CiviCRM is a "graduate" of the FSF's High Priority Projects list. A system for nonprofits to organize their fundraising and communicate with supporters had been on the list for quite a while, because this was an area where many people told us they were still forced to use proprietary software.
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Researchers at Columbia University recently demonstrated that many HP printers can have their firmware reprogrammed by specially crafted print jobs. ... Unfortunately, some people are advocating a cure worse than the disease. They suggest that these printers should only run code signed by the printer manufacturer.
The flaw works simply by sending an SMS to a Windows Phone user. Windows Phone 7.5 devices will reboot and the messaging hub will not open despite repeat attempts. We have tested the attack on a range of Windows Phone devices, including HTC’s TITAN and Samsung’s Focus Flash. Some devices were running the 7740 version of Windows Phone 7.5, others were on Mango RTM build 7720. The attack is not device specific and appears to be an issue with the way the Windows Phone messaging hub handles messages.
These reactors are of an inherently unsafe design, which cannot be improved through upgrades and modernization, and some reactor parts are impossible to replace. Russian environmental groups insist that the lifetime extensions violate Russian law, because the projects have not undergone environmental assessments.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking ... may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution.
our entire education system is not “in crisis,” as so many executives in the for-profit education industry insist when pushing to privatize public schools. On the contrary, results from Program for International Student Assessment exams show that American students in low-poverty schools are among the highest-achieving students in the world. ... the always-demonized teachers’ unions are not holding our education system back.
Are charter schools allowed to violate students’ civil rights? ... You might think it’s a straightforward question, but it’s not. Federal law is inconsistent.
One thing is sure, that it's easier for a private school to violate people's rights.
This article also deals with the issue of academic freedom in a defensive way, but we know that charter schools are all about standardized test scores and are more restrictive than public schools.
The author foolishly describes this as good but it just proves that Microsoft thinks they own everyone's computers.
Several of those dropped have wondered if it was all part of an attempt by Bing simply to drive more traffic to a special section of Bing Shopping that was ranking (and still does) in the first page of listing for searches at Bing for black friday and cyber monday,
Microsoft was spared a $1.3 billion dollar judgment by one juror who was unsure about Novell's potential outside of Microsoft's malice. This comes despite a biased press and a judge that indulged every Microsoft whim.
SkypeTab used to only work with Compiz, Openbox and Xfwm but the new version should work with other window managers too, like Kwin, etc (I've actually tested it under Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and it worked just fine).
The only good thing about Skype was that it worked without fuss out of a repository, now we see that new software is buggy and picky about window managers.
Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. ... The legislation's supporters in Congress say it simply codifies existing practice, such as the indefinite detention of alleged terrorists at Guantánamo Bay.
Dissenting opinon relies on weasel words that don't mean much, but even they say that the bill should be vetoed. All the rich and powerful have to do to eliminate critics now is provoke riots.
The real villains of YouTube are the multinational companies cashing in on public domain footage they claim is their own
Big publishers can load your videos with advertisements or push you off YouTube.
Their letter was authored by Steve Crocker, a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force; David Dagon, a post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology; security researcher Dan Kaminsky; Verisign Chief Security Officer Danny McPherson; and Paul Vixie, chairman of the Internet Systems Consortium and principal author of popular versions of the BIND DNS server software.
The letter is beautiful but no technical experts were invited to Congress.
More than 1 millions of calls and emails to Congress have been generated over the past month. The level of engagement on this bill is virtually unprecedented for a measure that still has not emerged from the committee process. And it has happened despite a virtual blackout from mainstream media, which is mostly owned by corporations that support the bill.
Thank you to everyone who acted but watch out, it's not over yet Keep demanding progress.
[now] When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites. ... [previously]Tell the Chinese government that Google.cn will no longer censor information with Google's consent. And should the Chinese government not find that acceptable, then Google.cn would shut down its operations
Russia may outlaw Internet porn, "extremism," anonymity, and more - "Another proposal regarding internet security has been put forward by senior Interior Ministry official Alexei Moshkov, who said anonymous accounts should be outlawed on social networks and online forums to prevent internet fraud, blackmailing and child abuse. “If you are a just and law abiding person, why would you want to hide?” Moshkov, who heads the ministry’s bureau in charge of technical services, said in an interview with the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta. “There is no censorship on the internet,” he said. He also said the police would not “seek and arrest anyone for criticism” of the authorities.
Big publishers know that sharing is an important form of marketing but insist on punishing people for doing it so they can continue to control our culture.
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mcinsand
2011-12-18 02:33:31
>>The only good thing about Skype was that it worked without fuss out of a >>repository, now we see that new software is buggy and picky about >>window managers.
Beg pardon? That was one of the reasons I went from the Fedora that I favored to a 'buntu. Skype was never really open source, and it's only going to be less open now. My experience was that it was a bit quirky, and it even had what I referred to as a '2100 bug,' where it would dependably crash shortly after 2100 if in the middle of a session.
Just my experiences with it.
Mc