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Submission + - Help me fight the swiss dmca. (no-dmca.ch)

Submitted by

pyalot

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @12:31PM

pyalot writes: "The swiss goverment has passed a law that would make it impossible to cirvumvent effective copy protection measures. I have created a page to inform and organize a resistance against this law. If we collect 50'000 signatures until the 24th of January however, we can force a national vote on this law. Help me in any way that you can fight this law. I was first made aware of this two days ago by this article on slashdot."

Submission + - Microsoft Loses Anti-Trust Appeal in EU (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

sjdaniels

on Monday September 17, 2007 @04:02AM

sjdaniels writes: "(From of BBCNews) The European Court of First Instance has dismissed Microsoft's appeal in its long-running competition dispute with the European Commission. The court upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players. It was ordered to change its business and fined 497m euros (£343m; $690m)."

Submission + - Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

andy.ruddock

on Monday September 17, 2007 @04:02AM

andy.ruddock writes: "The BBC reports that Microsoft has lost it's anti-trust appeal.
The European Court of First Instance has dismissed Microsoft's appeal in its long-running competition dispute with the European Commission.
The court upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players."

Submission + - Microsoft loses EU Anti-trust case (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has lost in its EU anti-trust case.

The European Court of First Instance has dismissed Microsoft's appeal in its long-running competition dispute with the European Commission.
The court upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
It was ordered to change its business and fined 497m euros (£343m; $690m).
Microsoft has now been ordered to pay 80% of the Commission's legal costs, while the Commission has to carry a specific part of Microsoft's costs.

Submission + - User-Privilege Flaw Hits Vista

Submitted by

IT071872

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @02:51AM

IT071872 writes: "According to PC world, A security firm has discovered one of the first security flaws to directly affect Windows Vista, a bug that it claims allows local users to escalate their privileges.

The flaw involves Windows' system for managing user security levels, User Account Control (UAC), which was introduced with Vista. UAC is designed to limit the damage that can be caused by mass attacks such as worms by giving standard users limited privileges, a practice common with other operating systems."

Journal Journal: Who runs Iran? 1

Journal by peacefinder on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:24AM

There are some very important questions that folks (including me, in this case) just completely fail to ask. Today's example:

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