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Technical solutions will be slow in coming, and little can be done for now except to urge the technology industry to place a higher priority on issues of security usually buried in bug reports and fixed in infrequent updates. For the longer term, however, security should be integrated into the way we think about technology. Last month President Clinton proposed as part of his technology initiatives a college tuition subsidy for students who agree to study computer science and work after graduation for the federal government to improve computer security. This sort of "G.I. Bill" for computer security could...
Peter Parker would understand. A mortal man, going about his mortal business, is bitten by a bug--a special, powerful bug--and it changes his life. Only the bug that bit Stan Lee isn't radioactive; it's interactive. With the print-comics industry besieged by villains (the rapacious Sega! the Pokemon league of doom!), the co-creator of the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Parker's alter ego, Spider-Man, is taking comics online. (Insert "Web"-slinging pun here...
...high market has been a wonder drug. Plunging share prices would erode people's security and sap consumer confidence. It could, well, kill me. On the bright side, though, I've got a better health plan than the President. Dr. Greenspan has an interest-rate antidote for every bug I catch. He gave me a quarter-point injection last week, and I expect two more by spring. They're painful but usually effective...
KIDDIE FLU The flu is lousy for everyone, but doctors report that otherwise healthy tots under age 2 who get the bug are a whopping 12 to 25 times as likely as older kids to land in the hospital with complications like pneumonia. The finding may prod health officials to consider adding flu vaccine to the arsenal of inoculations young children already endure. In the meantime, parents can help protect their progeny--at least indirectly--by getting vaccinated...
...Speaking of the not-too-distant future, when was it that the Planet of the Apes was supposed to occur? GT always loved to show those damned dirty apes. The Y2K bug was supposed to ruin the economy. It totally choked. A shame, really. Not a clutch player...