Software patents make a mockery of European ideals By Leader ZDNet UK March 07, 2005, 13:35 GMT Source The software patents directive shows Europe at its worst. Whose rules shall we play by now? Whole countries opposed it, its proponents couldn't explain it, and its own parliament called for it to be completely reconsidered. Twice. Therefore, the European Council decided to approve it.by archive - Archive
Software patent directive adopted By Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK March 07, 2005, 10:45 GMT Source Update: Opponents are furious that the EU Council has approved the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The future of software patenting in Europe now lies in the hands of the European Parliament The European Council adopted the software patent directive on Monday, despite requests from Denmarkby archive - Archive
Wake-up Call By Rob Harrill Source HENRY LAI HAS A VIVID RECOLLECTION OF HIS INTRODUCTION to the politics of big science. It was 1994, and he had just received a message from the National Institutes of Health, which was funding work he was doing on the effects of microwave radiation, similar to that emitted by cellular phones, on the brain. He and UW colleague Narendra “N.P.” Singh had resultsby archive - Archive
Fannie Mae faces billions more in new losses Report: Regulator may force another restatement The Associated Press Updated: 6:25 p.m. ET March 3, 2005 Source WASHINGTON - Additional serious accounting problems at Fannie Mae recently discovered by federal regulators could mean as much as $2.8 billion in further losses, according to an analysis based on information provided by the embattled mortgby archive - Archive
March 8, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Debt-Peonage Society By PAUL KRUGMAN Source Today the Senate is expected to vote to limit debate on a bill that toughens the existing bankruptcy law, probably ensuring the bill's passage. A solid bloc of Republican senators, assisted by some Democrats, has already voted down a series of amendments that would either have closed loopholes for the rich or prby archive - Archive
March 7, 2005 NYT EDITORIAL Hope in the Land of Dashed Hopes Source For more than 40 years, the epitome of wasted potential and squandered opportunity in Africa has been Nigeria. From the time it gained independence from Britain in 1960, that behemoth of 137 million people has seemed to do its level best to fritter away every natural advantage. Given the second-highest proven oil reserves in Afby archive - Archive
Report: Airlines sweat fuel costs Anticipating $60 a barrel oil, carriers cut routes and bump up fares -- USA Today. March 7, 2005: 1:39 PM EST CNN Source NEW YORK (CNN Money) - After watching the price of crude steadily climb over the last year, major airlines are planning for the prospect of $60-a-barrel oil and beyond by raising fares and cutting routes, according to a report published Monby archive - Archive
BAE to buy United Defense for $4B European company to pay cash, and a 29% premium, for maker of Bradley Fighting Vehicle. March 7, 2005: 6:05 AM EST CNN Source LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest defense company, BAE Systems, agreed to buy U.S. firm United Defense Industries for $3.97 billion in cash Monday, bolstering its land systems business and its foothold in the United States. BAEby archive - Archive
'Going to War with the Army You Have' Why the U.S. Cannot Correct Its Military Blunders in Iraq by Michael Schwartz March 06, 2005 Source The Latest American Theory about the Iraqi Resistance In early February, a Newsweek team led by Rod Nordland produced a detailed account of current theorizing among American and Iraqi officials about the structure ofby archive - Archive
NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications By Loring Wirbel EE Times March, 2005 (10:11 AM EST) Source COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The National Security Agency has specified elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) for a wide range of key agreement and digital signature tasks. The decision boosts the fortunes of ECC originator Certicom Corp. (Missisauga, Ontario). The announcement fby archive - Archive
A first look at OpenOffice.org 2.0 By Craig A. Adams March 4 2005 Source It is not too bold to say that OpenOffice.org 2.0 will usher in a new era of functionality, reliability, compatibility and ease of use. The extensive changes and enhancements which are to be included in the upcoming release are all the evidence needed to justify this assertion. For those who are impatient and unwilling tby archive - Archive
Electrical Birthing of Stars Mar 04, 2005 Source Popular ideas about star and planet formation have received a jolt from a recent peek into the womb of a newly forming star. The shock came from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory as it peered into a star-forming region called R Corona Australis, about 500 light-years from Earth. The astronomers who investigated the regby archive - Archive
Ants - learning from the collective By Peter Everett Saturday, 5 March, 2005, 09:46 GMT Source *** RELATED INTERNET LINKS: Chris Melhuish Nigel Franks **** "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," King Solomon advised in the Book of Proverbs Chapter Six, "consider her ways and be wise". Humans have always looked at the little beasts - so efficient, so purposeful and yet so diffby archive - Archive
Carly's Way As Told to Michelle Delio March 4, 2005 Source An electronic engineer who worked as a Research Scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Laboratory starting in 1975 until he resigned in 2003, G.S. thought HP represented the very best of American character -- "a spirit of adventure and a belief in unlimited possibilities." He charges, though, that startingby archive - Archive
Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiative By Stephen Shankland Story last modified Fri Mar 04 12:07:00 PST 2005 Source The Open Source Initiative, a group seeking to become more influential in matters concerning the cooperative programming philosophy, has seen its second change of leadership in less than a month. Michael Tiemann, vice president of open-source affairs at Linux seller Redby archive - Archive
