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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough
* Lake Disappears into Andes
* Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet
* Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline
* College to Deploy First 802.11n Network
* P2P Remains Dominant Protocol
* Final Draft of GPLv3 Allows Novell-Microsoft Deal
* Firstborn Get the Brains
* More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched
* France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying
* Court Ruling Limits Copyright Claims
* Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux
* Brain/Machine Interfaces Approaching Usefulness
* Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins
* Citizens Given Video Cameras To Monitor Police
* Good Ways To Join an Open Source Project?
* It's Hard To Run a Blog In Sweden
* BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format
* Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova
* Charges Dropped In PA Video Taping Arrest
* Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS?
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| Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough |
| from the meeting-demands dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 21, @20:40 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/21/2358240
|
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akkarin writes "Following [0]Google's complaint to Microsoft regarding
Vista's 'desktop search,' Google claims that [1]Vista's search has not
changed enough: 'Google said yesterday that the remedies don't go far
enough. Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a statement,
"We are pleased that as a result of Google's request that the consent
decree be enforced, the Department of Justice and state attorneys general
have required Microsoft to make changes to Vista."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/21/2358240
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/1659228&tid=109
1. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070621-google-says-vista-search-changes-not-enough.html
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| Lake Disappears into Andes |
| from the here-today-gone-tomorrow dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 21, @22:16 (News) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/0029256
|
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steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in
the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area
and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National
Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our
surprise we found that [0]the lake had completely disappeared. All that
was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory
is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain.
Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/0029256
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6225676.stm
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| Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet |
| from the stop-saying-that dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 21, @23:49 (The Internet) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/010255
|
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[0]prostoalex writes "If you're launching a new blog into the
blogosphere, does the common netiquette allow you to have a separate wiki
to go with a blog? If the previous sentence irritated you, you're not
alone. Folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette and blook [1]are among
the most hated Internet words, Lulu Blooker Prize research found."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/010255
Links:
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog
1. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-06/22/content_899724.htm
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| Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline |
| from the better-safe-than-sorry dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 22, @01:15 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/021239
|
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[0]Anarchysoft writes "As many as 1500 [1]Pentagon computers were brought
offline on Wednesday in response to a cyber attack. Defense Secretary
Robert Gates reported of the fallout both that the attack had 'no adverse
impact on department operations' and that 'there will be some
administrative disruptions and personal inconveniences.' When asked
whether his own e-mail had been compromised, Gates responded, 'I don't do
e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/021239
Links:
0. http://www.anarchysoft.com/
1. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636002,00.html
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| College to Deploy First 802.11n Network |
| from the jumping-in-feet-first dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 22, @04:28 (Networking) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/0441220
|
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[0]Matt writes "Morrisville State College, a New York State school in
central New York, is partnering with Meru Networks and IBM to [1]deploy
the first 802.11n wireless network. They will be using around 900 access
points and are planning to go live this fall."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/0441220
Links:
0. http://www.morrisville.edu/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/062107-meru-80211n-wlan.html?page=1
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| P2P Remains Dominant Protocol |
| from the way-the-data-crumbles dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 22, @07:43 (The Internet) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/0446240
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Last week, a press release was issued by
Ellacotya that [0]suggested something quite startling ��� HTTP (Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years
overtaken P2P traffic. However a new article from Slyck disputes this,
and contends that [1]P2P remains the bandwidth heavyweight."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/0446240
1. http://www.slyck.com/story1502.html
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| Final Draft of GPLv3 Allows Novell-Microsoft Deal |
| from the and-we-all-go-forward-singing-together dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @08:47 (Novell) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1229213
|
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famicommie writes "All of Novell's [0]fingernail biting has been for
naught. In a display of forgiveness and bridge building on behalf of the
FSF, ZDNet reports that the final draft of the GPLv3 will close the
infamous MS-Novell loophole while [1]allowing deals made previously to
continue. From the article: 'The final, last-call GPLv3 draft bans only
future deals for what it described as tactical reasons in a 32-page
explanation of changes. That means Novell doesn't have to worry about
distributing software in SLES that's governed by the GPLv3 ... Drafting
the new license has been a fractious process, but Eben Moglen, the
Columbia University law school professor who has led much of the effort,
believes consensus is forming. That agreement is particularly important
in the open-source realm, where differing license requirements can erect
barriers between different open-source projects.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1229213
Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/30/1225205&tid=223
1. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39287338,00.htm?r=1
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| Firstborn Get the Brains |
| from the as-an-eldest-sibling-i-find-this-research-quite-accurate|
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @09:22 (Education) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1233208
|
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[0]Dekortage writes "[1]Eldest children have higher IQs than their
siblings, according to a recent study by Norwegian researchers. [2]The
study focused on men, particularly 'on teasing out the biological effects
of birth order from the effects of social status,' but indicates that the
senior boy in a family (either by being firstborn, or if an elder brother
died) has an average IQ two or three points higher than younger brothers.
