Comment Re:of course (Score 4, Interesting) 637
As a citizen of the United States?
Wow, I can't imagine what would have happened if he hadn't been a citizen of the United States...
Submission + - Appelbaum detained at U.S. border, questioned abou (cnet.com)
suraj.sun writes: Appelbaum detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks
A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site — Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based programmer for the online privacy protection project called Tor — was detained by U.S. agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday to attend a hacker conference. He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon about the Tor Project.
Appelbaum, a U.S. citizen, arrived at the Newark, New Jersey, airport from Holland flight Thursday morning, was taken into a room, frisked and his bag was searched.
Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained. They asked questions about Wikileaks, asked for his opinions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and asked where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is, but he declined to comment without a lawyer present, according to the sources. He was not permitted to make a phone call, they said.
After about three hours, Appelbaum was given his laptop back but the agents kept his three mobile phones, sources said.
CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20012253-245.html
A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site — Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based programmer for the online privacy protection project called Tor — was detained by U.S. agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday to attend a hacker conference. He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon about the Tor Project.
Appelbaum, a U.S. citizen, arrived at the Newark, New Jersey, airport from Holland flight Thursday morning, was taken into a room, frisked and his bag was searched.
Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained. They asked questions about Wikileaks, asked for his opinions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and asked where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is, but he declined to comment without a lawyer present, according to the sources. He was not permitted to make a phone call, they said.
After about three hours, Appelbaum was given his laptop back but the agents kept his three mobile phones, sources said.
CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20012253-245.html
Submission + - G.M.'s Electric Lemon 2
theodp writes: On a day that saw him test-drive the new Chevy Volt, President Obama declared the federal rescue of automakers a success, delivering a message to 'naysayers' who have criticized a robust government role. Presumably one of those naysayers would be NYT Op-Ed contributor Edward Niedermeyer, who said the Volt 'appears to be exactly the kind of green-at-all-costs car that some opponents of the bailout feared the government might order G.M. to build.' The future of G.M. and the $50B taxpayer investment in it, adds Niedermeyer, 'now depends on a vehicle that costs $41,000 but offers the performance and interior space of a $15,000 economy car.'
Submission + - TI Calculator DRM Defeated (ticalc.org)
josath writes: Texas Instrument's flagship calculator, the Nspire, was hacked to allow user-written programs earlier this year. Earlier this month, TI released an update to the OS that runs on the calculator, providing no new features, but only blocking the previous hack. Now, just a few weeks later, Nleash has been released, which defeats this protection. The battle rages on as users fight for the right to run their own software on their own hardware...
Submission + - Slashdot is Dying, New York Times Confims It (nytimes.com) 12
An anonymous reader writes: The New York Times is running a story about how Slashdot has dropped in popularity compared to other news sites in social web space. Quote: "Why is Slashdot almost irrelevant to the social media community? It used to be the biggest driver of traffic to tech web sites, but now it hardly delivers any traffic at all to them. We explore some of the reasons, including input from our own community."
Submission + - GNOME Contributions: Canonical 1% - Red Hat 16% !! (digitizor.com)
An anonymous reader writes: At GUADEC, Dave Neary presented the results of the GNOME Census. The results reveal some very interesting findings. Around 70% of the developers identify themselves as volunteer and 70% of the commits made in the GNOME releases are made by paid developers. Now, here is the part that has started out something like a war – Canonical’s contribution to GNOME is only a mere 1%, while Red Hat contributes 16%.
Submission + - Richard Garriott Wins $28 Million from NCSoft Suit (prnewswire.com)
eldavojohn writes: Last year Lord British sued NCSoft over stocks and severance and yesterday his lawyers announced he has won $28 million from NCSoft. His legal team said "In Texas, a deal is a deal, no matter how a company might try to spin the events after the fact. We're pleased that the jury listened to the facts in this case, and decided it is 'game over' for NCsoft's attempt to deny Richard what he is rightfully owed." The three-and-a-half-day trial and three hours of deliberations by a jury resulted in quite the haul for Garriott.
Submission + - Angry players lash out at CCP over bugs (eveonline.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A straight forward request from the creators of Eve Online (CCP) to their players to support a bid for best online game at the European Games Award quickly turned embarassing when an angry player base almost universally refused, often throwing support behind other games instead. Players of the beleagered game have been angered by the lack of progress made in squashing bugs that snuck into the last few expansions as well as a recent development blog saying that no developers will be free to work on reviewing existing content for at least 18 months.
