Comment Re:Well, Virgin signed me up... (Score 1) 88
Virgin aren't picky...
Which is a little strange considering the amount of complaints they've been getting recently.
Comment Very annoying (Score 2, Interesting) 437
I've had similar things happen with my own works that I've licensed under either the CC or similar media-suited licenses. It's very annoying. Even worse, it's always the big companies that could actually afford a to pay for whatever rights necessary that dont, in my experience. Very sloppy business practices...
But what can you do? You have a choice: protect your rights (while you still have them!), ot let corporations take the piss. Pretty simple, really.
Comment Re:Uh, not really (Score 1) 335
That's actually the only thing I miss about Firefox; the NoScript add-on. Chrome has extensions of course, and now also resource blocking. But being able to control which foreign scripts your browser executes is very nifty and, of course, helps with security (NoScript really should bbe mandatory for Windows Firefox users
I'd be surprised if, in a year or so, there isn't such an extension for Chrome, though.
Comment Re:Uh, not really (Score 1) 335
And how much of that is memory is shared between each "chrome" process? I'll give you a hint: quite a lot.
FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration 203
FlorianMueller writes "The FreeType project celebrates the expiration of Apple's TrueType bytecode patents. The open source font rendering engine now has the bytecode technology enabled by default. The relevant code existed for some time, but the project felt forced to disable it and advise everyone not to use it due to patent encumbrance. The 20-year maximum of validity of software patents is long, but sometimes the stuff that becomes available is still useful. The Unisys GIF patent was an example. And anything open-sourced 20 years ago would also be patent-free by now (except for the code that has since been added)."
Comment I really didn't expect this... (Score 2, Insightful) 140
We'll be hearing this from the Tory-Lib Dem government for the next 4-5 years, I suspect. There will be many many things that we should be doing, but because Labour mismanaged the public purse, the digital divide in the UK will have to stay.
It's really quite boring that politicians spend so much of their first time blaming the previous incumbents for current problems, instead of being a bit more proactive and concentrating on solutions instead of laying blame...
Comment Say goodbye to... (Score 2, Insightful) 94
...UDP-based DNS queries.
Comment Re:'Bout time (Score 1) 917
Even if they had, it would still be being discussed to death here...
Comment Re:lolwut? (Score 5, Insightful) 234
It looks like they don't have any real power anyway, so they're basically telling Oracle they will no longer work to Oracle's benefit for free.
Long-Term Liability For One-Time Security Breaches? 119
An anonymous reader writes "Not a month goes by where we don't hear about a theft of some organization's laptop containing sensitive personal information, not to mention the even more frequent — but often kept secret — breaches into company networks and databases. It is definitely true that you should be responsible for the security of your information when you handle it, but what happens when the theft of your information is not your fault? You have handed over this information to a company or organization and trusted them to keep is secure, but they failed. They might notify you of the breach or theft, and they might even set up a credit monitoring service for you for a year or two, but the problem is that this information may be used years from now. Is it fair that you have to worry for decades and pay for further credit monitoring when they are to blame for your information ending up in the wrong hands?"
Submission + - Attention Defi-whaaa? The Link Between Video Games (goozernation.com)
averyzoe writes: I was reading a study recently about...ooooh! Pretty bird! Um, where was I? Oh, yeah, there was this study, and it was about how video games...um video games--Hey! Did you guys see that new movie? What? Oh--the study. Yeah, it was about video games affecting attention span. Something about kids and even college-aged students having more attention problems the more video games they play. I don't know what they're talking abou...Hey! Scooby Doo is on! Seriously though, this is a real scientific study conducted by three psychologists at Iowa State University.....found a correlation between video game and television viewing and attention problems. AveryZoe at GoozerNation reports.
Submission + - U.K. Designer “Grows" Clothes From Bacteria (ecouterre.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Experimental UK designer Suzanne Lee "grows" clothes from bacteria. She has developed a method for growing clothing from yeast, a pinch of bacteria, and several cups of sweetened green tea. From this microbial soup, fibers begin to sprout and propagate, eventually resulting in thin, wet sheets of bacterial cellulose that can be molded to a dress form. As the sheets dry out, overlapping edges “felt” together to become fused seams. When all moisture has evaporated, the fibers develop a tight-knit, papyrus-like surface.
REMnux, the Malware Analysis Linux OS 58
Trailrunner7 writes "A security expert has released a stripped-down Ubuntu distribution designed specifically for reverse-engineering malware. The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools that comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart malicious code. REMnux is the creation of Lenny Zeltser, an expert on malware reverse engineering who teaches a popular course on the topic at SANS conferences. He put the operating system together after years of having students ask him which tools to use and what works best. He originally used Red Hat Linux, but recently decided that Ubuntu was a better fit. REMnux has three separate tools for analyzing Flash-specific malware, including SWFtools, Flasm and Flare, as well as several applications for analyzing malicious PDFs, including Didier Stevens' analysis tools. REMnux also has a number of tools for de-obfuscating JavaScript, including Rhino debugger, a version of Firefox with NoScript, JavaScript Deobfuscator and Firebug installed, and Windows Script Decoder."
