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Comment Re:Excellent news for Unesco (Score 1) 735

by jbell730 (#37912792) Attached to: US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote

It also shows how spitefull the current administration is

How so? The law was passed in 1994. It sounds like the administration of George H W Bush was the cause. Or do you suggest that Obama ignore the law?

Also - can someone post a link to this supposed 1994 law?

It wouldn't be the first time laws were ignored by the US government. Why did they start listening to law now?
Java

Submission + - A year later: Has Oracle ruined or saved Sun? (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by GMGruman
GMGruman writes: Oracle has steadily provoked the open source community since its acquisition of Sun, and calling into question whether the move will simply destroy Sun. But as Paul Krill observes, Oracle has been steadfast in upgrading Sun-derived technologies — and making them profitable, which should mean they will stick around a long time.
Censorship

Submission + - Copyright as Censorship in U.S. Senate Campaign (talkingpointsmemo.com) 1

Submitted by kfogel
kfogel writes: Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, is using a copyright "cease-and-desist" letter to stop her opponent, incumbent Harry Reid (currently majority leader in the U.S. Senate), from reposting old versions of her campaign website. The old pages are politically sensitive because Angle campaigned from the far right in the primary, but is now toning that down for the general election. One can understand why a politician might want to de-emphasize certain positions after the primary, but using copyright law to censor your opponent from displaying your past positions? Mmmmmm. Shutting down the wayback machine... not gonna work.

The C&D letter is here. (It also accuses the Reid campaign of intending to impersonate Angle's campaign, which seems doubtful, but who knows?)
Internet Explorer

Submission + - IE9 Flaunts Hardware Accelerated Canvas (msdn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Over on the IE blog they have a rundown of IE9's hardware accelerated support for the canvas element. They write, 'With the recent release of the latest IE9 platform preview, we talked about how we’re rebuilding the browser to use the power of your whole PC to browse the web, and to unlock a new class of HTML5 applications. One area that developers are especially excited about is the potential of HTML5 canvas. Like all of the graphics in IE9, canvas is hardware accelerated through Windows and the GPU. In this blog post we discuss some of the details behind canvas and the kinds of things developers can build.'
Businesses

Submission + - Intel Co-Founder Calls for Tax on Offshored Labor

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Intel co-founder and ex-CEO Andy Grove calls BS on the truism that moving production offshore to locations with much lower wages is a sound idea. 'Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs,' says Grove, 'we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. As happened with batteries, abandoning today's 'commodity' manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry.' To rebuild its industrial commons, Grove says the U.S. should develop a system of financial incentives, including an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. 'If the result is a trade war,' Grove advises, 'treat it like other wars — fight to win.'
The Courts

Submission + - RIAA Outraged by YouTube-Viacom Decision 1

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) voiced its opposition to the recent decision in the YouTube-Viacom copyright infringement case, stating that "the district court's dangerously expansive reading of the liability immunity provisions of the [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] DMCA upsets the careful balance struck within the law and is bad public policy." Cary Sherman, RIAA president, also wrote in a blog post, "It will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Busting Its Own Browser+OS Myth (redmondmag.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley used her Redmond magazine column this month to point out that after years of arguing that the browser is "inextricably linked" to the operating system, the company's current push to get users to drop IE 6 for newer versions, plus IE's separate release schedule, are disproving its own argument. From the article: "Microsoft has insisted that its browser is part of Windows, and, ironically, that's coming back to haunt the company. Customers can mix and match different versions of IE with different versions of Windows.....But Microsoft has done very little to get this message out there. I'd argue this is because it makes plain the absurdity of the company's claims that IE is part of Windows."

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