Friday April 18
No Fly List
EPIC has released documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the government has established a "No Fly List" of suspected terrorists.
Problem is, TSA doesn't compile very accurate information, so as BusinessWeek Online reports, once you're on the list it's impossible to get off. BusinessWeek - The System That Doesn't Safeguard Travel.
Posted by glenn at .NET Is .NOT
Microsoft announced yesterday it is abandoning the ".NET" brand for its Web services product line, re-christening them "Windows Server System." [The Register]. That's a long-overdue admission that servers are best described as "servers," not some amorphous blob of language, runtime or webservices. ".NET" clearly meant a lot of things to a lot of people at Redmond, but very little to the outside world.