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The faster one of those, BLUE GENE/L RUNS LINUX!!! Read it on news.com article !!! The world's fastest computer will run Linux! It's a praise to the open source developers!

I think you are missing the full quotes.

From the AP:


She also eliminated a technical committee that would have enforced the settlement terms. In its place, a corporate committee - consisting of board members who aren't Microsoft employees - will make sure the company lives up to the deal. The judge also gave herself more oversight authority.

From NEWS.COM:


Kollar-Kotelly also modified the oversight of Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Originally, the proposal included a technical committee and an internal compliance officer, both potentially influenced by Microsoft. In Friday's ruling, the judge combined the two into a compliance committee made up of Microsoft board members. In turn, the committee must hire a compliance officer, to report to the committee and to Microsoft's CEO. As corporate officers and non-Microsoft employees, the compliance committee in theory would be more likely to appropriately enforce the settlement in this era of renewed corporate responsibility.

It seems to make some sense since the board members (including Mr. Gates) can be held personally and financialy responsable for conduct that violates the settlement.

It ain't the best, but it's still better than ICANN.

To whom it may concern:

I would like to congratulate Declan McCullagh for including links to DeCCS in his articles, "Congress asked to unpick copy lock laws" (10/03) and "Perspective: Coming to terms with copyright" (10/07).

Other sites (e.g., cnn.com) have bowed to overt industry & legal pressure to remove similar links from their sites, despite the obvious unconstitutional and frighteningly silencing nature of the DCMA. I commend your writers and your publication for this bold statement and support you 100% in your efforts to maintain the principles of the Freedom of the Press in this great country.

Thank you, and keep up the good work.

Stop reading slashdot and read some real news

Actually, in this news.com Article, the fifth dentist finally caved!! Guess the stalkers finally got to him.

They own news.com, but it's a redirect to news.com.com which they prefer? What's wrong with news.cnet.com? Another redirect to that stupid com.com website.

Hmm ...

micah_lanier writes "Thought I would point out an interesting story from news.com. It seems a NetRatings Study concluded that those owning Crays tend to be more experienced with the internet, as well as educated better in general. However, this simply illustrates the fact that Crays are generally bought by those with little trouble being granted multi-million dollar government contracts, and therefore those who more likely posess multiple post-graduate degrees in technical subjects like physics (and so on)." Then how do we explain all the people with less education building beowulf clusters from cheap Compaqs and Dells? I think it's just that people with bigger budgets like better computers!

Answer all 5 questions

1) Are you?
a) gay
b) straight

2) Do you like?
a) l33tn3SS
b) Ease of use

3) What do you want?
a) unstable shit
b) stable and reliable

4) Your eyes like?
a) Ugly Motif like interface
b) Sexy desktop

5) What would you like to do
a) Configure your desktop all day
b) Get work done

Results?

Mostly (a)'s?
Gnome is for you!

Mostly (b)'s?
KDE is for you!

Disclaimer, its only a fun test, please seek professional advice from doctors to find out the right desktop for your needs!

Stupid security holes.

Theo DeRaadt's code writing ability resembles a chunk of swiss cheese that has been blasted a few times with some shotgun rounds.

And this NASTY HOLE keeps getting ignored, but the OpenSSH team continues to fix others.

Screw this -- I'm going commercial UNiX.

I am unable to go to the any of these sites.


http://www.cnet.com
http://www.news.com
http://www.com.com
http://www.download.com


Note: All these are CNet sites.


What I AM ABLE to access is

http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/

may be MSNBC has actually bought CNet ;)?

On the contrary, 15" CRT monitors are measured diagonally from corner to corner of the enclosure, which was the subject of a major class action lawsuit a few years back and the reason why magazines say things like "15" (13.8" viewable) monitor" these days.

LCD monitors, on the other hand, are measured by the actual screen size: a 15" monitor is really 15" from one corner of the screen to the other. Your 15" CRT that is "noticeably larger" is probably an optical illusion; the viewable area is certainly less.

Even better: this AIM version lets you log on to the ICQ network so that you can talk with ICQ pals, too. Unfortunately, you'll have to log out of one IM to access the other; there's no three-way chatting with friends from the two IM networks.

The new recorders, which are set to hit the market in the second half of the year, will be similar to the ReplayTV 4000 machines but will have smaller hard drives and will feature DVD playback.

What I'm trying to say is that the inertia of roughly "2 million busy adults" does not make CompuServe relevant, IMO.

btw, when did News.com become News.com.com ?? What is this, 1999 or something? I wonder how much money they blew on purchasing Com.com. That was a great investment..

Well, if you go to http://www.news.com/ itself you see the same stories.

Of course, it's http://news.com.com/ in a frame. So either C|Net got hacked, or that's how they're doing things now. Given that whois says CNET owns 'com.com', the latter is more probable.

I just poked through your Microsoft Lies webpage and found something rather interesting. This seems to work in mozilla, and probably in IE as well if my instinct is right..

There are several links on your page to cnet news regarding some of the wrong doings microsoft has committed, ie. this one and this one.

I think what you'll find interesting is, although not being very old (1999 articles), cnet has decided to "Expire" them... BUT the contents of the story seems to show up here in mozilla for less than a second, then mozilla redirects me to the expired page.

Now here is a much much much older article from 1996 that is microsoft-friendly in its nature..
But this one isn't expired :)

someone else try this because everytime i click those damn anti-microsoft articles, they get 'expired' ... hard to use that as a verb but thats what is happening.

I just poked through your Microsoft Lies webpage and found something rather interesting. This seems to work in mozilla, and probably in IE as well if my instinct is right..

There are several links on your page to cnet news regarding some of the wrong doings microsoft has committed, ie. this one and this one.

I think what you'll find interesting is, although not being very old (1999 articles), cnet has decided to "Expire" them... BUT the contents of the story seems to show up here in mozilla for less than a second, then mozilla redirects me to the expired page.

Now here is a much much much older article from 1996 that is microsoft-friendly in its nature..
But this one isn't expired :)

someone else try this because everytime i click those damn anti-microsoft articles, they get 'expired' ... hard to use that as a verb but thats what is happening.

I wonder if this is what being a god is like. Does she laugh at the pointlessness of it all too? Will Sony make an SDR-5X that makes little robots out of Mindstorms?

First of all, people have been using devices like that for years. Any tablet PC or handheld with something like X11, RDP, or VNC will do.

Also, Microsoft has been the driving force behind making this concept popular this year (Mira).

Let's just hope that the term "invent" won't translate into yet more bogus patents on old technology.

Cnet = www.news.com not www.news.com.com

Here, I'll make one for you:

• Tell me, HOW can a big-iron selling company, solely based on UNIX services, with a core business of selling solely hardware plus services on that hardware, get damaged when MS includes a browser in their OS?

  The suit is less about the choice (or lack thereof) of a browser, and more about MS attempting to use their current monopoly in the desktop computer market to get a monopoly in other markets (Server OS's, Web Service Applications, et. al.). Ever heard of .NET? Hmm??

• Furthermore, HOW can MS hurt Sun by not including java into their browser, while Sun declared a settled lawsuit last year a 'victory' when that lawsuit was actually stating that MS should not create NEW versions of the JVM (so, on windows people could only use 1.1 applets, pretty crap) and should leave Java after 7 years ?

  Pretty crappy is right. Sun declared that lawsuit a victory because it stopped MS from writing illegal extensions of the Java language that would only run on Windows platforms. If MS had been allowed to do that, they would have used their desktop monopoly to effectively break one of Java's best features: platform independence. Microsoft plainly violated their Java licensing agreement, and Sun had to take them to court to prove that.

• I won't even mention the native solaris thread code in the Sun JVM, so it cheats as much as the MS jvm did.

