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BIOTERRORISM This is the area where our defenses most need a quick fix. Smallpox vaccines haven't improved much since the 1960s. Until 9/11, few drug companies felt the economic impetus to develop costly antidotes to all-but-conquered infections and ailments. Viagra was a sexier sell. Smallpox was considered to be a "market you hope will never exist," says Alan Goldhammer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...
...takes time to hire people and recruit them and train them and get value out of them. The personnel experts say it would be probably a couple of years. There's no quick fix. We feel an obligation before recommending an increase in end strength to be respectful of the taxpayers and make darn sure that when we do it and commit to that long-term cost, we're right...
Nevertheless, there is much to embarrass Microsoft in the latest crop of worms. Blaster and Welchia both relied on the same security loophole that was found in Windows in July. There was a fix available--the one Welchia tried to download--but it was among dozens the company puts out every month. Windows XP made its debut in 2001 with some 45 million lines of code and a lot of mistakes, many of which have yet to be uncovered. Because of its complexity, "no other product could potentially be so flawed," says Jerry Ungerman, president of Silicon Valley's Check...
...Bill Gates memo last year admitted Windows needed to be more "trustworthy." The company placed ads in national newspapers last week reminding users to turn on Windows XP's internal firewall and employ the operating system's automatic-update feature. That is, you can allow the company to fix its unintended mistakes constantly and quietly in the background. Windows XP does not ship with this feature turned on because of the Big Brother factor. But attitudes may be changing. Says Nash: "Customers are more willing to give up their privacy concerns...
...They have the best equipment and technology, and a power shortage can make such a big fuss in the United States. Now I am sure it will take them years to fix the electricity in Iraq." ALI SAGHBAL, a Baghdad power-station worker...