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Big Brother is Wikipedian->

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An anonymous reader writes "Are google employees taking over wikipedia and controlling it, and do Google Employee pages even belong on Wikipedia? How many Wikipedia admins are google employees?"
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The Courts

Wikileaks is Back up but others are under ATTACK!!

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Another Coward writes "Wikileaks is now back up. But other issues in the same manor has showed up in the US by the Blocking of other free speech sites.These sites like www.ratemycop.com and www.ahrc.com The American Homeowners Resource Center (AHRC) a group that supports homeowners rights mostly in California, is being threatened in the courts by having their domain taken away by basically the same action as Wikileaks. This association has had the domain for 10 years according to whois records. The AHRC at now has both a Facebook and MySpace groups to get their issue out into the public."
Bug

Linux Kernel Mailing List goes down->

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00_NOP
00_NOP writes "The problem with distributed development is that it relies on a distribution mechanism, and in Linux's case quite a centralised one — at least for patch submission — in the form of the kernel mailing list, which at time of writing has been down for about 10 hours.

Is there a better way than a mailing list or does email remain the killer app here, and what we need is just some more resilience?"
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Handhelds

Does Constant Access Shatter the Home/Work Boundary? 321

Posted by Zonk
from the and-is-that-a-bad-thing dept.
StonyandCher has passed us a link to PCWorld.au, once again raising the tough topic of work/life separation. A department of the Australian government went ahead with a purchase of dozens of Blackberry communication devices, but is now delaying their deployment. The reason: "Staff expressed fears about BlackBerries contributing to a longer working day and felt it was going a step too far because mobile phones are adequate for out-of-office contact. Not everyone agreed, however, with some senior executives claiming a BlackBerry can contribute to work/life balance by facilitating telecommuting and more flexible schedules. " For the time being this issue is on hold for those staffers, but how does this issue fall for you? Is constant accessibility freeing or just another chain around your neck?
Power

Stallman vs OpenBSD Purism and Freedom Flamewar ->

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L505
L505 writes ""GNU and FSF (Free Software Foundation) founder Richard Stallman posted a message entitled "real men don't attack straw men", and goes on to tell why he does not advocate OpenBSD currently. He says that he knew of no non-free software included in the base OpenBSD system, but claimed there was non-free software in the ports collection. Stallman recommends only systems such as gNewSense that are supposedly pure and free according to the FSF.

OpenBSD developers think RMS is making a big deal out of nothing, and is abusing his power. OpenBSD developers confirm the ports tree only contains links to non-free software, and does not actually recommend installation of it anywhere. Furthermore the OpenBSD developers argue that anyone can install non-free software on any Linux system, whether or not it is gNewSense."
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Microsoft

Windows in a nutshell->

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The Open Sourcerer
The Open Sourcerer writes "I read this on a posting on the asterisk mailing list this morning courtesy of Doug at NaTel. It is probably not new but I found it funny. Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a 32 bit extension and graphical shell, for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. lol"
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Software

That Which We Call Free->

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L505
L505 writes "GNU and FSF (Free Software Foundation) founder Richard Stallman posted a message on OpenBSD mailing lists. The subject was "real men don't attack straw men", and the email suggested that some of his comments were being misrepresented. He says, "one question particularly relevant for this list is why I don't recommend OpenBSD. It is not about what the system allows. (Any general purpose system allows doing anything at all.) It is about what the system suggests to the user." He also said that he knew of no non-free software included in the base OpenBSD system, but claimed there was non-free software in the ports collection, "if a collection of software contains (or suggests installation of) some non-free program, I do not recommend it." http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/That_Which_We_Call_Free"
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Robotics

Robots that bounce in bed->

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nem75
nem75 writes "The NY Times has a review of British AI researcher David Levy's book "Love and Sex with Robots". He claims that within a span of about 50 years the day will come, when people could actually fall in love with life-like robots and want to live with them instead of a human mate. While this may seem far fetched at first, he has some pretty interesting views on this. Like the sexual part being the easyest thing, what with brothels exclusively offering life-like sex dolls already existing in Japan and South Korea. The case he builds goes much further though, and certainly provides food for thought."
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