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AMD already rules the x86 64-bit market

Actually, they don't. Copying from http://news.com.com/IBM+extends+lead+in+server+mar ket+-+page+2/2100-1010_3-5587722-2.html?tag=st.nex t:

"AMD pioneered the addition of 64-bit extensions to x86 in 2003 with its Opteron. Intel followed suit halfway through 2004. Despite AMD's earlier arrival, more revenue came from servers using Intel's 64-bit Xeon chips, McLaughlin said: $1.3 billion for Xeon servers, compared with $838 million for Opteron servers"

Notice that Intel has a huge market share in the x86 world so all people who bought servers before Opteron bought Intel, and they continue doing the same despite of the Opteron goodness. If you look at the desktop processor market, is going to happen the same: Intel has 80% of the market share, and as soon as they start selling 64-bit enabled P4s, most of the x86-64 installed base will be from Intel, not from AMD.

I received this open letter from Trevor Potter, a former FEC commissioner, who disagrees with the Declan/Brad Smith article.
It provides a different perspective on the issue.
Potter has his own axes to grind, and is not neutral, but it's one indication the article may have been overblown. I hear that happens on /. sometimes.

RE: Declan/Brad Smith article on Internet regulation by FEC hasen

Trevor Potter
to me, election-law_gl
More options 5:45 pm (7 minutes ago)

Commissioner Smith's interview does a good job at providing
misinformation on the subject of the Internet and the FEC, as it was
obviously intended to. Under the FEC regulations supported by Smith last
year, PAID Internet advertising was not considered a 'public
communication' and therefore could be paid for by soft money without
limit or disclosure. The same applied to Internet Advertising by State
political parties. NEITHER OF THESE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH BLOGGERS OR
AVERAGE CITIZEN USE OF THE INTERNET!

After a Federal judge threw out these Smith-supported exclusions for
paid advertising on the Internet, the FEC was ordered to open a
rulemaking on the question of advertising on the Internet. The
Commission has NOT yet even put out any options for consideration--when
they do so there will be opportunity for lots of public comment. The
Commission will have plenty of opportunity in the course of the
rulemaking to distinguish between political candidate or party Internet
expenditures (which should be subject to federal campaign finance law
like any other expenditure they make, or which is coordinated with
them), and completely unregulated activity by bloggers, Internet news
services, and citizens acting on their own.

There is NO REASON AT ALL that this FEC rulemaking should attempt to
regulate bloggers, Internet -based news entities, or average citizens
sitting at their PCs, and I have great faith it will not. I personally
have represented several Internet-based groups in the past several years
in obtaining Advisory Opinions from the FEC making it clear that their
activities are NOT covered by federal election law.

What Brad Smith is trying to do (along with other opponents of campaign
finance reform on issues like 527 legislation) is scare people into
thinking the sky is falling, and stampede everyone into objecting before
the FEC rulemaking has even begins. Particularly telling is his urging
Congress to over-rule the federal district court opinion on paid
Internet advertising. Having had his (and the FEC's) unsupportable
exemption for paid advertising repudiated by a federal court, he now
wants to do an end run around that Court decision.

My suggestion is that those of us who care about keeping Internet
political activity free from intrusive regulation but ALSO believe in
the campaign finance reform effort to keep soft money and corruption out
of politics PARTICIPATE in the FEC rulemaking, and ensure the FEC gets
it right this time.

For more information on the history of FEC regulation and deregulation
of the Internet, see my Chapter in the Brookings Institution's New
Campaign Finance Sourcebook at
http://www.brookings.edu/dybdocroot/gs/cf/sour cebk 01/InternetChap9.pdf

Trevor Potter

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aardvark
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:16 PM
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Subject: Declan/Brad Smith article.

This morning Rick linked to
this
article at news.com.
The article raises civil liberties concerns about FEC regulation of
bloggers, who may not qualify for the media exception, and about
treating linking as a contribut

Customers bemoan changes in Quicken 2005

From the article:
"The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that Madison River Communication will "refrain from blocking" VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol, calls and will pay a $15,000 fine to the government."

Full article on CNet

Telco agrees to stop blocking VoIP calls

The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that Madison River Communication will "refrain from blocking" VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol, calls and will pay a $15,000 fine to the government.

The thing I hate about you right wingers is your willingness to just make stuff up. Try a google search before you open your mouth.

