Moru74 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Are you trying to get legislation? (Score 3, Insightful) 299

by Moru74 on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:25AM (#48817651) Attached to: Uber Suspends Australian Transport Inspector Accounts To Block Stings

We don't have to look very far to see where this is going, just look at what happens in Syria and Iraq right now. This is what happens when there is no government. I don't believe we western countries are any different.

Submission + - German NSA critic denied entry to the US

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @04:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: Major newspapers in Germany (FAZ, Die Welt, SZ, ...) and the Huffington Post report that the author Ilja Trojanow has been denied to board a plane from Salvador da Bahia to the US where he was invited to attend a conference. He had ESTA documents showing that his visit was approved as part of the Visa Waiver Program and was last year given a visa to teach at the university of Saint Louis. Trojanow was one of the initiators of an open letter urging Chancellor Merkel to take actions against NSA surveillance in Germany.

Submission + - H.265 OS implementation available

Submitted by Zyrill on Thursday September 05, 2013 @03:56AM

Zyrill writes: The Germany based company Stuttgarter Struktur AG has released a free and open source implementation of the H.265 codec also termed "High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)" which is now available on Github. At the same video quality, H.265 promises roughly half the bitrate as compared to H.264. Also, resolutions up to 8K UHD (7680 × 4320 px) are supported. The software is licensed under LGPL.

Quoting from the homepage where the software is also available for download: "[This software] is written from scratch in plain C for simplicity and efficiency. Its simple API makes it easy to integrate it into other software. Currently, libde265 only decodes intra frames, inter-frame decoding is under construction. Encoding is planned to be added afterwards."

Comment Silly me - I forgot the link... (Score 1) 1

by GLBasic on Thursday February 28, 2013 @01:27AM (#43031557) Attached to: a non-coding game maker for the iPad

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id504890211 - App Store Link

Submission + - The Wii Mini is real, arrives December 7 (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @07:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday there was a rumor doing the rounds that Nintendo was set to release a brand new version of the Wii console called the Wii Mini. The new machine would be significantly smaller than the current Wii, is expected to ship with a Wii Remote Plus, Nunchuk, and Sensor Bar, and hopefully carries a much lower (sub-$100) price.

Well, it looks as though this wasn’t just a rumor. Best Buy Canada has it listed with an image on its front page and a December 7 release date.

Submission + - Real-life transformer robot on sale in Japan! (hobbymedia.it)

Submitted by

Modellismo

on Monday November 26, 2012 @02:31AM

Modellismo writes: "Last may a Japanese hobbyst reveleaed a DIY real life Transformer Robot Car that received a huge feedback.

Now Kenji Ishida is back with a new version that will be officially presented next weekend at the Maker Faire Tokyo 2012.

This new 1/12 scale autobot is made using a custom 3D printer (build by Kenji himself) and finally Transformers fans around the World will be able to buy it.

The official price has not been disclosed. For now the production is limited to 10 pieces. It's possible to choose the color of the robot that comes built, programmed, complete with a wireless controller in a numbered case."

Journal Journal: Oh, look! An Atari Slashdot Logo With Scrolling Rainbows!

Journal by PotatoHead on Monday October 08, 2012 @06:51AM

Well, not too much to say right now, other than I like the changing logo. It's a Google wannabe kind of thing, but in a good way. Nicely done.

If you own and value old computers, particularly if you use them, feel free to chatter below. I have an Apple //e, Atari 800XL, and Color Computer 3, up running and useful. (well sort of useful)

Submission + - Opus - the codec to end all codecs (xiph.org) 4

Submitted by

jmv

on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @03:54PM

jmv writes: "It's official. The Opus audio codec is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization. Better, Opus covers basically the entire audio-coding application space and manages to be as good or better than existing proprietary codecs over this whole space. Opus is the result of a collaboration between Xiph.Org, Mozilla, Microsoft (yes!), Broadcom, Octasic, and Google. See the Mozilla announcement and the Xiph.Org press release for more details."

Comment Re:Correction for the title. (Score 5, Informative) 412

by Moru74 on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:03AM (#38788821) Attached to: Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files

This hunting file-sharers is meaningless, they will just switch over to encryption and other distributed forms of transfer like i2p2.de for example. Encrypted anonymizer written in Java so it runs on all platforms.

The side-effect is that real criminals will also benefit from this development and use the same means to communicate. Great, the pirate hunt will make it impossible to catch real terrorists. Is this really worth it?

Comment Re:It Is Available (Score 1) 783

by Moru74 on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @03:49AM (#38500580) Attached to: Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone?

And GLBasic has been used to put plenty of games and applications on both the iPhone and Android market. You do the whole development on your PC including testing, then you compile it for iPhone, Android, Linux, Windows, Mac without having to completely rewrite the code...

(I'm a long time user of GLBasic so might be a bit biased... :-)

Comment Re:It Is Available (Score 1) 783

by GLBasic on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @03:39AM (#38500546) Attached to: Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone?

There's also GLBasic that does not compile "on" your device, but can build machine code "for" your device.

Submission + - Samsung plans to block the IPhone5 in Korea (koreatimes.co.kr)

Submitted by c0lo on Monday September 19, 2011 @03:04AM

c0lo writes: In apparent retaliation to its U.S. rival's continual patent suits against it in global markets, Samsung Electronics is seeking a complete ban on the sales of the upcoming Apple iPhone 5 in Korea.

Most recently opened (by Samsung) fronts in the patent world wars: Apple is sued in France on 3 technical patents and counter-sued in Australia over 7 technical patents (after an Apple "offensive" temporarily blocked Galaxy Tab for Australian market).

Submission + - E Ink demos new displays, gadgets at IFA 2011 (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05, 2011 @10:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: E Ink turned up at IFA 2011 with its Triton color e-paper which has exactly the same properties as the monochrome version found in the Kindle (two-month battery life, no power use when viewing a page, as readable as a sheet of paper) while adding 4,096 colors. We also get to see the E Ink watch, signage, cellphone and USB stick displays, and the latest glass-less e-paper inside a credit card. E Ink also hope to use the new plastic substrate in future e-readers meaning they will be thinner, light, and shatterproof unlike those that ship today.

Submission + - EU: Android 2.3 (Not 3.0) Violates Apple Patents (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @11:32AM

jfruhlinger writes: "A Dutch court came to some interesting conclusions in the Apple-Samsung patent case raging there. The court rejected claims that Samsung stole intellectual copyrights, or that it slavishly copied Apple's iPad and iPhone. It did decide that Android 2.3 violated an Apple photo management patent — but said that Samsung could get around this simply by upgrading its phones to Android 3.0."

Submission + - Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping

Submitted by theodp on Thursday July 14, 2011 @10:19AM

theodp writes: On Tuesday, the USPTO granted a patent to Apple for Portrait-landscape rotation heuristics for a portable multifunction device (USPTO), which covers 'displaying information on the touch screen display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers.' Perhaps the USPTO Examiners didn't get a chance to review the circa-1991 Computer Chronicles video of the Radius Pivot monitor before deeming Apple's invention patentable. Or check out the winning touchArcade trivia contest entry, which noted the circa-1982 Corvus Concept sported a 15-inch, high-resolution, bit-mapped display screen that also flipped between portrait and landscape views when rotated, like our friend the iPhone. Hey, everything old is new again, right?

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