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Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics 408

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 28, 2009 @11:55PM from the at-least-get-the-age-right dept.

mdwh2 writes "Graphic artists, publishers and MPs have condemned the UK's Coroners and Justice Bill, which will criminalize possession of sexual depictions that appear to show someone under 18 (the age of consent is 16 in the UK), as well as adults where the 'predominant impression conveyed' is of someone under 18, and even if they are merely drawn as being present whilst sexual activity took place between adults. The definitions could include Lost Girls, Watchmen, and South Park. The Comic Book Alliance has launched a petition against the law."

Involving Kids In Free Software Through Games 33

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:14AM from the works-better-than-stapling-them-to-a-linux-cd dept.

SynrG writes "Platinum Arts Sandbox puts into childrens' hands the ability to role play in a 3D world and edit that world using simplified controls. The expressions on the faces of our kids as they played were priceless; both the ups and the downs. I wanted to capture this on video and share it. After having established a rapport with upstream, we took a 20 minute clip of one of our play sessions and gave a copy to them to use to help further their work. Here is the edited result. They were very pleased to have that kind of feedback and found the video valuable for determining where the software still needed improvement and to notice which aspects particularly pleased the children."

Comment Re:Can they hear me now? (Score 5, Interesting) 242

by demiurgie on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @01:18AM (#25813321) Attached to: McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control

Please, dont do this.
These servers were plugged off on early monday (local moscow time), as soon we got contact with podolsk-mo. The networks of bad guys were:
62.176.16.0/22 (they got from local ISP)
91.200.144.0/22 (client's network)

IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2 394

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @02:02AM from the big-blue-meanies dept.

wikinerd writes "Following an online petition in November 2007 by members of an OS/2 online community to open-source OS/2, IBM answered by sending a letter via FedEx making it clear that OS/2 is going to remain closed-source, citing business, technical, and legal reasons. An earlier petition in 2005 that had attracted over 11,000 signatures met a similar response. Both petition letters to IBM Corp. can be viewed at the OS2World.com library. The End of Support period for OS/2 passed by in December 2006, and the given IBM's response the future for OS/2 doesn't look bright, unless re-implementation projects such as Voyager or osFree attract the necessary critical mass of operating system developers."

Too Many Cats

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 21, 2008 @03:17PM from the time-to-get-a-new-house dept.

samzenpus writes "I have had nightmares that look a lot like this. I'd need goggles, a respirator and a pound of Celebrex to get within 50 feet of this place."

Interview with AT&T on BitTorrent Filtering 179

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 21, 2008 @01:03PM from the please-hammer-don't-hurt-em dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is running an interview with AT&T's Vice President of Legal Affairs, Jim Cicconi. AT&T discusses the latest in their effort to filter, however one interesting point tends to show they aren't moving anywhere until they discuss this with their customers. "We hear from our customers directly and indirectly. It's a very competitive business, ravenously so. I think our company is very, very sensitive to customer attitude — we have to consider this," Jim Cicconi told Slyck.com."

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