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Submission + - Why I Still Use DOS (variableghz.com)

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VariableGHz
VariableGHz writes: "For some of you, the thought of DOS probably brings back horrifying memories of things like IRQ conflicts, MSCDEX, the config.sys, himem.sys, etc. Those days are over, but the best aspects of DOS remain a part of Windows, fortunately..."
Security

Submission + - Skype worm jumps to ICQ and MSN

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SpywareSatan
SpywareSatan writes: "This latest variant of Stration worm which was spreading through Skype jumps to ICQ and MSN, according to Chris Boyd, a researcher at FaceTime Communications, who blogs under the name Paperghost. "They're using Skype as a jump off into other more established networks," Boyd said. "The infection will go looking for other instant messaging clients that are on the PC and then attempt to send the infection message that it initially sends through Skype through these other chat systems.""
Space

Submission + - A Static Universe in 3 Trillion Years

Submitted by ultracool
ultracool writes: When Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter proposed a static model of the universe in the early 1900s, he was some 3 trillion years ahead of his time. Now, physicists Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University and Robert J. Scherrer from Vanderbilt University predict that trillions of years into the future, the information that currently allows us to understand how the universe expands will have disappeared over the visible horizon. What remains will be "an island universe" made from the Milky Way and its nearby galactic Local Group neighbors in an overwhelmingly dark void.
Programming

Facebook Opens Pages to Outside Developers 76

Posted by CowboyNeal from the rolling-your-own dept.
prostoalex writes "Facebook is now allowing third-party developers to create pages within the site. Developers can use a combination of the Facebook API and a subset of HTML to create interactive pages accessible from within Facebook. Users retain complete control over which applications they want to have installed, and which applications they want to see on other people's profile. Developers can build on top of Facebook's social grid, and in case of a popular application gain distribution through Facebook newsfeed."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft dominates the OOXML process

Submitted by nnn0
nnn0 writes: An interesting norwegian article claims that Microsoft totally dominates the OOXML standardization process. Head of Freecode reveals that in the norwegian Standard Norge's seven members, four are from Microsoft and one is from Statoil, a heavy Windows user. He also finds it peculiar the Ecma managed to approve the whole Open XML standard in less than a year. The standard which spans 6000 pages, not only got approved 20 times faster than any XML standard before it, but the committee was also leaded by two Microsoft employees. He also points to the fact that Ecma is a closed process, in contrast to Oasis which the ODF standard went thru. He further claims that if ISO approves OOXML, it will go against it's own policy to not support competing standards. Those fluent in nordic languages can read the full article here.
Privacy

Submission + - 1500 students facing legal threat from P2P

Submitted by
hwojtek
hwojtek writes: "After a recent police raid to the campus of Poznan University of Technology (Poznan, Poland), the police has arrested six 'network administrators' who allegedly have run an internal P2P network. More than 2TB of software, movies and music have been found and secured. Now, while this is not a really impressive amount of 'illegal' data, the police now seeks a way to bring charges against... 1500 students who live on the very campus. This might be the biggest-ever one-time legal action against software piracy (?) in Central and Eastern Europe.

Links (in Polish): http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,33181,415 6894.html
http://miasta.gazeta.pl/poznan/1,36001,4174449.htm l
http://di.com.pl/news/16617,GW_Poltora_tysiaca_stu dentow_z_Poznania_pod_sad.html

This is another big police action in Poland after last weeks' action of arresting a sysadmin and three voluntary subtitle translators of www.napisy.org due to alleged copyright infringement. (Link: http://www.idg.pl/news/110528.html)"
United States

Submission + - Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. The directive released on May 9th, 2007 has gone almost unnoticed by the mainstream and alternative media. This is understandable considering the huge Ron Paul and immigration news but this story is equally as huge. In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a "Catastrophic Emergency", the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency." — Center for Research on Globalization, Canada
Announcements

Submission + - A Little E-Mail Prank, $2.8 Billion Dollar Panic

Submitted by
VariableGHz
VariableGHz writes: "
Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, a spoof e-mail posing as an internal Apple news alert was sent to Apple employees, informing them that the release of the iPhone, a touchscreen hybrid phone-and-music player, was being delayed from June to October. It added that Leopard, the next version of the Mac operating system, would move back its launch from October to January.

... 11:56 a.m., a trading frenzy of Apple stock hit Wall Street, and the company's market value plunged $2.8 billion, or 3 percent, in six minutes. Its stock plummeted from $107.89 to $104.61 by 12:02 p.m.
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