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OT prediction: If it turns out that the act was committed by an American nutjob, as with the Oklahoma City bombing the media and political system will quickly forget about it. If it turns out that it was done by a "furriner", we'll hear lots about those awful "terrists" for some time, everyone will make vicious pronouncements, and they won't forget about it. In either case, little if anything will be done that's relevant to preventing future such acts.

This bombing is similar to the foiled MLK day bombing in Seattle that turned out to be some crazy neo-Nazi. And by "foiled" I mean someone basically stumbled on the bomb before it went off in the middle of a very crowded parade.

As a former resident of Boston, that city will always have a special place in my heart. Attacking the marathon is just the lowest of lows. I hope they catch whomever did this and lock them up for good in the rapiest prison they can find and don't turn it into some empty-headed left versus right shouting match on cable news.

Dude, experts, real engineers and executives that work at Boeing, say that you are wrong.
Offshoring is the real culprit Here,
and here,
and here,

Dude, experts, real engineers and executives that work at Boeing, say that you are wrong.
Offshoring is the real culprit Here,
and here,
and here,

Amazon.com is looking to hire thousands of people, right now. Not saying that that makes a dent, but there are companies with very strong growth right now.

I interviewed with Amazon. After the second in-person interview I had nailed technical questions, but was not offered a job.

Errm, he's was talking about a job in one of their warehouses. http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2016289835_amazonwarehouse25.html

You should get out more. Sorry, I didn't have the time to read all that, but you sound like some wizened old fart who can't give up that desktop mentality, and drag it around like a boat anchor. There is a lot of good stuff going on out there, and more of it is Linux based than MS. Data centers, smartphones, tablets, wearables. And, oh yea, the internet. Linux everywhere you look these days. http://seattletimes.com/html/microsoftpri0/2019853243_goldman_sachs_microsoft_os_has_gone_from_more_than.html

The hobby cells bring out a connection point between cells for both cell voltage monitoring and charge balancing. You will find charge balancers as well at most hobby shops dealing with lithium cells. Every lithium pack I have run across so far has either had an in-pack balancer or a connection for an external balancer.

My interest in battery packs was piqued about a dozen years ago when I had numerous Makita Ni-Cd battery packs fail after sometimes no more than three usages. I disassembled the packs to find the cells damaged by overcharge, each pack having one or more cells that had grown a filament ( whisker ) inside which prevented one cell of the series stack from taking a charge. The charger, trying to establish stack voltage, charged and charged and charged to no avail. The cells vented and vented and vented until there was no electrolyte left.

It was the way I was using the cells. As a homeowner, I charged the pack for a use, used maybe 5 percent of the energy in the pack, then left the tool alone for a month or so. The cells had uneven self-discharge rates and some would not have any charge at all. When I picked up the tool, sometimes I would try to use it again, but the leakiest cell already could not hold its own and the stronger cells rammed current through the weakest one in reverse, ruining it and causing it to grow a whisker inside, shorting it out. The destruction of the remaining cells happened when I tried to charge the pack.

So, to combat this, I redesigned my charger to trickle 30 milliamperes through the pack at all times, and left the pack in the charger. Never had the problem again.

Later, I got a good-sized box of spent lithium laptop battery packs from a recycle kiosk at a local store. The owner was kind enough to let me have at them before sending them on. I disassembled every one of them to discover what killed them. Most were simply cycled to death, but several had some quite interesting failure modes involving the charge management board built into the packs.

