19510590
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sg00 writes
"A video is trending on Reddit in which a guy installs Windows 1.0 on a virtual machine and upgrades it through every version to Windows 7. You see which settings and programs blow up along the way."Link to Original Source
19114752
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sag47 writes
"Currently Enchanted Keyfinder, which is a fork of Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder, is under attack with a "DMCA counternotification".
On February 8th, 2011 an email was received stating:
"Hello,
After taking down Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder from sourceforge few months ago it is now again available:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keyfinder/
As owner of MJB KeyFinder project I request removal of this project from sourceforge, according to GPL it is owner's choice to decide whether to leave it open-source or not."
End of email.
I am the guy who forked the project. I downloaded the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder sources when they were licensed under GNU GPL (I still have them) before the project was sold and close-sourced. I created a fork and re-released a new project also based on the GNU GPL v3 license.
I'd like everyone's opinion on this: Am I still within my right as a FOSS developer? I mean LibreOffice forked from Open Office and Icinga forked from Nagios. I need help spreading the word about this so please help me.
How is this a DMCA violation?
Sam Gleske"Link to Original Source
18688144
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tekgoblin writes
"Leo Laporte from the popular technology show TWiT made an appearance on Regis and Kelly today to show off some electronics from CES this year."Link to Original Source
18321064
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realperseus writes
"The American telecommunication satellite, Galaxy 15, has been brought under control after spending most of the year traversing the sky, wreaking havoc upon its neighbors. The satellite is currently at 98.5 west (from 133 west). An emergency patch was successfully uploaded, ensuring that the conditions which caused it to "go rogue" will not occur again. Once diagnosis and testing have been completed, Intelsat plans to move the satellite back to 133 west.""Link to Original Source
18091032
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Eric writes
"Microsoft has updated its Windows Media Player plug-in for Mozilla Firefox so as to enable H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using built-in capabilities available on Windows 7. The HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in is free to download but it's release is quite controversial. Even though Firefox is a big competitor to Microsoft's own Internet Explorer, the software giant has decided it's for the best if Firefox can play back H.264.
Here's the current state of HTML5 video: Microsoft and Apple are betting on H.264, Firefox and Opera are rooting for WebM, and Chrome does both. Although Internet Explorer 9 supports H.264, excluding all other codecs, Microsoft says it is making an exception for WebM, as long as the user installs the corresponding codec. At the same time, Microsoft is still pushing H.264 support and its first target is Mozilla."
17655116
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thecarchik writes
"One giant container ship pollutes the air as much as 50 million cars. Yes, that's 50 million. Which means that just 15 ships that size emit as much as today's entire global "car park" of roughly 750 million vehicles. Among the bad stuff: Sulfur, soot, and other particulate matter that embeds itself in human lungs to cause a variety of cardiopulmonary illnesses. Since the mid-1970s, developed countries have imposed increasingly strict regulations on auto emissions. In three decades, precise electronic engine controls, new high-pressure injectors, and sophisticated catalytic converters have cut emissions of nitrous oxides, carbon dioxides, and hydrocarbons by more than 98 percent. New regulations will further reduce these already minute limits.
But ships today are where cars were in 1965: utterly uncontrolled, free to emit whatever they like. Just one of many statistics: A car driven 9,000 miles a year emits 3.5 ounces of sulfur oxides--while the engine in a large cargo ship produces 5,500 tons."Link to Original Source
16311422
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arkenian writes
"Its not quite IP over pigeon, but UK had a race between pigeons and broadband connections. Ten USB key-laden pigeons were released from a Yorkshire farm at the same time a five-minute video upload was begun. An hour and a quarter later, the pigeons had reached their destination in Skegness 120km away, while only 24% of a 300MB file had uploaded. Campaigners say the stunt was being carried out to illustrate that broadband in some parts of the UK is still "not fit for purpose"."Link to Original Source
16130150
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robert bitchin' writes
"The recent concern about the loss of the first sale doctrine for software has already struck gold in a related development in the building industry. Housing developers are creating covenants on properties allowing them to request fees whenever a property is re-sold. And you thought you only had to pay your real estate agent!"
