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swschrad writes:
New York Times (requires free registration) has the AP reporting a plea deal that gets guilty pleas to one count of fraudulent wire communications in the case of the HP board of directors spying on itself, reporters who asked questions, and other HP employees.
Meaning that former board chair Patricia Dunn, former ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker, and two private gumshoes, Ronald DeLia and Matthew Depante now face just a $10,000 maximum fine and up to three years in state prison for four felonies.
Dunn, who is battling cancer, is probably going to duck the jail time.
This doesn't directly affect Federal charges against these folks, loudly derided for half a year in every venue from Congressional hearings to your local tech blog.
HP is the supplier of so-called "Integrity" workstations using the Itanium (Itanic?) chip, as well as lately the biggest seller of PCs as well as printers.
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Headbonk writes:
Luk Claes announced yesterday on debian-devel-announce that the debian release managers are ready to set a tentative release date of April 2 for Etch aka Debian 4.0
2 Apr 2007:
0 RC bugs. Barring any problems that would cause us to need to
re-roll the installer <knock on wood>, we should be ready to
release.
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yummy writes:
Today's date, March 14, or 3/14 in standard U.S. notation, corresponds with the first three digits of pi, 3.14. The number represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Today also happens to be the birthday of the physicist Albert Einstein 128 years ago.
Celebrants will gather at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco to eat pie, recite pi, sing songs about pi, write ``pi-ku'' (haiku poetry about pi) and celebrate Einstein's birthday, said Ron Hipschman, a physicist at the museum.
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RockDoctor writes:
Dark Reading is reporting that technical managers at the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (whose title is unusually descriptive for a quango) are going to hold a meeting in mid-April where "According to the formal agenda for the meeting, NIST technology workers will attend a session entitled "Windows Vista Security" to discuss "the current ban of this operating system on NIST networks."
That's right folks — the "standard" operating system for computers these days (if you believe what the adverts say) is already banned by the people who set the standards.
You've almost got to feel sorry for them. Almost.
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nunya_bizns writes:
Defective by Design has an open letter to Steve Jobs asking him to back his pledge on DRM by April 1.
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/actions/open_lett er/steve_jobs