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walktalker · 03-07-01, 08:06 PM

Slashdot in the balance ?
For the militant advocates of “open source” programming — the movement that holds that software should be shared and collectively improved and that Microsoft must be destroyed — it was as if the world stopped for a while. First there were the troubles at Slashdot.org last weekend, the movement’s virtual water-cooler, confessional and meeting hall, and now there’s the news that the Web site’s parent company, VA Linux, is going to abandon the hardware business and lay off 35 percent of its staff. The very idea that businesses could hope to make money from a movement dedicated to sharing software — considering that the companies selling open-source software have to make the source code available for customers to improve and redistribute if they want to — is a bit hard to get your head around.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/595556.asp?0si=-

Net radio tangos with the law

MTV's Radio SonicNet calls its "Me Music" an attempt to bring radio into the digital age by giving online users more choice of what they listen to. You get to select the genre (jazz, for example) and the style (swing or bebop). The RIAA says that Webcasters who go beyond a preprogrammed listening experience should have to pay more for those rights. So the RIAA is back in court, this time to resolve its differences with services such as MTV's SonicNet, Launch, MusicMatch and Xact Radio. Countersuits have been filed against the labels by Webcasters and the Digital Media Association, a trade group. Unlike the Napster battle, musicians so far are siding with the Webcasters.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...radio-usat.htm

Rule May Spur Firms to Waste Energy
The fluorescent lights are burning bright on the top floor of a Hewlett-Packard Co. office building here, even as sunlight streams in from skylights and windows, and it pains HP electricity conservation czar Erik Andres. Although the Silicon Valley computer firm has spent more than $1 million on the latest conservation software and gadgetry and has cut electricity consumption by 12% from a year ago, Andres won't switch off any more lights. If he did, it would make it harder for the company to comply when Pacific Gas & Electric orders Hewlett-Packard to cut its power use by as much as 15% in 15 minutes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/asection...000054600.html

Giant world detected in deep space

Astronomers have found one of the largest objects ever detected orbiting the Sun. It was seen in a deep space survey looking for bodies circling our star out near Pluto, the most distant planet. Only planets are larger than this new object, dubbed 2001 KX76. The icy, reddish world is over a thousand kilometres across and astronomers say there may be even larger objects, bigger than planet Pluto itself, awaiting discovery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1419508.stm

Kids that are cyber slammed
The first indication that the seemingly obscure practice of cyber-bullying might have reached outrageous proportions was an item in the New Yorker titled "The New Bathroom Wall." As much as one can discern from the understated style of the Talk of the Town section, the incident in question was not so much a harrowing news event as it was an amusing anecdote about teenage life or, at worst, a parable about how affluent Manhattan parents have access to just about anyone they need, including the district attorney. Regardless of the gentility of the prose, however, the details packed a wallop.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200...ies/index.html

Homestead Eliminates Most Free Web Site Hosting
Homestead, a company that bills itself as a Web site building service for the technically challenged, is changing its price policies from free to fee. The "Homestead Personal" service, which had offered users a Web site with 16 megabytes of storage for free, now will cost $29.99 per year for existing members. New customers will pay a slightly higher price, the company said. To encourage people to switch to paying for the service, the company said the "new" Homestead Personal offers up to 25 megabytes of storage space, access to a downloadable site building program, an online library of 800,000 graphics, no advertisements and a way to remove the Homestead logo that frames the site.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167587.html

CDT, Internews Form Coalition To Fight Digital Divide
U.S.- and Brussels-based media and consumer groups today announced the creation of the Global Internet Policy Initiative, a foundation formed to help developing countries enact policies that narrow the digital divide. The new group is a joint effort by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and Internews, a nonprofit company based in Brussels, that fosters independent media in the developing world. Jim Dempsey, CDT's director of technology, said the Global Internet Policy Initiative will be an effort to assist countries in addressing the digital divide, a phenomenon characterized by the limited access to communications technologies among the world's poorer citizens.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167585.html

Consumers Favor Quick End To Microsoft Case
American consumers want the parties involved with the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case to speedily resolve the dispute, rather than retry the issue, according to the findings of a poll released today by a pro-Microsoft group. Seventy-five percent of poll respondents said the Microsoft case "should be resolved quickly," when asked whether the case should be retried following last week's decision by a U.S. appeals court. Roughly 18 percent of respondents said the case should be retried.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167582.html

Attack Program Exploits New Microsoft Bug
A program that gives remote attackers complete control of vulnerable computers running Microsoft's popular Web-server software has been quietly posted online and may have been in use for nearly two weeks. Source code to the program, which exploits a recently discovered bug in the indexing service (IDA) of Microsoft's Internet Information server (IIS), was posted last week on the Geocities home page of a Japanese hacker who uses the nickname "HighSpeed Junkie." According to the code, it was programmed on June 21. The release of the attack program follows a warning from Microsoft on June 18 that its IIS software, used by nearly 6 million Web sites, contains a buffer overflow flaw that could enable a remote attacker to gain full, system-level control of the server.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167576.html