Sowing the Seeds of Open Source Advocacy by Jono Bacon 03/03/2005 Source Aristotle was a confused yet accomplished man. As someone who demonstrated incredible understanding of philosophy, his efforts typically hinged around expressing abstract concepts to people in a language they understood. With a portfolio of such complex topics, Aristotle developed better ways in which he could express hisby archive - Archive
Conversation with a successful Linux services entrepreneur Friday March 04, 2005 (12:00 PM GMT) By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Source Con Zymaris runs Cybersource, an IT service company in Melbourne, Australia. Cybersource started as a one-man Unix shop in 1991 and has gradually evolved into a decent-sized Linux/FOSS-based business that serves a client base Zymaris says is now 20% governmby archive - Archive
Peeking Into Google By Susan Kuchinskas March 2, 2005 Source BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The key to the speed and reliability of Google (Quote, Chart) search is cutting up data into chunks, its top engineer said. Urs Hoelzle, Google vice president of operations and vice president of engineering, offered a rare behind-the-scenes tour of Google's architecture on Wednesday. Hoelzle spoke here at Eby archive - Archive
New look for classic experiment By Peter Rodgers 2 March 2005 Source Physicists in Europe and the US have performed a novel version of the double-slit quantum-interference experiment with single electrons. In the classic version of the experiment, electrons pass through a mask containing two parallel slits and produce a pattern of bright and dark interference fringes on a screen. Now, Gerhardby archive - Archive
Sun's Temper Blamed for Arctic Ozone Loss By Robert Roy Britt LiveScience Senior Writer posted: 01 March 2005 11:01 am ET Source A dramatic thinning of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last year was the result of intense upper-level winds and an extra dose of space weather, scientists said Tuesday. Ozone, which screens out some of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet radby archive - Archive
Ozone layer over Arctic 'thinning CNN Monday, January 31, 2005 Posted: 1506 GMT (2306 HKT) Source BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Record low temperatures over the North Pole are thinning the protective ozone layer, a condition which could affect human health in northern countries and even central European nations, the European Union warned Monday. "Large ozone losses are expected to occurby archive - Archive
February 28, 2005 Money Printing Presses Running Full Speed Ahead By PC Source According to an Economist article titled Global Liquidity, global liquidity has been expanding at its fastest pace for at least 30 years. In both 2003 and 2004, the Economist's measure of "global liquidity" rose at annual rates of 20%. In no other two year period since 1975 has liquidity increased byby archive - Archive
The Insecure Indexing Vulnerability Attacks Against Local Search Engines By Author Amit Klein Version 1.0 Last Modified: 2/28/2005 Source Summary This paper describes several techniques (many of them new) for exposing file contents using the site search functionality. It is assumed that a site contains documents which are not visible/accessible to external users. Such documents are typicallyby archive - Archive
Engineers devise invisibility shield By Philip Ball Published online: 28 February 2005 doi:10.1038/news050228-1 Source Electron effects could stop objects from scattering light. The idea of a cloak of invisibility that hides objects from view has long been confined to the more improbable reaches of science fiction. But electronic engineers have now come up with a way to make one. Andrea Alùby archive - Archive
First Look At Solaris 10 Last update: 02-25-2005 by Narayan Newton Source Sun Microsystems has recently released Solaris 10. It is currently free, as in beer, and most of it is promised to be released under an OSI approved license in the second quarter of 2005. Most everyone reading this probably knows all of that. The release and subsequent open sourcing of Solaris 10 has caused quite an uproaby archive - Archive
Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy He's unable to travel because he refuses to present a government-approved ID Sunday, February 27, 2005 By Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Source SAN FRANCISCO -- John Gilmore's splendid isolation began July 4, 2002, when, with defiance aforethought, he strolled to the Southwest Airlines coby archive - Archive
Journey to the (Revoltionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google You’ve heard the story. Larry and Sergey drop out of school, start a company in a garage, then become billionaires. But will Larry and Sergey ever grow up? By John Heilemann Source On August 19, Going Public Day for Google, and Larry Page and his comrades are eyeing the lavish breakfast laidby archive - Archive
Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education Sunday February 27, 8:26 AM Source The nation's governors offered an alarming account of the American high school Saturday, saying only drastic change will keep millions of students from falling short. "We can't keep explaining to our nation's parents or business leaders or college faculties why these kids can't do the work,"by archive - Archive
Family's hell at bird flu deathbed A brother is dying and his sister is ill. Mark Honigsbaum in Hanoi reports on cases that are causing new fear Sunday February 27, 2005 The Observer Source Nguyen Thi Ngoan grasps the surgical mask closer to her mouth, stifling a sob. In a nearby hospital bed, behind a door marked 'quarantine', her younger brother lies prostrate, his feet curledby archive - Archive
NIST-UCSB Scientists Entice Superconducting Devices To Act Like Pairs of Atoms Advance Marks Progress Toward Quantum Computer Made with 'Artificial Atoms' FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 24, 2005 Source Boulder, Colo. -- Two superconducting devices have been coaxed into a special, interdependent state that mimics the unusual interactions sometimes seen in pairs of atoms, according to a tby archive - Archive