Comment Paywall (Score 1) 78
Why are Paywalled papers still promoted on Slashdot?
Comment Re:Is it not obvious? They have dirt on him! (Score 1) 312
What in hell is funny about parent?
Comment Please stop linking paywalled papers. (Score 5, Insightful) 74
Science should be readable by anyone.
Don't advertise the profiteers.
Comment Re:USB and video but no terminal server (Score 1) 531
Actually when you start with a false premise your conclusion can be anything, it can even be true.
Comment Re:Waiting for Nexus 4 image (Score 1) 75
just to make that clear (it'snot very clear on the homepage) only parts of sailfishos are open source.
Submission + - Sailfish truely open? (jolla.com)
xophos writes: Jollas SailfishOS is foremost advertized as truely open. Yet from a FOSS perspective that is not really the case. And i'm not talking about drivers and firmware (those are closed too).
The core OS is Linux/Mer and hence open anyway.
But the UI Layer and Most of the core applications remain closed.
How is that truely open?
MacOS has an open source core too you know...
The core OS is Linux/Mer and hence open anyway.
But the UI Layer and Most of the core applications remain closed.
How is that truely open?
MacOS has an open source core too you know...
Comment meh! (Score 2) 158
Quite a creative reaction to a corporate screwup.
Comment Re:NSA too? (Score 1) 70
The NSA has government-mandated permission so their access doesn't fall under this law.
This is EU law we are talking about. Please substantiate your claim that the EU government has given the NSA permission.
You are absolutely right.
Your parent misses the obvious.
Comment Re:Pffft. (Score 1) 421
Why does everyone nowadays seem to think that WYSIWYG is an improvement over a simple descriptive readable language?
Comment Re:Not sure I see the point of this. (Score 1) 319
But most people in germany (i know from personal experience) ARE idiots. Why should it have been otherwise when Hitler was elected?
Submission + - Cool SciFi no-budget creative commons series (vodo.net)
An anonymous reader writes: A mysterious spaceship has entered Earth's atmosphere. A US Department of Homeland Security investigation has uncovered a live human being in...
Comment Re:Why should Facebook care what app is used? (Score 1) 262
If the user is careless enough to use an app that spams without their permission, they deserve loosing their data and being banned.
Comment Re:I love git!! (Score 1) 177
You forgot one important point: Git is FAST. With larger Projects the other two sometimes take some time to think.
Comment Re:People Entering Politics (Score 1) 74
don't try to be clever, it's corruption all the way up.
Submission + - Marines have an informal agreement with Facebook (google.es)
An anonymous reader writes: Spanish blogger discovered that US Marines have an informal agreement with Facebook to remove any page. In an article entitled " U.S. Marines Creating Island for Network Defense ", in this month issue of a military magazine, Brigadier General Kevin Nally head of Command, Control, Computers and Communications (C4) of the Marine Corps of the United States explains it, the Marines have an informal agreement with Facebook to remove any page that violates OPSEC, to disclose personally identifiable personal information from the Marines or attempts to impersonate officers. Also reports that the public relations office of the Marine Corps monitors Facebook and if you need a direct line to the headquarters of the network to request immediate withdrawal of information.
