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Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Its not "his site"

Its Radio Userland's site AKA radio.weblogs.com AKA the company that Dave Winer founded. Winer is the RSS / OPML / XML guy who is now at Harvard.

Piquepaille == spammer. Instead of using email to spam, he spams sites like Slashdot (and many others) using his blog.

Piquepaille == scammer

Here is a direct quote from Piquepaille's Blogads advertising entry:

My stories are often mentioned by Slashdot, BoingBoing or Nanodot. Smart Mobs and Mindjack Daily Relay are also sites where I put summaries of my stories, giving this blog a traffic of 150,000 visits per month. So if you have an interesting technology to promote, put your ads on this blog.

Why doesn't he just say "So if you want to associate yourself with a spammer, give me your money."?

Ignore the fact that he has no "stories" of his own, offers no original content and zero insight.

Like most spammers, he has no incentive to stop because it's profitable for him to spam Slashdot and other sites.

Make it unprofitable. Stop visiting his weblog. Express your displeasure to the editors. Express your displeasure to Radio Userland (they are a quiet participant in his spamming since Userland has a small ad on the blog). Express your displeasure to the advertisers. Let them know you won't buy products they advertise there. Last of all, express your displeasure about his spam to Piquepaille himself.

You make Piquepaille's continued spamming possible with your traffic.

(As for all the spam references in this post, some might call it poetic justice. Maybe Google will pick it up and let everyone know.)

Look at that thing! It's just a giant leaf collector waiting for fall to come around. I don't want to be the one cleaning it every two weeks.

Imagine if the wheel had been square when it was first invented. Everything would be terrible.

Not if all roads were shaped like inverted catenaries.

Any others?

Scoble - a search engine about SCO.

Oh wait.... Scobleiser - a blog about the inner workings of Microsoft. Hmmm. A SCO-related search engine detailing the inner workings of Microsoft - that's weird. ;-)

But not all blogs are journals. Some, like boingboing and memepool post interesting links with brief commentary. And don't forget Roland P.'s Technology Trends. By reading these blogs, I can find out about cool new stuff hours before it reaches Slashdot, and weeks before it hits the regular media.

Basically, blogs help me refine online content and figure out what's worth reading.

perhaps Enigma was the german invention and "Enigma cryptanalytic machine" was Alan's invention?

http://radio.weblogs.com/0104634/2003/07/31.html#a 2071

No. I bet "recently-announced Longhorn specs" were a very clever troll, and I can't believe how many people HBT. All CPU & RAM requirements asside, but why would an OS *require* Gigabit ethernet and wireless networking? This guy confirms it, but hey, he works for Microsoft, so he must be lying.

No, it has everything to do with Pentium M and AMD64 architectures kicking PIV's a$$.

A comment in response to the Scobleizer blog said it best:

Eh, I think @stake is just whining. The security update on the apple site is written for consumers, not security experts. The knowledgebase article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=617 98 clearly lists the CAN number. Plugging in that CAN number into google gets me straight to the @stake advisory here: http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2004/a0 50304-1.txt

Personally, I don't think apple is trying to hide anything, they are just assuming that calling it a "a pre-authentication, remotely exploitable stack buffer overflow" would confuse consumers. The knowledgebase article contains all the info a technical person would need to find out more.

Speaking of "full disclosure" - the criticism came from @stake, which is a vendor to Microsoft and fired one of their employees for criticizing Microsoft in a report. :)

Some comments mention that these coolers are eco-friendly. This is true, because they don't use any environment-damaging chemical refrigerants linked to global warming. However, they can be hard on your ears. The sound waves generated by these freezers will really 'scream for ice cream': they will be attached to amplifiers generating 183 decibels, a sound level thousands of times beyond rock concert levels. This post on my blog contains additional details and a diagram showing how the chiller works.

You'll find extra references and pictures on my blog.

I personally like Robert Scoble's blog. Sure, he loves Microsoft, but he understand that there are some advantages to using Linux or Mac systems.

I've been playing around with the adodb library in my spare time. It seems fairly powerful, and flexible (so much so that I really have to question why everyone doesn't write using it, since it opens your script up to a much wider potential audience).

