Never thought they could image a Steampunk version of Prof. Lunazzi's 3D screen - http://www.physorg.com/news156072878.html
Wait...using vapour and one LCD projector per voxel is "serious" not Steam age retro joke? What???

Is it just me, or anything putting "sony" and "solution" in the same phrase just don't make sense anymore?

Well...didn't you know that installing this Linux thing would make your keyboard wear out??

There is a "Décret" which actually makes the 2004 law effective published on March 1, 2011 - apparently it is for real, and it is the internert companies response to this decree that triggered the news.

Decrét Text (French)

Yes . .thank you8 for helping me filling up the puzzle --
the law requiring data retnetion is actually from 2004 - -a "opinion" about the law is dated from 2008 - which led to the
required "Décret" to be published on March 1, 2011, as can be seem here:
Official Decrét text(french)
Google Translation

So, what made the news is that large internet services and companies such as Google et all. are in French Justice trying to invalidate the law alltogether(which I believe they will suceed in, since it is really clueless) - but the law is actually passed and getting ready to be effective in a 60 days or so.

Like...is not this last Friday's news?? Is /. slipping into a time-reality offset from our own?

"Launch on top of Windows" - A.K.A. an emulator app (even if through a virtual machine, nonetheless it will be an emulator for something that allows web OS apps launch seamlessly on windows ... none of whcih I can see as anything close of newsworthy)

Absolutely no fear -
In Brazil we had lived with more than 10 years of irregualr schedules for D.S.T. (although it was al=ways for one hour, never two) -
sometimes computer locks would be off by one hour for a week or more -- and the country never experienced any major failure from that. Event today old windows xp installs change the time back and forth D.S.T. in the incorrect dates, again wioth no victims.

(We have regular dates for the switch since 2008).

Yes! Instead of lots of inneficient conversion methods, and n orer to overcome the last mile problem, this would finally allow the deployment of Lava To The Home technology, through some simple piping.

Besides heating, hot lava could be used in special taps to allow for inexpensive 3D printing, allowing everyone to produce their own custo made Rock Consumer Appliances.

Asimov's "zeroth law" was to " protect humanity -
but regardless of that the " thress laws" are already perverted here in order to "protect the corporation".
Asimov's 3 lawas where : Protect humans; 2) OBEY humans; 3) Protectself.

"Protect self" here is a cheap excuse for DRM - protecting the corp. and harming humans.

Re-ordering the laws is just an Orwelian sadistic twist.