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Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC Screenshot-sm 300

Posted by samzenpus from the beware-the-list-refresh dept.
An unnamed man flying from Nigeria to New York City found out he was added to a no-fly list somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean, when the plane stopped to refuel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Officials won't say what he did or why he was added to the list after he had already boarded a flight. He was not immediately charged with a crime and Customs and Border Protection will only say that he is a "potential person of interest." From the article: "The man, a citizen of Gambia, was not on the no-fly list when he boarded the aircraft in Dakar, Senegal, said a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly."

Comment Re:BSD problems (Score 1) 633

by jfrelinger (#24125149) Attached to: Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

I personally prefer the GPL because of the guaranteed perpetual freedom (for users to hack it) that comes with it.

you've just managed to hit my personal pet peeve of the semantics that GPL advocates use in criticizing the BSD license. just because some one else takes a copy of BSD licensed code and makes it proprietary, doesn't mean the original code ceases to exist. If I take a project and license it under the BSD license, it'll always be out there under that license, no matter what happens to derivate works. It doesn't cease to exist in a way that allow people to poke at it and play with it (or even take another copy and run with it). My original code continues to exist. It'll still be there under the BSD license in long run as you put it.
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Submission + - FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Now Available (freebsd.org)

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cperciva writes: "FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, the first release from the new 7-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, has been released. FreeBSD 7.0 brings with it many new features including support for ZFS, journaled filesystems, and SCTP, as well as dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability. In addition to being available from many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

Alienware Admit Trying to Fiddle Reviews 260

Posted by Hemos from the bad-actions dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Alienware seem to have admitted threatening review sites with no future hardware unless positive reviews are written about their products. Hexus.net attempted to obtain a recent Alienware system and were rebuffed in an email claiming that their last review had scuppered the chances of them getting any hardware to review in the future. Follow-up emails confirmed this was part of Alienware's global marketing strategy. " I've read through the whole article and it would appear that the above is what the rep said. Now, granted, one would hope that's one person in that company, but still bad form.

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