Ieri, 3 febbraio, è stata rilasciata l'ultima stable release del kernel di GNU/Linux.
I principali miglioramenti e le patch più importanti riguardano PPC, Bluetooth, USB, XFS, ACPI.
Links:
- sito kernel.org;
- changelog (da 2.6.1 a 2.6.2)
VILLORBA - In lacrime un giovane immigrato umiliato dal gesto di una donnaInfatti: da biasimare è la bestia che gli ha dato del cibo per cani - o forse neanche lei: dopotutto, non si dice sempre che gli animali, "poverini, non capiscono"?
Al mendicante dà cibo per cani
L'immigrato voleva racimolare qualche soldo, alla peggio qualcosa da mangiare. Si è visto rifilare due scatolette di carne per cani. Le ha prese, senza parola, e se n'è andato a piangere poco lontano lacrime di vergogna, anche se in questa storia non è lui quello da biasimare.
Il Tamagotchi di Bandai, il gioco digitale a forma di uovo che riproduceva il ciclo di vita di un cucciolo in carne e ossa, è stato un successo mondiale alla fine degli anni '90, e ha venduto 40 milioni di pezzi in tutto il mondo. La nuova versione è dotata anche di raggi infrarossi grazie ai quali il cucciolo virtuale potrà farsi nuovi amici, andare a trovare gli altri cyber-cuccioli per portare loro un regalo, e persino sposarsi e avere un altro cucciolo, ha detto l'azienda produttrice. Sarà venduto a circa 19 dollari e sarà disponibile in sei colori diversi.Sempre da F&C apprendo che Tamagotchi vuol dire "ovetto grazioso" - strano, lo avevo sempre considerato un "arnese pestifero"...
Un portavoce dell'assemblea parlamentare californiana, il democratico Leland Yee, ha affermato di aver proposto una risoluzione che obbliga gli architetti dello stato e le città californiane a dar vita a progetti edilizi che prevedano il rispetto dei principi del feng shui, la millenaria arte cinese della disposizione delle cose. L'obiettivo dichiarato è "incoraggiare il flusso dell'energia vitale e creare spazi abitativi in armonia con l'ambiente; in seconda battuta, come naturale conseguenza di quanto prima, sviluppare felicità, salute e prosperità".Diavolo, perché no? Dopotutto, potrebbe perfino funzionare - hai visto mai? - nel qual caso proporrei di adottare lo stesso approccio anche per alcune disastrate realtà italiane.
As with previous KDE releases, version 3.2 provides an integrated desktop and a comprehensive set of applications that combine to create an environment that is usable for a wide variety of tasks right out of the box. In addition to the many new applications making their debut in KDE 3.2, the veteran applications have been refined and augmented generously. By installing some or all of these applications common desktop tasks such as web browsing, file management, email, personal information management, instant messaging, software and web development, multimedia, education and entertainment can be accomplished quickly and easily. This impressive collection of software is complemented by a recent update to the KOffice integrated office suite.Links:
Reflecting its international team and focus, KDE 3.2 is currently available in 42 different languages. Partial translations into 32 other languages are also available, many of which are expected to be completed during the KDE 3.2 life cycle. With 74 different languages and full localization support, no other desktop is as ready to serve the needs of today's global community.
Se mi chiamano per firmare il trattamento sanitario obbligatorio per questa signora, sono prontae
non bisogna essere matti per non essere in grado di intendere e di volere (A sentire le sue dichiarazioni, mi viene quasi voglia di darle ragione, NdR). Ci sono tante sfumature. La legge va interpretata.
ad altri esami, ad altre perizie psicologiche e psichiatrichepartendo dal presupposto che
il suo è un tentativo di suicidio. E come cerchiamo di salvare chi cerca di buttarsi dalla finestra anche qui dobbiamo fare ogni tentativo possibile.
In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea's largest concentration camp, where thousands of men, women and children accused of political crimes are held.Questa è solo l'ultima di una serie ormai lunga di testimonianze.
Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.
Over the past year harrowing first-hand testimonies from North Korean defectors have detailed execution and torture, and now chilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret: gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings.
Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime.
Kwon Hyuk, who has changed his name, was the former military attaché at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing. He was also the chief of management at Camp 22. In the BBC's This World documentary, to be broadcast tonight, Hyuk claims he now wants the world to know what is happening.
'I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber,' he said. 'The parents, son and and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing.'
Hyuk has drawn detailed diagrams of the gas chamber he saw. He said: 'The glass chamber is sealed airtight. It is 3.5 metres wide, 3m long and 2.2m high_ [There] is the injection tube going through the unit. Normally, a family sticks together and individual prisoners stand separately around the corners. Scientists observe the entire process from above, through the glass.'
He explains how he had believed this treatment was justified. 'At the time I felt that they thoroughly deserved such a death. Because all of us were led to believe that all the bad things that were happening to North Korea were their fault; that we were poor, divided and not making progress as a country.
'It would be a total lie for me to say I feel sympathetic about the children dying such a painful death. Under the society and the regime I was in at the time, I only felt that they were the enemies. So I felt no sympathy or pity for them at all.'
His testimony is backed up by Soon Ok-lee, who was imprisoned for seven years. 'An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,' she said. 'One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women. I gave them out and heard a scream from those who had eaten them. They were all screaming and vomiting blood. All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes they were quite dead.'
Defectors have smuggled out documents that appear to reveal how methodical the chemical experiments were. One stamped 'top secret' and 'transfer letter' is dated February 2002. The name of the victim was Lin Hun-hwa. He was 39. The text reads: 'The above person is transferred from ... camp number 22 for the purpose of human experimentation of liquid gas for chemical weapons.'
Kim Sang-hun, a North Korean human rights worker, says the document is genuine. He said: 'It carries a North Korean format, the quality of paper is North Korean and it has an official stamp of agencies involved with this human experimentation. A stamp they cannot deny. And it carries names of the victim and where and why and how these people were experimented [on].'
The number of prisoners held in the North Korean gulag is not known: one estimate is 200,000, held in 12 or more centres. Camp 22 is thought to hold 50,000.