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popoutman writes:
Amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes and spectrographs have detected the beginning of the 27-yearly mysterious eclipse of Epsilon Auriga. It's mysterious as we currently don't know what the eclipsing objects is, other than it's dark, dusty and about a light-year in size.
This event is neatly described on Sky and Telescope's news pages at http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/51804622.html and the originating data is visible from the Google Cache
246163
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popoutman writes:
"A US judge last night overturned a jury verdict ordering Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion for infringing on the French firm's patents. US Senior District Court Judge Rudi Brewster, who is handling a legal appeal of the jury trial's outcome, issued a written ruling in favour of Microsoft and against Lucent, according to court documents."
"In his ruling, Brewster concluded that the US software giant did not infringe on one of the patents and that Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft would need to join Alcatel-Lucent's infringement suit for it to be valid in court."
235083
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popoutman writes:
Today the 27th of July 2007, being the last Friday in July, is the annual System's Administrator Appreciation Day.
Main link: http://www.sysadminday.com/
Please thank your sysadmin, and if you are the sysadmin, be gracious and happy to be appreciated ;)
