And later that day:
Well, it’s 1.4° F outside, with the wind at 3 mph from the northeast. With windchill, that’s -6.3° F. All from cloudless skies overnight. A bit nippy, eh?
I should be getting my truck back today. I really need to plow. The guy who does my neighbor’s place took pity on me and plowed part of my driveway, but he was using a John Deere tractor, and it can’t toss snow like my truck plow. It just pushes it aside, which makes for very narrow roads. I’ll be glad to have the truck back in good condition.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Red Hat competition to seek fresh ideas
- The Emerging Dell-Linux-Apple War – Take it with a dose of castor oil; it’s written by Microsoft’s biggest shill.
- And California Makes Four
- Phurnace.com founders share lessons learned for working with OSS
- Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district
- Top 10 Programs for Linux Nerds
RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/BSA/FCC
- RIAA launches propaganda, lawsuit offensive against college students
- RIAA Boycott: Kicking Things Off
- Music industry rounds on Steve Jobs – How many times have we heard this? “It’s not MY fault. It’s someone elses fault.”
- FCC to Seek Expansion of Powers
- U.K.: Pirate CD and DVD factory raided
- RIAA Denounces New Fair Use Bill
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Open Letter to C-SPAN
- The Next Attack
- Federal Patent Court declares FAT patent of Microsoft null and void
- Patently Obvious, or Not
- Berners-Lee offers thoughts on Net neutrality, DRM
- Congress To Ban DRM?
Other News
- Julie Amero sentencing postponed, Norwich “expert” speaks
- Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- SCO loses another $1m in Q1
- A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
- Falling into the Vista trap
Security/Our Rights
- Black Hat Demonstrations Shatter Hardware Hacking Myths
- ACLU, Outrage Fill in the Silence at Black Hat RFID Session
- We Love You, Rinbot!
Big Brother
- National ID Card Regulations Issued
- Colorado to use inmates to fill migrant shortage
- U.K.: Murder cop: take babies’ DNA