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Submission + - Hewlett Packard's Dunn Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud

Submitted by GogglesPisano on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:45PM

GogglesPisano writes: CNN reports that former HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fraudulent wire communications stemming from her involvement in last year's corporate eavesdropping scandal. The original charges, four felony counts, were reduced to misdemeanors in exchange for a plea bargain. Her three co-defendents are expected to receive 96 hours of community service; in Dunn's case this sentence is likely to be waived due to illness.
So, apparently Dunn will face no punishment for her disgraceful role in orchestrating this debacle. Another case of separate legal standards for the rich and powerful?

Submission + - SETI@Home is now the World's Fastest Supercomputer

Submitted by jemecki on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:37PM

jemecki writes: I was looking through the distributed computing statistics at BOINCstats today and I noticed that SETI@Home distributed computing grid just passed 280 TeraFLOPS in computing power. The reason this is so remarkable is that the fastest supercomputer in the world Blue Gene/L ALSO operates at a sustained 280 TeraFLOPS. So while governments are busy using their supercomputers to model bombs and nuclear weapons, the geeks have put together the world's fastest computer and they're using it to look for aliens. Awesome.

Submission + - On Becoming The Family Tech Support Guru

Submitted by

tiktok

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:33PM

tiktok writes: "GOTD has a humorous article about the dangers of offering tech support to family members. We've all been in this situation before, where you have fixed one family member's "minor" computer problem, and all of a sudden, you're the one expert that everyone in the family relies on for all their technical support."

Submission + - Torvalds Blasts GPLv3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds is once again coming out against the upcoming GPL 3.0 rev to the open-source license. In a short email interview with IWeek blogger Charlie Babcock, Torvalds places himself firmly in favor of the existing GPLv2 license, and against Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, who are the main proponents behind GPLv3.Here are Torvalds comments: "I absolutely love the GPLv2 because it embodies that 'develop in the open' model," Torvalds noted. Also this: "He [Torvalds] notes GPLv3 has been criticized as a Free Software Foundation political platform. He agrees and quarrels with FSF's conception of "proprietary software as being something evil and immoral. Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not evil or immoral. It just doesn't matter." Finally, Torvalds said: "The GPLv2 is something that you can agree to despite different politics and that's something I think the Linux community has been very good at." Do you think Torvalds' opposition will cause a protracted battle over GPLv3? And how can this be a good thing for the open-source community?

Submission + - Microsoft attack Google over 'fair use'

Submitted by Theendisnigh on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:39AM

Theendisnigh writes: Quoted from the Guardian online: "Microsoft will today launch a blistering attack on Google, accusing the Silicon Valley giant of a "cavalier" attitude to copyright.
In a prepared speech to the American Association of Publishers, senior Microsoft lawyer Tom Rubin is expected to hit out at Google for profiting from other people's work.
"Companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the backs of other people's content, are raking in billions through advertising revenue and IPOs," he says."

Complete Guardian story available here.

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