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Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36 25

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @09:51PM from the under-the-hood dept.

conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."

Australian Politician Caught Viewing Porn 150

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 13, 2010 @02:00PM from the stiff-opposition-party dept.

destinyland writes "An Australian Parliament member has resigned after admitting he'd used government computers to access porn and gambling sites. McLeay 'gave an uncomfortable press conference outside Parliament House,' notes one technology site, 'during which he admitted he had acted in a standard not expected of cabinet ministers.' Paul McLeay was also the Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources as well as the Minister for Ports and Waterways. In resigning, he apologized to his constituents and parliamentary colleagues, as well as to his wife and family."

Wine 1.2 Released 427

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:36PM from the pop-the-cork dept.

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."

Nmap 5.20 Released 36

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 23, 2010 @11:32AM from the more-and-better dept.

ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. '"

Submission + - Microsoft applies for patent on Tufte's sparklines (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by jenkin sear on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:17PM

jenkin sear writes: Data Visualization Guru Edward Tufte developed Sparklines, a great way to display condensed data as an inline graphic. Excel's new version has incorporated the design element- and Microsoft has applied for a patent on them- without so much as a by-your-leave from Tufte. So much for a kinder, gentler Microsoft.

Submission + - BlueHippo scam collected $15M, only shipped one PC (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13, 2009 @08:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: Turns out that those Blue Hippo commercials advertising financing for computers and other electronics for anybody, regardless of credit, were way more sleazy than you thought. The FTC brought this fraud down, but not too soon.

Submission + - Russian Whistleblower Cop on YouTube (globalpost.com)

Submitted by AHuxley on Friday November 13, 2009 @05:36PM

AHuxley writes: Russian police officer Alexei Dymovsky has released a series of videos in full full uniform calling out corruption and asking Prime Minister Putin to act.
“Maybe you don’t know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I’m ready to tell you everything. I’m not scared of my own death,”
"“I will show you the life of cops in Russia, how it is lived, with all the corruption and all the rest – with ignorance, rudeness, recklessness, with honest officers killed because they have stupid bosses.”"
His series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and have spread across Russia.
Dymovsky was promptly fired after the clips spread across the internet, and a local prosecutor has opened an investigation into libel.
An interior ministry source accused him of working for foreign agents and hinted that the format of Dymovsky’s complaint was a problem, using a medium that remains largely free of government control.

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America's Army 3 Has Rough Launch, Development Team Canned 150

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 20, 2009 @12:08AM from the no-stop-loss-here dept.

incognito84 writes "The development team responsible for the creation of the freeware game America's Army 3 has been canned, days after the launch of the highly flawed game, which was distributed mostly via Steam. 'The anonymous America's Army 3 developers in touch with Kotaku unsurprisingly didn't sound too pleased with the current situation, venting that "a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours on this game that was butchered by outside sources.' The game's launch was plagued by massive server authentication issues which inhibited most players from playing it even two days afterward. One of the developers made a post on the official forums saying they were 'effectively stabbed in the back,' and that much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy. A patch has been released to address some of the game's issues."

Comment Re:Wow, it only took 30,000 complaints... (Score 1) 361

by jenkin sear on Saturday May 16, 2009 @04:58PM (#27981577) Attached to: FTC Targets Massive Car Warranty Robocall Scheme

They aren't complaining about legal behavior, are they? These dirtbags are breaking the law.

If it took 30,000 calls to the cops before they got off their butts and investigated a robbery, would that be appropriate?

If they have 100 credible reports of an organization involved in lawbreaking, they should investigate. And they should get off their fat asses far quicker to save everyone the enormous time and trouble.

Dormitory Turned Into Huge Color Display 69

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday May 16, 2009 @12:06AM from the color-your-windows dept.

macson_g writes "Students from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) once again turned one of their dormitories into huge display. The project is called P.I.W.O. (B.E.E.R.). This time they converted a 10-story building into 4-color, 12x10 display. The business was used to display animations, and to play interactive games as well. On the project page (in Polish, Google translation here) you can watch an almost hour-long video, featuring music videos, a Tetris session, a dancing Michael Jackson, Duke Nukem and Mario."

Comment Wow, it only took 30,000 complaints... (Score 5, Interesting) 361

by jenkin sear on Friday May 15, 2009 @10:45PM (#27975701) Attached to: FTC Targets Massive Car Warranty Robocall Scheme

Holy crap, the FTC did NOTHING until more than 30,000 complaints were received. You'd think the threshold would be a hell of a lot lower. Your tax money at work- thanks assholes.

Submission + - Eben Moglen: Global Software Industry Post-GPL3

Submitted by

Dan Shearer

on Friday June 29, 2007 @05:15PM

Dan Shearer writes: "Three days before GPLv3 was released, Eben Moglen delivered the annual lecture of The Scottish Society of Computers and Law in Edinburgh, Scotland giving his thoughts on The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3. The text transcription, audio and 384kbit video are up at archive.org. Eben looks back at the "legislative action" achieved by the GPLv3 community over the last 18 months, and also from the 22nd century. A riveting presentation for all present."

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