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Why no, gentlemen, I see no conflict of interest. You may recall reading that Lewis Kaplan, the judge in the DeCSS trial underway in New York right now, consulted for Time-Warner, raising questions about conflict of interest. Jim Tyre of The Censorware Project writes: "Yesterday, CT posted a piece on 2600's attempt to disqualify Judge Kaplan in the New York DeCSS trial. Last night, Kaplan's 51 page Order denying the motion made it to the Net. No doubt he spent the weekend writing it, putting him in a nice mood for when trial commenced yesteday. Interesting reading for those who like to slog through such things."
The first 1000 days. emerson writes "According to their RC5-64 Stats Page, distributed.net's RC5-64 project turns 1000 days old today (July 18th; the stats page will show 1000 days when today's stats are digested and displayed tomorrow), with just over 28% of the keyspace checked out. Makes me feel pretty safe about RC5-64 versus brute-force attacks ..." Oskuro writes: "Today is the 1000th day distributed.net is searching for a winning key on RSA's RC5-64 contest. In that long time, the 28% of the keyspace has been tested, so there's a long way to go still. Maybe you want to download a client and start crunching for Team Slashdot?" Note: this means that as of today (day 1001), the stats reflect the 1000-day figure.
Wish I had scientists helping find me a mate ... John B. Hayes writes "Yahoo! News has a great story on an heroic high-tech penguin and his surviving the impossible. I wonder if there is a deeper meaning here... I mean, he made it 600 miles without a re-boot; ok, so there were some unexpected obstacles to deal with and the programmer had to step in, but that's the beauty of it. I'm charged!" cvd6262 writes "It seems that all's weel that ends well. Our Beloved Jackass Pequin, Peter, arrived home. I quote from the site: 'At 0456 this morning, Peter's satellite tag reported that he was at 33 48 S 18 22 E. Wait a moment. Those are the coordinates for Robben Island. Peter is home.' Now he only has to find a suitable Jackass Penquin mate."
All the same, I think I'd prefer some privacy. Oostendorpophile writes "I got this email today:
'Thank you for your inquiries into the FBI's "Carnivore". We have received many inquiries, many Kudos and many sneers for what has been in the news in the last couple weeks. Much of the information that the press has published has been inaccurate or misleading. Earthlink takes the following stance (in quotes below)."We do not allow the installation of Carnivore on our network because it has the potential to compromise the privacy of our legitimate users and the performance of our network. We have an internal solution which allows us to comply with court orders without the presence of government personnel or equipment in our buildings. The government accepts this solution since they still receive the requested information about the criminal suspect, and we sleep well knowing that our customers are safe from unauthorized surveillance."
Sincerely,
Mary Youngblood
Privacy Policy
Earthlink/Mindspring Abuse Team Manager'"
This isn't the most satisfying possible answer, but at least it's nicer than block committees and "an enthusiastic welcome to the nice gentlemen who'll be sharing the building with us" ... Earthlink / Mindspring is one of the largest if not the largest ISP, though -- will smaller ISPs be able to stare down Carnivore as well?
And Apple Legal hasn't said a thing about this yet? Hollis writes "After months of discussion and work, linuxppc.org has been rewritten and is hosted at penguinppc.org. The new site has a slick design and lots of new content... check it out." And today's announcement of the new cube PowerMac puts a different light on the criticism Ryan Meader received for posting about such a thing on MacOS Rumors. It's a good thing to be wrong about! Dual G4 in a cube. Linux on PPC. Repeat.
As a Mac developer, Linux user, and someone who's actually used Mac OS X, I think I can give you a pretty good idea how it will work. There's already a few X11 Servers for Mac OS 8/9. The one I'm most familiar with is MacX (aren't all these X names getting confusing).
MacX will either let you have one big-ass MacOS window that contains your X-based desktop (with whatever window manager you want), or it can put each X window in its own Mac OS window, giving everything a much more Mac-like feel. I imagine Tenon will adopt a similar strategy: all the window widgets will be Aqua-fied, but the contents of the window will be the same as always, since they're controlled mainly by the application. Tenon's X server will probably also support a "big-ass window" mode, and maybe al
Just to set the record straight, Carmack hacked X to run on Mac OS X server, and the hack was promptly ported to Darwin, seeing as it lacked a GUI.
My dream system: quad G4s, three monitors.
Monitor 1: Aqua.
Monitor 2: X11
Monitor 3: CLUI
EON's MPAA v. 2600 - Day 1:
EFF's Movie Studios Admit DeCSS Not Related to Piracy:
Wired's Movie Studios on the Warpath:Wired goes on to quote part of the snit between Kaplan and Garbut.
Stay tuned folks; this is going to be entertaining.
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
At least the one they planned to use. Instead they are going back to the drawing board to come up with a watermarking technique that really is 'transparent' to someone listening to an authentic DVD-Audio disc.
Read about it in New Scientist
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This carnivore thing really bothers me. It's so an invasion of privacy, even if an actual person isn't reading it.
6 /1848232&cid=105">before</a> and I'll say it again, the FBI is getting lazy when it comes to programs like this. Why don't they do some fucking work, and stop hiring programming firms to write programs like this for them.
Here is what pisses me off/discomforts me about this thing:
#1 The FBI is arrogant and cocky enough to think that they have "created" the ultimate AI. It's so ridiculous... If (that is if, I'm just guessing here) their program works on picking out e-mails that have "key words" the results would be totally fucked up. Here's a little test you can try. Do a search on some search engine for a string of random "hostile" words that you would think a terrorist would use in their e-mail. I'm willing to bet you'll come up with just news articles, and some history documentary web pages. The FBI thinks their magical program will "sniff" these out. They'll end up coming up with reports kids are sending to each other to cheat in some classes... maybe school teachers should get their hands on this program.
Additionally, If I were a terrorist and didn't encrypt my top secret bomb plans, I'd deserve to be arrested by the FBI.
#2 I've said it <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/1
#3 If anyone BUT the FBI did this it would be (more of) a(n) outrage. And worst of all the FBI doesn't even try to put a pretty face on it. They blatantly go out and say "yes we are monitoring all of your e-mail now"... like Echelon wasn't enough.
#4 How do we know it stops at e-mail? They could me monitoring everything we do online. What right have they to do that? How do I know some snoopy janitor at the FBI head office who has a few minutes of computer know how, won't get onto one of these heavily guarded computers and start picking through my online documents, banking web pages, and start using my porn accounts.
Is there anyway to get around this bull shit spyware? If I get a T1 line installed in my house, will the phone company have to put the sniffer on that too?
SuPz.orG
Given the Mac's traditional markets, there are a lot of content developers (esp. audio folks) who've been screaming for a full-powered computer with NO FAN! Kudos to Apple for reducing our ambient noise levels.
The Computers-For-Everyone-Else Rationale:
As a technological device's market matures, you find differentiation not so much in its bells and whistles, but in fit-and-finish details. Design, design design. Which watch looks better on your wrist? They all keep time well enough... Apple has made a computer that has a little tech-sex appeal, as it were. <sarcasm>Ooh, the horror, it's small, quiet, and pretty -- how ever will the big beige box motherboard-o'-the-month crowd cope?</sarcasm>
One of the Apple Vice Presidents, I forget the name, was quoted as saying (paraphrased):
The cube is squarely aimed at creatively oriented people who want a powerful computer and a sign of their creativity.
Basically, the cube is a status symbol, a conscious design decision, and is not designed to replace the G4 desktop. The people who want to buy a cube are not the die-hard techies but the graphic designers who want something cool to show their clients that basically says, "Oh yeah, I'm a designer".
The G4 cube is to the workplace as the iMac was to the home. A toy.
Incidentally, we're still proceeding with the "Openlaw" experiment -- discussing legal arguments for the defense in a public forum in full view of the opposing side. At least one of the MPAA witnesses has said he used the Openlaw site as a starting point for his search for DeCSS information online. Yet I think the mix of participants -- and thus the range of insights and analyses we've gotten -- is far broader than a more traditional set of calls to experts might have produced. Thanks to everyone who's been involved!
Join the discussion at http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/
-- Openlaw: Fighting for fair use and the public domain
For the record:
The FBI can not, wait, let me emphasize that... The FBI CAN NOT order a carnivore system installed. Only a federal court could do that. The FBI is a law enforcement, or 'police' agency, and has no power on its own to order wiretaps. A court order is required for any wiretap. And, the courts can stipulate exactly HOW the wiretap is to be done. So, a judge with a bent for privacy could order the FBI to NOT use Carnivore to tap an email system, even while approving the wiretap.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
The FBI can claim that their actions at various ISPs are part of ongoing investigations, so those ISPs that have seen the box may not be able to talk. But the design of the box is fair game for FOIA - whether they built it themselves or contracted it out. So the ACLU is doing a FOIA request to find out about the box, its design, what it can and can't do and what it does besides what it's authorized to do, etc.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
This story (RealAudio required) played today on KCRW's "Deadline Hollywood" radio news It was written by Charles Fleming and contains the usual inacuracies regarding DeCSS.
