Comment Re:What is claimed (Score 1) 404
Galileo was not granted a patent.
Comment Re:Open Source Product vs Company (Score 1) 357
Calling the Community Edition a "Crippled Kids" version shows that you've not used it. We use the Sugar CE, and are quite content with it. The paid version would be nice, but it's too expensive for us. We're a small department at a university, so we're not rich, not poor either, but it's out of out price range. The CE does what it does well, and we're glad to find something this good where we can modify the source, which we need to do for our authentication system here at the university.
Comment Mod Parent up (Score 1) 357
I really wish I had mod points now. The Community Edition is still AGPL *from the downloaded source code SugarCE-6.0.0.zip* with no click through agreements or any other license distributed with the source code.
The paid editions are still SPL as they were before, making 90% of this entire discussion a tempest in a teapot. (The web page says it's a CC no derivatives license and says it's for 5.5, but they are distributing 6.0 with an AGPL license, which is what counts.)
They just added the new interface as one of the features under the SPL and paid instead of the GPL. If you have a problem with that, then write your own interface under the GPL and maintain it as a patch to the Community Edition.
Open source has many definitions, and everyone here should know this by now. So Sugar calls their paid license open source. Personally I would agree, and some would not. It's not Software Libre, which is a better term. It's "paid as in beer with a recipe."
Comment Re:Fucking nothing (Score 1) 698
The true irony is that the teacher would be perfectly summing up the power (or lack from over use) of profanity, yet has a fair chance of losing their job over it.
Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award 286
ISoldat53 writes "The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America. From the article: 'After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010.'"
Court Unfriendly To FCC's Internet Slap At Comcast 215
Several sources are reporting that federal judges have been harsh in their examination of the FCC's action against Comcast in 2008 for the throttling of Internet traffic from high-bandwidth file-sharing services. "'You can't get an unbridled, roving commission to go about doing good,' said US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle during an oral argument. The three-judge panel grilled FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick on the parts of communications law it could cite to justify the Comcast punishment. The FCC argues that it was enforcing an open Internet policy implicit in the law. Judge A. Raymond Randolph repeatedly said the legal provisions cited by the FCC were mere policy statements that by themselves can't justify the commission's action. 'You have yet to identify a specific statute,' he said. The judges' decision in the case could throw into question the FCC's authority to impose open Internet rules."
Comment Re:Hmmm....... (Score 1) 1010
I was just thinking this is a shotgun aimed at the foot. SO we shouldn't trust their server OS now?
Comment Re:Good for Internet and Environment (Score 1) 55
No. He's been in the House for 20+ years.
Jack Thompson Disbarred 522
Sockatume writes "The Florida Supreme Court has approved Judge Dava Tunis' recommendations for the permanent disbarment of John B. "Jack" Thompson, with no leave to reapply and $43,675.35 in disciplinary costs. The ruling is a step up from the enhanced disbarment that had been suggested by the prosecution, which would have forbidden him from reapplying for ten years. Thompson has 30 days to appeal the ruling before the disbarment is permanent. Thompson responds to the ruling."
Comment Kids and other Passengers on Road Trips (Score 1) 258
Everyone is talking about driving, but for those with kids, or for road trips, this is a natural evolution of the old custom van with entertainment in the back. Not everything is about distracting the driver. The kids having something to do would get rid of some of the biggest distractions in my car - the complaining from boredom from the back seat
Submission + - Data recovered from Space Shuttle Columbia HDD (blocksandfiles.com)
WmHBlair writes: Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle Columbia has been used to complete a physics experiment performed on the mission in space. The Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Considering the shape the drive was in (see picture at http://blocksandfiles.com/article/5056), it could indeed qualify for the 'most amazing disk data recovery ever.'
Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 241
Andy King writes "Within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, narrowband users have been left behind." The article breaks down a number of changes besides just page size, including image types and video duration.
Journal Journal: Book for kids to understand why a server at home
For those who have a server at home, there is now help in dealing with your children's emotional difficulties and the ridicule society faces. Stay At Home Servers has put together a book to deal with the problems kids face growing up with a server in the home. Do we have marketing in our kid's therapy though?
Capitol Hill Quiet On Tech 110
An anonymous reader writes "This year's Democratic-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective. Issues important to the tech industry (such as net neutrality) received short shrift, while the political body spent a considerable amount of time decrying the evils of the Internet. 'Hot topics this time around included foreign cybersecurity threats to U.S. government systems, terrorist cells flourishing on the Web, inadvertent file sharing through peer-to-peer networks, and sexual predators ensnaring unsuspecting youth through online social sites. And for a third time, the House passed not just one, but two, different bills aimed at deterring spyware.'"
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