Don't eat the yellow snow...
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Macgrrl writes "As reported in The Age newspaper today, Russian officials are investigating falls of orange and yellow snow in Siberia."
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced 371
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from the allegedly-the-last dept.
from the allegedly-the-last dept.
Croakyvoice writes "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, the seventh and final book
in the best-selling series, has been scheduled for release at 12:01 a.m. on July
21, 2007, Scholastic announced today." A deluxe edition for collectors and enthusiasts is also planned with a simultaneous release.
Next Generation of source code search engines
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calumtdalek
calumtdalek writes "The source code search engine market has seen quite a few developments in the recent past, with google launching its own source code search engine recently. Now another company, All The Code, is entering the competition, with a new way of ranking results. According to the faq, it "considers the relation between code" rather than the traditional single project view used by its predecessors like koders & google codesearch. I wonder if this technique will be adopted by the other industry players?"
Florida wants to scrap touch screen voting
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AlHunt
AlHunt writes "Florida Governor Charlie Crist is calling on the Florida Legislature to spend $30M to replace the troublesome touch screen voting machines with an optical scan system that allows a voter to mark an oval next to a candidate's name before slipping a ballot into an electronic reader."
Florida governor rejects touchscreen voting
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Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Finally, the tide seems to be turning — Florida Governor Crist has come out with a $32M plan to replace all Florida touch screen voting machines with paper scanning devices. In our state, the touchscreens gave my wife and I two differing ballots — although we're pretty sure the precinct doesn't split along our bedroom. She got to write in both John Stewart and Steven Colbert, where I could only choose one of the two. The NYTimes (kiss of death required) has the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/us/01cnd-voting. html?hp&ex=1170392400&en=ef9e9773e1e66b0f&ei=5094& partner=homepage"
Zune Executive to Leave Microsoft
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Divebus writes "REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A Microsoft Corp. executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company.
The software maker said the departure of Bryan Lee, a corporate vice president in Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, was for personal reasons and "absolutely not" related to sales of the music player, which came out in mid-November to soft reviews.
Right. Absolutely nothing to do with it. Never crossed their minds."
Right. Absolutely nothing to do with it. Never crossed their minds."
New Yorker on Google Books
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jefu
jefu writes "The New Yorker (Feb 2) has a story on Google Books (an attempt to index every book around) and its legal problems involving copyright. Interestingly, the conclusion seems to be that Google might settle the lawsuits brought against it, and by doing so, make it more difficult for others who want to do similar things. One good quote : "The suits that are filed are a business negotiation that happens to be going on in the courts.""
Collaboration Work with OpenOffice and MSOffice
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An anonymous reader writes "If you ever searched for Open Source solution for collaboration work on office documents you should have a look at the (quite young) PengYou project. It provides a server side storage along with plugins for OpenOffice and MS-Office. The best is: it just works. Even the OOo integration is realized by packages, there is no need at all to recompile something from source. The website has more information, a first short review can be found here."
iPhone lawsuit deadline extended
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AlHunt
Largest profiting company ever bribes scientists.
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Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Playfuls.com (http://www.playfuls.com/news_09_2799-ROUNDUP-Exxo nMobil-Posts-Record-2006-Profits.html) is reporting that the world's largest oil company, ExxonMobil, posted the largest profit EVER for a US company (39.5 Billion Dollars). In other news today, an oil company-funded lobbying organization tries to pay scientists $10,000 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004 399,00.html) each to write papers discrediting today's climate report. Guess which oil company is the funder here? Next time you tank your car, choose wisely."