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OK, you right-wing nuts out there, jump on me. Go ahead. You can't refute the facts... like, Bush, et al would like to get rid of the EPA (and the republicans almost succeeded in gutting their budget a few years ago). Why? Too much government interference in corporate profits. Damn those toxic waste dumping rules!! They could make so much money if they didn't have to cart that crap off to Mexico...

Regarding dramatically smaller government, read this. It's written by a life-long republican, lest you nuts raise the spector of the "liberal media".

What a load of old rubbish Harry Potter is anyway! Harry Potter and the Childish Adult by A. S. Byatt

I guess the every people in Hong Kong are not so worried these days. Would that be fair to say?

Very true. Although there are lots of uncertainty about SARS but after the disaster we've confidence in facing it again.

The high casualty is due to the infficiency of our local Government and their lack of risk awareness(which anger a lot of people and triggered a mass protest of the centaury). Fortunately for us we've a lot of brave people who are willingly to risk their live to take the most dangerous and dirty job and nobody(but the governer) retreat. We're really proud of them.

that upon heading over to the nytimes article, I got this message in a pear tree^W^Wpopup window.

The summary presented here is misleading - it seizes upon one small aspect of the article and makes it out to be the focus of the entire thing. It completely ignores the social aspects of the subculture surrounding technology. Here's my capsule summary of the article:

Always On: Is Multi-tasking Addictive?

The NY Times has a long and detailed article about multi-tasking in a communications technology-infused lifestyle. The fundamental questions it is trying to address is whether or not these technologies are addictive, do they tap into an underlying pathology or personality type, or are they causing shorter attention spans and reduced productivity? Ubiquitous and wireless technology have created an ''Always On'' subculture that may have given rise to pseudo-attention deficit disorder or online compulsive disorder, according to doctors and psychchiatrists referenced in the article, but technology executives and some users argue that conclusion is dead wrong. It's a thought-provoking read and it may spur some Slashdotters to examine how reliant you have become on mobile phones, pagers, instant messaging, wireless networks, powerful computing and broadband Internet, or how entrenched these communications technologies are in your own lives.

The summary presented here is misleading - it seizes upon one small aspect of the article and makes it out to be the focus of the entire thing. It completely ignores the social aspects of the subculture surrounding technology. Here's my capsule summary of the article:

Always On: Is Multi-tasking Addictive?

The NY Times has a long and detailed article about multi-tasking in a communications technology-infused lifestyle. The fundamental questions it is trying to address is whether or not these technologies are addictive, do they tap into an underlying pathology or personality type, or are they causing shorter attention spans and reduced productivity? Ubiquitous and wireless technology have created an ''Always On'' subculture that may have given rise to pseudo-attention deficit disorder or online compulsive disorder, according to doctors and psychchiatrists referenced in the article, but technology executives and some users argue that conclusion is dead wrong. It's a thought-provoking read and it may spur some Slashdotters to examine how reliant you have become on mobile phones, pagers, instant messaging, wireless networks, powerful computing and broadband Internet, or how entrenched these communications technologies are in your own lives.

Federal and state authorities reported Thursday that Microsoft Corp. was abiding by many of the conditions it had agreed to last year in its landmark settlement with antitrust enforcers, though they remained concerned about how much the software giant was charging to let competitors use its technology.

Microsoft Corp. is taking too long to alter how much it charges competitors for technology that is necessary for their products to work with the software giant's systems, the Justice Department told a federal judge yesterday.

In a written report card on how well Microsoft is complying with its 2001 antitrust deal with state and federal prosecutors, Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly. In other areas of the settlement, department lawyers praised Microsoft's compliance.

Microsoft, in response to prodding from the Justice Department, has made a series of changes intended to make it easier and less expensive for industry competitors and partners to license technical information from the company.

But despite the easing of some licensing restrictions, the government and several states said in a court filing yesterday that they remain concerned by certain Microsoft practices and planned to address those concerns in a scheduled conference with a federal judge on July 24.

Federal and state authorities reported Thursday that Microsoft Corp. was abiding by many of the conditions it had agreed to last year in its landmark settlement with antitrust enforcers, though they remained concerned about how much the software giant was charging to let competitors use its technology.

Microsoft Corp. is taking too long to alter how much it charges competitors for technology that is necessary for their products to work with the software giant's systems, the Justice Department told a federal judge yesterday.

In a written report card on how well Microsoft is complying with its 2001 antitrust deal with state and federal prosecutors, Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly. In other areas of the settlement, department lawyers praised Microsoft's compliance.

Microsoft, in response to prodding from the Justice Department, has made a series of changes intended to make it easier and less expensive for industry competitors and partners to license technical information from the company.

But despite the easing of some licensing restrictions, the government and several states said in a court filing yesterday that they remain concerned by certain Microsoft practices and planned to address those concerns in a scheduled conference with a federal judge on July 24.

The NY Times review joked about a potential political run:

Mr. Schwarzenegger, whose main contribution to American culture has been inspiring wicked parodies on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Simpsons," acts (if you can call it that) with his usual leaden whimsy, manifesting the gift for uttering hard-to-forget, meaningless catchphrases that is most likely the wellspring of his blossoming reported desire to seek elective office in California.

Actually, I'm about to move to California, and from what I hear about Davis I may have to vote for Ahnuld (partly on the theory that he's nowhere near the worst candidate the GOP could throw at us).

I have had a job for the past 9 years - it just isn't in America

Your "job" as an Arch-Mutant character on the planet Rubi-Ka in the MMORPG Anarchy Online doesn't really count, does it?

I mean, you can't spend the gold pices in Madison, Wisconsin, Mr. Stenlund, can you?

Web browser emulates a newspaper.

Web browser emulates a TV.

Web browser emulates a radio.

Web browser emulates a record store.

Web browser emulates a bookstore.

What's more interesting to me, though, is the lack of comment regarding Oracle's hostile takeover attempt of Peoplesoft, which prompted Peoplesoft to file suit. Note that the US DoJ and a couple of state AGs have become more interested in Oracle's tactics as well, and not a mention on /. Some article about 500 CDs gets mentioned and not Oracle? If you are not familiar with the situation, Ellison told the marketplace that after they do the takeover, Peoplesoft will be shut down. He has backpedaled since then.

Such is the tech business.

It hurts the article writer the 3 seconds to use the google toolbar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/technology/30SEC U.html?ex=1057636800&en=0c4ddabdb1c6bc72&ei=5062&p artner=GOOGLE

Look how seriously the guy on the right side is watching a fish being drawn...

Pradeep, solving the unsolvable. Man, I love that movie...

Pradeep:HOW ARE YOU TO BE LIKING THOSE APPLES SIR?

I like the picture where someone is drawing a fish on the blackboard while others are doing math.

Who knew that I had a future in advance mathematics when I was doodling in my math notebook during class? : )

They took the pic just as he was about to draw the eye...

It's not remarkable that this made it to the NYT op/ed pages. Anything written by Thomas Friedman is going to make it. What's remarkable is that he chose to write about it.

Friedman has written three books that generally focus on economics and globalization. He's won three Pulitzer prizes. A few of the other posts are knocking this article as fluff, or knocking Friedman in general. Whatever your personal views, people listen to him.

What's striking to me is that he writes on large political-type issues - globalization, 9/11, Isreal. He's not a tech writer. The fact that he took the trouble to go tour Google and then write a column about it is evidence of how entrenched Google is in his non-techie world.

Yeah, the article is fluff. It's nothing but Friedman's impression and opinions. But it ran on the print version of the New York Times. If it ran on CNet, I'd blow it off. In NYT's op/ed, it's another story.

JJ

go to: news.google.com
search: new york times google god
result: Is Google God?

Makes everybody a lot happier clicking...