One benefit I got was a nearly unlimited number of perfectly good 18650-size lithium ion batteries for use in flashlights and for powering all sorts of other little gadgets I make in the lab. There are all sorts of electronic things made in China that use the 18650 cell.

http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=18650+flashlight&catId=0&manual=y

I intend to use some quite large lithium cells for off-grid power backup, but being they are expensive and dangerous, I took it on myself to design a system for charging and monitoring the cells to make sure, and I mean damn sure, that nothing goes wrong. I ended up making a DC-DC converter that draws power from the whole stack, yet uses the power to charge each cell individually. No- this is not a scheme to get power for free, rather it is my way of equally redistributing all power available in the entire battery pack equally among all the cells of the pack. If some cells are weaker, the stronger cells are "taxed" more to provide supplemental charging current to the weaker cells. "Electronic communism" if you please. All cell voltages are forced equal by the charger. The microprocessor running the battery management board keeps track of each cells ability to supply or need of charge, as well as stats such as cell impedances, temperatures, and rates of parameter changes. The data is made available as a web-page on a 192.168.xxx.xxx addy, same kind of page as a setup page in a router. Simple HTML with graphics driven by sizing a colored pixel.

I saw another write-up where Boeing has been having problems of this same ilk. What they are going through is precisely what I am trying to avoid.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020241385_787deadbatteriesxml.html

Funny thing is I used to work for a company bought up by Boeing. I got laid off in the buy-up.

Something that doesn't have a pulse is a person? Blame the GOVT for that, mate!

I read previously that the charging system was already cleared, such as indicated in this article: http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020230108_dreamlinerbattery28xml.html?prmid=4939

The result of all this, combined, is that a single refinery going down causes huge issues.

Although it should be pointed out that the companies may very well be lying when a refinery reportedly goes "down" -- from The Seattle Times (Nov 14, 2012):

West Coast gasoline- price spikes in May and October were widely blamed on refinery outages, but new research to be released at a California hearing Thursday shows that refiners continued to produce gasoline in periods when the public was told the contrary.

...

Specifically, the report alleges that in May, at a time when Royal Dutch Shell's Martinez, Calif., plant was reported to be down for maintenance for two weeks, it appears to have been making gasoline for at least half that time. That conclusion is reached from state environmental documents showing nitrogen-oxide emissions had returned to normal at the refinery a full week before it was reported to have come back on line.

Similarly, Chevron's Richmond, Calif., refinery was reported down for maintenance for two weeks in May, but emissions data suggests the refinery never ceased operation.

Besides, bathtubs can't fly. That's just silly.

Well Some disagree

Besides, bathtubs can't fly. That's just silly.

Well Some disagree

I work in Seattle and 65 percent of people bus, carpool, walk, or bike to downtown Seattle. I actually work at University of Washington (a few miles north of downtown), but of the people I know, only around half drive alone to work. It wasn't too long ago when driving was a luxury, and most people either walked or took public transit. Skylar

In Washington, many health providers are barely regulated (see Seattle Time's report Seniors for Sale). The state regular, DSHS, is notoriously incompetent and hasn't been nationally accredited since at least 2001. I imagine most of the oversight comes from the feds, who are pretty overworked. Skylar

In Washington, many health providers are barely regulated (see Seattle Time's report Seniors for Sale). The state regular, DSHS, is notoriously incompetent and hasn't been nationally accredited since at least 2001. I imagine most of the oversight comes from the feds, who are pretty overworked. Skylar

Your ignorance is showing.
A 17 year old girl can get on the list for having consensual sex with a 15 year old boy:
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2003101190_offender03.html

Two 14 year olds boys got put on the list for putting their naked butts on the faces of two 12 year old boys :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017081/Two-teenagers-branded-sex-offenders-life-horseplay-incident.html

You can get put on the list for answering the door undressed:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2887/is-it-indecent-exposure-if-im-visibly-naked-while-on-my-own-private-property

A few more dumb reasons for being put on the list:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/sex_offender_registry_stupidity/

In short, sex offender lists are being applied for anything having to do with nudity and on the other being used to justify barring people from anything to do with children. It's clearly bullshit but as most people don't pay attention to how laxist laws have become on placing people on the list they are easily swayed by prosecutors looking for a cheap & easy public display of how hard they are working.

You see, individuals have a hard time over money earned outside the U.S., corporations get to keep it.

Great, we've established that corporate revenues and personal income is treated differently. This is a feature, not a bug.

The point of the article was not, "Apple is cheating the US by only paying 2% to Ireland and nothing to the US." The point of the article was "Apple's paying a REALLY LOW tax rate to European governments on its revenues earned in Europe."

