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Submission + - Obtaining the spec for Office's Binary Formats (microsoft.com)

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mastropiero

on Thursday August 30, 2007 @08:40AM

mastropiero writes: "During the discussion about the vote of certain country in the september ballot for Microsoft's infamous OOXML, a Microsoft-apologist linked us to an article in Microsft's knowledge base that specifies a process to obtain the specifications for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Drawing. It apparently comes with a covenant not to sue implementors and you also need to register in order to obtain the specs."

Submission + - Analog TV cards banned by FCC as of yesterday

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Anonymous Coward

on Friday March 02, 2007 @08:05PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Beginning yesterday, the FCC requirement went in to effect that 'All TV receiving devices sold must possess the capability of supporting digital television signals.' NVidia has already discontinued their fairly new and very popular DualTV MCE (http://www.nvidia.com/page/dualtvmce.html) card, and soon all Non-ATSC cards will be gone from shelves and available only on Ebay."

Submission + - Your Papers Please!

Submitted by skelator2821 on Friday March 02, 2007 @07:42PM

skelator2821 writes: Department of Homeland Security requires internal passport for all US Citizens The paranoia-inducing 27B Stroke 6 blog reports that the Department of Homeland Security has issued its requirements for standardizing state identification cards. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/national_ id_car.html

Submission + - Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend

Submitted by SeaDour on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:44PM

SeaDour writes: This Saturday night, March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from nearly all inhabited parts of the world. A great shadow will stretch across the surface of the moon, eventually casting it in an eerie red glow as sunlight filters through our atmosphere onto the lunar surface. Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action, while observers in most of the western hemisphere can see it eclipsed as it rises just after sunset.

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