Saw it last night. I don't really feel the need to say much
about the content. I thought it was all right.

I thought the visual effects alone were worth the ticket price. I can't wait for the next issue of Cinefex!

FCC has voted 4-1 to allow companies to lease/trade frequencies.
There was a 40-year old requirement that license holders physically
control all of their infrastructure that prevented this in the past.

I'm not sure whether or not I think this is a good thing; the licensing system in this country is pretty broken IMO.

U.S. Moves to Allow Trading of Radio Spectrum Licenses

] But not everyone likes the switch to electronic
] balloting. Some of the loudest opposition, in fact, is
] coming from computer experts who say the new technology
] could prove more troublesome than its predecessors. They
] warn of equipment malfunction, unchecked tampering and
] the lack of secure proof for each vote.

To Register Doubts, Press Here

] Last summer, Orlando Ayala, then in charge of worldwide
] sales at Microsoft, sent an e-mail message titled
] Microsoft Confidential to senior managers laying out a
] company strategy to dissuade governments across the globe
] from choosing cheaper alternatives to the ubiquitous
] Windows computer software systems.
]
] Mr. Ayala's message told executives that if a deal
] involving governments or large institutions looked
] doomed, they were authorized to draw from a special fund
] to offer the software at a steep discount or even free if
] necessary. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief
] executive, was sent a copy of the e-mail message.

Dumping by any other name...

How Microsoft Warded Off Rival

] McWane Inc., a major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes and
] one of the nation's most persistent violators of
] workplace safety and environmental laws, is the target of
] a federal criminal investigation, according to law
] enforcement officials and current and former employees
] who have been questioned in the inquiry.

Someone blogged this a few months ago ... looks like the feds are starting to take interest in the case.

Criminal Inquiry Under Way at Large Pipe Manufacturer

] Commercial users and distributors of the Linux operating
] system could face legal action from the key patent holder
] of Unix, which said Wednesday it will suspend sales of
] its own Linux products.
]
] SCO Group, formerly known as Caldera International,
] claims its intellectual property has been illegally
] included in all distributions of the Linux operating
] system.

This is soooooo stupid. SCO is basically begging for IBM to
buy them. It really is time for SCO to go away...

Wired News: Unix Developer Stops Linux Sales

] Diagnoses of autism have nearly doubled in the last four
] years among children in California, state officials
] reported yesterday. They said they could not explain the
] increase.

Wired had a thing about this awhile ago ... all the hackers must
be breeding, finally.

Autism Diagnoses Double in California

] On May 1, Stephen L. Joseph, a San Francisco lawyer,
] filed a suit in Marin County Superior Court against Kraft
] Foods, the maker of Oreos, seeking to ban the cookies in
] California because they contain trans fats, which exist
] in hydrogenated oil. That oil is found in 40 percent of
] prepared foods, including most cookies, crackers and
] microwave popcorn, according to the United States
] Department of Agriculture.

In 30 years, the obesity epidemic in this country may well look like smoking does today -- like a major public health problem. Nevertheless,this is pretty silly. People need to be responsible for the consequences of their choices at some point

A Suit Seeks to Bar Oreos as a Health Risk

] In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security
] and Privacy here, the graduate students suggested simple
] modifications to network software that could defeat
] denial-of-service attacks and that could be implemented
] in the current protocol used by the Internet. The
] symposium, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and
] Electronics Engineers, began Sunday and lasts through
] Wednesday.

I know these people ...

Taking aim at denial-of-service attacks | CNET News.com

] On Sunday, May 11, 2003, a Mechanical Engineering
] graduate student was playing with aerosolized naproxen
] sodium, filling the hallway by the main D-level entrance
] with a cloud of anti-inflammatory drugs. This cloud just
] happened to induce coughing and distress in anyone who
] walked near it.

Random goings on here at CMU.

poison gas