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Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
Dial-up modem service to be cut: Off-campus students will have
to pay for Internet connection. By Andrew Dowd, The Spectator
(Wisconsin Eau Claire).
1:25:26 PM 
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Tougher
Microsoft Sanctions Sought (AP).
Massachusetts and West Virginia urged a federal appeals court
to instruct the trial judge to impose tougher sanctions than those included
in a settlement the judge approved among Microsoft, the Justice Department
and 17 other states.
. . .
The district court's remedy will not restore competition, deny Microsoft
the fruits of its illegal conduct or otherwise satisfy this court's
remedial objectives, the attorneys general wrote in their appeal
brief.
12:25:07 PM
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Y'know, I get my share of spam e-mail. I figure it's my share anyway--more
than a lot of you, less than others of you, doubtless. It regularly
includes instances of the Nigerian scam. But lately, I've been getting a
whole mess of Nigerian scam mail--sometimes three messages in a row--from
one guy, Mr. Edward Nkosi, Bank Manager of Standard Bank,
Cape Town South Africa. What's up with that?
Don't know about the Nigerian scam? Previous coverage:
(Those are main page links from Google, rather than permalinks, so you'll
need to scan the page for the Nigerian Scam items, but that should not be
too tough.)
11:25:28 AM
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Inquiry
into 'dumped' Potter books: Police are being called in to
investigate the suspected thefts of two copies of the eagerly awaited fifth
Harry Potter book.
Author JK Rowling's agent said an inquiry had being launched
following the reported find of two books dumped in a field near to a
printing works.
Copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix were discovered by a
walker in Bungay, Suffolk, who immediately contacted the Sun newspaper,
which now has them in its possession.
11:25:20 AM
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So
Why Are You Really Leaving?, By Catherine Evans, in The Chronicle of
Higher Education.
Earlier this spring, I gave my department chairman a letter of
resignation that took him and the rest of my colleagues by surprise. In the
weeks since, the fallout has taken me by surprise.
Catherine Evans is the pseudonym of an assistant
professor in the arts employed at a major research university until the end
of this semester.
11:25:16 AM
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Bork to Argue Microsoft Case On Appeal, by James V. Grimaldi,
Washington Post.
Former Judge Robert H. Bork has decided to return to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for the first time in 15 years this
fall to argue on behalf of two industry trade groups challenging the
settlement and consent decree in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust lawsuit.
. . .
As a matter of fact, the court has changed a good deal since I left,
Bork told Hearsay on Friday as he and other lawyers prepared a filing for
today with the appeals court. It will be in large measure like arguing
in court someplace else.
. . .
Sitting in the second chair will be his former colleague on the court,
Kenneth W. Starr, the Kirkland & Ellislawyer who was the Whitewater special
prosecutor. Working with Bork and Starr is Glenn B. Manishinof Kelley Drye
& Warren LLP.
By most accounts, Bork has a tough argument to make. On behalf of the
Software & Information Industry Association and the Computer &
Communications Industry Association, Bork seeks permission to intercede in
the Microsoft case and argue that a Justice Department settlement, and a
court review to evaluate it called a Tunney Act hearing, fell short of the
law and expectations of the court.
Massachusetts and West Virginia, which did not participate in the Justice
Department settlement, are seeking stiffer penalties. The states' case is
expected to be argued by Steven R. Kuneyof Williams & Connolly LLP(instead
of Kuney's law partner Brendan V. Sullivan Jr., whose meek performance
during the Tunney Act hearing was likened to that of a "potted plant" in a
Washington Post article.)
After the D.C. Circuit ruled that Microsoft had violated antitrust law by
maintaining a monopoly, the Justice Department, under President Bush,
settled the case. Today, in a filing with the court, Bork and his team plan
to argue the settlement is wholly inadequate, leaves Microsoft in
an even stronger market position, and is riddled with loopholes.
The Clinton administration had proposed breaking up the software giant, but
the appeals court rejected that after the trial judge failed to hold remedy
hearings.
11:25:12 AM
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Microsoft, Montana Consumers Reach Deal (AP).
Microsoft Corp. has reached a $12.3 million settlement with
Montana consumers who filed a class-action lawsuit alleging violations of
state antitrust and unfair competition laws, the company said Monday.
Similar to settlements with residents of California and Florida, the
agreement calls for Microsoft to provide vouchers for consumers to buy
software, desktop, laptop and tablet computers, and other devices.
Microsoft still faces class-action lawsuits filed in 14 other
states
11:25:05 AM
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Hearts and Minds Working in Laos. The Remote IT Village Project, stymied by a power surge that fried the main computer, is rallying to set up the world's first bicycle-powered wireless Linux computer system before the rainy season starts. A little barbequed water buffalo and beer did a lot to boost morale. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
7:15:21 AM
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Eve of deconstruction. At Seattle's Pop Conference, 500 academics and journalists swap theories on Springsteen's ass, racism in indie rock and Blue Oyster Cult's use of the cowbell as a "party signifier." [Salon.com]
7:12:13 AM
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Dave: Meanwhile UserLand is promising Frontier 9.1 for release on May 19. That's really soon. All the stuff Jake and I worked on and more. Manila is going to get a lot of improvements. The Movable Type people will be glad to know that Trackback support is on the list, with lots of interop testing to be sure it works with all flavors of Trackback. Manila is following their lead, precisely, no gratuitous innovation or incompatibility.
7:11:26 AM
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Doc: Toward a Taxonomy of Linkage. Venomous Kate treats us to a nice rundown of blogrolling and linking styles. A sample: The "linkers" among the extra-bloggers have made it their goal to discover and share links to places they've discovered which might not otherwise come to their readers' attention. These folks have a blogroll - sometimes a very lengthy one - but the meat in their posts come from non-blog sources. The truly orthodox web logger falls in this category: those skinless sites that often feature streamlined "link dump" posts in which the link titles themselves are the content and the blogger provides little to no additional commentary. A less-extreme example is Doc Searls ' site.
Not sure this here blog is a great example of that, since I blurt too many mini-essays within which linkage is more background than foreground (though not many lately, I'll admit... sorry, been busy). Still, a fun list. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
7:04:11 AM
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Program Lets P2P Users Roam Free. Users of file-trading services on peer-to-peer networks have another weapon in their cat-and-mouse contest with the music industry. New software helps shield them from prying eyes online. By Brad King. [Wired News]
6:58:52 AM
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