GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project 587

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 12, 2009 @10:16AM from the taking-their-toys-and-going-home dept.

blozza2070 writes "In a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that GNOME split off from the GNU Project and has proposed a vote. He was informed he will need 10% of members to agree for a vote to be put forth. At the same time, David Schlesinger (on the GNOME Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote. Stormy Peters said she doesn't agree with this, but then gave everyone instructions on how to proceed with a vote. She mentioned that roughly 20 members are needed to agree." The mailing list server is timing out as of this writing, but iTWire has the Cliff's notes.

Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M 421

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 01, 2009 @07:57AM from the just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe dept.

angry tapir writes "Jack Thompson has sued Facebook for US$40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Thompson is best known for bringing suit against Grand Theft Auto's Take Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Wal-Mart, arguing that the game caused violent behavior."

Comment Re:This is why I backup my Gmail with G-Archiver (Score 1) 462

by carlcub on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @04:24PM (#22721626) Attached to: G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords

Actually, that's not true. You connect to a different port to do secure SMTP to gmail, which is what the code in question did to send the email.

Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production 494

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 18, 2008 @06:19AM from the one-format-to-rule-them-all dept.

Multiple users have written to tell us that Toshiba is planning to halt production of devices related to HD-DVD. According to Japanese broadcasting network NHK, Toshiba will lose "hundreds of millions of dollars" as the format war finally draws to a close. Regardless, investors are pleased that Toshiba has made the decision to cut its losses. This comes after a last-ditch price cut was unable to prevent Wal-mart from throwing their lot in with Blu-ray, although some sources suggest that Wal-mart was already aware of Toshiba's plans to withdraw from fight.

Submission + - Internet Uses 9.4% of U.S. Electricity (prweb.com)

Submitted by

ribuck

on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @02:43PM

ribuck writes: "Equipment powering the internet accounts for 9.4% of electricity demand in the U.S., and 5.3% of global demand, according to research by David Sarokin at online pay-for-answers service Uclue. Worldwide, that's 868 billion kilowatt-hours per year. The total includes the energy used by desktop computers and monitors (which makes up two-thirds of the total), plus other energy sinks including modems, routers, data processing equipment and cooling equipment."

Feed Latest version of MFSLive enables TiVo Series3 internal and external expansion (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday June 03, 2007 @04:32PM

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage

Those not following TiVo hacking may want to gloss over this one, but it would appear that the latest version of spike2k5's MFSLive TiVo volume hacking tool (v1.2) enables support for both internal and external expansion. (Remember, you were bound to run into trouble if you tried the Series3 eSATA drive expansion technique if your internal drive was already upgraded.) We haven't given this a go -- any luck for you peeps?

[Thanks, Bill S.]

Read - MFSLive v1.2 release notes
Read - MFSLive download page

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Feed Intel reveals quad-core laptop chip in the pipeline for 2008 (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday June 03, 2007 @02:32PM

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops

Confirming something that we had already seen hints of, Intel has announced that it is looking forward to quad core laptops hitting the scene throughout 2008. Mooly Eden, GM of Intel's mobile platform group, said that we won't see these quad cores in business class laptops for a while, even being honest enough to admit that there aren't enough multi-threaded applications out there to justify it. In practically the same breath, PC World mentions that the chip will target high-level gaming laptops, which is cool because gamers will no doubt lap the new chips up: even if gaming is for the moment a very much single-threaded activity. Architecturally the new chip will have to differ from Intel's current offerings such as Santa Rosa, so you can probably expect to pay quite a premium until they hit the mainstream. (Not that you didn't know that already.)

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P.S. Bonus points for most imaginative insult in response to the fatal mistake of using Apple's Intel logos to illustrate this post.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Feed Comatose Patient Regains Consciousness After Biosynthetic 'Glue' Seals Spinal Fl (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Friday May 25, 2007 @08:12PM

Neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists injected a biosynthetic "glue" to seal off a spinal fluid leak and restore a comatose patient to consciousness. An article describing the case appears in the British medical journal, The Lancet. It is the first known report of a situation in which a patient's coma was reversed by the injection of glue, according to the article's lead author.

Feed New Technique Effective In Closing Accidental Colonoscopy Wounds (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Friday May 25, 2007 @08:12PM

In a series of animal studies, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have developed a technique for closing colonoscopy-caused perforations promptly after they are recognized by using clips or sutures that can be inserted through the anus via endoscope, thus avoiding invasive surgery.

Journal Journal: The Idea of Perpetual Copyright

Journal by katatak on Monday May 21, 2007 @03:54PM

A recent New York Times editorial piece expressed the idea that copyright should be perpetual. The idea that an author or composer has any right to keep a creation he has sold to a publisher is new to the 20th & 21st Centuries. Before modern copyright law, authors, unless they self-pu

Journal Journal: Amazon.com acquires dpreview.com

Journal by Streetlight on Monday May 14, 2007 @05:03PM

Digital Camera Review (http://www.dpreview.com/) announced May 14, 2007, that they had been acquired by amazon.com.

Submission + - AMD cuts processor prices

Submitted by BDPrime on Monday April 09, 2007 @04:24PM

BDPrime writes: AMD is cutting prices for its X2 processors, according to an update on its microprocessor pricing list. The cuts refer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 X2 chips.

Some of the price cuts are almost in half.

Feed Medical Imaging: New Technology 50 Times Faster (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @04:12PM

Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed the processing of 3-D medical images.

Audit Finds FBI Abused Patriot Act 341

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 09, 2007 @04:31PM from the watching-the-watchers dept.

happyslayer writes to mention that according to Yahoo! News a recent audit shows that the FBI has improperly and in some cases illegally utilized the Patriot Act to obtain information. "The audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine found that FBI agents sometimes demanded personal data on individuals without proper authorization. The 126-page audit also found the FBI improperly obtained telephone records in non-emergency circumstances. The audit blames agent error and shoddy record-keeping for the bulk of the problems and did not find any indication of criminal misconduct. Still, 'we believe the improper or illegal uses we found involve serious misuses of national security letter authorities,' the audit concludes."

Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged 219

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 01, 2007 @10:35PM from the about-time dept.

After 13 years, Randal Schwartz has had his conviction expunged. In effect, legally it never happened. If you haven't heard about this one before, my take is that as a contractor at Intel, Randal did some over-zealous white-hat cracking free-of-charge; this embarrassed some people in management (he pointed out that their passwords were terrible) and management then chose to embarrass themselves further by having him convicted of a felony under an 'anti-hacking' law. More info can be had from the Friends of Randal Schwartz.