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Slashdot.org is reporting that AMD has begun releasing the specifications for newer ATI video cards as they hinted they would do when they purchased the company last year. This is of course great news for those of us who refuse to pollute our open source operating systems with closed source...

Texas Sues Sony. This suit comes on the heels of class action suits filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other parties since the discovery by SysInternals that Sony music CDs were infecting personal computers with a root kit that take control of CD-ROM drives to prevent...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1525590,00.html Wow, I thought it was only here in the US that people got in trouble for threatening a corporations revenue stream. Wasn't it Mousilini who described Facism as the perfect marraige of business and government?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4659093.stm CNN is covering, streets are being evacuated.

http://www.freenation.tv/hotellostliberty2.html Poetic, is it not?

According to Magnus-Opus it is! From their about page: Parody site? Most likely. But I think they make a good point by demonstrating the absurdity of copyrighting digital information. Think of the impact it would have on the world if people claimed to own exclusive rights to numbers and...

Quote from the BBC article. While I'm certainly happy to hear that Bush supports a stronger European Union I really do wish he would stop his assault on freedom on our side of the pond.

Interesting article at the BBC's site today. I'm sure there are a number of Russians who share the same sentiment, but I'm wondering if there are others outside of the Federation who view the breakup of the Soviet Union as a "geopolitical catastrophe"?

From an Associated Press article found here. Still, and after only 60 years since the Holocaust...why won't racial hatred die?

Reuters is reporting an American has pled guilty in the oil for food scandal. excerpt:

Found this article linked to from slashdot. excerpt: This is encouraging news for those who have been trying to encourage people to move away from being locked into a monopolistic operating system and can herald in new era of healthy competition for the software marketplace. Since Linux...

This is the real disparity. Link is here.

The Globe and Mail and others are reporting: Really such agreements should have taken place a couple of years ago. Common enemies make for common friends. The US, India, and China too should join them by putting their past differences behind them and concentrate on the task at hand.

This is a follow up to the "Did Kerry deserve his medals thread". The question is "did GWB earn the three purple hearts and silver star he won for putting his life on the line by volunteering for service in Vietnam?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1120842.htm Brilliant move! Whatever plans insurgents had for June 30th just got a wrench thrown in them. Interesting I had to go to an Australian source to confirm the small blurb I heard on NBC news, you'd think it would be leading all the headlines...

Honour for US Iraq General Franks http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3748089.stm

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1531289,00.html Nations don't issue warnings to other nations unless they are willing to back them up, so is an invasion imminent or will the US be forced to conduct another preemptive strike?

On the one side you have Kerry and Clark, both war heros who volunteered to serve and shed blood for their nation in a war arguably lost by politicians playing at war. On the other side you have Bush and Cheney, both who did everything they could to stay out of harms way perfectly happy...

Northrop Grumman-Built High-Energy Laser Destroys Large-Caliber Rocket in History-Making Test http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news_releases.mhtml?d=57129 Excerpt: Videos and Photos available here: http://www.st.northropgrumman.com/media/PressKit.cfm?PressKitID=23