Feed Engadget: Google hits Android ROM modder with a cease-and-desist letter (engadget.com)
So this is interesting: apparently Google's hit the developer of the Cyanogen modded Android ROM with a cease-and-desist letter, asking him to stop distributing the closed-source Google apps like Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. What's a little strange is that Cyanogen is targeted at "Google Experience" devices like the G1 and myTouch, so it's not like Google is really protecting anything here -- leading us to wonder if they're just using the copyright argument to shut down a popular mod that's tempted over 30,000 users into rooting their phones. That's just speculation on our part, though -- the dev says he's trying to open a dialogue with Google, so perhaps we'll find out some more answers soon.
[Via Android and Me]
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Read|Permalink|Email this|CommentsSubmission + - Google Serves a Cease and Desist order to Android (androidandme.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google served a Cease and Desist order to a popular android developer for distributing closed source Google applications. I'm not any good at writing summary's so hopefully someone submitted it with a better one. Just thought i'd bring it up.
Comment Debugging (Score 1) 254
But will they spend the time debugging it?
I enjoyed Oblivion and Fallout 3 for the PS3 but they were the two buggiest games I've ever played (including PC games). I think the games froze for me about once per 8-10 hours of play on average.
I enjoyed Oblivion and Fallout 3 for the PS3 but they were the two buggiest games I've ever played (including PC games). I think the games froze for me about once per 8-10 hours of play on average.
Comment Re:Memtest not perfect. (Score 1) 724
"My experience with memtest is you can trust the results if it says the memory is bad, however if the memory passed it could still be bad."
This has been my experience too. I hate to recommend Microsoft products but I've found that Windows Memory Diagnostic to be more thorough than memtest86. It has found bad memory that memtest86 missed on more than one occasion.
This has been my experience too. I hate to recommend Microsoft products but I've found that Windows Memory Diagnostic to be more thorough than memtest86. It has found bad memory that memtest86 missed on more than one occasion.
Comment Re:It's About Time (Score 1) 232
Obligatory penny arcade:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/30/
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/30/
Comment Re:Open Source is the best you can have in science (Score 1) 250
Is this the spec to which you refer?
http://www.certif.com/index.html
If it is then you are incorrect about it being open source. A license is required to run it. It is possible to obtain the code so you can build it, but sharing it is definitely not allowed.
The macros you write for it, however, are as open as you'd like them to be.
Comment Re:I would forego the land line if... (Score 2, Interesting) 504
Request a grandcentral.com number. If you decide you don't want a non-VIP caller to bother you anymore, you can play an out-of-service message when that person calls :-)
Comment Re:Hookay... damage control? Paid by MS? (Score -1, Redundant) 864
Pressing 3 + 2 * 2 = in windows calculator.
Standard: 10 (as a handheld calculator would produces, as it calculates 3 + 2 when you press *)
Scientific: 7 (as the scientific calculator on my desk produces)
What's the problem?
You don't understand the order of operations.
Comment SOA also stands for (Score 1) 219
Society of Actuaries
Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 658
Your post reminded me of Stephen Lynch's Halloween song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImnMucno1ew
Submission + - Earth's Evil Twin (esa.int)
Riding with Robots writes: "For the past two years, Europe's Venus Express orbiter has been studying Earth's planetary neighbor up close. Today, mission scientists have released a new collection of findings and amazing images. They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in many ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth."
Submission + - Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations
SteakNShake writes: Once again professional astronomers are struggling to understand observations of the sun. ScienceDaily reports that a team from Saint Andrew's University announced that the sun's magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the corona via a mechanism dubbed the "solar skeleton". Computer models continue to be built to mimic the observed behavior of the sun in terms of magnetic fields but apparently the ball is still being dropped; no mention in the announcement is made of the electric fields that must be the cause of the observed magnetic fields. Also conspicuously absent from the press releases is the conclusion that the sun's corona is so-dominated by electric and magnetic fields because it is a plasma. In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe, this kind of crippling ignorance among professional astrophysicists is astonishing.
