Awesome! I've been saying I wanted to see SCO prosecuted under either RICO or the mail fraud statutes ... this is just as good!

RE: Morris mom turns tables in music industry lawsuit

]
] VeriSign plans to unveil on Wednesday a digital identity
] program for school-age children, which it says will
] bolster online safety for the growing number of young Web
] surfers.

Whoa...

VeriSign works to ID kid surfers

] Root servers, and the .net, .com (as well as .org)
] domains belong to the world now; Welcome to the global
] democracy, brought to you by the ability to send packets
] across the globe at the speed of light. We all rely on
] them, and their management should be done in a way
] appropriate for their status. There are many capable
] organizations worldwide which could assume such a task.

SiteFinder vs. Engineers: Our Mistake Is Ignorance

] Today, the big issue is Java. Sun's insistence on
] continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged
] Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the
] language in the open-source community, ceding the field
] (and probably the future) to scripting-language
] competitors like Python and Perl. Once again the choice
] is between control and ubiquity, and despite your claim
] that "open source is our friend" Sun appears to be
] choosing control. Sun's terms are so restrictive that
] Linux distributions cannot even include Java binaries for
] use as a browser plugin, let alone as a standalone
] development tool.

Sun screwed up Java because they were trying to use it to become Microsoft. Java would have been much more successful as a programming language had Sun not made these dumb business decisions.

ESR to Sun: Let Java Go

] The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will keep two
] upcoming IT projects off limits to computer services
] provider Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) because it has
] been dissatisfied with the vendor's performance in an
] ongoing IT modernization effort at the tax collection
] agency, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said Thursday.

This is probably good news. CSC's credentials seem to be that it is a well-connected government contractor, not that it has any particular technology competence. As I've wondered before: how is CSC more qualified to do IT for the IRS than IBM or Oracle??

IRS commisioner bars CSC from upcoming projects

]
] The world's largest software maker alerted the public on
] Thursday that parts of its valuable source code for its
] Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems had been
] leaked to various online file-sharing networks.

!!!

Net file-swappers snap up Windows source code

] WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — President Bush's plan for cars running on
] clean, efficient hydrogen fuel cells is decades away from commercial
] reality, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences.

Report Questions Bush Plan for Hydrogen-Fueled Cars

] Yahoo! and Microsoft are giving serious thought to the
] idea of e-mail "postage" that costs senders a small fee,
] company officials said.

Major ISPs Ponder 'Postage' To Stem Spam

]
] The power of word-of-mouth in our world is unquestioned.
] If a friend gives "two thumbs up" for a movie, chances
] are we will go watch it in the theater or rent it on DVD.
] A food critic who recommends a restaurant in his
] newspaper column will be a main driver of traffic of
] wannabe connoisseurs to that establishment. Whether it is
] to find a good dry cleaner, or a good lawyer, there is no
] more valuable recommendation than one from a person who
] has lived through that experience before.

Does anyone know anything about this? I got a mail from it earlier today saying that someone had added an entry about me.

U: The mail I got 2 days ago was that someone was "looking for information"; I got another one today that someone "has information." This is freaking me out, slightly ... Is this just a spam thing? I signed up thinking it would give me more information (it didn't) and it mailed me my password back in the fucking clear ... so these people are morons if nothing else!

U: I'm dumb. It is in fact a scam. The hook is that you have to give them money to contact (via a magic anonymous mail system) the people who've made entries about you.

Word of Mouth Connection / A Background Research Tool

] Microsoft on Friday plans to announce changes to a
] licensing program for software communications protocols
] it created as part of its landmark antitrust settlement
] with the U.S. government, the company says.

I'm guessing these are (among other things) the changes to SMB (now CIFS) that froze SAMBA out -- unclear if the new licensing regime will help SAMBA.

PCWorld.com - Microsoft Changes Software Licensing