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Submission + - Miguel de Icaza tresses usability over openness (networkworld.com)

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jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "GNOME creator Miguel de Icaza says the open source community hasn't gotten its act together "when it comes to understanding the needs of end users on the desktop." De Icaza is still a devoted user of Linux, but says proprietary systems have advantages — such as video and audio systems that rarely break. "Once you have a Linux system set up, you don't want to touch it or you might spend some quality time on Google finding what you broke," he says. De Icaza is also excited about the iPad 2, and says he'll be "first in line" to buy one today."
Japan

Submission + - Quake-hit Japan declares atomic power emergency (ibtimes.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Japanese government has declared a state of atomic power emergency after a powerful 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast Friday, spawning a tsunami as high as 10 metres. Prime Minister Naoto Kan made the declaration so authorities can easily establish an emergency task force to deal with the situation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference."
GNOME

Submission + - Has GNOME rejected Canonical help? Shuttleworth Re (linuxpromagazine.com)

Submitted by akgraner
akgraner writes: Ubuntu Founder and former CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth responds to Dave Neary's post entitled "Has GNOME rejected Canonical help?"
When Canonical made the decision to make Unity the default desktop some questioned the GNOME/Canonical relationship. Adding fuel to this fire was the recent distribution split of revenue generated by Banshee. These decisions caused the Ubuntu, GNOME and even Fedora community members to ask why these things were done. In Neary's "Has GNOME rejected Canonical help?" post he states, I have repeatedly read Canonical & Ubuntu people say “We offered our help to GNOME, and they didn’t want it”."
Android

Submission + - Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations (linuxplanet.com)

Submitted by inkscapee
inkscapee writes: Android developers are paying little attention to Free/Open Source software licenses and have a 71% violation rate. Come on folks, FOSS licenses are easy to comply with, certainly easier than proprietary software licenses, and less punitive. But it seems even the tiny hoops that FOSS requires are too much for devs eager to cash in.

Comment Re:Exchange (Score 4, Funny) 242

by fidget42 (#35357322) Attached to: Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market

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The sad part of that statement is that a programmer who earns $10M (I assumed you didn't mean milli) a year still has to get a hooker in order to meet women.

Submission + - Pwn2Own Spurs Browser Updates (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Stenchwarrior
Stenchwarrior writes:

Mozilla on Tuesday fixed 11 security flaws in Firefox, following in rival Google's footsteps in patching its browser before a hacking contest kicks off next week. Nine of the 11 flaws were rated "critical," a threat rating that implies hackers could use the vulnerabilities to compromise a computer or infect it with malware. Of the two remaining bugs, one was labeled "high" and the second was tagged as "moderate."

I wonder if browser companies would have released these patches so quickly (or at all) were it not for Pwn2Own?
Politics

Submission + - Anonymous Targets Koch Brothers', Gets Involved in (switched.com)

Submitted by Mab_Mass
Mab_Mass writes: Switched reports:

Anonymous has already targeted authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, the Westboro Baptist Church, and one particularly outspoken snitch. Now, the group of tireless hacktivists has apparently turned its attention to David and Charles Koch — the billionaire brothers who, according to Anonymous, are manipulating Wisconsin politics to their own corporate advantage.
Security

Submission + - Major Russian Hacker Forum Hacked (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: One of the premiere forums used by cyber criminals has been breached and a database of over 2,000 members leaked.

Maza.la, a closed forum that is frequented by high profile members of the cyber underground was allegedly attacked on February 18 by members of a rival forum, Direct Connection, and its members list and content was exposed, according to the Lifenew report, dated Feb. 25. The Web site was unreachable on Monday and Whois records suggest that the domain registration was updated on February 22, four days after the alleged hack.
Security

Submission + - London Stock Exchange Web Site Serving Malware (securityweek.com) 1

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: The Web Site for the London Stock Exchange (LondonStockExchange.Com) has apparenty been serving up malware to some users very recently, according to a current Google Safe Browsing Report. Currently Google has identified the site as unsafe, and trying to visit the site using Firefox, Safari, or Chrome will result in a warning to the user. As of 7:32PM PST on Sunday, February 27th, the warnings were still being displayed.

The site has NOT been hacked, and there is a big difference. The alert is likely a result of "Malvertising",, a growing method for attackers to distribute malware via advertising tags
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Dawn of the TED Dead 2

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: For an organization whose stellar content is all about pluralism and uplift, writes TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy, TED's inner workings are just too much like a country club. Cross a more important member of the TED community, reports Lacy, and you could find yourself disinvited to the conference — for life — if the high-roller asks TED to make it so. After coughing up the hefty registration fee to attend this year's event, a Lacy reader says he (or she) 'received a terse email from TED's leadership telling me that I was being 'uninvited' from this year’s TED conference.' Why? A major TED donor reportedly had seen his picture in the TED 2011 'Facebook' and called the conference organizers to express that his presence at the conference might result in the donor feeling some ‘stress’ and — perhaps — not enjoying the conference as much as he otherwise might. Bummed that he'll miss seeing his hero Robert Ebert, the slighted TED attendee adds: 'Can you imagine a similar scenario occurring at, say, the Red Cross? Imagine I were to make a $100,000.00 contribution to disaster relief in a stricken area, but with the condition that, as a result of my gift, the Red Cross absolutely refuse to use any of its funding to help Jane Smith, a particular person I know who lives within the disaster area and who otherwise qualifies for help, but who I just don’t happen to like very much for reasons that have nothing to do with the disaster itself?' So, does the ban extend to the $995 webcast of this week's conference?
Security

Submission + - Apple asks security experts to examine OS X Lion (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won’t hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. But Apple's looking to change that.

This past Thursday, Apple doled out a beta of OS X Lion to developers. In conjunction with that, Apple is also reaching out to noted security experts and offering them free previews of OS X 10.7 so that they can take a look at Apple’s new security measures and reach back to Apple with any thoughts and concerns they might have. Indeed, Apple is becoming a lot more security conscious these days, not only in terms of reaching out to security researchers but also in its personnel hires.
United States

Submission + - Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep it Longer 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The NY Times reports that there are indications that a sea change is taking place in consumer behavior as a result of the great recession: Americans are buying less tech stuff and making it last longer (reg. may be required). Although in many cases the difference is mere months, economists and consumers say the approach may outlast a full recovery and the return of easy credit, because of the strong impression the downturn has made on consumers. For example Patti Hauseman stuck with her five-year-old Apple computer until it started making odd whirring noises and occasionally malfunctioning before she bought a new computer for Christmas — actually, a refurbished one. "A week later, the old one died. We timed it pretty well,” says Hauseman adding that it was not so much that she could not afford new things, but that the last few years of economic turmoil had left her feeling that she could be stealing from her future by throwing away goods that still had value. Consumers are holding onto new cars for a record 63.9 months, up 4.5 months from a year ago and 14 percent since the end of 2008, according one research firm and industry analysts also report that people on average are waiting 18 months to upgrade their cellphones, up from every 16 months just a few years ago. “We’re not going back to a time of our grandmothers’ tales of what they kept and how they used things so carefully,” says Nancy F. Koehn, a professor at the Harvard Business School and a historian of consumer behavior. ". But we’ll see a consistent inching or trudging towards that.""

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