I actually hunted down a copy the new HP book online the day it came out; after failing to find it in bookstores... Though I'm sure the author would love to sue me... I'm not saying Go forth and pirate books! I'm just saying that maybe having people get exposed to your book, no matter how it happens, results in drastically increased sales?

I noticed an interesting image in the article. It shows two kid sisters in a public library at 1:00am; one of them is dressed up as Harry Potter and it sitting by a bookshelf rack reading the new book. These kids did not pay a dime to read the book. I am quite sure that dozens upon dozens of people will be checking that copy out to read it, again with no money going to the author or to the publisher (except, of course, the money from the library's original purchase).

I cannot help but wonder what Ms. Rowling or other authors and publishers think of this kind of thing. Obviously, they cannot speak out against public libraries, without inciting the wrath from the public at large. Libraries are something that we grew up with. They are institutions of learning that our founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson, felt were essential for any progressive society.

Yet the same people who would become incensed about the public library being challenged would not think twice about condemning the sharing of a digital copy over the Internet. I am sorry, but I simply fail to see the fundamental difference between the two. Both mediums allow me to read the book without paying for it.

Perhaps this newfangled Internet thing and its implications are too radical a paradigm shift for the public at large, and they cannot deduce the obvious analogies to how things have been being done in the non-digital world for centuries.

Oh, and I can just as easily walk into my local library and checkout out a CD or a DVD. As the media oligopoly tightens its grip on our society (please, no Star Wars jokes), it seems that they will have to attack libraries themselves in order to follow through with many of the assertions they have been making to their inevitable conclusion.

So does this. Weird.

Even this works.

Of Slashdot won't post a story on this settlement, either because (1) it's not news for nerds [and a Guardian story about irony is??], or (2) one of the dot-coms is VA Software.

If the companies wind up paying the $1 billion, the money will come from their insurers.

About 300 "dot com" companies, which are mostly famous these days for losing tremendous amounts of money, have agreed to pay $1 Billion to settle a lawsuit claiming that they inflated their IPO prices.

I guess it's really sad, rather than ironic.

Of Slashdot won't post a story on this settlement, either because (1) it's not news for nerds [and a Guardian story about irony is??], or (2) one of the dot-coms is VA Software.

Is it that hard to search Google News and post the NY Times article with the google partner in the link??

I wonder why the slashdot editors don't do this?

Seriously, how hard is it do this, and find this?

here

He served whites.

Actually, he pumped a ton of money into education focusing heavily on minority districts when he was governor, but I guess the obit that asshole Adam Clymer wrote in the NY Times didn't mention that, eh?
At least Clymer does mention he was one of the first Southern Senators to hire blacks onto his staff.
Get a clue before you post your mindless ramblings and insult a dead man you have no clue about.

registration free link - courtesy of google.
(To parent: you know, it's not all that hard to spend just an extra minute to provide such a link for the people here; saves a lot of them a lot of time...)

He thinks not only DID it come true, it's worse than Orwell thought! His best thought: "It is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone, anyone at all, to keep a secret."

Check it out--it's worth creating the bogus ID for.

Here is the registration free Google-link.

It would be good if pure research were put into the "public domain", particularly when it is paid for by tax dollars.

There is an interesting NYT article today about a call for federally funded research to be more freely available, instead of in expensive and restrictive journals. It's about time- there are many expensive for-profit journals, whose worth is determined by reputations established primarily by the refereeing process. Referees are usually academics not paid by journals. Since the NSF or NIH is often paying for the researcher (who is doing the hardest work) and the universities are paying for the referees (who are doing the next hardest part of the work) and the labs and resources are usually paid for by universities (often the greatest expense) it is remarkable that the
journals have been getting away with making big piles of money for essentially being clearinghouses and middlemen. In mathematics, there has been some resistance, including some from bigshots, to these journal monopolies, but change towards cheaper/free/non-profit journals has been slow. I choose to submit my research to reaonable journals on this criteria, but that means that I will never submit my work to some of the most prestigious ones. In medicine, where journals often restrict researchers from even discussing their results with colleagues or media until the article appears, this could be a massive chage. Many scientific journals do not permit you to post your own research on your web page and hopefully this overdue movement towards free distribution gathers momentum.

