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This article title isn't that misleading, but a couple other ones I read gave that impression moreso. It's all the same bullshit memo from the FBI, but different people tried to skew it into a more interesting story to varying degrees:

• http://www.upside.com/News/3d5aaa991.html
• http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103965,0 0.asp

There was another one I read before that was even worse, but I can't seem to find it now. You can read the actual letter from the FBI here though: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03884.html.

actually Intel has been going more and more against Microsoft. And AMD (at least according to an interview with AMD's CEO) has been working with microsoft to get their Hammer's paired with MS's new operating system. While there are parallels between the two company's ways of doing business, as you say...their alliance seems to be splitting.

An interesting thought: AMD teams with MS on it's next operating system, leaving Intel out in the cold...and Intel pushes Linux. Intel might lose market share as i think MS has a more powerful grip on its monopoly. But such a situation could only help AMD, and perhaps linux too. Or is it all just a crazy theory?

I can't point you to any statistics or studies of the fact, but I think you'll agree with me when I cite the fact that while approximately one in two households has Internet connectivity, the lacking half is likely to have lower income. It's that whole "Digital Divide" thing that Bush has been talking about.

Furthermore, not to slight Walmart shoppers, but the majority of Walmart shoppers come from the lower income brackets. Putting two and two together, the majority of Walmart shoppers don't have Internet access.So your Internet comment is way off base. Besides...I think plenty of people proved that you can't run a business by selling groceries and petfood online.

DotCom Graveyard 2000
DotCom Graveyard 2001

And how do they eliminate the mom and pop stores?

When you stop shopping at them

And why do people stop shopping at them? Because of the above reasons. When the majority of Walmart's shoppers are in lower income brackets, they have a tendency of placing more value in the almighty buck than they do of community relationships and small business. You can try all you want to say that it's my fault that Walmart wins, but the fact of the matter is that Walmart is bigger than me and I have no hope of winning when they undercut all the other stores in town. So go ahead...shop at your mom and pop store. Don't come to me and complain when they close because nobody else did, and you couldn't convince them to do otherwise.

In the end, the rich really do rule the world, because they can make the poor their unwitting slaves. Think about it.

I can't point you to any statistics or studies of the fact, but I think you'll agree with me when I cite the fact that while approximately one in two households has Internet connectivity, the lacking half is likely to have lower income. It's that whole "Digital Divide" thing that Bush has been talking about.

Furthermore, not to slight Walmart shoppers, but the majority of Walmart shoppers come from the lower income brackets. Putting two and two together, the majority of Walmart shoppers don't have Internet access.So your Internet comment is way off base. Besides...I think plenty of people proved that you can't run a business by selling groceries and petfood online.

DotCom Graveyard 2000
DotCom Graveyard 2001

And how do they eliminate the mom and pop stores?

When you stop shopping at them

And why do people stop shopping at them? Because of the above reasons. When the majority of Walmart's shoppers are in lower income brackets, they have a tendency of placing more value in the almighty buck than they do of community relationships and small business. You can try all you want to say that it's my fault that Walmart wins, but the fact of the matter is that Walmart is bigger than me and I have no hope of winning when they undercut all the other stores in town. So go ahead...shop at your mom and pop store. Don't come to me and complain when they close because nobody else did, and you couldn't convince them to do otherwise.

In the end, the rich really do rule the world, because they can make the poor their unwitting slaves. Think about it.

According this article, they don't. They primarily avoid Microsoft software and use Dreamweaver for designing.

Hmmm, I wonder if the porn shops will soon have more openings for Linux folks... My wife wouldn't like it, but I think it would be a great work environment ;-)

Old news.

The pornographer's favorite operating system is FreeBSD. See Business Lessons From Online Porn [upside.com]. It's probably because you only want the performers going down, not the servers.

