Comment Re:Israel's capital is Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv (Score 1) 90
The Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority is situated in Tel Aviv.
Comment Re:Better services out already (Score 1) 222
They even have a native Linux x86/x86_64 client under development. http://www.spotify.com/se/download/previews/
Submission + - DOD commissions Terminator-like robot (nydailynews.com)
sourcehunter writes: "The US Department of Defense has contracted with Boston Dynamics to create two new battlefield bots — a cheetah that will eventually be able to run up to 70 mph and a "Terminator-like droid" that would eventually be used for emergency response, firefighting, advanced agriculture and vehicular travel in areas inaccessible to tanks, Humvees and other wheeled vehicles."
Comment Re:TL;DR? (Score 0) 227
Facebook switched to HTTPS for Tunisian users. Yep, that's about it.
Submission + - Motorola sticks to guns on locking down Android (androidcentral.com)
jeffmeden writes: "These aren't the droids you're looking for" proclaims Motorola, maker of the popular Android smartphones such as the Droid 2 and Droid X. At least, not if you have any intention of loading a customized operating system, according to Motorola's own Youtube channel used to show off upcoming products. Motorola:"@tdcrooks if you want to do custom roms, then buy elsewhere, we'll continue with our strategy that is working thanks." The strategy they are referring to is a feature Motorola pioneered called "e-fuse", the ability for the phone's CPU to stop working if it detects unauthorized software running. More information available via a story at Android blog site AndroidCentral
Submission + - Google, H.264 and WebM - the mud clears (sort of)
rudy_wayne writes: When it was announced that H.264 was being dropped from Google's Chrome browser I thought it was really weird since Google converted all of YouTube's videos to H.264 just 3 years ago. Now, Charles Arthur, writing for The Guardian says the decision to drop H.264 was made entirely by the Chrome team and did not come from Google's top management. A related article at ZDNet sums it up as "Google is not giving up H.264 on YouTube, H.264 will continue to be supported in Android, and it has nothing to do with YouTube storage issues, H.264 license pricing or Google's desire to be totally open source — it's about Chrome wanting to be disruptive.
Submission + - Karma strike against prankdial.com 3
sjs132 writes: Ever get a call by prankdial.com and want to get revenge on the folks that did it? Well This guy did too. But they wouldn't give up who initiated the prank, so some pubilc digging and basic internet sleuthing reveals the owner of prankdail and his phone number. Time for Karma to come a calling....
Submission + - Apple pulls VLC media player from AppStore (videolan.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has removed VLC media player from the AppStore, putting an end to the controversy on the license (in)compatibilities. Indeed, the iTunes page for VLC media player stopped working: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id390885556?mt=8
VLC developers Rémi Denis-Courmont notes that he is "not going to pity the owners of iDevices, and not even the MobileVLC developers who doubtless wasted a lot of their time. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone."
VLC developers Rémi Denis-Courmont notes that he is "not going to pity the owners of iDevices, and not even the MobileVLC developers who doubtless wasted a lot of their time. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone."
Comment Re:How does a condom break (no stupid jokes please (Score 1) 840
What good would that do if the boyfriend doesn't know this? No, you generally can't tell if the condom breaks unless it's a really wierd model.
Comment Re:Which came first? (Score 3, Insightful) 144
Submission + - Sarah Palin backs North Korea (huffingtonpost.com)
zcomuto writes: Not quite. In a verbal faux pas, Sarah Palin recently decided that North Korea was an ally worth standing up next to. She doesn't seem to get the pair of the Korea's mixed up, it does seem to simply be a verbal mishap. She does, infact, condemn North Korea's recent behaviour and encourages China to act upon the situation, and treats the behaviour of the country like that of an indisciplined child: "We don't reward bad behaviour, and we don't walk away from it"
Submission + - E-voting machine votes 100% wrong (newbernsj.com)
steveha writes: The New Bern, NC Sun Journal newspaper reports that some local voters have seen the e-voting machine record the exact opposite of the voter's request. There is a button to vote a straight Republican ticket, and when pushed, it voted a straight Democrat ticket. A local voter observed this behavior four times in a row; the fifth time, the button worked correctly. If ATMs were this unreliable, no bank would use them. Why is this level of failure acceptable in voting machines?
Submission + - WikiLeaks founder 'free to leave Sweden'
An anonymous reader writes: AFP reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free to leave Sweden, after prosecutors said there was no arrest warrant against him for an alleged case of rape. Assange said the charges against him were part of "a clear set-up," and that he had "two reliable intelligence sources that state that Swedish intelligence was approached last month by the United States and told that Sweden must not be a safe haven for WikiLeaks." The news comes just one day before the Swedish national election.
Submission + - Adobe releases new 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux (adobe.com) 1
TheDarkener writes: Adobe seems to have made an about face regarding their support for native 64-bit Linux support for Flash today, and released a new preview Flash plugin named "Square". This includes a native 64-bit version for Linux, which I have verified works on my Debian Lenny LTSP server by simply copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins — with sound (which I was never able to figure out with running the 32-bit version with nspluginwrapper and pulseaudio).
Submission + - Open Source Trivia Test (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Neil McAllister offers 20 questions to test your knowledge of the open source and free software movements. Which was the first commercial Linux distribution? How many separate clauses make up the typical BSD-style open source license? What is the difference between the GPL and the LGPL?"
