Comment Re:Reasons for:SciFi list (Score 1) 796
The Machine Stops
Maybe I'm confusing my history, but I thought Java was basically pre-Linux. Let alone pre-Linux-goes-big-on-the-server-market.
So it makes sense that somebody would want to make an environment that abstracts the machine away and works reliably on every machine. That was the whole point of POSIX, though it didn't go far enough to satisfy everybody. And it makes sense that savvy consumers would want that too, for a variety of reasons: Large market for developers, easy deployment, sunk cost fallacy, less vendor lock-in, etc.
but he needs to understand that pervasive surveillance is also bad for business.German coalition favors German-owned or open source software, aims to lock NSA out
There's no shortage of people willing to point that out. Having said that though, there could be some great benefits to us ordinary people if it encourages government adoption of open source and local products.
Germany’s new coalition government listed open source software among its IT policy priorities, and said it will take steps to protect its citizens against espionage threats from the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies.
Coalition parties CDU, CSU and SPD signed up to the plans Monday in Berlin.
The new government’s goal is to keep core technologies, including IT security, process and enterprise software, cryptography and machine-to-machine communication on proprietary technology platforms and production lines in Germany or in Europe, according to the coalition agreement.
But the government will also promote the use and development of open platforms and open source software as an alternative to closed proprietary systems, and will support the use of those in Europe, the parties said in the agreement. The public sector will need to consider open source solutions as a possibility when purchasing new IT, they said.
They also want to compete on a global level with “software made in Germany” and strengthen the quality of security, data protection, design and usability by doing so
Not nearly enough said to even get more than "I don't like Microsoft" from it.
I don't see anything about disliking Microsoft.
The commenter was simply making it clear that Grallo is rarely more than a mouthpiece for a commercial entity, and far from being a journalist.
Yea 'cause most people wanna mess with setting up Apache and some other Linux bullshit.
Why would you need to do that?
I just clicked the "Install" button for Owncloud in the Software Centre.
Linux admins have higher salaries then windows admins.
But you need less of them
March 28, 2012: In response to a request from the CSU the City reported that it has already saved about 4 million euros in licensing costs as well as reduced the number of support calls
Sports contribute in the same way movies, music, games, and comedy do. They provide entertainment.
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(o) Yes (o) no.
At least that'd explain Clippy's pervert-on-the-playground look...
Statistically, five meters really isn't much different from ten meters, or twenty meters, or even thirty meters. It's only when you get to about 80 meters or so that we see a statistically-significant deviation from the standard probability distributions.
And you know this because you have the distribution of thicknesses and computed the standard deviation. Right?
Otherwise, you just pulled 80m out of your ass. That must have hurt.
Yes, there's a demand. But the economy of music has apparently reached its saturation point. That is, demand is no longer growing faster than attrition. It will take long-term demographic shifts for growth. There is no room for new players and current players are scaling back their operations to the "essentials" for the business.
Pandora will be fine. Spotify will be fine. But they won't grow or make anybody rich anymore.
International law 101:
It is a sovereign's privilege to not obey other sovereign's laws. That, in effect, is what makes a sovereign a sovereign. If the other sovereign's object, they have to stop the offender.
In this case, that means stopping the intrusions through security or force. Good luck with that.
[Citation Needed.]
Major data encryption software like TrueCrypt, Microsoft BitLocker, FileVault, BestCrypt etc have backdoors which allows access to data without the key.
This was disclosed as per a presentation leaked @ http://cryptome.org/ which was given by Detective Michael Smith. Computer Crimes & Computer Forensics, Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
Although NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) says that they use it for detecting child pornography but the discloser itself is sufficient to raise doubts on NSA-corporate bond again
http://hackingly.org/nsa/backdoor-in-truecrypt-bitlocker-filevault-281.html
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