As noted in the [3]New York Times coverage, 'Experts say it can be a
tipping point for some people ��� the difference between a high B average
and a low A, for instance... that could mean the difference between
admission to an elite private college and a less exclusive public one.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1233208
Links:
0. http://www.cheapcheap.biz/
1. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/21/ap3846019.html
2. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=family-social-rank-not-bi&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/science/22sibling.html
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| More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched |
| from the bugtracker-is-half-empty-attitude dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @10:05 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/139247
|
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MsManhattan writes "Microsoft security executive Jeff Jones has disclosed
that in the first six months of Vista's release, the company [0]has
patched fewer than half of the operating system's known bugs. Microsoft
has fixed only 12 of 27 reported Vista vulnerabilities whereas it patched
36 of 39 known bugs in Windows XP in the first six months following its
release. Jones says that's because "Windows Vista continues to show a
trend of fewer total and fewer high-severity vulnerabilities at the six
month mark compared to ... Windows XP," but he did not address the 15
unpatched flaws."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/139247
Links:
0. http://security.itworld.com/4347/070622vistapatching/page_1.html
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| France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying |
| from the not-their-kind-of-pie-i-guess dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @10:43 (Communications) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1317213
|
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DesertBlade writes "French government officials are [0]no longer allowed
to use BlackBerries for official correspondence. The reason? Fear that
the US government will snoop out French national secrets via RIM's
network. From the article: '"The risks of interception are real. It is
economic war," daily Le Monde quoted Alain Juillet, in charge of economic
intelligence for the government, as saying. With BlackBerries, there is
"a problem with the protection of information," he said. Juillet's office
confirmed that he spoke to Le Monde but said he would not talk to other
reporters. Officials at the presidential Elysee Palace and the prime
minister's office were not immediately available for comment. Le Monde
said information sent from BlackBerries goes through servers in the
United States and Britain, and that France fears that the U.S. National
Security Agency can snoop.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1317213
Links:
0. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19330478/
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| Court Ruling Limits Copyright Claims |
| from the put-your-cap-back-on dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @11:18 (Media) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1322234
|
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Spamicles writes "A federal appellate panel in Atlanta has reversed its
circuit's 6-year-old opinion in a major copyright case, declaring the
ruling's mandate on behalf of freelance photographers to be "moot." Until
now, publishers could be forced to share with freelancers whenever they
reproduce and sell those freelancers' previously published works in
merchandise designed for computer access. The new ruling says that
reproduction on a CD or other media is [0]not a new use of formerly
published issues. [1]The full court decision (pdf) is available online,
and Law.com has [2]an analysis of the ruling's repercussions."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1322234
Links:
0. http://www.lawbean.com/2007/06/21/court-ruling-gives-less-royalties-to-freelance-photographers/
1. http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200516964.pdf
2. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1182330349955&pos=ataglance#
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| Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux |
| from the but-not-so-much-anymore dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @12:06 (Microsoft) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/151233
|
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[0]ausage writes "Groklaw has noted that for the last few days,
[1]Microsoft has been distributing Unbuntu Desktop Linux from the Windows
Marketplace Website. The page is gone now, but can still ��� as of this
morning ��� be seen using [2]Google cache. 'Heaven only knows that's true,
simply perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. The part Microsoft got
wrong is it says the license is "Free" and "No limitations". Actually,
the GPL does set some limitations, like what you are responsible to do if
you redistribute.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/151233
Links:
0. mailto:ausage@gmail.com
1. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007062209235346
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| Brain/Machine Interfaces Approaching Usefulness |
