With frost warnings popping up across the country, Americans are getting their seasonal reminder that when temperatures get low enough, liquids become solid.

Disclaimer: This post is not about encouraging you to download unlicensed software (reads: warez). Use at your own risk.

The spread of wireless is opening lots of opportunity to log on for free, but experts urge caution.

You may be forgiven for missing it, but several weeks ago, amid the hubbub of a Supreme Court nomination, a White House scandal, corporate welfare in the form of energy and transportation bills, and more terrorist uprisings than one cares for during the slow summer season, an historic bill was introduced: H.R. 3037, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005.

This legislation — sponsored by Reps. Sam Farr (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Jim McDermott (D-WA), George Miller (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX) (yes, that’s a Texas Republican on the docket), and Pete Stark (D-CA) — is the first bill ever to be introduced in Congress to repeal the federal ban on the cultivation of industrial hemp as a commercial crop.

This is how bad it is on the Internet and why you should always keep your system updated with the latest patches and use firewalls, spyware detectors and virus detection software, and keep them up to date.

The malicious code is hosted on a website that mainly hosts pornography, which Sites was unwilling to name. Users of Windows XP who have not installed SP2 are particularly vulnerable as the code will be automatically downloaded without the user’s knowledge. Sunbelt is currently investigating whether users of earlier Windows versions, such as Windows 2000 and Windows ME, are also vulnerable.

“If you have an unpatched Windows machine, when you go to the URL it will automatically download everything from the website, including the Trojan. All you have to do is type in the URL and you’re hosed,” said Sites.

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Problems continue to dog users who have installed the collection of security and other patches and fixes for Windows 2000 that Microsoft released in late June.

Microsoft is planning to reissue the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Update rollup
that it first launched in late June.

Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The ruling is a reinterpretation of the scope of CALEA and will force Internet broadband providers and certain voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers to build backdoors into their networks that make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has argued against this expansion of CALEA in several rounds of comments to the FCC on its proposed rule.

The Web is learning new tricks every day. These surprising sites and services will help you solve problems and save time–and one might even make you a star.

I feel somewhat vindicated for using an earphone with my cell phone for the past 5 years. I had heard of research that there was a relationship between cell phone use and eye cancer. It seemed that all of the MSM media was focused on cell phones causing brain tumors. The eye cancer is the one that caught my attention. At any rate use an earphone if you use cell phones…

Prolonged use of mobile phones can lead to permanent eye damage including cataracts, scientists believe.

Medical researchers have found that microwave radiation of the type emitted by mobile phones causes eye tissue to “bubble” – a precursor to the formation of cataracts – and can also interfere with the ability to focus.