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Submission + - Low-cost Android phone shipments to reach 339 mill (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @05:59PM

zacharye writes: Global shipments of low-cost Android smartphones are expected to explode over the next four years. A new report from market intelligence firm In-Stat suggests that annual shipments of sub-$150 Android phones will reach 339 million units in 2015...

Submission + - PROTECT IP Renamed to the E-PARASITE Act (activepolitic.com)

Submitted by bs0d3 on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @04:15PM

bs0d3 writes: As reported, the US House has drafted their version of Protect IP today. They have renamed the bill to "the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act" or the E-PARASITE Act. The new house version of Protect IP is far worse than the Senate bill s.968 and it massively expands the sites that will be covered by the law. While the Senate bill limited its focus to sites that were "dedicated to infringing activities", the house bill targets "foreign infringing sites" and "has only limited purpose or use other than infringement". They're also including an "inducement" claim, any foreign site declared by the Attorney General to be "inducing" infringement, can now be censored by the US. With no adversarial hearing. The bill can be read here.

Submission + - Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft ties IE 10 to Win 8 (crn.com)

Submitted by deadeyefred on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @03:22PM

deadeyefred writes: With the last vestiges of Microsoft's U.S. antitrust consent decree expiring earlier this year, the company is again tying its browser tightly to Windows. In pre-release versions of IE 10 and Windows 8, IE 10 cannot be uninstalled and is required to enable the new "Metro"-style apps.

Submission + - slashdot blocked in china 2

Submitted by tvlinux on Friday October 07, 2011 @07:08PM

tvlinux writes: I woke up this morning, and accessed /. I received a "connection reset". After living in China to a few years, I know what that means. Slashdot is being blocked by "Golden Shield". I am in ShenZhen, anybody else being blocked?
Slashdot is a great place to keep track of the latest technology advances. Google is some times throttled. Many other technical sites are blocked just because they are on a blog site.
Is China cutting it throat learning about new technology?

Comment Only Money matters: Bing in China, renren, GOT,... (Score 3, Insightful) 129

by tvlinux on Monday September 05, 2011 @08:02PM (#37311644) Attached to: Microsoft Training May Have Helped Tunisian Regime To Spy On Citizens

MS is a business, It does not care about people, It would sell Windows licenses and database to the Devil if it could make a profit.

Submission + - lensfree holographic microscope (opticsinfobase.org)

Submitted by

tvlinux

on Thursday September 01, 2011 @07:02PM

tvlinux writes: "Now a cost-effective and field-portable assembly we built a lensless reflection mode microscope based on digital off-axis holography where a beam-splitter is used to interfere a tilted reference wave with the reflected light from the object surface, creating an off-axis hologram of the specimens on a CMOS sensor-chip can detect bacteria in the field. This should save lives in poorer areas and allow for better food safety."

Submission + - Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For The First T (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by tvlinux on Sunday August 21, 2011 @07:04PM

tvlinux writes: Antarctica is a big continent, so mapping all of its ice flow isn't exactly a piece of cake.

But for the first time scientists have been able to get the complete picture of the southernmost continent's ice flow, from the South Pole to the shoreline.

Comment The Server Controls the App (Score 1) 265

by tvlinux on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @07:25AM (#37105288) Attached to: Hard Truths About HTML5

The Server controls the web app.
The only data in the client is temporary local data and display data. All data is stored on the server.
When a user logins in a session is created. At this point resynchronization happens. All the data stored in the client is downloaded to the server. the server then deals with what needs to be updated.
Yes, expect people to try to crash the server and corrupt data. Design the server framework to deal with it. Then the server application does data validation and checking. then finally use the data to update the server storage.
The standard frameworks now do not deal with "Data Only" processing. By using a server framework the uses small callbacks for RPC with session security tokens creates a secure enviroment.
The biggest problem are RPC calls that are automated to harvest data. This can be mitigated by throttling in the server framework.

Submission + - PROTECT IP information (theepochtimes.com)

Submitted by tvlinux on Sunday August 14, 2011 @09:28AM

tvlinux writes: A good analysis of the PROTECT IP the MPAA is trying to push through. It discusses Freedom Of Speech, censorship of all speech, presumption of guilt. Some countries have a firewall for political reasons, the US wants a firewall for money reasons. Which is more moral?

Comment This will kill open source in China (Score 2) 115

by tvlinux on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @03:24AM (#36658246) Attached to: Microsoft Partners With Baidu, China's Top Search Engine

If they are going to censor, they might as well censor open source products and tools. After working in China, I find Baidu does a very bad job of supporting Chinese language documentation for open source. Many programmers in China are very badly trained because they have only used Windoz. They know how push buttons and drag and drop to make software. Some have no idea how to really write code.

Submission + - Graphic comparison of super computers (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

tvlinux

on Friday June 24, 2011 @06:09PM

tvlinux writes: "Great graphic view of super computers"

Submission + - Pay actors to call in radio talk shows (opednews.com)

Submitted by tvlinux on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @08:36PM

tvlinux writes: This is not about China but about how Premiere Radio Network pays people call in to Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck radio talk shows. Has America jumped the shark in propaganda?

Comment Re:The REAL Daily "show" should sue! (Score 1) 246

by tvlinux on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:33PM (#35095192) Attached to: News Corp's <em>The Daily</em> Is Doomed

Using your logic "T" can be a company ( and a person) and sue every that uses "t". ( LIke Apple does with "i", McDonalds does with "Mc") "The Daily" and "The Daily Show" are both media. Both have electronic distribution, Both report the "news". Both have interstate and international distribution. With a good enough lawyer and enough money, ( both have much money), it would be an interesting fight.

Comment The REAL Daily "show" should sue! (Score 1) 246

by tvlinux on Thursday February 03, 2011 @02:36PM (#35093174) Attached to: News Corp's <em>The Daily</em> Is Doomed

Worlds apart in ideas but very close names. John Stewart should sue News Corp, make Murdock bleed a little more.

Submission + - Automated Spam reply with exploit. 1

Submitted by tvlinux on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @09:15PM

tvlinux writes: I have written a small automated filter that searches spam for return email and sends a email to them. I would like to add a Windows exploit ( PDF, ... ) with the reply. ( Here are my details, open PDF ). Once Windows is under my control, analyse their computer for which spam service they are using, their identity, where they are,.... then do a disk format of the machine. I know the legality of this questionable, But who are they going to complain to?

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