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Nice article on there today: P2P group: We'll pay girl's RIAA bill.

Looks like Slashdot didn't need to do anything, "Grokster, StreamCast Networks, Limewire and other file-trading software companies" are offering to pick up the 12yr old's RIAA tab.

Sun doesn't seem to be interested in letting go of their platform any more than MS does.

I don't hear Microsoft saying they will consider opensourcing .NET when the time is right. At least, Sun is open to the idea.

Also consider checking out websites like www.openoffice.org, and www.sunsource.net. Sun is a non-trivial member of the Open Source community.

In this interview with Scott McNealy, McNealy mentions he is a libertarian. As is ESR. We shouldn't underestimate Sun's attitude towards giving people the tools they need to excersize choice.

The only actual research I'm aware of on this is an FAA study from the '90s. This article is a good summary: Cell phone use isn't banned by the FAA, but by the FCC in 1991, citing "cell phones' potential to interfere with ground-to-ground cellular transmission." Another web site explains, "at altitude, a cell phone will light up multiple cell towers and may cause the system to lock up." BS? The FAA is going to do another study and they don't seem too worried about "locking up the system."

I tought it was vice versa: CNET aquired ZD. See CNET buys rival Ziff-Davis for $1.6 billion

I swear, if Redhat ever actually gets into the black, I'm switching to Apple, stat. Fuck market share--I want something where nobody will bother me with free tech support requests.

I recomend OpenVMS if you really don't want any bother.

... a nice Slashdotting!

Click away: newscom.com

In the spirit of promoting the Slashdot effect, I decided to visit cnet.com after having dismissed their site as rubbish. Well, as it turns out, I found an interesting article where an EFF attorny suggests that universities obfuscate student IP addresses by shuffling them to fend off the the RIAA. Any site that posts that sort of content is okay by me! So to you, cnet.com, may you grow in our dismal economy!

Heck, even Ebay (via PayPal) has been charged with violating the Patriot Act. Are we only seeing the beginnings of this kind of abuse, or will someone with deep pockets step up to the plate?

Also of note, here is the full write-up of the wire tap law from Cornell

Lots of it in fact, from Microsoft's minority stake in Groove. With his old-school geek roots, it's probably just the principle of the thing that's motivating him here.

I'll be the first to admit that I don't like a lot of what Microsoft does and that I have issues with a lot of their software, particularly Internet Explorer. With that said... this is very much a good thing.

Eolas could easily proceed to sue the Mozilla Foundation, Opera, and anyone else who writes a browser with plugin technologies. That would be devastating for developers, users, and web designers. The News.com article linked in one of the previous articles on this topic points out that not only would the browser have to be revised, but far too many web pages as well.

Would I like to see Microsoft set back a bit, or at least forced to mess with IE some? Yeah. But this is a case that would affect all of us negatively, not just Microsoft. We owe Ray Ozzie some thanks for bringing this to light.

Mark Erikson

But if Eolas was intending to carry over this suit to other browsers, than it could be good for everyone. Although in the end I was still hoping to see Microsoft crash and burn for something.

I think it's the InterTrust suit you want to be hoping for in that case.. I don't think Linux is vunerable to patents on DRM technology.

I think something very fishy is going on here. CNet did a small interview with Bill Joy :

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5073205.html?tag=f d_top

however the guy in the picture certainly ain't Bill Joy. Here's some URL's which show defintely other pictures identifying Bill Joy :

http://www.counterbalance.net/bio/joy-frame.html
http://java.sun.com/features/1999/07/bill.joy.html
http://www.sun.com/executives/perspectives/joy.htm l

The False CNet Bill Joy has a chin butt, piercing eyes and no glasses, while the 3 above URL's show the real Bill Joy with _no_ chin butt , no piercing eyes and all 3 of them with glasses. Did some fake dude show up at CNet's, faking as Bill Joy (commiting identity theft) and possibly tell some false rumours?

Robert

Andrew Huang hacked the x-box over a year ago, and managed to find the key to sign software to run on the xbox isn't this the key that the linux for xbox community has been looking for? Even though Huang has said he wouldn't share the key with anyone, presumably people can reproduce Huang's method for extracting the key. please someone clarify... I'm confused.

We can't really sit around and wait

Why not? That's what Open Sourcers do about ALL patents.

If you page through uspto.gov, it's not hard to find at least two software patents PER DAY that projects like Linux or GIMP infringe on. There's a couple Sun patents which apply to almost any software written in C...

If programmers start trying to avoid software patents before the rightsholders even contact them, pretty soon it's all they'll accomplish.

Knowingly infringing a patent could cost the Mozilla developers a LOT of money

Which is why they should completely ignore it. Don't even read the patent abstract, unless a lawyer asks you to.

There's an article on Cnet about this, too.

CNET has posted a Sept 11 newsmakers interview with Kazaa's Janus Friis promoting his P2P telephony app, Skype: Why VoIP is music to Kazaa's ear. The download (for Windows 2000 and XP only) can be found here: Skype beta.

CNET has posted a Sept 11 newsmakers interview with Kazaa's Janus Friis promoting his P2P telephony app, Skype: Why VoIP is music to Kazaa's ear. The download (for Windows 2000 and XP only) can be found here: Skype beta.

Oracle has some amazing features, but PostgreSQL kicks the crap out of MS SQL Server -

MS SQL skips record when it queries - more info here

MS SQL crashes for no fucking reason.

MS SQL requires x86 hardware - No Sparc, No POWER, No MIPS. Just crappy x86.

There is no 64 bit version os MS SQL.

PostgreSQL has a very robust multi-version concurency controll mechanism - somthing MS SQL could only dream of.

And if your *REALLY* need to scale PostgreSQL - run is on a SUN/SGI/IBM.

Not a bunch of fucking Intel toys.

I have heard of VERY few people running Apache on Windows. What's the point?

It would be stupid and reckless to tell a bunch of MCSE's to scrap a Windows server and replace it with Linux. If your organization doesn't have any Linux experience, the next best thing to moving away from Windows is using Apache instead of IIS.

If the RIAA can be sued for false advertising for offering immunity to file swappers in their "Clean Slate" program, why can't we sue SCO?

SCO is making even stronger claims, and charging money for the "immunity". This seems to be grand consumer fraud and clear false advertising.

-braddock

Among other things, that search returns these two tidbits from ye olde time machine:

SCO to boost revenue by offering Linux services
Services? Yeah, sure. Whatever.

Santa Cruz Operation strengthens Linux bid
What, from $39.95 to $699?

Among other things, that search returns these two tidbits from ye olde time machine:

SCO to boost revenue by offering Linux services
Services? Yeah, sure. Whatever.

Santa Cruz Operation strengthens Linux bid
What, from $39.95 to $699?

No one would write software anymore. Oh, except for the part-time hobbyists who do these things for fun and don't really have any motivation for doing the best job they possibly can because no one is getting paid for anything.

You seem to underestimate the power of the part-time hobbyist, the quality of the software he started and the power of that software to rock the foundations of the industry which was built on money.

Well, now it looks like a group called P2P United is offering to pay the girl's bill. Won't their faces be red when they realize she's a imaginary person constructed for PR purposes?

Burst vs. MS

Yes, but this Wednesday, they need to keep people too busy to upgrade to Linux or to read about the WM9 saga.

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5074086.html

Wind River Systems made the following acquisitions and sales:

In May 2000, they bought AudeSi for $40,000,000 and Norwegian company ICESoft for $25,000,000

In April 2001, they bought the software assets of Berkeley Software Design Inc.

There's an interesting quote from Business Week at this time.

owning the assets of an open-source software company doesn't guarantee gaining access to the talent of programmers in the open-source community

Rather not surprisingly, in January 2002, they sold FreeBSD

From Algonet: Diab Data was bought by ISI who in turn were bought by Wind River Systems. EST Corporation were also bought out by Wind River Systems.

I guess Wind River Systems were just trying to expand to fill their niche market.

Linux marches on, despite of SCO. Data center makeover, part 1: Linux topples college's IT Tower of Babel.

Also, Dell today said they aren't and will not pay any licenses to SCO.

Sun on the other hand seems to be playing into the SCO "indemnification" FUD with a new java license?

it seems irrelevant if the labels cull trending data from P2P use. I think you would have a very hard time using against them in any way.

