ansa - Slashdot User

Comment Re:"If he were he subject to his own law" ?! (Score 3, Insightful) 356

by ansa on Friday October 09, 2009 @10:54AM (#29693087) Attached to: French President Violates His Own Copyright Law, Again

Amen to that man. Immunity for politicians in charge is one of the worst things for a democracy, two days ago in Italy we avoided a similar law thanks to the Constitutional Court rejecting Berlusconi's ignominous proposal... we still have a mafia's boss as a Prime Minister, but now he can be prosecuted for his crimes... of course the trials were blocked with ad-personam laws and they have to start them over again, so in the meantime he'll come up with another trick to avoid being prosecuted, but still it's a victory.
We really should have common rules throughout Europe to protect us all from that kind of things.

Comment Re:HOT AIR (Score 2, Funny) 447

by ansa on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @04:18AM (#27657187) Attached to: Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

You forget that Vatican actually IS a colony of homosexsuals...

Submission + - iPhone has a built-in spyware module? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by pilok22 on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @08:19AM

pilok22 writes: Russian underground hackers released a white paper with analysis of iPhone firmware. They found a very suspicious function which can steal all personal information from an iPhone.

Submission + - Macbook mysteriously burns up power cord

Submitted by bl8n8r on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @08:07AM

bl8n8r writes: Looks like that Macbook may be a hotter commodity than originally planned. A series of ill fated software and hardware malfunctions, and attempts to resolve the issues with Apple support, leaves the user with burn marks and a melted power cord.
"I looked at the laptop and smoke was coming from the MagSafe power cord where it was inserted into the laptop. I screamed. The cord crackled and started to melt."

Submission + - OpenMoko Revisited... Possibly...

Submitted by nowhere.elysium on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @07:47AM

nowhere.elysium writes: Has anyone else tried to order one of the OpenMoko Neo1973s yet? So far, there has been no response to my order, made the day after the Slashdot story broke. I'm based in the UK, so I expected delivery to be slow, not the actual acknowledgement of purchase. So far, I've heard nothing from them at all, despite my emails asking what's going on. As is probably obvious, I'm getting a bit annoyed now: not only by the fact that there is zero apparent customer support, but also that I don't have a shiny new Neo1973 winging its way towards me. Does anyone else have any information or experiences to add to this?

Submission + - Microsoft digital rights software hacked again

Submitted by Kurtz'sKompund on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @07:46AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes: Microsoft has downplayed the impact of a new hack of its digital rights management (DRM) technology, underlining the difficulties in erecting a long-lasting digital barrier against piracy. http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security /cybercrime/news/index.cfm?newsid=4075

Submission + - Apples first iPhone (1983, never seen pictures)

Submitted by

Gary

on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @07:10AM

Gary writes: "The famous Apple-designer Hartmut Esslinger who designed Apple IIc, shows partly never before seen Apple-Designs of the early 80s. Among them is the first ever iPhone designed way back in 1983."

Submission + - How Many FOSS Developers in the World?

Submitted by niyam on Friday June 29, 2007 @06:07AM

niyam writes: Somebody threw me quite a curve the other day: How many active FOSS developers exist in the world? An off-the-cuff and non-validated remark like "oh! about 10% software developers must be developing free software..." makes no sense! So first step: It took me time to define 'FOSS developer' for myself: Someone who authors software under ANY free license as mentioned on the fsf.org site, and for any platform. gpl, bsd, Apache, MIT, etc.... Sourceforge currently displays: Registered Projects: 151,709 Registered Users: 1,621,651 But that doesn't mean anything. Some large corporations like Google, IBM, Intel, Apple, even Infosys..., may just have a large pool of engineers writing software that is published as Free software. I also wonder if 'foss developer' should include QA teams and documentation-people. Slashdotters, any help? niyam

Submission + - Apple iPhone to need AT&T Activation (repeaterstore.com)

Submitted by

SinaK

on Monday June 11, 2007 @06:02AM

SinaK writes: "According to an AT&T store representative, the majority of the new Apple iPhones will initially be offered through Apple stores around the country rather than through AT&T stores. However, phones purchased at Apple Stores will apparently need direct activation through AT&T.

This may indicate that Apple has built some sort of additional security measure into the iPhone that goes beyond the standard subsidy-locks used by other manufacturers. GSM phones are typically sold with a software subsidy-lock that customers from using their phones with another network. Numerous online services offer code and software based unlocking solutions that remove these subsidy-locks from the majority of phone makes and models.

However, phones operating on CDMA networks such as Sprint and Verizon cannot be easily unlocked, since each phone is individually registered to operate on the network. If Apple have developed a similar network-side activation system with AT&T it may be impossible to unlock the iPhone. If this turns out to be true, users tied into contracts with other networks will not be able to purchase and use iPhones without switching to AT&T service."

Submission + - Mobile Linux gets first specs

Submitted by

Kurtz'sKompund

on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:36AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes: "The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum plans to release its first specifications today, hoping to encourage people to develop more applications for Linux mobile phones. http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?n ewsid=9096"

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