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California Governor's Race: So You Want to Steal an Election?Patrick MallonMonday, Oct. 14, 2002 This article is the latest in the ongoing weekly series on the California governor's race. See previous articles:Only Vote Fraud Can Save Davis Now (9/30)Is Simon Taking a Dive? (9/23)The Tide Is Turning (9/16)Davis and Apologists Fooling Themselves (9/9)The Farce That Is Sacramento (9/3)A Democratic Party Art Form - Inventing Voters (8/26)Tammany Hall's Next Target - Simon's Faith (8/16)California Governor's Race: Defying the Lies as Bombs Fly (8/9) Stealth Agenda Trumps Academic Success in Schools (8/2)Simon Survives Attacks, Davis Cons for Cash (7/26)Paralyzed From Facing...

I'm trying to find a website where I can download Linux without some kind of wierd commitment and a deluge of junk-mail. I've heard its free but I'm really no seeing it...There's a website for this sort of thing right?

“While the News.com rear-end smooch session with [Apache “entrepreneur” Randy] Terbrush tries to paint a picture that companies like Covalent and Tribal that base their business on supporting open source software is a license to print money, the exact opposite is true. News.com muddies the waters by dropping names of profitable companies like Cisco and Merck into the story, but conveniently leaves out the fact that according to publicly available financial information Covalent has consistently lost millions for the past two years. For example from February 1, 2001 to January 31, 2002 Covalent’s annual sales reached $2,664,000 while their cost...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 September 27 Accretion Disk Simulation Credit: Michael Owen, John Blondin (North Carolina State Univ.) Explanation: Don't be fooled by the familiar symmetry. The graceful spiral structure seen in this computer visualization does not portray winding spiral arms in a distant galaxy of stars. Instead, the graphic shows spiral shock waves in a three dimensional simulation of an accretion disk -- material swirling onto a compact central object...

Poor countries have little to gain and plenty to lose from adopting Western standards of patent protection, a group of experts appointed by the British government said on Thursday. The Commission on Intellectual Property Rights concluded that a global drive to expand patent protection would mean higher-priced medicines and seeds for most developing countries, with no significant benefit for their local industries. Activists have long campaigned against the blanket adoption of patents in the developing world, arguing it leads to inflated prices for drugs to treat AIDS and other deadly conditions in Africa. Western companies say patents are vital for...

Country's `Silicon Valley' booming 2002-09-09 by Cydney Gillis Journal Business Reporter You or someone you know has either lost a job or an investment in the high-tech sector in the past two years. It's been hard, but it can't be helped. The high-tech bubble burst in 2000. But not everywhere. While American software and technology companies languish, laying off thousands of workers each week, India's tech sector has been growing by leaps and bounds. In the fiscal year ended March 31, India's software exports grew from $6.2 billion to $7.7 billion -- a mere 23 percent increase in a 10-year...

Lead Windows developer bugged by security By Matt Berger September 5, 2002 1:46 pm PT SEATTLE -- BRIAN Valentine says he's not proud. The senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team has reason not to be. One of his most notable works, the Windows 2000 operating system, has a security record that is nothing to boast about. In fact, it's downright dismal, many experts say. Security bulletins warning of holes and vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems are a regular occurrence. Late Wednesday, the company released a bulletin warning of a flaw in its digital certificate technology that...

Microsoft reeling from hack attacks Patch what you can, worry about what you can't By Paul Hales: Thursday 05 September 2002, 13:08 MICROSOFT REPORTS that hackers are having a field day with its software. It seems the harder the company tries to shore up all its products, the more the hackers, crackers and whacky-bacciers enjoy worming their way through the defences. Last week the company posted an advisory here warning of an "increased level of hacking activity" that it had been tracking. The hacking attempts show similar symptoms and "behaviors", the company said and affect a whole slew of Microsoft...

IT workers win jobs battle The IT labour market will be reviewed in 3 months A group of computer consultants - who said their jobs were being taken by cheaper foreign workers - have won their battle with the government. The freelancers said they were suffering because the Home Office included IT specialists on a list of skills shortages. This meant that companies could apply for fast-track visas to bring workers in from overseas. British workers said the system was being abused. Finding jobs became hard Some companies, including big household names, were ending contracts then employing people on fast-track...

If the U.S. government were truly interested in preserving the nation's security, there would be tanks, soldiers, and flame-throwers encircling the Microsoft Corporation at this very minute, and not to guard the place, either.We're kidding, but only a little. Is there anyone, anywhere, who does not think that the monkeyshines in which Microsoft is increasingly engaged are more a threat to the country's well being than were the ravings a decade ago of David Koresh? We hold no special brief for Koresh other than to note that he and his followers by all accounts were minding their own business when...

Computer scientists have devised a method of "typing" without a keyboard using clever software that creates words and sentences using eye movements alone. Two Cambridge University researchers have shown that their invention does not result in eye-strain, is just as fast as conventional typing and results in fewer mistakes. David Ward and David MacKay, physicists in the university's Cavendish Laboratory, are making the software freely available in the hope that computer firms will use the idea, which promises to revolutionise technology for the disabled. In a study published today in the journal Nature, the scientists say that the system, which...

"From the day of its first draft was released in 1999, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) has come under attack by open source software makers and their lobbyists. Bowing to pressure from these companies and their lobbyists, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) has revised the UCITA to exempt open source software makers from offering warranties, but only if the open source software makers are non-profit organizations. The NCCUSL’s new changes to the UCITA also broaden state’s rights by allowing for a state’s specific consumer protection laws to override the UCITA."

NEW DELHI: China's software services sector is fast catching up with India and could overtake its neighbour’s dominant position by 2007. Interestingly, Indian software companies will be there to reap some of this bonanza. Surprised? According to a new report by IT consultancy firm Gartner, the Chinese software industry is expected to match India’s growth and clock a revenue of over $27 billion in 2006. India too is expected to log in the same revenue figure by that time. Gartner has cited three main reasons that are expected to add momentum to an already fast-growing software and application development services...

Microsoft welcomes UK govt open source policy By ComputerWire Posted: 07/29/2002 at 06:50 EST Microsoft Corp has given a warm welcome to the UK government's recent open source software policy statement, indicating a further softening of the company's approach to its open source rivals. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft appears to have a growing respect for the competitive threat posed by open source software, and has given a broad thumbs-up to the UK Office of Government Commerce's report, which promotes the use of open source software in local and national government institutions and public-sector organizations. "We welcome the policy statement in that...

The monopoly of foreign office software over Chinese market will be broken, as domestic software developers have jointed hands to start a project of "Chinese version" office software. The Beijing IT Industry Promotion Center announced on Thursday that two programs named "Yangfan" and "Qihang" (both means to "set sail") were kicked off, aiming at working out an operation system equivalent to Win 98 within a year. The Center said that 18 companies and universities joined the programs and its first desktop operation system "Yangfan 1.0" had been gradually put into use in offices of government departments. As reported, in...

China remains a refuge from software sluggishness. To hear critics tell it, China teems with software thieves. But the actions of some of the world's largest code producers tell another story. Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, in Beijing last month announced $750 million of planned investments in China for the next three years. Only two weeks earlier, Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, told a publicity-drenched conference of 6,000 people in Beijing that his company would open its second development center in China. Sun Microsystems is also gearing up to expand its Beijing research center. Even as growth in...

Nokia faces much bigger challengers than the Redmond Monster By Tony Dennis: Wednesday 17 July 2002, 14:28 THAT OLD CHESTNUT that Nokia is frightened by Bill Gates' shadow was trotted out again in today's Financial Times. The claim is that Microsoft will mutate the handset market so that it resembles the PC industry where margins on hardware are minute while software margins stay high. Apparently there's a danger that Microsoft could help to commoditise the handset market. Eh? Global handset sales are already around 400 million units compared to 120 million at most for PC sales. Which is the commodity?...

Microsoft licensing deadline looms Analysis Partly to blame for IT doldrums? By Egan Orion: Tuesday 16 July 2002, 09:01 IN TWO WEEKS Microsoft will slam the door shut on customers used to its former pay-as-you-go software sales policies. As of August 1st, IT organisations that haven't knuckled under to Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 initiative will be facing significantly higher costs, if and when they do finally upgrade their servers, desktops, and office software. We've read that all recalcitrant customers' subsequent licensing cost penalties might be up to 45% -- but we'll get back to that shortly. The dark rabbit-hole leading one...

Sub-optimal and expensive By Egan Orion: Saturday 13 July 2002, 11:54 A BRIEF STORY in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reports that Norway has canceled an exclusive Microsoft contract to provide software for government and public systems, country-wide. The Minister of Labour and Government Administration, Victor D. Norman, expressed that the procurement agreement has been sub-optimal and that competition could provide cheaper software solutions for government and consumers. (In paraphrasing a translation, we think it said this.) According to DesktopLinux, Mr. Norman said "We think that the Microsoft agreement in reality has given Microsoft a monopoly in an area where we...