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Check it out either on MSNBC, the MobileMag article, or the company site (Korean).

Yes but that's more wishful thinking on the part of people who want to see it; the people who drink.
Southern France has a Mediterranean-style diet, which is healthier. They skew the results and make the whole country appear healthier.
I'm sure we could all spin it to our own advantage and find studies to support our own positions. MSNBC story
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You'll die without Vitamin A, you won't die from lack of alcohol.

Come on, if you filed a copyright registration for Windows 2000, we'd all be able to confirm you're a loon.

However, as SCO places themselve immediatately at risk of a suitby filing a registration and asserting their rights. Additionally, they do seem to have a legitimate claim to the code for which they registered (which was NOT Linux one must remember so your analogy of filing a registration on Windows 2000 isn't even close). Furthermore, as they actually HAVE equity and aren't judgment proof, as many on here are, then you should take them more seriously.

Finally, while you seem to think companies will do the "decent thing" by "point[ing] out the area of infringement" one simply doesn't. It's the nature of the beast. Of course, now that a suit has been filed, discovery will follow and we(or at least the parties in the suit) will know what's what.

Patience my young Padiwan. Rush not into area we see not well.

also, I'd like to point out that if you had RTFA you referenced, the cases are quite dissimilar, seeing how the that case was in violation of anti hacking laws, not the DMCA and in addition to that, the FBI did use illegal methods to obtain the information on the remote pc's. Also, Sklyarov was not asked to come over here under false pretense of a job interview, he was here for a security cracking conference in Las Vegas, where he was giving a seminar on how he circumvented the Adobe copyprotection.

While it is true that the crimes committed in Russia by Sklyarov are legal in Russia, due to the nature of the Internet and that the software he wrote was distributed here in the US by him, he violated US law as well. So, according to the Laws he violated in the US, he was arrested here in the US.

This US, is it the same country that violated Russian law in gathering evidence by accessing a system without prior authorization or permission of the local (Russian) authorities?

Sklyarov did nothing wrong in Russia. If he did something wrong in Russia that was against the law or principles in our country, then the US should file a complaint with the Russian government. They should have left the man alone, or at least threaten his employers (sanctions, lawsuit, etc).
But we shouldn't forget that this was Adobe's fault, who started the mess.

Otherwise, every woman who visited Saudi Arabia might get stoned to death for wearing a bikini in Florida. Stupid analogy, I know, but it's the best I have right now.

On a related note, people interested in these books may be interested in this story (via metafilter) about how the Qu'ran as it's known now may be a mistranslation of the original.

1 googol is 1E100, while 128 bits is 2^128=3.4E38?

Seems there is a common misconception that was debunked as early as 1997 .

Traffic fines are lesser because everyone NEEDS to drive to work

I was just catching up on my early morning reading... I certainly wasn't going to respond to any of the comments in the article...

But, in case you never thought of this: Not everyone needs to drive to work! This may come as a shock to some. I mean, people use their cars for "trips" that are a couple of blocks round-trip. People build entire communities around their cars. Americans are also, by the way, over 61% obese and growing (pardon the pun). The two might just be related. Who knows...

What I do know is that attitudes such as "everyone NEEDS to drive to work or wherever" become a self-fulfilling prophecy and lead to more suburbs, increased air pollution, less respect from drivers towards those of us who choose alternatives and greater dependence on oil (which can lead to fattening the checking accounts of people who want to kill us)

Mod me off topic. But I had to reply.

I don't care if it is civil or criminal court. They are treating you like a criminal and charging up to $150k per song.

Proof is Here

Like it or not, the First Amendment does apply to spam.

Several people wrote opinions about this for the Intel vs. Hamidi case.

Any communication in the United States -- commercial or not -- enjoys some level of protection under the First Amendment. Though advertising has somewhat less protection than a daily newspaper, book or television broadcast, courts have consistently ruled that government must demonstrate a compelling interest before it can impose restrictions. That's why the most effective legislative efforts target fraudulent e-mail, interference with computer systems or the refusal to respond to requests to remove names from a mailing list. To pass constitutional muster, restrictions on spam have to be based on allegations of real harm, not just irritation.

Note that this case wasn't argued on First Amendment grounds. Intel simply failed to convince the court that Hamidi had tresspassed on their computer system.

Having said all that, I still don't understand why a university should worry about First Amendment issues. Even if government regulations must pass First Amendment muster, why should a publicly funded university need to worry about blocking spam?

article on MSNBC that discusses advances being made in the realm of understanding how matter is organized. Certainly in order to have a "matter printer", we would have to know how to create material on the fly. I think there are steps being made in that direction.

