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Microsoft

Submission + - China might be another hurdle in MS yahoo bid (iht.com)

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wattrlz
wattrlz writes: "
Microsoft's hostile-takeover attempt against Yahoo may encounter an unexpected hurdle in August after a Chinese antimonopoly law takes effect that will extend the nation's economic influence far beyond its borders...Nathan Bush, an antitrust law specialist with O'Melveny & Myers in Beijing, said the law represented the ascendance of China "as another regulatory capital contending for influence with Brussels and Washington."
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Enlightenment

Submission + - Virtuosic scientists shatter virii with laser (wired.com)

Submitted by wattrlz
wattrlz writes: In a development reminiscent of nineteenth century pseudo-science the father-son team of Kong Thon and Shaw Wei Tsen recently demonstrated that the tobacco mosaic virus can be destroyed in vitro by nano-scale mechanical resonant vibrations induced by repeated ultra-short pulses from a laser. The total energy required is reportedly far below the threshold for human tissue damage and the technique should generalize to human pathogens.
Spam

Submission + - Russian mob doesn't like spam either. (rlslog.net)

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wattrlz
wattrlz writes: "Apparently the current champion of v1*gr4 spamming solicitted some of the wrong email boxes. Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palacial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands on method of system administration are staggering."

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