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Censorship

Submission + - Politician forces German Wikipedia off the Net (wikipedia.de)

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Stephan Schulz
Stephan Schulz writes: "German Member of parliament for the left-wing party "Die Linken" Lutz Heilmann has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilman is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted.

The German Wikipedia has more than 800000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."
Math

Submission + - Mechanical Reasoners battle it out in Sydney today (miami.edu)

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Stephan Schulz
Stephan Schulz writes: "While the Beijing Olympic Games may be the most visible ongoing contest, it is not the geekiest by far. Today, the CADE ATP System Competition will pit about 20 of the worlds most powerful mechanical mathematicians against each other — and for the first time they can win not only honour, but real a monetary prize. The systems will reason against the clock on tasks ranging from undergraduate math problems and Cluedo-like puzzles to figuring out the possible responsibility for terrorist attacks from giant knowledge bases. If you think that is not impressive enough, they are doing it at a rate of 12 problems per hour, all day long. The competition starts at 10 a.m. in Sydney, Australia, which is midnight UTC. Live results will be available at the competition page. For added geek appeal, most of the contenders are available under open source licenses, so if you are weak in logic you can hack up your own brain extension and run it on an iPhone..."

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