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Video The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) 84

Posted by Roblimo from the open-source-software-is-followed-by-open-source-hardware-like-summer-follows-spring dept.
Out in the Northeast Texas town of Ft. Worth, a company called CircuitCo started making something they called the BeagleBoard -- an open source hardware single-board computer for educators and experimenters. Now, with help and support from Intel, they're making and supporting the Atom-based MinnowBoard, which is also open source, and comes with Angstrom Linux to help experimenters get started with it. David Anders is the Senior Embedded Systems Engineer at CircuitCo. Slashdot's Timothy Lord met David at LinuxCon North America 2013 in New Orleans and made this video of him talking about the recently-released MinnowBoard and the more mature BeagleBoard.
Canada

Strict New Anti-Spam Regulations In Canada 101

Posted by Soulskill from the spam-not-involving-hockey-is-verboten dept.
An anonymous reader writes "David Reese provides an interesting analysis of just how far Canada's new anti-spam legislation goes, and its implications for business. This may provide a valuable template for citizens of other countries, and may also encourage Canadians to prepare for the inevitable push-back from spammers. It is not clear from this analysis whether the legislation would affect telemarketing, but even if it does not it provides a useful precedent for future regulation in that area."
Programming

NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler 89

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the not-quite-there-yet dept.
An anonymous reader writes "NVIDIA has announced they have 'open-sourced' their new CUDA compiler so that their GPGPU platform can be brought to new architectures. NVIDIA's CUDA compiler is based upon LLVM. At the moment though they seem to be restricting the source code's access to 'qualified' individuals.' The official press release implies wider access to the source will happen later. It so happens that a few days ago AMD opened their OpenCL backend and added initial support to the Free Software r600 driver.
Role Playing (Games)

New Fable II DLC Coming May 12th 26

Posted by Soulskill from the more-and-better dept.
Lionhead Studios today announced that their next section of downloadable content for Fable II, called See the Future, will be available on May 12th. The new content will include new quests, monsters and items, a Colosseum, and alter egos for the player's dog. Peter Molyneux also hinted at a connection to the next Fable game, saying, "... it would be pretty poor to say See the Future if it didn't have some connection." Further details are available in the latest in Lionhead's series of developer diaries.

Comment Re:Presumed innocent?? (Score -1) 203

by Krapangor (#27630577) Attached to: FBI and States Vastly Expand DNA Collection, Databases

A person is INNOCENT until proven guilty, not the other way around.

I think you are a little bit confused about this. If a person committed a crime he is not innocent no matter if this was proven or not. Just because his innocence or non-innocence is not known, he doesn't become magically innocent. The same way a criminal does not magically change his state from innocent to non-innocent just because a judge read his verdict. This is why people are presumed innocent - to avoid hardship for the suspect who are indeed innocent. However, since fumbling in their mouth with a cotton swap can hardly account of "hardship" taking their DNA is a reasonable measure, in particular since it helps fighting crimes.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score -1) 470

by Krapangor (#27630499) Attached to: A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama?

Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.

So you say. But I found that a sledgehammer works for cracking any system.

Comment Here's the cause of your problem (Score 1) 682

by Jim the Bad (#21647333) Attached to: Are You Proud of Your Code?

...someone with adequate skills and all the knowhow that was required besides the actual programming. As we were on a tight budget, it was important for us to find that one guy who didn't expect a zillion dollar salary.


Eg, you wanted a professional but didn't want to pay for it. The result was fairly predictable from that point on.

Comment Re:On Literal Bible reading (Score -1) 2345

by Krapangor (#13971056) Attached to: Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design?
You can indeed take the literal meaning as a fundamentalist. The gates of Jerusalem (don't know if other cities, too...) were closed during nighttime for obvious reasons. If a traveller wanted to enter the city, he had to pass trough a small door in the gate called "eye of the needle". You could get a camel through this door by making it kneel down and somehow crawl through this gate. I'm not sure how this worked exactly, as I'm no camel expert. But the key point is: the literal meaning of the statements says the ricks suckers can get into heaven, but it's fucking hard. Fundamentalists can and will agree to this.

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