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and another way to make it easier to classify american citizens as "terrorists".

because as we're already seeing, even the downloading of MP3s is considered terrorism.

Mike

This is why he's helping IBM.

George W. Bush

SCO ship a bunch of Linux stuff with their "LKP", (Linux Kernel Personality) add-on for UnixWare, and according to The Inquirer they've written to say:

Secondly we [SCO] have begun examining the Linux RPM CD which we ship with the UnixWare Media Kits to expunge any material which is thought to have any IP issues...

Within a few weeks we expect to have completed the purging of the Linux Kernel RPM and will be remastering a new CD which will allow customers to begin receiving UnixWare 7.1.3 Media Kits with the needed LKP materials.

KaZaA is about to break the all-time download record!

You too can join the KaZaA family today!

If I'm living in the Caribbean, I have to put up with car insurance offers and other geo-specific SpamSlop because the U.S. may say "Spamming within certain conditions is cool"?

Seems like every country needs SPAM laws for the U.S. to realize that it's an INTERNATIONAL problem. And it originates from one main country.

I have an idea. Have Oregon and other states make SPAM 'improper use of a computer' so it becomes a terrorism issue. Spamming is probably more of a terrorist act than some of the things on the list.

Think Intuit is giving up on drm?

Maybe timothy and the slashdot crowd should check their facts first, before crediting Intuit with anything.

Looks like Intuit's spin is working wonders.

Spin it again Sam.

"OVER THE WEEKEND Linux and Main reported that IBM might be about to hire Eric S. Raymond as a trial consultant to assist with its defense against SCO's billion-dollar intellectual property lawsuit.

I would agree, except that I don't see the end of this case being years off. SCO has stated a deadline by which they want IBM to buy them out -- June 13 -- or face having their Unix license for AIX revoked.

Since letting that deadline pass forms a"pick one OS to promote" dilemma, and also given that I don't see them giving up on their Linux or AIX development (given that their services are moving more and more to Linux on the small side, but they still promote AIX for high-end users) I expect a resolution before that date (but not much before it).

And given that IBM may have hired Eric Raymond as a "UNIX history consultant", I would say the outcome of this case is predetermined. (To be honest, I said the same about Eldred v. Ashcroft, but that didn't turn out as I expected.)

Weren't they the ones that offered UNIX licenses for US$99 to Linux users after first making the claim? I think they did try to 'work out some kind of licensing', but they didn't offer any proof of why end users should do it.

the inquirer article You have to take the inquirere with a grain of salt but it says:

"The libraries, which perform basic operations such as opening files, are currently licensed for use with with SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare Unix variants, but not with the UnitedLinux distribution that the company sells.

If the libraries are used in conjunction with a program called Linux-ABI, they make migration easier for companies moving from Unix to Linux and so it is believed that SCO is keen to make such customers pay for the privilege.

The SCO Group refused to confirm or deny the move"

"I think you meant to say that hacking the XBOX is a waste of your time."

Let me make sure this is clear: Hacking the XBOX is a waste of E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y'S time.

"As long as MS wants to sell these things cheaper than the cost of manufacture, people will want to buy it to potentially replace low end PCs, can't say I blame them."

Except you're not getting interesting hardware for a cheaper price here. Sorry, nothing of value here, especially when there's no software to drive them. Beef up the RAM and give it a VGA-Out, then maybe you got something here.

"I bet MS appreciates your attempt to slow the hacking of the XBOX, however little it may help."

I don't care of MS appreciates it or not. Nothing I'm talking about has anything to do with benefitting MS. It has to do with not horsing around with them so they enter the battle, especially when the cause to hack the XBOX is so weak. If it goes to court, 'fair use' will not hold up as long as there's no reason to hack the XBOX. All MS has to say is "They want to pirate games". What will the defense be? "Uh, no, we want a seriously inferior machine to run Linux on."

Pay attention to what's going on in the world today (like the DVD copying software that's in court now, about to lose...) and then tell me that hacking the XBOX is a good idea. Hell yeah I want them to slow down or even stop. It's bad enough we have Disney buying senators.

Actually, I believe that was 32 POWER 4s, not 970s (I'm sure I've seen something about that linked from /. as well, but a quick search didn't find it.).

Rikard

After reading an article about the finance minister of Thailand being trapped in his presumably Windows CE powered BMW, I would be a tad leery of entering an iLoo.

maybe you should consider linking to the page you took it from... The Inquirer

I have long suspected that the industry standard benchmarks have gotten a bit crazy in the past year. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9445 does a pretty good Job sumarizing my thoughts. The benchmarks don't add up. Last year's WinWhatever benchmarks give totally different results than this year's, even on new hardware. I actually think that AMD is *trying* to be genuine with their rating system, but I also think that special interests have corrupted mainstream benchmarks to make them an unusuable guide.

