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...poster boy of Filipino hackerdom is Onel de Guzman, the 23-year-old Manila resident blamed for allegedly unleashing last year's Love Bug virus, which wiped out files and paralyzed Internet access from Pakistan to the Pentagon. De Guzman was unemployed: he learned to hack partly by sneaking into other people's accounts to access the Internet, which he couldn't otherwise afford. That's typical: hackers in the Philippines tend to be overtrained, underutilized minds trying to satisfy their creative yearnings but kept from doing so by a variety of factors. Besides the stinging poverty that has translated...
...question is this: If the bill becomes law, will it truly disinfect our politics? The end of Clinton's presidency and the launch of Bush's were a parable for reformers, between the pardons for Democratic fat cats and the environmental policy clout of Big Business. But like a virus, political money has a way of mutating so it spreads in any environment. Be careful what you wish for. The cure may be worse than the disease. "This is a stunningly stupid thing to do, my colleagues," Kentucky's Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, "and don't think...
Ireland's Natural Resources Minister, Hugh Byrne, called Britain "the leper of Europe" for not getting a hold on the virus before it spread abroad. And a farmer in the afflicted French town of Mayenne told a British reporter to go back to "your whore of a country." The predominant mood, however, is not petulance but perplexity about how to fix a system that ships livestock in big herds over long distances for sale and slaughter, crossing borders and oceans like any other global commodity, thus giving lethal bugs a chance to spread...
...animals rather than vaccinating them--a difficult matter for a lot of reasons, not the least being that animals have to be re-inoculated every six months. All this is causing a rising fever in the body politic of the European Union--an unanticipated side effect of an unwelcome virus...
BUZZ BOMB A common species of mosquito found throughout much of North America carries a stealth form of encephalitis called La Crosse virus. Though the virus has been reported in 28 states since the 1960s and can cause serious cognitive impairment, a report finds that it's often overlooked or misdiagnosed. Reasons: look-alike symptoms and no simple lab test...