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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Vast Malware Repository Dedicated To R&D
* Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants
* Microsoft Blasts Google Book Deal
* GaiKai Beta To Start In Europe "Later This Month"
* Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net
* Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released
* Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code
* Twitter To Add Money-Making Features
* "Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded
* Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1?
* New Unmanned Japanese Re-Supply Vessel For the ISS
* Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert
* Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation
* How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth?
* AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays
* Google Offers Scanned Books To Rival Stores
* Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?
* Greg Kroah-Hartman Gripes About Microsoft's Linux Contribution; MS Renews Effort
* Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown
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| Vast Malware Repository Dedicated To R&D |
| from the reformed-information dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 09, @23:15 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/09/09/2229211/Vast-Malware-Repository-Dedicated-To-RampD |
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An anonymous reader writes "Dutch company Frame4 group is offering
subscriptions for the Malware Distribution Project, a large security
archive with [0]a massive collection of downloadable malware and computer
underground related information for the purposes of analysis, testing,
research and development. Help Net Security has talked with the founder
of the project and several other security researchers to get more details
on this unique service."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/09/2229211
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1294
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| Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants |
| from the 1000-tiny-smoke-stacks dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 10, @02:32 (Power) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/0246238/Lichtblick-and-Volkswagen-To-Build-Swa|
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[0]Dr. Hok writes "As more and more renewable energy enters the grid, it
gets increasingly difficult to match supply and demand 24/7. The answer
of German power company Lichtblick and Volkswagen is [1]a swarm of
100,000 flexible base-load generators. These fridge-sized CHP (Combined
Heat and Power) generators that will be installed in people's basements
in Hamburg starting early next year will feed electricity into the grid
and the waste heat into their home's water/heating. The
"ZuhauseKraftwerk" (HomePowerPlant) features a vanilla VW Golf
natural-gas engine that generates 20kW electrical and 34 kW heat with an
efficiency of 92%. The units are remotely controlled via a mobile network
or DSL; they can ramp up in a minute if needed. A water tank ensures that
heat is continuously available, while electricity is produced on demand.
The swarm will replace two nuclear plants, they say. And your old oil
heating needed replacement anyway."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/0246238
Links:
0. mailto:Heiko.Selber@gmx.de
1. http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-09-home-power-plants-project-unveiled-in-germany/
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| Microsoft Blasts Google Book Deal |
| from the shaking-the-corporate-fist dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 10, @04:50 (Microsoft) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/033209/Microsoft-Blasts-Google-Book-Deal |
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[0]eldavojohn writes "With [1]authors, [2]scholars, the [3]DoJ and
publishers ripping apart the Google book deal, it's Microsoft's turn.
They're claiming it's frankly an [4]illegal 'joint venture' and not a
settlement. According to ZDNet, Microsoft's four complaints against the
deal are: 1) Future infringements are covered by the settlement,
affecting the exclusive rights of absent class members for the life of
their copyrights. 2) The deal gives away to Google vast rights that were
not contested in the underlying litigation. The lawsuits dealt with
Google's displaying brief excerpts. Instead of compromising on that
infringement, the parties instead agreed to give away the rights to
display entire books. 3) The publishers who negotiated this deal each
have undisclosed side deals with Google, which will likely give them
better terms than the class will get. 4) The publishers plan to exclude
their own works from the deal. You might recall over a year ago
[5]Microsoft's own scanning effort died."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/033209
Links:
0. mailto:my/.username@@@gmail.com
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/31/1719204&tid=84
2. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/07/2046243&tid=172
3. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/29/1218201&tid=84
4. http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5393
5. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/2253225&tid=11
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| GaiKai Beta To Start In Europe "Later This Month" |
| from the spurred-by-onlive dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 10, @06:20 (PC Games (Games)) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/0817232/GaiKai-Beta-To-Start-In-Europe-Later-T|
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[0]Alison Beasley sends word that GaiKai, the cloud gaming service being
developed by games industry vet Dave Perry, is [1]about to begin beta
testing in Europe. ([2]Sign-up page.) GaiKai is a competitor to OnLive,
which started [3]beta tests of its own recently. IGN got a chance to try
out GaiKai for themselves, and they've posted [4]a video showing how it
performed. From Perry's announcement: "Our closed beta has two goals. #1
is to bring our servers to their knees so we can choose the final
configuration before we start ordering large quantities of them. (We
think we have it worked out, but you can be certain our staff will be
swapping cards and testing different processors as each day goes by.)
