Hi!

The story is based on Facebook posts, which are in Finnish. Luckily, I am a Finnish person, and here is my take:

1) TTVK allegedly posts a Pirate Bay Torrent with latest cd from the Finnish artist Chisu (crappy music, that appeals to youth)
2) This guy claims his daughter downloaded it while "googling for test samples for album she didn't have money to buy at the time"
3) TTVK sends an angry letter, demanding 600 euros and demanding that you sign NDA about the agreement to pay
4) Police comes to raid the man's home, several months later, taking only the laptop of his daughter, and saying things like "just pay the bill, it is not that much" and "if you pay, we will go away and leave you alone"
5) Guy decides to fight it, does not sign the NDA and makes a Facebook post
6) Kukilainen from TTVK makes a note saying, "we only track IPs and we will take this to court"
7) Artist posts on her Facebook page "I don't want to sue my fans, but I think these TTVK guys are not so bad as you think"
8) Anti-piracy party in Finland blames the artists for not taking a stand, praises the guy for his heroism and demanding law reforms
9) Police makes a statement, that they are investing the father's part in this and it becomes clear, that the guy own's a bar and has live performances - so he should be aware of intellectual property rights.

The general atmosphere here in Finland is, that artists and contributors generally do want compensation, want this particular case to go away , and TTVK to resume business as usual and normal people are waking up to reality of our crappy copyright laws. One university law professor stated, that legistlation is a result from lobbying campaign from TTVK and should not ever have passed in its current form.

Links:
http://antipiracy.fi/inenglish/

Manufacturing jobs are low pay, lots of manual work. This gives a whole new meaning to words "code monkey".

Imagine truckloads of people doing basic programming tasks straight out of school. In worst case, they have one college graduated "software architect" and 50 people coding stuff he designed. And their career plan: if you do well, you can have your own team building software. That's it.

And I haven't even started on the quality of code..

Oh, I can see why Microsoft would offer a new license:

- Personal -> they tie that your Windows-account, so you can't never ever sell it
- Single System -> they tie that to your PC configuration, so you can't change your GPU without upgrading to full version

.. so they are just making another confusing license and hope to gain more users for their Anytime Upgrade. I mean, you do have to upgrade your PC if you are like selling your old PC with PULSB. This way Microsoft can charge for Windows 8 twice, yay!

I had Asus EEEPC 901 and I currencly have Intel DC 2700 DC Atom-motherboard.

I just love their Linux support! On 2700DC it doesn't exist. Hell, it took them 6 months to get XP drivers out.

On GMA 950 (EEEPC 901) they decided quietly to downgrade OpenGL back to 1.x -versions, because they couldn't be arsed with maintaining the driver base.

Let me guess - that SDK is Windows only?

I have Samsung Galaxy S.

Samsung has been neglegting this phone every since Galaxy S II came out. The latest firmware was buggy and sometimes my screen would not work and only removing the battery would fix it. Battery life was horrible, too: one day, when phone was on the table doing nothing.

Then I installed CyanogenMod9 (ICS), and battery life has tripled. There are a few bugs, like radio doesn't work or some camera modes, but everything else works perfectly. From what I am seeing, this hardware is more than enough to run ICS. But not according to Samsung.. There will be no official ICS update ever.

I am thinking about switching to HTC. Samsung had managed to cripple my old phone - probably trying to force me to upgrade.

I clicked the link and read TFA:

For that you'll get 8GB of storage, but a 16GB model will go for $249, 32GB for $299. We're told only the 16GB and 32GB models will be shipped to the US..

So... they'll have a 8GB $200 model, somewhere, probably always sold out, and the real price will be between $249 - $299.

I've stopped downloading illegal software after finding a decent place to work years ago (so I can afford the things I need now!).

This is a total exception. I would definately use some illegal "crack" to unleash the full power of the product I bought. It was crippled at the time of purchase and I am just "fixing it".

I don't see any moral problems with this. That is why I am not posting as AC.

I've done analysis on some of the lisences for my previous company. The thing it, you can actually have trade secrets in your code with for example BSD-style lisence, where you only need to provide the acknowledgement and changes to the original source code. Sometimes not even that much. We actually chose software based on the lisencing terms. Not all lisences are that restrictive (for commercial gain).

Then again, with GPL you need to publish the full source code, so this is a moot point.

If the lisence would have been LGPL, they could easily just keep their trade secrets..

I would call it Partial Gaussian Blur. Since that is effectively what they are doing. They are blurring the sharp edges of the image.

The right balance of NAND, DRAM and an HDD yields better results than DRAM and HDDs, study finds

So.. they have NAND, DRAM and HDDs, and they choose to kill.. DRAM? What? If something is going to fade away it is the HDDs..

TFA probably uses this as source:

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/06/20/intel-equipped-to-lead-industry-to-era-of-exascale-computing

There are 50 cores in that Knight's Ferry. They could probably go to 80 by year's end.

That might actually be the point.

Legal online market in Finland is not selling so well. So they blame piracy.

Instead, Apple, Amazon, even Spotify are selling much more than Finnish online retailers together. Why buy from local legal online service with shitty DRM and/or high prices, when you can buy from well established American counterpart? The people in Finland can use the internet and they are just flocking to better online music providers.

They are not switching to Intel processors. They are letting Intel build their processors. Big difference.

They will just probably use Intel's advanced 22nm technology to build processors based on ARM architecture. Something they might also design themselves.

Much like GlobalFoundries is not AMD, they just manufacture AMD products.

RFC1149 - Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

RFC2549 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html

What about Via?