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Submission + - Ubuntu Satanic Edition 10.04 (Lucifer’s Legi (desktoplinuxreviews.com)

Submitted by JimLynch
JimLynch writes: It has been ages since I delved into the nightmarish and barbaric world of Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Much has changed since I first dared to install it back when I worked for ExtremeTech. Is Ubuntu Satanic Edition still as evil as it used to be? Find out in this review as I take you on a journey into the dark side of Ubuntu Linux. Together we’ll explorethe distro of the beast!
Science

Submission + - Qualcomm Bets on Augmented Reality

Submitted by goG
goG writes: Qualcomm is pushing augmented reality hard — $125,000 worth, if you can develop mobile phone applications with it. That's the offer Qualcomm made to developers who can design the "most effective, entertaining and functional application" of augmented reality, or AR. But that may be a small price to pay if Qualcomm is right about its bet that AR will be the next big thing in mobile technology.

Comment Blame AT&T (Score 0) 1

by gauharjk (#32772440) Attached to: iPhone 4 - Apple's OFFICIAL response
The main reason why Apple gets all the hate is its AT&T network, which wrecks the beautiful iPhone. Now Apple says the signal strength on iPhones was fake! Does that imply that AT&T network is worse than we imagined it was? I don't think other phones on the ATT network drop as many calls as the old iPhones did. I suspect Apple is trying to cover-up a defective hardware design.
Open Source

Submission + - Finding Open Source Projects Looking for Help 1

Submitted by aus
aus writes: I've been doing web development for about 10 years now. It's been very good to me, but I want to do more that write HTML, PHP, Javascript and CSS. Since the job market isn't all that great right now in the US, it would seem that volunteering some time on an open source project would give me the satisfaction I'm looking for. The problem is finding a project that wants/needs help that I would also be interested in. I've tried browsing around on sourceforge and freshmeat...is there a site somewhere that I'm not aware of that has classifieds where open source project maintainers post "job" listings?
Apple

Submission + - Apple Software Update to Fix iPhone4 Signal (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by dogmatixpsych
dogmatixpsych writes: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the drop in signal when holding some iPhone4s is due to a software glitch in how the phone displays signal strength: "'Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don't know it because we are erroneously displaying four or five bars,' Apple said. 'Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.'"

Submission + - Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by rdnetto
rdnetto writes: After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.
Politics

Submission + - New study reveals media's servitude to government (salon.com)

Submitted by gauharjk
gauharjk writes: A newly released study (PDF) from students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials. This new study examines how waterboarding has been discussed by America's four largest newspapers over the past 100 years, and finds that the technique, almost invariably, was unequivocally referred to as "torture" — until the U.S. Government began openly using it and insisting that it was not torture, at which time these newspapers obediently ceased describing it that way
Communications

Submission + - What will Windows Phone 7 mean for apps?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: recombu.com has taken an interesting look at what Windows Phone 7 means for apps and what challenges it will face. Will Windows Phone be able to attract consumers and developers, for example, and when the app bubble pops where will it stand? "Microsoft has a plan though; it doesn't want to just offer you the same app experience you get on a myriad of other handsets or a homescreen chockablock with app icons. It's not too keen on you having to use apps one at a time either, manually clicking in and out of each app. The way Microsoft talks, you'd think it was a huge chore to open an app, not a quick press of the screen in the appropriate place. Still, we're all for re-thinking the app, and Microsoft's take has it integrated into your handset, running all the time on your homescreen. This goes beyond push notifications; it's more like a series of interlocking widgets — a system Microsoft is calling 'live tiles'."
Politics

Submission + - Indian Gov threatens BlackBerry, Skype with ban 1

Submitted by gauharjk
gauharjk writes: India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has been asked by the government to serve a notice to Skype and Research In Motion (RIM) to ensure that their email and other data services comply with formats that can be read by security and intelligence agencies, or face a ban in India if they do not comply within 15 days. A similar notice is also being sent to Google asking it to provide access to content on Gmail in a readable format.

India has never really grown out of the communist-fascist bureaucratic culture where the government has ultimate power.
The Internet

Submission + - Finland makes broadband a 'legal right' (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.

From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.
Censorship

Submission + - Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am travelling to China sometime in the near future, and needless to say as a Slashdot reader I am going to require access to the internet. The whole, unadulterated, unfiltered internet. Also needless to say, I am very scared of the government there(my lack of a nickname on this submission being testament to that). I will only be there for a few weeks, and will not be using the computer for a large amount of time there, so I don't want to shell out a significant amount of money to a VPN service. However I also do not want to be hindered by extremely slow speeds such as those provided by the Tor network. I have experience implementing web servers and work fairly often with Linux, however many of my friends who also face the same dilemma don't. So Slashdot, what would be the most cost effective(free is best!) method for me to subvert the Great Firewall during my travels while maintaining sufficient anonymity and enjoying sufficient speed?
Science

Submission + - Design Earthquake Resistant Buildings (architectjaved.com)

Submitted by gauharjk
gauharjk writes: Earthquake Resistant Buildings and Structures can save lives and private property. Earthquakes kill thousands of people every year. Buildings can be made safer for habitation by using earthquake resistant techniques.

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