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It's a good thing they are not, then.

The Online Care service will allow eligible members to engage in immediate live encounters with credentialed physicians from the Blues plans' established provider networks.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bluecross-blueshield-of-western-new-yorkblueshield-of-northeastern-new-york-and-american-well-bring-online-care-to-new-york-state-87223392.html

What is the limit of a fibre cable?

Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated 25.6 Terabit/s in 2007 using 160 Wavelength-Division Multiplexed channels of 160 Gbps each.

Jason West and Vince Zampella file lawsuit against Activision: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jason-west-and-vince-zampella-file-lawsuit-against-activision-86295312.html

Wasn't there just a story on Slashdot a couple of days ago about Panasonic releasing a new all-in-one 3D camcorder with dual lenses? Using two separate cameras is so 1985.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/panasonic-unveils-worlds-first-integrated-full-hd-3d-camcorder-at-ces-2010-80854027.html

Emphasis added:

It's common knowledge that OpenGL... has first access to new GPU features via vendor extensions.

Vendor extensions are not part of the standard

That's simply incorrect. OpenGL is a living, breathing standard, and just as many features of HTML have been "extensions" for years, to say that they haven't been a standard part of HTML development for a large chunk of that time would be to ignore the practical reality.

OpenGL and DirectX are updated in bursts, but clearly OpenGL is where the leading edge work happens, while Microsoft incorporates only those features which are already widely supported by hardware their platforms have access to. This makes DirectX a poor technology choice unless you're only interested in supporting hardware that is heavily entrenched with Microsoft.

Look at the gaming market without preconceptions for a second. With the mobile gaming market in China alone projected to be in the double-digit billions in short order and with Apple making what appear to be moves to position the iMac as a gaming platform, the continued viability of developing games that only play ball with Windows-friendly hardware is bleak at best.

Behind The Facade Of The “ANONYMOUS” Hate Group Part 1
Behind The Facade Of The “ANONYMOUS” Hate Group Part 2

In early 2008, Anonymous launched 141 million malicious hits against Church of Scientology websites, in an attempt to bring down those sites. During the same period, there were 41 death threats, 56 bomb and arson threats, 103 other threats of violence and 40 incidents of vandalism against the Church. One Anonymous member now faces criminal charges for those DDoS attacks.

Attack on Scientology Website Sends New Jersey Man to Jail on Felony Charges

Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car

Right to repair proposal

Congressmen want automakers to cough up diagnostic codes

The EFF's Fred von Lohman, however, pointed out that there's a certain irony in this widespread public support and Congressional interest. What the bill suggests is that the sort of market created by the DMCA, in which companies are given the right to encrypt and protect information of their choosing, shouldn't apply when it comes to autos. To be clear, there are implementation differences. The DMCA could still apply in that third-party tools that provide access to encrypted data in a car would still run afoul of the law. But the need for these tools would be severely reduced by the fact that the manufacturers would be required to provide an equivalent. That would also, presumably, eliminate most of the incentive for manufacturers to take action against the providers of third-party tools.

From Car Makers Put FPGAs In The Driving Seat

ProASIC3 devices are also designed with an on-chip 1024-bit non-volatile flash ROM (FROM) and a built-in 128-bit AES decryption core, which facilitates independent, secure, in-system programming (ISP) of both the FPGA core array fabric and the FROM itself. This allows designers to implement a number of secure features. For instance, an AES master key can be preloaded into the device in a secure programming environment. Users can then ship 'blank' parts to an insecure programming or manufacturing centre for final personalisation with an AES encrypted bit stream.

Actel Drives FPGAs 'Under the Hood' Into Critical Automotive Powertrain and Safety Systems

    Actel also announced today that Delphi Corp., a leading global supplier
of mobile electronics and transportation systems, will be using the Actel
ProASIC3 FPGA in a production engine control module being designed into a
heavy-duty diesel engine. Additionally, Magna Electronics has selected the
Actel ProASIC3 FPGA for its automotive vision systems (see release "Magna
Electronics Chooses Actel's ProASIC3 FPGAs to Enable Automotive Vision
Systems" also announced today).

Magna Electronics expansion in Rochester Hills to focus on developing electric car program for Ford

Magna Electronics discussed plans for what it calls its intelligent power systems group during a news conference at the Rochester Hills City Hall. The expanded unit, which is expected to add 90 employees over five years, will develop hybrid and electric drivetrain systems and electronics that control motors.
The parent company, which is working with Ford Motor Co. to develop a battery-electric small car by 2011, ...