>>>>I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Bob Hope was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

Perhaps the Cut'N'Paster of the known troll got you a -1, but it's true. Bob Hope died at 100. check out MSNBC. It's Front Page article.

forget staasi. the dod and darpa in the u.s. o' a is working on a total tracking system to track, record and analyze everything about the monitored individual - phone conversations, physical movement, surfing, purchase, even vital signs. it's the "lifelog" project (reference link is here).

of course darpa/dod is saying it's only to be used on people who consent to being monitored.... but then again, j edgar hoover once said the fbi would never use phone taps. administrations and policies change y'know. so, skepticism is warranted.

the only plus side to this is that the software is written by microsoft... so you may have the option to live privately during reboots.

Come to think of it, Microsoft is looking for a way to reduce its cash reserves.

France's most famous tourist attraction and icon is burning down! And Slashdot is busy talking about Linux security. Have some priorities people.

> With that MSN IM translation patent, shouldn't it only cover that method translating IMs? So if you were to figure out another way to do it, you'd be in the clear? Or with the one-click patent, does that patent cover "A method of buying stuff on the internet (with one click)" or is it "A method of buying stuff with one click (and here's some software to do it)"? If you implemented one-click shopping via some other method, wouldn't you be in the clear?

I believe that is how it is supposed to work. And indeed when many patent infringement cases have actually gone to court, either the patent got thrown out altogether, or the defendant was found not to be infringing because there were differences in the details of their method, like the British Telecom hyperlink patent case.

The two major reasons why patent holders can get away with suing anybody who does something remotely similar are: (1) Technically ignorant juries. There is no way eBay would have lost the case if the jury was technically competent and had common sense. (2) The lack of funds to fight it out in court. Even if the patent would get thrown out after a court challenge, many small companies cannot afford the cost of litigation so they cave in and pay up the license fee.

Rather than promoting innovation, software and business patents have become nothing more than a legalized form of extortion.

WMD scientist's death rocks British government

Now BusHitler/Blair are killing their critics!!! The one person who knew WMD were bogus has been assassainated!

Well, actually, there are a lot, though they don't JUST target CEOs, they also target other members of the work force that piss them off. Even though they may not be as effective as mass terrorists like those seen on (and after) the dreaded day two years gone, they too get the job done. Now which type of terrorism do YOU think is more popular?

"How many individuals in the WTC had 'bad behavior'?"

Depends who ya ask, now doesn't it? I know we heroize the poor souls that were needlessly killed on GWB-day, but I think that the terrorists flying the planes thought that there was indeed 'bad behavior' going on in those buildings, mostly in the oppression of a group of people that they believe deserves to be masters of the earth. And if you look at their situations, you see why! Sure, we think it's awful for them to kill a few thousand civilians, and it is, but they see daily US bombings in Iraq (even before our current war started), economic sanctions that kept several Arab states poor enough that starvation was a primary killer of millions of innocents, not to mention the fueling of warfare between Arab nations with weapons contributions, etc. But I rant. Think of it this way -- are the acts of that day more or less justified than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

The people who dropped the A-bombs were not considered, terrorists, they were 'heroes,' they 'ended the war.' But they killed hundreds of thousands of innocents. That makes the WTC attacks look like chump change. And yes, they do think they are at War.

Sorry to rant -- comments like this just show a one-sidedness of knowledge that I refuse to ignore.

Check out the latest issue of Newsweek:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/937817.asp

He was asked if he'd vote for the Medicare bill with a prescription drug benefit that is likely to pass Congress soon? Dean wouldn't say. Why?

Is he still for a balanced budget amendment? He said only that he's "tempted" to be for it.

Balanced budged amendment is something that is political, I've publicly said that it's not great public policy, but we may have to have it anyway because you can't trust the Republicans with your money. And that's true, this president is using Argentina as his fiscal model: borrow and spend, borrow and spend, borrow and spend. It turns out the Republicans pushed the balanced budget but they never balanced budgets. They cut taxes, they cut services, they raise your middle class property taxes, but they never balance budgets and that's why we may need a balanced budget amendment.

Should a gay marriage in Canada be recognized in the United States? He refused to give a responsive answer.

Would he name the Democratic candidates who he said need a "backbone transplant"? No, he wouldn't.

As someone else pointed out earlier, you obviously didn't catch the Tim Russert interview with Howard Dean several weeks ago.

I don't think "grounded" is the operative word here.

The transcript reads almost as funny/scary as the interview.

You can actually hear Tim Russert cringing while you read the transcript!

MSNBC is spouting a raving review of this brave new Linux distro. And best of all.... it's Debian-based. YeeHaw!

