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Submission + - Gaim rename

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07, 2007 @04:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?threa d_name=20070407135734.GB2776%40pidgin.im&forum_nam e=gaim-i18n

[...] Getting a settlement with AOL has taken FAR FAR longer than we would
have ever guessed. On legal advise, we have refrained from any non-beta
release during this process as a show of good faith, and to keep AOL
from giving up on it. Again, on legal advise, we have also kept this
information closely embargoed.

At long last, I am pleased to announce, that we have a signed
settlement, and can again release. There is one catch however, we have
had to change the project's name.

After long, and unfortunately secret (as we could not say why we were
looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves),
debate, we settled on the name "Pidgin" for gaim itself, "libpurple" for
libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and "finch" for gaim-text.
Yes, the spelling of "Pidgin" is intentional.

Since between the name, and the nature of the 2.0.0 release itself, so
much is changing, we decided to go ahead with something we have talked
about doing for a while now anyway. We have gotten our own server,
kindly donated by DVLabs. As a result our new home will be
http://www.pidgin.im/ and developer.pidgin.im We, at least for now, will still
be using SF's mirroring system for releases. However, the bug tracking
will no longer be on SF, and we will be migrating the mailing lists at
some point soon. Also, we have chosen to go with monotone for our
revision control, rather than the SF cvs or svn. [...]

Submission + - With us or against us, or both

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07, 2007 @04:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: It seems that the US military is actively supporting a terrorist group in Iraq: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/prot ected.terrorists/index.html Does this mean I can stop paying taxes to avoid providing material support to a terrorist organization?

Submission + - SPAM: Yet another data breach: Chicago Public Schools

Submitted by

alphadogg

on Saturday April 07, 2007 @04:09PM

alphadogg writes: "Earlier this week it was the University of California at San Francisco. Friday, the Chicago Public School system announced a pair of laptops was stolen, putting at risk the Social Security numbers of 40,000 current and former employees. [spam URL stripped]7 3"

Submission + - What does viral licensing mean? Is it? Viral?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 07, 2007 @03:47PM

An anonymous reader writes: I was wondering, if someone creates software using both GPL and non-GPL code, does the resulting collection of source code legally fall under the GPL? In other words, what if Adobe were to use GPL'd source in their next release of Photoshop. If they were caught, would they be legally obligated to release the entire source of Photoshop under the GPL?

Submission + - Is America still free?

Submitted by chameleon3 on Saturday April 07, 2007 @03:42PM

chameleon3 writes: Slashdotters are wont to bemoan the slow erosion of personal freedoms in the United States, and I am not inclined to disagree. My question is: how will you know that America is no longer the Land of the Free? What event would be necessary for you to declare Freedom officially dead in America? Or, if you believe it has already occurred, what event caused it?

Submission + - The Great Eyeglasses Scam

Submitted by NiteBird on Friday April 06, 2007 @01:50AM

NiteBird writes: Is poor distance vision (myopia) really not genetic after all? Are eye doctors getting us hooked on ever stronger prescription glasses and contact lenses? Don Rehm of the International Myopia Prevention Association thinks so. Online journalist Fintan Dunne interviews Don, and explains how too much close focusing (e.g. reading and computer work) gives you myopia in the first place, and how glasses prescribed for myopia make your vision worse in the second place, but also, how you can turn the laws of optics to your advantage and use reading glasses (the kind you can buy at the pharmacy) to help you keep or possibly restore your clear distant vision!

Submission + - Folding@home killing the planet

Submitted by

Drakaal

on Friday April 06, 2007 @01:23AM

Drakaal writes: "Folding@Home is Killing the planet

Folding@Home costs nearly $70million, uses 584gigawatt hours of power, and produces 730 kilotons of Carbon dioxide. Is fighting mad cow worth it? This article weighs the cost benefit of donating electricity and CPU Cycles, VS. the Real Cost of the project."

