Comment The EC rule was not a good judgement (Score 1) 210
And these comments by the EC spokesman are unfortunate.
Comment separation of powers (Score 1) 106
Regulators (and judges) should not complain or make comments about the law, as much as law makers should not comment on how it is applied. If the limit was set (purportedly) low by the law maker, the regulator has to apply it and shut up. If they want to make laws get elected first.
Comment Re:DRM free (Score 1) 570
music is drm free since 2009 only
Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 1) 129
as Old97 said -- MS bought patents, not copyrights.
Netscape browser code was open sourced by Netscape just before its demise. Mozilla is not a complete re-write. It is
based on said open sourced code.
Comment competition authorities (Score 1) 241
Something useful the competition authorities (US, EU,
Submission + - Lab Spiderman skin (dw-world.de)
BBird writes: Interesting story from Deutsche Welle — This summer, a very unusual science project is on display at a museum in Leiden, southwest of Amsterdam. There's a piece of human skin that's been genetically combined to grow in conjunction with spider silk. This unique combination makes the skin bulletproof against a .22 caliber rifle — the standard for a Type 1 bulletproof vest. This means it can stop a 2.6-gram (0.09-ounce) bullet traveling at 329 meters per second (1,080 feet per second).
Submission + - Linus thinks virtualization is "evil" (networkworld.com) 1
crdotson writes: "Linus said in an interview that he thinks virtualization is "evil" because he prefers to deal with the real hardware. Hardware virtualization allows for better barriers between systems by running multiple OSes on the same hardware, but OS-level virtualization allows similar barriers without a hypervisor between the kernel and the hardware. Should we expect more focus on OS-level virtualization such as Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, and LXC?"
Submission + - Canonical Chooses Sides in the Cloud (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "In a blog post earlier this week, Canonical announced that it would be offering the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service tool in Ubuntu 11.10. What's interesting about the announcment, says blogger Brian Proffitt, 'is that Canonical chose to go with Cloud Foundry, an Apache-licensed fully open source project that was launched by VMware, rather than Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS offering. OpenShift, which uses technology from Makara, a company Red Hat bought late last year, is not fully open source yet, so that may have something to do with it. Cloud Foundry, while open and community driven, is also a way to position VMware against Red Hat's cloud offerings.'"
Comment Re:No money no development (Score 4, Insightful) 182
Mozilla is not a competitor. Google does not sell browsers, it sells ads, and mozilla is one more channel.
Submission + - Kindergartens ordered to pay copyright for songs (dw-world.de)
BBird writes: Deutsche Welle reports — up until this year, preschools could teach and produce any kind of song they wanted. But now they have to pay for a license if they want children to sing certain songs.
Submission + - Why Teach Programming with BASIC (kickstarter.com) 3
chromatic writes: "To answer the perennial question "How can we teach kids how to program?", we created a web-based programming environment. As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of programming."
Comment Re:Cruise Ship + Cantenna = ?? (Score 1) 308
But th ship is also in the ocean, so maybe you can use the same solution the cruise ship uses.
Comment what part of ourselves (Score 1) 247
is pornographic?
Comment Re:Bad summary, article also below par (Score 1) 840
Bravo!!
Comment The difference (vs closed code) is you can change (Score 1) 641
If you don't like it -- change it yourself --
if you have the skills to do it.
This is something you can not do with closed source
and is the big difference btw the two.