Although it pretty much hits the mark on how unpopular the MPAA is as a result of the lawsuit, and has a wry opinion that the "genie is out of the bottle", it uses the traditional (and incorrect) "decss lets you pirate dvds" rather than "decess is about playback control" framework for the issue.
Some Quotes:
These superhighway holdup men [Corley, et al]... may have legal protection. The studios argue that descrambling constitutes copyright theft. The other side will argue that descrambling allows consumers to make copies of dvds they already own and trade them with friends, which constitutes legal 'fair use.'
Someone out there wanna help convince them that they should tell the real story of what this case is about?
Click here for the Deadline Hollywood main page.
Has anyone got any details on the Apple Desktop Connector (ADC) cable that mentioned on the Apple site and in the Wired article? It "combines power, video and USB signals onto a single cable". That's a really nice standard, except that the data could do with being faster than USB's 12Mb/s. I've got five cables coming out of my PC Ultralight (power, USB, 100Mb/s ethernet, audio & PS/2 - yeah, PS/2, there isn't a RF cordless wheel mouse with a USB interface for the receiver yet). Using this standard many people will be able to get the number of cables down to one or two. It would be great if this becomes a standard by the time I buy my next portable...
>The cube is only 8" x 8" on the top.
Hey, that's perfect to put the toaster on top . . .
:)
or a 4 cup coffe pot . . .
hawk
>They were NEVER to get into enforcement, hell, they were never supposed
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>to carry guns.
That would have made for interesting early days, as the task force to deal with Capone and the like.
"Oh Mr. Capone! Would you please stop? I'll tell the police if you don't . .
:)
Since Bill laid the egg (aka Windows), he must be the female.
By elimination, the other one (Tux) is male.
:)
hawk
For a good history on the FBI, check out.
:)
http://www.fbi.gov/yourfbi/history/hist.htm
It's not complete (nobody's anyobiography is), but It shows how it has grown way out of it origional roles.
And no matter what the movies show, Ness and his untouchables left most of the dirty work to the police (which made their job much more difficult considering the police were on Capone's payroll), and primarily did investigation.
These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Penn State DOES pay my salery, but I don't imagine they want to adopt my opinions
Finkployd
Razorfish Studios countersue IAM.com
Why Intel have to like RAMBUS
Detailed packet analysis of Realnetworks/Netscape's spyware.
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
What *I* want to know, is whether the guy at MacJunkie ate his hat/shorts/whatever it was that he said he would eat should the G4 Cube photos turn out to be real.
On a related note, I think sometimes slashdotters behave like that too... spout off about something they *think* they know, and totally make a fool of themselves. But I digress.
(Obligatory note to moderators: this is NOT flamebait. I really want to know what happened to the MacJunkie guy after this embarrassment...)
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mikre he sophia he tou Mikrosophou.
Well, *duh.*
The whole point of SETI@Home is raw data-crunching for spikes. Most spikes can be very easily attributed to earth-based or standard astronomical phenomena, which means most of the data is tossed. That's simply the rule of the game.
To put this into perspective, d.Net is raw data-crunching for a particular phrase. All but one of the cracked data blocks will match the predetermined phrase, which means the rest of the cracked blocks are thrown out. Does that mean d.Net is waste of time? Hardly.
Let's put this into perspective. SETI@Home might have a distant pay-off, but it's not inherently any less "wasteful" than d.Net.
I propose a change to the RFC:
New header:
X-Monitored: ,
e.g.,
X-Monitored: Omnivore 3.3a
X-Monitored: Carnivore 1.0
etc.
:)
From the Yahoo article
"It is very difficult to tell the sex of a penguin. For all we know Peter could be a female,"
This is worrying! What sex is Tux in that case? And how do we *know*??!
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
Seti@Home only collects "tokens" from computers that tell them whether that particular data packet was abnormal, meaning they should analyze it more, or normal, so that they can disregard it and throw it away (although they do probably keep it all on backup tape somewhere).
I believe what you are referring to is that, for a while, SETI@Home did not have enough information to distribute from the listening station. They were basically recycling old data to keep users in business while they were waiting to get control of the dish again and grab a bunch more raw data. Once the other researchers finished, SETI got it back for a while and grabbed a ton of information.
