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Hmmm... IE7 looked nice until I (a) found how to import bookmarks, (b) opened a set of bookmarks including the SJ Mercury News - http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/, (c) browsed to Technology in there. Then ... [[POP]]!!!
Tried this 3 times. First 2 gave the usual "Send feedback" dialog. Third didn't even do that...

Back to Firefox. Recommend waiting to IE7.1...

Geez, now blood's found in his car, and with the passenger seat missing, history of abuse, guy is arrested with $8,900 and his passport on him...

If he were a famous football player, he'd have a chance, but I don't think a filesystem developer can muster up a "dream team".

I expect other distros will knee-jerk too.

$ mount /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw)

offtopic and gossip.. but you inspired me to to check up on that

The police say they found his wife's blood splattered in his house and car. He had tried to hide the car from the police and took the back seat out, and bought books about homicide investigations (though that is understandable, him being a suspect).

link

Doesn't look promising... but as you point out 'innocent until proven guilty'. (and I'm guilty of gossip here)

Hans Reiser purchased two books "Homicide'' by David Simon and "Masterpieces of Murder" by Jonathan Goodman on Sept. 8 from Barnes & Noble in Berkeley.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/br eaking_news/15741175.htm

After reading this article, it sounds like the circumstantial evidence may be fairly strong.

Yes, Hans is possibly wrongfully arrested. And yes, police departments are wont to convict before the case even goes to the the District Attorney or the Grand Jury.

But that said, here appears to be fairly damning evidence against him, at least as reported here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/br eaking_news/15741175.htm

At least he's in what's called "administrative segregation" (commonly known as "Ad-Seg"; in several books about California murders often called "High Power"). Generally that means he'll make it to court without being killed himself.

And given a chance to explain away evidence and (we hope) be able to clear his name.

they found blood in his car

I've been reading a bit, trying to get a handle on what's been happening and what may be next for the people involved in this (I trust the filesystem will be fine). Here are the most interesting parts of what I've read:

AUTHORITIES SEARCH HOME OF MISSING WOMAN'S HUSBAND

ATTORNEY: HANS REISER 'DISTRUSTFUL' OF OAKLAND POLICE

UPDATE: POLICE CHARGE HANS REISER WITH MURDER

Missing woman's blood found in husband's house

All in all, it's very disturbing. I get the impression at least one of the people involved in this is completely insane.

And now that he's been arrested, the police have described some of their evidence against him. They found her blood in his house and in his car.

We don't know if he did it - yet - but we know more than enough to say that it's most probable that he did. It is, of course, possible he didn't, and we all hope that Nina will be found alive somewhere, but the most probable outcome is that Hans Reiser has, in fact, murdered Nina.

...Reiser removed the passenger seat of his 1988 Honda hatchback and that he attempted to hide the vehicle from authorities. This is the same car that his wife's blood was found in, sources said. Police are still looking for the missing seat. Investigators have also recovered books on how police investigate homicides, which were obtained by Hans Reiser a few days after his wife's Sept. 3 disappearance, the sources said.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/lo cal/states/california/northern_california/15139434 .htm

Cut and paste. It even happens to the big name Stanford professors like George Shultz.

Any crusade against MySpace is a worthy cause, in my oh-so-pretentious opinion.

I dislike Myspace as much as the next guy, but Universal is just playing dirty. I mean, just days after they threaten to file suit against Youtube and Myspace, a piracy tool written to exploit myspace just happens to appear on the internet.

give me a break. It's pretty clear that a) MySpace and Universal have been in contract negotiations, b) those negotiations have broken down over fee structure, and c) Universal is doing its hardest to set precedent so that if MySpace doesn't come over to their side of the table, they can sue MySpace for as much money as possible.

Appears to be a total asset forfeiture as well. Merc News

The California attorney general Bill Lockyer is already looking into this. Basically he says he knows a crime's been committed, he just needs to figure out exactly who to prosecute.

Heres TFM:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/busines s/15393026.htm

It contains a link "On the Web: A record of what happened." to this

http://seclists.org/politech/2003/Jul/0020.html

This indeed did happen 3 years ago.

Perhaps this event did happen yesterday, but it's difficult to get much info from the actual story that says so.

The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.

There is hope.

As an added bonus for your patience and forgiveness, click on the link to a story by the "San Jose Mercury News". Juniper must now restate its financial results for the last 3 years in order to account for backdating of options.

The corruption at Juniper has become so bad that its financial results are suspect. According to the news story, the analysts at American Technology Research (ATR), a Wall-Street securities firm, has stopped covering Juniper in ATR's research reports to the investment community.

Was David Abramson right in his criticism of Juniper?

Do you like dead children?

