] "Judge granted both IBM motions to compel, gave SCO
] thirty days to comply 'with specificity' and suspended
] further discovery. Did not rule on the SCO motion until
] next hearing scheduled for Friday, Jan 23 and 10:00 am.

] So it looks like they have 30 days to finally tell us
] what code they are talking about "with specificity".
] Finally.

GROKLAW: First Report from Grokker Inside Hearing: IBM Wins Both Motions to Compel

] NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- In less time than it took a
] North Brunswick patrolman to write a ticket for an
] unregistered vehicle, the driver got his car registered
] online Thursday.

hah!

Motorist registers during traffic stop

] Are you a little queasy about unwittingly revealing your
] life's most minute details to a company that sells them
] to big business and the government? No worries, says
] ChoicePoint. Privacy, as we once knew it, is a thing of
] the past.

It's pretty damn long article, but important...

Creative Loafing Atlanta | COVER | BIG BROTHER'S LITTLE HELPER

] "Dean has been the most vocal on this issue. He's become
] the symbol of the anti-Bush tax cut movement in the
] Democratic Party," said Stephen Moore, president of Club
] for Growth, which was founded in 1999 to help elect
] fiscal conservatives.

fair enough i guess, but you'd have a tough time characterizing Bush as a fiscal conservative...

Conservative group targets Dean; Gephardt airs ad in South Carolina

] Idris described how he had heard of children dying after
] using counterfeit baby shampoo and warned of the
] potentially disastrous consequences of relying on
] machines that had been made using an illicitly duplicated
] model.
]
]
] Last month, the World Health Organisation said that up to
] 25 percent of medicines consumed in developing nations
] were believed to be counterfeit or substandard, and it
] warned they could be useless, harmful or even deadly.

Perhaps if the machinery and medicines weren't priced out of the reach of developing nations, their people wouldn't have to resort to substandard replicas. I wonder if Mr. Idris has stories about how many people die because medicine and equipment is simply not available, because the companies that make them refuse to narrow their profit margins or relax their licencing terms...

Feel free to take the stand that IP is IP and needs to be protected and enforced, but don't you dare trot out the health risks of using pirate copies of medicine or equipment or whatever in places where the alternative may be death or sickness from lack of treatment of any kind. That just seems callous to me.

Intellectual property piracy is form of terrorism: WIPO chief

stealth inflation may be a sensational name for it, but the things described in this article certainly major problems.

State of the Art: Checking Your Bill for a New Charge Called

well, i suppose we all saw this coming.

they want their quarter mil out of Apple, Diamond, Cannon, Samsung, Olympus, Phillips, SanDisk, Viking, etc, etc. etc.

my initial reaction was to flip out over this, but decided to do some research on the licenses for, say, HFS+, to make sure i'm not being unfair to microsoft. well, it turns out that apple's HFS+ implementation was made available under their APSL as part of the Darwin core. APSL looks to be fairly commercial friendly though IANAL... even so, Microsoft isn't likely to write a filesystem driver for HFS+ and then make the code available to the public as the APSL requires. I couln't find any details on commercial, proprietary licences.

FAT File System Technology and Patent License

] In this C&EN exclusive "Point-Counterpoint," two of
] nanotechnology's biggest advocates square off on a
] fundamental question that will dramatically affect the
] future development of this field. Are "molecular
] assemblers"--devices capable of positioning atoms and
] molecules for precisely defined reactions in almost any
] environment--physically possible?

it's not short, but probly worth reading for all the nanotech peoples out there.

C&EN: COVER STORY - NANOTECHNOLOGY

] Palladium is designed to ensure the continuation of the
] situation for most users, and to prevent the sale and use
] of computers which can be controlled by the user.

know your enemy.

] The bottom line: Do you trust Microsoft? That's ultimately what
] this is all about.

uh, no. no i don't.

IT Manager's Journal | Exclusive: An inside look at Microsoft's new security scheme

] The nagging question of steel tariffs hung in the
] Pittsburgh air today like a billowing gray cloud over an
] old-fashioned steel mill. But neither President Bush nor
] his decidedly steel-minded hosts at a fund-raising
] luncheon mentioned it, at least not publicly.

of course no one mentioned it... they just paid 2 grand to sit in the same room as the guy who fucked all their employees. it'd look foolish to question him now though...

In Heart of Steel Country, Bush Talks of Economy, Not Tariffs