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This is an excerpt from http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/8205.html:

Intel vice-president of communications Chuck Molloy told the Irish Times that "the current economic climate is a contributing factor" in the company's decision to postpone construction. But Molloy called the delay "normal," noting that the Leixlip plant, once completed, would be the first facility to use the new 0.1-micron technology.

They had their minds made up from the beginning. C|net, on the other hand, didn't.

For more information, check out the NewFactor article at : http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18805.html

Also check out this GeekNews story: http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Jul/gee200207310 15675.htm

(Don't need the Karma, I just want people to get the facts straight. I hate misinformation being spread around...)

• $40 avg salary / 1 billion people
• drop the ultra-poor from the mix, say 3/4 billion
• ignore the ultra-rich minority
• $160 avg salary for the remaining 1/4 billion people

• India has 2.2 telephone lines per 100 citizens
• 0.4% of the population uses the Internet, not 10%
• high poverty levels are limiting Web access to the few that can afford it
• "Shopping is still considered a family duty in India, so online shopping may not be as popular as it is in the West"

Yahoo isn't going to pay some smart-ass ISP for the priviledge of allowing Yahoo to distribute its already free content.

And MSN will laugh at them: "You want us to pay how much? OK, but we're invoking the terms of our EULA that allows us to remotely control your systems."

that the company that invented the concept of "We don't see a need to ever turn a profit" is using it as a loss leader means nothing

"Amazon Posts First-Ever Profit" is the link when you search Google for "amazon.com projected profit".

Amazon has always been honest about why they were loosing money. There invested in advertisement and infrastructure. They grew the company with the money coming in.

As far as being cheap, I'm a user and had preordered from Apple. Fifty dollars is a decent night out or a few more shares of AAPL. I'm not cheap, but I'll take advantage of it.

IF there is an analog turn off in 2006. By now, according to the original schedule, by now every commerical station should be dual broadcasting, and every TV sold should be DTV capable, to get 85% penetration by 2006. Current estimates say there will be 30% penetration by 2006, and I personally think those are optimistic. It took the UK from 1964 to 1985 to phase out 451 line television, and this was in an era when TV's were unreliable with short lifespans.

In addition, the original reason for cancelling analog has gone. In the late 90's, spectrum was seen as a resource which you could sell almost without limit - Telecoms were on the up, and new uses were eating up more and more spectrum. Since then, telecoms haven't been doing so well, resulting in auctions in both the UK and US that have been disasters for the companies involved and the governments trying to sell the spectrum.

According to this article it works by spoofing the the source address. I know at least my firewall would block that.

And furthermore, it needs to contact a server somewhere (that is, another PC running triangle boy). Now, unless they rely on word-of-mouth to tell people where those servers are, they would have to have one or more (easily blockable) servers to hand out IP-addresses and port numbers to connect to.

I don't know what's the most frightening part. That administrators think they must block users instead of simply having strict but reasonable rules that people will understand and follow? That windows let users install programs like triangle-boy without administrator privileges (or that administrators regularly give users administrator privileges). That most commercial firewalls don't block spoofed addresses? That administrators who for some reason want to lock users in don't know about Triangle boy?

That used to be the case.

They made a deal that expired. There is now no deal, and no contract requiring Microsoft to produce Office:Mac. Kevin Browne of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit keeps telling people that there's no reason MS is going to stop making Office:Mac. There doesn't need to be a contract. There just needs to be goodwill between the companies.

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Of course, Apple switching to Mozilla might easily count as an end to the goodwill between the companies.

Pop-up blocking. It's not in Netscape 7.0PR1. The other script blocking options are, though, so it was a very conscious decision. However, for Joe Homeuser, Netscape is nice in that they bundle Java and Flash and some other junk that may starting off with Netscape easier. Mozilla is still for the technically advanced (Slashdot?) crowd. Netscape is for the home user who doesn't care, as long as it works. Now, how long until IE7? We all know a higher version means better!

Why on earth would you expect AOL to block advertisements? That's the bread and butter at that failing dump. Poetic. Most customers hate AOL, a slew recent surveys illustrated this. AOL Least Trusted Internet Company in Survey By Lori Enos NewsFactor Network August 23, 2001 . AOL received lower consumer satisfaction ratings than Microsoft, both as an Internet service provider (ISP) and an e-mail provider, according to the Gartner survey.

Posted on Tue, May. 21, 2002 Research survey sees AOL subscriber dissatisfaction ``We have done more than 100 surveys and reports since late 2000 and this survey has the most overwhelming, and negative, response to a company or technology we have ever seen,'' said Michael Shulman, director of research at ChangeWave, an investment and research firm whose clients include hedge funds. About 40 percent said they were clearly dissatisfied with the brand, service and customer support. Some members resented the relatively high cost of $23.90 for the service, the report said.

