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+ - Hiding earthquakes data in Italy?

Submitted by cyclop
cyclop writes "The leader of the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, prof. Enzo Boschi, is evaluating to hide all seismological data in Italy (Google translation from Italian): "We are considering to stop to inform and not to make our data accessible via the Web, because it is used to arrive at conclusions that are not in heaven or in earth.", says Boschi. I very much hope that the Internet will make such censoring attempts irrelevant."
Music

+ - Swedish Pirates Under Fire->

Submitted by UniteTheCows
UniteTheCows writes "Over the last 2 weeks Swedish police have carried out a number of raids on suspected file sharers it has emerged.

In recent months, Sweden has setup a designated police team to tackle file sharing and copyright infringement "involving computers". The result is widespread raids on those suspected of sharing copyrighted material.

On August 26th, two house raids took place in Stockholm and Haparanda. Both are believed to be in connection with the Direct Connect protocol and the accused are suspected of running the hubs that power the network.

The most recent search was carried out on Friday in Östersund. It is understood that at least 1 computer has been seized and the suspect questioned.

The raids come after a tip from the IFPI that one user was sharing around 6,000 songs. This is the same music industry group that helped shut down nanoset.net, rapidadd.com, 4storing.com and afasta.com in August this year."
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+ - WikiLeaks calls for Assange to step down->

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes "A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organiser for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's founder, Julian Assange, demanding that he step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden.

Birgitta Jonsdottir told Internet news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."
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+ - ACTA Text Leaks:US Caves on ISPs, Seeks Super-DMCA->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement was leaked last night on KEI's website. The new version — which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington — shows a draft agreement that is much closer to becoming reality. Perhaps the most important story of the latest draft is how the countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement chapter. In the face of opposition, the U.S. has dropped its demands on secondary liability for ISPs but is still holding out hope of establishing a super-DMCA with digital lock rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by U.S. courts."
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Comment: Re:We won already. Geez. (Score 1) 378

by cyclop (#26336705) Attached to: Open Source Victories of 2008

My own experience as a Macbook user:

Installing scientific Python modules (scipy, numpy, matplotlib) on Linux -trivial.
Installing the same module on Windows: boring but easy.
Installing them on OS X: Next to impossible, a lot of command line hacking needed.

I have a MB Pro and I always fire up the Gentoo partition. I tried to use OS X but the whole thing is terrible. Gimp doesn't work. Inkscape doesn't work. Scientific packages don't work. I simply cannot do serious work on OS X.

Media

+ - Amarok is being ported to Windows->

Submitted by NightFears
NightFears writes "Amarok, the popular Linux multimedia player, is being prepared for a Windows port. As highly-demanded as it is, the port spawned a lot of controversy among the dedicated Linux users, since many of them feel that after the release there'll be one strong argument less for convincing people to switch to Linux.

The amazing part here is that it only took two days. Basically most of Amarok was already so portable that it compiled without changes. I really expected it to be much more work. Shows that it pays off to use an excellent cross-platform toolkit like Qt in the first place.
Ah yes, and there's a screenshot."
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GNU is Not Unix

+ - Make GPLv2 and GPLv3 coexist in the same project?->

Submitted by
cyclop
cyclop writes "I am coding a data analysis application in my laboratory that I would like to release as free (as in freedom) software. Moreover I am going to begin a small OSS game that will be based, in part, on GPLv2 libraries. Problem is: in both cases, I'd like to be able to exchange code both with GPLv2 and (future) GPLv3 projects. I have no particolar passions about both licences, only thing is I don't want BSD-style "do anything you want" licensing but a copyleft license. I know that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are not compatible. What can I do? Double-licensing? Is there a compatible-with-both licence? Adding exceptions? What do you think is the best way to address the GPLv2-to-GPLv3 transition without ending in one of the two sides of the barricade?"
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Hardware Hacking

+ - New AACS "fix" hacked in a day

Submitted by
VincenzoRomano
VincenzoRomano writes "ArsTechnica has just published an update to the neverending story about copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs and hacker hefforts against it. Quoting the original article:


The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the hackers came out on top.
The hacker "BtCB" posted the new decryption key for AACS on the Freedom to Tinker web site, just one day after the AACS Licensing Authority (AACS LA) issued the key.
The article proposes a simple description of the protection schema and a brief look back at how the cracks have slowly chipped away at its effectiveness.
It seems it'll be a long way to an effective solution ... if any.
One could also argue whether all those money spent by the industry in this reace will be worth the results and how long it would take for a return on investment."
Software

+ - RealPlayer to support One Click Video Ripping

Submitted by
Aditi.Tuteja
Aditi.Tuteja writes "RealPlayer is coming up with a free version in June which will allow one-click video ripping.This free downloadable video player will allows anyone to save and organize video files in all major formats including Flash, QuickTime, RealMedia and Window Media and will support video ripping from websites like YouTube or more. RealPlayer will only download DRM free files. The new RealPlayer will not download or record video that is DRM infected but will download everything else"
Intel

+ - Intel in graphics partnership with Nvidia?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Intel may get some help building its upcoming floating point accelerator Larrabee. Following some rumors earlier this month, which claimed that Intel and Nvidia will be trading technologies, TG Daily now says that it has received information that the two companies will be announcing a "graphics partnership". An acquisition of Nvidia is a bit unlikely right now, but if Intel has access to Nvidia GPU technology, what exactly does that mean for AMD/ATI? Looks like Intel is catching up with AMD's ideas much faster than we thought."

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