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In this issue:
* Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers
* 4.7GHz IBM Power6 Spotted
* The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail
* Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore
* Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV
* Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot
* Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright
* Visualizing the Wikipedia Power Struggle
* 20 Years of Bill Gates Predictions
* Spyware Still Cheating Merchants
* Who Owns The Linux Trademark?
* Looking Into Mozilla's Financial Success
* A Cynic Rips Open Source
* Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK
* Intel Launches New Chipset
* Russian Journalists Quit Over Censorship
* Intel Laptop Competes With One Laptop Per Child
* Microsoft Announces OOXML-UOF Project with China
* Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY
* MySpace Agrees to Share Sex Offender Data
* Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars
* Microsoft, Sue Me First
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| Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers |
| from the local-differences dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday May 20, @20:16 (Microsoft) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]slashthedot writes "Microsoft [1]caught some Indian retailers selling
pirated copies of Windows by sending in a dummy customer to ask for a
copy of Windows to be installed on their PC. The dealers claim that they
are promoting MS software in this way. One retailer said: 'Since we are
are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means
that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just
a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers. Besides, the
pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian
markets.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.osgeek.blogspot.com
1. http://www.channelregister.co
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| 4.7GHz IBM Power6 Spotted |
| from the more-power-to-ya dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday May 20, @22:19 (IBM) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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Ilgaz notes that The Register has [0]posted benchmark results from Oracle
11i running on four 4.7GHz Power6 chips. Quoting: "The speedy chips
confirm IBM's boasting that Power6 would arrive near 5GHz. They also show
that IBM's customers have a lot to look forward to in terms of raw
performance." Rumor has it that the Power6 chips will be announced on
Tuesday.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.com
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| The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail |
| from the Google-Apps-Partner-Edition dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 21, @00:26 (Google) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]SlinkySausage writes "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to
[1]turn over their entire email operation to Google, with all customer
email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to grow its user
base rapidly (Google is a distant third with 51M users compared to
Yahoo's 250M and Hotmail's 228M). There are some obvious benefits to end
users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user.
APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at [2]the dark side of
Google's offer. Not least is in its reinforcing of the attachment people
have to their ISP's email address, making it harder to change ISPs if a
better deal comes along."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. mailto:krispy78@gmail.com
1. http://googleblog.blogspot.com
2. http://apcmag.com/6138/the
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| Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore |
| from the but-then-there's-the-cadmium dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 21, @02:31 (Businesses) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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[0]tcd004 writes "Imagine sheer mountains of discarded Pentium IIIs,
tractor trailers overflowing with discarded wall warts. Photojournalist
Natalie Behring visited Guiyu, China and documented [1]the world's
biggest digital dump where, for $2 per day, the locals sort, disassemble,
and pulverize hundreds of tons of e-waste. The payoff is huge: computer
waste contains 17 times more gold than gold ore, 40 times more copper
than copper ore. But the detritus also leaches chemicals and metals into
local water supplies."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.smalltownmisfit.com
1. http://www.foreignpolicy.com
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| Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV |
| from the no-HBO-for-you dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 21, @05:37 (Microsoft) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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PrescriptionWarning writes "With the latest Media Center Edition update
from Microsoft, I and many others are finding that content available on
television is now completely unwatchable from Media Center. The message
states: 'Restricted Content: Restrictions set by the broadcaster and/or
originator of the content prohibit playback of the program on this
computer.' A simple [0]search on the subject reveals that HBO programming
and, in my case, Braveheart on AMC are among the many selections now
restricted for playback or recording by Windows Media Center Edition.
What's next, restricting every piece of programming on television?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/search
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| Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot |
| from the not-bad-for-a-flightless-bird dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 21, @08:09 (Entertainment) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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[0]strredwolf writes "Despite generating over $12K in funds, well short
of the $250K goal, the [1]Tux 500 Project was able to secure a spot in
the Indy 500 with driver Roberto Moreno piloting the Linux #77 Indy car.
[2]He's back in the pack in 31st place (only 5.5 MPH separates 31st place
from 1st) but was able to secure it by re-qualifying with an average
speed of 220.299 MPH. Will Moreno be able to pilot the penguin-tipped
Indy car to victory next week at the 91st Indianapolis 500?"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:slashdot@stalag99.net
1. http://www.tux500.com/
2. http://www.indycar.com/grid
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| Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright |
| from the insanely-well-done dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, @08:50 (It's funny. Laugh.)|
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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Recently a pretty amazing video surfaced that used [0]clips from Disney
films to explain copyright law. It was created by Eric Faden of Bucknell
University and must have taken an insane amount of time to assemble. Now
you have to wonder how long before someone gets sued over it. Also here
is a [1]corel cache version as well as a link to [2]the original page.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
1. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu
2. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu
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| Visualizing the Wikipedia Power Struggle |
| from the ban-everything-and-let-wales
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, @09:26 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]todd450 pointed us to a nifty [1]visualization of Wikipedia and
controversial articles in it. The image started with a network of 650,000
articles color coded to indicate activity. The original image is
apparently 5' square, but the sample image they have is still pretty
neat.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://abeautifulwww.com/
1. http://www.abeautifulwww.com
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| 20 Years of Bill Gates Predictions |
| from the tell-me-a-story-oh-powerful
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, @10:06 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]NewsCloud writes "The Seattle PI's Microsoft Blogger Todd Bishop asks
"[1]How does Gates shape up as a seer?" None strike me as particularly
clairvoyant, but the missed ones are winners: "I believe OS/2 is destined
to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all
time." and "Two years from now, spam will be solved." But in fairness to
Gates, for many years Microsoft's tagline was "a PC on every desktop and
in every home.""
