]
] There has been quite a lot of activity in the Red Hat
] case.
]
] SCO filed a Motion to Dismiss the action in its entirety,
] as you know, and Red Hat filed its answering brief. But
] since we last reported on this case, Red Hat initiated
] discovery. They asked SCO for documents and for answers
] to some pointed questions. IBM is forcing SCO into a
] corner in Utah, and Red Hat is forcefully and
] aggressively trying to do the same in Delaware. You'll
] see, I think, that we haven't been wasting our time
] telling the world the details of this story. The big
] picture is that Red Hat is telling SCO to prove their
] allegations with specificity. They also want all their
] source code, and I'm sure you can figure out what they
] want to do with it, when I tell you that they asked for
] the complete Linux Kernel Personality source code, among
] the other products for which they have requested source
] code.

SCO updates from GrokLaw.

GROKLAW

] Of all the candidates for the Democratic nomination,
] Howard Dean raised the most amount of money over the
] Internet. On March 15th, the Dean campaign launched the
] first official weblog in presidential campaign history,
] six days after Dean himself first stumped in the
] blogosphere. What follows are Dean's principles for
] Internet Policy.

Dean's Principles for Internet Policy

]
] WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — NASA is accelerating development of a
] space plane to take crews to and from the International
] Space Station, but the aging space shuttles could remain
] in use for many years, the agency administrator, Sean
] O'Keefe, said on Wednesday.

I hope they actually come through on this. The shuttle is a major clusterfuck.

NASA Is Speeding Work on Space Plane for Some Shuttle Tasks

] Sony said this week that it would begin mass-producing
] its next-generation Cell chips, destined for the
] PlayStation 3 and other consumer electronics, by the
] latter half of 2005.

I hope Nintendo can pick up some more market share before this hits!

ZDNet UK - News - PlayStation 3 chip to arrive in 2005

] Technical measures designed to turn free online
] file-sharing services into a major source of revenue for
] the record industry have been proposed by an industry
] group representing the most popular trading service,
] Kazaa.

Hmmmm....

New Scientist

Decius wrote:
] ] One group in Poland is currently advertising "invisible
] ] bulletproof hosting" in online forums for spammers. For
] ] $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site
] ] from network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such
] ] as traceroute and whois.

And I wonder how long before these guys lose their upstreams...

RE: Wired News: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers

] TMDA is an open source software application designed to
] significantly reduce the amount of spam (Internet
] junk-mail) you receive. TMDA strives to be more
] effective, yet less time-consuming than traditional spam
] filters. TMDA can also be used as a general purpose local
] mail delivery agent to filter, sort, deliver and dispose
] of incoming mail.

Tom: have you looked at this?

Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA) Homepage

] A Princeton PhD student has published a paper detailing
] the music industry's latest CD copy protection scheme -
] and how the technique can be bypassed by simply holding
] down the host computer's Shift key when a 'protected' CD
] is inserted.

Of course this was another dumbass scheme in the first place. There is *no way* to "fix" CDs and retain backward compatibility with the huge installed base.

The Register

] In his 2 1/2 years in office, Attorney General John
] Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as
] the Torquemada of American law. Tomas de Torquemada was
] the 15th century Dominican friar who became the grand
] inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. He was largely
] responsible for its methods, including torture and the
] burning of heretics - Muslims in particular.

DenverPost.com - Walter Cronkite on the DOJ

] Motorola said yesterday that it planned to divest its
] struggling semiconductor operations from its cellphone
] and communications equipment businesses, a step that had
] long been favored by Wall Street and opposed by top
] management.

Damn...

Motorola Will Spin Off Its Money-Losing Semiconductor Business