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Umm, here's a link http://ww w.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/ 11napster.html

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Blatant karma-whoring aside, here's a link that works, seeing as the partners.nytimes server started requiring registration -

http://www10.nytimes. com/library/financial/071000patents.html

How dare you deride this poster for his ignorance. For god's sake, in order to find out these facts, he would have had to click the link and read the New York Times story. Did you ever stop to think that some people can't afford to be clicking around all the time like you do because they can't afford to pay the modem tax? And did you realize that the New York Times sometimes uses long words that people who attended underfunded public schools wouldn't know? No, you didn't, mister smart guy. You didn't stop to think at all.

Let this be a lesson to all of you who would criticize someone for posting a comment based on nothing more than ignorance. It's ignorance, all right, but it's a purer and better kind of ignorance than you city folk with your book-larnin' will ever know or understand.

is the WHY behind linux in china. Basically they decided that they can't have a capitalist OS like M$ Windows being supported by a communist country.

No, that is not it at all, not at all.

If you read the history of this a little, you would find that Taiwanese programmers were responsible for making Windows Chinese friendly. They inserted quite a few Easter eggs making fun of the Chinese.

If there is one thing the Chinese government hates, it is a lack of respect. They would actively hurt their own interests to avoid using Windows at this point.

Here is a quote from the (no account required) article in the NY Times


The turning point in Microsoft's image was the introduction of its Chinese-language Windows 95 operating system, which was programmed to display references to "Communist bandits" and to exhort users to "take back the mainland." Beijing, infuriated to learn that Microsoft had used computer programmers in Taiwan to write the software, demanded that the company hire mainland programmers to fix it.


Just another case of Microsoft rushing a product to market before checking it out thoroughly.

This link worked for me:
http://www 10.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles /08soft.html
No Registration required.
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I tried using partners.nytimes.com to get in, but it sent me to the login screen anyway. Has NYTimes disabled this access?

If for some reason it was just a fluke on my end, here's the link.

Added Bonus: Obligatory Complaint about downplay of Linux

These people need to get a clue.

For me though, the coolest has to be Thumbcode, developed over in Stanford University. There's an old (April 99) New York Times story here.

Read about it, but basically it's a glove/keyboard with receptors/keys on each segment of your finger, palm up, forming a 3x4 keyboard. One "types" by touching a finger segment with your thumb. Depending on whether the four fingers are together or apart, we end up with a 96-character keyboard. The nice thing is it's completely device independent so I could plug my 'thumbboard' into whatever device I wanted. I think one of the wearable manufacturers have produced a working model, but I haven't been able to find a page about it.

As a pianist, I reckon the fingers can be trained quite quickly to produce respectable wpm times. What I like most about it though, is it's really the first miniature input device that doesn't require you to hunch over squinting while you try to type in your shopping list... I also think it's very natural, so I'm looking forward to a production model someday.

"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"

Someone else has probably posted this already but here is the link.

Wonder why they haven't closed off this access point like they did the partners thing... I don't feel like giving my personal information for something which I believe should be free.

OK, here's the Poynter Institute bolting a metal frame onto a browser-user's head and monitoring his every eye motion. Don't you suppose that all that intensive surveillance might just possibly have some small effect on the user's behavior? Like, all alone, without the head gear, what could be more natural than if he might have headed on over to playboy.com to spend a few minutes or even hours grazing among the bitmaps and multimedia.

Now imagine that this same browsing subject has a birdcage studded with electronic doodads bolted around his skull, and a variety of all-too-serious sociologists peering over his shoulder. I'd guess that under those circumstances our lab rat will spend a good deal more time perusing something serious and scholarly like that lighthouse for the investment class the New York Times, or even our own grave and stately slashdot.

Yours WDK - WKiernan@concentric.net

Here's an update

Why not RIAA? What a fucking farce this industry is.

it's your own fault, says Adobe.

For those who still dont know you can use WWW10 instead of partners or www.nytimes.com Below is the link

THE ARTICLE

China is very concerned about a rise in Islamic nationalism within its borders. The history of the treatment of the Hui and Uighers by the PRC is rife with examples of moves made soley for the purpose of keeping Islamically-inspired uprisings or protest movements from gaining ground. The recent policy in China has actually been one of appeasement towards the Muslim minorities in a lot of areas. Chinese Muslims are offered special consideration educationally (lower admissions scores for Hui and other ethnic Muslims to top universities), and in some cases special funds so that they can eat a halal diet (pork is the cheapest and most readily available meat in China). Right now, they're worried not so much about Pakistan, but about the Taliban and other ultra-conservative, ultra-nationalistic strains of Islam. In previous years, it was Iran that had them scared, but that has eased as Iran has moderated its stance a little (witness Pres. Khattami's recent visit to China, where he was invited to visit mosques in Beijing). Pakistan itself is being increasingly influenced by Taliban-like groups (interesting article here), which makes it an indirect threat, but less of a direct problem for China.

"Sweet creeping zombie Jesus!"

NYT Article

John Berthoud, president of the National Taxpayers Union, based in Alexandria, Va., said, "It's disappointing but perhaps not unexpected that Microsoft opponents, who are trying to use the American judicial system to run down Microsoft, would stoop to these kind of political tactics against the voices of the free market."

Of course, as a reminder, the National Taxpayers Union is sponsored (apparently in a large part) by Microsoft. "Voices of the Free Market" my a$$!

"The voice of the free market. Brought to you to today by the letters Q, and Z, and Microsoft."

Link to NY Times no registration version

The NYTimes is reporting that the two companies have withdrawn the merger papers. They say they might refile at some point but the conditions imposed by the European Union and this intent to block by the DoJ didn't make it worthwhile.

There was a good story in the NYTimes earlier this week about the conditions and possible sell-offs that would have had to result had this gone through, the slicing and dicing of the combined company would have been pretty brutal.

get the article here

Which you can access through this convenient link.

Of course, this side-steps the issue of whether it's ethical to take someone's content for free that they are requesting you to register for.
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Come on, it's much easier to do s/www/www10/ instead:

http://www 10.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles /20blue.html

The hacking level on slashdot is amazingly low these days.

http://www1 .nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/2 0blue.html

Gosh has the hacking level declined here. People don't even check for ways to shorten their code anymore!

Come on, it's much easier to do s/www/www10/ instead:

http://www 10.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles /20blue.html

The hacking level on slashdot is amazingly low these days.

http://www1 .nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/2 0blue.html

Gosh has the hacking level declined here. People don't even check for ways to shorten their code anymore!

Come on, it's much easier to do s/www/www10/ instead:

http://www 10.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles /20blue.html

The hacking level on slashdot is amazingly low these days.

To get around it, find a NYTimes partner. The easiest way is to go to Google and search for "link:partners.nytimes.com". Take the first one off the list, PressDemo. Go to their site and look at their links to partners.nytimes.com. Note that they are all of the form "http://partners.nytimes.com/somepathtosomestory?. html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnnn n.FnBoj"

To get the story you want (i.e.library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/20blue.ht ml) just substitute it in there. So, hit the link http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biz tech/artic les/20blue.html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnn nn.FnBoj anv voila.

Now, I won't defend this as being either convenient or ethical, but it works.

To bypass the "free registration required" BS on any NYT article, just replace the "www" in the URL by "partners": like this. Good readin'!

(No, it's not "Redundant". You may already know about this; some don't. It's useful nonetheless.)

The court, however, rejected plaintiffs' exclusive dealing claim, holding that the challenged agreements with various third parties "did not foreclose enough of the relevant market to constitute a € 1 violation."

Yep. http://par tners.nytimes.com/library/national/061300los-alamo s-theft.html
This is the right NYT link. The other is also bust. The proper link is: http://www.cnn.com/2 000/US/06/12/nuclear.secrets.02/index.html

peas,
-Kabloona

Maybe the URL you meant was http://par tners.nytimes.com/library/national/061300los-alamo s-theft.html ..?

ie change http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index .html to

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/ index.html or click here

Theres a distinct parallel with this and an OS choice. exists primarily to empower the user.

Well, one notable difference is that when Windows crashes, you don't die. I hope you realize that your favorite toy is the leading non-disease cause of death for Americans. (check out the really cool & flexible database search I got that link from, btw)

I'm kinda OT here--you were complaining about George Jetson cars, not car alternatives, but the attitude that a personal four-seat internal combustion vehicle is a fundamental human right is beginning to get to me. Have you been downtown in a major city lately? I live near Boston, and Car Culture is killing the pleasure of being outdoors in my city. The noise, the stink, the endless loops of oppressive asphalt are choking any sort of pleasure in walking around in public places. And it's not like the motorists are happy either--they're stuck in frustrating jams because a car is not a good tool for getting around a city

Some other tangential points:

The Times bit about the personal-bubble rails is telling (see, I did have something to say about the actual article!). God forbid that you should actually have to associate with your fellow human beings on your way to work! Perhaps we can refine the technology further and have the rails run inside of buildings as well. Then you'd never have to leave your cube at all--what bliss!

It's fascinating when people get outraged over the price of gas--after all, everyone knows what it should cost, right? Gas should cost what it did when I first got my driver's license. If the price rises much above that, someone must be cheating.

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I once wrote to the Times about this, and they told me that if I didn't like it I could subscribe to the print edition.

From the article..( no login required :):

The record companies will share an undisclosed amount of money received in the settlements with its artists.

If you have read the article, this seems to just further harden the relationship that record companies and artists have.. Looks like the artists are stuck just "getting a cut" from their own mp3s. How ironic that the Recording Industry is using it's own anti-competitive tactics and applying them to the current distribution methods of mp3 and the internet..

Maybe this signals a wake up call for us? Action needs to take place in the form of a slap in the face to record labels.. Things are getting out of hand

~Marshall

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Direct Link to the article

Yeah, we all know about it by now, EXCEPT THE PEOPLE POSTING THE STORIES, but a link is easier to use... :)

The Microsoft case presents "interesting legal issues, but not unique ones," Professor Gavil said, noting that at the heart of the case are antitrust principles with which the court is completely familiar. "What Microsoft did with its monopoly and how the law treats that is not that complex," he said. "Did it have a pro-competitive justification, or did it engage in behavior that cost it something in the short run in order to hinder its rivals in the long run? That's a very conventional antitrust question."

There is a nice basic article about this CME and how CMEs affect the magnetosphere at spacesciences.com. The New York Times is also carrying an AP story on the solar storm.

It gifts a cookie.
Ignore it if you want to--
No milk comes with it.

from the times article: "Soon it will be impossible to trace where money is and who has money, and that will eventually force governments to move away from income taxes and toward consumption taxes."

could you elaborate? Does SeaLand aim to offer a currency and tax transactions?

Just replace the www with partners and viola... instant access.
Try this link

Eric

You may flame now.

/. linked to this article in the New York Times over a year ago. Good article - it looks like the questions posed are answered: it's all John Carmack and no Romero. Don't laugh too hard at the picture of Romero at the top of the page... I almost fell out of my chair and hurt myself.

Additional commentary can be found at the NYT

Some History:In the late sixties Roy Bates and his family occupied one of the forts and declared himself a soverign nation. This was upheld in British Court and the long bizarre history began. The tiny nation was attacked and captured by a German businessman and friends for several weeks until Roy could put a crew together to retake it by rappeling from helicopters. (There were no known fatalities from these actions.) Here are some fun links to learn more:

• The New York Times Article that started it all.
• What appears to be the official webisite:http://www.sealandgov.com/index.html
• The HavenCo homepage: http://www.havenco.com/
• A very nice article about the off-shore radio stations in England during the 1960's. http://fre\espace.virg in.net/line.design/forts/radioforts.htm. This includes a nice picture of the fort being installed: http://freespace.virgin .net/line.design/forts/sea_forts.htm.
• Some publicity shots of Sealand from their old (archived) website. http://www.fruitsofthese a.demon.co.uk/sealand/gallery.html.
• A Guardian Article about Sealand.
• A Sunday Telegraph Article.
• Dorothy Lerda at The National Geographic answers a question about Sealand. (Notice that she has what is likely to be the web address of the imposters responsible for selling passports.)
• A brief history of the forts with pictures and diagrams.

Before any of you go off and Slashdot http://www.cdrecorderclassnotice.com/ keep in mind what you are going to be supporting. Recently, there have been a plethora of class action lawsuits filed against hardware manufacturers by a few less than scrupulous attorneys out to make a quick billion. Both Compaq and Toshiba have come under fire recently by these class action suits. Toshiba recently settled out of court one suit for $USD 2 billion.

Now, I'm not advocating that the companies that produce faulty hardware should not be liable for the quality of the products that they produce, but these suits are getting ridiculous. Toshiba HAD to settle that suit because the total value of the lawsuit was more than the $USD 9 billion. Here's an article from the New York Times.

This crap is getting out of hand. Toshiba, to me, has been a good company. They sold a flawed product, just as many manufacturers do. The flaw was minor and did not affect that many people. Now a couple of lawyers looking to make a quick 30% of the take have decided that their pocketbooks are more important than the thousands of jobs that Toshiba provides around the world. All of you that have bought the great products that Toshiba has made over the last few years are going to have to pay more for anything you buy from them because these bastards are legally stealing from Toshiba.

Compaq is on the chopping block for the same sort of trouble now too. Put "compaq class action" into a google search and see what you come up with. I just hope that more people take notice of this type of legalized theft before all hardware prices go up by 30%. What's next, "My Nvidia driver didn't work great, so I'm going to sue the company out of existence?"

Of course, no one is bringing suit against Microsoft for knowingly releasing a product with some 64,000 odd bugs....

Of course, feel free to insert your own argument about how those who would commit the mortal sin of piracy (or "sharing") aren't likely to want to pay to pirate music.

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May 28 Sunday NY Times Magazine had an / 20000528mag-immigrant.html> article </A> (free; registration required) by a guy who returned to his boyhood in Cupertino. He found an investor had converted it into a nine-room boarding house by subdividing the larger rooms. All were 20-something Mandarin speaking H-1B'ers; some engineers, some venture capitalist wanabees. Sounds like MicroSerfs on steroids.

Try this link. Here's a hint: apparently, if your age is less than 13, you don't have to register to get science news :)

S tory here.

Pretty mindbending stuff, indeed. Once upon a time I could follow that sort of discussion, but I've been out of academia too long.

As usual, you replace the "www" with "partners" to get the no login required version of the article, found h ere.

Or you could just use the partner s.nytimes.com link.

"To maintain that spirit, Calico has made a concerted effort to seek out employees considered likely to fit into its culture, placing a premium on recruiting graduates directly from college or business school."

I see the same sort of statements again and again from various companies. The nature of the software industry is such that the more experience you have, the more limited are your job options. Many startups especially are notorious for refusing to hire anyone who doesn't fit a job description exactly. Granted, experience gives you a higher salary in those jobs you do fit the profile for, but age will increasingly become a liability.

I would direct your attention to this article about yet another microsoft scripting virus spreading across networks even as we speek. The original lovebug caused more than 10 billion in lost productivity and damaged data worldwide. This new one (and it's many variants) could double that 10B number before this is all over.

Given the above situation, using the word microsoft and security in the same thought is utterly laughable. What they know about secutity wouldn't fit up a knats ass.

I would submit that the transport security layer is statistically irrelevant when contrasted with such gross neglagence in the applications layer.

On the issue of TCP/IP being open, your forgeting that the reason the *BSD TCP/IP stack is so good is that it has 30+ years of expierience. Something MS is just starting to comprehend today, and will not fully apreciate for another 30 years.

Personaly, I have set a goal for micros~1. I'll consider deploying their products on my network when they're products cause less than a billion dollars a year in damages. Happily, at the current rate, I won't be doing any ms product evaluations for another 10+ years. ;)
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