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Still, it's cool to see them taking the spunky route instead of getting all legitious; like we did..

It's nice to see that 60% of CNN poll voters wouldn't lynch us. You'd never guess based on the email we got..

Now Wired is reporting on the incident.

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According to this Wired News article, this isn't the first time something like this has happened in Oregon. This student could very possibly end up facing criminal charges as the one in the Wired news story did.

Similar to MindPixels, but far more entertaining, is BizarroKiehl, hooked in to AOL Instant Messenger. It learns from responses and replies based on what it learns, and is extremely amusing to boot.

From the old school, there's always AOLiza. She's not smart, she's not even that pretty, but she's the one all the guys want to talk to...

Kevin Fox

Similar to MindPixels, but far more entertaining, is BizarroKiehl, hooked in to AOL Instant Messenger. It learns from responses and replies based on what it learns, and is extremely amusing to boot.

From the old school, there's always AOLiza. She's not smart, she's not even that pretty, but she's the one all the guys want to talk to...

Kevin Fox

David Gerrold did a very interesting science fiction book five or six years ago. It was called Earth, and concerned itself with reality 50 years in the future.

Earth is by David Brin , not Gerrold, and yes, it's an excellent book. A lot of the ideas in it were fleshed out into Brin's article and later book called The Transparent Society .

I used to be a card-carrying cypherpunk, but The Transparent Society convinced me that the crypto will never work, and that privacy cannot continue to exist. And that that's really not as bad as it sounds.

"What is not free, however, is a license to use air -- or more specifically, the airwaves. And it is licenses for the wireless spectrum -- offered through government-controlled public auctions --that are embroiling U.S. corporations in massive and sometimes hotly contested bidding wars. "

Haven't you heard that the MPAA has added Copyleft to the lawsuit for providing these t-shirts?

So order while you can.

Just look at this Wired story . I'm more than a little disappointed with Gail Zappa. :-(
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Did anyone else look at the chart mentioned in the article?

Now, is it just me or did I count at least five musicians above the CEO of the RIAA in terms of contribution? The trend continues too: The CEO of BMG dug deep and ponied up a huuuuge $1000 - twice as much as the Executive Vice President of Sony. Sheryl Crow on the other hand put up $5000 and many other musicians I've never heard of put up substantial amounts also.

Now, I don't pretend to know anything about the politics of the Democrats and I don't particularly care. What does interest me is how the musicians and composers seems to be much more forthcoming with their money while most of the industry execs (apart from the top 6 donations) are tight. Maybe the poor RIAA is going under due to all this terrible, hideous piracy.

Interesting analysis.

Any ways, this particular amicus brief was filed by:

DAVID O. CARSON DAVID W. OGDEN
General Counsel Assistant Attorney General

J. KENT DUNLAP MARK B. STERN
SCOTT R. McINTOSH
United States Copyright Office Attorneys,
Appellate Staff Library of Congress

ALBIN F. DROST
Acting General Counsel
Counsel for the United States

JUSTIN HUGHES
United States Patent and Trademark Office

According to the linked brief -- but the layout is really bad.

Wired magazine: http://www.wired.com/news/b usiness/0,1367,38692,00.html.

The news media says the brief comes from the Copyright Office.

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Sean Doran, SprintLink: "Vint Cerf is on drugs."

From the Netheads vs Bellheads story in Wired 4.10.

There apparently is a way of tipping the musician - fairtunes.com. I haven't gotten around to looking at them yet but this wired article was interesting.

http://www.wired.com/news/b usiness/0,1367,38622,00.html

MSNBC
Wired
Yahoo!
ABC News

Enjoy~

The entertainment industry is pumping millions of dollars into the war chests of both major political parties, vastly outspending both technology startups and individual artists. That could make it difficult for those "little guys" to get their messages across to legislators.

According to figures from the Center for Responsive Politics, the Democrats have collected $5.8 million from the television, movie, and music industries, ranking it fourth on the campaign donation list. That figure outpaces the Republicans by $2.1 million, which ranks the entertainment industry eleventh. --Wired: D.C. Awash in Entertainment Cash

The September issue of Wired magazine has an interesting article on the merger. It describes how Time Warner itself isn't a very successfull merger: infighting among its constituents (Time, Warner and that Turner thing). The article explains a number of the issues you raise in greater detail.

