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For a $50 million short-term investment (a few days to a week, I think), they're getting 2,953,000 shares at $16.93 per share ($49,994,290 to be exact).

If they sell short the same number of share today (or wait until they take delivery, then sell them on the open market), they'd gross 2,953,000 times $20.75, or $61,274,750 -- giving them a profit of over $10 million ($11,280,460 to be exact).

Not bad for a short-term play. Or they could be holding onto the stock in the hopes (prayers?) that SCO actually has a chance.

Of course, there is also the effect of selling so many shares -- SCO's average volume is only 356,000 shares a day, so selling close to 10 times that would either take some time or seriously lower the stock price on the day it was sold. So... If SCO stock takes a quick dip and recovers (?) then perhaps this is their strategy.

March said he found absentee ballot totals from 57 of 164 San Luis Obispo County precincts in an easily accessible File Transfer Protocol site operated by North Canton, Ohio-based Diebold. The votes were time-stamped at 3:31 p.m. on March 5, 2002 - more than four hours before polls closed.

Is it possible in this case, Jim March (love how it's the March 2002 incident, and his name is March, but I digress) doesn't know what he was looking at?

What does the time stamp mean? Is it necessarily the time it was uploaded to the server where he was looking at it, or could it just be the time the original file (or directory, or whatever it was exactly that was time-stamped) was created on the client machine, and the creation time was retained when it was transferred at some later time to the server where March found it?

They rapidly announced today that they've agreed to a $2000 settlement, and went so far as to make a nice little public apology and promise to never do it again.

AP Excite News Story

It's just a shame that the family couldn't get help from a high powered lawyer who wanted to make a name for himself in this case. The publicity alone would have been phenomenal. Oh well. The RIAA has won yet another round on their campaign to step all over people.

Londovir

When you do a search for the term " search engine" on google, Google.com comes back in 7th place. If google is going to pretend to be modest, it should at least be realistic and not rank excite and lycos above itself. .. HA!

Repeated below:

(A record of my submission.)

Subject: Humor: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group"

The Scoop: I was reading news at Excite and saw this article in relation to SCOX: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group".

The article is actually a note for PRNewswire to disregard the earlier article about SCO's acquisition of Vultus Technology, but the headline gave me a good chuckle.

Repeated below:

(A record of my submission.)

Subject: Humor: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group"

The Scoop: I was reading news at Excite and saw this article in relation to SCOX: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group".

The article is actually a note for PRNewswire to disregard the earlier article about SCO's acquisition of Vultus Technology, but the headline gave me a good chuckle.

Repeated below:

(A record of my submission.)

Subject: Humor: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group"

The Scoop: I was reading news at Excite and saw this article in relation to SCOX: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group".

The article is actually a note for PRNewswire to disregard the earlier article about SCO's acquisition of Vultus Technology, but the headline gave me a good chuckle.

Repeated below:

(A record of my submission.)

Subject: Humor: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group"

The Scoop: I was reading news at Excite and saw this article in relation to SCOX: "KILLKILLKILL -- The SCO Group".

The article is actually a note for PRNewswire to disregard the earlier article about SCO's acquisition of Vultus Technology, but the headline gave me a good chuckle.

Someone just pointed this news release out on a SCO stock board. So, maybe they didn't buy it? Or maybe someone thought about the Enronesque overtones and decided to kill the deal.

I was all set to read about a text-to-speech enhancement for OS X. Laugh at me.

and if This guy can do that with his shoe, than I would hope these things can take snapshots too.

Indeedy, but earrings are also usually considered more acceptable than other piercings. Some with some low-key tats - they can be covered, and if they don't involved anything overly offensive they're usually not too bad anyhow.

IMHO, you can pierce yourself anywhere you please... but some things such as those *huge* ear spacers just give me shudders. And frankly, something like this is likely to get you an interview with an exorcist as opposed to a second job interview.

