Comment Re:Slashdot 1 (Score 1) 48
How arrogant! Do you really think Slashdot had anything to do with the withdrawal ?
Well, if you are a employee of Verisign, could you tell us why then ?
If you're not, tell us anyway. We like to read fiction.
Comment Re:Unofficial (Score 1) 114
Slashdot should change the headline to "New SMS Trojan Found In Application Stores/Markets". That would call even more readers.
Because that IS the point, isn't?
Comment Re:Will they pull out of the UK (Score 1) 186
There are similar regulations in Brazil also.
I wonder if they will pull out of the UK too? The UK has distance selling regulations that mandate a seven day "cooling off period" for internet sales.
Indeed, it looks like these regulations should be EU wide and I don't see any exemption for software sales.
Comment Re:The cloud is secure - if treated correctly (Score 1) 482
Jail-broken Android? Android is not in jail (or in a walled garden, if you want to put that way). And I don't need root to use PGP. Please clarify!
Comment Howard Tayler almost got it. Prior art? (Score 1) 268
Comment Re:Rather selfish (Score 1) 169
I rather have the possibility to install malware on my device, because I want to take the risks, than have someone forcing me to install only what's someone think it is good for me.
And that is the default option in Android. Want to use unknow sources? Check here, read the disclaimer, assume your responsability.
My device, my rules, my risks.
Comment Re:patents are useless to google (Score 2) 197
No problem. The enemy of my enemy is my friend!
Obviously you never heard of the book formely know as "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates" (now called "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries" after a cease and desist from FranklinCovey. How appropriate). Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
Comment Re:what? (Score 1) 778
Since when is Ubuntu the 'bad linux'?
I was thinking the same thing. Someone mod parent +1 please?
Comment Re:The problem is the culture, not a lack of fairs (Score 1) 414
That's true for Brazil too. We have far less engineers than needed, but say you graduated on engineering on a party and you are automatically viewed as a smart guy and a probable success later on life.
If women in the US are like you are saying... Wow, that's dumb!
Submission + - The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 vs. H.264 (antimatter15.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: With all the talk about WebM and H.264, how the move might be a step backwards for openness, and Google's intention to add "plugins" for IE9 and Safari to support WebM, this article attempts to clear misconceptions about the VP8 and H.264 codecs and how browsers render video. Firefox, Opera and Google rely on their own media frameworks to decode video, whereas IE9 and Safari will hand over video processing to the operating system (Windows Media Player or QuickTime), the need for the web to establish a baseline codec for encoding videos, and how the Flash player is proprietary, but implementation and usage remain royalty free.
RDS Protocol Bug Creates a Linux Kernel Hole, Now Fixed 89
Trailrunner7 writes "The open-source Linux operating system contains a serious security flaw that can be exploited to gain superuser rights on a target system. The vulnerability, in the Linux implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol, affects unpatched versions of the Linux kernel, starting from 2.6.30, where the RDS protocol was first included." The article goes on to say, though, that "Linux installations are only vulnerable if the CONFIG_RDS kernel configuration option is set, and if there are no restrictions on unprivileged users loading packet family modules, as is the case on most stock distributions," and that Linus Torvalds has committed a fix.
Submission + - How Well Will Linux Handle Future Multicores? (mit.edu)
eldavojohn writes: Multicore (think tens or hundreds of cores) will come at a price for current operating systems. A team at MIT found that as they approached 48 cores their operating system slowed down. After activating more and more cores in their simulation, a sort of memory leak occurred whereby data had to remain in memory as long as a core might need it in its calculations. But the good news is that in their paper (PDF), they showed that for at least several years Linux should be able to keep up with chip enhancements in the multicore realm. To handle multiple cores, Linux keeps a counter of which cores are working on the data. As a core starts to work on a piece of data, Linux increments the number. When the core is done, Linux decrements the number. As the core count approached 48, the amount of actual work decreased and Linux spent more time managing counters. But the team found that 'Slightly rewriting the Linux code so that each core kept a local count, which was only occasionally synchronized with those of the other cores, greatly improved the system's overall performance.' The researchers caution that as the number of cores skyrockets, operating systems will have to be completely redesigned to handle managing these cores and SMP. After reviewing the paper, one researcher is confident Linux will remain viable for five to eight years without need for a major redesign.
Comment Re:What Western World? (Score 1) 115
So, "The West" is, according to you, countries that are, at the same time, culturally. economic and politically similar. I see.
Is just a way to say "the west is better than the east", don't you think?
Japan: highly developed, high HDI... But not culturally similar. Not West. So, it must be East, like... Well, Cambodja! They look alike, don't they?
Hong Kong... Hey, East! I don't care that they have a bigger life expectancy than the US! East, like... Mongolia!
Comment Re:Backs down = (Score 5, Insightful) 106
That is the problem with the whole "regulation is bad" dogma. In Brazil telecom companies are forced to use the standards, in a way that I can freely hop between carriers at will. And my phone number is MY phone number. No matter what carrier I contract, my number goes with me. That's how a free market was supposed to work. Competition, folks.
Comment Re:But do apps work with x86? (Score 2, Informative) 163
If you are talking about the type of App that you find in Android Market, those aren't neither binary nor interpreted per se. They run in Dalvik, a Java virtual machine made for hardware with constraints in terms of memory and processor speed (wikipedia).
In plain english: yes, they will. No, there are no applications with native code in the Market. If you port kernel, middleware and key applications, every single app in Android Market that runs in Android 2.2 will run in x86.
