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Go my mofos here yo! and here ma mofos!

Or just do what OpenBSD does: Make writable memory non-executable, make executable memory non-writable. This bit of common sense is disappointingly rarely implemented.

If you read the article you cited, he is compensated in MANY other ways. I used "salary" loosely (I was not even taking into account his stock options as well). -Santoro monopolion

MjM

For as "small" as Apple is portrayed, their CEO, at the very least, is visible to the public, which is more than I can say for many of tech companies larger than Apple (or any corporation for that matter). At least we know a CEO that actually does something (in the eyes of the public) that justifies a high salary.

Like Coach Bowden of the Seminoles, just his image and persona alone is more valuable than all of his other qualities.

-Santoro
monopolion

Dude, have you been reading my mind? I've been thinking about something like that for a good couple of months now and just recently decided to put together a quick concept. Quick images of the box are here and here and a decent description can be found at the bottom of the post linked above.

I'm not sure how much credibility can be lent to any kind of study on the software development process that does not include the open source (OSS) model. By its nature, having more eyes look over you work rather than depending on a fixed and closed system of code assurance finds and fixes bugs faster and implement new features. This is why Windows and UNIX are constantly playing catch up to the Linux platform. I remember reading a study on Google's weblog that essentialy endorsed this as a philosophical concept (that applies to much more than just code writing). I don't know who works for the NSA these days, but I would venture to say that the people who work are Google are probably collectively the brightest and wisest folks on the planet.

Linux, Firefox, and OpenOffice are some of the best software on the planet. I think is a good practical testament to the OSS philosophy.

This is the reason why I use Linux and demand that everything I purchase, consume, use, or buy uses or depends on a open source model.

A basic or essential supply; especially a basic food.

The DVIMAGIC, and this, and this do just that. The latter is just for one dvd player, so might just exploit a flaw in that player or something. Not exactly perfect solutions yet, but we are getting towards the dongle you ask for.

There was also a recent article (i forget the url) by someone who claimed to have cracked HDCP. As i recall it was along the lines of comparing the outputs from 10 dvd players/tvs to determine the master key. He never released the information for fear of DMCA, but if someone was to repeat it you could see black market type dongles.

I dont really have a problem with HDCP though, as when i do get a HDTV it will be compliant. The problem I see is we are being forced to fight better and better copy protections. I currently rip CDs and listen to them in iTunes instead of using a CD player. You basically cant do that with DVD Audio (without capturing analogue or using the WinDVD trick), and if you do you cant play them back on a normal player because the watermark will stop it. Similarly, when going around friends i prefer to rip DVDs to a hard disk so we can watch them off that instead of taking the discs. I would want to be able to do that with these high definition discs too, I dont want the only ripper to be Windows Media Center, and the copy to refuse to play on anything but my MCE machine and my authorized portable player.

Even if they do make rippers for BR/HD, what about the next generation?

The DVIMAGIC, and this, and this do just that. The latter is just for one dvd player, so might just exploit a flaw in that player or something. Not exactly perfect solutions yet, but we are getting towards the dongle you ask for.

There was also a recent article (i forget the url) by someone who claimed to have cracked HDCP. As i recall it was along the lines of comparing the outputs from 10 dvd players/tvs to determine the master key. He never released the information for fear of DMCA, but if someone was to repeat it you could see black market type dongles.

I dont really have a problem with HDCP though, as when i do get a HDTV it will be compliant. The problem I see is we are being forced to fight better and better copy protections. I currently rip CDs and listen to them in iTunes instead of using a CD player. You basically cant do that with DVD Audio (without capturing analogue or using the WinDVD trick), and if you do you cant play them back on a normal player because the watermark will stop it. Similarly, when going around friends i prefer to rip DVDs to a hard disk so we can watch them off that instead of taking the discs. I would want to be able to do that with these high definition discs too, I dont want the only ripper to be Windows Media Center, and the copy to refuse to play on anything but my MCE machine and my authorized portable player.

Even if they do make rippers for BR/HD, what about the next generation?

apologies in advance for the shameless plug, but I was just wondering about this problem and I think I may have a solution. I came up with a brief proposal to the trustable electronic voting problem, and posted it on my personal blog. Read it here:

A proposal for Trustable Electronic Voting

Am sure there are issues I missed in there, would appreciate comments.

apologies in advance for the shameless plug, but I was just wondering about this problem and I think I may have a solution. I came up with a brief proposal to the trustable electronic voting problem, and posted it on my personal blog. Read it here:

A proposal for Trustable Electronic Voting

Am sure there are issues I missed in there, would appreciate comments.

