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Submission + - China Launches first Moon Orbiter

Submitted by hey0you0guy on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @08:24AM

hey0you0guy writes: China has launched its first lunar orbiter, on a planned year-long exploration mission to the Moon. Analysts say it is a key step towards China's aim of putting a man on the Moon by 2020, in the latest stage of an Asian space race with Japan and India. Earlier this month, a Japanese lunar probe entered orbit around the Moon. India is planning a lunar mission for April next year.

Submission + - Adverts mysteriously appended to YouTube clips

Submitted by hey0you0guy on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:45AM

hey0you0guy writes: In the past few days copyrighted clips of shows have been edited to include advertisements for Gawker Media. These clips have been uploaded to the video sharing site YouTube by a user going by the handle Belowtheradar. These clips are also being linked to by the company advertised. "Gawker.com, for example, on Thursday featured a YouTube clip from ABC's talk show The View. At the beginning of the video, there is an ad for Gawker. On Wednesday, Valleywag posted a link to a video of television satirist Stephen Colbert talking about Wikipedia. At the beginning of that video there is an ad for Valleywag, a blog dedicated to Silicon Valley gossip." Most of the copyright holders, which range from Viacom-owned Comedy Central to NBC and even Apple, were contacted by CNET News.com on Thursday and most said they would need time to evaluate the YouTube clips and the ads in them before commenting. Two content owners, however, said that they never gave permission for their videos to be used in such a way.

Submission + - Microsoft Security Center versus Third Parties

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on Tuesday September 19, 2006 @04:31PM

hey0you0guy writes: "The large security firms such as Symantec and McAfee want Microsoft to allow them to easily replace Microsofts proprietary Windows Security Center. Microsoft is refusing these requests. "By imposing the Windows Security Center on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at security," Bruce McCorkendale, a chief engineer at Symantec, said in an interview. "How do we trust that Microsoft knows what all the important things about security are to warn users about?" Given Microsofts past, with vast piles of security flaws and patches, they should at least cooperate with these companies. A dispute still exists over "PatchGuard," a security feature that Microsoft says is designed to guard core parts of the 64-bit version of Vista, but which critics say locks out helpful software from security rivals."

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