Submission + - Gates: 40 million Vista copies sold
313373_bot writes: Is anyone buying this?
Submission + - Earth's landlord is throwing us out
mcgrew writes: New Scientist reports that the solar system will be thrown from the galaxy five billion years from now. Our galaxy will pass close to Andromeda two billion years from now, swing back around, and the two galaxies will merge.
Where will the Sun end up in this mammoth galactic union? 'We're living in the suburbs of the Milky Way right now, but we're likely to move much farther out after the coming cosmic smash-up,' concludes T J Cox from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
These two galaxies are currently rushing towards each other at about 120 kilometres per second and will likely collide in future. Now Cox and his CfA colleague Avi Loeb have run computer simulations of this collision, using 2.6 million particles to model the matter in both galaxies and in intergalactic space.
Submission + - Jerry Falwell
zophyx writes: The Reverend Jerry Falwell died suddenly today.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell found unconscious in office at Liberty University
Falwell, 73, was rushed to a Lynchburg, Virginia, hospital
He is a nationally known voice for conservative Christian views
The Rev. Jerry Falwell found unconscious in office at Liberty University
Falwell, 73, was rushed to a Lynchburg, Virginia, hospital
He is a nationally known voice for conservative Christian views
Submission + - Gonzales, "attempted" piracy, and Inslaw/P
Christopher Knight writes: "If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wants to impose sentences of life in prison for software piracy, then what about his own Justice Department's continued use of the PROMIS software, when it was proven a number of times in court that this was definitely a case of software piracy by the federal government? To this day, Inslaw hasn't been paid anything for Justice, the FBI, and apparently the CIA hijacking its software without compensation. Talk about chutzpah!"
Submission + - Buy my software or I'll sue you!
jandrese writes: "LONDON (Thomson Financial) — Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc could face a possible lawsuit for failing to include measures to control access to copyrighted material in products such as Vista OS, iTunes and the iPod, two companies have warned.
Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to both companies and to Adobe Systems Inc and Real Networks — which produce the Adobe Flash Player and Real Player respectively — for actively avoiding their X1 SeCure Recording Control, which they said is an effective copyright protection system.
I guess DRM companies have gotten so used to suing their customers that suing potential customers seems like a good idea."
Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to both companies and to Adobe Systems Inc and Real Networks — which produce the Adobe Flash Player and Real Player respectively — for actively avoiding their X1 SeCure Recording Control, which they said is an effective copyright protection system.
I guess DRM companies have gotten so used to suing their customers that suing potential customers seems like a good idea."
Submission + - Google's Brin Gets Married, Lucky
An anonymous reader writes: Bad news, ladies, there's one less eligible billionaire to go around.
Last weekend, leading G-man Sergey Brin and his longtime galpal Anne Wojcicki got hitched in a small private ceremony.
According to the Washington Post's Reliable Sources column, wedding guests boarded the Google Jet and were whisked away to an undisclosed location in the Bahamas, where Brin and Bride were wed on a small sandbar.
According to my own Unreliable Source (who hid in the G-Jet's luggage compartment and snorkeled to the sandbar wearing a neoprene tuxedo), the ceremony was performed by actor Mike Myers dressed as Dr. Evil. Maid of Honor and Best Man were Foxxy Cleopatra and Mini-Me, respectively, and security for the event was provided by sharks with friggin' laser beams attached to their heads.
The wedding was made possible only after a team of Google attorneys labored throughout the night, hammering out the final details of a prenup for the $16.6 billion Googlionaire. (According to the agreement, if the couple does split up, Wojcicki will receive a cash payment of $100 million, plus custody of the first O and second G in the Google logo on alternate weekends.)
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archiv es/2007/05/googles_brin_fe.html
Last weekend, leading G-man Sergey Brin and his longtime galpal Anne Wojcicki got hitched in a small private ceremony.
According to the Washington Post's Reliable Sources column, wedding guests boarded the Google Jet and were whisked away to an undisclosed location in the Bahamas, where Brin and Bride were wed on a small sandbar.
According to my own Unreliable Source (who hid in the G-Jet's luggage compartment and snorkeled to the sandbar wearing a neoprene tuxedo), the ceremony was performed by actor Mike Myers dressed as Dr. Evil. Maid of Honor and Best Man were Foxxy Cleopatra and Mini-Me, respectively, and security for the event was provided by sharks with friggin' laser beams attached to their heads.
The wedding was made possible only after a team of Google attorneys labored throughout the night, hammering out the final details of a prenup for the $16.6 billion Googlionaire. (According to the agreement, if the couple does split up, Wojcicki will receive a cash payment of $100 million, plus custody of the first O and second G in the Google logo on alternate weekends.)
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archi
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