Explain lucent in the shitter. If she was a man, she would have been fired from HP already. Read up on her. BTW, she is selling off her HP stock like it sucks shit - oh wait, it does! http://www.upside.com/HardwareSoftware/3b8188a90_y ahoo.html http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3b7c3fe01 "Earnings per share from continuing operations was 11 cents, down substantially from the 50 cents per share it earned in last year's quarter ending in June." About Agilent, a good spinoff setup by CARLY Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - news) was up 36 cents at $26.45, rebounding from lows since it was spun off from Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news). The electronics testing equipment maker said it would slash 9 percent of its work force as it struggles to restructure its business amid persistently soft demand. The company also posted a quarterly loss and forecast another loss in the fourth quarter. CEO and President Dumping her own stock. 17-Jul-01 FIORINA, CARLETON S Chief Executive Officer,Officer and Director,President 87,817 HWP Disposed by Private Transaction at $26.43/Share. Surrendered Value of $2,320,564. (Real real faither in HER stock) And the Noble RELATIVES buying the stock... 30-Nov-00 HEWLETT, WALTER B Director 120,000 HWP Purchased at $32.98/Share. Cost of $3,957,600. HP shares fall 18% http://www.businessweek.com:/2001/01_08/b3720003.h tm She pitted VARs of HP and Her own sales against each other. Carly. What a stain. More comments on CARLY!!! PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 12, 2001 -- William R. Hewlett, co-founder and former president of Hewlett-Packard Company, and one of the United States' foremost business leaders, technologists and philanthropists, died at home in his sleep at 8 a.m. PST today of natural causes. He was 87 years old. "Our hearts go out to the families, as we join them in mourning the loss of a great and gentle man," said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We, as stewards of his legacy, will cherish and nurture Bill's bright spirit of invention, remembering and celebrating the rich heritage that he and Dave entrusted us with." Here are the naughty marketing words/phrases. "Our hearts go out to the families..." - cliché expression. Lame. " gentle man...," - she doesn't know what he is like, he retired in 1978. She wants us to believe she isn't doing this because she is the chairman and CEO, and has to say SOMETHING, no, she KNEW Hewlett. Good ole Bill. ".. as stewards of his legacy..." - What is this? Phraseology from a 5 star novel? Does this idiot think she is Ayn Rand? Can't she just say he died and it sucks? NO, she has to eulogize in a press statement. ".. cherish and nurture Bill's bright spirit.." - Is this idiot a hippie? Of all the off limits words to use so as not to seem non-chalant and cliché about someone's passing, cherish and nurture. She doesn't know "Bill," he quit in '79. She was probably 25 and learning how to be an asshole at Stanford where she got her bachelors in MEDIEVAL HISTORY. The last line of her marketing tripe/dribble is so shitty I have no words for it. FACTS about CARLY. This dumb bitch knows nothing about anything over the ten year period. She has no vision or foresight. ### Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent a total of nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent. During the past two years, as president of Lucent's Global Service Provider Business, the division dramatically increased its growth rate, rapidly expanded its international revenues and gained market share in every region across every product line. In addition, she spearheaded the planning and execution of Lucent's 1996 initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T, one of the largest and most successful IPOs ever. ### Well, Lucent is almost out of business as we speak. A poetic note. The shareholder is the LAST person to care about in a Sci-Tech firm. Sorry, but the dollar and the bottom line cannot supercede engineering excellence. She became president and chief executive officer of HP on July 17, 1999, succeeding Lewis E. Platt, who previously had announced his intention to retire. On July 23, 1999, Fiorina was elected to the company's board of directors. Fiorina was named chairman of the board on Sept. 22, 2000. NEWSFLASH: When Carly took hold of HP, stock price was $30/share. Now its $37. Did she beat the DOW? The NASDAQ? The S&P. No. She did horribly. She made the stock start to turn around in price by making crappier product and canceling programs such as OpenMail. Don't look for HP in the future. BY the way, don't look to HP in the Biotech industry. They don't make enough on chromatography machine, vital for medical and chemical research, or on mass spectrometers. Or on oscilloscopes. Don't even BOTHER looking on the web site for those products, they aren't worth marketing apparently. HP has removed all of its "front page" marketing for the godly mass specs and liquid chromatography machines. Even though they enable scientists and doctors to make new discoveries, selling a cheap fucking plastic desk jet means more money for her and her greedy shithead shareholders. CARLY doesn't want to beat the NASDAQ anyway - she isn't smart enough to: ### HP CEO sees no upturn until 2002 at earliest STOCKHOLM, June 17 (Reuters) - The chief executive of U.S. computer hardware maker Hewlett-Packard was quoted on Sunday as saying that no market upturn was in sight until 2002. Carly Fiorina, on a one-day visit to Sweden, told the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter in an interview that companies in the technology sector were currently trying to adapt to rapidly shrinking markets. ``I never shared the view of a short-term downturn in the United States that many had. It is getting ever more obvious that it was no short-term downturn. I think it is quite clear that there won't be any improvement until 2002,'' Fiorina said. ### Fiorina holds a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University; OH BE STILL MY BEATING HEART. So relevant to running an engineering company. a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md. Great, she has been mandated by a University in the D.C. area... NO RED TAPE there. The Campus is a shitty area and Washington DC as a center for commerce? Try Columbia or Stern in NEW YORK CITY. and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School. Master of Science? Is that Masters of Scientific Mental Masturbation? What? Electrical Engineering? Software Design? Chemistry? WHAT!? Science? Wow, she was mandated by the number one school in the country. Good job with Lucent, Shithead Fiorina.

