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Submission + - Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @04:26PM

CWmike writes: "Mozilla is pondering dropping support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 3 when it ships the follow-up to Firefox 3.5 in 2010, show discussions on the mozilla.dev.planning forum by developers and Mozilla executives, including the company's chief engineer and its director of Firefox. 'Raise the minimum requirements on Gecko 1.9.2 (and any versions of Firefox built on 1.9.2) for Windows builds to require Windows XP Service Pack 3 or higher,' said Michael Conner, one of the company's software engineers, to start the discussion. Mozilla is currently working on Gecko 1.9.1, the engine that powers Firefox 3.5, the still-in-development browser the company hopes to release at some point in the second quarter. Gecko 1.9.2, and the successor to Firefox 3.5 built on it — dubbed 'Firefox.next' and code named 'Namoroka' — are slated to wrap up in 'early-to-mid 2010,' according to Mozilla."

Submission + - Office 2010 will come in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @03:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: It looks like Office 2010 will be the first version of Microsoft Office to come as a 64-bit flavor. Surely that will kickstart development of 64-bit applications. In an e-mail exchange with Ars today, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Office 2010 will be available in both flavors: "Yes, Office will have two separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Office 2010 will be the first to do this."

Submission + - Google Losing up to $1.65M a Day on YouTube 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @09:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars, according to new research that shows Google losing up to $1.65 million per day on the video site. More than two years after Google acquired YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don't offset YouTube's expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage. YouTube is expected to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009, costing Google up to $2,064,054 a day, or $753 million annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between $90 million and $240 million. Is it time for Google to rid itself of the YouTube burden?

Comment Losing RIghts (Score 1) 629

by moxitek on Friday April 03, 2009 @09:29PM (#27453783) Attached to: FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center

Unfortunately, his only probable recourse is a lengthy and costly lawsuit. I can't imagine how much money Core IP and their customers are losing right now. All for what appears to be guesswork on the behalf of the law enforcement agency.

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 2369

by moxitek on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:48PM (#25559143) Attached to: Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy

Laissez faire only works when you have sound money. If you have a currency that holds no real value (our Dollar and other debt-based fiat currencies) and is subject to at-whim inflation and deflation, then you NEED high levels of regulation for the system to work.

See, this is exactly the position the people in power want the American people, and eventually all of the World's population. If you're worried about how you are going to eat, then you are less interested in participating in local, federal or global democracy or resistance.

The people in control (and it's not the Presidents or political leaders that have the real power in the world) are using tools like the Federal Reserve and the IMF/World Bank to enact monetary policy that ends up bankrupting the working class of the world. Greenspan took the blame but his masters are the architects. It was all by design and it is only meant to enslave our population.

I don't know about you but I feel like I'm working more just to survive than ever.

How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux 380

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @04:17PM from the mild-claims dept.

chromatic writes "Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference. Arjan and other hackers have already improved the Linux user experience by reducing power consumption and latency. O'Reilly News interviewed him about his work on improving the Linux experience with PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot."

VeriSign Granted a Patent Covering SiteFinder 85

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 05, 2008 @09:15PM from the submarine-acquisition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember VeriSign's SiteFinder? Turns out that a couple of months back VeriSign was granted a patent on resolving unregistered domains. This came about thanks to its acquisition of eNic, operator of the .CC Domain. How long before Verizon, Earthlink, and OpenDNS are hit up for licensing fees?"

Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store 442

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:28PM from the vaporless-ware dept.

Tesla Motors has opened their first retail store front to allow the masses access to their new cars. Of course, this is assuming you can afford the $109,000 price tag. "The company told the Associated Press that it is impressed with demand: it has taken 600 orders for the Roadster and has a waiting list of another 400. CEO Elon Musk owns the first one produced. The fancy showroom near Beverly Hills takes its inspiration from Apple stores, Musk said. [...] The company plans to make a luxury sedan next year called the Whitestar that will come in two versions: an all-electric model that will run entirely on its lithium ion battery pack, and a range-extended vehicle that will also use liquid fuel to extend its range. The Roadster will have a range of 220 miles per charge and the mileage equivalent of 135 miles per gallon."

100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering 316

Posted by timothy on Monday May 05, 2008 @05:50AM from the annoying-as-heck-if-heck-is-like-hell dept.

distefano links to a story on Computerworld, excerpting: "E-mail users are receiving an increasing number of bounceback spam, known as backscatter, and security experts say this kind of spam is growing. The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: 'Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar,' 'UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you.' You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer? Nope, you're just getting a little backscatter — bounceback messages from legitimate e-mail servers that have been fooled by the spammers."

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