Call me silly, but I LIKE the idea of the National Guard and the Amred Forces having a communication channel during national emergencies. Telling National Guard units what to do during a hurricane is a Good Thing. Not everything is a conspiracy, people. Oswald acted alone, the government did not bring down the towers, and XM is not going to suddenly turn into Bush Propoganda cental becasue they have one channel dedicated to helping firs responders in a time of crisis.

1)A compnay called SCO claims that code it holds the rights to ended up in the laterst Linux distributions. SCO is suing for royaltie. From what I have seen, they should lose, but intellecutal property laws in this country are pretty screwed up, so I really do not know what will happen. 2)For about two yeas now, Microsoft has been on a kick to get the government to use proprierty as opposed to open source (in a nutshell, properietary means the users cannot look at or modify the code, open sou...