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Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout 409

Ian Lamont writes "Anger over Facebook's ToS update has forced the company to scramble. Yesterday, a spokesman released a statement that said Facebook has never 'claimed ownership of material that users upload,' and is trying to be more open to users about how their data is being handled. Mark Zuckerberg has also weighed in, stating 'we wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want.' Facebook members are skeptical, however — protests have sprung up on blogs, message boards, and a new Facebook group called 'People Against the new Terms of Service' that has added more than 10,000 members today."
GNOME

Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative 262

Derwent sends along a Computerworld piece which begins: "The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME. During a presentation at this year's linux.conf.au conference, Canonical's David Mandala said Ubuntu Mobile has changed a lot over the past year... 'I worked on ARM devices for many years so a full Linux distribution on ARM is exciting,' Mandala said, adding one of the biggest challenges is reminding developers to write applications for 800 by 600 screen resolutions found in smaller devices. 'The standard [resolution] for GNOME [apps] is 800 by 600, but not all apps are. For this reason Ubuntu Mobile uses the GNOME Mobile (Hildon framework) instead of a full GNOME desktop, but since Nokia open sourced Qt under the LGPL it may consider this as an alternative.'"

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 508

In this case it is largely empirical fact. There are cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere every day that are 10^21 electron volts, as compared to 10^12 for the particles in the LHC. From these incredibly high energy collisions there are huge cascades of particles as the cosmic ray interacts with the atmosphere. These are *seen* not theorized. In these cascades the energy gets split among all the particles affected and the particles they decay into. In this "shower" are a large number of interactions just like those that occur at the LHC. This is fact not theory. The basic point of article is that given this known fact, and the assumption that these black holes *are* made in such interactions, what do we expect the danger to be given the fact that certain astronomical objects are not obviously adversely affected by this process.

The main theoretical uncertainties come in is in the energy scale at which these black holes are created in such collisions, but the authors argue that we can place a conservative bound on the effect simply by comparison with these more dense objects.

KDE

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released 249

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."

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