"This is so tiny that it's like considering a single butterfly's wings when forecasting the weather. It's negligible."

Is the weather really better with the Butterfly?

Last time I saw the rainbow-winged dude (on TV, boiling rubber dog bones in the kitchen), he was not so tiny.

I'm sick of the news media ignoring Iran just because the government and their goons won't let any Western media take pictures. There were protests around the world and all the media report about Iran today is those unfortunate twins!

Here's the information on the satellite uplink jamming. The jammed TV stations include NITV and Azadi TV.

For information on today's protests in which 100,000 came out in Tehran, there is information from the BBC and the Jerusalem Post.

First-hand accounts of today's events have been posted on sympathetic websites like Iran va Jahan and SMCCDI.

Information on Internet censorship can be found here (parrotting the Iranian government line that it was all about sex) and more objective articles here and here.

c)Pro-American regimes are what we're fighting against in many cases (or the degredation of Americanistic countries).

A noble fight. But please don't lose sight of the rest of humanity's wish for even a smidgen of the developed world's freedom.

I'd hate to bust your bubble, but it looks like the universe will be expanding forever.

Instead of being another blind believer in Nintendo, I decided to search Google and see what I can find as far as MS's losses in regards to their push with the Xbox. This is what I found. MS is losing billions on the Xbox.

But we all knew this, because obviously their undercutting the costs of producing each Xbox console, but their Live! service isn't helping them either.

Subscription isn't going work, at least not now. Nintendo is not just taking this stance this stubbornly, but simply because they cannot afford to. Only Sony and MS can afford such a venture (loss).

No, this is not about the large piece of blubber that they found on the beach.

This article has pictures and a video of a very cool new large species of squid. It seems to fly through the water with wings, and has cool alien-like arms coming off the rear of it.

Amazing that is has been spotted in four different oceans, but no one has seen it before. It says a lot about how much we do not know about the oceans.

If you like this stuff, read this recent news story:

Giant sea specimen baffles scientists

We distort. You comply.

News with as many holes as Windows.

You've got news!

Nah, that couldn't be it. That would mean this article is poorly-researched and misleading.

Keeping your brain focused and in gear is the real problem with cell phones and other gadgets.

"It's not just the physical distraction of holding the handset -- there's the intellectual distraction of holding the conversation."

"...cell phone conversations using "hands-free" devices are just as likely to cause dangerous distractions as those conducted on hand held phones."

"There is a very substantial decrease in the amount of brain activity, the amount of neural activity allocated to driving, while you are simultaneously listening,"

Hang up and drive.

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Perhaps IE will finally suppor W3C standards and the language/DOM support will clean up as time goes on.

Good luck wishing for that... it's not going to happen on current Windows versions and it isn't going to happen on Macs.

> I saw this on the BBC this morning and looked around CNN, the New York Times site, and the other usual suspects in vain for any word of this. Surely this has some importance to people in the United States, since we'll be paying for it in our taxes?

Well, I read something about it on MSNBC. Why are U.S. agencies not jumping on this story? Because it's a non-event, really. Army developing new weapon for use in 30 years time? Yawn. I might catch it on The Discovery Channel or Slashdot, but this is hardly front (or 2nd, or 3rd) page news.

The real question to ask is, why are foreign news sources making such a big deal of it? Methinks they're being overly paranoid.

Oops - I missed out the link - see here for MSNBC coverage

And does anyone actually believe that the fossil fuels industry will lie down and let this happen without a fight?

Sure they will. Oil Companies love hydrogen fuel cells. It's at least twenty years away and it distracts our attention away from hybrid electric cars that are on the market right now.

Have you noticed that GWB has increased funding toward hydrogen development (because he's an environmentalist!). Meanwhile, nothing is being done to help promote hybrid vehicles. And SUVs, because of their classification as a small truck, are immune to many of the emissions standards currently in place, and can be written off as a tax deduction for small business owners

Depending on the context, the answer is a qualified "yes." The main qualification in the US is that we have laws restricting the sales of pornographic materials to minors. If the government (such as in the recent St. Louis case) places restrictions on sales of an entertainment product because of content, it can indeed be considered a first amendment issue and dealt with as such by the courts.

hmm, funny. From the reviews I have read, that sounds pretty much like the plot. Perhaps some emperical data needs to be collected...

IMarv

The MSNBC version of this story says "The radiation dosage is about the same as sunshine."

Because it makes it easier for people to get along and not kill each other so much if they aren't always bickering over "my god can kick your god's ass!" type stuff.

So you would think. But it's not so. Man is just evil, regardless.

