Comment Re:jobs should not be allowed to look at arrest on (Score 1) 66
You cannot delete public knowledge
Comment Re: Whaaa? (Score 1) 141
its my understanding that google backs up their backups. queue backup song
Comment GOD? (Score 2) 221
its life jim but not as we know it
Comment Re: The future of capitalism (Score 1) 108
i cant see how steganography can anonymize a connection and hide a transaction when the end point is public knowledge. it is also not trivial to categorize a data stream as encrypted or not so further discussion isnt needed.
i dont know the device he/she is talking about but im guessing its just an average basic web services filter that would disallow everything thats not allowed.
Comment Re: Be careful (Score 1) 321
you must be the new guy
Comment Re: The future of capitalism (Score 1) 108
government sponsored capitalism and unbounded individual capitalism are the only types i hate. capitalism as an idea is great but the current system could use some work.
Comment We shouldnt want to get rid of patents (Score 1) 105
Patents and Software Patents are a problem due to the limitations thats imposed. There would be no problem if there was restrictions in respect to original ownership and limited commercial gain only. At the end of the day the system as it stands overly protects commercial interests and overly limits human interactions.
Comment Re:It's not worded very well, but... (Score 2) 516
s/literature/fictional literature/g
Comment Re:Retarded. (Score -1, Flamebait) 516
you are gay!
Comment Hear, here! (Score 1) 516
Violence is begotten!
Comment Money motivates mongers (Score 3, Insightful) 463
Real artists want everyone to enjoy their performance regardless of monetary reward. Real artists are also pirates that have chosen to spend their money wisely. Real artists are not complaining about supposed theft of digital copies because the poor artist is well-known.
Burn, Hollywood, Burn!
Submission + - Europe Accuses Google Of Monopoly Abuse (cnet.com)
bonch writes: European antitrust regulators are set to issue a 400-page statement of objections accusing Google of 'abuse of dominance' next month, the result of an investigation launched last year after complaints from rivals that Google manipulated ad pricing and barred advertisers from running ads on rival sites. If found guilty, Google could be fined up to 10% of its annual turnover, which is about $3 billion. Microsoft avoided a similar fine when it settled its European antitrust case and included a 'browser ballot' in Windows.
Submission + - Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay (torrentfreak.com)
wasimkadak writes: One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won’t suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.
Comment pft @ homeless (Score 1) 289
he just doesnt want them to find the server farm
TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88
An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."
