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Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by
swaha
swaha writes: "Microsoft is apparently threatened by open source software running under Vista and has imposed limitations on memory size on GCC compiled programs that were not present under either XP or Win 98SE or even MS-DOS."
Censorship

Thailand Bans YouTube 377

Posted by Zonk from the getting-to-be-popular dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The new government of Thailand that forced its way into power last year has banned the website YouTube after a 44 second clip was found of someone spray painting on a picture of Thailand's king. When Google refused to remove the 'offending' clip the website was redirected to a different page. This comes days after a Swiss man was jailed 10 years for spray painting on pictures of the king while drunk, and is the same government that earlier this year slammed open source software for being useless and buggy."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Firefox ANI exploit on the way - no protected mode

Journal by thisispurefud
Determina is previewing a version of the ANI exploit that will hijack Mozilla Firefox 2 as well as Internet Explorer 7 running on Vista. At this time, Alexander Sotirov (chief reverse engineer at Determina) has said that the proof-of-concept exploit code won't be released until there is a patch available in Firefox. What's interesting about this is the fact that Firefox doesn't have the benefit of Protected Mode under Vista, which can somewhat mitigate the damage that can be done if Internet Ex
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - OpenBSD in a GPL violation?

Submitted by
Yenya
Yenya writes: "In a message sent to OpenBSD developers as well as the linux-wireless and bcm43xx-devel lists, Michael Buesch, the main developer of the Linux bcm43xx driver for Broadcom WiFi devices, wrote:

[...]We believe that you might have directly copied code out of bcm43xx (licensed under GPL v2), without our explicit permission, into bcw (licensed under BSD license). There are implementation details in bcm43xx that appear exactly the same in bcw. These implementation details clearly don't come from the open specifications at bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net or bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net.
The bcm43xx driver is being developed as a clean room design, based on the reverse-enginered specs, created by another team. As it seems now, the bcw driver in question might just be removed from the OpenBSD source."
Microsoft

EU Rejects Microsoft Royalty Proposal 274

Posted by samzenpus from the no-money-for-you dept.
pallmall1 writes "According to MSNBC, The Financial Times has reported that the EU is going to drastically reduce or even eliminate Microsoft's proposed royalties on interoperability information required to be released by the EU's antitrust ruling issued three years ago. According to a confidential EU document, "Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation...". Even Neil Barrett, the expert picked by both Microsoft and the EU to oversee Microsoft's compliance with the 2004 ruling, says a zero percent royalty would be 'better.'"
Music

Submission + - Apple Computer, Beatles get along

Submitted by
bornefearless
bornefearless writes: "According to the BBC Apple Computer Inc. and Apple Corp. have settle their differences, possibly making way for the Beatles songs to end up on an internet download service. Apple Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. have been in legal battles surrounding the Apple name since 1980."
Education

Submission + - MIT professor begins hunger strike

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: MIT provost L. Rafael Reif sent a campus-wide email on Jan 29 defending the school's treatment of James L. Sherley, the African-American stem cell scientist who has vowed to go on a hunger strike today (Feb. 5) unless the university says he was denied tenure because of racism. MIT has yet to recover from last summer's controversy over the treatment of a female candidate, who eventually turned down an offer after reporting hostile treatment from tenured faculty member and Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa.
Operating Systems

Launch of OSS For Mobile Phones 75

Posted by Hemos from the fits-in-your-hand dept.
Linux Mobile Phone Guy writes "Members of the open source GPE project (GPE Palmtop Environment) today announced a new offspring project to create a fully open source software stack for mobile phones, GPE Phone Edition. GPE Phone Edition is a fully open source project based on developments from the GPE project adding necessary components for mobile phone usage. Based on standards defined by the LiPS Forum a complete application software stack is built. The current implementation is based on code contributed to the LiPS Forum by Orange/France Telecom's research and development lab located in Beijing China in collaboration with GPE project members. The result is now an open sourced software stack which can handle a GSM compliant mobile modem for making voice calls, handling the SIM address book and sending and receiving SMS. Also some additional application exists e.g. for media playback, instant messaging and email. They have some screenshots there and even a downloadable VMware image using which you can try the whole thing in a virtual phone on your PC — if you connect a GSM Modem (like an existing phone) to /dev/GSM-Modem you should probably even be able to use the full phone functionality (access SIM card, send/receive SMS, make a call!)."

Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche 741

Posted by Zonk from the quite-a-cart dept.
jumpeel writes "CNN's Business 2.0 has photos and video of a Silicon Valley-made electric car with a 0-60 acceleration rate that's faster than a Ferrari Spider and a Porsche Carrera. From the article: 'In fact, it's second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.' The X1 is built by Ian Wright whose valley startup WrightSpeed intends to make a 'a small-production roadster that car fanatics and weekend warriors will happily take home for about $100,000 --a quarter ton of batteries included. The X1 crushed the Ferrari in an eighth-mile sprint and then in the quarter-mile, winning by two car lengths.'"

Store Your Own Juice 415

Posted by Zonk from the you-know-you-want-to dept.
sfeinstein writes "Power companies using dynamic pricing models to charge more for electricity during hours of peak usage is nothing new. Now, however, one company has decided to take advantage of this by using technology to buy (and store) capacity when rates are low and use that capacity when rates are at their highest." From the article: "The device, called GridPoint Protect, is the size of a small file cabinet and connects to the circuitbreaker panel. (The company also offers a lower-capacity version designed for homes, which costs $10,000.) A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions, buying when prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use. That will make it possible to run your company during the workday with cheaper electricity that you purchased at 3 A.M."

Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM 274

Posted by Zonk from the cue-gunfight-music dept.
conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on Microsoft's latest announcements that it is going after large-business computing, a realm that IBM currently has a stronghold on." From the article: "In both cases, the company has fashioned 'enterprise' versions of the products with additional security and collaboration-enabling features for sale to large businesses. Microsoft has spent $20 billion over the past three years on these upgrades, and Ballmer says it will spend $500 million over the next year marketing them to corporations. 'We're unlocking the next wave of growth for Microsoft,' Ballmer predicted during a press conference after his speech." We've previously discussed Microsoft's plans for IBM.

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