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Ok how about just perjury alone. Forged video evidence was also presented in the anti-trust trial in the U.S.

Ok how about the court's decision, upheld on appeal, that the company used illegal methods to maintain a desktop monopoly?

There are also the false and misleading advertising, against palm, novell, and regarding MS-Passport. MS-Passport cannot be secure even in theory, so any claims were clearly known to be falsehoods. And since MS-Office 2003 is tied into that, expect more legal action.

Then there have been a series of fines regarding patent infringements. The most recent being from SPX.

Where I come from, all that's called lying or stealing.

• 25 gigaflop CS301 clearspeed vector microprocessor
• clearspeed
• General Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware -Gpgu.org
• Is it behind IBM's cell processor ??? hmmmm
• IBM and Texas University's Trips 1 trillion ips vector processor

I don't know how much of it is attributable to linux (probably not much). The bigger story is that linux is able to scale and run real world enterprise databases without loss of performance or stability.

This is important to counter MS FUD. Today Bill Gates said Linux is what Unix was in the 1970s: a perfectly reasonable operating system.. Articles like this make it possible for other people (say Red Hat for example) to say that Bill Gates is full of shit.

The story links to the printer version of the article, but the regular version is available as well (since it's narrowed, it may be easier to read if you run your browser maximized). And, with the right extensions, you won't see ads anyway, thanks to AdBlock (removes ads based on regexes) and BannerBlind (removes ads based on their dimensions).

Fiber....

And if it weren't for NDA's, I could say more about how a certain large tech company (Samsung) is helping. I can at least point out that the new south Korean govt. has as it's IT Chief, the past and very successful Samsung President, Daeje Chin.

The country also is working to have full nationwide wireless network coverage by the end of next year. Cell phones can hop on when they can't make a decent connection, and computers can hop onto the cell net when a wireless access point isn't available. Right now, it's working and free in many locations, such as the new airport.

"I was sure that Intel had announced plans to integrate it's 64bit "Yamhill" extensions into the Prescott chip which should be launched early next year."

They haven't, and they wont, unless the Athlon64s begin to eat away at too much of Intel's market share. Intel's problem is that if it releases 64-bit extensions in Prescott, it will be forced to do so for the Xeon line as well. The problem with this is that it would send 10 years of research and development, along with countless Billions of dollars down the drain. Itanium relies on one thing and one thing only: a need for 64-bit processing. The few Itaniums that are selling will be the only ones sold if Intel's customers can get 64-bits on a Xeon.

Unless Intel is forced to, it's simply not going to do "64-bits on the cheap". Intel has nothing to gain by announcing or implementing 64-bit extensions now; we don't even know if the Athlon64s are going to sell. On the other hand, they have everything to lose if they do open up Prescott to 64-bit quickly. What Intel is probably doing now is scrambling to come up with ways to sell Itaniums to its customers once 64-bit Xeons are available. Itanium's miserable sales to date show that it has enough trouble just selling it as-is. Take away the one advantage it does have, and they may as well take it off the table now.

Aside from that, we have absolutely no idea how well Prescott's 64-bit extensions perform. We have no idea if they've been perfected, nor what kind of problems Intel has with them. We have no idea if bugs exist in the instructions, nor what sort of benefit we'd see from them. They could very well be based off of AMD's own 64-bit extensions (Intel has licensed the technology), which would make it rather embarassing to release them to the public. It would also constitute a huge and embarassing shift in position on the topic of 64-bits for home; something Intel has publicly stated is not something the market currently needs.

I'm not saying Intel wouldn't possibly announce 64-bit instructions in the near future - it could be tommorrow for all I know. All I'm saying is that everything points to Intel keeping the 64-bit extensions under wraps for as long as absolutely possible. As of right now, the only 64-bit instruction sets we know of (when it comes to Intel/AMD), are EPIC for Itanium and the ones from AMD. It's doubtful that Intel has secretly developed a whole brand new instruction set just for the P4, and it's even more doubtful that they somehow rigged the P4 to use Itanium's 64-bit instruction set. Thus, we're left with Intel banking on limited adoption of AMD's 64-bit CPUs, which does not appear to be the case thus far.

