Daily Readings July 22, 2005. 14:35:13
Gave up setting a “periods” standard.
Slashdot
- HP lays off 14500 employees, including Alan Kay.
- US House votes to extend the Patriot Act for 10 more years.
- FCC proposes to drop Morse Code Requirement for all license classes
- AMD to move from Socket 939 to M2, 80A to 95A, keeping a max TDP of 125W in their rev. E to rev. F of Athlon 64 X2. It will also feature a DDR2 memory controller.
- People are being distracted every 3 minutes by their computer. Oddly enough, it cites that Gates knows people are experiencing “information overload,” when I know he also spent some time debunking it; he can’t make up his mind.
- IBM will support Harmony, the open-source Java project.
- Google countersues Microsoft over employee.
- MSNBC reports that broadband subscription has now surpassed dial-up accounts in the US. I thought this happened a long time ago.
- US Government releases a free electronic medical records system, after being requested for it under the FOIA.
- British Police is requesting for more power. Great.