Now, please explain for us dim unwashed masses exactly why you think the US government has any right to a "fair share" of taxes earned by European corporations doing business in Europe, when those revenues are never funneled back to an American holding company? Apple, Inc. pays income taxes on its US revenues to the US government - should the European countries also be able to line up and demand a "fair share" of that tax bill?

Interestingly, Apple shows more integrity and less scumbaggishness than many other companies:

Where Apple does differ from other companies is that it sets aside a portion of the foreign profits, marking them as subject to U.S. taxes sometime in the future.

When Apple reports quarterly results, it records that portion of the taxes as a liability, which is subtracted from its profits even though it hasn't actually paid the taxes.

Tax experts say the company could easily eliminate these "phantom" tax obligations. That would boost Apple's profits for the past three years by as much $10.5 billion, according to calculations by The Associated Press reported in July.

Now, that same article DOES go on to say that they're also lobbying for other ways to eliminate this "phantom" tax - but again, this is where we come back to it being the government's responsibility to write a sensible tax code that doesn't leave companies "guessing" about what constitutes a fair share. Fix the tax code if you feel you're not getting enough money out of them. Don't blame them for adhering to the tax code as written, and not handing over more than they're being asked to.

Your premise is incorrect. The reason why Norway is one of the richest countries in the world and Norwegians can still work 34h is because they have vast oil resources. http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2016126666_norwayoil07.html

I have insurance companies tell me all the time that they would rather I use one of the cheaper alternatives if OxyContin comes up.

Methadone is dirt cheap, but its use as a painkiller is leading to its outsized share of overdose fatalities.
It's being prescribed by general practitioners who aren't monitoring patients like they do in methadone clinics, leading to accidental overdoses.
Nationally, methadone represents 2% of prescriptions and 30% of fatalities.

The CDC's websites have some information:
http://www.cdc.gov/features/vitalsigns/methadoneoverdoses/
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/MethadoneOverdoses/

But what they don't tell you is that these deaths are highly concentrated amongst those on Medicaid
"In Washington, the poor have been hit the hardest. While Medicaid recipients make up about 8 percent of Washington's adult population, they account for 48 percent of the methadone deaths."

If you read statements she has made (in The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Stranger, Crosscut, etc.), Sen. Prentice comes across as a moron (IQ below 69).

No kidding, you could have a similar headline for Steve Jobs. I loved seeing this story in the Seattle Times this morning. The headline was "Gates Stresses Need for Qualified CS Grads", the headline underneath it was "Hewlett-Packard to cut 14,500 jobs in restructuring plan". Do they put these things together deliberately to fuck with us, or is it just an accident?

I think the most damage to the reputation and progress of linux is that this comparison gets the imprimatur of syndication and publication in "respected" newspapers. (Of course, nestled in the byline, one may notice the AP reporter is from Seattle, hmmmmmmm). For those who may not have read the article, it is worth the read.... and if you have thoughts about this (as in, IMO, it's a puff piece for Microsoft), note that the column thoughtfully includes the e-mail address (I'll include here for even MORE convenience: Brier Dudley) for the reader to easily contact the reporter...

I think the most damage to the reputation and progress of linux is that this comparison gets the imprimatur of syndication and publication in "respected" newspapers. (Of course, nestled in the byline, one may notice the AP reporter is from Seattle, hmmmmmmm). For those who may not have read the article, it is worth the read.... and if you have thoughts about this (as in, IMO, it's a puff piece for Microsoft), note that the column thoughtfully includes the e-mail address (I'll include here for even MORE convenience: Brier Dudley) for the reader to easily contact the reporter...

Don't cite this article as some kind of evidence of newspapers' decline. The Seattle Weekly is a free alternative paper that plays faster and looser than Seattle's more conservative (in the sense of maintaining the journalism tradition of focusing on objective reporting) papers like the Times and the PI.

Besides, I don't think newspapers are going down the toilet. Some newspapers report minor circulation decline, but I think that's more of an indication that they are slowly changing from an analog to digital distribution systems. Fundamentally I still think newspapers serve vital and important functions.

