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Media

Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
Debian

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Comment Re:Read the Bible. (Score 1) 459

most notably the catholic church and their instance that only the Pope can talk to God, which is in direct contradiction to the primary message of pretty much every book of the Bible

Since you clearly have no idea whatsoever about what the catholic church is and is not: the difference with some other denomination does not consist in the fact that only one person talks on God's cell phone each Sunday morning rather than each pastor rather than any believer that can manage to dial His number.

they also asserted in the past that only a properly educated person should be allowed to read the Bible

It's rather more on allowing any nutcase to form and teach his personal opinion on a huge book written in a variety of very ancient language, by people from a very different culture (one could argue about Paul, but everyone else was definitively a Jew), missing all vowels and with huge chunks corrupted beyond any hope (I know, some people say that KJ was God inspired; that belongs to my definition of nutcase). Catholics opted for letting only experts deal with the Bible; Lutherans opted for educating people (clearly the wiser thing to do, in the long run); some others opted for the nutcases. Thanks to God most of them gathered in the USA.

Data Storage

GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks 370

bheer writes "According to the NYTimes, at a conference next month, GE will debut their new holographic storage breakthrough — 500GB disks that will cost 10 cents a GB to produce at launch. GE will first focus on selling the technology to commercial markets like movie studios and hospitals, but selling to the broader corporate and consumer market is the larger goal."

Comment Don't pay and call a consumer association! (Score 2, Informative) 543

IANAL and I don't know the specifics of German law, but EU state laws are quite similar, and I know a bit of the Italian ones. This is what would happen south of the Alps.
  1. A contract to be valid requires that both parties agree and understand what they're into. Your friend was made to believe something different that what she could reasonably expect. We had similar scams going on for a long while (you thought you were signing to support something, while actually buying a 2000 euros encyclopedia): whoever went to court always won.
  2. Almost anything which is not bought in a physical store can be returned for whatever reason for the following ten days. This follows from EU directive 85/577/CEE (which states a minimum of seven days)
  3. In order to agree to mean stuff the law requires you to be really sure you're agreeing: here you have to sign twice, in France you have to hand write "lu et approuv'e", i.e., "read and understood"; most likely you have something similar in Germany, which could help. BTW this means EULAs have essentially no chance to survive in court.

So what I'd do would be to call the legal service of my consumer association now

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