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Censorship

IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship 226

Posted by kdawson from the that-streisand-thing-again dept.
jonbryce writes "The Internet Watch Foundation, guardians of the Great Firewall of Britain, have stopped censoring Wikipedia for hosting what they considered to be a child porn image. They had previously threatened to block Amazon for hosting the same image." Here is the IWF's statement, which credits the Streisand Effect for opening their eyes: "...in light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability, the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list. Any further reported instances of this image which are hosted abroad, will not be added to the list. ... IWF's overriding objective is to minimize the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect."

Comment Runs even on a PCC Mac! (Score 1) 422

by AttilaSz (#25779505) Attached to: Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game

I'm buying this game. The demo was tremendous fun for both me and my kids. And the best part for which I can give these folks a lot of respect:

The game has a Mac version. Not only that, it's not a lame-ass "we really wrote it for Win32 API and made the Mac version linking it with WINE/Cider so it only works on Intel Macs only, sorta" that seems to be the trend in the game industry who try to go the Mac route.

Nossir. This game specs its requirements as an "Intel or PPC G4 CPU", meaning they really did write it as cross platform code (Linux version coming soon), which is exactly a beautiful display of the spirit whose lack of in the industry I've been lamenting before here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1021097&cid=25674759

So, double kudos to them (and they get my money, as this game will run on the iMac G5 I'll pass down to my kids this Christmas).
Security

Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill 218

Posted by kdawson from the stay-dead-willya dept.
ancientribe writes "The thousands of Web sites infected by a new widespread SQL injection attack during the past few days aren't necessarily in the clear after they remove the malicious code from their sites. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have witnessed the attackers quickly reinfecting those same sites all over again. Meanwhile, researchers at SecureWorks have infiltrated the Chinese underground in an attempt to procure a copy of the stealthy new automated tool being used in the attacks."

Comment No PowerPC support (Score 1) 668

by AttilaSz (#25674759) Attached to: iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

Songbird doesn't run on PowerPC Macs.

What thoroughly pisses me off is Mac software that doesn't ship as a universal binary, but is compiled only for Intel Macs. UNIX-targeting Open Source software should be CPU architecture independent, or have a damn good reason not to be. I can't fathom why would an Open Source music player software targeting (among others) Linux be bound to Intel CPU architecture.

I have a mixture of PowerPC and Intel Macs in my household. The iMac G5 my wife uses is less than 3 years old and has plenty of horsepower. I just hate it when software publishers artificially obsolete this CPU platform because they're lazy to add that single additional gcc command line flag to emit both ppc and x86 code in a single executable.

Yes, you might actually end up having to update your code in few places because it was not architecture independent, but if you're proud enough of your work on the code, that actually benefits you, and you should do it.

If you're an open source provider wanting to compete for users on Mac OS X, you'll need every user. Cutting off everyone who bought their last Mac more than two and a half years ago doesn't strike me as wise.
The Almighty Buck

Facebook Finds Grass Greener In Ireland 287

Posted by kdawson from the o'tax-break dept.
theodp writes "Facebook announced it has chosen tax-haven Dublin for its international HQ, but not all are buying COO Sheryl Sandberg's line about local world-class talent being the motivation behind the move. The Irish Times recently reported that Irish subsidiaries owned by US multinationals are opting to convert to unlimited liability status, concealing the financial performance of their Irish operations from public view. They include Microsoft's incredibly profitable Irish subsidiaries Round Island One and Flat Island Company, Google Ireland Holdings, and a subsidiary of Apple Computer. The conversions have occurred as US tax authorities have increased their scrutiny of international mechanisms used by American multinationals to reduce their taxes at home."
Media (Apple)

Submission + - Official YouTube support on Apple TV

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AttilaSz
AttilaSz writes: "Seems like Apple TV and YouTube are officially married now: the Apple TV webpage says: "And soon, youll be able to browse and watch YouTube videos on the big screen, too. Coming in June, you can browse and watch thousands of free YouTube videos streaming directly from the Internet.""
User Journal

Journal Journal: Got moderator points

Journal by AttilaSz
This is the first time in my life I got /. moderator points. Definitely a thing to write in your /. journal!

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