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Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2817093.stm Australian Federal Police Raid Major ISPs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0018248 pflodo writes "The Australian (newspaper) has an article about Telstra the major Australian ISP and other 'declined to name' ISPs that have been [0]raided by Australian Federal Police to 'seek the identity of particular subscribers' in relation to their activity and files stored on the ISP's servers. I imagine they will eventually raid some domestic homes and make a scapegoat of some unfortunate teenagers." Links 0. http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,6081015%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0349241 [0]FrosGate writes "Slackware 9.0-rc1 is now available for public consumption over at [1]www.slackware.com. From the site: 'Some of the main components included are the 2.4.20 Linux kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, and XFree86 4.3.0, as well as gcc-3.2.2 and the latest development libraries. Enjoy!' Enjoy is right!" And [2]Scorchen writes "[3]YOPER has released Version 1.0 of their increasingly popular distro. This is the their first stable release." Here's [4]the announcment. The website claims "With Yoper it is possible to import packages from all the other major distros including rpm's, deb's, and tgz packages." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.slackware.com/ 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. http://www.yoper.com/ 4. http://www.yoper.com/finalannounce.html AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0125250 linuxwrangler writes "AOL [0]announced today that its spam filters hit the 1 billion reject mark for a 24 hour period. This is an average of 28 rejects per day per member. In addition, AOL spam engineers say they receive 5.5 million spam submissions each day from AOL users. Other reports [1]here(1) and [2]here(2)." Links 0. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/230645356&ticker=aol 1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/05/financial1928EST0343.DTL 2. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,79045,00.html Slashback: Humility, Patents. Vapor.com http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1728252 Slashback brings updates on Salon's quest for money, Miguel de Icaza's thoughts on the most recent KDE vs. GNOME critique, bad news for anyone who wants a cute Windows-free laptop from Lindows.com, and more -- read on for more details. Working as a Game Tester http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/1639224 DaytonCIM writes "SFGate.com has a great story on the real [0]life of game testers. 'Life is not all fun and games, though. It's all games -- with little time left for sleeping or eating, at least during the busy months before Christmas. The longest week he has logged was 106 hours, and 60-hour-plus weeks are typical in deadline crunches, he said.'" Links 0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/05/BU78795.DTL Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2152230 Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker [0]Rambus has been found [1]guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the Judge has denied the [2]FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of proving its innocence" instead.' Links 0. http://www.rambus.com/ 1. http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/05/technology/rambus.reut/index.htm 2. http://www.ftc.gov/ The Future That Hasn't Arrived http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2031241 [0]jonerik writes "[1]MSNBC has [2]this article on an exhibit starting this week at Philadelphia's [3]Lost Highways Archive and Research Library. Entitled [4]Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised, the exhibit focuses on the artwork of the elusive A.C. Radebaugh, a commercial illustrator whose works promised us a glittering, shiny tomorrow from the '30s to the '50s; a helicopter in every garage, massive streamlined cars, vacations on Mars - in short, pretty much everything we didn't get. The exhibit collects examples from Radebaugh's portfolio, auto designs for Chrysler, DoSoto, and Dodge, ads, and 'Closer Than We Think!,' a syndicated weekly comic strip drawn by Radebaugh. I want my jetpack, dammit!" Links 0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net 1. http://www.msnbc.com/ 2. http://www.msnbc.com/news/880581.asp?0dm=C19IT 3. http://www.losthighways.org/ 4. http://www.losthighways.org/radebaugh.html What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2023200 lucabrasi999 writes "Here's an interesting [0] commentary from Mike Tarsala at CBS.Marketwatch.com regarding R&D spending by U.S. companies as it compares to overseas firms. It compares today's US tech firms to the Big Three Automakers of the 70's, while saying the overseas tech firms are similar to the Toyotas and Hondas of the 70's. In other words, US Tech firms are about to be taught a lesson in global capitalism. I think Mike is 100% correct. What do you think?" Links 0. http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B2B5CBF33-899B-45CC-81DD-C7DFD5959D68%7D&siteid=mktw Toshiba To Show Laptop Fuel Cells at CeBit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/196256 war3rd writes "According to [0]The Register, Toshiba has finally been able to build a fuel cell for laptops that they will unveil at [1]CeBit next week. The fuel cells are expected to last approximately 5 hours and are compatible with existing lithium-ion batteries. Form factor remains the only issue. The trick is that they use the water by-product from the cell to dilute the methanol source as it enters the [2]reformer, and are therefore able to store higher concentrations of methanol in the cell. My only concern is how quickly can they get this to market?" Links 0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29590.html 1. http://www.cebit.de/ 2. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-processor2.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
