22. November, 2003 - science, software, spam, sco

• Now in Their Sights, the Hubble’s Demise. NASA’s already starting to talk about the death of the Hubble Space Telescope. If it isn’t serviced by 2008 (which might be tricky, given the lack of shuttle missions lately), it’ll have to be de-orbited by 2013.
• National Geographic Brings Mapping Back To Mac OS X, which is a good thing, as DeLorme doesn’t seem to care to ship an updated version of their mapping software. Then again, maybe no Mac geeks have GPSes. Schyeah.
• Mark Pilgrim’s got some news and a glum outlook on Weblog spam. Yeah, it ain’t pretty, but aside from the minor annoyance of some referrer-spam, I don’t spend a whole lot of time worrying about it. Why? Well, I never actually got around to hooking up comments, and that makes a big difference, since it makes me a less attractive target. [jr]
• But hey, Mark Dayton says E-mail tax may help stop spam. I feel so much better now that Mark’s on the job. You know, he’s from the government, and he’s here to help!
• Here’s a nice little suggestion for dealing with junk mail of the paper variety. Heh. Heh. Heh.
• SCO To Expand Its Lawsuit Beyond Linux to the BSDs. Darl McBride, CEO of SCO says: One of the biggest problems is that if you don’t have the ability to protect what you have then your value is next to nothing. Funny, that. I was thinking the same thing about SCO’s value.
• Here’s some more ideas about Why SCO will soon be going after BSD, even though everyone else was pretty sure the legal dispute over BSD was settled almost ten years ago.
• Says here SCO’s Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business. SCO has a software business? See earlier comment about their value.
• AT&T Sues PayPal and eBay for Patent Infringement. Beauty. This one might be heinous enough that it will cause some patent law to be rewritten. [instapundit]
• Yesterday evening, my feckwit neighbor stopped by to say he was sorry for waking me up at 3am. After letting him ramble on for a while, I told him that I didn’t want his apology, I just wanted to be able to sleep through the goddamn night. Four more weeks until I should be able to start sleeping in my own house. I’m really looking forward to it.

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Sat, 22 Nov 2003 02:43:23.