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Submission + - FSF pledges $60.000 on the Free Software Campaign

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Quim Rovira

on Thursday December 14, 2006 @03:43AM

Quim Rovira writes: "Boston, December 13th 2006 — Free Software Foundation announces that it will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign (www.ryzom.org) with a pledge of $60,000
The Free Ryzom campaign was established to purchase the online game and universe known as Ryzom, property of the now bankrupt Nevrax company, and release the entire game as free software.

As stated by Peter T. Brown, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, the FSF considers the Free Ryzom campaign "a high priority project for the free software movement". The aim of the campaign is to publish the source code to the entire game under the terms of the widely-used GPL, as well as publishing all of the artwork and other content under similar free licenses.
Read the whole Press Note on: Free Software Foundation Press Note Free Ryzom Campaign Press Note"

Submission + - "Logic bomb" backfires on hacker

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Jay

on Thursday December 14, 2006 @03:24AM

Jay writes: "From Reuters, A former UBS PaineWebber employee was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday for planting a computer "logic bomb" on company networks and betting its stock would go down. The investment scheme backfired when UBS stock remained stable after the computer attack and Roger Duronio lost more than $23,000."

Submission + - Officer charged with murder for shooting PS3 suspe

Submitted by macnificent7 on Thursday December 14, 2006 @02:59AM

macnificent7 writes: Sheriff Deputy Christopher Long has been charged with 2nd-degree murder and fired from his job. Peyton Strickland was suspected of stealing and assaulting a student for his PS3. Long shot Strickland when officers were about to charge his door at his home.

Submission + - Open source laser business opens in New York City

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ptorrone

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @05:26PM

ptorrone writes: "If you can't stand the idea of a cookie-cutter laptop and you live in New York, you have a new option: laser-etching. Phil Torrone, an editor at Make magazine, and Limor Fried, a former fellow at the tech-focused art studio Eyebeam R&D, are working together on Adafruit Laser Services, a new, by-appointment-only business in Manhattan that etches custom artwork onto customers' laptops, iPods, cell phones and other gadgets."

Submission + - Hydrogen Won't Save Our Economy

Submitted by anaesthetica on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @05:24PM

anaesthetica writes: Physorg.com is featuring a story asserting that hydrogen is economically infeasible as a replacement for our current energy sources. The premise is that isolating and converting hydrogen into a usable energy source takes up a great deal of energy to begin with, and that subsequently that hydrogen fuel is only useful in about 25% of our economy. Apparently, the increasing scarcity of water is going to make hydrogen too costly and just as politicized as oil. From the article:
[Fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel's] overall energy analysis of a hydrogen economy demonstrates that high energy losses inevitably resulting from the laws of physics mean that a hydrogen economy will never make sense. The advantages of hydrogen praised by journalists (non-toxic, burns to water, abundance of hydrogen in the Universe, etc.) are misleading, because the production of hydrogen depends on the availability of energy and water, both of which are increasingly rare and may become political issues, as much as oil and natural gas are today."

Submission + - Revised UK Windfarm Plans Unveiled

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s31523

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @03:29PM

s31523 writes: "With global warming being one of the latest hot topics, the need for "clean" energy is fast approaching. It surprises me that the announcement of UK's largest wind-farm, capable of generating 652MW of electricity, is coming under such heavy criticism by environmental groups. The proposed 181 turbines stand in at a staggering 140 meters tall which is drawing heavy fire from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. From the article:
"The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is concerned about the number of birds which could be killed by flying into turbines and says it would be willing to take the matter to Europe if necessary.""

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