Magna Powertrain and Hyundai announce joint venture

hmmm...actually it means the source PR release that was linked to at the beginning had it wrong -- http://sev.prnewswire.com/banking-financial-services/20090811/DA6039911082009-1.html cut and paste never fails.....

Apparently several "simulated rape" scenes in their film "Forced Entry" is what led them to be charged with committing a crime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Zicari#Obscenity_prosecution

Zicari asked for help from the rest of the Adult Entertainment industry and they declined- even Larry Flynt declined to help fight the charges.

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-01-2009/0005053905&EDATE=

It seems scientific misconduct is perfectly acceptable, in fact, condoned, when it comes to tobacco control. In PLoS Medicine, I attempted to get Stanton Glantz to declare his competing interests. He has received 1.5 million dollars in grants and UCSF has received 36 million dollars from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. There aren't many who don't know who the RJWF is but for those who do not, they were created by the founder of Johnson & Johnson. RWJF owns tens of millions of shares of J&J stock. Who sells the NRT products? J&J. In fact, RWJF paid, just through 2005, 446 million dollars in tobacco control grants. Some grants to ACS had Medicare pay for NRT. An RWJF national program director was involved in writing the federal guidelines that tells doctors they have to push the drugs, that the patient should NOT try to quit cold turkey. NRT has a 98.4% failure rate for quitting 1 year or longer. The former CEO of RWJF heads a 10 million dollar grant at UCSF, Center for Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (compliments of RWJF). Glantz and UCSF stand to gain a ton more grant money from RWJF and should have to declare competing interests. http://www.plosmedicine.org/annotation/getCommentary.action?target=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0050178 Then you have the University of Minnesota and Elizabeth Klein from Ohio State University passing a recent tobacco control study off. The abstract states that exemptions from smoking bans for standalone bars have been considered to ease the economic burden for bars...so she collects employment data for bars...AND RESTAURANTS. She figures nothing in for lack of compliance to the law (in Ohio, year 2 after the ban there were over 7,000 complaints and investigations-HIGH compliance?). She does not say how many businesses were bars. In Minnesota, bars are outnumbered by restaurants 3 to 1. ClearWay Minnesota paid for this study and in the grant prosal it states "We believe that this research will provide public health officials and tobacco control advocates with information that can help shape adoption and implementation of CIA policies, and prevent their repeal." and "The proposed study ⦠will contribute to MPAAT's (now ClearWay) overall mission by providing information that enables adoption and successful implementation of policies to protect employees and the general public from secondhand smoke exposure." Think this study has no bias or stated outcomes desired? IT'S IN THE GRANT PROPOSAL!! And her article proclaiming no harm to bars and restaurants has been published everywhere with TV and the radio picking it up. This study has so many holes in it that if it were the Titanic, it wouldn't have made it out of the harbor. So...we issued a press release. http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-29-2009/0005034690&EDATE The problem is when "science" is bastardized to fit a social engineering scheme, science will never be trusted when it will need to be trusted. I'm disgusted with dung being passed off as valid. It has to stop.

TFA seems to be wrong about this including US citizens. While I think fingerprinting anyone, citizen or not, coming into the country isn't something we should be doing, and certainly not when exiting, the bit about fingerprinting exiting US citizens is found nowhere other than in the article from IT News Australia. The actual DHS press release is very specific that this is a planned extension to US-VISIT and, as such, only applies to non-US-citizens:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=AUSASAIR.story&STORY=/www/story/05-28-2009/0005034173&EDATE=THU+May+28+2009,+01:22+PM

Several additional articles all clearly indicating that this applies only to non-citizens:

http://www.fcw.com/Articles/2009/05/27/Web-US-VISIT-pilots.aspx
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090528_7835.php?oref=rss

http://sev.prnewswire.com/chemical/20090513/DC1672113052009-1.html
PR Newswire (press release) - âZMay 13, 2009
"This new Chicago law is contrary to the global consensus on the safety of BPA and ignores the expert evaluations of scientists and government bodies from around the world. These particular restrictions on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups, intended for use by children under the age of three and which contain bisphenol A (BPA), are unwarranted. "

Really depends on your part of the world and if you have to wait a few more years or more ...

"'With regard to BPA generally, based on all available evidence, the consensus of regulatory agencies in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan is that the current levels of exposure to BPA through food packaging do not pose an immediate health risk to the general population, including infants and young children"

"Within the last few months government agencies in France, Germany, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand all have issued statements"

Doesn't that sound like they did actually want to keep all the Sun's hardware business including SPARC from the very beginning?

right now

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123987956572324825.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://sev.prnewswire.com/transportation-trucking-railroad/20090415/DA9992115042009-1.html

all that interfered before was economic ability, that's the only reason china lagged behind japan and europe in rail adoption

india likewise is similarly dense, and as it matures economically somewhat behind china, watch india too make a massive increase and rail in a few years/ decade or so

Hmm, International Paper is announcing earnings on April 30th. One would have to guess that those earnings will be higher than previously predicted as these checks have just started rolling in.

this has been done. I'd like to see a cosmetic company release a product line under the umbrella company name. Now that would be fun to market.

