Comment Re:Nokia & OSS (Score 1) 263
I will :)
Comment Re:Nokia & OSS (Score 1) 263
But wouldn't it be possible for them to release the corresponding module as a binary blob? In that case, unless there was an android kernel with the exact same version it wouldn't be of any use, I suppose.
Comment Re:Nokia & OSS (Score 1) 263
Is it already known if it will be possible to have a functional android port on the n900?
I read that nokia pushed several drivers for the device to the kernel but I'm still not sure if the parts like the GSM radio have been open sourced. Without that the port wouldn't be too useful...
Comment Re:Chromium Not Chrome (Score 1) 168
It's obviously in place only during development.
Taken from the warning screen:
"Plugins (e.g. Flash) are partway implemented and will cause frequent crashes. Use --enable-plugins to turn them on if you're ok with that; the browser is otherwise quite stable"
"Plugins (e.g. Flash) are partway implemented and will cause frequent crashes. Use --enable-plugins to turn them on if you're ok with that; the browser is otherwise quite stable"
Submission + - Pirate bay buyer chairman resigns (thelocal.se)
Xemu writes: "Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), the company that plans to purchase Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay,
has encountered an additional setback. Last week trading in GGF stock were suspended due to suspected insider trading. On Friday, Magnus Bergman, GGF chairman, submitted his resignation to the Swedish Companies Registration Office. Bergman's resignation is the latest in a series after the previous departures of board member Johan Sällström and adviser Wayne Rosso. The CEO of GGF, Hans Pandeya, is being pursued by the Swedish enforcement service for mounting unpaid debts. In an interview with Swedish the business daily "di.se" today, CEO Hans Pandeya says that the deal is still on."
Ontario Court Wrong About IP Addresses, Too 258
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton comments on a breaking news story out of the Canadian courts:
"An Ontario Superior Court Justice has ruled that Canadian police can obtain the identities of Internet users without a warrant, writing that there is 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' for a user's online identity, and drawing the analogy that 'One's name and address or the name and address of your spouse are not biographical information one expects would be kept private from the state.' But why in the world is it valid to compare an IP address with a street address in the phone book?"
Read on for Bennett's analysis.
Comment Spain (Score 2, Informative) 386
If you speak Spanish, why not Spain? Our "Ingenieria Informatica" is pretty much the same as your CS, I think. And we have lots of pretty girls ;)
SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned 182
SkiifGeek writes "Late last week the SquirrelMail team posted information on their site about a compromise to the main download repository for SquirrelMail that resulted in a critical flaw being introduced into two versions of the webmail application (1.4.11 and 1.4.12). After gaining access to the repository through a release maintainer's compromised account (it is believed), the attackers made a slight modification to the release packages, modifying how a PHP global variable was handled. This introduced a remote file inclusion bug — leading to an arbitrary code execution risk on systems running the vulnerable versions of the software. The poisoning was identified by a difference in MD5 signatures for version 1.4.12. Version 1.4.13 is now available."
Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)
not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."
Submission + - RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that "The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.""
Comment "One motherboard does not a platform make" (Score 1) 123
I think the writer's text editor isn't quite multi-core ready, looks
like a race condition to me... or maybe he should learn to type :P
Submission + - No Intel Turbo Memory for desktops until next year
Might E Mouse writes: "While Intel's 3-series chipsets support Robson/Turbo Memory, the general consensus amongst motherboard manufacturers at Computex is that we're not going to see the technology on the desktop until next year at the earliest. Working modules are on display at the show, but they're not going to be available to buy for a while..."
Massive Cave Found on Mars 310
mrcgran writes "Space.com is reporting a very deep hole found on Mars: 'The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons, one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) used its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument to draw a bead on the apparent deep hole — a feature that may cause more scientists to ponder about potential subsurface biology on Mars. Because the spot lacks a raised rim or tossed out material called ejecta, researchers have ruled out the pit being an impact crater. No walls or other details can be seen inside the hole, and so any possible walls might be perfectly vertical and extremely dark or — more likely — overhanging.' The original image and its cutout at full resolution can be found in the HiRISE site."
Translation of Macrovision Response to Jobs on DRM 284
BoboB-69 writes "Daring Fireball has posted a humorous, and accurate PR-speak to Plain English translation of Macrovision's CEO's response to Steve Jobs' Open Letter on DRM. Highly recommended reading for slashdotters everywhere."
Feed A 12-Gigabyte Hard Drive That Slips Easily Into Your Pocket (nytimes.com)
The latest version of Verbatim’s Store ’n’ Go U.S.B. Drive holds 12 gigabytes of file storage on a 1-inch hard drive.
