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Google Talks About Ubuntu Experience->

Submitted by dartttt
dartttt writes "There was a very interesting session at UDS by Google developer Thomas Bushnell. He talked about how Ubuntu, its derivatives and Goobuntu (Google's customized Ubuntu based distro) are used by Google developers. He starts by saying 'Precise Rocks' and that many Google employees use Ubuntu including managers, software engineers, translators, people who wrote original Unix, people who have no clue about Unix etc. Many developers working on Chrome and Android use Ubuntu.

Ubuntu systems at Google are upgraded every LTS release. The entire process of upgrading can take as much as 4 months and it is also quite expensive as one reboot or a small change can cost them as much as 1 million dollars."

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Security

Adobe Changes Tune on Forcing Paid Upgrade to Fix Security Flaws->

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes "On Thursday, news of Adobe deciding to forgo developing a software patch to address code execution vulnerabilities in three applications under its popular CS5 creative suite. The problem exists within the parsing of TIFF files. If a malicious TIFF is opened, an attacker could execute code on the system with the privileges of the active user.

Instead of developing a patch for the software, Adobe originally said that in order to fix the issue, users would have to upgrade their software to the newer CS6 version—something users would have to pay for.

But since then, and after complaints, bad press, and user backlash, Adobe has changed its tune. The company now says that it is in the process of developing a patch that won’t essentially force users to upgrade in order to fix the security vulnerability.

For a popular product that was just over two years old, providing a fix to address a serious security flaw its what customers deserve. And while Adobe may have originally tried to sneak by without addressing the issue and pushing users to upgrade to its new product, the company made the right move in the end."

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Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years-> 3

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Nancy_A
Nancy_A writes "An engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the starship Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within 20 years. “We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise – so let’s do it,” writes the curator of the Build The Enterprise website, who goes by the name of BTE Dan."
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Comment: Re:Bad Timing (Score 1) 308

by 2muchcoffeeman (#39932307) Attached to: How Much Of Your Day Is Dedicated Video Games?

What really shocks me about the results thus far (and I'll spot you non-scientific, self-selected sample, &c.) is how overwhelmingly far ahead the I don't play video games option is. I certainly didn't expect any of the options having that much of a lead. When I voted, I anticipated seeing either 1 hour or 2-3 hours having a plurality of the votes with myself and the other non-gamers totaling somewhere in the low three-digit range.

Comment: Re:My solution Works most of the time (Score 1) 366

by 2muchcoffeeman (#39514627) Attached to: Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility

Maybe Add-on writers should push it up a few versions and hope it works? I dunno.

Sir (or miss, or ma'am, or droid ... what are you?), you have no business implying that add-on authors should test in the Aurora channel (or even Nightly) to make sure that their add-on continues to work. Clearly, the old Mozilla method in which base versions were allowed to stagnate for months and even years — allowing add-on developers to relax and not worry about things like version updates — must be catered to!

Comment: Re:Haha! That's hilarious (Score 1) 143

by 2muchcoffeeman (#39401165) Attached to: Chinese Writers Sue Apple Over IP Violations

Apparently people and groups in China suing Apple for cash (which has close to $100B on hand) is now a thing — witness the lawsuit filed by flat-ass broke Proview over the iPad name it gave up the rights to years ago (via a Taiwan subsidiary so it could try to hide the money Apple paid it from its creditors).

This sounds like a nuisance lawsuit filed against a big company specifically to try to extort a cash settlement out of convenience, rather than suing the actual copyright infringer (which is probably not as well-financed and may not even be known to the "authors' group"). I think they're in for a surprise when they get to court.

Comment: Re:wait a minute... (Score 1) 143

by 2muchcoffeeman (#39401093) Attached to: Chinese Writers Sue Apple Over IP Violations

As Apple isn't mailing out physical books, but instead is creating a copy on every sale, they are a content "creator" (as in distributor/copier), and thus are exactly who the copyright laws were written to cover.

Apple is serving as a retailer here, not a publisher like Random House or Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Apple is not the content creator nor is it the publisher of said content. In this instance, it's a retail outlet only.

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