Comment Correction: Monitor "Opposition political parties" (Score 0) 113
Coz thats where most of the Indian Intelligence Agencies spend their time on
Submission + - IBM Bequeaths Symphony Code To Apache (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "Hoping to further sharpen OpenOffice's competitive viability against Microsoft Office, IBM is donating the code of its Symphony open source office suite to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation. Apache could fold this code into its own open source office suite OpenOffice, on which Symphony was based. In June, Oracle donated the OpenOffice suite to Apache. 'Prior to Apache's entry, there really hasn't been enough innovation in this area over the past 10 years," said Kevin Cavanaugh, an IBM vice president. 'It's been constrained because we haven't had a true open source community with a mature governance model.'"
Submission + - Microsoft to provide search results for Baidu (bbc.co.uk)
yuna49 writes: Microsoft will provide English-language search services for Chinese search giant Baidu. I presume MS has agreed to comply with whatever censorship the Chinese government requires. Despite, or perhaps because of, Google's tiff with the government over censorship, it remains the second-largest search engine in China, a position Microsoft apparently envies.
Submission + - Anti-PowerPoint Party formed in Switzerland (cio.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Many people dislike PowerPoint, Microsoft's ubiquitous application for creating business presentations, but few would take a political stand over it. However, that's exactly what Switzerland's Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP) seeks to do — along with making a bit of money."
Submission + - Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player legal? (arstechnica.com)
Fudge Factor 3000 writes: Earlier this year both Google and Amazon introduced cloud music storage where users could upload their music and listen to them wherever they had an internet connection. The music industry, however, was up in arms because they believed that Google and Amazon had to pay additional licensing fees for their music storage services. Tim B. Lee at Ars has written an excellent write-up on the legal issues surrounding these services. His ultimate conclusion is that Google and Amazon would probably withstand any legal assaults, but that still remains a tough call.
Submission + - Len Sassaman has passed away (boingboing.net) 1
yerktoader writes: Len Sassaman, cypherpunk, cryptographer, privacy advocate and life long sufferer of depression has committed suicide at 31. Len frequently appeared at DEF CON; was a co-founder of CodeCon with BitTorrent's Bram Cohen and co-creator of the Zimmermann–Sassaman key-signing protocol; worked at Network Associates on PGP and contributed to OpenPGP and GNU Privacy Guard; was a senior systems engineer and security architect for Anonymizer; a member of the Shmoo Group and organized protests in response to the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov.
Len counted amongst his friends and associates Bram Cohen, Werner Koch, Dan Kaminsky and Phil Zimmermann. He is survived by his wife, noted programmer, sci-fi author and Boing-Boing contributor, technologist and bio-hacker Meredith L. Patterson.
Memorials and coverage also available at YCombinator, Apache.Be and Hack In The Box.
Len counted amongst his friends and associates Bram Cohen, Werner Koch, Dan Kaminsky and Phil Zimmermann. He is survived by his wife, noted programmer, sci-fi author and Boing-Boing contributor, technologist and bio-hacker Meredith L. Patterson.
Memorials and coverage also available at YCombinator, Apache.Be and Hack In The Box.
Submission + - Indie Film Premieres on BitTorrent Before Cinema (vodo.net)
An anonymous reader writes: The first part of A Lonely Place For Dying is available on VODO while the filmmakers are getting ready for a theatrical run in early 2012. Viewers are asked to donate if they like what they see and if enough cash is raised theywill be able to watch the film again on the big screen. In return for their contributions donors are receiving digital downloads or credits in the upcoming release, you can even become an Executive Producer and get your name listed on imdb. This is a brave move challenging Hollywood and their traditional "release windows", download now and check it out!
Submission + - Treasure worth $20.2bn found in an Indian temple (bbc.co.uk)
dooode writes: Perhaps Indiana Jones went to the wrong temple !! Indian inspectors have discovered a treasure trove in a South Indian temple in Kerala whose value is now thought to be 900 billion rupees ($20.3bn). They could open 5 of the 6 vaults, which as per temple records, were last opened 136 years ago.The troves of treasure were found buried in sand after temple officials discovered secret underground passageways below the property.
Wealthy temples are not uncommon in India, where patrons and devotees have made offerings for centuries. The sudden discovery of this temple's massive wealth has sparked discussion of how it might be otherwise used in India. Although, Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala, says the wealth will stay right where it is. He says the treasure belongs to Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple and the state government will protect and will provide security to the temple.
Wealthy temples are not uncommon in India, where patrons and devotees have made offerings for centuries. The sudden discovery of this temple's massive wealth has sparked discussion of how it might be otherwise used in India. Although, Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala, says the wealth will stay right where it is. He says the treasure belongs to Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple and the state government will protect and will provide security to the temple.
Submission + - Floppy to USB (floppyusb.com)
floppyusb writes: A Floppy to USB Flash Drive is a illumination storage device just about the size of thumb. This is A typical USB flash drive is between 1-4 inches long and is removable and usually, rewritable. A USB drive can have a capacity ranging from 64MB to 64GB, and the price varies with the capacity and features provided with the drive.
Submission + - NASA finds frothy magnetic bubbles (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Voyager 1 and 2 probes are now some 9 billion miles from Earth, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that they are making new discoveries. What has surprised NASA scientists, however, is what exists at the edge of our solar system.
The simplest way to describe what both probes are currently travelling through is as a grouping of frothy magnetic bubbles. NASA is also referring to the area as the “foam zone.” The bubbles are not small, with each measuring around 100 million miles wide.
The foam zone was entered in 2007 by Voyager 1 and 2008 by Voyager 2. The reason we are only now hearing the details is because scientists had no idea what it was both probes were travelling through. A couple of years later and NASA believe they have worked it out.
The bubbles have been formed due to the magnetic field of the sun getting “twisted and wrinkled.” This happens because the sun spins and as the distance increases from its origin the folds of the field compress to the point where strange things start to happen. The end result is right at the edges of the field you get these magentic bubbles forming.
The simplest way to describe what both probes are currently travelling through is as a grouping of frothy magnetic bubbles. NASA is also referring to the area as the “foam zone.” The bubbles are not small, with each measuring around 100 million miles wide.
The foam zone was entered in 2007 by Voyager 1 and 2008 by Voyager 2. The reason we are only now hearing the details is because scientists had no idea what it was both probes were travelling through. A couple of years later and NASA believe they have worked it out.
The bubbles have been formed due to the magnetic field of the sun getting “twisted and wrinkled.” This happens because the sun spins and as the distance increases from its origin the folds of the field compress to the point where strange things start to happen. The end result is right at the edges of the field you get these magentic bubbles forming.
Comment Re:You didn't describe it accurately (Score 1) 177
That's not the whole story. Don't forget that Ubuntu has shat out a turd called Ubiquity, too.
With GNOME 3.0, Ubiquity, and the uncertainty around QT/KDE, I haven't been this scared for my Linux desktop in years.
But, why is every one so scared of change?
Comment Re:er... (Score 0) 177
Qt's 'persumed' superiority over GTK is debatable.
Comment Whats on Bin Laden's hard-disk? (Score 1) 718
"Can you imagine what's on Osama bin Laden's hard drive?"
Porn?
Comment Re:Quick learning like in "The Matrix" (Score 1) 129
Oh yeah.. I agree. 'quick learning' can wait..
Comment Quick learning like in "The Matrix" (Score 1) 129
Yes yes, I am jumping at the same thing