P.S. All signs point to Intel releasing the first handfull of Precotts around Feb of 2004, with volume closer to early Q2. Solving voltage leaks that push your operating temp to extremes isn't something you throw a bandaid on; it's something you design around. I just hope, for Intel's sake, that they aren't rushing Prescott out the door as they have on other chips (P3 1.13GHz).

It's the same M$ model as with the gaming consoles. They sold the xBox at a loss simply to compete with Sony and Nintendo. The idea (and it failed with xBox) was to gain marketshare, then do as they wished, just like with OS's.

This is a joke right? I mean, as much as I dislike Microsoft, it would be good to stop free and blank bashing like that. So now, two weeks after they have announced that they will focus security, old security holes (you know, those made before the change in policy) suddenly becomes inexcusable... Pitiful.

I suppose October, 2000 is a good place to start. You had a point?

The news.com.com artcile has more meat.

These are all for the USA -

From April 2003: Broadband adoption races ahead in US

A little older, 2002: More consumers hooked on broadband

I think you get the idea...

Mozilla is now the best (if not most popular) browser around.

Mozilla? Most popular?? Here's a link to a blinding flash of reality. Choice quote: "Microsoft's Internet Explorer is currently used by more than 90 percent of Web surfers, according to site visitor statistics published by Google."

You're not off topic, you're off your rocker!

If you trust its reporting, you can see that its main two cash cows are sliding and more and more is spent on marketing. I'd speculate that even some of the non-marketing line items include activities that other companies would consider marketing.

Keep in mind that other hype engines, Worldcom, Enron, Tyco, to name a few, also showed nice profits -- until their books got a proper going over. Given that it's a company found guilty of illegal anti-comptetitive activities and during the trial video testimony was forged and several contradictions in executive testimonies leave a suspicion of perjury and there is a history of cooking the books to hide an $18 billion loss, I'd be suspicious of any self-reported figures. But, hey, it's your money.

Even if the oft-cited-but-still-unseen money in the bank is real, it could disappear in security penalties, false advertising fines or anti-trust action. $1 trillion is a lot larger than $50 billion. Or, even if it is real and does not disappear in fines, then it could be used up trying to get vapourware such as .not and leghorn to market by 2006. Three years is too long for businesses to suffer with tools that are not ready for the Internet when most have enterprise level drop-in GNU/Linux, BSD, or Mac OS X replacements which are Internet ready now.

Once national investments and the larger funds have divested, there won't be any pretense to pretend that the company is viable.

Hmm, guess this means my submission a couple hours ago won't go through (dangit, Wired!)...

Here is the official press release and the list.

There is a lot of good points to note all around. The first is the G5 Terascale cluster at Virginia Tech at #3 (10.28 Tflops/s, 2200 CPU, Infiniband) is the first academic computer to break 10 teraflops/s. This extra performance was promised at Mac OS X Developer's conference last month. Not to sure if the price is a testament to Infiniband ($1.5 million cabling, cards, and routers) or the Macs ($4.2 million list).

Good thing too because in a surprise move the NCSA cluster made the list at #4 (9.82Tflops/s, 2500 CPU, Myrinet). This cluster is built using Dell's running Pentium 4 XEONs and Red Hat Linux! One subtle point to note is that they didn't get all the systems online in time (there should be 2900 CPUs, not 2500). I bet some programmer at PSC and an ex-Chief Scientist of SDSC is appreciating having a hand in edging out NCSA for #3--not to mention Apple beating Dell for #3.

The fastest Itanium cluster is at #5 (8.63 TFlops/s, 1936 CPU, Quadrics) which is looking like the odd man out boxed in by a PC based systems using Myrinet, the P4 Xeon above, and the most powerful Opteron system at #6 (8.05 Tflops/s, 2816 CPU, Myrinet). Another point of similarity:did I mention it's also using Linux?

And finally, It's easy to overlook #73, a single compute node of BlueGene/L (1.44 Tflops/s, 1024 CPU). Imagine 128 of these connected together and you have something that will easily take #1 when it's completed even if we handicap it 20-40%. As noted on SlashDot earlier, this will be running Linux.

i just see this as one use when closed source would be better. same goes for mission critical military, intelligence, and government applications.

Please read Bruce Schneier's Secret's & Lies to understand why this is the antithesis of how things really work.

Schneier provides a good high-level view on security issues and helps explain why security within complex systems requires as many perspectives as possible. He also provides numerous examples of "perfect" closed-source security systems (e.g. DeCSS DVD encryption, broken by a seven-line program), "uncrackable algorithms" broken by trivial attacks and other illustrations.

*scoove*

...Much worse than "Citibank didn't care". Look down lower on the SecurityFocus report and you'll see that Citibank's own fraud reporting webpage appears to be compromised, they know about it, and they hadn't (as of publication date) tried to correct it. The email reply from the fraud page is itself fraudulent, and directs users to a nonexistent toll-free number or a private AOL email address, although it appears to come from Citibank's own servers!

Also, there's a CNET article about the August 16 version of the scam, reported on August 18, 2003. The article is supposed to be here at http://news.com.com/2011-10173-5065394.html?tag=ma instry (Link)

But when you check that link, it first comes up, then a second or two later gets redirected to a search page claiming that the article is "expired".

Strangely, the CNET search page (which searches on terms similar to the title) comes up with 2 flattering articles about Citibank's quality process, one dated 2002, the other dated 2000. Neither of those articles has "expired". Draw your own conclusions here.

For those who aren't too quick on the mouse, part of the text of the "expired" article is here:

Citibank, a division of Citigroup, said "numerous" people received the e-mail, which purported to advise them of conditions affecting their accounts.

It said the e-mail linked to a Web site that looks like Citibank's, and asked customers for their Social Security numbers, a form of identification. Scammers can use such data to obtain credit cards or access to bank and other accounts.

The bank urged recipients to delete the e-mail and call the customer service number on their automatic teller machine cards. It said that the company is working with law enforcement and that its systems have not been compromised.

"CNET Networks representatives said the company aims to augment its position as a provider of interactive content through the acquisition, with plans to enter the online music market through MP3.com. However, a company representative said the revamped site would not compete with music download services such as Napster. Instead, the company plans to turn MP3.com into a source of information for digital music."

Linux lab hires lawyers for Torvalds

... lets just hope his lawyers are of the same caliber as IBM's.. and not of the same caliber as SCO's.

Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Comcast to Offer Online Music

2003-11-11 13:10:14 Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Comcast to Offer Online Music (articles,music) (rejected)

Wal-Mart will launch its own digital music download service through its Web site later this month. Not to be outdone, Best Buy will also launch an iTunes-type online music store - with the ability to buy through in-store kiosks - based on the MusicNow service (formerly FullAudio). And today Comcast announced music downloads via Real Rhapsody for its 5 million broadband Internet subscribers. The Washington Post's Cynthia L. Webb writes about the online music frenzy and the resultant advertising onslaught due to the sheer number of entrants into the music download market, while Bloomberg's Holly M. Sanders offers an analysis of Walmart's imminent entry into online music, which is significant since Wal-Mart already controls 14 percent of global CD music sales. More at the New York Times (via SeattlePI).

Solution 4 - Send a (short) clip as an email atachment to each senator and congressman, with a note saying that they are now, without having done anything except check their mail, violated the proposed legislation and are liable to 3 yers in jail.

In your recent statements over at zdnet you touted Windows as the Desktop OS best suited for the consumer.