I run the Popular Power client on both my home and office computers. PP basically goes after both the greedy and altruistic tendencies in all of us by allowing the user to set whether they want to maximize profit or benefit non-profits more. Nice feature but since there isn't any paying gigs as of yet, currently useless. PP was the featured company in the Wired Magazine article which you can find here. The client keeps statistics of your usage so there's definitely a competitive incentive.

Basically, I figure "Why not?". I'm not using my home computer while I'm at work, nor my work computer while I'm at home. Given the necessary security measures, it's nice to be of help. I think this will be a technology widely used in the future.

The early Apple designers were aware of the wide area systems that were in place, such as the ARPANet, the question was how to develop applications on top of it. They even had the concept of POPs and ISPs down (calling them "A Nodes").

Where the disconnect happened was later on, when Apple's managers chose to build a proprietary network system and actively discourage connections to other systems. Wired 5.11 had a big expose of how Apple basically told corporate MIS to go to hell when people were requesting hetrogenius networking for the Mac:

Just as he had dismissed the importance of licensing, Gassée never saw the need for Apple's computers to communicate with anything except other Apple computers. ... This was a terrible strategy, of course, because it did not seamlessly link Macintoshes with IBM-compatibles. "We looked at Gassée and said, 'Who is this guy?'"
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Jean-Louis Gassée had won nearly every fight. He was the undisputed master of engineering, the person who had almost always gotten his way. Now he would put another indelible stamp on Apple, one that would have repercussions as grave as the decision not to license.

Your argument relies on the idea that creating and or selling an emulator is illegal. It's not. The courts have already ruled on it.
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You think you won't have any problems because you have a perfect credit rating, and the closest you've ever been to credit card fraud is rading about it in the paper? Think again. PayPal uses a separate"fraud prevention" company that has its own mysterious, secret rules for who's an "acceptable risk" or not. It doesn't matter if you've never had even the tiniest problem with your credit or cards - if they decide, for whatever bizarre reason known only to them, that your card is a "risk", you can forget about using PayPal. And you can forget about ever finding out the mysterious reason that you've been rejected.

And PayPal couldn't care less. First, they try as hard as they can to blame it on your bank. When you finally prove that there's no problem with yoru bank, they hem and haw and beat around the bush and give you all kinds of doubletalk. When you ask them "why was my card rejected? What's the problem?" they simply have no answer.

I wouldn't use PayPal now even if they allowed my card, because clearly they couldn't care less about customer service or being open and honest with their customers.

I guess their business plan was missing a few "Risk Factors"...

So, we've seen that Star Wars information has been mixed up recently. One thing becomes another, all in a blink of an eye. Poof! Pop! Bang! Does anyone else get the impression that somehow Lucas is pulling strings? Is the Lucas machine tweaking the media, like a puppet? (I doubt all this, but it is interesting, no?)

This reminds me of things like Ford covering up problems with the Pinto and their tires. I mean, corporations have such power to manipulate the media. And, the media, Slashdot included, is very willing to help the spindoctors. How many times has a press release turned into "news", eh? Information, disinformation, ahh! What a pain in the arse. Who can we believe? Who should we believe?

Damn, I'm just going to basically ignore any Star Wars news I read. Or any news for that matter. I'm heading back into the cave now...The Future Doesn't Need Us anyway.

John S. Rhodes
WebWord.com -- Industrial Strength Usability.

Funny, no links to directx

-Jon

• So a US judge can take away a domain that a Iranian(etc.) court says belongs to you.

When you 'buy' a domain name, you are not buying it in a property sense. However, you are binding ICANN/NSI, to a contract, to honor your domain name. The contacts allow for them to take the domain name away from you under certain circumstances. If you had a legal right to the domain name that you had registered, a US court should force ICANN/NSI to allow you to keep the name.

When I said 'False' in was refuting Meatloaf's claim that .com was a US specific TLD. .com is not a US specific TLD, and therefore the defendant being a foreign national is not sufficient justification for ICANN to take away your domain. If ICANN take away a .com domain from an Iranian citizen, it should be because they would have taken the domain away from a US citizen, in the same circumstances.

I repect the US judicial system, and I would expect US courts to uphold contract law, and force ICANN to treat US and non-US citizens equally.