Powell was appointed by W.

http://www.avhub.net/BushMichaelPowell.htm
or here
http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/Colin+Powells+son+pi cked+to+head+FCC/2100-1033_3-251314.html

And I really don't see the Republicans screwing over big media on this, with their non-coverage of the numerous screwups of the current junta.

You're right about what the First Amendment was *intended* to protect and what it *should* protect. But you're wrong about what the courts have permitted.

The Supreme Court has already upheld one part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. A federal judge has said the second part (which is requiring the FEC to take action) is also constitutional. Obviously the federal judiciary doesn't agree with you.

I followed the link. I clicked on the photos. I was impressed.

Well let me tell you people, I've been informed that the third picture... it's a picture of cell phones... CELL PHONES!!! This is just like that time I was taken in by bathroom grafitti... I'm probably end up having to apologize to another ethnic group...

I'm so embarrassed...

I followed the link. I clicked on the photos. I was impressed.

Well let me tell you people, I've been informed that the third picture... it's a picture of cell phones... CELL PHONES!!! This is just like that time I was taken in by bathroom grafitti... I'm probably end up having to apologize to another ethnic group...

I'm so embarrassed...

I followed the link. I clicked on the photos. I was impressed.

Well let me tell you people, I've been informed that the third picture... it's a picture of cell phones... CELL PHONES!!! This is just like that time I was taken in by bathroom grafitti... I'm probably end up having to apologize to another ethnic group...

I'm so embarrassed...

• Linux server revenue last year was five thousand million dollars ($5,000,000,000).
• IBM Linux revenue was $1.5 billion
• HP Linux revenue was $1.25 billion
• Dell Linux revenue was $750 million

It's fine that you or your company don't like Solaris, but the fact that well over a half-million people downloaded Solaris 10 in three weeks says that it really isn't becoming extinct. It isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Even I downloaded Solaris out of curiosity to see what all the hype is about and, like almost everybody else, I was disappointed.

Download numbers are not a very clever way to defend your ideas, mein freund. It's good to see Sun releasing Solaris as "quasi-free". It only proves that Linux is really, really disturbing Sun.

In my previous post, I told you about how Solaris is ancient. Hey, you don't need my word for it.

Cheers!

Eduardo.

Photos are here, minus the lame extra click through parent's blog.

http://news.com.com/Photos+Cell+phone+meets+the+Wa lkman/2009-1041_3-5594417.html?tag=st.num

i don't know about the ipod, though there is an iTunes for Linux in the works via windows emulation: http://news.com.com/Startup+to+make+iTunes+sing+on +Linux/2100-1041_3-5293915.html. most of what you talk about is not the concern of kernel developers but of the userland application developers. USB plug and play works well in linux if you have 'hotplug' on board. for the palm pilot, i have used this in the past http://pim.kde.org/components/kpilot.php and it works very well.

if you use an integrated desktop environment like KDE or Gnome you'll find that alot of your userland problems are sorted 'out of the box'. running such a system is not my preference, however i reccommend this to new users.

There are features about your face that don't change, even if you look outwardly different to everyone else after kissing your steering wheel at high speed.

Right, that software will matched your smashed, broken face to the appropriate database record, no sweat. That's why you're not allowed to smile when you get your picture taken for your Passport.

To those wondering what the parent is talking about... ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978497.html

He ended up not serving a sentence at all. He was released from charges by the government which went after the company he worked for instead, and the jury acquitted the company of all charges. Looks like the system worked for once. Too bad no one took advantage of the chance to strike down the DMCA (or at least parts of it) as unconstitutional.

Check your licensing agreements before you buy one of these dual-core processors. Make sure that your software vendor isn't going to double the price on you.

Oracle and others have announced plans to increase their revenue by charging people for multiple cores in their single processor.

Hey, if you live nearby, I can carrier pigeon it to you ;-)

• Linux server revenue last year was five thousand million dollars ($5,000,000,000).
• IBM Linux revenue was $1.5 billion
• HP Linux revenue was $1.25 billion
• Dell Linux revenue was $750 million

I'm not being weird here, but if you're in public you don't have a right to privacy. That's why it's called public and not private.

I'm familiar with the 'no expectation of privacy in a public place' concept, but just as some disagree that the police ought to be able to place a GPS tracking device on your vehicle with a warrant, there comes a point where the tracking becomes too intrusive. Also, residence halls are limited to residents, much like an apartment building. I'm not sure how the law works regarding this, but we pay room and board on campus and have certain rights - for example, while we have to answer our door if a resident assistant comes knocking, we are not required to let them into our room.

