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Submission + - Aussies to tell US gov't: Wikileaks != terrorists (getup.org.au)

Submitted by Malvineous
Malvineous writes: Australian political activist group GetUp, unhappy with the Prime Minister of Australia labelling Wikileaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange "illegal", has decided to step up and tell the US government what they feel the Australian government has not:

Australia and the United States are the strongest of allies. Our soldiers serve side by side and we’ve experienced, and condemned, the consequences of terrorism together. To label Wikileaks a terrorist organisation is an insult to those Australians and Americans who have lost their lives to acts of terrorism and to terrorist forces.

They are calling for donations to run advertisements with this message in the Washington Times and the New York Times. If you support the work of Wikileaks, you can help fund the ads.

Submission + - Wikiwar: blow by blow (securecomputing.net.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While the northern hemisphere media outlets slumber, SC Magazine in Australia keeps updating the unfolding cyber civil war that pitches Anonymous against those arrayed against Wikileaks and its publisher, Julian Assange.

Submission + - Why WikiLeaks matters, and why politicians hate it (truthdig.com)

Submitted by NatasRevol
NatasRevol writes: Why WikiLeaks matters,from Robert Schneer: "Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Feinstein, who strongly supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, has the audacity to call for the imprisonment of the man who, more than any other individual, has allowed the public to learn the truth about those disastrous imperial adventures-"facts long known to Feinstein as head of the Intelligence Committee but never shared with the public she claims to represent....She knew in real time that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack, yet she voted to send young Americans to kill and be killed based on what she knew to be lies. It is her duplicity, along with the leaders of both political parties, that now stands exposed by the WikiLeaks documents. "
Intel

Submission + - Goodbye, VGA (intel.com)

Submitted by
jones_supa
jones_supa writes: "Leading PC companies have expressed their will to finally start kicking out legacy display interfaces. Intel plans to end support of LVDS in 2013 and VGA in 2015 in its PC client processors and chipsets. While the large installed base of existing VGA monitors and projectors will likely keep VGA on PC back panels beyond 2015, PC and display panel makers are in strong support of this transition. The DisplayPort connector interface provides backwards and forwards compatibility by supporting VGA and DVI output via certified adapters, while also providing new capabilities such as single connector multi-monitor support."
Government

Submission + - Yo' Mama So Fat, She On Data.Gov

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Wired offered an exclusive sneak peek at the Obama administration’s redesigned Data.gov, which celebrated its first birthday Friday. The site's live now, so you can check out the redesign, including showcased apps like the National Obesity Comparison Tool, which uses government data to track low consumption of fruits and vegetables, lack of exercise and tobacco smoking by your fellow citizens, in addition to their obesity.
Open Source

Submission + - Is this a way around the GPL? 4

Submitted by Malvineous
Malvineous writes: I have two devices, from two different companies (who shall remain nameless, but both are very large and well known) which run Linux-based firmware. The companies release all their source code to comply with the GPL, however neither of them include a build environment or firmware utilities with the code. This means that if you want to alter the free software on the device, you can't — there is no way to build a firmware image or install it on the devices in question, effectively rendering the source code useless.

I have approached the companies directly and while one of them acknowledges that they are not fully GPL compliant, due to other license restrictions they cannot make their build environment public, and they do not have the resources to rewrite it. I have approached the FSF but their limited resources are tied up pursuing more blatant violations (where no code at all is being released.)

Meanwhile I am stuck with two devices that only work with Internet Explorer, and although I have the skills to rewrite each web interface, I have no way of getting my code running on the devices themselves.

Have these companies found a convenient way to use GPL code, whilst preventing their customers from doing the same?
Space

Submission + - Air Force sets date to fly Mach-6 scramjet (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its 14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25. The unmanned X-51A is expected to fly autonomously for five minutes, after being released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern coast of California. The Waverider is powered by a supersonic combustion scramjet engine, and will accelerate to about Mach 6 as it climbs to nearly 70,000 feet. Once flying the X-51 will transmit vast amounts of data to ground stations about the flight, then splash down into the Pacific. There are no plans to recover the flight test vehicle, one of four built, the Air Force stated.

Comment Re:Yes, but it may not mean what you think it mean (Score 1) 504

by Malvineous (#32201396) Attached to: Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work?

But what happens if I release a GPL'd library, and your company uses it in their product? Once they have split and distributed the source + binary to the spinoff company, this means a program using my GPL'd library has been distributed. Does that mean I, as the library author, am also entitled to a copy of your source?
Space

Submission + - NASA releases half-hour video tour of the ISS

Submitted by Malvineous
Malvineous writes: Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke has recently filmed a high-definition 35-minute video tour aboard the International Space Station. For those who missed the HD broadcast on NASA TV, the video is available (albeit not in HD) on YouTube.
Space

Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus 73

Posted by kdawson from the brothers-under-the-skin dept.
goran72 sends along a report on a radical new theory of planet formation that suggests that Mars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus. The theory has testable predictions — for example that the compositions of the rocky inner planets should be more similar than the current theory of planet formation would have them.

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