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733385 submission

Submission + - Non-Christian Sunday school values (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday June 21, 2008 @05:27PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Washington Post has a story about a center which offers Sunday school in a non-Christian format. Rather than centering on just one religion, all religions are studied by the children. Such as languages, various religious cultures and their traditions. As an atheist, I find this type of Sunday class very beneficial to our communities. As it would allow people such as myself to find a place of fellowship on a Sunday morning. In all, building a stronger, kinder community. The story link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002240.html?hpid=artslot"

733309 submission

Submission + - SPAM: NASA, DoD agree: earth's weather pattern changed

Submitted by

destinyland

on Saturday June 21, 2008 @03:35PM

destinyland writes: ""If you think the weather is getting more extreme, you're right," the AP reports, citing a new report from 10 government organizations which included NASA, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation. It's not getting as cold at night as it did in earlier decades, there are fewer nights with frosts, and there's more extreme rain and heat, with an increasing frequency of tropical storms (leading to more and stronger hurricanes). Yesterday it was 116 in Palm Springs, while the heavy rainfall in Iowa used to happen just once every 500 years (and now happen every 15). And "Droughts will get dryer, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with the changing climate," reads another AP report. "Events that have seemed relatively rare will become commonplace, said the latest report...a joint effort of more than a dozen government agencies.""
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733031 submission

Submission + - What is the Best Site for Home Grown Music? 1

Submitted by

anticlone

on Saturday June 21, 2008 @10:26AM

anticlone writes: "I compose and record original music not paying attention to any style convention. Myself and friends are looking for the best site to host our music. Not for money. Not for adoration. Just to publish what we hope is art for others to listen to and meet fellow composers to collaborate with. I have been the route of Trax in Space, Soundclick, MP3.com, lastFM, ModPlug, CTGmusic and others that do not exist anymore like IUMA and BanDB. The Usenet ALT hierarchy is starting to get banned... so the newsgroup I made in 1998 alt.binaries.sounds.music.amateur will soon have even less coverage.... They all have significant drawbacks. Host your own and you'll never meet other people with the size of the web now.... I've done that too. Ideally I we would like to find a host for decent quality MP3 (stream and DL), video (Stream and DL), and graphics that is for non-commercial postings. So far jamendo looks best but has no video and being required to upload raw wavs is rather ridiculous.....and you can -never- delete your music once published there. Has some web entrepreneur done this right and we just don't know about it? As to me... I have degrees in Music (for the night) and Chemistry (for the money), run (unfortunately) Windoze and (happily) Ubuntu, have programmed professionally as a Chemist from assembler to Quick Basic and a few stops in between...."

732967 submission

Submission + - Worthy open source donations?

Submitted by anon mouse-cow-aard on Saturday June 21, 2008 @08:26AM

anon mouse-cow-aard writes: Everyone knows that free software people work for glory, but cash does help with sundry details. If you had a couple of hundred bucks and felt the need to give back to the open source community, where would it do the most good?

728075 submission

Submission + - Django sets up Django Foundation (ostatic.com)

Submitted by ruphus13 on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @01:38PM

ruphus13 writes: Django has followed in the path of the Apache and Mozilla foundation and has set up the Django foundation. From the article, "Foundations are not only about community control, but also about money: With the Django Foundation in place, it will be able to solicit and accept money in an organized fashion, both from companies and individuals. This will allow for everything from donations from grateful developers, to grants from large companies. In addition to allocating staff engineers to open-source projects, corporations such as IBM, Apple, and Sun have given money to open-source foundations in the past. Companies that appreciate Django, and want to donate money to the foundation in order to advance its development, will be able to do so via the foundation." Should they have joined the Python Foundation instead? Will this help 'counter' the Ruby on Rails momentum?

2276495 comment

Comment Re:Meh (Score 3, Informative) 368

by ccr on Sunday June 15, 2008 @11:49PM (#23805937) Attached to: Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced

The POV-Ray version 4.0 has been "informally decided" to be released under GNU GPLv3 by the devteam. Admittably, the release is probably far off in future, since it'll be almost complete rewrite.

528726 submission

Submission + - Finnish Internet censorship (effi.org)

Submitted by

Thomas Nybergh

on Monday February 18, 2008 @04:54PM

Thomas Nybergh writes: "The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation maintains a secret list of "child pornography" sites. Some major Finnish ISPs, although currently not required by law to do so, do block access to sites on this list.

The blocking, which is performed by crippling DNS, has been criticized, especially since lapsiporno.info ("childporn.info"), a site discussing the practice, but not containing any illegal material, was added to the list of blocked sites, despite the fact that only sites hosted outside of Finland are allowed to be blocked (Real child porn sites hosted inside Finland are to be shut down and the maintainers prosecuted).

Quite a lot of other sites that have nothing whatsoever to do with "child pornography" are also on the list, and critics of the practice of crippling DNS say that it's only a matter of time before other inconvenient or controversial material will be censored, too. This article on Electronic Frontier Finland's site is the most adequate summary of the situation available in English."

515972 submission

Submission + - Kid Gives New Meaning to "Flamebait" (wired.com)

Submitted by

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Monday February 11, 2008 @04:57PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "In a move sure to set Jack Thompson's ire ablaze, some dumb kid posted messages asking if he should set a local church on fire to the GameFAQs message board. His post was deleted, but he came back the next day and posted pictures of himself along with details of the fire. He has been taken into custody, but the police have found no motive. Apparently, "just plain stupid" doesn't qualify."

511884 submission

Submission + - Graphical game client brings gamers back to BatMUD (prweb.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08, 2008 @03:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: BatMUD (http://www.bat.org/) reports players getting back and a whole new generation of gamers subscribing on the text-based gaming market through the ease-to-use and familiar graphical game client which ultimately gave the MMORPGs an advantage over their text-based, fantasy rich cousins. Their unique, free to download & play game client runs on all JRE platforms, Windows/Machintosh/Linux included.

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