] The FCC is embarking on a new crusade - against phone
] spam.

The next frontier of spam: SMS.

Techworld.com - FCC starts to tackle mobile phone spam

] A thread of carbon nanotubes more than 100 metres long
] has been pulled from a fiery furnace. The previous record
] holder was a mere 30 centimetres long.

100-metre Carbon Nanotube Produced

] And let's end the illusion right now that adult voters
] make their decisions based on careful study of the
] candidates and their issues. We all know that's bullshit.
] To pretend that teenagers would vote for the first
] politician who promises to outlaw homework ignores the
] fact that their parents are probably dumb enough to vote
] for a politician who promised to shorten commercial
] breaks and make super-sizing free.

I happen to think that this is a good idea. I find the notion of half and quarter votes a little remeniscient of slavery, but the fact is that half a vote is better then none, and that the political systems, notably local governments, routinely use teenagers as a political pinatta without any consideration of their interests whatsoever. Curfews, loitering laws, unreasonable catch-22 situations where those who comply with a court summons are considered truants, school uniforms, laws against skateboarding, parties, and other recreation, laws which upgrade minors to adult courts arbitrarily, unfair/unequal treatment in traffic courts, school systems which appropriate funds in ways that are most visible to local adults rather then most effective in the school, random search and seizure on school property, metal detectors, phsycological evaluations, surveillance technology... In fact, I don't think I've ever heard of a peice of legislation involving minors which seemed reasonable. I'm not kidding.

"They are easily deceived by political charlatans." So is 90% of the adult population. What planet are you people living on?

Proposal to extend vote to minors in California

] Charles Dickens couldn't come up with a plot like this.
] The legal dispute in many ways underscores one of the
] operative principles of the high-tech industry: Namely,
] that it is really one big junior high school cafeteria.
] Everyone knows one other, but the alliances change all
] the time.

More of the connections between the principals -- McBride, etc -- and Novell, oldSCO, Caldera, etc.

Six Degrees of SCO

]
] What is this initiative you ask? A new wireless protocol?
] A new wireless association? Not exactly! Alan Harper is
] the group strategy director at Vodafone, one the world's
] largest mobile telecom operators and he is talking about
] a recent bid to ICANN for a new unspecified mobile
] top-level domain. That's right a "mobile TLD" or mTLD.
] Nine software, telecom, and mobile handset heavyweights
] (3, GSM Association, HP, Microsoft, Nokia, Orange,
] Samsung, Sun, and Vodafone) have signed a memorandum of
] understanding to jointly set up a new Internet names
] registry company to issue domain names for wireless
] devices, in an attempt to boost mobile services.

Hmmm...

Industry Giants Embarking on Internet Frontiers

] SAN JOSE, Calif., March 10, 2004 -- Hitachi Global
] Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the
] world's highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the
] 400GB Deskstar 7K400. The new drive has been designed for
] audio video (AV) and ATA nearline environments, where
] large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key
] requirements. A new industry-standard AV feature set
] makes the drive well-suited for use in high-end digital
] video recorders (DVRs) that are designed to record
] substantial amounts of high-quality digital programming.

5 platters (big) but still ...

400GB hard drive makes Hitachi the capacity king

As of ~13:40 EST, SCOX was down $0.73 (7.12%) to $9.52 on volume
of 470,454 (compared to 230,090 average daily volume).

As their stock price collapses, so too will their ability to maintain litigation.

Jeremy wrote:
] A robotic vehicle designed by a team from Carnegie Mellon
] University in Pittsburgh on Tuesday became the first
] driverless contestant to navigate a 1.36 mile test course in
] preparation for the Pentagon's $1 million robot race this
] weekend.
]
] The Carnegie Mellon vehicle, named Sandstorm and representing
] an investment of more than $3 million, has generally been
] considered the favored entrant in the race, which is
] scheduled for Saturday between Barstow and Las Vegas.
]
] To win the $1 million prize, a vehicle must complete the
] desert course, expected to be as long as 200 miles, in less
] than 10 hours.

I know a lot of the Red Team people here at CMU ... they're *nuts*.

RE: Robot Vehicle Successfully Navigates Test Course

As of ~13:15 (EST), SCOX is down $0.78 or nearly 7% to $10.50.

52wk Range: 1.89 - 22.29

Can we say "pump and dump?"

U: Closed at $10.25, down $1.03 (9.13%) on volume of
326,937 (about 50% more than average)

] We, the undersigned, who have an interest in the Internet
] remaining free of unregulated profiteering, petition you
] to recall the .com and .net registry from VeriSign for
] the following reasons:

Heh...

RecallVeriSign.com - The Web Site Dedicated to Removing VeriSign as the .COM and .NET registry!