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Industry giants like Intel, Apple, Sapient and Microsoft sponsored the conference, which brought more than 600 people to Sanders theatre and the Science Center...
...knows for sure what they're taking, since emergency rooms don't always test blood to confirm the drug identified by users. But one group that does test e for purity is DanceSafe, a prorave organization based in Berkeley, Calif., and largely funded by a software millionaire, Bob Wallace (Microsoft's employee No. 9). DanceSafe sets up tables at raves, where users can get information about drugs and also have ecstasy pills tested. (The organization works with police so that ravers who produce pills for testing won't be arrested.) A DanceSafe worker shaves off a sliver of the tablet...
Here's a good way to punish Bill Gates without resorting to the breakup of his baby [NATION, May 8]. Put him in front of a computer and have him put a 57-page document in the proper format using Microsoft Word. That'll teach him. PHYLLIS HIRSHORN New York City...
Well, we've waited this long.... With Redmond, Silicon Valley, Washington and Wall Street all waiting with bated breath for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling that Microsoft be torn asunder, the judge raised his gavel Thursday and... gave both sides some more time to think. The government has until Monday to respond to the software giant's latest response, filed Wednesday, and Microsoft has until June 7 to respond to that response to its response. Is either side making any significant concessions? Nope. Will an extra week of crossfire do anything to change the judge's apparent desire...
...When Judge Jackson last week denied Microsoft a chance to call new witnesses to rebut the government's breakup plan, he wasn't wrong - trial judges have a lot of discretion on how they run their cases, and he had justification for saying that Microsoft had had their chance," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "But he may have left himself vulnerable to the appeals court, which is likely to be more sympathetic to Microsoft and any argument they made that Jackson had denied them due process." This way, Jackson's a little better covered. If the appeals court...