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Submission + - Australian Greens demand public access to cloak and dagger anti-piracy meetings (delimiter.com.au)

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Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes: "Continuing the recent stories on the secret, closed door, FOI blocked talks, the Australian Greens have filed a motion in the Senate requesting that the Government release documents regarding its closed door meetings on Internet piracy which the Attorney-General’s Department has blocked from being released under Freedom of Information laws. This morning, Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam filed an order in the Senate that the Government disclose details of the most recent meeting. “The Government refuses to reveal almost any information about the attendees, the substance or the outcomes of the meeting,” he said in a separate statement. “A Freedom of Information request from a journalist looks like it’s been met with maximum resistance.”"

Submission + - WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Site (wikileaks.ch)

Submitted by A beautiful mind
A beautiful mind writes: WikiLeaks is asking for hosting space on unix-based servers. The replication is implemented by a rsync+ssh based push that copies static files to a known path, authenticated via the private half of this public key. The complete website is a few GB in size, making it feasible to replicate on a large scale. The mirror list will be published when the number of independent mirrors reaches 50.

Submission + - China views Internet as "controllable" (nytimes.com)

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Radcliffe_V
Radcliffe_V writes: "According to a leaked cable via Wikileaks, the Chinese government views the internet as very controllable, despite western views otherwise. The New York Times article also sheds light on how involved the Chinese government is in cyber attacks against US assets and companies such as Google."
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Submission + - Groupon Turns Down Google's $6 Billion Acquisition (imarketingadvice.com)

Submitted by velikae
velikae writes: Groupon rejects a Google takeover bid rumored to be a hefty $5.3 billion.

It might come as no surprise that Groupon’s board said no to what would have been the largest acquisition in Google’s history, especially if the Groupon’s $2 billion revenue figure, reported by AllThingsD, is correct.

Comment Retro Remakes (Score 0) 518

by munwin99 (#34302310) Attached to: FPS Games That Need a Remake
Following on from remakes (so I'm not too off topic), I've often wondered about remaking some C=64 games with slightly better graphics for the iPhone / Android phones. Things like Spindizzy and Bounder would be awesome - tilt motion instead of joystick, etc, etc. There were so many games on the C=64 that could translate onto small screens and a lot could be redone to use tilt controls, too.... Now - just add some upgraded gfx and you are WIN !

Comment Re:Fork it (Score 0) 67

by munwin99 (#29727843) Attached to: Mickos Urges EU To Approve Oracle's MySQL Takeover
Don't forget OurDelta - http://ourdelta.org/ - [about] "OurDelta produces enhanced builds for MySQL 5.0 and builds for MariaDB 5.1, on common production platforms. James Purser of Open Source On The Air describes OurDelta as “a new distribution for MySQL”."

And then there's the under devellopment Drizzle - http://drizzle.org/ - MySQL rewritten from scratch by (amongst others) Brian Aker.

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