I've just been reading this: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9445 Very interesting claims about the validity of certain benchmarks. According to the inquirer the PC World bencharks are the only ones to be trusted. Also quite interesting what they are saying about how consumers have been ripped off for buying Celerons.

For a couple of looks at benchmarking, read these two articles:

Did AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ earn its rating?

AMD XP 3200+ benchmarks disable Intel hyperthreading

For a couple of looks at benchmarking, read these two articles:

Did AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ earn its rating?

AMD XP 3200+ benchmarks disable Intel hyperthreading

Some flaws in the analysis are pointed out here.

Found this, and was quite amused. Perhaps its going to be spookily accurate?

Dell, IBM, Sun and HP have been openly slating eachother for quite some time right now. Funny cartoons around will make it very difficult for any company to be happy with their overlords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bosses who have just bought them out. If anyone buys Sun then they will probably kill it off reather than have to manige a very angry workforce.

Dell, IBM, Sun and HP have been openly slating eachother for quite some time right now. Funny cartoons around will make it very difficult for any company to be happy with their overlords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bosses who have just bought them out. If anyone buys Sun then they will probably kill it off reather than have to manige a very angry workforce.

Dell, IBM, Sun and HP have been openly slating eachother for quite some time right now. Funny cartoons around will make it very difficult for any company to be happy with their overlords^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bosses who have just bought them out. If anyone buys Sun then they will probably kill it off reather than have to manige a very angry workforce.

I cannot confirm my self... now Windows machines here...

Here is their story

They have patented the Trash Icon....

iPod is Apple
iMac is Apple
iTunes, etc etc all Apples...

Steve, here is your chance to get even... The iLoo by all means, should be an apple product.....if you didn't know who made it, wouldnt you think its something made by Apple?

Then you might also want to have a look at these:
The INQUIRER, Andrew Busigin and Opera
Opera is lovely really
Opera: an apology

Then you might also want to have a look at these:
The INQUIRER, Andrew Busigin and Opera
Opera is lovely really
Opera: an apology

Then you might also want to have a look at these:
The INQUIRER, Andrew Busigin and Opera
Opera is lovely really
Opera: an apology

Andrew Busigin says: "The best advice I have, is to disregard the article entirely, until a more complete and competent analysis can be properly prepared, reviewed, and published."

So instead of talking shit about it, how about you all go read a story that I submitted to Slashdot about 4 times, but of course, got rejected.

Opera is Spyware?! - Check it out, made me think. But apparently /. really, really hates Unix, seeing as they posted a dupe to this story so soon. ;)

Could this guy be linked to SCO in some way? Funded by Microsoft?

Al Qaeda.

Ok. Doesn't matter. Nevermind.

It won't be called the PS3 anyway, Sony will name it something else.....

Ah, here's the text:
"Japanese web site PC Watch today claimed that Intel has put a stop to general shipments of the Pentium 4 3GHz and 800MHz chipset products because of a glitch discovered during testing.

If the report is correct - and we've contact Intel for clarification - it's rather an embarrassing admission.

The Japanese site thinks that Intel is using a small glitch as an excuse and in actual fact the problem is a severe limitation in supplies of the chipset and CPU.

Intel's embargo on the Canterwood chipset, which uses the 800MHz front side bus expired just a few hours ago, and there are already dozens of reviews of the product all over the world wide wibble."

Quote from Intel:

"Due to recent analysis, and given our commitment to quality, Intel will be placing the Pentium 4 processor at 3.00 GHz with an 800MHz bus on ship hold temporarily. In the course of our final testing in our validation lab environment, we have observed an anomaly on a very small number of the 800MHz bus processors. We are working to understand and resolve the issue and we hope to ship this new processor as soon as possible."

The German parliament which has just adopted DMCA-style provisions to outlaw the circumvention of technical protection measures that control and curtail the fair use of intellectual property (and only needs the other House's assent for part of the new legislation) makes Germany the third country, following Denmark and Greece, to implement the highly controversial "monstrosity" known as the European Union Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC.

This move, allegedly a "propaganda victory" dubbed "lex Bertelsmann" (after the giant media conglomerate expected to line their corporate pockets under the new laws) in furious disapproval by tech-savvy parts of the news media, makes Germany one of the early adopters setting an unfortunate precedent for further European countries like the UK and France whose citizens, and notably developers like Linux kernel guru Alan Cox, will probably not be spared from similar legislation for much longer either.

