Comment Re:Apple asked for it (Score 1, Redundant) 446
Actually Nokia did.
Comment Re:What goes around comes around... (Score 1) 446
And Nokia started it...
Submission + - Romanian prime minister accused of plagiarism (nature.com)
ananyo writes: In a revelation that could bring down the country's government, Romania's Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, stands accused of copying large sections of his 2003 PhD thesis in law from previous publications, without proper reference.
Documents compiled by an anonymous whistle-blower indicating that more than half of Ponta’s 432-page, Romanian-language thesis on the functioning of the International Criminal Court consists of duplicated text.
Last month, the country's education and research minister, computer scientist Ioan Mang, .resigned following accusations of plagiarism in at least eight papers.
Documents compiled by an anonymous whistle-blower indicating that more than half of Ponta’s 432-page, Romanian-language thesis on the functioning of the International Criminal Court consists of duplicated text.
Last month, the country's education and research minister, computer scientist Ioan Mang,
Submission + - StatCounter blasts Microsoft's claim about IE still being the number 1 browser (statcounter.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Do you remember when microsoft tried to claim that IE was still the number 1 browser by accusing StatCounter of using a flawed methodology? Well StatCounter has just blasted that claim in their response.
Comment Re:A week? (Score 1) 1004
Just in this little place you call Europe.
Comment Re:No grub 2 (Score 2) 117
More like lilo needed to be reinstalled after every kernel change.
If you forgot or something went wrong you where SOL.
GRUB only needs to update its files in the filesystem.
Also, GRUB has a command line from where you can choose kernel to boot if things got messed up.
GRUB can also boot more things than LILO can.
Submission + - Where s our LEAF blower? (gforces.co.uk)
Feather88 writes: I saw a Nissan LEAF in use outside the showroom today and I was quite impressed. A client was using our kitchen plug to charge it whilst in a meeting and he recieved a personalised message to his iPhone telling him when his vehicle had fully charged. Not to mention it costs £2 per 100 miles!
Submission + - Free Softwares Reviews and downloads (softwharf.com)
softwharf writes: "Get all latest softwares reviews and information
Download all the softwares for windows, mac, linux, ihpone for free unlimited"
Download all the softwares for windows, mac, linux, ihpone for free unlimited"
Submission + - PuTTY 0.61 released
drmacinyasha writes: "Simon Tatham announced today the official release of PuTTY 0.61 after four years of development. It brings a number of bug fixes and improvements, such as GSSAPI SSH-2 authentication, significantly faster SSH key exchanges, and even support for Windows 7's jump lists. Downloads are available from the project's homepage."
Comment Re:Dear God... (Score 1) 414
"App" is nowhere on that page. Appz is, but that is another thing entirely.
Submission + - Scientific publication for software development (gael-varoquaux.info)
An anonymous reader writes: The academic community seems to judge the validity and significance of any contribution by the number of papers published and the number of citations they get. To find funding, to get credit, you have to publish or perish. A major challenge to publishing is that most of the highly-ranked journals tend to disregard software works, unless they are very specific to a scientific problem, which actually makes them less useful to the complete ecosystem. Deeply rooted in the minds of the editors and the reviewers, there tends to be the idea that developing software is easy compared to doing experiments or proofs. In addition, these top-notch scientists are not always the most qualified to judge the quality of software, as they have most often never worked in a major software project. The good news is that this is slowing changing with the creation of software tracks in specialized journals, and the development of new journals focused on scientific software.
Submission + - TOTAL RECALL Remake News (collider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Producer Neal Moritz has given an update about the remake of TOTAL RECALL. Says Colin Farrell Is the Lead; They Start Shooting May 15th in Toronto, it won't be in 3D, and says, "it's closer to the book, the big difference is we don't go to space." More news at the source
Submission + - Use Linux instead of Windows? China won't (strategypage.com) 1
rssrss writes: Even Communist dictators have a hard time getting organizations under their control to use Linux instead of Windows. 'For a decade now, China has been trying to get business and government users to adopt Unix (and later Linux) as their operating system. Yet most Chinese businesses, and many government departments, continue to use Microsoft operating systems.' Will Russia have any more success?
Submission + - Swedish supreme court protect file sharers (google.se)
flote writes: The Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) has decided that several laws concerning file sharing and the identity of the file sharer overlap and are contradictory. "The issue of [whether] Ephone get[s to] share the information is so complicated that it is necessary to ask the EU Court in Luxembourg for advice. And European Court usually takes plenty of time. It's probably about one to two, at worst, up to five years of treatment. .. This means that file-sharers will be protected if the record label or film company requires the identification information, until the European Court of Justice puts the foot down."
Original article in swedish: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/hogsta-domstolen-skyddar-fildelare_5399687.svd
Original article in swedish: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/hogsta-domstolen-skyddar-fildelare_5399687.svd
