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Two seconds with google would have verified the veracity or otherwise of my assertation.

As it is, it appears at the time of writing that Sony's 'gaming division' accounts for more than 50% of profit.

On the pda thing however, you are right, I was thinking of the sharp Zaurus.

Microsoft actually sponsored this study:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2126953,00. htm. Of course, we all know Microsoft to be a bastion of integrity...

There's no way in hell we're going to be that lucky. A 50% increase in 5 years would make me jump with joy.

The truth is it's increasing at a much faster rate than that. Recent research has shown that it's going up about 400% per year!!! And my personal email account verifies that sort of increase.

I suspect Jupiter is going to be eating its own words. In 5 years I suspect we'll be seeing perhaps 50 times more spam, not 50% more.

Forever suck?

Mac OS has not *always* been inferior.

Until Windows 95, you really had no choice except a Mac to do desktop graphics and printing.

Macs had high color
Macs had multiple monitors
Macs had TrueType and PostScript
Macs had color management

So it took until 1995 for a PC to catch up for that (you use Photoshop in Classic Mode, so there's your history for you). So if it was the year 1994 and you had to do graphics, there was no alternative except a Mac... Oh, sure, you could use Windows NT 3.51, actually, but... people didn't.

So until 1995, realistically, Adobe had to survive on Macs and Windows NT. You couldn't have your Photoshop on your Windows 2000 computer without Adobe thriving on the Mac. So say thank you to all the Mac users who kept Adobe alive long enough for Windows to catch up enough for a Windows port to be possible.

What else... Mac OS released without any truly innovative ideas? At the time a mouse, a windowing system, and a desktop metaphor was pretty innovative. Photoshop, released in 1990, couldn't have existed on the PC since Windows 3.0 wasn't available until 1990! The first graphical Mac was unleashed in 1984... of course Windows 1.0 was available the very next year in 1985...

So what else does that show us? Word 1.0 for DOS was available 1983, Word 1.0 for Mac was available in 1985, and it wasn't until 1993 that Word 6.0 (for Windows) was released. Word for DOS had or Word for Mac had only been available up to that point.

Then there's Quicktime...

Okay, so all that is OLD hat. Microsoft (eventually) will catch up, history is showing us.

So what did Apple do new with OS X that is innovative, you ask?

How about security? Of course security is a nasty beast to define, because it is only visible through the lack of exploits. No exploits, no news. Do I think OS X is more secure than Windows XP? Yes. Why? Partially because the core OS is open source, partially because the core OS is heavily related to BSD, and partially because the core OS has been in use since 1989 with the release of the first NeXT workstations. Windows, while similarly old, is not similarly aged, with IE exploits, IIS exploits, ActiveX exploits, and other exploits. OS X gets around IE exploits by not integrating IE, though there is an HTML library available. It gets around IIS exploits by relying on tried and true OSS servers such as Apache, BSD-telnetd, BSD-sshd, and BSD-ftpd. It gets around ActiveX exploits by relying on a scripting technology, AppleScript, that has been used successfully since 1993 to automate prepress, print, publishing, and graphics businesses. Oh, and they don't integrate AppleScript into the html rendering engine, though there is a third party AppleScript plugin available. Yes, there have been AppleScript viruses, just like there are VisualBasic viruses...

But Apple doesn't suffer nearly as badly because Mail doesn't auto execute AppleScript viruses which aren't embedded into the HTML that s rendered by the preview pane.

Alright, so this is sorta cheap, innovation by not being as *bad* as Microsoft.

There's legitimate innovation as well.

OS X 10.0 had it's compositing engine. Vector based, PDF based, output independent. It's certainly not perfect, but it's a continuation of NeXT's PostScript based DisplayPS. Windows already has something called GDI+ and WMF, but I do not believe they are currently used.

OS X 10.0 introduced iDVD, to match the earlier release of iTunes and iMovie, allowing the sufficiently well of Mac owner the capabillity to make DVDs within 20 minutes, though burning them probably took an hour or so.

OS X 10.2 upped the stakes with *hardware* accelerated display technology. Big deal, you say? It's 3d hardware accelerated. Microsoft is hoping to catch up next year with Longhorn.

OS X 10.2 also added new networking technology that doesn't yet exist on Windows, though UPnP is close. Rendevous, otherwise known as ZeroConf, is a peer to peer network discovery protocol.

