"The Windows source code is the ultimate documentation of Windows Server technologies. With this step our goal is to resolve all questions about the sufficiency of our technical documentation," Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, said in a statement.

The implementation is the only documentation Microsoft has, apparently.

Microsoft offers up source code in EC dispute

The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, to review its patent dispute with the holding company NTP.

If NTP could actually put RIM/BlackBerry out of business, it might be a watershed event for patent reform.

Supreme Court Refuses Review in BlackBerry Patent Dispute

NASA launched the first space mission to Pluto [Thursday] as a powerful rocket hurled the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to the edge of the solar system.

NASA Launches Spacecraft on the First Mission to Pluto

noteworthy wrote:
Daniel Dennett says:

A lot of the evangelicals don't really care what you believe as long as you say the right thing and do the right thing and put a lot of money in the collection box.

I read a bunch of Dennett back on my last philosophy of mind kick a number of years ago. I might actually pick this one up. And I've even been thinking about having another look at Gödel, Escher, Bach which was my entry point into all of this ~9 years ago.

RE: Questions for Daniel C. Dennett

802.11n wireless LAN got a green light from the IEEE Thursday when its task group voted to make the Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC) proposal its first draft.

802.11n Gets the Green Light

Mr. Waits said there were two kinds of imitation. "I don't mind if someone wants to try to sound like me to do a show," he said. "I get a kick out of that."

"I make a distinction," he added, "between people who use the voice as a creative item and people who are selling cigarettes and underwear. It's a big difference. We all know the difference. And it's stealing. They get a lot out of standing next to me, and I just get big legal bills."

*sigh*

Still Fighting for the Right to His Voice

NASA’s Project Constellation program has been overhauled to include a slightly smaller Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and a new human-rated booster with an Apollo-era upper stage engine.

Project Constellation is the name NASA has given for the effort to develop hardware necessary to replace the space shuttle and return astronauts to the Moon late next decade.

NASA still intends to make use of the solid-rocket booster technology that has helped lift the space shuttle off the pad for a quarter century. But the agency recently approved CEV launcher plans calling for development of a new five-segment solid-rocket booster instead of the four-segment motor currently in production.

CEV Makeover: NASA Overhauls Plans for New Spaceship

SpongeBob is not your friend.

That is the message of a lawsuit announced yesterday, asserting that characters like SpongeBob SquarePants - despite his ever-present grin - are harming children's health by hawking what the plaintiffs' consider to be junk food.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Boston-based group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and two parents served notice that they intended to sue Viacom, the maker of the popular children's TV show "SpongeBob SquarePants," and the Kellogg Company, a big marketer of food to children, which features the lovable SpongeBob on packages of cereal, Pop Tarts and cookies.

Kellogg and Viacom to Face Suit Over Ads for Children

Advanced Micro Devices, the computer chip maker, reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday that far exceeded Wall Street estimates and showed that it poses a serious threat to the Intel Corporation, the world's biggest chip maker.

Advanced Micro Earnings Beat Estimates

A state court judge sentenced a Las Vegas couple who admitted to planting a severed human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili to lengthy prison terms Wednesday.

Couple Sentenced to Prison for Wendy's Chili Scheme