Uhh - no. Hydrogen is a very bad idea to use for anything. It is not plentiful in its useable state on this planet and its use is a dumb idea. It takes more energy to produce and distribute than it yields: http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2005/12/hydrogen-a gain-tweedle-dumb-and.html http://www.tinaja.com/h2gas01.asp

Yeah, would be interesting to see more of that type of game, especially know where we have 3d capabilites that can actually produce extremly good looking graphics and are no longer limited to pre-filmed stuff. While the 'interactive movie' genre had many bad games, things like WingCommander3/4, The Last Express or Fahrenheit/IndigoProphecy show pretty well that such type of game can work if done right. Even 'The Sims' is kind of an interactive movie, only that it isn't prescripted, but one creates it while playing the game automatically.

I wrote something in my blog about that kind of game, full text follows for those who are to lazy to follow the link:

http://grumbel.blogspot.com/2005/08/viewpoints-for m-of-entertainmaint.html

== 'Viewpoints' - A form of entertainmaint beside games and movies? ==

Computer and console hardware has advanced to a point where it is possible to render quite realistically looking scenes in realtime, not yet the quality of Final Fantasy, but its getting pretty damn close. This made me thinking, what beside games will it offer us? There are already machinema aprearing every onces in a while, movies rendered with ingame engines. However those are still classic movies for most part, fixed camera angles, nothing happening behind you, etc. I think sooner or later we will see a new type of entertainment, neither a movie nor a game, but something inbetween and no I don't mean those crappy interactive games with filmed actors.

A classic movie is always linear, it has a start and an end. The camera angles are fixed and you know always exactly what is happening at any given minute if you have already watched it. With realtime rendered movies this could be different, instead of providing a fixed linear film to watch, a realtime rendered movie could provide a complete world to explore by the viewer. The viewer itself wouldn't interact with the happenings like in a game, the whole story would still be linear like in a movie, but it would allow the freedom to move around, to look at other stuff in a scene, to observe happenings beside what is happening to the main characters. This would allow to dive into the movie much deeper and the movie would be allowed to present a far richer setting as it does today. Instead of fixed camera angles and just a few characters with a few lines, it could provide dozens of characters with tons of text, the viewer wouldn't get everything on the first viewing, but could focus on different parts of the happenings on each viewings, if there is talking in the background, he could move over to that and listen. If there is a fight happening, he could view it from the perspective of the other oponent or from the perspective of a by-stander. The viewer had the ability to view a movie from multiple viewpoints, not only predefined ones, but also ones that he chose for himself.

The effort that would be required for such a movie would be quite huge, since not only a few maincharecters would need to be fitted with dialog, but everybody appearing in a movie would get text and something todo. It would turn a simple movie into a complete little world. It would of course also steel some artistic freedom, since the director could no longer force the viewer to a specific camera angle, do things offscreen and the like, when the user can always adjust the camera completly to his liking, but it would of course also offer tons of new ways which could be artistically explored.

You might think that this sounds a bit weird, but its really not that weird, both games and movies already have gone that route, at least to a little extend. In game The Longest Journey for example there is one point where the game branches, either you go to work or you stay at home on both places something is happening, but you see only one event life, the other is told you then from the other characters. A even more drastic example is the Last Express, its an adventure g

This is old news. Even rebublicans are tired of Hatch. Steve Urquhart has talked of running for Hatch's seat and even got a little endorsement from Mark Cuban.

A republican running in Utah is going to have a better chance of winning anyway. Hey, it would be nice to see two pro-tech-freedom candidates running against each other!

In Utah!

Hmm, I doubt you'll have that much luck, you see, the swedish dating routines are very complicated... And before you ask: Yes. It really is that bad.

..the vulnerability is a purposely-'designed', never-used legacy "feature" that is inexcusably promoted into Windows NT and crassly planted in XP despite the alleged Win2000 GDI rewrites, and last month's assiduously assinine GDI audit? Hello, your tyrant 'leaders' and their DELIBERATE 'incompetence' allowed another 9-11 ? [Besides HOAXED WMD, and NOLA and the intentional FEMA Farce for forced DEM dilution] doh, that's a way to enslave peons willingly "for their own protection" So the masses all sign-up for the MS-Police state, assisted by their bugged phones... all to the glee of the RIAA, RR, and similar corporatists, proponents of the RIGGED 'voting' machines, the [By the Rich, FOR the Rich] OWNED and paid-for 'media' and 'Congress'. And for dessert: Guess what, the military would have been called-out "if" the election-rigging had somehow failed! Spoken like a true conspiracy-theorist!... AMEN ==>More-On IT http://wtchoax.blogspot.com/ J

Buss, and his not-excellently-supported-by-empirical-evidence rhetoric are discussed on Mixing Memory, along with the answers of the major cognitive sciencists. Worth a read if you are interested in the study of the mind, and how many of these answers relate to that.

