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Wine

Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM 140

An anonymous reader writes "Wine on Android is happening slowly but surely ... Wine is now in a state to be able to run your favorite Windows (x86) game on your Android-powered ARM device, assuming the game is Windows Solitaire. Wine has been making progress on Android to allow simple applications to run on Wine, but they have run into some challenges, as noted in the annual talk at FOSDEM."
The Courts

German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games 261

sfcrazy writes "A German court has dismissed a 'reselling' case in favor of Valve Software, the maker of Steam OS. German consumer group Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv) had filed a complaint against Valve as Valve's EULA (End User License Agreement) prohibits users from re-selling their games. What it means is that German users can't resell their Steam Games."
Bitcoin

Mac OS X Bitcoin Stealing Trojan Horse Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered 108

An anonymous reader writes "SecureMac.com has discovered a new trojan horse for Mac OS X called OSX/CoinThief.A, which spies on web traffic to steal Bitcoins. This malware has been found in the wild, along with numerous reports of stolen coins. The malware, which comes disguised as an app to send and receive payments on Bitcoin Stealth Addresses, instead covertly monitors all web traffic in order to steal login info for Bitcoin wallets."

Comment Seems like the punishment is directed incorrectly (Score 1) 158

I'd say whoever made the light fixtures, and sold them for general use emitting that much interference is really the person against whom they should be acting.

The article says the lights are made by GE, who was aware that some of their ballasts were causing interference. IF the building owner was advised, and they failed to replace them, then they're at fault. If GE's replacement program was chintzy (ie they'd replace the fixture, but building owners had to pay for labor, for example), then they should be the target here.

Comment Re:Yet trading goes on (Score 0) 249

currency market is still in beta.

For sure. But at least BitCoin is an upgrade from the fiat fiasco currencies.

The US Federal Reserve and the entire US Federal Government must all be using bootleg copies of Timmy "Tall-Tale" Geithner's TurboTax program.

Or, they're...you know...criminals. The people that are supposed to be tried in a criminal court, and if convicted, incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary to protect the public.

But, for some strange reason, Tweedledum won't prosecute nor convict Tweedledee, and Tweedledee won't prosecute nor convict Tweedledum. They're just running game on some "dum dees" because they buy into the (D)/(R), L/R, White/Black, Rich/Poor race/class/party-warfare and fight each other while they and their children are being robbed blind on multiple levels and in multiple ways.

Strat

Comment Stop Talking Right Now (Score 1) 876

Let me know when you start speaking without words, and that's when I'll stop programming in text.

Sherades just doesn't work as a form of communication. Welcome to visual programming.

What the hell do you have against text? Books not workin' for you? Video killed the radio star. Nothing killed the book.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 578

The Olympics stopped being about amateur sports a long time ago.

It's never actually been about "amateur sports" in anything other than name and some niceties to dress the illusion. It's always been a contest of international/inter-cultural/ideological propaganda campaigns, international one-upsmanship, and a sort of warfare without armies.

Now, it's just an ultra-commercialized piece of garbage. I'm glad I don't have to be subjected to it online, and even happier that the information superhighway won't be slowed down by all those big trucks full of Olympics video internets..

I remember as a kid in the '60s, the Olympics were *covered* by the major networks. You know, as they happened, few interruptions, etc? No endless advertisements and "color commentary" with only tiny bits of actual competition "highlights". By the late '70s going into the '80s, it was well on the way to jumping the shark and I paid less and less attention.

By the time the '90s and the crap they called the "Olympics" came around looking more and more like an infomercial, I stopped watching or caring.

These days?

It's dead, Jim.

Strat

Comment The devil's in the details (Score 1) 876

Even among programming languages you have the same issues.

You have a high level framework that seemingly does everything magically (think Ruby on Rails, or AngularJS), and the moment you throw a real world problem at it, things get really complicated. Subtle user experience things like validation (should it happen on blur? as you type? on submit? Server or client side? That date, should it be validated as the client's local, server's local? Should you be able to input it in multiple formats?)

So while the big high level framework makes the easy easier, the hard is just as hard, and often harder.

With non-textual programming, being via pretty graphics or other tricks, this problem is just magnified.

Comment Don't Care; Won't Watch Any of It on Anything (Score 1) 578

I zapped my cable three years ago. I watched the opening ceremony (and only that) of the London Olympics via a VPN. I don't care enough about Sochi or winter Olympics to be interested in watching any of it.

I don't think it's important if the FCC forces NBC to run a live stream. If NBC thinks the cost of running a stream of the broadcast they're already doing exceeds the revenue they could generate from stream viewers watching the same commercials the network is already doing, that's their problem.

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