And yeah, when my gramma looks at an array of ring earrings and admiringly says "those look nice" - I think that they pass a little more easily than a tat of a grinning skull biting a kitten in half, or something along those lines :-)

But, it depends on the job you're looking for. My (male) earrings, hair colouring, and low age don't seem to affect my employment ability, and I'm working a nice tech job while currently sitting in an office wearing my sandals/shorts and typing to /.

In possibly related news the SEC has charged officers of Gemstar with fraud for inflating revenues by some $223 Million.

thad

Intel getting smacked around? I think it's a pretty even day, afterall intel announced More Advanced Triple-Gate Transistor Design One Step Closer to Production today.

Sprint says it's going to do the same thing.

1. It was a tripod capture, with a few adjustments. At the beginning the "EXIT" sign is visible on the left, but then they zoom a bit to remove it. A couple times throughout the film, the picture is rotated slightly but they fixed it after a bit (less than a minute). There are some audio errors (pops and static) but none of the dialog is obscured. The credits are cut off, probably because the guy had to get out of there. There is, however, no audience noise, so perhaps it was a private screening of some sort?

2. I was greatly reminded of MST3K. Perhaps it was because of the somewhat tinny sound, but the music sounded exactly like some of the movies they parody. I couldn't shake that feeling throughout the movie, which made it a bit funnier than it probably should have been. The Architect also reminded me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show's audience line, "This man has no neck!"

3. I like what people have been saying, that when they escaped they only escaped into a "meta-matrix." This would explains Neo's "power" to overcome the sentinels at the end.

4. I caught one of Morpheus's quotes: "I have dreamed a dream, and now the dream is gone from me." (Thanks to watching it on the PC, I could call up Google after pausing it.) This is in Daniel 2:3-5 of the bible, and the title of Daniel 2 is "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream." They did a good job with the references, as I see from other comments many others have found them.

5. I enjoyed the first movie more. Sequels are difficult, but even so it had the best opening weekend of all time. It has some timeless qualities to it: choosing your mate over your tribe, and the consequences of that decision. And the "living in a box (within a box (within a box (within..." -- it'll be interesting to see how the Wachowski brothers decide to end the series. When I saw the first movie it was in the afternoon, and I walked outside to a sunny sky with a few clouds and thought, "whoa." Something inside me had changed; this movie didn't do that, although it was good entertainment.

6. I liked the gift of the spoon from one of the orphans.

7. The special effects were pretty cool, but I really don't see that powerful a difference between the first movie and the second. They spent a lot of money creating the process, and it was money well-spent because the process can be used for many future movies. But so many studios have been adding bullet-time to their films that it just didn't "stand out" like the original.

8. I will see it in the theatre. Perhaps that'll have the "whoa" effect, but perhaps not as I've already seen it. We'll see.

9. The movie didn't flow very straightforward. Some scenes were unmentioned dream scenes until you see Neo wake up, and some scenes were action inside the Matrix, then a meeting from previously, then Neo and Trinity on the ship, then back into the Matrix -- and the footage from the dream scenes was reused toward the end (to good effect, but they saved a little on effects ;-). Because of this jumping around it felt somewhat like Pulp Fiction . I wonder what the brothers think of Quentin Tarantino?

As I said, I'll see it again in the theatre and I'll probably pick up some things I missed the first time around. Enjoy!

Unlike most people, I've been pretty immune to spam.

I've been using email regularly for 8-10 years (since somewhere in high school). I never recieved any spam throughout my undergraduate education (kind of before spam got really big). I haven't stuck with the same email account for more than 3 years, so far. I currently have three accounts that I use regularly.

I posted quite a bit to Usenet for a while as a teenager (enough to get banned from at least 1 ISP). Sometimes, but not always, using the defunct anonymous remailer. Maybe that was just too long ago to be much of a problem. At my last job (first one out of college), despite being on a number of mailing lists (WAP Forum, IETF, etc), I never got 1 piece of spam in over 2 years.

On my email account for graduate school, I've gotten 2 pieces of spam. Both were from the same place, Britney Spears' resturaunt, Nyla.