Hackers, E-Espionage Will Propel Encryption Market
A study released today said that as the amount of classified information transmitted via Web networks rapidly increases, hackers and e-terrorists will help create a burgeoning encryption market. The study by researchers at Frost & Sullivan found that the data-protection industry generated revenues of $176 million in 2000 but projected a steady increase to $457.6 million by 2007. Frost & Sullivan senior analyst Brooks Lieske said in a press release that hackers are no longer mainly focused on disrupting service and implanting viruses.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167566.html

Movie Studios Attack File-Swapping Service Aimster

Seven major motion picture studios have filed a lawsuit in federal court against three defendants that run peer-to-peer file-swapping service Aimster. The suit alleges copyright infringement, unfair competition and trademark dilution. The studios allege the defendants operate the Aimster network, which they say was designed and is operated to "facilitate and encourage millions of purportedly anonymous users to copy and distribute infringing copies of copyrighted works in potentially limitless numbers." The suit seeks $150,000 for each alleged infringement.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167549.html

Firm Launches Net Access Through Electrical Wall Outlets
RWE Powerline has launched a commercial Internet service in the cities of Essen and nearby Mulheim that works through standard AC electrical wall outlets. The companies promise to launch its service in other areas of Germany later this year. The company, a subsidiary of RWE, the German electricity firm, first unveiled its PowerNet technology back in March, when it announced it was hosting a pilot scheme in Essen to hook 200 homes and a local school up to the Internet over alternating current (AC) electrical connections. The experience gained from that scheme has allowed the firm to launch what appears to be Germany's - and possibly Europe's - first commercial implementation of the "Internet-over-mains" technology, as it is known in Europe.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167572.html

Antitrust Enforcement Is Alive And Well
Over the past decade, there has been a hot debate in legal and economic circles over whether the nation’s antitrust laws—passed more than a century ago to curb the power of sugar growers and oil companies—were still relevant to a fast-paced economy based on jet engines, software and microchips. But recent headlines suggest that reports of the death of antitrust enforcement may have been greatly exaggerated.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167571.html

