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The board comes with all the peripherals that a standard motherboard or laptop has and then some. It currently ships with [2]MontaVista Linux, a number of other linux flavors and OSs are in the pipeline. Maybe this new merging of the hardware and software worlds will settle some of the [3]religious wars between hw and sw engineers?...ok, maybe not." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.xilinx.com/ml300 2. http://www.mvista.com/news/2002/xilinx.html 3. http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990218S0010 File-sharing and AOL http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0147222 [0]Andrew Leonard writes "Farhad Manjoo's [1]cover story in Salon today, on AOL's refusal to take a stand on the RIAA's (so far) successful attempt to get subscriber information from Verizon, is a detailed look at the most important battle in the file-sharing world right now." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/10/aol_file_sharing/index.html Unreal Security Hole http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2159203 [0]Screaming Lunatic writes "There seems to be a big [1]security hole in the Unreal engine that has been around for about 5 years. It affects servers for a number of games and operating systems, including Linux (which accounts for [2]about 40% of UT2003 servers). Epic has been working on a [3] patch for about 3 months. Imagine the bad publicity games would receive if a worm on the scale of Slammer had been created." A Bugtraq post from Thor Larholm of Pivx, says that Marc Rein of Epic [4]threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with this"; the TechTV article Larholm cites (the same one linked from this submission), however, contains no mention of legal action. Rein [5]nonetheless apologized for "those completely unfortunate comments" in a followup message to Bugtraq. Links 0. http://www.sfu.ca/~pkaler 1. http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3417248,00.html 2. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2863990 3. http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=39954 4. http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311405/2003-02-08/2003-02-14/0 5. http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311443/2003-02-08/2003-02-14/0 ACLU And Others Weigh In On CIPA Injunction http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0058247 A report on censorware.net has an update on the legal fight over the Children's Internet Protection Act; yesterday the ACLU, ALA and others [0]filed briefs supporting the injunction calling CIPA unconstitutional [1]issued by a three-judge court last May. The [2]Supreme Court will hear the case on March 5th. (A [3]search on "CIPA" is a good way to catch up on this act, which is basically about installing mandatory censorware on child-accessable publicly funded computers.) Links 0. http://censorware.net/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2043211&tid=1 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/31/1423219&tid=123 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1810209&tid=123 3. https://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=CIPA First Cosmological Results From MAP http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2029259 [0]riptalon writes "The [1]Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a [2]NASA Explorer mission has announced the first [3]results based on a year of observations from the L2 Lagrangian point. MAP carries two back-to-back microwave telescopes to study variations in the [4]cosmic microwave background, to much greater accuracy than the [5]COBE satellite. The excruciating details of the results on the age, geometry and composition of the universe can be found in this [6]paper. Executive summary: 13.7 billion years old, flat, 4.4% baryons, 22% dark matter and 73% dark energy." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 2. http://www.nasa.gov/ 3. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html 4. http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/microback.html 5. http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/cobe/ 6. http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/pub_papers/firstyear/basic/wmap_basic_results.pdf IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2124229 [0]softsign writes "Reading this [1]story in this month's IEEE The Institute, I found that IEEE-USA quietly published two [2]position [3]papers asking the US Congress to re-examine and/or clarify sections of the DMCA last year. The papers - developed by the organization's Intellectual Property committee - specifically cite concerns over the chilling effects and misuse of the DMCA against researchers and ISPs. Initially, the IEEE was pretty [4]wishy-[5]washy about the DMCA, but it seems that they've been listening to their members and have developed a pretty strong [6]anti-DMCA, pro-innovation stance. Including an enlightened view on [7]Fair Use rights!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/inst_art.jsp?isno=02031&arnumber=02031_2w.featureDMCA§ion=4 2. http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/DMCAnotice.html 3. http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/DMCAencryption.html 4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/14/166232&tid=103 5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/05/1219207&tid=153 6. http://www.ieeeusa.org/committees/IPC/index.html#positions 7. http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/digitalcopyright.html Spector, Garriott on Games http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/195222 [0]Warrior-GS writes "GameSpy has two interesting interviews up. [1]Richard Garriott of Ultima fame talks about leaving Origin, getting bought out by NCSoft and becoming a pitchman for a popular Korean MMORPG trying to make it in the states. He also mentions his new game, Tabula Rasa. The other interview is with [2]Warren Spector, who opened up a bit on the Deus Ex sequel Invisible War, while also commenting on linear games, anime style games and what the future holds." Links 0. http://www.gamespy.com 1. http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february03/british/ 2. http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february03/spectordx2/ Terahertz Imagery Progresses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1848247 [0]ke4roh writes "Since Slashdot last [1]discussed terahertz imaging, the European Space Agency's Star Tiger project has [2] taken terahertz images of a human hand. Some of the [3]pictures show just how useful the imagery might be for peering through walls and such - one of the images is through a 15mm pad of paper." The EE Times has [4]another story. Links 0. http://home.hiwaay.net/~jimes 1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/1226229&tid=126 2. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130267,00.html 3. http://www.startiger.org/news.htm 4. http://www.eetuk.com/tech/news/OEG20030211S0010 DoC to Extend ICANN's Control of IANA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1831210 Luminous Coward writes "I first saw this on [0]The Register. Kevin Murphy of Computerwire [1]reports: The US Department of Commerce last week quietly published a document detailing its decision to "sole-source" the contract for the so-called [2]IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) function to ICANN, as opposed to opening the contract for competitive bidding. ICANNWatch explains why this is a [3]bad idea. They also report that [4]the ccTLDs and [5]the Internet Multicasting Service have expressed interest in running IANA." Links 0. http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29259.html 1. http://ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg18926.html 2. http://www.iana.org/ 3. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2251256 4. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2153213 5. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1429217 Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233 [0]scubacuda writes "[1]Clay Shirky has written an [2]excellent article entitled "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality." Simply put, diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality: "A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of us, and so on." A must read for anyone interested in the statistics, fairness, and power relations of blogging." Links 0. http://`scubacuda' `at' `iname.com' 1. http://www.shirky.com/ 2. http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
