Decius wrote:
] ] Microsoft Corp. warned Asian governments on Thursday they
] ] could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux (news -
] ] web sites) operating system instead of its Windows
] ] software.
]
] This is the first time I recall MS threatening to sco linux
] users directly. I guess the new motto for business is: If you
] can't beat 'em, beat 'em up.

When in doubt, sue the customer!

Does M$ really think that this won't *strengthen* the resolve of people to get them out of their enterprise??

(more on this from Groklaw that I memed)

RE: Yahoo! News - Microsoft Warns Asian Governments of Linux Lawsuits

]
] VANCOUVER, British Columbia%u2014In a speech at the
] Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and
] Applications%u2014or OOPSLA%u2014conference here,
] Microsoft Corp.'s head researcher announced a new
] framework and tools for building domain-specific
] languages and the precursor to the company's software
] factories strategy.

Microsoft Sharpens Its Software Factory Vision

] AFTER New York City started converting red and green
] traffic lights to light-emitting diodes in 2000, L.E.D.'s
] became the Paris Hilton of lighting, popping up
] everywhere. They decorate the sets of Broadway shows like
] "Hairspray"; restaurants like Nooch, a new noodle place
] in Chelsea; and the atrium of the Time Warner Center,
] where they gradually change color throughout the evening.
] The technology has progressed so far so quickly, leaping
] gracefully from commercial to residential applications,
] that interior designers like me are racing to catch up.

Light That Swings Quick as a Mood

dmv wrote:
] ] The minute your mail starts flowing, a dedicated team of
] ] over a hundred trained Screening and Preselection
] ] Specialists, working 24 hours a day**, will begin
] ] manually reviewing, hand-picking and approving important
] ] correspondence, vigilantly discarding all junk mail.
]
] Like Pigeon-Ranking. Would be effective, if a dreary job.
]
] Can you imagine what you'd actually have to pay people to
] spend their lives skimming email and deleting spam? I know
] when I clean out my sites' spamtraps, after about 1000
] messages I want to KILL.

The DSPAM and CRM114 folks say that humans aren't actually all that accurate anyway...

RE: eProvisia LLC - Spam Eradicator

] The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has approved the first
] full version of its read-only disc specification, the
] organisation said this week.

Blu-ray is probably better technology than HD-DVD ... we'll see if this is yet another betamax or MD or atrac3 or ...

Blu-ray movie disc format unveild

Caught the tail-end of a story on Adaptive Cruise Control on
All Things Considered today... dmv and I were talking the
other day about some result that some physicists came up with
based on gas-modelling techniques that most traffic would "go away"
if only 20% of vehicles had it...

]
] On 15 September 2003, VeriSign, Inc. changed the way that
] NET and COM registries responded to lookups on
] nonexistent -- or uninstantiated -- domain names. In so
] doing, the company changed the way that the domain name
] system (DNS), a fundamental component of the Internet
] architecture, provides services for two large top-level
] domains. VeriSign's action was aimed at the World Wide
] Web but had unexpected effects on the other parts of the
] Internet.

The Site Finder Report: Dr. Stephen Crocker, Chair of the Committee

Gentoo is silly.

Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here.

]
] Recently, the news that China is adopting IPv9 is making
] rounds on the Internet. While some of them write off as
] an April Fool's joke (in July?) like RFC 1606, others
] wonder if there is more than meets the eye. But most of
] them wonder what this IPv9 is and how does it actually
] work. And some of the English translated articles are so
] badly done that it is impossible to get any useful
] technical information except that 'It is developed and
] supported by Chinese government!'

Explaining China's IPv9

] Evidence is growing that IPv9, hyped up the
] widely-adopted foundation of a next generation Internet
] infrastructure in China, is really a marginal project
] backed by few even in China.

China disowns IPv9 hype