Already been done: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/olay/29771/images/29771-hi-Olay_Eye_Definity.jpg I can't believe no one at Olay has seen a Resident Evil movie... Oh wait, maybe I can.

I've never used RBS Worldpay, but was notified several weeks ago that my financial records for the past 20 years, as well as SSN, were compromised.

What's incredibly distressing is that RBS Worldpay (part of Citizens Financial Group) shares data with other affiliates. I just have a basic checking account in one of their banks, that's it--no credit cards, no gift cards, no payroll cards.

However, they didn't go public with the news or notify any customers until the day before Xmas eve in December 2008: http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-23-2008/0004946566&EDATE=

Even more distressing was that when I called them during the first week of January to get information on why my data was exposed even though I don't use RBS Worldpay services, I was told it was just them being careful and 20-30 cards were the sum total of illicitly accessed information to date--clearly a lie.

And it gets even worse--the compromise was identified and recognized by them in June/July 2008!

In other words, they didn't give a shit about exposing their customer data until they lost some large money.

Does anyone really think this was an accident?

Not to go all Paul Wellstone on everyone, but rawstory is reporting that "45-year-old Republican operative and experienced pilot had been warned not to fly his plane in the days before the crash."

"Connell...was apparently told by a close friend not to fly his plane because his plane might be sabotaged," Renault said. "And twice in the last two months Connell, who is an experienced pilot, cancelled two flights because of suspicious problems with his plane."

From PRNewsWire:

A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed.

Alternet reports the following exchange on Amy Goodman's program Democracy Now:

Amy Goodman: Velvet Revolution, a non-profit investigating Connell's activities, revealed this weekend that Connell had recently said he was afraid George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus." Cliff Arnebeck had also previously alerted Attorney General Michael Mukasey to alleged threats from Karl Rove to Connell if he refused to "take the fall." Well, Mark Crispin Miller joins us now, a professor of media culture and communication at New York University

[snip]

Marc Crispin Miller: Well, I cannot assert with perfect confidence that this was no accident, but I will say that the circumstances are so suspicious and so convenient for Rove and the White House that I think we're obliged to investigate this thing very, very thoroughly. And that means, first of all, taking a close look at some of the stories that were immediately circulated to account for what happened, that it was bad weather. That was the line they used when Wellstone's plane went down. There had been bad weather, but it had passed two hours before. And this comes from a woman at the airport information desk in Akron. We're told that his plane was running out of gas, which is a little bit odd for a highly experienced pilot like Connell, but apparently, when the plane went down, there was an explosion, a fireball that actually charred and pocked some of the house fronts in the neighborhood. People can go online and see the footage that news crews took. But beyond the, you know, dubiousness of the official story, we have to take a close look at -- and a serious look at all the charges that Connell was set to make.

AG: Now, he had asked the Attorney General Mukasey for protective custody, because of threats to him and his wife?

MCM: He reported threats to his lawyer, Cliff Arnebeck, and Arnebeck -- also, Velvet Revolution heard from tipsters, as well, tipsters who also claimed that Connell's life was at risk. Stephen Spoonamore, the whistleblower who was the first -- who was the one to name Connell in the first place, also had an ear to the inside. He's also very connected. And all these people were

There are, now that small LCDs have gotten cheap, numerous "display glasses" type products that toss an LCD in front of each eye and have some sort of video input(generally VGA or composite, sometimes both or other). Basic VGA-in display glasses should work exactly like any other monitor on virtually anything. No guarantee that the EDID isn't complete nonsense; but it should basically work.

Any sort of OMG Stereoscopic Vision! drivers, though, will probably be useless in Linux. Those guys claim to support stereoscopic shutter glasses under certain conditions; but seem to be aiming at the Real Serious Workstation market. If you can deal with normal, non-3D glasses, you should have no problems, 3D, possibly not so much.

Nonsense. Boycott Cogent for sucking golf-balls through hosepipes. The people here who are framing Sprint as the bad guys really need to go read up on network engineering, because they don't know what they're talking about. Hint, others have de-peered Cogent in the past.

There's also an announcement from the Android Community (and confirmed by Qualcomm) that the device will be running off of a new Linux-based and Linux-optimized Qualcomm chipset.