Submission + - Motorless Solar Tracker

Submitted by on Thursday April 05, 2007 @05:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: EcoGeek.org has a piece about a system for tracking the sun with a solar photovoltaic panel without using electricity. Photovoltaic panels are most efficient at generating electricity when they are oriented perpendicular to the sun, but motorized systems can be expensive and draw off a significant portion of the power the panel is generating. These are especially useful for small, remote locations where only a single PV panel is available, and for portable installations where more uniform power is needed throughout the day.

Submission + - Daylight Saving Shift Shows Little Impact

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:25PM

Billosaur writes: "A report from ZDNet News would indicate that the recent change in the onset of Daylight Savings Time in the United States, from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March, has had little effect on power consumption. "That may come as no surprise to the Energy Department, which last year predicted only modest energy savings because the benefits of the later daylight hour would be offset." Lights that were not being used in the evening due to the expanded daylight hours in the evening, would be used in the dark of the morning instead."

New Algorithms Improve Image Search 111

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:25PM from the where's-waldo dept.

bc90021 writes "Electrical engineers from UC San Diego are making progress on an image search engine that analyzes the images themselves. At the core of this Supervised Multiclass Labeling system is a set of simple yet powerful algorithms developed at UCSD. Once you train the system (the 'supervised' part), you can set it loose on a database of unlabeled images. The system calculates the probability that various objects it has been trained to recognize are present, and labels the images accordingly. After labeling, images can be retrieved via keyword searches. Accuracy of the UCSD system has outpaced that of other content-based image labeling and retrieval systems in the literature. One of the co-authors works at Google, where the researchers have access to image collections at the largest of scales."

Submission + - Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pac

Submitted by

beetle496

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:19PM

beetle496 writes: "Computer World reports that Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts. This is a follow-up to earlier /. story that Vendor [Diebold] contends state erred in selecting AutoMark voting machines of rival. From TFA: "The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said. No further hearings have been scheduled yet, he said. The actual accessibility concerns have been discussed over at the TEITAC ListServ, including a few telling observations from experts familar with accessible voting and at least one state insider."

Submission + - Slashdot goes over the top for April Fools day

Submitted by

driverman

on Sunday April 01, 2007 @02:23PM

driverman writes: "Slashdot probably has the highest pranks per pixel (ppp) ratio of any news-related website out there. Many users have counted at least five unique april fools pranks on the main index of the site, and not all of them are limited to stories. One of the pranks is masquerading as a feature, and two (1, 2) of the pranks can be attributed to Google. No Microsoft pranks have been sighted as of yet (Vista doesn't count as an early one, either)."

Submission + - Google airbrushing Maps

Submitted by

infoltrs

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @10:30AM

infoltrs writes: "Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to the storm's victims, a congressional subcommittee said. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/31/katrina.google. maps.ap/index.html"

Submission + - Digg Violates its Own Terms of Service

Submitted by

derami

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @08:39AM

derami writes: "Digg.com administrators refused to remove a plagiarized submission about a highly humorous and bizarre new Google Maps feature, then banned the original author for reporting the issue. The copied version was posted by the well-read Consumerist.com blog and linked to Digg a matter of hours after the original Allsux.com post was listed on Digg. When the Allsux blogger alerted Digg administrators about this clear case of plagiarism, his Digg account was promptly suspended without notice or explanation. So, not only is Digg ignoring their own policy against plagiarism but they also censored a valid complainant without just cause."

Submission + - Kaleidescape Beats DVD CCA Re: DVD Server

Submitted by Ripper on Thursday March 29, 2007 @05:01PM

Ripper writes: Video server manufacturer Kaleidescape has beaten the DVD CCA, the group that licenses DVD decryption/encryption technology to every manufacturer of legitimate DVD players. The group had argued that Kaleidescape breached a licensing agreement by making a product that enables (indeed encourages) users to rip copy-protected DVDs onto a hard drive. Kaleidescape argued that nothing in the contract says anything about prohibiting such functionality. The judge agreed. The broader copyright issues that could have emerged during the non-jury trial, in fact did not, so the case has little implication for those who want to rush out and rip their DVDs, or make products that do so. The judge also stopped short of agreeing that, in fact, the DVD CCA is an innovation-stifling cartel.

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