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Comment Re:Standards (Score 1) 543

by GFree678 on Thursday November 06, 2008 @01:34AM (#25656999) Attached to: Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously

No, I don't think that.

Hardware makers make hardware with drivers that work in Windows because that's what "everyone" uses. Why wouldn't they? There's no need to make deals, it's friggin' obvious who you'd target your hardware for. As for Linux, support for it varies from hardware maker to hardware maker. They need to believe they'll see a return on their investment (cost, time, whatever) in developing drivers for Linux. If Linux had more market share in the desktop world, then sure, drivers would be more functional/available.

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Comment Re:Standards (Score 1) 543

by GFree678 on Thursday November 06, 2008 @12:52AM (#25656671) Attached to: Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously

If your printer is supported, chances are it will work out of the box.

I could say exactly the same thing about Vista. It detects my older Canon printer out of the box, like Ubuntu. But unlike Ubuntu, the drivers are fully featured (eg. they can show ink levels, initiate manual head cleaning, etc).

Seriously, this bullshit about underestimating Windows has got to fucking stop by the Linux crowd. Makes them look uneducated.

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President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar 555

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 13, 2008 @08:07PM from the ip-con dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "President Bush has signed the EIPRA (AKA the PRO-IP Act) and created a cabinet-level post of 'Copyright Czar,' on par with the current 'Drug Czar,' in spite of prior misgivings about the bill. They did at least get rid of provisions that would have had the DOJ take over the RIAA's unpopular litigation campaign. Still, the final legislation (PDF) creates new classes of felony criminal copyright infringement, adds civil forfeiture provisions that incorporate by reference parts of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, and directs the Copyright Czar to lobby foreign governments to adopt stronger IP laws. At this point, our best hope would appear to be to hope that someone sensible like Laurence Lessig or William Patry gets appointed."

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Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough 349

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:12PM from the it-budget-excuse-par-excellence dept.

secmartin writes "Russian security firm Elcomsoft has released software that uses Nvidia GPUs to speed up the cracking of WPA and WPA2 keys by a factor of 100. Since the software allows them to network thousands of PCs, this anouncement effectively signals the death of wireless networking in business networks; any network handling sensitive data should start using VPN encryption on machines connecting over Wi-Fi networks, or stop using these networks altogether."

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Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork 1104

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @02:55PM from the you-gotta-bit-kidding-me dept.

paleshadows writes "Pidgin, the premier multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been forked. This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize the text input area has been removed; instead, it automatically resizes depending on how much is typed. It turns out that this feature, along with the uncompromising unwillingness of the developers to provide an option to turn it off, annoys the bejesus of very many users. One comment made by a Professor that teaches "Collaboration in an Open Source World" argued that 'It's easy to see why open source developers could develop dogmas. [...] The most dangerous dogma is the one exhibited here: the God feature. "One technological solution can meet every possible user-desired variation of a feature." [...] You [the developers] are ignoring the fan base with a dedication to your convictions that is alarmingly evident to even the most unobservant of followers, and as such, you are demonstrating that you no longer deserve to be in the position of servicing the needs of your user base.'" Does anyone besides me find this utterly ridiculous?

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