Comment Ok, as long as it includes "Juicy" pants... (Score 1) 853
And gratuitous sex in advertising.
Comment Hurray for the big guys! (Score 1) 196
Hurray! Patent reform finally arrives for those who make "substantial investment in exploiting the patent". Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle be saved! Now get back to work!
Submission + - Steam for Linux out of Beta (steampowered.com)
michaelcole writes: Steam for Linux is out of Beta, and ironically in the Ubuntu Software Center. They're celebrating with some discounts on Linux games.
Goodnight old WindowsXP computer. You've served me well :-)
Goodnight old WindowsXP computer. You've served me well
Comment Misleading title (Score 1) 141
"The complaint to the ASB claimed that the Facebook page breached alcohol advertising guidelines by connecting alcohol with social or sexual prowess and promoted irresponsible drinking and excessive consumption."
Bummer my comment will be forgotten on /. Much like the actual content of the story. It's not about who'se responsible for the contents.
Imagine a cigarette company on FB letting kids talk about how cool it was. The court decided it wasn't in the public interest. Read the story.
Submission + - SOPA/PIPA "markup" to resume in February (house.gov)
michaelcole writes: "Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today said that he expects the Committee to continue its markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act in February.
Chairman Smith: "Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February."
Does more money = more democracy? Would you like to participate in the markup? Give em a call.
From the house.gov press release: "Contact: Charlotte Sellmyer, 202-225-3951"
Chairman Smith: "Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February."
Does more money = more democracy? Would you like to participate in the markup? Give em a call.
From the house.gov press release: "Contact: Charlotte Sellmyer, 202-225-3951"
Comment "Sure I'll fix your computer. If I get to fcku yo (Score 1) 638
"Sure I'll fix your computer. If I get to fcku you."
Submission + - Linux Company sale. Suits $44m cash, workers $0 (perens.com)
michaelcole writes: "Ex employees of Monta Vista, the embedded Linux company, are telling me that they are being paid $0 for the sale of their company to Cavium Networks while USD$44 Million goes to the holders of three series of preferred stock. CEO Jim Ready and another executive are taking parachute payments and either retention or severance payments to the tune of 1 to 2 Million a piece in addition to anything they make from holdings in the preferred rounds.
I wasn't aware that Monta Vista went bankrupt, and a merger or purchase of a company isn't a liquidation, so I'm not at all clear how they can pay only the preferred stockholders. The employees need a good securities attorney." — Bruce Peren's blog
What's it all mean?
I wasn't aware that Monta Vista went bankrupt, and a merger or purchase of a company isn't a liquidation, so I'm not at all clear how they can pay only the preferred stockholders. The employees need a good securities attorney." — Bruce Peren's blog
What's it all mean?
Submission + - Microsoft admits Plurk code was stolen (goodgearguide.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Microsoft's Juku service in China did indeed steal code from Plurk, a popular Twitter rival in Asia, Redmond has admitted. Plurk alleged this week that about 80 percent of Juku's code base was stolen from Plurk. Shortly after the accusations appeared on Plurk's blog, Microsoft suspended the Juku service and said it was investigating the matter."
Submission + - SPAM: Dying star mimics our Sun’s death
coondoggie writes: In about 5 billion years, our Sun could have a nasty death. Scientists with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics this week released dramatic new pictures of a star, much like the Sun, about 550 light-years from Earth called Chi Cygni that is dying. According to the researchers, has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet out to Mars in our solar system. The star has started to pulse dramatically beating like a giant heart, they stated.
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Submission + - Server Beach quickly rewrites SLA after outage (serverbeach.com)
javajedi writes: After experiencing a significant network outage last week, due to a botched DNS upgrade, Server Beach decided to cut their losses by quickly and quietly rewriting their network SLA to claim they were only responsible for a 5% refund every HOUR of down-time, instead of the previous 5% for every half-hour of down-time. They sent no notification of this change to their customers. You can find their previous SLA in Google's cache
Submission + - Is AT&T's Network Fail an Enterprise Disaster? 1
Curt Franklin writes: It's no secret that businesses depend on the cellular data networks for critical applications. Last week's AT&T failure in San Francisco has raised the question of application ruggedness when it comes to mobile networks. Is there a good way (aside from avoiding AT&T — which might not solve the problem, anyway) to make sure your application can keep going? I give a couple of my ideas at http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/89303/cellular-network-outage-raises-carrier-questions but I'd love to know the options I haven't considered. What is there for a rational organization to do?
Submission + - Busybox Developers Respond to Andersen/SFLC Suits (perens.com)
Bruce Perens writes: "I'm the creator of the Busybox program. I have released a statement on the past and current Busybox lawsuits, which do not represent my interest."
Submission + - Black Holes No More? (newscientist.com)
kendbluze writes: 'Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer' — An intriguing look at an alternative physics model of black holes from NewScientist...
Submission + - Freenode under DDoS attack (freenode.net)
Craig Maloney writes: According to freenode's announcement, "We are currently experiencing heavy DDoS against several locations at which we've got servers hosted. The attack is ongoing and cause a lot of disruption, both to users of the network and unfortunately to projects/companies/individuals whos infrastructure is hosted at the same locations as us. Our sponsors and our sponsors' upstreams are working hard to try curb the attacks as best they can".
Comment Drupal (Score 4, Informative) 364
This headline is dramatic and uninformed. Linux isn't the only open source project out there.
Sony has made huge contributions to the Drupal CMS (Website Content Management System).
They have hired a full-time programmer who is 100% dedicated to open source (CCK/Views modules).
They have sponsored major improvements to Drupal - http://drupal.org/node/383954
Ease up on the rhetoric, before you sour other open-source projects.
Maybe you want to couple your perceived right to hack the PS3 with open source? That's dangerous. Make an open-sourced PS3 and no problem. Mike
Sony has made huge contributions to the Drupal CMS (Website Content Management System).
They have hired a full-time programmer who is 100% dedicated to open source (CCK/Views modules).
They have sponsored major improvements to Drupal - http://drupal.org/node/383954
Ease up on the rhetoric, before you sour other open-source projects.
Maybe you want to couple your perceived right to hack the PS3 with open source? That's dangerous. Make an open-sourced PS3 and no problem. Mike
