Comment: will IE finally have WebGL? (Score 1) 348
MSFT, the only ones without WebGL...
Firefox4 has it
Chrome has it
Opera beta has it
Safari beta has it
Comment: what's the point, dumb law (Score 1) 383
it's not pornography if you send a picture of yourself. this is commonsense. you own you.
of course, if who you sent it to sends it out to everyone else... i could see that being 'wrong'. they have no right to do that to you, especially if you're a minor...
i really don't get why what i just said isn't just the simple law...
Comment: i stopped using avast because of popups (Score 3, Interesting) 896
avast kept popping up ads to buy their stuff.
switched to avira, no popups. similar number of false positives as avast... i saw no difference between them. but really, who knows if they're working.
is there a way to evaluate antivirus software? i mean, after it's 1.) no popups, 2.) not bloaty 3.) easy on the system 4.) convenient to use... how do you know if it actually works?
I mean I could write a system tray app that's a "virus checker". and always tells you your system's ok... haha
anyway, reading around, seemed like avast, avira, and avg were the best free ones. and after running avg and avast, I liked avira. but really, no idea who's the best.
Delicious Details of Open Source Court Victory 202
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from the tooting-his-horn dept.
from the tooting-his-horn dept.
jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens tells the inside story of the recently concluded Jacobsen v. Katzer court case, in which an open source developer was awarded $100,000. Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct open source license for legal protection. The actual court ruling is almost like some kind of Hollywood movie ending for Open Source, with the judge unequivocally siding with the underfunded open source developer."
Suspension of Disbelief 507
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CmdrTaco
from the not-the-kind-in-a-fluid dept.
from the not-the-kind-in-a-fluid dept.
Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes in "A federal judge rules that a student can seek attorney's fees against a high school principal who suspended her for a Facebook page she made at home. Good news, but how could the school have thought they had the right to punish her for that in the first place? Posing the question not rhetorically but seriously. What is the source of society's attitudes toward the free-speech rights of 17-year-olds?"
Junctionless Transistor Could Simplify Chip Making 100
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CmdrTaco
from the conjunction-junction-i-got-yer-function dept.
from the conjunction-junction-i-got-yer-function dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A novel transistor architecture has been developed by a team of researchers led by Jean-Pierre Colinge at Tyndall National Institute at Cork, Ireland. Not many technology developments can be truly described as 'a breakthrough' or "revolutionary' but this might just fit the bill. It does depend on the extremely small dimensions of silicon nanowires just a few dozens of atoms wide. EE Times picked up on an announcement of a paper on the topic being published by Nature Nanotechnology."
CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone 316
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samzenpus
from the what-has-been-done-cannot-be-undone dept.
from the what-has-been-done-cannot-be-undone dept.
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC's technology show Click managed to break a mobile phone marketed as 'unbreakable' (video), during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas." The phone can survive a 10 story fall, being submerged 20 feet for 30 mins, and you can use it to hammer a nail; but it's no match for a British journalist.
X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions 542
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timothy
from the please-keep-it-that-way dept.
from the please-keep-it-that-way dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled 'Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,' a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: 'On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there.' Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"
An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment 316
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Soulskill
from the until-gmail-unveils-support-for-glove-storage dept.
from the until-gmail-unveils-support-for-glove-storage dept.
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes
"A federal judge rules that government can obtain access to a person's inbox contents without any notification to the subscriber. The pros and cons of this are complicated, but the decision hinges on the assertion that ISP customers have lowered privacy interests in e-mail because they 'expose to the ISP's employees in the ordinary course of business the contents of their e-mails.' Fortunately for everybody, this is not true — most ISPs do not allow their employees to read customer e-mails 'in the ordinary course of business' — but then what are the consequences for the rest of the argument?"
Read on for the rest of Bennett's analysis.
Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town 373
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samzenpus
from the welcome-to-my-sleepout-said-the-spider-to-the-bloke dept.
from the welcome-to-my-sleepout-said-the-spider-to-the-bloke dept.
youth68 writes "Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland. Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as 'bird-eating spiders' and can grow larger than the palm of a man's hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane."