Comment Re:USB and video but no terminal server (Score 1) 531
Actually when you start with a false premise your conclusion can be anything, it can even be true.
Comment Re:Waiting for Nexus 4 image (Score 1) 75
just to make that clear (it'snot very clear on the homepage) only parts of sailfishos are open source.
Submission + - Sailfish truely open? (jolla.com)
xophos writes: Jollas SailfishOS is foremost advertized as truely open. Yet from a FOSS perspective that is not really the case. And i'm not talking about drivers and firmware (those are closed too).
The core OS is Linux/Mer and hence open anyway.
But the UI Layer and Most of the core applications remain closed.
How is that truely open?
MacOS has an open source core too you know...
The core OS is Linux/Mer and hence open anyway.
But the UI Layer and Most of the core applications remain closed.
How is that truely open?
MacOS has an open source core too you know...
Comment meh! (Score 2) 158
Quite a creative reaction to a corporate screwup.
Comment Re:NSA too? (Score 1) 70
The NSA has government-mandated permission so their access doesn't fall under this law.
This is EU law we are talking about. Please substantiate your claim that the EU government has given the NSA permission.
You are absolutely right.
Your parent misses the obvious.
Comment Re:Pffft. (Score 1) 421
Why does everyone nowadays seem to think that WYSIWYG is an improvement over a simple descriptive readable language?
Comment Re:Not sure I see the point of this. (Score 1) 319
But most people in germany (i know from personal experience) ARE idiots. Why should it have been otherwise when Hitler was elected?
Submission + - Cool SciFi no-budget creative commons series (vodo.net)
An anonymous reader writes: A mysterious spaceship has entered Earth's atmosphere. A US Department of Homeland Security investigation has uncovered a live human being in...
Comment Re:Why should Facebook care what app is used? (Score 1) 262
If the user is careless enough to use an app that spams without their permission, they deserve loosing their data and being banned.
Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight 358
mikejuk writes "Microsoft's SkyDrive, a web service that provides cloud storage for end user files, has just acquired a revamped user interface — and it is HTML5 based. Yes, another Microsoft website has dropped Silverlight. How can Microsoft expect independent developers to base their future on Silverlight when Microsoft itself is abandoning it like a sinking ship? Whatever happened to 'eating your own dog food'? It seems that now Microsoft would rather eat dog food made elsewhere..."
Comment Re:I love git!! (Score 1) 177
You forgot one important point: Git is FAST. With larger Projects the other two sometimes take some time to think.
Ask Slashdot: Reducing Software Patent Life-Spans? 274
seattle_coder writes "Many have advocated for the elimination of software patents. The arguments generally are that software patents are handed out too easily, and that they're too difficult and expensive to fight. Some say that patents just plain don't make sense for software, which is such a dynamic technology. Given that the standard patent lifetime is 20 years, and software changes so rapidly, is the life-span the problem for software patents? Would reducing the software patent lifetime to 5 years or even less be the thing to do?"
Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster 81
EastDakota writes "CloudFlare was originally conceived by the team behind the open source community. Project Honey Pot as an easy way to protect any website from hackers and spammers. The concern from the beginning was that it would add latency. It was quite a surprise when the free service launched 8 months ago and ended up speeding up websites by 60%."
Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers 303
xsee writes "Hackers: 6, Sony: 0. It appears an attacker has performed a SQL injection attack against SonyMusic.gr. The latest attack has exposed usernames, real names, email addresses and more. Is Sony's network being used as the world's largest public penetration test?"
Dearth of New Nintendo Games Could Indicate Wii 2 118
A speculative piece at Kotaku looks at the release cycle of Nintendo games over the past 10 years, pointing out a current lull that's quite similar to the one near the launch of the Gamecube. They suggest this could be because first-party developers are busily working on games for the Wii 2. Quoting:
"The spring of 2002 was the longest Nintendo game drought on record, and has a number of characteristics in common with the season we're entering now. Nintendo has launched a major piece of technology (the 3DS) and is initiating the gradual retirement of a console with a large and reliable installed base. While we entered into this data mining project with the presumption that we could recognize a pattern that presaged a new console release—the Wii 2, obviously—the last time there was a Nintendo game drought this pronounced was after the release of the Gamecube. Still, you can neatly overlay the release history of the Gamecube overtop the current release history of the Wii—they match that closely."
