Fedora 11: Display goes blank briefly, apparently at random (fixed!)

August 14, 2009

Several of us have reported, since the F11 GA release date, that the display sometimes suddenly go blank for a brief period – a second or two – before coming back. Listed under the “Common F11 bugs” wiki page (bugzilla id #501601), the root cause has been identified in the X server and fixed (git [...]

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How to fight child pornography – a new era, or just replicate old, bad policies?

May 30, 2009

The city of Rome hosted the G8 Justice and Interior Ministers’ two-days Meeting, chaired by Justice Minister Angelino Alfano and by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni. Ministers from G8 industrialized nations agreed toward to fight child pornography by creating a blacklist of websites containing pornographic images of children, managed by an organization facilitating international police cooperation, like [...]

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