But now I wonder whether it's more secure that plain ol' vanilla php/mysql (keeping in mind that my globals are off, code's written with POSTs & GETs in mind, and so on).

If it is more secure, then I have to ask why it's not made the standard for accessing databases w/php? It seems comprehensive enough to replace php's built in database functionality, and as mentioned, by using it, suddenly your scripts are compatible with a lot more databases, as opposed to being written specifically for mySQL.

And I prefer Stan Wagon's new invention, the xheel over the old wheel. Sure, they're square, and new roads will have to be build to accomodate them, but think of all the new jobs that will be created. I can't wait for the IPO.

From the picture it doesn't look like the wings do anything other than push down. Which is good. You'll notice the propeller looking thingie in the middle of the structure. I'd imagine this produces the power.

What's the advantage? You don't have to excavate at depth to make the thing stay put, just lower it into the water, and let the water hold it down. Why not just use weights? I don't know, I didn't design the thing.

Ok, all you westerners look alike to me, but this guy doesn't dress like an African.

For more information about NASA's Gravity Probe B, you also should read this article from TechNewsWorld. You'll find additional comments and photos from NASA on my blog.

No -- Seaside keeps the continuations in memory (just like lisp, ruby, python, perl6 [will], etc...). SISC Scheme and Kali Scheme are the ones that can persist continuations to disk. Or send them over the network to be invoked by a remote client. *bamf* ok, my brain just exploded.

Ditto -- and I'm delighted to see others jumping first ;-)

I live in hope someone will come up with a similar framework based around mod_python, but I'm not sure if python's continuations are quite good enough...

Seems likely. The meme is spreading, and it's funny how much sense continuations suddenly make when you consider the browser's "back" button and "open link in new window".

Here are some other languages and projects being discussed; note that (1) Python is mentioned as probably having good enough continuations, (2) You don't strictly need full continuations; Paul Graham metions this in his BBN talk about Viaweb.

Here's some links

• Prevalence and continuations
• Some more papers and projects and discussion
• Seaside guy's blog

...or how well that or Seaside would scale.

That's a better question. But you can definitely do replication as long as your proxy server keeps session affinity (and since this is an easy-to-spot part of the URL, that's very doable). Also, one flavor of lisp (SISC?) can persist continuations to disk, so you could share them across servers.

Seaside would be all be fine and good if they only implemented it as an apache module rather than for some obscure Smalltalk-based webserver that nobody beyond a hobbyist with their own webserver is going to get a chance to use for real work.

Competitive advantage, baby. Wait, why am I posting this!?^U

Seriously, if they can build Viaweb and sell it to Yahoo (as Yahoo Stores) using a similar technique, I think you should be able to sell it to clients/bosses.

John Lim has also his doubts on PHP 5 :) "revolutionary"

php.weblogs.com
Yet, I am glad PHP is maturing to a more stable platform.

Alexandru

Small businesses create most jobs (A Small Business Administration study found that nearly 77 percent of the 6.9 million jobs created from 1990 to 1995 were created by small businesses).

Open source software lowers capital barriers to market entry.

Proprietary software vendors will not create jobs for Americans:

"Technology companies are seeing a rebound in business, but top executives this week said any jobs added to meet growing demand will likely be in countries where labor is cheaper than the United States."

Reuters
February 27, 2004

So the OSS community should bring out its own heavy artillery, and just RELENTLESSLY hammer home the point that, ON THE WHOLE, OSS expedites job creation, MSFT et al. do not.

That is a message that will RESONATE, and hence make it politically untenable to allow MSFT et al. to practice such underhandedness with impunity...

IMHO :-)

Frank Ruscica 3/6/04; 3:40:29 PM

Frank, the problem is, that argument doesn't wash completely. Look at Greg Reinacker. He created a new company around Microsoft technology. And he's getting paid for it.

Most people don't understand how Linux creates jobs when it's given away for free.

Especially when they are getting fired from their jobs cause WalMart wants their products for less than it costs them to produce them.

Robert Scoble 3/6/04; 3:53:10 PM

Robert,

I lost you there...

Let's follow the money: if a small company uses LAMP technologies, the money it saves will go toward growing the business -- and hence, will generate jobs (that's how Linux creates jobs when it's given away for free). If the company buys licenses from a BigCo, the above-cited Reuters article tells us the money will not generate jobs for Americans.