Okay, so now we know AOL is a bunch of AD WHORES, like the cabal of Slashdot 'editors' and the OSDN / VA Linux scum.

About bundling, that's lame. If you can't figure out how to use flash, you are gay. Java? I have never seen Java not work in Mozilla since the early milestones, so what the fuck are you saying Java bundle?
Slashdot people "technically advanced?" Ha. About as advanced as you are for using a spellchecker or dict.org or proper education in your formative years to spell conscious incorrectly.

About Netscape is for the home user who doesn't care, thank you for letting us all know. Your argument preceding this baseless statement is uninspiring at best. Netscape is what AOL gives the consuming slob public. They don't pick it. If everyone could only pick models of BMW 3 with standard transmissions to drive, you might find some better drivers on the road. But, alas, the consuming public is shiveled cruft, and the lick it up like the bleating sheeple.

Netscape is so gay because its in the middle - stuck between Mozilla and IE. Home users unilaterally use IE. Everyone else uses Mozilla or Opera. The number exist to show this trend. AOL suck in service, sucks in software development. Well, they suck at everything.

And whoever moderating this crap up to +5, what crack do you smoke?

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Try to suck less, please

In general I do agree with your support for Linux as a solution. It's basically the only thing that extricates the schools from this "buy a site license or we audit you" threat of Microsoft (via the[ir] BSA). Even with Macs, they could get audited because they've agreed to EULA's on Microsoft's apps like Office and Word.

I agree that a lot of Macs have been displaced in schools due to the donation of obsolete PC hardware. Not what I'd consider a good thing, but hey, looks good on the books.

The part where I think you go offcourse is with this statement:

There are a few die-hards still using Macs in education, and they're generally only used for teaching Photoshop.

Schools are still using Macs in a big way. So much so, that Apple released their second education-only computer this year. If they weren't in demand from the education market, Apple wouldn't be making them exclusively for that market. The University Of Texas @ Austin has also determined that the Apple platform is strong in the US education system. College students studying at UT to become teachers themselves must purchase an Apple iBook to use for their classes.

Seth

Buzz Aldrin has some interesting ideas for getting to mars, again and again for relatively cheap. I actually read a little blurb in this month's popular science that got me interested. Basically you put a few 'space hotels' as the media has begun to call them in orbit around the Sun. Once you've got those puppies in orbit it makes the trip much cheaper then using rockets to get all the way to Mars and back.

IBM's PowerPC roadmap, which is completely devoid of any reference to the AltiVec acceleration unit, calls for chip architecture to exceed the 2 GHz barrier in the coming year.

While keeping mum on specifics, the company did say that its upcoming chips will be multi-core, meaning that several processor cores can be arranged on a single chip. This technology allows the possibility of four-processor or even eight-processor configurations.

Motorola also has said it plans to exceed the 2 GHz barrier in the coming year and is calling for the same I/O improvements and pipeline upgrades offered by IBM.

And left open security holes, and been vulnerable to virii. But, but, fewer lines of code!

Good article on OSopinion on Windows XP and dependencies/modularity. I thought I saw the author, Adam Barr, post on this discussion, but I think this link didn't come up.

Real runs hidden applications when Windows loads and only recently stopped its practice of asking me if I want to upgrade.

Actually, Windows Media Player spies on you too. It's just hidden within the operating system and there's no way to turn it off. This is an abuse of monopoly power because if Real had the same access M$ does, they'd have just as good spyware built-in.

Here's an article with the details.

Selling below cost might not be such a smart move by Microsoft. The EU is currently investigating what to do on AntiTrust. The EU has fairly effective dumping remedies, that has been enforced quickly. The KOrean Memory manufacturers had to face this a few times. The Xbox is made in Hungary and Mexico that could face retaliatory responses in addition to MS fines.

I think they should implement a micro-ad policy as well. The average user buying the smaller banner type ads for whatever purpose for a small payment (heck, the bigger players don't want those ads anymore, might as well release them to the people).

Might this be an opportunity in the making? Instead of paying $1-5 here and there... pay a central authority for access to affiliated sites. I know this has shades of Passport (which I don't support), but it could be great. Pay $5 to OSDN and get access to every OSDN site (I bet they are all going to try out similar policies in the future), not just Slashdot (Linux.com, Newsforge.com, Freshmeat.net). Or pay $3 to NewsFactor Network for access to all of its affiliated sites like OS Opinion and so forth. It should cut down on some of the payments. Then each affiliate would get its cut based on unique page views or some other metric.

I guess I am saying that a network TV or Radio model might work a little better here.

I could be completely off base... but if not and hiring personnel from OSDN, NewsFactor, or some other "web network" are reading, I am willing to entertain consulting or full-time position opportunities =^) .

