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To: Tommaso who wrote (43781)	1/3/2006 2:02:37 PM
From: regli	Respond to of 116555

Great point, Tommaso. The way I understand the issue is that it doesn't solve all circumstances as there are other programs which invoke the vulnerability. The best protection is provided by one of the AV programs in the top list. I think this excerpt covers the issue: "If a WMF file is attached to an e-mail message, the default action for Outlook and Outlook Express (the default action is performed when the user double-clicks on the icon) is to launch it with the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Since that program is disabled by this fix, nothing will happen when the user double-clicks on the attachment or on the icon for such a file in a Windows Explorer window or the desktop. A user might then choose to open the file with another program, such as Windows Paint, and in this case a malicious WMF file would still be able to execute its exploit. Paint and some other programs are not affected by the fix to Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. "

To: Tommaso who wrote (43781)	1/3/2006 4:02:35 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

FOMC majority says 'not large' number of rate hikes needed Tuesday, January 3, 2006 7:15:38 PM afxpress.com FOMC majority says 'not large' number of rate hikes needed WASHINGTON (AFX) -- A majority of members of the Federal Open Market Committee believe that the Fed will only have to engineer a few more rate hikes to keep inflation in check, according to a summary of the discussion at their Dec. 13 meeting released on Tuesday. Most members said the outlook for policy at the moment was "the number of additional firming steps required probably would not be large," according to the report. The summary noted that views differed among members about how much more tightening might be required. FOMC officials did agree that the outlook for monetary policy was becoming "considerably less certain" and decisions going forward would depend more on incoming economic data

To: Tommaso who wrote (43781)	1/3/2006 4:21:03 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Contract Terms? Mr. Goncharuk also asserted Ukraine has a right to withdraw additional gas from the pipelines in lieu of transit fees from Russia under a barter agreement in force in 2005. "Ukraine considers if we have not arrived at any agreement, the old one is in effect; Russia side rejects these arguments," Volodymyr R. Sidenko, chief economist at the Institute of Economic Forecasting in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, said. Under the 2005 contract, negotiated before the Orange Revolution brought a pro-Western government to power in Kiev, Ukraine pays $50 per 1,000 cubic meters. Gazprom is asking for $220 to $230 per 1,000 cubic meters now, about double what most other former Soviet states pay. nytimes.com ========================================================================================+ I do not know the terms of the contract Someone on the FOOL said 2009 but I do not know if that is true or not

To: Tommaso who wrote (43781)	1/3/2006 4:28:41 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

Weather News What Is In Store For January? headlines.accuweather.com

To: Tommaso who wrote (43781)	1/3/2006 4:57:55 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

Unlike napalm, which in Vietnam left villagers and enemies alike with massive burns all over their bodies, white phosphorus burns down to the bone. Le The Thrung, a Vietnamese doctor studying white phosphorus burns in 1969, describes its effects on the skin: “urning phosphorus produces 800-1,000 degrees centigrade heat. Scattered phosphorus particles go on consuming themselves and deepen burn wounds.” Next, chemical compounds “create a chemical burn, like an acid, drawing water from the cells. This process generates great pain in the nervous system.” Finally, white phosphorus compounds oxygenate and penetrate “the blood stream and white blood cells in the dermis, subdermis, and deeper skin layers.” This creates what he calls an “organic toxicity [that] blocks off all blood circulation with the burn area.” It wasn't just medical professionals noting the brutal effects of white phosphorus. A U.S. serviceperson, at the height of the Vietnam War, remarked, “We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn't so hot—if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys started adding polystyrene—now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willy Peter so's to make it burn better. It'll even burn under water now. And one drop is enough; it'll keep on burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from phosphorus poisoning.” This is what our military and political leaders currently define as a “potent psychological weapon?” These are the actions that citizens of empire are to support and legitimize, even if tacitly, in the name of spreading democracy and securing our own nebulous borders? No, this is not about our national feelings of moral fortitude. This is about civilians and “enemies” alike having chemicals dropped on them like rain and their skin bubbling, melting, wasting away with no way to scrape off the pain of oxidizing phosphorus and no way to cauterize the slow, painful melting into the nervous system and bloodstream. No, for those getting “smoked out of their holes,” there is very little, if anything, psychological about Willy Peter. zmagsite.zmag.org