Why the snub of OS X?
Why proactively advertise a product distributed by a monopoly who continues to wage war against you and the OSS community in general? Apple's OS X's Darwin is Open Source Software, as I'm sure you're well aware and is based on BSD/Mach. And over all a more user friendly OS can not be found. The price points between a Mac and PC is much closer now as well, look at todays iMac pricing and compare to similar systems by Dell and Gateway.

Moreover, Apple has given back new and improved code to the OSS community. Especially in terms of its enhancements to Konquerer, which it used as the engine for Safari.

So wouldn't it make more sense for you to have pointed consumers to Apple's OS X as the desktop of choice?
Thereby aiding Apple's current market growth and keeping OSS solutions on the home users desktop.

The way I read your statement was basically, "If you are a home user, Linux and OSS have no place for you, go back to Windows"... and personally, I was extremely miffed at such a seemingly harmfull message to the average user who would consider leaving Windows when you could have advocated your allies instead.

Uh, I'm pretty sure he has made his stance on that issue quite clear.

This isn't surprising considering that they just dropped AOL from the "AOL Time Warner name.

= 9J =

Most interesting is the assertion that the decision by Red Hat to end support for its free distribution and Novell's aquisition of SUSE marks not only the death of free software, but actually is a validation of Microsoft's business model.

This may actually be true. They've given up the ghost on their consumer version of Red Hat Linux, and are going to focus on the Enterprise Server version instead. Not only that, but they seem to believe they are ready to start looking at Linux on the desktop, too.

So, to continue Microsoft's analogy, it's not the death of the OSS model at all. If anything, it's more like the mythological Hydra -- chop off one head, and two more spring back in its place, making it stronger than before.

Do you have a link to the "ZD Mag" article? When was it published? Is it this: Backup & Recovery

"Linux would not run on something so hideous."

Yeah, that'd never happen.

Yes, but one of the other links in the blurb is a News.com story which says that the Eolas patent was also ordered to be re-examined.

The same article also says Eolas is a 'one man software company', which is news to me though not very surprising. "Software Company" is a misspelling of "litigation engine" I guess...

Xentax

This is great and all but at $800 I think I'll pass. Those of us in the USA are also left out of the loop as they currently only have networks available for this phone in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. It's apparently suppose to be released in the USA sometime later but who knows when.

= 9J =

1830's, the horse drawn train lobby made hell for the steam locomotive companies to try and keep them out of business.

1880's-1890's The horse and buggy lobby pushed through all types of complicated laws to try and force auto manufacturers out of business. Horse and Buggy manufacters actually sued car drivers to get them to go back to using carriages.

1895, Rudolph Diesel the diesel engine and originally ran it on peanut oil. He suspsiciously died on a boat trip, and the petroleum industry was more than happy to bury the idea of biodiesel fuels and instead sell off this crap they didn't have any use for as diesel fuel.

World War II: As part of the wartime reparations, Germany was forced to give up much of its textile industry. Dupont (thanks to the U.S. gov't) got its hands on the recipe for nylon and figured out a cheap way to make paper from wood. Up till then, everything cloth that had to be durable was made from hemp. The Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper, canvas sails were actually made from hemp, official gov't documents... written on hemp. Anways, Dupont lobbied the Dept of Treasury then later on, the Fed Bureau of Narcotics outlawed it completely.Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
Someone's Masters Thesis on the whole boondogle

More recently 1970s~1980s, record companies sued over audiocassetes, 1976 tv companies sued over VCRs. 1982 The RIAA encouraged everyone to replace their old LPs and cassettes with CDs. 1990 first CD-R writers were made, 1992 Audio Home Recording Act passed. The MPAA encrypted DVDs 1996 to avoid the RIAA's mistake with CD copying. MPAA sued cause DeCSS was broken, 1998 DMCA was passed... the list of corporate interests trumping the public good goes on.

Automobile companies are currently touting a study showing that reducing weight increases the risk of death in an accident. Why is this important you say? Because removing weight is the cheapest way to increase fuel efficiency.