| from the working-brain-in-hand dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, @12:42 (Sci-Fi) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/162242
|
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[0]Gary writes with a link to a Wired article about [1]a brain-machine
interface that may eventually have practical purposes. Though right now
it simply allows a user to move a train on a track by performing math in
their head, someday it may result in more serious applications. "Honda,
whose interface monitors the brain with an MRI machine like those used in
hospitals, is keen to apply the interface to intelligent, next-generation
automobiles. The technology could one day replace remote controls and
keyboards and perhaps help disabled people operate electric wheelchairs,
beds or artificial limbs. Initial uses would be helping people with
paralyzing diseases communicate even after they have lost all control of
their muscles. Since 2005, Hitachi has sold a device based on optical
topography that monitors brain activity in paralyzed patients so they can
answer simple questions - for example, by doing mental calculations to
indicate 'yes' or thinking of nothing in particular to indicate 'no.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/162242
Links:
0. mailto:garethm85@gmail.com
1. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_BRAIN_REMOTE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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| Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins |
| from the sauce-for-the-gander dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @13:21 (It's funny. Laugh.)|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1653212
|
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tanman writes "After reading an article in the Miami Herald that said
"[President] [0]Bush's twin daughters gave him a CD they had made for him
to listen to while exercising," a Florida lawyer [1]calculated statutory
damages of $1.8 million and has sent a [2]letter to the RIAA asking that
they 'display the same vigor in prosecuting this matter and protecting
the rights of your rights-holders that it has displayed in enforcing
those rights against other alleged violators.' From the letter: 'This is
a serious violation of copyright. As you know, whichever of your member
organizations that are right[s]-holders for the copied musical works may
be entitled to statutory damages of $150,000.00 per musical work
copied.'" Update: 06/22 18:55 GMT by [3]KD : The lawyer in question has
retracted his analysis and now says no laws were broken, probably.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1653212
Links:
0. http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/142726.html
1. http://the_scrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyright-is-dead.html
2. http://the_scrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyright-is-dead-part-2.html
3. http://slashdot.org/~kdawson/
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| Citizens Given Video Cameras To Monitor Police |
| from the project-vigilant dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @14:12 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/188214
|
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atommota writes "After years of complaints of police misconduct, the ACLU
is [0]giving free video cameras to some residents of high-crime
neighborhoods in St. Louis, MO to help them monitor officers. The ACLU of
Eastern Missouri launched the project Wednesday after television crews
last year broadcast video of officers punching and kicking a suspect who
led police on a car chase. 'The idea here is to level the playing field,
so it's not just your word against the police's word,' said Brenda Jones,
executive director of the ACLU chapter. The ACLU has worked closely with
the police to make sure they are aware of this program. This is in stark
contrast to the recent Pennsylvania [1]arrest for felony wiretapping of a
guy who was videotaping a police stop."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/188214
Links:
0. http://www.therolladailynews.com/articles/2007/06/21/state_news/state01.txt
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/2050212&tid=123
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| Good Ways To Join an Open Source Project? |
| from the a-journey-of-1000-steps-must-start-with-a-first-one dept|
| posted by Cliff on Friday June 22, @14:48 (Programming) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1526234
|
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Tathagata asks: "I'm a student, on my final year in a college in India,
and I have been using GNU/Linux for quite sometime now. Though I'm from a
Computer Science background, getting into a project that involves serious
programming was not possible, as people (read teachers) run away if you
utter the word 'Linux'. They are generally not bothered about mentoring
someone on an exciting project, and they would suggest you to get settled
with Visual Basic, .NET, ��� and would prefer a 24 hour solution when it
comes to programming. So, my programming endeavors have remained limited
to writing few lines of C/C++, or Java. For last few days, I've been
googling, and trying to read how to join an existing Open Source
project." What suggestions would you pass along to someone who is willing
to join his first Open Source effort?
This story continues at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1526234
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1526234
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| It's Hard To Run a Blog In Sweden |
| from the you-own-their-comments dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @15:29 (Censorship) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1831212
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[0]mpawlo writes "Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt is being
[1]investigated by a prosecutor because of his blog. In a blog post, Mr.
Bildt states that [2]some 13.000 comments are posted (Swedish link) on
his blog and that he and his staff try to erase all inappropriate
comments. However, they apparently missed a comment proposing genocide of
Palestinians. This prompted a Swedish leftist blogger to report the
conservative foreign minister's blog and the comment to the authorities.
Now a prosecutor is looking into the matter and the foreign minister will
likely be held responsible for the comments due to poor Swedish
legislation on freedom of speech relative to the Internet."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/1831212
Links:
0. http://www.pawlo.com/
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/28/bloody_hard_to_run/
2. http://carlbildt.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/inlaggen-har-tagits-bort/
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| BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format |
| from the and-watch-out-for-apple-with-that-name dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @16:11 (Television) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/208205
|
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[0]greengrass sends us to coverage in The Register of the Open Source
Consortium's threatened anti-trust [1]challenge against the BBC over its
use of Windows Media format in its on-demand service, iPlayer. From the
article: "The OSC will raise a formal complaint with UK broadcast and
telecoms watchdog Ofcom next week, and has vowed to take its accusations
to the European Competition Commission if domestic regulators do not act.
The OSC compared the situation to the European Commission's prosecution
of Microsoft over its bundling of Windows Media Player with Windows."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/208205
Links:
0. mailto:jlk@osml.eu
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/22/iplayer_osc_eu_ofcom/
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| Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova |
| from the don't-point-that-thing-at-me dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @16:58 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/2041216
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da4 writes "Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has a great article about
Eta Car, a star approx 7,500 light years away from us that's [0]ready to
supernova sometime Real Soon Now." Larger versions of the Hubble-Chandra
image of Eta Car are available at [1]the Chandra site. Of course when
astronomers say it's "about to explode," they really mean it probably
exploded 6,500 to 7,500 years ago and we're awaiting the news.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/2041216
Links:
0. http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/20/eta-car-tick-tock-tick-tock/
1. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/etacar/
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| Charges Dropped In PA Video Taping Arrest |
| from the common-sense-prevails dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @18:24 (Slashback) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/220254
|
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Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed has [0]reversed himself
completely over the charges against Brian Kelly, [1]arrested for
wiretapping after videotaping a police stop. Now let's see if they are
good enough to compensate Kelly for the 26 hours he spent in jail and the
anguish of the cloud over his future caused by a felony arrest. From the
article: "... [DA] Freed said his decision will affect not only Brian
Kelly, 18, but also will establish a policy for police departments
countywide. 'When police are audio- and video-recording traffic stops
with notice to the subjects, similar actions by citizens, even if done in
secret, will not result in criminal charges,' Freed said yesterday. 'The
law itself might need to be revised.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/220254
Links:
0. http://blog.pennlive.com/patriotnews/2007/06/197281-wiretap_charge_dropped_in_poli.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/2050212&tid=123
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| Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? |
| from the taking-standards-seriously dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, @19:48 (Software) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/2239218
|
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Albert Sandberg writes "According to a developer blog, it looks like
Opera 9.5 (which has been code-named Kestrel) will be the first browser
to [0]fully support the CSS selector test ([1]test is here). Finally!
Weekly builds should start being available in a few weeks."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/22/2239218
Links:
0. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/kestrel-is-coming
1. http://www.css3.info/selectors-test/
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