My takeaway, then, is: whenever a small company can substitute OSS for proprietary software, the American job market benefits.

If Greg Reinacker is building atop MSFT technology for which no OSS substitute exists, he does not embody a true counterargument.

If he is building atop MSFT technology for which an OSS substitute does exist, he is hurting the U.S. job market...

Where Wal-Mart fits into this, I have no idea...

Frank Ruscica 3/6/04; 7:18:54 PM

Frank: that's a good theory. But, if a company can't afford Windows licenses, don't you think it's likely to offshore its labor too?

Microsoft money does create jobs. 5000 in the past year alone (mine was among them).

Also, the argument is that you can get the same done with open source software that you can with stuff you pay for. Really? I didn't know that GIMP is as good as Photoshop. I don't know any print shop that accepts files from an open-source version of Illustrator. There's tons of things that you simply can't do with open source. Also, if you're a small company you probably can't afford a Linux geek to be on staff. When I helped run a camera store, I surely couldn't afford a geek on staff.

Most of the cost of software is NOT in the acquisition of it. If it were, your argument might have some merit.

Robert Scoble 3/7/04; 3:04:23 AM

Robert,

You wrote:

>Also, the argument is that you can get the
>same done with open source software that you
>can with stuff you pay for.

Incorrect. I wrote:

"My takeaway, then, is: whenever a small company can substitute OSS for proprietary software, the American job market benefits."

Also, to be clear, by 'substitute' I implicitly mean(t): replace at You wrote:

>if a company can't afford Windows licenses,
>don't you think it's likely to offshore its
>labor too?

From the standpoint of making a data-driven determination, of course all we have to go on here is historical precedent. But the log

Robocop
Good god! It's weilding a giant ladle.

Before anyone jumps to conclusions, let me just clarify that this is not a robocop in the "must destroy man kind" fashion. This is more like the info boxes you find in airports. Only difference is, that this one can move a bit. Coincidentially, I was at the exact spot where the picture was taken last month, and I have no doubts that the robot can move around there, since the place is pretty flat. But I was also walking the streets of Hong Kong, and there's no way this robot can move, let alone navigate, on the busy streets of HK. I reckon this will pay visits to schools and walk around in the school yard answering questions.

For more references about this United Nations University study, here is one useful and informative links: UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales. You can look at the flyer of the study (PDF format, 2 pages, 181 KB). Finally, you can visit this page to discover the contents of the book, "Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their impacts." You can even order it for $35 or 32. On a similar subject, you also can read Why Do We Need 'Greener' Computers which tals about all the waste of electricity caused by the inefficiencies of our computers after they're built. And on yet another similar subject, you can read 4 Tons of Plants per Mile to Ride your Car.

For more references about this United Nations University study, here is one useful and informative links: UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales. You can look at the flyer of the study (PDF format, 2 pages, 181 KB). Finally, you can visit this page to discover the contents of the book, "Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their impacts." You can even order it for $35 or 32. On a similar subject, you also can read Why Do We Need 'Greener' Computers which tals about all the waste of electricity caused by the inefficiencies of our computers after they're built. And on yet another similar subject, you can read 4 Tons of Plants per Mile to Ride your Car.

Its a Radio thing. Groklaw used to live there.

to me it looks more like a camel

It just happened I wrote yesterday about the usages of VR to treat fears. A company named Virtually Better, based in Georgia, creates virtual environments mixing video images and computer-generated ones to help people deal with their fears and anxieties. In this article, the New York Times (free registration) writes this costs only 10 percent more than conventional therapy. The newspaper adds that therapists using this system claim a success rate exceeding 90 percent. Virtually Better "has created scenes of a glass elevator and a bridge to address fear of height, an airplane cabin for those who fear flying and a thunderstorm to diminish fear of bad weather." Other environments address the treatment of substance addiction or of post-traumatic stress. A (Virtual) Therapist's Dream contains selected excerpts. It also includes images on the virtual airplane environment.

