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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 30 2012 @ 08:22 PM EDT |
Specifically, the US repeatedly told negotiators that it was sharing
ACTA documents with industry representatives using non-disclosure agreements --
while the EU negotiators repeatedly complained that there was no legal way for
it to share the documents with anyone.
In the end, the EU meekly appears to
have given up on this point.
Mike
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 12:00 AM EDT |
Thomas Claburn of Information Week says Samsung's new hardware
combined with Google's upgraded Chrome
operating system
could finally pose a challenge to Windows or Mac OS X
personal computers.
Samsung's new Chromebook Series 5 550,
and
its screenless, keyboardless sibling, the Chromebox,
represent a
substantial improvement over the company's first
generation hardware, thanks in
large part to changes in
Google's Chrome OS.
Samsung has done its part
by using a fast Intel Core
processor to replace the less capable Intel Atom
processor
in first-generation Chromebooks and by introducing the
Chromebox
($329), a small Chrome OS computer without screen
or peripherals for
businesses and schools. Google,
meanwhile, has revised the Chrome OS interface
and has taken
advantage of the speedier silicon by implementing hardware
acceleration, which makes the new UI much more
responsive.
Google's Chrome OS has evolved. It now has a
desktop and
will shortly have the ability to work offline like a normal
computer. I am very relieved it appears to now be a viable
option, and here's
why...
Welcome to my own nightmare vision. Computers everywhere,
laptops, desktops, displaying the ugly but distinctive Metro
interface -
everywhere you go. On phones, on XBoxes in every
living room, even on your TV.
IE the only browser, Microsoft
APP Store the only way to put apps on your
computer, UEFI
lockout - no more dual boot, Microsoft back on top like it
was
never before, in complete control.
Now I know that consumers are going
to bulk at first when
they see Windows 8, and ask themselves, do I reeally need
a
new computer, or perhaps it's time to get an iPad/Android
Galaxy instead?
Companies will not hesitate. They don't ever
buy the latest Microsoft OS anyhow
until at least SP1. They
are not going to jump into Windows 8 any more than
they
jumped into a new OS previously. ...and the numbers
representing sales of
new computers will keep trending down
- for awhile.... but only for so
long.
In the end, people will start to cave in. They have been
buying
Microsoft computers for decades now. Eventually
companies too will begin the
upgrade cycle, making my
nightmare vision a bit more plausible - if there are
no
viable alternatives!
That's just it though... There is a quiet
revolution
under way - new alternatives and solutions coming to market.
How
'bout a Chrome desktop? I don't know if Chrome OS is the
answer, but it is
symbolic of the answer, and the answer is
a plethora of new options. Maybe
Ubuntu will finally have
its day, or Fedora with the latest Nome 3.6 or however
you
spell that and whatever the latest version number it is. All
I can say is
new options can't come fast enough to suit me.
There is a window of opportunity
here. Windows 8 won't
launch until 4th quarter, and it will take a couple of
years
to achieve significant uptake. That's the window of
opportunity - the
only chance we have to avoid my nightmare
vision. I wish Samsung all success
with their Galaxies and
Chrome books and boxes, and who knows what Motorola has
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 12:27 AM EDT |
95 comments and no newspick thread?
http://www.unixmen.com/kaspersky-antivirus-use-linux-to-rescue-windows/
I was given a HP laptop at work. Put a Knoppix DVD in and booted. It went to
Windows. The BIOS must have the wrong boot order ... nope, the BIOS will only
boot the disk (C:) or PXE boot on the network. No option for DVD or USB. This
Kaspersky method may be on borrowed time.
--
Bondfire
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 03:13 AM EDT |
http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/lokales/bonn/Irrer-Streit-um-die-Farbe-der-M
VA-article772790.html?&i=1
If you do not read German, here is the summary:
A public garbage incineration plant in Bonn, Germany, painted its buildings in
shades of green and pink many years ago. They want to refresh and change the
painting now but are stuck in court over it. The old contractor, self-styled
'colour designer', opines that the painting is a work of art and he owns the
copyrights. Any fresh painting would have to go through him, some $500,000 a
pop.
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| Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 06:59 AM EDT |
Link
Splashdown this morning, but no live video planned of that for lack
of cameras in the Pacific Ocean.
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"Prolog is an efficient
programming language because it is a very stupid theorem prover." -- Richard
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 07:03 AM EDT |
Haven't seen Ferris' post in response to Oracle's JMOL
denial.. heheh.. when Judge denied Google's JMOL request the
title was "Judge tosses Google's challenge to Oracle's
registration and ownership of Java copyrights"..
I'm guessing in this case the title will be something like:
"Judge err's in denying Oracle's fair, reasonable and non
discriminatory JMOL request"
or
"Judge's denial of Oracle JMOL irrelevant - Oracle was
willing to concede the patent issue months ago (as I blog
posted back in blah blah blah)"..
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 07:10 AM EDT |
Why is a Russian company the first to report this? Could it be that an American
security company noticed Flame and/or Stuxnet earlier and was pressured to keep
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| http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-law-firms-rigged-fail-134302254.html [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
| Article link
Seems like all
these people have a considerable confusion
between licenses for using a
specific implementation of an
API, and licenses for some kind of broad SSO for
implementing
a compatible API.
The confusion is so consistent that it
has to be intentional
misinformation. Would be great if wiser minds could read
the
article and comment.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 02:21 PM EDT |
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Number 10 shuts wallet on closed-source IT
projects
Government IT projects that don’t explore alternatives to
closed and proprietary software are getting kicked back and denied
funding.
The civil servant running open source, open standards and
information management under No 10’s digital change agenda called such spending
controls a “key gateway” in complying with new IT procurement
rules.
Gavin Clarke, The Register
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The Document
Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.4 Up to 100% performance
improvements thanks to the efforts of a diverse and growing developer and QA
community
The Document Foundation
Blog
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Whiny RIAA Demands Even More Google
CensorshipAn RIAA bigwig just laid a blog post smackdown on Google,
claiming the search giant doesn't do enough to remove links to copyrighted
material. Apparently, processing more than one million requests for removal
per month isn't enough.
Mario Aguilar, Gizmodo
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EU - 3 Strikes Against
ACTA Today
Three heavyweight committees in the European Parliament gave
their voting recommendations on ACTA today. All three gave the same
recommendation: reject ACTA. This means that today, the European Parliament
issued three very hard strikes against ACTA.
What happened today was the
first steps in a long chain that ends with the final vote in all of the European
Parliament, which is the vote where ACTA ultimately lives or dies. If it is
defeated on the floor of the European Parliament, then it’s a permakill.
Rick Falkvinge
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You MUST Pay MS to
Implement UEFI Secure Boot in FedoraWe've been working on this for
months. This isn't an attractive solution, but it is a workable one. We came to
the conclusion that every other approach was unworkable. The cause of free
software isn't furthered by making it difficult or impossible for unskilled
users to run Linux, and while this approach does have its downsides it does also
avoid us ending up where we were in the 90s. Users will retain the freedom to
run modified software and we wouldn't have accepted any solution that made that
impossible.
But is this a compromise? Of course. There's already
inequalities between Fedora and users - trademarks prevent the distribution of
the Fedora artwork with modified distributions, and much of the Fedora
infrastructure is licensed such that some people have more power than others.
This adds to that inequality. It's not the ideal outcome for anyone, and I'm
genuinely sorry that we weren't able to come up with a solution that was better.
This isn't as bad as I feared it would be, but nor is it as good as I hoped it
would be.
Matthew Garrett
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