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Submission + - Copy Error Messages To Clipboard (pctipsbox.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "What's the first thing you do when you see a baffling error message in Windows? If you are anything like me you'll pick out the keywords and look it up on Google. That's fine when it's something simple but all too often error messages are long-winded and contain lots of gibberish, which are a pain to type into the search box The temptation, is to try and copy and paste the message, but you will find that this doesn't work as you can't highlight the words in an error box, but there is another way."
Security

Submission + - Gov't workers putting U.S. data at risk

Submitted by MsManhattan
MsManhattan writes: Federal employees who work unofficially from home at night and on weekends are putting U.S. government data — including information about private citizens — at risk, a new study by the Telework Exchange suggests. They often take home government files and work on unsecured PCs, the study found. Among the findings: 58% of government employees work from home without authorization; of those, 54% take files home from the office; only 75% have anti-virus software installed and only 60% use encryption. Even more alarming, the study found that despite the publicity surrounding last year's loss of a Veterans Administration laptop that contained the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and family members (the laptop was later recovered), 13% of government agencies still do not put encryption software on new laptops issued to employees and fewer than half the agencies have provided security training to employees in the aftermath.
Television

Submission + - National Hockey League Embraces TV Placeshifting (slingcommunity.com)

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Egadfly
Egadfly writes: "The increasingly popular placeshifting of TV programming naturally roils corporate controversy, among other things because it enables sports fans to view locally blacked-out games over the Internet. Now, in a blow for info-freedom, the National Hockey League (NHL) has actively supported placeshifting by signing an agreement with SlingBox-maker Sling Media which allows the company's "Clip+Sling" technology to share both live and recorded NHL programming over the Internet. Significantly, this happen only days after Major League Baseball (MLB) launched a public denunciation of placeshifting: accusing SlingBox owners of violating the law by sending television content over the Internet and accusing Sling Media itself of violating contracts with cable and satellite TV companies."
United States

Submission + - Antigua wants compensation for US gambling law

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Red Flayer
Red Flayer writes: "Following yesterday's WTO formal adoption of the ruling that the US Law to restrict offshore online gambling is illegal:

The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda seeks compensation from the U.S. over its illegal restrictions on Internet gambling sites based overseas and on Tuesday asked other countries to join in as it targets Washington over its failure to comply with global trade rules.

Antigua, the smallest country to successfully litigate a case in the World Trade Organization's 12-year-history, also threatened to target American trademarks, copyrights and telecommunications companies after the WTO on Tuesday formally adopted a landmark decision reached in March that the United States' restrictions on online gambling were illegal.
>See the article from November on this topic for previous discussion."
Bug

Submission + - Bugzilla Virtualized

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An anonymous reader writes: Virtual Bugzilla Server 2.0, a VMWare virtual machine with pre-installed Bugzilla, has been released today by ALM Works. The point is to let people have Bugzilla ready for use just by downloading and running the VM, not bothering with the installation, especially on Windows. Inside the VM there's the latest Bugzilla 3.0 release candidate, running on grml.org Linux distribution with Apache/MySQL. The whole thing is compressed into 80 megabytes. A free VMWare player is needed to run the server.
Operating Systems

Submission + - South Africa joins countries switching to OSS

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An anonymous reader writes: According to reports by Reuters and IOL, the South African government has officially announced that all government departments are to switch to Open Source operating systems and software from this year onwards. There is no word on how long the process will take (likely years), but a joint office to be run by the Department of Science and Technology and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be set up by April to oversee the process.
Microsoft

Submission + - MS attacks it's own DRM

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morlock_man
morlock_man writes: "Despite claiming to support the PlaysForSure DRM into the indefinite Future, MS has apparently broken the DRM compatibility with Windows Media Player 11 and Vista. A number of reports are coming in from companies working with the DRM that attempts at playing any music licensed through the PFS DRM under Vista consistently produce errors. Is this an oversight on Microsoft's part? Or are they attempting to cripple their licensed DRM system in favour of supporting their own proprietary Zune business model? Can you say 'Antitrust'?"

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