For all the "religion is the cause of all wars" tripe you hear, most wars supposedly caused by religion are really clashes of culture, or more genuinely over resources and land. Religion is usually just the patina dressed up to justify it for the proles.

Well I like your outlook, but that is almost 1/2 a billion (not trillion). You may be forgiven for this error, as computers most likely do your math for you. On the other hand, considering the US has $376B budgeted for military spending in 2003, this is less than 1/2 of one percent of the budget.

On the other hand, with the cost of a smart bomb of about $20K, this comes to something like 23.55K smart bombs that the govt isn't spending. The US dropped over 30000 smart-bombs in the first 12 days of this recent war, meaning the purchase of MS computers may cause about 11 days of relative peace...

... or it may cause a more aggressive nuclear plan because the smart bombs are not around...

Apparently Verizon won't be charging any fee for number portability. That might light the fire under the other telcos to do the same to remain attractive...........

in semi-related news, I just spotted this photo of the "face" on Mars on MSNBC.com - pretty nifty!

Strong storms can be deadly to spacewalking astronauts. The crew of the International Space Station, while inside, is generally not endangered, but they do have a special protective area they can go to in a severe storm.

Advance warning of impending storms allows satellite operators to reduce the risk of damage to some satellites by shutting down electronics. Engineers anticipate problems in an effort to recover damaged satellites before they are lost. Extra staff can be brought in. Agreements are made to shift signals to other satellites.

Unless eBay can sort out the massive amount of fraud that's going on right now then I'm never using it again anyway.

There seems to be an absolutely massive problem at the moment with people hijacking eBay accounts and their associated e-mail addresses and eBay don't seem to want to anything about it.

Anyone who uses eBay and has a weak password on their e-mail account (or an obvious answer to their secret question) is vulnerable to having their eBay account taken over (complete with e-mail account and credit card details) and used by a Western Union scammer.

What's a Western Union scammer? Someone who asks to be paid though Western Union (who offer zero buyer protection or tracking of funds) and then simply never ships the item. Western Union seem happy to dish out funds to anyone so the fact that the account is in the wrong name doesn't seem to cause any problems.

eBay should make it so it's impossible to take over an account by changing the password/and/or e-mail address unless you know lots of personal information (D.O.B., mothers maiden name, etc etc).

I'm finding it very difficult to get eBay to reply or for any news agencies to give this any publicity.

Over the weekend I saw about 30 Sony plasma screens advertised (usually "pre-approved bidders only") - almost none of which were legitiate. When you contact the seller - you get a similar message every time - "The item will be shipped from and I would like you to pay though Western Union". They remove them eventually if you complain, but the point is, the fact that more are appearing means that they're still finding it very easy to hijack your account.

Nick...

Going strong huh? First up you don't actually HAVE a democracy, you have a Republic. Secondly, how can any two party political system really be representative and answerable to the electorate. Thirdly, RIAA, MPAA, NRA, BSA, etc. All massive lobbying groups who's sole job is to try to influence and coopt the very people you elect to protect your way of life into passing laws to restrict your freedoms. Fourth, PATRIOT I and II, DMCA, TIA, HR-2517.

Face facts, your "American Experiment" has been totally defeated and taken over by your large corporations. They have turned you from citizens into consumers. They own your politicians, they write your laws, they tell you what to think, how to live, what to wear. They tell you that their brand is a lifestyle choice that will project a positive image to your friends, and you lap it up. You are their bitch, and best of all, you like it.

And what's with your love of your flag? It like your version of Mao's little red book. A TV program last year took some groups of tourists and did stuff to them to see how different nationalities would react, so they decided to accidentely burn that nations flag. Most of the groups were a little annoyed, felt it to be rude, except for 2. We brits didn't notice, and the American tourist were furious and had to take the flag home for a proper burial. That kind of fanatisism is just bizare, and shows that you have a blind spot for your countries faults. You say "God bless the USA, it's the greatest nation in the world, well at least it's better than most, well there's more right than wrong". Don't you see, while you are prepared to live with its faults they will continue to worsten. While you're busy waving your flags and looking the other ways your nation is rotting to the core.

Don't forget that CNBC is a venture between NBC and... Microsoft. Go to the CNBC page and see where you end up.

No, it isn't. MSNBC is a joint-venture between NBC and Microsoft (that's what the MS stands for). CNBC isn't. However, the CNBC and MSN Money websites were merged.

153-foot, 200,000-pound Boeing 727 stolen from airport

Boeing 727 jet stolen by an American pilot

153-foot, 200,000-pound Boeing 727 stolen from airport