A big issue is the fact that in responding to our public information requests, they claimed they had no information on policies regarding access to the log data - basically, this means they have no (legal) record of who can see where we go and when. I find that a bit odd. I'm sure a health insurance company would like to get a look at how often students visit the dining hall versus the gym...

Xen can also use copy-on-write (and UML can too) filesystems for the common stuff between operating systems (so if you have five identical Xen domains, they can all mount the same copy-on-write fileystem), so you don't need five installs of the same OS.

Cool. I missed that. Thanks.

Actually...if Solaris does get open sourced, wouldn't it be nice to have a Xenised Solaris?

http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5581484.html

Interestingly enough, AOL could monopolize the instant messenging market overnight. AOL has a patent on instant messaging as well as chat rooms. They could shut down every other service and people would literally be forced to use them or live without AIM, MSM, YIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, etc... This is all entirely within their legal rights too. Thank god they have been pretty good to the community despite all the bad stuff people say about them. They produce a linux version of aim (admittedly somewhat crippled), give us an open source highly scalable web server, they gave us mozilla, winamp, one version of a basic p2p infastructue, and all other kinds of amazing contriubtions. Personally I don't think people give them enough credit. In addition to those other things, millions use AOL and AOL is very effective at blocking spam both in and out, and also stopping viruses dead in their tracks. They don't take any shit from anyone and although it may anger some web masters and system administrators, perhaps a "no mercy" policy should be more commonplace. Its damn effective and gets those in charge of mail servers to open there eyes and pay attention. Thats why I still have my parents using AOL. That and they do provide some pretty cool media services.
Regards,
Steve

It is off topic, but your message reminded me of the group of Linux enthusiasts in Bergen, Norway, who succesfilly sent a ping using Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.

Clickable link here.

I'm on the fence on this as I've read other articles describing the crackdown in much more detail finding as potentially illegal and only pertaining to use and sales outside of Russia being questionable. The news.com.com.com site reads like a RIAA FUD twisted press release.

It seems that the new version of the Google toolbar is evil, featuring "Autolink", basically the same as M$'s uproar-causing page-modifying "Smart Tags" that thankfully got dropped.

(Although I still see fit to put <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> in the head of every site I build, thanks to that nasty scheme, just in case they ever change their minds.)

Anyway, if true, this is a real bitch to website owners. I really hope Google haven't turned to the dark side, but I have noticed that it's taking longer and longer to get new website content properly indexed these days, so in a way, I'm wishing for something to come along and put a bit of competition back into the search engine world, because Google ain't what it used to be.

How long before the Google toolbar is considered spyware? Last I checked, modifying page content was a tactic that well and truly belonged to spyware... and Microsoft.

1. Linux is growing. five thousand million dollars ($5,000,000,000) in server revenue last year.
2. FreeBSD is dying. No major first tier (IBM, Dell , Sun, HP) revenue. Zilch.

Not any more than Mozilla is/will be.

Note that the vulnerability in that last link was marked "confidential" for five years. Rather Microsoft-ish.

The processor is called POWER, and IBM already uses it in their high-end server products, like the ones that used to be called RS/6000.

I think what they're talking about is using them in mainframes (zSeries), which currently use a different processor than the iSeries (AS/400) or the pSeries (RS/6000). Apparently they're going to converge the hardware of their server lines as much as possible, and differentiate them mostly through the OS.

Makes sense, if they can leverage the same technologies across all their server lines, it'll help them cut their development and manufacturing costs.

Uhhh... just which orafice are you pulling those numbers from? They are totally wrong! According to the most recent numbers from IDC, Intel makes 82.2% of x86 chips, AMD makes 16.6% and VIA and Transmeta combined for about 1%.

Some very good points, particularly the restricted ability for a buyer to repurpose the DirectTV hardware. However, even if it's only a million pure TiVo boxes (and I believe there are more than that), that's a better user base than 0. TiVo is working on its own VoD service with Netflix as a partner; the interface that TiVo customers love, with integrated VoD? Sounds like something that may actually work. Perhaps it won't be available to DirectTV customers, but apparently they still find it worth doing. I don't believe the Apple rumor, but somebody should buy them out, if only as a defensive measure.

According to the article, ( Hey, /. sorry I read the article, I am new here ) MS developed a MS compatiable version of Linux and then shelved it. As posted above MS bought(announced)Connectix Feb 2003. When was it developed? When did they shelve it? Could he have mentioned dates or a time line? Could it have been around this time? June 22 2001 http://news.com.com/Microsoft+license+spurns+open+ source/2100-1001_3-268889.html A timeline would beter help me to understand some of the quotes and rationalizations that goes on in Redmond.

