"Spoofing" Web Pages

Check out this link and identify what is wrong with it :

http://www.microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354@212.254.206.213/original.html 

(referenced from here). 

Similarly, there used to be a good page at :

http://www.microsoft.com&item=q209354@hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm

These are not really Microsoft pages.  For example, if you remove "www.microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354@" from the URL and try just "http://212.254.206.213/original.html ", you get the same page.
You can replace  "www.microsoft.com" in the URL with whatever name you want and get redirected to the same page, try "www.redhat.com"  or "www.doj.gov" ... It will take you to the same page...

It's to do with the way the URL is constructed.  When there is an "@" in the URL, the browser (MSIE or Netscape) assumes that whatever precedes the "@" is a username to login to the site whose actual address is that following the "@" sign.

Varsha Bhosale on the "outrage"

Varsha Bhosale points out how the media and governments differentiate between "ordinary civilians" (should I call them "casualties of war" or "collateral damage" ?).  

How different is Daniel Pearl's case from those of the countless innocents who are being killed ?  When an American soldier dies in Afghanistan or the Philippines it is headline news on every news channel.  What about the Northern Alliance soldiers ?  What about the those of the Philippines armed forces ?  Aren't we forgetting the sense of balance.  An American soldier or journalist is worth more than dozens of people who were unfortunate enough to be born in other countries.