Yeah, then roaming profiles are going to work great.

And roaming profiles are a *good* idea because... ???

The more meta-data you can link up to individual files, the better you can network those individual files. The problem is that Windows is an explosion of little files, with an explosion of configuration files, with an explosion of proprietary databases, with an explosion of special directories on top. It's a fracking mess, and roaming profiles is a band-aid.

No other PC GUI system came up with such a poor design. (Yeah, X-Windows was a mess too. But it was a controlled mess intended for *cough* "Professionals".) BeOS, Amiga, RiscOS, Mac, etc. all had way better solutions to the problem. The most important goal for Windows was to run a multi-user environment on top of a single-user Operating System that would perhaps be best be described as an "embedded OS". It worked at the time, but it wasn't a very effective way to handle things long-term. Plus, GUI designs have never been reevaluated in the face of modern hardware.

Read the article. I haven't covered everything (it's an article, not a book), but you may find that it's actually a good idea. BTW, the follow-up is here.

It's still the wrong way of doing it. The Windows NTFS filesystem has full support for storing meta-data on the files. Windows SHOULD be storing registry type stuff as attributes on the program file. But it doesn't. Which means that you're making a mess no matter what you do. Lots of extra/unnecessary garbage to manage.

That's why Linux has a real opportunity to pull ahead.

Did some digging around after reading this, found this:

http://tokendissent.blogspot.com/

and this barn burner at:

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/ 2006/01/the_sic.html

Sounds like some folks aren't happy with this game and they sure paint a very different picture of things.

Well then, frankly, you must have fucked up.

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=1 | xxd > data
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes transferred in 0.614494 seconds (1706405 bytes/sec)

$ time xterm -fa Monospace -fs 8 -e cat data

real 1m25.087s
user 0m4.145s
sys 0m0.379s

$ time gnome-terminal -e 'cat data'

real 0m5.292s
user 0m3.348s
sys 0m0.200s

Once both terminals use the same font rendering system (Xft), the same font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, 8 points) and the same window size (80x24), gnome-terminal (version 2.12.0) is must faster than xterm (version 240)! In addition, xterm flickers like hell whereas gnome-terminal's display is rock steady.

I think http://mces.blogspot.com/2005/10/gnome-terminal-pe rformance.html is the blog post that triggered me to perform my own experiment.

That video is not XGL. It is quite impressive and it can give you an idea of what XGL could look like, it is not XGL but is Luminocity and it is taken from http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots. Read "How Luminocity Relates to Other Stuff" to get more info on Luminocity. Read the interview with KDE's Zack Rusin: "Beauty and Magic for KDE, with Zack Rusin". Download the demo video of Zack's XGL hacks: http://vizzzion.org/stuff/xgl_wanking.avi 16MB. If you want to read more about XGL then read aseigo's blog entry or Zack's blog.

That's what they tell us- but in practice it's not that easy to retrain for a different job-

Really? I've changed markets with 1 year of retraining. Many people learn a career after being duped into believing the market exists -- all that exists in some markets is temporary preferential treatment by local governments. I can't believe how many people keep entering some markets that are on the verge of collapse because the government can't prop them up any more (after 20-30 years of help).

But since it's only a small minority in both with these talents, what we're really doing is throwing huge numbers of people onto the welfare rolls of both countries- and those welfare rolls are collapsing and people are literally suffering from malnutrition when they can't afford food at US prices and can't afford to grow their own.

This is a myth. The farming industry has been destroyed by both the IMF and by currency manipulation that have made prices rise when in fact they should have fallen in many areas. Land values have gone up due to the fed manipulation of the currency base, causing farm land to be worth more to developers than would normally be true. This is a VERY complex problem, though, much more so than can be handled in a simple post.

Sometimes efficiency is the *worst* thing to make economic descisions on.

