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Submission + - Torvalds Calls openSUSE Security 'Too Instrusive' (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruh

on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @12:20PM

jfruh writes: "The balance between security and ease of use is always a tricky one to strike, and Linux distros tend to err on the side of caution. But no less a luminary than Linus Torvalds thinks openSUSE has gone too far. When his kid needed to call from school for the root password just so he could add a printer to a laptop, that's when Linus decided things had gone off the rails."

Submission + - 30 Years of the BBC Micro (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

Alioth

on Thursday December 01, 2011 @08:50AM

Alioth writes: "The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer, designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's Computer Literacy project. It is now 30 years since the first BBC Micro came out — a machine with a 2 MHz 6502 — remarkably fast for its day, the Commodore machines at the time only ran at 1MHz. While most US readers will never have heard of the BBC Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy project has had a huge impact worldwide since the ARM (originally meaning "Acorn Risc Machine") was designed for the follow-on version of the BBC Micro, the Archimedes, also sold under the BBC Microcomputer label by Acorn. The original ARM CPU was specified in just over 800 lines of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now outsells all other CPU architectures put together. The BBC Micro has arguably been the most influential 8 bit computer the world had thanks to its success creating the seed for the ARM, even if the "Beeb" was not well known outside of the UK."

Submission + - EU - Software Ideas Can't be Copyrighted (reuters.com)

Submitted by

bhagwad

on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @11:52AM

bhagwad writes: "The EU continues to ooze common sense as a court insists that software functions themselves cannot be copyrighted. Drawing a box or moving cursor are examples. To quote: "If it were accepted that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such, that would amount to making it possible to monopolize ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development,""

Submission + - iPhone self-combust on airplane (yasstribune.com.au)

Submitted by thegreymonkey on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @09:25AM

thegreymonkey writes: Last friday an iPhone caught fire on flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney. This incident is under investigation from Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).
This accident might be related to iPhone battery again.

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