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If Teresa Heinz Kerry were actually an officer of HJ Heinz, she might hold some influence. She isn't, so she doesn't.

Actually, in the Reuters article, not all of the Commissioners were in agreement about this, since it lumped all the claims together into one settlement:

"FCC Commissioner Michael Copps voted against the settlement, arguing it failed to examine all the complaints against the company and the incidents could not be considered when deciding whether to renew the company's radio licenses."

"Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans"

Please tell me, "to revamp" is a verb from "revenge," isn't it? Why do I always have bad feelings when I read "Microsoft," "licensing," "competition" and "Linux" in the same sentence? I must be paranoid or something.

(By the way, wouldn't it make more sense if the link "as Reuters article suggests" actually pointed to the Reuters article instead of the Yahoo link which suspiciously looks like pay-per-click partnership program URL?)

Sony just announced they'd stop distributing new Clie outside of Japan...
So, if they left the handheld market to join the Sparc community, is it in order to create servers, or what ?

E-Mail Revives Calls to Probe Halliburton, Cheney

Could this explain the theft of over 5,000 pounds of used cooking oil in Oklahoma last month?

wait wait wait - you're on to something, but you're missing the A1 numero uno priority for Sony to do this. Let's follow the train of the latest news in portable hardware, shall we?

Sony wants to claim a huge stake in the handheld gaming market, and they know that the opening sales of the PSP will be pretty indicative of how the console will do down the line. Big launch will mean big boost in reputation, and then more third parties to develop for the PSP, more sales, yadda yadda.

However, this article points to a huge possible dent in all systems portable this year due to a tighter supply of LCD screens. the linked article talks about Nintendo, I know, but it still drives the point home: Sony has to prioritize its allocation of LCDs, and it has to do so ASAP.

Pretty big judgment call on Sony's part to give up a decent PDA marketshare in order to go full-force on the PSP. But, then again, considering how much $ they can pull not only with PSP sales, but also games, music and movies (many of which will come directly from Sony studios/records/etc), it seems like Sony has quite a forward-looking financial plan, and this move to re-allocate LCDs is proof positive of such forward-looking. Even if the additional movie/music stuff doesn't lift off in the States, Europe and Japan are ripe for such sales, so don't scoff at that notion too quickly.

Looks faked to me. Searching the Reuters site itself with the phrase "Michael Moore Hospitalized" returns no hits. From that I draw the conclusion that either you made it up your self or were duped by someone else who made it up.

Stephen

In what way is this "News for Nerds"?

America bombs Iraqi Wedding Celebrations! Over 40 people butchered. IMPEACH BUSH!

Here's an article about it

Google's software, which is expected to be introduced soon, according to several people with knowledge of the company's plans, is the clearest indication to date that the company, based in Mountain View, Calif., hopes to extend its search business to compete directly with Microsoft's control of desktop computing.

Improved technology for searching information stored on a PC will also be a crucial feature of Microsoft's long-delayed version of its Windows operating system called Longhorn. That version, which is not expected before 2006 at the earliest, will have a redesigned file system, making it possible to track and retrieve information in ways not currently possible with Windows software.

Google's move is in part a defensive one, because the company is concerned about Microsoft's ability to make searching on the Web as well as on a PC a central part of its operating system. By integrating more search functions into Windows, Microsoft could conceivably challenge Google the way it threatened, and destroyed, an earlier rival, Netscape, by incorporating Web browsing into the Windows 98 operating system.

A Google spokesman declined to comment about the new search tool.

Although Google's core business rests on huge farms of server computers that permit fast searching on the Internet, the company has already taken several steps to move beyond that business.

Last year, Google began testing a free program called the Google Deskbar that makes it possible to search the Web by entering words and phrases in a small dialog box placed in the Windows desktop taskbar at the bottom of the computer screen.

Google also sells a computer search system designed to index and retrieve information created and stored by a single organization.

There is a rich history of less-than-successful attempts to create information search tools for personal computers. In the 1980's, for example, Mitchell Kapor's On Technology developed On Location for retrieving information on Macintosh computers and Bill Gross, a prominent software developer, led a group of programmers to create Lotus Magellan for the PC.

Digital Equipment's Alta Vista search engine group also developed a search tool for data stored on desktop PC's. Today there are a number of commercial products for desktop searches like X1 and dtSearch. Moreover, both the Macintosh and Windows operating systems have file and text retrieval capabilities.

