The Dutch Nuon team's Nuna4 car looks like winning the World Solar Challenge from Belgium's Umicar Infinity and Australia's Aurora 101.

What at first may seem like any other feature length zombie film to the average web scavenger, the movie Human Residue is not. This movie not only has some very well done zombies, and it will be in HD, but it also aims "to be one of the first truly free feature films made available in the digital age." You heard that right, th

Microsoft partners are complaining about the difficulty of making Office 2007 work for them because of a combination of "trialware" and WGA. No relief is in sight for them.

Microsoft has changed their pricing structure to force business users to buy into Software Assurance (SA):

Following a decision in the Amsterdam court which stated the Dutch torrent site Everlasting.nu facilitated copyright infringement, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been using this momentum to make life difficult for other torrent sites. After getting Everlasting shut down and obtaining the administrators personal details, they moved to take down Demonoid . It didnt do much good - the site re

Incredible but true. Peter Gutmann, of suicide note fame, details more Vista DRM problems at USENIX:

Rather than apologize for bribes and other outrageous behavior that lead to defeat, M$ is crowing over how successful their behavior was and predicting victory over ISO standardization of ooxml:

First it was the workers at the National Hurricane Center, now the worker bees at NASA are refusing to submit to abuse of power: 28 NASA scientists sue over HSPD-12 checks

New Scientist are reporting on some analysis performed by Physicist Pablo Gleiser of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lund, Sweden refuses to work around a Vista bug, so people who live there must chose between Vista and internet access. It's nice to see the right people being held accountable for a change. Here's another article and more from the Inquirer.

Abdul Kadir, one of the men accused of plotting to blow up facilities at JFK Airport, told his co-conspirators to get more more detailed images from Google Maps, according to court documents obtained by The Smoking Gun.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0604071google1.html.

Although U.S. authorities said they had averted an attack that could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths, and destruction, the plan was unlikely to have been successful.

"IceCube is already the world's largest neutrino telescope although it is less than half-finished," Gaisser said. "Its purpose is to use neutrinos as a novel probe of high-energy astrophysical processes to reveal their inner workings, which are obscured for ordinary telescopes using light and other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum."

Here we are. 2007, about to elect another president, and close to 500 US Representatives and Senators, and countless other elected officials - governors, attorneys general, state representatives and senators, and all kinds of other individuals to guide our nation through these modern times.

But they all stink.

Could Microsoft be actively astroturfing slashdot? When a discussion starts with an offhand comment laughing at an MS Products' supposed security and ends with attacks on Apache and Linux you really start to wonder.