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nice.. and here's where he said it:

http://news.com.com/Photos+Kanye+rocks+Apple/2300- 1041_3-5853160.html?tag=nefd.ac

Okay, so maybe FEMA did rush this app to allow for public use. What excuse does the Patent Office have? http://news.com.com/Patent+Office+plans+new+e-fili ng+system/2100-1028_3-5830864.html/

What happens when we stop buying their products? they kill us? =/

We are witnessing the hypocrisy of bureaucracy in action.

soan they use that to make ape batteries along with the cow batteries?

What about using bacteria to release hydrogen from biomass?
http://news.com.com/Fuel+cell+pulls+hydrogen+out+o f+bacteria/2100-1008_3-5683881.html

And the terabyte model will cost over $2000 while the 160 GB model will cost about $1180. http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-5843380.html

"Among the changes, according to GPL author and FSF president Richard Stallman, will be a better handling of software patents; clarifications with how GPL software may be used in some networked environments and on tightly controlled hardware; and lower barriers that today prevent the mixing of software covered by the GPL and other licenses."

The draft isn't yet written,

Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of drafts written, just none that RMS and company are ready to share. It seems like I've seen these articles pop up every 6 to 9 months over the past couple years. (Take a look at the dates on those links.)

I mean, I know some FSF projects move slowly, but at least they make some progress. (Of course, from Hurd's announcement to "It boots!" was 3 years, so they must be rather, uhm, methodical?)

As for this comment: "So if they keep to the same formula, patents and DRM may deprive you of the rights to distribute GPL3 software, but probably not to use it." Maybe, but maybe not. If nothing else, it's not 100% clear to me who the licence affects when it's based on copyright. Namely, does it apply to the person offering the copy, or the person receiving it? If GPL v3 takes aim at DRM and patents, it may restrict you from receiving a copy. (Seems unlikely though... I'm pretty sure copyright focuses on the person offering the copy.)

Parent post is just a Copy & Paste of a redundant troll :

http://news.com.com/5208-1030-0.html?forumID=1&thr eadID=2246&messageID=11919&start=-1

C|net:
http://news.com.com/Australian+court+rules+against +Kazaa/2100-1030_3-5849480.html

Full judgement:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/ 2005/1242.html
- reasonably plain english, and worth reading. No cause for outrage here folks.

The feds decided that paypal wasnt a bank.

However this would probably be a good time to collect all the frozen donation account stories and press the congress to deal with this issue.

What do you base that opinion on, apart from a desire to find fault? The article cited in the parent says the deal (which apparently happened before SCO filed suit against IBM) was to acquire rights to x86 device drivers, not to Unix. Sun acquired all the rights it needed to Unix in the early 90s, long before SCO had become the Death Star.

It may look bad to those with only retrospect, hostility to Sun and no history, but could equally well represent the last of a series of regular transactions to keep the rights to Solaris up to date. And I'm personally sure that the rights acquired were part of the plans for OpenSolaris

I would be quite impressed if you built your own - it was my understanding that getting small enough components was a pain in the ass unless you're buying in bulk. I could be wrong - if so, kudos :)

As I don't have the skills, knowledge, to do it myself I can't but a friend does. I don't know about the availability of parts though.

Senate bill would ban P2P networks

Because P2P has legitimate uses I don't see how the USSC wouldn't strike any law that outlaws them as an abridgement of freedom of speech. It'd be like outlawing printing presses or copy machines. But if they did I'd be joining those saying "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants", Thomas Jefferson. As for a broadcast flag, Court yanks down FCC's broadcast flag. On taxing of storage media the US has had that at least since cassette tapes came out. I notice the article theregister.co.uk which you find particularly bothersome, much as I do, is more than 3 years old. If I recall right the bill went down in flames.

