Satire piece on BBspot begins, “Washington DC – Bill Clinton signed into law yesterday legislation that makes Linux
bashing an offense covered under the hate crime statute. Anyone convicted of Linux
bashing will now face Federal charges. The law is in response to the recent beating of a
Linux user at the University of Colorado by a Windows 2000 Users Group.”

Slashdot readers discuss a a CNet story about plans by AT&T to offer GSM cell service to U.S. customers. This is a boon for wireless access in the U.S., as GSM offers many services previously unavailable.

From InfoWorld: “The Central Intelligence Agency announced that it has acted against 22 of its employees and nine contractors for using a secret chat room to exchange gossip and jokes over the agency’s network.” The world’s top spies using their skills for the forces of good.

Mozilla.org posts release notes for its M18 project. “These release notes … describe installation instructions and known issues pertinent to the M18 release.”

CBS reports on the progress of the current space shuttle mission. It appears that space is getting crowded lately, as the International Space Station has to juggle ships to make room for the arrival of the shuttle.

Linux World “examines how companies can make money in open source…” and discusses the fate of proprietary software.

InfoWorld reports on Intel’s release of a VPN (Virtual Private Network) router intended to pass the burden of VPN processing to the router without dragging down network speed performance.

Florida Today reports on a pending announcement from NASA about more evidence for water on Mars. The announcement is expected Thursday.

IDG InfoWorld reports that Oracle has joined with IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba in creating a business-to-business directory based on the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) standard.

The Register reports that the popular Icefortress Web site has enjoyed record-breaking popularity since receiving an incoherent legal threat from a credit card transaction processor.