Anecdotal evidence is not an argument. Here's an excerpt from an article in the Seattle Times addressing precisely your point:

Many car drivers complain bitterly about motorcycle riders. They say riders exceed speed limits, and indeed speed was a factor in more than half the deaths of riders between ages 21 and 30 from 1993 to 2001 in Washington state. They say riders drive while drunk, and indeed alcohol was involved in 109 of the 365 accidents. They also say that riders weave in and out of traffic, pass on the right and don't signal. So, to them, the findings of a NHTSA-funded study, the most comprehensive ever conducted on motorcycle safety, may come as a surprise. Looking at 4,500 accidents in Los Angeles, researchers found that when motorcycles and other vehicles collided, it is usually the driver in the car who violated the motorcyclist's right of way. While that study was done in 1981, periodic looks at state police reports in Washington suggest its findings hold true today, said Dave Wendell, program manager for Evergreen Motorcycle Safety Training in Seattle. "Car drivers don't see us because they're not looking for us," Wendell said. "They're looking for something at least 6 feet wide with two headlights."

The full text is here.

I would post examples from The NYTimes, but they don't let you see previous issues of the paper online for free. However, as I recall their picks closely mirrored The Washington Post's:

The Washington Post
Top Story: Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared
No. 2 Story: SEC Charges WorldCom With Fraud
No. 3 Story: U.S. Court Votes to Bar Pledge of Allegiance

The Los angeles Times
Top Story: 'Tweens: From Dolls to Thongs
One of the store mannequins wears a fringed denim skirt riding low on the hips and a top pushed high on the midriff. Another has shorts that roll down on the tummy and a one-shoulder top.
No. 2 Story: Pledge of Allegiance Violates Constitution, Court Declares
No. 3 Story: WorldCom Hit With Federal Fraud Lawsuit

The Los Angeles Times shows a consistent bias toward "Reader's Digest" type stories that are entertaining and give you something to gossip about but don't really tell you anything of value. I also get the sense that many LA Times reporters are really failed screenplay writers who can't let go of the need to create drama. However, they do occasionally print something worth reading.

The LA Times is owned by The Chicago Tribune , which puts even less original content on its Web site and is more "in-your-face" about pressuring you to subscribe.

I suspect Slashdot would link to The Wall Street Journal more often if the paper made more than 1% of its content available to non-paying subscribers. (I had a paid subscription to wsj.com for about a year, but I no longer do because it's just not worth that much to me.)

I'd like to read Le Monde , but the French refuse to publish an English version. Go figure.

All of Knight-Ridder's newspapers (The San Jose Mercury News , Miami Herald , Philadelphia Inquirer , et al) have been crippled by the "RealCities Network" which forces all of its sites to use the same content-poor, ad-rich design. The saddest story of the group is the SJMercury though, which has just fallen apart since the parent company began slashing costs and forcing the RealCities conformity on its once industry-leading site. The Miami Herald is an unofficial training school for future Washington Post reporters, but that doesn't matter if you can't find their content on the Web.

Slashdot doesn't link to the Financial Times often (ever?), though it's a great paper. It just doesn't turn out a lot of unique content that's of interest to most Slashdot readers.

Newspapers aside, Slashdot has linked to CNN and the BBC in the past, though not the CBC . ABC, CBS and NBC generally provide watered down news for people who don't like to read newspapers -- not Slashdot readers.

Slashdot often links to MSNBC , but I expect that will begin to decline -- MSNBC.com's founding editor (Merrill Brown, a former Washington Post reporter) recently announced that he's resigning after 6 years to pursue other, undisclosed "opportunities." The New York Times noted on June 12 (you'll have to pay for the archived version of the story) that he offhandedly mentioned that MSNBC.com is about to be swallowed by MSN for economic reasons. (In other words, Microsoft put its foot down and said financial concerns outweigh editorial concerns.)

The International Herald-Tribune writes some of its own content, but a lot of the paper is an amalgamation of New York Times and Washington Post stories.