Explain lucent in the shitter. If she was a man, she would have been fired from HP already. Read up on her. BTW, she is selling off her HP stock like it sucks shit - oh wait, it does! http://www.upside.com/HardwareSoftware/3b8188a90_y ahoo.html http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3b7c3fe01 "Earnings per share from continuing operations was 11 cents, down substantially from the 50 cents per share it earned in last year's quarter ending in June." About Agilent, a good spinoff setup by CARLY Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - news) was up 36 cents at $26.45, rebounding from lows since it was spun off from Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news). The electronics testing equipment maker said it would slash 9 percent of its work force as it struggles to restructure its business amid persistently soft demand. The company also posted a quarterly loss and forecast another loss in the fourth quarter. CEO and President Dumping her own stock. 17-Jul-01 FIORINA, CARLETON S Chief Executive Officer,Officer and Director,President 87,817 HWP Disposed by Private Transaction at $26.43/Share. Surrendered Value of $2,320,564. (Real real faither in HER stock) And the Noble RELATIVES buying the stock... 30-Nov-00 HEWLETT, WALTER B Director 120,000 HWP Purchased at $32.98/Share. Cost of $3,957,600. HP shares fall 18% http://www.businessweek.com:/2001/01_08/b3720003.h tm She pitted VARs of HP and Her own sales against each other. Carly. What a stain. More comments on CARLY!!! PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 12, 2001 -- William R. Hewlett, co-founder and former president of Hewlett-Packard Company, and one of the United States' foremost business leaders, technologists and philanthropists, died at home in his sleep at 8 a.m. PST today of natural causes. He was 87 years old. "Our hearts go out to the families, as we join them in mourning the loss of a great and gentle man," said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We, as stewards of his legacy, will cherish and nurture Bill's bright spirit of invention, remembering and celebrating the rich heritage that he and Dave entrusted us with." Here are the naughty marketing words/phrases. "Our hearts go out to the families..." - cliché expression. Lame. " gentle man...," - she doesn't know what he is like, he retired in 1978. She wants us to believe she isn't doing this because she is the chairman and CEO, and has to say SOMETHING, no, she KNEW Hewlett. Good ole Bill. ".. as stewards of his legacy..." - What is this? Phraseology from a 5 star novel? Does this idiot think she is Ayn Rand? Can't she just say he died and it sucks? NO, she has to eulogize in a press statement. ".. cherish and nurture Bill's bright spirit.." - Is this idiot a hippie? Of all the off limits words to use so as not to seem non-chalant and cliché about someone's passing, cherish and nurture. She doesn't know "Bill," he quit in '79. She was probably 25 and learning how to be an asshole at Stanford where she got her bachelors in MEDIEVAL HISTORY. The last line of her marketing tripe/dribble is so shitty I have no words for it. FACTS about CARLY. This dumb bitch knows nothing about anything over the ten year period. She has no vision or foresight. ### Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent a total of nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent. During the past two years, as president of Lucent's Global Service Provider Business, the division dramatically increased its growth rate, rapidly expanded its international revenues and gained market share in every region across every product line. In addition, she spearheaded the planning and execution of Lucent's 1996 initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T, one of the largest and most successful IPOs ever. ### Well, Lucent is almost out of business as we speak. A poetic note. The shareholder is the LAST person to care about in a Sci-Tech firm. Sorry, but the dollar and the bottom line cannot supercede engineering excellence. She became president and chief executive officer of HP on July 17, 1999, succeeding Lewis E. Platt, who previously had announced his intention to retire. On July 23, 1999, Fiorina was elected to the company's board of directors. Fiorina was named chairman of the board on Sept. 22, 2000. NEWSFLASH: When Carly took hold of HP, stock price was $30/share. Now its $37. Did she beat the DOW? The NASDAQ? The S&P. No. She did horribly. She made the stock start to turn around in price by making crappier product and canceling programs such as OpenMail. Don't look for HP in the future. BY the way, don't look to HP in the Biotech industry. They don't make enough on chromatography machine, vital for medical and chemical research, or on mass spectrometers. Or on oscilloscopes. Don't even BOTHER looking on the web site for those products, they aren't worth marketing apparently. HP has removed all of its "front page" marketing for the godly mass specs and liquid chromatography machines. Even though they enable scientists and doctors to make new discoveries, selling a cheap fucking plastic desk jet means more money for her and her greedy shithead shareholders. CARLY doesn't want to beat the NASDAQ anyway - she isn't smart enough to: ### HP CEO sees no upturn until 2002 at earliest STOCKHOLM, June 17 (Reuters) - The chief executive of U.S. computer hardware maker Hewlett-Packard was quoted on Sunday as saying that no market upturn was in sight until 2002. Carly Fiorina, on a one-day visit to Sweden, told the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter in an interview that companies in the technology sector were currently trying to adapt to rapidly shrinking markets. ``I never shared the view of a short-term downturn in the United States that many had. It is getting ever more obvious that it was no short-term downturn. I think it is quite clear that there won't be any improvement until 2002,'' Fiorina said. ### Fiorina holds a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University; OH BE STILL MY BEATING HEART. So relevant to running an engineering company. a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md. Great, she has been mandated by a University in the D.C. area... NO RED TAPE there. The Campus is a shitty area and Washington DC as a center for commerce? Try Columbia or Stern in NEW YORK CITY. and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School. Master of Science? Is that Masters of Scientific Mental Masturbation? What? Electrical Engineering? Software Design? Chemistry? WHAT!? Science? Wow, she was mandated by the number one school in the country. Good job with Lucent, Shithead Fiorina.

