] Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics,
] have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which
] will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of
] data onto a single optical disc.

Group aims to drastically up disc storage

] n the absence of any formal announcements, news of Google being
] accredited by ICANN as a domain name registrar, spread fast in the
] media today after it was first reported by Bret Fausett on Lextext
] -- see Google is a Registrar.

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]
] "Spam is a completely solvable problem. And it does not
] take finding every Richter, Jaynes, Bridger, etc to do it
] (although it certainly is part of the solution).
]
] In fact it does not take email identity technologies
] either (although these are certainly needed and part of
] the solution).
]
] The solution is getting messaging providers to take
] responsibility for their lame email systems that they set
] up without much thought and continue to not care much
] about when they become overrun by spammers. This is just
] security and every admin/network operator has to deal
] with it. We just have a lot of providers not bothering to
] care.

How to Stop Spam

The standard C string library is horribly inadequate for almost
all applications. They aren't 8-bit clean, they aren't counted (overflows), in general, you have to do a lot of needless work yourself.

A better one goes a long way towards civilizing
C. I wish ANSI/ISO would recognize this and standardize something.

glib doesn't have equivalents of index(), strstr(), etc ...
WTF not?!

String Library Comparison

]
] The Bush Administration has petitioned the U.S. Supreme
] Court to overturn lower court rulings that allowed the
] copying of recordings and movies through file
] peer-to-peer software technology.

ugh...

TechWeb | News | Bush Administration Seeks To Curb Music, Movie File-Swapping | Jan. 25, 2005

]
] On Tuesday, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce that it
] will be using its newly minted Common Development and
] Distribution License open-source license for its
] long-promised Open Solaris project. However, creating a
] developer community around such plans to open-source
] Solaris will not be easy%u2014for many
] reasons%u2014according to analysts and industry figures.
]
] Sun has long promised that it would open-source Solaris,
] but it has yet to answer in detail how it will deal with
] questions about The SCO Group Inc.'s Unix intellectual
] property claims

AAAAhaahaahaahaa!!!

Analysts: Sun's Open Solaris Plans Face Problems

] The advent of Blu-ray and HD DVD may give rise to a
] format war reminiscent of the Betamax-VHS contest in the
] early days of videocassette recorders. At stake are
] potentially billions of dollars in hardware and discs as
] the demand for high-definition content grows.
]
] In the midst of the battle, for which the two sides
] mounted elaborate floor displays this month at the
] Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mr. Greenhall is
] asking, Why wait for the giants to sort it all out?
] There's a little guy, he said, with a high-definition
] solution right now: his own company's DivX 6 software.

I don't think DivX is going to make a difference here; its so
tainted by p2p that Hollywood probably won't touch it with a 10-foot pole. Nevertheless, an interesting gambit.

The Coming DVD Format War

] Just hours before being sworn in for a second term, Vice
] President Dick Cheney publicly raised the possibility on
] Thursday that Israel "might well decide to act first" to
] prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Whoa...

Cheney Says Israel Might 'Act First' on Iran

] Michael K. Powell announced this afternoon that he would
] step down as chairman of the Federal Communications
] Commission in March, ending a four-year term that was
] marked by the tightening of standards on decency and
] attempts to loosen restrictions on media ownership.

This may be bad news. As assinine as the indecency stuff is, he has tended to take a free-markets approach to regulation. Lessig has spoken favorably of him on various occassions.

] The replacements being considered for Mr. Powell are said by
] administration officials to include another Republican member of
] the commission, Kevin Martin; Becky Klein, a former head of the
] public utility commission in Texas; Patrick Wood III, the head of
] the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Michael Gallagher,
] head of the National Telecommunications and Information
] Administration in the Commerce Department.

I don't know anything about any of these people.

(I didn't know he was a Clinton appointee -- Bush made
him chair)

Powell Is Stepping Down as Chairman of F.C.C. in March

] Sony has taken the first step toward opening up the
] proprietary UMD (Universal Media Disc) optical disc
] system used in its PlayStation Portable (PSP) so that
] other companies can build products based on the discs, a
] senior executive says.

They're finally starting to get it...

Sony Considers Opening PSP