What I find most interesting, however, is their mention of an asymmetric dual-core processor, with one core optimized for specific phone functionality and the other designed as a general-purpose processor. If this works, it will be an interesting new trend and a big step forwards for phones, Linux, and Qualcomm, I believe. (Apparently, though, it still has a few issues... I wish luck to those design teams!)

"appreciate the fact that the Hydrogen-engine is a combination of the engine and the electric generator in one package. It is not a fuel cell; it is a robust internal-combustion reciprocal-engine very much like the well-proven engine in your vehicle."

SOURCE:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl%3FACCT%3Dind_focus.story%26STORY%3D/www/story/08-13-2008/0004866772%26EDATE%3DWED%2BAug%2B13%2B2008,%2B08:00%2BAM+%22principals+of+hydrogen+engine%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Your words? Heh, spoken by a petroleum company major stockholder without doubt. Your kind usually only "tells 1/2 the story", in order to protect your personal interests, vs. that which clearly threatens their fortunes... you pitiful transparent corporate crony.

Don't worry, your stock price in oil won't drop just because I told the truth of the matter (unlike your 1/2 truth b.s. you spouted). However, in the end?

Does your stupid reply + attempt @ masking the truth no less, suddenly make hydrogen powered vehicles not work? No.

APK

P.S.=> People like YOU? Make me, and the rest of the planet, ill - your "F.U.D." spreading misinformation or disinformation (OR, only partial information) is what creates doubt in the minds of those less exposed to the truth, & keeps them in the 'status quo' out of fear of risk etc. et al... apk

The one thing we all have to remember is that open source leads to new concepts and market opportunity for small development shops. Just ask Astrum Inc. http://www.astruminc.com/ what astrum did was to develop the first SUSE based Solution Stack using Novell technology. What they produced and what the independent testing reported was a beast of an appliance and Astrum published these reports on its website. This solution described at RSA is the first true Identity based encryption system that can target users who have access to critical data or compliant sensitive data and harden compliance based policies that are compliance mandated. Astrum then did a OEM with nCipher and converted the nCIpher HSM from a 32bit card to a true 64bit card with eDirectory integration. Now if that wasnâ(TM)t enough they then developed a key management system that never exposes any part of the key to a hacker outside the appliance and without making a customer change itâ(TM)s network or put agents on itâ(TM)s storage. I was very impressed as I spoke to representative from Astrum. Now according to nCipher as told to me at RSA this makes the Astrum solution the only solution to meet the up coming FIPS 3 compliance changes and make this appliance very unique in the market space. The problem: The concept from what I could gather was presented to Novell under NDA two years ago at the end of 2006 and promises of concept protection were made and agreements were signed and both worked with business units to ensure no competitive issues may arise. They did not! So Astrum shared with Novell executives the plan that at the end of the day for example map 8 of the PCI requirements to the appliance along with all the major compliances while having the ability to leverage all the security solutions sold by Novell or any other security software based solution that could sit in the network. What happened is Astrum became the first ever to develop and Novell based solution stack using SUSE enterprise server in a appliance only to have it stolen from them!.. Hence the following links. http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080416/AQW05816042008-1.html http://www.novell.com/linux2/appliance/ So if the solution is potentially a market changing concept as Linux can be why expose a concept to a company like Novell who touts protection in the Open source community, of course they promise protection from Microsoft but who promises concept protection from Novell. When Novell realized the market impact of such a solution they have moved to slowly create competition for little Astrum who is coming to market with out any assistance as promised by Novell. This solution from what I hear from internal Novell had enough potential market impact that it changed a direction for a major software company like it did for Novell. Prior to 07 and from what I understand Novell couldnâ(TM)t spell compliance much less understands an appliance stack approach to compliancy and encryption. Develop for Novell on SUSE or jeOS, and expose a development and market plan, NO WAY!!! I really feel for these guys and have to ask why anyone would trust Novell and are they truly moving to a channel model.

According to Fujitsu, the password is entered at power-up. I would wager that the drive incorporates a bootable utility in flash which presents the password screen, then logically switches the flash boot drive with the newly-accessible hard drive and boots normally.

I'd hope that the drive stores the password data in auto-erasing SRAM to thwart anything like cold-reboot attacks at the drive level.

You can view the official press release for more information.

They claim that the drive generates its crypto key from a password supplied externally. However, they don't explain how it gets this password. I presume from the BIOS, but there's no solid info.

It could be from the OS if the drive isn't intended to be a boot drive, but that would be very strange and limit its usefulness.

