Comment Re:Thanks, (Score 2) 202
If you really like 3.5.10 why don't you use Trinity?
For me KDE 4.6 serves all my needs, memory footprint could be better, but it's now the way it should be.
Comment Re:Updated TOS (Score 1) 313
Why? Competition. That's how a market system works.
Submission + - open source against open societies
Elektroschock writes: The Russian Federation will create a walled wide web based on open source software because they see American information technology as a threat. Their "distrust of commercial software from abroad" was recently fueled by the Stuxnet windows worm. Stuxnet was applied to sabotage nuclear research of middle east emerging powers. A proprietary software trojan as a the saviour of the occident, and Linux embraced by totalitarian regimes as North Korea and Usbekistan, makes you wonder: Does open source promote an open society?
Comment Re:Gee, do you think they may be overvalued? (Score 1) 485
That's why I say, they should invest in Wine, that would improve their chance of longterm survival.
Comment Re:Once it was said: (Score 1) 485
Just imagine Apple to dump 50 Mio $ annually on Wine. In fact that they say they don't compete is a detraction. Of course they do.
Comment Re:Sometimes, the bigger they are the bigger they (Score 1) 485
They should dump 50 Mio $ for Wine on Mac Development. It is a minor investment but would make a huge difference. With a market capitalisation of 300 Billion you can do these kind of things with ease.
Comment Re:ah faux news (Score 1) 338
I don't think that Fox represents right wing politics. That is only a detraction. Fox is as rightwing as Stalin was a lefty. I just does not match. That a channel like Fox is allowed to set the national agenda in the Us just demonstrates the brokeness of their political system. Fox is a Saudi agitprop channel.
Wait for Assange to attack US banks like Bank of America, JP.Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs and they are done.
Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux 500
Glyn Moody writes "Vladimir Putin has signed an order calling for Russian federal authorities to move to GNU/Linux, and for the creation of 'a single repository of free software used in the federal bodies of executive power.' There have been a number of Russian projects to roll out free software, notably in the educational sector, but none so far has really taken off. With the backing of Putin, could this be the breakthrough free software has been waiting for?"
Comment Re:The most successful trolls (Score 1) 383
I was talking about the need-to-know-principle. When you code a tool for DDOS it should be in a way that a person participating in the attack can say, oh I thought it was a tool for virus filtering.
Submission + - Stallman Says You Should Worry About Chrome OS (digitizor.com)
dkd903 writes: According to Richard Stallman of GNU, Chrome OS means users losing control of their data. Although Chrome OS is based on GNU/Linux, it is quite different from other distributions in the sense that it does not allow users to install software and stores as much data as possible in the cloud – which are essentially servers located somewhere.
Submission + - Google Patents Browser Hightlight All Button (bnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google has picked up another patent on a technology that you might think basic to the web: the highlight all button for searches in browsers. The patent will backdate to 1999 and presents an interesting problem for such software as the Firefox browser and FeedDemon RSS reader. And, in an interesting twist, Microsoft uses a similar mechanism in Windows Explorer. But Microsoft itself said that browser technology can't be separated from the operating system. Does that mean the company owes a royalty to Google for all those copies of Windows?
Submission + - The Internet Goes to War (arbornetworks.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: After two weeks of escalating DDoS attacks (including major strikes against United Airlines, Delta, Air France and most of the other major airlines last night), is the Internet now at war and are open-source coders developing tools like LOIC the new combatants? An interesting report by Arbor comparing Wikileaks and retaliatory DDoS to 5,000 confirmed attacks last year (they claim the largest study of DDoS ever conducted). The general conclusion — most pro-Wikileaks attacks were amateur (not the work of "evil criminal masterminds") and the Internet has far more to fear from professional / criminal hackers and the militarization of the Internet than volunteer hacktivists.
Submission + - 'Anonymous' DDoS Tool Leaks Users' IP Addresses (threatpost.com) 1
Trailrunner7 writes: A new study finds that a tool used to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on behalf of whistle blower Web site Wikileaks may, itself, leak the identity of those running the software.
Researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, looked at the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), a DDoS tool being used by the umbrella group Anonymous and found that the tool fails to shield the Internet Protocol (IP) address of computers running the tool, according to a research paper. That could allow authorities to round up DDoS participants merely by analyzing the source of the junk traffic their computers sent to target Web pages, including those of Paypal, Mastercard and Visa.
Researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, looked at the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), a DDoS tool being used by the umbrella group Anonymous and found that the tool fails to shield the Internet Protocol (IP) address of computers running the tool, according to a research paper. That could allow authorities to round up DDoS participants merely by analyzing the source of the junk traffic their computers sent to target Web pages, including those of Paypal, Mastercard and Visa.
Comment Re:Very easy explanation (Score 1) 383
When AMAZON enforces 1-click patent against Barnes&Noble about Christmas time poor Barnes and Noble.
When ANONYMOUS kiddies DoS Paypal that is indeed an issue and damage can be done, the service dips a bit, but the attack won't last forever.
When WIKILEAKS publishes information about J.P.Morgan the US financial market collapses a bit.
Comment Re:The most successful trolls (Score 1) 383
And the attack does not even involve suicide!
They are not the real talibanksters!
