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Comment Re:TOTALLY worthless (Score 1) 244

From Mac The Ripper - you can use DVD2One to create a burnable image. (If you like.) That is the reason that all my import DVDs are stashed away safely in storage and I watch on copies burned on DL DVDs. That way when the disk gets damaged it costs me around fifty cents to replace (since I buy the discs in the 50 or 100 packs when they are on sale) rather than paying another 20 - 30 dollars for a new copy of the import.
Programming

Submission + - OLPC Game Jam for a XO Laptop

An anonymous reader writes: OLPC anounced a three-day "game jam" scheduled to begin June 8 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts. The game jam is an opportunity for developers to create new types of games that rely on features of the XO's design such as mesh networking between nearby users, an integrated still or video camera, and a tablet mode for mobile gaming. "There aren't too many games right now that take advantage of mesh style networking," said Klein, referring to the XO's ability to use Wi-Fi to communicate with other users up to a kilometer away, and display them as icons on its Sugar interface. "There are networked games, sure, but they aren't sensitive to the ability to display the presence of other users depending on where they are in relation to you, or to pop up on the screen when they are close enough." Beyond creating games that teach specific tasks like counting or reading, OLPC hopes the contest will produce templates that allow kids to build their own games, according to OLPC's development guidelines. Oh yea, the grand prize is a a free OX laptop and all games created at the weekend-long event under the open-source GNU General Public License, and post them on the SourceForge site.
Linux Business

Submission + - Novell/Microsoft deal omits OpenOffice.org

An anonymous reader writes: Novell has released the terms of its controversial non-license patent license deal with Microsoft. The deal specifically excludes patent protection for Novell's OpenOffice.org customers.
PHP

Submission + - Web 2.0 development cycle using PHP Frameworks

Deeply_Pipelined writes: I am a university student studying EE. A colleague of mine and I have come up with a Web 2.0 idea that we want to implement, and hopefully turn it into a commercial venture. Since we both are EE, we took a while to familiarize ourselves with PHP, Apache, MySQL, JavaScript, and are aware of a bunch of frameworks out there to make life simple. We are right now doing work in PHP (using the CakePHP framework). The stage that we are currently at is this: We have an idea of what functionality to implement on the site, and have coded up some PHP to spit out some dynamic pages. Of course, this will not be enough. We would need to add AJAX and CSS. Since we are new to the Web 2.0 development cycle, I want to know whether: 1. Adding the JavaScript/CSS is done concurrently with the PHP, OR 2. Is the process conducted in an iterative manner, like so:
Iteration 1: Do the PHP (pages look boring, with page reloads for everything).
Iteration 2: AJAX, JavaScript, using JSON to communicate (less page reloads, dynamic interface, AJAX look and feel).
Iteration 3: Add CSS (incorporate final look and design).

Thanks, Deeply-Pipelined
Google

Submission + - Google's Evil NDA

An anonymous reader writes: Google claims that it's motto is "Do No Evil" — but they sure have an evil NDA! In order to be considered for employment there, they require you to sign an agreement which forbids you to "mention or imply the name of Google" in public ever again. Further, you can't tell anyone you interviewed there, or what they offered you, and you possibly sign away your rights to reverse engineer any of Google's code ever. And this NDA never expires. Luckily, someone has posted the contents of the NDA before he signed it and had to say silent forever.
Media (Apple)

Submission + - A Greener Apple

jdbartlett writes: "Apple recently received a hard bashing from misguided environmentalists and the media after another barely researched and presumptive Greenpeace report claimed they were the least eco-friendly of the companies reviewed. Once again, Steve Jobs attempts to wrest public opinion into Apple's favor, this time with a detailed analysis of Apple's environmental efforts.

After explaining why the Greenpeace Electronics Guide was flawed, Jobs writes:

Dell, HP and Lenovo all scored higher than Apple because of their plans (or "plans for releasing plans" in the case of HP). In reality, Apple is ahead of all of these companies in eliminating toxic chemicals from its products.
"
Programming

Submission + - Five AJAX frameworks reviewed

prostoalex writes: "Dr. Dobb's Journal reviews 5 AJAX frameworks: Dojo 0.3.1, Prototype and Scriptaculous 1.4, Direct Web Reporting 1.0, Yahoo! User Interface Library 0.11.1 and Google Web Toolkit 1.0. Each framework was tested in two basic scenarios — writing a "hub" (titled collapsible link list frequently seen on sidebars of many Web sites) and a "tab panel" (horizontal tabbed navigation bar). During the process, Dr. Dobb's Journal reviewers noted that "Dojo provides more features and HTML widgets than YUI and Prototype" but eventually "settled on the Yahoo! User Interface Library"."
The Internet

Submission + - What to do when your domain is hijacked?

