Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 13, 2006 at 1:23:22 PM
Afgans sell stolen army USB drive. Nice security.
And, of course, the NJ governor screws over the state by taxing digital downloads.
Microsoft gets the ball rolling on OS partitioning. I remember using VPS on Linux a few years ago.
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The agency said its reporter bought several disks from the Bagram market, some of which contained confidential information about US soldiers. One file reportedly described the type of training a group of soldiers had received. Another file is said to have contained a manual for flying the US military's Chinook helicopter.
And, of course, the NJ governor screws over the state by taxing digital downloads.
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New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, proposed in his budget that "downloaded music and videos" be taxed starting Oct. 1. The state tax agency expects legislation to be introduced in June. Taxpayer advocates have criticized the trend toward increased taxation of downloaded media files. (This is a separate debate from the one dealing with taxation on items purchased via the Internet but delivered in physical form.)
Microsoft gets the ball rolling on OS partitioning. I remember using VPS on Linux a few years ago.
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Now, a newer variety of virtualization is emerging that employs a lighter-weight approach so that a single operating system can be sliced into independent sections. While details of the concept are just beginning to emerge, it's likely only a matter of time before it shows up in Windows and Linux. "It's something any operating system vendor has to have," said Serguei Beloussov, chief executive of software maker SWsoft, whose products enable the lightweight approach.