The ball has been rolling to reduce the number of entry points to government networks for a long time. For example, the DoD's Defense Information Systems Agency has been awarding contracts to agencies to try to reduce the amount of entry points to their systems to allow for better centralized management and security. The Air Force even threw extra money at it for their own systems:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-17-2003/0002077687&EDATE=

Don't you mean 2.3 billion people? I mean, over 80% of the world's cell phones? The world doesn't end at your doorstop, you know?

The AC had the right idea but the wrong link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_digital_video

In an SDV system, not all channels are present on a given segment unless they're being requested. TiVo has announced support for SDV via an external USB dongle for the upstream.

This might be a partial list, as I've heard reports of participating sites not on this list. But Here ya go:

        * AllPosters.com
        * Blockbuster
        * Bluefly.com (NASDAQ: BFLY)
        * CBS Interactive (CBSSports.com & Dotspotter) (NYSE: CBS)
        * eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY)
        * ExpoTV
        * Fandango
        * Gamefly
        * IAC InterActiveCorp. (NASDAQ: IACI) sites (CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, iWon, Citysearch, Pronto.com, echomusic)
        * Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE)'s Hotwire
        * Joost
        * Kiva
        * Kongregate
        * LiveJournal
        * Live Nation (NYSE: LYV)
        * Mercantila
        * National Basketball Association
        * NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT)
        * Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK)
        * (RED)
        * Redlight
        * SeamlessWeb
        * Sony Online Entertainment LLC (NYSE: SNE)
        * Sony Pictures (NYSE: SNE)
        * STA Travel
        * The Knot (NASDAQ: KNOT)
        * TripAdvisor
        * Travel Ticker
        * Travelocity
        * TypePad
        * viagogo
        * Vox
        * Yelp
        * WeddingChannel.com
        * Zappos.com

from
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/11/22/facebooks-creepy-ads-put-your-mouth-where-your-money-is/
which sources the info from
http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20071106/AQTU20606112007-1.html

Sitting in Southern Florida for a second hurricane season that hasn't been seen in 30 years, of inactivity, one has to wonder about the CO2 hype. I know, I'm a nasty old troll that will be mod way down because I dare to think differently then the Gorebull Warming crowd here on /. Be as that may for those reading the negative karma replies, Cap and Trade is a return of the central planning http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4oBjbe8BIA/ days of an era we all would like never to come back. For those of you who really do think I'm a troll, here is an easy $125K right in your pocket, just take this test: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-25-2007/0004669458&EDATE=/.

If we do look at Gorebull Warming, let us remember that since the dire predictions of massive warming if the CO2 ppm is doubled, yet where is this because we are what, ~75% to that ppm already? Shouldn't my house been blown away already from none stop hurricanes? Or could it be Solar Activity: http://sidc.oma.be/products/quieta/ has quiet down causing more clouds (cosmic rays increase production of clouds) which keeps a bit cooler.

It's total fabrication. The HD-DVD camp is apparantly getting quite desperate, to the point where now they're just making stuff up in the hopes that gullible people won't bother trying to verify their lies. Here's the real deal:

"Kmart Not Exclusively Supporting HD-DVD Format

Statement from Jonathan Magasanik, Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, Home Electronics, Sears Holdings

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- There have been numerous statements in the media today, attributed to Toshiba, indicating exclusive support for the HD-DVD format in Kmart stores. These statements are false. Kmart intends to support both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray platforms, and has no plans to support either platform exclusively.

About Kmart

Kmart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SHLD), is a mass merchandising company that offers customers quality products through a portfolio of exclusive brands that include Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Martha Stewart Everyday and Route 66. For more information visit the company's website at http://www.kmart.com/ or the Sears Holdings Corporation website at http://www.searsholdings.com./"

http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-02-2007/0004696858&EDATE=

I don't accept the implied premise that Democrats didn't do exactly the same thing.

The media 'researches' and publishes story that forward agendas and not for the public and its rights to know. There are other channels to get information out that do not involve news reporters, such as the web and print media.

Look at the housing market, particularly California.

Of course, since we're talking about actual property that doesn't go away unless there's an earthquake, fire, or act of god (or jihad), the rate at which the collapse occurs (and the corresponding news coverage) is a good deal slower. Also, you didn't see as much VC in home building, so the collapse won't be as violent (except if it gets *really* bad (much, much worse than I currently forsee, in which case major banks will start to go under, and we'll be back in the 1920s).