The Google software project, which is code-named Puffin and which will be available as a free download from Google's Web site, has been running internally at the company for about a year.

The project was started, in part, to prepare Google for competing with Windows Longhorn, which according to industry analysts will dispense with the need for a stand-alone browser.

The disappearance of the Web browser and the integration of both Web search and PC search into the Windows operating system could potentially marginalize Google's search engine. Google, well aware of this threat, hired a Microsoft product manager last year to oversee the Puffin project as part of its strategy to compete with Microsoft's incursion into its territory.

Microsoft has shown demonstrations of its new search technology, which emphasizes the use of natural language in queries like "Where are my vacation photos?" or "What is a firewall?" Microsoft believes that Longhorn users will no longer think about where information is stored; they will ins

It was Friday.

Story from Reuters

Ta-da!

Well, I give you credit.... I either didn't know or forgot about that. It certainly raises some questions. Depending upon the conditions on the options it may or may not be a problem, but it is an issue. If Cheny has to be an employee to exercise them, no problem. Otherwise...

My hat is off to you.

But, in the spirit of mutual discovery, have you seen the news reports on the discovery of an Iraqi weapon of mass destruction placed to attack US troops? It looks like Saddam may have had a few left after all. Now, where are the rest of them?

You, my friend, have clearly have not been watching the news lately.

How is it not insightful? The horrifying thing is that what they're showing on the news is real. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot that they aren't showing.

Here are some additional links with pictures in case of /. effect:

Gamespot
GameAsylum
IGN PSP
Reuters

and info about Movies and Music on the PSP

Here are some additional links with pictures in case of /. effect:

Gamespot
GameAsylum
IGN PSP
Reuters

and info about Movies and Music on the PSP

That was not the point to force the war.

I think that whatever Iraq becomes (democracy paradise, religious dictatorship, etc) it will not be a friend of USA.

Your sarcasm is welcome, but take note that the accused part are those that supposedly are given Iraq freedom, human rights and democracy

A Recent Reuters article states some questionable methods of interrogation were approved to be used in Guatanamo Bay.

In earlier tests the MTHEL laser had successfully eliminated 28 short-range Katyusha rockets and five artillery shells in flight as well as several "hostile objects" on the ground.

According to Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, Intel is supposed to officially announce today that they're not going to bother with the Tejas generation of PIVs/Xeons.

This ought not come as too much of a surprise to those of you who read this last March, and we openly wondered whether Tejas was going to see the light of day a little while back .

Yes, this a major announcement that will effectively knock Intel out of the box in the cutting-edge overclocking world for at least something close to eighteen months. This essentially leaves us with whatever AMD chooses to offer.

Nonetheless, the biggest aspect to this story is not the "what," but the "why."

A few days ago, the chief technology officer at IBM, Bernie Meyerson, told an industry forum that the traditional and expected increase in speed just from shrinking the manufacturing process is dead .

To quote:

"Somewhere between 130-nm and 90-nm the whole system fell apart. Things stopped working and nobody seemed to notice. . . . Scaling is already dead but nobody noticed it had stopped breathing and its lips had turned blue."

(This comes from the company that AMD paid $46 million dollars to help build 90nm chips, BTW. It also comes from the company that was supposed to have 3GHz 90nm PowerPC chips ready for Apple in a couple months, but is now talking about eventually getting to 2.5GHz.)

Meyerson said the biggest reason for the problem is power leakage, the same as what Intel has been saying. He also pointed out that the problem with power leakage is "nonlinear."

That's a fancy term for saying "it doesn't get slowly worse; you get past a certain point, and everything suddenly falls apart on you."

It's Not Quite Over

Mr. Meyerson is not saying "it's all over." What he is saying is that the era of easy, big gains from each new generation of processors is over. As he put it, "60 to 70 percent of the benefit of each new generation of manufacturing would have to come from innovation."

By that he means technologies like SOI and strained silicon, though he implied that these were not long-term fixes to the problem.

What is clear is that future technological advances are going to be a lot harder to do, cost a good deal more, and being a lot harder to work with than has been the case in the past. The old way of doing things is broken, and there's no mature alternative around at the moment.

Perhaps one will eventually show up, but the magic bag is empty at the moment, and it will probably take years to come up with some major new tricks.

