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Submission + - European Court of Justice To Outlaw Net Filtering (falkvinge.net)

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jrepin
jrepin writes: "Today, the European Court of Justice gave a preliminary opinion that will have far-reaching implications in the fight against overaggressive copyright monopoly abusers. It is not a final verdict, but the advocate general’s position; the Court generally follows this. The Advocate Generals says that no ISP can be required to filter the Internet, and particularly not to enforce the copyright monopoly."

Comment Re:Yeah. (Score 1) 605

by jim.hansson (#30609722) Attached to: Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?
already done, so big project so even development area for that one project is split into 4+ areas so one developer should not be able to crash the whole system for all developers. still one developer can still do so much damage that when one group of 10+ developers are sitting around doing nothing because a screwup one of them did, it still cost a lot of money.

Comment Re:Yeah. (Score 1, Offtopic) 605

by jim.hansson (#30608116) Attached to: Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?

plus the fact that developers are going to cause less harm than average users

As a developer and former sysadmin. I think are wrong there, I know that if I have a bad day at work and don't think one extra time before pressing enter och commiting I could wreck a much bigger havoc compared to a normal user that uses some gui that ask "are you sure" and they would not even think of doing some of the things I may do because they do not have the same know how. I think as a developer and sysadmin that developers are the most dangerous people to have running around with more privileges than needed. A developer that whips together a bash script for fast fix ending up in "rm -rf /"

Submission + - Email on Death Row - Again (emailserviceguide.com) 1

Submitted by mvip
mvip writes: It's time to prematurely mourn the death of email again: the Wall Street Journal article Why Email No Longer Rules is making the rounds online. Fast Company provided a fast response highlighting the technical shortcomings of trying to replace email with Facebook and Twitter (where do the attachments go?). Email Service Guide points out that Facebook and Twitter are ineffective for one-of communications. But with Google Wave around the corner, is the end near for email this time around?
Nintendo

Submission + - Next Nintendo handheld to be NVIDIA Tegra powered (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile
Vigile writes: When you sell over a 100 million handheld gaming systems, everyone wants to be involved in your success; just ask Nintendo. As a company with many different obstacles in its path, NVIDIA could definitely use the boost in revenues that would come from partnering with a company like Nintendo on a handheld system and it looks like the Tegra processor will make that happen. The NVIDIA Tegra processor is an SoC that runs a set of ARM cores, a GeForce-based graphics core and an HD video processor capable of 1080p output that would definitely give the current Nintendo DS/DSi systems a performance boost inline with the Sony PSP. The "Nintendo TS" as it has been dubbed will apparently be ready for a late winter 2010 release and should put a spark in the mobile gaming market and give Nintendo's developers the power to bring higher quality games to the platform.
Science

Submission + - The End of Moore's Law (insidescience.org)

Submitted by BuzzSkyline
BuzzSkyline writes: Physicists have found that there is an ultimate limit to the speed of calculations, regardless of any improvements in technology. According to the researchers who found the computation limit, the bound "poses an absolute law of nature, just like the speed of light." While many experts expect technological limits to kick in eventually, engineers always seems to find ways around such roadblocks. If the physicists are right, though, no technology could ever beat the ultimate limit they've calculated. At the current Moore's Law pace, computational speeds will hit the wall in 75 years. A paper describing the analysis, which relies on thermodynamics, quantum mechanics and information theory, appeared in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Coders: Your Days Are Numbered (infoworld.com) 2

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister argues that communication skills, not coding skills, are a developer's greatest asset in a bear economy. 'Too many software development teams are still staffed like secretarial pools. Ideas are generated at the top and then passed downward through general managers, product managers, technical leads, and team leads. Objectives are carved up into deliverables, which are parceled off to coders, often overseas,' McAllister writes. 'The idea that this structure can be sustainable, when the U.S. private sector shed three-quarters of a million jobs in March 2009 alone, is simple foolishness.' Instead, companies should emulate the open source model of development, shifting decision-making power to the few developers with the deepest architectural understanding of, and closest interaction with, the code. And this shift will require managers to look beyond résumés 'choked with acronyms and lists of technologies' to find those who 'can understand, influence, and guide development efforts, rather than simply taking dictation.'"
Programming

Submission + - SPAM: QT 4.5 Released

Submitted by
stoolpigeon
stoolpigeon writes: "QT 4.5 has arrived and is now available for download. This new release is quite significant due to licensing changes that now make it simpler to use QT in a wider range of products without cost as well as a number of new features. The latest version of Webkit is now integrated into the product. Qt 4.5 sees the introduction of QtBenchLib, a new component to make measuring the performance of the toolkit and checking for regressions easier. Mac developers who use Qt will note a major reworking of 4.5 on the Mac, now providing 64 bit support. QT Creator is a new IDE that looks to have combined a number of previously separate tools. And there is much more."
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The Internet

Submission + - The Case Against Web Apps (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister offers five reasons why companies should re-consider concentrating their development efforts on browser-based apps. As McAllister sees it, Web apps encourage a thin-client approach to development that concentrates far too much workload in the datacenter. And while UI and tool limitations are well known, the Web as 'hostile territory' for independent developers is a possibility not yet fully understood. Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive, but long term, the browser's weaknesses might just outweigh its strengths as an app delivery platform."

Comment Re:the clueless comment. (Score 1) 363

by jim.hansson (#25186231) Attached to: Australian ISPs Claim Net Neutrality Is an 'American Problem'
my home, a small village up in the swedish mountains http://maps.google.se/?ie=UTF8&ll=64.065312,14.146914&spn=0.009216,0.027595&z=15 We have really good connectivity there, 8/1 Mb adsl is the normal for something around 300 sek. there is talk about laying a new fiber all the way to the village and it will be possible to get a fiber all the way to your own house but it will cost. a picture from the center of the village. http://www.fiskevalsjobyn.nu/bilder/valsjn.jpg

a map with all the houses as dot's so you see how small this town really is
http://gfx.aftonbladet.se/multimedia/archive/00424/valsjobyn_424985w.jpg
the X marks the spot where one person was killed last year by a bear.

And NO talk about paying per GB.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The List of Obsolete Technical Skills 3

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Ponca City, We Love You
Ponca City, We Love You writes: "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — "things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us." Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board, assembly language programming, and stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next. "Feel free to contribute more if you can, and if you have the time, please make a page with a short description of the skill," writes Brad Kellett."
Privacy

Journal Journal: How to Convince Non-IT Friends that Privacy Matters?

Journal by mmtux

As technology becomes more advanced I am more and more worried about my privacy in all aspects of my life. Unfortunately, whenever I attempt to discuss the matter with my friends, they show little understanding and write me off as a hyper-neurotic IT student. They say they simply don't care that the data they share on social networks may be accessible by others, that some laws passed by governments today might be privacy infringing and dangerous or that they shouldn't use on-line banking with
Media

Journal SPAM: DRM Nightmare - Use HD and Lose Previously Purchased Media 7

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

Davis Freeberg ran into the nightmare scenario of losing access to his DRM-disabled purchases, simply by upgrading a PC monitor. "I recently purchased a new HD monitor, but when I installed it, I lost the streaming capabilities on Netflix's website. When I tried to troubleshoot the issue, I had to agree to let Netflix "reset my DRM" by destroying my Amazon.com files. Because Hollywood wants to punish people for using techn

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