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Mantaar writes:
Yesterday security forces tasered a Polish man to death at Vancouver Airport. The victim was obviously irritated and angry after his ten-hour-detention. He was unable to communicate with other passengers or the security personel because he did not speak English.
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An anonymous reader writes:
Raiden's Realm has an interesting editorial discussing the future of hardware and how the principles of open source will play a major role in it. With projects such as the Open Bios Project leading the way, open hardware may not be too far away.
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Jacek writes:
Sun's open-source NetBeans IDE (with support for Java, C++, Ruby, SOA/BPEL) will be released under a dual license: CDDL (Sun's open source license) and GPL v2.
More info at this blog entry:
http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_conside ring_gplv2_multilicensed_together
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dlemckert writes:
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light — an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921
According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.
However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory
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rarwes writes:
A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.