OS X 10.2 added bluetooth support, which Windows XP adds later this year.

OS X 10.2 added full tablet and handwriting recognition, which doesn't appear until . Also, you will probably need a new PC, where OS X only requires a tablet, such as a Wacom tablet, instead of a new computer.

Anyway, it's really only your loss, not mine, if Apple OS X doesn't somehow suit your needs, and likewise your gain if Windows XP can suit yours (but not mine)

Sorry, the best I could come up with:
Apple releases Mac II with synth chip

The result of the lawsuit? Even today, no Mac ships with onboard sound hardware.

Then there's this crappy tidbit:
Pete Dicks which I found because of Apple's Grammy.

ZDNet says Apple Computer paid Apple Records.

Now of course this is all hearsay since I was never involved.

But think of this logic:
Apple Records sues Apple Computer.
Three possible outcomes: They settle. Apple Records win. Apple Records lose.

They didn't win, since Apple computing still exist.
I do not believe they lost.

>>Using the information without informing yourself first is asking for trouble imho.

I do believe that is the heart of the matter. I do not believe that many administrators are going through the effort of checking each and every rbl that is listed in osirusoft.

I believe that if many of these administrators knew that SPEWS policy was to escalate cases to cover entire class C ranges (whether or not all the subnets are spammers or not such as this case) thereby doing what is termed collateral damage... many of those administrators would not be subscribed to osirusoft (due to SPEWS)

Face this one, cold fact: the race is over and you have lost.

How so? Exactly who is trying to compete with M$??? I can't think of any major distro that is actively competing against M$...It would be corporate suicide to do so...

All of the major Linux distros compete with other *NIX variants...

If you want to talk about RHL, then this article says it all...They aren't even trying to compete and still they are winning new users.

If you are diluted into thinking that the aim of Linux is to dethrone M$, then you totally missed the point.

M$ has twisted this whole Windoze vs. Linux thing...there is no Windoze vs. Linux...the suggestion that Windoze and Linux are competing for the same market is as preposterous as saying that Kia and Ferrari are competing...it may be true on a kind of philosophical level, but anyone who thinks that one is taking away market share from the other is sadly mistaken...

In reality, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, etc may be major players in Linux being accepted into the corporate world and certainly contribute to its development, but Linux would continue without them...

So, in reality...M$ was the only one that even went to the starting line for that race...

It is ok to support Linux if its for the media industry.. otherwise its just anoying to have these consumers demanding viewers for DVDs..

Oracle to double India workforce

• BMI Declare that all their future music CDs will be copy protected
• While EMI Germany do likewise, they also insult the complainant. (I'm informed it is even harsher than the translation)
• And soon you won't be able to return the CD if it doesn't work (UK)
• And beware of innovations (this article, beat you to it slashdot - nyah nyah!), as they may be slipping DRM in the back door
• Web radio was getting very popular, everyone was getting in on the act. Not any more. Only the big radio stations still broadcast.
• Microsoft joined the party with their "Trusted Computing" initiative, meaning *you* can trust MS software, Which in reality is a DRM thing (MS software can't trust you)
• Oh, and extending copyright. Courts admit that it can't be extended indefinately, but how long is a piece of string?

• Reuters sued for linking to a URL
• They haven't been the first to be sued for deeplinking. Check out This particularly fine example.
• How a single sniper is more dangerous than all the world's hackers combined

• Getting sued for silence
• Thanks to the CBDTPA, nearly everything *must* embed DRM. This includes cockpit voice recorders, digital speed cameras, hearing aids, and big mouth billy bass
• Even phoning a friend can breach copyright, 2 musicians copyright 100,000 phone numbers (dial tones).

• A review of the technologies shows that it is futile to protect CDs, (based on the assumption that new devices will more likely circumvent protection rather than enforce it)
• Richard Stallman (Free Software advocate) jumps in with a cautionary tale
• And a felt tip pen can bypass some protections

5 seconds from start-up to movie
And some pics over here... Not bad hey?!?

In fact Nokia is trying to put the kind of lock on mobile data services which will have you begging Microsoft to come in and break-it-up. Microsoft know this - to quote: "If you go out to the likes of Nokia, and they'll talk forever about the mobile Internet as being this separate thing that sits out there side by side with the wired Internet that we all use for accessing from PCs and notebooks, and they also go out and evangelize standards that are separate for this mobile Internet."

