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IPRED2 - Open Rights Group vs. Their Rights Online 30

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 12, 2007 @09:13AM

Elektroschock writes "The British Open Rights Groups yells the alarm bell. Europe again. Ipred v.2, a directive proposal, will pass the Legal Affairs Committee soon. ipred2 would brand 'all intentional intellectual property rights infringements on a commercial scale' a criminal offence, thus the public prosecutor will take action and take over the role of RIAA. For commercial social communities where infringements are inevitable — think of Youtube — they expect dangerous times ahead. On the other hand life of content industrials would get a lot easier. It is difficult to imagine how the consumer would benefit. Toine Manders, Dutch MEP in that Committee, openly advocates his amendment proposal aimed to criminalize consumers. Open Rights Group suggests you to write to your Members of Parliament. Will they have any impact? Janelly Fourtou, wife of the Vivendi boss, is a member of the Committee. And she pushed through ipred number 1, so why should public action make a difference? The EFF started only this month to build up an office in Brussels. Do MEPs listen or could Sealand be an option for Web 2.1?"

Schneier On the US Crypto Competition 58

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @09:08AM from the ante-up dept.

Bruce Schneier has a commentary in Wired titled An American Idol for Crypto Geeks on the US government's competition for a new cryptographic hash function to become the national standard, covered here recently. He talks about how much the competition, slated to wrap up by 2011, will advance the cryptographic state of the art. And how much fun he expects to have.

Submission + - More on the National Internet Tax effort

Submitted by

bob_calder

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:13AM

bob_calder writes: "The Business Journals have a story on: California legislators "walked away from 2 billion a year in revenue" by declining to get on the bus with an Internet tax. Don't worry though, supporters of the tax still think they have a chance in New York, Texas and Florida. At the moment, the Streamlined Sales Tax Initiative includes some large states already, New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. sanjose.bizjournals"

Sun Looks To GPL3 For Java, Solaris 164

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:41AM from the community-friendly dept.

daria42 writes "Sun is leaning toward changing the license for Java and Solaris to the GNU GPL version 3. The article has some insightful comments from Sun boss Jonathan Schwartz. '"Will we GPL Solaris? We want to ensure we can interact with the GPL community and the Mozilla community and the BSD community," he says.'"

Submission + - IBM launching an open desktop solution

Submitted by

DJ_Maiko

on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:36AM

DJ_Maiko writes: "IBM just announced their intent to release an open desktop solution which they're calling "Open Client Offering." The new offering will make it possible for big businesses to present their employees with a choice of running Linux, Macintosh or Windows software on desktop PCs, using the same underlying software code, which will cut the cost of managing Linux or Apple relative to Windows. If this project succeeds, it will make it unnecessary for companies to pay Microsoft for licenses for items that don't rely on Windows-based software. IBM plans to also roll this out in-house to 5% of their 320,000 employees worldwide. This sure seems like a promising endeavor.

From the article:
"We worked with the open source community and found a way to write software once that will work regardless of operating system. It will run on Windows, Macintosh or Linux," said Scott Handy, IBM's vice president of Linux and open source.

So what do you guys think, will this (finally) displace Windows as the flavor du jour in the business marketplace?"

Journal Journal: Security Focus Analyzes Fear Mongering.

Journal by twitter on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:03AM

There's a lot of hype about "parental controls" going around. M$ has them in useless spades, even Apple has got parental snooping. Clueless legislators are picking up on the demand. Where does it all come from? Scott Granneman of SecurityFocus has an insightful analysis.(

MacResearch Introduces OpenMacGrid 123

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @04:11AM

Drew McCormack writes "MacResearch.org has just introduced OpenMacGrid. It is a distributed computing grid similar to SETI@home, but unlike other networks, it is built up entirely of Macs utilizing Xgrid, and access is unrestricted. Anyone with Mac OS X 10.4 can donate cycles, and any scientist with a reasonable project can burn cycles."

Cosmic Rays and Global Warming 548

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @01:21AM from the yet-another-theory dept.

Overly Critical Guy writes "The former editor of New Scientist has written an article in the TimesOnline suggesting that cosmic rays may affect global climate. The author criticizes the UN's recent global warming report, noting several underreported trends it doesn't account for, such as increasing sea-ice in the Southern Ocean. He describes an experiment by Henrik Svensmark showing a relation between atmospheric cloudiness and atomic particles coming in from exploded stars. In the basement of the Danish National Space Center in 2005, Svensmark's team showed that electrons from cosmic rays caused cloud condensation. Svensmark's scenario apparently predicts several unexplained temperature trends from the warmer trend of the 20th century to the temporary drop in the 1970s, attributed to changes in the sun's magnetic field affecting the amount of cosmic rays entering the atmosphere."

Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 164

by RunAmuk on Tuesday March 02, 2004 @12:15PM (#8441043) Attached to: Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10)

Actually, the SunBlade 100 did come with an integrated network card, see http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBl ade100/spec.html

When I encountered the problem, I started by looking around at SunSolve, and never really thought of going to straight to comp.unix.solaris from there. I was interrupted in my fiddling with the system by the arrival of my first child, so I reverted Solaris 8 knowing it would work. You raise a good point though, now that I have a bit more time, I should go there and see what the discussions there have to say.

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