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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."
The difference is that fallwell.com is not cyber-squating, it is a critizism of Falwell. Squatters take a site and fill it with ads and/or attempt to sell it to the person they are squatting for rediculous amounts of money. The owner of fallwell.com maintains his site, has actual content, and is not trying to sell it to Falwell.
How many mis-spelling "trap sites" have a link to the real site right at the top of the home page? That's what makes the difference. The owner of fallwell.com isn't trying to steal customers from falwell.com and isn't looking to offend them, either. He makes it plain that his site is devoted to showing why Rev. Falwell's position on gays and lesbians is wrong, and points those who agree with the reverend to the site they were looking for in the first place. If you'd bothered to click on the link in TFA, you'd have seen that, as I did.
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"A rough estimate to produce the 10 milligrams of positrons needed for a human Mars mission is about 250 million dollars using technology that is currently under development,"
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It's not without its issues; you can learn more by checking out the wiki and also visiting #gp2xdev and #gp2x on EFNet.
If they are a corp. Their shareholders can sue them for that sort of thing if it can't be justified as "marketing"
As a blanket statement, your post is inaccurate. As a specific statement about GoDaddy, your post is just ignorant, and you should read their prospectus before saying what *might* or *might not* be included in it.
What you should have written:
If they are a publically traded corporation their shareholders can sue them for that sort of thing if it isn't in line with their prospectus.
Then you should have actually read their prospectus, and reported with certainty which part(s) of their budget the donation could have come from.
You can't have antimatter pollution. All you get is an explosion, of whatever size. Energy is released (and might kill some people), but there's no residual 'pollution' whatsoever.
With reasonable care, it's not really any different than any other kind of explosives plant. Probably less dangerous, since there are no noxious chemicals involved, which CAN pollute the environment.
Antimatter has so little weight per energy unit that it doesn't matter much where it's made. We need only ten milligrams to go to Mars. Even with the containment systems, that's probably not much more than 100kg or so. That's not free to launch, but compared with the cost and energy of making that antimatter in the first place, it's inconsequential. Making orbital antimatter factories would be supremely expensive, trillions of dollars, and all we'd be saving would be a couple of hundred thousand dollars, at most, per trip.
It would require _massive_ space traffic volume to pay for itself, and would have no other benefit whatsoever.
There is simply no such thing as "open source DRM". To understand this, you need to realise that DRM is not about controlling data. Digital data does nothing on its own. To control data, you must control what applications can run on the hardware. You do this through the use of digital signatures on the executable code of applications.
The fact is, you can only implement this DRM utopia of yours with software that is trusted (digitally signed and approved of by some central controlling authority)... including the BIOS, the bootloader, the kernel and the media player (at least). Once you introduce hardware that enforces these digital signatures (also known as "Trusted/Treacherous Computing" as found in the new Intel Apple Mac... a group of companies of which Sun is a major member), it is game over for any kind of Free software. There is no middle ground on this one -- and that's unfortunate because this is shaping up to be a major fracture between the concept of Free software and Open source.
Sun have repeatedly lied about this too, and finished the job of corrupting the term "open source" that was started by Microsoft a few years ago. It is one of the worst things they've ever done.
With Christ's death and resurrection the ceremonial law was abolished - this covers the shaving and the foods. This does **not** cover homosexuality. Leviticus 21 is prefixed "Speak to the priests and Aaron" ... this is directed towards the levites, this is ceremonial law. Leviticus 18 says "Speak to the Israelites." This is religious law that we are still bound to, to this day.
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