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Consumers Data Stolen from LexisNexis
LE UI Guy writes "Reuters is currently running a story regarding LexisNexis being tapped into by identity thieves who accessed up to 32,000 customer profiles. Information hit included names, addresses, Social Security and driver's license numbers. This comes on the heels of rival ChoicePoint being breached for 145,000 profiles last month in a similar case. Better check yourself." Update: 03/10 02:40 GMT by J : ChoicePoint's name corrected (and, it may be more than 145,000, they don't know).
GNU's Who
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Here is an alphabetical list of some GNU contributors. Contributors are also noted on our webmasters and translators of www.gnu.org pages.
If you have developed a major GNU package or have done a lot of work for the GNU Project in another way, we would like to list you also. Please ask webmasters@gnu.org to add you.
Note that our policy is not to make links to pages or sites whose subject is proprietary software, and we also avoid making links to pages or sites that are sales-oriented in their tone or focus. Please keep this in mind when writing your entry.
If you are looking in particular for someone to give a speech or participate in an event to represent the GNU Project or the Free Software Movement, please see our speaker page.
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This place is reserved for your name, when you have written free software for the GNU Project.
Henrik Abelsson
tries to do his part in bringing Free Software to the world by being a maintainer of GNU Messenger. Lives in Linköping, Sweden.
Mark Adler
is a co-author on gzip and wrote the decompression part.
Musawir Ali
is the maintainer of GNU Leg (Libraries and Engines for Games). Currently pursuing a doctoral degree and brainstorming prospective free software projects.
Chris Allegretta
is the author and maintainer of the GNU nano text editor.
Marcos Serrou do Amaral
is maintainer of GNU UnRTF.
Tom Cato Amundsen
is the author of GNU Solfege, a ear training program for GNOME, and he has also done a little work with fonts and mudela-book for GNU Lilypond.
He recently got his Master of Education in Music, but spends far too much time programming Solfege and using free software.
Luis M. Arteaga
As the GNU Translations Manager, Luis coordinates the efforts of the several teams working on the translation of the GNU website, also being listed as Webmaster. He volunteers since 1999 and lives currently in Germany. Occasionally gives speeches about Free Software.
Anand Babu
is the author and maintainer of FreeIPMI. He is a member of the FSF-India working group, currently leads the Free Software division of California Digital as CTO and built the world's second fastest Super Computer, code named "Thunder", entirely out of Free Software. Occasionally, he gives speeches about Free Software.
Susan Bassein
is the initial author and the maintainer of the Dap statistics and graphics package.
Karl Berry
has been involved with GNU since 1989. He co-authored the GNU font utilities, and currently works with the FSF as the volunteer maintainer of Texinfo. He also does a number of volunteer tasks relating to TeX distributions, especially Web2c.
Lorenzo Bettini
is the author of GNU Source-highlight: a collection of programs that given a source file produces a document with syntax highlighting (including java2html and cpp2html). He is also a developer and the maintainer of gengetopt.
Jeff Binder
is a co-author and co-maintainer of GNU Leg (Libraries and Engines for Games).
Jim Blandy
has worked for the Free Software Foundation on and off for nine years. He currently maintains Guile, as a volunteer. Along with Richard Stallman, he was responsible for the release of version 19 of GNU Emacs. Jim lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Paolo Bonzini
was converted from the Windows world to the GNU/Linux world after he took over maintaining and developing GNU Smalltalk. He develops free software in time left free from studying and advocating the benefits of free software to his the-source-is-mine friends.
Stephen F. Booth
is the author and maintainer of GNU Cgicc.
Maurizio Boriani
Author of guile-dbi (and postgres, myslq db driver), contributor to GNU/Hurd and other various contributions.
Lars Brinkhoff
holy crap the mods are on crack today.
# Stand in front of a mirror. Check for any swelling on the scrotal skin.
# Examine each testicle with both hands. Place the index and middle fingers under the testicle with the thumbs placed on top. Roll the testicle gently between the thumbs and fingers -- you shouldn't feel any pain when doing the exam. Don't be alarmed if one testicle seems slightly larger than the other, that's normal.
# Find the epididymis, the soft, tubelike structure behind the testicle that collects and carries sperm. If you are familiar with this structure, you won't mistake it for a suspicious lump. Cancerous lumps usually are found on the sides of the testicle but can also show up on the front. Lumps on the epididymis are not cancerous.
# If you find a lump on your testicle, see a doctor, preferably a urologist, right away. The abnormality may not be cancer, it may just be an infection. But if it is testicular cancer, it will spread if it is not stopped by treatment. Waiting and hoping will not fix anything. Please note that free floating lumps in the scrotum that are not attached in any way to a testicle are not testicular cancer. When in doubt, get it checked out - if only for peace of mind!