Tuesday, August 4, 2009

FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude | ZDNet Government

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FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude
The Free Software Foundation has a new campaign - Defective by Design - and an online petition over Amazon's Orwellian take-back of "1984" from Kindle customers.
Soldiers get priority for Google Voice
Thinking about joining up but the New GI Bill's promises of college tuition aren't enough to sway you? Maybe Google Voice will seal the deal. In a guest post on Google's Official Blog, Army Sgt. Dale Sweetnam announced that military personnel will get priority handling for Google Voice accounts.
Hadron Collider's mysterious disappearing magnets
It's beginning to seem that the Large Hadron Collider may never be able to produce the gargantuan amount of energy that caused many to fear it would create a world-ending black hole. The Times reports that the collider's magnets have been massively under performing.
First-ever arrest of domain-name thief involves Clippers' Madsen
In the first-ever U.S. arrest of a domain-name thief, New Jersey state police have arrested a man suspected of stealing the domain name P2P.com. In an unusual celebrity twist, Donald Gonclave then sold the domain name to L.A. Clippers forward Mark Madsen on eBay for $110,000, The L.A. Times reports.

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