That is completely unfounded in reality -- efficiency is the basis for price and performance, period. Steel workers were duped by the governments (local and federal) into thinking there was demand for them. We paid for that fake demand in higher prices that could have allowed money to flow to where jobs would be needed. Those steel workers are getting what was coming to the industry 2 decades ago, it is unfortunate. Yet in my area we had approximately 10,000 open positions paying over $12 per hour within 30 minutes of my home. Don't tell me jobs aren't available -- they're readily available. The fact that people planted their lives in an area (Michigan) because they were duped by government is not MY fault. I know better than that, I would never trust a politician to secure my job. They did, they stole from me, they're not getting another cent out of me (check out my blog from today regarding Michigan and welfare).

They could also form a group to "sell" token items to each other giving them good feedback, and then use that to defraud people on larger items.

Huh? Is that really going to be more efficient than just providing a good service? It seems that every socialist on slashdot wants to use the same old trite responses rather than look at what is really happening. Amazon and eBay performed tens of millions of transactions in the past 90 days -- the great majority of which went through with no problems. In every trade there is risk, but when the risk is less than 0.001%, to me it is a success.

And in the mean time, the anarchy comes home when you force your next door neighbor who used to make that item for you to break into your house in search of food.

My church offers food kitchens for the poor -- in exchange for helping them get off of drugs and into work. I don't have any starving neighbors. The few who are starving are addicts unwilling to make changes, and I have no desire to give them money if they aren't making changes.

Does that include the right of somebody else to steal your market?

You can't steal a market -- you can only be as competitive as possible. If someone provides a better product/service at a lower price and at a higher quality than you, you're in the wrong business.

And you're also impovershing your neighbors. Who will eventually revolt at that impoverishment- because it removes their freedom.

How? By providing people with a better service? If they're trying to hold onto old ways, they're not efficient. They won't starve, they'll just change jobs. In every mar

1) You will all die without a patent system. I'm not sure I'd have even been able to use pig insulin, let alone human from recombinant source insulin, without the patent regime. Who exactly is going to spend billions on cancer research if they have no market share following their discovery of the cure?

This is false, and is contradicted by a wealth of historical data and analysis of spending by drug companies. See Why Drug Companies Don't Need Patents

1. Google, OpenOffice, and Sun form a relationship
2. Google Talk (http://www.google.com/talk/)
3. Google Mail (http://mail.google.com/
4. Google Video(http://video.google.com/
5. Google is buying dark fiber
6. Google is offering wireless
7. Google cube (speculation)
8. Google mobile data centers (speculation)
9. Google buying stake in AOL
10. Google GDRIVE.com (specualtion)

1. No hard drive
2. NO Windows Operating System
3. Java enabled
4. USB/S-Video/Audio/Network ports
5. Store everying on GDrive.com
6. Networked applications
7. Low Cost
8. New ad-revenue streams

Do they trust that Windows will continue to have good OpenGL support? Maybe it won't.

According to the following readworthy review, http://spyced.blogspot.com/2005/09/review-of-6-pyt hon-ides.html, Wing should be worth a look - it's not free though. Disclaimer: I'm basically in the same position as you - looking for a good Python IDE for Mac OS X.

No, Will Wright's working on a method to procedurally generate Roland Piquepaille Slashdot submissions.

From what I have read about Plasma, the icons will be treated as "dashboard widgets" themselves. There shouldn't be a problem with that. Of course, this is a drastic simplification of the whole thing. For more information, I recommend you look at the Plasma Project and the Appeal Project. Reading Aaron Seigo's blog may shed some light on things as well.

You don't seem to know the RFID market very well, or you'd know the stall-out is due to other issues...

It surw is, which is why this guy is stalled -- but this is his risky endeavor.

Some consultant...how about 'all of the above', since today, everyone is a 'geek', and the concept of a stand-alone figure has been laid aside years past.

If you believe that, you're missing some big opportunities.

BTW, you forgot to mention that being able to type with more than one finger means being able to post long-winded, er I mean, salient, comments, that dimwits tend to find impressive. As for holiday, business hours etc., your critic failed to recall that posters can chime in from other countries...duh.

Heh. I'm typing on my PDA very quickly (type-assist predictive). I'm in a restaurant now, waiting for my food. I just took a pic for my blog I'll post in an hour. Checking e-mail, replying to posta, all on the go. I call it a productive use of downtime.

Actually, if you fear the dollar devaluing you should be taking out loans- as much as you can.

If I wanted to take advantage, yes. I don't want to, I just want stability, safety and fairness.

)Short term- money to spend at the movies or the market. This is still cash, I can't walk into 7-11 and give them gold. Basicly cash on hand.

