Has anyone else noticed that Yahoo seems to be having some
pretty serious problems for the past several days? As
far as I can tell, whoever is hosting their images (Akamai?)
is just plain dead ...

] Wall Street loves Google, but the feeling isn't mutual.
]
] That is the message permeating nearly every page of the
] public offering statement that Google Inc., the Web
] search engine company, filed yesterday. In a frank and
] provocative statement, the company's leaders argued that
] companies cannot manage for the long term unless
] investors and analysts have limited say in the way they
] are run.

More on the Google IPO.

Google Says to Investors: Don't Think of Flipping

IconoclasT wrote:
] BASIC Computer Language Turns 40
]
] 10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a
] radical"
]
] 20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to
] harness"
]
] 30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple
] enough that even"
]
] 40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it."
]
] 50 END

"The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."
-- Edsger Dijkstra

RE: Happy Birthday to BASIC

] Google, the popular Internet search engine company, filed with
] Securities and Exchange Commission today to raise as much as $2.72
] billion in its long-awaited stock market debut, and said it would
] seek to list its shares on either the Nasdaq market or the New
] York Stock Exchange.

Its official.

Google Files for IPO

Decius wrote:
] ] U.S. authorities charged four people in Detroit on
] ] Wednesday with e-mailing fraudulent sales pitches for
] ] weight-loss products, the first criminal prosecutions
] ] under the government's new "can spam" legislation.
]
] Turns out this is an FTC investigation for fraud and the Spam
] charges are just an add on. This probably doesn't mean they've
] actually started enforcing these laws in general.

Again, most of the spammers tactics probably already constitute
fraud ... why hasn't the FTC been prosecuting spammers under
existing fraud statutes?

RE: CNN.com - First four charged under 'can spam' law - Apr 28, 2004

] Beneath the calm, sheltered waters around Washington's
] San Juan Islands, local killer whales are trying to adapt
] to a new challenge: the overwhelming rumble of engine
] noise from a growing fleet of whale-watching boats.

The world just keeps getting weirder and weirder...

Killer whales having to shout over din of orca-watching craft

There's a press-release on this linked off of Groklaw that gives
some more particulars from the report.

A Patent System for the 21st Century

] Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it
] break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and
] paste it back together? Then you've come to the right
] place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we
] will create a tiny URL that will not break in email
] postings and never expires.

Cute.

TinyURL.com - where tiny is better!

] IBM plans today to announce new server computers that behave
] more like mainframes and are priced as low as $1,500. The
] servers will be able to run as many as 10 operating
] systems on a single machine. One processor can divvy up
] the workload - packing the capability of several machines
] into one - by building several virtual machines that run
] on the underlying hardware. It is a technology that has
] existed for decades in the mainframe market long ruled by
] I.B.M.

These are apparently going to be Power based.

I.B.M. Plans to Build Servers That Act Like Mainframes

] Even as the prospect of high-skilled American jobs moving
] to low-wage countries like India ignites hot political
] debate, some entrepreneurs are finding that India's
] vaunted high-technology work force is not always as
] effective as advertised.

The hidden costs of IT outsourcing are starting to become apparent...

Companies Finding Some Computer Jobs Best Done in U.S.