An anonymous reader writes: A few moments ago I noticed my web site was down. After doing a little research, I saw that my domain has been hijacked! My registrar is Dot Earth. I have called them several times, but all I can get is a cheesy answering machine. I also tried to login to their web interface, but it appears they have disabled my account as well. I thought about calling up another registrar and transferring the domain, however Dot Earth has changed the registrant of my domain to "DRS EXPIRED DOMAIN" (even though the domain expiration date is 2008-05-01, almost exactly a year in the future). Since my name is no longer anywhere on the domain, it seems unlikely I would be able to transfer it. What do you do when you are in domain registrar hell?
Networking

Submission + - ARIN Releasing Problematic Netblocks?

Sun_Ray_11 writes: It has been four years since Slashdot last talked about ARIN releasing bogon netblocks into the wild and it looks like they have released more in the past six months: 96/8, 97/8, 98/8, and 99/8. Have any Slashdot readers been affected by this, either as an ISP subscriber or as a result of being allocated some of this space at their jobs? I'm curious how people are working to educate edge networks that continue to use outdated filters that include these blocks. Is ARIN doing all they can to make these changes known?
Announcements

Submission + - HTML Working Group votes on WHATWG's HTML 5 spec

Evardsson writes: "Although the poll hasn't closed yet (it is open until May 4) 90 of the 110 voting members of the HTML Working Group have cast their vote, and the results are:

Shall we Adopt HTML5 as our specification text for review?
Yes: 78
No: 2
Concur: 7
Abstain: 3
So, even if the remaining 20 votes are all no, the vote is to adopt the WHATWG HTML5 (comprised of the Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications) as a starting point for the next HTML version.

Other votes on the page include the decision to name the next HTML specification "HTML 5 and to appoint Ian Hickson and Dave Hyatt as the specification editors. I highly recommend reading the results, in order to see the rationale given by many of the members for their vote on each of the questions, as this gives a valuable insight into where the group currently is and in what direction they are looking to move."
Google

Submission + - Stopbadware.org: Good Guys or "Prohibitionists

jo7hs2 writes: My site was recently (and correctly) flagged by Stopbadware.org for having been hacked. For a variety of reasons, I did not discover the single hacked page until my entire site was flagged as dangerous by Google, who uses Stopbadware.org's database to protect web-searchers. While I find the practice a step in the right direction, Stopbadware.org's tactics, which include no notice to webmasters, and a slow review process, seem a tad heavy handed.

In particular, this line really concerns me:
"Please note that we will be retesting your website at periodic intervals in order to monitor that it remains free from badware. If we find that you are hosting or distributing badware in the future, the reviews process may take considerably longer than the original review."

It sounds like Stopbadware.org, teamed with Google, are setting themselves up to be the internet's policemen.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - LinuxBIOS with X11 server, completely in Flash ROM

LWATCDR writes: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/linuxbios-with-x11- server-completely-in-flash-rom Has a great write up on putting combining LinuxBios + a Linux kernel, busybox, X, a window manager, and rxvt into a two meg flash chip. So what does get you? A six second boot time for one. All sorts of uses come to mind. Terminals to use with the Linux Terminal server. A very fast booting embedded system like a Car computer. With every one pushing for multi-core cpus, mega gigabyte drives and many gigabytes of ram it is interesting to see how small you can go.
Patents

Submission + - Amazon Using Patent Reform to Strengthen 1-Click

theodp writes: "As some predicted, lawyers for Amazon.com have recently submitted 1-Click prior art solicited by Tim O'Reilly under the auspices of Jeff Bezos' patent reform effort to the USPTO, soliciting a 'favorable action' that would help bulletproof the patent. Last June, an Amazon lobbyist referred to deficiencies with the same prior art as he tried to convince Congress that 1-Click was novel, prompting Rep. Howard Berman to call BS."

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