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  Apple Updates 15" MacBook Pro 2007-06-05 08:55 Villageidiot9390

Submitted by Villageidiot9390 on Tuesday June 05 2007, @08:55AM
Villageidiot9390 writes "Apple has just updated their professional laptop offering. Amongst the updates Apple will now utilize the Santa Rosa chipset and now has processor speeds at up to 2.4GHz. In addition to these changes, Apple has updated the screens on both the 15" and 17" versions of their MacBook Pros. The 15" screen now features a mercury free LED backlit display. The 17" screen now has a native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels."
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  Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional[->] 2007-06-05 08:39 'Tractor' Barry

Submitted by 'Tractor' Barry on Tuesday June 05 2007, @08:39AM
'Tractor' Barry writes "(Shamelessly copied from El Reg as I'm lazy and it's a good preface...)

What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better. "As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) award, which it says it gives to "exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others". However, his cherished status did not last...""
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/microsoft_mvp_threats/
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  Microsoft threatens its Most Valued Professional 2007-06-05 08:22 'Tractor' Barry

Submitted by 'Tractor' Barry on Tuesday June 05 2007, @08:22AM
'Tractor' Barry writes "(This summary shamelessly copy & pasted from El Reg... I'm lazy and it's a well written overview)
"What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better. As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) award, which it says it gives to "exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others". However, his cherished status did not last...""
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From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday June 05 2007, @08:12AM
Almost as many left in the pub

New research from SimplySwitch reveals that while we buy 18 million handsets ever year, we're throwing 855,000 of them down the toilet and leaving 810,000 in the pub - contributing to the 4.1 million we lose or break every year.


http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/phones_down_the_pan/
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Journal by smooth wombat on Monday June 04 2007, @07:39AM
From the Duh! department:


Claiming it is essential that the President and Vice President be able to receive candid advice, the President and Vice President have directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor entry and exit logs, declaring them to be presidential records and exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The administration is seeking dismissal of two lawsuits by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, demanding Secret Service visitor logs.

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  Emacs 22.1 released[->] 2007-06-04 03:14 Michael Duggan

Submitted by Michael Duggan on Monday June 04 2007, @03:14AM
Michael Duggan writes "Two years since Emacs 21.4 was released, Emacs 22.1 has finally been released. Major changes include Mac OS X and Cygwin support, GTK support, more sane defaults for new users, and many, many new modes and packages."
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.announce/11
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Submitted by Rich on Monday April 30 2007, @01:47PM
Rich writes "A popular blogger on LiveJournal recently posted a hilarious but scary story about UPS' very real practices of sending uninformed drivers to people's doors with unmarked damage liability forms after packages are damaged or lost in transit. You sign this form, and you've just accepted responsibility for the loss. I work at a Geek Squad, and they've tried to do this to me at least twice. Another friend of mine was almost put out of business after he absentmindedly signed one of these and ended up having to pay for two of the same $10K item. This is ridiculous, considering that UPS' insurance deductible is tiny, and they're worth more than $45B. Anyway, here it is: UPS' Form of Mystery"
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