C|NET TV: Open Source, is it good for competition?

On C|NET TV today, is a short video clip of Brian Behlendorf, founder, Apache, and Linus Torvalds, discussing whether Open-source promotes competition?

While the video is relatively short, the best part is when Linus explains that organisation is over rated.

Requires Real Video, or Windows Media Player.    2:44:42 PM

Linux Evangelism Takes a New Path

The problem with Linux advocates today is that they are promoting the operating system as a substitute for Windows when actually the OS offers something entirely different.

More on the Newsfactor Network.   12:15:45 PM

Motorola unveils breakthrough in chip design

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) scientists say they have designed a procedure for shrinking chips from today's 157 nanometer width to less than 100 nanometers wide, enabling more circuitry to be added to conventional-size microchips.

The announcement comes as chipmakers search for ways to extend the lifespan of photolithography, the technology used to create microchips, which is expected to reach its limit by the next decade.

Speaking at an international symposium on the future of chip lithography, Joe Mogab, director of Motorola's Digital DNA Laboratories, said the company has created the first photomask to be used with Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography.

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More details can be found at Yahoo.com, or get the straight dope from Motorola Media Release.   12:06:45 PM

Expert Hacks Hotmail in One Line of Code

A new Internet security concern called "cross-site scripting" piggybacks invasive code on tiny programs that run live on Web pages to make them more interactive. Twice this month, Internet security consultant Jeremiah Grossman, 24, poked gaping security holes in Hotmail and Passport, Microsoft's free Web-based e-mail and identity-authentication services.

It took just three lines of code for Grossman to breach Hotmail filters and access Passport ID and credit card data. The second time it took just one line. And the former Yahoo security auditor says he could do it again given 8 hours.

The Full Story on OSopinion.com   11:53:53 AM

Regulating Minors' Access to the Internet Backfires

When Chris Manley, a high school senior in South Carolina, started thinking about applying for college, his teachers recommended he use the school library computer to research universities like Duke and Stanford. But he couldn't reach their Web sites. This was hardly a case of computer illiteracy. "At my school they have filtering software," Manley says simply, "and I can't get to these sites, because they've been blocked."

From the San Francisco Chronicle.   11:39:47 AM

Drug-Free Urine at $69 a Pee. Employers hate Kenneth Curtis. The former pipefitter now fits customers with packs full of pee guaranteed to beat company-mandated drug tests. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]   11:26:05 AM