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Submission + - Linux machines unable to connect to Eclipse reposi (blogspot.com)

Submitted by zvrk
zvrk writes: Eclipse 3.5 as shipped by eclipse.org on Ubuntu 10.4 is unable to connect to Eclipse repositories to install, update or do anything else. The culprit seems to be IPv6 in Linux, and a way to fix it is to disable it or tell java to ignore it.
Idle

Submission + - Adultery is punishable by caning in Malaysia. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by reporter
reporter writes: According to a report from the BBC, the Islamic government of Malaysia has just caned 3 women whom an Islamic court determined to be "guilty" of adultery. Also, an Islamic court has determined that a 4th woman is "guilty" of drinking beer and has sentenced her to caning.
Microsoft

Submission + - Happy 10th birthday, Active Directory (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
bednarz
bednarz writes: "Ten years ago today, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Now the software is an integral part of nearly every corporate network and stands ready for its next frontier: public and private clouds."
Google

Submission + - Wikimedia Foundation receives $2m Google grant (itnews.com.au) 3

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: Google has donated US$2m to the Wikimedia Foundation. The funds will go toward improving Wikipedia and investing in technical infrastructure to support increasing traffic and capacity demands, according to reports.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the donation recognised the long-term alignment and friendship between the two organisations, and a shared goal of "making the Internet better for everyone".
Mozilla

Submission + - Mozilla Debates Whether to Trust Chinese CA | Free (freedom-to-tinker.com)

Submitted by timothy
timothy writes: At this Freedom to Tinker blog, Ed Felton has a thoughtful, accessible piece on the debate at Mozilla about whether Firefox, by default, should trust a Chinese certificate authority. Felton explains in clear language why this is significant, therefore controversial. An excerpt: 'To see why this is worrisome, let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, that CNNIC were a puppet of the Chinese government. Then CNNIC's status as a trusted CA would give it the technical power to let the Chinese government spy on its citizens' "secure" web connections. If a Chinese citizen tried to make a secure connection to Gmail, their connection could be directed to an impostor Gmail site run by the Chinese government, and CNNIC could give the impostor a cert saying that the government impostor was the real Gmail site.'
Privacy

Submission + - Eric Schmidt to user - It is all your fault

Submitted by pcause
pcause writes: Seems that Eric Schmidt thinks that there was nothing wrong with Buzz and that it was just "confused" users that were the problem. Just when they begin to dig out of the mess, the CEO blames the users for being clueless instead of taking responsibility for a mistake that has forever shown that Google's "do no evil" was, to quote Steve Jobs, "bulls**t". Users understood that Google was violating our privacy to advance its business. He is right that we didn't udnerstand one thing at all — why these privacy violations for Google's profits were good for us.
Medicine

Woman Seeks Husband For Health Insurance 5

Posted by samzenpus from the protecting-the-sanctity-of-health-care dept.
kkleiner writes "Terri Carlson is willing to marry you for your healthcare. This 45-year-old woman suffers from a genetic condition, C4 Complement Deficiency, which causes her body to attack itself (similar to Lupus). Faced with skyrocketing health costs, and unable to get insurance (she's currently on COBRA), Terri did the only thing she could do: she built a website and got on YouTube. Carlson's situation challenges the courts under a statute already on the books: GINA. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 keeps insurance companies from using genetic data to deny you coverage."

Comment Re:Divergent Interests (Score 2) 164

by zvrk (#30520022) Attached to: Best Open Source Business Tools?

"In my opinion, the law in general is written by lawyers for lawyers, and they have little or no interest in making it as simple and easy to understand as possible, especially for laymen."

Don't you think lawyers think same about software: "the software in general is written by software developers for software developers, and they have little or no interest in making it as simple and easy to understand as possible, especially for layman."

More and more I think law is a form of covering edge cases in archaic language that is well defined in court. One can say that software has a lot of similarities with law.

my 2c

Submission + - Google Maps with Path report added. (sourceforge.net) 1

Submitted by SF:iceraj
SF:iceraj writes: Google Maps with Path allows you to create report that only list sub-paths of the site. This may be useful to distinguish between different projects hosted on the same site and to analyse their popularity and how widespread they are across the globe. Can not deploy on Google AppEngine as their deployment is failing... http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/478da10e9ea77a42#
Google

Google Launches Public DNS Resolver 540

Posted by timothy from the their-interest-is-understandable dept.
AdmiralXyz writes "Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record prefetching to avoid cache misses — hopefully making the service faster — and implements a variety of techniques to block spoofing attempts. They also say that (unlike an increasing number of ISPs), Google Public DNS behaves exactly according to the DNS standard, and will not redirect you to advertising in the event of a failed lookup. Very cool, but of course there are questions about Google's true motivations behind knowing every site you visit."
Games

AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint 125

Posted by Soulskill from the gaming-for-all dept.
eldavojohn writes "Early last month a visually impaired gamer sued Sony under the Americans with Disabilities Act (and if you think that people with disabilities don't play games, think again). The AbleGamers Foundation has decided to step forward and provide a rating system for games that blends together a number of factors to determine a score with regard to accessibility. Visual, hearing, motion, closed captioning, speed settings, difficulty settings and even colorblindness options are all taken into account when compiling these scores and reviewing these games."
Windows

Submission + - So Much For XP Loyalty: Windows 7 Share's Big Grab (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net Applications showed. By Net Applications' numbers, Windows 7's gains were primarily at the expense of Windows XP. For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped for the new OS. Meanwhile, Apple's Mac OS X lost share during November ... betcha Ballmer is having an extra giddy time with that news too. Hold on, however, Steve. Linux came up a winner last month, returning to the 1% share mark for the first time since July. Linux's all-time high in Net Applications' rankings was May 2009, when it nearly reached 1.2%.

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