Comment Re:Labour laws (Score 5, Insightful) 422
Nothing is funnier than someone who is actually mad that other countries might *gasp* not just allow employers to fuck over their employees at will.
Submission + - Sourceforge staff takes over a user's account and wraps their software installer (arstechnica.com) 11
An anonymous reader writes: Sourceforge staff took over the account of the GIMP-for-Windows maintainer claiming it was abandoned and used this opportunity to wrap the installer in crapware. Quoting Ars:
SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
Comment Re:Wasn't Java open sourced? (Score 2) 223
Because open sourcing has nothing to do with giving up copyright. Sun didn't give up their copyright when GPLing it and Orcale now holds it.
Comment Re:Can we have another poll? (Score 4, Insightful) 246
Upshot is that just like other submissions, and position on the page aside, we're going to run polls that the editors think are a good idea
How is that an upshot? No one was asking for this "feature".
Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 246
Because the Slashdot code monkeys are absolutely horrendous at making a decent UI.
Comment Re:negativity (Score 1) 246
Timothy really isn't that bad.
Except for everything related to being an "editor". He's absolutely horrendous at that.
Comment Re:48GB?! (Score 1) 107
It's not and they didn't say it was. Chris Roberts worked at Origin. That was the joke.
Comment Re:sad state of affairs (Score 1) 113
It's sad that people are more concerned with what companies are doing with their information than the government.
Because people aren't allowed to be concerned about both things? Why this false dichotomy?
Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders 446
theodp writes: Explaining the reasons for its less-than-diverse tech workforce, Google fingered bad parenting for its lack of women techies. From the interview with Google Director of Diversity and Inclusion Nancy Lee: "Q. What explains the drop [since 1984] in women studying computer science? A. We commissioned original research that revealed it's primarily parents' encouragement, and perception and access. Parents don't see their young girls as wanting to pursue computer science and don't steer them in that direction. There's this perception that coding and computer science is ... a 'brogrammer' culture for boys, for games, for competition. There hasn't been enough emphasis on the power computing has in achieving social impact. That's what girls are interested in. They want to do things that matter." While scant on details, the Google study's charts appear to show that, overall, fathers encourage young women to study CS more than mothers. Google feels that reeducation is necessary. "Outreach programs," advises Google, "should include a parent education component, so that parents learn how to actively encourage their daughters."
Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90
and they still do not allow the default email or browser app to be changed.
No, but companies can do like what Google does and just tightly integrate all your apps together where clicking something in one launches another one of your apps to handle it.
Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90
Are "alternate webkit-based browsers" capable of adding support for HTML5 elements and attributes that Apple chose to leave out of WebKit for iOS? Are they allowed to associate themselves with the http: and https: schemes?
No. Hence why I said that they can't have a third-party web engine. They have to use the system-provided WebKit.
I didn't think so.
And I never said they could so I don't see the relevance.
Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90
Apple do indeed (still) have an infrequently enforced policy about competing apps
Such as?
That there are lots of alternative web browsers based on their webkit does not suggest 'competing' browsers, because those browsers are unable to meaningfully compete.
They can't compete on the rendering engine, sure, but users don't actually give two shits about that. The browsers compete on the other features they can provide.
Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90
Apple doesn't allow any application competing with their own as far as I know
And what you know amounts to very little apparently. When was the last time you heard anything about iOS? 2009? What Apple doesn't allow is third-party web engines, but they allow alternate webkit-based browsers. There are probably hundreds of such applications in the App Store.
Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 3, Insightful) 90
The problem is that they are essentially rudderless without Google's yearly handouts. If Mozilla had diversified their revenue long ago they wouldn't be in this situation of throwing tons of shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Comment Re:Think that's impressive? (Score 1) 207
If they had compelling content people would pay for it directly. Sites like ehow and Buzzfeed create crap but can stay around due to clickbait spam.
