25 Jan 2008
Subsidies and High Crop Prices

Well, duh!

Not everyone is a fan of the commodity boom. Some blame federal policy for higher feed and food bills.

(link) [U.S. News & World Report]

06:55 /Agriculture | 0 comments | permanent link

Microsoft: Vista Earns High Marks for Security in Its First Year

Having run Vista for about 9 moonths now at work, I can believe this. But I think that the real reason may be a bit at odds with M$ claim of sound engineering: the system is so clunky, slow and downright unusable that even hackers don't want to take it over and tie it to a botnet...

A report penned by one of Microsoft's top security experts argues that Windows Vista had fewer known security flaws in its first year of release than other major industry operating systems. On the blogs, skeptics abound.

(link) [Wired: Top Stories]

06:53 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link