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Google's Summer of Code Headed Down Under 41

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 01, 2008 @06:19AM from the now-is-the-summer-of-your-foss-content dept.

Stony Stevenson alerts us to news that Google is hinting at the possibility of an Australian version of the Summer of Code program. We've discussed the results of the Summer of Code program in the past. Quoting iTnews: "The global program had attracted students from 90 countries around the world, including Australia, said Hawthorn. But as the timing clashed with winter term time in the southern hemisphere, it's been tough for local students to participate. Stopping short of confirming the program, Hawthorn said Google is looking into finding the human resources - as opposed to the financial resources - to make it happen."

Private File Sharing To Remain/Become legal In EU 147

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 30, 2007 @03:14PM from the nice-change-of-pace dept.

orzetto writes "Italian newspapers are reporting that the European parliament's Commitee for Legal Affairs approved an amendment presented by EMP Nicola Zingaretti (PSE, IT), that makes piracy a felony—but only if a monetary profit is made. As in the EU parliament's press release: 'Members of the Legal Affairs' committee [...] decided that criminal sanctions should only apply to those infringements deliberately carried out to obtain a commercial advantage. Piracy committed by private users for personal, non-profit purposes are therefore also excluded.' The complete proposal was passed with 23 votes in favour, 3 against and 3 abstained, and is intended to be applied to copyright, trademark, design and other IP fields, but not patent right which is explicitly excluded. The proposal has still to pass the vote of the parliament before becoming law in all EU countries, some of which (like Italy) do have criminal laws in place for non-profit file sharing. A note: Most EU countries use civil law, not common law. Translation of legal terms may be misleading."

Comment GET OVER IT (Score 1) 1024

by jeisc on Friday September 16, 2005 @03:21PM (#13578818) Attached to: Global Warming Past The Point of No Return

our beloved earth is a molten rock with a cool crust hurling through space while rotating around a radioactive sun spewing out toxic gamma rays not to mention other kinds of rays coming from deep space and circling around in a galaxy that we know just about nothing of how it works or why it works and on and on and on in our ignorance...
But I've never heard some scientist say that the gloabl warming of the earth is coming from its molten center and that global heating could be because the core of the earth is getting hotter.

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