Goal #2 is to test older computers. We've had lots of emails from people
describing their computers and 99% of them have ample performance.
Remember you don't even need a 3D card to see a 3D game run on our
service. I know this is strangely counter to what people expect, but we
actually want to get plenty of basic office-grade XP machines testing so
we can make sure we can reach the widest audience possible. ... After we
choose the hardware configuration in Europe, our next phase will be our
USA Nationwide Network Test, that will be using 8 Tier-1 Data Centers,
getting hammered by Closed Beta testers. During that process, [we] will
be identifying the other data centers we need to include to blanket the
USA in a low latency array. Phase 2 of that is Europe, in exactly the
same test."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/0817232
Links:
0. http://www.lincolnbeasley.co.uk/
1. http://www.vg247.com/2009/09/09/gaikai-closed-beta-to-launch-in-europe-later-this-month/
2. http://www.gaikai.com/beta/
3. http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/0348252/OnLive-Begins-Beta-Testing
4. http://pc.ign.com/dor/articles/1022746/gaikai-live-demonstration-/videos/gaikai.html
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| Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net |
| from the fast-and-pigeon-fast dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 10, @07:57 (The Internet) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/0318203/Pigeon-Turns-Out-To-Be-Faster-Than-S-Afric|
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inject_hotmail.com writes "The results are in: [0]it's faster to send
your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. [1]As
discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT,
frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point
by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg
from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the
same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines.
The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just
over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours
to transfer just 4% of that data."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/0318203
Links:
0. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090909/odds/odd_us_safrica_pigeon
1. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/1414248/SAs-Largest-Telecomms-Provider-vs-a-Pigeon?art_pos=1
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| Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released |
| from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @08:45 (Operating Systems) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1156218/Linux-Kernel-2631-Released |
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[0]diegocgteleline.es writes "The Linux kernel v2.6.31 [1]has been
released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support
[2]mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character
devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools
for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI
Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a
memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify
and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs
improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers
and small improvements. The full list of changes [3]can be found here."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1156218
Links:
0. mailto:diegocg@teleline.es
1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/9/357
2. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/161230/Kernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop
3. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_31
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| Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code |
| from the revealing-trade-secret-super-poke-tech dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @09:24 (Patents) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/126219/Facebook-Ordered-To-Turn-Over-Source-Code |
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[0]consonant writes "A Delaware District Court judge has ordered Facebook
to turn over ALL its source code to Leader Technologies, who allege
patent infringements by Facebook. The [1]patent in question appears to be
for '[2]associating a piece of data with multiple categories.'
