Comment Re:The British are now like the Terrorists... (Score 2, Interesting) 629
No, really, it's all politics, not religion.
Comment It's nice to know (Score 1) 152
It's nice to know that my servers will still be running after a nuclear holocaust.
Comment Re:The British are now like the Terrorists... (Score 3, Insightful) 629
It's a widespread misbelief that the terrorists hate us for our freedom. They don't. They hate us for *political* reasons. Using them against the Russians, invading their countries and so on.
Flash Comes To the iPhone Via App 182
An anonymous reader writes "While the HTML5 and Flash standard debate rages, Apple, a major promoter of HTML5, has allowed its iOS devices to run Flash videos. Apple has given approval to an app developed by Skyfire that translates Flash code into HTML5. According to CNN, when a user clicks on a Flash video the Skyfire app downloads the Flash video on Skyfire's server where the video is decoded and then encoded in HTML5 and is delivered to an iOS device. The app is embedded in the Safari browser."
Comment Re:Using it against unsuspecting people is illegal (Score 1) 229
It's entirely possible that you login as someone else and don't immediately see any private information. So using Firesheep isn't automatically illegal. It always depends on the exact situation.
Comment Re:Using it against unsuspecting people is illegal (Score 1) 229
If you're talking about 202a StGB (Ausspähen von Daten), that only applies if you actually access data that is not meant for you to see.
Comment Re:Buying companies for their software patents? (Score 1) 109
They made $50 million in the last quarter, not year.
Comment Re:still need to kill it (Score 3, Insightful) 80
Yes, we really have to teach people what "res publica" means.
Mexican Senate Votes To Drop Out of ACTA 96
An anonymous reader writes "The Mexican Senate has voted unanimously to drop out of ACTA negotiations, saying that the process has been way too secretive, left out many stakeholders and appears to deny access to knowledge and information. Of course, it's not clear if this 'non-binding resolution' actually means much, as the negotiators are not under the Senate's control. At the very least, though, it appears the Mexican Senate is going to fight to keep the country from agreeing to ACTA."
Comment Fight or engage local people? (Score 1) 317
The US military openly admits that their mission is to fight or engage local people? How did that one slip past the censor?
Comment Re:Halo (Score 4, Informative) 378
That's because the scaled down preview JPEGs are compressed twice which is completely idiotic of course. Check out the unscaled images for the real deal.
Comment Re:OK, it's not a bug (Score 1) 257
I once read a similar story about Bloomberg filtering emails. The result was that users couldn't enter completely legitimate company names like "FAG Kugelfischer" (from Germany).
Comment Re:I look foward to listening to it in full! (Score 1) 337
I've never got it when it comes to SQL databases. It's like, why? Just give me a hash table and a shitload of RAM and I'm happy.
This is a stupid statement if I ever read one. No wonder he left Oracle.
Comment Re:It's amazing anyone employs him (Score 1) 337
Amen.
Autotools
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Muad writes "John Calcote is a senior software engineer in Novell's Linux business, who after slogging up the steep learning curve the Autotools triad poses to those packaging software according to the portable GNU conventions for the first time, very kindly decided to make the experience easier to newcomers by sharing his years of experience and carefully crafted bag of tricks. His book is a welcome update to a field that has not seen entries now for a full ten years, so long has been the time since GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool by Gary V. Vaughn, Ben Ellison, Tom Tromey, and Ian Lance Taylor hit the shelves. Unfortunately, the publishing industry is driven by the need to turn a profit to fund its endeavors, and specialist items like this book are not obvious candidates for volume selling - which is a credit to No Starch Press' willingness to venture down this path." Keep reading for the rest of Federico's review.
