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Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 1364

by Professional Slacker (#29808753) Attached to: Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law
Maybe the should have thought of that before deciding to be bigots? If I'm a bad person, people will think less of me, seems pretty straightforward to me.

Group A does everything in it's power to harass, belittle and diminish the civil rights of group B. And suddenly want to cry foul when some one calls them out in public for it. Arguing that being called out as being a bigoted asshole is harassment seems out of place, if calling them out is harassment how do they handle the cognitive dissonance that sins they're being called out for are far worse?

Comment Re:Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu (Score 1) 165

by Professional Slacker (#28106011) Attached to: Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu
Really? Awesome! Where can I get this "much better Ubuntu" I've been running Jaunty since alpha 3, so that can't be the version you're talking about. If you could kindly point me to a working fix for this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/59867
I would be a very happy man.

Hell I'm generally a linux fanboi, but really to say that suspend is working takes quite a leap of faith. The OP wasn't trolling this stuff really is broken, I'm glad your system works count yourself lucky. Frankly every laptop I've ever seen has an i8042 controller in it, and every bug report I've ever seen related to the i8042's suspend issue has been closed as "won't fix", so not only is it broken but the devs appear to be playing ostrich on this one.

Comment Re:Retaliation (Score 2, Insightful) 190

Hold on that seems way too circular to be Kosher.
The police are acted in good faith, because they assumed the judge would act in good faith, at the same time the judge was acting in good faith because he assumed the police were acting in good faith? How do you ever get a mis-deed out of that set of conditions?

Somebody screwed up, an innocent man had his stuff seized for no good reason (being a linux user of all things). I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that there should be no repercussions for those involved. The police weren't competent to handle the matter and the judge wasn't competent to issue the warrant. Someone needs to be held accountable for the damaged they caused, "I didn't mean to hurt anyone" is a weak excuse for a common man, but no way in hell should that fly for those that are supposed to be trained in law enforcement.
United States

Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance 1505

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the getting-worse-before-they-get-better dept.
theodp writes "Barack Obama has squared up for a major battle with big business, announcing a crackdown on offshore tax avoidance and evasion by US multinationals that's designed to raise $210B and make it easier for companies to create 'good jobs here at home'. Obama cited a building in the Cayman Islands where more than 18,000 US companies are housed: 'Either this is the biggest building in the world or it is the biggest tax scam in the world,' he said. 'I think the American people know which it is.' The administration says that more than a third of US foreign profits in 2003 came from Bermuda, the Netherlands and Ireland, and noted US companies paid an effective tax rate of just 2.3% on the $700bn they earned in foreign profits in 2004. Among tech companies affected by the crackdown, Microsoft joined 200 companies who signed a letter complaining that the proposed tax changes would put them at a disadvantage with their rivals, Cisco moaned that the measures 'would adversely impact our ability to invest and grow our business in the US,' and Google declined to comment for the time being."
Linux Business

"We're Linux" Finalists Announced 133

Posted by timothy from the penguin-suits-get-all-the-hot-girls dept.
Last month, we mentioned the Linux Foundation's contest asking people to illustrate the idea "We're Linux"; Now, ruphus13 writes "Over 90 entries were received, and the finalists are now out. From the article, 'The contest was spawned from the idea that other software companies were paying millions of dollars to celebrities for endorsements, while Linux was promoted and shared by enthusiastic, passionate, actual users. Contestants were given a simple directive: tell the Linux Foundation what Linux is for you, why you use it, and why you'd encourage others to do the same. Humor and professional production quality weren't required — it just had to be genuine.' Details on the finalists can be found on the Linux Foundation Video site here."

Comment Re:Erm? (Score 1) 543

by Professional Slacker (#26475227) Attached to: Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org?
Adblock? I was throughly confused about how people were finding these sites, turned off adblock, and lo and behold, right there at the top of the page was the link.

After I did finally find the site I noticed the OO banner at the top of the page, and decided to do a bit of investigating. Luckily virtual directory browsing was enabled for the banners folder so I started browsing through them, most of them were open source stuff as expected. And then I came across the banner for Adobe Photoshop CS3. Selling "download" services of open source software is legal, but pretty assholish, but how are the planning to get away with offering Photoshop? Is it the demo?

