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Journal Journal: Mozilla Foundation sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing 149

Journal by Alphager
According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7.
The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California.
The Foundation wants that MS imediately
Programming

Submission + - Python Elegance and Warts

Submitted by IdaAshley
IdaAshley writes: Python has greatly increased its number of syntactic features and built-in functions and types, making it no longer a language that experienced programmers can pick up "in an afternoon." This article discusses the new features that have been added to Python, and weighs in on which ones are truly valuable and which just add unnecessary complication.
Privacy

Submission + - UK "data rape" centres open tomorrow

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: 26th March, or ID-Day marks the opening of the first interrogation centres in the UK. Anyone applying for, or renewing a passport will have to surrender to data rape, fingerprinting, digitised face and iris scans.

All those who signed the official e-petition (propaganda mailing list) received an e-mail from Tony Blair, including reassurances that the database will go ahead and all its glorious biometric data will be fully open to fishing expeditions.
GUI

Submission + - Are Beryl and Compiz are about to reunite?

Submitted by
**loki969**
**loki969** writes: "It seems that Beryl and Compiz are about to reunite. According to an email on beryls dev-ML, most devs seem to be looking forward to reuniting the effort of developing a decent 3D desktop for Linux, even though Beryl has forked off Compiz not too long ago because of dissension about the chosen MIT license of Compiz. And it seems that they already found a name for this new project: Coral"
Security

Submission + - Digg.com Accounts Compromised

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There is a cross-site scripting vulnerbility on the registration page of popular social networking site Digg.com. The hole allows cookies and sessions of logged-in users to be hijacked, compromising the account. The exploit can be triggered simply by a user clicking a maliciously-crafted link. A full explanation and sample exploit code is available here
Education

Submission + - Citizendium open for reading

Submitted by
Electrawn
Electrawn writes: "Citizendium is now open for everyone to view. Major AP stories hit wire in the next hour. Site moves from a pilot phase to a beta phase. -Jason Potkanski, Citizendium"
Bug

Submission + - World's most expensive train ticket?

Submitted by BeerCat
BeerCat writes: The UK National Rail site can search for journeys between different destinations, and will also display the likely fare. Unless, the journey is from Oxford to Hawarden (about 170 miles by road, according to Google Maps), travelling tomorrow from 08:00, in which case the fare will be £179,769,313,486,231,570,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000.00

The site even notes "We are sorry, but we couldn't find any First Class tickets available. You can try searching in different times or dates for available First Class tickets". Which is probably just as well.
Novell

Submission + - De Icaza Pleads for Cooperation Between Mono, .Net

Submitted by
suka
suka writes: "In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper "DER STANDARD", Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsofts .Net: 'I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration'. The whole interview has some other interesting bits, like de Icazas thoughts on an open sourced java and infos about upcomping versions of Mono."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Does Open Source Development Pay Back?

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: I always wondered whether or not developing open source software pays back. Seems like it doesn't, but maybe we have to watch this pal's blog closely the following days to know better. I doubt that this type of invitation to Sun Microsystems and Cisco has any success, unless it is more publicly exposed. Or does Jonathan read fellow bloggers?
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - UK PS3 Launch Success?

Submitted by stpk4
stpk4 writes: Looks like the people in the UK have had something to smile about after all the delays and cuts that the PAL PS3 has taken according to the BBC "At the London launch everyone who bought a PS3 also received a free 46-inch HD television and a taxi home."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6474045.stm

Meanwhile calling the Australian Launch a disaster is an understatement with more media and employees present than actual buyers.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/games/crowds-go-mild-fo r-ps3/2007/03/23/1174153291466.html
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Finalised

Submitted by
ajdlinux
ajdlinux writes: "The release schedule for the next major version of KDE has just been finalised. The schedule is available on KDE TechBase and is aiming for a full feature freeze by June and release towards the end of October. But will they be able to stick to it?"

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