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Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality 138

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, 2007 @12:28PM from the dotting-the-is-crossing-the-ts dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February ISO vote. The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the 'leap year bug', VML, compatibility settings such as 'AutoSpaceLikeWord95' and others will be 'extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.'"

Submission + - Shareaza Site Hijacked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28, 2007 @12:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: The site shareaza.com has been hijacked and now redirects to shareazaweb.com. The download on the shareaza.com site now points to a file that installs spyware and malware. The real Shareaza software, still open source and GPL'ed, is at http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/. The sordid history of how this occurred is at http://torrentfreak.com/shareazacom-hijacked-and-turned-into-a-scam-site-071224/. This points out a problem with some open source projects: there is not a well-financed and structured organization to fight for online rights. As an individual domain holder, how can you respond when a determined entity tries to take it from you, either through the legal system or other means?

Submission + - Galileo under press as Glonass and GPS launch (space.com)

Submitted by spectrokid on Friday December 28, 2007 @11:54AM

spectrokid writes: The European future navigation system comes under press again as both the Glonass (now 18 sats)and GPS (with the GPS IIR-M sattelite) systems improve their accuracy with new sattelites being launched. With India and China setting up local systems, is there a case for a third worldwide provider?

Submission + - Identity of Antichrist Revealed: Emperor Titus (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

luxusgr

on Friday December 28, 2007 @10:36AM

luxusgr writes: "Titus matches so amazingly with "666", we are forced to disregard Revelation as a prophetic text. It warns about political matters and a existing person of its time of writing. Unhappily, it's nothing more than some kind of underground Christian agitprop of its time!"

Submission + - Physicists Wonder if Time is Slowing Down

Submitted by

Time Slows Down

on Friday December 28, 2007 @10:14AM

Time Slows Down writes: "Scientists have come up with the radical suggestion that the universe's end may come not with a bang but a standstill — that time could be literally running out and could, one day, stop altogether. A decade ago, astronomers noticed that distant supernovae — exploding stars on the very fringes of the universe — seemed to be moving faster than those nearer to the center, suggesting that they were accelerating as they shot through space. One team of scientists says the appearance of acceleration my be caused by time itself gradually slowing down, like a clock that needs winding. If time is indeed slowing down, so that according to this new suggestion our solitary time dimension is slowly turning into a new space dimension, then the far-distant, ancient stars seen by cosmologists would, from our perspective, look as though they were accelerating. While the theory is outlandish some cosmologists believe the idea has merit. "We believe that time emerged during the Big Bang, and if time can emerge, it can also disappear — that's just the reverse effect," says Professor Gary Gibbons."

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