] Content protection company Macrovision Corp. plans to
] announce on Tuesday that it has developed a way to
] eliminate the vast majority of DVD copying.

I don't see how this can possibly work. Macrovision is dumb.

New Tech Prevents DVD Copying, Kills 'Rippers'

] Liberty Alliance Project, February 10, 2005 --Liberty
] Alliance, the global consortium for open federated
] identity standards and identity-based Web services, today
] announced the public draft release of ID-WSF 2.0, a
] second-generation framework for identity-based Web
] services.

I think Liberty Alliance's #1 problem is: too much weird jargon!

Liberty Alliance Project

] TOKYO, Feb. 10 - In a surprising admission, North Korea's
] hard-line Communist government declared publicly today
] for the first time that it has nuclear weapons.

North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons and Rejects Talks

] The goal of this project is to build an optimization
] framework for trees based on the Static Single Assignment
] (SSA) form [1]. The implementation currently lives in the
] tree-ssa-20020619-branch branch.

Some folks have implemented a new intermediate representation to
enable a bunch of optimizations; its now been merged in GCC 4.

GCC: SSA for Trees

] ANALOGIES are often drawn between the fields of computer
] science and biology. The information-processing abilities
] of DNA are a form of natural molecular computing, and
] computer viruses leap from machine to machine in ways
] reminiscent of their disease-causing namesakes. At the
] International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San
] Francisco this week, a trio of mighty
] information-technology firms%u2014Sony, Toshiba and
] IBM%u2014pushed the analogy a little further. They
] unveiled a much anticipated new computer chip, four years
] in the making, the very name of which is a biological
] metaphor: the Cell.

It sounds like Cell is basically a Power core with a bunch of IO and some special units to do PS3 things, etc.

Sony/Toshiba/IBM Launch Cell

]
] Earthlink Inc. on Wednesday said is has filed four
] lawsuits that accuse alleged spammers in four states of
] violating the federal CAN-SPAM act.

EarthLink Sues Alleged Spammers

] We describe a theory of authentication and a system that
] implements it. Our theory is based on the notion of
] principal and a %u2018speaks for%u2019 relation between
] principals. A simple principal either has a name or is a
] communication channel; a compound principal can express
] an adopted role or delegated authority. The theory shows
] how to reason about a principal%u2019s authority by
] deducing the other principals that it can speak for;
] authenticating a channel is one important application. We
] use the theory to explain many existing and proposed
] security mechanisms. In particular, we describe the
] system we have built. It passes principals efficiently as
] arguments or results of remote procedure calls, and it
] handles public and shared key encryption, name lookup in
] a large name space, groups of principals, program
] loading, delegation, access control, and revocation.

I may have memed this before. It is an outstanding paper.

Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice

] U.S. lawyers know that what judges do is to pick winners
] and losers, then help the winners win and help the losers
] lose. The goal is finality in a dispute. That means
] helping the winner create a record that has the best
] chance of being sustained on appeal. Even more
] importantly, however, Judge Kimball has decided that this
] case is going to get what judges call "active case
] management." That means that the judge is dropping the
] default mode of just letting the lawyers develop the
] record while the judge plays referee. The judge is going
] to actively manage development of the record.

Remember SCO? It sounds like the judge is finally pissed off
now...

More SCO

]
] Opinion: The new VOIP Security Alliance worries about
] threats from the Internet, but should you even be there?

This is idiotic.

Keep Voice Off the Internet

] AOL now reports that over 90 percent of its incoming spam
] comes directly from other ISPs' mail relays. "Spamhaus
] sees this change and the increase in spam it is producing
] as a threat to be taken seriously," the company stated.

SpamHaus: Spam Approaches 95 Percent of All E-mail