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spatialguy writes:
Dutch members of parliament are questioning the minister of economic affairs of the pre-install of windows on all commercially available personal computers. The Socialist party says this is bad for the free choice of consumers and that other OSes have a economical disadvantage. They stipulate it is hard to get a cash refund when people do not want to use the pre-installed OS. Microsoft reacted with a statement that there is a procedure to get a cash refund.
The member of parliament Arde Gerkens states that a better option would be if Windows is available as a separate option. People buying computers in non-specialized shops, like supermarkets, will have a very difficult time to obtain a refund in the case the do not use the pre-installed OS.
The article is in a dutch:
http://www.nu.nl/news/1299808/52/SP_stelt_kamervragen_over_meeleveren_Windows.html
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drewmoney writes:
Cnet is reporting that as part of Monday's big press conference, Google will unveil their gPhone OS, tentatively codenamed Android. Sources are calling the OS a "a complete mobile-phone software stack" that will be followed shortly after by a SDK.
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BlackShirt writes:
Star Tech, an online retailer in the U.S. that started taking orders for the Eee PC before the specs were done, says its Eee PC page has been averaging 1,000 hits a day and it's been taking roughly 100 orders a week, mostly from businesspeople and travelers.
http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/1112/024a_print.html
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Anonymous writes:
A hacker has claimed to have hacked the first Google's OpenSocial application on Plaxo called "emote" within 45 minutes of its launching. The ease in which this was done raise some security concern in Google's OpenSocial. Also, this development forced Joseph Smarr, Plaxo's Chief Platform Architect to take the application down.
Google's first OpenSocial application hacked in minutes
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Roydd McWilson writes:
Harold the Rebel has discovered a major cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google's OpenSocial platform, and demonstrated it with an exploit of a site he created on the social network Ning. Read about the exploit on Harold's blog. Does this spell an early demise for OpenSocial, or is it only a temporary hiccup? Harold brings up interesting questions about the very nature of Web 2.0 itself.
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musterion writes:
There is a discussion over on Java Lobby about the lack of support by Apple for Java 1.6 (and 1.5) in the new Leopard Release.
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starseeker writes:
At long last, the STIX project has posted a Beta release of their scientific fonts. The mission of the STIX project has been the "preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats." The result is a font set containing thousands of characters, and hopefully a font set that will become a staple for scientific publishing. Among other uses, it has long been hoped that this would make the wide scale use of MathML in browsers possible. Despite rather long delays the project has persisted and is now showing concrete results. For those interested in the license, it can be found here. (Note to those downloading — TeX support is not yet ready. Also, the zip file will put all the files in the same directory as the zip file itself, so you might want to open it in its own directory.)
