They all seem to be funded by Microsoft

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Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit
... Microsoft

Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit
... Microsoft 01/28/2004 03:27 AM

SCO lawsuits funded by Microsoft?

SCO lawsuits funded by Microsoft? 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

Wow: thi s one from Damien Barret:

"Color me not surprised. It appears that Microsoft is paying SCO to file all those ridiculous lawsuits against the users of Linux. I've seen low before, but this is pretty damn low. Scumsucking low."

I have no idea if any of that is true, but, it's truly sad that I could easily believe it's true... that's how much I trust the Microsoft corporate brand.

Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal

Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal 08/18/2004 12:58 PM

Federally funded Sci-Fi

Federally funded Sci-Fi 08/20/2004 04:31 PM
Federally Funded Science Fiction. The CIA announced today that next month's final report on Iraq's weapons program under Saddam Hussein will mostly encompass an analysis of what they believe Iraq would be like through 2008 had Bush not invaded the country. Because when you want accurate, detailed analysis of the future of Iraq's weapons, you turn to the group that got it completely wrong during the present.

technorati gets funded

technorati gets funded 08/23/2004 12:50 PM
appropriate that om got this scoop on a blog instead of a print mag

VC Funded Companies Doing Well... But
Will They Keep Doing So?

VC Funded Companies Doing Well... But
Will They Keep Doing So? 07/20/2004 06:09 PM
While the VCs are whining about how much money they have, the companies they've put that money into are apparently helping to drive the economy forward. A new study has shown that venture backed companies have done much better during the downturn than non-venture backed companies, and actually added jobs during the period (well, what else were they going to do with all that VC money?). It's interesting to compare this to a different study that came out today, however, saying that most entrepreneurs aren't planning on hiring many new people over the next few years. You might be able to explain away the discrepancy by saying non-venture backed entrepreneurs are less likely to hire. That would make sense, since many non-VC backed entrepreneurial companies are small businesses that never need to hire many people. Still, the article seems to suggest they're talking about venture backed companies (many of whom are complaining they can't get cash out of VCs) in which case you could still explain away the difference by pointing out it's not a matter of how many companies are adding employees, but how many employees are added in total. If you have one company that adds 10,000 employees and ninety-nine that have only one employee and go out of business, a bunch of jobs are added even if most startups aren't involved.

Who Funded 9/11 Attacks?

Who Funded 9/11 Attacks? 07/25/2004 03:53 PM
Free Internet Press Jul 25 2004 7:12PM GMT

Government-Funded GPL Software

Government-Funded GPL Software 06/13/2004 12:16 PM

Ken Brown's corporate-funded FUD

Ken Brown's corporate-funded FUD 05/25/2004 10:29 AM
Ken Brown's forthcoming book, published by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, is embarrassingly mistitled Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' Of Open Source Code. No doubt you've heard of it by now, although more than likely you've only heard Andy Tanenbaum and others respond to it more than anything else. It's basically the world's largest troll, seasoned with more than a hint of flamebait. In the history of publishing there has never been a less scrupulous work than this book. It's a stinging insult to real books and genuine authors everywhere, harming the credibility of all of us who write for a living.

Most school dinners under funded

Most school dinners under funded 03/24/2005 08:38 AM
Three out of four councils in England spend less than 50p on a primary school meal.

NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research

NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research 09/06/2004 04:24 PM

Canadian-funded research should be
available to Canadians

Canadian-funded research should be
available to Canadians 09/27/2004 07:12 AM
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Toronto Star, Michael Geist argues that when Canada gives public money to scientific researchers, that it should require that the research be made available to the public through open-content publishing, rather than locked up in expensive journals that require Canadians to buy the research they've already paid for.

Late last month, a group of Nobel prize winners in the United States (which faces the same dilemma) issued a public letter calling on their government to link public research funding with public dissemination of the results. Canada should jump at the chance to adopt a similar model that would tie free, public dissemination to all publicly funded research. Such an approach would still leave room to commercialize the research results, while providing Canadians with an unprecedented innovation opportunity and a more immediate return on its research granting investment.

Link

Federally Funded Science Fiction

Federally Funded Science Fiction 08/21/2004 02:55 PM
would have looked like by 2008 .. Los Angeles Times .. Uh...yeah

latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-wmd20aug20,1,10142 5.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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3G funded up to break-even target: Hutch

3G funded up to break-even target: Hutch 05/18/2004 02:59 PM
The Standard May 18 2004 6:40PM GMT

GIs kill two workers of U.S.-funded Iraq
TV

GIs kill two workers of U.S.-funded Iraq
TV 04/19/2004 01:55 PM

Women as property and U.S.-funded
nation-building

Women as property and U.S.-funded
nation-building 02/14/2004 04:03 PM

Nicholas Kristof complains about the treatment of women in Afghanistan in a story in today's NY Times.  Here's an excerpt...