So yes, it is disgusting that they were reusing packets of info for PR, but what should they have done? You left the screensaver on anyway, might as well make pretty pictures instead of leaving it blank.
Now I've seen the judgment (and how refreshing it is to be able to get at interlocutory judgments - they're not a matter of public record in the UK, more's the pity) I think the original news story was spin of a fairly pernicious sort.
Essentially, what Garbus was alleging was that the judge's former firm had acted for the plaintiff (and probably not at the time the judge was a partner there) and that the judge had heard a rumour about Garbus some years before he was appointed to the bench.
That last, I have to say, would disqualify two thirds of the judges in the world from hearing any case. Contrary to popular opinion, there aren't that many lawyers around. It's a small world and we squabble like cats in a sack: I could pass on rumours about half the senior counsel in London ranging from the mildly scurrilous to the outright defamatory (and the funniest one of all is absolutely true: I had it from the horse's mouth, albeit the version the Telegraph published was embellished to the point of libel)
The point is that the mere fact that a judge had heard a rumour about counsel doesn't matter a damn. In a few years, some college contemporaries of mine may well start making it to the junior end of the bench: am I to ask them to withdraw from a case because they happen to have seen me get drunk, throw up in the Cherwell and start singing Mam'zelle from Armentieres?
I will pass carefully over my opinion of the defence's conduct as disclosed in the recital of facts Kaplan prefaces his judgment with.
-- AndrewD
A Maze of Twisty Little Laws, All Different.
> Penn State DOES pay my salery, but I don't imagine they want to :)
:), but that's not enough for my :)
:)
> adopt my opinions
They pay my salary (as of next month
opinions
But I'll follow that link when I get back (I've suddenly had an urgent matter dumped in my lap
I feel sorry for all the "hacktivists" in this world. Though their intentions are correct, they will forever be misunderstood by society at large. The 2600 is the perfect example. The members of 2600 don't actually advocate doing "bad" things, however they are always informing the public of the ramifications and outcomes that actions taken by others lead to. And yet, even with this great "public service", they will be misunderstood. Why? Simple. Everyone will forever think of them nothing but the avarage "hacker". However they are far for more than "hackers". If anyone here attended the Hope 2000 meeting as I did, you will know for a fact that these people are actually important to society. These people help others see a side that they normally would never see due to the overly powerful government and really really really big comercial companies. Hopefully, the 2600 group will win, and maybe these hactivists can finally see the changes that they so advocate for in society.
and SETI@home tosses most of their data. Yep, a friend of mine worked for them and left in disgust - he sez it's basically a big PR operation, the crunched numbers are mostly disregarded.
I'm running d.net on all the machines I have access to now.
Just got a Dell 8450 in the lab - 8 xeons! Hmmmm... lots-an-lots-a-stats!
The penguinppc site looks like an improvement but there's one crucial thing I can't find -- a complete software archive! There used to be a convenient searchable RPM archive featured prominently on linuxppc.org. Then it became difficult to find and recently I haven't been able to locate it at all. It's a huge pain having to tweak and compile all these apps that I know somebody else must have packaged.
I do see penguinppc's FTP link but it only contains a limited number of apps. Maybe I'm just dense - can someone point me to a better source?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
And "evidence" can include communication. The government can open your mail and trace or listen to your phone calls, legally, if you are a suspect of a crime and a warrant is issued.
Technically, opening mail and tapping wires is easy. Intercepting e-mail is hard. There is sometimes not a perfect solution for hard problems.
I'm not saying Carnivore is the right way to do things; based on the short blurbs that are out there, it sifts through everybody's mail to get the bad guys'. That would be pretty wrong. And like many Slashfolk, I do not trust closed-source software for this sort of application. But there may be no perfect solution, and there has to be some technology for legitimate surveilance.
My mom is not a Karma whore!
Quoted from Arnie Lerma's website:
DECLARATION OF ROBERT J. CIPRIANO
I, Robert J. Cipriano, hereby declare and state as follows:
[. . .]
38. I was befriended the first day of my employment at Earthlink by a Mr. Michael Hamra, another sales associate. I quickly started a friendship with Mr. Hamra and spent countless hours talking about various things including how Earthlink started with investments, by Kirstie Alley, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and other wealthy Scientologists, into Sky Dayton's idea of an internet service provider. Mr. Hamra told me how Sky Dayton had a coffee shop before starting Earthlink and that he, because of being a Scientologist and his friendships with celebrity Scientologists, he was able to build a multi-million dollar company that could, "Watch over the entire internet from within the internet."