# The inability [papersplease.org] to travel by air in the US if you're not willing to obey laws you're not even allowed to see

Yea, "Wired magazine" had an article about John Gilmore two or three years ago. To see if it was online I did the search above and see they have a bunch of others. I'll want to go through and read them, and save them on my hd along with other articles about it. I will after I post this.

trouble [wm3.org] you can get into if you behave counterculturally in redneck America

It's not like I don't know that, I've following the case of political prisoner Leonard Peltier who was falsely conficted of murdering two FBI agents and has been in prison for more than 25 years, as well as Mumia Ab Jamal another person falsely conficted of killings, in this case of police officers. Oh, and I wouldn't call it redneck America as there are many flavors of redneck, me for instance. I've been called a long haired or hippy redneck.

Actually because of my speaking out on different issues and policies of the US government I've been called a traitor or hater of the USA, or in the case of Israel an antisemite but I'm not, it's the policies and deeds I disagree with. While I hate politics I'm passionate about liberty.

As for restrictive DRM policies, in part because these policies are getting so restrictive the Creative Commons are getting stronger. And I see this as continuing.

• The difficulty of preregistering copyright if you use Linux
• The inability to travel by air in the US if you're not willing to obey laws you're not even allowed to see
• The trouble you can get into if you behave counterculturally in redneck America

http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft+align+o n+new+Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html This was the article I meant to include, but the other works too. Hope it helps!

http://news.com.com/FAQ+Vistas+strong%2C+new+antip iracy+protections/2100-1025_3-5844071.html Hope that helps.

If they do something like SCO did, then you can start up the hating.

Sun expands Unix deal with SCO

Sun paid about $10 million to SCO and received warrants to buy 210,000 shares of SCOX as part of the deal.

I do agree with you that Sun has also done some awfully nice things for the open-source world. Sun is a friend when it's in Sun's interest (buying StarOffice and releasing the source under GPL) and a foe when that is in Sun's interest (funding SCO).

Maybe they started first...

Gates shed some light on his own hard-nosed business philosophy. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html?legacy=c net

Apple sues Sorenson
http://slashdot.org/apple/02/05/01/2012217.shtml?t id=107

Apple sues to stop leaks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/03/012024 0&mode=thread

Apple sues Think Secret
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/06 57245&tid=123&tid=3

Apple sues Future Power
http://www.macobserver.com/news/99/july/990701/app lesuesfuturepower.html

Apple sues domain name owner
http://www.slashstar.com/blogs/tim/archive/2004/12 /08/1126.aspx

Apple sues eMachine
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-230054.html?legacy=c net

Quick reminder about the fact that Apple have wholeheartedly jumped on the Trusted Computing bandwagon and are preparing to be on of the first to implement it -- you can see the Trusted Computing chip on the dev units they've been shipping.

I realise that Apple fanboys want to keep this explosive fact under wraps (and even when it does come out defend it to the death... just like all Jobs' decisions).

"MONTEREY, Calif.--Expanding its efforts to help law enforcement with cybercrime investigations, Microsoft plans in the coming months to launch a new online resource.

The Web site will include training, tips and tools for investigations and information on cybercrime, Richard LaMagna, director of worldwide law enforcement programs at Microsoft"

http://news.com.com/New+Microsoft+portal+will+help +cops/2100-7348_3-5845205.html?part=rss&tag=584520 5&subj=news

The likelyhood of this getting from the concept vehicle to the production vehicle is debatable. Read this article for example: http://news.com.com/Mazda+throws+away+key+for+USB/ 2100-7337_3-5845472.html?tag=nefd.top

Looks like Microsoft is alreaady moving to support Linux, by supporting UNIX... http://news.com.com/Microsoft+makes+Unix+changes/2 100-1016_3-5845790.html?part=rss&tag=5845790&subj= news

As of Q4, '04, Apple market share in the US was 3.3%. It has the fifth largest market share among pc vendors in the United States.

http://news.com.com/Dell+expands+lead+in+still-gro wing+PC+market/2100-1042_3-5540712.html

You forget that piracy groups have recently been associated with terrorist groups.

Read these documents.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_displ ay.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000528473

http://news.com.com/Terrorist+link+to+copyright+pi racy+alleged/2100-1028_3-5722835.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,126 0047,00.html

The latter even implies piracy gives terrorists more money than drug sales!

Terrorist groups like Al Qaeda will do more than bust your knee caps. They'll fly a plane into your skyscraper.

Also, piracy is or will soon be a big staple in Mafia fundraising. See this:

http://www.grayzone.com/ifpi4899.htm

The danger in this is that Governments will soon be interested in alleging Al Qaeda or Mafia ties every time they bust an organized piracy group of any sort. Thus, they can justify punishing piracy with much harsher methods in the future.

Who'd have thought in the past that a single charge of mp3 piracy could land you in prison for as long as a charge of forcible rape?

"Macromedia: Get over yourself. You're good, but not that good."

I'm hoping Adobe changes Macromedia's backward personality, too. Of course, Macromedia must be really bad if Bruce Chizen can fix the company. (Mr. Chizen looks more than a little crazy in that official photo, as though he were a fox assuring chickens of their safety.)

Mr. Chizen is the CEO who bought Adobe millions of dollars in bad publicity with the handling of the Skylarov situation. For example:

"Bruce Chizen -- President, Director, CEO Adobe
John Warnock -- Co-Chairman Adobe
Charles Geschke -- Co-Chairman Adobe

"... These are the individuals that could have had Dmitry home last July. Instead they thought it would be fun to play with Dmitry, Adobe's reputation, and the money of Adobe's stockholders. ... If there were justice in America, these such persons would be spending Christmas in a cardboard box under the freeway overpass."

Mr. Chizen also headed another effort to get bad publicity for Adobe: Dealing with the originator of Killustrator in a socially inept way.

Mr. Chizen followed that with a socially backward way of dealing with Chinese piracy. Adobe may ditch China sales. This time, someone else at Adobe tried to mend the damage by saying Mr. Chizen was wrong.

Thanks to a miracle of modern science called the Flashblock extension, Flash embedded in a web page appears as a sylized F in Firefox. A welcome relief since almost everything done in Flash is a childish demand for undeserved attention.

--
Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people crazy enough to kill.

When I see the "quality" of /. comments, especially compared to just a year or ago, I realize it's populated with the younger generation, but things like this confirm it.

It's not flamebait, you just don't remember it happening. I wasn't referring to Windows itself.

Here are a few examples:

http://www.idg.co.nz/cw.nsf/0/CC256D400014E76CCC25 6A3A00806895?OpenDocument&Type=Column&More=Virus/ Microsoft makes the virus news section too, with confirmation that it shipped some hotfixes infected with the rather nasty (but old and well-detected by antivirus software) FunLove virus

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html/ Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net

It doesn't MS is evil, it means they are human. Any company that ships tons of software will ~eventually~ make a mistake.

Today it's Creative's turn.

Of COURSE the EULA doesnt intend to exclude laptops. That would be, very simply put, utterly idiotic. As instinct and facts suggest that laptops outsell desktops, it would be beyond foolish to interpret the EULA in this manner; it would exclude a fast growing majority of computer users. Surely some poor paper pushing paralegal just wasnt thinking.

How do you factor in the cost of freedom? For example, MS give-aways (like IE) are only free if you ignore the lock-in costs involved. That is why MS has turned a blind eye to the copyright infringement of MS Windows in third world nations (so-called "piracy") ...

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." -- Bill Gates, 1998

Think about it, the addiction is to the formats and protocols. If MS actually followed established protocols and standards, rather than "extending" them so they only work on MS, then all this talk about switching would be irrelevant -- you'd be able to use what ever app or operating system does the job.