No, but apparently some US soldiers do. They also like to rape them first, and pretend that they're not children. Oh well. That's war for you!

But the war in Iraq was unavoidable, right!? I mean they had weapons of... er... 9/11...err..... Saddam was a bad person!

From the full interview:

"SLI is probably one of the most important innovations that we have brought in the last several years."
3dfx had a very similar, albeit not identical, system ages ago.

"Nvidia 1.0 was building 3-D graphics. Creating the consumer 3-D market."
No, that was 3dfx again.

Of course, Nvidia bought the remains of 3dfx so perhaps they're counting that.

Revisionist history aside, the full interview here (not the watered down blog post), is really interesting, and exactly the sort of thing that should be on slashdot.

"No one has enough extraneous resources around to build chips for all the game consoles. You have to build one or so at a time. In a lot of ways, they also pick you. Sony picked us and Microsoft didn't."

"I know I couldn't afford it. I would love to build it. I just can't afford it."

Q. Where do you want to see graphics go?
"I would like to see it go in a couple of directions. I would like [games] to be easier to access."

Next year there will be even more technology when Floyd Landis has his bionic hip! http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/1500182 0.htm

in fact the market share has decreased since the release of 10.0...

Gartner puts Apple's 1996 share at 4.6 percent, IDC at 5.1 percent. Market share in 2005 was 2.2 percent from Gartner and 2.3 percent from IDC. According to Gartner, Apple's market share peaked at 15.8 percent in 1980 -- four years before the Mac was introduced.
Apple is somewhat stronger in U.S. consumer market share, with Gartner giving Apple 5.8 percent in 2005 and IDC at 2.9 percent.
It's also worth noting that Apple's worldwide market share did move up slightly last year from 1.9 percent in 2004, according to Gartner, or 2.0 percent, according to IDC.
That's because Mac sales are exceeding industry growth rates. Apple shipped 38 percent more Macs in the fiscal year ended Sept. 24, 2005, than in the prior year, and shipments were up 20 percent in the last three months of 2005.

Ok ... slightly off topic ... but can you believe Harry Potter is going to die?

• Assume the clerks are clueless about whatever you are looking for (unless you need something from the cage or need to check the price on something don't talk to them)
• Double check the items they pull from the cage
• Insist on brand new equipment (nothing with the sticker that say's it has been returned, unless it's something like a cable or similar where it doesn't matter)
• Read their ads here (san jose) and, if you can, check the PLU# at outpost.com for more info before you go to the store

Hehe, I can safely say that's the first time I've been accused of being a Microsoft fanboy... I'm much more of a PC gamer than consoles and have never owned Xbox or 360.

I tried to verify your developer's comment however, but I was unable to find any news, interviews, ect. stating that their first games are going over 20gb. All I found was http://games.kikizo.com/news/200602/065_p1.asp a hands on the PS3 which had the comment "Our stuff runs off a Hard Disc at the moment and won't exceed DVD capabilities..." But since its from feburary, I'll let it go under the "too old" pile. Are you sure your not confused with http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/06/catching_ up_wit.html Kaz Hirai's interview talking about "If you look at the lack of Blu-ray on Microsoft, what do you do if the game requires 40 to 50 gigabytes? Put it on three disks? Let's look under the hood and see total value we are delivering to consumers. At five to 10 years, you see the lasting power of the PS2. If you go out there now, there is a lot of PS2 software out there. From a consumer's view, who got the better value? If you look at which console is giving the publishers more time to amortize their development costs, the answer is pretty obvious." It seems unlikely that you would confuse potential developments with developer's statements, especially since the number is wrong. I really wish you would tell us where your information comes from.

As a final note, I prefer not to refer to it as a "conspiracy," but rather as "marketing" and I suspect all companies are in on it... *shifts eyes side to side*

The author is not an independent researcher. He is a paid shill for an-industry funded think tank founded by one of the more aggressively pro-corporate members of the House GOP leadership.

Let's not forget that "net neutrality" is the STATUS QUO. The telcoms want to change the system to take net neutrality AWAY. Recognize this, and the author's "straw man" argument collapses. Shame on the Mercury News for printing this corporate PR garbage on its op-ed pages.

Apparently allofmp3 is already offering downloads for the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers'

Would that be the RHCPs that are accused of plagiarism themselves?

I must have messed up the link, but, the 12.5 comment was supposed to link here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/busines s/financial_markets/14661930.htm

Sorry about that.

They wanted to bring the country into a civil war with the Golden Mosque bombings and related attacks, they have failed.

