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From the page: Apple won the court ruling against Mac clone-maker Psystar, but does the outcome really benefit anyone?

"I don't agree that Apple should have the ability to restrict the hardware that I install the Mac OS X software on, but based on the application of existing laws I can understand why Apple won this case. The fact that Apple can leverage existing law to maintain draconian control over how its products are used is a flaw with the laws and their application, not with Apple."

From the page: "Google Inc. and two author and publisher groups submitted a modified version of a controversial settlement over digital books, but it appears likely the fight over the agreement will continue.

The revised pact submitted late Friday would allow Google to distribute millions of digital books online, but would cut the number of works covered by the settlement by at least half by removing millions of foreign works."

From the page: The space shuttle has often been called a pickup truck to orbit, and the next flight of the shuttle Atlantis, scheduled for launching Monday afternoon, lives up to that description.

The Atlantis is lugging up to the International Space Station a cargo bay full of spare parts, including a couple of refurbished gyroscopes, pumps, tanks for ammonia and nitrogen and a piece called the "trailing umbilical system reel assembly" for the railway system that moves the station's robotic arm.

From the page: Novell has released openSUSE 11.2, just a few short weeks after Ubuntu 9.10 - aka Karmic Koala - landed.

The latest version of the operating system clearly signals Novell's intent to scoop up some share of the nascent netbook market.

OpenSUSE 11.2 comes loaded with version 2.6.31 of the Linux kernel, while the default file system of the OS has been switched to the new Ext4. However, support for Ext3 and other file systems is available, too.

Novell has slotted a desktop kernel into the OS for this release and it includes versions of KDE 4.3 and GNOME 2.28.

From the page: "Microsoft has said its new policy of requiring users to accept third party cookies to log out of Hotmail improves security.

We reported the change, which was applied earlier this month, yesterday."

Sounds to me like it would decrease security as there will be more people just closing their browser instead of logging out after using Hotmail.

From the page: "Switzerland's head of federal data protection has announced that he's taking Google to court after the search monolith refused to comply with several privacy requests regarding its Swiss Street View service.

Google incurred the wrath of Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) Hans-Peter Thür back in August, when the service was launched, by not applying sufficient blur to faces and number plates."

From the page: "Details of a sophisticated re-shipping scam that tricked US residents into working as freight-forwarding middlemen for eastern European crooks, have been exposed by security researchers at RSA.

The web-based fraudulent operation received applications from around 1,900 people, hiring 33 marks to take delivery of high-value goods purchased with stolen credit cards and forward them to a warehouse in Latvia. Electronic goods such as iPhones, Sony PlayStation 3 consoles and laptops were among the items dispatched. More than $36,000 worth of merchandise was shipped out every month as part of the scam, which lasted around a year."