Comment Re:Long Awaited? (Score 2, Interesting) 80
Don't confuse ffmpeg with libavcodec. Although libavcodec is part of of the ffmpeg distribution, and is used by many other program (mplayer especially), ffmpeg is more than that.
Comment Unlike Microsoft, this one benign and documented (Score 4, Informative) 311
All this plugin does is speed up loading of Java applets. Its benign, and Sun provides instructions on how to turn it off: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/quickstarter.xml .
Submission + - Tenth Largest Known Prime Found (seventeenorbust.com)
Hyram Graff writes: "The distributed computing project Seventeen or Bust has found the tenth largest known prime. The 2,116,617 digit number, 33661*2^7031232+1, was found as part of the projects attempt to prove that 78,557 is the smallest Serpenski number. 33661 is the eleventh of seventeen canidates to be busted."
Submission + - RPG Player Kidnapped for Password
mattOzan writes: "A top RPG gamer was kidnapped in Brazil after responding to a "honeypot" date on Orkut with one of the kidnapper's girlfriends. The victim was held alone for five hours with a gun to his head as the gang of four tried to get his account password for GunBound, which they wanted to sell for US$8,000. After he refused to speak, the victim was eventually released. Brazilian police have captured the suspects, who range in age from 19 to 27."
Submission + - Skype also affected by supposed Firefox bug
juct writes: "The latest security problem associated with URL handling seems to be a Windows problem rather than one of Firefox. As heise Security found out, other applications like Skype and Miranda show the same behaviour as Firefox: if Internet Explorer 7 is installed on a Windows XP system, a click on certain URLs can launch other applications like the Windows calculator. Problematic protocols include mailto:, nntp:, news: snews: and telnet:."
Submission + - eBay removes auctions for using iPhone in title. 1
GrayTap_Media writes: "On Friday June 29 I listed a domain on eBay
iPhoneestore.com and I no misleading clams as to what was on auction! They
simply said they removed the auction because "The
violation occurred when you included the following information in your listing:
iPhone" the title of my site is "The iPhone eStore" and I added the
domain name in the auction title and my listing page included no content that
could be construed as misleading!
I spent Saturday enraged that eBay had robbed be of the most opportune time to auction off my domain that I don't have the resources further develop. I spent the day wondering what I had done to warrant the removal of my auction and I remembered I had crossed categorized into the "domains > .com" and "cell phone" listings, so last night I re-listed into the
appropriate categories "domains > .com" and "Websites & Businesses for Sale"
listings. This morning I awake to my auction having been removed for the same
shady reason, I made it absolutely clear what was up for auction in the title
sub-title and listing description.
You can go to eBay and type "iPhone" in the search form hit enter and you will get a multitude of individuals listing email address from free services such as yahoo, hotmail, gmail and many more, and they are staying to completion like this example titled "iphone_hub@yahoo.com — iphone email address" Item number: 110144585895. Recently an iPhone domain name completed for $315 dollars. And there are many other iPhone domains still listed.
Here is the first listing: http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay/eBayISAPI .dll.html
Here is the second listing: http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay/listing2/ eBayISAPI.dll.2.html
You can find other screen shots and documentation including there reason at
http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay and http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay/listing2"
I spent Saturday enraged that eBay had robbed be of the most opportune time to auction off my domain that I don't have the resources further develop. I spent the day wondering what I had done to warrant the removal of my auction and I remembered I had crossed categorized into the "domains >
You can go to eBay and type "iPhone" in the search form hit enter and you will get a multitude of individuals listing email address from free services such as yahoo, hotmail, gmail and many more, and they are staying to completion like this example titled "iphone_hub@yahoo.com — iphone email address" Item number: 110144585895. Recently an iPhone domain name completed for $315 dollars. And there are many other iPhone domains still listed.
Here is the first listing: http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay/eBayISAP
Here is the second listing: http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay/listing2
You can find other screen shots and documentation including there reason at
http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay and http://www.arencibia.info/rodded_by_ebay/listing2"
Submission + - Should the US Go Into the Drug Trade?
billtowson writes: http://www.thefuturewatch.com/AfghanistanandthePop pySeed.html
The Taliban is making money off of the opium trade, and using opium smuggling routes to smuggle weapons into Afghanistan. Perhaps the best way to prevent this would be for the U.S. to begin buying opium directly from the farmers at a premium price — and thus cutting the Taliban out of the trade.
The Taliban is making money off of the opium trade, and using opium smuggling routes to smuggle weapons into Afghanistan. Perhaps the best way to prevent this would be for the U.S. to begin buying opium directly from the farmers at a premium price — and thus cutting the Taliban out of the trade.
Submission + - Torvalds releases version 2.6.22-rc1 o
Legithrand writes: "Linux.com announces the new kernel release, 2.6.22-rc1, looking for active testers. Changelog is too long for the mailing list but Linus Torvalds says they're all over the place. According to the article: "You want a new firewire stack? We've got it. New wireless networking infrastructure? Check. New infiniband drivers? Digital video drivers? A totally new CPU architecture (blackfin)? Check, check, check." More changes are planned for a near future."
Submission + - Red Hat announces "Liberation fonts"
Richard W.M. Jones writes: "Red Hat (disclaimer: I work for them) has announced a set of metrically equivalent fonts to the popular, but proprietary Microsoft core fonts, released with source under the GPL. There are three faces, Liberation Mono (a substitute for Courier New), Sans (for Arial) and Serif (for Times New Roman). Sadly there is no news on a substitute for Comic Sans. RPMs are available from here and Ubuntu are working to include them too."
Submission + - Free/Libre Intel X11 graphics driver for 965GM
sTeF writes: Keith Packard has announced the inclusion of a free Intel driver into Xorg:
In addition to Intel 965GM chipset support, the X.org 2.0 driver adds native video mode programming support for all chipsets from i830 forward. The driver supports automatic video mode detection and selection, monitor hot plug, dynamic extended and merged desktops and per-monitor screen rotation.
The official Intel Linux Graphics website even reveals links to Ubuntu developers, could we also find a link to the Dell Ubuntu offering? Ubuntu will be much easier to setup for 3D accelerated desktops (think Beryl) than on competing ATI and NVidia chipsets. Maybe this will make the ATI announcement from earlier to day more credible if they want to hold on to Linuxers.
In addition to Intel 965GM chipset support, the X.org 2.0 driver adds native video mode programming support for all chipsets from i830 forward. The driver supports automatic video mode detection and selection, monitor hot plug, dynamic extended and merged desktops and per-monitor screen rotation.
The official Intel Linux Graphics website even reveals links to Ubuntu developers, could we also find a link to the Dell Ubuntu offering? Ubuntu will be much easier to setup for 3D accelerated desktops (think Beryl) than on competing ATI and NVidia chipsets. Maybe this will make the ATI announcement from earlier to day more credible if they want to hold on to Linuxers.
Submission + - Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD's and LiveDVD's released
bunbuntheminilop writes: "Gentoo Linux 2007.0, codenamed "Secret Sauce" has been announced and released onto LiveCD and LiveDVD. Even though most Gentoo users update without a CD, this release gives a rewritten installer, meaning it's now easier to install Gentoo. Stages for some unusual arcitectures are included, such as the SuperH. The LiveCD's also come with GNOME 2.16.2, KDE 3.5.5, Xfce 4.4, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3, OpenOffice.org 2.1.0, and the 2.6.19 Linux kernel.
LiveCD's and LiveDVD's can be downloaded from the Gentoo Project website or as a torrent."
LiveCD's and LiveDVD's can be downloaded from the Gentoo Project website or as a torrent."
Submission + - Map where you lost your virginity.
HolyJuan writes: "http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/04/where-did-you-lose -your-virginity.html
Where did you lose your virginity? Place a marker and a write brief description of that memorable twenty seconds of awkwardness."
Submission + - SeventeenOrBust - another 1 down, 7 to go
tqft writes: "" The 'Seventeen or Bust' distributed computing project today announced the discovery of a massive prime number. The new prime is 3.9 million digits long and stands as the largest non-Mersenne prime ever discovered. It is the fifth largest-known prime overall and the tenth such discovery for the project in its five year history."
http://www.seventeenorbust.com/documents/press-050 507.mhtml
Another one down."
http://www.seventeenorbust.com/documents/press-05
Another one down."
Submission + - Open Call From the Patent Office
An anonymous reader writes: The patent office is looking to employ a Wiki-like process for reviewing patents. Here is the article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/03/04/AR2007030401263.html?nav=rss_email/c omponents?nav=slate
Journal SPAM: I am not a state secret 1
"ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than f