Additionally, while the judge in question deems it fine to let Leader
Technologies look at Facebook's source (for a patent, no less!) in its
entirety for a single feature, it would be '[3]overboard to ask a patent
holder to disclose all of their products that practice any claim of the
patent-in-suit.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/126219
Links:
0. http://shr1k.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.google.com/patents?id=Ay99AAAAEBAJ&dq=7139761
2. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090909/1657576146.shtml
3. http://www.realgeek.com/facebook-ordered-again-to-reveal-their-entire-source-code/
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| Twitter To Add Money-Making Features |
| from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @10:07 (Social Networks) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1339209/Twitter-To-Add-Money-Making-Features |
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dreemteem writes "Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico
City this week that the company expects to [0]add revenue-generating
features to the micro-blogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a
report from Bloomberg.com."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1339209
Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/enterprise/news/index.cfm?newsid=16505
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| "Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded |
| from the tap-into-the-future dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @10:47 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/148242/Wiretapping-Charges-May-Be-Oddest-Ever-Recor|
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[0]netbuzz writes "Guy kicks up a fuss at a Massachusetts car-repair
shop, employees call the police, guy allegedly gives them a hard time,
too, and they charge the fellow with a variety of expectable charges:
disorderly conduct, resisting arrest ... and '[1]unlawful wiretapping and
possessing a device for wiretapping.' The device? A digital voice
recorder. Massachusetts is one of only 12 states that prohibit the
recording of a conversation unless all parties to it are aware it's being
recorded."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/148242
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/buzzblog
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45069
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| Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? |
| from the i-feel-better-already dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @11:27 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1518240/Watered-Down-Phishing-Protection-In-IPho|
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CrazyCanucklehead writes "Security Researcher Michael Sutton discusses
his findings when [0]looking at the advertised anti-phishing features in
the recently released iPhone OS 3.1. It turns out that the protection is
far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide
any protection at all."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1518240
Links:
0. http://research.zscaler.com/2009/09/watered-down-phishing-protection-in.html
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| New Unmanned Japanese Re-Supply Vessel For the ISS |
| from the lookit-all-them-wires-up-there dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @12:13 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1524227/New-Unmanned-Japanese-Re-Supply-Vessel-|
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[0]Joshua writes "[1]JAXA, Japan's version of NASA, has scheduled the
launch of its new rocket, the H-IIB, for September 11th, 2009. [2]The
rocket will be carrying up the first in a series of unmanned supply
vessels for the ISS called the HTV. The new Japanese addition to the
international space fleet comes as a huge welcome sign to NASA, who has
scheduled the space shuttle to retire in 2010. The HTV will be able to
transport vital supplies, equipment, and experiments to the ISS, a job
that the US space shuttle has been doing largely up until now. Yearly
launches for the H-II2 and HTV are scheduled between now and 2015. Until
NASA can finish the [3]next generation Ares I rocket, which isn't likely
to be finished before 2017, taking astronauts into space and to the ISS
will likely become the job of Russia."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1524227
Links:
0. mailto:JoshuaInNippon@gmail.com
1. http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
2. http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m9d9-Japan-to-launch-unmanned-transport-rocket-for-resupplying-ISS
3. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/index.html
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| Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert |
| from the a-million-and-one-uses dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @13:12 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/178223/Bacteria-Used-To-Make-Radioactive-Metals|
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Serenissima writes "Researcher Judy Wall is experimenting with bacteria
that can [0]cleanse the radioactivity from toxic areas by rendering the
heavy metals into non-toxic, inert versions. The technology is not
without its flaws (the bacteria can't exist in an oxygenated environment
yet), but it does have the potential to cleanse some of the world's
hazardous sites. From the article: 'The bacteria Wall is studying are
bio-corrosives and can change the solubility of heavy metals. They can
take uranium and convert it to uraninite, a nearly insoluble substance.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/178223
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908193444.htm
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| Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation |
| from the said-the-spider-to-the-fly dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @13:58 (Microsoft) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1712247/Microsoft-Launches-Its-Own-Open-Sour|
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darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source
(OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now
it's [0]adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right,
the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now
has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the
[1]CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and
is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open
source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source,
will anyone take them seriously?"
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1712247
Links:
0. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/microsoft-launches-open-source.html
1. http://www.codeplex.org/
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| How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth? |
| from the probably-worth-more-as-meat dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @14:49 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1837233/How-Much-Is-Your-Online-Identity-Worth |
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[0]itwbennett writes "Answer a few questions about your personal Internet
use, and a new tool from Symantec will [1]calculate your net worth on the
black market. You'll get three results: how much your online assets are
worth, how much your online identity would sell for on the black market,
and your risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. The [2]tool is
intended to raise consumer awareness about cybercrime, said Marian
Merritt, Internet security advocate for Symantec. It's unlikely the
average consumer would read an Internet Security Threat Report, she
added, but a simply illustrated example might get the same point across.
