Comment Automatic fail... (Score 1) 310
It's an automatic fail for me...
I live in Ireland, and quite often I like to search only within Ireland. Google and Yahoo detects that I'm in Ireland. Bing automatically redirects to the UK. ROI != UK
Comment Re:Boy oh boy! (Score 5, Interesting) 414
My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago. She struggled with Windows as she had never used a computer much before. I installed gOS and she's doing fantastic with it.
Just because you are used to Windows and find it hard to transition, don't blame the OS, blame yourself.
Submission + - EMC, Donatelli File Lawsuits Over Jump to HP (byteandswitch.com)
Diabolus Advocatus writes: The fate of David Donatelli, former head of EMC's storage unit, may be decided by the courts. EMC and Donatelli have filed lawsuits against each other over Donatelli's plan to join EMC competitor Hewlett-Packard, the Reuters wire service reported.
HP announced Tuesday that Donatelli, president of EMC's storage division, will join HP on May 5 as executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage, and networking. But analysts questioned whether a non-compete clause would interfere with HP's plans to steal a top executive from a competitor.
HP announced Tuesday that Donatelli, president of EMC's storage division, will join HP on May 5 as executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage, and networking. But analysts questioned whether a non-compete clause would interfere with HP's plans to steal a top executive from a competitor.
Submission + - Danish ISP Tele2 challenges Pirate Bay-blockade (epn.dk)
krasmussen writes: "After Monday's injuction on Danish ISP Tele2 to block access to The Pirate Bay, the company has now decided to take the case further in court. "We do not like being put in a role where we as ISP have to regulate people's freedom of speech" says Nicholai Pfeiffer, regulatory manager i Telenor, which owns Tele2. However, because the current ruling against Tele2 still stands, the customers are not going to regain access to The Pirate Bay at the moment."
Comment Re:DRM hacked? *yawn* (Score 1) 154
If ya don't like it then why don't ya fuck off and post somewhere else?
Submission + - Microsoft DRM code for Netflix Streams hacked (macworld.com)
reddburn writes: "Macworld posted a story by IDN News Service about a hacker who has posted instructions for how to save streaming movies from Netflix, defeating Microsoft's DRM code designed to prevent users from saving the content. From the article:
How long will it take for businesses to realize what the developers and engineers who work for them have known all along: there is no unbreakable DRM?"
A hacker who calls himself Dizzie wrote late last month on the Rorta hacking forum that "Netflix doesn't easily allow you to save the flicks and watch them at your leisure because the films are entrapped in some ... Windows Media DRM wrapper," referring to Microsoft's DRM system. Word of his hack spread more widely this week in various blogs and Web sites...He writes that the process for removing the DRM could take a few attempts, and the process does not remove the time limit imposed by Netflix on viewing the content. The Netflix site was down for maintenance early Thursday, although it was unclear if it was related to the hack. The site was back up later Thursday morning.
How long will it take for businesses to realize what the developers and engineers who work for them have known all along: there is no unbreakable DRM?"
Submission + - Hacker cracks Netflix 'Watch Now' Movies (rorta.net)
Diabolus Advocatus writes: At the start of 2007 Netflix started offering a 'Watch Now' service that lets subscribers watch flicks and tv shows online at no extra cost. The limit is one hour per dollar, so if you pay $18 for your subscription, you get 18 hours of credits to watch shit online. All well and good, but the trouble is that Netflix doesn't easily allow you to save the flicks and watch them at your leisure because the films are entrapped in some shittastic Windows Media DRM wrapper. Let's see if we can fix that. This guide will thus show you how to save and decrypt the movies from Netflix so that you can convert them to other mediums and watch them at your leisure.
Submission + - Canonical Begins to Open-Source Launchpad (ubuntu.com)
kripkenstein writes: "Canonical, the corporation behind Ubuntu, has begun to open-source Launchpad. Canonical has been criticized for not doing so earlier.
The first component of Launchpad to be open-sourced is Storm, described as an "object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python". A tutorial with many examples is available. The license for storm is the LGPL 2.1 (inspection of the several source files shows they contain the common "either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version", implying that Storm is LGPLv3-compatible)."
