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Submission + - Sourceforge staff takes over a user's account and wraps their software installer (arstechnica.com) 11

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: Sourceforge staff took over the account of the GIMP-for-Windows maintainer claiming it was abandoned and used this opportunity to wrap the installer in crapware. Quoting Ars:

SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.

Comment Re:Whatever size gives the best battery life. (Score 1) 258

by Elementalor on Friday October 24, 2014 @04:01AM (#48219047) Attached to: Preferred smartphone screen size?

Xperia Z3 Compact.

Two days easily if you browse for an hour a day, one hour of calls, one hour of video and one hour of navigation.

Three days if you hardly use it.

http://www.gsmarena.com/batter...

Disclaimer: I own one and I charge it overnight every two days.

Comment Re:On Banco Santander reports (Score 1) 50

by Elementalor on Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:03AM (#47773051) Attached to: Euro Bank Santander Commissions Study On Bitcoin's Impact On Banking

Not true. Santander began growing in 1999 after a merger with another two Spanish banks, Banco Central Hispanoamericano that were the product of another merger in 1991. Franco died in 1975 and there were dozens of banks and credit unions during his regime.

Submission + - Hidden message on the new sourceforge TrueCrypt site (livebusinesschat.com)

Submitted by badon on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:14AM

badon writes: I have been informed that I may be the first person to publish this. There is a hidden message on the new sourceforge TrueCrypt site that says, approximately, "Don't use TrueCrypt because it is under the control of the NSA".

Submission + - Google to pay $0 to Oracle in copyright case (examiner.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: From the article:
"In a hearing in the US District Court today, it was determined that Google will pay a net total of nothing for Oracle's patent claims against them. In fact, Google is given 14 days to file an application for Oracle to pay legal fees to Google(in a similar manner to how things are done for frivolous lawsuits). However, it is not quite peaches and roses for Google, as Oracle is planning on appealing the decision in the case."

Submission + - One-billion-pixel camera catches the smallest details (nature.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @01:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: A camera made from off-the-shelf electronics can take snapshots of one billion pixels each — about one thousand times larger than images taken by conventional cameras.

David Brady, an engineer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues are developing the AWARE-2 camera with funding from the United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. The camera’s earliest use will probably be in automated military surveillance systems, but its creators hope eventually to make the technology available to researchers, media companies and consumers.

Comment Corrupt picture files in Windows (Score 1) 247

by Elementalor on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @05:02AM (#39925223) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files?

One way to check JPEG/PNG/GIF files that may be corrupted is browsing the folder with thumbnails on. The files that doesn't show the thumbnail are corrupted.

Comment Filehippo links and hosts to it (Score 2) 297

by Elementalor on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:41AM (#37216674) Attached to: RealNetworks Sues Dutch Webmaster Over Hyperlink To Freeware

http://filehippo.com/software/multimedia/

Real Alternative, Quicktime alternative, K-Lite Codec Pack, you name it.

Comment Exceeding all expectations, like the original XBox (Score 1) 207

by Elementalor on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @01:38PM (#36377306) Attached to: Will Microsoft Release Its Own Windows 8 Tablet?

XBox 360 exceeded all expectations? Yeah, right...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19625436&postcount=90

How are two billion dollars in the red? Exceeded all expectations?

Comment They're getting it wrong (Score 5, Insightful) 449

by Elementalor on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @04:57AM (#31828750) Attached to: In EU, Google Accused of YouTube "Free Ride"

The European Telecom operators should know that we, Internet subscribers, pay for our connection top Euros to be able to access sites like Google, Gmail or Youtube. Google is offering most of their services for free to their users and we, as clients of the Telecom companies, are already paying.

At least, Spain's Telefonica CEO demonstates he's just a parasite that doesn't know about what he's talking except getting more money from Google and their clients. If you understand the Spanish talked by a almost drunk man, you'll get the point watching this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVADWAxOZtg

Comment Re:No (Score 5, Informative) 425

by Elementalor on Monday March 09, 2009 @04:55AM (#27118859) Attached to: Emulation Explosion On the PS3 Via Linux

No, PS3 has not made any money and it may never make any.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/index.html
Sony videogames division in the past three years (PS3 era+R&D, including PS2 and PSP):

2006 ===== 75 (positive)
2007 = -1,969 (negative)
2008 = -1,265 (negative)
2009 ===== 51 (positive)

Total 2006-09 === -3,108

(in million US$)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111003

Comment Not correct (Score 2, Insightful) 296

by Elementalor on Thursday February 26, 2009 @08:50AM (#26996545) Attached to: Nintendo Asks For Government Help To Fight Piracy

No, you are not right. In Spain, where we both live it's illegal to copy software, even if it's non-for-profit.

But Spanish judges dismiss charges against people modifying their consoles or copying music or movies for personal use.

What Nintendo wants is to make illegal devices like R4/M3/WiiKey and blocking webpages that give access to pirated games (software).

Good luck with that, but I don't think it would be possible here.

Comment Re:What happens when beta ends? (Score 1) 216

by Elementalor on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @05:15AM (#26619403) Attached to: Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th

When you install Windows 7 Beta 1 it clearly states that you _won't_ be able to upgrade from the Beta to the release version (RTM).

I think Microsoft doesn't want anyone to make this beta his primary OS.

Comment Re:IE updates (Score 1) 376

by Elementalor on Thursday December 18, 2008 @01:48PM (#26162161) Attached to: Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch

XP machine asked me to reboot.

Vista machine didn't ask me to reboot.

In both machines update was applied with Internet Explorer closed.

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