Now to stay on topic ;o) Intel does have an incentive to make smaller cooler chips (Centrino, Pentium M) but a technologicaly based drop in heat output would be a Bad Thing(tm) for coal/electric companies because it would point to a long term drop in demand for electricity (assuming we don't all have solar cells on our roofs in 20 yrs.) Intel has definitely showed their desire to move away from the GHz race and towards greater IPC

Most large industries are not driven by innovation, they're protecting whats theirs and (sometimes) searching for efficiency in the process. Sorry for the rant, but companies are swooping around suppressing information (that college kid's masters thesis where he mapped out most of the US infrastructure, Edward Felten's breakage of the RIAA mp3 watermarks) and you're right capitalism is too powerful, thats why we're running around in nylon running suits instead of wearing our parents hemp clothing or driving around in cars burning vegetable/hemp oil.

I swear i'm not a hippy.

>So the audio can still be copied, but they're giving the consumer extras: pre-compressed music files and access to exclusive online content.

Well, the submitter might have read it like that, but the following quotes (which comprise almost the complete article) don't follow that conclusion at all:

Sony Music, home to such artists as Beyonce Knowles and Bruce Springsteen, says it plans to introduce new CD technology in Germany that prevents users from copying songs to file-sharing sites, but allows them to make copies for their personal use.

Last year, major labels issued "copy-protected" CDs that prevent them from being played on computers.

The copy-protected discs faced a backlash from customers and music fans, and several lawsuits emerged from some customers that complained these CDs caused their computers and other devices to malfunction.

But Sony thinks it has an appealing approach: Give customers added incentives to buy copy-protected CDs.

A label on the disc will say it includes the new copy protection software features.

The digital files will only play on Sony-licensed digital music players.

Wiser said Sony is working on "plug-in's" that will allow the files to be played on more popular players like Microsoft's Windows Media.

To copy the music to the Sony portable player, the technology requires an extra step to copy the files to a separate program to transfer the music to the portable player.

Earlier this year, BMG introduced similar technology with its hip-hop performer Anthony Hamilton.

Reference

BMG, which announced plans to merge with Sony Music last week, is using software from SunnComm Technologies to restrict the amount of copies that could be made of Hamilton's music. The software, however, was quickly hacked.

BMG spokesman Nathaniel Brown noted sales of Hamilton's copy-protected disc did not fall off in the weeks following its release as dramatically as most releases often do in part due to file sharing. Brown suggested this was partly the result of the copy-protection software. "Consumer and retail response has been positive," he said.

"All copy-protections can be hacked," Wiser said. "But if give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."

Where, exactly, in that article, do they discuss how the disc is copyable, apart from hacking it? It's nothing new that it's hackable. It always was and will be.

However, I highly doubt consumers want "hackable" discs. I think they'd rather have "working" discs. As I've said, that's why it's "hilarious" for BMG to make that satement.

Already done. X-10 filed for bankruptcy

Here's an article about it from about 7 hrs ago.

Here's an article about their stupid response.

Here's the original Slashdot article.

Well, as the article said, "They sure don't want to have a situation where an Xbox can be turned into a PC."

-h-

If Nokia can stay on top of mobile phones, then they can stay on top of wireless technology as a whole (handheld=>phone integration), and compete heavy with the top dogs, then they have a shot at making it past the tech bottleneck coming in 2009. While I'm at it, I should say that this is a suspicious move from Nokia.

"The move is seen as a tactic to fight off Microsoft and dominate the lucrative and growing mobile phone software market."

I see it as a parallel to the problems Palm was having when they tried to get control of Symbian in 2001. This could be a sign Nokia is in trouble.

This is also good news for shareholders in Psion, as a similar event caused a jump in share price back in 2001 when Palm tried to get control of Symbian.

Boo on the original posting!

This has nothing to do with open source on the home user's desktop.

The article "Red Hat: Stick with Windows at home" describes why home users should stick with windows (or macs or whatever open source.)