In the meantime, progress will slow down.

Playing Noah's Ark

In all likelihood, Intel's short-term answer to this problem is to stop revving and start adding. Processors, that is. The son of Pentium-M which will become Intel's next generation will almost certainly be a two-headed beast. In short, a 6GHz processor won't be a 6GHz processor; it will be two 3s.

AMD plans to do exactly the same (which ought to tell you that SOI, good as it is, is no long-term fix to this problem).

This is hardly something either party would willingly want to do rather than increase speed, simply because the vast majority of current programming does not (or even cannot) work better with two-headed action.

It's certainly not something Microsoft want to deal with on the OS side, and probably is a big reason why Longhorn keeps getting pushed back, much less the armies of non-MS programmers out there.

It's going to happen because the hardware people don't have a choice in the matter.

Reuters link

"We are absolutely certain that this really is the creator of the Internet worm because Microsoft experts were involved in the inquiry and confirmed our suspicions and because the suspect admitted to it," said Frank Federau from Lower Saxony police.

OF COURSE! If Microsoft says someone's guilty, of course they are. The fact that they admitted it doesn't mean shit.

"Police described the suspect as a highly intelligent "computer freak" living with his parents."

But OF COURSE he's a 'computer freak' living with his parents. What else COULD HE BE?

I just heard this news on NPR and thought I'd submit it to /. but I was scooped. NPR said that he was a "student" and lived with his parents. They said he admitted to being the Sasser worm author but failed to mention the Phatbot connection.

Here's an English language report that mentions a Microsoft connection.

Apple has released a statment that the price change rumor is not true:

Apple Denies Report of Online Music Price Boost

The basic problem can be seen in numbers like these:

Microsoft Sells 210 Million Copies of Windows XP. That is 10 million copies a month, up from 9 million a month last July, and the vast majority of the sales new OEM installs.

Reuters article here

XBox...come on. The dang thing isn't really doing that well here either is it?

Actually, the Xbox may overtake the PS2 in quarterly sales within the next couple of months.

It was a point, son, you missed it.

Good catch. Thank you. ;-) [signed: original poster]

Admittedly it doesn't seem possible to cure the common cold because you'd have to cure it everywhere all at once which is presumably impossible, and we don't even really necessarily know where they come from in the first place.

Well, if the common cold were thought to be a major threat, the first thing we'd do is start being less casual about spreading it around. We'd quarantine people who come down with the sniffles, and burn their bedsheets afterward. That would be a good start at getting it under control.

But we're getting closer to knowing where it comes from, so look out viruses!

Or is this picture a little creepy? The american astronaut looks like a serial killer or something and the russian looks like he's afraid because the american looks like a killer...

According to Reuters, "Ashcroft declined to say where the raids had taken place, but noted warez groups often used schools as distribution hubs."

So I'd say it's a safe bet to say they're the same storyline.

"Ashcroft declined to say where the raids had taken place, but noted warez groups often used schools as distribution hubs.

"I don't think the schools should be a safe haven for any type of criminal activity," he said."

No one in their right mind would play poker like this against the richest man in the world.

From the article:

"Temporal order is an important element of how a work unfolds dynamically over time, an important factor underlying the aesthetic effect."

Why? Did they decide to extend the mission because people love following it and want to keep it going? Or are they extending it because they haven't found anything "big" to report on yet?

Look at the bright side. Now we have a new group of leeches.

Reuters has the story.

The Yahoo article cut off the entire bit about the limits of the study from the second page of the Reuters posting:

STUDY LIMITED

The authors said the study had some limitations.

The television viewing data came from the parents and may not be completely accurate. Also, there is no way to know whether the children already had attention problems early on that attracted them to TV viewing, though symptoms don't appear that early, it said.

It was also possible the parents who allowed excessive TV viewing were themselves distracted and neglectful, creating a household that fostered attention problems in the children. Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder has a high heritability level, the study said.

And the study did not look at what kinds of programs the children watched.

"Despite these limitations our results have some important implications if replicated in future studies," it said. "First we (have) added inattention to the previously studied deleterious consequences of excessive television viewing ... (and) our findings suggested that preventive action can be taken."