My personal email account has never recieved any spam. Again, I'm on a few mailing lists (Optics Society of America, ISOC, etc). But, I do find newsletters to be a bit of a nuisance. Now, at my latest job I'm getting regular spam. I have not made this email address public. I began recieving spam within the first two days of my account being active. The first one I recieved was clearly a dictionary attack (the same username at a bunch of different domains).

I must say, the IS/IT guys at my old company must've done some great filtering. They were generally good people, always knowledgeable and helpful, so I'm not too surprised.

My current university must also be doing a decent job, despite them not being very strong in computer science (note: I don't study computer science there).

Oddly, the bogus email account I use to register for things, gets surprisingly little spam. Mostly, it just gets the crap sent to me when I forget to check/uncheck the "I'm a gullible dumbass" box.

Ahem,

When I am able to have any degree of privacy (short of living in a bomb shelter) would someone please notify me--contact information below.

Roger Hammond
164 Rochester Ln
Tucson, AZ 8546
U.S.A.

Phone:(520)791-4544
Fax: (520)791-4124
Email: rhammond64@excite.com
AIM/MSN/Yahoo!: rhammond64
My Server: rhammond.org

I also post here quite often.

Thank you,
R.E.G. [good thing I didn't tell 'em my middle name]

FEARLESS AND STUPID

Actually, that's not always true - it's what Big Pharma wants you to believe.

Recently, one of the Big Pharma companies developed a new AIDS drug. Actual R&D costs accounted for less than one percent of development costs.

Notice the quote in the referenced article: "to be sold at the highest possible price in the industrialized countries." It's expected to be priced at about US$20,000 annually.

-jerdenn

The Chairman and CEO of SimDesk, Mr. Waters, is "responsible for the strategic direction and management of SimDesk".

Mr Waters was founding chairman and CEO of Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. (BFI) and served BFI from 1969 until 1997, when BFI was sold to Allied Waste for $9 billion in cash. During the 1980s, BFI pleaded guilty to charges of price fixing. More details:

In 1987, a group of commercial business customers filed a national class action lawsuit against Houston, Texas-based BFI and Oak Brook, Illinois-based WMI, alleging the highest echelons of both companies had orchestrated a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy. In one important document, the business customers detailed a number of antitrust cases across the nation and the involvement of key corporate officers from both firms. In 1990, both firms agreed to settle the case for a total of $50 million plus $13 million in attorneys fees, while denying any wrongdoing. All evidence in the case, including some "4 million pages of documents," was sealed.

They would seem to have the makings of a worthy successor to Microsoft.

I did read the article. I also read OTHER articles. Here So, maybe you shouldn't imply that i don't know what i'm talking about.
:)

I agree that requiring them to implement filtering is a bad idea, but I don't think we should prohibit them from enacting filtering if that's what the local community wants.

If I felt that my child was mature enough to have access to areas of the library that had more mature topics, the library should be willing to honor my request that my child have access to that information. Print or Internet.

Even if it is true you aren't likely to win. IE is firmly now a component of the Windows operating system. Removing it will cause the seas to boil and the rivers to run red with blood. Anyone notice that Excite is not allowing Mozilla users? I get this Error message.

BSD

Even if it is true you aren't likely to win. IE is firmly now a component of the Windows operating system. Removing it will cause the seas to boil and the rivers to run red with blood. Anyone notice that Excite is not allowing Mozilla users? I get this Error message.

BSD

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This article says that tradional radio broadcasters aren't paying these fees because they "successfully argued before lawmakers that they already were promoting the music."

When I listen to CMRadio.net, they tell me the song title, artist's name, and provide links to the artist's web site and places to purchase their CD on a whim, all in realtime. When I listen to traditional radio, the DJ may or may not tell me the name of the song or artist, let alone what album the song is from. And if I'm listening to a "new music" station I may not even be able to buy the CD because it won't be released for another 3 months.

Explain to me again why traditional radio promotes music but internet radio doesn't?

I think you are making reference to this story.

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All they have to do is multiply the extreme by 2.2169312169312171428571428571429, and then the book will burn prior to the chip.

