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Submission + - Fight DRM while there's time

Submitted by ageor
ageor writes: It seems (not only) to me that DRM is about far more than intellectual property. It's also about monopoly and freedom of choice. It's one of those cases where us, the consumers, have to decide against accepting the new control-and-money-making-is-all-we-care-about industry's rules.

The whole matter is very well put in DRM, Vista and your rights where you can read about it and also follow the subject as deep as you like through numerous relevant links.
The Internet

Submission + - Search with your voice

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Acccording to this report, Music social networking site midomi.com is showcasing a new search technology that allows you to search for music by singing, whistling or humming a few bars of a song to identify the track. The search engine technology was even able to correctly identify songs sung by the writer, who is says he is a hopeless singer.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft wanted to "whack" Dell

Submitted by pboyd2004
pboyd2004 writes: According to emails obtained in Iowa's antitrust case against Microsoft. Microsoft wanted to "whack" Dell over their Linux sales. "We should whack them, we should make sure they understand our value," wrote Paul Flessner, a senior vice president in Microsoft's server applications unit. The email exchange can be found here.
OS X

Submission + - Court Documents Show Microsoft's Tiger Envy

Submitted by
phillymjs
phillymjs writes: "PC Pro is reporting on another juicy e-mail nugget from the Sent Items of Jim Allchin, (nyud link, PDF) courtesy of Iowa's Comes v. Microsoft trial. It's a lengthy e-mail conversation from late June, 2004 — in which several Microsofties ooh and ahh over features of the yet-unreleased Mac OS X 10.4. IMHO the award for best quote goes to Lenn Pryor, who said, 'It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.'"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Very funny IT ads (songs/video) by 80s hair bands

Submitted by
rabblerouzer
rabblerouzer writes: "A song about 2-factor authentication is so bad it's laughable, and it's just one of five songs Symantec has developed so far. Combine that with the video on identity theft and you may run from the room screaming. Even CheckPoint has its own song — one that could make your ears bleed. I ask, "What's the point?" http://blogs.csoonline.com/node/111"
Spam

Submission + - Is Linux.org hurting Linux?

Submitted by xivulon
xivulon writes: Linux.org is not the official Linux website, but millions of people believe it is. Is it a nice, modern, exciting page fostering Linux adoption? Hardly so. Even worse, far too many energies seem to be dedicated to raising money in a way that may even hurt the Linux image... I guess you have to turn adblock off for this one.
Privacy

Submission + - University E-Mails Not Private?

Submitted by Anonymous University Student
Anonymous University Student writes: Hello Slashdot. I go to a large Canadian university where all students are given an e-mail account when they enroll. I've recently been receiving a lot of targeted spam (for study programs, student surveys, et cetera,) sent to my University e-mail account. The problem is that nobody has ever been given this address — the only people who should know are Professors who are given access to a class list. When I first got the account, I set it to forward to my GMail account, simply because I wasn't interested in using multiple e-mail addresses. When I e-mailed my school's network services to explain the problem and see if it was a known issue, I was actually told that all e-mail addresses are on a public list that anyone can view. This, in my opinion, is an enormous breach of privacy, and I've been basically told that there's nothing I can do to stop this. So, Slashdot, I ask you — is this common practice for most universities, or is my school just not concerned about the privacy of its students? Many people would not care, however I get enough spam in my inbox that any more is just ridiculous.
SuSE

Submission + - Distribution building for everybody !

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The openSUSE project just released all their tools which they use to build their distribution. What it makes extra cool is that not only SUSE is supported, but also other rpm based distros. deb packages for Debian based distros can be build as well and even Windows targets are planned ! And that by building directly from a tar ball or any public svn server ...
Graphics

Submission + - NVIDIA and ATI Talk About MXM

Submitted by jkwdoc
jkwdoc writes: Two years ago, NVIDIA announced its MXM initiative for the mobile market. This new technology would allow for a modular GPU slot in all laptops, thus making servicing and upgrades much easier. But two years later, the consumer still can't go into a store and buy a graphics card to upgrade their laptop, and the entire mobile graphics market is a mess. [H] investigates and gets ATI and NVIDIA to talk about the problems. http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI2N iwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=
Democrats

Submission + - Rough Start for First Impeachment Resolution

Submitted by Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman writes: According to The Santa Fe New Mexican, a bill has been introduced in the state senate that would call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. However, the bill has already come across hurdles in the form of it's committee assignments. I has been assigned to three separate committees, making leaving the Democrat controlled Senate hard pressed to clear them all and make it to the floor before the 60-day session ends. This would make New Mexico the first state to pass an impeachment resolution.
Mandriva

Submission + - Next Mandriva to include Metisse 3D desktop

Submitted by
dBera
dBera writes: "Mandriva Spring 2007 is going to include the 3D Matisse desktop from the In Site project. Right now a live CD based on Mandriva 2007.0 and GNOME is available for download. One has to see the screencasts to believe what can be done with linux desktop; all I can say is copy-paste, window and workspace management was never this interesting."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Extends XP Home & MCE Support

Submitted by
innocence18
innocence18 writes: "Microsoft has announced that it will be adding an "Extended Support" phase for both Windows XP Home and Media Center Editions. This brings the support life cycle of both products to 5 years mainstream (April 2009) and 5 years extended which matches the support policy of XP Professional."
Programming

Submission + - Process XForms in Firefox

Submitted by IdaAshley
IdaAshley writes: Using the experimental Mozilla XForms extension, you can process XForms in your browser today. XForms makes development of Web-deployed applications faster and easier. This article demonstrates basic XForms processing as currently supported by Firefox and the Mozilla XForms plug-in.
United States

Submission + - Worlds Oldest Human Dies

Submitted by
inexion
inexion writes: "From The Associated Press Emiliano Mercado del Toro was born when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony and trained as a soldier the year World War I ended. On today, having spent just a month as the world's oldest person, he died at his home on the northern coast of Puerto Rico he was 115. Mercado del Toro never married and had no children. When 116-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden died in December at a nursing home in Tennessee Mercado del Toro became the oldest known person in the world. A 114-year-old Connecticut woman, Emma Faust Tillman, is now believed to be the oldest living person. She was born Nov. 22, 1892."
Supercomputing

Submission + - d-wave announces usable 16 qubit quantum computer

Submitted by euice
euice writes: A company called D-Wave Sys claims to have developped the first commercially usable 16 qubit quantum computer.

FTA: Please join us in February as we demonstrate a technological first: an end-to-end quantum computing system powered by a 16-qubit quantum processor, running two commercial applications — live.

Is there any breakthrough I missed? What would you expect them to show up with?

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