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Comment The buttons can be readded. (Score 1) 797

by justinjstark on Saturday March 05, 2011 @06:37PM (#35392290) Attached to: GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons

For all of those complaining about this change and how in their case, maximize or minimize buttons improve their workflow, you can put the minimize and maximize buttons back on the titlebar by adding "minimize,maximize" to the appropriate gconf key (I forget the exact location). So, if you want this added functionality, you just have to make one simple change. For the rest of us, we will enjoy the simplified desktop experience.

Comment Re:Shotwell instead of f-spot, almost Yay (Score 1) 473

by justinjstark on Sunday October 10, 2010 @03:55PM (#33854012) Attached to: Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available

Shotwell uses the XDG directory specified in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. I agree that it they should make it possible to change in the GUI, but for now, all you have to do is edit that file, change the directory, and restart shotwell.

Comment Glass planes? (Score 1) 488

by justinjstark on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:21PM (#33644772) Attached to: Airbus Planning Transparent Planes

Future terrorists will just have to bring rocks. :-)

New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy 350

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 20, 2010 @05:39PM from the i-guess-campaign-funding-is-ramping-up-for-the-elections dept.

GovTechGuy writes "Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee unveiled new legislation to combat online piracy on Monday that gives the Department of Justice more power to shut down websites trafficking in pirated movies, films or counterfeit goods. The new bill would give the government the authority to shut down the sites with a court order; the site owner would have to petition the court to have it lifted. The judge would have final say over whether a site should be shut down or not. Business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce hailed the legislation as a huge step forward."

Europe Proposes International Internet Treaty 116

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 20, 2010 @12:28PM from the it-will-all-be-accessible-by-train dept.

Stoobalou writes "Europe has proposed an Internet Treaty to protect the Internet from the political interference which threatens to break it up. The draft international law has been compared to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which sought to prevent space exploration being pursued for anything less than the benefit of all human kind. The Internet Treaty would similarly seek to preserve the Internet as a global system of free communication that transcends national borders."

Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? 250

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:43AM from the faster-than-the-speed-of-marketing dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google, already the largest search engine in the United States, went instant a few weeks ago. MIT's Tech Review asks why Google went instant and is skeptical that users actually look at search results before they finish typing their query. Othar Hansson, Google's lead on the initiative, informs them otherwise and claims that Google's traffic monitors didn't even blink at the extra data being sent across — primarily because of its insignificance next to streaming one video on YouTube. Hansson also reveals that Google's search engine is no longer stateless and therefore takes up a little more memory in their server hives. The Tech Review claims that 'sources at the company say Google Instant's impact on ad sales was a primary focus in testing the service. Google only gets paid for an advertisement, or sponsored link, when a user clicks on the ad, and ads are targeted to specific searches. By displaying a search's ads onscreen a couple of seconds sooner, the frequency of users clicking on those ads could only go up.' So money seemed to be the prime motivator and the article also coyly notes that the average length of time a user spends between typing in any two characters is 300 milliseconds — much too fast for old JavaScript engines. Of course, you might recall Google's efforts to change all that with JavaScript speed wars. Do you find Google Instant to be useful in any way, or does it strike you as just more ad gravity for your mouse?"

Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies 696

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:53AM from the power-of-the-internet dept.

Lev13than writes "In a direct retort to Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced competing rallies on October 30th. Stewart plans to host a 'Rally To Restore Sanity' on Oct. 30 on the National Mall in D.C. for the Americans he says are too busy living normal, rational lives to attend other political demonstrations. Colbert, meantime, will shepherd his fans in a 'March To Keep Fear Alive.' 'Damn your reasonableness!' Colbert said. 'Now is not the time to take it down a notch. Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom!' Stewart, meanwhile, has promised to provide attendees with signs featuring slogans such as 'I Disagree With You But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler' and 'I'm Afraid of Spiders.'"

Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack 373

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:17AM from the no-surprise-here dept.

mikesd81 writes "Intel is apparently threatening to use the DMCA against anyone using the HDCP crack under the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. 'There are laws to protect both the intellectual property involved as well as the content that is created and owned by the content providers,' said Tom Waldrop, a spokesman for the company, which developed HDCP. 'Should a circumvention device be created using this information, we and others would avail ourselves, as appropriate, of those remedies.'"

Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament 224

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 20, 2010 @09:41AM from the bet-nobody-donated dept.

pickens writes "TorrentFreak reports that with 95 percent of the votes counted, it is clear that the Pirate Party will not enter the Swedish Parliament. The Party is currently stuck at about 1 percent of the total vote, nowhere near the 4 percent threshold it needs. This means that neither WikiLeaks nor The Pirate Bay will be hosted under Parliamentary immunity and the Party won't get the chance to legalize non-commercial file-sharing or criminalize 'copyright abuse' as they planned. 'The Swedish Pirate Party did its best election campaign ever. We had more media, more articles, more debates, more handed-out flyers than ever. Unfortunately, the wind was not in our sails this time, as it was with the European elections,' says party leader Rick Falkvinge. The party will now have to wait four more years before they have another shot at entering the Swedish Parliament. 'Each generation must reconquer democracy,' adds Falkvinge. 'Nobody said it was going to be an easy fight.'"

On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking 107

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 19, 2010 @06:04PM from the sniffing-out-the-jailbait dept.

theodp writes "In the latest installment of their online privacy investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports that children face intensive tracking on the web, finding that popular children's websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults. In an analysis of 50 sites popular with US teens and children, the WSJ found that Google — whose execs recently lectured parents on online child safety — placed the most tracking files overall."

Researchers Demo ASP.NET Crypto Attack 98

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 19, 2010 @04:57PM from the theoretical-no-more dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "The crypto attack against ASP.Net Web apps has gotten a lot of attention this week, and with good reason. Microsoft on Friday night issued a security advisory about the bug, warning customers that it poses a clear danger to their sites. Also on Friday, the researchers who found the bug and implemented the attack against it released a slick video demo of the attack, clearly showing the seriousness of the problem and how simple it is to exploit with their POET tool."

WikiLeaks Founder 'Free To Leave Sweden' 410

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:19AM from the totally-generous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AFP reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free to leave Sweden, after prosecutors said there was no arrest warrant against him for an alleged case of rape. Assange said the charges against him were part of 'a clear set-up,' and that he had 'two reliable intelligence sources that state that Swedish intelligence was approached last month by the United States and told that Sweden must not be a safe haven for WikiLeaks.' The news comes just one day before the Swedish national election."

HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked 1066

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 16, 2010 @11:01PM from the maybe-now-I'll-want-a-player dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Intel has confirmed that the leaked HDCP master key protecting millions of Blu-ray discs and devices that was posted to the Web this week is legitimate. The disclosure means, in effect, that all Blu-ray discs can now be unlocked and copied. HDCP (High Definition Content Protection), which was created by Intel and is administered by Digital Content Protection LLP, is the content encryption scheme that protects data, typically movies, as they pass across a DVI or an HDMI cable. According to an Intel official, the most likely scenario for a hacker would be to create a computer chip with the master key embedded it, that could be used to decode Blu-ray discs."

Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' 340

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 16, 2010 @05:13PM from the deseo-suscribirme-a-su-boletan-de-noticias dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The President of Microsoft Latin America, in criticizing the Brazilian government for its support of open source software, claimed that declaring something open is how you 'mask incompetence.' That seems especially funny coming from Microsoft, who has used 'closed' to mask incompetence for years. I thought 'open' meant that people could find and fix (or ignore) incompetence, whereas closed meant you were stuck with the incompetence."

Patent Office Admits Truth — Things Are a Disaster 278

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 11, 2010 @08:01AM from the but-that-dashboard's-a-good-idea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years the US Patent and Trademark Office has published data to show how well it and the patent system were running. Under new leadership, the USPTO has begun to publish a dashboard of information, including a new look at questions like how long does it really take to get a final answer on whether you will receive a patent or not? The pat answer was, on the average, about 3 years. But with the new figures, it's obvious that the real number, when you don't play games with how you define a patent application, is six years. The backlog of patents is almost 730K. And the Commerce Department under the Obama administration wants the average down to 20 months. How does this happen? Only if everyone closes their eyes and pretends. It's time to take drastic action, like ending software patents. As it is, by the time companies get a software patent, there's little value to them because, after six years, the industry has already moved on."

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