I found 25 restaurants, 8ish grocers and numerous consumer goods stores within 45 minutes of me who redeem gold annd silver for their goods. I'm sitting in a restaurant now that does (pic on my blog in an hour!) Greeks, Jews and Hindus run many businesses (i'm half-Hindu, Wife's a Jew, business partner is Greek heh). Many of these redeemers give me 50% discounts for hard metal purchases.

I keep about US$2000 in US dollars on hand for liquidity sake, though.

Long term- this is investments, so the money grows.

Right, the businesses I run or help start. I've watched 3 fail in 16 years (out of 30). Average return is 30% plus equity.

Medium term- a larger cash supply for emergencies, big ticket items, and monthly payments. Again, it needs to be cash, or easily convertible.

Gold IS easily convertible! I helped a good friend jump to my gold system 4 years ago. When he bought property this year he converted 200 ounces of gold into ~US$84,000 in less than 1 day. When I closed my BankOne account 3 years ago, it took 3 days and helluva lotta forms.

In short, it still just makes no sense.

If I'm wrong, what do I lose?

If you're wrong, what do you lose?

This guy is making first posts in every story that comes up!!
He is a skate-shop owner, a gold buyer http://dadasays.blogspot.com/ , an IT contractor that pays minimum wages + 66% bonuses, and a slashdot FP troll and Karma Whore.
Mods, please do something (I never have mod points, maybe due to excessive reading)

I agree with you. I blogged about it today, before I submitted the article to slashdot. I'd love to see a bigger experiment from the FCC on privatizing and anarchizing (sp?) airwaves to see how it works.

You'll likely see some responses here from people on how their neighbor's microwave screws with their WiFi, but I run and maintain 25 WiFi networks for friends and family and we don't have a problem with a single network. I even offer my WiFi connection free to all my neighbors and they don't even call with tech support questions.

Google Q&A is an early attempt at this:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/just-facts- fast.html

Knowledge extraction from the Web. Incredibly hard, but if anyone has the data and computational power to do it, Google does.

A very small number of people read weblogs; the closest most people come is something like Slashdot (which is quite much unlike the prototypical blog, despite your link to an ill-advised 6-year old story).

Yes, blogs are just a particular kind of content management software. But there's got to be some reason this software attracts so many looney airheads, don't you think? Perhaps because a blog puts a narcissist right where he wants to be -- at the center of attention, in complete control of the flow of information, even if it is only in his own insignificant fiefdom.

Few companies want to actually let their employees share their thoughts with the general public.

Traditional companies, maybe. Companies of the future will have to support at least the appearance of openness. See blogs at Google, Red Hat, Amazon... See also the Cluetrain Manifesto.

I've launched my own blog tracking wikis tracking the Fortune 500's Blogging. I think it's the first.

llegal drugs are at least a big of a problem as copyright violation in the world today. In fact many of the artists promoted by Hollywood and the American recording industry include many positive drug related references in their scripts and lyrics. So the question is : Would you endorse forced illicit drug testing for all artists, actors and executives involved in content production?

Over 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence. The USA has the highest murder rate in the developed world. So the question is : Would you endorse taking away the legal capability of all Americans to bare arms?

In the USA there are over 12,000 speeding-related traffic deaths per year. The technological capability exists to install a "governor" in every new automobile which would deny the driver the ability to exceed the speed limit. So the question is : Would you endorse restricting access to roads and highways to only vehicles that have such a speed restriction system installed?

( If the questioned person says yes to any of the above then pass the quote along to the Hollywood/recording/NRA/automobile media, bloggers and lobby groups etc)

Spam advertising and spyware has become a major problem for computer users. The DRM capability that Intel is offering to content providers would also be available to those wanting to abuse those same user restrictions. Intel is effectively offering the ability to hide malicious content or deny access to content needed to gather evidence for the basis of a complaint. So the question becomes: Why are you offering up this ability to content providers when it denies the owners of the computer the ability to protect themselves?

Whether it is a war on drugs, gun, or road crime restrictive and technological solutions that lock the end users out of the ability to make personal decisions perform actions are effectively a fundamental violation of a person's civil rights, even if taking that action could violate the law of the land.

Even though illicit drug consumption is against the law, wholesale drug testing would be seen as a violation of a persons right to privacy. In fact most American courts would not accept evidence gathered though such an action.

Even though gun related crime is a major problem, taking away the right for any citizens to bare arms would leave them at risk from criminals who would ignore the law as a matter of course.

