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Internet Radio Day of Silence 0

Submitted by

WebDJ

on Tuesday June 26 2007, @01:07PM

WebDJ writes "The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on July 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). To protest these rates and encourage the millions of net radio listeners to take action and contact their Congressional representatives, today is a national Day of Silence. Webcasters across the country have dedicated this day to increasing awareness of this looming threat and gathering support for the SaveNetRadio collation and our campaign to preserve music diversity on-line. For an updated list of the participants in this national day of silence, visit http://www.kurthanson.com/dos/. Net radio listeners, please excuse the interruption of your normal programming and take action to ensure this silence is not permanent. Call your Congressional Representatives today. savenetradio.org for more information."

CIA Papers from 1970's Released-> 0

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jellie

on Tuesday June 26 2007, @12:51PM

jellie writes "The Associated Press reports that the CIA has released 693 pages of internal documents, nicknamed the "Family Jewels", about events that led to a scandal in the 1970's. From the article:

The documents detail assassination plots against foreign leaders like Fidel Castro, the testing of mind- and behavior-altering drugs like LSD on unwitting citizens, wiretapping of U.S. journalists, spying on civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protesters, opening mail between the United States and the Soviet Union and China, break-ins at the homes of ex-CIA employees and others.
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Chomsky's "Universal Grammer" probably isn-> 0

Submitted by

sxtxixtxcxh

on Friday June 22 2007, @01:35PM

sxtxixtxcxh writes "Here is an article about John Colapinto's week long experience with the Pirahã and linguist Dan Everett. The Pirahã language apparently lacks relative clauses and grammatical recursion, a counterexample to Chomsky's Universal Grammar theory which claims that recursion is a crucial and uniquely human language property."
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Cisco denies moving American jobs to India 0

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whitehartstag

on Friday June 22 2007, @01:26PM

whitehartstag writes "A recent New York Sun Latest Politics Blog, cites a document released by Obama's presidential campaign that accuses Cisco of paying Bill Clinton, $300,000 in speaker fees while Cisco shifted hundreds of jobs from America to India. Cisco is now denying it it has laid off workers and shifting jobs to India. OK, perhaps it's not shifting jobs but its policy of employing non-US workers is not waning. Last year, Cisco was the 13th biggest user of the H-1B program. This blog gives some good background http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1661 5."

First look at the Zonbu, a $99 Linux Computer 1

Submitted by

Esther Schindler

on Friday June 22 2007, @12:08PM

Esther Schindler writes "The company is positioning this diminutive device (in late beta) as a consumer product. But with its out-of-the-box simplicity, says CIO.com's review, the Zonbu is an excellent choice for enterprise IT departments that want a Gentoo-based desktop Linux distribution, very little fuss and a price that won't raise eyebrows on an expense report."

Teach high school kids all they need in 4 hours 0

Submitted by mshuflin on Friday June 22 2007, @11:51AM

mshuflin writes "I am going to be volunteering in a couple of weeks to teach computer classes for a program with works with students doing community service and/or restitution. They want me to teach 4 sessions of 1 hour each, and they want me to choose things which will be helpful skills for school or a job. Given this limited time, and considering that the students vary in age from 13 to 18, as well as skill level with technology, What should I focus on?"

First daughters are pirates 0

Submitted by

palewook

on Friday June 22 2007, @11:40AM

palewook writes "Mitchell L. Silverman, an attorney, sent a letter to the RIAA's Director of Investigative Services concerning President George Bush's daughters making an illegal mix cd for his father's day present."

Newborn manta ray dies in Japan-> 0

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Raver32

on Friday June 22 2007, @11:11AM

Raver32 writes "A baby manta ray thought to have been the world's first ever bred in captivity was found dead in a tank at a Japanese aquarium on Thursday, less than five days after it was born. The baby manta's death may have been caused by harassment and injury by its father, Kyodo news agency said, citing a statement released by the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. "Since this was the world's first to be bred in captivity, we were taking great pains with its care, but unfortunately we were not able to rear it for a long time," the aquarium said on its Web site."
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Enterprise Management with Open Source? 0

Submitted by HalfOfOne on Friday June 22 2007, @11:11AM

HalfOfOne writes "This is a repeating topic on Slashdot (No, really, I'm saying that with a straight face) but one that can and should probably be revisited every once in awhile.

As part of my job, I get asked every few months/years how close we are to being able to deploy free open source solutions (OS and Software) for a large (4000+ users) manufacturing corporation. My background is origially with Unix, but I've come into a mostly MS shop, so this is going to sound like a strawman for MS, but it's not. I honestly want to see what's out there.

So, my question to AskSlashdot is, how do the free open source alternatives stack up? Give us your personal ancedotes and recommendations:

Some seed for the discussion:

*Desktop imaging, deployment, and management
You can't go to each desk, so how do you automatically and remotely roll out your desktop OS of choice, complete with configs and software? How do you keep it up to date with minimal user interaction? How do you inventory and keep control of what's added and removed from your environment?

*Centralized Directory Management
You don't use MS AD or NDS. What directrory store do you use to centrally manage security and store information for users, groups, and all of the other odds and ends that go into your schema? Can you support a single signon structure? Can you assign security so that only certain people can see or change certain objects? Can you distribute this internationally, does it replicate quickly and is it fault tolerant?

*Communication/collaboration software
Can any free email/scheduling/contact management software integrate with your directory store for email groups, contact lists, and other info?

*Server Monitoring/Management
Can you monitor the hardware health of your servers and have it automatically alert in case of a warning or failure?

*Consistency of Integration
How well does all of it tie together? Can the look and feel be made consistent across software suites and OSes? Can John Doe from marketing/sales figure out intuitively where most things are without calling the helpdesk."