Comment Wireless. Bigger than an iPhone. Lame. (Score 4, Funny) 484
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Comment Re:Amazing (Score 1) 140
Tell that to the weapons manufacturers. War is HIGHLY profitable.
Study Finds iPhone Twice As Reliable As BlackBerry 301
An anonymous reader writes "As reported at TechCrunch, 'The iPhone is twice as reliable as the BlackBerry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for the BlackBerry and 16.2 percent for the Treo.' The full report (pdf) can be found at the SquareTrade site."
Comment Start with the ccTLDs (Score 2, Insightful) 303
Start with regulating the ccTLDs. Today nobody cares about unethical principes by ccTLD owners, take a look at Nunames that revokes good
Comment Allowable under SISSL (Score 5, Informative) 227
Disclaimer: I am one of the founders of NeoOffice.
Being based on OOo 1.x, IBM does not need to release the source code for Symphony. OOo was originally dual licensed both under LGPL and the SISSL license. SISSL allows companies to make completely closed source forks, only providing notice of the original vendor and SISSL license. This license was one of the primary motivating factors for why we forked and created NeoOffice, to prevent companies from making a commercial product whose improvements couldn't be shared back with all the volunteers that had worked to create it.
Closed source forking is also our reason for using full GPL since it guarantees everyone's freedom to access the code. Not even LGPL provides that ability since commercial closed source proprietary code can still be incorporated provided it's in a shared library. Only the full GPL provides enough protections to ensure that everyone must cooperate and that no one can make key parts of the project rely on closed source solutions.
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Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator 470
Fantastic Lad writes "The US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality. Putting supercomputers to an innovative use, the military is simulating our planet in an effort to predict the outcome of different scenarios. They might run tests to see how long 'you' can go without food or water, or how 'you' will respond to televised propaganda. Billions of nodes are created in the system, intended to reflect every man, woman, and child. 'Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project. Simulex is the company developing these systems, and they list pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and defense contractor Lockheed Martin among their private sector clients. The U.S. military is their biggest customer, apparently now running the most complex version of the system. JFCOM-9 is now capable of running real-time simulations for up to 62 nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and China. The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence."
New Zero-Day Vulnerability In Windows 231
Jimmy T writes "Microsoft and Secunia are warning about the discovery of a new 'Zero-day' vulnerability affecting all Microsoft based operating systems except Windows 2003. Both companies states that the vulnerability is currently being exploited by malicious websites. One attack vector is through Internet Explorer 6/7 — so be aware where you surf to."
Journal Journal: Write, write, write
"Write in Journal", it says.
Sounds like my teachers.
Boring.
Journal Journal: If Ray Charles played dice...
he'd better avoid that rotating crap game hosted by Einstein, God, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and the Devil. Definitely a bad time to enter...Sinatra is up by at least 10Gs. God's loan shark is calling him in and soon he'll have to put his bling Ark into hock.
Journal Journal: **No Title** 12
I have decided to keep a journal of my thoughts and deeds over the coming year; a daily chart of my progress through the echelons of command so that, perhaps, one day, other aspiring officers may seek enlightenment through these pages. It is my fond hope that, one day, this journal will take its place alongside 'Napoleon's War Diaries' and 'The Memoires of Julius Caesar'."
Journal Journal: Compiling OOo yet again...
Compiling OOo yet again. It's still valentine's day, there's a girl sleeping in my guest room, and I'm here compiling OOo listening to Korngold opera. And my ass is vehemently reminding me that I shouldn't have eaten the chorizo pizza with onions. This may be the source of my dilemma...I doubt it could be the choice of music...
Journal Journal: And now for something completely different...
Ahaa! Compiling a full LGPL on OS X with all the Ximian icons and patches is not as easy as it seems...no wonder why Ximian Desktop still makes money! The O SX world isn't full of talented enough crazy hackers to make "free software" really free...!
Journal Journal: Somtimes OS X bites me in the ass...
Does it irk anyone else that sometimes OS X, if running out of disk space on the main drive when logging out/shutting down, nukes all your preferences? Usually it used to just blow away my dock prefs, but now its beginning to blow away registration information for apps as well!
Not very cool, esp. when one is trying to hit a deadline!
Journal Journal: Installing OpenBSD
Man, spending memorial day weekend installing OpenBSD sucks hole. I wish to God the intaller wasn't sensitive to additional keystrokes after the download procedure for all the tgzs. Not good for a drunk. I've just had to restart like, oh, five times :(
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