It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal I, Cringely: Misinterpretation If .NET is Such a Security Nightmare (It Is), Why Isn't Everybody Fighting to Own the Obvious and Fairly Simple Solution? What did SCO buy--Unix or the Brooklyn Bridge? To the outsider, and even to me for some time, the various lawsuits involving the SCO Group follow a relatively simple story line. I'm not a lawyer, but after many interviews with the involved parties and lawyers, the case boils down to divergent interpretations of the subject matter. Comet chaser set for 12-year mission AN audacious bid to land a spacecraft on a comet takes off this week. Broadband price battle explodes BROADBAND price wars have gone into overdrive since Telstra BigPond's price cuts last week, with OzEmail and Optus the latest to join the battle. Newly Discovered Galaxy Is a Record-Breaker Astronomers have detected a galaxy located 13 billion light-years from Earth, making it the most distant such object on record. The find, described in a paper to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, should help scientists better understand the so-called cosmic Dark Ages, when the universe’s first galaxies and quasars transformed opaque hydrogen into the transparent cosmos that exists today. Hubble eyes new phase of supernova explosion The most dramatic stellar explosion witnessed in centuries just got more interesting. New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show a dying star's "ring of fire" entering a new phase of brightness. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries