Chexsum - Slashdot User

Comment Money motivates mongers (Score 3, Insightful) 463

by Chexsum on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:52AM (#38248016) Attached to: Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

Real artists want everyone to enjoy their performance regardless of monetary reward. Real artists are also pirates that have chosen to spend their money wisely. Real artists are not complaining about supposed theft of digital copies because the poor artist is well-known. Burn, Hollywood, Burn!

Submission + - Europe Accuses Google Of Monopoly Abuse (cnet.com)

Submitted by bonch on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:28PM

bonch writes: European antitrust regulators are set to issue a 400-page statement of objections accusing Google of 'abuse of dominance' next month, the result of an investigation launched last year after complaints from rivals that Google manipulated ad pricing and barred advertisers from running ads on rival sites. If found guilty, Google could be fined up to 10% of its annual turnover, which is about $3 billion. Microsoft avoided a similar fine when it settled its European antitrust case and included a 'browser ballot' in Windows.

Submission + - Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by wasimkadak on Friday December 02, 2011 @07:03PM

wasimkadak writes: One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won’t suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.

Submission + - Important EU Copyright Case (out-law.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02, 2011 @06:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: Advisor to European Court of Justice states that software licensees are not allowed to observe, study or test the way computer programs work if that activity allows the program to be copied and copyright-protected information within it accessed.

Comment pft @ homeless (Score 1) 289

by Chexsum on Thursday September 22, 2011 @08:09PM (#37486418) Attached to: FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers

he just doesnt want them to find the server farm

TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 28, 2010 @01:59PM from the done-and-done dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."

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