Greed, Dr. Evil, And The Million $ Kid

It's been a bad week for Alex Tew, the young British mind behind the MillionDollarHomepage. Lessons in greed are never fun. After Russian (reportedly) extortionist cyber-terrorists crashed his site for six days with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the highest bidder for the final 1,000 ad pixels is threatening a lawsuit seeking almost every last dime Tew has made on the site.

Vixie, Cerf Clash On Net’s Future

Paul Vixie helped create BIND, the domain name system that lets people type in a domain name instead of a dotted quad; now the programmer has lent his talents to a German group seeking to create an alternative to the modern Internet.