'It's shocking how little value criminals place on your credit card,' she
said."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1837233
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/77238/how-much-are-you-worth-black-market
2. http://everyclickmatters.com/preloader.html?redirect=/victim/assessment-tool.html
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| AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays |
| from the can't-wait-'til-it's-commonplace dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @15:40 (Graphics) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1924212/AMDs-DX11-Radeons-Can-Drive-Six-30-Display|
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J. Dzhugashvili writes "Whereas most current graphics cards can only
drive a pair of displays, AMD has put some special sauce in its
next-generation DirectX 11 GPUs to enable support for a whopping six
monitors. There's no catch about supported resolutions, either. At an
event yesterday, AMD [0]demonstrated a single next-gen Radeon driving six
30" Dell monitors, each with a resolution of 2560x1600, hooked up via
DisplayPort. Total resolution: 7680x3200 (or 24.6 megapixels). AMD's
drivers present this setup as a single monitor to Windows, so in theory,
games don't need to be updated to support it. AMD showed off Dead Space,
Left 4 Dead, World of Warcraft, and DiRT 2 running at playable frame
rates on the six displays."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/1924212
Links:
0. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17563
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| Google Offers Scanned Books To Rival Stores |
| from the take-two-they're-small dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 10, @16:59 (Books) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/210206/Google-Offers-Scanned-Books-To-Rival-Stores|
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eldavojohn writes "Yesterday we covered [0]Microsoft's jabs at the Google
book deal, but today Reuters is reporting that [1]the scanned books will
be available to Google's rivals. Google said in a surprising statement,
'Google will host the digital (out-of-print) books online, and retailers
such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore will be able to
sell access to users on any Internet-connected device they choose.' They
made this statement today at the US House of Representatives Judiciary
Committee that had been called to discuss criticism of a 2008 settlement
between the Authors Guild and Google. Well, I would bet this has caught
more than a few people by surprise. The Authors Guild offers [2]a history
and the fine print of the agreement."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/210206
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/033209/Microsoft-Blasts-Google-Book-Deal?art_pos=12
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE58873J20090910?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
2. http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/settlement-resources.html
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| Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? |
| from the hell-is-other-people's-file-permissions dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @17:47 (Data Storage) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/2127231/Which-Filesystem-Do-You-Use-On-Portabl|
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An anonymous reader writes "Most people use MS filesystems on
Disk-On-Keys, and portable hard drives, as these are readable from most
machines. But this way you lose the files' permission information, which
many times is very inconvenient (you must agree that having Ubuntu asking
you whether to execute or display every text file or image you open from
a DOK is annoying). Using 'regular' Linux filesystems like ext keeps the
permissions, but may require using the superuser when switching machines
(as the UIDs are different). So do any of you have a creative solution
for this problem?"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/2127231
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| Greg Kroah-Hartman Gripes About Microsoft's Linux Contribution; MS Renews Effort |
| from the public-growing-pains dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @18:33 (Microsoft) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/2159246/Greg-Kroah-Hartman-Gripes-About-Microsoft|
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dp619 writes "Microsoft's developers were [0]missing in action after the
company [1]donated GPL-licensed drivers to the Linux kernel community in
July, leaving significant work to the Linux community, according to Linux
driver project lead and Novell fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman. The company
rekindled its involvement after Kroah-Hartman published a status report
this week. Kroah-Hartman said that other companies were also laggards in
Linux development, and that Microsoft's lack of involvement was
[2]nothing out of the ordinary."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/2159246
Links:
0. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/staging-status-09-2009.html
1. http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33641
2. http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33750
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| Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown |
| from the mitigation-is-tricky-50-years-later dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @19:20 (Encryption) |
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/2221249/Alan-Turing-Gets-an-Apology-From-Prime|
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[0]99luftballon writes "The British government has officially apologized
for the treatment of Alan Turing in the post war era. An [1]online
petition got more than enough signatures to force an official statement
and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a [2]lengthy apology.
'Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing
and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was
dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his
treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the
chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him.
So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely
thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved
so much better.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/10/2221249
Links:
0. mailto:iainthomson@gmail.com
1. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/1230243/Alan-Turing-Apology-Campaign-Grows
2. http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571
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