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.newscloud.com/
1. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com
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| Spyware Still Cheating Merchants |
| from the players-still-be-hatin dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, @10:42 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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Jamie found an interesting story about how [0]Spyware is still on the
move. It talks about how Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their
image, but still doing fishy things. It breaks down several common types
of spyware and some analysis of each.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.benedelman.org/news
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| Who Owns The Linux Trademark? |
| from the turns-out-i-do dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, @11:26 (Linux Business) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes "In an addendum to the recent noises by
Microsoft about Linux, InformationWeek blogger Alexander Wolfe has turned
up an interesting list of [0]who owns U.S. trademarks on the word
"Linux." Yes, Linus Torvalds does indeed have the trademark as far as
software is concerned. But Swiss company Rosch owns "Linux" for use with
laundry detergents. Interestingly, both Pogo Linux and United Linux have
abandoned their trademarks (Wolfe speculates that's because of Linus's
lawyers). But Finite State Machines of New Mexico owns RTLinux and Linux
Networx Inc. owns "Linux Supercomputing." You can also read [1]the full
list of all 204 Linux trademarks"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com
1. http://www.informationweek.com
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| Looking Into Mozilla's Financial Success |
| from the take-a-piece-of-that-action dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, @12:03 (Mozilla) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]NewsCloud writes "'Thanks to the Google agreement, the Mozilla
Foundation went from [1]revenue of nearly $6 million in 2004 to more than
$52 million the next year [similar revenue is expected in 2006]...In
2005, the foundation created a subsidiary, the for-profit [2]Mozilla
Corporation,...mainly to deal with the tax and other issues related to
the Google contract...By creating a corporation to run the Firefox
project, Mozilla was committing to be less transparent. In part, that is
because Google insists on the secrecy of "its arrangement and
agreements," said board member Mitch Kapor.' The NYT article compares
this approach to Wikipedia's ongoing fundraisers and raises the issue of
transparency in open source projects. i.e. should Firefox's 1,000 to
2,000 developers and 80,000 evangelists have full knowledge of how
revenue is spent as well as the extent to which Google is able to
influence strategy vs. other stakeholders."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.newscloud.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05
2. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US
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| A Cynic Rips Open Source |
| from the everybodys-a-critic dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @12:45 (Software) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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[0]AlexGr writes to tell us that Howard Anderson chaired an interesting
meeting the other day with senior executives from Cisco, Agilent
Technologies and Novell. The discussion took a look at whether or not
[1]enterprise users really want open source. "Naturally, I disagreed --
partially because I am a naturally disagreeable person. Any idiot can
make friends -- but can you make some really serious enemies? I
disagreed, however, because allegiance to open source depends on who you
are. Let me give you an example. If you are No. 1 or No. 2 in your
industry, you hate open source. You make your money by selling
proprietary solutions: Microsoft and Cisco. If you are No. 3 to No. 10,
you look at open source as a way to get back to those serious RSEUs,
because they are where you make money."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:alexgr@verizon.net
1. http://www.networkworld.com
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| Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK |
| from the shoo-fly dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @13:27 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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Novotny writes to tell us The Guardian is reporting that the UK's has
launched a new breed of [0]police 'spy drone'. Originally used in
military applications, these drones are being put into use as a senior
police officer warns the surveillance society in the UK is eroding civil
liberties. In the UK, there are an estimated 4.2 million surveillance
cameras already, and you are on average photographed 300 times a day
going about your business. Is there any evidence to suggest that this
increasingly Orwellian society is actually any safer?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk
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| Intel Launches New Chipset |
| from the bigger-better-deal dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @14:09 (Intel) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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[0]mikemuch writes "The [1]new P35 and G33 chipsets, codenamed 'Bear
Lake' are now available. They have a new memory controller that supports
DDR3 RAM at up to 1333MHz, a new southbridge, and will support the
upcoming 45nm Penryn CPUs. They don't yet have an actually new and
different GPU — their GMA 3100 is pretty much the same as the GMA 3000 of
the G965 chipset." For a little [2]more technical info you can also check
out the Hot Hardware writeup.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/
1. http://www.extremetech.com
2. http://www.hothardware.com
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| Russian Journalists Quit Over Censorship |
| from the rebels-with-a-cause dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @14:52 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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A state-controlled broadcast center in Russia has just seen the result of
censorship restrictions imposed by the Kremlin. In a rare show of protest
a [0]group of journalists all resigned stating that they could no longer
work under the harsh restrictions imposed by the state. "Artyom Khan, one