I just submitted this story to slashdot. In any case, here is an article on Newsfactor, explaining how this decision will release the phone companies from their obligations to open their networks to rivals. Here is the action by the FCC, and here is a dissent by Commissioner Michael J. Copps, who warns that the commission is committing itself to "specific and potentially drastic changes to our precedent that carry with them enormous impacts in the market".

If I remember correctly, microsoft has played this game illegally before with alleged grass roots campaigns (having people who dont even exist sending letters to their representatives)

Well, they did actually exist, its just that sometimes they were already dead at the time they sent the letters.

I really hope these new responses are put online in a form that can be easily converted to text (often the courts put these online only as scanned images). It seems that there is enough talent among SlashDot readers to determine if there is any MS astroturf interspersed with the grassroots.

Practically every lobbyist does this to some extent, but the less dishonest ones do it by providing sample text that actual humans voluntarily choose to cut and paste into their letters. Not forging mail from the deceased.

Funny how some "hot" controversies seem to slip under the carpet over time. The American NSA is *still* intercepting *my* mail; that alone should be reason for every EU government to boycott American software. Lets hear it for Bundestux, soon to be followed by Commonstux, Parlementtux, Congresotux, Oireachtux etc... :-)

"They aren't oboligated to allow any outside service to tie into it unless they want to allow the outside service to tie in."

Err, yes they are. Didn't you follow the AOL/TW merger? They have to open up the aim.

Since that was so long ago, I did a quick search for for this information:
AOL-Time Warner Merger OK'd With Conditions
'IM' Last Hurdle for AOL-Time Warner Merger

I can keep looking if you wish. Aim should be delt with the same way as email. Client peices shouldn't matter. All people want to do is comunicate in a manner they like.

Hm. Yes.

To be very precise: After looking at the available information, much of which conflicts or is filled with peculiar elements which do not mesh with the official story, it seems evident that numerous parties other than the terrorist body may have been aware before hand what was going to happen, did nothing to prevent it, and may in fact have been assisting in its development.

By whom was 9/11 manufactured?

Not easy to answer in a word, however.

The party/ies, assuming they exist, were either able to:

*Quash FBI investigative efforts which would have prevented the disaster.
see interview with David Shippers, the attorney who headed the Clinton impeachment trials, now representing FBI officers who charge that they were regularly prohibited or coerced into withholding their discoveries of the terrorist activities long before, not just the 9/11 attack, but Oklahoma and others.

*Affect the airline check-in systems so that none of the alleged hijackers names appeared on the passenger lists.
See Perplexing puzzle (I linked to this one already in the post above. I assume you have read through it?)

*Affect the major news outlets by removing seasoned staffers to replace them with young and untested journalists all throughout 2001, with many cuts right around 9/11. CNN launched it's new 'look' and staff structure only days prior to the 9/11.
Link 1, Link 2, Link 3

(This is just a brief sampling of pages I looked for just now. I seem to have lost my links which contained a list of CNN staffers fired just prior to 9/11. Can't find it on-line anymore. Annoying. In any case, this last might have been coincidence, but it was very convenient that the American news structure was reduced in brain-size right when it was most critical that good journalists be around to question the weak points of this story. The powers involved, if they were opperating from such high levels, would certainly have been both able to affect such changes and would have been foolish not to. But, of course, that's just speculation.)

There are numerous other aspects of this which are not quickly summed up and require more detailed searching, and indeed, the above links were only selected for their simplicity in demonstrating what I'm talking about; there is much more information for those willing to look. Other aspects include:

*The possibility of remote piloting. (Although, while there are three specific points which indicate a strong possibility of this, including private documents recovered from the terrorists written the day prior to the event wherein they described their willingness to serve jail sentences for the crimes they intended to commit the next day, (ie, they didn't realize they were on a suicide mission), and other crash investigations (AirIndia) the black box voice recordings from which indicated a strong possibility that control of the plane was removed from the pilots and directed into the ocean against their will, (ie, demonstrating that such a thing may be possible), and the 100% perfect paths of descent and vectoring, with zero corrections made, that the planes used to make their impacts into the towers; calculated only once from the first moment the planes changed course, (i.e. suggesting that the human pilots were not involved. In any case, I think these particular arguments, while in themselves are interesting, do not necessarily indicate remote piloting.)
*The numerous links between Bin Laden, Bush and the CIA.
*The various reports of warnings hours before and 'lucky' absentees
*The numerous strange questions surrounding the rented car and Arabic flight manuals.

The list goes on.

Anyway, that should clarify what I meant by, "Manufactured."

Hope this helps.

-Fantastic Lad

NewsFactor have an article today about how viruses and worms get named. That's probably what you're looking for.

(But, what it comes down to is that the name should not credit the worm author, neither in anyway glorifies creating destructive code.)

Sure it's cheap, but I had to share my non-discovery with the world. And by world I mean Slashdot.