They don't mention it in the article but Massive, the software used to do the battle scenes (amongst other things), won a Scientific and Engineering award:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2004/01/29.html#a 509
http://www.oscars.org/scitech/2003/winners.html

According to Robert Scoble, Microsoft has no problem with Windows Media DRM support on Linux devices.

Yeah, sure its a comet probe. Or the romulans are invading. Just compare this:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/images/rosetta_sp acecraft.jpg

With THIS!!!

http://home.arcor.de/torran/3ds/BOP3.jpg

Governor Imposes Stay on MATRIX

Governor ends Utah's roles in database

Matrix FOIA Request to Utah State Police

The MATRIX

Privacy Watch: Matrix

Matrix Updates

Matrix Raises a Stir

A Boston broadcasting history resource is being developed for the web...

Sound Archives. Boston Public Library.
http://www.bpl.org/soundarchives

If you would, a survey form is available for your impressions at
http://www.bpl.org/soundarchives/electronic.htm

Contact
jlatchford at bpl.org

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A flyer circulating around our Boston Public Library...

Is Big Brother Watching?

The union believes that the library is using
video surveillance to watch patrons and employees
in areas of the library.

The library will neither confirm nor deny
this.

The union is working with our legal department
to explore our options of recourse that you
and the patrons you serve may be illegally
videotaped.

Please Post

Boston Public Library Employees Local No. 1526
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American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
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8 Beacon Street Boston Massachusetts 02108
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Read Robert Scoble on why Apple is locking users into the DRM only one product supports (iPod). Scoble works for Microsoft, for those, who didn't know.

SCO's evidence of origin and Function dictates form

What proof did SCO present for the origin of both fragments of source code?

What proof did SCO present to show the SCO code did not originally from old BSD,Linux or public domain publications?

Who put the SCO source into Linux? - Was put there by Old Novell/SCO/Caldera in the first place?

What proof did SCO provide to show that the person had access to SCO's Unix sources?

The latter question raises another issue. The similarity is just as likely to be due to both operating systems performing the same role. Form is often directed by the function it performs. Function and variable names are often dictated by the API and common terminology.

Both the current Linux and Unix kernel developers have attended the similar university courses and read the same publicly available documentation. The works of W. Richard Stevens are very influential as a reference toward modern Unix and Linux and have dictated the implentation of APIs and TCP/IP stacks in both.

Copyright WHAT Copyright

From Groklaw .

Now that copyright is back on the table in the SCO case, you might like to

read the law on copyright.

SCO held another telephone conference today, but you had to be on time. I tried to call in later, when I was free, to hear the recording, but although the operator told me it had been recorded, it wasn't being made available. She suggested I contact SCO and ask to hear it. Meanwhile, someone who did listen posted on Slashdot as "mec" and he or she heard this question and answer :

[question #3] Stephen Shankland, CNET --

"Q: Copyright office does not have an assignment on file [for the Unix copyrights from Novell]. 'Is it your understanding that the copyrights have not been registered yet?' A: 'Stephen is correct ... [if we need] we will change the assignment of copyright ...' [we can do that at any time]."

If this is true, that they failed to register, it puts another interesting twist on this story. (Novell put a twist of its own, by posting a press releaseon its site saying that while the Amendment that SCO sent them seemed to support their claim "that ownership of certain copyrights for UNIX did transfer to SCO in 1996", Novell doesn't seem to have the amendment in its own files, and patents for sure didn't transfer.)

It's true you can register a copyright any time, but you can't sue for infringement until you have registered and you can't get certain damages for infringement that occured prior to registration: "Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U. S. origin." Section 411 says it precisely like this:

" 411. Registration and infringement actions10 (a) Except for an action brought for a violation of the rights of the author under section 106A(a), and subject to the provisions of subsection (b), no action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work shall be instituted until registration of the copyright claim has been made in accordance with this title...."

You are limited as to remedies without registration, as Section 412 sets forth:

" 412. Registration as prerequisite to certain remedies for infringement11

Did anyone else see the watermark in the photo of the man squatting near the flower and think at first it was like those wafting vapors that cartoons use to show that something stinks?
Maybe it's just me...

