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Submission + - Statewide franchise illegal? Detroit sues Comcast (wwj.com)

Submitted by jqpublic13
jqpublic13 writes: The City of Detroit, Michigan, is suing Comcast's local subsidiary citing a 2006 agreement which the City says violates the constitutions of both the United States and the state of Michigan. They claim that an federal act from 1984 supersedes the local agreement. Comcast has 20 days to respond.
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Submission + - Disposable E-mail Services for Everyone

Submitted by Kindastupid
Kindastupid writes: Every now and then new disposable (or temporary) e-mail services like 10minutemail.com or mailinator.com are popping up. But now the gates are open for a flood of those websites. All one need now is to download and install a script and voila — one has his own hosted service. Great?!
Microsoft

Submission + - Motherboard Replacements and Vista OEM EULAs

Submitted by Knackster
Knackster writes: If you decide to replace the motherboard in your computer, should you have to pay Microsoft again for the OS that came with the system? Well, in Redmond they think so, and that probably doesn't come as much of a surprise. What I do find a bit surprising is that Microsoft has chosen not to inform end users, not even in the darkest depths of the Windows EULAs, of this policy. Instead, computer manufacturers have just quietly been told that, hey, that's the way it's going to be. Read More
Education

Submission + - wiping hard drive, notebook

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bfullback34
bfullback34 writes: "i am trying to create a gw scan disk on my desktop, so that i can erase the hard drive on my laptop, however my desktop has no floppy drive. can a gw scan be created on a cd-r, are thier any ways aroudn this?"
Software

Submission + - What Could Be Done to Improve Open Source Apps?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Matt Hartley of OSWeekly.com outlines the flaws that currently prevent OSS apps from going mainstream. He gives his opinion and asks the community to chime in with our thoughts. He writes, "The single biggest thing that's working against Linux distributions, and even open source as a whole today is human nature pure and simple. End users are showing us their human side by jumping to conclusions rather than deciding whether or not something is worth supporting to make it better. For example, more often than not, we see a fantastic application full of possibilities dismissed by some end users because it lacks a certain level of perfection. In other cases, these are apps that in order to realize any level of functionality, they require some level of adoption before the closed source alternatives can be considered unnecessary.

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