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Comment Re:If Your Language Can Be Copyrighted (Score 1) 316

I'm going to copyright the following: if() { } if() { } else { } if { } else if() { } Then sue every programming language that uses these statements. That's how I think Google should react to this. Java uses statements, constructs and expressions that other languages use, therefore how can they honestly say that their language is not a derivative of whatever language all of this came from?

Submission + - The author of SOPA is a copyright violator (vice.com)

TheNextCorner writes: "Lamar Smith is the author of the SOPA bill, a US congress member and supposedly an expert on copyright. The author of this article checked the website of Smith, and found some interesting facts!

I contacted DJ, to find out if Lamar had asked permission to use the image and he told me that he had no record of Lamar, or anyone from his organization, requesting permission to use it: "I switched my images from traditional copyright protection to be protected under the Creative Commons license a few years ago, which simply states that they can use my images as long as they attribute the image to me and do not use it for commercial purposes."

Submission + - Bug Allows Eavesdropping on BlackBerry-PlayBook Br (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: Researchers and attackers have had no shortage of mobile platforms and devices to sink their teeth into in recent years, thanks to the explosion of iOS and Android phones and tablets in the consumer and enterprise markets. Now, the spotlight is slowly beginning to turn in the direction of RIM, and specifically its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

The first dings in the PlayBook's armor came last month when a group of researchers published a tool that could jailbreak PlayBook tablets through the exploitation of a bug they'd discovered in the operating system. RIM later issued a fix for the jailbreak, but that was just the start of what may end up being a long road for the company's security efforts.

The latest indication is work done by a pair of researchers who found a series of problems and weaknesses in PlayBook, including one that enables an attacker to listen in on the connection between the tablet and a BlackBerry handset. That connection, which is done via Bluetooth in the company's Bridge application, is designed to allow users to access their corporate email, calendar and other data on the tablet.

Submission + - Student wins case against high school prayer banne (examiner.com) 1

dcherk writes: A student has won her lawsuit against Rhode Island’s Cranston High School West. The school MUST separate Church and State and stop prayer, since tradition does not trump the constitution.

From the court's ruling: 'While all agree that some traditions should be honored, others must be put to rest as our national values and notions of tolerance and diversity evolve. At any rate, no amount of history and tradition can cure a constitutional infraction.'

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 435

Actually, as I said before, if they know what they're doing and I can prove that (hands-on tests usually) then I don't care if they have a lapse in employment. The economy sucks and there are a lot of out-of-work programmers that know what they are doing, can write clean and concise code and not crash machines with a bunch of needless loops.

Comment Well... (Score 5, Interesting) 435

At 34 I've re-entered the job market myself after giving my own business a shot and I landed a job as CTO of a start-up game company. We're developing a couple of games now (one while will be in beta tomorrow) and when I look for programmers, I could care less about a space in employment as long as they can demonstrate the skills needed for the job.

Comment RF = insanity? (Score 2, Informative) 355

I've been an amateur radio operator for a number of years and I've ran almost right to (never over!) the legal limit on HF bands (40 and 80 meters, mostly), yet I have never experienced any side effects from the RF from my transmitter, tuner, coax or antennas. HF is more likely to bake your brain than the high band stuff from cell towers. Now where did I put my keyboard so I can reply to this article about uh, what was it again?

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