"Crowd surveillance kit using face recognition technology by Visionics has been a comic failure in tests by the Tampa, Florida police, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered." By Thomas C. Greene. [Register]

"Online hacker magazine 2600 has emerged victorious in its campaign to retain ownership of the controversial FuckGeneralMotors.com domain." By John Leyden. [Register]

Sun Microsystems backed industry body, Java Community Process (JCP) oversees development of platform and language, voted to alter community structure, officially supporting OSS implementations of Java, JCP 2.5. [The Register]

Following Warner Bros unjustifiable persecution of children who happen to register Harry Potter domain names because they are fans of the books, a few souls have taken it upon themselves to make their feelings known. By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]

Background story partly explains why Beijing China Linux OS vendor Red Flag exists, and is growing quickly. [The Register]

HP appeared as premier sponsor on SCO City-to-City Tour Web site, logo was displayed well and fully, showing their backing SCO October user conference tour. Then, a few hours later, HP banner vanished. [The Register]

Will protect its Linux customers, defending them in court at HP's cost, will indemnify users buying servers, workstations if they are sued by SCO. HP is first major sever vendor to protect customer base on serious hardware. [The Register]

Main item of note for tour is premier sponsor: HP. Last week, HP jumped ahead of IBM and Dell to say it will protect users from SCO if they face court battle over Linux use, if they agree to use unmodified Linux versions. [The Register]

How IBM is making a comeback with Linux. The Register.

Intel is having major internal struggle over desktop Linux, and pro-Microsoft marketing droids are winning, according to Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson. Lists several types of evidence. [The Register]