By and large, modern Web 2.0 tech companies have some sort of plan. Some of them will go out of business, and the majority of those will be purchased by bigger companies who are profitable. We're going to see a lot of M&A in Tech (that's what happens in markets with too many start-up players), but I don't think we're going to see capital flight, mass layoffs, and a stock market crash.

ok.. dug this up:

Nielsen GamePlay Metrics uses console data collected from the Nielsen's
People Meter TV sample combined with Nielsen GamePlay Metrics' proprietary
audio signature library that matches the unique audio signature of every
game tracked on the six most widely available video game consoles,
including PlayStation 2, PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii and GameCube.
The GamePlay
        Metrics user sample includes more than 12,000 households with
approximately 33,000 individuals.
        Nielsen GamePlay Metrics uses PC data collected from the Nielsen's
Video Game Tracking Survey. Video Game Tracking is a weekly online survey
of 1200 gamers 7 - 54 years of age. Qualifications include ownership of a
console or PC, play video games at least 1 hour per week and have purchased
at least one or more video games in the last 6 months. The Video Game
Tracking online survey has been in the field for more than two years (104+
weeks).
        Additional data, including rankings of console video game titles and
the electronic metering of PC game titles are in testing and will be
available to select Nielsen GamePlay Metrics clients in the near future. On
July 5, 2007 Nielsen announced a collaborative agreement with Sony Computer
Entertainment America to develop a measurement system for computer game
advertising that includes the sharing of video game console data. The
Nielsen-Sony data will also be provided within GamePlay Metrics service in
the near future.

from here:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 104&STORY=/www/story/07-26-2007/0004632940&EDATE=

Unfortunately, it's limited due to their methodology. You have to dig into the press release, but you'll see this.

Nielsen GamePlay Metrics uses console data collected from the Nielsen's People Meter TV sample combined with Nielsen GamePlay Metrics' proprietary audio signature library that matches the unique audio signature of every game tracked on the six most widely available video game consoles, including PlayStation 2, PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii and GameCube.

So they basically have to be plugged into the TV so the meter can see that they're playing. I guess they then use the console's audio output to differentiate between them. No TV for portables. Well, PSP will have it soon.

And 1.852% played the original Warcraft (giving it the same rank as Counter Strike; rank 8)?

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 104&STORY=/www/story/07-26-2007/0004632940&EDATE=

Doesn't sound right if you ask me.

RedEnvelope Reports Two Years of Continuous Uptime at 365 Main's San Francisco Data Center

Online Retailer Also Cuts Energy Costs by 33 Percent

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- 365 Main Inc., developer and
operator of the world's finest data centers, has provided online retailer
RedEnvelope with two years of 100-percent uptime at 365 Main's San
Francisco facility. It has also reduced RedEnvelope's overall energy costs
by 33 percent during this period.
Since moving to 365 Main in July 2005, RedEnvelope has more than
doubled its data center footprint and has scaled the number of hits it
processes per second from 800 to 1700. The site, which specializes in
all-occasion gift- giving, has also closed its redundant data center in the
Midwest and moved its excess capacity to 365 Main, tripled its systems
capacity and its storage capacity, and converted its point-to-point
networks to an MPLS backbone.
Saving energy and improving efficiency
RedEnvelope's energy costs have been reduced by a third since moving to
365 Main, a savings the company directly attributes to a unique billing
system in which 365 Main only charges customers for the exact amount of
power that is used. Most data center companies charge a flat rate per month
in a "use it or lose it" structure.
In addition to helping customers reduce energy costs, 365 Main is
taking strides to make its own business more efficient. In May the company
became the first data center developer and operator to commit to full
compliance with the building certification system put forth by the U.S.
Green Building Council (USGBC), a non-profit organization of leaders from
every sector of the building industry. Earlier this year 365 Main also
joined The Green Grid, a global nonprofit consortium of technology
companies and professionals dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in
data centers and business computing ecosystems.
"Two years ago we decided to move our servers to 365 Main because we
believed its San Francisco facility could accommodate our expected growth
better than any other, and for a comparable price," said Dale Emel,
director of technology services at RedEnvelope. "And that's exactly what
has happened. 365 Main has fulfilled its brand promise of 'world's finest
data centers' by delivering the reliability and uptime that attracted us in
the first place."
To ensure uptime for key tenants such as RedEnvelope, 365 Main provides
modern power and cooling infrastructure. The company's San Francisco
facility includes two complete back-up systems for electrical power to
protect against a power loss. In the unlikely event of a cut to a primary
power feed, the state-of-the-art electrical system instantly switches to
live back-up generators, avoiding costly downtime for tenants and keeping
the data center continuously running.
"RedEnvelope is a high-profile, well respected e-commerce brand and one
of the most popular gift-giving sites in the world," said Chris Dolan, CEO
of 365 Main, "It has succeeded in an industry where countless others have
failed, and we are extremely proud to have provided it with a home to grow
its business."
About RedEnvelope Inc.
RedEnvelope Inc. is a retailer dedicated to inspiring people to
celebrate their relationships through giving. RedEnvelope offers an
extensive collection of imaginative gifts through its webstore,

And here is the link.

