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Submission + - GTK+ 3.2 Released With HTML5 And Wayland Backends (webupd8.org)

An anonymous reader writes: GTK+ 3.2 has been released with two eagerly expected features: experimental support for Wayland and HTML5 "Broadway" backends. The HTML5 "Broadway" backend allows rendering GTK applications in HTML5-capable browsers. That means that you can run Gedit, GIMP and other applications in a web browser (both local and remotely).
Android

Submission + - Phone operator sues brothers for releasing app (gazette-ariegeoise.fr)

KingofSpades writes: French brothers Michael and Sébastien M., unable to watch television on their new cell phone — despite paying the corresponding "unlimited TV" phone plan — wrote an app to automate changes of user parameters, including user agent, in order of accessing the TV feed of their cell operator, SFR. They released a free app and a donate version (1.99 euros) of the app (likely named "G.Player TV"). They have been sued by operator SFR in the court of the sunny region of Ariège (France). Their lawyer stated that "that there is no evidence that non-subscribers have been able to use the app. Therefore there it did not provide a free access to a paying service".

Both have been convicted and must pay a 800 euros fine (suspended) and 192 euros to operator SFR.

Crime

Submission + - Occupy Wall Street Protest Turns Ugly

theodp writes: The Atlantic's James Fallows has an important video from the Occupy Wall Street protests he'd like to share, in which a New York City police officer gives a penned-up group of women a taste of pepper spray. Fallows explains further: 'He walks up; unprovoked he shoots Mace or pepper spray straight into the eyes of women held inside a police enclosure; he turns and walks away quickly (as they scream, wail, and fall to the ground clawing at their eyes) in a way familiar from hitmen in crime movies; and he discreetly reholsters his spray can.' The NYPD's chief spokesman said the police had used the pepper spray 'appropriately'. 'Pepper spray was used once,' he added, 'after individuals confronted officers and tried to prevent them from deploying a mesh barrier — something that was edited out or otherwise not captured in the video.' More pics from the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations here.
Windows

Submission + - Fastest SFTP or SCP for Windows?

An anonymous reader writes: When I used WinSCP, I assumed its slow SFTP or SCP speed was due to the encryption involved over SSH connections. But I was pleasantly wrong! Token2Shell (http://choung.net/Token2Shell) is an SSH client but has integrated SFTP/SCP hybrid file transfer function. You need an SSH server that supports both SFTP and SCP to make it work (not really a problem since OpenSSH already supports them). But its upload/download speed was excellent. Only other program I found that came close in terms of speed was Tunnelier (http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier). Token2Shell is not a freeware but when you need to move around 1GB+ files over SSH, every second counts! Is Token2Shell the fastest option or am I missing something?
Censorship

Submission + - Wall St protests: Police harsh, media silent? (rt.com)

microphage writes: Oh, the irony, that we have to watch RussiaTimes in order to find out what's going on in the West. These protests have been going on for over two weeks with not a whisper, in our fee and unbiased media.

Occupy Wall Street protest turns chaotic and violent

"For the previous week, both the police and protesters were calm and ordered. People were wearing smiles, and positive discussions were being had in and out of the protest lines. All of that changed on Saturday ..

Comment Re:No, it means you don't understand irony. (Score 1) 547

> While it is true that homosexuality is wrong

No, it is right. This is the fundamental issue. You as a hetero man feel that you like women and not men, therefore anybody who feels other is strange and perverse. You know, for me as a homo, it's exactly the other way round, that's how I'm wired, that's how god created me, if you like to put it this way. Why would god create me this way if he did not like it? He would be a hateful god indeed.

The real truth however is that sexuality is not as clearly defined as you think. In the late 19th century, the words for homo and hetero were invented, and after that time the world was neatly split into two parts. Or three if you count bisexuals. Or four, if you count trans people. Or five, if you count hermaphrodites. Or six, if you count people who only get off on smelly feet. Or seven, eight, nine, ten... it's all just words and concepts in our heads.

Please, could we ultimately drop this boring, pointless and annoying categorizing of sexuality and just accept people as they are, diverse and with different preferences?

Comment Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong (Score 1) 572

After some meditation, I'd like to apologize. You are not a troll, I think you are just expressing yourself imprecisely.

From the probabilities given above, it's obvious that the probability in total that for two tosses, at least one of the two coins is a head is 75%.

So, if we only look at the cases where at least one coin is a head, what is the probability that both coins are head? It's of course 33% ! (of the 75% of the total, which is 25% of the total). I guess this was what you were aiming at.

Comment Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong (Score 1) 572

You, Sir, are a troll. Here, have some food.

Assumed you have fair coins, then the chance that a toss of a coin is head or tail is exactly 50 % or 1/2, no?

So, if I toss 2 coins, then I have the following probabilities:
p_HH = 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/4
p_HT = p_TH = 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/4
p_TT = 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/4

So, basically, each of the four outcomes of the two-coin experiment has an equal chance of occurring, at 25%.

My assumption is that you don't have fair coins, if you actually flipped coins in reality. Most aren't, I seem to have heard.

Games

Re-imagined Silent Hill Announced 63

Konami has announced that a new Silent Hill game, titled Shattered Memories, is due out this fall for the Wii, PS2, and PSP. "While the game shares its twisting plot with the original PlayStation game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories takes a different path in many, many ways. Characters can be approached but will offer different responses and be found in different places, while new clues and gameplay paths can be followed." The Wii version will make full use of the Wii Remote, taking the role of both phone and torch, as well as being used to "pick up, examine and manipulate items to solve puzzles along the journey." According to the Opposable Thumbs blog, the choice not to develop for the PS3 and Xbox 360 was due to the development costs associated with those consoles.

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