Best of the blogs: We’ve all seen our share of weird restrictive EULA’s (end-user license agreements) but, now, along comes what Ed Foster considers one of the strangest yet: a Fuji camera with a EULA that allows only certain people to use it, and only to take certain kinds of pictures. “No doubt some will applaud the company for trying to keep its technology out of the hands of perverts and paparazzi,” Foster writes in this installment of Gripe Line. But it’s a slippery slope. “Hey, maybe next we’ll see gun manufacturers with EULAs that say you only shoot bad people with their weapons.” The news beat: Sources say that Microsoft will ship Vista SP1 in the next few weeks, though Microsoft declined to confirm the reported February 15 date, instead toeing the line that it will be available in the first quarter. Red Hat’s new CEO, Jim Whitehurst, says the open source distributor will focus on its core Linux and middleware products as well as on improving the services it offers to customers. Former JBoss employees debut startup LoopFuse to provide lead generation technology available as a paid on-demand service or as open-source software installed on-site. And NTT DoCoMo is in talks with Google regarding an Android-based cell phone — the same Android that yesterday left Sun vice president James Gosling saying Sun cannot yet take a position on Android because there is no data or business model for the much-hyped platform. Notes from the field: While Web sites get hacked every day and, Cringe asserts, some might even deserve it, the frightening reality is that we in IT are now “looking at massive, well-organized plans to take over vast portions of the Net,” he explains. The scariest, perhaps, is the year-old storm worm, still circulating and infecting machines, though they remain eerily quiet. “A security wonk of my acquaintance has an interesting theory on what these millions of zombie machines might be used for: the evil equivalent to SETI. But instead of parsing interstellar radio signals for signs of intelligent life, these millions of zombies could be put to other distributed computing tasks, like cracking complex passwords.” Hackers gone wild. “The bad guys could merely rent their grid out to anyone with a Dr. Evil-ish scheme for world domination. Call it Storm Cloud Computing.” Save Windows XP: Sign the petition. Technology Industry