Until recently, that hasn't been successful. You really haven't been following this tragic, unreported story-line. See, their [Monsanto] lawyers are bigger than the farmers' lawyers and that's who has historically won. So on one hand, when they sue for their accidental contamination, they use various arguments such as "it can't be helped, it's nature and nature's function" or "these GM seeds had made your crops better and we counter-sue" or "no, you must have stolen it! and we counter-sue" and on and on.

In all the cases that are cited in the PubPat press release [prnewswire.com] the acts are intentional. No one is claiming accidental contamination.

You're obviously not up-to-speed with Monsanto. What happens is that a neighboring field cross-pollinates, or some seeds blow off of a passing truck, and all of a sudden, your "grandfather's strain" has been contaminated with the patented Monsanto genes. Somehow, they test your field and they sue you. You can't argue with the DNA, so you are SOL and they shut you down, even though you never wanted their genes to start with.

In the cases that are cited in the press release the acts are all intentional.

Not a mirror but a short article on the case here.

The press release "RedEnvelope Reports Two Years of Continuous Uptime at 365 Main's San Francisco Data Center", which was on the 365 Main web site earlier today, has disappeared from there.

But they sent the press release to PR Newswire, and you can still read it there.

Even reviewer Harvey Rosenfield, who is usually very kind to Apple, was quoted as saying 'some of them might be waking up now, wondering who they got in bed with.'"

GSM coverage is definitely not excellent in the central U.S. plains or the Rocky Mountains. There is coverage now on interstate highways and in cities and larger towns, but smaller towns and highway routes have spotty coverage or none at all. There were a handful of small telephone companies that sprung up to fill the void in the past few years. Two of the largest such have been recently acquired.

Western Wireless was acquired by Alltel.

AT&T recently acquired Dobson Communications (which was the largest vendor licensing the Cellular One brand). I think that the "new AT&T" realizes that Verizon will kick their ass if they don't start competing on the coverage front. Nobody can touch Verizon in the U.S. for actually getting a wireless signal in more places.

The AT&T coverage map is, ahem, optimistic, regarding its coverage in the plains states. The Dobson/Cellular One acquisition helps with this, but not with the rocky mountain states.

Here is a relatively honest assessment of GSM coverage in the western US: Cellular One coverage map (includes the Dobson network and all the other mom-and-pop licensees of the Cellular One brand).

The Alltel coverage map is also a little deceptive, because it mixes their GSM network in with their other network, but they provide much better GSM coverage in the west than anybody else, thanks to their acquisition of Western Wireless. Both T-Mobile and AT&T were asleep at the wheel and either should have acquired Western Wireless. It will be more difficult for AT&T to assemble a network which can rival Alltel or Verizon in the west. Fortunately, they are able to lease time on the Alltel network for their customers, as does T-Mobil. Oddly enough, Alltel does not provide GSM service to its own customers.

It's not clear that AT&T can fix this problem via acquisitions. Alltel already bought the company that AT&T should have acquired. What's left now is a whole bunch of relatively small players. AT&T will need to go on a major buying and building spree if they are really serious about providing nationwide cellular GSM coverage. They have been cherry picking the best (highest population density) markets for years, but they'll need to get serious about providing coverage to the rest of the country if they don't want the "I can't get an iPhone because AT&T doesn't offer service in my area" blogger chorus to drown out their efforts to promote the iPhone beyond the initial product launch. The stock valuations of AT&T and Alltel are interesting, too. AT&T has brand recognition, but they are themselves possibly an acquisition candidate.

It does not work this way. First of all, check the company's financial reports and press announcements. Gateway has been ranked #1 in customer service satisfaction by corporate users. Here:

IRVINE, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc. today announced that it's won the leading position in Technology Business Research's (TBR) Corporate IT Buying Behavior and Customer Satisfaction Study for Corporate Desktops in the first quarter of 2007.

Here is alink to the full story.

A company with thousands of customers has one unsatisfied customer for every hundred of happy ones. Gateway has enough financial power to sue and fight in courts and unfortunately this guy is bound to lose the legal battle in the future. Then Gateway will become a sponsor and donate some hardware to a good cause and make a TV commercial out of this.

Finally, corporate and gov't business are extremely important to companies like Gateway, HP and Dell. As long as they have large customers, they will should be more or less okay. Sad but true.

