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  Developers: Summer of Code'08 Organizations List Announced 2008-03-18 01:23

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 18, @01:23AM
from the meet-your-mentors-and-your-masterse dept.
kulbirsaini writes "Google has announced the list of accepted organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2008. 'No doubt many would-be Summer of Code students are wondering what their next steps should be. We've changed the program timeline this year, leaving a week in between the announcement of accepted mentoring organizations and opening for student applications. Use this week to meet your potential mentors and discuss your project ideas with them, and keep on eye on the program mailing lists, as we'll post notes about additional resources for learning about our mentoring organizations.'"
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 [+] story, developers, google, summerofcode, programming, gsoc, annoton

  Church of Scientology violates Federal Law[->] 2008-03-14 16:30 FreedomToThink

Submitted by FreedomToThink on Friday March 14, @04:30PM
FreedomToThink writes "This is a very long story I'm sure the editors will have fun with, but I couldn't see how to cut it down at all.

On the eve of the Ides of March protest, from the source of the recent 'Anonymous' submitted CCHR leak on wikileaks, comes this message

"Dear $cientology,You attempt injunctions.I respond.Shall we continue the game? Much Love, DEEP CLAM"

Included was yet another PDF this time including yet more emails leaked from a Church of Scientology front group.

Vote Rigging?

From: "Mike Kaplan" <mkaplan@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:53:07 -0400

See below. Everyone in Clearwater MUST vote. Every vote will be needed to be
sure Hibbard gets re-elected. The alternative is Rita Garvey who is an SP.

— Original Message —
From: Shelly <mailto:shelly.bauer@Earthlink.net> Bauer
To: Shelly Bauer <mailto:shelly.bauer@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:09 AM
Subject: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER

DO YOUR PART
RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD
MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
VOTE!!!
JANUARY 29TH
TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED!

Lunch with your preferred Presidential candidates for a high price?

ONE SEAT LEFT

I have arranged a private one-hour luncheon with Ron Paul on 11/28 in St.
Pete when he will be in town for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.

This luncheon is reserved for $1000+ donors to Ron Paul's presidential
campaign. 19 people so far have paid and confirmed and will have the honor
and pleasure of having lunch and communicating with Ron Paul directly.


From the head of the "Non Proffit" CCHR Bruce Wiseman

Go the the HELP committee website. The link is here.
http://help.senate.gov/About.html
Here you will see the names of the Committee members on the left hand
side
of the page. Please go to the individual websites of the Republican =
members
(this will take just a bit of leg work on your part by putting their =
name
into Google) and calling their office or sending a fax to them (email is =
the
least effective) stating your opposition to S. 1375 The Mother's Act.


Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one "which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."

An OCMB (Operation Clambake Message Board)regular adds :

I downloaded myself a copy and started looking through them. I found an interesting one on pages 47-48.
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html

Karin Pouw of OSA of CofS writes a message.
It's forwarded by Michael Genung. He's the guy who runs ACSR, Association for Citizens Sociel Reform. http://www.citizensforsocialreform.org/ ["CSR Background and Philosopy: CSR was founded in 2001 by a group of Scientologists and other like-minded individuals concerned with the escalating social ills in society. CSR's purpose is to work with in the field of public policy to bring about more effective and humane solutions to these social ills of illiteracy, criminality substance abuse and general decay of character."]

Then it's forwarded by Doyle Mills, of LEAF fame (Letters to the Editor Attack Force).
Then it's forwarded by Mary C. (possibly one of two Mary C's I'm thinking of, but unsure).
Then it's forwarded by Mike Kaplan, another person who runs an email list and forwards CCHR type stuff to CofS members.

If that ain't stringing a line from the CofS to CCHR and the CofS front group ("grassroots") movements, then I don't know what is!


Apologies in advance as the Enturbulation servers will not be up to a slashdotting so the Coral Cache link is here Enturbulation Discussion (already cached for you)

ANYONE CAN REPORT TAX FRAUD DIRECTLY TO THE IRS : http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=106778,00.html It does require that you print out and mail in an actual hardcopy, but it does not require you to identify yourself.

