Comment Re:Here is the conflict (Score 1) 754
The GPL has nothing in it's text that requires a product to be distributed via multiple channels. Hell, it doesn't even REQUIRE redistribution of the product!
Comment Re:This is why I refuse to buy apple products. (Score 1) 754
No, that can't be the case because the software WAS in the app store. So the complaint can't be related with not being in.
Comment Re:This is why I refuse to buy apple products. (Score 1) 754
You refuse to buy apple products because they honor the requests of Developers about removing their own products from apple's App Store? The reasoning behind that I'd like to know...
Comment Re:heh (Score 1) 754
Sure you can. All you need is the source code, a compiler and access to the distributor.
First PlayStation 3 Custom Firmware Created 269
Stoobalou writes "Hot on the heels of the discovery of the the PlayStation 3 private root key, and its subsequent leakage by iPhone hacker Geohot, the first custom firmware for the formerly impenetrable console has been released. A code wrangler known only as Kakaroto reckons he has created the world's first custom firmware for the popular console — although if you're expecting it to help you play pirated games, you might be a little disappointed."
Why Published Research Findings Are Often False 453
Hugh Pickens writes "Jonah Lehrer has an interesting article in the New Yorker reporting that all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings in science have started to look increasingly uncertain as they cannot be replicated. This phenomenon doesn't yet have an official name, but it's occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology and in the field of medicine, the phenomenon seems extremely widespread, affecting not only anti-psychotics but also therapies ranging from cardiac stents to Vitamin E and antidepressants. 'One of my mentors told me that my real mistake was trying to replicate my work,' says researcher Jonathon Schooler. 'He told me doing that was just setting myself up for disappointment.' For many scientists, the effect is especially troubling because of what it exposes about the scientific process. 'If replication is what separates the rigor of science from the squishiness of pseudoscience, where do we put all these rigorously validated findings that can no longer be proved?' writes Lehrer. 'Which results should we believe?' Francis Bacon, the early-modern philosopher and pioneer of the scientific method, once declared that experiments were essential, because they allowed us to 'put nature to the question' but it now appears that nature often gives us different answers. According to John Ioannidis, author of Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, the main problem is that too many researchers engage in what he calls 'significance chasing,' or finding ways to interpret the data so that it passes the statistical test of significance—the ninety-five-per-cent boundary invented by Ronald Fisher. 'The scientists are so eager to pass this magical test that they start playing around with the numbers, trying to find anything that seems worthy,'"
Comment Re:Mugabe (Score 1) 669
Germany has democratically elected the NSDAP before the second world war... They were already democratic then, but upset with the price they had to pay for the failed first world war. Even before the first world war there were already democratic institutions.
Submission + - 13 Year old girl sues Apple over moisture sensors (tekgoblin.com)
tekgoblin writes: A 13 year old Korean girl is suing Apple for charging her for repairs to her iPhone 3G which was still under warranty. Apple claimed that the warranty was void because the moisture sensors inside the phone had been triggered.
The family is asking for $251 in compensation because they believe the moisture sensors were triggered without actually being exposed to water. The family was actually approached by a lawyer to settle but the family declined and still wanted to pursue it in court. The family wants Apple to realize their poor positioning of moisture sensors and not falsely trigger for someone else.
Comment Re:Libre Formats? (Score 1) 98
No. Ogg Vorbis suffers from the exact same weakness.
Comment Re:Car analogies (Score 1) 260
Maybe the new google computer-driven cars pick up stray helmet-less bicyclists too :)
Submission + - Another arrested in Japan for using anonymous P2P (animenewsnetwork.com)
renrutal writes: "A 43-year-old man is the second known person arrested in Japan for using Perfect Dark to share copyrighted material in its encrypted P2P network.
According to the [Kyoto-based] High-Tech Crime Task Force, the Okayama police, and the Saga police, the Osaka-based suspect uploaded about a thousand files, including anime. The suspect admitted that he thought he would not get caught because he was using Perfect Dark.
Perfect Dark is the third generation of japanese anonymous P2P network clients, developed with the intent to fix the security flaws found in its predecessors Winny and Share, in spite of also adopting a "Secure through Obscurity" closed-source model. In 2004, Winny's developer, Isamu Kaneo, was charged 1.5 million yen for assisting in copyright infringement, but he was acquited last October. Since 2008, at least 15 people were arrested in Japan suspect of uploading copyrighted material to those "secure" networks."
Submission + - Ignored Nigerian oilspills
freddled writes: The Guardian has a story — http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell — about the ongoing pollution in the Niger Delta from ExxonMobil, Shell et al. Interesting how we assign so little value to some parts of the world and so much to others. I won't even mention Bhopal.
Submission + - Claimed US military Wikileaks source arrested (wired.com) 1
svelemor writes: 22 year old Army intelligence analyst ratted out by fellow hacker, accused of providing the Collateral Murder video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to Wikileaks. Currently imprisoned in Kuwait.
Submission + - BSA: Hardware Without Software Not Tax Deductible (abclinuxu.cz) 3
tykev writes: The Czech Ministry of Finance along with the BSA threaten to disallow deducting hardware from base tax if purchased without software. This idea stems from their joint proclamation that for software to be used legally, it must be bought – thus completely ignoring the existence of free and open source software which can be obtained legally without any purchase whatsoever. The Ministry and the BSA have issued a press release which basically labels all users of 'free software' pirates. Many public organizations and companies have expressed their dismay.
Submission + - Two years later, Apple still won't fix Safari hole (goodgearguide.com.au) 2
angry tapir writes: "Two years after fixing a security bug in the Windows version of its Safari browser, Apple apparently has decided that Mac users can go without a fix. Apple was initially unimpressed by Nitesh Dhanjani's work developing what's known as a "carpet bomb" attack, the security researcher said in an interview. "I told Apple about it two years ago, and they responded back, saying it was more of an annoyance than anything else." However, after Dhanjani went public with the flaw in May 2008, another security researcher showed how carpet bombing could be combined with another Windows attack to run unauthorized software on a Windows PC. Apple then shipped a fix for Safari on Windows, but not for Safari on Mac OS X."
