Gregg Doherty's Radio Weblog

Saturday, September 06, 2003

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1.	More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX
2.	Essay Grading Software For Teachers

11:08:15 PM

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1.	Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy. Record labels have recently started lending support to antipornography and child protection groups that are raising the issue. By Saul Hansell.
2.	In Computer Security, a Bigger Reason to Squirm. Many computer networks, and the power grids and nuclear plants they control, are still ill equipped to ward off infections. By Brendan I. Koerner.
3.	Girls? Check. Cristal? Check. iPod? Check.. As Microsoft has been cast in the role of Goliath in the personal computing wars, Macintosh has been playing David. And right now the stone in its slingshot is music. By Neil Strauss.
4.	Reds and Yellows on the Screen and on the Trees. The Web keeps users up to date about fall foliage and offers help planning trips to see it. By Bob Tedeschi.

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1.	Google Removes Kazaa Links, Keeps Sponsored Links

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7:07:44 PM

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1.	AMD64 Preview
2.	Pentium-M In Mini-ITX Format

6:07:25 PM

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1.	Anybody know why the GNOME clock applet would show a different time than the date command?

5:08:14 PM

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1.	RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn'

4:07:16 PM

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1.	Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking
2.	FCC Ponders Removing Morse Code Reqs for Amateur Radio Licenses
3.	New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead
4.	Goodbye, Galileo

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2:08:26 PM

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1.	Microsoft settles Be suit for $23 million. Microsoft says it will pay more than $23 million to settle an antitrust suit filed by onetime operating system rival Be.
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2.	Glitch hits online film launch. Overwhelming demand caused the first movie to be officially premiered on the internet to crash, organisers say.

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1.	The two faces of the FCC. Policy analyst Randolph J. May says that when it comes to fostering broadband growth, government regulators are still hampered by too timid thinking about how best to proceed.
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2.	Intel's Deerfield chip goes on sale Monday. HP preps low voltage workstation

11:07:46 AM

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1.	Microsoft Dislikes Nations Trying to Escape Lock-in
2.	Bruce Schneier on Security Tradeoffs

10:07:42 AM

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1.	The world's smallest buckets. Scientists in Nottingham find a way to create nanoscale containers capable of holding the smallest molecules.

9:07:36 AM

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1.	NBC wins Vivendi battle. Vivendi Universal says it intends to merge its entertainment business with General Electric's television network NBC.
2.	Music giant slashes album prices. The world's largest record company, Universal, will cut the price of albums in the US by up to 30%.
3.	Internet film launch stalled. The first launch of a movie on the internet comes to an abrupt halt as public demand causes "technical problems".

8:07:36 AM

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1.	British Airways Looking at Antimissile Systems. British Airways said it was talking to aircraft manufacturers about high-tech measures to guard against surface-to-air missile attacks. By Reuters.
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2.	Java vs .NET
3.	Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV
4.	Myst Online Trailer
5.	SCO's Next Target: SGI?
6.	The Innovators' Ball
7.	Electronic Voting: The Other Side of the Story
8.	Microsoft Settles Be Antitrust Suit for $23.25M
9.	Congress Again Considering Database Protection Bill
10.	Everyone Needs a Personal Server
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11.	Anybody know why the GNOME clock applet would should a different time than the date command?
12.	Be settled their antitrust case against Microsoft for $23M. IIRC, that's more than they made from their IPO.
13.	The new Uru trailer looks awesome. The cleft looks just like I imagined from the book.
14.	The second, "much improved" release of MIT's Haystack universal information client has been posted. I haven't tried this one, but I can attest that the first release needed much improvement.
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15.	Cyber heroine rivals Lara Croft. A challenger to Lara Croft's dominance as cyber heroine has emerged on the GameCube.
16.	'Brain training' link to hunger. Scientists show the brain can be trained to hunger for foods on seeing an abstract image.
17.	Japan signals mobile future. Japan leads the way in mobile innovation, with cell phones seen as an indispensable tool of everyday life.
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18.	Dell finally ships Axim ROM update CDs. Dell is shipping a long-awaited ROM update to its Windows Mobile 2003 Axim handhelds on CDs, a company spokesman said Friday.
19.	Update: Orange to offer Microsoft-based Motorola phone. In a move that may help establish Microsoft's long-sought-after credibility in the mobile phone market, mobile operator Orange SA, handset maker Motorola Inc., and Microsoft Corp. intend to announce that Orange will sell a Microsoft-based Motorola phone, sources familiar with the plans said Friday.
20.	OracleWorld: Oracle to unveil 10g remote management tool. Oracle will use its OracleWorld conference in San Francisco next week to introduce Enterprise Manager to Go, a remote management tool that alerts database administrators to problems with Oracle's database when they are out on the road, according to sources familiar with the plan.
21.	OracleWorld: Quest, GoldenGate, others to boost Oracle. Quest Software, with its package for migrating Oracle databases to Linux, is among a variety of third-party vendors launching offerings at the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco next week.
22.	Eclipse may take new name after reorganization. The group in charge of the open-source Eclipse project approved a three month long restructuring process this week that should reduce IBM's dominant role in the effort and make the project more attractive to Java vendors such as Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems.
23.	Microsoft settles antitrust suit with Be. Microsoft will pay Be more than $23 million after attorneys' fees to settle an antitrust lawsuit that Be filed against it in February 2002, the companies announced Friday. ADVERTISEMENT: RFID/Smart Label Printing White Paper from Zebra - Learn about how smart labels help prevent asset loss, track shipments, and process customer transactions, and see how the technology could help your business.
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24.	Microsoft to Asia: No Fair!. The software giant bemoans a plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an inexpensive, trustworthy open-source operating system, saying it may stifle competition.
25.	Ecstasy Study Botched, Retracted. A controversial study showing that ecstacy causes brain damage turns out to be based on faulty research. The primates in the study were given methamphetamine, not ecstacy. By Kristen Philipkoski.
26.	Security Holes Vex Web Host Firm. More than a thousand websites hosted by Interland, a leading Web-hosting company, appear to have been hacked in the last week, according to a security expert. But Interland denies there's a problem. By Kim Zetter.
27.	Maryland Tests E-Voting Security. The security audit of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting machines is in the hands of Maryland state election officials. Results will be revealed to the public next week.
28.	Peace Offering for File Traders?. The recording industry plans to announce an amnesty for people who admit to music file sharing and promise to stop. But lawyers say it's a deal with the devil. By Katie Dean.

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