Comment Or (Score 1) 1
A desire not to go to war with Iraq could have prevented a war with Iraq. The desire was huge.
Submission + - Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards (eff.org)
jrepin writes: "There's a new front in the battle against digital restrictions management (DRM) technologies. These technologies, which supposedly exist to enforce copyright, have never done anything to get creative people paid. Instead, by design or by accident, their real effect is to interfere with innovation, fair use, competition, interoperability, and our right to own things. That's why we were appalled to learn that there is a proposal currently before the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML5 Working Group to build DRM into the next generation of core Web standards. The proposal is called Encrypted Media Extensions, or EME. Its adoption would be a calamitous development, and must be stopped."
Submission + - Apple Releases Patch For Evasi0n Jailbreak (After It's Used 18 Million Times) (forbes.com)
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: Apple has released a new update for iOS that prevents the jailbreak evasi0n released last month. But that hacking tool has already become the most popular jailbreak ever: It's been used to remove the software restrictions on 18.2 million devices in the 43 days between its release and the patch, according to data from Cydia, the app store for jailbroken devices. In its announcement of the update, Apple says it has fixed six bugs and was polite enough to credit the hackers behind evasi0n with finding four of them. At least one of the bugs used by evasi0n remains unpatched, according to David Wang, one of evasi0n's creators. And Wang says that he and his fellow hackers still have bugs in reserve for a new jailbreak, although they plan to keep them secret until the next major release.
Comment Easy solution (Score 1) 1
Start talking to the person having a conversation as if they are talking to you. Fun times.
Comment Re:duh! (Score 1) 2
Further to that, with such a small user base it can be assumed that those users are zealots and would love their windows phones even if they were a piece of shit.
It is only when people who don't really give a shit about the companies behind the phones start getting windows phones that user satisfaction of the windows phone could be better determined.
Plus their sample set for the windows phone was only 20 people (ie everyone who uses windows 8 phones
Comment Re:fuck ubuntu (Score 1) 2
Further to my previous rant. A good name for them would be SCObuntu.
Comment fuck ubuntu (Score 1) 2
It is as though they are trying to destroy the linux community.
- Lets give them a desktop experience they will hate
- Lets make it worse
- Lets threaten legal action against anyone who takes the shit we take from others and pass it off as not ours
- Lets try to screw people out of money with stuff we didn't create
Comment don't go over the speed limit (Score 1) 1
The motorist chooses to speed, they are the ones taking the gamble. Perhaps the judge should blast those that are breaking the law.
Comment Re:Dear EU (Score 1) 318
I think the problem arose due to the fact that if someone links a piece of proprietary code (A) to a GPL'd piece of code (B), piece of code (A) will fall under the GPL (excluding run time linking through process communication mechanisms). It was this issue that resulted in the LGPL (library or lesser gpl) which allowed dynamic linking of (A) to (B) and not have (A) become open source.
If VLC is licensed under the GPL, then any code that Apple attach (ie, the DRM module) would result in the Apple code becoming GPL'd. This was also the essence of Mircosoft's comments on the GPL being viral.
Comment clickable links (Score 1) 1
to help the cause:
Submission + - Prenda Law sues bloggers and commentors critical of copyright trolling (popehat.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Prenda Law, the notorious copyright trolling law firm that has allegedly committed fraud and identity theft and sued tens, if not thousands of BitTorrent users, is now suing two anti-copyright troll bloggers and anonymous commentors who routinely criticize Prenda for libel and defamation. Also named as a defendant is a defense attorney who often defends copyright troll victims (original legal complaint). In what can only be described as an overly broad subpoena, Prenda Law is also demanding the IP Addresses from Wordpress of everyone who has ever accessed the blogs dietrolldie.com and fightcopyrighttrolls.com for a time period of more than two years. Although originally filed in state court, the lawsuit has since been removed to federal court by defense counsel.
Comment And in other news... (Score 5, Informative) 79
Solving problems (programming) can help improve problem solving skills.
Comment Ditto for me (Score 1) 1
I had been using Linux since the mid 90s and last year I dropped it as my preferred home system when I performed an upgrade and suddenly my DVB-T card stopped working properly - apparently going from 2.x kernel to 3.x resulted in my hardware being unsupported. My thought: Fuck this.
It was also around that time I had looked into hackintoshes and switch to Snow Leopard on my Dell. I've since moved to a mac book pro and enjoy the freedom that a consistent platform has provided - the fact that I can take a kernel extension written for 10.6 and have it work in 10.7 shows that it is possible to release versions without breaking compatibility - it is just that the Linux devs don't care about compatibility but always the latest and greatest.
Submission + - Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac (tirania.org) 1
TrueSatan writes: Miguel de Icaza, via his blog, has declared his intention to move to the Apple Mac platform stating his main reasons as being, "To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl."
Reaction to his announcement includes http://blogs.kde.org/2013/03/05/gnome-founder-leaves from Jonathan Riddell of Blue Systems/Kubuntu.
Given Miguel de Icaza past asociation with Microsoft (CodePlex Foundation) and the Free Software Foundation's founder Richard Stallman's description of de Icaza as a "traitor to the free software community" http://www.osnews.com/story/22225/RMS_De_Icaza_Traitor_to_Free_Software_Community this might be seen as more of a blow to Microsoft than to GNU/Linux.
Reaction to his announcement includes http://blogs.kde.org/2013/03/05/gnome-founder-leaves from Jonathan Riddell of Blue Systems/Kubuntu.
Given Miguel de Icaza past asociation with Microsoft (CodePlex Foundation) and the Free Software Foundation's founder Richard Stallman's description of de Icaza as a "traitor to the free software community" http://www.osnews.com/story/22225/RMS_De_Icaza_Traitor_to_Free_Software_Community this might be seen as more of a blow to Microsoft than to GNU/Linux.
Comment Re: traceroute thepiratebay.se (Score 1) 3
Fake is never a reason to stop the invasion. Those who claim fake are with the "terists"
