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RIM CEO attacks Apple and the concept of apps
Digitaltrends.com
Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM attacked Apple for its library of 300000 apps, saying that they are unneeded. At the Web 2.0 Summit, one of Research in Motion's CEOs (it has two) said that he doesn't think apps are necessary or useful, and challenged the ...
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Submission + - Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by rdnetto on Friday July 02, 2010 @09:02AM

rdnetto writes: After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.

Submission + - Cybercitizens to Hunt Down Hackers

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Friday September 04, 2009 @12:09PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Business Week reports that security experts plan to recruit victims and other computer users to help them go on the offensive and hunt down hackers. "It's time to stop building burglar alarms to keep people out and go after the bad guys," says Rowan Trollope, senior vice-president for consumer products at Symantec, the largest maker of antivirus software. Symantec will ask customers to opt in to a program that will collect data about attempted computer intrusions and then forward the information to authorities. Symantec will also begin posting the FBI's top 10 hackers and their schemes on its Web site, where customers go for software updates and next year the company will begin offering cash bounties for information leading to an arrest. The strategy has its risks as hackers who find novices on their trail may trash their computers or steal their identities as punishment. Citizen hunters could also become cybervigilantes and harm bystanders as they pursue criminals but Symantec is betting customers won't mind being disrupted if they can help snare the bad guys. "I'm convinced we can clean up the Internet in 10 years if we can peel away the dirt and show people the threats they're facing," says Trollope."

Comment unforseen consequences (Score 1) 429

by Sp4c3 C4d3t on Friday September 04, 2009 @11:26AM (#29311631) Attached to: Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming

When humans feel no pain (like crackheads) they go crazy and stab things. What happens when cows feel no pain? Do they go on a rampage?

Comment Re:increased value? really? (Score 1) 275

by Sp4c3 C4d3t on Friday September 04, 2009 @10:18AM (#29310773) Attached to: MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole

Mod this up.

Comment Yay! (Score 0) 252

by Sp4c3 C4d3t on Friday August 28, 2009 @08:53AM (#29229477) Attached to: Slackware 13.0 Released

Slackware doesn't have the advanced features of more modern distros (like Gentoo), but I still find uses for it. It's perfect for a media center or a MAME cabinet. It's good to see it's still going strong, especially with an official 64-bit version.

Comment Re:Oh noes! (Score 1) 311

by Sp4c3 C4d3t on Friday May 15, 2009 @09:34AM (#27965257) Attached to: Secret EU Open Source Migration Study Leaked

The real problem is lack of games. Nerds play games. Nerds set the trends in computing. The moment Linux gets as many games as Windows has, and released on the same day, that is when it can start to "take over". Whenever I talk to Microsofties about why they chose to use Windows Server over a free unixlike platform, their answer is "well, Windows can play all my games". It seems to go past them that you don't play games on your server, but this is how some people think.

Comment Read it (Score 4, Interesting) 227

by Sp4c3 C4d3t on Thursday April 02, 2009 @03:19PM (#27435071) Attached to: Microsoft Open Sources ASP.NET MVC

If you read it you'll find out that it's basically the BSD license. Why jump to conclusions just because it's Microsoft?

Comment Not Citadel!!! :( (Score 1) 140

by Sp4c3 C4d3t on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @11:11PM (#27324333) Attached to: Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16

Citadel is obviously a modified BBS program. I tried it on a company server, and it just wouldn't work out. Configuring it is a pain in the ass, and nothing really makes sense. It doesn't integrate well with OpenLDAP either. I suggest using SOGo with postfix and dovecot. Makes a very nice Exchange replacement.

Submission + - Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner (sunshinepress.org) 1

Submitted by

BountyX

on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @11:10PM

BountyX writes: "First and foremost, wikileaks.org is back up after downtime due to server load; however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, police have raided the home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over internet censorship lists that were leaked two weeks ago. What the Australian government's secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist has anything to do with Germany is a mystery. This case is a prime example of multiple governments collobarating in support of censorship."

Submission + - Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by devg on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:02PM

devg writes: The GNOME development community recently announced the official release GNOME 2.26, the latest version of the open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds the Brasero disc burning software, UPnP support in the Totem media player, and basic support for video chat in the Empathy instant messaging client. GNOME 2.26 will be shipped in upcoming Linux distributions, including Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. Some early reviews show that it is an incremental improvement with some good additions. GNOME 2.26 is accompanied by the release of GTK+ 2.16, a new version of the widget toolkit that is used to build the desktop environment. Ars Technica has published a detailed programming tutorial with code examples that demonstrate how developers can use the new features of GTK+ 2.16 in their own applications. Users can test GNOME 2.26 by downloading one of the official Foresight-based VM or ISO images via BitTorrent.

Submission + - Cross-OS file system that sucks less?

Submitted by on Saturday July 28, 2007 @08:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: I recently got an external harddisk with USB 2.0/Firewire/Firewire 800/eSATA to be used for backup and file exchange — my desktop runs Linux (with a Windows partition for games but no data worth saving), and the laptop is a MacBook Pro.

So the question popped up: what kind of filesystem is best for this kind of situation? Is there a filesystem that works good under Linux, MacOS X and Windows? Linux has HFS+ support but apparently doesn't support journaling and there's also an issue with the case-insensitivity of HFS+.

Are we stuck with shitty VFAT forever or are there efforts underway to bring a modern filesystem (I'm thinking something like ZFS, BeFS, or XFS) to all platforms our there? Or are there other clever solutions like storing ISO images and loop-mounting those?

Submission + - Best Presidential Candidate for Geeks

Submitted by blast on Friday May 25, 2007 @06:01AM

blast writes: I was wondering who the community thinks best candidate for geeks. I.e, regarding the war on privacy, "total information awareness" or whatever they're calling it these days, Internet regulation and taxation, copyright/patent reform, the right to read, the right to secure communications, the right to tinker, etc.

Submission + - Bill Gates' Management Style

Submitted by replicant108 on Sunday May 06, 2007 @10:07AM

replicant108 writes: Tom Evslin gives a fascinating account of working for Microsoft in the early 90s:

"So you're in there presenting your product plan to billg, steveb, and mikemap. Billg typically has his eyes closed and he's rocking back and forth. He could be asleep; he could be thinking about something else; he could be listening intently to everything you're saying. The trouble is all are possible and you don't know which. Obviously, you have to present as if he were listening intently even though you know he isn't looking at the PowerPoint slides you spent so much time on.

At some point in your presentation billg will say "that's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft." He looks like he means it. However, since you knew he was going to say this, you can't really let it faze you. Moreover, you can't afford to look fazed; remember: he's a bully."

Submission + - Thermal IR imaging suggest half of Mars has ice

Submitted by

Ixlr8

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @04:05AM

Ixlr8 writes: "BBC news is running a story that suggests up to half of Mars may have ice. From the article:

Up until now, scientists had been able to search for water deposits using a spectrometer fixed to the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft. However, only readings that are accurate to within several hundred kilometres can be obtained.
By comparing seasonal changes in thermal infrared patterns, detected by the same Odyssey spacecraft, (scientists)[ed] can make readings accurate to within just hundreds of metres."

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