CMP Technology's Computer Security Institute Creates Cross-Disciplinary Group of Web Security Researchers, Computer Crime Law Experts and Agents From the U.S. Department of Justice to Discuss Web 2.0 Research Roadblocks

Group's Initial Report to Be Released at Computer Security Institute's NetSec Conference on June 11

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Computer Security Institute (CSI) today announced it has formed a cross-disciplinary working group of Web security researchers, computer crime law experts and agents from the U.S. Department of Justice on the legal barriers to Web 2.0 vulnerability research and disclosure. The group will release its first report Monday, June 11 at CSI's NetSec conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Security researchers are able to identify and publicly disclose software vulnerabilities or further write proof-of-concept exploit code without fear of criminal prosecution," said Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security and a contributor to the group. "But Web security researchers' aren't so lucky: under some laws, a researcher could find himself prosecuted for simply looking for Web site vulnerability, much less disclosing it publicly."

To tackle this question, this working group is not to espouse any particular position, but rather to identify, debate and explain all the legal, ethical, social and technological considerations feeding this issue. "This report serves as a meeting of the minds, bringing together ideas and concerns from the developers, security researcher and law enforcement communities making it a unique touch point for everyone caught in the frenzy of Web 2.0," added Grossman.

Within the report will be:

• A matrix of Web security research methods (on a scale of least-invasive to most-invasive), assessments of how the law may interpret these actions and gauges of the likelihood a Web researcher will be criminally prosecuted for such actions;
• Discussion of how the law may be changed, including how liability is assigned, how "damage" is quantified and how disclosure and criminal intent factor into sentencing; and
• Suggested endeavors the industry may create to improve Web security within the current letter of the law, such as: better secure Web development standards, better Web site security certifications, anonymous vulnerability disclosure tip lines and a service that invites registered researchers to hack "dummy" Web pages, which are modeled off typical Web sites but contain fake data.

A question and answer period with some members of the working group will follow the report presentation. Members of the working group include: Brian Chess, founder and CTO of Fortify Software; Jennifer Granick, executive director of the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School; Jeremiah Grossman, CTO, WhiteHat Security; Billy Hoffman, lead researcher, SPI Labs; John Lynch, deputy chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Scott Parcel, vice president of engineering, Cenzic; Jon Rusch, special counsel for fraud prevention, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Lee Tien, senior staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Jacob West, manager of the security research group Fortify Software.

http://ewatch.prnewswire.com/rs/display.jsp?a=3070 2-309198409-850566157&key=D%7C136206%7CS%7C0%7Cx%7 C309198409 From article: In the summer of 2001, The MoMI was hit with a cease-and-desist letter from the RIAA for copyright infringement, alleging damages of $150 million to their members. Upon further investigation it was discovered that Microsoft had circumvented The MoMI's copy protection, exposing hidden music files in an "upgrade" to the Windows Media Player, turning secure MoMI performances into downloads. We notified the RIAA of the circumvention and immediately removed the music from our exhibitions. Subsequently, the RIAA took no action against the MoMI.

From http://ewatch.prnewswire.com/rs/display.jsp?a=3070 2-309198409-850566157&key=D|136206|S|0|x|309198409 (linked to from http://www.mediarightstech.com/ ), the issue is BlueBeat.com an internet radio station (which is owned by the same people as MRT), and the increase in fees due to the Internet Radio Equality Act (which they think should not apply to them).

It all started when:

"In the summer of 2001, The MoMI was hit with a cease-and-desist letter
from the RIAA for copyright infringement, alleging damages of $150 million
to their members. Upon further investigation it was discovered that
Microsoft had circumvented The MoMI's copy protection, exposing hidden
music files in an "upgrade" to the Windows Media Player, turning secure
MoMI performances into downloads."

After which they invented a magic "anti-Stream Ripping provision" which others did not implement, and since:

"The basis for the rate hikes was primarily a result of the webcasting
community failing to adopt content control technology that would maintain
the integrity of the streamed performance."

It seems that what they are essentially trying to do it to get somebody else to compensate them for the rate hike that they will have to pay "If the Internet Radio Equality Act is to pass", or pressure others to influence the content of the act.

This is really a non-story, and since their issue seems to be with internet radio and stream rippers the inclusion of Apple may be due to their misunderstanding of the technology involved.

And their actual goal:

"The message is clear and simple: if webcasting royalty rates are to be
equalized with Satellite or Digital FM broadcasts by passage of The
Internet Radio Equality Act, Stream Ripping protection provisions must be
added to the Bill before the CRB rates go into effect May 15, 2007."

Making their position no less bizzare, they don't want anyone to buy their technology, just illogical in a different way.

...as discussed here two weeks ago. More details at PRNewsWire.