]
] The SCO Group, which has spent the last few months suing
] I.B.M., a leading supporter of the Linux operating
] system, and warning that Linux violates its copyright,
] announced plans yesterday for profiting from Linux rather
] than trying to fight it.
]
] SCO, a small software marketer, said that it would offer
] the large corporations that use Linux a license so they
] can continue to use it without any worries about lawsuits
] that accuse them of copyright infringement.

Extortion by any other name...

SCO Changes Tactics in Dispute Over Linux

] Who owns Unix? To read much of the recent news coming out
] of Lindon, Utah, you might think that it's SCO Group, the
] company currently suing IBM Corp. over Big Blue's alleged
] donation of Unix code to the Linux community. But you'd
] be wrong.

Open Group on UNIX trademark, etc.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, a TechTarget Web site

]
] VIENNA, Austria - The man believed to be the first
] recipient of a human tongue transplant was recovering
] Tuesday and showed no signs of rejecting the organ, his
] doctors said.

Whoa!

Kansascity.com - Your Kansas City Everything Guide

Decius wrote:
] I thought I would post and see what people's experience has
] been with various spam filtering tools. A few comments:
]
] 1. I see spam as a law enforcement problem. The VAST majority
] of the spam I receive contains forged headers and is being
] relayed through systems without permission. If the government
] simply enforced the laws it already has, it could prosecute
] these people for computer fraud. This would eliminate most of
] the problem that I see. The reason that I get all this spam is
] because the government won't enforce their laws. (Although
] they are happy enough to raid internet "bong" dealers. Gosh
] I'm glad to be safe from them.)

Agreed. The big problem is that a lot of it comes from abroad and you need to get the US govt to armtwist Korea, China, Russia, etc.


] 6. This morning I was considering implementing Challenge
] Response for all of my email. This sounds like an effective
] solution. Unfortunately, its not. The problem is that there
] are a number of bots out there, mostly related to ecommerce
] sites, that I probably do need to see email from. I can try to
] list them in my whitelist, but I risk missing something.

PGP is a similar solution -- only accept signed mails -- but lacks critical mass to work. A little weaker than this: I use qmail and often give ecommerce sites addresses like bucy-amazon@gloop.org, etc. Sendmail supports bucy+amazon ... don't know about other MTAs.

] What systems are you using? How effective are they?

I've been using SpamAssassin for awhile now. With a threshhold of 5, I don't think I've gotten a single false positive and I'd guess that the false negative rate is maybe 10%.

RE: Spam Filtering

crankymessiah wrote:
] ] The sci-fi classic gets a sequel and an upgrade.
]
] FINALLY!!!

IIRC, the Penny Arcade guys said the demo was terrible...

RE: Tron Reloaded

] Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for
] the first time last week, those who want to send a
] message to President Bush must now navigate as many as
] nine Web pages and fill out a detailed form that starts
] by asking whether the message sender supports White House
] policy or differs with it.

ummmmm...

White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly

] Advanced scanning technology makes it possible to
] reconstruct documents previously thought safe from prying
] eyes, sometimes even pages that have been ripped into
] confetti-size pieces. And although a great deal of
] sensitive information is stored digitally these days,
] recent corporate scandals have shown that the paper
] shredder is still very much in use.

Wow!

Picking Up the Pieces

] CHICAGO, July 16 — Though he once opposed the idea, Gov.
] Rod R. Blagojevich said he would sign a bill on Thursday
] that would make Illinois the first state to pass
] legislation requiring police to record their
] interrogations of homicide suspects.

This should have been obvious...

Illinois Will Require Taping of Homicide Interrogations

] "AOL is divesting itself of something that was a bad
] decision in the first place. They found that the time,
] effort and money required to develop their own browser
] was just insurmountable in a world where the vast
] majority of Internet users use Internet Explorer," Smiley
] said.

About what I figured...

InfoWorld: AOL layoffs take Netscape browser to deathbed: July 16, 2003: By : Application Development

] Developing a new space plane in five years is a very
] short timetable. It took more than 10 years to get the
] shuttle flying. But the idea behind the new space plane
] is to make it simple, small and reliable, and not to
] break too much new technological ground.

If they have a conservative enough design, it is absolutely possible to do this ... but I expect NASA will probably drop the ball anyway...

WESH.com - News - NASA Works To Build New Spaceship