thebjorn - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Apple and their lawyers were lucky (Score 5, Informative) 217

by thebjorn on Saturday November 10, 2012 @12:09PM (#41942703) Attached to: UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance

According to the judge, what they added was false, misleading, and did not convey the intent of the order -- and he analyzes each added statement in depth. In addition they used too much time to comply when it came to newspapers, where the judge expected "earliest possible time" to mean the next couple of days and not a month. As a punishment they now have to pay _all_ of Samsung's legal expenses (i.e. not only legal fees), they have to keep the notice up for much longer, and they have to put on their home page that they lied in their previous attempt. You don't have to agree with a judge's order, but you do have to follow it. Judges tend to get pissed off if you try to worm yourself around an order -- not something that should be news for Apple's capable legal team.

Comment Re:Default Interface (Score 1) 302

by thebjorn on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:28PM (#41744037) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers?

[...] or WorldWideWeb on NeXT, which I believe was a 320x240 4000 color machine [...]

The NeXT had a 17" monitor with 1120x832 pixels with 4 different shades of gray.

Comment Re:Remember the old addage (Score 4, Informative) 488

by thebjorn on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @02:38AM (#41522219) Attached to: TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript

Python 3.3 didn't add a "yield" keyword, it added a "yield from" construct. Python has had "yield" since version 2.2. Python also has type annotations that "don't do anything": http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/

Comment Affero GPL? (Score 1) 79

by thebjorn on Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:18PM (#40405951) Attached to: Opa 1.0 Released

If I'm reading it correctly, your source needs to be distributed if it touches the opa compiler...?

Comment Re:No problem (Score 1) 369

by thebjorn on Monday June 11, 2012 @02:01AM (#40280181) Attached to: An HTTP Status Code For Censorship?

As far as I know, there is nowhere left in the world that is as free as the United States [...]

I think I'm far more free in Australia than you are in the United States, and Norway has us both beaten. But perhaps we both have an unrealistic idea of what "free" means.

Norway is great in many (most?) ways, but I do believe the US has us beat when it comes to real and/or legislative freedoms... I've lived in the US for 15+ years but only visited Australia, so perhaps you had something specific in mind? .. or perhaps I have an unrealistic idea of what "free" means ?-)

Comment Re:anti-customer decision? (Score 1) 166

by thebjorn on Sunday April 08, 2012 @03:02PM (#39613555) Attached to: Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap

Perhaps now they feel they've captured a significant enough portion of the market and decided to start capitalizing on it? That would be my (admittedly uninformed) guess[...]

Google Maps API is still free to use as long as you don't charge for access to your website: https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing

Comment Re:Sorry, but this is bull (Score 5, Informative) 286

by thebjorn on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @11:43AM (#38572482) Attached to: Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS

have access to a great deal of actual and current mobile usage data, and this is just completely at odds with reality.

That is my experience too. Statcounter is more representative of what I'm seeing: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201012-201112

Submission + - Massive DNS Cache Poisoning Hits Brazil (net-security.org) 1

Submitted by Orome1 on Monday November 07, 2011 @11:10AM

Orome1 writes: A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil, according to Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini. Brazil has some big ISPs. Official statistics suggest the country has 73 million computers connected to the Internet, and the major ISPs average 3 or 4 million customers each. If a cybercriminal can change the DNS cache in just one server, the number of potential victims is huge. And that is exactly what has been happening during last week. Users trying to reach Google, YouTube, Facebook and other popular global and local sites were being faced with pop-up windows telling them to install "Google Defence" and similar thematic software or Java applet in order to be able to access the wanted site.

Submission + - Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science (acm.org)

Submitted by

CowboyRobot

on Monday November 07, 2011 @11:07AM

CowboyRobot writes: "An article at Queue tries to identify the qualities of code that makes it easiest to update and maintain. "...when it comes time for implementation, there is a combination of artistic flare, nuanced style, and technical prowess that separates good code from great code." Their recommendations include treating the program as a table, and relying on simple English, white space, and context.
"

Submission + - Bell Labs System Enables 3D Rendering on DisplayLi (phoronix.com)

Submitted by

billakay

on Monday November 07, 2011 @10:08AM

billakay writes: ""A recently open-sourced experimental Linux infrastructure created by Bell Labs researchers allows 3D rendering to be performed on a GPU and displayed on other devices, including DisplayLink dongles. The system accomplishes this by essentially creating "Virtual CRTCs", or virtual display output controllers, and allowing arbitrary devices to appear as extra ports on a graphics card.

Story can be found at Phoronix. The code and instructions to get the system running can be found here at GitHub.""

Comment Re:I hear... (Score 2) 49

by thebjorn on Saturday August 27, 2011 @04:27PM (#37229740) Attached to: Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes

Request-Range is also affected, better turn it off: RequestHeader unset Request-Range

Comment Re:Denyhosts (Score 1) 298

by thebjorn on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:41PM (#36185046) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots?

Seconded! I've set it up so it only accepts one failed ssh login attempt from an unknown ip address before it denies _all_ access. (I need to be able to log in while I'm on vacation, so I can't turn it all the way off...)

Comment Re:The relevant bits (Score 1) 434

by thebjorn on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @01:39AM (#36162650) Attached to: How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection

CLI is dead and has been for years. People don't want it and that's why the world runs on GUI.

Two words: Windows PowerShell.

Submission + - Patent 5,893,120 Reduced to Math (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 01, 2011 @04:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: US Patent #5,893,120 has been reduced to mathematical formulae as a demonstration of the oft-ignored fact that there is an equivalence relation between programs and mathematics. You may recognize Patent #5,893,210 as the one which Google was ordered to pay $5M for infringing due to some code in Linux. It should be interesting to see how legal fiction will deal with this. Will Lambda calculus no longer be "math"? Or will they just decide to fix the inconsistency and make mathematics patentable?

Comment Re:Frankly... (Score 1) 117

by thebjorn on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:36AM (#35904856) Attached to: IMSLP Taken Down By UK Publishers Group

Anybody who would use GoDaddy as a provider must be fairly fucking stupid. Could a more disreputable outfit, with shittier customer service, ever be found?

But they're cheap. And who needs customer service, it's a fucking domain registrar? Disreputable? If you think you only buy shit from reputable companies I've got a big fucking surprise for you.

They should switch away from GoDaddy, so they don't have to share a server with 4000 other customers...

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