Does that satisfy your numerical integrity?

For those interested: I used that page to generate the C from 451F (which is 232.7777777777778C), then divided that by 105C to result in the above number. Note that C/C cancels out, so we're left with just a number, no units, for the calculation.

Haven't though that hard since college. Thanks! ;-)

Final jab: your post appears to be missing some formatting. Perhaps you should have hit "Preview" in addition to "thinking" prior to posting?

To be nicer: when you want to put a "&lt" or "&gt" in a post, you need to specify it as "<" or ">", respectively. (And, obviously since I managed to do it, the "&" character is specified by "&". Enjoy!

I was going to put the following in my original response but I decided not to. My oven (topical! See subject line) caught fire last night. Had 2 police cars, fire truck, and ambulance come out. Burned my hand removing the pot, but that'll heal. Aerosmith's bassist had his house burn to the ground last night as well. He's in MA, I'm in FL. No relation.

When you start IE on Mac OS X for the first time, your homepage is set to livepage.apple.com which used to go to Excite. But now it goes to Netscape.

And there in the corner is a big ole fancy come-on to download Netscape 6.2. I don't doubt for a minute that the agreement for hosting livepage.apple.com between Netscape and Apple included showing the Netscape browser in Apple ads.

I get such a kick out of seeing IE point to a Netscape page, that I kept it as my homepage on IE (since I use Mozilla for almost all my surfing).

In other Microsoft related news, the judge is quoted as saying "I will note that Microsoft sounds a little schizophrenic,"
after "Microsoft asked Kollar-Kotelly to throw out much of Schwartz's testimony"

These problems with the RIAA and internet radio are nothing new. Slashdot had a story on October 5 about how the recording industry is trying to collect royalties from webcasters who are streaming audio.

damn. here's a working link...

Looks like Unisys could spend a little more improving their service and a little less hyping it...

First, the article states,

"Though federal law only requires the consent of one person before a telephone call or Internet communication can be recorded, Pennsylvania and 11 other states require the consent of ALL parties." (emphasis, mine)

So, the ex-cop has a point. Even if they authorities had the girl's permission, State law requires ALL parties consent. The ex-cop says that this never happened.

Next, it says,

"Pennsylvania's Superior Court took a different view, ruling that Proetto had consented to the recording by the very act of sending e-mail and instant messages."

So what's really going on is this: Does sending an email or instant message imply consent for the email or instant message to be read by anyone other than the addressed party? I think this is a pretty important distinction. I'll be watching this case.

--Grrae

Here, they say due to pressure from its users, and some members of congress, they're going to stop monitoring immediately, which is the correct thing to do...

It's a great game. My girlfriend is actually waiting for me to get off the computer right now so she can play it. Excite's game pages feature it and they have some other good ones. Try Bounce Out for a similiar game but a bit harder due to the layout.

All my friends are currently killing brain cells to Frequency at the moment. I-Qube is a personal favorite for the PS1.

It looks like reporters ARE going to be allowed in. In this AP story, the judge rules that reporters CAN listen to pretrial depositions, unless MS can prove that confidential information would be disclosed.

Since Excite (the portal, Excite.com) got bought, their Technology news has had a very similar phenomenon occurring, without the word "Advertisement."

@home has already imposed download limit on newsgroup download. It is something like 3GB within a 3-day window. If you exceed the 3GB limit, you have to wait until the 3-day window is over before you can download anything again in any newsgroup. See here

The news article about Magic Lantern, which you apparently failed to read when it was posted to Slashdot, contains the following text:

"When asked if Magic Lantern would require a court order for the FBI to use it, as existing keystroke logger technology does, Bresson said: 'Like all technology projects or tools deployed by the FBI it would be used pursuant to the appropriate legal process.'" (my emphasis)

So unless the FBI has gotten a court order against the 84.8% of web surfers who use Internet Explorer, this is pure FUD.

Sheesh.

I thought the story after the FBI story was more interesting.

Now, that's what I call carnivore!