of the reporters who resigned, said restrictions were introduced when new
management was imported last month from Channel One, the state television
station that documents Mr Putin's every move."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk
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| Intel Laptop Competes With One Laptop Per Child |
| from the highest-form-of-flattery-still
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @15:34 (Education) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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[0]Tracy Reed writes "According to the BBC, Intel has designed and begun
marketing it's own [1]low-cost laptop targeted at education in developing
countries. 'Professor Negroponte, who aims to distribute millions of
laptops to kids in developing countries, said Intel had hurt his mission
"enormously". Speaking to US broadcaster CBS, Intel's chairman denied the
claims. "We're not trying to drive him out of business," said Craig
Barrett. "We're trying to bring capability to young people." Mr Barrett
has previously dismissed the $100 laptop as a "gadget".'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:treed@ultraviolet.org
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi
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| Microsoft Announces OOXML-UOF Project with China |
| from the tit-for-tat dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @16:17 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]Andy Updegrove writes "Today, Microsoft announced its own
[1]interoperability project to bridge the gap between China's
domestically developed Uniform Office Format (UOF) and Microsoft's OOXML.
In the continuing tit for tat battle between ODF and OOXML, this
announcement tracks the intent of an already-existing 'harmonization'
committee, hosted by OASIS, that is exploring interoperability options
between ODF and UOF. Like the OOXML-ODF translator project announced by
Microsoft last year, the new effort will be an open source project hosted
by SourceForge. The announcement is, in one sense, no surprise. Microsoft
has been waging a nation-by-nation battle for the hearts and minds of
ISO/IEC JTC1 National Bodies, in an effort to win adoption of OOXML (now
Ecma 376) as a global standard with equal status to ODF (now ISO 26300).
In order to do so, it needs to offset the argument that one document
format standard is not only enough, but preferable. With UOF representing
a third entrant in the format race, easy translation of documents would
obviously be key to lessen the burden on customers of products based upon
one format or the other."
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Links:
0. http://www.gesmer.com/attorney
1. http://www.consortiuminfo.org
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| Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY |
| from the everyone-is-a-terrorist dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @17:01 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]Podcaster writes "American Superconductor Corporation and Con Edison
have announced a joint effort to develop and deploy a new system that
utilizes [1]high temperature superconductor power cable technology in Con
Edison's grid in New York City. The project, called [2]Project Hydra,
will aim to establish 'Secure Super Grids' that can withstand extreme
weather and terrorist attacks."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~Podcaster
1. http://www.reuters.com/article
2. http://www.amsuper.com/product
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| MySpace Agrees to Share Sex Offender Data |
| from the not-so-anonymous dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @17:44 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]mikesd81 writes "The Seattle Times is reporting that MySpace will be
providing a number of state attorney generals with [1]data on registered
sex offenders who use their site. Attorney generals from eight states
demanded last week that the company provide data on how many registered
sex offenders are using the site and where they live. MySpace obtained
the data from Sentinel Tech Holding Corp., which the company partnered
with in December to build a database with information on sex offenders.
Attorneys general in North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania asked for the Sentinel
data last week."
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http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:mikesdNO@SPAMptd.net
1. http://seattletimes.nwsource
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| Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars |
| from the slippery-when-wet dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 21, @18:25 (Mars) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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[0]Riding with Robots writes "When the robotic geologist Spirit found the
latest [1]evidence for a wet Mars, 'You could hear people gasp in
astonishment,' said Steve Squyres, the lead scientist for the Mars
rovers. 'This is a remarkable discovery. And the fact that we found
something this new and different after nearly 1,200 days on Mars makes it
even more remarkable. It makes you wonder what else is still out there.'
The latest discovery, announced today, adds compelling new evidence for
ancient conditions that might have been favorable for life, according to
the rover team."
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Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots
1. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news
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| Microsoft, Sue Me First |
| from the no-meee dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 21, @19:31 (Microsoft) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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corigo writes "Supporters of free and open source solutions have thrown
down the gauntlet at Microsoft's feet. Christian Einfeldt of Digital
Tipping Point says '[0]Sue Me First,' and he's not alone. More and more
people are [1]signing up and challenging Microsoft to put their lawyers
where their mouth is. The open source community is far from running
scared. Will Microsoft step up to the plate, or are they just continuing
a scare campaign with no real ability to leverage the patents they claim
open source is infringing?"
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http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://digitaltippingpoint.com
1. http://digitaltippingpoint.com
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