39. Additionally, Mr. Hamra told me he was one of the founding group of Scientologist who ran Earthlink out of a Glendale one room office where he made sales calls from a bathroom in the office. Mr. Hamra said, "The Church of Scientology now had a database of information on every subscriber which included names, credit card info., credit reports, telephone info., computer info., who had referred them to Earthlink and who were their previous ISP providers." Mr. Hamra told me about the "other Earthlink building" which was next door on New York Avenue in Pasadena. Mr. Hamra told me that the other building was high security and is where Earthlink and the Church of Scientology did all the monitoring of the internet. Mr. Hamra was always very interested in my testimony in Berry v. Cipriano. It became clear to me that he was reporting what I was saying to other in Scientology.
40. I received many incoming sales calls while at Earthlink from individuals who would ask, "Are you a bunch of Scientologists?" We were trained to never admit that we were involved with the Church Of Scientology.
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There is also an article on this in the Phoenix New Times.
Incidentally Earthlink is now owned by Mindspring, so the same conditions may not currently prevail. Cipriano is also not the best source, as he is virtually a pathological liar, but he did indeed work for Earthlink, and whatever else Cipriano may have said, it's disturbing a Scientology lawyer could duke people into a job there at will.
"As for the dual processors - thats one answer to Motorola's problems with getting the G4 up to speed. Too bad you'll need Mac OS X to really take advantage of it."
That's not entirely true. There's a good reason Job trots out Photoshop to demonstrate the G4's capabilities: Photoshop is specially tuned to use the G4's Velocity Engine to accelerate its functions; and, Photoshop has been multi-processor aware for many years. While it's true that most applications won't notice the extra processor, people like me who basically *live* in Photoshop would benefit tremendously from a multi-processor machine.
I don't actually know, so I'll ask: does anybody know if other Adobe products (Premiere, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.) are multi-processor aware?
nebulo
> The G4 cube is to the workplace as the iMac was to the home. A toy.
Oh, not at all. I'm a web designer at work, and I have one of the current Blue & White G3s on my desk - and boy, would I give a lot to get that elephant off my desk! It's much bigger and unwieldy than you might think. And you can't always place it on the floor because the cords frequently aren't long enough (and don't tell me to get a VGA extension cable: they always seem to mess up the picture and make me squint).
Because the Cube has everything I need (Ethernet, video, Firewire, USB, hefty hard drive), I don't really need all the expansion room of the larger chassis; but I do need the desk space. I'd love to have a Cube on my desk.
And the design is cool, to! But that just makes it a good balance of form and function.
nebulo
So, a judge with a bent for privacy could order the FBI to NOT use Carnivore to tap an email system, even while approving the wiretap.
Fat chance of that.
I know... Innocent people will never fall prey to government surveillance, the story goes, because the bureau can't place a tap without a permission from fair and impartial judge. A lovely thought -- but I'll leave you with one more figure from the wiretap report.
Number of wiretap applications denied by judges nationwide last year: Zero.
From a recent Kevin Poulsen article on SecurityFocus.
More than that, I've heard anecdotes of federal judges who just hand out signed, blank orders for wiretaps and search-and-seizures and just let the LEO fill them out at will.
OK, I'll bite, as the one who made the post (and as a practicing lawyer for more than 20 years) I'll ask why you think it was low.
It is a fact that the moving papers were submitted to the Judge on Friday. It is a fact that, by the time court went into session at 9:00 a.m. Monday, he had mostly finished it. It is a fact that, with trial in session all Monday morning, he signed the Order early Monday afternoon. When else would he have written it?
The comment was directed to the mood he may have been in when trial started Monday, having just spent the weekend doing the Order, not to the content or style.
The FBI is a law enforcement, or 'police' agency, and has no power on its own to order wiretaps.
*sigh* I guess that is what they have become. The FBI is SUPPOSED to be an investigative agency. They were supposed to only investigate and turn over evidence to the proper authorities for the actual arrest. They were NEVER to get into enforcement, hell, they were never supposed to carry guns.
Contrast that with today's FBI. They have been know to have some of the best firepower in the business, and they are not afriad to use on suspect's wives while they are holding children (see ruby ridge). They are out of control, folks, and no one can do anything about it.
