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Submission + - Action figures vs. riot police in Singapore

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reviewsbyp
reviewsbyp writes: ""A protest action by a group of Singaporeans with Japanese anime figurines such as the 5-inch tall Ultramen, robots and monsters with placards met some real-life police in the city-state." (via Yahoo news). Check out photos of the protesting action figures (complete with mini-pickets!)

This was a protest because of the RIAA-style takedown of downloaders by anime distributor ODEX. Ironically, the Singapore courts have decided that ODEX has "no right of civil action" against illegal downloaders because they are neither the copyright holders nor exclusive licensees of the anime."
AMD

Submission + - AMD and Novel develops open source graphic drivers (amd.com)

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Damien Merenne
Damien Merenne writes: "AMD officially stated that they will develop open source graphic drivers and that they will partner with Novel for doing so. Hardware specs for some ATI Radeon models and a development framework are expected to be released this week:

The week of September 10th, AMD plans to provide an open source information and development package supporting the ATI Radeon(TM) HD 2000 series as well as ATI Radeon(TM) X1000 series of graphics processing units (GPU) on Linux desktops. To accelerate this initiative, AMD partnered with Novell's SuSE Linux engineering team. The initial release includes source code and hardware specifications to engage the Open Source community for collaboration on 2D graphics drivers. Over the following months, AMD will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to provide the best possible experience on the Linux desktop. This strategy complements and enhances AMD's existing support of the Linux community through its regularly released high performance Catalyst driver.
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Operating Systems

Submission + - Today's OS User Interfaces: All Fluff, No Function (osweekly.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: OSWeekly.com brings forth a good point. Today's operating systems are all focusing on user interfaces and how to one up each other, while blatantly ignoring functionality. Why? The article continues with: "I think there needs to be a balance here. To some degree, developers and users alike must learn to place less importance on the appearance of an OS and a little more on new and improved ways of making sure painfully obvious flaws are being dealt with. To be fair, this has generally been done with some success, but lately it feels like this has been falling further and further by the wayside.
Operating Systems

Submission + - The OSS Solution to Solving Linux Wi-Fi Problem (madpenguin.org)

Submitted by tobs
tobs writes: Matt Hartley of MadPenguin.org fame has published an open source way of solving the Linux Wi-Fi problem. He writes, "For intermediate to advanced users, who are willing to track down WiFi cards based on chipsets, live without WPA in some instances or have opted to stick with Ethernet, buying a new notebook for the sake of improved wireless connectivity may seem a little overkill. When a new user faces problems jumping through the NDISWrapper hoops, tracking down WiFi cards from HCLs and other related activities, the end result is almost always the same — they give up. What so many of us, as Linux users, fail to grasp is that projects like OpenHAL are critical to long-term development. The education on what to expect and what not to expect remains a complete load of hot air when articles claim how easy it is to setup wireless Internet on Linux machines. It's downright misleading.

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