] 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

] VeriSign Inc., the firm that operates a key piece of the
] Internet's address system, said it would temporarily shut
] down a new service that makes money off the typos of Web
] users after the Internet's oversight body threatened to
] take legal action against the company.

Woohoo!

VeriSign Freezes Search Service (TechNews.com)

] As anyone who is into 3D computer graphics knows, there
] is something mysterious and special about The Teapot.
] It's not just any teapot - it's "The" teapot.

The History of The Teapot.

] Given these conclusions, please consider this a formal
] demand to return the operation of the .com and .net
] domains to their state before the 15 September changes,
] pending further technical, operational and legal
] evaluation. A failure to comply with this demand will
] require ICANN to take the steps necessary under those
] agreements to compel compliance with them.

ICANN | Letter from Paul Twomey to Russell Lewis | 3 October 2003

] For all these reasons, ICANN has today insisted that
] VeriSign suspend the SiteFinder service, and restore the
] .com and .net top-level domains to the way they were
] operated prior to 15 September 2003. If VeriSign does not
] comply with this demand by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 October 2003,
] ICANN will be forced to take the steps necessary to
] enforce VeriSign's contractual obligations.

As Decius has said, now the court proceedings start. Best case scenario is that ICANN can get a preliminary injunction against Verisign forcing them to turn SiteFinder off. If so, it will be very difficult for them to turn it back on.

Does anyone else think its insane that a domain registrar should control the master databases? Its a HUGE conflict of interest! Why doesn't ICANN (or some other non-profit/NGO) run it??

ICANN | Announcement | 3 October 2003

inignoct wrote:
] He has some good points. Any thoughts, nerds?

This probably makes sense for desktops. I wonder what it looks like for servers...

RE: Seth Nickell on Replacing the Aging Init Procedure on Linux - OSNews.com