Ah, great. The US judicial system can be trusted to uphold the US constitution: U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III pierced right through the crappy camouflage of the ID proponents and ruled that they’re trying to get creationism into the classroom.
Said the judge: “It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so […]

Well, Google has been me-too-ing a lot lately, with mail and IM and other stuff the others (YaHoo, MSN) already offered, but somehow they always manage to add a twist. Whereas the others keep a tight lock on their chat networks, Google released code under the BSD license that allows you to integrate with the […]

Well, well, well. After 15 years, the original NT group is being proven right: Microsoft is moving the graphics out of the kernel again, reversing a decision that lots and lots of people frowned upon when they moved graphics into the kernel between NT 3.51 and NT4. Back then, most people concluded that it was […]

Computer Visions: A Conversation with David Gelernter–David Gelernter is one of my “personal heroes”, as he’s probably the godfather of everything Jini and then some. I have collected all the papers of his group, it is great stuff, and his book, Mirror Worlds is still worth a read.
Ok, I might just differ with him […]

Do you need a business administration background to unravel Merill Lynch reports? Take this: Sony to lose $1 billion on Playstation 3. No, that’s called investing. You invest money, in this case by sponsoring consoles (and probably the odd million for a marketing campaign), because your forecasts tell you that you’ll recoup it on software […]

On BBC News and probably lots of other sites, the breaking news that the EU has approved a directive that requires telecom and internet companies to keep traffic data for 6 months.
The directive, of course, is completely nonsensical, because there are enough ways to completely defeat traffic analysis. It just shows how far politicians can […]

In Business Week, an article on Java’s perceived demise. Some nuggets I can’t help commenting on:
In the late 1990s, Yared was chief technology officer of NetDynamics, which pioneered an application server designed to boost the performance of Web sites. It was based squarely on then wildly popular Java. He went on to spend five years […]

Great–someone is busy whipping up a Wikipedia Class Action Lawsuit. I wondered who this was, so did a bit of research. The domain running the nameservers, baou.com, is run by some club that seems to do PR/Spin stuff, funded by a trust fund, and all the contact details match with the class action lawsuit page. […]

In Gentlemen - place your bets I painted a bleak future of Sun. Needless to say, Jonathan Schwartz would disagree with me:

Opening up Solaris and giving it away for free has led to the single largest wave of adoption Solaris has ever seen - some 3.4 million licenses since February this year (most on HP, […]

The Register keeps following all the trouble around Wikipedia: Who owns your Wikipedia bio?:

“It’s got the public playing the encyclopedia game,” he told us recently. “It’s also like playing a game in the sense that playing it has no consequences. If something goes wrong, you just restart. No problem!”
I think it won’t be for long […]