Under $1000? For a Sun workstation?

After practically writing these guys off for dead I am eating crow. If they market this thing right they could have a win. Personally I would want to play around with the new Solaris 10 OS before buying into it but wow, very good specs on that box, and you can always run Gentoo or even windows.

Wired has a great editorial outlining the legislative points that Congress could undertake to help the problem of identity theft. Its a good list. I would hope they would also add a provision that makes creditors liable for incorrect or bad information that they submit to the credit reporting agencies. (via Schneier)

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Yoz Grahame describes Steve Jobs’ keynote speeches:

I’ve been watching them since he returned to Apple in 1997, despite the fact that I’ve never owned any Apple gear. I know I’m not the only one hypnotically drawn to his performances. I’m a Windows user, but I don’t watch video presentations from Bill Gates (well, not often) or Andy Grove.

Whether you love or hate Apple and its products (personally, I’m all over the map on that one) you can’t deny that Jobs is a demo master. There are few better examples of technology theatre than one of his keynotes.

I couldn’t agree more.

Bruce Schneier wrote about a recent Minnesota Appeals Court ruling which stated that the presence of encryption software on the computer was properly viewed as evidence. In his writing he interpreted this as evidence of criminal intent. If that was the case this would be a very very dangerous precident.

He wasn’t the only one to react this way and a rash of debate broke out on the internet about it. A look at other possible interpretations, asserted that the most plausible was not evidence of criminal intent but of consciousness of guilt. That’s still a bit of a stretch, but not as bad of one. At the very least, however, the evidence has bearing on the case because it illustrates a certain baseline of computer knowlege for the defendant. I am sure a popular defense in those types of cases is ignorance about how computers work.

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