"...The famous U.S. hospital would have to take her seriously, Baloch knew, when it realized she was prepared to post its confidential patient records on the Internet. That is, unless UCSF helped her get the money she was owed from the mysterious Tom Spires, her link in a long chain of medical transcription subcontractors. ..." Read the full story. I'ts mind blowing if you don't already know the extent to which your personal, private, information is traveling the world.

Rainlendar has been updated. Desktop calendar with lots of features, fully skinnable (now supports .png!!), and *free* Excerpt from "What's New" 23 NOV 2002 (Version 0.14 ß) The skins are loaded from the skins-subfolder by default. The events path now defaults to the same folder where the Rainlendar.ini file is. Fixed a bug that put wrong week number if the first day of the month was sunday. Fixed a bug that sometimes caused multiplication of events when they were deleted. Adde...

Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week. The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherw...