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For those interested, here is the original paper. While I think it was a valid observation at the time, it's unfortunately become a driving marketing factor for the industry. While processor speed may be increasing all the time, I question the demand for it. Already, computer sales are leveling off as people realize they don't really need more than a 1Ghz to surf the web, send pictures, and listen to music. Even an Intel research paper suggested Moore's Law was coming to an end based on simple technical limitations.

I guess I'm just finding it difficult to imagine what I would ever need, say, 32Ghz for, other than gaming--which would be what my ultra-hip game console would be for.

Somehow I can...

Actually, it probably didn't even need altogether that much stuff. If you take a look at the I2Hub website, they have a link called Press, which details where the I2Hub software has been publicized online. They list (among other bits) a prior Slashdot listing, a News.Com article and even an article on Grammy.com! So all they probably did was once they were aware of the existance of I2Hub, they talked to the various universities that are a part of Internet2 until they found one who would allow RIAA access to Net2, then deployed the same tools they use against regular P2P applications.

And oh, the articles first appeared on April 29/04, April 30/04 and May 3/04 respectively.

I wonder who narc'd everyone out?

Slashdot , News.com.com and i2hub.com did.

Who didn't see it coming? It was bound to happen.

You just cant keep 100 TB of files "hidden" for all that long. Considering all the press it got last year, I'm surprised it has even lasted even this long.

Also, don't forget our friends in the MPAA. In a short post by the author of the news.com.com article: "According to the RIAA, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will be announcing similar action later today."

In case you don't read the article, here are the universities in question: Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Drexel University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at San Diego, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Pittsburgh and the University of Southern California.
Go RIT!

Among the most important, IMO, are:
1) More news coverage. As we've seen with many things in the past few years, only if it's on the news a lot will US citizens get upset. It's a sad commentary on the education of our population, but it's true. See also: Terri Schaivo.
2) Legislation. Time and time again, corporations (and indeed entire industries) prove that when their bottom line is involved, they will not self-police.

While other things in the world are certainly news-worthy, I hope this one doesn't get overlooked. If you're upset, write your senator or representative. Urge them to support Dianne Feinstein's legislation on tougher data-leak laws. I would, but I live in DC, which means I'm taxed but have no representation.

http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/PROPELLER_PRO_VOYAGER _WIN_95_MULTIMEDIA_KEYBOARD_AT_PS2/4505-3134_16-10 7393.html?tag=pdtl-list/

"Linux leader Linus Torvalds has begun looking for a new electronic home for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper"

Linky

Well... if "the market" represents the PC market, then Dell does have the biggest share.

Last I heard in the server market, Dell is basically tied with Sun for 3rd place behind IBM and HP.

We're getting way too much of this crap. Are Slashdot editors too busy playing The Sims to do their jobs, or what?

This is pretty old news (C|Net, January 2003).

The Atari Flashback isn't based on any Atari hardware, but "Famiclone" technology (most similar to the NES) like all those "system in a controller" devices. In fact, just looking at the screenshots , I can't even find one that it'd be possible to render on the 2600 (having done some coding on it myself.) They all have either too many pixels or too many colors per scanline, though obviosuly not too many for NES hardware.

For me, this contest might have actually been more challenging than writing a 2600 game in 24 hours, since I know the 2600 but I'm not familiar with coding for the NES nor with the development tools they were using (which was apparently the Windows program "Game Maker" with a limited set of sound effects and limitations on resolution and colors.)

To be fair, though, the game that won ("Ninja Garden") was the closest of all the games to looking like an actual 2600 game.

Open source? Microsoft? Wow, those Microsoft Canada people are really really unamerican, aren't they?

screenshots

I always found that these kind of pixel games, because they lack details, set our imagination to work, giving them a lot of 'atmosphere'. -- I rest my case...

Courtesy of Cnet

This news story offers additional information.

Look at how much MS or Apple have given back to BSD as opposed to how much linux has got from IBM. Who has the better dynamic community of sharing?

Wow! I like when people are really openly intelectually dishonest! Do you fail to see that IBM is in the server market, and that Linux OS is just a complement it needs to turn into a commodity to them? OTOH, Apple did give back to FreeBSD (see Since Mac OS X v10.0 was released in 2001, Apple has been filtering BSD code in and out of their kernel, userland, and libraries. This code then makes its way back to FreeBSD. Apple's pattern is to sync every major Mac OS X release with the latest major FreeBSD release. and Apple hires open-source leader.)

Just because you are desinformed, or because you think Leenox is Kewl does not change the facts.
Here are some simple facts of life:
1) A pure open-source software house is a very hard to maintain thing. I'm not the one saying that, Miguel de Icaza of GNOME/Mono fame says it here

2) Because some company incorporates code under BSD license, does not mean the code went away. It's still there. Otherwise, is it envy that moves you, because some people are more technically knowledgeable than you? In that case, your problem is not a license problem, it is a problem only solved by study. Envy only means you've got mental problems, too. For instance, BitMover wrote better code than the open-source guys. Tough luck.

The ZDNet article headline reads "Sun criticizes popular open-source license". Calling the GNU General Public License an "open-source" license is ahistorical and gives credit to the wrong movement, hiding the name of the real author of the license and the name of the movement for which the license was written.

By calling the GPL an "open source" license, the open source movement is allowed to grab credit for a trivial bit of work: constructing a set of rules which allow the GPL to be given the Open Source Initiative's imprimateur. This is nothing compared to writing the GPL and starting the free software movement.

The GPL was written many years before the OSI started. Nobody who would form the OSI wrote the GPL. The GPL was written by the FSF (most notably, RMS, who gets far too little credit for his work here on Slashdot). The OSI has dismissed software freedom for a message which does not preserve user's software freedoms (for instance, the open source definition does not guarantee a user's privacy--the OSI approved the early revisions of the Apple Public Source License which required publication and notification of a central authority upon changing APSL-covered software in most instances. The FSF did not give its imprimateur to the APSL v1.x revisions, holding out until Apple changed the license in what would become the v2.x revisions.).

Let's give credit where credit is due. I think just as RMS tells us (repeatedly) that GCC is a free software program, not an open source program because it misstates the authorship and reason why the program was written (RMS was the initial author of GCC which he wrote to provide software freedom for GNU), we ought to give the author and intentions of the GPL proper mention by calling it a free software license. That cannot be done by calling it an open source license.

"Economies and nations need intellectual property (IP) to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."

The progress of science has been enabled by open publication of theories and experiments. This same openness allows the best ideas to flourish and for development of technology-based industry wherever conditions permit, including lesser developed nations. The entire concept of "intellectual property" is not just a brake on the efficient operation of the free market system, but also impedes the progress of science and technology as a whole, progress which has helped improve the lives of millions.

Some resources are of limited supply and exhaustible; ideas are not such a resource.

"Economies and nations need intellectual property (IP) to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."

The progress of science has been enabled by open publication of theories and experiments. This same openness allows the best ideas to flourish and for development of technology-based industry wherever conditions permit, including lesser developed nations. The entire concept of "intellectual property" is not just a brake on the efficient operation of the free market system, but also impedes the progress of science and technology as a whole, progress which has helped improve the lives of millions.

Some resources are of limited supply and exhaustible; ideas are not such a resource.

A pilotable, actually walking robot will be showcased during the World Exposition 2005 here in Aichi, Japan. They showed clips of it walking on the news here in Japan.

A picture of the i-foot robot.

Toyota's press release on the robots showcased at Expo 2005 along with videos

User 7471 here. Could you go into more detail?

Just kidding. I am still unemployed, and did not do my taxes yet, and I have a student loan that I need to pay off from a sponsor that might have been a Nazi supporter (Mr Ford). But for some reason, I think things are going to be OK.
http://www.godhatesamerica.com

Vote or Die. Jack!
http://freenet.sourceforge.net

I have a video with an 18 inch object. Anyone want to see it?

Why everyone is going digital:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265459/.

How is the E911 programming coming?

Now do you know why I bough my LVLT stock now?

Anyone seen this yet?
http://whitehat.co.il
http://www.whoppix.net

If you can not beat-um, join um.

Not to be confused with a bomb.
http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000073038748/

Happy flying.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/01/18/airbus.380/

I have copy of Bill Gates talking about the ROM if anyone wants it.
http://news.com.com/Battle+brews+over+unlocking+PC +secrets/2100-1016_3-5654272.html

Also on the CD are the first 3 episodes of /. Geeks in Space.

"THATS HOT!" Copy Right Paris Hilton.

Ahh... http://www.mlb.tv More Micro$oft.
Good old. Omniture again.
http://www.omniture.com

Sex, America's real past time activity.
Wake me in 2008!

Just today Al Gore announced what he's planning on doing with Newsworld International and it seems very similar to this Google announcement. It also seems there is some kind of deal between Gore and Google but I'm not really clear what it is. Relevant quotes from the News.com article: http://news.com.com/Gores+TV+network+gets+new+name %2C+launch+date/2100-1047_3-5653913.html?tag=nl "Former Vice President Al Gore and partners have renamed their upcoming youth-oriented TV network and set Aug. 1 as its launch date. The venture, formerly called INdTV, will be called Current.tv, it was announced on Monday. The 24-hour network will target an 18- to 34-year-old audience and offer short-form content--15-second to five-minute segments--to be contributed by viewers. In addition to the videos, the new network reached a pact with Google to include the search firm's data on the most popular Web searches. The deal came despite early skepticism from Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, the No. 1 Web search engine that earlier this year stepped into the realm of entertainment by releasing a test video search service that pulls up still shots from such content providers as Fox News, PBS and the NBA. When first approached, "I thought it would be an extraordinarily challenging endeavor," Brin said. "Having seen some of the work they've now put together, I think it's an extraordinary opportunity."

Theu just signed a 10 year extension to the agreement, Look here

OnStar equipment includes a phone.. Could somebody record what you are doing without you knowing? I'd bet it is possible.

More than possible, it has already been done. The FBI got the Mercedes equivalent of On-Star to route a suspect's telemetry to them first. They remotely turned on the "phone" and listened to all the conversations in the car.

We know about it because Mercedes took the FBI to court over it after the monitoring had extended for more than a month. Mercedes's problem with it was that if there was a real emergency, the FBI's wiretap prevented normal emergency services from being provided to the car owner who had paid for them.

The courts ruled in favor of Mercedes, without addressing the privacy issues at all, instead basing their opinion pretty much on the issue of the wiretap interefering with normal usage.

Here's an article that summarizes it pretty well. The part they missed is that the car vendor in question was Mercedes. I read in a different article at the time that while the company's name was sealed or otherwise not made public, the lawyer for the auto company in the suit was public knowledge and it was also public knowledge that his firm primarily worked for Mercedes with few, if any, other auto manufacturer clients. Thus the inference to Mercedes.

Of course, for Microsoft, April 1st follows the Longhorn release schedule, and is, in fact, on May 2nd

This is slashdot geek erotica.

In a move to erase doubts about the sincerity of Sun Microsystems' move to embrace the Linux operating system, Chief Executive Scott McNealy took the stage Thursday wearing a penguin suit.

"We love Linux, and I hope there isn't any doubt about it," McNealy told financial analysts at its annual meeting here, dressed as Tux, the seemingly innocuous penguin mascot chosen years ago by Linux founder Linus Torvalds.

This one is indeed real. http://news.com.com/Intel+to+stop+using+open-sourc e+license/2100-7344_3-5648518.html

The interesting thing is how "real" tech news sites like news.com don't resort to that crap.

Actually, they have been. They simply let it be known that the articles are, in fact, gags. Sure, they have real news too, but of course their reporters are paid to report real news because it's their job. Last I heard, /. didn't have any reimbursement system for voluntary story submissions.

It's Friday, it's April Fool's Day, and there appear to be a hell of a lot of us having some fun. So let's all just go with the flow. Everybody mambo!

The interesting thing is how "real" tech news sites like news.com don't resort to that crap.

Actually, they have been. They simply let it be known that the articles are, in fact, gags. Sure, they have real news too, but of course their reporters are paid to report real news because it's their job. Last I heard, /. didn't have any reimbursement system for voluntary story submissions.

It's Friday, it's April Fool's Day, and there appear to be a hell of a lot of us having some fun. So let's all just go with the flow. Everybody mambo!

The interesting thing is how "real" tech news sites like news.com don't resort to that crap.

Actually, they have been. They simply let it be known that the articles are, in fact, gags. Sure, they have real news too, but of course their reporters are paid to report real news because it's their job. Last I heard, /. didn't have any reimbursement system for voluntary story submissions.

It's Friday, it's April Fool's Day, and there appear to be a hell of a lot of us having some fun. So let's all just go with the flow. Everybody mambo!

The interesting thing is how "real" tech news sites like news.com don't resort to that crap.

Actually, they have been. They simply let it be known that the articles are, in fact, gags. Sure, they have real news too, but of course their reporters are paid to report real news because it's their job. Last I heard, /. didn't have any reimbursement system for voluntary story submissions.

It's Friday, it's April Fool's Day, and there appear to be a hell of a lot of us having some fun. So let's all just go with the flow. Everybody mambo!

I know this particular RFC is meant as a joke. But if this man succeeds in gaining more control over the internet, I would not be surprised to see something along these lines in the future.

http://news.com.com/Google+plans+to+double+Gmail+c apacity/2100-1032_3-5649571.html?part=rss&tag=5649 571&subj=news

I don't know what to believe today! *goes insane*

Then get a new one? What do you do if you rip your passport?

The coating is pretty durable. You almost have to scratch it on purpose.

Microsoft acknowledge January patch for 98/ME is flawed. Surprise!!

Also see this news story: "And MySQL's popularity seems to be growing. Yahoo and Google use the software to run many parts of their Web sites"

Microsoft solved reading other domains cookies years ago, they still do it now on a lot of their sites, whats funny is they have one department making an internet browser that has security restrictions on cookie usage yet in another department they are thinking up ways to get round the security restrictions they put in place

whats the betting on their Microsoft/MSN cookies will be able to cross domains by default ? seeing as everybody wised up to their exploit game perhaps they are seeking other ways to compromise peoples privacy, advertising aint worth shit without that all important user tracking

you usually judge people based on their previous actions and with MS having such a piss poor record on security and privacy with obviously teams of programmers dedicated to getting round security restrictions (unless this exploit and those GUID servers was mysteriously unintentional) i wouldnt trust those fuckers with telling the time, never mind my security or privacy

Thanks for saving me the time of having to write all that stuff!
Oh, yeah, don't forget about BIG MAC

The following filters in my Adblock setup kicked in to make the article ad-free:

http://ad. .gif?
http://*.i.com.com (I know, quite specific)

CNet Edition

That means my dream of having a bionic arm is not too far off!

Irony is a woman who could probably benefit from filesharing to reach a wider audience carrying a sign that says, "Don't steal my future."

As if downloading could possibly affect the future of hippy communes.

Xserve shipments soar 119 percent

And on the storage side:

Oracle endorses, uses Xserve RAID (2)

And I can only speak for ourselves, but we're using Xserves in our datacenter, but not for serving Macs or Mac heavy networks: just as general purpose UNIX servers, with very nice administrative capabilities.

"Note to the RIAA/MPAA: profit from P2P, instead of trying to fight it."

Great idea, but I think they're a bit ahead of you:

Mashboxx and Pay P2P

Grokster, Sony, BMG to do legit P2P service?

Bertelsmann to offer P2P download platform

And while not strictly P2P:

Universal Music Debuts Digital-Only Label

You're probably right, I found this statement in stories last December: "The EU ordered that Microsoft couldn't charge more for the version sans player, but it didn't say that Microsoft had to charge less." Seems a bit wimpy to me, should have mandated it be at least a few percent cheaper, otherwise the OEMS will just ignore it.

News.com

International Herald Tribune

Google News

Btw, does anyone know why does the link from slashdot asks me for registration, but not the one from Google News?

The JVM source code IS AVAILABLE under the Sun Community Source Licensing. You can try it for yourself.

The SCSL is NOT an open source license (it doesn't give you the right to redistribute modified versions), but still it is much better than closed source. J2SE 5.0 is also available under the JRL (Java Research License) that allows sharing binary-based research distributions of Java.

Sun is preparing a tweaked license for J2SE 6.0 called JIUL (Java Internal Use License), in an effort to show that "the company wants to make Java as open source as possible while maintaining platform compatibility". You can read two recent articles on this topic in infoworld and news.com .

As for the GPL-compatibility, I remind you that most open source licenses are NOT GPL-compatible. Neither the Apache License nor the Mozilla Public License are GPL-compatible and this has not stopped the Apache httpd nor the Firefox widespread adoption in the open source community. Expecting Sun to release its JVM source code under a GPL-compatible license is nonsense. What we can realistically expect in the near future is a license scheme that would allow free redistribution in a company. They make this to please large companies like IBM, that has been complaining for some time now that the Sun JVM is not open source.

However, nobody is forced to use the Sun JVM. GCJ and Kaffe are GPL, aren't they?

nobody (not meaning OOo devs, meaning *anybody*) cares much about non-x86 linux.

Linus seems to care.

Why pay it when you can get a free clone, built from the RedHat sources?