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Submission + - Beryl and Compiz finally reunite

Submitted by
krkhan
krkhan writes: "It has been confirmed on Compiz's mailing list that the two leading hardware accelerated window managers shall merge soon. Websites for each project shall keep working for a while until their forums have been completely combined into one. The decision is supported by both projects' leaders David and Quinn. The decision of which code makes it into the new project and which doesn't shall be voted upon by the 'best developers from each community'."
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - GCSX Source Code Released - PS One Emu for Wii

Submitted by YokimaSun
YokimaSun writes: Yoshihiro over at DCEmu has released the source code to his port of the Playstation Emulator PCSX for the Nintendo Wii, the project needs extra work but a lot of the groundwork has already been done. "I cant finish this port because i've no time but i've already port all plugins . PAD , CD , GPU SOFT VIDEO and SPU NULL For GC . i've fixed the memory swap too but i've never worked before on Big Endian CPU for Converting 32Bit memory to 64Bit . so maybe you need to fixe something for the memory check PsxMem.h and PsxMen.c", anyone brave enough to carry this on ?
Microsoft

Submission + - EU Rejects Microsoft Royalty Proposal

Submitted by pallmall1
pallmall1 writes: According to MSNBC, The Financial Times has reported that the EU is going to drastically reduce or even eliminate Microsoft's proposed royalties on interoperability information required to be released by the EU's antitrust ruling issued three years ago. According to a confidential EU document, "Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation...". Even Neil Barrett, the expert picked by both Microsoft and the EU to oversee Microsoft's compliance with the 2004 ruling, says a zero percent royalty would be "better".
Microsoft

Submission + - EU sticks it to Microsoft over Windows Licensing

Submitted by
EnderGT
EnderGT writes: "According to the Financial Times, Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation.

Seems Microsoft wanted 5.95% of server revenues as a license fee. Too bad the expert (oh by the way — recommended by Microsoft) on the Commission said that "even 1% would be too much"."
Security

Submission + - Hackers offer subscription, support for malware

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: Organised gangs are taking a page out of security vendors' books and setting up their own websites that offer support and subscriptions for malware and spyware.

From the article: "For subscriptions starting as low as $20 per month, enterprises can sell "fully managed exploit engines" that spyware distributors and spammers can use to infiltrate systems worldwide, said Gunter Ollmann, director of security strategies at IBM's ISS X-Force team.

Many exploit providers simply wait for Microsoft's monthly patches, which they then reverse engineer to develop new exploit code against the disclosed vulnerabilities, Ollmann said. "Then all you've got to do is just subscribe to them on a monthly basis."

RMS Explains GPLv3 Draft 3 139

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the discussion-drafts-doing-their-job dept.
H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "A transcript is now online of a talk Richard Stallman gave in Brussels earlier this week about the discussion draft 3 of GPLv3. Among other things, he explained how it will address the Novell-MS deal, from Novell's point of view and from Microsoft's, and he explained how the tivoisation clause was narrowed to make it more acceptable in the hope that it will be used by more people. After the talk he also gave an interview, and yesterday, draft 2 of LGPLv3 was released."
Windows

HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista 662

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.
boyko.at.netqos writes "Hardocp.com has published "30 days with Vista" — with the same author from "30 days with Linux" doing the evaluation. And he doesn't like it. From the article: 'Based on my personal experiences with Vista over a 30 day period, I found it to be a dangerously unstable operating system, which has caused me to lose data [...] Any consideration of the fine details comes in second to that one inescapable conclusion. This is an unstable operating system.'"
Security

.ANI Vulnerability Patch Breaks Applications 164

Posted by CmdrTaco from the this-is-only-gonna-hurt-twice dept.
Jud writes "Microsoft's fix for the .ANI vulnerability was part of Patch Tuesday yesterday. However, all is not well with the update. Reportedly, installing the patch will break applications such as Realtek HD Audio Control Panel and CD-Tag, which mentions they are affected by the problem on their main page. A hotfix is currently available from Microsoft, however their current position is this is an isolated problem and the fix is not planned to be pushed out through Microsoft Update. "
GNOME

Submission + - Does GNOME interface need overhaul?

Submitted by mutebargee
mutebargee writes: Although GNOME seems to be incrementally improved, Jono Bacon writes: "For a while I had been mulling over different concepts and ideas about how GNOME should work, and trying to distill them into core interactions for a desktop". "The problem with current desktops is that they are largely artificial. We have created modes of interaction that the user has to learn to understand the computer, instead of the computer trying to understand the user.""The next-gen GNOME needs to change this. It really, really does. What I want to see is an organic environment; one that is designed around human interactions, tasks and concepts that we find natural, intuitive and repeatable."

Is necessary for GNOME to re-invent the term desktop? Will KDE 4.0 give to GNOME a hard time?
Music

Submission + - RIAA is out of control yet again.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The RIAA is once again at their old tricks. The band Nine Inch Nails has intentionally 'leaked' songs via USB keys hidden at restrooms during their current European tour. Sites hosting the intentionally 'leaked' songs are now being sent cease and desist orders. The link is here: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/ news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=69841 I found it via http://theninhotline.net/ When will this ever end? The RIAA is just plain out of control.
The Internet

Submission + - Hackers release 250 pgs of 7th Harry Potter Book

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "There is a torrent link on thepiratebay for a deathly hallows download. Contains the 1st 250 pages. by the time you get this it may be down, I don't kow, and I didn't download it myself. But my friend DID! and it IS real. Thought you'd like to be the first to post it on the web. It's a 1MB word document."
The Courts

Submission + - UK: Child Porn "Art" Illegal

Submitted by StewedSquirrel
StewedSquirrel writes: Parliment passed a law yesterday making "child porn images" illegal, focusing on "non-photographic" renditions, apparently including "drawings, images and sculptures". It goes even further to broadly define restrictions:

The proposed new law would cover depictions of child sex abuse that have either been created on a computer or are cartoons, drawings or other "artwork".


The article then mentions several incidents where London Art Gallery owners have been arrested and charged in the past few years for displaying artwork depicting "a photographer's three young children playing while naked" or "a photographer's daughter in the bath". Both were overturned on the basis that "art" is not covered by then current child porn laws.

Presumably, this exhibition of Donatello's David in London is illegal by some interpretations of the law, since it displays a naked prepubescent child in a pose that has been described as "provocative", "sensual" or "a fetishists dream" by art critics. Statues of Zeus abducting Ganymede may fall even more squarely under the wording of the law. While the police have vowed not to prosecute posession of "genuine artwork", what credentials does the average detective have to determine "genuine artwork"? Would they consider a modern sculpture of the same subject with the same care that they would consider one of the classics?

How does this recent law affect the ongoing effort to digitize British art galleries? Does it have far reaching implications for the physical collections of art galleries as well? Does it make British citizens on legally shaky ground merely visting the national museum? How would someone make that determination in light of this new law and the past history of enforcement and raids on smaller galleries? Does this law go too far?

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