| Google Claims Conservative Website ‘May Harm Your Computer’
A funny thing happens if you Google the name of one of America's leading conservative magazines: a warning comes up stating, "This site may harm your computer." Think I'm kidding? A screen-capture of the first page of Google web search results for "American Spectator" follows, although readers are strongly encouraged to investigate for themselves (image is blurry due to space constraints): .
Some can do the climate change math
In his Jan. 8 letter, "Claims about climate change rebutted," Chuck Kutscher uses a March 2006 article in the journal Science by Isabella Velicogna and John Wahr to back up his doomsday scenario of a sea-level rise of one foot per decade. The second sentence of this very paper says the melting ice of Antarctica contributes "an equivalent of 0.4 millimeters of sea-level rise per year." That's 4 millimeters, or 0.013 feet per decade. There is a very big difference, Mr. Kutscher, between 1 foot and 0.013 feet. This is not much to hang your hat on as justification for changing the world's economy. Velicog- na's noisy data covers only three years. It indicates several monthly ice volume changes that are almost as large as the cumulative three-year change when fit to a line. If only the last two years of her data are used, then the ice loss rate is reduced by 80 percent.
Hackers promise month of MySpace bugs
They won't divulge their real names, they call their project a “whiny, attention-seeking ploy," and they appear to take their fashion cues from Beastie Boys music videos. But two hackers going by the names of Mondo Armando and Müstaschio promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, News Corp.'s popular social networking site, every day next month. “The purpose of the exercise is not so much to expose MySpace as a hive of spam and villainy (since everyone knows that already), but to highlight the monoculture-style danger of extremely popular websites," wrote Mondo Armando in an e-mail interview. “We could have just as easily gone after Google or Yahoo or MSN or IDG or whatever. MySpace is just more fun, and is becoming notoriously [obnoxious] about responding to security issues," he said.
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