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Submission + - Paypal withdraw Wikileaks donation service (bbc.co.uk)

ItsIllak writes: The BBC are reporting that Paypal are 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!
Government

Open Source Cities Followup — Munich Yea, Vienna Nay 162

We're catching up on two stories of municipal engagement with open source software: Munich (which decided to go OS in 2003) and Vienna (2005). E5Rebel brings us news that Munich has stayed the course. But bkingaut informs that Vienna has decided to migrate back to Windows (Google translation) — to Vista no less. The migration of 720 computers used in kindergartens will cost the city about €8M. The given reason for all this is a language test application for the kids that only works with MS IE and won't be made compatible (by the producer) with Firefox until 2009.
Government

Submission + - City of Vienna back to Windows 2

bkingaut writes: "Slashdot readers might remember the story about the City of Vienna choosing Linux back in 2005. Now they decided to migrate back to Windows and even worse: to Windows Vista! The migration of 720 computers used in kindergartens will cost about 8 million Euros. The alleged reason for all this is a language test application for the kids that only works with MS Internet Explorer and won't be made compatible (by the producer) with firefox before 2009. Read the full story (in german) here."

Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon 296

davaguco writes "It seems that we will finally be able to make ourselves invisible" It seems like this story resurfaces every few months and then gets submitted a zillion times so here it is. Personally I'm still waiting for my cloak of evasion. 20% miss chance is awesome.

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