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Submission + - Mark Zuckerberg Spotted In Beijing! (gadgetsrepublic.com)

Submitted by GadgetsRepublic
GadgetsRepublic writes: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Founder/CEO and Time Magazine’s newly crowned Person of the Year has just been spotted at the head offices of Baidu in Beijing, China. Robin Li (founder of Baidu) gave Mark and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan a tour of the building, where these photos were snapped. The social networking pioneer has spoken a few times this year about formulating plans to bring the world’s most popular social networking site to the the country with the world’s largest population of online users. This meeting was so highly confidential that even Baidu’s Head of PR didn’t know about the visit ahead of time.
Australia

Submission + - Aus Government releases a linux version of its AUS (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by zort
zort writes: "The Federal Government has released a new version of its AUSkey authentication software that promises to support Linux software packages for the first time."

"The ATO previously deemed Linux too "cost-prohibitive" to support, with deputy commissioner Bettina Konti estimating Linux users to comprise only one percent of Australian business users."

"But it has now announced that the AUSkey registration, download and installation process had been successfully tested with Ubuntu 10.04 and Firefox 3.6, and may also work with other versions of the software."

This is a great step forward, for linux users and businesses in interacting with the governments online servers. The Australian Tax Office being probably the most important.
Science

Submission + - Cryosat-2 Returns First Map of Arctic Circle (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by H3xx
H3xx writes: The European Space Agency (Esa) satellite Cryosat-2 was launched in April, carrying one of the highest resolution synthetic aperture radars ever put in orbit. Cryosat's primary mission is to measure sea-ice thickness, which has been in sharp decline in recent decades. Its ability also to map the shape of the sea surface will tell scientists if Arctic currents are changing as a result of winds being allowed to blow more easily on ice-free waters.

Today, radar data from the European satellite has been used to make a map of ocean circulation across the Arctic basin.
Microsoft

Submission + - No Sex Please, We're Microsoft 2

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Microsoft's Kinect has been out for less than two months and already there's an adult company looking to produce a 3-D sex game for the Xbox 360 console (PG-13ish YouTube demo). But Microsoft immediately shot down any speculation that the game will pass the certification process. 'This isn't the first example of a technology being used in ways not intended by its manufacturer, and it won't be the last," a Microsoft spokesman said in a statement. 'Microsoft did not authorize or license its technology for this use. Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow Adults Only (AO) content to be certified for use on its platform, and would not condone this type of game for Kinect.'

Submission + - Apple installs Safari by default again

Submitted by Thundersnatch
Thundersnatch writes: It appears that Apple is once again making its Safari 5 web browser and MobileMe software install by default via Apple Software Update on Windows, even if users had previously deselected these options in their preferences. They've been down this road before and faced significant backlash. If Microsoft did something like this people would be calling for a DOJ investigation.
Facebook

The Queen Joins Facebook 155

Posted by samzenpus from the royal-farmville dept.
H3xx writes "The Queen is set to have an official presence on Facebook when a British Monarchy page launches on the internet-based social networking site. Buckingham Palace says it is not a personal profile page, but users can 'like' the service and receive updates on their news feed. The Queen has reportedly embraced the web and sends e-mails. A British Monarchy Twitter feed is also available. The Facebook page is due to go live from Monday morning. The page will also feature the Court Circular, recording the previous day's official engagements."
Bug

Submission + - Youtube HTML Injection Vulnerability Exploited (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Youtube is currently open to an html attack based on using two [style] elements in a row — Youtube currently escapes one such element correctly but two works. It seems to be used currently for font-size adjustment, marquee text etc. but it breaks the comment system so new comments can't be made and the comment breaking the system can't be deleted, and cuts off the page at the breaking comment. An example video, previously featured on Slashdot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=related
Apple

Submission + - Why Apple fans hate tech reporters (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by Crazzaper
Crazzaper writes: I've always considered myself to be a neutral news reader, and seek out impartial news reports, reviews, and articles. But like this article states: "If I see the world as all black and you see the world as all white and some person comes along and says it's partially black and partially white, we both are going to be unhappy. You think there are more facts and better facts on your side than on the other side. The very act of giving them equal weight seems like bias. Like inappropriate evenhandedness." A large population of savvy "PC" users bash Apple, but what about the other side? Surprisingly, it can be just as rabid. A very deep look at journalism and how we each perceive what's "bias."

Submission + - US Admits Most Piracy Estimates Are Bogus

Submitted by plover
plover writes: According to this article on Ars Technica, the GAO admitted that the estimates of the impact of piracy have no basis in fact.

After examining all the data and consulting with numerous experts inside and outside of government, the Government Accountability Office concluded that it is "difficult, if not impossible, to quantify the economy-wide impacts."

Submission + - Ranking of least wasteful cities across America (leastwastefulcities.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: Once again the annual list of least wasteful cities across America has come out. San Francisco tops the list follows by Seattle Washington.

Fast Company has the full ranking — http://www.fastcompany.com/1618762/nalgene-ranks-the-most-and-least-wasteful-cities-in-america — but to see the results of individual cities, you need to click on the cities at this site — http://www.leastwastefulcities.com/
Movies

Submission + - U.S. Betting On Box Office, Studios Not Happy (ap.org)

Submitted by Shifty Jim
Shifty Jim writes: The AP is reporting the approval of a new futures market around box-office receipts: "U.S. regulators on Friday approved the creation of a futures market for trading in forecast box-office receipts, but major Hollywood studios immediately trumpeted a bill that would ban it. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the creation of the Trend Exchange, a forum that would allow movie industry participants and speculators to trade on predicted movie revenues."

Submission + - Virtualising workstations for common hardware

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We have approximately 20 workstations which all have different hardware specs. Every workstation has two monitors and generally runs either ubuntu or windows. I had started using clonezilla to copy the installs so we could deploy new workstations quickly and easily, when we have hardware failures and the likes, but an struggling with Windows requiring new drivers to be installed for all new hardware.

Is it possible to have a very basic virtual machine beneath to provide hardware consistency whilst still allowing multi-monitor support? Obviously we could be booting into Ubuntu and then load a Windows Virtual Machine after that, but I'd prefer not to have the added load of a full GUI underneath windows — we want maximum performance possible. And I don't think the multi monitor support would work.

Does anyone have any experience with this?
Google

Submission + - Gmail Gets Drag-and-Drop Attachments

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Clicking all those buttons on your e-mail is such a drag. Luckily, Gmail has come up with a way to attach files in one step. Users in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 can now drag and drop their files into Gmail directly from a folder on their computer.
The Courts

SCO v. Novell Goes To the Jury 67

Posted by timothy from the perhaps-it's-the-oj-jury dept.
Excelcia writes "Closing arguments in the six and a bit year old slander of title case between SCO and Novell occurred today and the case is finally in the hands of the jury. It's been an interesting case, with SCO alternately claiming that the copyrights to UNIX did get transferred to them, and that the copyrights should have been transferred to them. 'Judge Ted Stewart said, after the jury left to begin to deliberate, that in all his years on the bench, he's never seen such fine lawyering as in this case.' We're not going to find out the results until at least Tuesday, however, as one juror is taking a long weekend. Great lawyering notwithstanding, we can all hope next week that the Energizer bunny of all spurious lawsuits will finally go away."

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