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+ - Con Kolivas returns! Brain F**K Scheduler is out. 2

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myvirtualid

on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @03:05PM

myvirtualid writes "Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16 CPU machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. According to Kolivas, BFS
was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. ie [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than "calculated", with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.
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+ - Lucid Tucows CDN copyright consult submission 0

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on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @02:56PM

myvirtualid writes "Tucows is participating in the Canadian government's copyright consultations — and their position is interesting, lucid, and diametrically opposed to big-label corporate we-want-a-Canadian-DMCA perspectives. From TFA,
In fact, excessive copyright protection, like a virus, seems to sicken innovation in every field it touches. Indeed, the industries currently trying to survive the digital upheaval by holding onto strict copyright enforcement laws are the ones that have been least innovative in coming up with new business models. Copyright is making them blind to the present and fatally uncreative about the future.
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+ - Pirate Bay trial ends in jail sentences. 1

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on Friday April 17, 2009 @06:53AM

myvirtualid writes "The Globe and Mail reports that the Pirate Bay defendants were each sentenced Friday to one year in jail. According to the article, "Judge Tomas Norstrom told reporters that the court took into account that the site was 'commercially driven' when it made the ruling. The defendants have denied any commercial motives behind the site." The defendants said before the verdict that they would appeal if they were found guilty. "Stay calm — Nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing whatsoever. This is just a theater for the media," Mr. Sunde said Friday in a posting on social networking site Twitter."

+ - RIAA declares /.'s NYCL "vexatious", seeks 0

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on Thursday September 18, 2008 @09:06AM

myvirtualid writes "The RIAA has declared Ray Beckerman a "vexatious" litigator and seeks unspecified damages, largely because of his blogging of his defense of folks the RIAA has pursued in file-sharing cases.

Ray, we're with ya, man! Where do we contribute to your legal defense fund?"

+ - Indian businessman charged for joke on his network 0

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on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @09:31AM

myvirtualid writes "Indian businessman Anil Ambani has apparently been charged under Indian laws against insulting a religion or faith because a joke has been circulating on his (66% stake) mobile network, Reliance Communications.

According to the BBC article, a "local Sikh leader had filed a complaint against Mr Ambani after his mobile telephone network allegedly circulated a joke about Sikhs".

There is no indication that Ambani played any role in creating, editing, reading, writing, forwarding, emailing, texting, smsing, or otherwise contributing to the spread of the alleged joke."