Science wasn't the only source to report about these Hawaiian squids. When I commented about this on my blog three days ago, I was mentioning other articles from Scientific American or Ananova. In particular, Scientific American said that this small squid has "a built-in flashlight made up of a previously unknown type of protein," that the authors of the study *dubbed* "reflectin". I'm not sure if this will lead to future nanolight tools, but at least it's *very intriguing* and Ananova reports that "the structure of the reflecting plates could offer inspiration to nanotechnology designers." My blog contains more details and includes a picture of the cute three-inch-long Hawaiian bobtail squid.

here ya go Melinda Gates connection to SCO. Courtesy of GrokLaw

You'll find more details and references in this overview, including an article from the Guardian. So far, the story is about rats, but Professor Gunter Oberdorster of the University of Rochester in New York said: "It's too early to be alarmed, because we don't yet know what the particles might do in humans. We shouldn't stop working with them, we should just look for what adverse effects these particles might cause." Now, more experiments are needed to determine how nanoparticles can enter our brains. In the mean time, let's hope that nanotechnology research will continue and will not be harmed by a moratorium.

Irrelevant.

In the first letter, Exhibit K, dated June 9, 2003, Novell's Jack Messman wrote: "IBM paid $10,125,000 for the rights under Amendment No. X. Novell believes, therefore, that SCO has no right to terminate IBM's SVRX Licenses, and that it is inappropriate, at best, for SCO to be threatening to do so."

The letter refers to Section 4.16(b) of the Asset Purchase Agreement, under which Novell said it retained the right, at their "sole discretion and direction" to require SCO to "amend, supplement, modify or waive any rights under, or. . . assign any rights to, any SVRX License to the extent so directed in any manner or respect..." The letter reminds McBride that the agreement also provides that Novell retained the right at "its sole discretion and direction" to require SCO "to amend, supplement, modify or waive any rights under, or . . . assign any rights to, any SVRX License to the extent so directed in any manner or respect" by Novell, and should SCO fail to comply, Novell retained "the rights to take any action" on SCO's behalf. Then it directs SCO to waive any right it might claim to terminate IBM's AIX licenses or to revoke any rights by June 12, 2003.

"But of course at about 95% of the global browser market share Microsoft see no need to improve that vital component of the browser."

That's exactly it. As scoble is constantly pointing out, changing one line in IE is a huge thing, affects thousands of users, hundreds of languages, blah blah blah. Why put all those man hours into updating and testing when you can do nothing and still keep your monopoly position?

You're falling into one of the fallacies about Open Source development oversight that SCO is trying to get everyone to buy. The fact is that Open Source development has extremely good oversight of IP in code, and the Linux kernel has a well-defined formal structure and organization for development, headed by Linus Torvalds.

Torvalds as well as the Free Softeware Foundation developers who contribute the GNU code to GNU/Linux appear to be far more concerned about incorporating proprietary code into their work than do many companies which develop and market proprietary code. See this Groklaw article for some good examples.

Additionally, while SCO would have us think that GNU/Linux end users are liable for IP infringement in Linux because there's no established company to sue, this is a tenuous and untested legal theory. Copyright is about copying. Use is about using. Using Linux is not illegal, nor can it be an infringement of SCO's copyrights, no matter what SCO says.

SCO's scare tactics are just that. They're on a shakedown expedition to try to collect IP royalties. If they were serious about targeting IP infringement they would put their cards on the table and declare what code in Linux is a problem for them, but they're running a classic protection racket, and unless and until they publicly tell us where the beef is, then they have no moral high ground on which to demand anything more than scorn and contempt.

I suggest you visit Groklaw's website and review the archives on the SCO/Linux issues before you start basing presumptions on SCO's erroneous FUD.

Taste is subjective. Not only in champagne but in life.

For example, what do you call a blog whore who constantly promotes his own site with the deceptive phrase and link "This summary gives you more details"?

Since when does a summary give more details than the original article?

Simply say you've provided a link to your blog and be done with it. Or is the real problem that fewer people clickthrough when you inform them the link is to your blog?

How do champagne bubbles have anything to do with "How new technologies are modifying our way of life"? Answer: It doesn't. It's just another cheap way to drive traffic to his site.

From the many comments I've seen since Piquepaille has been posting here, I'm not alone in thinking that the deceptive way he writes his posts is in bad taste.