Comment Where do people find these sites? (Score 1) 543

by Professional Slacker (#26474287) Attached to: Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org?
I tried google.com and google.de and I couldn't find a site that charged for OOo. 3 of the top 4 sites returned by google.de were from the OOo domain, the one that wasn't offered it for free. There was a warning on de.openoffice.org about people charing money for OOo. I'm not finding these mythical pay sites, and I'm looking for them. How do people find them accidentally? Can some one point one out to me? Do these sites even look remotely legit?

Comment Re:oh goody. (Score 1) 499

by Professional Slacker (#25220931) Attached to: C# In-Depth
With recent releases of GTK#, C# is a fine language for knocking out a quick and dirty UI in linux as well. I haven't tried the mono implementation of winforms yet (I'm not sure it's even useful currently), but GTK# is a lot nicer to work with than Swing.

C# is a damn good language, the only problem is that it's a Microsoft technology, and people are rightly a bit weary of it.
Government

Submission + - Church of Scientology violates Federal Law (rapidshare.com) 5

Submitted by
FreedomToThink
FreedomToThink writes: "This is a very long story I'm sure the editors will have fun with, but I couldn't see how to cut it down at all.

On the eve of the Ides of March protest, from the source of the recent 'Anonymous' submitted CCHR leak on wikileaks, comes this message

"Dear $cientology,You attempt injunctions.I respond.Shall we continue the game? Much Love, DEEP CLAM"

Included was yet another PDF this time including yet more emails leaked from a Church of Scientology front group.

Vote Rigging?

From: "Mike Kaplan" <mkaplan@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:53:07 -0400

See below. Everyone in Clearwater MUST vote. Every vote will be needed to be
sure Hibbard gets re-elected. The alternative is Rita Garvey who is an SP.

— Original Message —
From: Shelly <mailto:shelly.bauer@Earthlink.net> Bauer
To: Shelly Bauer <mailto:shelly.bauer@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:09 AM
Subject: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER

DO YOUR PART
RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD
MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
VOTE!!!
JANUARY 29TH
TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED!

Lunch with your preferred Presidential candidates for a high price?

ONE SEAT LEFT

I have arranged a private one-hour luncheon with Ron Paul on 11/28 in St.
Pete when he will be in town for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.

This luncheon is reserved for $1000+ donors to Ron Paul's presidential
campaign. 19 people so far have paid and confirmed and will have the honor
and pleasure of having lunch and communicating with Ron Paul directly.


From the head of the "Non Proffit" CCHR Bruce Wiseman

Go the the HELP committee website. The link is here.
http://help.senate.gov/About.html
Here you will see the names of the Committee members on the left hand
side
of the page. Please go to the individual websites of the Republican =
members
(this will take just a bit of leg work on your part by putting their =
name
into Google) and calling their office or sending a fax to them (email is =
the
least effective) stating your opposition to S. 1375 The Mother's Act.


Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one "which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."

An OCMB (Operation Clambake Message Board)regular adds :

I downloaded myself a copy and started looking through them. I found an interesting one on pages 47-48.
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html

Karin Pouw of OSA of CofS writes a message.
It's forwarded by Michael Genung. He's the guy who runs ACSR, Association for Citizens Sociel Reform. http://www.citizensforsocialreform.org/ ["CSR Background and Philosopy: CSR was founded in 2001 by a group of Scientologists and other like-minded individuals concerned with the escalating social ills in society. CSR's purpose is to work with in the field of public policy to bring about more effective and humane solutions to these social ills of illiteracy, criminality substance abuse and general decay of character."]

Then it's forwarded by Doyle Mills, of LEAF fame (Letters to the Editor Attack Force).
Then it's forwarded by Mary C. (possibly one of two Mary C's I'm thinking of, but unsure).
Then it's forwarded by Mike Kaplan, another person who runs an email list and forwards CCHR type stuff to CofS members.

If that ain't stringing a line from the CofS to CCHR and the CofS front group ("grassroots") movements, then I don't know what is!


Apologies in advance as the Enturbulation servers will not be up to a slashdotting so the Coral Cache link is here Enturbulation Discussion (already cached for you)

ANYONE CAN REPORT TAX FRAUD DIRECTLY TO THE IRS : http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=106778,00.html It does require that you print out and mail in an actual hardcopy, but it does not require you to identify yourself.

Just a casual user passing on a message from the Enturbulation forum, this is already out there, there's no reason to attack the messenger."

Feed MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
A jury's $1.52 billion judgment against Microsoft hangs a sudden, unexpected cloud over MP3. This could be the opening open-source advocates have been waiting for. By Eliot Van Buskirk and Evan Hansen.


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