I haven't read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or the Seattle Times in a while, but you may find some good technology stories there.

Bottom Line: Slashdot links to a disproportionate number of New York Times and Washington Post stories because both papers' sites post a lot of content and that content is top notch. It also helps that they're among the most recognizable names in journalism, but the Slashdot system is set up to allow editors to pick from the best stories that are submitted, regardless of the content provider's brand recognition. If you read a good story somewhere, submit it -- the quality of the story is more important than the misguided registration policies of the content provider. And if I've missed a good site people should be reading, reply to this message and let people know.

I need to find out what movies are playing? seattle.citysearch.com - Do I click on the ads? Never. I dont even need software that removes them from webpages. I just dont see them. But, the site was of use and told me what was playing and gave me the phone number to my favorite restaurant so I could make reservations. Oh? I can tip them for this service? I would be glad to. Darn, no tip jar.

I dont buy the newspaper, I read it online. Can I drop 25 cents somewhere? No, but I wish I could.

Web designers cost money, content costs money, bandwidth costs money, infomation costs money, you get the picture. Im sick of those whiney cheapskates who say the whole internet should be free. Get real. I have countless examples where I would love to tip a website for their services. Im not saying I should *have* to everytime I visit them, because everytime I go there I might not find what I need, but, make it voluntary. You want that website to stay around? tip for their services.

Some people say "I already pay for internet access". So? Do you think your ISP is keeping track of what sites you visit and then making micropayments to them for the content you are seeing? I think not.

It would be cool if Paypal or some other website would come along who would let me deposit, say, 20 bucks there. And any site I visited, I could tip if I wanted to. Im waiting for it, someone please do it! Im tired of visiting sites I like and finding out they went under.

Looks like it's on cNet, according to this story here.

Anyone seen it on CNN in Tech, or NY Times, or Washington Post yet? How about Seattle Times or Seattle Post-Intelligencer or Seattle Weekly or The Stranger?

Actually MS hasn't just started now, they have been giving quite a bit on money for some time now. Do a search for lobbyist and Microsoft and see for yoursef.

To be fair you are correct, this is what all major companies do so it's nothing unusual. It does seem sort of wrong though when you consider how many decisions are based on money and power instead of right and worng.

But alas...such is the state of the modern world.

It's a big difference. Micros~1 is on the ropes, but they might still make a comeback. However, they and the financial community know that they have serious troubles. I mean, heck have you seen poor, sad Bill Gates' commercials trying to rebuild M$'s (and his own) image? Despite everything, having a judge rule against you in a very public, potentially very damaging case is a big public relations loss.

AOL, though, has done a lot of shady things, and yet their image is hunky-dory in the public eye. Some shady things AOL has done:

1. Exploited High School students by having them work as AOL volunteers.

2. Practiced Trojan Horse Marketing.

3. Disclosed confidential information about its members.

And, well, the list goes on. The only thing we should worry about AOL competing with M$ in is shady business practices. I don't care if they continue to produce their crummy Internet service as long as they do so honestly and ethically. Their past track record, however, does not give me much confidence of this.

Of course, I never underestimate Bill Gates, he might make a comeback and beat all his enemies, sort of like Francis Urquhart in that BBC series...

But why does it have to be a competition between AOL and Micros~1, can't I hate both companies? ;_;

(And despite his many infamous deeds, I still prefer Bill Gates to the Soap Salesman. I can at least picture Bill reading Heinlein or Asimov.... I don't even want to imagine what the Soap Salesman reads... probably stuff about synergy and marketing brochures.)

This is one of the few internet issues where I'd really like to see a legal remedy... I don't know the American disability laws, but I would imagine that the same accessibility laws that mean you have to put in wheelchair ramps and the like would apply for these situations - I don't know how strong your disabled rights legislation is, but it seems pretty strong. One lawsuit with damages in the tens or hundreds of millions would hopefully be enough to get corporates off their butts and making their websites accessible. Mabye even use a blind celebrity to get publicity (get Stevie Wonder complaining he can't read the site of his record company for example!).

But money is the only thing that will move the corparates on this, and I don't think the loss of the blind dollar is enough. It looks like the AOL case is still going on, hopefully the damages there could be pretty big if the Judge is reasonable, as AOL have been entirely uncooperative in being blind friendly. The National Federation of the Blind states the technology exists, and other providers are using it including Mindspring and AT&T http://www. seattletimes.com/news/nation-world/html98/aoll_199 91105.htm

If you recall, Quark tried to take over Adobe a year and a half ago. Adobe is valued at something like one and a half billion dollars, and Quark (itself half the size of Adobe) was too small to take them over. What makes you think (relatively puny) Corel would succeed?

I'm with you. I haven't read a decent slashdot comment in a looong time.

...of course, the other alternative is to cremate her, smoke her ashes, and get stoned, incidentally jamming radio frequencies.

...but, that sounds more likely than waiting for some good slashdot moderation.

Please, moderate this *story* down, so we can get some News already.

Actually, here, I'll help. It's POSSIBLE SLASHDOT STORYTIME, boys and girls!

Let me just search through the OBITUARIES real quick.

OH MY GOD! Did you know that at least FOUR important people DIE in every MAJOR CITY in every AMERICAN NEWSPAPER, every DAY?!?!?!

I'll list a few here so you'll all be posted for tomorrow.

Seattle

Boston

Grosse Pointe

This just in: Only famous people in America in big cities *actually* die!

And you can read all about it in Slashdot! "News for Nerds; Dead people that Mattered".
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Jan 1 00:01:51 srv syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Jan 1 00:15:16 srv syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Jan 1 00:33:30 srv syslogd 1.3-3: restart

Not sure how long it was out for each time. It stayed on at least 4 mins based on another log entry (xntpd).

After searching the local online newspapers I found: "Just after midnight, there were momentary flickers in the north end of Capitol Hill and on Queen Anne Hill, attributed to fireworks going off too close to power lines."

So I guess we were just unlucky... Or do y2k fireworks count as a y2k bug? :-)

As was noted in The Economist (August 07th issue), and elsewhere, Microsoft has a great deal of undisclosed financial liability, including US$60 billion (yes, with a "B") worth of options debt to their employees that is coming due in the next few years. Were it not for the penchant of humans to live in denial for extended periods of time, the stock would be valued significantly lower, not higher.

Breaking up M$ might make them more valuable than they already are, by diluting the pryamid and allowing them to benefit from the "Baby Bell" phenominon, but it is unlikely that such benefits will come anywhere close to equalling the liability Microsoft has already taken on. In addition, such a breakup will not shield their "offspring" companies from lawsuits (both pending and yet to be filed), many of which, given the Findings of Fact, stand a good chance of going against Microsoft (or its predicessors).

Additional references here, here, and here.

Hmmmm. That URL gives a Forbidden error. In fact, all the stories on the Seattle Times site give forbidden errors. While I'm sure this is a temporary glitch, I was able to get at the story using their search engine. Hopefully this URL will work for other people.

After all the democrat representatives are more pro microsoft on the news shows than the republicans with the exception of the one from Redmond's district.

After Friday's big findings of fact release, Washington Governor Gary Locke was on the sound bites saying he disagreed with the judge, Microsoft was a wonderful corporation, blah blah blah.

Last night Gates co-hosted a fundraiser for Locke.

Seattle Times - Locke is the headliner, but Gates monopolizes the crowd

Microsoft's accounting practices have been under scrutiny for a while now. Check for example this Seattle Times story from July 1st about an SEC probe into alleged artificial manipulation of quarterly results.
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For the life of me, I can't find the link to it, but Yesterday's Seattle Times newspaper ran a front page story on "Foriegn Hackers attack Pentagon and military targets". The reporter cited a senate subcommitte's report on a code name project that was just made public by the Pentagon. I guess there is an extensive investigation going on where they (Pentagon) has traced back intrusions from Russian computers.

