]
] Sun Microsystems Inc.'s plans for bringing its Solaris
] operating system to IBM's Power architecture appear to be
] moving along.

I think this is just sun making noise again ... because
this is completely fucking insane!

Sun on Track with Solaris-on-Power Plan

] San Diego-based D Squared has been banned from using a
] little known feature, Windows Messenger, to send unwanted
] adverts to computer owners.

It is completely assinine that windows messenger is on by default
in the first place, especially on "home edition" PCs. Its meant
(AFAIK) as a wall service so that your admin can tell you
"save your work, the server's going down in an hour."

US bars backdoor pop-up adverts

] Congress is moving to force a shift to "open access," a
] form of free-to-consumer publishing, for scientific
] papers. The move angers commercial publishers, who see
] their livelihoods threatened, and scares scientific
] societies, who are afraid they will face revenue losses
] or new costs they cannot afford. Even librarians, who
] pushed for the move, are cautious, because they are
] concerned for the health of the scientific societies.

This is outstanding. The situation with academic journals
has gotten completely out of hand!

United Press International: PoliSci: House acts on research access

Caught the tail-end of a story on Adaptive Cruise Control on
All Things Considered today... dmv and I were talking the
other day about some result that some physicists came up with
based on gas-modelling techniques that most traffic would "go away"
if only 20% of vehicles had it...

] The FCC has approved 13 new copy protection technologies
] that comply with the commission's 2003 broadcast flag
] decision.

FCC Approves Copy Protection Technology

] Virtually everything done via TCP/IP, with the (for now)
] exception of instant messaging, is on its way to becoming
] wiretap-friendly, thanks to a tentative 5-0 decision by
] the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on
] Wednesday.

Easy VoIP wiretaps coming soon

] Steven P. Jobs, co-founder and chief executive of Apple
] Computer, underwent emergency cancer surgery on Saturday.
] In an e-mail message sent Sunday to Apple employees, he
] said that the surgery had gone well and that he would
] return to work in September.

Steve Jobs Has Emergency Cancer Surgery

] You have to give credit to Sun Microsystems' President
] Jonathan Schwartz. He knows how to play the media well.
] And one of his finest press goading moments since
] becoming Prez has come in the form of a non-story about
] Sun potentially acquiring Novell.

The Register on Sun's ridiculous Novell foo

]
] I have it figured out, I think. Sun's Jonathan Schwartz
] is jealous of Darl McBride. *He* yearns to be the most
] hated man in tech. But no matter how many awful things he
] says, he's still just the runner up. Actually, no one
] bothers to hate either of them, but it'd be easy, if we
] weren't so nice here on the good guy side.

Some good stuff on software patents here, too.

Sun making noise about buying Novell?!

] Electric cables burst into flames as an eight-story
] office building which was leaning precariously for days
] in one of Manila's busy commercial districts, collapses
] Friday July 23, 2004, hours after occupants fled in panic
] following creaking sounds and bursting water pipes. No
] injuries were reported but the incident damaged another
] building across the street. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

!!!

Manila building falls down