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PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service 794

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, 2010 @11:30AM from the no-funds-for-you dept.

ItsIllak writes "The BBC are reporting that PayPal is the latest company to abandon WikiLeaks. The list now includes their DNS providers (EveryDNS) and their hosts (Amazon). PayPal's move is unlikely to result in many more people boycotting the company, as most knowledgeable on-line users will have been refusing to use them for years for a wide variety of abusive practices." Adds reader jg21: "As open source freedom fighter Simon Phipps writes in his ComputerWorldUK blog, behavior like this by Amazon and Tableau [and now PayPal] 'informs us as customers of web services and cloud computing services that we are never safe from intentional outages when the business interests of our host are challenged.'"

Comment Re:But The Real Question: (Score 2, Interesting) 579

by CoreDump01 on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @07:41PM (#23165574) Attached to: Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely

Our current technology and science will look *very* medieval to any observer in a few hundred years ;) I do not claim that we will ever get away with actually violating any laws of physics. I do, however, believe that our understanding of said laws will get better and better over time and what seemed impossible before (with the old understanding) could become possible.

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released 249

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM from the and-they-are-just-giving-it-away-this-time dept.

dbhost writes "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in the notes is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also, according to the announcement, konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."

Feed Linux.com: First KDE 4.0 beta released (linux.com)

From feed by lcfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:52PM

The KDE team is shipping its first beta for the next-generation KDE desktop. The 4.0 beta is the starting point for the integration process to start bringing new technologies in KDE 4 libraries to applications.

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