This article is dealing with linux on the desktop when a system needs to give its users a closed, locked-down interface!

Apples meet oranges.

Davak

I remind you IBM delivered Hollerith tabulators that were used in nazi concentration camps.

IBM Patent attorney Fritz Teufel is a key person in the EU campaign FOR software patents. See also this article

Did someone think she is attractive? Did someone at Symantec hire her in a flight of fantasy?

Have you seen a picture of her? Maybe attractive if I put on my beer goggles. She probably didn't get her job just on looks and while not be a programmer the media seems to think she's a computer security expert. Disclaimer: I only know what little I've read about her. Personally, I think you're right about the article. It makes a lot of weeping statements and generalizations without facts to back them up.

Not true at all, Boies and Co. not only get a huge cut of any winnings (yeah right), but they also get a 20% stake if the company is sold, and 20% of any equity raised. The $50 million that was raised recently, 20% of that is in Boies pocket right this minute. Plus, they got a ridiculously large chunk of stock as well (400,000 shares).

Here's one source

In short, SCO management is almost certainly telling suckers (er... investors) that the case is contingency based, but the lawyers have already been paid.

Well, according to a CNET article, some senators are saying they will be negotiating over the weekend and return to the topic next week. So maybe it's not quite dead yet.

Can opterons come in 106 processor combinations?


Yes. Will 10000 do?

No, it's not available yet. But the point, I think, is that it is feasible to put lots of opterons in one box.

You are a complete fucktard.

• Telecom giants join Linux effort
• Carrier Grade Linux
• Nortel Succession Communication Server 2000
• Cisco SIP Proxy
• Mitel 3050ICP
• Morotola Carrier Grade Chassis
• Motorola HA Linux
• Motorola VoIP
• Zultys Phones
• Zultys PBX
• SNOM Phones
• SNOM Media Server
• Asterisk
• Vovida

"The iPod makes money. The iTunes Music Store doesn't," Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller told CNET News.com in an interview Thursday after the launch of the Windows version of the store.

Here's more info on N1's heterogenous OS support.

$0 - you fell victim of the anti-MS disinformation rumor machine, AKA /..

http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2110-7344_3-509399 7.html

Royal Bank of Canada invests in SCO
Last modified: October 20, 2003, 2:09 PM PDT
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

BayStar Capital entered the open-source spotlight last week with its $50 million investment in the SCO Group, which is embroiled in legal wrangling over Linux and Unix with IBM and Red Hat. What the companies didn't say so loudly, though, is that $30 million of BayStar's investment in SCO was from the Royal Bank of Canada, according to a Thursday regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. BayStar itself invested the remaining $20 million.

BayStar invests in publicly traded companies with a mechanism called a PIPE--private investment in public equity. While Microsoft has used PIPEs in the past, a BayStar representative said Microsoft apparently hasn't ever participated in a BayStar PIPE and certainly didn't participate in the SCO investment.

Really?? That means this is incorrect then.

Penn State students blast Napster deal Like this?

Penn State President Graham Spanier and Recording Industry Association of America President Cary Sherman are co-chairs of a joint industry and university committee that is scrutinizing the possibility of putting legal music services on campus
HOOOO HOOOO! GO PENN STATE!
... RIAA!!! HISSSSK!
GO Penn ...
RIAA!!! HISSSSSSSSSSK!
... Go ..
*so very confused* :(

I want to know about all the people living off campus. Some people I know don't even have computers of their own and do all their work on campus.
So they get to pay for music for other people?
Along with me, as i only have OC Remix and independent artist mp3's and ogg's on my box?

A University spokesman said he did not think the ($160) fee would be raised as a result of this arrangement.
So they are over charging us as it is?
Hell the PIIs in the lab I moniter sure need to be replaced, as well as with all those crappy hubs they have running the dorms.

Arrrrrg~

Penn State students blast Napster deal

uhh...