Read the quote yourself. ... a lot of them were removed ....
Perhaps you might find this relevant.

From the article:
"The case was lost in court and now it's time to get on with providing customers with what we believe they want." - Dennis Strigl, the president and chief executive of Verizon Wireless

It's nice to see Verizon openly admit that thier first priority is themselves, not their customers.

Just pretend you're GOOGLE NEWS.

From the NYT

Even Apple's strongest businesses, like the home computer market in the United States, where it now has a 3.4 percent market share down from more than twice that percentage in the mid-1990's, are weak, Mr. Kay said.

The numbers just prove the parents point I think. It still is just too much money to spend to get a "forget-the-OS-sluggishness" type of a system that the average user in the market really needs.

I am also looking to buy a new laptop soon and yes I am in love with the Mac but I still would not spend $500-800 more since I know that Windows XP/2K is stable and responsive enough AND I can always install Linux on dual boot giving me a really good *nix environment as well when I need it. Of course if and when I do development work on my laptop the chances that I would be developing for a windows system are far too great to ignore.

I think these are relevant to the topic:

Sweatshops of China

Manufacturing Industries in India

I think these are relevant to the topic:

Sweatshops of China

Manufacturing Industries in India

It probably comes down to the publics perception of who's doing the reporting and what's being reported. Just like the NY Times and Wired News weren't sued for posting a link to DeCSS in their past articles, the Washington Post won't be either.

Yea, except the Bush administration only wants damage caps as long as its the consumer suing the corporation (specifically in health care).... they have no problem with frivolous lawsuits so long as its the company trying to screw the consumer.

Karma whore time:

here

This scam made the NY Times today: E-Mail Swindle Uses False Report About a Swindle

Searching for "Allan Snyder" found plenty of other links. Like this one. I had no problems accessing the NYT article, that link you posted seems chopped off.

Prof Snyder certainly doesn't seem to be a flake. I almost expected his "thinking cap" to be another $cientology E-meter or an Orgone box. Now, can we use it to create "Focused" individuals? (Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky.)

Isn't that what Einstein said? Anyway, that link seems to be down, but I just saw a documentary yesterday night on the telly, where they trained people to modify their brainwave activity to move a player through a video game. I think this only scratches the surface - there's a lot of potential that we probably don't even know about... I would be glad to add a few more percent to mine, that's for sure - LOL :-)

INFO ON THIS MOTHER FUCKING NIGGAR.

You can find background info on theDeacon on this link. BTW his name is RICHARD L STENLUND.

Picture of him and his fat wife.

You can find his e-mail from this link. Enter his name, Madison/Wi as addr and age 27.

You can find background info on theDeacon on this link. BTW his name is RICHARD L STENLUND.

Picture of him and his fat wife.

You can find his e-mail from this link. Enter his name, Madison/Wi as addr and age 27.

Try this.

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If you ever need someone to play Kevin Spaceyâ(TM)s father, call this guy.

Linus is not checking all contributions against potential patents. Are you kidding me? So for every contribution he has to go search the patent database?

From the article:

"If source code is copied from protected Unix code," the SCO document adds, "there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact." (emphasis added)

So they are saying Linus is a bad boy because he is NOT doing something THEY ACKNOWLEDGE HE CAN'T DO, even if he wanted to - which he has said he does not want to, and for good, sound, and sufficient reasons.

SCO(Caldera), I don't care how many lawyers you bring into the case, you are not able to hold someone to a standard that you then point out is unattainable.

Interesting point, it directly ties into this news piece from the NYT.

I do think it idealist. There are plenty of cases in which we are fully aware of the suffering and starvation of a people, but little is done to react to it.