This reminds me of the recently conducted DARPA Race.
Here is the summary:
The race, sponsored by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), had offered a prize of $1 million for any vehicle that could complete the course.
Thirteen robot vehicles set out on a 140-mile race. Nine traveled less than two miles. The remaining two managed about 7 miles....more than 130 miles short of target!!

You mean like this?

According to Reuters the lunar job is a hoax, but qmail isn't. We will see..

So the mainstream press have fallen for it. Ha ha, it is to laugh. Problem is, when Google does eventually IPO, they're gonna be looking for favorable coverage from those same media outlets they made look like gooses. I wonder if the individuals in those media organizations will remember how Google made them look stoopid.

Not quite so clever. Also, Google News has picked up this story itself, linking to the mainstream stories that don't include the tip-offs that its a joke.

Thus it has become a self-replicating disinformation virus, quite disconnected from the original "joke" press-release.

For example, the French -- among the noisiest critics of US nowadays lit/painted the Eiffel tower red to greet the Chinese leader and to comfort him with support for his hostility towards Taiwan.

It is much worse than that. The French actually joined China in military exercises that were intended to intimidate and influence elections in Taiwan. France has allied itself with China against another democracy.

I'm not the original poster, but this is a big deal. The Iraqi oil-for-food program was by far the largest amount of money that the UN had ever handled. It dwarfed the rest of the UN's budget.

(That said, I doubt Putin or Chirac were bribed. Like Bush, they had their own strong interests in the matter of Iraq and its government.)

Here are a few references. You can find plenty more on news.google.com :

'Massive scam' in Iraqi oil program

Get to heart of UN role in Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal

Annan Pushes UN Council Members on Iraq Oil Scandal

3,000 UN Staffers Probed

Bulgaria's President Questioned over Iraq Oil Scandal

Enjoy some context (not intended as a criticism). Part of the reason is demographic trends and part of the reason is financial. The ideas in the article seem to support a shift to creativity as discussed in an article with some game industry experts last year.

Reuters reports on the crisis of creativity in games 'as aging gamers' tastes increasingly shift toward sequels and games based on movies'. The supposed crisis was discussed by industry participants at the Game Developers Conference 2004. 'The gaming industry will shrink unless we start to see new games,' warned Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani. Sony's Ryoichi Hasegawa said, 'Core gamers are advancing in age and they are becoming more conservative'.

As the GDC panel sees it, the other big problem is the cost of producing games which encourages publishers and developers to 'take less risks on new, innovative titles.'

The argument for creative new games and game types echoes an article we ran last year where experts say game industry trends favor a shift to creativity and creative talent. Iwatani appears to agree, saying he had seen periods that lacked creativity in his 20-year career but 'new and revolutionary new games appear in a two- to three-year cycle.'

The vehicle used in Saturday's test will not be recovered from the ocean due to the high cost of such an effort. (Reuters)

Seems kinda strange, I wonder if they blew it up so that no one can salvage it even it did wash ashore. There are explosives onboard the vehicle... since they had to blow up the plane during the last test.

Why spend, or more likely rip off, an OS and productivity suite when you can get a legit one for free.

The PC got in because "Nobody even got fired for buying IBM" and then they gave away the hardware specs. (As opposed to the Amiga, TRS-80, Atari, Apple II et alia.)

Then M$ got in because "Nobody ever got fired for saving a buck." (The attack of the clones.)

It stayed in because Gates screamed "Make it more like the Mac" three(.one) times. (Remember Windows 1.0 or 2.0? He didn't stand a chance until he ripped off IBM [Man were they dumb!] for the GUI to OS/2.)

Now Linux is getting in because "Nobody ever got fired for saving even more bucks."

And screw the phoney IP "issues" with SCO.

Because there aren't already enough government computers and agencies that don't understand file sharing and how not to leave their files on network shaes for all to see. At least now maybe the republicans will have a more standard and powerful search app that crossreferencs more machines than having to resort to going into "My Network Places" and just randomly clicking along to access other peoples personal files.

Considering conditions in India are far better than in the USA (crime, violence, poverty, terrorism).

Fundamental concerns in India include the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife... Population below poverty line: 25%

If you look a little more closely, you'll see the article was syndicated by Reuters. The journalist was Reed Stevenson, and the original article is on the Reuters web site.

If you look a little more closely, you'll see the article was syndicated by Reuters. The journalist was Reed Stevenson, and the original article is on the Reuters web site.