This is your second chance, boys and girls:

What Would We Do Without SourceForge? We should really talk about this. It is no joke. If SourceForge took a dive, many folks would be screwed in a major way. What are your backup plans? I'm not joking here. Take a look at VA Linux's stock price. It doesn't look good. Sourceforge is a cost for VA Linux, no matter what they say. While it does promote Linux in general, which is good for them, it eats cash.

Oh, still don't beleive me? VA Linux posts Q3 loss, revenues down 41%. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. What happens if VA Linux takes a dive? SourceForge dies. However, beforeVA dies, it will kill SourceForge to save money. That's no FUD, child.

Money makes the software world go around and around. Microsoft continues to dominate. Bill Gates and Microsoft have had an amazing decade and plenty of good fortune, and there is no sign their joy ride will stop. A viable financial model for Open Source must rise. Someone needs to figure out how OpenSource and capitalism can catalyze each other.

Forget about Micro$oft in all of this. What is the business model for the entire movement? Forget about Linux or BSD or Apache. What can the OpenSource movement do that will generate gobs and gobs of cash?

I keep bringing this topic up, and I still am left wanting more. No good answers come from my questions. OpenSource just feels too much like socialism and brotherly love and sharing. Forget about the group hug, people! Where is the cash? Where are the OpenSource Capitalist Pigs?

Upside.com has an article covering this mess.

Upside.com has an article covering this mess.

I'm glad to see this happen, though the worst damage to Rambus was almost certainly not done by patent infringement but by their own excessive use of litigation. The company put so much effort and resources into it that they're adversely affected their profits as described here. I still think they could be a good company and maybe the drop in profits and the courts' unwillingness to award them the settlements they were seeking will serve as a wake-up call to them.

An another article discusses how an AI researcher is developing bot's with cutting edge AI.

I have to wonder if this is in response to that move. They didn't annouce any release date so this could be yet another Micros~1 FUD tactic.

The comedy channel thought of doing this until Viacom snuffed it out.

Actually, the copyright that now exists was hijacked by Republic pictures.

It's still an oustanding idea though.

Indeed, Graham emphasized in an interview that the attacks were "limited to the AIM system. No one on the AOL platform has had their security compromised."

According to this UpsideToday story, one of the most popular things at this year's Comdex is not Embedded Linux Handhelds, it's a headband with little red blinking demon horns from BSDi. And we all know how popular the booth babes from BSDi were at various Linux conventions ...

As the story says:
Attendees ranging from twentysomething men to white-haired couples were lined up to collect the headbands from the software and services company, which uses a dough-eyed red demon character as its mascot.

Jordan Hubbard, vice president of BSDi, said the company went through 4,000 headbands and tails in just one day.

"They love the horns," he said, and the company loves the brand awareness they create.

Hmm, let me think. "tits up"... Pretty sure that's not the case. I mean, recent financial data doesn't seem to support it : webMethods breaks even a year ahead of schedule.

http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0 is the correct link to the article about openBSD

Check out this thread on Apache usage in the pr0n industry (the logic being that pr0n sites take way more hits than "normal" sites), and try this article on Yahoo's experience on traffic/load balancing on BSD. Oh yeah, there's this article on why the pr0n industry uses BSD and not M$. "Welcome to Earth - A subsidary of Microsoft"

i found the upside article slashdot posted last july...you can read it here.

Try here instead.

Speaking of MP3s, The Offspring just royally pissed off Sony today. Here is the story about them putting their next album on the web.

Gotta love anarchy!


Vote Nader

Wall Street analysts would argue with that assessment. And even if Sourceforge went away tomorrow, I greatly doubt (m)any of the projects on it would be cancelled. Most of them had some form of that infrastructure before, and they can have it again.

There is an interesting article at Upside on this whole situation. In my opinion, the most chilling part of this situation is found at the end of the article. LinuxWorld was the original source of the link and Upside has their editor-in-chief saying that they are considering whether or not to remove the link. Personally, I think some letters-to-the-editor at LinuxWorld are in order, since I think this reconsideration will not go over well with LinuxWorld's readership. For those who are curious, LinuxWorld is owned by IDG Communications, which (amazingly?) is not owned by an MPAA member. They do, however, partner with subsidiaries of MPAA members like CNN.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the people that got this ball rolling since I mentioned the link on discuss.userland.com where Dave Winer picked it up for Scripting News.

In related news, AOL Time Warner is suing MP3Board.com for a service that is very similar to one offered by AOL. The full story is available at http://www.upside.com/News/398f5056 0_yahoo.html . Michael Roberston of MP3.com had some very insightful things to say in the article about AOL's Winamp service, calling it possibly the most aggressive in promoting what Time Warner considers piracy. For instance, unlike Napster which just acts as a directory service, AOL's service provides actual storage for songs you find.

This Upside article pretty much summarizes most of the recent issues being litigated as a result of the Internet's gold rush and the turf protecting efforts by the big boys. I'm sure there are more, but expect this list to grow longer (I'm surprised no sites have complained about About.Com or AskJeeves framing external links within their own ad-displaying framesets. I guess reason reigns over most of the Web since framed sites ought to realize that these services bring in traffic so why bite the hand?)