Consider these snapshots of the new Afghanistan:

• A 16-year-old girl fled her 85-year-old husband, who married her when she was 9. She was caught and recently sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment.

• The Afghan Supreme Court has recently banned female singers from appearing on Afghan television, barred married women from attending high school classes and ordered restrictions on the hours when women can travel without a male relative.

• When a man was accused of murder recently, his relatives were obliged to settle the blood debt by handing over two girls, ages 8 and 15, to marry men in the victim's family.

• A woman in Afghanistan now dies in childbirth every 20 minutes, usually without access to even a nurse. A U.N. survey in 2002 found that maternal mortality in the Badakshan region was the highest ever recorded anywhere on earth: a woman there has a 50 percent chance of dying during one of her eight pregnancies.

• In Herat, a major city, women who are found with an unrelated man are detained and subjected to a forced gynecological exam. At last count, according to Human Rights Watch, 10 of these "virginity tests" were being conducted daily.

... Yet now I feel betrayed, as do the Afghans themselves. There was such good will toward us, and such respect for American military power, that with just a hint of follow-through we could have made Afghanistan a shining success and a lever for progress in Pakistan and Central Asia. Instead, we lost interest in Afghanistan and moved on to Iraq.

... Even now, in the new Afghanistan we oversee, they are being kidnapped, raped, married against their will to old men, denied education, subjected to virginity tests and imprisoned in their homes. We failed them. 

The unspoken assumption in Kristof's piece is that the U.S. has almost unlimited capabilities to effect social change in distant lands.  Is this realistic?  Consider our own nation.  A lot of Americans enjoy marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs that are tough to buy.  Many of the rest of us seem to like drinking alcohol and then driving cars.  Despite a lot of effort and money spent over the decades these behaviors persist (see ht tp://www.drunkdrivingdefense.com/consequences/bush-dui.htm fo r a fun article on how our leaders would have some trouble getting into Canada legally).

Getting back to Afghanistan.  The problem of which Kristof complains is basically that half of the population of Aghanistan views the other half as personal property and is supported in this view by tradition and religion.  Our military can perhaps prevent Afghanistan from being a military threat.  We could also plausible chop the place up and give each resulting piece to a local leader who was friendly and/or beholden to the U.S.  But given our spotty record of achieving social change within our own borders is it realistic to set ourselves the goal of turning Afghanistan into a land of sexual equality?  If so, how would we do it?

U.K.-funded initiative to push open
source

U.K.-funded initiative to push open
source 04/07/2005 10:22 AM
Project will promote use of open-source tools within the public sector by creating a code repository, among other efforts.

Privately-funded rocket plane set to
blast off

Privately-funded rocket plane set to
blast off 06/03/2004 06:35 PM
Straits Times,Singapore-1 hour ago ... At least 26 other teams are also competing for the prize, reportedly involving backers such as Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as well as Google founders Larry ...

del.icio.us gets funded, Schachter goes
full-time

del.icio.us gets funded, Schachter goes
full-time 03/30/2005 04:32 AM
Cory Doctorow: Joshua Schachter, who created the link-sharing service del.icio.us, has taken on some investment capital so he can work on del.icio.us full time. Congrats, Joshua!

I am excited to finally be able to devote all of my energy to working on and improving this site, and I'll also be able to acquire some much-needed infrastructure.

I'm still in charge of the site and still committed to making it as good as it can be.

Link (Thanks, Ian!)

Report: Israeli ministry funded illegal
outposts

Report: Israeli ministry funded illegal
outposts 05/05/2004 11:25 AM

Privately Funded SpaceShipOne Breaks
Sound Barrier.

Privately Funded SpaceShipOne Breaks
Sound Barrier. 12/17/2003 10:46 PM
Space.com: Privately Funded SpaceShipOne Breaks Sound Barrier.

Court says no to state-funded brothel
trips (Reuters)

Court says no to state-funded brothel
trips (Reuters) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters - A German court has rejected a legal bid by an unemployed man who wanted the state to provide him with free pornography and trips to brothels because his wife is in Thailand.