Yahoo! News Version
IBM Chooses Linux for 'Blue Gene' Supercomputer

IBM has chosen the open source Linux operating system to run on one of its largest, most powerful supercomputing projects, dubbed "Blue Gene."

The petaflop computer, which can calculate 1 quadrillion operations per second, is 100 times more powerful than the fastest computers available, according to IBM.

ZDNet UK
Linux will power IBM supercomputer project
The upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers will run on an extended form of Linux, a major endorsement for the open source operating system

Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents.

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IBM Chooses Linux for 'Blue Gene' Supercomputer
Another supercomputer in the same family, Blue Gene/L, is also set to run Linux. IBM has said Blue Gene/L will be at least 15 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers.
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The Blue Gene project, first announced in late 1999, was designed to model the folding of human proteins, allowing researchers to better understand diseases and their cures. At the time, IBM said Blue Gene would be 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," the computer that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

While there are certainly folks at Sony who are right in there with the whole DRM thing, I think what happens is that the hardware sales have a polarizing effect on these efforts within Sony.

Look at their competition with MS in the game space. Sony knows that, push comes to shove, they sell TVs and Walkmans and Glasstrons, and Microsoft sells the occasional keyboard or router. They will price MS right out of the market on the PS2 (in fact, they are already turning a profit on those things), while selling all the hardware they are known for. Microsoft cannot lean on an alternative revenue stream so heavily... although they do have that ridiculous war-chest in the bank. Investors won't stand for raiding it without a visible means of putting that money back, though.

Sony can do this, and the tech industry is simply that much bigger than the media industry. Hell, Sony co-invented the CD; I think they actually take a tiny bit of profit from every CD-based game sold on the Xbox (someone correct me if I'm wrong about that; I know the PS2 has some CD-based games, some -DVD).

How odd, no one must have told them that the project ended, according to your comment.

What am I, a journalist that I must check my sources rather than just commenting from memory?

A google-search, as usual, turns up varieties of information. I discovered the following article on
ZDNet news with a 2002 date at the bottom.

[Of course, this might be an auto-generated copyright statement using the current year, but I dread to think the legal implications of them doing that on something written before they claim]

Quoted text follows:

SE Linux may be the NSA's last direct contribution to open-source
security, however. Because of the loud criticism, the NSA will have a far
less direct role in the creation of more secure versions of open-source
software.

"We didn't fully understand the consequences of releasing software under
the GPL (General Public Licence)," said Dick Schafer, deputy director of
the NSA. "We received a lot of loud complaints regarding our efforts with
SE Linux."

Many complaints criticized the agency for providing the fruits of
research to everyone, not just US companies and thus hurting American
business.

While stressing that the agency received a loud chorus of support as
well, the chagrined Schafer said that the issue was contentious enough
that "we won't be doing anything like that again."

Sources familiar with events said that aggressive Microsoft lobbying
efforts have contributed to a halt on any further work. "Microsoft was
worried that the NSA releasing open-source software would compete with
American proprietary software," said a source familiar with the
complaints against the NSA who asked not to be identified.

Microsoft would not comment directly on its lobbying efforts, but did
stress that it wanted to ensure the government continued to fund
commercial ventures. "The federal government plays an important role in
funding basic software research," said a Microsoft representative. "Our
interest is in helping to ensure that the government licenses its
research in ways that take into account a stated goal of the US
government: to promote commercialization of public research."

If you are refering to this article, I suggest you read it and then troll about it. The article states that that Microsoft has a group chartered with developing additional security products. Currently, he said, there is no plan in place to charge customers a fee for additional security services. But Microsoft is most likely to introduce new security software, similar to its existing firewall software. . There is no mention of charging for security upgrades to existant products.

The guy demoing it is mainly meant to protect laptop data from common thieves, is targeted towards road warriors, and is not meant to keep the government out because if they arrest you and the laptop, they can coerce you into giving them access.

Ah yes, google rules. Here's a link to a story about it. Company name is NAH6.

Enjoy...

-brian

IBM did this here in San Francisco. And got in trouble
The fact that they were essentially permanent didn't help either.

-Sean

It should work because its tri-band (1900 Mhz was listed)...

Anyone else notice that this Nokia 3650 looks a like like a Palm M130.

Get the color schemes right and the two could match...

Kinda like my '00 era Nokia 8890 and my Palm V.

ZDNET
Microsoft veteran launches tool start-up
and The Register
Originator of Excel, Word leaves MS for startup

It's odd how the RIAA are stamping down on P2P but not on TAB and sheet music.

Published non-recorded copies of musical works are the NMPA's domain (national music publishers association), not the RIAA's (recording industry association of America). And yes, the NMPA does tag along when the RIAA sues P2P service operators.

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Anyway, I assume they lifted the ban just until they have had time to develop the system so that it is a bit harder to go around it. We might see the blockings again within a few weeks.

...and it's called 64 CPUs.
Perhaps they should update the song

... and Bruce can fix Sun's love/hate problem with OSS.

Ya right. Only after they fire Bill Joy. Article: Sun pioneer an open-source killjoy?

Netscape 7 for Linux is delivered with "Shockwave Flash 5.0 r48" which is known to have a security flaw which could allow attackers to run malicious code.

American with many incarnations in other countries.

Assuming that terrorists actualy use steganography

Indeed. Despite the numerous wild speculations, the only study of which I'm aware, failed to find a single case of steg use.

Here is the press release from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's investigation into the legality of Sony's region encoding. Here is Sony's response. Here is more info about the ACCC's stance. And Here's what aussies think of it all.

1989

Apple vs Apple: Apple Records, the record company created by the Beatles, sues Apple Computer for getting into the music business. According to Apple Records, the computer company violated a secret 1981 agreement that let Apple keep its fruit logo -- as long as it didn't have anything to do with music. By 1989, however, the music and PC worlds are already coming together.

The two Apples will later settle, with the computer maker paying the record company.

Link here - already submitted this as a story, but have to wait 2.3 more minutes before pressing submit

As the relationship with Motorola seems to be weaning the question may be what chip would you like to see in next-generation Macs and why?

How about the Cell chip in 2005? The article above says IBM plans to use elements of it in high-end computers, yet it's also going to power the Playstation 3. Seems like a Mac falls between those two extremes quite nicely.

They should hire DJ Shadow to mix the IBM and PWC corporate theme songs together (currently number 3 and 5 on the charts, respectively).

Or we could post directly to the ad free version, right here

The one thing the internet has that prevents massive worm penetration is heterogenality (sic) . When nimbda (sic) came out it was windows boxes. This did not effect (sic) apache/*nix boxen (sic) .

However, Code Red did "affect Cisco 600 series DSL routers by inadvertently triggering a previously published vulnerability" (my emphasis). And, if I remember correctly, I think it also affected some HP print servers, too.

Operating systems are complex. Routers use operating systems, as do dedicated print servers, and many other electronic devices. Even if a device or operating system is not specifically targeted, it can still be inadvertently hit when connected to a world-wide Internet.

By the way...any statistics on how many smug Windows-loathing administrators aren't up to date with the patches for their routers, print servers, managed switches, firewalls, etc.?

A quick web search shows Itanium is x86 compatible.

Admittedly, the Itanium does this using emulation, whereas the Opteron is supposed to handle 32-bit instructions natively, however the statement that 32-bit code will not work on Itanium is quite misleading.

"Good old Steve" is in reference to the litigation-happy days when Jobs was CEO of Apple in the 80's, suing Microsoft, Adobe, and everyone else who displeased him.

Unfortunately that's factually incorrect. Apple sued Microsoft in 1988, four years after Steve was kicked out of Apple. In fact he was sued by Apple the year after he left in 1985: see this. So the Apple-Microsoft suit had nothing to do with Mr. Jobs. Whatever his faults he doesn't seem to be particularly litigous.

Top 20 IT Anthems features the best/worst of them all, music created by overbudgeted tech company PR groups who clearly need hitting with the reality stick a few times. Most famous of course is KPMG - with "Our Vision Of Global Strategy" - the title almost rhymes with KPMG. This monster sounds like "We Are The World" for world domination - this has proven so popular that it's even had Jungle and Rock remixes produced.

OK.... everyone.... 1, 2, 3....

KPMG, we're strong as can be
A team of power and energy
We go for the gold
Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.

Top 20 IT Anthems features the best/worst of them all, music created by overbudgeted tech company PR groups who clearly need hitting with the reality stick a few times. Most famous of course is KPMG - with "Our Vision Of Global Strategy" - the title almost rhymes with KPMG. This monster sounds like "We Are The World" for world domination - this has proven so popular that it's even had Jungle and Rock remixes produced.

OK.... everyone.... 1, 2, 3....

KPMG, we're strong as can be
A team of power and energy
We go for the gold
Together we hold onto our vision of global strategy.

Security hole discovered in Linux handheld

1. Bill's out of his gourd if he thinks telling the Europeans that OSS is anti-capitalist will get him anywhere.

Bill didn't say that to the Europeans (I'd expect Bill is clever enough to avoid making such a mistake). Rather, he said it to leaders of developing countries. The quote is from a conference in April.

2. Is anyone worried about this tendency within the EU towards standardization and centralization?

I believe standardization and centralization are not only good but necessary for the future of Europeans.

I mean, the French definitely want things back as they were in 1680, or thereabouts, with France in control of the continent.

Why only France? It seems to me that Germany also has a lot of influence. And even for the smaller countries, being in the EU gives them more control on their future, not less.

... or for corporations to adopt the independent methods as a matter of convenience.

As you know, Reuters has teamed up with M$ to launch IM for its clients.

Reuters press release from March 2001 on the subject.

This could start the ball rolling towards a standard, leading more and more big corporations towards M$'s standard.

Given that some security features are introduced to keep the security of the larger companies internal messages, this might induce private users to join the network, and the ball is rolling.

I've heard the Reuters initiative is struggling to get acceptance amongst its clients, anyone who knows how far Bloomberg is getting along this route?

>My question stands, does anyone know of anyone who is doing *jailtime* for trading MP3's?

I knew several people who were busted for running warez BBSes back in the day. Some of them lost their houses. I'd venture a guess that many of them that hadn't the money to pay their way were thrown in a minimum security slammer for a good while.

I don't doubt the punishment would be any less severe today. In fact, a reading of "The Hacker Crackdown" would probably show you that in the past decade, "IP Theft" (in quotes because I don't consider it theft) is now prosecuted with far more vigor and passion than ever before.

Here's some links to whet your appetite. There's many more -- just search for "mp3 jail" or "warez jail" on google.om

>My question stands, does anyone know of anyone who is doing *jailtime* for trading MP3's?

I knew several people who were busted for running warez BBSes back in the day. Some of them lost their houses. I'd venture a guess that many of them that hadn't the money to pay their way were thrown in a minimum security slammer for a good while.

I don't doubt the punishment would be any less severe today. In fact, a reading of "The Hacker Crackdown" would probably show you that in the past decade, "IP Theft" (in quotes because I don't consider it theft) is now prosecuted with far more vigor and passion than ever before.

Here's some links to whet your appetite. There's many more -- just search for "mp3 jail" or "warez jail" on google.om

Well, I guess that this and this says a lot about the EU stance on these issues. Democracy may not be needed here (and no - the EU structure is certainly not democratic) - only people like Mario Monti, who certainly can't be accused for just following the big business (look at the GE-Honeywell merger and several other cases).

That is hylarious, dude... at least I think it is since I haven't listened to it. I'll do so as soon as I get home to make sure you don't somehow trick me into viewing the photo by the same name as the tune when I follow the link.

I'll now leave you with these wonderful tunes

Agreed. I really can't see why they thought this bill would help. If they just wanted mail headers, they truly wouldn't learn much of any great benefit anyway.

Of course, I doubt this is their plan. Given their stated aims of wanting to be able to read every e-mail that goes through the UK: We needed to take powers so that we could decrypt commercial encrypted emails and other communications. Why? Because we knew that terrorists were going to use this," said Straw, it's clear that the government really do want to turn us into a big brother state.

This power will be abused, it's just a matter of time, and if commercial spying by select companies becomes legal, it's obvious that people within these companies will be tempted to engage in industrial espionage.

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I think the most interesting part of this is that now other stores selling computers will have to find ways of competing with these insanely low priced computers, and I think the first thing they'll do is throw out Windows. Although alot of people will disagree, I think ESR had a good point when he said that microsoft would be doomed when the cost of PC hardware dropped below that of Windows, and we're almost at that point already.

Trevor Baylis, idea man behind the Freeplay radio, had previously been working on the Electric shoe charger. But that domain and light searching reveal no sign of its fruition. This story mentions the shoe model charging a mobile device like a phone.
Here is the BBC story on the wind up model from July 2001.
Here is the Wired story from January of this year.