Comment Re:Who Will Be the First to Hack It? (Score 1) 461
Wrong. he selected Dollar,, its going to be Romney-Dollar 2012
Comment Indian Point Nuclear Plant (Score 1) 614
We have an office 2 miles for Indian Point in Peekskill, NY. Our building rattled slightly for about 2 minutes....
Comment Makes competition less profitable (Score 1) 393
Having a FOSS program takes away revenues from the competition. Hence, they will have less money for R&D, marketing and other business activities to compete in the market place making you stronger and more profitable!
Submission + - Microsoft wants to participate in SVG development (cnet.com)
rossendryv writes: After many years and fighting against the standard, Microsoft announced they are joining http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ to help with the development of SVG. "We recognize that vector graphics are an important component of the next-generation Web platform," said Patrick Dengler, senior program manager on Microsoft's Internet Explorer team in a blog post
Submission + - EFF wants to know are the Feds cyberstalking? (arstechnica.com)
rossendryv writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation and UC Berkeley's Samuelson Center filed suit in California's Northern District, asking the court to force a number of government agencies to hand over any documents they have concerning the use of social networking sites as part of investigative procedures.
Submission + - Obama and Russian Leader Announce Nuclear Deal
Peace Corps Library writes: "The United States and Russia, seeking to move forward on one of the most significant arms control treaties since the end of the cold war, announced that they had reached a preliminary agreement on cutting each country's stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons effectively setting the stage for a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, a cold war-era pact that expires in December. Under the framework negotiators are to be instructed to craft a treaty that would cut strategic warheads for each side to between 1,500 and 1,675, down from the limit of 2,200 slated to take effect in 2012 under the Treaty of Moscow signed by President George W. Bush (pdf). The limit on delivery vehicles would be cut to between 500 and 1,100 from the 1,600 currently allowed under Start. Perhaps more important than the specific limits would be a revised and extended verification system that otherwise would expire with Start in December. The United States currently has 1,198 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based missiles and bombers, which together are capable of delivering 5,576 warheads, according to its most recent Start report in January while Russia reported in January that it has 816 delivery vehicles capable of delivering 3,909 warheads. "We have a mutual interest in protecting both of our populations from the kinds of danger that weapons proliferation is presenting today," said President Obama."
Comment License? (Score 1) 385
Oh sure, we all rushing to go make edits at Britannica with all their linking and copywrite restrictions: http://corporate.britannica.com/termsofuse.html compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights Why work to make them richer?
If they go CC or GNU Free Documentation License, it will be impressive and of course, have a better chance of succeeding...but dont see any evidence this is a route they going.
Comment Re:Word is... (Score 2, Insightful) 79
Sorry, but I find this thread extremely distasteful!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing is a horrible thing and to wish it on anyone!!! And imply that it is OK to do it to poor disfranchised Zimbabweans or Mozambicans is just sickening to me.
Submission + - Microsoft deprecating some OOXML functionality (fanaticattack.com)
christian.einfeldt writes: "According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February vote as to whether Microsoft OOXML will be included as a second standard for e-documents, along with the existing ODF ISO standard. ECMA, the Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML to ISO, confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the "leap year bug", VML, compatibility settings such as "AutoSpaceLikeWord95" and others will be "extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality." Ossendryver is not convinced that deprecation will work, calling the deprecation proposal a 'smoke screen' and a 'bomb disguised as a standard' because 'every application will need to support the deprecated features in order to read files with the deprecated features.' Ossendryver also points out that legacy formatted Microsoft Office documents will still remain non-standard under the new proposal for deprecation."
Submission + - Microsoft's influence on upcoming ISO vote? (groklaw.net) 2
christian.einfeldt writes: "Microsoft has experienced some criticism for its handling of its bid to have OOXML accepted as an ISO standard, including the use of financial incentives to affect the Swedish national vote, which resulted in Swedent reversing its pro-Microsoft position; and failing to honor a promise to relinquish control of the OOXML specification if it gained ISO status. Now, Groklaw has published an article that raises questions about Microsoft's influence on the upcoming February vote, citing concerns with the limitation of discussions of patent issues, public accountability of the process, and even irregularities with choosing the size of the room so as to limit the delegates opposed to OOXML ISO status, as had been done in the past."
Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts 778
Stony Stevenson writes with the news that, despite a ban on US PC hardware, Iranian techs have built an enormously powerful supercomputer from 216 AMD processors. The Linux-cluster machine has a 'theoretical peak performance of 860 gig-flops'. "The disclosure, made in an undated posting on [the University of] Amirkabir's Web site, brought an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country."