On a somewhat related note, IBM has released rhype, it's research hypervisor as open source under the GPL. This should spice up the free hypervisor community. First Xen, now IBM's rhype. Choice is so good :)

Earlier this month, the studio trade association announced that file-swapping site LokiTorrent, one of the hubs supporting BitTorrent technology, had agreed to pay a $1 million settlement and give its server logs to the MPAA.

from the article (http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/Crank+it+iTunes+sel ls+sounds+of+silence--for+real/2100-1041_3-5154202 .html)

Most famously, composer John Cage composed "4'33""--a 1952 piece that features just over four and a half minutes without sound. The BBC broadcast a live performance of the piece earlier this year--featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, no less.

Cage's estate even managed to win a copyright fight in 2002, getting Mike Batt to pay a six-figure settlement because a Batt recording included a silent track that he credited to Cage.

Umm no, tell me: What exactly are you copying?

more about that here

Nice follow up...there hasn't been much noise out there about dual cores lately. http://news.com.com/Dual+cores+to+lead+Intel+show/ 2100-1006_3-5343262.html?tag=nefd.top

Before you buy one of these dual-core processors for your server, make sure that your software vendor isn't going to double your price on you.

Oracle and others have announced plans to increase their revenue by charging people for multiple cores in their single processor.

Tivo and Netfix announced a deal the day before I bought my Tivo. Perhaps this is why Apple might be interested in Tivo?

I'm sure the TiVo apologists will emerge soon to defend their baby to the death.

Okay, I'll bite. TiVo collects anonymous statistics. The annual "most-replayed Super Bowl moment" press release is a marketing gimmick. It makes the handful of people who still don't know what TiVo is sit up and say "wow, I wish I could do that."

Sure, there's the potential for them to connect those statistics to customer names and sell it to advertisers, but TiVo has built a solid reputation for being a company, like Google, that "gets it". They earned our trust years ago when they turned a blind eye to hacking, and they've done an admirable job of walking the line between customer satisfaction and entertainment industry lawsuits.

Let's put this in context. Google issues a press release every year about their Zeitgeist site. Are you upset that they keep statistics on top queries? Does it worry you that every search you do can be traced back to your IP address? Are you outraged that this info may be used to build databases for Google Suggest?

If so, then put your tinfoil hat back on and let's agree to disagree.

Salon.com requires a soul-sucking registration link.

Dude... the link was to salon's RSS feeder... there was no registration when I clicked on the link, and I haven't been to salon's website in months (that is, two reformat's ago.

Secondly, a simple <a href="http://news.com.com/Adware+maker+joins+feder al+privacy+board/2100-1028_3-5587653.html?tag=nefd .top">CNet also has it, and I like them better because of reason X</a> probably would have been more appropriate (unless you're worried *.com.com.com is going to cave under the pressure.

In other words, he's a lawyer. Presumably, his job was to either keep them from getting sued, at which he failed, or sue anyone who libels them, which seems to have succeeded. At least Homeland Security has Sovereign Immunity to fall back on.

Not as a prank, but as a way to make sure that people know about this guy. I nominate "federal pop-up man."

No not The Onion, Salon. Which isn't much better.
And I guess it's true as CNET has picked up the story too.
He is apparently a Law Professor and teaches a class on The Regulation of Advertising.
My question is how can somebody such as himself be associated with a company like Gator that tries their best to trick consumers?
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play

WTF is up with the blue plastic crack?

What, like this one? (ok, so it's not blue)

Along the way I could hook the little thing up to my relations' TVs and show them whatever little set of images I wanted, mostly of shots from home they haven't seen.

Almost, but according to cNet, you have to connect the iPod Photo to a computer before you can display the pictures you upload from a camera on a TV. So that means that it will still be handy to have a computer around.

Probably never considering that PDAs aren't a hot market any more. Even Sony is getting out of them. You should see more multi-function phones merge with iTunes/iPod features like the Motorola deals.

Canadians have enjoyed free downloads because of a tax that we pay on blank media. It will be interesting to see if the customer list of allofmp3.com gets 'acquired' by any law enforcement or copyright holder in North America. If so, I wonder if any Canadian downloader would have broken any laws? I suspect not, but IANAL.

A number of groups like the EFF, American Library Association, etc. are all challenging the broadcast flag in court. With a bit of luck it's implementation will be delayed or even stopped.