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myspace-cn writes "The 800 pound gorilla of software development has moved forcefully into New York State with proposed changes(PDF WARNING) to New York State Election Law drafted by Microsoft attorneys that has been circulating among the Legislature. These changes would gut the source code escrow and review provisions provided current LAW!! There's more information on Bo Lipari's web blog and on Bradblog.com Ain't it time to get rid of these machines?!"

eldavojohn writes "Computer scientists are analyzing the data of the well known Pioneer Anomaly. For those of you not familiar with it, both Pioneer 10 & 11 suffered severe deviations from their expected course at they travelled out into our outer solar system. From the article, "The source of the deceleration has long been suspected to be heat escaping from the small nuclear generators onboard, known as RTGs (Radioisotope Thermal Generators). Previous analyses that claimed to rule out this effect have been contested. To supply a definitive answer, an international team of scientists are re-analysing the tracking data and the telemetry data." The current assumption is that the direction of the decelleration is towards the Earth which would almost certainly indicate the anomaly was caused by faulty technology or an artefact of receiving the data at the ground stations. "If, however, the direction is towards the Sun, new gravitational physics may be needed to explain the effect.""

sighted writes "NASA has published intriguing images that show a giant cloud, half the size of the United States, at Saturn's moon Titan. It may be responsible for the material that fills the recently-discovered lakes."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/22/civil_libs_ditch/

An anonymous reader writes "Courtney Love writes an indepth article on the music industry and the fleecing of artists by mega-million Corporations. She discusses the math behind the contracts, the business, and her views on piracy. http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/print.html"

Gammu writes "Nobutoshi Kihara, the engineer behind the Walkman, has left Sony. In the late seventies, one of the co-chairman of Sony, Morita, requested the audio division create a portable tape player capable of playing his operas while he was on transpacific flights to the US. After less than a year, the Walkman was released to the public and revolutionized the music industry. Read about the development of the first Walkman at Low End Mac."

snottgoblin writes "DailyTech has an article suggesting that Google might be involved in a partnership with the CIA. The article also quotes a former CIA officer that Google's refusal to comply with the DOJ over privacy issues was 'a little hypocritical [...] because they were heavily in bed with the Central Intelligence Agency.'" Because I'm sure no one would go on the air and try to drum up a scandal aimed at the biggest target they can find.