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03-07-01, 08:06 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Slashdot in the balance ? For the militant advocates of “open source” programming — the movement that holds that software should be shared and collectively improved and that Microsoft must be destroyed — it was as if the world stopped for a while. First there were the troubles at Slashdot.org last weekend, the movement’s virtual water-cooler, confessional and meeting hall, and now there’s the news that the Web site’s parent company, VA Linux, is going to abandon the hardware business and lay off 35 percent of its staff. The very idea that businesses could hope to make money from a movement dedicated to sharing software — considering that the companies selling open-source software have to make the source code available for customers to improve and redistribute if they want to — is a bit hard to get your head around. http://www.msnbc.com/news/595556.asp?0si=- Net radio tangos with the law MTV's Radio SonicNet calls its "Me Music" an attempt to bring radio into the digital age by giving online users more choice of what they listen to. You get to select the genre (jazz, for example) and the style (swing or bebop). The RIAA says that Webcasters who go beyond a preprogrammed listening experience should have to pay more for those rights. So the RIAA is back in court, this time to resolve its differences with services such as MTV's SonicNet, Launch, MusicMatch and Xact Radio. Countersuits have been filed against the labels by Webcasters and the Digital Media Association, a trade group. Unlike the Napster battle, musicians so far are siding with the Webcasters. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...radio-usat.htm Rule May Spur Firms to Waste Energy The fluorescent lights are burning bright on the top floor of a Hewlett-Packard Co. office building here, even as sunlight streams in from skylights and windows, and it pains HP electricity conservation czar Erik Andres. Although the Silicon Valley computer firm has spent more than $1 million on the latest conservation software and gadgetry and has cut electricity consumption by 12% from a year ago, Andres won't switch off any more lights. If he did, it would make it harder for the company to comply when Pacific Gas & Electric orders Hewlett-Packard to cut its power use by as much as 15% in 15 minutes. http://www.latimes.com/news/asection...000054600.html Giant world detected in deep space Astronomers have found one of the largest objects ever detected orbiting the Sun. It was seen in a deep space survey looking for bodies circling our star out near Pluto, the most distant planet. Only planets are larger than this new object, dubbed 2001 KX76. The icy, reddish world is over a thousand kilometres across and astronomers say there may be even larger objects, bigger than planet Pluto itself, awaiting discovery. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1419508.stm Kids that are cyber slammed The first indication that the seemingly obscure practice of cyber-bullying might have reached outrageous proportions was an item in the New Yorker titled "The New Bathroom Wall." As much as one can discern from the understated style of the Talk of the Town section, the incident in question was not so much a harrowing news event as it was an amusing anecdote about teenage life or, at worst, a parable about how affluent Manhattan parents have access to just about anyone they need, including the district attorney. Regardless of the gentility of the prose, however, the details packed a wallop. http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200...ies/index.html Homestead Eliminates Most Free Web Site Hosting Homestead, a company that bills itself as a Web site building service for the technically challenged, is changing its price policies from free to fee. The "Homestead Personal" service, which had offered users a Web site with 16 megabytes of storage for free, now will cost $29.99 per year for existing members. New customers will pay a slightly higher price, the company said. To encourage people to switch to paying for the service, the company said the "new" Homestead Personal offers up to 25 megabytes of storage space, access to a downloadable site building program, an online library of 800,000 graphics, no advertisements and a way to remove the Homestead logo that frames the site. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167587.html CDT, Internews Form Coalition To Fight Digital Divide U.S.- and Brussels-based media and consumer groups today announced the creation of the Global Internet Policy Initiative, a foundation formed to help developing countries enact policies that narrow the digital divide. The new group is a joint effort by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and Internews, a nonprofit company based in Brussels, that fosters independent media in the developing world. Jim Dempsey, CDT's director of technology, said the Global Internet Policy Initiative will be an effort to assist countries in addressing the digital divide, a phenomenon characterized by the limited access to communications technologies among the world's poorer citizens. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167585.html Consumers Favor Quick End To Microsoft Case American consumers want the parties involved with the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case to speedily resolve the dispute, rather than retry the issue, according to the findings of a poll released today by a pro-Microsoft group. Seventy-five percent of poll respondents said the Microsoft case "should be resolved quickly," when asked whether the case should be retried following last week's decision by a U.S. appeals court. Roughly 18 percent of respondents said the case should be retried. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167582.html Attack Program Exploits New Microsoft Bug A program that gives remote attackers complete control of vulnerable computers running Microsoft's popular Web-server software has been quietly posted online and may have been in use for nearly two weeks. Source code to the program, which exploits a recently discovered bug in the indexing service (IDA) of Microsoft's Internet Information server (IIS), was posted last week on the Geocities home page of a Japanese hacker who uses the nickname "HighSpeed Junkie." According to the code, it was programmed on June 21. The release of the attack program follows a warning from Microsoft on June 18 that its IIS software, used by nearly 6 million Web sites, contains a buffer overflow flaw that could enable a remote attacker to gain full, system-level control of the server. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167576.html Hackers, E-Espionage Will Propel Encryption Market A study released today said that as the amount of classified information transmitted via Web networks rapidly increases, hackers and e-terrorists will help create a burgeoning encryption market. The study by researchers at Frost & Sullivan found that the data-protection industry generated revenues of $176 million in 2000 but projected a steady increase to $457.6 million by 2007. Frost & Sullivan senior analyst Brooks Lieske said in a press release that hackers are no longer mainly focused on disrupting service and implanting viruses. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167566.html Movie Studios Attack File-Swapping Service Aimster Seven major motion picture studios have filed a lawsuit in federal court against three defendants that run peer-to-peer file-swapping service Aimster. The suit alleges copyright infringement, unfair competition and trademark dilution. The studios allege the defendants operate the Aimster network, which they say was designed and is operated to "facilitate and encourage millions of purportedly anonymous users to copy and distribute infringing copies of copyrighted works in potentially limitless numbers." The suit seeks $150,000 for each alleged infringement. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167549.html Firm Launches Net Access Through Electrical Wall Outlets RWE Powerline has launched a commercial Internet service in the cities of Essen and nearby Mulheim that works through standard AC electrical wall outlets. The companies promise to launch its service in other areas of Germany later this year. The company, a subsidiary of RWE, the German electricity firm, first unveiled its PowerNet technology back in March, when it announced it was hosting a pilot scheme in Essen to hook 200 homes and a local school up to the Internet over alternating current (AC) electrical connections. The experience gained from that scheme has allowed the firm to launch what appears to be Germany's - and possibly Europe's - first commercial implementation of the "Internet-over-mains" technology, as it is known in Europe. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167572.html Antitrust Enforcement Is Alive And Well Over the past decade, there has been a hot debate in legal and economic circles over whether the nation’s antitrust laws—passed more than a century ago to curb the power of sugar growers and oil companies—were still relevant to a fast-paced economy based on jet engines, software and microchips. But recent headlines suggest that reports of the death of antitrust enforcement may have been greatly exaggerated. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167571.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies