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Big change for welfarist Sweden: School choice
Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students?
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Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it.
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Big change for welfarist Sweden: School choice
Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students? It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded cradle-to-grave welfare. But a sweeping reform of the school system has survived the critics and 16 years later is spreading and attracting interest abroad. "I think most people, parents and children, appreciate the choice," ...
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Recent Original Stories
November's update is much different than last month's update since Microsoft released only one patch today. This month's security bulletin affects Microsoft Windows and the highest maximum severity rating for this is critical.
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NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems . " What it really helps out with is something called zero-day exploits, " said Daniel Walsh, a principal software engineer at Red Hat and leader of the company's SELinux team.
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Seven bombs hit India's Ahmedabad
At least seven small bombs exploded in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding 55, just a day after another set of blasts in the country's southern IT hub, officials said.
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PRO-IP and PIRATE Acts Fused Into New Bill
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) have just sponsored a new bill, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, which would combine the worst parts of the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The basic idea is pretty simple: expand the Federal government to create something like the Department of Homeland Security for ...
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Missoula real estate market on simmer
Jody and Brittany Tait listed their four-bedroom house west of Missoula for sale on several Internet sites and placed leaflets and signs in their yard in early July.
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New DNS exploit now in the wild and having a blast
A new hack designed to exploit a weakness in the DNS protocol is out, just days after information on the exploit was accidentally posted online. A patch for the issue was released almost two weeks ago, but a significant number of servers are still vulnerable. Read More...
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FCC poised to punish Comcast for traffic blocking
WASHINGTON — A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers’ Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
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AOL streamlining through product cuts
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- AOL is trying to streamline its online businesses through a series of product cuts, an official said.
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FSF launches a denial-of-service attack on Apple's Genius Bars
The Free Software Foundation is making itself irrelevant...again, this time by fighting against Genius Bars everywhere.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 17:50 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
"After a lot of hacking behind the scenes, a new initiative to improve KDE's interaction with network and hardware devices has been launched. Solid will provide a robust basis for the dynamic modern desktop in KDE, which needs to be aware of available hardware and networks, paving the way for innovative functionality.
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Software committee seeks to negotiate contract
Three county officials who have served as a “software committee” for almost two years — Justices of the Peace Douglas Cone and Doug Zweiner and County Attorney Julie Renken — will come before commissioners at 9 a.m. Tuesday seeking the authority to negotiate a contract with Local Government Solutions, Inc. of Houston.
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Migratory Game Birds for Hunters
Hunters will be able to register for a federal harvest program by computer or phone soon.
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Serial blasts hit Indian city
Four bombs have exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad - a day after another set of co-ordinated blasts in the country's southern IT hub.
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Fake! Memorabilia collectors track down bogus items in eBay
LOS ANGELES - The pieces of Hollywood history were priced to move, even by the discount standards of eBay.
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Free the Spam King!
Last week, Seattle-based "spam king" Robert Alan Soloway was arrested and charged with fraud, money laundering and identity theft. He is facing up to 65 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. I'm not holding my breath expecting this arrest to stop the flood of junk e-mail I receive, however. Law enforcement cannot stop spam with periodic high-profile busts, or with sentences greater than those ...
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PCIJ Investigation House Facelift to Cost Taxpayers P1 Billion; Fund Source a Puzzle
us your views and comments about this article. Or discuss it in our blog. The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism's latest report looks into the massive renovation project at the House of Representatives.
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Yahoo Highlights Breaking News on SERPs
Yahoo has introduced a minor change in the way it treats its search engine results page. This change has something to do with queries relating to breaking news. To give users the most fresh and recent search result, Yahoo Search is now displaying News Direct Display on the more relevant position on the SERPs of [...]
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Microsoft is making key communications protocols available for license , so that third parties, including competitors, can link into the company's newest enterprise products. Some are available immediately.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Oct 2006 19:29 UTC
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Apple did not need NeXT , the company that provided the foundation for Mac OS X; he argues that System 7 wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be.
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The OpenOffice Project has sent a letter to Michael Dell , showering praise on Dell's chairman and CEO and asking him to consider pre-loading OpenOffice onto PCs.
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LeT may target Madurai Meenakshi temple
The famous Meenakshi temple in Madurai in Tamil Nadu is on the Lashkar-e-Tayiba's hit-list, fears the Intelligence Bureau.
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Blogosphere Alive During Elections
Weekend Edition Saturday , July 26, 2008 · Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are trying to capitalize on the Internet in their campaigns.
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