Even though speeding is a major problem, there are cases it is needed for safety. Overtaking vehicles may require the driver to exceed the speed limit to safely avoid oncoming traffic. Also there are rare cases, such as transporting someone requiring urgent medical treatment, where the even the courts have found that exceeding the speed limit was preferable to the affected person's demise.

While making a copy of copyrighted content may seem trivial in comparison to the examples in the above three paragraphs, remember that Intel along with Adobe and Microsoft is talking of offering this same DRM technology for business, legal and even governmental documents. The ability to blow the whistle on suspect dealings, and pass copies along to the press and even authorities, may be severely restricted in the future.

So the final question to everybody has become: Why should the consumers and citizens have to put up with DRM restrictions on their general purpose computers that they own?

Wish you all the best Slashdotters in New Year 2006!

PS: I put all the public holidays from SG/ID/MY/AU in one VCS calendar. Hope it will be useful. Get it from here: http://bialoglowy.blogspot.com/2006/01/happy-new-y ear-2006-from-indonesia.html

THE DEP enable fix ONLY works if DEP is supported by Hardware...SOFTWARE ENFORCED DEP Dosn't protect against this exploit. http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/dep-contro versy.html

49. Upon conclusion of the deposition, Plaintiffs' national counsel Matthew Miller conferred with Defendants' counsel about his ethical obligations as a practitioner regarding the use of Ms. Granado's original statements and the impact of those statements on the case. At that time, Mr. Miller insisted that he was ethically obligated to withdraw the complaint against Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and would do so promptly.
50. On December 20, 2005, Mr. Miller informed Defendants' counsel despite his ethical obligations as a practitioner his clients had instructed him to continue to pursue their claims against Mr. and Mrs. Nelson notwithstanding Ms. Granado's recent deposition testimony.

Oh, gee, could you be looking for this?

[12] Governments, organizations and individuals are becoming increasingly concerned about software compatibility, conflicts and the possible existance of spyware in the software applications they use. If you have access to the source code, then you can check it and compile it for yourself. This is not an option for closed source proprietary applications, and not everyone has the resources to check each line of source code. One solution for these issues is to employ a trusted third party, separate from the application developer, who is tasked with maintaining a trusted build environment, to build the binaries from source code. The Trusted Build Agent (TBA) would hold the source to each build in escrow, releasing the source code for only open source licensed code. Competing businesses providing a TBA service in a free market would compete with each other in not only price and level of certification, but also on the ability to detect hostile, vulnerable, incompatible or just plain buggy source code. You could request a trusted build from multiple TBAs test the ability to detect defects. Defects would be reported back to the application developers, along with any patches and suggestions that provide a fix. To a lesser extent, most Linux distributions and other operating system vendors that build and redistribute open source licensed code already provide this role.

They needed a change anyway and there was no way Apple was going to put "Intel Inside" on their new computers. They will come up with a Special place to put these new stickers so it doesn't take away from the look of Apple's new computers. This team of Apple and Intel is going to be huge. Apple is going to save millions (and get Millions) with Intel. Apple stock has always been a buy but now Intel is a big buy with all the computers Apple is about to sell. More at http://wallstreetfighter.blogspot.com/2005/12/inte l-changing-slogan-to-leap-ahead.html

actually, it took ten days to record according to this article:

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/tiny-music- makers-pt-1-intel-inside.html

ten days too long if you ask me, but anyway.

John Doe #8 has also moved to dismiss this aspect of the suit.

You are right, it is an inside out class action, formed under Rule 20(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Doe #8's lawyers essentially argue that any link between the 25 co-defendants is fortuitous and insufficient to grant the jointure. The rule is designed to collect partners or other's who jointly benefit from the transaction or actions at issue.

I don't expect to see this happening any time soon. To wit:

One insider told me "Opera is his baby" (referring to [Jon von Tetzchner]) he would never sell it no matter the dollar size.

[...]

[Robert Scoble] told me that it would be extremely unlikely for Microsoft to buy Opera. He told me that if this were to occur it's likely that the US Justice Department would view this as a monopoly, and block the purchase.

Both quotes from the reliable Opera Watch in the last few days.

For that matter, given the degree to which Internet Explorer is embedded in Windows, simply replacing it with Opera would be very non-trivial. I'd love to see Opera's market share increase, but this isn't the way.

Opera Watch's take on this. See the comment where VirtuElvis (an Opera developper) says they probably got confused with the Opera Platform SDK.