They claim "vast" amounts of information, most unclassified, was stolen from various departments. NASA is included in one of the attacks. This was done over a long period of time with out detection. It claimed they have no idea who is behind the attacks and don't know of any identities of attackers.

If you know anything about this, I'd love to hear more. I can't find any links out there that refer to this. All I have is a newspaper (which I'm not going to retype, sorry). Not even the Seattle Times website has a reference to it, even though it was their story.(?).

Anyway, thought this was relavant to the story above, except in reverse.

-colin.s-

http://www.seattle times.com/news/local/html98/hunt_19990621.html
They're already playing soldier, is this such a stretch?

The true importance of this news item never had anything to do with practical matters of security. If you're concerned with and knowledgeable about computer security, you're probably not using Windows -- especially if you're trying to keep the NSA out.

The real issue is the effect this story will have on Microsoft's international image. They are already considered to be very Americocentric (as are many other American companies, to be fair). Remember Microsoft's refusal to produce an Icelandic version of Windows? They ticked off lots of non-Americans with that move, not all of them in Iceland.

The idea that Microsoft would truckle to the whims of an American intelligence agency only worsens the problem. It didn't turn out to be true, but people aren't going to remember that. They'll remember the accusation far longer than they'll recall the exoneration.

It sucks, but the truth just isn't an important factor in shaping public opinion. Microsoft lost big on this one.

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"I'm not going to try to sort through this today," Dole said. "I'm talking about the use of the Internet. Almost any time you use the Internet, pornography is bound to come up."

Dole said that during her meeting with Gates, she complimented Microsoft executives for creating filtering software. She also told Gates she wants to make permanent a high-tech research-and-development tax credit.

She discussed legislation that would establish a 90-day "cooling-off period" after Jan. 1 to help waylay lawsuits that may stem from problems with Y2K computer viruses.

While she held off criticizing the Clinton Justice Department for pursuing antitrust charges against Microsoft, she thinks antitrust laws should be "reviewed with regard to the Information Age."

"I'm not going to try to sort through this today," Dole said. "I'm talking about the use of the Internet. Almost any time you use the Internet, pornography is bound to come up."

Dole said that during her meeting with Gates, she complimented Microsoft executives for creating filtering software. She also told Gates she wants to make permanent a high-tech research-and-development tax credit.

She discussed legislation that would establish a 90-day "cooling-off period" after Jan. 1 to help waylay lawsuits that may stem from problems with Y2K computer viruses.

While she held off criticizing the Clinton Justice Department for pursuing antitrust charges against Microsoft, she thinks antitrust laws should be "reviewed with regard to the Information Age."

I found one article about a town meeting. It seems like some people actually have a bit of a clue. I especially like the quote:

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge
Is the broken-down 520 bridge on last its legs?
Old span, new urgency
520 bridge reopens after costly shutdown
520 bridge may close more often as lower wind threshold considered
One step closer to 520 solution

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge
Is the broken-down 520 bridge on last its legs?
Old span, new urgency
520 bridge reopens after costly shutdown
520 bridge may close more often as lower wind threshold considered
One step closer to 520 solution

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge
Is the broken-down 520 bridge on last its legs?
Old span, new urgency
520 bridge reopens after costly shutdown
520 bridge may close more often as lower wind threshold considered
One step closer to 520 solution

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge
Is the broken-down 520 bridge on last its legs?
Old span, new urgency
520 bridge reopens after costly shutdown
520 bridge may close more often as lower wind threshold considered
One step closer to 520 solution

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge
Is the broken-down 520 bridge on last its legs?
Old span, new urgency
520 bridge reopens after costly shutdown
520 bridge may close more often as lower wind threshold considered
One step closer to 520 solution

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge
Is the broken-down 520 bridge on last its legs?
Old span, new urgency
520 bridge reopens after costly shutdown
520 bridge may close more often as lower wind threshold considered
One step closer to 520 solution

According to the report from the Seattle Times, the Win98 system was using a 56k modem while the Win3.1 system had a 33.6k one. The Win98 system could be 25% slower than the Win3.1 system and still appear faster.