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U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206

Posted by Soulskill from the take-the-battle-to-the-enemy's-router dept.
smitty777 writes "Congress has recently authorized the use of offensive military action in cyberspace. From the December 12th conference on the National Defense Authorization Act, it states, 'Congress affirms that the Department of Defense has the capability, and upon direction by the President may conduct offensive operations in cyberspace to defend our Nation, Allies and interests, subject to: (1) the policy principles and legal regimes that the Department follows for kinetic capabilities, including the law of armed conflict; and (2) the War Powers Resolution.' According to the FAS, 'Debate continues on whether using the War Powers Resolution is effective as a means of assuring congressional participation in decisions that might get the United States involved in a significant military conflict.'"
Open Source

Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations 299

Posted by CmdrTaco from the license-to-license dept.
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."
Google

Google Patents Browser Highlight All Button 150

Posted by CmdrTaco from the wish-i-thought-of-that dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Google has picked up another patent on a technology that you might think basic to the web: the highlight all button for searches in browsers. The patent will backdate to 1999 and presents an interesting problem for such software as the Firefox browser and FeedDemon RSS reader. And, in an interesting twist, Microsoft uses a similar mechanism in Windows Explorer. But Microsoft itself said that browser technology can't be separated from the operating system. Does that mean the company owes a royalty to Google for all those copies of Windows?"
Cellphones

Submission + - ChevronWP7, WP7 JailBreak Tool Discontinued (wmpoweruser.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: After discussion with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, the ChevronWP7 team, who created a free Developer Unlocker, ChevronWP7 discussed less than 24 hours ago right here on Slashdot ( http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/11/30/1622244/Windows-7-Phone-Gets-Jailbreak-Tool ), have decided to pull their tool, effective immediately.

"Through this discussion, we established a mutual understanding of our intent to enable homebrew opportunities and to open the Windows Phone 7 platform for broader access to developers and users. To fast-track discussions, we are discontinuing the unlocking tool effective immediately."

The great news is that some official home brew is coming to Windows Phone 7. "To pursue these goals with Microsoft’s support, Brandon Watson has agreed to engage in further discussions with us about officially facilitating homebrew development on WP7. "

WMPowerUser: http://wmpoweruser.com/breaking-news-chevronwp7-discontinued-official-home-brew-may-be-coming/

http://www.chevronwp7.com/post/2057541126/pursuing-the-future-of-homebrew-on-windows-phone-7
NASA

Submission + - Curious NASA Pre-Announcement (nasa.gov) 2

Submitted by CrtxReavr
CrtxReavr writes: 'NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.'

Comment Re:Let The Confustion Begin (Score 1) 324

by jbuk (#33414572) Attached to: It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand
If you had R'ed TFA, you would have seen that system builders can (and presumably will) choose to put a sticker on the front that omits the AMD branding altogether and simply says "Radeon Graphics". The branding shift is also specifically towards the chips just being called "Radeon", with the fact that AMD are the manufacturer as a second thought.
Apple

Submission + - Apple's Dev Site Down for an Entire Week

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's iPhone development site has been down since just before Christmas and possibly longer. I got a MacBook Pro for XMas and was hoping to download the SDK to begin my life of living large, making millions of dollars a day on an app that says "Oooh yeah" in a random language. Can I sue them for lost revenue?

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