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 + - South Africa appeals against ISO decision on OOXML (digistan.org)
mauritzhansen writes: From http://www.digistan.org/
Steve Pepper (chairman of the Norwegian standards committee responsible for evaluating OOXML) reports that:
"The South African national standards body, SABS, has appealed against the result of the OOXML DIS 29500 ballot in ISO. In a letter sent to the General Secretary of the IEC (co-sponsor with ISO of JTC1), the SABS expresses its "deep concern over the increasing tendency of international organizations to use the JTC 1 process to circumvent the consensus-building process that is the cornerstone to the success and international acceptance of ISO and IEC standards."
Steve writes, "having resigned as Chairman of the Norwegian committee responsible for considering OOXML for exactly this reason, I congratulate South Africa on its willingness to stand up for the principles on which standardization work should be based."
Steve Pepper (chairman of the Norwegian standards committee responsible for evaluating OOXML) reports that:
"The South African national standards body, SABS, has appealed against the result of the OOXML DIS 29500 ballot in ISO. In a letter sent to the General Secretary of the IEC (co-sponsor with ISO of JTC1), the SABS expresses its "deep concern over the increasing tendency of international organizations to use the JTC 1 process to circumvent the consensus-building process that is the cornerstone to the success and international acceptance of ISO and IEC standards."
Steve writes, "having resigned as Chairman of the Norwegian committee responsible for considering OOXML for exactly this reason, I congratulate South Africa on its willingness to stand up for the principles on which standardization work should be based."
Submission + - Microsoft standing firm on OOXML ISO vote (fanaticattack.com)
christian.einfeldt writes: "Microsoft has responded via the industry trade goup ECMA to some of the thousands of criticisms of its submission of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an ISO standard. Open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver takes a look at those responses to see if Microsoft has made significant changes in either the substance of OOXML or the manner in which the OOXML specification will be maintained going forward. Ossendryver concludes that Microsoft's position has not siginficantly changed, but only hardened in place in advance of the Ballot Resolution Meeting which is to occur from February 25 through 29 in Geneva, Switzerland. While no one can say for certain whether Microsoft will succeed in having its OOXML specification win the nod from the international community, Ossendryer thinks that Microsoft's firm stance will actually backfire."
Submission + - Microsoft junks Vista kernel: new version in SP1 (apcmag.com)
KrispySausage writes: "One of the "big" features discussed in early speculation of Windows Vista SP1 was the kernel upgrade, which was supposed to bring the operating system into line with the Longhorn kernel used in Windows Server 2008. And yet with Vista SP1 going RTM, there hasn't been so much as a peep from Microsoft about the mooted kernel update. Has it happened? Well the answer is yes it has, and presumably the main reason for Microsoft's silence on the subject is that as they're keen to promote the improvements and enhancements to Vista, rather than placing emphasis on a kernel upgrade, which some people might see as a risk of newly-introduced instability."
Feed The Register: Mass web infection leaves researcher scratching her head (theregister.com)
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."
Feed New York Times: Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software (nytimes.com)
Government organizations will still be able to use proprietary software and formats but will have to justify it under the new policy.
