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Comment Re:i wonder.... (Score 2) 119

Isn't LOIC one of the preferred tools of Anonymous? It shouldn't be that difficult to track down the developers. The project has both SourceForge and Github accounts.

Isn't it a valid tool for stress testing websites developed by several individuals collectively? Sounds like you want to blame the creator of dynamite because some people use it to blow up bridges. Just because a tool can be used for a wrong purpose doesn't mean we blame the maker. Blame those who use it that way.

Comment Re:In my opinion (Score 1) 192

... He isn't Christ. If he was, he wouldn't be so concerned with "patenting his powers". If he were Chris, he would be determined to share them with the world, not show that he's an idiot and try to make money off of something that obviously isn't true.

"Chris" Sounds like he's a cool Dude.

Censorship

Submission + - Syrian ISPs Taken Down by Govt Order (aljazeera.net) 1

Cogita writes: It appears that In an effort to prevent the uploading of video from protests, the Syrian Government has taken the drastic step of taking down all Internet access in Syria, including landline and 3G. The shutdown started around 0800 GMT this morning.

Comment Re:Awesomeness (Score 1) 56

The only thing cooler? I would think it would be cooler if they landed on Triton instead of Titan. Triton is probably the object in our Solar system farthest away from the sun where we could build a permanent base, and deserves a visit.

It's probably also a lot cooler since it's so much further away from the sun, too.

Comment Re:User Agent (Score 1) 132

Yes. I hate plugins, they break regularly, especially with major releases, and they can be a security risk.

I'm not 100% against them per se, but, if a browser has a specific functionnality built-in, while another requires a plug-in... I'll tend to use the full-featured browser, instead of the plugin-crutched one. In firefox's case, the situation used to be very extreme, with plugins needed for almost any interesting feature that was standard in Opera (synch, mouse gestures...). I tried Ffox a handful of times, and always gave it up due to incessant plugin updates, or plain broken plugins.

This was the issue I had with IE. It used to try to do everything, and as a result did nothing well, including your standard browsing. I preferred firefox where if I wanted so specific functionality, I could add it, but I knew the base functionality would work and work well. It's part of my problem with ff atm, it feels bloated and slow, which is why I use chromium.

Facebook

Submission + - Facebook's 1-sided handling of copyright claims (arstechnica.com) 1

MetalliQaZ writes: "Ars Technica is currently following the story of their own experience being the target of a fraudulent copyright complaint on their Facebook page. "Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked. Ars found this out the hard way Thursday morning when our own Facebook page became inaccessible, with no warning, no explanation, and no clear appeal process. To make matters worse, Facebook is not responsive to inquiries about account lockout, and the company provides absolutely zero useful direction on how to rectify a complaint.""
News

Submission + - Russia launches ICMB from a submarine (dbune.com)

dbune writes: Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have successfully test-launched a Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile from Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea.

  "The launch was designed to test the reliability of Russian marine strategic nuclear forces"

Mozilla

Submission + - Rendering PDFs in JavaScript (blogspot.com)

theweatherelectric writes: With the release of Emscripten 1.0, Mozilla's Alon Zakai has put together a demo which renders PDF documents in JavaScript. He writes, 'I released Emscripten 1.0 over the weekend, which came with a demo of rendering PDFs entirely in JavaScript (warning: >12MB will be downloaded for that page). Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler which allows running code written in C or C++ on the web. In the linked demo, Poppler and FreeType were compiled to JavaScript from C++.'
Google

Submission + - Judge in Oracle-Google Case Gets Schooled in Java (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: "Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco an overview of Java and why it was invented, and an explanation of terms such as bytecode, compiler, class library and machine-readable code. The tutorial was to prepare him for a claim construction conference in two weeks, where he'll have to sort out disputes between the two sides about how language in Oracle's Java patents should be interpreted. At one point an attorney for Google, Scott Weingaertner, described how a typical computer is made up of applications, an OS and the hardware underneath. 'I understand that much,' Alsup said, asking him to move on. But he had to ask several questions to grasp some aspects of Java, including the concept of Java class libraries. 'Coming into today's hearing, I couldn't understand what was meant by a class,' he admitted."

Submission + - Advice on software for running a small library

yahyamf writes: "I've been asked to help setup software for managing a small library at a non-profit school in the middle-east for under-privileged children. The library has about 5000 books and will be run mostly by student workers. The requirements are low cost, ease of use and maintenance, and support for Arabic and English. Barcode printing and scanning capabilities would be great as well. I've looked briefly at koha, but is there anything else out there (both hardware and software) slashdotters can recommend?"

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