  Um, yeah. Every modern VM uses native threading code... that isn't considered cheating. Have a look at IBM's VM -- its threading performance is even better than Sun's, yet I guarantee you won't see a Sun -vs- IBM suit over that. As I mentioned previously, that law suit was over MS's breach of the Java license.

For a decent summary of the suit, have a look at CNET's News.com coverage. The FAQ there covers the basics.

--Mid

Whats with all this "news for nerds, stuff that happened 2000 years ago"! STOP POSTING OLD NEWS AND SHUT THIS SITE DOWN! NO REAL NERD USES IT! Most nerds use REAL sites!

Xerox is busy going after Palm (USR) over Graffiti, so it appears that maybe they have learned their lesson.

news.com has a story about this as well. There's says a little more about why it's different than a laptop. It's meant to convert from a laptop to a handheld to a desktop at will.

According to a CNET article on D-VHS, each tape will hold up to 44 gigabytes of data, and the movie tapes that they intend to put out will cost about $40. I don't know if they will sell blank tapes, but that puts the medium in the same size category (although, not in the same speed category) as DLT.

However, since they want copy protection, I doubt that there will be an easy way of getting data to and from those decks. Otherwise, you could just backup your copy of HD Die Hard to your 100 gig drive, and then re-backup your movie to a blank tape, or R-DVD, thereby depriving them of revenues when you have to go to the store to replace the copy of HD Die Hard that your nephew accidently fed to the dog. :(

C|Net is reporting on this, check out the article which includes a few more details that haven't been mentioned here.

Not sure if those are all the completely correct addresses to use, but in the face of some blatant FUD, they'll probably do okay . . .

Political News from Wired News - Cybercrime Treaty Finally Ready. After four years of haggling over the language, several countries including the United States will sign a cybercrime treaty.

WildernessCoast.org - Cybercrime Treaty Bibliography -- By Date. A wide collection of links that talk about the Cybercrime Treaty Same info sorted by title.

Council of Europe - Convention on Cybercrime.

The Convention on Cybercrime has been adopted by the Committee of Ministers during its 109th Session, on 8 November 2001 and will be opened for signature, in Budapest, on 23 November 2001.

The Convention will be the first international treaty on crimes committed via the Internet and other computer networks, dealing particularly with infringements of copyright, computer-related fraud, child pornography and violations of network security. It also contains a series of powers and procedures such as the search of computer networks and interception.

Its main objective, set out in the preamble, is to pursue a common criminal policy aimed at the protection of society against cybercrime, especially by adopting appropriate legislation and fostering international co-operation.

The Convention is the product of four years of work by Council of Europe experts, but also by the United States, Canada, Japan and other countries which are not members of the organisation.

It will be supplemented by an additional protocol making any publication of racist and xenophobic propaganda via computer networks a criminal offence.

[ ... ]

But Fred Eisner, a consultant for the Dutch government and private companies, said the draft made unfair demands on Internet service providers by asking them to track Web users' online movements.

"This draft convention lacks balance," Eisner told the assembly. "The convention explicitly gives much more power to law enforcement agencies and it has no system of checks and balances."

Bruce McConnell, president of McConnell International, a Washington-based consulting firm, said the treaty should be more forceful in protecting the privacy of Web users who are already worried about being spied on.

"There is concern that the powers of surveillance ... are not balanced by comparable protections for individuals' privacy," he said.

Maybe you trust the law-enforcement chiefs in D.C. to do the right thing. But here's the catch. The same new powers given to the United States will also handed over to Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, and other Council of Europe nations that-although officially democratic now-don't have a strong traditions of checks and balances on police power.

Do you want investigators rummaging around your clients' computer systems on warrants issued by former Soviet bloc nations?

That's the prospect that has pushed AT&T Corporation and other high-technology companies into feverishly trying to stop or at least soften the treaty. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Information Technology Association of America also oppose it.

Stewart Baker is one of the chief lobbyists for the treaty opponents. As a former general counsel of the National Security Agency and recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, he's got street cred on these issues in corporate America.

