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Comment Can you say conflict of interest? (Score 3, Interesting) 415

by PeKbM0 on Thursday April 23, 2009 @08:50AM (#27685853) Attached to: Judge In Pirate Bay Trial Biased

Because I'm sure TPB's lawyers can.

Comment Re:Torrents are just tools. (Score 1) 664

by PeKbM0 on Friday February 13, 2009 @07:58AM (#26841463) Attached to: Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday

Nope. If crime B is something that actively causes harm to people while crime A is more-or-less unenforceable and not too serious then crime A should be ignored at least until crime B has been solved.

Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 249

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 06, 2009 @10:03AM from the more-better dept.

CWmike writes "Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7 (which we discussed a few days back), Microsoft today said it will change the behavior of User Account Control in Windows 7's release candidate. In a blog post, two Microsoft executives responsible for Windows development, John DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, said 'We are going to deliver two changes to the Release Candidate that we'll all see. First, the UAC control panel will run in a high integrity process, which requires elevation. Second, changing the level of the UAC will also prompt for confirmation.' They said the changes were prompted by feedback from users, including comments on an earlier post Thursday by DeVaan in which he defended the modifications Microsoft made to UAC in Windows 7."

Comment Re:*BSD is Dying (Score 3, Funny) 158

by PeKbM0 on Sunday February 01, 2009 @05:30PM (#26687207) Attached to: NetBSD 5.0 RC1 Released

BSD isn't dead... it just smells funny (with apologies to Frank Zappa)

Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes 295

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @05:12PM from the billions-and-billions-served dept.

iamhigh writes "Reports are popping up that Chinese Internet Cafes are being required to switch to Red Flag Linux. Red Flag is China's biggest Linux distro and recently received headlines for their Olympic Edition release. The regulations, effective Nov. 5th, are aimed at combating piracy and require only that cafes install either a legal version of Windows or Red Flag. However, Radio Free Asia says that cafes are being forced to install Red Flag even if they have legal versions of Windows. Obviously questions about spying and surveillance have arisen, with no comment from the Chinese Government."

E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones 166

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:19PM from the durned-amazing-looking dept.

twitter writes "Want to run Enlightenment on your cell phone? The Rasterman's recent efforts bring E17 to Open Moko FreeRunner and Treo 650: 'According to the Rasterman, when used with his updated illume stack and new Elementary widget set, E17 can now run in just 32MB of RAM, on an ARM9 processor clocked at 317MHz. To prove it, he is distributing a Linux kernel and E17/Illume/Elementary stack for Palm's Treo650. The stack can be launched from PalmOS without touching the device's flash storage, he says.' While Microsoft fumbles with limited 'instant on,' GNU/Linux rules the embedded world and that's the only thing going in the IT market right now."

Comment Re:Highly Reflective Craters (Score 1) 55

by PeKbM0 on Thursday October 09, 2008 @06:01PM (#25321227) Attached to: Messenger Sends First Full Fly-By Image of Mercury

From what it looks like, only the craters to the right of the image are brighter, while the craters to the left look fairly typical. My guess is it's just to do with how the light has hit them, and they aren't intrinsically different from any other craters.

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