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The Business Software Alliance today published the results of its 2003 Global Piracy Study conducted by IDC, which reveals a software piracy rate in the UK of 29%. The majority of problems were identified among businesses that neglect their licensing obligations. Pirated software represents lost sales for national and international software publishers based in the UK of around $1.6 billion, according to the BSA. BAGHDAD, Iraq — When Saddam Hussein appears in an Iraqi court Thursday, the appearance is expected to be filmed for public release. The Iraqis have assumed legal custody of the former dictator and other high-level prisoners. Charges are to be read Thursday in a hearing before the Iraqi Special Tribunal that will try Saddam. The trial isn’t expected to happen until sometime next year. I say we push a IED (improvised explosive device) up his ass and set it off. Continue Reading ‘Legal transfer of Saddam complete’ Latest weather reports from Australia indicate that the 70 meter dish at Canberra may have to be stowed away due to high winds. This antenna is the only one on NASA’s Deep Space Network sensitive enough to detect the signal from Cassini’s signal indicating that the orbit insertion burn burn was completed successfully. Continue Reading ‘Cassini’s mission data may be hampered by weather’ PASADENA, Calif., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) — After nearly seven years of asking, “Are we there yet?” the Cassini-Huygens mission is poised to enter Saturn’s orbit this evening. “Getting into orbit means we have a mission. If we don’t get into orbit then we have a flyby and that’s not what we are here to do,” said Dr. Dennis Matson, project scientist for the Cassini-Huygens mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “We are confident that the Cassini team will get us there.” The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, cost known as CERT, buy information pills issued a “vulnerability note” saying that computer users should not use the Internet Explorer browser because of security vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit to launch attacks on personal computers and corporate networks. Continue Reading ‘Feds warn against Microsoft’s browser’ Initially three, more about then later, four members of the Central Ohio Pink Pistols, a group promoting the safe handling of firearms in the GLBT community, were threatened by the Executive Director of Stonewall Columbus, who wielded a 2-foot club, and up to 30 volunteer security personnel at the Stonewall Columbus Pride Event on Saturday, June 26. The Pink Pistols were repeatedly ordered to surrender their legally-owned and carried firearms by a steadily-growing army of guards. Knowing the law was on their side, the Pink Pistols refused to surrender their property or knuckle under to illegal threats of violence, search, and seizure by Stonewall Columbus personnel. Police were summoned at Pink Pistols request. No firearms were surrendered or confiscated, and no arrests were made, as no laws were broken. http://www.pinkpistols.org/index2.html Continue Reading ‘Pink Pistols ordered to relinquish firearms at rally.’ Bill OReilly: “…we established beyond a reasonable doubt that there were indeed ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq, and that newspaper headlines denying that were misleading and/or downright wrong. ” Dick Cheney, V.P. of the U.S.: ‘”What ‘The New York Times’ did today was outrageous. They do a lot of outrageous things, but the headline, “Panel Finds No Al Qaeda-Iraq Tie,” the press wants to run out and say there’s a fundamental split here now between what the president said and what the commission said. Jim Thompson, who’s a member of the commission, has since been on the air. I saw him with my own eyes, and there’s no conflict.” O’REILLY: “Cheney has a right to be angry, and so does every American who wants a truthful media. ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorialized the situation this way: “The ‘no Saddam link’ story is getting so much play because it fits the broader anti-war, anti-Bush narrative that Iraq was a ‘distraction’ from the broader war on terror. So once again the 9/11 Commission is being used to tarnish the Iraqi effort and damage President Bush’s credibility in fighting terror.” Read more… –President Ronald W. Reagan Exploiting tragedy for political gain is nothing new for the media and the Brady Campaign, but this morning’s appearance on NBC’s Today Show reached a new low. Katie Couric and Sarah Brady used the tragic occasion of President Reagan’s passing to shamelessly forward the gun-ban agenda with deliberate misinformation. Led by carefully crafted questions from Couric, Sarah Brady claimed that President Reagan wasn’t actually an NRA member, and that he “worked hard” for passage of the so-called “assault weapons” ban. Read More… Continue Reading ‘NBC misrepresents the record of Ronald Reagan.’ Geeks with Guns prayer: “I thank you Lord God, for giving to the world, Mr. Reagan. He came from the Democratic Party and awoke the sleeping giant of the Republican Party. His vision and heart gave Americans back their national pride. His strength and mercy gave hundreds of millions of the oppressed their freedom. He gave me a reason to believe in the power and dignity of the human spirit. I thank you most of all Lord, for giving Mr. Reagan to me.” If anyone in this world deserved a better retirement, it was Ronald Reagan. Please mourn with me today, the loss of the greatest U.S. President of our lifetime. I am thankful his struggle is over and mourn not for him, but for us. Read more. Continue Reading ‘A prayer for the Gipper.’ Computer users with itchy trigger fingers take note: The next time you open a software program with two quick clicks on a handheld computer you may be engaging in a process patented by Microsoft Corp. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on April 27 granted a patent for a “time based hardware button for application launch” in which a click of a button can start different programs if it is clicked once, twice or held down for several seconds. That process is familiar to countless computer users who have double-clicked their way through Microsoft’s Windows operating system, as well as anyone who’s tried to set the time on a digital watch. http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/06/03/rtr1395113.html Continue Reading ‘Microsoft wins patent for handheld computer click’ |
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