From the New Land of the Free dept.:
The adoption by the European Parliament of Written Declaration 12 opposing the ACTA agreement sends a strong political signal. European Commission shows its will to quickly conclude the negotiations of this agreement that includes harmful provisions for fundamental rights. ACTA aims at circumventing democracy to impose now and later repressive legislation through secret negotiations. The European Parliament now has a unique occasion to firmly oppose it.

From the Yayyyy Whooooo dept.:
We are excited to present to you the latest initiative from Mozilla Labs: Gaming. Mozilla Labs Gaming is all about games built, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser. We want to explore the wider set of technologies which make immersive gaming on the Open Web possible. We invite the wider community to play with cool, new tech and aim to help establish the Open Web as the platform for gaming across all your Internet connected devices.

p.s my website is NOT a CMS site like WordPress or Joomla. So I don’t have use of their plug-ins. – Many thanks.

From the Are You Not Entertained? dept.:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has opened a probe into whether Google ranks its search listings with an eye toward nicking the competition, the company announced in a Friday blog post that suggested the concerns have a major sponsor: Microsoft.

In question is whether the world's biggest search engine could be unfairly disadvantaging some companies by giving them a low ranking in free search listings and in paid ads that appear at the top of the page. That could make it tough for users to find those sites and might violate antitrust laws.

Abbott's office asked for information about three companies who have publicly complained about Google, according to blog post by Don Harrison, the company's deputy general counsel. Harrison linked each of the companies to Microsoft.

I know that there are a lot of OS music maker out there but I want to ask what is the best that you have been able to use? I like to make background music on a 3D animation that I am planning to work at. Here’s a sample music animation:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGBVzeBUbk

Thanks in advanced!

openpom is a Web-based user interface for Nagios. It allows you to view almost everything about Nagios in a single page: alert, ack, downtime, comment. You can also interact with Nagios through ack, downtime, comment, disable, and reset buttons.

Changes: PHP short open tags were replaced.

Tags: Nagios, Monitoring, ndoutils, interface

Licenses: GPLv2

I’ve seen claims that Ubuntu is more secure than Windows. How can this be the case if anyone is allowed to see and edit the source code?

From the 4337 dept.:
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome.

Google Chrome 6 includes patches for 14 total security vulnerabilities, including six high-priority flaws, and the company paid out a total of $4,337 in bug bounties to researchers who reported the vulnerabilities. A number of the flaws that didn't qualify for bug bounties were discovered by members of Google's internal security team.

September 3, 2010, 01:30 PM - - A number of Linux distributors have issued patches for fixing a widely used program that fetches Web pages, called Wget, so it can not be misused by attackers.