Just a casual user passing on a message from the Enturbulation forum, this is already out there, there's no reason to attack the messenger."
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html
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 [+] submission, politics, government, scientology, wikileaks, anonymous, irs

  Group puts Windows Update library on CD[->] 2008-02-11 21:29 KrispyKofta

Submitted by danwarne on Monday February 11, @09:29PM
When was the last time you installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2? The process is still straightforward and relatively quick...but then you think "I'll just make sure the patches are up to date", and then proceed to stare with horror at the 100+ security updates and critical fixes which Windows Update or WSUS demands you install. And it takes forever. Now, a group has put all of the updates into one downloadable CD, from which you can update PCs without an internet connection. It's poor man's XP SP3, but even when SP3 is out, the project will continue to offer a CD which will install all patches offline.
http://apcmag.com/8006/patch_windows_xp_from_a_cd
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 [+] , microsoft

  Perl 5.10 Released 2007-12-19 07:29 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 19 2007, @07:29AM
An anonymous reader writes "Today the Perl Foundation announces the release of Perl 5.10, the first major upgrade to the wildly popular dynamic programming language in over five years. This latest version builds on the successful 5.8.x series by adding powerful new language features and improving the Perl interpreter itself. The Perl development team, called the the Perl Porters, have taken features and inspiration from the ambitious Perl 6 project, as well as from chiefly academic languages and blended them with Perl's pragmatic view to practicality and usefulness."
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 [+] submission, it, programming, fresh, dupe, interesting

  Perl 5.10 released and Perl turns 20! 2007-12-18 22:23 alfcateat

Submitted by alfcateat on Tuesday December 18 2007, @10:23PM
Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl! Perl 5.10 isn't just a bug fix version: it's full of new features that I'm eager to use: named captures in regular expressions, state variables for subroutines, the defined-or operator, a switch statement (called given-when, though), a faster regex engine, and more. You can read more about the changes in perldata.
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 [+] , developers, perl

  Perl 5.10.0 released[->] 2007-12-18 22:16 acid06

Submitted by acid06 on Tuesday December 18 2007, @10:16PM
acid06 writes "Perl 5.10.0 is now out, the first in the 5.10.x major version series, after a five year long development process. It's currently being mirrored on CPAN.

From the posting: "Perl 5.10 isn't just a bug fix version: it's full of new features that I'm eager to use: named captures in regular expressions, state variables for subroutines, the defined-or operator, a switch statement (called given-when, though), a faster regex engine, and more. You can read more about the changes in perldelta."

This is great news for all of us Perl hackers around."
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/perl_510_for_perls_20th_birthd.html
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 [+] submission, perl
From feed by registerfeed on Thursday August 30 2007, @02:52AM
BRIC nation

Sun Microsystems is looking to billions of citizens in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), defined by the west as emerging economies, for long-term success.


http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/30/sun_bric_growth/

  Hezbollah Video Game Targets Israel[->] 2007-08-30 02:23 rhinokitty

Submitted by rhinokitty on Thursday August 30 2007, @02:23AM
rhinokitty writes "This Al Jazeera article (I know I am in the TALON database now) describes a video game that Hezbollah uses to train young Enders in battle. I want to know where I can get a copy, and if it runs on Linux."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2DB8E9D0-B022-4925-9C4D-E51E48E88EBC.htm
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 [+] submission, games, fps

  Favorite sport for nerds? 2007-08-30 01:42 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2007, @01:42AM
An anonymous reader writes "Favorite sport for nerds?

Badminton
Bowling
Calvinball
Darts
Dodgeball
Golf
Pool
Segway polo
Table tennis
Tetherball
Nerds don't play sport!
CowboyNeal riding"
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 [+] submission, polls, toy
Submitted by mudshark on Wednesday August 29 2007, @11:30PM
mudshark writes "Despite a last-minute media carpet-bombing effort from Microsoft featuring quarter-page display ads in the major dailies, coupled with significant astroturf pressure from MS partners, Standards NZ has cast a vote of "no with comments" on the ISO/IEC proposal for adoption of Office Open XML as an international standard. This decision leaves the door open for changing to a "yes" vote in February 2008 if numerous technical considerations are addressed — including the possibility of merging OOXML with the existing standard Open Document Format. As the Tui ads seen across the country would say: "Let's merge OOXML with ODF. Yeah, right.""
http://www.standards.co.nz/news-and-seminars/current-news/New+Zealand+casts+Open+XML+vote.htm
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 [+] submission, microsoft

  New Zealand says 'NO' to Open XML draft standard[->] 2007-08-29 20:55 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2007, @08:55PM
An anonymous reader writes "Standards New Zealand today casted a 'no' vote on the proposal to adopt the Open XML draft Standard as an international Standard. The vote came after two days of workshops held last week."
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7322
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 [+] submission, microsoft

  GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed? 2007-08-29 15:36 Scott_F

Submitted by Scott_F on Wednesday August 29 2007, @03:36PM
I recently reviewed several commercial, closed-source slideshow authoring packages for Windows and came across an alarming trend. Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo Slideshow (www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). What's worse is that the company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLL's! There are other violations in other packages as well. It seems that use of GPL software in commercial Windows applications is on the rise based on my testing of other software. My question is how much are GPL violations in the Windows world being pursued? Does the FSF or EFF follow-up on these if the platform is not GPL? How aware is the community of this trend?
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