Israely Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest

Seeded on Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:06 PM EST (boomka.org)

The World Union of Jewish Students in conjunction with editorial cartoonists, Edward Margolis and Noah Crissey, has announced an International Editorial Cartoon Competition for students called "Fight Hate with Humor." More info at

israel, religion, muslims, humor, zionism, world-news, liberty, cartoons

Google Sued by U.S. DoJ

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:09 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)

Google Inc. was sued by the Justice Department after it refused to turn over information that may help the government monitor sexually explicit material on the Web.

google, technology, business, us, lawsuit, internet, justice, internet-privacy

Million Dollar Homepage faces legal threat

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:02 AM EST (FT.com)

The winner of the last 1,000 pixels, which sold for $38,100 on Ebay, is threatening to sue because the website was off line for six days until Wednesday.

technology, business, internet, crime, web, legal, website, million-dollar, alex-tew

Inside the WMF Backdoor

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:45 AM EST (sysinternals.com)

Mark Russinovich's detailed analysis about the AbortProc bug in WMF. Quote: "In my opinion the backdoor is one caused by a security flaw and not one made for subterfuge."

technology, security, tech, bug, microsoft, windows, wmf, exploit

Software patents loom large again in Europe

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:12 PM EST (regdeveloper.co.uk)

As part of the initiative McCreevy has unveiled a public consultation on how future action in patent policy to create an EU-wide patent system can take account of "stakeholders' needs." The Commissioner is also looking for feedback until 31 March as to how to improve the patent s

technology, europe, european-union, software-patents

James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:53 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Our planet has kept itself healthy and fit for life, just like an animal does, for most of the more than three billion years of its existence. It was ill luck that we started polluting at a time when the sun is too hot for comfort.

evolution, global-warming, environment, science, opinion, not-news, gaia

Final Draft: GPLv3

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:25 PM EST (gplv3.fsf.org)

The core legal mechanism of the GNU GPL is that of copyleft, which requires modified versions of GPL'd software to be GPL'd themselves. Copyleft is essential for preventing the enclosure of the free software commons, today as it was in 1991.

technology, open-source, free-software, gpl, linux, gnu, copyleft

Full text: Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:05 PM EST (Raw Story)

In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power -- the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans ab

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