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Slackware 12.2 Released 351

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 11, 2008 @09:46AM from the hiya-patrick dept.

pilsner.urquell submitted a quote from the announcement saying "Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.1) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user."

Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns 658

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @06:28PM from the gap-resistent-to-bridging dept.

Chris_Keene writes in to let us know that the Prof. Michael Reiss, who recently caused a storm with comments about teaching creationism in schools, has resigned from his post as director of education at the Royal Society in the UK. This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church."

Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes 892

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 14, 2008 @02:45PM from the less-than-intelligently-designed-proposal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Reverend Professor Michael Reiss, a biologist and Anglican priest, is the education director for the Royal Society, the venerable British science institution. He recently called for creationism to be discussed in science classes, not just in religion or philosophy classes. Science journals reacted with a world of 'WTF' and the Royal Society backpedaled furiously. Now Nobel laureates are gathering to get him fired: 'The thing the Royal Society does not appreciate is the true nature of the forces arrayed against it and the Enlightenment for which the Royal Society should be the last champion.' The blogs, of course, are loving it."

Submission + - Internet Censorship in Paraguay

Submitted by

der_alte

on Friday April 11, 2008 @01:18AM

der_alte writes: "A few days to presidential elections in Paraguay, the official party at government began dns-hijacking sistematically a number of websites they consider "objectionable content". Those sites are run by another political party and contains mainly strong criticism to well known politicians involved in embarrasing corruption acts.
The official party, the Partido Colorado (ANR), had doomed this little country since 1954, and currently have little chance of continuing in the power without resorting to massive electoral fraud.
The government has a monopoly on Internet fiber access in Paraguay, and there's no practicable way to reach the outside world without passing trough the COPACO infraestructure, wich is the statal telecomunications company. As a side note, the Internet access in Paraguay is probably the most expensive in the region, with a penetration of roughly 4% and a population of 6 million people.
Currently there are reports of four hijacked domains: www.partidocolorado.org and www.victorbogado.com (diverted to www.anr.org.py), www.bastacarajo.com and www.patriaquerida.org (diverted to porn sites).
The issue was notified to the ICANN and other authorities."

Submission + - Free Speech (tocorre.com)

Submitted by

Luis Benitez

on Thursday April 10, 2008 @11:35PM

Luis Benitez writes: "In electoral times COPACO the statal telecomunication company of Paraguay decide to censore the Internet, as they can.

This company has a monopoly over the International Fiber access of all comunication over the Internet. Every single mail has to pass their infraestructure to reach its destiny.

But theses are electoral times in Paraguay, the "Partido Colorado" is ruling this litle south american country since 1954. Now they have truly chances to lose the national election on april 20th. A little party that is running against this stablishment is "Partido Patria Querida". They have a page outside Paraguay, on the Internet, but all customer at COPACO see a porn site if they try to access this page. This is a dns high jacking issue. (you can dig at ns1.copaco.com.py and any other dns server over the Internet and see by yourself)

COPACO is doing the same with other domains www.victorbogado.com is redirected to www.anr.org.py, www.partidocolorado.org is redirected to www.anr.org.py, www.bastacarajo.com is redirected to a porn site, maybe others?).

With this no only in China the local goverment is censoring the access to Internet, in South America is doing the same as well.

This is the way the local goverment understand how to manage the Internet."

Submission + - Hijacking political adversaries domains

Submitted by psanta on Thursday April 10, 2008 @10:51PM

psanta writes: Apparently, China is not the only country censoring Internet access. In Paraguay, South America, the ruling party owns the biggest ISP in the country, and they are hijacking political adversaries domains to prevent its huge customer base to access their sites.
These domains are bastacarajo.com, www.partidocolorado.org and www.victorbogado.com. If any regular DNS server is queried, the correct answer is given back. However, if using ISP's DNS server (201.217.1.230), they are claiming themselves being the Authority for that domain and redirecting all the traffic to the government's party official website in some cases and to pornographic sites in others.
What are the entities should ISP's user file a formal complain with? ICANN? IANA?

Comment Three disagreements with TFA (Score 1) 612

by sombragris on Thursday January 10, 2008 @12:10PM (#21984906) Attached to: The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time

1. C-64 had a bad keyboard? C'mon, get real. The C-64/Vic-20 had one of the greatest keyboards of its class. The only one that could be considered as better was that of the Apple IIe and THAT was way more expensive. I had no problem typing from one.

2. How come that a list of the 10 worst keyboards of all time fails to mention the utterly horrible keyboard of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum??? (*shudder*)

3. "Modern" $5 keyboards (and a lot of the more expensive models) seriously belong to any list of the world's worst keyboards. Fragile keys, keys such as "power off" and "suspend" placed in the traditional place of Insert/Home/PgUp, just begging to be accidentally pressed; crappy Windows keys, and a general lack of reliability... and they don't make the list?? PLEASE!

P.S.: The original IBM PC keyboard was also widely despised for having a key between Shift and Z, thus surprising a lot of touch typists.

Bookmark Project Managers, at $84K, Are Best-Paid IT Consultants (baselinemag.com)

by lgroner on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @12:01PM

Submission + - Desktop Search on Windows Updates (bizzeh.com) 1

Submitted by

Bizzeh

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @12:00PM

Bizzeh writes: "KB917013 has apeared on the windows update optional software section, which is Windows Desktop Season 3.01. It seems microsoft are hoping to trick foolish users who just select all updates into having windows desktop search."

Feed New Scientist: Vibrating mice may hold obesity clue (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:52AM

Time on a vibrating platform may reduce the rate at which fat cells develop in mice, suggests research, but some are sceptical of the findings

Feed The Register: Ubuntu's latest OS not so Gutsy (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:52AM

Gibbon monkeys around with web access

Ubuntu fanboys have been crying into their beers after discovering internet connection problems with Canonical's latest open source Linux distribution operating system, dubbed the Gutsy Gibbon.

Submission + - Allowed to listen to music while coding? 3

Submitted by

hbean

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:46AM

hbean writes: "Hi everyone out there in the /. world. A while ago (almost 6 years now) my company stopped allowing us to listen to music while we programmed, saying it was a distraction and kept us from being productive. Recently we've been undertaking efforts trying to get them to allow us to again. We've found a few studies on the topic of programming and the benefits of listening to music on concentration and ability to stay on task. We presented this to our supervisor and now he's asking for more evidence that other large companies allow their programmers to listen to music while working. We're looking for any help we can get, and maybe some documentation to back it up. Thanks!"

Submission + - Anti File Sharing Laws Considered (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: Lord Triesman, Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills has commented that if ISP's do not take a more active role in stopping illegal file sharing, then legislations may be brought in.

Submission + - Blogs: the next takeover target (businessweek.com)

Submitted by

Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:42AM

Christopher Blanc writes: "Blogs — especially the big-name brands such as TechCrunch, Gawker, GigaOm, Boing Boing, and the Huffington Post — appear to have attractive business models. This is good news for traditional media companies that are being marginalized online and off, and are hoping to catch up to — and cash in on — a rapidly evolving Web 2.0 world.

http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/oct2007/pi20071023_821568.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_investing"

Submission + - GT5 Moves Into TopGear (ign.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: The worlds most popular car show is coming to the worlds most popular car game. TopGear is going Gran Turismo. With the arrival of GT5 in 2008 players will be able to watch TopGear straight from the GT5 client, race on the TopGear test track and even access content synchronised with episodes of the show. Perhaps the biggest ramification of this deal is that GT5 may gain by proxy the ability to offer more exclusive cars such as the Bugatti Veyron.

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