Open formats and protocols give you a choice in vendors and in the use of your documents. Freedom

This is a really blatantly biased study. I wonder where his grant money is coming from.......??? There is some major flaws with his theory....... He is focusing on .NET framework vulnerabilities. Microsoft tries to act as though the languages and .net api's have had no vulnerabilities. Here is just a few ASP.NET vulnerabilites: " Microsoft ASP.NET URI Canonicalization Unauthorized Web Access Vulnerability (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 1000 Last modified on: 2004-10-05 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11342 2 Microsoft Ships Nimda To Korea in .NET (News) Rank: 952 Last modified on: 2002-06-13 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/480 3 Microsoft ASP.NET StateServer Cookie Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 944 Last modified on: 2002-06-05 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4958 4 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Debugger Privilege Enforcement Weakness (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 932 Last modified on: 2004-04-15 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10161 5 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Korean Version Nimda Infected File Vulnerability (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 907 Last modified on: 2002-06-12 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5012 6 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET msdds.dll Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 885 Last modified on: 2005-08-17 00:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14594 7 Microsoft Visual C++ 7/Visual C++.Net Buffer Overflow Protection Weakness (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 882 Last modified on: 2002-02-13 17:00:00 MST URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4108 8 Microsoft ASP.NET Unicode Character Conversion Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 879 Last modified on: 2005-02-15 17:00:00 MST URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12574 9 Microsoft ASP.NET RPC/Encoded Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 871 Last modified on: 2005-07-11 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14217 10 Microsoft ASP.NET Request Validation Null Byte Filter Bypass Vulnerability (Vulnerabilities) Rank: 871 Last modified on: 2003-09-07 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8562 11 Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Microsoft .Net Passport Services Rank: 871 Last modified on: 2003-05-07 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/320989 12 Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Microsoft .Net Passport Services Rank: 871 Last modified on: 2003-05-07 18:00:00 MDT URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/320808" So the idea that there is no vulnerabilites in .net is bunk at best..... Another problem is that because of the MSDN EULA there has not been any hack challenges or external without Microsoft's permission. A few months ago Windows NT Pro magazine hosted a IIS6 hack challenge and it was mysteriously pulled fromt their site. I tried contacting them, but they never responded to my questions about the hack challenges. The big issue however is that there is architectual flaws in the Windows architecture Microsoft's Blind Spot (http://news.com.com/2010-1071-831385.html

Yeah, it's pretty rich for someone using the DMCA to accuse the receipient of such notices of being evil.

Yeah, it's pretty rich for someone using the DMCA to accuse the receipient of such notices of being evil.

Quoted from the article: Bill Gates certainly sees similarities between Google and his own company. This spring, in an interview with Fortune, Gates, Microsoft's chairman, said that Google was "more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with."

Congratulations. You were quoted in a CNet article on the GIM Client.

http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5842511.html

news.com also has the same story http://news.com.com/Relax%2C+Bill+Gates+its+Google s+turn+as+villain/2100-1038_3-5842397.html?tag=nef d.top

when CNET is carrying it hassle free...

right here.

Actually it was 49.7 days. Which lead to a lot of people wondering: how on earth did someone manage to keep a Windows system up that long?

Basically, CNET's article boils down to CS majors wanting to branch out to other disciplines and also how CS research is no longer just about computing but about other problem domains.

If i rmeber right, MS(msn) servers would actualy display a different page with purposely messed up code on it to generate errors and such when sufing thier sites with somethign other then IE. They claimed it was because the competing browser wasn't standards complient.

it isnt the first time and it probably won';t be the last. There are other stories around were people claimed ot have saved the pages from loading in netscape and loaded them in IE to find the same errors and when looking into why, they found the code and page was totaly different and the file name saved was different by default too.

Correct. Spam is far worse than it was a few years ago.

Actually, the terms of the settlement are completely unknown.

It could be that settling was cheaping that continuing the legal battle.

Regardless, this does imply wrong doing in this particular case... fair, or not.

If you run a Windows shop and mess up on a few licences, even by accident, the BSA will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html

As a matter of fact, they can screw up your operations by merely conducting an audit during your busiest season:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-996210.html

Even if you don't use the big-buck CRM packages mentioned in the article, if you're running a business the logical choice is to avoid the risk of extortion and/or business disruption by choosing open source and telling the BSA to stick it where the moon don't shine.

