Comment Links or it didn't happen (Score 5, Informative) 207
It would be super cool if there was some kind of technology that allowed you to provide a link to the source material for discussion...
Comment Re:SOL (Score 1) 545
This is generally true right up until you accept patches from outside the company. At that point, unless there was copyright assignment, you need to get those contributors permissions to switch their code over to your new proposed license. That's usually a dicey process as half the time you can't reach the people in question at all and there's usually not a big incentive for them to allow you to close source their works. This is one of the big that larger projects are more often making contributors sign copyright assignments prior to allowing their code to be committed to the tree.
Comment Re:And this is on /. why? (Score 2) 401
While there tends to be a nerd slant, I think the general lean is towards stories that matter to people. There are numerous examples of historical stories that didn't have a tech lean where there were still extremely interesting and informative discussions that followed.
Submission + - Richard Branson Announces Virgin Oceanic Submarine (dailytech.com)
It's the tripnaut! writes: Richard Branson has just revealed that he intends to build a vessel capable of exploring some of the deepest parts of the oceans around the world. The article further states: "The sub, which was designed by Graham Hawkes, weighs 8,000 lbs and is made of carbon fiber and titanium. It has an operating depth of 37,000 ft and can operate for 24 hours 'unaided.'"
Submission + - France Outlaws Hashed Passwords (bbc.co.uk) 3
An anonymous reader writes: Storing passwords as hashes instead of plain text is now illegal in France, according to a draconian new data retention law. According to the BBC, "[t]he law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded." If the law survives a pending legal challenge by Google, Ebay and others, it may well keep some major services out of the country entirely.
Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009 76
angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense systems in the first half of the year. That's a big jump. In all of 2008, there were 54,640 such incidents. If cyber attacks maintain this pace, the yearly increase will be around 60 percent. The full report (PDF) is available online."
iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code 298
CWmike writes "iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show. The lawsuit, which was filed in October 2007, accuses Apple and AT&T of violating antitrust laws, including the Sherman Act, by agreeing to a multi-year deal that locks US iPhone owners into using the mobile carrier. On Wednesday, the plaintiffs asked US District Court Judge James Ware to compel Apple to produce the source code for the iPhone 1.1.1 software, an update that Apple issued in September 2007. The update crippled iPhones that had been unlocked, or 'jailbroken,' so that they could be used with mobile providers other than AT&T. The iPhone 1.1.1 'bricked' those first-generation iPhones that had been hacked, rendering them useless and wiping all personal data from the device. The plaintiffs say that the source code is necessary to determine whether all iPhones were given the same 1.1.1 update, and whether it was designed to brick all or just some hacked iPhones."
Star Wars On 3.5 Floppy 1
I'm going to build a washing machine that plays, "You Shook Me All Night Long."
Bot Infestations Reach Nearly 1.2M 194
mengel writes "According to the folks at SecurityFocus the number of bot-infested systems has surged to nearly 1.2 million. This after a
big drop in December when lots of people replaced/upgraded
systems. Time to upgrade your spam filtering software, the onslaught is coming."
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