Comment Re:that really is a really bad development (Score 1) 242
Let's just hope the operators won't become numb seeing those pictures.
Submission + - Orrin Hatch - Software copyright violater (fudreport.com) 2
fudreporter writes: "Wired.com has an article referring to comments Senator Orrin Hatch(R-Utah) made about downloading copyrighted material from the Internet...
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.
But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes.
The senator's site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch's website.
"It's an unlicensed copy," said Andy Woolley, who runs Milonic. "It's very unfortunate for him because of those comments he made.""
Submission + - Linux / Unix boxes sweep Amazon's 'best of" 20 (businesswire.com)
christian.einfeldt writes: "Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007, according BusinessWire.com for 28 December 2007. Best selling computer? The Nokia Internet Tablet PC, running Linux. Best reviewed computer? The Apple MacBook Pro notebook PC. Most wished for computer? Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7-inch PC mobile Internet device, which comes with Xandros Linux pre-installed. And last, but not least, the most frequently gifted computer: The Apple MacBook notebook PC. Microsoft makes only one appearance on the list, and it wasn't in games, but in the best selling software package: Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007. Microsoft fans will point out that 'all of these computers are capable of running Windows', but in years past, that line belonged to the Linux / Mac crowd."
Submission + - Florida election ballots to be printed on-demand
davidwr writes: The St. Petersburg, FL, Times reports that Florida is going back to paper ballots, but with a twist. They are printing the ballots on-demand, right there at the polling booth. This isn't machine-assisted voting where a touch-screen fills in your printed ballot for you. It's just a way to save printing costs and reduce paper waste.
Submission + - DIY Diamond Thermal Compound (recommendedspec.com)
Jayson Anders writes: Research has been done demonstrating a far superior type of thermal compound using diamond. Silver has a respectable thermal conductivity at: 429W/m K. Diamond on the other hand has a thermal conductivity of 900-2320 W/m K. So worst case scenario we double performance, and best case is roughly a 5x multiplier. The folks over at Recommendedspec.com have put together a article showing you how to make your own!
Submission + - Help me fight the swiss dmca. (no-dmca.ch)
pyalot writes: "The swiss goverment has passed a law that would make it impossible to cirvumvent effective copy protection measures. I have created a page to inform and organize a resistance against this law. If we collect 50'000 signatures until the 24th of January however, we can force a national vote on this law. Help me in any way that you can fight this law. I was first made aware of this two days ago by this article on slashdot."
Submission + - U.S. Claims Right to Kidnap British Citizens (timesonline.co.uk)
boarder8925 writes: "The U.S. federal government has informed Britain that it has the right to kidnap British citizens suspected of criminal offenses. The Times continues: "A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.""
Submission + - Novell Make Linux Driver Project a Reality
apokryphos writes: "Novell have relaunched the Linux Driver Project by dedicating well-known kernel developer Greg KH to work on the project full-time. Greg KH writes:
"My employer, Novell, has modified my position to now allow me to work full time on this project. Namely getting more new Linux kernel drivers written, for free, for any company that so desires. And to help manage all of the developers and project managers who want to help out...They really care about helping make Linux support as many devices as possible, with fully open-source drivers.""
"My employer, Novell, has modified my position to now allow me to work full time on this project. Namely getting more new Linux kernel drivers written, for free, for any company that so desires. And to help manage all of the developers and project managers who want to help out...They really care about helping make Linux support as many devices as possible, with fully open-source drivers.""
Submission + - Should I move to Resin if I'm on Tomcat with PHP?
OldJavaHack writes: We have an environment where we have Tomcat on the backend for java processes, while the web user interfaces are primarily done in PHP, with both the front and back ends communicating to a mysql db.
Some folks have told us that we should consider moving to Resin which supports PHP as a servlet to reduce the complexity of development for our environment.
Is this a good solution to allow java developers and PHP web developers to work effectively on the same application framework? And is this a good solution to develop large user base, concurrent applications?
I've done some poking around and have found that Salesforce.com seems to be using resin (not sure if they are using this for the entire site or just some 1 off application).
There are also 2 flavors — a free version and a professional version (from caucho.com). I am curious to find out how useful is the free version from a large production standpoint (or if you go production, you're crazy to do it on the free version because of a lack of key features).
You can find more about resin here: http://wiki.caucho.com/Features
Some folks have told us that we should consider moving to Resin which supports PHP as a servlet to reduce the complexity of development for our environment.
Is this a good solution to allow java developers and PHP web developers to work effectively on the same application framework? And is this a good solution to develop large user base, concurrent applications?
I've done some poking around and have found that Salesforce.com seems to be using resin (not sure if they are using this for the entire site or just some 1 off application).
