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dyne:bolic 3.0.0 "MUNIR" released-> 1

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jaromil

on Tuesday September 13, @03:56AM

jaromil writes "We've hit slashdot for more reasons than a simple release in the past, yet it might be worth to know that, after 5 years of inactivity, a new development campaign has started for dyne:bolic GNU/Linux, one of the earliest 100% free distributions vetted by the FSF. As it was for dyne:II there will be new and unseen "LiveOS" features coming out during the dyne:III development cycle which should last 3 or 4 years from now. There is a shiny new website to document them and here is the release announcement. Ciao."
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The limits of evangelism-> 0

Submitted by akgraner on Monday January 10 2011, @09:25AM

akgraner writes "Bruce Byfield asks, “How do you persuade people they want something that they don't know exists — and refuse to believe in?” as he discusses “The limits of evangelism” in his latest blog post."
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Bacteria Work as Hard Drives-> 0

Submitted by disco_tracy on Monday January 10 2011, @09:18AM

disco_tracy writes "Scientists have found a way to store, encrypt and retrieve complex data in the DNA of E. coli. This opens up a new way for saving text, images, music, and even video within living cells. And just one gram of bacteria could store the same amount of information as 450 2,000-gigabyte hard disks."
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2010 patent numbers climb 31%-> 0

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bednarz

on Monday January 10 2011, @09:15AM

bednarz writes "2010 was a record year for patents. In all, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued 219,614 patents – which is 31% more patents than were issued in 2009, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services. IBM was the most prolific patent winner, with 5,896 patents received. Samsung Electronics placed second with 4,551 patents, followed by Microsoft (3,094), Canon (2,552) and Panasonic (2,482). Apple broke into the top 50 for the first time, earning the No. 46 position in IFI’s count for its 563 patents. Other tech vendors earning spots on the top 50 list include Cisco, which placed 17th with 1,115 patents, and SAP, in 42nd place with 649 patents."
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Firefox surpasses IE in Europe-> 0

Submitted by FungusCannon on Monday January 10 2011, @02:41AM

FungusCannon writes "It looks like Mozilla Firefox has surpassed Internet Explorer in terms of market share, with Firefox's 38.11% to IE's 37.52%."
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Hosting Company Appears to be Violating the GPL-> 2

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palegray.net

on Sunday January 09 2011, @07:24PM

palegray.net writes "A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way."
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Anonymous Organizes Global Protests for WikiLeaks-> 0

Submitted by pafein on Sunday January 09 2011, @07:17PM

pafein writes "Internet collective Anonymous launched a global protest for January 15 in support of beleaguered WikiLeaks. Anonymous has a history of defending Internet freedom, beginning with Project Chanology against the Church of Scientology. The group gained recent attention for itself with DDOS attacks on Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and the government of Tunisia."
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Comment: eclassical.com (Score 1) 228

by julipan on Wednesday August 04 2010, @02:09AM (#33134928) Attached to: String Quartets On the Web?

Have you tried http://eclassical.com/ ?
They offer only mp3's, but at least they're DRM free.

Pirate Party to host The Pirate Bay in parliament-> 1

Submitted by m94mni on Friday July 02 2010, @04:55AM

m94mni writes "The Swedish Pirate Party has announced today that they will host The Pirate Bay from inside the Swedish parliament, should they gain enough votes (4%) in the elections on September 19. The party plans to take advantage of parliamentary immunity to protect information freedom from being abused be the entertainment industry."
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FSFE Fellowship interview with Simon Josefsson-> 0

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Stian

on Sunday December 20 2009, @06:45PM

Stian writes "Simon Josefsson is a Fellow and GNU hacker with a special interest in security. His contributions to the Free Software world include such ubiquitous projects as GnuTLS and Libssh2, and he was recently presented with the Nordic Free Software Award. I sat down for a jabber session with Simon, asking him about his projects and other security matters."
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