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What should we do about Wikipedia's porn problem?->

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Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger writes "In 2011, the Wikimedia Board committed to installing a "controversial content" filter even weaker than Google's SafeSearch, as proposed by the "2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content." Since then, after growing opposition by some Wikipedians, some board members have made it clear that they do not expect this filter to be finished and installed. Nevertheless, as TFA makes clear, Wikipedia continues to host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn and other material most parents don't want their kids stumbling across. And this content is some of the website's most-accessed. Nevertheless, children remain some of Wikipedia's heaviest users. Jimmy Wales has recently reiterated his support for such a filter, but no work is being done on it, and the Foundation has not yet issued any statement about whether they intend to continue work on it."
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Google

Once Deemed Evil, Google Now Embraces "Paid Inclusion"->

Submitted by pacc
pacc writes "It was a long time a go google only provided a page with search links, and MarketingLand finds that the policy to have ads clearly separated from the search may have gone with newer services.
For example a hotel search will indicate that 'some' link payed to get listed, but not which ones and digging deeper gives less, not more info.
For example, Google Hotel Finder has no disclosures. In fact, the help page suggests that all listings are free. If that’s true, then why would Google be disclosing a financial relationship for when Google Hotel Finder results appear within a comparison box?"
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European Parliament Presses For Final Vote on ACTA->

Submitted by CrystalFalcon
CrystalFalcon writes "The European Parliament has decided to not wait for a legal opinion on ACTA from the European Court of Justice, but presses for a final vote for or against it, possibly in as little as ten weeks. There is no more years-long delay: if we want to kill ACTA, the last chance is right just now.

If ACTA passes, the copyright and patent monopolies will be set in stone for the coming decades, just like happened with TRIPS. We need reform in these areas, badly, and therefore, ACTA needs to die."
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Linux

Linux-3.3: Making a dent in bufferbloat?->

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mtaht
mtaht writes "Has anyone, besides those that worked on byte queue limits, and sfqred, had a chance to benchmark networking using these tools on the linux 3.3 kernel... in the real world? A dent, at least theoretically, seems to be have made in bufferbloat, and now that the new kernel and new iproute2 are out, should be easy to apply in general (e.g. server/desktop) situations..."
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Andrea Rossi Says His Group is Preparing for Legal Action Against Libelers->

Submitted by jasonbuechler
jasonbuechler writes "Andrea Rossi today posted on his blog his most detailed comment yet about the legal strategies he is preparing to deal with those who he calls puppets, snakes and clowns.

From what he says here, not only is Rossi’s group preparing to defend its intellectual property it feels has been violated (something he has often talked about), they plan to sue for libel against those he considers to be publishing falsehoods. With all negative the stuff that has been posted all over the web about Rossi, they could be very busy if they are going to carry out this action to the maximum extent."
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Comment: Re:Susan Greenfield - seriously? (Score 1) 108

by Gorshkov (#38033308) Attached to: How Is Technology Changing the Brain?

So basically, you left 8 out of 9 pages of well researched views from multiple experts with opposing views because the first page had the opinion of a person whose views are not scientific.

How very scientific of you to throw out the entire data because 11 percent of it was suspect.

The rest of it came from different experiments and you lost it.

You have thus provied a live example of how the internet shapes thinking - impatience and conditioning to trolling - and you have proved the point the article was trying to make!

No, what it proves is that I have no desire to waste my time reading an article written by somebody who considers somebody like Greenfield an expert. If it was the alternative - that they were looking at Greenfield's claims and then debunking them - well, there's still no need to waste my time, because I already know she's full of it.

Comment: Susan Greenfield - seriously? (Score 5, Informative) 108

by Gorshkov (#38024476) Attached to: How Is Technology Changing the Brain?
I was going to read TFA - believe it or not, I usually do. But after seeing Susan Greenfield's name in the summary, I decided to skip it. Anybody here who's familiar with Ben Goldachre's site, badscience.net, is certainly familiar enough with her antics that they'd know anything that comes out of her mouth is, at best, fiction.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Humble Voxatron Debut (Bundle)->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The latest Humble Indie Bundle is upon us, though in this occassion it isn't officially a bundle, since it consists of a single game (Voxatron), which is still in alpha status.

... or at least that's how it started. In true Humble Indie Bundle fashion, bonus games have been piling up; the current going is seven games: Gish and a trio of minigames by Voxatron developer Lexaloffle are available to everybody, and The Binding of Isaac and Blocks That Matter to those who pay more than the current average.

The offering ends this weekend and, as usual, you get to pay what you want and help the Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation charities."
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West African Black Rhinos extinct->

Submitted by identity0
identity0 writes "The BBC reports that the Western Black Rhino subspecies in West Africa (Diceros bicornis longipes) was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Other populations of rhinos remain, although another species is listed as close to extinction. The main culprit appears to be poaching, to quote from the article Simon Stuart, chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission: "They had the misfortune of occurring in places where we simply weren't able to get the necessary security in place. You've got to imagine an animal walking around with a gold horn; that's what you're looking at, that's the value". A sad day for all of us."
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Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.