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20 Years After Tiananmen, China Stifles Online Dissent alphadogg writes with this snippet from Network World: 'The Internet has brought new hope to reformists in China since the country crushed pro-democracy protests in the capital 20 years ago. But as dissidents have gone high-tech, the government in turn has worked to restrict free speech on the Internet, stifling threats to its rule that could grow online. China has stepped up monitoring of dissidents and Internet censorship ahead of June 4, when hundreds were killed in 1989 after Beijing sent soldiers to its central Tiananmen Square to disperse protestors. The authoritarian government wants to ensure that date and other sensitive anniversaries this year pass without public disturbances, observers say. In recent months, China has blocked YouTube and closed two blog hosting sites, bullog.cn and fatianxia.com, known for their liberal content.' of this story at Slashdot. SlashdotBlunkett and Hain favour voting reform Senior figures in the Labour party are moving towards a consensus on the need to accept voting reform as part of a radical change in the political system.Supporters and opponents of proportional representation, writing in the Guardian tomorrow, appear to be converging on the introduction of an alternative vote (AV) system in single member constituencies, allowing the public to rank candidates in order of preference rather than simply marking a cross against one candidate when electing a new MP.Former cabinet minister David Blunkett, who describes proportional representation as a recipe to 'disempower voters' and the basis for 'horse trading' and 'dodgy stitch-ups' among political parties, admits he could 'wear the alternative vote system if I had to' provided it is not linked with a top-up system of MPs drawn from party lists.He says: 'PR is a recipe for weak government, born out of the understandable moment.' And he warns that an AV system that also involves 'topping up the Commons wi GuardianNew York Closes 6 More Schools Due To H1N1 Six more public schools are shutting down as New York City continues combating the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. CBS NewsAre Amazon`s Web Services Going Open Source? ruphus13 writes 'Amazon has been one of the early movers in the cloud computing space, with its AWS offerings, including S3 and EC2. Now, there is a lot of chatter around the imminent open sourcing of all its APIs and services and the impact that will have on the other 'clouds' out there — public or private. From the article, 'Amazon faces significant threats from open source cloud computing efforts if it pursues a purely proprietary path [...] Amazon can't ignore the cost advantages and diversity of product offerings that open source players are already offering in the cloud computing space. the company's best move is to open source its tools, which will end up diversifying them, play on a level field in terms of cost with the open source alternatives, and charge for services. Absent these moves, the company will lose potential customers to free, open source alternatives [...] Word is Amazon's legal team is currently 'investigating' open sourcing their various web services API's SlashdotEx-U.S. soldier apologizes to Iraqi family A U.S. soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi family spoke out for the first time Thursday, issuing a public apology for his crimes. CNNAckman`s Target quest falls flat It was cold inside the new freezers on display in Target's half-built store in Waukesha, Wis., the site of the mega-retailer's 2009 annual meeting. But it was even colder in the meeting itself for investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management, as his multimillion-dollar, highly public quest to unseat four of the company's board members ended up in a deep freeze. CNNFormer soldier apologizes to family for rape, killing A U.S. soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi family issuing a public apology on Thursday for his crimes. Steven Green, who escaped the death penalty this month, told relatives of the victims that he is 'truly sorry for what I did in Iraq.' Green was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Kentucky of raping a 14-year-old girl and murdering her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. CNNEx-soldier apologizes to family for rape, killing A U.S. soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi family issuing a public apology on Thursday for his crimes. Steven Green, who escaped the death penalty this month, told relatives of the victims that he is 'truly sorry for what I did in Iraq.' Green was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Kentucky of raping a 14-year-old girl and murdering her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. CNNSoldier `sorry` for raping, murdering Iraqi girl A U.S. soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi family has issued a public apology for his crimes. Steven Green, who escaped the death penalty this month, told relatives of the victims that he is 'truly sorry for what I did in Iraq.' Green was found guilty in a court in Kentucky of raping a 14-year-old girl and murdering her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister in Yusufiya, just south of Baghdad. CNNU.S. slams British press over report of abuse photos WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration strongly denied a British report on Thursday that images of apparent rape and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners are among photographs that it is trying to prevent being made public. Reuters1 2 3 4 |
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