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Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops 983

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-shoot-or-we'll-shoot dept.
HungryHobo writes with this excerpt from a story at Pixiq: "Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets on Memorial Day. First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer. Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out of the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling, 'you want to be f****** paparazzi?' Then they snatched the cell phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground before stomping on it. Then they placed the smashed phone in the videographer's back pocket as he was laying down on the ground."

Comment Re:Mr. Shuttleworth should try to understand himse (Score 1) 655

by Kenz0r (#33090182) Attached to: Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth

Ubuntu doesn't actually contribute much source code anyhow. It takes and takes, but returns very little.

I'd like to back up your statement with some facts, since you're not getting much love from the mods.

Around 22:30 in this video you see which companies give back to the Linux kernel
Spoiler: Canonical is not in the top 10. Not by a long shot.

Comment Re:It's all for show from now on. (Score 2, Informative) 768

by Kenz0r (#32397948) Attached to: BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed
After reading your comment I watched the episode online, thanks for pointing it out to me.
I don't live in the US so I can't watch CBS on tv.
I recommend to everyone that hasn't seen it yet to check it out, it's been really educational.

Props to CBS for not filtering out non-US IPs like other some tv stations do.
Power

10,000 Cows Can Power 1,000 Servers 221

Posted by samzenpus from the cattle-computing dept.
CWmike writes "Reducing energy consumption in data centers, particularly with the prospect of a federal carbon tax, is pushing vendors to explore an ever-growing range of ideas. HP engineers say that biogas may offer a fresh alternative energy approach for IT managers. Researchers at HP Labs presented a paper (download PDF) on using cow manure from dairy farms and cattle feedlots and other 'digested farm waste' to generate electricity to an American Society of Mechanical Engineers conference, held this week. In it, the research team calculates that 'a hypothetical farm of 10,000 dairy cows' could power a 1 MW data center — or on the order of 1,000 servers. One trend that makes the idea of turning organic waste into usable power for data centers is the moves by several firms to build facilities in rural locations, where high-speed networks allow them to take advantage of the cost advantages of such areas. But there are some practical problems, not the least of which is connecting a data center to the cows. If it does happen, the move could call for a new take on plug and play: plug and poo."
GNU is Not Unix

Would You Die To Respect a Software License? 233

Posted by timothy from the visit-from-the-compliance-department dept.
Julie188 writes "Some 2,000 licenses cover the 230,000+ projects in Black Duck's open source knowledge base. While 10 licenses comprise 93% of the software, that leaves 1,980-odd licenses for the other 3% — and some of them have really crazy conditions. The Death and Repudiation License, for instance, requires the user to be dead."

Comment Re:There's something not quite right about this (Score 3, Informative) 99

by Kenz0r (#32234114) Attached to: Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source
Funny that the first person to mention Launchpad is someone that works for OpenHatch.

Not to steal your thunder, I think OpenHatch is wonderful, but it does remind me an awful lot about launchpad.
For those of you unfamiliar with LP, launchpad.net is another site like this, that tries to get people involved with F/OSS projects.
You can contribute bugreports, fixes, Q&A about software, provide translations...
It used to be focussed around Ubuntu and Gnome (because the site is run by Canonical Inc.), but nowadays the site has really taken off (no pun intended) and hosts many kinds of FOSS projects.

I like how OpenHatch makes FOSS-involvement something you can boast about on forums/social networking sites using their HTML widget.
It makes me want to get my hands dirty and get involved :)

Comment Unattractive website (Score 1) 269

by Kenz0r (#32098152) Attached to: GIMP Resynth vs. Photoshop Content Aware
It always amazes me that the websites for wonderful FOSS projects can be so damn ugly.

The Resynthesizer website is a great example. It's not so much the site itself I find ugly, but the logo.
They make a Gimp plug-in for crying out loud, they should be able to whip up something more appealing.

I get that programmers just don't care about their website or logo, only about coding the actual software.
But that kind of attitude is keeping some FOSS projects from becoming popular with the general population.

At first glance Resynthesizer wouldn't strike me as a serious competitor for anything that a behemoth like Adobe makes, although TFA shows me that it is.
Maybe that makes me a narrow-sighted idiot, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Comment Re:Ubuntu 6 month cycle (Score 1) 319

by Chang (#32080414) Attached to: Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick

Windows 2000 hits end of life this summer. 2003 enters extended support which ends in 2015 - this was extended due to poor uptake of Windows 2008. They currently offer 10 years of support but they often extend if uptake of the follow on release is low.

RedHat and Novell support their enterprise linux OS products on a seven year cycle.

Novell even leaves the downloads availble for up to 10 years.

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