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The Supreme Court declines Falwell's Appeal. yEvb0 writes "The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of Jerry Falwell, who claims that "gripe site" http://www.fallwell.com/ infringes on his trademark by luring surfers away from his own site. Despite winning a case in federal court, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with Falwell last year and said that operator Christopher Lamparello was free to operate his site about Falwell's views on gays because he 'clearly created his Web site intending only to provide a forum to criticize ideas, not to steal customers.'"
GP2X now shipping in the US. An anonymous reader writes "The Gamepark GP2X, a Linux-based handheld gaming platform that runs native and emulated games, is now shipping in the US, according to LinuxDevices. The device can reportedly run more than a thousand classic arcade games, through open-source console game emulators such as MAME, SNES, Genesis, and PC Engine. It has a 3.5-inch QVGA (320x240) color TFT LCD screen, and includes a media player supporting MPEG, JPEG, and MP3 formats."
New version of Systrace released. Niels writes "I just recently released a new version of Systrace that runs on Linux without requiring any kernel patches. I termed it the Phoenix release because it has been almost three years since I did any work on Systrace. However, I finally had the need to do some sandboxing on Linux without being able to change the kernel. So, voila, after a few late nights, here we go: Systrace for Linux using a ptrace back end."
Lessig and Stallman look back at Sun's OpenDRM. H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "The Register has an excellent article featuring Lessig and Stallman on 'Open Source' DRM. The spark for the article came from comments made about Sun's 'OpenDRM' by Lessig which were not wholly negative and were interpreted by some as an endorsement. Lessig clarifies: 'There's no disagreement about where we should end up - No DRM.'"
NASA jumps on the anti-matter propulsion bandwagon. steveo777 writes "NASA has an interesting read about creating yet another form of rocket propulsion. They plan on using Anti-electrons (positrons) combine with normal electrons to release enough energy to fuel the way to Mars and back. Its byproduct will be lower energy gamma radiation. From the article, '"Our advanced designs, like the gas core and the ablative engine concepts, could take astronauts to Mars in half that time, and perhaps even in as little as 45 days," said Kirby Meyer, an engineer with Positronics Research on the study.'"
GoDaddy donates $10,000 to OpenSSH. wcbrown writes "Go Daddy has donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project, which is apparently used extensively within the company." This is another great donation in what hopefully will continue to be a trend within the community. No word on when the blinking will stop.
Ellison explains why he would NOT acquire Novell or Red Hat. Robert writes to tell us CBROnline is reporting that a recent statement by Larry Ellison covered so extensively in the news regarding speculation about why Oracle might be "planning to buy Novell or Red Hat" may have been a little off base. The full transcript of his interview with the FT is illuminating precisely because it reveals why the company would NOT acquire either Novell or Red Hat, and - apparently - why the company did not buy JBoss.
Pictures of the Ball State Wireless 'sculpture'. popeguilty writes "Slashdot readers may recall the story about the Wireless 'Sculpture' at Ball State University. The artwork is up and running, and I've got a few pictures posted for general consumption."
If someone wants to go there, fine. But how many hits result from people who have no desire to contribute to the site's luminosity whatsoever?
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
The donation from godaddy came out of which department within the company? If I had to guess, I would say it came our of Marketing... not that there's anything wrong with that.
For-profit companies don't donate out of alturism.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Wow - the old gay=pedophile lie.
Actually, it looked more like the old "catholic priest=gay" stereotype to me.
And it was damn funny.
But then I have a sense of humor.
You might want to look into getting one someday.
Religion is chosen. Homosexuality is not.
That's a nice assertion. Any argument to back it up? Not everyone accepts that as a given
In fact *everyone* who knows anything about the subject does accept it as a given. In fact, the only people who refuse to accept the blatantly obvious fact are those who need it as their justification for bigotry.
You're the one claiming that all gay people are lying, why don't *you* provide some justification as to how it would be possible for it to be false?
Good luck with that.
Wow, another assertion with no argument backing it up.
;-)
For the same reason that I don't need to provide an argument that the earth revolves around the sun. It's a known fact backed up by every piece of evidence. If you are not aware of the fact, then you have done nothing to address your ignorance of the issue.
All of the other things you listed are different from sexuality. You are making up ridiculous arguments in order to attempt to pretend that your assertion has merit. In fact, some people *are* saying that some of the things you listed are genetic in part at least. Amusingly enough in a recent study, whiny babies turn out conservative just like you'd expect
It's pretty simple to figure out the truth of the situation if you actually had any interest in doing so. Go talk to some gay people about it. You clearly haven't done so and are still pretending to know anything about the subject. That is laughable, you know?