What worries Baker and his colleagues? Consider the following hypothetical: A Los Angeles screenwriter corresponds by e-mail with a neo-Nazi in Germany while researching a script. Shortly after, he finds federal agents examining the files on his home computer. The agents also visit America Online Inc. to retrieve records of the screenwriter's AOL usage.

The agents are fulfilling a warrant issued by German authorities allowing them to search for Nazi propaganda. Such material is unlawful in Germany but not in the U.S. They framed their warrant in terms of "suspected terrorist activity."

LAW.com (requires cookies) - International Treaty on Cybercrime Poses Burden on High-Tech Companies.

Maybe you're a civil libertarian, and maybe you're not. Maybe you worry about how the United States exercises its vast investigative and prosecutorial powers, and maybe you don't.

But if you counsel U.S. corporations on computer-related issues, you should be concerned about a new proposed treaty known as the "Convention on Cybercrime." The Council of Europe, a 43-nation public body created to promote democracy and the rule of law, is nominally drafting the treaty. Curiously, however, the primary architect is the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation are using a foreign forum to create an international law-enforcement regime that favors the interests of the feds over those of ordinary citizens and businesses. Their goal is to make it easier to get evidence from abroad and to extradite and prosecute foreign nationals for certain kinds of crimes.

Maybe you trust the law-enforcement chiefs in D.C. to do the right thing. But here's the catch. The same new powers given to the United States will also be handed over to Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, and other Council of Europe nations that -- although officially democratic now -- don't have a strong tradition of checks and balances on police power.

[ ... ]

Stewart Baker, a partner at Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson, is one of the chief lobbyists for the treaty's opponents. As a former general counsel of the National Security Agency and recipient of the U.S. Department of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, he's got street credentials on these issues in corporate America.

Slashdot | Implications Of The International Cybercrime Treaty.

SiliconValley.com part of San Jose Mercury News - Pioneer cybercrime pact tightens privacy rules.

MS-NBC - Pioneer cybercrime pact tightens privacy rules. PARIS, May 25 -- Stiff criticism from the EU and pressure groups has prompted drafters of the world's first treaty against cybercrime to tighten provisions protecting privacy online, the final text showed Friday.

[ ... ]

Against EU objections, it also limits the right of a country to reject a request from abroad to store and hand over data in potential crime cases if the requesting country thinks it could be misused.

The text says states should make sure that systems operators or other people who know how to use a certain system can be ordered to cooperate in any such a cyberprobe.

PARIS (Reuters) - Stiff criticism from the EU and pressure groups has prompted drafters of the world's first treaty against cybercrime to tighten provisions protecting privacy online, the final text showed on Friday.

The Council of Europe, a 43-state human rights watchdog, has amended the text to ensure police respect privacy rights when they follow digital trails to fight online crimes such as hacking, spreading viruses, using stolen credit card numbers or defrauding banks.

''The guarantees in the treaty have been reinforced,'' Peter Csonka, deputy head of the economic crime division at the Council's headquarters in Strasbourg, told Reuters after the Council posted the final text -- version 27 -- on its Web site.

But the treaty, which has aroused heated debate in cyberspace since its draft text became public last year, ignored calls by Internet service providers (ISPs) for fewer costly requirements on preserving data that could be linked to a crime.

It still accorded police wide powers to chase suspected cybercriminals -- powers some critics say go beyond what is legal in some Council member states or in observer countries like the United States, Canada and Japan due to sign the treaty.

ZDNet - Internet founder worried over EU cybercrime plans.

BRUSSELS --Vint Cerf, a founding father of today's Internet, said on Thursday that European Union plans for new rules to fight crime on the Web risked clashing with existing EU privacy regulations.

Cerf, who helped develop the Internet in the early 70s shortly after graduating from Stanford University and now works for WorldCom, said more secure network systems were an immediate priority for the successful development of the ubiquitous Web.

