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SELinux is the way to go, if you wanna seek pleasure in confinement ;). SELinux is a real cool thing, which gives you the power to confine applications on your desktop. Its always one of my fantasies to have a system, where software only does what it is supposed to do. And SELinux is one such system, where you’ve to precisely define what all an application requires (i.e. its specification), e.g. if it needs to output something on user’s console

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Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. The bid, which would consist of cash and Microsoft stock, values Yahoo shares at $31 a share, a 62% premium on Thursdays closing price.

Michael stated during his appearance on Fox Business this week that Yahoo could face a takeover by Microsoft as part of an ad play, and he was right. Microsoft cites online advertising as being one of the key benefits of the acquisition, saying that “resulting benefits of scale along with the associated capital costs for advertising platform providers make this a time of industry consolidation and convergence. Today this market is increasingly dominated by one player. Together, Microsoft and Yahoo! can offer a competitive choice while better fulfilling the needs of customers and partners.”

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