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Submission + - Google Documents and Spreadsheet enters Desktop

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IT Soup
IT Soup writes: "http://itsoup.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-docs-and -spreadsheets-now-enters.html Yet another signal on Google's intention to use its huge market cap in Internet to gain access to Microsoft's honeyspot. Users who install new Google Toolbar 'can' now 'double-click' any compatible document (.doc, .xls, .odt, .rtf, .csv) on their computer and it will open straight in a browser in Google Docs and Spreadsheet."
The Courts

Submission + - U.K. outlaws denial-of-service attacks

Submitted by gnaremooz
gnaremooz writes: A U.K. law has been passed that makes it an offense to launch denial-of-service attacks:
Among the provisions of the Police and Justice Bill 2006, which gained Royal Assent on Wednesday, is a clause that makes it an offense to impair the operation of any computer system. Other clauses prohibit preventing or hindering access to a program or data held on a computer, or impairing the operation of any program or data held on a computer.
Wouldn't this outlaw any kind of copy-protection system? Anyone want to be a test case?

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