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Submission + - Texas makes green computing mandatory (state.tx.us)

athloi writes: "The Texas House and Senate have both passed an identical version of a bill that requires computer manufacturers to provide a "reasonably convenient" recycling plan that requires no additional payments from consumers. Dell and HP provided some model legislation that was used as the basis for the bill, which if signed, would join similar initiatives already passed in more liberal states like Minnesota and California.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070611-texa s-legislature-passes-dell-backed-computer-recyclin g-bill.html

Go Texas!"

Graphics

Submission + - Microsoft move could be the end of the JPEG

jcatcw writes: "Microsoft Corp. will submit a new photo format to an international standards organization. The format, HD Photo (formerly known as Windows Media Photo), can accommodate lossless and lossy compression. Microsoft claims that adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bit-map formats."
Spam

Journal Journal: Alleged spammer tries to take Spamhaus.org, foiled

Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but fa

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