German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names 859
Jason Levine writes "Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber killed a German actor in 1990. Now that they are out of prison, German law states that they can't be referred to by name in relation to the killings. Therefore, they have sued to get Wikipedia to remove their names from the Wikipedia article about the killings. The German edition of Wikipedia has already complied, but the English edition is citing US freedom of speech and a lack of presence in Germany as reasons why they don't need to remove the name. In a bit of irony, their lawyer e-mailed the NY Times: 'In the spirit of this discussion, I trust that you will not mention my clients' names in your article.'"
Submission + - Bullet-proof sheets of carbon nanotubes (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: FTA: "Lashmore's company, Nanocomp Technologies, is the first in the world to make sheets of carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes stronger than steel but lighter than plastic.(...) In April, Lashmore had a mechanical multicaliber gun shoot bullets at different versions of his sheet, each less than a fifth of an inch thick, at a speed of 1,400 feet per second. Four sheets were breached, but three showed no damage."
Other possible uses: Shark suit? Bullet-proof Faraday cage?
Other possible uses: Shark suit? Bullet-proof Faraday cage?
Comment For more information (Score 3, Informative) 114
Submission + - Judge in Pirate Bay trial biased 1
maglo writes: "The judge who handed down the harsh sentence to the four accused in the The Pirate Bay trial was biased, writes Sveriges Radio (Sweden Public Radio): sr.se (swedish). Google translation. The judge is member of two copyright lobby organizations, something he shares with several of the prosecutor attorneys (Monique Wadsted, Henrik Pontén and Peter Danowsky). The organizations in question are Svenska Föreningen för Upphovsrätt (SFU) and Svenska föreningen för industriellt rättsskydd (SFIR)."
Submission + - Will the real MySQL please stand up? (livejournal.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Patrick Galbraith, an X core MySQL Server Engineer raises the question in "What is the official branch of MySQL?".. With Monty Widenius having left Sun and forked off MySQL for MariaDB, and Brian Aker running the Drizzle fork inside of Sun, where is the official MySQL tree? Sun may own the trademark, but it looks like there is doubt that they are still the maintainers of the actual codebase after their Billion dollar acquisition of the code a year ago.
Smugmug's Don MacAskhill, who is the keynote at the upcoming MySQL Conference, has commented that he is now using the Percona version of fork of MySQL, and is no longer making use of the Sun version.
Submission + - Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps (gnu.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Richard Stallman has published an article which warns about the "Javascript trap" posed by non-free AJAX-based applications. The article calls for a mechanism which would enable browsers to identify freely-licensed Javascript applications and run modified version thereof. "It is possible to release a Javascript program as free software"--Stallman writes.--"But even if the program's source is available, there is no easy way to run your modified version instead of the original ... The effect is comparable to tivoization, although not quite so hard to overcome."
Comment The end of the human race (Score 1) 852
There's one thing I don't get.
The "end of the human race" was predicted many times along the way:
Head Six: I'm an angel of god sent here to protect you. To guide you, to love you.
Baltar: To what end?
Head Six: To the end of the human race.
And in the finale she tells him his role is over, when the future of the human race looks brighter than ever.
What gives?
The "end of the human race" was predicted many times along the way:
Head Six: I'm an angel of god sent here to protect you. To guide you, to love you.
Baltar: To what end?
Head Six: To the end of the human race.
And in the finale she tells him his role is over, when the future of the human race looks brighter than ever.
What gives?
Comment Lyx supports subversion! (Score 2) 328
Yeah, it does.
Comment Slashdot editors, learn to read, please! (Score 1) 493
From TFA:
"The beta Firefox 3.1 will still have a few bugs to work out, but Mozilla officials have promised that eight of the security flaws found in the current browser, six of which have been rated critical, will be fixed in the updated version. The most serious of these vulnerabilities are already being repaired, and can be downloaded as patches from the Mozilla website."
Only six critical flaws, not eight.
Anyway, I couldn't find any information about those flaws. Could you?
"The beta Firefox 3.1 will still have a few bugs to work out, but Mozilla officials have promised that eight of the security flaws found in the current browser, six of which have been rated critical, will be fixed in the updated version. The most serious of these vulnerabilities are already being repaired, and can be downloaded as patches from the Mozilla website."
Only six critical flaws, not eight.
Anyway, I couldn't find any information about those flaws. Could you?
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