The Chinese government did this, to a lesser degree, in July, shutting down 2000 internet cafes. They'll continue to do this, as public anonymous entrance points to the internet are much harder to track and discipline; the user is usually long gone by the time you examine the logs.

There's a great quote from this article:
a Web site published opinions expressed by Communist Party leaders that excoriated the effects of "online heroin" on its masses, particularly on its youth

If the Internet is "online heroin", slashdot is "an online jet-powered crackpipe burning a two ton ball of primo Detriot crack, laced with LSD, PCP, Ecstasy, and some weird shit we've never seen before".

MP3 support is not bundled. See Windows XP Will Support MP3 - But as Paid Add-On

Yeah, for those of us that are computer-literate (aka: nerds :-), it's easy to just tell everyone to boycott Microsoft. But for everyone else from your Grandma to big companies to schools, they don't have much of a choice. Consider the all the desktop users out there who still haven't figured out how to get rid of the stupid little paper clip in Office2000. So when Microsoft says that XP is the biggest and best thing ever, and all new computers that people get at BestBuy or Circuit City are going to have it, they won't do much about it, will they?

So, these clearly aren't people that are going to be running linux anytime soon. And as futile as it may be to try to pass anti-Microsoft legislation, the least that it will do is help to inform potential buyers about what they're getting into (the term "security risk" may not effect people, but the phrase "privacy threat" sure does :-). At the most, it could help to actually change the direction XP takes, and avoid the creation of a giant worm that will claim thousands of users.

True-dat. "Internet auction fraud accounts for 87 percent of all incidents of online crime" says this article. And judging from worthless crap like this and this from the front page of ebay, I'm not surprised in the least.

Boy do you suck at being a Microsoft "grassroots" evangelist. If you want some grassroots, enjoy these guys.

You have been skunked out bitch. You are not among your own kind. People here will read, learn and counterattack. You have done more harm then good already. Microsoft will die at it's own hands, blundering moron.

Under related stories was this link to a story about using satellites to spy on the secret camp for Survivor 3! While there are no pictures to see, it's nice to see that we're finally using satellites for something important.

Actually, everybody knows that MPEG4 doesnt stand a chance in the PC market, with stiff competition from both M$ and RN. On the other hand, they stand a chance in the wireless market. I would bet that, this is where their eyes are on at the moment. For one thing, it is a nascent market, everybody wants to try new things, access speeds are still growing etc etc. I would like to see more standardised components coming out, rather than some proprietary stuff....

The main evidence he presents is the absence of hardware vendors selling dual-boot systems. But there seems to be at least one counterexample.

Hmm... no links in the news? Dodgy, if you ask me...

Germany:
Provider: RWE
- Power line internet access launched by Germany's RWE - Quote: "The power line technology will mean that RWE PowerNet can deliver data at a rate of two million bytes per second."
- Shocking Concept: Internet Over Electrical Lines

Sweden:
Provider: Sydkraft Bredbånd - provides up to 8mbit/s downstream.
- Sweden Using Electricity For High-Speed Connections

continue list at will. I just know it will take forever before I can get anything but forced AOL crap connections where I live in France :(

See this link for examle.

It's an American right to oppose an issue, but why would anyone be against such laws? There's a bit of Texas wisdom that says: "Anybody that's against hanging a man for adultery is usually the one doing the dirty deed."

How did Ms. Gross get involved with this case? Did she read about this hacker's arrest, raise her eyebrows and then, hypothetically, say: "What? Doing something illegal can get you arrested by the FBI? What kind of ridiculous law is that to have on the books? I shall fight such ill-conceived laws with righteous indignation 'til my last breath!'"

Just found this flamebait in newsfactor network. Usually these guys write decent news, but this one is horrible from osopinion Scott McCollum.
He calls DefCon thief convention and goes like:
At DefCon, hackers and other unsavory computer criminals -- along with law enforcement officials and potential employers dumb enough to hire hackers as "security experts" -- converge in Sin City to discuss innovative ways to subvert democratically elected authority through hack attacks and to steal from large evil corporations and/or individuals for redistribution to the proletariat via the Internet.
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Excellent. Maybe Europe can teach sleepwalking Americans to be more mindful of their vanishing liberties.

Today'sSalon has an update on the plight of the so-called "homeless dot-commers". Turns out there's more to the story than initially posted.

Also, Newsfactor posted a piece yesterday titled, "Despite Cutbacks, IT Jobs Go Begging". The title says it all...

Today'sSalon has an update on the plight of the so-called "homeless dot-commers". Turns out there's more to the story than initially posted.

Also, Newsfactor posted a piece yesterday titled, "Despite Cutbacks, IT Jobs Go Begging". The title says it all...

Go read something other than /.
http://www.fcc.gov/3G/

Then go read something about electromagentic waves and how they're used in communication.

Then move to Japan because you're obviously worthless here.