Theo de Raadt said in a recent article that he was getting at least one venture capitalist calling him a week - and that he's turning down the offers. He's just not interested in going that route at all. I would think the GNU-like minded folks might respect that, but who knows?

Here's the qoute from the upside interveiw with de Raadt (Its down at the bottom of the page):

Next to shooting down potential investors -- "I'm basically getting somebody trying to offer us venture capital once a week"
--Theo de Raadt

In both cases it seems like the slightly more well thought out European standards are trying to be dragged down to US level, most probably by corporate interests.

Fortunately it seems like there is some resistance building both in Europe and in America. One can only hope that common sense will prevail.

According to the Upside article, "For its part, Real Networks Inc. (RNWK) submitted written comments arguing that none of its streaming media technologies should be exempted from the anti-circumvention rules. According to Real Networks, its use of technological copyright protection measures has actually made more content available to the public because copyright owners are more inclined to distribute their content over the Internet without fear of widespread piracy. ..This is not the first time Real Networks has sung the praises of the DMCA. Earlier this year, it successfully used the DMCA's 'anti-device' provisions to enjoin Streambox Inc. from distributing the Streambox VCR. According to Real Networks, the Streambox VCR circumvented Real Media's technological protection measures to allow users to record Real Media files."

But according to www.streambox.com ( a press release dated Jan. 18, 2000), the judge actually repealed a restraining order preventing Streambox from selling Streambox Ripper, which "enables consumers and content providers to convert RealNetworks files into Windows Media, MP3 and WAV formats." The statement goes on to ask Real to release the proprietary format on their copy switch so that owners of copyrighted material can choose to use Streambox VCR to turn on the copy switch or not.

It would appear that Streambox would be adversely affected by the form of the DMCA that Real Networks is lobbying for. And it is rather interesting that Microsoft Corp. appears to have invested in Steambox.

Would any Streambox or Microsoft people care to join the protest against the DMCA?

I repeat, it's not only free software people or digital pirates who oppose the DMCA. Most corporations ought to understand that it operates against their interests as well. And every citizen will be affected if media giants can turn all content into "pay-per-view". What do you suppose our kids in school will be viewing on their computers, courtesy of Intel, Microsoft, AOL, Disney, Time-Warner, and the RIAA and their friends?

Despite all of the recent bad press, M$ still has a dominate control of the market. And with that will come followers that will, not matter how ill informed, stand up behind them. Not all reporters will see this as "Microsoft subverts standards and strongarms little guys."

Upside Today had a good report on this awhile back. I found it again, and you can read it here. It's called "Digital TV: What a mess", to give you an idea of the slant. :) The article talks about data delivery from a slightly different angle, in terms of interests and profit motives, and gives an overview of all parties involved: cable, broadcasters, FCC, consumers, equipment makers and policy makers. It has an obvious bias, and the typical Upside sensationalist tone, but taught me a lot of new things about how we got to where we are with HDTV.

I believe the joke is yours. If Mandrake weren't taking ideas from Red Hat, there simply would be no Mandrake as we know it today. The opposite is probably just as true.

Maybe you should read the recent article on Mandrake and the relationship between them and Red Hat (previously featured on the beloved /.) for some really nice quotes on this.

Ran across this article on UpsideToday, entitled R.I.P. reverse engineering?

Ran across this article on UpsideToday, entitled R.I.P. reverse engineering?

Genomic (and anti-genomics) Links [To Top]

Mapping the Icelandic Genome. "An Anthropology of the scientific, political, economic, religious, and ethical issues surrounding the deCode Project and its global implications." Contains useful pointers.

Indigenous people's coalition against biopiracy.

The Human Genome Diversity Project as explained by Stanford Professor and posted on the U.N. website.

Various UN reports on the Genome question.

An Outline : Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) Background.

Cultural Survival has issue 20.2 (sum 1996) dedicated to 'Genes, People, and Property' issues.

The archive for discover magazine. Nov. 1994 issue has a few articles about genome and diversity.