He told Reuters in an interview that Internet traffic should be retained only for billing purposes and was too cumbersome to be stored for police investigations.

Changes to a controversial treaty on cybercrime have done nothing to improve it, say civil liberty campaigners.

Next week, the Council of Europe will vote on the treaty, which has been redrafted 26 times before reaching its final version late in May.

The most recent changes were made to take into account the fears of civil liberty and privacy campaigners. But cyber-rights groups say the latest changes are purely cosmetic and have not diluted what they describe as its most pernicious sections.

The groups say that, if adopted in its current form, the treaty could lead to changes in legislation that would stifle rights to privacy and do little to curb the activities of law enforcement agencies.

[ ... ]

In December 2000, 23 organisations, banding together under the banner of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), signed a letter condemning the 25th draft of the treaty as "appalling", and warned that it handed law enforcement agencies sweeping powers to snoop and could seriously erode online privacy.

Now, three civil liberty groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International, have sent another letter to the Council of Europe outlining their "continuing concerns" over the wording of the treaty and saying that their fears have not been laid to rest.

The letter chastises the Council of Europe for refusing to open up the redrafting debates to non-governmental organisations and for, it says, ignoring the human rights and privacy concerns of organisations such as the GILC.

It goes on to say that the original criticisms still stand, and that the treaty does not pay enough attention to existing laws which safeguard human rights. It says the treaty's recommendations on protecting privacy are vague and do not go far enough.

IT industry gurus have branded the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime 'foolish, unworkable and a legal con trick'.

The controversial treaty provides a blanket legislation to deal with all forms of internet crime from hacking to online pornography.

Caspar Bowden, director of internet think-tank FIPR, said: "The Convention is essentially a legal con trick, drafted in secret by a handful of nameless bureaucrats. It equates the internet - a network of private networks - with 'cyberspace', a metaphor from science fiction.

"By this sleight of hand, the internet is defined as a public space over which law enforcement should be granted unfettered powers of surveillance and extradition," he added.

International policy-makers this week ended a round of talks aimed at setting common rules affecting online trade and commerce, but they made little progress in bridging divisions that threaten to delay the pact.

In the works for nearly a decade, the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments is still almost unknown outside international policy circles. Nevertheless, it could have broad implications for consumers and businesses by setting new rules for online copyrights, free speech and e-commerce--if it is approved.

Opposition to the treaty heated up Wednesday, when a two-week drafting session wrapped up with few concessions to critics, primarily from the United States, who say the pact threatens free speech and could force Internet service providers to become global content police.

"In a nutshell, it will strangle the Internet with a suffocating blanket of overlapping jurisdictional claims, expose every Web page publisher to liabilities for libel, defamation and other speech offenses from virtually any country, (and) effectively strip Internet service providers of protections from litigation over the content they carry," Jamie Love, director of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology (CPT), wrote in a report after the meeting.

The treaty is one of several efforts by the global community to grapple with a complicated legal issues on a borderless Web.

Four years ago, nations including the United States signed onto a World Intellectual Property Organization pact to protect copyright in the digital age. And several countries, including the United States, are hammering out the world's first cybercrime treaty, which would provide a standard for fighting online crime.

The Hague treaty differs from those efforts because it would not outline specific laws participants must follow. It's much broader, requiring participants to agree to enforce each others' laws on a variety of topics. As it stands, the treaty would require courts to enforce the commercial laws of the convention's 52 member nations, even if they prohibit actions that are legal under local laws.

BRUSSELS - The blueprint for a global code on Cyber-crime was agreed on in Strasbourg, France, Friday, paving the way for international rules governing online copyright infringement, online fraud, child pornography and hacking.

The 41 members of the Council of Europe (CoE), plus the U.S., Canada and Japan, signed on to a draft convention on cybercrime that is set to be rubber-stamped at ministerial level in September.

"Once adopted, the Convention will be the first international treaty on criminal offenses committed through the use of Internet and other computer networks," the Council of Europe said in a statement.

