Comment Novell, not Nortel (Score 4, Informative) 294
Reading comprehension fail or professional troll? MS said they invited Google to a joint bid for the Novell deal. That's not the $4.5 billion Nortel deal.
Comment Re:Yeah, my heroes (Score 3, Informative) 131
Google China stopped serving censored results. Source: The very same Wikipedia article you reference.
Comment Background (Score 1) 225
Eben Moglen on taking back control over your data, privacy and freedom in the age of cloud services.
Summary:
- Don't accept any cloud services that come with free spying, free built-in man in the middle attack (Facebook as the worst offender, GMail and many other services mentioned as other examples)
- Thus avoid lock-in, avoid anyone limiting your mobility and freedom, stop being exploited and spied upon.
- Instead of centralized services use P2P (or federated services), protected by strong encryption
- A $29.90 plug-in, power-supply-sized appliance (the "freedom box") providing these services, and much more (VoIP telephony, TOR, etc.) at home.
1. Freedom in the cloud: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338
(talk from February 2010)
2. How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/641.en.html
(talk from August 2010)
(I wrote this summary back in August 2010, so it's somewhat outdated.)
Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty? 72
destinyland writes "Dr. Jane McGonigal of the RAND Corporation's Institute for the Future has created a game described as 'a crash course in changing the world.' Developed for the World Bank's 'capacity development' branch, EVOKE has already gathered more than 10,000 potential solutions from participants, including executives from Procter & Gamble and Kraft. '[Dr. McGonigal] takes threats to human existence — global food shortage, fuel wars, pandemic, refugee crisis, and upended democracy — and asks the gaming public to collaborate on how to avoid these all too possible futures.' And by completing its 10 missions, you too can become a World Bank Institute certified EVOKE social innovator. (The game designer's web site lays out her ambitious philosophy. 'Reality is broken,' but 'game designers can fix it.')"
Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy 522
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: 'Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing.' Microsoft's first criticism is Chrome's combining the address bar and the search box into a single entry box; IE8 keeps those fields separate. 'By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected and the addresses of the sites you're visiting aren't automatically shared with Microsoft, or anyone else,' says IE product manager Pete LePage."
Comment Re:If only we could harness this in RL (Score 1) 252
I think this is an indicator that a lot of people would like to own/operate a business, and have an entrepreneurial spirit, but are too bogged by the realities of risk and especially legal burden to carry out their entrepreneurial instinct in real life. Imagine how many jobs we could create if people felt safe enough to be able to play these games in the real world.
People are working on just that. For some inspiration, watch this irresistible TED talk: Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world (20min).
Comment Re:Opinion of Google is Changing... (Score 2, Informative) 628
My opinion changed when they stopped releasing text-only copies of public domain works through Google Books.
Care to substantiate that claim?
As far as I see, Public Domain books can be downloaded in the PDF and EPUB format, for free. And there's a plain text version.
Example: "The origin of species" By Charles Darwin
PS: Reposting this since I don't have mod points and the anonymous user's post is currently at 0.
Comment Re:MySQL join performance deficiency, 2 orders of (Score 3, Interesting) 155
I'm not really touching this potato, maybe you're running into some quirks / unfortunate query. Just some quick questions:
- Why don't you have a PK / any index in the address table?
- Did you try a different syntax (e.g. WHERE vs. JOIN ON)?
- Did you try setting different indexes? Tried forcing a specific index?
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? 549
Petey_Alchemist writes "With Super Tuesday coming up and the political field somewhat winnowed down, the process of picking the nominees for the next American President is well underway. At the same time, the Internet is bustling through a period of legal questions like Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment. All of these are just a few of the host of issues that the next President will be pressured to weigh in on during his or her tenure. Who do you think would be the best (or worst) candidate on Internet issues?"
Recount Proves No Fraud In NH Primary 96
murdocj writes "You can take off those tinfoil hats, because the recount results of the NH Primary are in, and the hand count matches the machine count. Everyone can now move on to the conspiracy around the Texas flying saucer. In fact, only 40% of the vote was recounted (that's all that Dennis Kucinich was willing to pay for), but that 40% shows that the machine and hand counts match up nicely. As was pointed out when this 'story' broke, areas that have machine counting tend to have different demographics than hand-counted areas, and thus a difference in voting patterns."
Submission + - A new fun way of looking at server logfiles (fudgie.org) 1
Fudgie writes: "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong.
A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X).
It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at http://www.fudgie.org/ for an example movie, and more information."
A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X).
It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at http://www.fudgie.org/ for an example movie, and more information."
Journal Journal: Is most game development done in C++? What about C#? 5
I've been searching for a game programming book on Amazon, but it looks like the majority of them are for C++ developers. The only C# books I saw were beginner's books, and they seemed dated, and not that useful, judging by the ratings. Is there a reason there aren't many C# game programming books? Does this have something to do with the language? Is C++ better for game programming? What about XNA? That seems to work exclusively with Visual Studio C# Express Edition, and it looks like ther
Submission + - ISO says "No" to Microsoft's OOXML standar (noooxml.org)
qcomp writes: The votes are in and Microsoft has lost for now, reports the FFII's campaign website OOXML. The 2/3 majority needed to proceed with the fast-track standarization has not been achieved. Now the standard will head to the ballot resolution meeting to address the hundreds of technical commentsa submitted along with the "no" (as well as some "yes" votes.
Submission + - Ubuntu Servers HACKED! (ubuntu.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."
Submission + - Red Hat Developer Studio first contact (blogspot.com)
juanignaciosl writes: "First beta of Red Hat Developer Studio has just been published. This IDE is a bunch of Eclipse plugins which comes out from JBoss IDE and Exadel Studio fusion. The main advantages it offers are: JSF development improved, specially integrating RichFaces and Ajax4JSF libraries; Seam (next J2EE middleware standard?) integration; it also includes plugins for JBoss, Hibernate...
RHDS seems promising. Is finally the time Java development meets Visual Whatever integration?
If anybody wants to read on first impressions you can check my software engineering blog post on Red Hat Developer Studio installation."
RHDS seems promising. Is finally the time Java development meets Visual Whatever integration?
If anybody wants to read on first impressions you can check my software engineering blog post on Red Hat Developer Studio installation."
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