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Weekend Edition, November 12-14, 1999
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Open Sesame
The end of the Microsoft Era could be the beginning of The Age of Open Software To make Linux a full competitor with Windows would require small changes in Microsoft's rules for dispensing information about how others' programs use the Windows APIs...Microsoft would then be competing on a level playing field with an organization of volunteers and commercial distributors who would have a higher-quality, completely compatible product everyone could get free. CJ does a great parody article of the Linux/China/Microsoft brouhaha... Operation fang... Rob and /. get prostitued out by Andover's rabid PR machine for upcoming Comdex... What goes through the minds of Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates as they produce Slashdot each day? Hear for yourself as the pair weeds through news submissions, posts stories and moderates the site's unique "Weblog" commentary live from Comdex. As the daily news and commentary feed appears on a giant plasma screen above the floor, visitors will be able to catch the news and interact with the site's readers from across the Internet via computer terminals scattered throughout the lounge...If you would like to meet with Slashdot founder Rob Malda at the Geek Lounge to discuss the latest news and issues surrounding the Linux and Open Source Community please call Chris Stamm at 781-684-0770 or e-mail cstamm@schwartz-pr.com to arrange an interview. Eww...that is so lame... IBM (IBM) and Oracle (ORCL) will work together to standardize Unix... Axis 2100 digital camera is first to be based on Linux OS < RedHat (RHAT) to license RSA (RSAS) security software Dorn (PMS) announces XML version of Riskmaster/World How can anyone who read 1997's Business 2.0 ever take this woman seriously??? Another idiotic comment from Esther Dyson... "Using Linux doesn't mean you're open source. Open source is good for generic solutions, but the value is in off-handed applications. These won't be open source." More Transmeta rumors... Next week, FCC is expected to order major local carriers of DSL to open their lines up to carry competitors Weird...in response to allegations of Catholic priests' sexual misconduct, Florida bishops have started taking fingerprints of all priests, lay workers and church volunteers... Australia Post bribes readers into filling out survey of personal details that it confirms it will sell to advertisers... Australia Post wants to know if you are impotent, suffer from dandruff, and the brand of tampon you use. It also wants to know other intimate information ranging from credit card details to how much soy milk you drink. Executive Orders and the Demise of Liberty... New Zealand woman sues Yahoo! (YHOO) claiming infringement on web shopping cart patent... Bank of America and Wells Fargo reprogram their ATM machines in Santa Monica so that non-bank customers can no longer use their ATM machines...
Hackt Up, Hei Ke!
Korean survivors tell Pentagon about mass killings by US troops... Yang Hae-sook, 61, talked about how her left eye was blown out in a bombing and how women and children died in a pool of blood. ``I came here to tell the truth about No Gun Ri,'' Yang said. ``I want to tell how American soldiers came to our village and took so many children and women and killed almost all of them.'' China jails four Falun Gong members for up to 12 years... Annan says he is puzzled at CCP's crackdown on Falun Gong... World Association of Newspapers call on Yugoslavia to drop criminal charges against financial journalist Getting the word out on the struggle for self-rule in Indonesia: Radio68H Resisters in Europe: Pirate radio and Tiny TV... How one Afghan fights the Taliban in his country with rifle and fax machine Lawyers threaten lawsuits to DeCSS sites... as Bruce Schneier argues that it was a good thing the lousy encryption was broken... Business Software Alliance tries to put a stop to IRC warez... Bubbleboy has broken into the wild and is coming to an unsecured Microsoft Outlook inbox near you... The Internet Civil War... JP doesn't really answer any questions... Chinese hacker gets 3 years for manipulating stock data
Y2K Millennial Mayhem
Online shoppers aren't afraid of Y2K... One air traffic control computer in Memphis goes down and air traffic around the country is disrupted More airlines cancel or scale back Y2K flights... Thailand won't reimburse the IMF until after January... Grocers tell the public not to stockpile... Italy is the worst prepared for Y2K...
Brash Bulls & Babbling Bears
In a report published today (probably to pacify skittish investors) Goldman Sachs claims Amazon (AMZN) hasn't turned a profit is because it doesn't want to... Th latest company to hop on the spin off whatever you have online as a separate company so you can IPO it fad: Chase (CMB) UPS (UPS) and Expedia (EXPE) IPOs still doing well... Dell's (DELL) profit jumps... Check out today's Bulls and Bears picks...
In the Ether
More weirdness...the Citizens Commission on Human Rights which is linked to the Church of Scientology claims that Ritalin and Luvox usage is linked to epidemic of school shootings... and is behind trying to get schools to forbid parents from putting their kids on Ritalin... Several speakers Tuesday hinted at a sinister alliance of pharmaceutical companies and health professionals to prescribe the drugs for unruly school kids. Some said attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, for which the drugs often are prescribed, was an illness made up by the psychiatric profession. Italians claim Einstein's theory of relativity was actually based on Olinto De Pretto's equation... Olinto De Pretto, an industrialist from Vicenza, published the equation E=mc2 in a scientific magazine, Atte, in 1903, said Umberto Bartocci, a mathematical historian. Einstein allegedly used De Pretto's insight in a major paper published in 1905, but De Pretto was never acclaimed, said Professor Bartocci of the University of Perugia. Kisses For Mahir Cagri...this Turkish accordian player is the first Internet Superstar... Doctors with horrible handwriting turn to handheld electronic perscription pads... Pokemon shortage at Burger King... Garry Glitter pleads guilty to having child porn... over 4000 pictures of it... Optic fiber world records broken... Firstly, the scientists crammed 160 billion bits (gigabits) per second down 300 kilometres of optical fibre using only one wavelength, or colour, of light. And, in a separate development, they have used 1,022 different colours of light to send simultaneous signals down a single optic fibre.
None of Above
LooseCannon hooks up with Lenora Fulani... Fulani, a developmental psychologist, a founding member of the Reform Party and a disaffected liberal who has run for president as a minor party candidate, endorsed Buchanan, a disaffected Republican who has been accused of flirting with racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and homophobia. She will also co-chair his campaign. McNasty wants Russia to stop its war with Chechnya or lose IMF funds... BB and basketball... Bore says he would counter isolationism...
Grouper Nuggets
Bay of Pigs II? Boston Globe bans tobacco ads... Police supress Columbine killers' videos... Pew poll says economic contentment has increased... Aid plane crashes in Kosovo Homemade rockets fired at US and UN buildings in Pakistan Pakistan's new military ruler says he is willing to talk to the Taliban regarding bin Laden Why did some of EgyptAir's crew seem to know something was going to happen?... Albright says she'll take the flack from pro-choicers and that Clinton should agree to Republicans view of refusing aid to UN programs that promote a woman's right to have an abortion... The war continues against upcoming movie, Dogma... The loneliness of a black conservative... Thomas Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice Susie Bright is my kind of feminist... "I want to argue that sexuality is the soul of the creative process and that erotic expression of any kind is a personal revolution," she writes. Her excellent new book is: Full Exposure : Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression
Weekend Brainfood
How I Earned $500,000 a month as an Epic Poet... New global media oligopoly is a small world of big conglomerates There are only 9 global media moguls and they are all men... Who owns the movies... Who owns the music... California and the End of White America Communication Skills for Chemists...
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