BTW. This judge made a brilliant decision. He ignored conventional 'wisdom', that domain names are property, and simply applied existing US law.

I'm not saying that domain names shouldn't be treated as property, but if you want that change made, it should be the leglislature, not the judiciary, who change the law. Talk top your congressman. When judges make up the law as they go along, you get the kind of situation in the DeCSS case where judge Kaplan made an 'unprecedented expansion of traditional copyright law'[story], or the Napster case where the betamax precedent was totally ignored.

Well done, judge.

Interestingly, on reviewing the Wired article, I ran across a suggested link there that discussed a recent FrontPage Extensions security problem I wasn't aware of. Still haven't researched whether it affects the UNIX FP extensions, yet, but, I doubt it. Has to do with including standard DOS reserved commands in the URL to shtml.

What struck me as relevant was the tactic Micro$oft took when alerted by Sozni of Xato Network Security, in asking for a delay in disclosing the flaw until a patch was available. While that position on dealing with the reporting vendor isn't so noteworthy, what is curious is that the patch was available a over a week ago, and, I had never heard of it. It was quietly bundled into a service pack for the Server extensions and not well publicized.

I follow this stuff closely, and, am sure I would have been aware of it, had it been better disclosed by Micro$oft once the patch was available.

In an open product, disclosure is inevitable. Seems people might be considering this model to make better business sense.


Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com

Back when Wired was an interesting magazine (or at least had the potential to be one :) they reported on this in their very first issue....

http://www.wired.com/wired/arch ive/1.01/inslaw.html

I saw on the Discovery channel over a year ago (and I think on wired news, too; search for it yourself). They levitated, besides water, frogs, crickets, dice, etc. It was quite a thing to see.

But it appears this research is more than "my magnetic field is bigger than yours," this one applying to space travel and stuff. Interesting.

Has a really great article on the AOL-Time-Warner merger that specifically discusses Time-Warner's coporate culture of basically ongoing civil warfare between the departments. The crux of the issue is that it's gotten so damned big relatively quickly---even without the added factor of AOL---that its internal sectors might as well be separate companies. Lots of power struggles and penis measuring contests, apparently.

Good read. Not online yet, as Wired doesn't post current magazine content, but for posterity, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/ Definitely pick it up off the newstand for a bit of insight into intracorporate warfare.

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Wired covers the story here. Misconceptions about the vulnerability abound.

Check some articles about this in Wired and Scientific American. They are about Tour and Reed. It talks about their plan on developing molecular computers. Sounds like they are very close to coming up with transistors but have quite a ways to go to come up with wiring!

Well, if that's not enough, they're doing it again.

I submitted this weeks ago and was rejected...

_Am

<AOL> Me Too! </AOL>

I listen to NPR on the way to work and home, because the short little "this program brought to you by FooCompany, makers of business to business software" is WAY, WAY less irritating than the advertising on other channels. And they have interesting stuff - I've bought CD's from musicians I've heard on NPR, and found out interesting stuff about the recent party conventions.

And the rest of my news I get from the net - Slashdot, Blues News, Wired News, CBC (Canadian non-corporate news) and CNN.com.

The critical thing about on-line news is I can quickly scan the headlines, ignore the ads, and only read the stuff I care about.

When you get used to that, watching news on TV is just intolerable, both for the astoundingly stupid and annoying ads that make you wait until they end, and even more importantly, the lack of a fast forward button to skip the retarded "human interest" stories that are irrelevent filler.

Watching TV news is like watching a stupid person web surfing. It's painful.


Torrey Hoffman (Azog)

A while ago, Wired Magazine had an article about Iridium, yet again their futurist crap about how it was going to change the world (has anyone noticed how often they publish tripe like this?).

A while ago, Wired Magazine had an article about Iridium, yet again their futurist crap about how it was going to change the world (has anyone noticed how often they publish tripe like this?).

Ever wish there was a delete post command? Ever have a cat run across your keyboard and post for you? Ever wonder why the filter accepts a post with nothing in it?

Anyway...the flying cars are here. Technologically that is. Have been for quite awhile. The FAA is the holdup. Moller International has the technological end worked out.

A recent wired story is here.

Specs on the M400:

• Cruise speed/ top speed: 350/390 mph
• Maximum rate of climb: 7800 fpm
• Maximum range: 900 miles
• Payload with max fuel: 740 lbs
• Fuel consumption: 15 mpg
• Operational ceiling: 30,000 ft
• Gross weight: 2400 lbs
• Engine power (8x120 hp): 960 hp
• Dimensions (LxWxH): 18' x 9' x 6'
• Takeoff and landing area: 35 ft dia
• Noise level at 500 ft: 65 dba
• Vertical takeoff and landing: yes
• Uses automotive gas:
• Emergency parachutes: yes

Estimate price, if the FAA approved today, would be about $400k. Once the volume of production is ramped up, Moller believes they could bring the cost down very quickly, perhaps coming to rest in the $60k range within a few years.

Look here

I really don't like these "deals" - you know, if I put *my* music in my digital locker, then why should anyone have to anything? Am I missing something here, or are we *paying* for fair use?

"We think there is potential to be a mass-market product," Kelsey said. "Will it take over CD? That's still up in the air. Even among DVD audio owners there may be artists where the CD is enough for them."

The MPAA/RIAA look like they are playing a silly game. They look like they don't know what they are doing and have little hope of actually succeeding at defeating "online piracy". Take a look at the participant's list of the SDMI. Included in there is everyone needed to control digital music. You have number 60, the Fraunhofer Institute. They own the patents on the mpeg format. As early as tommorrow they could have every mp3 player declared illegal and pulled off the net, just look at the DeCSS if you have any doubts. Speaking of DeCSS, it doesn't really matter if the encryption Microsoft (number 106) puts on their latest streaming media format is easily crackable, it's illegal to do so. But who says Fraunhofer will be able to track down the owners of every mp3 player out there? After all, the most popular mp3 player (Winamp) is written by a bunch of "nihilistic media terrorists" at Nullsoft who we are told we should ph34r. I have to agree, especially seeing they are owned by AOL (number 10). Can the SDMI put the genie back in the bottle? If you asked me that last year I would have said (and did say) no way. My argument was the same as Martin Eberhard, the CEO of Nuvomedia: "It doesn't matter how good the cryptography is," Eberhard says. "Once [the music] is decrypted, you just bypass the cryptography and re-rip the music into an MP3." Which is all well and good, but what if you can't play said mp3's? What if owning an mp3 player (or the encoder) is a violation of patent law.

So what's my predictions for the future? Your favourite artists will start releasing music in the new SDMI format that you need Windows Media Player to play and you will pay per song. You will probably even have to be online to play the songs. Fraunhofer will reign in their patents and Winamp will silently disappear. That's when the story will break. Everyone will snap to attention around that point because cease and decist letters will be sent out to every web site that hosts an mp3 player. Go ahead and rip into mp3, there will be no players. Microsoft will break the sound playing dll's on Windows (probably to give some new feature to digital playback) and only the underground will still have players. The mainstream will buy their SDMI music and players and that whole nasty incident around the turn of the century where copyright was doubted by the few and ignored by the many will be stamped out of history.

One thing I noticed about the article is that the term "nanotechnology" or "nanocomputers" wasn't mentioned once.

The closer they got was "nano-sized computers" and an institute called nanosystems.

I don't think this is coincidence. After a lot of media coverage of stories like Bill Joy's paper (which i read and liked very much, but didn't totally agree with) the term nanotechnology has been made to have a negative ring to it.

then you have all the nonesense far less inteligent people have said, plus some very cool renditions like Deus Ex, and what you have is instant holocaust. soon nanotechnology will sound as bad as nuclear reactors and genetic engineering to a lot of people (they all sound fine to me).

anyhow, congrats to the research team.

The article is worth reading, if you're interested in the subject. Seems like Jay Chiat was the ultimate PHB, imposing his limited personal vision on his entire company, and brooking no disagreement.

"Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement"
Judge Kaplan

Stuart Biegel commented "I'm very troubled by the implications of the analysis in this case, particularly with regard to linking"

Too Right. Try these... (with excerpts for your convenience)

MPAA
"In 1955 he met the man who would have the largest impact on his life, the then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. Valenti's agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas. Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Within hours of the murder of John F. Kennedy, Valenti was on Air Force One flying back to Washington, the first newly hired special assistant to the new President."

CIA
"President Kennedy's Checklist was published daily for two and a half years, capturing the regular attention of the President and serving his needs. Created out of an almost desperate desire to please a President who had found the Agency wanting, it proved to be the forerunner of the President's Daily Brief, the publication that was to serve all presidents from 1964 to the present.

For reasons undoubtedly growing out of the earlier political rivalry between Kennedy and Johnson, Kennedy's intelligence assistant, Bromley Smith, early in the administration had ordered that "under no circumstances should the Checklist be given to Johnson."

The Transition to President Johnson

The transition to President Johnson was as abrupt for the US Intelligence Community as it was for the rest of the country. In some respects, it was also as uncertain

Saturday morning, 23 November 1963, the day following Kennedy's assassination
The new President's Daily Brief, designed specifically for President Johnson, was delivered to the White House on 1 December 1964. Its fresh appearance obviously appealed to the President. His assistant, Jack Valenti, sent the first issue back to Bundy with word that the President read it, liked it, and wanted it continued."

Jack Valenti
"My greatest achievement? I survived - I'm not joking."

Niether Am I... Check out The List - JFK Assassination Key People

JFK

"Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement"
Judge Kaplan

Stuart Biegel commented "I'm very troubled by the implications of the analysis in this case, particularly with regard to linking"

Too Right. Try these... (with excerpts for your convenience)

MPAA
"In 1955 he met the man who would have the largest impact on his life, the then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. Valenti's agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas. Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Within hours of the murder of John F. Kennedy, Valenti was on Air Force One flying back to Washington, the first newly hired special assistant to the new President."

CIA
"President Kennedy's Checklist was published daily for two and a half years, capturing the regular attention of the President and serving his needs. Created out of an almost desperate desire to please a President who had found the Agency wanting, it proved to be the forerunner of the President's Daily Brief, the publication that was to serve all presidents from 1964 to the present.

For reasons undoubtedly growing out of the earlier political rivalry between Kennedy and Johnson, Kennedy's intelligence assistant, Bromley Smith, early in the administration had ordered that "under no circumstances should the Checklist be given to Johnson."

The Transition to President Johnson

The transition to President Johnson was as abrupt for the US Intelligence Community as it was for the rest of the country. In some respects, it was also as uncertain

Saturday morning, 23 November 1963, the day following Kennedy's assassination
The new President's Daily Brief, designed specifically for President Johnson, was delivered to the White House on 1 December 1964. Its fresh appearance obviously appealed to the President. His assistant, Jack Valenti, sent the first issue back to Bundy with word that the President read it, liked it, and wanted it continued."

Jack Valenti
"My greatest achievement? I survived - I'm not joking."

Niether Am I... Check out The List - JFK Assassination Key People

JFK

"Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement"
Judge Kaplan

Stuart Biegel commented "I'm very troubled by the implications of the analysis in this case, particularly with regard to linking"

Too Right. Try these... (with excerpts for your convenience)

MPAA
"In 1955 he met the man who would have the largest impact on his life, the then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. Valenti's agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas. Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Within hours of the murder of John F. Kennedy, Valenti was on Air Force One flying back to Washington, the first newly hired special assistant to the new President."

CIA
"President Kennedy's Checklist was published daily for two and a half years, capturing the regular attention of the President and serving his needs. Created out of an almost desperate desire to please a President who had found the Agency wanting, it proved to be the forerunner of the President's Daily Brief, the publication that was to serve all presidents from 1964 to the present.

For reasons undoubtedly growing out of the earlier political rivalry between Kennedy and Johnson, Kennedy's intelligence assistant, Bromley Smith, early in the administration had ordered that "under no circumstances should the Checklist be given to Johnson."

The Transition to President Johnson

The transition to President Johnson was as abrupt for the US Intelligence Community as it was for the rest of the country. In some respects, it was also as uncertain

Saturday morning, 23 November 1963, the day following Kennedy's assassination
The new President's Daily Brief, designed specifically for President Johnson, was delivered to the White House on 1 December 1964. Its fresh appearance obviously appealed to the President. His assistant, Jack Valenti, sent the first issue back to Bundy with word that the President read it, liked it, and wanted it continued."

Jack Valenti
"My greatest achievement? I survived - I'm not joking."

