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Submission + - Wikipedia is threatened with organised vandalism (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This week in Jerusalem, two Israeli groups hoping to smite their online enemies, both domestic and foreign, began a course in the “Zionist editing” of Wikipedia entries. At the opening seminar, attended by about 80 activists, one of the organizers, Naftali Bennett, said that the aim of the course is to make sure that information in the online encyclopedia reflects the worldview of Zionist groups. For example, he said, “if someone searches [for] ‘the Gaza flotilla,’ we want to be there; to influence what is written there, how it’s written and to ensure that it is balanced and Zionist in nature.”

Submission + - German Java developer are angry about Oracle

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The german iJUG (interest-network of Java User Groups) have published its statement about Oracle:
http://www.ijug.eu/index.php?option=...:news&Itemid=4

The german iJUG is a umbrella organization of nine german Java User Groups and a german Oracle User Group.

The iJUG criticised that on the last events of Oracle nothing was said about the future of Java.
Additional the common Blogs and Twitter places publishing a lot of lesser informations.

A different problem is seen, that Oracle don't say anything about the relationship between its OpenSource products and the commercial variants like on GlassFish. "Oracle always say, its the same products with different license", said iJUG board member and leader of the Java User Group Erlangen/Nürnberg Oliver Szymanski, "but currently don't exists a evidence for it". Additional the behavior with OpenJDK7 and the future of JDK7 is unclear.

After the disappointed session of Oracle on the Java Forum Stattgart in Germany it stand in discussion, if the Java-Community should take the future of Java in its own hand. "For example you could much stronger agree for a further stage of OpenJDK", said Tobias Frech from the Java User Group Stuttgart. "JavaFX wants the community as OpenSource, too, to have the possibility to further develop it".

Kristian Rink from the Java User Group Saxony thinks to the same direction: "The technical aspects of the JVM should be within the scope of the JCP completly from the community and interested stakeholder done." For the JVM and JDK should be — in his opinion — the existing Sun-implementation as product-proof implementation by an Oracle-extern, open and company-independend unit like Apache or the Eclipse realised, which besiedes long-term ensuring of availability both technologies for development/evolution and priduct-distribution, additional respect the interests of the stakeholder in technical details and realizing it, without to be too much handicapped with the own product- and project-planing.

Concretely the users have questions like:
- Will be Java in the future further on created within the JCP? When yes, when will be a JSR for Java 7 start?
- Comming license-changes for the Java runtime, the JDK or JavaFX, especially with a view of the current lawsuit Oracle/Google?
- What plans Oracle to do long-term with duplications of much programs under one roof (GlassFish / WebLogic, Sun JDK / JRockit, Netbeans / JDeveloper)?
- Will Oracle be hold the Sun-policy, to not deploy its own patent rights against Open-Source-implementations?
- What happens with the Java Store?
- What happens with the former Sun employees?

The Java-Community is relative big and heterogeneous. There exists lot of commercial and non-commercail units, which its business operations, projects and activities have based on Java as the current ecosystem and which have hence a legitimate interest to have a continuousness of the status quo.
Java-developer telling however the iJUG permanent about project, where the use of Java would be sensible, but because of different reasons fail and other technologies have been used. "We giving Oracle time until the JavaOne on september", Fried Saacke sum up. "If there will be nothing satisfiable communicated, we will think about alternative strategies."

The iJUG have already spoken with Oracle about the mentioned problems and the company have appreciated it. Now the user waiting urging, that the producer appropriate react.

Submission + - Jack Horkheimer a.k.a. "The Star Hustler" Dies 1

Submitted by krswan
krswan writes: I'll bet many readers had their interest in astronomy fanned by Jack Horkheimer through his long running "Star Hustler" (later changed to "Star Gazer") program on PBS. His joy and enthusiasm for basic naked-eye astronomy was contagious, and more than once got me in big trouble as a kid for sneaking outside when his show ended at 12:05am trying to find whatever he was presenting that week. Nice story at Sky and Telescope, including the epitaph he already wrote for himself...

"Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition,
I can do little else in my present position."

Submission + - Sen. Al Franken's Net Neutrality Petition (alfranken.com)

Submitted by coerciblegerm
coerciblegerm writes: Senator Al Franken of Minnesota has started an online petition for citizens to sign up and make their support of Net Neutrality known to his fellow lawmakers. As of this writing, nearly 100,000 "signatures" have been collected. This is a call to action for those living in the US who support Net Neutrality; sign the petition!
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Submission + - Root privileges through Linux kernel bug (h-online.com)

Submitted by
Lars T.
Lars T. writes: "The H has a story about a Linux kernel bug that allows root level access. "According to a report written by Rafal Wojtczuk, a conceptual problem in the memory management area of Linux allows local attackers to execute code at root level. The Linux issue is caused by potential overlaps between the memory areas of the stack and shared memory segments." SUSE maintainer Andrea Arcangeli provided a fix for the problem in September 2004, but for unknown reasons this fix was not included in the Linux kernel. The bug is not related to the X Server bug found by Brad Spengler."
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Journal Journal: Looks like somebody really hates me

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Re:How important are JavaScript times?, posted to WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox), has been moderated Overrated (-1).

It is currently scored Normal (0).

Re:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing?, posted to Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update, has been moderated Flamebait (-1).

It is currently scored Flamebait (-1).

Comment Re:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing? (Score -1, Flamebait) 429

by Lars T. (#33230456) Attached to: Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update

Be fair - its "advanced" functionality that comes with a modest but non-zero set of additional responsibilities for the user, along with a moderate amount of additional power. If it was truly "basic functionality" then there wouldn't be many millions of people quite successfully and happily using their devices without it.

So jailbreaking an iPhone isn't neccessary either. Thanks for the confimation.

Comment Re:SUBMISSION IS WRONG: Link here (Score 0, Flamebait) 307

by Lars T. (#33165264) Attached to: Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas

Side note, careful with the word "application" here, since it's generally got a different meaning in patent contexts. Let's just grit the teeth and say "iPhone ap".

My wife recently used the (Dutch) word "applicatie" to describe patches/badges on our son's shirt. I was thoroughly confused.

That's an "applique". Be glad she isn't German, there it's "Applikation" - which also means application.

Comment Re:SUBMISSION IS WRONG: Link here (Score -1, Flamebait) 307

by Lars T. (#33164994) Attached to: Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas

Hell, did anyone read the submission which flat-out states that the illustration is just an example of a possible use of the technology?

I haven't bothered to read it, but doesn't this mean that the application would be covered by the patent (exactly what you're saying isn't true)?

No. Whatever gave you that idea?

Comment Re:Where the money is. (Score -1, Flamebait) 307

by Lars T. (#33164456) Attached to: Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas

Web stats are very unreliable. We know that Symbian, RIM and now Android are outselling the Iphone platform, but they show up less on web stats. They're not even included at all on your reference!

Which could mean that very few use them for browsing, because the experience isn't that good. But that's something a fanboi like you could never even consider.

Comment Re:The Tags are getting more absurd each day (Score -1, Flamebait) 320

by Lars T. (#33157168) Attached to: 400 Turns of <em>Civilization V</em>

"alternatehistory" - really?

I dont know why you consider this absurd. Playing a game of Civ where the Indian civilisation violently conquers North American civilisations is the very definition of "alternate history". You've played Civ before, right?

You live in an alternate world, aren't you?

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