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Does no one care? Is this not the biggest news to come along since, well, the beginning of organic life?

Did you read this? Look at the second-to-last paragraph:

"...IBM is working on future Power chips that can physically reconfigure themselves -- adding memory or accelerators, for example -- to optimize performance or power utilization for a specific application."

Since when do serious press releases contain a quote like "Heck, Yeah" from a company's founders? Business Wire gives this press release a time of just about 0:00GMT - the start of April Fools Day. Page's tone in the release's first quote is far too conversational for a corporate product launch - "kvetched"? "delete email like crazy"? I'm going to say it's a joke. And if it's not, this post was a joke.

So the official press release is here. Interesting that it's released March 31, 4:05 p.m. Pacific Time. Greenwich Mean Time is eight hours later.

Hmmmmmmmmm.....

The press release reads like a joke. Is it an (early) April Fool's joke?

Did you read this? Look at the second-to-last paragraph:

"...IBM is working on future Power chips that can physically reconfigure themselves -- adding memory or accelerators, for example -- to optimize performance or power utilization for a specific application."

That is the first step in self-evolving machines.

Yes, it is a minor step, but it is a friggin first step, OK? If they can pull this off, they are creating machines with the ability to adapt and evolve.

This is what I would call artificial life. Once that step is taken, it's only a matter of time before the machines start evolving themselves.

P.S. Now think about the kinds of viruses that could happen in that environment.

Some of you may be interested to know that Yahoo has announced that Wikipedia will be among its CAP partners.

the Kansas Research and Education Network has fully deployed it. Admittedly, that makes it a bit of an island, there aren't a load of applications for it now.

Nevertheless, every Regent's University in the state, and a few dozen public school district's have access to it Border to Border.

I've actually been using a new local search that arived recently. Here's an article...

Seems a little light for losing up to one-ninth of the programming, but again, no way that they will go without for a month anyway ...

Overall, the WSJ's total paid subscriptions -- online + print -- have increased. This number (2,091,062) excludes deep discounted subscriptions (under 25% of paper edition's cost) and only counts once those who subscribe to both. Numbers here.

The WSJ's online publishing has been a major success. I think only Consumer Reports has had comparable success with paid online subscriptions. I can't remember their numbers off the top of my head though.

Paul G. Allen Confirmed as Long-Rumored Sponsor of SpaceShipOne

Cisco's Network Admission Control program would enable companies to install on every PC and mobile device a client, called the Cisco Trust Agent, which could attest to certain levels of security...
However, the technology won't work unless security software can tell the Trusted Agent application the current state of security on the computer or mobile device.
"This important problem can't be addressed individually," said John Thompson, CEO of Symantec. "Collaboration is a must."
The technology might also spur sales of PCs and devices that use trusted-computing hardware--controversial technology that uses encryption, special memory and security software to lock away secrets on a PC from prying eyes.

To lock away secrets on a PC from the OWNERS eyes! &%^#@! Trusted Computing!

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC), today announced that it has joined forces with Cisco Systems to provide solutions that restrict network access to only compliant and trusted client machines including personal computers and PDAs.... Out-of-compliance machines may be denied access, quarantined, or sent to a separate location for remediation, while machines in compliance with the organizations' set policies will be granted access to the network.

Trend Micro, Inc. (TSE:4704) (Nasdaq:TMIC), a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, today announced its support of the new Cisco(R) Network Admission Control Program

THREE major router companies, Cisco, Symantec, and Trend Micro, are ALL supporting this inititave to lock non-TCPA computers out of the internet! #@%^$!

If you are running Microsoft Windows you will be locked out of the internet unless you are running Palladium. If you are running Mac or Linux or anything else, you will be locked out of the internet unless you are running a Mac or Linux version of Palladium.

I have repeatedly said in Trusted Computing discussions that sooner or later people not using it would start getting locked out of parts of the internet. Silly me, I thought that more and more websites would start using it and simply not serve you a page unless it was encrypted. I never considered that the basic internet hardware itself would deny you any connection at all! This is INSANE!

The problem with Turusted Computing is easy to fix. There is absolutely nothing wrong with new hardware, but the owner has to have actual control over his machine. The owner MUST have his key. He could receive that key on a printed peice of paper, or he could get it somehow during the Take_Ownership command. There is no POSSIBLE justification to deny the owner this information. There is no POSSIBLE way that the owner could lose any protection. The hardware could be identical, therefore the hardware can do everything it could before. The only difference is that the computer can no longer be hijacked as a weapon against it's owner.

This trivial difference preserves EVERY claimed benefit of Trusted Computing and eliminates EVERY possible abuse of TCPA. Those backing Trusted Computing will NEVER permit such a change in the system because the very purpose of Trusted Computing is to enforce DRM and other abuses.

