] A computer system gone amok combined with intensely
] competitive stock markets and indecision by Nasdaq
] officials to create wild trading in a single stock
] yesterday. As a result, some traders were left with big
] losses even though they had bought low and sold high.

all our eggs in one proverbial basket

Computer Mishap Sends a Stock on a Wild Ride

anyone else think this kind of thing should be the responsibility of the vendor?

isn't this kinda like solving the problem of pollution by issuing filter masks, instead of fixing the factory?

Cisco security initiative / 4 major firms working to head off Net attacks

still pricey, but this is the dope stuff for pure digital music enjoyment, house-wide...

Slim Devices : Free Your Music!

On first glance the MusicMatch deal seems pretty much identical to iTMS. May have to dig deeper to find the differences... i weep that MM got to market first though, regardless.

MusicMatch apes iTMS

] A GROUP from the open source / free software community
] has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl McBride's
] "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". The INQUIRER
] is glad to print Groklaw's "Dear Darl" letter, along with
] their research.

Neat.

Groklaw sends a Dear Darl letter

] Back in July, a number of filesharing companies formed a trade
] association to push for, among other things, compulsory
] licensing [...]. I wonder how much they have really thought this
] through. After all, a compulsory license that legimitized
] filesharing would quickly put most of these companies out of
] business.

this guy makes some interesting points, but i think his final conclusion is wrong. There are still a lot of IM services out there, with varying numbers of users. What happened is not that all but one died out, but that developers built clients that talk to all the networks, and users registered accounts with 2 or 3 or more different IM systems. I could see a similar thing happening with file sharing systems... they'll become neighborhoods, more or less suited to particular types and classes of information, and clients will be built that transparently handle all of them at once.

LawMeme - Compulsory Licensing - The Death of Gnutella and the Triumph of Google

damn... quite a push to get this MRAM in stores... wonder if it'll happen

Wired News: New Memory That Doesn't Forget

] Everyone knows they should have a passing knowledge of
] vi, but most people groan at the thought of using it. In
] today's article, I'd like to demonstrate some of the
] tricks that vi has up its sleeve. It really is a powerful
] little editor and I'm constantly amazed at its number of
] built-in shortcuts.

A ton of neat little tricks on using "vi". I'm in and out of vi a dozen times a day, and I learned tricks from this page I never knew about!

Reference: Using the vi Editor