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Submission + - Discover Magazine Archive Made Available

Submitted by

laggist

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @03:07AM

laggist writes: "Today while I was surfing around online, I realised that Discover Magazine had made it's entire archive freely accessible since mid-March 2007. I thought it was strange that I didn't get the scoop since I read slashdot all the time, so here it is for all you Slashdotters — read away!"

Submission + - Is Ubuntu the Linux for Law Firms?

Submitted by hax0r_this on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @02:15AM

hax0r_this writes: Law.com is running a story questioning whether Ubuntu is the remedy to the Vista woes that law firms (like everyone else) are suffering. "To Vista or not to Vista; is that really the question? With Microsoft's long-awaited operating-system upgrade, well ... upon us ... it might be time to consider alternatives. Apple's fine Unix-based OS X is certainly an option, but if you're balking at investing in the new hardware you'll need to support Microsoft's new graphically seductive, resource-gobbling OS, do you really want to replace all your Windows machines with Macs?" The article touches on Ubuntu's plug and play abilities, criticizes its default color scheme and seems to conclude that "The feature of Ubuntu that is most likely to move this distro into the enterprise competitively is Canonicals' licensing model. The company does not impose a restriction on deploying a Linux enterprise subscription on every server. Instead, Ubuntu is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

Submission + - Sex Offender Banned By MySpace Asks, Why Me?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: A registered sex offender tells WIRED what it's like to be one of the 7,000 offenders kicked off MySpace as part of its new database-driven purge. "Carl H." claims his nonviolent sex crime was committed nine years ago, and didn't involve children. "I use (MySpace) for the most part to find good music bands to listen to, as well as more buddies to game with... Are we so choked by fear as a country that we've forgotten or denied the ability of persons to change?" MySpace has an appeal process, but only in cases of misidentification.

Submission + - Why didn't Xerox sue Microsoft over point & cl

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:41AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I found a 1986 Xerox patent for what looks like a point and click browsing interface for disk drives. Also seperating the screen into 'panels' which can perform different functions. Windows 1.0 came out in December 1985? I have heard that both Microsoft and Apple stole the windows concept from Xerox but this is the first actual paper I have seen on the subject. Which I found searching Google Patents"

Submission + - interview with Symantec official about botnets

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:25AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "listen to a half-hour interview with Oliver Friedrichs, Director of Emerging Technologies, Symantec Security Response, talking about "Cyberwar in the Baltics: the Attack on Estonia and the Botnet Threat," at: http://www.etopiamedia.net/isc/pages/isc1-5551212. html"

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