Although open-source researchers, cyber-rights activists and even the ruling Social Democrats' very own IT experts as well as hardware manufacturers underlined the severe dangers and inconsistencies of this new and doubtful philosophy extending copyright law to reduce many of the general public's rights to insignificance, in a debate focusing only on academic exemptions from the publishers' power grab, the opposition even tried to tighten the government's bill, ignoring widespread experiences of Chilling Effects such as censorship and assaults on the Freedom to Tinker during the past four years under the EUCD's U.S. counterpart of draconian "bad law and bad policy", the flawed Digital Millennium Copyright Act, another overreaching implementation of the

A closer relationship than that. The Inquirer was founded (about two years ago, I think) by Mike Magee, who previously founded and edited The Register, which continues in his absence.

By Cher Price: Thursday 10 April 2003, 09:32

CHIP FIRM Transmeta (TMTA) saw its shares decline by nearly seven per cent yesterday and its price closed on Wall Street last night at a lacklustre $1.

It's not the lowest Transmeta has ducked to, in mid October its share price was a lousy 74 cents. But it's a far cry from its heady days in May 2002 when the firm saw its price top $25.

Yesterday chip analyst firm In-Stat said that Intel's share in the notebook market was assured, despite competition from Via, AMD and Transmeta, although its average selling prices have declined.

We'll discover more when TMTA holds a conference call for investors a week from today.

Transmeta has recently announced some design wins, but so far has failed to really make any breakthrough matching the hype generated when it first was floated.

But it has some interesting patents and this may be the eventual saviour for the chip company, faced with continuing pressure from Intel, particularly in the thin and light marketplace.

NT has been running on AMD64 for more than a year now. There's a difference between porting the kernel and releasing a fully tested product with major application support (Exchange, SQL etc).

So your theory is that Microsoft has been sitting on it's hands all these years without porting to any of the readily available 64-bit platforms? Including Itanic, which has been around in beta incarnations for several years?

Of course not. In fact, there are released Itanium versions of XP and Windows 2000. I heard that before that, there was an internal 64-bit Alpha version of Win2K.

Intel would love to screw microsoft but I think Microsoft had a headake for a while and intel doesnt impress it any more.

Actually I think the programs be ready before the OS's. The inquirer has a long list of 'The willing'.

For instance, there are five varieties of Linux, three BSDs, Beowulf and Windows in the offing. Most of them have either already been released or are due to be released at the Opteron launch.

Database support is strong with IBM's DB2 leading the field; CA Ingres, Oracle and MS SQL Server are all set to follow.

MS has banned the computers using massively leaked WinXP key from its "windows update" site. That means computers using the leaked key cannot get any updates and security fixes until a service pack comes out.

MS may do the same thing for this key as well. Also, as other posters have pointed out, companies are less likely to use pirated keys because of piracy and support issues.

More information here.

I think that it will be just a matter of time until similar news will come from rest of Asia, Europe and finally USA.

Here. Includes USB blanket, USB toothbrush and USB coffee warmer. And that stuff isn't dated April 1.

The Register and The Inquirer have fought for our attention in the last couple of years. And I think this Inquirer's story beated the Register's one, at least because it was published one day earlier. And also because it didn't mention Linux, which is not really the engine behind the robot, but it tallks about neural networks software, which is the real tool used to train the robot.

I'm not sure about that "madhatter", but I know about this Mad Hatter (McNealy that Mad Hatter anyway).

I emailed Office Depot Customer Service about this policy. This was their response:

From: "Customer-Relations"<Customer.Relations@OfficeDepo t.com>
To: "'XXXXXXX@yahoo.com'" <XXXXXXX@yahoo.com>
Subject:Ref Number: 0459208A
Date:Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:30:31-0500


Dear Mr. XXXXXX:

We are in receipt of your E-mail and thank you for your interest in Office Depot. The article you mention in your E-mail contains inaccuracies in both the information presented and the conclusions drawn. Office Depot will continue to carry a broad array of products in its stores. In addition, through our website, www.techdepot.com, we stock over 60,000 different technology items and will continue to stock them. In fact, the broad assortment stocked by our www.techdepot.com website is accessible in all of our stores via our Internet kiosk. We trust this fuller explanation addresses the concerns that you expressed.

Sincerely

Customer Relations
Office Depot, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXXXX@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:12 AM
To: Orders
Subject: 1407 Other Company Information

Name: XXXXXXX XXXXXX
email: XXXXXXX@yahoo.com
Phone Number:
Order No:
Web Account:

Response Requested

Message: According to this article, Office Depot will drop all products not carrying the "Windows XP" logo:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8472
I shop at Office Depot. I want access to a variety of products, including those computer products which do not bear Microsoft's approval. Please, drop this policy, and continue to stock products which do not bear Microsoft's logo.

Unsubstantiated claims? According to Inq, Al-Jazeera is now denying that they were DOS'ed.

Nothing to see...move along.

It looks like a pulse counter. How did they get a patent on an application for a widely known and used device?