Comment Patriot Act is "oppressive"? (Score 1, Interesting) 170
Care to elaborate?
Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 2, Interesting) 170
All companies have some murky shares.
Comment Re:Security != privacy. (Score 2, Insightful) 288
My government, on the other hand, has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to break its own laws whenever it's convenient for any of their actual constituents, i.e. corporations.
You do realize that Google is a corporation too, don't you?
Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 0) 288
WAY UP
76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing 130
An anonymous reader writes "Web browser history detection with the CSS:visited trick has been known for the last ten years, but recently published research suggests that the problem is bigger than previously thought. A study of 243,068 users found that 76% of them were vulnerable to history detection by malicious websites. Newer browsers such as Safari and Chrome were even more affected, with 82% and 94% of users vulnerable. An average of 63 visited locations were detected per user, and for the top 10% of users the tests found over 150 visited sites. The website has a summary of the findings; the full paper (PDF) is available as well."
Comment Re:M.A.D. All Over Again (Score 2, Insightful) 312
What if some guy or some country becomes so insecure or so desperate that they'll stop bothering about retaliation? Emotions are irrational, you know.
Comment Re:Politics (Score 1) 1046
What about the Big Media? It's been serving the interests of wealthy and powerful corporations for more than 80 years.
Comment Re:OpenBSD could eliminate "cybercrime". (Score 2, Interesting) 51
Your logic is flawed. Your argument is like - OS2 is based on OS1, and OS1 is secure, therefore OS2 is secure. When it comes to security, the valid argument is - If OS2 is based on OS1, and OS2 is secure, then OS1 is secure. This is because the number of bugs in OS2 would be greater than or equal to (but not less than) the number of bugs in OS1. Of course, I'm assuming that bugs are the only mechanism for the emergence of vulnerabilities. But you get the point, right?
Comment Re:Uhm, bad headline. (Score 1) 139
With complicated enough law, everything is illegal.
Is the Tide Turning On Patents? 172
Glyn Moody writes "The FSF has funded a new video, 'Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system,' freely available (of course) in Ogg Theora format (what else?). It comes at a time when a lot is happening in the world of patents. Recent work from leading academics has called into question their basis: 'The work in this paper, and that of many others, suggests that this traditionally-struck "devil's bargain" may not be beneficial.' We recently discussed how a judge struck down Myriad Genetics's patents on two genes because they involved a law of Nature, and were thus 'improperly granted.' Meanwhile, the imminent Supreme Court ruling In re Bilski is widely expected to have negative knock-on effects for business method and software patents. Is the tide beginning to turn?"
Comment Typo/Mistake (Score 0) 1
It's not
more than two decades
It's just more than 17 years.
Comment Let's write out the client command (Score 1) 134
rms@susebox:~> wget --referer="http://www.theirsite.com/" "targetURL"
OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released 107
Gmer writes "Eming.com reports that OpenTTD, the open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has reached a milestone. OpenTTD 1.0.0 has been released 6 years after work started on the first version, with the help of hundreds of contributors and thousands of testers/players. Over 30 language translations are considered complete, and OpenTTD is available for *BSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows. OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which the player is in control of a transport company and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea or air."
Comment Copy of "himself"? (Score 0) 264
Hiroshi Ishiguro, who had previously built a robot copy of himself,
Can someone clarify that? Or maybe provide a link?
Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 258
Dr Herbert West writes "A trio of Google engineers have ported id Software's gib-filled first-person shooter Quake II to browsers — you know, for kicks — as a way to show just what HTML5-compatible web browsers are capable of. According to the developers, 'We started with the existing Jake2 Java port of the Quake II engine, then used the Google Web Toolkit (along with WebGL, WebSockets, and a lot of refactoring) to cross-compile it into JavaScript.' More details are available on one developer's blog, and installation instructions have been posted as well."
