Comment: Re:Google results still much more accurate (Score 1) 138
... ALL BROWSERS except for microsoft's explorer and apple's safari support Google's move.
lol.
You mean, FF, Opera and Chrome support Google's move?
Claimed Proof That P != NP 457
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kdawson
from the sufficiently-complex dept.
from the sufficiently-complex dept.
morsch writes "Researcher Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims proof that P != NP. The 100-page paper has apparently not been peer-reviewed yet, so feel free to dig in and find some flaws. However, the attempt seems to be quite genuine, and Deolalikar has published papers in the same field in the past. So this may be the real thing. Given that $1M from the Millennium Prize is involved, it will certainly get enough scrutiny. Greg Baker broke the story on his blog, including the email Deolalikar sent around."
Open Source cell phone hackers
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A. Craig West
A. Craig West writes "Like most people on the planet (I think that might even be true, now), I have a cell phone. And like most cell phones, certainly in North America, it has been locked down so tight it is practically useless. The cellular networks tend to prefer to restrict what the phones can do, in various ways. One of the major things they tend to be restricted from doing is transfer from one network to another. It is, of course, possible to buy an unlocked cellphone, although there are exceptions. It is also possible, and much more common, to have your cell phone unlocked. In most cases, this requires the application of money, although eventually, free methods make it into the wild. The thing that I have noticed is even when the software for doing this becomes free, it is always in the free beer sense, and pretty much never in the free speech sense.
So does anybody know why this is? What is it about unlocking and jailbreaking cell phones that keeps people from wanting to make their source code available? One could argue that it's a money thing, because the people doing this work tend to start with a version that you need to pay to use, then introduce free versions with limited functionality, usually a few versions behind the pay one. The only problem with this argument is that it applies equally well for all other types of software, too. somehow, we have managed to develop a rather extensive collection of open source software in spite of this. Except in the area of cell phone hacking. I don't get it..."
So does anybody know why this is? What is it about unlocking and jailbreaking cell phones that keeps people from wanting to make their source code available? One could argue that it's a money thing, because the people doing this work tend to start with a version that you need to pay to use, then introduce free versions with limited functionality, usually a few versions behind the pay one. The only problem with this argument is that it applies equally well for all other types of software, too. somehow, we have managed to develop a rather extensive collection of open source software in spite of this. Except in the area of cell phone hacking. I don't get it..."
Comment: Re:I stopped reading... (Score 1) 682
I don't know if I'm just easily offended or a fanboy, but I stopped reading the article at that point.
Could be both.
Comment: "So long and thanks for all the fish" (Score 1) 703
has always worked for me.
Becoming a Famous Programmer 347
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CmdrTaco
from the lemme-tell-you-about-1=1 dept.
from the lemme-tell-you-about-1=1 dept.
An anonymous reader writes "GrokCode analyzes more than 200 famous programmers to determine what types of projects made them famous. Inventing a programming language, game, or OS ranked among the top projects likely to lead to fame. Most programmers became famous through their work on only one project. The article also shows that among famous programmers, the ratio of males to females is much larger than among normal programmers."
Ubuntu Satanic Edition Banned From Distrowatch 24
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samzenpus
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from the open-source-satan dept.
skeeto writes "The infamous Ubuntu Satanic Edition has been banned from Distrowatch by the site's maintainer, Ladislav Bodnar, who said, 'There is no way I am going to add this distro to DistroWatch. [...] I don't consider the name "Satanic edition" as an appropriate name for a Linux distribution.' But the main reason seems to be that 'Ubuntu is a registered trademark of Canonical. You need to show me an official permission from Canonical that grants you the use of the word Ubuntu in your product's name.' What about Muslim and Christian editions? It seems that worries about trademark infringement and offensive material does not stop Distrowatch from including those."
Internet Users Not Updating Browser 409
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CmdrTaco
from the but-it's-just-so-hard dept.
from the but-it's-just-so-hard dept.
Jackson writes "Security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems have shown that more than 600 million Internet users don't use the latest version of their browser. The researchers' paper, shows that as of June 2008, only 59.1 percent of Internet users worldwide use the latest major version of their preferred web browser.
Suggestions have also been made to inform users that their browser is out of date."
The Age of Crappy Concurrency: Erlang, Tilera...->
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An anonymous reader writes "I'll get right to the point. If your multicore CPU or concurrent programming language or operating system does not support fine-grain, instruction-level parallelism in a MIMD (multiple instruction, multiple data) environment, it is crap. Ok, I know you are offended and that you don't think that your company's CPU, language, or OS is crap but it is. And I mean Crap with a capital C. The computer market is looking for fine-grain parallel systems that are fast, secure, easy to program, auto-scalable and bug free. The crap that I see out there does not even come close to delivering what the market wants."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Checklist software for Linux?
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dotancohen
dotancohen writes "With the purchase of a Dell Inspiron laptop, I'm moving my workflow from a Dell Axim x50v to the KDE environment. The Kontact PIM is great but I need a replacement for ListPro (http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/lp/listpro.php). Specifically, I need collapsable hierarchical notes with a resetable checkbox field. Other nice features would be date, integer, enum, and longtext fields, a global search function, and hierarchical list of notes (not only do the notes have internal hierarchies, but the list of notes would be hierarchal as well).
Note that I would prefer a GUI-based program to avoid upsetting our household's delicate wife-linux balance. I'm not the only one who will use this program. I have looked at Basket, Kontact, Evolution, and lots of other Linux PIMs, but have found nothing that meets my needs. What other software is out there?"
Note that I would prefer a GUI-based program to avoid upsetting our household's delicate wife-linux balance. I'm not the only one who will use this program. I have looked at Basket, Kontact, Evolution, and lots of other Linux PIMs, but have found nothing that meets my needs. What other software is out there?"