] "Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) won a major
] antitrust victory against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
] - news) on Monday when a federal judge ordered Microsoft
] to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its
] Windows operating system.

Go Sun!

Sun Wins, Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java

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leed25d wrote:
] actually, tech and society. annalee newitz's columns are
] often excellent

Yes, and the Bay Guardian is one of the best local news rags I've read. Of course, it sort of does have my particular political slant most of the time.

RE: sfbg.com

I just received a letter from the EFF today. Looks like they are working on an end of year drive. They have been awfully great about fighting for our rights online this year. They are asking for donations or for purchases from their new online store.

It's not too late to get that special someone a special EFF gift!

Support the EFF - EFF Store

] "THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY is a traditional early adopter of
] new technologies, and Thomson Financial, a global
] provider of integrated information solutions, has been an
] early investor in the area of Web services. At a recent
] VeriSign news event, Mark Barbagallo, vice president of
] distributive technologies at Thomson Financial, met with
] InfoWorld News Editor Mark Jones to discuss his company's
] commitment to Web services, the importance of building a
] business-client trust relationship, and the role of
] vendors such as VeriSign and Grand Central in helping
] Thomson deliver Web services to its clients."

A good read from a large corporation that is actively deploying webservices. They expect to scale to thousands of web services eventually.

Along with WiFi this seems to be one of the few possible sectors where we are going to see some serious investment and growth in the next few years (while the recession continues).

Forget computer security (because everyone is doing it now), go for Web Services.

Thomson Financial invests in Web services

] "he Bush administration is planning to propose requiring
] Internet service providers to help build a centralized
] system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and,
] potentially, surveillance of its users."

George "Big Brother" Bush just loves this wild run he has on the constitution.

Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet

Says Funk in the January 2003 issue of Playboy: "It's weird to deconstruct the sounds of sex. It makes you conscious of a lot of stuff you'd normally ignore. I remember thinking shit like, 'Oh, that slap will make a good snare drum.'" If nothing else, concentrating on the tonal qualities of an ass-slap should be an interesting new way for our male readership to forestall orgasm. Just don't forget about her needs, guys. While a full tracklist has yet to be released, it's probably more fun to make up song titles yourself. Here's hoping Hecate doesn't dump Venetian Snakes, prompting a masturbatory solo album.

*snicker*

Nymphomatriarchs

w1ld wrote:
] ] "Republicans with close ties to the Bush administration
] ] said today that Senator Trent Lott had no chance of
] ] remaining majority leader and that the White House wanted
] ] him out. President Bush (news - web sites), they said,
] ] would not intervene to save him, but neither would he
] ] take any overt actions that would be seen as forcing
] ] Senator Lott from the position. "
]
] na na naaa na....na na naaa na...hey hey, good bye....

Good. I hope this is the beginning. We really need to purge all of the old school Republicans from Congress. Some of the new school ones too for that matter.

RE: Republicans Say Lott Lacks Bush's Support

childersal wrote:
] This article really makes you think.

Worth a read as there is a good overview of America's imperialist history, but I'm not sure I agree with the final conclusions that Hitchens draws. He's a smart guy, that's for sure, but I think his break with some of the other left/Progressives over Sept. 11th might have left him a bit bitter. Certainly he appears to have moved towards a more centrist point of view. He used to be (still is?) a regular contributor to The Nation a decidedly Progressive periodical.

Imperialism - Superpower dominance, malignant and benign -- Christopher Hitchens

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