That's enough from me, though. I'd prefer not to vanish one night and be found later having "committed suicide".
Finkployd
> The judge isn't going to be impressed with any evidence regarding whether DeCSS is used for piracy or not, because (as he discussed in the denial of the recusal motion) he views the issue of copyright infringement as irrelevant to the case.
Still, up until today the MPAA has been making a very big issue out of it in its PR spin. It may have just lost the battle for the public's minds.
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Me too. Unfortunately the goal of the project was to demonstrate the opposite. Namely that RC5-64 was too weak and would succumb to a brute-force attack. They managed to do that in the DES, CSC and RC5-56 contests, but it looks like we're at least another year from cracking RC5-64. Maybe more since a large chuck of resources are now being diverted to the OGR challenge (a non-encryption project). I have been of the opinion for a while now that they should abandon RC5 and focus on OGR.
Someone else spoke of how they have switched back to d.net from SETI@Home. I've done that as well. Ironically, I first learned about d.net through SETI@Home and started running their clients before the S@H clients were released. Then later it became obvious that the SETI project had all the cycles they needed and more. I felt my cycles could go to better use at d.net and I went back. I believe in both projects and in the concept of distributed computing in general, but I just came to the conclusion that I would be of more use helping d.net.
Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
Oh, if you want Apple Cubism, see the story in Wired about its resemblance to NeXT.
... too much lawyerease for me, and besides it sounds like he's just whining that the defendants (2600) are out to get him.
Can anyone else provide a succinct summary of the document, in plain English, that explains just what the fuck the Judge is trying to say, and how he figures he's still qualified to preside over this case, given that he's done work for Time/Warner?
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Cube with dual G4s. Slashback is supposedly story updates and corrections, right? Please make sure the corrections are correct.
The post mentions something about a dual processor G4 Cube. This simply isn't true. The G4 cubes come with either a 450 or 500mhz G4 chip. One lonely chip.
I'm not sure who this box is for. It costs about the same amount at the full G4 machines but its less upgradable. (It does have more mhz than its bigger version, but not necessarily more processing power.) I think its targetted for people who reguard looks over function. (You can't even set a stack of post it notes on top of it - you wouldn't be able to get at the dvd drive.) Perhaps its a repackaged iMac with a better processor.
I find it strange that you can upgrade the ethernet from 100Base-T to gigabit. There's an expansion slot - and a fast one, thats asking to take more than just ethernet upgrades.
As for the dual processors - thats one answer to Motorola's problems with getting the G4 up to speed. Too bad you'll need Mac OS X to really take advantage of it. And too bad they're doing this just to keep up, rather than get ahead.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Of course, Rambus would be SOL if they did ditch Intel, so if I were Intel I would probably just give them the finger and get on with producing competitive systems. OTOH, Intel is clearly hoping to use Rambus for lock-in leverage, so they probably won't "finger" them until the scam^H^H^H^H scheme has failed beyond hope of recovery.
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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
While I think Apple's been going a tad overboard with their legal assaults, to some effect, I do *understand* where they are at with this.
They have worked a long time to get the company back in the black, and back to doing the kind of innovations they are famous for. Not the kind where you buy a company and innovate, but, actually do the hard work, pour sweat, etc.
As I see the perspective, Apple didnt want anyone stealing their moment. I have to agree with them. It was truly their moment. The cubed G4, the snow iMac, the deal with Circut City, the entry level mac starting at $799.
These are all of the fruits Apple worked hard to bring. I think they have every reason to defend the right to announce it on their own terms. I like Mac Rumor sites as much as the next guy. But, I also think Apple earned the right to unveil at their leasure.
On the other side, what they did with Macintouch was blatant and damned wrong. (For those that dont know, they sent threatening letters to Ric Ford, and the hosting ISP to get things pulled, and got a hot letter right back telling them where they could shove it)
But, all in all, im happy with the new gear. I cant wait to order and place some of the new stuff. I especially cant wait for LinuxPPC to catch up to em.
Supernaut
Thus, if an ISP with its own sniffer capabilities encounters a demand to use Carnivore instead, someone is going to know that something's up. The only way for the FBI to avoid this is to demand to use Carnivore (or the equivalent) as a matter of course, regardless of the capabilities of the ISP to meet the requirements of the court order without it.
It's for this reason that I think we can expect to see the FBI demand that ISP's do it their way, no matter what's best for the customers, the Constitution, or the society at large.
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Time is Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once... the bitch.