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With about three months to go, U.S. regulators say some consumers are still unprepared for the television industry switch to digital broadcasting, which will affect Americans who do not receive their signals through cable or satellite.The federally mandated transition was originally set for February 17, but lawmakers postponed it to June 12 on the theory that people need more time to get ready.

The switch from analog to digital allows broadcasters to send more data efficiently, and also frees up the existing analog spectrum for such uses as cellphone and public-safety radio transmissions.

About a third of the nation’s 1,800 full-power broadcasters switched from analog to digital TV signals on the original February 17 date, though only about 15 percent of the nation’s households were affected.

U.S. gears up for digital TV switch on June 12 | Technology | Reuters

An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed

The company recommends setting the Internet zone security setting to “high” and using access control lists to disable Ole32db.dll to provide the most effective protection against an attack.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10122203-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

an attendee at WinHEC China snuck away with the VHD image (Virtual PC 2004 Virtual Hard Drive) file of Windows 7’s 6956 build and promptly uploaded it to a torrent site.

As expected world+dog are on the case, having a go at it. Unfortunately, the VHD isn’t a bootable disk, but some users have fiddled enough with the virtual disk image and the 6801 build install to create a fully installable ISO.

Torrent chat is reporting users have overcome the non-boot disk issue by using the installer for the 6801 build, and the jury-rigged ISOs are replacing the original VHD on torrent sites as we speak.

Windows 7 Build 6956 torrented - The INQUIRER

Tribune Co has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after struggling under a heavy debt load, according to a court document filed with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware on Monday.The privately held publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, which took on about $13 billion of debt when it went private last year under a deal led by real estate mogul Sam Zell, said in the filing that it had $7.6 billion in assets and $12.97 billion in debt as of December 8.

Tribune files for bankruptcy protection | U.S. | Reuters

Car dealer offers second car for free

Buy one, get one free: it’s a familiar sales pitch for happy-hour cocktails or last season’s fashions, but now a Belgian car dealer is luring customers with just that line.

Antwerp-based Cardoen, which sells about 10,000 new and nearly new cars per year, started the promotion at the end of November and said it would run until December 15.

During that period, customers can choose from a range of new, full-price cars — the cheapest being a 22,800 euro ($28,930) Hyundai van — and then pick a second free vehicle from a selection that goes up to 14,000 euros.

“People have been coming in from all over Belgium and abroad,” Cardoen’s Commercial Director Ivo Willems said, adding that Cardoen’s eight showrooms had seen more than 10 times their usual number of visitors since the promotion began.

Car dealer offers second car for free | Oddly Enough | Reuters

Way to go. ..good allocation of Foreign Aid ….gawd…

In a ceremony attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo told the press that his 16,000-square-foot ceiling artwork reminded him of “an image of the world dripping toward the sky” — but it reminded critics of money slipping out of relief coffers.

“In Spain there’s a controversy because they took money out of the foreign aid budget — took money from starving children in Africa — and spent it on colorful stalactites,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch.

FOXNews.com - Foreign Aid Money Spent on $23 Million Art Ceiling at U.N. Human Rights Council - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News