Comment Paywall (Score 1) 78
Why are Paywalled papers still promoted on Slashdot?
Comment Re:Is it not obvious? They have dirt on him! (Score 1) 312
What in hell is funny about parent?
Comment Please stop linking paywalled papers. (Score 5, Insightful) 74
Science should be readable by anyone.
Don't advertise the profiteers.
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?"
