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Comment Re:Thats it just show the eye candy. (Score 1) 559

by wolf08 (#26765765) Attached to: Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?

My favorite piece of eye candy was the "static" when opening the photo.

When the hell is somebody going to fix that, and whos fault is it?

X? WM? Graphics Driver?

it's getting old.

That was a custom patch that is included in Fedora and Ubuntu. It was not a problem of Qt, KDE, or even the X folks, it was making inappropriate use of a standard (i.e. breaking it) to slightly speed things up for compiz/gnome users. The patch is now reverted in Jaunty/9.04 and is NOT present in other distros.
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Submission + - Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry a "Financial Fail

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Eric Goldman writes: "A couple of years ago, Utah and Michigan enacted "Child Protection Registries" that allow parents to register kids' email addresses and then requires certain email senders to filter registered email addresses before sending their emails. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the Utah registry has been a "finanacial failure." Initially projected to generate $3-6 million in revenues for Utah, it has instead generated total revenues of less than $200,000, 80% of which has gone to Unspam, the for-profit registry operator. As a result, Utah's share of the registry's revenues: a paltry $37,445. Worse, Utah has spent $100,000 (so far) to defend the law from constitutional challenges."
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SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah 421

Posted by kdawson from the set-the-evil-bit dept.
iptables -A FORWARD writes "Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign a resolution urging Congress to enact the Internet Community Ports Act. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be 'clean' — so-called Community Ports — and others will be 'dirty.' Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs do the blocking for them. This concept is being pushed by the CP80 group, which is chaired by Ralph Yarro, who also chairs the SCO Group. That probably explains why they didn't choose to adopt RFC 3514, instead."
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Google to Anonymize Users' Search Data 151

Posted by samzenpus from the poof-you're-gone dept.
Google's official blog states they are on an effort to anonymize their search data after 18-24 months. After previously fighting turning over search data to the feds, it looks like they are striking another blow to the "think of the children" crowd. Any bets on whether MSN or Yahoo! will follow suit?
Censorship

Submission + - SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act to be Signed Into Law

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iptables -A FORWARD
iptables -A FORWARD writes: "Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign the ICPA (Internet Community Ports Act) into law. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be "clean" and others will be "dirty." Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs block the ports with objectionable content for them. This law was originally suggested by the CP80 group, which is chaired by Ralph Yarro, who also chairs the SCO Group. That probably explains why they didn't choose to adopt RFC 3514, instead."

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