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MONTREAL - Metallica are taking legal action against independant Canadian rock band Unfaith over what they feel is unsanctioned usage of two chords the band has been using since 1982 : E and F. "People are going to get on our case again for this, but try to see it from our point of view just once," stated Metallica's Lars Ulrich. "We're not saying we own those two chords, individually - that would be ridiculous. We're just saying that in that specific order, people have grown to associate E, F with our music." Metallica filed a trademark infringement suit against...

They report. We deride. We deride Fox News Channel for saying "us" and "our" in talking about the American war effort, a strategy that conjures images of gung-ho anchor Shepard Smith, like Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," riding a Tomahawk straight into Baghdad. We deride Fox for playing ratings politics with the news, turning Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers' public call Tuesday for media to be "fair and balanced" into a back-door endorsement, pointing out frequently afterward that the general had echoed a Fox News marketing slogan.

A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCENot In Our Name     L et it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression.   The signers of this statement call on the people of the U.S. to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11, 2001, and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world.   We believe that peoples and nations have the right to determine their own destiny, free from military coercion by great powers. We believe...

Is it just me, or has the median age for post-postmodern rock stars been getting younger? How else to justify all those fawning profiles of suburban scofflaws Sum 41 making out like they invented disorderly conduct? Sure, it all comes down to what the marketing execs call "positioning," like how the Sums' video for the hooliganistic "Still Waiting" carves into the Strokes/Hives/Vines, while their concurrent spoofs of mid-'80s metallic bombast seem lost on the band members themselves, let alone their desired audience. If "rock" is indeed "back," who can tell the difference between the mooks and the mockers? Part of...

Lead Windows developer bugged by security By Matt Berger September 5, 2002 1:46 pm PT SEATTLE -- BRIAN Valentine says he's not proud. The senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team has reason not to be. One of his most notable works, the Windows 2000 operating system, has a security record that is nothing to boast about. In fact, it's downright dismal, many experts say. Security bulletins warning of holes and vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems are a regular occurrence. Late Wednesday, the company released a bulletin warning of a flaw in its digital certificate technology that...

Microsoft reeling from hack attacks Patch what you can, worry about what you can't By Paul Hales: Thursday 05 September 2002, 13:08 MICROSOFT REPORTS that hackers are having a field day with its software. It seems the harder the company tries to shore up all its products, the more the hackers, crackers and whacky-bacciers enjoy worming their way through the defences. Last week the company posted an advisory here warning of an "increased level of hacking activity" that it had been tracking. The hacking attempts show similar symptoms and "behaviors", the company said and affect a whole slew of Microsoft...

They're trying to portray George W. Bush as a corrupt corporate CEO. Despite intense efforts, Democrats in recent weeks have had little success in their effort to inflict political damage on George W. Bush by tying him to corrupt corporate CEOs. Now they're trying another approach, accusing Bush of being a corrupt corporate CEO. On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discussed Bush's 1989 sale of stock in Harken Energy, a company which had bought Bush's oil and gas company and placed Bush on the Harken board of directors. In 1989, Harken was struggling financially. "Only a few weeks...

Kennedy Author Speaks Out on Goodwin Saturday, March 23, 2002 Last updated at 9:57:16 AM PT By JILL LAWLESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER LONDON -- An American author claims that historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has acknowledged inadvertently copying material from other works, actually took the "heart and guts" from her book about Kathleen Kennedy. In her strongest statement about the dispute, Lynne McTaggart said thousands of words from her 1983 biography "Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times" were copied in Goodwin's 1987 book "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys." McTaggart said passages from 91 of the 248 pages in her book...