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Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It 273

An anonymous reader writes "Be careful mentioning Dr. Ann De Wees Allen. She's made it clear that she's trademarked her name and using it is 'illegal... without prior written permission.' She even lists out the names of offenders and shows you the cease-and-desist letter she sends them. And, especially don't copy any of the text on her website, because she's using a bit of javascript that will warn you 'Copyright Protect!' if you right click on a link."
Data Storage

Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? 467

gust5av writes "I'm working on a little script to provide very simple and easy to use steganography. I'm using bash together with cryptsetup (without LUKS), and the plausible deniability lies in writing to different parts of a container file. On decryption you specify the offset of the hidden data. Together with a dynamically expanding filesystem, this makes it possible to have an arbitrary number of hidden volumes in a file. It is implausible to reveal the encrypted data without the password, but is it possible to prove there is encrypted data where you claim there's not? If I give someone one file containing random data and another containing data encrypted with AES, will he be able to tell which is which?"
Open Source

Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth 655

climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community. He wrote, "Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are 'wrong by default.' It's the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: it has nothing to do with someone's 'birth tribe' and everything to do with their affiliations: where they work, which sports team they support, which Linux distribution they love. ... Right now, for a number of reasons, there is a fever pitch of tribalism in plain sight in the free software world. It's sad. It's not constructive. It's ultimately going to be embarrassing for the people involved, because the Internet doesn't forget. It's certainly not helping us lift free software to the forefront of public expectations of what software can be."

Comment Re:http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ (Score 1) 527

I don't think that I've ever seen a demo page done by Mozilla that forced the user to switch the browser. They just state what it's being demo, some of those demos don't even work in the last public release but only on nightlies, but they allow you to test it with whatever browser you are using and many times they provide a video to show how it should behave if your browser did support that API.

Comment Re:google has a big opening here (Score 1) 610

Have you tested an Android phone?

You can install an app from any place without the need to break the warranty of your phone. Your paid apps are stored in your google account so if you wipe and reinstall everything they are still there. Non-paid apps can be easily back-up in the SD and move them to your computer if you please.

It's funny.  Laugh.

Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2 179

An anonymous reader writes "A California steel contractor spent 2,200 total hours over the last three years racking up a high score in Bejeweled 2. He exceeded the 2^31-1 maximum score programmed for the score display, proving that there is, in fact, an end to the game. I suppose congratulations or condolences are in order."

Comment Who pays? (Score 5, Insightful) 449

Yes, those poor telecoms that gives their users free access to the internet must be paid back by Google. How does Google dares to provide content and expect the charity telecoms to be the only ones that pay for those bills. I'm outraged.

Wait a minute....

Then why my telecom is sending me a monthly fee?

Comment Re:But Opera develops all new features first! (Score 1) 78

Opera has released Dragonfly, their answer to Firebug

I propose a new betting pool: How long until an Opera fanatic claims Opera developed Dragonfly first, and Firebug is just a ripoff.

Actually before Dragonfly opera had a different set of developer tools, called Developer Console

Opera Developer Console

Opera now includes a developer console that can be added into the browser with many new features. The developer console includes new tools including DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector.

Which were released 15 Nov, 2006, and on my research that is a year or so before firefox.

Link: http://dev.opera.com/tools/

That's not a comparison for Firebug, it's their version of the Web Developer extension. Also, that's not a "year or so" before Firebug: oldest post in Firebug group is 18th Nov, 2006

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