Comment Re:Doing something about it. (Score 2, Interesting) 120
The PHP developers didn't find these bugs, Stefan Esser did. (see http://php-security.org/)
The fact that one of the bugs still remains from his original
Comment Re:A Very Shortsighted Article (Score 3, Informative) 487
From the credits list: "Protocase for putting up with hundreds of small 3-D case design tweaks", which I assume is http://www.protocase.com/.
Comment Re:Was it really copyright or circumvention? (Score 2, Informative) 207
From the forum thread at CoreAVC discussing this, the founder of CoreAVC says "Again without going into all the details... this is mostly about reverse engineering without permission under the DMCA... by us giving Alan permission.... problem solved".
Without seeing the coreavc-for-linux code I can't say whether or not he had to reverse engineer anything about CoreAVC to get it working, but it doesn't seem like hooking up a DirectShow filter via a (relatively) standardized API would need anything like that. Since this claim was made under the DMCA, he would have had to be reverse engineering something related to copy protection. Perhaps there is some sort of product activation that had to be hacked around to get the codec working on a non-windows platform?
Without seeing the coreavc-for-linux code I can't say whether or not he had to reverse engineer anything about CoreAVC to get it working, but it doesn't seem like hooking up a DirectShow filter via a (relatively) standardized API would need anything like that. Since this claim was made under the DMCA, he would have had to be reverse engineering something related to copy protection. Perhaps there is some sort of product activation that had to be hacked around to get the codec working on a non-windows platform?
Comment I don't think of HP anymore as being HP (Score 1) 68
Today:
HP = computers and printers
Agilent = Test and measurement
Original HP = Agilent
HP = computers and printers
Agilent = Test and measurement
Original HP = Agilent
Goatse.cx Is For Sale 211
fm6 writes "The domain goatse.cx is being auctioned. Bidding, at the time of posting, has reached $15K after 109 bids (with 6 days to go). Some of you will recall that this site used to be linked in a lot of Slashdot articles, despite having only a few pages. Boing Boing, with their usual creativity, has managed to depict Goatse's most commonly linked photo while still remaining within the bounds of good taste."
Submission + - Hans Reiser in Court Today
An anonymous reader writes: Hans Reiser has pled not guilty to murdering his wife and invoked his right to a speedy trial. He will attend a hearing today where the judge will decide if the state has a case: http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_47 34707
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