What news sources are you consuming? The amount of violence in Iraq certainly qualifies as low intensity civil war by any conventional measure. And the situation has been continuously deteriorating. Denying this will just set us up for a colossal failure. Even Alawi who has been the US most favorite Iraqi politician (not counting Chalabi) has said as much. Now even Basra is starting to come unglued. A trend that started last year when militias infiltrated the police force is now playing out. A development that was entirely predictable when the US failed to unarm and disband the Shia militias while dissolving the old Iraqi army (probably the worst blunder of the whole occupation saga - and there have been so many!).

The Basra security situation is very bad news.

Sorry my friend, but I will certainly take the former Iraqi PM's assement over yours. You may want to check out some broader spectrum of news sites to protect yourself from falling for spin.

(My subject line is a reference to a Married with Children ep where Al gets a 1,000 channel cable connection — and discovers nothing worth watching on any of them. An ungodly number seem to be running reruns of a certain TV show...)

Unfortunatly there is only one living Ninja, and he is 76 years old.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/wo rld/14434176.htm

This AP story is all over the press, not just MSNBC

For example:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193749,00.html
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/ 04/21/financial/f080720D78.DTL
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/lo cal/states/california/northern_california/14397469 .htm
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/tech/20060424-0 012-ca-applesecurity.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APPLE_SECUR ITY?SITE=KFWB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME= 2006-04-30-15-15-12

Here's the story I was forwarded:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/04/exclusive _nicol.html

There's a link to the original LJ post as well from there.

It's interesting that I've been working with ea_spouse for a while now at 1stPP and I didn't even know it :P

The San Jose Mercury News has a map. Note to submitters: the San Francisco Chronicle isn't nearly as good as the MN on computer industry news. Try to find the MN link before submitting.

The Army fell short about 6,700 recruits in fiscal year 2005, its biggest shortfall since 1979, its worst year ever. In response, the Army has begun to accept more high school dropouts and Category IV recruits - those who make the lowest acceptable scores on the military's entrance exam.

But below the top level, companies are laying people off.

Read carefully my friend, I mentioned Portalplayer, not the iPod itself. The Portalplayer chip was largely created in Hyderabad.

Well, we're actually more like a loyal 2.2 percent worldwide. But I agree with your point--without Mac support, this is doomed to failure. We are a trendsetting 2.2 percent. ;-)

Note that I am -not- including the pharmaceutical industry in this, as the profit motive actually drives innovation to some degree in that field.

I'm not even slightly convinced that it drives innovation in the rest of the health care field, though. All it does is lead to San Jose, CA (at the heart of Silicon Valley) losing its only downtown hospital because it serviced a poorer section of the Bay Area, many of whom were uninsured or underinsured, creating a cascade of trauma center overloads that threatens the emergency care for hundreds of thousands of people.... So much for "do no harm."

The very fact that the lives of people in the South Bay---arguably one of the richest areas in the country---are being put in jeopardy by a greedy health care provider should give us pause, as it means that no part of the country is safe from the potential for complete health care collapse. What's to stop HCA from closing down their hospitals in rural areas, resulting in people simply not being able to get health care at all?

The current system is failing miserably, largely because of a handful of companies that care more about protecting profits than the lives of the people they care for. As far as I'm concerned, any money that would be lost by forcing hospital operations to be nonprofit and more highly regulated (e.g. preventing hospital closures or moves of more than a mile in metro areas/five miles in rural areas) would be totally worth it. Columbia/HCA can keep their blood money.

Yeah. Profit works really well in the public interest....

Wait a minute, isn't this Iranian crack down on blogs in the same realm as the US Government illegally spying on its citizens?

So, let me present another secret of the successful Linux development cycle: a lot of lone, self-managed programmers.

Heh heh! I just dumped all of the McAfee stuff on my daughter's laptop last Friday in favor of another AV package. I guess sometimes it just pays to be lucky! In light of recent news about McAfee's financial state (flat) and the employee data leak, this cannot be good news for them at all.

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this article, too.

All I can say is, thank goodness we have such a clear-headed, responsible government to effectively study, monitor and regulate this stuff.

Arrested for a political T-shirt

Arrested and prosecuted for a political sign

Three years in prison for a political cartoon

Grounds for concern, I hope you'll agreee, even if you don't consider it Fascism.

No. Their stock dropped because earnings were below forecasts, not because of this incident with the DoJ.

I think it's pretty clear who's made large contributions to Ed Chavez's campaign.

If only I were pulling this outta my ass:

"Chavez top recipient of lobbyists' campaign donations"

I guess ed's the most popular whore in Sacremento.

right on: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/po litics/13856894.htm

Look for Yahoo to start passing the buck to their regional partner soon. Taken from this site.

"In October, Yahoo formed a partnership with Alibaba.com, which has responsibility for complying with Chinese authorities' requests for information going forward"

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/1381903 5.htm
Might shed some light onto Sun's intentions?