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Submission + - Turkish Assembly Votes Censoring of Web sites

Submitted by

unity100

on Friday April 06, 2007 @01:02PM

unity100 writes: "Cnn has some piece of news about recent a development in turkey, where turkish assembly, totally in lieu with turkey's commitment to european union membership and european ideals, have voted to have sites that "insult" Turkish Republic founder M.Kemal Ataturk censored from entire Turkish population.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/04/06/turkey .youtube.ap/index.html"

Submission + - Billions face climate change risk

Submitted by

gollum123

on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:59PM

gollum123 writes: "Billions of people face shortages of food and water and increased risk of flooding, experts at a major climate change conference have warned ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6532323. stm ). The bleak conclusion came ahead of the publication of a key report by hundreds of international environmental experts. People living in poverty would be worst affected by the effects of climate change, the gathered experts said. Outlining the report's findings, Martin Parry, co-chairman of IPCC Working Group II, said evidence showed climate change was having a direct effect on animals, plants and water. The scientific work reviewed by IPCC scientists includes more than 29,000 pieces of data on observed changes in physical and biological aspects of the natural world. Eighty-nine percent of these, it believes, are consistent with a warming world. Several delegations, including the US, Saudi Arabia, China and India, had asked for the final version to reflect less certainty than the draft."

Google Snaps Up Stats Tool from Swedish Charity 106

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 18, 2007 @03:53PM from the at-least-he's-rich-in-spirit dept.

paulraps writes "A stats program that began as a teaching aid for a university lecture has just been bought by Google for an undisclosed sum. The statistics tool, Trendalyzer, was developed by a professor and his son at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute. Unfortunately for the developers, the project has been run under the auspices of a charity, Gapminder, and financed over the last seven years by public money. Maybe that seemed smart at the time, but the professor, admitting that he won't see a dime of Google's cash, now seems regretful. As for what Google has purchased: 'Public organizations around the world invest 20 billion dollars a year producing different kinds of statistics. Until now, nobody has thought of collecting all the information in the same place. That should be possible with Trendalyzer, which will be able to present that quantity of data in a clear way as well as giving the user the ability to compare many different kinds of information.'"

Submission + - The Business Case for Open Source Software

Submitted by on Sunday March 18, 2007 @09:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: This InfoWorld blog makes a business case for open source, and attempts to explain the business benefits of OSS to management and business owners. "... So what else is there to Open Source Software? It's the end of licensing restrictions that tell you how you can use your software. Tired of obtaining license keys from your software vendors every year or even every month just to keep your software running? Feel like your vendor is holding you hostage via your software licensing? With OSS, you never have to enter another annoying license code ever again. They just don't exist in the world of OSS. You don't even have to keep track of silly license validity seals or your purchasing paperwork to prove ownership. Never again will you fear the BSA (Business Software Alliance, not the Boy Scouts!) knocking on your door wanting to perform a software audit. The BSA even takes out advertisements on Google search pages for and up to $200,000 reward a disgruntled ex-employee can receive for reporting your company to the BSA! That's quite a powerful motivator..."

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