Submission + - iPhone data leads to rape charges being dropped (theage.com.au) 1
one eyed kangaroo writes: The Age reports that a Sydney man has used deleted iPhone messages to have serious charges against him dropped.
"In what may be the first time an iPhone's elephantine memory has saved someone accused of a serious crime, deleted data retrieved by a leading surveillance expert appears to have led to the dropping of five rape charges against a Sydney man." His lawyer said, "'Without the ability of Coulthart to drag the content out, a man's life may have been ruined'.'
"In what may be the first time an iPhone's elephantine memory has saved someone accused of a serious crime, deleted data retrieved by a leading surveillance expert appears to have led to the dropping of five rape charges against a Sydney man." His lawyer said, "'Without the ability of Coulthart to drag the content out, a man's life may have been ruined'.'
Comment Re:I've got to say... (Score 2) 197
Haha, just think... somewhere out there is someone who is thinking it would be a great idea to run Windows Embedded in a pacemaker.
Submission + - OpenGL 4.1 Specification Announced (extremetech.com)
WesternActor writes: The Khronos Group has announced full details for the OpenGL 4.1 specification. Among the new features of the spec, which comes just five months after the release of the 4.0 specification, is full support for OpenGL ES, which simplifies porting between mobile and desktop platforms. It'll be interesting to see what effect, if any, this new spec has on the graphics industry--more compatibility could change the way many embedded systems are designed. There are lots of other changes and additions in the spec, as well.
Submission + - How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux (techrights.org)
steveO writes: Last week we gave evidence of this strategy occurring at Wal-Mart and this week we share antitrust material which shows how Microsoft reacted to GNU/Linux at Dell .
Submission + - Amiga Turns 25
retsamxaw writes: "It is the 25th anniversary of the Amiga today. I got the news from @craigerskine on Twitter, and sure enough — almost no coverage of a massive, historical computing event. Here is one story at Technologizer."
Submission + - Apple Engineer Told Jobs About iPhone Antenna (bloomberg.com) 1
Garabito writes: An anonymous source inside Apple told Bloomberg that Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple’s management the device’s design may hurt reception. A carrier partner also raised concerns about the antenna before the device’s June 24 release, according to another person familiar with the situation.
Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, declined to comment. Apple plans to hold a press conference tomorrow about the device. Dowling declined to elaborate on what will be discussed. A separate person familiar with the matter said Apple doesn’t plan to announce a recall of the phone.
Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, declined to comment. Apple plans to hold a press conference tomorrow about the device. Dowling declined to elaborate on what will be discussed. A separate person familiar with the matter said Apple doesn’t plan to announce a recall of the phone.
Submission + - Texas Instruments takes control of TI-Nspire users
DJ Omnimaga writes: Since Ndless, a tool allowing 3rd-party softwares to be ran on the TI-Nspire, has been released on ticalc.org (link: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145908.html ), Texas Instruments has done everything to prevent users from using it. TI trapped the newest OS (version 2.1) that permanently block the handheld from downgrades to OS 1.6 or older. Ndless requires OS 1.1, meaning that once the user upgrades his TI-Nspire to the new OS, he will never be able to use Ndless again on his machine. Is TI going the way Apple and Sony did?
Without Ndless, it is impossible to run ARM9 assembly language applications on the TI-Nspire series of handhelds. Only simple softwares may be written, programmed in the very slow and limited TI-BASIC language available on the Operating System.
More information about the anti-downgrade protection can be found at http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?topic=3761 . The original article, in French, was posted at http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=837 .
Ndless release original news article on Ticalc.org: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145908.html
Link to OS 2.1 for the TI-Nspire: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&tabId=1&appId=6766
Without Ndless, it is impossible to run ARM9 assembly language applications on the TI-Nspire series of handhelds. Only simple softwares may be written, programmed in the very slow and limited TI-BASIC language available on the Operating System.
More information about the anti-downgrade protection can be found at http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?topic=3761 . The original article, in French, was posted at http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=837 .
Ndless release original news article on Ticalc.org: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145908.html
Link to OS 2.1 for the TI-Nspire: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&tabId=1&appId=6766