The gene letter. The Nov. 96 issue has an HGDP article.

High school lesson plan for teaching students about the HGDP.

"The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome." An excellent book review with bibliography and online resources.

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has a Bibliography Page about the HGP.

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of the HGP.

The Human Genome Diversity Project: Scientific, Social and Ethical Issues .

A list of articles from Native-L mailing list, listing all articles related to HGDP posted to the list.

Six papers given at various genome-related conferences. Topics include:

*"Why Human Genetics is a Social Science"
* "Racism, Eugenics, and the Burdens of History"
* "Scientific and Folk Idea About Heredity"
* "The Spectrum of Human Variation"
* "The Human Germ-Plasm Project: Eugenics in the 1920s and the 1990s."

Native net letter to HGDP scientists.

Pilot Projects for a Human Genome Diversity Project - Special Competition.

Molecular Anthropology Symposium at Stanford.

Seeds of Destruction. A must read for anyone who eats french fries or is concerned with genetically modified crops.

Also see Patents and Jumpstations.

Comics [To Top]

Angels of Health/Medicine Cartoon by Quino. Here is another one of a dis-orderly girl.

Patent$ and Thing$ [To Top]

An Upside article discussing patents and its history. Very informative.

Gene Patents and Bioethics.

6,000 human gene patents sought in BBC News and also the Washington Post.

American Society of Human Genetics Position Paper on Patenting of Expressed Sequence Tags.

of course the list is continually updated, ... hope this helps, bobbaqATyouknowHOO

This article is fluffy, indeed... I read a couple of much better ones on the subject, and they said this new product is going to use the Voice Xpress engine for recognition, and that works with speaker profiles. But anyway, it's the same with keyboards : they don't check the finger prints of the person who is typing either (you need a password). Granted, saying your password out loud in public probably isn't a good idea either :-)

For slightly better articles, try here and here.

This article is fluffy, indeed... I read a couple of much better ones on the subject, and they said this new product is going to use the Voice Xpress engine for recognition, and that works with speaker profiles. But anyway, it's the same with keyboards : they don't check the finger prints of the person who is typing either (you need a password). Granted, saying your password out loud in public probably isn't a good idea either :-)

For slightly better articles, try here and here.

i just want to know, what EXACTLY does Andover.net do, besides buying up linux-related web sites? Are they simply buying them up to give them more sites to sell their advertising to? what gives? a co-worker of mine has suggested they change their name to HandOver.net, much more applicable to their business practices.

According to this Upside article, Andover started out as a software retailer and switched to buying up "techie" websites and living off the ad revenues when the Internet started to get big. When Linux became the next big thing, they started buying up Linux websites.

I found this Upside article on the VA/Andover purchase, and was suprised by how much of it made sense. It touches on some good points that ESR made, and doesn't fall into the trap of "introducing" Linux and Open Source.

• Andover always struck me as a company that saw Linux as a money-making opportunity, and Rob's comments about their occasional early attempt to influence his content only affirmed that.

  VA, on the other hand, has always done the right thing by the community, and since it has always been a Linux company (unlike Andover, who were a failing "tech" company before /.) ...

VA is not just a money-making opportunity? It could be argued that now it's VA that is the failing "tech" company. They've still failed to produce a profit, right?

Weren't you even a little concerned about Larry Augustin's answers in the recent Slashdot interview. He appeared to dodge at least one pointed question about lack of support for AMD processors and it's relationship to Intel's investment in VA. But, read the whole thing, he sure comes off as a businessman interested in making money first and foremost. In fact, the publicly traded nature of VA probably requires a fudiciary responsibility on Augustin's part to try and make money. Nothing wrong with this. I'm just pointing this out to you as you seem to believe differently.

I think clues to the motivation for this merger can be found in this interesting article.

Disclaimer: I work for Compaq. I have absolutely NOTHING to do with PC or PC Server sales marketing, support or service. However, I do work for Compaq. Compaq DOES view itself as a direct competitor to VA, so take this into account when reading the above.

