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Submission + - Pedophile Social Networking Site Goes Online

An anonymous reader writes: Billing itself as the "first-ever child-love social network" ToyBOX purports to allow pedophiles to seek each other out to share "that wonderful affection for the littler ones" by way of blogs, forums and chat groups. With all the recent discussion over the Illinois prohibition of Sex Offenders from participating in social networking sites, is this the beginnings of a constitutional challenge in the making? Or is it a sign of something more sinister?

How will it be possible to know whether these pedophiles are simply talking about the latest child actor or plotting to commit the next Jaycee Lee Dugard attack? Are there some groups who simply should not be allowed access to social networking? Not even the pedophiles themselves think the site will last--a sign of danger on the horizon?
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Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation 344

darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source (OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now it's adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right, the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?"
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Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net Screenshot-sm 406

inject_hotmail.com writes "The results are in: it's faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."

Comment Re:Looks Like a Duck (Score 1) 410

While Microsoft has never made anything "cool" on their first try, they have made some really nice stuff, especially for developers. While people say that Vista and Win7 are copied from OSX, it's kinda true- but there are things like jump lists and other new Win7 Aero things (which have a practical purpose) that no one's implemented before.

And at least they don't shove people into a DRM-locked walled garden of media and limited phones.

Microsoft products are infinitely more open and flexible than Apple's eye-candy-yet-in-all-honesty-not-very-useful devices. Sure Apple stuff looks nice and feels intuitive, but I love my Windows phone's functionality, even if the UI looks like puke.

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