There are also 2 flavors — a free version and a professional version (from caucho.com). I am curious to find out how useful is the free version from a large production standpoint (or if you go production, you're crazy to do it on the free version because of a lack of key features).
You can find more about resin here: http://wiki.caucho.com/Features
Submission + - Why municipal wi-fi networks have been such a flop
Jake writes: Hi,
Jake Melville from Slate.com here. Today, we published a story on the failed effort of municipal Wi-Fi efforts. We thought that you and your readers might enjoy it, given your recent coverage of the wi-fi issue and tech trends.
The story can be found here: http://www.slate.com/id/2174858/
Thanks very much,
Jake Melville
Jake Melville from Slate.com here. Today, we published a story on the failed effort of municipal Wi-Fi efforts. We thought that you and your readers might enjoy it, given your recent coverage of the wi-fi issue and tech trends.
The story can be found here: http://www.slate.com/id/2174858/
Thanks very much,
Jake Melville
Journal SPAM: Black Waters Run Deep 6
Cofer Black (Blackwater) Security Advisor to Romney Campaign.
It doesn't matter who wins in '08 - America loses.
Submission + - DNS censored?
An anonymous reader writes: I am a Comcast user who cannot get to a web site that is functional. I suspect censorship.
Today I read a story about a "white power" website that had published threats against people in the Jena 6 case. Being a curious person, I wanted to see that website. I saw Bill White's name, who I know to be a Nazi leader, and I have seen his website overthrow.com before. He's an idiot, please don't think I sympathize with his views, which are the opposite of mine, but this isn't the place to discuss that.
What I found at www.overthrow.com was a "Server not found." I got the same thing at the american national socialist workers party www.answp.com; another site that Google suggested www.nazisozi.com, etc. Out of curiosity, I used whois to get the IP number for overthrow.com, which was http://208.74.85.3./ Put that in the location window, clicked, and went immediately to the site, where I saw the obnoxious stuff.
I take this to mean that somebody has taken overthrow.com out of the domain name server that Comcast (my ISP) uses. The server's up, the site's alive, but the URL is disabled.
I am quite concerned that someone is able to censor my web access in this way, and wonder how many other not-found servers I've encountered have simply been cut off by somebody with control of the system between me and the site. I hope the knowledgeable people at Slashdot can give us an idea what has happened here.
Today I read a story about a "white power" website that had published threats against people in the Jena 6 case. Being a curious person, I wanted to see that website. I saw Bill White's name, who I know to be a Nazi leader, and I have seen his website overthrow.com before. He's an idiot, please don't think I sympathize with his views, which are the opposite of mine, but this isn't the place to discuss that.
What I found at www.overthrow.com was a "Server not found." I got the same thing at the american national socialist workers party www.answp.com; another site that Google suggested www.nazisozi.com, etc. Out of curiosity, I used whois to get the IP number for overthrow.com, which was http://208.74.85.3./ Put that in the location window, clicked, and went immediately to the site, where I saw the obnoxious stuff.
I take this to mean that somebody has taken overthrow.com out of the domain name server that Comcast (my ISP) uses. The server's up, the site's alive, but the URL is disabled.
I am quite concerned that someone is able to censor my web access in this way, and wonder how many other not-found servers I've encountered have simply been cut off by somebody with control of the system between me and the site. I hope the knowledgeable people at Slashdot can give us an idea what has happened here.
Submission + - EU thinktank urges full Windows unbundling
leffeman writes: An influential Brussels think tank is urging the European Commission to ban the bundling of operating systems with desktop and laptop computers. The Globalisation Institute's submission to the Commission says that bundling 'is not in the public interest' and that the dominance of Windows has 'slowed technical improvements and prevented new alternatives entering from the marketplace.' It says the Microsoft tax is a burden on EU businesses: the price of operating systems would be lower in a competitive market. This is the first time a major free-market think tank has published in favour of taking action against Microsoft's monopoly power.
Submission + - Intel Demos Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core At IDF (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Intel demonstrated a dual socket
gaming rig at IDF this week, based on their Skulltrail platform with the X38
chipset. The interesting thing about this machine wasn't just that it had 45nm
quad-core CPUs in its sockets, as well as PCI Express 2.0 capable slots, but also that it
was running a pair of NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI. That's right,
SLI on an Intel chipset. No word whether or not X38 would officially be
supported with SLI just yet. In fact, NVIDIA representatives noted Intel was
buying NVIDIA nForce 100 SLI Southbridges just for
this one Intel motherboard model."
Submission + - Moveon.org Continues With Its Assault On General P (blogspot.com)
Advocate123 writes: Moveon.org has continued to bring the Democratic Party lower and lower into the abyss. While many Americans disagree with the War in Iraq, none of them want to see an organization that donates more to politicians than the NRA call a General a traitor.
