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Comment Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana (Score 1) 547

by Denial93 on Monday November 03, 2008 @06:44PM (#25619131) Attached to: Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

In general web surfing I'd say the religion bashing posts outnumber the Atheist bashing posts by a ratio of about 10,000:1.

That should tell you something. By and large, people get bashed for pissing other people off, and best practice for pissing people off is interfering with their lives. Atheists, agnostics etc. do not have holy rules they believe they have to bugger mankind with, except agreeable basics such as the Golden Rule. They get bashed less because they deserve less bashing - according to those who bash.

Or do you prefer to believe there is some web-wide troll conspiracy going on that limits or directs anyone bashing impulses?

Now will you explain how bashing is an attack on the first amendment, rather than the exercise thereof?

Submission + - Fair use of GPLed works? (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06, 2007 @10:36AM

An anonymous reader writes: Stumbling across a YouTube video that includes GPL licensed works in what it claims to be Fair Use has left me wondering. Is there an established policy of what citations of GPL works are Fair Use? gpl-violations.org doesn't seem to have an opinion on that, and obviously there are no court decisions yet. How about countries which don't recognize Fair Use, but do see use of the GPL? Could the GPL have to be applied differently in different locations?

Submission + - Ed Catmull, President of Pixar, interview

Submitted by

Min Liu

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:34AM

Min Liu writes: "Ed Catmull sits down with a couple Stanford business school students to discuss how Pixar continues to maintain the cutting edge with the process of movie making. Listen to the interview here: http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/2007/02/dr-ed-catmul l-co-founder-and-president.html"

Feed Shift on Antitrust Issues May Aid Sirius-XM Deal (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:12AM

The regulatory tone in Washington has changed since a failed effort to merge EchoStar and DirecTV, two satellite television providers, four years ago.

Bookmark EFF Takes Viacom to Task Over YouTube Takedown (thenewscoverage.com)

by The News Coverage on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @03:32AM

Journal SPAM: Iraq and the Sioux Nation

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @01:21AM

When President Bush says he's prepared to stay in Iraq "until the job is done," those poor Iraqis have no idea just how long he means. But the Lakotas do. The United States government has been "stabilizing" the Great Sioux Nation and promoting democracy for 139 years.

Submission + - why grow organs when you can print them

Submitted by

khayman

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @06:38AM

khayman writes: "just felt that this is more relevant than "growing" body parts and organs http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025474.300 -print-me-a-heart-and-a-set-of-arteries.html"

Submission + - Australia Outlaws Incandescent Lightbulb

Submitted by

passthecrackpipe

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @05:05AM

passthecrackpipe writes: "The Australian Government is planning on making the incandescent ligtbulb a thing of the past. In three years time, standard lightbulbs will no longer be available for sale in the shops in Australia (expect a roaring grey market) and everybody will be forced to switch to more energy efficient Fluorescent bulbs. In this move to try and curb emissions, the incandescent bulb — which converts the majority of used energy to heat rather then light — will be phased out. Environmental groups have given this plan a lukewarm reception. They feel Australia should sign on to the Kyoto protocol first. (Article in Dutch). A similar plan was created together with Phillips, one of the worlds largest lighting manufacturers. What do other slashdotters think? Is this a move in the right direction? Will this boost the development of better fluorescent bulbs? Improve the design and lower the costs of LED lightbulbs? Will this plan make a big difference to the environment at all?"

Submission + - AMD Releases 3GHz Athlon 64 X2 6000+

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:17AM

mikemuch writes: "AMD's new processor, released today, has a higher clock speed than the top Intel dual core and a lower thermal envelope than AMD's recent efforts, but it still trails Intel in game, application, and media encoding benchmarks, and it still uses only a 90nm manufacturing process. The good news is that at $459 (in bulk) it's a little bit cheaper than the closest Intel competitor, the Core 2 Duo E6700 CPU."

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand

Submitted by Robert Goatse on Friday January 12, 2007 @08:14AM

Robert Goatse writes: The Pirate Bay together with the ACFI have worked out a plan to buy the micronation of Sealand. Future citizens of this country can look forward to high speed Internet and the absence of copyright laws. Check it out

Submission + - Firefox 3 and IE8 Coming Soon

Submitted by

Vinit

on Friday January 12, 2007 @05:03AM

Vinit writes: "The fastest growing web browser "Firefox" is set for the next major release. Codenamed "Gran Paradiso", the web browser will be available by the third quarter this year. Mozilla also said that it will release a major version of Firefox every year. The company has released a wiki page that describes the next version of Firefox. It notes on wiki that it will be much be faster for AJAX applications. The FF 3 increases the security, usability, extensibility and customization, performance, web standards and compatibility. The new version will provide an extensible bookmarks back-end platform, improved password security for users and add-on experience, and a private browsing mode. The proposed major theme for Gran Paradiso is "improved information and content management." For normal users information management includes Bookmarks, History, Content Handling, Content Editing, Printing and Microformats. This area will feature maximum innovative functions. At the same time Microsoft is also working on the next version of IE. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and we can expect to see a final product within 18-24 months. Microsoft will continue to establish deeper ties from IE7/Vista to live.com & MSN. Since there is no difference between IE7 and FF2 (features are almost the same), I am not sure whether their new version will be same or different from each other. http://www.pclaunches.com/software/firefox_3_and_i e8_coming_soon.php"

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