You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future Is the GPL good for the software industry? World drowning in oceans of data Growing net, computer and phone use is driving a huge rise in the amount of information people generate and use. Sun donates $3.6 million for high-performance computer cluster WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University, with a $3.6 million gift from Sun Microsystems, is giving recycled PCs new life as a computer cluster that makes high-performance computing power available in undergraduate classes. Preview: Microsoft's Windows Longhorn Longhorn is the codename for the next-generation version of Microsoft's flagship Windows operating system. It's also the company's most ambitious project since the first Windows NT release. An impressive array of new technologies will be built into the new OS -- a few of which were included in the pre-release version we checked out. Man gets arm stuck in train toilet A MAN trying to fish his mobile phone out of a commuter train toilet got his arm stuck, forcing the train to stop and causing delays throughout the rail system. $700 for Wiggles tickets SCALPERS are asking more than $700 for Wiggles tickets as the enormously popular children's entertainment troupe begins a blitz of New York City today High school girls nab 'flasher' ABOUT 20 Catholic school girls chased down a man who had been flashing them near their high school, tackled him to the ground and held him there until police arrived, authorities said. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries