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Submission + - CO2Stats Project makes web sites carbon neutral (co2stats.com)

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Alex Wissner-Gross

on Friday November 16, 2007 @02:25AM

Alex Wissner-Gross writes: "According to the Telegraph, the Internet is responsible for more than 100 billion pounds of CO2 emissions per year yet most web surfers are unaware of its environmental impact. To tackle this global problem, two PhD students at Harvard and Yale founded The CO2Stats Project to freely distribute a widget that tracks the carbon emissions attributable to their site due to the electricity usage of their visitors' computers interacting with their servers. The CO2Stats Project then completely offsets the emissions gratis, and has the ambitious goal of making the entire Internet carbon neutral."

Submission + - Korea proposes further censoring bulletin boards (koreaherald.co.kr)

Submitted by

dave_h_in_philly

on Thursday November 08, 2007 @01:31AM

dave_h_in_philly writes: "An article in today's Korea Herald states that 'more than a quarter of Korean lawmakers' have joined a group that calls itself the Sunfull Politics Campaign, whose purpose is to 'root out ill-intended [I]nternet postings.' The group is also pressuring the government to expand the use of Korea's real-name system for bulletin board postings. Furthermore, the group pledges to 'clean up internet culture and educate teenagers from an early age.'"

Child's Play 2007 Gets Underway 42

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 02, 2007 @07:15PM from the give-in-five-countries-this-time dept.

It is well worth mentioning that a post by Tycho over on the Penny Arcade site signals the kickoff for Child's Play 2007. This year they have over 30 hospitals spread across five countries, and (as always) every little bit helps. From Mr. Brahe's post: "At the last Child's Play dinner, a man whose son was currently staying at Seattle Children's Hospital - he'd left him temporarily, to attend - literally could not produce the words to thank me. The depth of his appreciation bordered on anguish. I hardly knew how to respond, other than attribute those comforts to their true authors. The opportunity to be excellent has arisen again. Just as in years past, visit the site proper, choose your favorite hospital, and select your toy. We promise to let you know how incredible you are at regular intervals."

Wikipedia Wins Defamation Case 153

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 02, 2007 @03:13PM from the wiki-this dept.

Raul654 writes "Yesterday, a French judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for defamation. The judge found that 'Web site hosts cannot be liable under civil law because of information stored on them if they do not in fact know of their illicit nature.' According to the inquirer: 'Three plaintiffs were each seeking 69,000 euros ($100,000) in damages for invasion of their privacy after their homosexuality was revealed on the website.'"

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