So-called domain tasting is one of the more unpleasant developments in the domain business in the past year. Domain speculators are registering millions of domains without paying for them, in a business model not unlike running a condiment business by visiting every fast food restaurant in town and scooping up all of the ketchup packets.

Such bullshit. I hate domain speculators. For that matter, I hate anyone who buys a domain with the express intent of reselling it or absorbing typo-traffic. Unfortunately, I haven't been satisfied by any of my own arguments against their rights to do that stuff. Alas, even with all my hate, I can't make an effective case to say they *can't* do it.

In Bad Taste

] The Washington think tank responsible for 'Linux aids
] terrorism' claims two years ago is at it again. The
] Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is now casting doubt on
] Linus Torvalds' authorship of Linux, and implying that
] it's a knock-off of Unix.

Can we say "libel?"

[ Leave it to the register to come up with exactly the right headline... just dripping with that british sarcasm. Anyway, this report is a huge load of crap... tailored perfectly to come out just in time to scare a few more fools out of their OSS plans. And they better get it out before IBM finally and definitively smacks SCO into utter oblivion and lays down the law, literally, on the validity of the code in Linux. Or at least, that's what seems likely at present.

I'd love to see the AdTI jackasses get pasted for defamation tho, that'd be great. -k]

Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says balanced study

] 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.

[ because, as usual, Bush is saying things that sound good, with no hope of fulfilling them. Stupid pandering bullshit should be violently exposed by the media. -k]

Report Questions Bush Plan for Hydrogen-Fueled Cars

Yee-ha! I look forward to upgrading, uh, 6 months from now? Maybe?

Linux 2.6 Released

] With eyes fixed on the burgeoning Linux enterprise
] market, networking software specialist Novell (Quote,
] Chart) on Tuesday announced plans to shell out $210
] million in cash to acquire Germany's SUSE Linux AG.

Novell's still in the game!

Novell Acquires SUSE and IBM Tosses In

] Microsoft on Monday said it would use IBM chips in its
] next generation Xbox game and consumer electronics
] devices, dealing a blow to Intel and providing a much
] needed boost for IBM's lossmaking chip business.

Whoa...

FT.com / Business / US

] MOST electric vehicles work by connecting the wheels to a
] motor. But tomorrow a Dutch company plans to unveil a bus
] in which motor and wheel are one, a refinement that
] promises more miles per charge and a vehicle that is
] safer and easier to maintain.

I always thought this would be smart, though i was never convinced of the economic advantage. you sure better not smack into a curb too hard, b/c that's gonna be one expensive wheel replacement. still, sounds nice, and eliminating all those gears is probably good.

With a Motorized Hub, the Wheel on the Bus Goes 'Round

] Within three years, most bank machines that dispense cash
] will run on the Windows operating system, according to a
] study published last week.

Doh!

Wired News: Windows to Power ATMs in 2005