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68842 submission

Submission + - wireless freedom is gone in San Francisco

Submitted by WARNING WARNING WARNING on Monday January 08, 2007 @01:13AM

WARNING WARNING WARNING writes: an Francisco has come to an agreement with Internet Service Provider (ISP) Earthlink that will see the city by the bay turned into a giant, free hotspot. Interestingly, the values of Earthlink are directly opposed to the values of San Francisco. As it turns out, Earthlink is owned and operated by Scientologists, and Scientology calls for genocide against what the cult's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, calls "anti-social" personalities. http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?Article ID=8126 http://www.xenu.net/

68840 submission

Submission + - A shadow lies upon all BSD distributions

Submitted by

Alan Trick

on Monday January 08, 2007 @01:13AM

Alan Trick writes: "Flameeyes (a Gentoo/FreeBSD developer) recently came up with some serious problems among the various *BSD projects who use BSD-4 licensed code (which is all of them). Even other projects like Open Darwin may be affected.

The saga started when he discovered the license problems with libkvm and start-stop-daemon. "libkvm is a userspace interface to FreeBSD kernel, and it's licensed under the original BSD license, BSD-4 if you want, the one with the nasty advertising clause." start-stop-daemon links to libkvm, but it's licensed under the GPL which is incompatible with the advertising clause. The good new is that the University of California/Berkley has given people permission to drop the advertising clause. The bad news is that libkvm has code from many other sources and each of them needs to give their permission for the license to be changed.

At the moment, development on the Gentoo/FreeBSD is on hold and the downloads have been removed from the Gentoo mirrors."

68830 submission

Submission + - ArsTechnica Admits Greenpeace is a Fraud

Submitted by DECS on Monday January 08, 2007 @12:45AM

DECS writes: RDM ranked the Greenpeace Toxic Apple campaign among the top ten Apple myths of 2006 for the group's intentionally tainting headlines with misleading tales about Apple to get donations and free publicity for itself.

Considering that Greenpeace will no doubt be panhandling at MacWorld, here's a four step plan for recovering from a Greenpeace brainwashing, following the experience of ArsTechnica's Mary E Tyler

68826 journal

Journal Journal: Dallas-based food chain to accept Mexican pesos 1

Journal by Le Marteau on Monday January 08, 2007 @12:38AM

Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos.

gory details here

68812 submission

Submission + - Sealand put up for sale

Submitted by antic on Monday January 08, 2007 @12:00AM

antic writes: The Principality of Sealand is up for sale. The 550 square metre steel platform boasts "uninterrupted sea views", complete privacy and has been mentioned on Slashdot in the past for its offers of hosting outside the jurisdiction of (some) traditional laws.

ABC News has more

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