Niether Am I... Check out The List - JFK Assassination Key People

JFK

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Miniskirt-clad girls save universe
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @08:25AM
from the roketto-ga-sugoi dept.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com is reporting that earlier this morning in Tokyo, five girls in color-coded blouses and miniskirts transformed into scantily-clad superheroes. The five girls then screamed, hurled glowing balls of energy, and screamed some more at a thirty-tentacled monster. Still no word on whether this is connected to the large humanoid robots spotted battling last week in Osaka.

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Slashback: Frisson, Sesquipedalianity, Responsitivitiness
Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 08, @10:45AM
from the beware-the-froomious-bandersnatch dept.
It was a dark and stormy night. In a salutiferous octastyle basement, an ultracrepidarian man was hermtically hunched over a piperaceous desk beneath a ornate mazarine, typing furiously away on an obumbrate keyboard. Meanwhile, in a meandrine corner of the world, several setose seeds were being entrenched in the muculent minds of the hoi polloi.

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Traffic Cops' "Justice" and Napster
Posted by JonKatz on Friday August 18, @11:30AM
from the post-hellmouth-world dept.
Just as Shadowrun predicted, The Corporate Republic took another step in assailing geeks today by handing Shawn Fanning a $L00 speeding ticket. This narcissism is harmful because it shrinks the creative universe of media workers and disconnects them from the new global conversation taking place online. Hubcaps have sparked a cultural and economic revolution that is just beginning to be understood. Will we see an increase in the number of Chickdrivers receiving "closed" traffic tickets as well, or will the Edge power a paradigm shift to "open" community-based traffic laws?

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Ask Slashdot: Are Corporations Trying To Make Money?
Posted by Cliff on Friday August 18, @1:25PM
from the yet-another-article-from-the-something-to-think-ab out dept.
www.sorehands.com writes: "Today I visited Yahoo and was shocked to see a banner advertisement - I thought I'd managed to block every form of advertisement possible with Junkbusters. After thinking about it some, I realized Yahoo was probably running advertisement in a crass, commercialized attempt to make money off of my web-surfing habits! Could there be any other corporations out there engaged in similarly devious practices?" An interesting question here: Are some companies attempting to turn a profit, and, if so, what can we do to prevent it?

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Autospy of a Furby
Posted by michael on Friday August 18, @3:43PM
from the deja-vu dept.

Vladinator writes "Ever wonder what it's like to take apart a Furby? I don't, because I saw this on Slashdot two years ago, but I needed some karma so I submitted it anyway. Fawking trolls!" Those of who you started reading Slashdot this week may not have seen this page yet, so I'm re-running this classic for you three newbies.

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Interstate Highway Boycott Planned
Posted by emmett on Friday August 18, @6:25PM
from the fight-the-power dept.
Bowie J. Poag writes: "You guys are idiots and VA sucks, but being the nice guy that I am [Update: 08/18 11:11 AM by CT: Further investigation reveals that he isn't ] I thought I'd let you know that know Wired is reporting that a boycott is being proposed against the interstate highway system for its treatment of Shawn Fanning. The interstate highway sucks almost as much as anime! PROPAGANDA RULES!!!!!" It's good to see that some people are taking the battle for free (as in Willy) highways into their own hands.

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Holland Convenience Store Switches To Linux
Posted by Hemos on Friday August 18, @9:33PM
from the key-victory-for-open-source dept.
Today while visiting my local 7-11 in Holland, MI, I noticed that their inventory computer was running Linux! Best of all, a representative from the store assured me, due to complaints from Bruce Perens, that the store may consider GPLing its inventory "sometime in the future." Looks like another business has finally "got it" and adopted the tenets of the free software movement.

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Napster? Napster Napster
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 18, @11:25PM
from the napster dept.
Napster Napster Napster. Napster, Napster Napster Napster! Napster Napster (Napster) Napster Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster. "Napster Napster Napster," Napster Napster. Napster Napster, Napster Napster Napster.

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There was one such rumour on Wired's site:

MS loves Linux? More evidence that Linux is gaining ground as a desktop operating system comes from Microsoft, which is reportedly planning a Linux version of its Windows Media Player software.

According to a story on VNUNet.com, Microsoft is considering releasing a Linux version of its Media Player after launching a Macintosh version.

"We see a need for Unix players and are working in that direction, including Linux," Paul Boudreau, Microsoft's program manager for music and entertainment, said in the article.