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Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web 897

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 04, 2008 @08:05AM from the among-these-shall-be-life-liberty-and-acces-to-https dept.

Chandon Seldon writes "The issue of digital certificates for SSL and the policies surrounding them comes up repeatedly. I've written an article criticizing the behavior in Firefox 3, which includes a serious comparison of the current Mozilla policy — restricting encrypted HTTP to paying customers — to a violation of net neutrality."

Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project 172

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @10:50AM from the guts-like-to-be-free-too dept.

Rockgod noted that "The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation. LinuxBIOS celebrates its Sixth anniversary this year, and has an installed base of over 1 million LinuxBIOS systems. With the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, that number is expected to exceed 10 million users in 2007. LinuxBIOS supports 65 mainboards from 31 vendors in v1 and another 56 mainboards from 27 vendors in v2"

Comment Anyone remember omniscent? (Score 5, Informative) 741

by teejie on Thursday April 15, 2004 @10:03AM (#8868487) Attached to: First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code

Omniscent, is the first level of Descent (you remember, the first 360degrees shooter) in 4kb (4096 bytes) with music and textures. Non-playable, but still really cool. It was released in 1997.

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