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Comment Does this list make me look obsessed? (Score 1) 268

My "listen to every episode ASAP" list:
Opening Arguments
Scathing Atheist
God Awful Movies
Skepticrat
Cognative Dissonance
Skeptics with a K
Be Reasonable
Inkredulous

My backup list:
Dogma Debate
Naked Mormonism
What's the Point
Monster Talk

I have this habit of wanting to hear people talk about truth and evidence, and exploring how that goes wrong...

Comment Foundation Beyond Belief (Score 1) 268

I can recommend Foundation Beyond Belief, at https://foundationbeyondbelief... . It is a humanist organization, so they are explicitly trying to just do good without promoting a religion.

They forward your money on to other causes (and it is clearly identified what they take as overhead, and you can reduce/increase that as you wish). They vet those causes for effectiveness. Every quarter they change who they donate money to, and you can adjust where your money goes within those groups.

They have an easy system to setup monthly payments, as well as giving you your end of year tax form, so it's painless to spread out your donation over time.

Biotech

Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer 259

manoftin writes to tell us that next week a baby will be born without the gene for breast cancer, according to the BBC. "But he said that, in this case, not carrying the BRCA1 gene would not guarantee any daughter born to the couple would be unaffected by breast cancer because there are other genetic and environmental causes. Dr Alan Thornhill, scientific director of the London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre, said: 'While the technology and approach used in this case is fairly routine, it is the first time in the UK that a family has successfully eliminated a mutant breast cancer gene for their child. It is a victory for both the parents and the HFEA that licensed this treatment.'"

Comment Re:GCC is wrong (Score 1) 256

It's not just GCC. The bug is actually in the kernel... you can propose that GCC be extra careful not to trigger this bug, but if someone wants to make a binary that triggers it, they don't need GCC to do that.

It's a potential security hole, and an almost certain memory corruption-waiting-to-happen, and needs to get fixed in the kernel. GCC reverting to the old behaviour will, at best, prevent people from accidentally finding this.
User Journal

Journal Journal: GCC 4.2.1 released 449

GCC 4.2.1 was released 4 days ago. Although this minor update would otherwise be insignificant, it will be the final GPL v2 release; all future releases will be GPL v3. Some key contributors are grumbling over this change and have privately discussed a fork to stay as GPL v2. The last time GCC forked (EGCS), the FSF conceded defeat. How will the FSF/GNU handle the GPL 3 revolt?
Security

Submission + - Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating

zakeria writes: "Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Trusted Solaris operating system, said Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM."

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