Slashdot on Michael Copps, FCC Commish speaking at YearlyKos

I'm in a session on "The New News" at YearlyKos, but I didn't want to pass up this little update from slashdot:"Copps also had fighting words for those who blame the US broadband problems on our less-dense population; Canada, Norway, and Sweden are ranked above us, but all...

The GPL Wars: Torvalds vs Schwartz

""The controversial message published by Linus Torvalds (mirrored) in the Linux Kernel Mailing List was from the beginning to the end an open attack to Sun and its Open Source strategy. Linus criticized Sun's real position on GPL, and claimed that Linux could be dangerous to...

Ohio University Bans File Sharing

Ohio U. is pre-empting the pre-lawsuits that are spamming up university inboxes across the nation."While some universities have fought back against RIAA complaints about their students using file sharing for making unauthorized copies of content, it appears that Ohio...

Yahoo News Message Boards Close - Hundreds of Trolls Made Homeless

"The Yahoo News Message Boards - a forum to discuss the articles on Yahoo News - have been closed today, seemingly due to trolls and other vocal users ruining the experience for everyone else. Yahoo News General Manager Neil Budde posted this message: As they were set up, the...

Digg Issues Cease and Desist to Diggdot.us

"Diggdot.us, a site that mashes up digg, del.icio.us and Slashdot, has received a cease and desist letter from digg's lawyers. Other similar mirrors have received the same. As a result, diggdot.us has changed its name to Doggdot.us, however, it continues to index digg's feed...

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Hackers Clone E-Passport

q] mrops writes "I guess the skeptical Slashdot community always knew that e-passports are a big waste of time and money; now German security consultants have been able to successfully clone e-passports, even onto building access cards. FTA: 'The whole passport design...

Collaborative News Survey: Hype versus Reality

"Why are collaborative news, commenting and blogging sites such as Newsvine, Slashdot and Global Voices attracting users and visitors? Who are these folks? What do they want from their interactions? According to a just-released survey — “The Hype vs. Reality vs. What...

New Netscape.com focuses on news

"Netscape is expected to relaunch its Web site on Thursday, transforming from a general purpose portal into a news site in which both readers and editors choose the content. In its latest incarnation, Netscape is a hybrid news site combining elements of social bookmarking,...

Scoop: Exclusive screenshots reveal: Digg v3 will cover all news

"Digg already soared past Slashdot as the most influential tech-centered news portal. The "Digg effect" can bring down the servers of sites linked from the homepage and drive a frenzy of blogging and news coverage -- or spread rumors like nobody's business. ..."

Slashdot CSS redesign contest

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