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Submission + - Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner (sunshinepress.org) 1

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BountyX
BountyX writes: "First and foremost, wikileaks.org is back up after downtime due to server load; however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, police have raided the home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over internet censorship lists that were leaked two weeks ago. What the Australian government's secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist has anything to do with Germany is a mystery. This case is a prime example of multiple governments collobarating in support of censorship."
GNOME

Submission + - Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by devg
devg writes: The GNOME development community recently announced the official release GNOME 2.26, the latest version of the open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds the Brasero disc burning software, UPnP support in the Totem media player, and basic support for video chat in the Empathy instant messaging client. GNOME 2.26 will be shipped in upcoming Linux distributions, including Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. Some early reviews show that it is an incremental improvement with some good additions. GNOME 2.26 is accompanied by the release of GTK+ 2.16, a new version of the widget toolkit that is used to build the desktop environment. Ars Technica has published a detailed programming tutorial with code examples that demonstrate how developers can use the new features of GTK+ 2.16 in their own applications. Users can test GNOME 2.26 by downloading one of the official Foresight-based VM or ISO images via BitTorrent.

Comment Slack rules! (Score 1) 351

by Sp4c3 C4d3t (#26076449) Attached to: Slackware 12.2 Released
I've been using Slack on various machines for 8 years now, and it's still one of my favourites. I keep it installed on my parents' PC so that I don't have to drive down there every week to fix a Windows virus or a Ubuntu fuckup.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Has a US Nuke Just Been Stolen For Use in the USA? (blogspot.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "n-sphere is linking not just to the posting on The Geronimo Manifesto, in which Chuck Simpson reckons that the recent USAF B-52 blunder ("accidentally" flying across the USA with 5, no wait.... 6, no wait.... 5, nuclear-armed missiles) was in fact a (non-too slick, if you actually stop to PAY ATTENTION) bit of sleight-of-hand, resulting in the theft of a nuke, likely to be used for a "black flag" operation. Expect a city on the US mainland, with a population on the order of 100,000, with a Democrat mayor and in a Democrat-led state, to disappear in a blinding flash of light and a huge EM pulse. Oh and expect to hear that Iran was responsible and thus, Iran should also disappear a bit later, and also in a blinding flash of light and a huge EM pulse, no wait.... 10 blinding flashes....."
X

Submission + - AMD releases initial GPU specs (lwn.net)

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mrcgran
mrcgran writes: "LWN.NET's corbet is reporting today: "As noted by David Airlie, AMD has made an initial set of specifications for ATI graphics processors available. These are 2D specifications, so they are not all that is needed to write a complete graphics driver, but they are a good start.""
Announcements

Submission + - Northwest Passage Now Open

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian is reporting that the Northwest Passage is now navigable due to arctic sea ice melting much faster than previously. This will only continue to get worse next year as the additional open water absorbs more heat and delays the refreezing of the water this winter.
AMD

Submission + - AMD/ATI's opensource efforts revealed

Submitted by mattaw
mattaw writes: Phoronix have revealed in some detail the plan of AMD/ATI to support a community written Radeon opensource driver.

To whit, they are releasing specs and some example code under NDA and an opensource library that connects to the card's BIOS. They already have XOrg developers onboard and have also attracted Jerome Glisse who reverse engineered ATI cards to make the Avivio driver (incidentally probably killing that driver but the new ATI open driver will surely benefit from his excellent work).

While not completely open, this is pretty open for starters, HOWEVER I for one am not certain of things like support for hardware video decoding or extra on board hardware (TV-Out etc.).

Checkout the final comments: "The aim of this open-source driver is not to overtake the fglrx driver but rather is designed for those who just want a working desktop with 3D capabilities and basic video playback. This new driver is ideal for FOSS enthusiasts and those wishing to run the latest development kernels and versions of X.Org."

Still there is no argument that this is a brilliant result.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft coup against iso standards body (www.idg.se)

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bytewize
bytewize writes: "Today the iso standards body here in Sweden has accepted ooxml as a standard. It seems that a number of Microsoft partners joined the body just before the vote and managed to swing the vote in Microsoft's faviour. IBM walked out and refused to vote. If this is what we can expect in the future then the iso standards body might just as well pack up and close shop. Nobody should be able to buy acceptance of a standard. It should become a standard based entirely on its own merits."
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML (os2world.com)

Submitted by CoolCat
CoolCat writes: From the site: "As bad as it sound it currently looks like that the vote that took place at the SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, was a total joke due to the facts that 23 new companies applied to take part of today's voting and most of them in favour of Microsoft agenda. One would think that SIS would not accept new companies to participate in the vote since they haven't been part of the earlier discussions and meetings. But according to SIS they didn't see any problem that new companies wanted to take part in this vote without prior notice. So what happened here is that Microsoft gather together a bunch of loyal partners that would vote yes to their standard without any questions."
Privacy

Submission + - Communits + Technology = Total Surveillance (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Communists are well known for the total disrespect of the human rights for privacy. Chinese government recently woke up to the advances of the surveillance technology available and ordered all large cities to apply technology to police work. In the article http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbu siness/12security.html NY Times reports that while use of surveillance technology in Britain is controversial, China does not have limits on police power and fewer legal protection to its citizens.

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