Comment Backdoors... (Score 4, Insightful) 576
Why bother asking Linus to put a backdoor in Linux when it's just easier to ask Intel putting a backdoor in their processors?
Comment Big brother (Score 1) 161
Big brother's coming! They already tried two years ago to put this on all cars, then the law vanished... Now they're trying again... let's see if they'll be able to overcome privacy and "distribution" problems...
Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor 478
crudmonkey writes "Researchers have discovered a biological shocker: female boa constrictors are capable of giving birth asexually. But the surprise doesn't end there. The study in Biology Letters found that boa babies produced through this asexual reproduction — also known as parthenogenesis — sport a chromosomal oddity that researchers thought was impossible in reptiles. While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction. Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far commoner than ever expected."
Open Source Developer Knighted 101
unixfan writes "Georg Greve, developer of Open Document Format and active FOSS developer, has received a knighthood in Germany for his work. From the article: 'Some weeks ago I received news that the embassy in Berne had unsuccessfully been trying to contact me under FSFE's old office address in Zurich. This was a bit odd and unexpected. So you can probably understand my surprise to be told by the embassy upon contacting them that on 18 December 2009 I had been awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) by the Federal Republic of Germany. As you might expect, my first reaction was one of disbelief. I was, in fact, rather shaken. You could also say shocked. Quick Wikipedia research revealed this to be part of the orders of knighthood, making this a Knight's Cross.'"
Comment Who gets the tax money? (Score 1) 271
How would they know which artist is "pirated" and how to calculate the share of the tax money for each "pirated" artist?
In Italy we have such a tax on CD and DVD, and guess who gets the money? Certainly not the artists...
Submission + - Google hacked?
fabrica64 writes: "Is it just me? All queries to google return "this site may harm your computer"..."
