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Submission + - Microsoft Looking at Emacs for .Net (eweek.com)

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eweekhickins
eweekhickins writes: "Microsoft is working on a project that would essentially bring the functionality of the Emacs text editor to .Net. The Emacs text editor has been around for years, developed in 1976 by free software advocate Richard Stallman. Now, enter Microsoft. Mike Sax, a developer and president of Sax Software Corp., Eugene, Ore., said "The interesting part is that instead of putting it into the 'everything and the kitchen sink' Visual Studio, they may be going for a much lighter set of tools that more closely resemble the Unix toolset.""
Censorship

Submission + - Russia to go all Cyrillic for DNS? (guardian.co.uk) 1

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An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian reports that the Kremlin may start an alternate top-level domain: .rf. According to the story, .ru in Cyrillic translates to .py, the top-level domain for Paraguay, which the Russian government feels leads to confusion. This is similar to a move by China, which has their own .net and .com top-level domains in their native character set along with .cn, .com, and .net in ASCII. Will .ru go the way of .su? Will this new top-level domain make it more difficult for phishers and spammers and scammers? Will this give the Russian government more control over the registration process and ultimately lead to censorship?
Communications

Submission + - Dixero, the free service 2.0 that read RSS feed (dixero.com)

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elenaaa
elenaaa writes: "I found a really cool website: the name is Dixero. With this service (It's free) you can listen the RSS feed. I have read also the blog that contains more information, they create an original way to explain what is Dixero. The service will launch in 11 days, but I tried the podcast channel... It's interesting."
Media

Submission + - Dvorak gets it...

Submitted by kristjansson
kristjansson writes: Dvorak rants about the latest bits of outrage from the RIAA and the trend towards making any sort of copying illegal.
Social Networks

Submission + - Social Media is changing. 2008 will bring more. (socialnewswatch.com)

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0Boy
0Boy writes: "On the internet, change is part of the definition. In social media, changes are happening literally by the minute. 2008 promises to show humungous growth and an incredible amount of change for major and minor social media websites."
Books

Journal SPAM: Digital Astrophotography - Review

Journal by stoolpigeon

In the 80's there were a series of commercials for Reeses Peanut Butter Cups that revolved around the theme of accidental meetings between chocolate and peanut butter. The individuals would realize that the two tastes that they loved separately were even better together. Two great loves for many card carrying geeks are digital photography and astronomy. "
Education

Submission + - One-Laptop-Per-Child application development

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This OLPC (One-Laptop-Per-Child) tutorial teaches you how to develop Python activities for the XO laptop. It covers the ins and outs of Sugar (the XO user interface, or UI) and the details behind activity development. You will also learn about Python programming, Sugar application program interfaces (APIs) for Python, and platform emulation with QEMU. Learn OLPC application development and help the worlds children.
Wii

Submission + - Nintendo Wii Fully Exploited

Submitted by Croakyvoice
Croakyvoice writes: The 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress was the launchpad for the unveiling of the hacking of the Nintendo Wii via an exploit to allow homebrew to run in native Wii mode ( previously only Gamecube Homebrew was available on the Wii) which will allow access to the Wiimote, WiFi and SD Cart Slot. Tehskeen a Wii scene site has today posted an interview with the author of the exploit who has discussed the release to the public and linux amongst other things.
Republicans

Submission + - Has Fox News Excluded Ron Paul?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From the official campaign website:


ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA — According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.

"Given Ron Paul's support in New Hampshire and his recent historic fundraising success, it is outrageous that Dr. Paul would be excluded," said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "Dr. Paul has consistently polled higher in New Hampshire than some of the other candidates who have been invited."

Snyder continued, "Paul supporters should know that we are continuing to make inquiries with Fox News as to why they have apparently excluded Dr. Paul from this event."


Please do not contact that New Hampshire GOP. This may not be the GOP's choice.
Businesses

Submission + - Now Musicians Have Options Says Talking Head

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Time Slows Down
Time Slows Down writes: "Scottish born musician and former record label owner David Byrne says the future of music as a career is wide open and identifies six different distribution models now available to musicians in an article in this month's Wired magazine. At one end of the scale is the 360, or equity deal, where every aspect of the artist's career is handled by producers, promoters, marketing people, and managers. At the other end of the scale is the self-distribution model, where the music is self-produced, self-written, self-played, and self-marketed. Between these two extremes lie four other models (the standard distribution deal, the license deal, the profit-sharing deal, and the manufacturing and distribution deal) that offer different levels of artist control. "No single model will work for everyone," says Bryne. "There's room for all of us. In the recent past, it often seemed like all or nothing, but maybe now we won't be forced to choose.""
Education

Submission + - Teaching Programming to Your Kids 2

Submitted by flaming error
flaming error writes: What languages/platforms and teaching techniques have you successfully used to introduce your children to computer programming?
The Courts

Submission + - RIAA-fighting Maine law professor speaks out

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In a fascinating interview with Jon Newton of p2pnet, Prof. Deirdre Smith of the University of Maine Law School's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, which is the first law school legal clinic in the U.S. to have taken on the RIAA, says that "our students are enthusiastic about being directly connected to a case with a national scope and significance". She went on to say that the case (Arista v. Does 1-27 (Portland, ME)) is probably one of the first intellectual property cases the clinic has ever taken on, and that if it proceeds further, she expects to also "draw on the considerable expertise in IP among members of our faculty and the Maine Center for Law and Innovation, another program of the Law School". Congratulations to the University of Maine School of Law for giving its law students the opportunity for hands-on experience fighting the RIAA's effort to rewrite copyright law."
Quickies

Submission + - Unsocial bookmarking site beta (links4later.com)

Submitted by KevMS
KevMS writes: Surfing multiple news aggregator and social bookmarking sites like slashdot and digg, at both home and work, and tediously having to email links we found at work to home and vice versa, inspired us to create a "unsocial" bookmarking site. We borrowed from the ideas of del.icio.us and backflip, but then stripped away everything social and web2.0, like sharing, and tag clouds, and added the ability to add a link without visiting it (for NSFW sites and slashdotted sites) using the firefox or IE addon. Come enjoy its minimalist interface and send some feedback, but don't ask for too many features, we wan't to keep it simple.
Television

Submission + - Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" to return (discovery.com)

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Epeeist
Epeeist writes: "In 1980, the landmark series COSMOS premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen the series. Now the Science Channel brings the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning COSMOS back, digitally remastered and with enhanced computer graphics."
Censorship

Submission + - Happy XMAS Jack!%+! Thompson as GTA case dismissed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Gamepolitics.com is reporting that highly respected slashdot comedian Jack Thompson has sadly received a most unwelcome christmas present in the form of the dismisal of his GTA Lawsuit against Take Two Interactive and Sony. more here. Oh dear! Whatever next the removal of the _(attorney) part of his Wikipedia URL? Keep those fingers crossed, eh folks? :)

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