In September, the Council of Europe approved the Convention on cybercrime, a historic treatise that lays the foundation for legislation allowing for a greater sharing of information between countries to combat the rise of cybercrime.

The treatise isn't binding, but instead would have to be adopted into law by its 43 European member states and five outside countries including the United States, Canada and Japan.

The treaty is broad, covering crimes committed on the Internet such as fraud, child pornography and violations of computer network security. It also sets up global policing procedures for conducting computer searches, interception of e-mails, and extradition of criminal suspects.

More details on the CyberCrime Treaty can be found in the Privacy Digest archives dated September 26,2000, September 27,2000, October 09,2000, October 16,2000, October 18,2000, October 19,2000, October 25,2000, November 14,2000, November 20,2000, November 22,2000 and March 24,2001. This is not all the information at Privacy Digest and other sites so if you want to know more try a search

According to the X-box coverage on CNet's News.com Gran Turismo 3 is a Sony developed game. I don't see them releasing that game for one of their competitor's machines.

By CNET News.com Staff CNET News.com

With the deprecation or removal of an API, they can put people out of business, or send companies into bankruptcy.

MSFT has already done that sort of thing already, at least with 3D rendering APIs, and of course, to Netscape.

Industry analysts acknowledge this sort of thing. Go here, and look for the Dan Kuznetsky quote:

But Microsoft's support of Mono is simply the same old same old for the software giant, IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky said. Microsoft has historically achieved market dominance by controlling APIs, and forcing competitors to write software to its APIs, only to turn around and change those same APIs. "Instead of satisfying their own customers' demand, competitors are busy catching up with Microsoft," Kusnetzky said. "It looks like they've gotten someone in the open source community to play the game of following Microsoft around and trying to do what they do."

The old Software Publishers Association knew about it. They issued a white paper on the topic. Read pages 12 to 15 of that document for an older view of the problem.

From a news.com article. Congressman Bob Goodlatte equates encryption backdoors to giving you house key to the local police. He's also pushing for more encryption not less inorder to make U.S. companies/systems more secure against cyber attacks.

Nice to see at he's got the right idea. Check out the article for more of his comments...

For a better article on factors driving the relative failure of bluetooth and sucess of 802.11b, read Bye-bye, Bluetooth by Bill Gurley (of Benchmark and Above The Crowd fame) courtesy news.com.

While I think Gurley makes some good points about the relative cost economies (Bluetooth doesn't seem to have an advantage) and the power of server connected applications versus localized networks, I wouldn't dismiss local device networking so fast. There's a lot of potential for cell phone to fixed point communication, cell/laptop transfer, vehicle networking, etc. that passive RF can't handle. For all of its good points, 802.11b is very difficult to get broad coverage with and GPRS/2.5G cellular technology is probably more economical if the cellular providers could ever come up with a good data pricing model.

Regards, RJS

At News.Com you can get the movies from MacWorld in WM or RealMedia for you UNIX people. I personly like the new G4 with the SuperDrive, I just wish I had the cash to buy it rather than stick with my Power Macintosh 6100/60. BTW, this info is from the News.Com Movies.

If you care as well as Mac OS X.I Apple also had new iMacs from 500-700MHz all with CD-RWs and 128-256MB of RAM, starting at $999US. Thankfully they ditched the "Flower Power" stuff and went with Indigo, Snow and Graphite.

There is a new case for the G4s, QuickSilver it looks like it matchs the Titanium PowerBook better. And they go upto 2x 800MHz G4s, doing 12 gigaflops. And they are cheaper too, unless you're a high school student, $1,699US for the 733MHz G4.

--Volrath50

I posted this Yahoo! article describing the flaw, but it was first posted at news.com. Really does it suprise anyone? Now what about the poor network admin who isn't keeping updated with latest bug news, and still has the old version a month from now?

