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Wired: Studies by the Natural Resource Defense Council estimate that more than 150 B61-11s are currently in the U.S. arsenals, scattered among NATO aircraft carriers and planes on bases in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece.


Could Kleine Brogel be used as a base for a tactical nuclear attack on Bin Laden?


C-Net: Bowing to customer pressure, Microsoft has extended the deadline for business customers to sign up for a licensing program, just days after backing off a controversial provision that forced some to pay twice for software they purchased.

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Salon: Officials have said there is no evidence that Stevens was the victim of terrorism. Wiersma said tests of Stevens’ blood helped confirm that belief because the anthrax in the sample responded to penicillin. Anthrax developed by some countries as a biological weapon could be resistant to the antibiotic, he said.

C-Net: The former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia found out recently that he could face up to 30 years in jail and fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars because he installed some distributed computing software on the school’s computers.


FreeMcOwen: Charges now include 8 Felony counts for 120 years, 15 years each count. Also each count carries $50,000 fine in addition to the $415,000 in restitution and damages they seek.

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Dave Winer: “When I grew up in NY I used to spend winter weekend afternoons at the public library scrolling through the Times on microfilm. I don’t recall paying any money for this.”

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NY Times: David J. Farber, a computer scientist and former chief technologist at the Federal Communications Commission, said that the Internet’s success on Sept. 11 could largely be attributed to the fact that “nobody attacked it.”


ABC News: Cuban exiles, invoking Belgium’s far-reaching war crimes law, filed a lawsuit against President Fidel Castro on Thursday for crimes against humanity.


Public-I: Milan prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso is expected to complete his investigation in the case in the coming weeks and ask a judge to try those arrested, along with two others

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“Top international anti-terrorism experts have identified two of Europe’s most legally tolerant regions