The first component of Launchpad to be open-sourced is Storm, described as an "object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python". A tutorial with many examples is available. The license for storm is the LGPL 2.1 (inspection of the several source files shows they contain the common "either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version", implying that Storm is LGPLv3-compatible)."
Feed Wired: Guess Which Country We Invade in Army's 'Future' (wired.com)
Submission + - Microsoft Submits First Patent For Public Review
JohnTeddy writes: "As Groklaw reports microsoft's first patent to be publicly reviewed via Peer to Patent Project website is "application (#20070136608) is for an invention that will allow copyright owners and media sellers to profit from the off-line transfer of media between buyers and sellers." There are 5 claims with this patent, with claims 2-5 all relying on claim 1. You can find all the claims here: Claim1, Claim2, Claim3, Claim4 and Claim5.
From wikipedia's patent page "Typically, however, a patent application must include one or more claims defining the invention which must be new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable." So if you can find any prior art or demostrate why it's obvious(not "inventive") please feel free to comment here and on the url for comments for this particular patent."
Feed The Register: AMD chops desktop processor prices (theregister.com)
Single-core products still present, despite rumours
AMD today took the axe to its desktop processor price list, knocking up to almost 30 per cent off what it charges for its gaming, mainstream and budget CPUs, as expected. Still, an much-anticipated move to drop single-core chips from the line-up did not take place.
Submission + - Piratebay (sort of) going down
muffen writes: It seems like the Swedish police came up with a new idea for blocking PirateBay, confirmed by the swedish police.
Basically, the Swedish police maintains a list of child pornography sites in Sweden, and on a voluntary basis, the ISP's in Sweden block access to the sites. This week, PirateBay will be part of the list so almost every ISP in Sweden will block access to said site.
Since the news leaked, the swedish police website has not been reachable and is suspected to be under a DoS attack. Furthermore, several sites in Sweden, most of them belonging to sport-clubs, have been hacked and the page replaced with the page you get if you are on the Swedish child pornography blocklist.
It should be noted that the people behind PirateBay hasn't argued against the child pornography claims (also, some links are to Swedish webpages, the links in the story are going via Systran for the English translation).
Basically, the Swedish police maintains a list of child pornography sites in Sweden, and on a voluntary basis, the ISP's in Sweden block access to the sites. This week, PirateBay will be part of the list so almost every ISP in Sweden will block access to said site.
Since the news leaked, the swedish police website has not been reachable and is suspected to be under a DoS attack. Furthermore, several sites in Sweden, most of them belonging to sport-clubs, have been hacked and the page replaced with the page you get if you are on the Swedish child pornography blocklist.
It should be noted that the people behind PirateBay hasn't argued against the child pornography claims (also, some links are to Swedish webpages, the links in the story are going via Systran for the English translation).
Submission + - Scientists to Look for 'Wierd Life' (iht.com)
GapingHeadwound writes: Bypassing Slashdot (and going straight to the source?), "Scientists call for wider search for alien life".
Oh, and NASA's involved too...
Oh, and NASA's involved too...
A panel of scientists convened by America's leading scientific advisory group says the hunt for extraterrestrial life should be greatly expanded to include what they call "weird life": organisms that lack DNA or other molecules found in life as we know it.
[...]
NASA has long looked to life on Earth to guide its search for life on other worlds. Planets and moons that have hints of liquid water have been ranked high on the list of potential sites for life-detection missions. But there is good reason to suspect that other kinds of chemistry could support life as well, the authors of the new report argue. Weird life could differ from life as we know it in small or big ways.
Submission + - Microsoft to force feed us Vista with Gears of War (yougamers.com)
neeyik writes: "The PC version of Gears of War is definitely going to be announced at the E3 2007 this week — a leaked video (that got quickly pulled) confirms as much. What's interesting is the fact that it's apparently going to be a Games for Windows Live Title.
While the original high quality video vanished very quickly, someone managed to save it and post it to YouTube. The image quality of this YouTube version of the leaked footage is poor, but it does show one remarkable bit: a Games for Windows Live achievement pop-up. No word yet if this also means that there will be cross-platform multiplayer support, but it does indicate that Gears of War will most likely be a Vista-only title.
Unless somebody can hack it, a la Shadowrun and Halo 2."
