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RIAA Announces New Campus Lawsuit Strategy 299

Posted by samzenpus from the tell-us-everything dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The RIAA is once again revising their lawsuit strategy, and will now be sending college students and others "pre-lawsuit letters." People will now be able to settle for a discount. How nice."
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"Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design 813

Posted by kdawson from the she-said-he-said dept.
Cuts and bruises writes "Hacker Joanna Rutkowska has flagged a "very severe hole" in the design of Windows Vista's User Account Controls (UAC) feature. The issue is that Vista automatically assumes that all setup programs (application installers) should be run with administrator privileges — and gives the user no option to let them run without elevated privileges. This means that a freeware Tetris installer would be allowed to load kernel drivers. Microsoft's Mark Russinovich acknowledges the risk factor but says it was a 'design choice' to balance security with ease of use."

Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org 124

Posted by CowboyNeal from the right-price dept.
Micahel West writes "As reported on OpenOffice.org: 'For an undisclosed sum but reputed to be in the billions, Microsoft's Bill Gates has personally bought the leading open-source desktop project. Saying he "was sick and tired of open-source eating away at his profits," the world's richest man decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org. It will form part of a growing list of Microsoft acquisitions including several erstwhile competitors, a considerable number of prominent politicians, and a few small governments.'"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Flaming, and foes

Journal by sebFlyte

Well, thankyou 0racle. I have now made an enemy, but I'm not sure why.

I guess it's due to this submission, but i don't really know.

I did seem to draw a lot of flak for that, at least in part because the sentiment of the article was pro-MS, and i didn't bother to proof the post properly before sending it (damn you, editors, for not correcting my typos :P).

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