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Cisco's Network Admission Control program would enable companies to install on every PC and mobile device a client, called the Cisco Trust Agent, which could attest to certain levels of security...
However, the technology won't work unless security software can tell the Trusted Agent application the current state of security on the computer or mobile device.
"This important problem can't be addressed individually," said John Thompson, CEO of Symantec. "Collaboration is a must."
The technology might also spur sales of PCs and devices that use trusted-computing hardware--controversial technology that uses encryption, special memory and security software to lock away secrets on a PC from prying eyes.

To lock away secrets on a PC from the OWNERS eyes! &%^#@! Trusted Computing!

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC), today announced that it has joined forces with Cisco Systems to provide solutions that restrict network access to only compliant and trusted client machines including personal computers and PDAs.... Out-of-compliance machines may be denied access, quarantined, or sent to a separate location for remediation, while machines in compliance with the organizations' set policies will be granted access to the network.

Trend Micro, Inc. (TSE:4704) (Nasdaq:TMIC), a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, today announced its support of the new Cisco(R) Network Admission Control Program

THREE major router companies, Cisco, Symantec, and Trend Micro, are ALL supporting this inititave to lock non-TCPA computers out of the internet! #@%^$!

If you are running Microsoft Windows you will be locked out of the internet unless you are running Palladium. If you are running Mac or Linux or anything else, you will be locked out of the internet unless you are running a Mac or Linux version of Palladium.

I have repeatedly said in Trusted Computing discussions that sooner or later people not using it would start getting locked out of parts of the internet. Silly me, I thought that more and more websites would start using it and simply not serve you a page unless it was encrypted. I never considered that the basic internet hardware itself would deny you any connection at all! This is INSANE!

The problem with Turusted Computing is easy to fix. There is absolutely nothing wrong with new hardware, but the owner has to have actual control over his machine. The owner MUST have his key. He could receive that key on a printed peice of paper, or he could get it somehow during the Take_Ownership command. There is no POSSIBLE justification to deny the owner this information. There is no POSSIBLE way that the owner could lose any protection. The hardware could be identical, therefore the hardware can do everything it could before. The only difference is that the computer can no longer be hijacked as a weapon against it's owner.

This trivial difference preserves EVERY claimed benefit of Trusted Computing and eliminates EVERY possible abuse of TCPA. Those backing Trusted Computing will NEVER permit such a change in the system because the very purpose of Trusted Computing is to enforce DRM and other abuses.

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Print-quality high-res pic of the new player

HUGE version of same picture.

It is not the fact that Dell makes a portable MP3 player alone that makes people call it a rip off. It is the fact that the Dell Digital Jukebox looks a lot like the Apple iPod, combined with the fact that Dell is also offering a service for purchasing downloadable music.

Fixed link: http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.092503/bb 8a.jpg

CB

Fixed link: http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.092503/bb 8a.jpg

CB

Any details on how the music download service will work? Subscription with free downloads but strict DRM, subscription with paid downloads and no/light DRM, paid downloads with no subscription but strict DRM, paid downloads with no subscription and no/light DRM?

Pricing of the Dell Digital Jukebox? Less than $299? I hope so, considering how cheap it looks (compare cheap buttons and scroll wheel vs touch-sensitive buttons and wheel with no moving parts).

I found a short article that outlines some basic details of what they (Loral) know now and what they're doing to alleviate any problems to the end-user (you).

Here...
Here...
And here...

So, do we have a link? A reference? How can we confirm this? Who posted this? This sort of news item sucks. Very little information and no links to reference the news item.

Well, you could bitch and moan about it, or you could just use Google News and find your own damn references

Full details of the lawsuit are available in this press release:
home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp ?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20030918005730&newsLan g=en&beanID=478837757&viewID=news_view

Copy of lawsuit:
search.netster.com/about/lawsuit.asp

Sorry, I forgot to include these links in my submission. Post away!

Cheers,
Doug

Not yet, but he's showing some hope.

Found this
And this containing contact info (may be out of date)

If Amazon still sells this then someone is connected to the money and that means trouble... So forget droping it in the trash and I don't know you...

About Chilliware, Inc.

Chilliware, Inc. is dedicated to making Linux the desktop choice by developing quality Linux software products and providing premier technical support for all Linux solutions. Chilliware has also established a network of Linux community oriented web sites offering the latest content on systems, applications and Linux news available at www.chilliware.net. Privately held Chilliware was incorporated in January 2000 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

CONTACT:

Dittoe Public Relations

Liza Dittoe

317/202-2280, ext. 11

liza@dittoepr.com

See these articles as an example.

And even with 5C content protection, the entertainment industry is STILL deathly afraid of the idea of delivering digital content to customers with full digital interconnectivity between their devices.

If not for them, we would have a single, clean FireWire cable, or no cable at all, connecting all of our devices, and enabling them to seamlessly communicate with and control one another. I would have thought we'd be there by now...

Yahoo Finance News has several articles about it today, including the IBM press release text.

Google News doesn't (fortunately) consider BusinessWire to be a news medium, so it's not on there yet.

IBM press release
From the outset, IBM's position on this lawsuit has been unequivocal. IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated. IBM will defend itself vigorously. This matter will be resolved in the normal legal process.
IBM will continue to ship, support and develop AIX, which represents years of IBM innovation, hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and many patents. As always, IBM will stand behind our products and our customers.

also Apple WILL be at MWNYC this year, just no Steve Jobs keynote.... today IDG announced .Greg Joswiak, vice president of hardware product marketing at Apple(R), will deliver the opening feature presentation at Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo(TM). Joswiak will address Macworld CreativePro's audience of creative professionals on Wednesday, July 16 at 9:30 a.m. ET

Not the same as Steve Jobs i guess, but it sounds like he will probably be repeating a lot of what happens next week.... but tuned down to consumer-speak. The NYC conference is being geared more towards consumers and creative people. Kind of makes sense since it's just a month after WWDC. Since theya re targetting the creative Mac users, it seems like all the more reason to keep the East Coast Expo in NYC instead of the northmost edge of the megalopolis.

While the Xerox Phaser series is great, if you want really high volume, you need Xerox DocuColor iGen3 for 6,000 impressions per hour, auto duplex. According to BusinessWire, the DocuColor iGen3 lauched starting at a list price of $510,000, but I don't know if that's the current price.

For the last six years the averaged revenue growth is 7.2 - 9.8% (except for the year 2000 probably due to the recession). That's pretty good figures. For the years 1980-1995, before high speed Internet, the average revenue growth was 5.2% a year.

2. The data you are showing is relative to ticket sales in theaters, where DeCSS is a non-issue. DeCSS affects the sale of VHS and DVD products by diluting the market for those goods with "pirate" copies that are either free or cheap.

You are right here. The increase in DVD sales is much more impressive than the revenue growth of the ticket sales.

DVDs conquer the movie world

WARNER-HOME-VIDEO-DVD Sales Soar

BusinessWeek

Blockbuster Sees Revenue, Profit Growth in Q1

4. Just using the numbers you linked to, the movie makers are actually losing more money than ever. So I suggest not using these numbers in any rational debate about the subject at hand.

The Domestic Grosses are just part of moviemakers revenue. There are also Overseas Grosses, which excide the domestic grosses. There are also rental revenue, merchandise sells, and VHS and DVD sells.

Warner's 4Q revenue rose to $11.4 billion from $10.6 billion, as strong box office and DVD sales and improvingCNN Money

Fox Post Profit Gains

The Ever-Expanding, Profit-Maximizing, Cultural-Imperialist, Wonderful World of Disney

What good is a slashdot article without a picture?

I haven't seen anyone (save a few Slashdot trolls) seriously argue that binary-only software is inherently more secure, either in theory or in practice.

Then you must not get out much.


Alexis de Tocqueville Institution published a white paper (funded by Microsoft) that argues this very point. Do you consider them "slashdot trolls"?

How about Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response center? Is he a troll too?

Hmm, ZDNet has another (unnamed this time) source from MS, who claims that too. You're saying that MS's spokespeople troll /.?

I've also seen company websites (SoftArc comes immediatly to mind) that stated (in effect) "we don't release source code because it's more secure that way" - sorry, no link for this one, as they've changed their site... but there is a chice quote on their security page, where they explain that their products are more secure because "connections employ entirely proprietary protocols"

The thing is that this FUD is spewed about by people who don't know what they're talking about, and believed by others who haven't thought about it too much. "Security through obscurity" makes an inutitive kind of common sense, unless you think about it for awhile, or are exposed to the flaws (which aren't as intuitive.) It's the same kind of sense that got the DMCA passed.

Mr. Diffie isn't writing for the security community, but for the people outside the security community, who might be led to believe that obscurity does provide security.

Will these be in some form of SCSI since IDE would probalby not hold up for this unless you had a very large buffer?


Why SCSI when Apple and the others will have released Gigwire (read Firewire 2.0) which will be much better. At first 1.6 gb/sec then on to 3.2 gb/sec.

