plan (www.artima.com)
Electronic vote recount stumps Broward officials (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Overnight, a Towering Divide Rises in Jerusalem (New York Times)
New System for Air Security Moves Forward (New York Times)
Internet 6.0 (technologyreview.com)
Bush Sought to Oust Hussein From Start, Ex-Official Says (New York Times)
Niue may return to New Zealand rule (www.stuff.co.nz)
Prions: When Proteins Attack (Wired)
Copy No, No: Adobe and Uncle Sam (Wired)
Errant E-Mail Shames RFID Backer (Wired)
Make Your Mac a Monster Machine (www.asktog.com)
Top 10 Reasons the Apple Dock Sucks (www.asktog.com)
Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (www.asktog.com)
The Faulty Weapons Estimates (New York Times)
A New Order: Imagining Life Without Illegal Immigrants (New York Times)
Mustard gas found by Iraq weapon hunters (The Guardian)
DAWSON BELL: Dems' caucus rules erase the ease of Internet voting (www.freep.com)
Online voting will help Michigan Democrats (www.detnews.com)
Michigan’s Online Ballot Spurs New Strategies for Democrats (New York Times)
LA Weekly: News: Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets (www.laweekly.com)
Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes (Wired)
Racist war of the loyalist street gangs (The Guardian)
Diplomacy: Powell Admits No Hard Proof in Linking Iraq to Al Qaeda (New York Times)
Verisign Class 3 and Class 2 PCA Root Certificate Expiration (sunsolve.sun.com)
Bob Barr, Civil Libertarian. The right wing of the ACLU (www.reason.com)
U.S. Reasserts Right to Declare Citizens to Be Enemy Combatants (New York Times)
Things that could be different - Part 1: Exceptions (weblogs.java.net)
Eye on performance: Micro performance benchmarking (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Things I Wish I Had Time to Code in 2004 (kasparov.skife.org)
Laptop Fun (www.tbray.org)
Dress Is Formal, but the Food? Cold and Slimy (New York Times)
Companies stack PC games in console boxes (news.com)
Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 2 (today.java.net)
When a constant isn't really a constant (JavaWorld)
Breaking Java exception-handling rules is easy (JavaWorld)
JXPath to rescue! (weblogs.java.net)
Chronicle, writer reach settlement (www.sfgate.com)
Your bank account, your liberties — Banned by CENTCOM (www.warblogging.com)
Africa Quandary: Whites’ Land vs. the Landlessness of Blacks (New York Times)
The Rise of the Media Game (weblogs.java.net)
Watchdog Sues Music Labels (Wired)
Bush Grabs New Power for FBI (Wired)
2004 - the year Microsoft's prices bend, buckle or break? (The Register)
Forget your bank balance? It's available on the Internet (www.boston.com)
Communist Revival Worries the Philippines (New York Times)
For G.I.’s, Pride in War Efforts but Doubts About Iraq’s Future (New York Times)
From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan (New York Times)
Hunt for UK terror cell (The Guardian)
Missteps Seen in Muslim Chaplain’s Spy Case (New York Times)
Can't lose with bargain DVD player, but low cost carries price (Seattle Times)
Internet worms and critical infrastructure (news.com)
Iraq reconstruction's bottom-line (www.atimes.com)
Who’s Nader Now? (New York Times)
Why we use Ant (or: NIH) (mindview.net)
Brazil takes prints from US tourists (The Guardian)
The high-tech black market (www.sfbg.com)

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