"Lionel Jospin, France's prime minister, said this week that the country will allow use of 128-bit encryption technology instead of the 40-bit encryption permitted so far. The 128-bit technology makes it safer to send documents via the Internet." [Jan. 1999]

Still, this is another example of shoddy, biased reporting in the Linux media. After all, why use the whole truth when half of it will do just as well! Now that's efficiency!

Actually, Linux Today is one of internet.com's rags (INT Media Group, Inc). They are more mainstream media than most of the well-known on-line Linux news services.

I suggest that if you want decent Linux reporting you go to linux.com or LWN.net, or just read /. for cogent evaluations of bad reports, like the above. Also, news.com tends to "not get it" as much as the specifically Linux-oriented sites, but they have some excellent general technology reporting (in spite of being CNet).

Grassroots efforts to get networks to use different root servers have been tried before, like AlterNIC. It didn't help when the co-founder was arrested, however, there have been other attempts if my memory serves.

Netsol was too entrenched, and getting thousands and thousands of networks to switch.. well the task is difficult to say the least.

Now we have an entrenched and (US) government-supported ICANN and Verisign, not to mention hundreds of new registrars. I think it's only going to get harder to accomplish what you propose.

Sorta makes one wonder about the fundamental engineering behind Dell's notebooks. To be fair, a similar problem plagued certain Compaq notebooks.

Accorting to the article I read, they were asked (politely, no C&D orders were mentioned) to remove the Pig Latin scheme. To avoid a potentially nasty fight, the dropped it.

A key part of DoubleClick's patent is not present in the porn mogul's business plan: DoubleClick's use of cookies to identify a user across all of DoubleClick's affiliate web sites. The use of cookies allows DoubleClick to ensure that adds are not repeated, and helps them target their adds more effectively. It is much more interesting to advertisers to know that a person has visited www.macnn.com, www.news.com www.macintoch.com, and www.slashdot.com, then to simply know that the user is viewing an add from www.slashdot.com.

While some might say DoubleClick's use of cookies is the most insidious part of their patent, I believe it is a significant enough improvement over the porn king's business plan to make it's patent still stand up. At any rate is is far to soon to proclaim that DoubleClick's patent is "busted".

News.com has some video in RealVideo or Windows Media Player up now. They seem to be cutting over to a reporter live on the floor of the show, so I expect they'll be putting more up as they find their stories.

The slashdot stand looks kinda slick...

...j

There is a second source.. News.com has a story about this with quotes from TurboLinux's CEO.. It looks like TurboLinux will be absorbing LinuxCare in a stock-for-stock transaction.. here's the story..

as described here.

Basically, if you edit a Word doc with the 'fast save' feature ON, your recepient may be able to see the previous version (using 'strings' for ex). Real world example, create a doc offering someone $30,000 and save it. Then edit the offer to $22,000 and email it, they could dig into the doc and find your previous figure and hold out for a better deal, knowing you were thinking of offering more. W/ fast save, the changed are just appended to the file. I tried it and it's true.

Just noticed this on Cnet . I wonder...

ahem... Microso ft invests in Corel, settles legal disputes from Cnet.

mp3board hopes to spread some of the blame and defer some of the costs of the case to others.

Basically, they (mp3board) let users perform gnutella searches. The catch here is that gnutella was created by AOL. mp3board is basically trying to shift blame to AOL ("Yeah, we use gnutella, but THEY made it!").

According to C|Net this won't work. In a copyright case, defendants are picked by those who originated the case, in this case the RIAA. mp3board can't just say "why aren't you suing them (AOL)?!" b/c they (RIAA) get to decide who they sue.

If you ask me, it's a shrewd move. It will force the discussion of file sharing technologies and hopefully show that the RIAA won't go after it's members (Time Warner) only those it deems as evil (mp3board).

Check out this CNet article from a few months ago.

It seems that AOL's parental control filters block the Democratic National Party and the Green Party, but not the Republican National Party. They also allow the NRA and various gun manufacturers' sites through, but block several gun safety and anti-violence sites.

Just what kind of protection is this?

Here on news.com.