If these seem like the actions of a desperate fc, that's because they are. Shall we all look for our favourite quote? I like "Revenues for the third quarter of 2002 were $179,000 versus $10,831,000 in the comparable 2001 period.", although it does struggle for attention when compared to "The third quarter 2002 net loss from operations was $20,622,000 or $1.05 per share". I note as well that their licence fee income is a glorious $43k for the last quarter. Shit, I know contractors who have made that much.Their assets minus liabilities is somewhere in the region of $56M, although we can safely assume a lot of those assets aren't going to be cash in the bank.

Anyway, so it's not me getting the legal hassles, but I say stall the bastards. If you can stall for six months or so they'll just disappear off the radar. Either that or Apple, Real or Microsoft will walk round with the big stick and knock them off the radar.

Best of luck,
Dave

BTW, how much are they looking for?

sPh

To each his own -- I swear by clamshell designs. More compact, lower SAR, better conformance to face.

The Samsung SPH-i500 (announced last week for SprintPCS) is smaller in four dimensions (including weight), does AMPS, and has an integrated 16MB Palm 4 PDA. I am going NUTS waiting for it to appear locally so I can finally get a good look at it. I was very disappointed when I finally saw the Treo -- there's no way I could have one of those big flat things on my belt all day long.

Not quite yet, they haven't.

Now for a commercial. Craig Hughes has formed a company to bring spamassassin to outlook users . And I'm setting up a hotmail like service at spamassassin.net to help users that don't have the time or ability to setup spamassassin themselves.

Subject: "Opening the Open Source Debate"

Date: 31 May 2002 15:45:59 +1200

Some references you might wish to consider before publishing your article "Opening the Open Source Debate"

http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi ?bw.053002/221502375

Bruce Schneier, one of the recognized leading expert on computer security on Kerckhoffs' Principle and Secrecy, Security, and Obscurity of software.

http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0205.html#1

Dr. Blaine Burnham, Director, Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and previously with the National Security Agency (NSA), gives an keynote speech overview of current encryption and security technologies and outlines possible strategies for future defense.

http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=411

Also you might wish to address the issue of Microsoft's disproportionately high number of open vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer components. All of which where discovered without access to the source code.

http://jscript.dk/unpatched/

Richard Purcell, Microsoft's director of corporate privacy, has recently stated that any major improvement in regard to the security of it's products may be at least "5, 10 years, maybe".

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may 2002/tc20020523_6029.htm

As for the issue of Trojan horse injection into open source code, it is far from being an open source only issue.

http://www.eeggs.com/

Or were all the "Easter Eggs" currently found in Microsoft's products officially authorized?

If you are looking for a methodology for providing a suitably secure and hardened solution, start with a real world example.

http://www.openbsd.org/security.html

I welcome any open debate.

PDABuzz is wrong, our details are right from sony. News.com is also reporting the .41 thickness.

I invite you to Business Wire's site which is ALSO saying the unit is .39" thick and has the same exact press release pdabuzz.com has posted.

Don't blame me for the fact that you and your site are 100% wrong, blame Sony who ISSUED the release to Business Wire and PDABUZZ.

Here is a quote from announcement of QT 3.0 release ( source is here ):

Qt 3.0 is released under the following licences:

The Qt Professional and Enterprise Editions. Available for thedevelopment of proprietary/commercial software on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X.

The Qt Free Edition. Free for run-time use and for developmentof free/Open Source software on Linux and Unix/X11.

The Qt Educational Program. Educational institutions can get asite license for 100 users of Qt/Windows to use in relevantcourses.

I would not say that it is exactly GPL, but IANAL on the other hand.

It's out.

Slashdot ought to post this in a day or two when it's good and stale.

buy, now.......

Look at Caldera's third quarter results on Businesswire here. They're blaming it on the aquistion of
Tarantella. Also here is the official press release on the third quarter results.

These are what are know as "Looking Forward" statements, and are standard on all business press releases.

I mean, take a look at Business Wire for more of these bloated statments. Here's one.

These are what are know as "Looking Forward" statements, and are standard on all business press releases.

I mean, take a look at Business Wire for more of these bloated statments. Here's one.

Look on the bright side, it may finally end a long and prestigeous era for Russia when MIR comes down, but we might get a free taco out of it!

From BusinessWire:

The name Midori Linux is based on the Japanese word for the color green -- midori -- and was chosen to reflect the environmentally friendly aspects of an energy efficient Linux operating system.

The Register is running a short
clip about the story. Also the PR department of Rambus has been active, the result can be seen
here (althoug nothing very original, just typical quoted out of context defence)..

It's anyway funny to see that Micro$oft isn't the only company which is conserned about the protection of "innovation"...


My DeCSS archive: