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Comment This is why I switched to Ubuntu (Score 1) 1127

by NobleSavage (#26881523) Attached to: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7
I forced my self to go 100% without Windows. I did this specifically because I had a hunch that after XP things would just get worse in terms of annoying restrictive crap. Vista came out after I made the switch and I was really happy that I had broken free of the MS habit. I put Ubuntu on my laptop and desktop. It took a little time getting used to. Granted I keep a copy of XP in a virtual machine just in for that occasional Windows only program I have to run. But I'm very happy now, some things I like a lot better. It rocks having a full Bash shell just a click away. If Windows diapered I wouldn't miss it one bit. The best part is the freedom of knowing I don't NEED Microsoft.

Comment I enjoy the web less and less every day (Score 5, Interesting) 475

by NobleSavage (#25843883) Attached to: Silverlight On the Way To Linux

It's a real treat when you find a site that is static html. It's fast, clean, and refreshing. Flash and Ajax have their place, but more often than not they just irritate me. I'm tired of sites that peg my CPU and crash my browser.

Maybe I'm just getting old and cynical, but I'm sure Moonlight will only contribute to web bloat and add to my frustrations. And that is being generous and not bring up that MS is part of the equation.

I just hope this fails to catch on and people forget about it.
Microsoft

Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced 151

Posted by kdawson from the star-developers dept.
davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called 'DevSta,' to find 'star developers.' While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who left their mark. Here is the low-down on the contest, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the volume of submissions increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded an Xbox for doing nothing more than rewriting the Windows calculator as a .NET app."
Microsoft

Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio 67

Posted by CmdrTaco from the well-isn't-that-special dept.
Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."
Earth

Submission + - 3000 Swimming Robots Report No Global Warming 2

Submitted by NobleSavage
NobleSavage writes: As reported by NPR, 3000 Swimming Robots have been been busy plying the ocean collecting temperatures data and the results have scientists puzzled:

These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them. This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.
Wine

Submission + - Wine 1.0 will be released in June'08 (winehq.org)

Submitted by
mrcgran
mrcgran writes: "Wine has just published a release plan. Wine 1.0 will be released on 6 June 2008 or shortly after, to celebrate its 15th anniversary: 'To give the 1.0 release some concrete meaning, we have chosen a few key apps (see WineReleaseCriteria; in particular, Photoshop CS2) that should run well with Wine 1.0. Those apps all run reasonably well now. The only thing that could stop the 1.0.0 release are regressions in those key apps. Users are encouraged to test their favorite apps with the release candidate builds and report any problems they find, regardless of whether their apps are on the list of release criteria. If the fix is easy, we'll try to do it. ' Dan Kegel has also sent in a post asking the Wine community to vote for 1.0 bugs so they can be prioritized for 1.0."
SuSE

Submission + - HP to also Preload Machines with the Linux Desktop

Submitted by
apokryphos
apokryphos writes: "Hewlett-Packard has become the next major OEM to preload SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on selected notebooks and desktop machines. As Jaffe notes, one of the biggest obstacles to making Linux a credible desktop alternative to Windows has been the lack of OEM partners willing to preload and support the operating system. This deal with HP is yet another milestone down that road."
Privacy

Submission + - Google denies participation in NSA surveillance (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: One week ago the Wall Street Journal reported that the NSA "now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches." From this, only two options were possible — either the search and mail giants (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo) were sharing data with the NSA, or the Internet backbone providers were doing so. Now, in an interview with CNET, Google has become the first tech company to deny participating in warrantless wiretapping. Google's statement, however, is very carefully worded, denying only participation in the "Terrorist Surveillance Program." The company could have given millions of emails over in response to an FBI National Security Letter, and still be telling the truth. Who do you trust?
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - California bill would make downloads "tangible

Submitted by NotQuiteReal
NotQuiteReal writes: California Assemblyman Charles Calderon, D-Whittier, has introduced a bill that would allow sales tax to be collected on "media downloads". Assembly bill AB1956 would be able to do this only by reclassifying such downloads as "tangible personal property".

My first thought is that would suck yet another tax. My second thought was — hey "isn't that how they got Al Capone?" — yes, the old tax evasion trap. If you thought the RIAA was bad, just wait until the Tax Man comes after your for your untaxed P2P!
Power

Submission + - Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival

Submitted by NobleSavage
NobleSavage writes: Bloomberg reports that Japan Steel Works Ltd. controls the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak. Utilities that won't need the equipment for years are making $100 million down payments now on components Japan Steel makes from 600-ton ingots. Each year the Tokyo-based company can turn out just four of the steel forgings that contain the radioactivity in a nuclear reactor. Even after it doubles capacity in the next two years, there won't be enough production to meet building plans.

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