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Submission + - No more Fedora Core, Extras

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Friday January 05, 2007 @05:45PM

netbuzz writes: ""It's time to bite the bullet," says Red Hat engineer and Fedora Project board member Bill Nottingham. "Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras;
there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community
on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community
desires." There are 28 new features being targeted for the release, which can be seen at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Features.

Finally, Nottingham says of Fedora 7: "Name TBD, but probably not 'Bride of Zod'."

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2 007-January/msg00091.html"

Submission + - Macworld Expo 2007 Keynote Bingo

Submitted by

Henriok

on Friday January 05, 2007 @05:35PM

Henriok writes: "Keynote Bingo is the game you play as you tune in to enjoy Steve Jobs' keynotes. It's the ideal companion while enjoying the events that are celebrated as holidays by Mac fanatics all over the world. The Bingo cards are randomized out of a pool of 50 more or less likely keynote events. When an event occurs, press a button. If you get five buttons in a row, column or diagonally you yell: Bingo! Every card is coupled with a number that will prove to your friends and blog readers that your scream of Bingo! was justified. Download it now and prepare a card of your choice well in advance for the Macworld Expo stevenote this coming Tuesday."

Submission + - Linux is legal again for the European Commission

Submitted by

lancho

on Friday January 05, 2007 @04:16PM

lancho writes: "The streaming service of the Council of the EU had a legal restriction related to Linux: "We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux". A Spanish association of lawyers and programmers filed a complaint at the Council and the immediate answer was: "The FAQ you refer to in your email has an error in its English version compared to the original French version. The sentence mentioning Linux does not exist in the original French version. So, the English version has been modified". Now the FAQ shows also the legal translation omitted."

How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics 625

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @02:51PM from the gotta-keep-our-minds-open dept.

Erik Moeller writes "According to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, oil company ExxonMobil 'has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science.' The report compares the tactics employed by the oil giant to those used by the tobacco industry in previous decades, and identifies key individuals who have worked on both campaigns. Would a 'global warming controversy' exist without the millions of dollars spent by fossil fuel companies to discredit scientific conclusions?"

New Version of Xbox 360 Rumoured 102

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @02:46PM from the maybe-maybe-not dept.

Carlo Becchi writes "According to Engadget a new version of the Xbox 360 is on the way. The next version of the console is codenamed 'Zephyr', and sports a bigger disk (120 Gb), better manufacturing process (65nm) and HDMI digital out up to 1080p. From the article: 'The 120GB drive may or may not come bundled with the kit, we don't yet know, just as we also don't yet know how much a Zephyr 360 is going to run (we imagine it'll go for the same price as currently so they can keep up a little on their expanding margin).'" It should be pointed out at this point the whole story is a fairly convincing photo and leaks from 'a source'. Take with a grain of salt.

Submission + - Sleep Disturbances associated with suicide

Submitted by brainvoid on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:57PM

brainvoid writes: In the first known report of its kind, a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that sleep disturbances are common among suicide attempters, and that nightmares are associated with suicidality.
The study, conducted by Nisse Sjöström, RN, and colleagues of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden, focused on 165 patients between the ages of 18-68, who were admitted to medical units or psychiatric wards at Sahlgrenska after a suicide attempt. It was discovered that 89 percent of subjects reported some kind of sleep disturbance. The most common complaint was difficulties initiating sleep (73 percent), followed by difficulties maintaining sleep (69 percent), nightmares (66 percent) and early morning awakening (58 percent). Nightmares were associated with a five-fold increase in risk for high suicidality.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?ne wsid=59937

Submission + - Over 105,000 petition against UK vehicle tracking

Submitted by stevenjbaker on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:35PM

stevenjbaker writes: Today, the UK Prime Minister's petitions site clocked up over 105,000 signatures against vehicle tracking for road pricing. It would be bad enough if they hadn't already looked at "Intelligent speed adaptation", similarly powered by sat nav...

UK "subjects" sign up here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

See how the petition dwarfs all others here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?sort=signers

Submission + - French court slaps down Sony DRM

Submitted by john-da-luthrun on Friday January 05, 2007 @11:38AM

john-da-luthrun writes: A French court has ruled that Sony's CONNECT Store infringes French consumer law, reports the TechnoLlama IP blog. Under French law, it is illegal to tie the purchase of a service (such as downloading a music file) to the purchase of a another product, so Sony were held to be breaking the law by selling music files that required a Sony player in order to access them. The court also found that Sony had failed to inform customers that its ATRAC 3 files can only be played on Sony digital players. A similar case in France involving Apple's iTunes/iPod tie-in is ongoing.

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