Comment Re:I see a market for... (Score 1) 398
Or just an increase in the sale of mirrors.
Comment Re:What is UNCO? (Score 1) 334
I believe UNCO is the code they use for 'unconfirmed' bugs; mostly cases where a bug report has been submitted but it has not been looked at yet by a member of the Mozilla team.
Comment Re:Widescreen (Score 1) 417
You can still do that these days, though you'll probably need a non-stock monitor mount in most cases. One of the DBAs where I work uses 2x24" monitors running in portrait mode, 1080x1920.
Comment Re:Kind of early to predict that (Score 1) 305
Don't see how the security is any better than a direct https link between Exchage and your phone.
I honestly am not familiar with Androids/iPhones - do they have the option for remote lockdown/wiping of the device? I know this has been used a few times where I work when someone has managed to lose their BlackBerry or has decided to not return it after being let go from the company.
FSF Announces Hardware Endorsement Criteria 273
sveinungkv writes "The Free Software Foundation has announced criteria for the hardware endorsement program 'Respects Your Freedom.' From the announcement: 'The desire to own a computer or device and have full control over it, to know that you are not being spied on or tracked, to run any software you wish without asking permission, and to share with friends without worrying about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) — these are the desires of millions of people who care about the future of technology and our society. (...) With our endorsement mark and the strong criteria that back it, we plan to bridge that gap and demonstrate to manufacturers that they stand to gain plenty by making hardware that respects people's freedom instead of curtailing it.' While it currently contains some requirements that many may find broader than what they personally need, the remaining criteria would make the FSF endorsement a useful tool when looking for devices that give the owner control over the device they have bought and paid for. The criteria are still open for feedback."
Your Browser History Is Showing 174
tiffanydanica writes "For a lot of us our browser history is something we consider private, or at least not something we want to expose to every website we visit. Web2.0collage is showing just how easy it is (with code!) for sites to determine what sites you visit. When you visit the site it sniffs your browser history, and creates a collage of the (safe for work) sites that you visit. It is an interesting application of potentially scary technology (imagine a job application site using this to screen candidates). You can jump right into having your history sniffed if you so desire. While the collages are cool on their own merit, they also serve as an illustration of the privacy implications of browser history sniffing."
Comment Re:Helps, but not much ... (Score 0) 227
Not really, it's there in both names. ;)
Comment Re:QuestHelper (Score 1) 344
I think that may run afoul of the new policies as well:
All add-ons must be distributed free of charge. Developers may not create "premium"; versions of add-ons with additional for-pay features, charge money to download an add-on, charge for services related to the add-on, or otherwise require some form of monetary compensation to download or access an add-on.
Submission + - Blizzard asserts rights over independent addons
bugnuts writes: Blizzard announced a policy change to Addons for the popular game World of Warcraft which asserts requirements on UI programmers, such as charging for the program, obfuscation, soliciting donations, etc. Addons are voluntarily-installed UI programs that add functionality to the game, programmed in Lua, which can do various tasks that hook into the WoW engine.
The new policy has some obvious requirements such as not loading the servers or spamming users, and it looks like an attempt to make things more accessible and free for the end user. But unlike FOSS, it adds other requirements that assert control over these independently coded programs, such as distribution and fees.
Blizzard can already control the ultimate functionality of Addons by changing the hooks into the WoW engine. They have exercised this ability in the past, e.g. to disable addons that automate movement and "one-button" combat. Should they be able to make demands on independent programmers' copyrighted works, such as download fees or advertising, who are not under contract to code for Blizzard? Is this like Microsoft asserting control over what programmers may code for Windows?
Blizzard can already control the ultimate functionality of Addons by changing the hooks into the WoW engine. They have exercised this ability in the past, e.g. to disable addons that automate movement and "one-button" combat. Should they be able to make demands on independent programmers' copyrighted works, such as download fees or advertising, who are not under contract to code for Blizzard? Is this like Microsoft asserting control over what programmers may code for Windows?
Submission + - Blizzard Dissallows WoW AddOn Donation (worldofwarcraft.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Blizzard Entertainment today has posted a new World of Warcraft User Interface Add-On Development Policy that among other things asserts that user written game modifications must be free and cannot solicit for donations in game. Previously if Blizzard didn't want an addon to be able to do something they would disable the functionality. Now it seems they are out to legally assert their control over the game environment by prohibiting addon behavior that they have no way programmatic to police. Such radical behavior seems to be in response to or at least will curtail a popular addon that recently released a version with in game advertising. Up till now many other addons have had in game donation urls.
Is it legal/moral to require derivative works of a paid software to be free? Most addons are free, but not all addons are equal. If you spent years maintaining and developing a complex addon how would you feel about Blizzard now telling that you can't even ask for donations? Obviously Blizzard wants to keep addons in the realm of hobby, but do they have the right to tell people how they can use their UI API?
Is it legal/moral to require derivative works of a paid software to be free? Most addons are free, but not all addons are equal. If you spent years maintaining and developing a complex addon how would you feel about Blizzard now telling that you can't even ask for donations? Obviously Blizzard wants to keep addons in the realm of hobby, but do they have the right to tell people how they can use their UI API?
Comment Re:Apple OS != Linux? (Score 1) 596
Whoosh.
Definitions of certifiable on the Web:
* fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly)
* capable of being guaranteed or certified; "a certifiable fact"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* That can, or that must be certified; Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certifiable
First Evidence of Supernovae Found In Ice Cores 145
KentuckyFC writes "Supernovae in our part of the Milky Way ought to have a significant impact on the atmosphere. In particular, the intense gamma-ray burst would ionize oxygen and nitrogen in the mid to upper atmosphere, increasing the levels of nitrogen oxide there by an order of magnitude or so. Now a team of Japanese researchers has found the first evidence of a supernova's impact on the atmosphere in an ice core taken from Dome Fuji in Antarctica. The team examined ice that was laid down in the 11th century and found three nitrogen oxide spikes, two of which correspond to well known supernovae: one event in 1006 AD and another in 1054 AD, which was the birth of the Crab Nebula (abstract). Both were widely reported by Chinese and Arabic astronomers at the time. The third spike is unexplained, but the team suggests it may have been caused by a supernova visible only from the southern hemisphere or one that was obscured by interstellar dust."
Comment Re:Time (Score 5, Funny) 1656
Why not just leave some spare money around instead? Obama does seem to be all for change...
Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up 272
The Wall Street Journal is covering developments in the gathering battle between manufacturers and retailers / discounters, especially online ones, over minimum prices. Earlier this year the Supreme Court upheld the right of manufacturers to enforce price floors for their products. Since then, manufacturers have increasingly been employing service companies like NetEnforcers to snitch on discounters who offer goods below "minimum advertised prices" (or MAPs), and to send DMCA takedown notices to the likes of eBay and Craigslist for below-minimum offers. Separately, the Journal reports that a coalition of discounters and retailers is using eBay as a stalking-horse in a campaign to get consumers, and then politicians, fired up enough to pass legislation outlawing MAPs.
BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users 131
eldavojohn writes "The BBC is planning to release some of its programmes to users of GNU & Linux. You won't see Doctor Who or Dragons' Den on there anytime soon, but they have been working with Canonical & Collabora on getting this out there for Totem users. The developer blog mentions that the sheer number of options in the open source world actually makes this difficult to accomplish."
