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European Crackdown On Skype "Loophole" 230

Posted by timothy on Monday February 23, 2009 @08:36AM from the only-the-suspicious-ones-of-course dept.

angry tapir writes "Suspicious phone conversations on Skype could be targeted for tapping as part of a pan-European crackdown on what law authorities believe is a massive technical loophole in current wiretapping laws, allowing criminals to communicate without fear of being overheard by the police. Eurojust, a European Union agency responsible for coordinating judicial investigations across different jurisdictions, has announced the opening of an investigation involving all 27 countries of the European Union."

Qt Becomes LGPL 828

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @10:31AM from the that's-just-adorable dept.

Aequo writes "Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia, will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer."

Comment Re:Incompetence?, or passive-agressive attack? (Score 1) 384

by lukrop on Friday December 05, 2008 @06:57AM (#26000975) Attached to: Players Furious Over Buggy <em>GTA IV</em> PC Release

But don't play off the shelf games on PC's."

Honestly, shooters are just crap on consoles. So, I don't understand why games like Call of Duty 3 (CoD1/2 where both best-sellers on the PC) are released _only_ for the PS2..

Submission + - KDE 4.1: What to Expect (dawningvalley.com)

Submitted by

andrewmin

on Friday July 25, 2008 @04:45PM

andrewmin writes: "Recently, Gnome's been gaining a lot of ground on its KDE counterpart in the desktop environment wars. The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers. Mainly, this was because it just didn't work most of the time. However, the developers were not without hope. They promised that KDE 4.1 would be more stable and fix all the holes and problems with KDE 4.0. That time is coming soon: in just four days, K Desktop Environment 4.1 will be released to the Linux masses."

Bookmark Tinted Glass (compiz-themes.org)

by lukrop on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:07AM

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