This is just more evidence of the Open Sores community's intention to launder* the code before Darl can prove how evil they are in a court of law. Buy SCOX before it goes through the roof!

* "launder" is Darl's actual choice of term.

See The Culture of Fear. This problem is way overrated. So is "child abduction".

In terms of risk, your kid is far more likely to be hit by a drunk driver than abducted by a stranger, seduced over the Internet, or killed by a terrorist. Get a grip.

• Bobby McFerrin, "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
• Thompson Twins, "Hold Me Now"
• Eagles, "Hotel California"
• George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"
• Paula Abdul, "Knocked Out"
• Green Day, "Minority"
• UB40, "Red Red Wine"
• Ludacris "Area Codes"
• Marvin Gaye, "Sexual Healing"
• Avril Lavigne, "Complicated"

E-books aren't popular because they are inconvenient. Have you ever tried reading in a bathtub or on your toilet seat with an e-book?

I'm disappointed - about a dozen replies to this, and not a single iLoo joke/reference.

Your example shows that the dollar-a-year copyright extension he proposes is the best idea we have left after Sonny Bono & Disney got through with the law.

gewg

The law says that no lawsuit may be brought alleging copyright infringement based on the "noncommercial use by a consumer of such a (digital audio recording device) device or medium for making digital musical recordings."

NoNO! It's
Bill and Jerry

Bill and Jerry

Bill and Gene

...because the first thing I thought of when I saw his picture was, boy, that guy looks as if he's been in the sun too long.

But, since you are a newbie and haven't learned google yet, here's a link to the article

This was already covered by cnet last december

Hatch's offspring is SCO's lead lawyer.

"Copyright Infringement is NOT A CRIMINAL ACTIVITY that is why they are bringing up lawsuits as that is the only way to defend a copyright."

And you got five mod points for this?

Kerry Gonzalez might disagree with you. He's the fellow who's up for sentencing on September 26th for pirating the pre-release copy of The Hulk a few months ago. He faces up to three years in prison.

Kerry Gonzalez' case is a criminal, not civil proceeding. He was nabbed by the FBI and the complaint was filed by an attorney for the United States. There were no lawsuits. This is a criminal case.

And here's another fella in Florida who faces up to five years for criminal copyright infringement. And another guy in San Jose who was indicted and arrested for criminal copyright infringement for pirating software.

This CNET article on the topic points out one of the major flaws of the amnesty program.

"The group said it would not use the information gathered for marketing purposes or share it with any other group of copyright holders. Critics such as the EFF's von Lohmann dismissed the assurances, saying that the RIAA's privacy policy allowed the information to be shared if "required by law," a clause which could allow groups such as music publishers or Hollywood studios to subpoena the information from the RIAA to use in their own lawsuits."

I can just hope that this version will be on par graphically.

Finally, the graphics in Invisible War have been a topic of great interest, and for good reason: The game looks superb. It uses some of the same advanced graphics techniques, such as real-time lighting and shadowing and character normal-mapping, that make the forthcoming graphical juggernaut Doom 3 look so impressive.

The last one was a good game that seemed to be, at the time of release, a generation or so behind the rest of the pack in terms of graphics.

I don't believe that graphics make the game, but they should at least be passable.

I can just hope that this version will be on par graphically.

Finally, the graphics in Invisible War have been a topic of great interest, and for good reason: The game looks superb. It uses some of the same advanced graphics techniques, such as real-time lighting and shadowing and character normal-mapping, that make the forthcoming graphical juggernaut Doom 3 look so impressive.

The last one was a good game that seemed to be, at the time of release, a generation or so behind the rest of the pack in terms of graphics.

I don't believe that graphics make the game, but they should at least be passable.

News.com covered the Grand Challenge a while back in one of their articles. Gives a more viewer-friendly overview of what it's all about than DARPA's site.

It's not a Mormon thing, just a Hatch family thing. The Senator's son is SCO's lead lawyer in the Utah state courts.

• I just ran a search on 'Olson Twins' on Google ... 7 of the 10 were porn-related.
• 
  Somebody please inform Google we'll be shutting them down, would you?
  After all, we already determined a search engine is synonymous with a P2P application.