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Submission + - Startup releases technology to disrupt ISP industry and mass surveillance (indiegogo.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Australian scientists have created a new tech platform to make internet acquisition a one-time hardware cost for end users in medium and high population density urban areas. The technology has a peer to peer technical architecture that removes the need for an Internet Service Provider. A consequence of this network design is that it makes eavesdropping nearly impossible because internet traffic does not flow through a central point.

Submission + - IndieGogo campaign to disrupt the ISP Industry & mass surveillance (indiegogo.com)

digitaltraveller writes: Australian scientists have just published a free internet project that could redefine the internet as we know it. They've just released an IndieGoGo campaign to fund development of the UPLIINK Aero platform. They've outlined 3 core open source goals that could have a major impact if the project is successfully funded. The project lead has also written an essay about it.

Comment pom.xml (Score 1) 87

We are sending maven to mars? Thank goodness for small mercies.

An engineer at NASA told me it's not really that great at producing something called binaries for CI, assembly:single notwithstanding. No idea what he meant, but he seemed to know what he's talking about.

I imagine the mission will come off without a hitch as long as our network connection to it remains up at all times to receive all the useful verbose reporting it gives us.

 

Comment Going Down in Quality (Score 1) 458

Fedora seems to have lost it's way with this release.

The installer wasn't great but alot of other changes changes are in the release that are really poorly thought out.
There is stuff changed that I just can't work out why on earth they would change it.

I would really like to see someone smush android-x86.org on top of a fedora like distribution and go from there.
For intel not to do this is imho basically insane. They are in big big trouble, I guess they haven't realised how big yet.

Comment They/we need the reverse. Anyone remember WORA? (Score 1) 80

A fully compliant JVM written in Js. Doppio is the most advanced one that I know of. http://int3.github.com/doppio/

Once complete, it will become instantly redundant, because the non ms browser vendors will put jvms back in the browser to speed things up.
And that's a good thing! This whole js only thing for the web is dumb. At some point in the future, it could be 0 years, 20 years, this will come about and we (you) will all slap our foreheads and go...OMG, we could have been writing our web apps in language (insert favourite here) X this whole time? What were we thinking.

JS is being compiled and minified and closured away. JVM is open, it's bytecode. It can run anywhere. Let's let go of this fiction that its somehow good or more open to have a single client side web language.

Comment Re:The stupid! It hurts! (Score 1) 287

As parent said, this is a terrible outcome.

Moving on constructively, I would suggest fedora should just be a minimal package set and a system for managing VMs. A good way to partition each VM would be for example, each system that manages it's own packages (eg. ruby, perl, firefox). Because of the rise of multi core computing this would have no performance impact at all. The advantages of a system like this include easier system management, better security, and convenience. There will be better upgrade-ability because although fedora has no rolling releases (a shame), users will be able to create specialized appliances that they can copy over to the new version of fedora without hassle and upgrade them at their leisure. It is way easier to deal with variable-sized VM images then partitions.

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http://elinux.org/Android_Mainlining_Project

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