Comment Be serious. (Score 1) 226

by nesquik_bureaux on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @05:29PM (#26051803) Attached to: IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship

I thought she was a bit of a dog frankly. Not a patch on the Olsen twins. But seriously, it's not supposed to be erotic is it? Surely it's just an artistic message about the social construction of gender identity?

Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel 405

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 28, 2008 @10:09PM from the free-as-in-beerspeech dept.

jammag writes "Ever since the GNewSense team pointed out that the Linux kernel contains proprietary firmware blobs, the question of whether a given distro is truly free software has gotten messier, notes Linux pundit Bruce Byfield. The FSF changed the definition of a free distribution, and a search for how to respond to this new definition is now well underway. Who wins and what solutions are implemented could have a major effect on the future of free and open source software. Debian has its own solution (by allowing users to choose their download), as do Ubuntu and Fedora (they include the offending firmware by default but make it possible to remove it). Meanwhile, the debate over firmware rages on. What resolves this issue?"

Comment Re:I mod this down. (Score 1) 308

by nesquik_bureaux on Friday November 28, 2008 @09:30PM (#25920809) Attached to: Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life

The principles that will convince you of it being a sign of alien life or a natural occurring will be the same that convinces a christian of ID.

If the principles were the same everyone involved in SETI would claim 50% of signals from the sky are ET. (And the rest are ET's evil arch nemesis.)

Comment Be serious. (Score 1) 226

Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel 405

Comment Re:I mod this down. (Score 1) 308

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