Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
United States

Submission + - GOP opposes net neutrality, internet piracy (patexia.com)

Submitted by
ericjones12398
ericjones12398 writes: "While GOP candidates won't stop publicly disavowing it, all eyes are on the Republican platform. The convention, which closed Thursday, inserted a number of controversial planks regarding abortion, English-only laws and a committee to examine the possibility of returning to the gold standard. Receiving considerably less attention was the downright Orwellian naming of the "Internet freedom plank," which opposes net neutrality."
Android

Submission + - Don't download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you with it (theregister.co.uk) 1

Submitted by puddingebola
puddingebola writes: Apps released by both the Obama and Romney campaigns have been found to have "privacy issues." From the article: "Experts at GFI Software looked at the Android versions of both apps, discovering both to be surprisingly invasive.
Obama for America and Mitt’s VP request permissions, access to services and data and capabilities beyond their core mandate."
Unix

Submission + - Schillix forks from OpenIndiana to preserve Solaris ideals (berlios.de)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Schillix is a fork of OpenIndiana that was started since its creators felt that the latter was diverging from the original ideals of Solaris. This project aims to preserve compatibility with both Posix and SVR4. The platforms supported however are only x86/x64, and SPARC will only be supported if people are interested in getting it added.

Exit question: Anybody thinks anybody will prefer this to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or even Solaris (I'm not even bringing Windows in question here)? Or would Schillix have done better by initially targeting SPARC, and going for x86/x64 only had that succeeded?
Google

Submission + - Google talks about the dangers of user content (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I stumbled on an interesting, in-depth article on the Google security blog about the dangers faced by modern web applications when hosting any user supplied data. The surprising conclusion is that it's apparently almost impossible to host images or text files safely unless you use a completely separate domain. Is it really that bad? Why after 15 years we still can't get it right?

Submission + - World's first 3D printed racing car can pace at 140 km/h (techtripper.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A group of 16 engineers named “Group T” have unveiled a racing car “Areion”. The group is competing in Formula Student 2012 challenge, and the car they have unveiled is world’s first 3D printed race car. The Areion is not wholly 3D printed but most of it actually is. It was tested on Hockenheim race circuit and went from zero to 100km/h in just four seconds. Maximum speed Areion achieved on the same circuit was 141km/h. The car is eco-friendly as well as a motivation for innovative fields of technology. Cutting-edge technologies integrated into their environmentally friendly race car included an electric drive train, bio-composite materials and 3D printing on a big scale with Materialise.
Music

Submission + - Man With World's Deepest Voice Hits Notes That Only Elephants Can Hear

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The man who holds the Guinness record for the world's lowest voice can hit notes so low that only animals as big as elephants are able to hear them. American singer Tim Storms who also has the world's widest vocal range can reach notes as low as G-7 (0.189Hz),an incredible eight octaves below the lowest G on the piano.
Linux

Submission + - Arch Linux For Newbies? Manjaro is here! (muktware.com) 2

Submitted by Penurious Penguin
Penurious Penguin writes: Well within the top ten Linux distros, Arch Linux has a strong following for sure. But with an installation process requiring a little more involvement than the average distro, not every prospective user is ready to embrace the Arch Way, and understandably so. This is where Manjaro steps in. With a 100% compatibility with Arch, uncompromising adherence to principia KISS and a pre-configured Xfce, — or alternatively available GNOME & KDE — those who've been hesitating to explore Arch now have a few less excuses.

And a little side-note for those still bitter about the lack of package-signing: You'll be glad to know that Arch fully implemented package-signing in June of 2012.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft unveils first new company logo in 25 years (pcpro.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft has issued a new company logo to usher in the Windows 8 era. Made up of a newly square Windows symbol alongside grey Microsoft logo type, it's been designed to closely match the logos for other products in Microsoft's portfolio, including Office and Xbox. The logo takes pride of place on Microsoft.com from today, and will be used in Microsoft's retail stores and on all future TV ads.

Comment Re:Speaking of those precious pixels on a handset (Score 3, Informative) 404

by LiroXIV (#41085337) Attached to: Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden

Why waste a quarter of them with a stupid huge black bar running down the full length of the homescreen, making it look all lop-sided and amateur? Are we supposed, like, dig this as the trendy new way forward?

Actually, Windows Phone 7.8 and 8 is supposed to get rid of that.
Windows

Submission + - Former Xerox PARC researcher: Windows 8 is a cognitive burden (laptopmag.com)

Submitted by LiroXIV
LiroXIV writes: You know you've messed up big time when someone related to the development of one of the first graphical interfaces for computers thinks you've messed up. Usability expert Raluca Budiu has shared the common conclusion for many about Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8; it's definitely not as user-friendly as past versions.
HP

Submission + - Judge rules Oracle must continue porting software to Itanium (computerworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "A California court has ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers.Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares many customers with the vendor, announced it would cease supporting Itanium. HP filed suit in June 2011, maintaining that Oracle was contractually bound to continue supporting Itanium."
Facebook

Submission + - The Cost To 'Promote' A Facebook Post: $200 to $500 (forbes.com)

Submitted by nonprofiteer
nonprofiteer writes: There's been talk in recent months of Facebook's "promoted posts" option. In beta testing, it cost about $5-10 dollars to get more of your friends/fans to see your posts in news feeds. Now that it's live, it's a bit more expensive, at least for those with big followings. On the Forbes Facebook page, the cost ranges from $200 to $500 to get from 50,000 to 250,000 people to see a given post. Another lame attempt at monetization, or will Facebook users actually pony up?

Slashdot Top Deals

Remember to say hello to your bank teller.

Close