Human powered devices? Think of the Wall Street investment possibilities! With the stock price of old school bulk energy suppliers like Enron swan diving into the abyss, companies that provide fuel for the human machine will skyrocket. Of all the companies that seek to power the human machine, Taco Bell has to be the most efficient source as a catalyst for human produced methane gas. IANASP (I am not a Stock Broker) but if I had some extra cash lying around, I think I would sink it into Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc (YUM) -- parent company of Taco Bell and that chicken shop that supposably sells dead fried birds that never had bones, feathers or feet with the mascot that reminds you of the "Good Ole Days" before the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression for you Georgia boys). One stop everyday at Taco Bell could power your PDA, Cell Phone, AbTronics Belt, GPS, IBM's Digital Photo Linux Watch, iPod and a Madonna Vougeing Aibo via a rear mounted methane to electric converter. Plus, if Hollywood can predict the future, according to Sly Stallone's movie "Demolition Man", every restaurant is going to be a Taco Bell anyway...

No wonder Exite is going bust. The story only had one ad, it wasn't blinking or a pop up/under, and the page loaded really fast. They have no idea how to run a successful internet site.

I used to work at a company that wanted desperately to create an online community. But it's not a simple thing to do and they failed miserably. Why? Because the market just doesn't demand it. Online communities are necessarily small niches, and niches are things that big companies just can't seem to handle well. And trying to make a niche community into something bigger usually fails miserably and alienates the people who made the site popular in the first place.

This book is obviously intended to be read by managers who still think they can put up a simple web site and make millions of dollars catering to the needs of individuals on the Internet. (I know because I borrowed and skimmed it.) Well, the reality of the matter is that it's just not possible. Online communities just happen. If you try to intentionally build one, you are wasting your time.

Just my 2c.

~wally

At the same time, of course, the US was randomly dropping food supplies all over the place, for anyone to pick up, including Taliban troops.

In this Reuters story, a crate of US food destroyed the ceiling of an Afghan house. The repair will cost more than the food. And the food is unusual for the Afghan taste.

viking099 writes "File swapping programs such as Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa (all based on the same software from FastTrak) have grown over 480% in the past 4 months, and are set to break the 1.57 million concurrent connection record that Napster set." So who exactly is surprised by this?

After wasting some time trying to get around in Technet, I did see this:

There are four methods of assigning IP addresses to TCP/IP clients:

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which automatically assigns IP addresses in an environment with a DHCP server.

Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), which automatically assigns an IP address and subnet mask to clients on a subnet if there is no DHCP server (or if no DHCP request to the subnet is received by the DHCP server).

Alternate Configuration, which allows the user to set the computer to first try DHCP, and then configure an alternate, manually configured TCP/IP address setting if a DHCP configuration is not received.

Manual configuration of IP addresses.

The third choice seems to me to be the most interesting - especially for notebook users. The second is reminiscent of the strange private addresses I've seen being automatically assigned while trying to implement M$ ICS for clients. That's one of the reasons I use WinRoute for my clients that don't mind paying for a more robust, configurable software router.

When I got AT&T Cable Modem service this spring, they would not support Win2k, but now they do. No biggie - configuring the thing myself was easy. It appears that XP's configuration is not that different from 2k's - but not having a copy (and not wanting a copy), I can't be sure.

Excite@home (AT&T?) says they will support XP, both versions. Woo Hoo. This is good news for the poor saps who have no choice on their new Dell or Gateway. Along those lines, I expect I'll have to trudge through helping clients register and get their new XP-tainted boxes connected - so that's really why I posted this: for any unfortunate tech who will be in the same pickle.

My real hope is that I can get around @home's (recent?) problem with their proxy and WinMX. I haven't heard any new music in days. Boo Hoo.

They sell subscriptions to WSJ. They could have just pointed to this article that doesn't require registration. But nooo. Also, here's another article that says SourceForge is proprietary. And had this to say about the VA Linux SourceForge: "The site was an adjunct to its now-abandoned Linux computer sales strategy." So yes, I guess they're stuck with SourceForge, banners, and ThinkGeek.