Comment: Re:Sveiki! (Score 1) 6
is the party still on, considering low activity in signing up for it?
Comment: Re:Sveiki! (Score 1) 6
Apparently it's October 20 (see the info above).
What is that place at Jauniela 19/1? Office, cafe,
Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee 136
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from the I'll-resign-my-commission dept.
from the I'll-resign-my-commission dept.
iammichael writes "The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee due to a long dispute over the licensing restrictions placed on the TCK (test kit validating third-party Java implementations are compatible with the specification)."
+ - UPC Ireland latest to do a DNS hijacking trial->
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CaptSolo writes "UPC Ireland has started a trial of a DNS hijacking "service", in a violation of net neutrality. When users enter a URL for a non-existing domain, they are redirected to a landing page (for example, this). They do provide instructions for disabling this service, consisting of a PDF with screenshots demonstrating how Windows users can change DNS servers.
An example log of a hijacked HTTP request: http://gist.github.com/211317
Related: http://slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/1926257/Comcast-the-Latest-ISP-To-Try-DNS-Hijacking"
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An example log of a hijacked HTTP request: http://gist.github.com/211317
Related: http://slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/1926257/Comcast-the-Latest-ISP-To-Try-DNS-Hijacking"
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+ - Cisco, Nokia take aim at net neutrality->
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angry tapir writes "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced last month that he would seek to develop formal rules prohibiting Internet service providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web content and applications. However, 44 companies — including Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia — have sent a letter to the FCC saying new regulations could hinder the development of the Internet. A group of 18 Republican U.S. senators have also sent a letter to Genachowski raising concerns about net neutrality regulations"
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+ - What makes a beautiful machine? 1
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Nefarious Wheel writes "One of the great perks of the company where I work is a huge variety of technical magazines in the coffee room, often having to do with industrial machinery, the aircraft industry, logistics, the world of the intensely practical application. Leafing through these I'm struck by how some very mundane machinery is really very beautiful. I guess form follows function, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but — why are some machines just simply beautiful to look at? Is it a case of things attracting us for monkey reasons, or intelligence crossing the barrier to emotion because of some line drawn by an artist masquerading as an engineer? Why is the nacelle of a commercial jet, a scanning electron microscope, a magnet of the LHC beautiful, when it was designed entirely to suit a practical purpose?"
+ - IntelliJ Goes Open Source->
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An anonymous reader writes "IntelliJ IDEA, the popular closed-source Java IDE is to go partially open source with the introduction of a new community version Jetbrains have announced. The community addition includes full Java code support — various refactorings and code inspections, coding assistance; debugging, TestNG and JUnit testing; CVS, Subversion and Git support; Ant and Maven build integration; and Groovy and Scala support (through a separate plugin). The commercial Ultimate Edition will add support for features such as Android, GWT, Flex, JEE and OSGi"
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Comment: Re:Yes you are violating the spirit of the GPL (Score 1) 782
In this case "free" means free as in you can do whatever you want with it (provided you have the right tools to do it) and not "free" as in free of charge.
Comment: Re:Yes you are violating the spirit of the GPL (Score 1) 782
Does that mean that people should not be developing GPL-licensed software for iPhone (as it violates the spirit of GPL, according to what you wrote above)?
Comment: Re:This is trickier than it sounds (Score 1) 782
It is free as in freedom - you can do whatever you want with it.
You may want to compile an app, but nowhere does it say that the tools to compile the app (or the environment where you can run the app) are necessarily free. For example, there are GPL-licensed Windows programs but that does not mean you get Windows to run them in for free.
Comment: Re:The Charging is fine... (Score 1) 782
The Web is a medium. A URL is an address of some data on it.
Comment: Re:ID what? (Score 1) 1055
I use VIM (and MacVIM when on Mac), mostly for Python development. What's this "IDE" thing again?
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I am wondering, though, what do others use for coding (and for Python coding in particular). Text editors are fine for many tasks, but perhaps there are more complex projects with lots of files which require something like Eclipse, etc. What's your experience w. that?
Comment: Re:The OP doesn't know what "clean room" means (Score 2, Interesting) 115
Clean rooming would be irrelevant if the actual encryption keys were included in any other project.
What if the software did not include the keys itself but provided an option to pull them from a known location on the internet (or maybe from torrents using a magnet link)?
Comment: Re:The OP doesn't know what "clean room" means (Score 4, Informative) 115
Here's the DMCA takedown notice issued to the rtmpdump project:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?NoticeID=25159
Note that they are just claiming the ability to download copyrighted content as the reason for takedown (will we see a DMCA notice for IE and Firefox soon?). They might as easily use the same "reason" to issue notices to projects implementing this clean room specification.
Comment: Re:Anyone know where to find rtmpdump 1.6? (Score 1) 203
http://www.megashare.com/935955
That's a great find, thanks.