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Comment Time to jump off Pixel Bandwagon (Score 1) 66

by hooaamai (#59310648) Attached to: Google Announces the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL Smartphones
It's time I jump off Pixel Bandwagon, as Google is not interested in phone hardware anymore. Its so obvious with Pixel4 that they've stopped trying. One of the biggest complaint with Pixel3 was the battery, which I personally face every single day. How do they respond to that, reduce it even further in Pixel4. What a joke!!

Comment Cheap IT Support is good, but not cheap drugs? (Score 1) 556

by hooaamai (#39349473) Attached to: Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97%
Bayer has its office in India for IT support. They save millions by having their office in India because they find cheap IT support here. When the same country expects some cheap drugs to save people who are bringing them profits in other ways, the company has pain. How fair is that?
Sci-Fi

BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website 189

Posted by Soulskill from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has announced their intention to dispose of the H2G2 website, originally founded by Douglas Adams. This comes as part of an initiative by the BBC to cut their online spending by 25%. 'BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of "products." All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly ... H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online. However, H2G2 is unusual. It is a pre-existing community that the BBC brought into its fold, not a community that the BBC set up from scratch. So rather than closing it, we've decided to explore another option. This process has been referred to elsewhere as the "disposal" of H2G2. I'll admit this is not a great choice of words, but what is means is that we'll be looking for proposals from others to take on the running of H2G2.' One option under discussion is a community buyout."
Operating Systems

Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS 466

Posted by timothy from the there-are-drawbacks-to-this dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Several newspapers have reported that DRDO (the defence R&D organization of the Indian military) is planning to create an OS. The need for this arose due to the cyber security concerns facing India and that all [conventional] operating systems are made outside India. About 50 professionals in Bangalore and New Delhi are expected to start work on this operating system." At least one of the linked articles says the new OS, though home-grown, would run Windows software.
Firefox

Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 279

Posted by timothy from the some-big-hype-to-live-up-to dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 build that integrates a new JavaScript engine that aims to match the performance in IE9 and reduces the gap to Safari, Opera and Chrome. This is really the big news we have been waiting for all along with Firefox 4 and it appears that the JavaScript performance is pretty dramatic and seems to beat IE9 at least as far as ConceivablyTech shows. Good to see Mozilla back in the game." The Mozilla blog gives a good overview of the improvements this brings; Tom's Hardware also covers the release.
Media (Apple)

Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad 232

Posted by timothy from the might-make-'em-temptinger dept.
Stoobalou writes "The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to throw at it — should appear some time next week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple. The Open Source Video Lan Client has been tweaked to run on the iPod by software developer Applidium."
Censorship

Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites 1695

Posted by CmdrTaco from the that's-a-sticky-wicket dept.
theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"

Comment Bollywood and Hypocrites (Score 1) 457

by hooaamai (#33519012) Attached to: Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates
The behaviour of Bollywood towards Internet is full of Hypocricy. When it comes to the free publicity that Internet offers to the Bollywood movies worldwide, they have no complaints. Infact, they encourage torrents and video streaming sites that host their movie trailers. But, this medium has the other side which is not completely unknown to anyone. This involves piracy and if you get involved with internet for publicity, piracy follows automatically. So, Bollywood should keep aside its hypocricy regarding the internet and try to cope with it in a legal fashion.

Comment Re:google.co.uk (Score 1) 212

by hooaamai (#33507784) Attached to: Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search?
The site http://www.google.com/ is opening fine for me, but I don't see any change in the Google Logo and neither any moving particles. And there's no change in http://www.google.co.in/ either. My guess is that Google hasn't blessed all the netizens yet. It's just the Americans who get to see the moving particles whereas the rest of the world has to be content with the static ones. Wow! A particle just moved on my google.com webpage!! Or, Did it ?
Google

Submission + - Google Logo Changes Again, Points To RT Search (mashable.com)

Submitted by siliconbits
siliconbits writes: The Google homepage is sporting a new logo that changes color as you type, and it is likely a big hint as to what the company will announce at its search event on Wednesday. When you arrive on the search giant homepage today, you will be greeted with a gray Google doodle.
GNU is Not Unix

Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? 504

Posted by kdawson from the tangled-web dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I am a recent graduate, and I've been working on my own on a project that uses GPL-licensed libraries. Later a university department hired me, on a part-time basis, to develop this project into a solution that they needed. The project's size increased over time and soliciting help from the open source community seemed like the obvious thing to do. However, when I suggested this, my boss was not interested, and it was made clear to me that the department's position was that copyright of the whole thing belonged to them. Indeed, by default work created for an employer belongs to the employer, so I may have gotten myself in the same trap discussed here years ago. Even though I want to release my code to the public I don't know whether I have the legal right to do so. I did start the project on my own. And, since no written or verbal agreement was ever made to transfer copyright over to my employer, I question whether they can claim that they now own the extended version of the project. Also, the whole project relies on GPL libraries, and without those libraries it would be useless. Can they still claim copyright and prevent me from publishing the source code even though it is derived from GPL software?" Some early commenters on the submission pointed out that it matters whether the libraries were licensed under the LGPL vs. the GPL.
Intel

The Big Technical Mistakes of History 244

Posted by kdawson from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.
An anonymous reader tips a PC Authority review of some of the biggest technical goofs of all time. "As any computer programmer will tell you, some of the most confusing and complex issues can stem from the simplest of errors. This article looking back at history's big technical mistakes includes some interesting trivia, such as NASA's failure to convert measurements to metric, resulting in the Mars Climate Orbiter being torn apart by the Martian atmosphere. Then there is the infamous Intel Pentium floating point fiasco, which cost the company $450m in direct costs, a battering on the world's stock exchanges, and a huge black mark on its reputation. Also on the list is Iridium, the global satellite phone network that promised to make phones work anywhere on the planet, but required 77 satellites to be launched into space."
The Internet

What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone 520

Posted by timothy from the stars-wink-out-one-by-one dept.
darthcamaro writes 'We all know that IPv4 address space is almost all gone — but how will we know when the exact date is? And what will happen that day? In a new report, ARIN's CIO explains exactly what will happen on that last day of IPv4 address availability: '"We will run out of IPv4 address space and the real difficult part is that there is no flag date. It's a real moving date based on demand and the amount of address space we can reclaim from organizations," Jimmerson told InternetNews.com. "If things continue they way they have, ARIN will for the very first time, sometime between the middle and end of next year, receive a request for IPv4 address space that is justified and meets the policy. However, ARIN won't have the address space. So we'll have to say no for the very first time."'
Government

Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage 313

Posted by timothy from the you-have-6-asbos-waiting-and-no-guns dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is about to announce that within a year everyone in Great Britain will be given a personalized webpage for accessing Government services as part of a plan to save billions of pounds by putting all public services online. The move could see the closure of job centers and physical offices dealing with tax, vehicle licensing, passports and housing benefits within 10 years as services are offered through a single digital gateway. [This] 'saves time for people and it saves money for the Government — the processing of a piece of paper and mailing it back costs many times more than it costs to process something electronically,' says Tim Berners-Lee, an advisor to the Prime Minister. However, the proposals are coming under fire from union leaders who complain that thousands of public sector workers would be made jobless and pointed to the Government's poor record of handling personal data. 'Cutting public services is not only bad for the public who use services but also the economy as we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole,' says one union leader."

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