US-funded programme organises National
Internet Festival

US-funded programme organises National
Internet Festival 09/18/2004 05:43 AM
UZReport.com Sep 18 2004 8:50AM GMT

Govt-funded super-computing grid
launched

Govt-funded super-computing grid
launched 11/01/2003 09:42 AM
Channel NewsAsia Nov 1 2003 9:01AM ET

Track and Analyze NIH Funded Biomedical
Research for Sales Leads

Track and Analyze NIH Funded Biomedical
Research for Sales Leads 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
CRISPAlerts™ are reports containing contact and detailed project information for all NIH-funded research. Conveniently emailed to you each week, they inform you of the newest approved projects. You can search seamlessly for results that match your keywords. The easy-to-use web-based control panel allows full user-controlled keyword management and selection of how the results are formatted for easy importation into a database. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research 08/06/2004 09:25 AM

FactCheck.orgRepublican-funded Group
Attacks Kerry's War Record

FactCheck.orgRepublican-funded Group
Attacks Kerry's War Record 08/10/2004 04:15 PM
a defense of Kerry .. pointed out

factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=231
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Bigelow to test privately-funded
inflatable space habitat next year

Bigelow to test privately-funded
inflatable space habitat next year 07/10/2004 09:03 AM
Great story

lasvegasmercury.com/2004/MERC-Jul-08-Thu-2004/24250261.html
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These powerful and well-funded political
Christian fundamentalist organizations
appear to be suffering from a compassion
deficit

These powerful and well-funded political
Christian fundamentalist organizations
appear to be suffering from a compassion
deficit 01/03/2005 05:23 PM
Berkowitz: Family values apparently don't include tsunami relief 1/3

workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=18309
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Management of intellectual property in
publicly-funded research organisations:
Towards European Guidelines

Management of intellectual property in
publicly-funded research organisations:
Towards European Guidelines 09/27/2004 07:29 AM
Eur-OP Sep 27 2004 12:11PM GMT

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special
Reports | Iraq oil cash funded MPs'
campaigns

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special
Reports | Iraq oil cash funded MPs'
campaigns 02/17/2004 01:18 AM
Money Illicitly Siphoned From The UN Oil-For-Food Programme By Saddam Hussein Was Used To Finance Anti-Sanctions Campaigns Run By British Politicians, According To Documents That Have Surfaced In Baghdad .. SADDAM'S BRIBERY CAMPAIGN:

politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1149796,00.html
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The Pew Internet Project, Funded by The
Pew Charitable Trusts, Announces Release
of New Report, "Protecting Teens
Online."

The Pew Internet Project, Funded by The
Pew Charitable Trusts, Announces Release
of New Report, "Protecting Teens
Online." 03/19/2005 02:59 AM
New study says 54% of parents with teenagers now use internet filters. Filter use has increased since 2000. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-050:
Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and
Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary
Code to Run (831527)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-050:
Vulnerability in Microsoft Word and
Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary
Code to Run (831527) 11/13/2003 12:36 AM
A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word that could allow malicious code execution. This vulnerability exists due to to the way Word checks the length of a data value (Macro names) embedded in a document. If a specially crafted document were to be opened it could overflow a data value in Word and allow arbitrary code to be executed. If successfully exploited, an attacker could then take the same actions as the user had permissions to carry out, such as adding, changing or deleting data or files, communicating with a web site or formatting the hard drive.

Microsoft to boost search tools:
Microsoft Corp. will soon release
technology that takes

Microsoft to boost search tools:
Microsoft Corp. will soon release
technology that takes 05/27/2004 03:23 AM
NDTV May 27 2004 7:05AM GMT

Jim Wilson, Tarari's CTO, Microsoft
Technologies, to Present in the
Microsoft Workshop Theater at NAB2005

Jim Wilson, Tarari's CTO, Microsoft
Technologies, to Present in the
Microsoft Workshop Theater at NAB2005 04/13/2005 04:51 PM
Business Wire UK Apr 13 2005 7:46PM GMT

Microsoft Lists Programs Incompatible
with SP2 August 16 - 7:12 PM ET
Microsoft has compiled a list of incompa

Microsoft Lists Programs Incompatible
with SP2 August 16 - 7:12 PM ET
Microsoft has compiled a list of incompa 08/17/2004 12:09 AM
BetaNews Aug 17 2004 4:16AM GMT

Microsoft Distributes RC of Live
Communications Server 2005 September 13
- 8:24 PM ET Microsoft has provided b

Microsoft Distributes RC of Live
Communications Server 2005 September 13
- 8:24 PM ET Microsoft has provided b 09/13/2004 09:45 PM
BetaNews Sep 14 2004 1:54AM GMT

Microsoft Patents Borg Technology June
23 - 9:06 PM ET Researchers at Microsoft
have devised a technique to as

Microsoft Patents Borg Technology June
23 - 9:06 PM ET Researchers at Microsoft
have devised a technique to as 06/23/2004 10:35 PM
BetaNews Jun 24 2004 2:04AM GMT

Microsoft Patches IE Flaw July 2 - 6:05
PM ET News in Brief | On Friday
Microsoft released a patch for the fla

Microsoft Patches IE Flaw July 2 - 6:05
PM ET News in Brief | On Friday
Microsoft released a patch for the fla 07/02/2004 07:44 PM
BetaNews Jul 2 2004 11:22PM GMT
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