For the record, Compaq is a company concerned primarily with making money. I don't deny it and I'm not casting aspersions in the direction of VA Linux for also being such a company.

-Jordan Henderson

Here's an article about /. and Andover.Net that you won't see passing the the submitter's desk. Upside takes an inside look at Slashdot and Andover net. The article is called Andover.Net's Media Kludge.

Here's an article that talks about these points, as well as some others. IMHO, you may be able to exist as bits, but you won't be the "you" you are now.

Upside Today

Secure Computing:
In the early 1970s the National Security Agency engaged a division of Honeywell's Air Space Defense Group to build what became the first firewall. From that beginning, the company spun off from Honeywell as a stand-alone organization in 1989, moved into the commercial firewall space in 1992,and went public in 1995.
Secure Computing's history

NSA:
"The ability to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communications--a capability in which the United States leads the world --gives our nation a unique advantage."
--NSA Mission Statement.

China:
"As a country, you really have to be in control of your own destiny," Keller says. "They don't want a sole source situation, especially when that sole source is coming from another country.They want to localize the product. And of course, there are issues of security. If you don't have control of the source code,there are security issues to be concerned about. It's a very important decision for them. Linux allows them the freedom to address all those issues."
Upside article on Red Flag Linux

Does anybody make any non-tech assosciations? It can't be this obvious right?
I mean, while everyone's talking why not bsd, how this is good or bad, contracts, business, bla bla bla........IS EVERYONE BLIND OR SOMETHING....or maybe it's just so obvious, that there's no way it could be......but i can ***guarantee*** that in the event of a real national security threat (like china bombing taiwan--as oppossed to ouzama bin laden), the NSA **will** be in charge.......the NSA is the guarantor of the US's existence. Whether conspiratorial or not, the effect is the same. These people live to destroy any real or perceived threat to national security, even if that threat takes the shape of a global community of programmers. This is about control, and both China and the NSA are steering in their own directions.

PAM_ALEXANDER == "A high powered and attractive female leader of a major PR house Alexander Ogilvy that has focused on High Tech and was started I believe in the Bay Area"

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#2 in the Upside Top 100 Flacks

Fast Company's April 1998 issue features Alexander Communications

In most of the world, there are marketplaces or bazaars where you go to buy stuff. If something looks useful, you ask the going price. The seller quotes kinda high, so you walk away.. Then the seller says, "well, how much can you pay?" The haggling begins, and in the end, you name your price, and the seller takes it or leaves it. There's millennia of "art" prior to this preposterous claim.. Adding an inhumane interface to it adds insult to injury..

Hopefully these gorillas will serious damage to each other and prove to those with common sense that ideas, especially age-old practices, are ill-defined as "property..

btw.. upside has a related st ory:

Even if your company neither directly nor indirectly employs infringing technology in its business, you could potentially still be sued for inducement to infringe merely for helping to sell or promote the products or services of a company that does so infringe. Given that the Internet is nothing if not a vast bazaar of hyperlinked, cross-promotional Web sites, this could be a problem of staggering proportions.

It remains unclear precisely how important patents will ultimately prove to be in shaping the dynamics of competition on the Net. What can be said with absolute assurance, however, is that patent-driven business wars are soon going to be commonplace on the Net.

When I think of money, I think of making politicial change. You can get a hint of the changes I'm contemplating if you read my Upside interview. So, you might have a bunch of free-software philantrophists working for the ideals we share, with money to support that work. Can that be bad?

Thanks

Bruce

Here are some links from people as qualified as some of the so called experts polled by Slashdot

• http://www.upside.com/te xis/mvm/opinion/story?id=382760110
• http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991108S 0001
• http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/

At least one of these has already been hashed out on Slashdot and in typical fashion deemed FUD because it sided with Microsoft. I really don't expect the typical /. poster to accept anything from the Microsoft site, but that article shows another side to the story than what is generally posted here. I noticed you ignored my example of the judge contridicting himself in the FoF, if Jackson is so all knowing and infaliable how can this be?

On upside.com...

A bit about his "good nature", etc... click here.