Sending it to everyone with "Linux" on their web site is like the notice stamped into my crowbar that says, "WEAR EYE PROTECTION". It's just legal CYA. If they didn't do that, they could lose the trademark, which would be a disaster for Linux.

That notice is the only thing I really question about LAI (if it happened as described; I didn't receive it myself since I don't live in Australia). Sending e-mail to every author of a web page containing the word "Linux" is spamming, whether required by law or not. If they had at least done some manual screening to try to weed out non-infringing uses, but made a simple mistake in one or a few cases, that could have been excused after an explanation. Expecting any inappropriate recipients to sort it out themselves is not something I tolerate.

Several years ago, the Software Publishers Association sent spam to 300,000 FTP system administrators to warn about the potential for software piracy. I was one of the recipients, and I immediately blocked their 207.95.37.0/24 network in our router, prohibiting them from talking TCP to our university department network again. They are still blocked, though I doubt they have noticed.

As for the law requiring a notice being sent, I doubt it, but I guess I have spent fewer hours studying law than the number of really stupid laws worldwide, and I know nothing about Australian law in particular. In any case, any spammer telling me "it's the law" will be treated just the same as any other spammer: Blacklisting and blocking. Hard to implement retroactively, I'm afraid, but I need to make the point that my mailbox does not exist for the purpose of people fulfilling whatever legal obligations they have or believe they have towards somebody other than me, period. If you absolutely need to yell at people, please do it where nobody can hear you.

Will my refusal to receive their notice make them lose their trademark? Probably not, but if they lose it, I will tell them "it's the law" and suggest that they keep their hands off my mailbox next time. In this way, spamming could also spell disaster for Linux.

And sending email is the only cost-effective way to do it.

Yes, that's what spammers usually say, expecting recipients to pay the bill instead. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

I'm all for Linux Mark Institute protecting Linus Torvald's trademark; they are doing us all a favour. All I ask is that they don't engage in spamming in order to protect it. However, I have no evidence indicating that they did, only hearsay, so I see no cause for action in this case.

I don't know, IBM has some really shitty patents.

Java on a chip was tried by SUN quite some time ago. It was a flop.

heres a link

I live in the Cincinnati area and have been patiently waiting for the Cinergy (our local power company) BPL service to be deployed to my area. My message to anyone waiting for BPL to come to their area: DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!

Cinergy had a huge multi-year beta test, followed by a production rollout.... that ONLY covered the area that the beta test did. That was over a year ago, since then, they've yet to expand their coverage area AT ALL.

It sounds too good to be true at $35 for 3mbit SYMETRICAL (no more DSL/Cable 20x download that you have for upload BS)

Current (The ISP that cinergy partnered with):
http://www.current.net/ServiceAndPricing/Residenti al/PricingAndBenefits/

Press release from Cinergy:
http://www.cinergy.com/News/default_corporate_news .asp?news_id=420

Recent investment in Cinergy BPL by Google:
http://news.com.com/Google+invests+in+power-line+b roadband/2100-1036_3-5777917.html

unless there is something that allows the cell towers to give priority to the police phones over my phone they police may be unable to communicate in an emergency.

In fact, that very point was recently demonstrated in London. From this article:

In the immediate aftermath, a statement from the U.K.'s largest network operator, Vodafone, said that an excessive number of calls had caused outages. The operator consequently set aside capacity for phone calls to emergency services.

"Following the major incident in London today, Vodafone London switches are at capacity (which is very rare), so we're having to go into 'access overload' procedures, which means freeing up a proportion of capacity across London to ensure the police and emergency services can communicate," the company said.

http://news.com.com/Apple+OS+X+security+fix+busts+ 64-bit+support/2100-1002_3-5837406.html?tag=nefd.t op

My bit of news because I am too lazy to submit something. Heck, not like /. accepts news that isn't a dupe.

Ok. Here's one: Ernie Ball Guitars.