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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @10:28PMfrom the w00h00-departement dept. Today the the Slashdot database was compromised by 2 hackers from the Netherlands. !(Nohican && {}) They secured the hole and send an email to the admins, they even should be reading it now. Update: 09/29 11:04 PM by michael: We know about it, blah-blah-blah. Don't email us. I think it's safe to say that whatever happened, you'll hear the full details soon enough. Thanks. ( Read More... | 103 of 164 comments )
Posted by timothy on Thursday September 28, @08:43PMfrom the they-better-come-with-a-*nice*-squeegee dept. markbark writes: "Stan J. Liebowitz, a prof at the U of Texas Management School, has released a screed saying that the world economy could take a $300 billion dollar bite in the ass if Microsoft is broken up. Tales of $2000 computers with Windows costing an additional $1000. The whole 39-page PDF file can be found here . The whole thing was bankrolled by M$ apologists extraordinaire the Association for Competitive Technology and should be taken with an extremely large grain of salt." (More below.) ( Read More... | 1263 bytes in body | 163 of 239 comments )
Posted by Cliff on Thursday September 28, @07:44PMfrom the did-those-predictions-come-true dept. nbruinooge asks: "I just reread Neal Stephenson's profile In the Kingdom of Mao Bell in Wired, Feb. 1994. In it Stephenson speculates about what will become of Hong Kong in '97, and predicts a Chinese backlash against Western technology in the next couple of decades. Hong Kong shifting hands is old news now, and it occurs to me that other Slashdot readers must know more than I do about how things have been going there, from a technological perspective. Is Hong Kong transforming China, or is it the other way around? Was Stephenson his good ol' prescient self when he wrote this article, or have things taken unexpected turns? And how does that China-Linux announcement from a while back play into it?" ( Read More... | 50 of 89 comments | Ask Slashdot )
Posted by timothy on Thursday September 28, @05:50PMfrom the austin-powers-style-time-travel dept. tewl writes: "Saw this [article] on [New Scientist] -- 'BT's hopes of enforcing its U.S. patent on Internet hyperlinking (New Scientist, 1 July, p 17) may be dashed by an old movie clip. The U.S.-based Internet Patent News Service is pointing patent lawyers to a website which says it hosts film of a prior demonstration of hyperlinking prior demonstration of hyperlinking. BT is basing its claim on a 1976 patent (4873662) that through a legal quirk remains in force until 2006. The 90-minute film was shot by Stanford University in 1968 when Douglas Englebart showed 1000 people the first mouse -- using it to click on hyperlinks.'" What's not open-and-shut here? ( Read More... | 59 of 95 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @04:18PMfrom the so-true-its-funny dept. eon(36.0) / Kathryn Aegis writes: "The Digital Freedom Network today announces the winners of its Foil the Filters Contest. To illustrate the unreliability and political slant of censorware, the DFN asked Netizens to ply the filters with innocuous words, names, or search requests to see what gets blocked. This week is Banned Books Week, so read something naughty today." ( Read More... | 100 of 155 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @03:15PMfrom the now-that's-pretty-funny dept. MrX writes: "In this story about a study on CNet news, it says the labor shortage in IT is more a management problem then anything else. 'The unhappy truth, the study points out, is not that there are few people available to do IT work, but that once they are hired they are often poorly managed. In addition, many IT jobs are ill-designed and boring, leading many employees to become dissatisfied and leave.'" ( Read More... | 241 of 326 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @02:14PMfrom the but-can-it-print-me-up-a-pizza? dept. kkelly writes: "This weeks New Scientist has an interesting article on 3-D Printers: 'THINK OF AN OBJECT and watch it appear before your eyes. All it takes is a click of a mouse, a flick of a switch and you can have almost anything, made to order. Researchers are on the point of creating a magic box that can bring the stuff of your imagination into the hard-edged material world.'" ( Read More... | 189 of 261 comments )
Posted by Hemos on Thursday September 28, @01:55PMfrom the must-make-more dept. A reader submitted: "Sony has set back the release of the Playstation 2 due to component shortages. The Europe release date has been reset to Nov. 24th, but a US date has not been confirmed." We've been seeing a lot of conflicting submissions over the last few days -- and conflicting information from Sony. But what it looks like now is that the initial release, for the U.S., is set for Oct. 26th, and the number of the machines to be shipped has been scaled back by half. ( Read More... | 57 of 82 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @01:19PMfrom the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept. Just noted that CueCat is going for this year's Useless Legal Action Beanie by going after www.upcdatabase.com, a site that is storing UPC codes and allows people to look them up. The database contains almost a half a million entries right now. Unfortunately they're not distributing copies of their database, so it may be necessary to create an open db just to make sure that this data isn't locked up. Update: 09/28 08:14 PM by CT: Lineo's cuecat site was taken down also. ( Read More... | 170 of 243 comments )
Posted by sengan on Thursday September 28, @12:51PMfrom the linux-as-an-opportunity-for-change dept. Linux Magazine interviewed IBM's chief Linux strategist, Irving Wladawksy-Berger, about IBM and Linux. IBM sees Linux as a disrupting technology of the same class as the Internet: an OS that can run on many platforms and that nobody owns: something that can fundamentally change the landscape of computing. By adding Linux compatability to AIX/Monterey, IBM is guaranteeing itself a big-iron version of Linux without angering the community by forking the kernel ... but they'd obviously also would like to see big-iron features added to Linux. Interestingly, Irving suggests IBM would be willing to open-source just about anything the Linux community wants ... one just needs to make one's mind known at IBM's developerworks site. Following the usual path, Linux adoption by IBM was a bottom-up process, finally convincing senior management. It's a shame that Linux Magazine did not ask about IBM's patent strategy, which was already a hot topic two years ago when slashdot facilitated the release of the Jikes compiler. ( Read More... | 70 of 111 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @12:32PMfrom the its-about-freaking-time dept. bwoodring writes "Yahoo! Business News is reporting that 3dfx has been admitted to the OpenGL Architectural Review Board. This could be an indication that 3dfx plans to retire their proprietary 3D API Glide soon in favor of the more ubiquitous (and Linux friendly) OpenGL." ( Read More... | 62 of 88 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @12:03PMfrom the thats-what-we-figured dept. oMaT writes: "An article @ CNN states that Sony is having problems purchasing as many of some components as they need. They state that the projected 1m units to be shipped on Oct 26 will actually be more like 500,000. They also hope to have the demand met after the holiday season... Jan-Feb. Bummer." I've heard that if you want to pre-order one, you better pay in advance, as it isn't looking good. Personally, I'm just gonna play the new Zelda, and wait and see what happens with the PS2. ( Read More... | 131 of 190 comments )
Posted by JonKatz on Thursday September 28, @11:30AMfrom the rebels-against-the-digital-revolution dept. The Luddites have returned, dominating the presidential campaign, attacking technology and culture on many fronts, from ruining work to despoiling the environment to endangering children. Although the term "Luddite" gets kicked around a lot, few people understand who the first Luddites really were. Compared to the current crop of moral poseurs and wannabe anti-technology intellectuals, the originals were genuine heroes. They were fighting for a way of life, not for moral control or cultural power. ( Read More... | 7182 bytes in body | 238 of 317 comments | Features )
Posted by JonKatz on Thursday September 28, @11:16AMfrom the -from-smoke-signals-to-the-Web dept. In "Spirit Of The Web," Canadian technology and science writer Wade Rowland has written a surprisingly readable book that puts the Information Age in some historical context and traces the human and spiritual origins of the Web, from smoke signals to the computer. ( Read More... | 3827 bytes in body | 26 of 41 comments | Book Reviews )
Posted by timothy on Thursday September 28, @09:46AMfrom the but-can-I-keep-my-aibo/realdoll/rio/picturebook?- dept. Stefan Jones writes: "VR pioneer Jaron Lanier has written "Half a Manifesto" -- a long and considered rant taking on notions favored by Extropians, Singularity fans and others -- on the exclusive salon for long-hairs, 'Edge.' Lanier believes that the totalists are not only promulgating an irresponsible and inhuman ideology, but indulging in bad science. The site also features fascinating and spirited reactions by a slew of luminaries, including George and Freeman Dyson, Bruce Sterling, Lee Smolin, Rodney Brooks and Kevin Kelly. Good stuff, no matter where you stand on this issue." Oh c'mon -- no one around here would fetishize technology per se, would they? ( Read More... | 152 of 228 comments )
Posted by Hemos on Thursday September 28, @09:39AMfrom the fun-with-lawyers dept. Arkan writes "After Adobe sued Macromedia over their patented tabbled widgets, Macromedia has made counterclaims against Adobe for using their patents on graphic element blending (5,467,443), and sound waveform editing (5,151,998 and 5,204,969)." ( Read More... | 100 of 130 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 28, @09:39AMfrom the well-isn't-that-nice dept. David G wrote in to say that Microsoft plans to revise the spamming "Feature" that we mentioned yesterday on Slashdot after all the criticism. My favorite quote from this article is "We got a rude awakening today and we thought ... 'Let's make this clearer for the consumers'" ( Read More... | 99 of 132 comments )
Posted by timothy on Thursday September 28, @07:33AMfrom the quick-somebody-call-the-justice-department dept. Wigs writes: "There's a nice article on spaceprojects.com about NASA's current competition, or rather the lack of it. From the article: 'The Microsoft antitrust litigation, as well as the consumer benifits resulting from AT&T's break-up, have substantially raised public awareness about the negative impact that monopolies can have on society. Many people who know much about NASA distrust it as well ... It seems NASA would benefit from having publicly funded competition, resembling what Japan's two competing civilian space agencies have.' I've heard that companies like United Space Alliance have looked into the possiblity of purchasing a shuttle, but have been shot down by NASA officials. Other companies looking to get into the single stage to orbit competition are Rotary Rocket, Kelly Space, and Pegasus (actually 3-stage). However, these are all private companies. This article discussing public funding, namely the National Science Foundation." ( Read More... | 126 of 214 comments )
Posted by Hemos on Wednesday September 27, @09:56PMfrom the bad-news-for-privacy dept. Agent Z5q writes "According to this article at Wired News, the names of the Carnivore review team have leaked. (Cryptome.org on the ball as always.) The team consists of members who have all either worked on large-scale government projects or currently hold active security clearances, including a top secret rating from the National Security Agency, a top secret rating from the Department of Defense and other ratings from the Treasury Department. Looks like the deck is just a bit stacked." ( Read More... | 155 of 271 comments ) |
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