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A video game is a copyrighted audiovisual work, and streaming a video game without permission from the game's publisher is copyright infringement. How do Twitch and YouTube Gaming either obtain this permission or provide a means for members to apply to publishers to obtain this permission?

Are there any good articles about that? The stuff I have read has made me leery of Windows 10.

Here's an Ars Technica article about it. I think it covers most of the issues people are concerned about. I'm moderately concerned about these issues myself, but on the other hand, I do need to keep current for development work.

Also, you could try setting up VirtualBox on one of your Windows machines, and running Linux inside the VirtualBox. The virtual hardware inside VirtualBox is well-understood by Linux, so you should be able to stop worrying about hardware and focus on learning your way around Linux and doing stuff with it.

Yep, already did that. Tried out Mint Cinnamon, and really liked it - clean, professional looking, intuitive. I was doing some contract work, so didn't want to mess with my personal dev machine. Now that I'm done for the moment, I'm a bit more free to consider updating my machine for dual-boot use. I need full access to GPU hardware to get real work done.

Any particular reason you'd recommend MATE over Cinnamon, incidentally?

It makes it so much easier for customers to blow through their monthly cap, and rack up massive overage charges. A perfect situation... at least from Comcast's perspective. After all, one of their execs even admitted that the caps have nothing to do with network management, and are just about money.
Citation: http://arstechnica.com/busines...

Two articles I found since yesterday that contradict statements in the summary:

* previous versions of Windows now spy on you becuase of recent MS updates: http://www.hakspek.com/securit...

* They still spy on you after you turn the "features" off: http://arstechnica.com/informa...

Highway to hack: why we’re just at the beginning of the auto-hacking era

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Imagine it’s 1995, and you’re about to put your company’s office on the Internet. Your security has been solid in the past—you’ve banned people from bringing floppies to work with games, you’ve installed virus scanners, and you run file server backups every night. So, you set up the Internet router and give everyone TCP/IP addresses. It’s not like you’re NASA or the Pentagon or something, so what could go wrong?

That, in essence, is the security posture of many modern automobiles—a network of sensors and controllers that have been tuned to perform flawlessly under normal use, with little more than a firewall (or in some cases, not even that) protecting it from attack once connected to the big, bad Internet world. This month at three separate security conferences, five sets of researchers presented proof-of-concept attacks on vehicles from multiple manufacturers plus an add-on device that spies on drivers for insurance companies, taking advantage of always-on cellular connectivity and other wireless vehicle communications to defeat security measures, gain access to vehicles, and—in three cases—gain access to the car’s internal network in a way that could take remote control of the vehicle in frightening ways....

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

The thing is, it's not just Windows 10. If you regularly update your machines, Microsoft has already added additional telemetry tools to Windows 7 and 8.

http://www.infoworld.com/artic...

What really sucks for me is that I *like* Windows 10. I run it in a VM on my Mac, and I've noticed an immediate performance improvement, especially with boot ups.

But from all the media reports, it looks like Windows 10 is turning into a conspiracy theorists bukake dream. And unless there is very little backlash to this, I can see Microsoft easily porting the rest of their privacy invading tools to their previous OSes.

Disclaimer: I ZFS.

We had a problem that ext* just couldn't handle. We have a medium sized filesystem with about 250 million data files that we needed to back up. Every day. Rsync completely failed at the job, taking between 1 and 2 days to do the job.

Desperate to find a solution, we tried ZFS and snapshot replication. Our time to replicate to DR, dropped from days to a few hours, backup storage requirements dropped through the floor, and server load dropped at the same time! This is on a reasonably priced set of systems, Xeon-based intel systems with just 32 GB of RAM and 6x 4 TB drives.

ZFS is pretty decent, and has proven to be more reliable for our use than ext*. However, its licensing presents a developmental pit fall. On Linux, it won't ever be a "first rate citizen" even though the ZoL project has done a great job making it very available. ZFS also has a number of pretty terrible problems:

1) You can't remove a vdev from a ZFS pool without destroying the pool.

2) You can't upgrade a vdev's redundancy level once you've added it to a pool.

This means that, if you're careful, ZFS is wonderful. But it's easy to make a mistake that you can't easily back out of. See the section hating your data to see what I mean.

BTRFS has been "only a few years away now" for quite a few years now. I'm not convinced it will ever reach production ready status. Apparently it has some architectural problems that have been criticized pretty soundly. I'm no longer convinced about the future inevitability of BTRFS.

I sincerely hope that BCacheFS really delivers on these promises, I'd love it!

This puts to rest the final argument that Firefox OS supporters had to justify its existence: that Android phones were too expensive in third world nations.

Of course, that argument was quite weak to begin with. Low-cost used Android phones are already plentiful in such regions, and already widely used. And now new Android phones will be available and affordable, too.

Since Android phones can already run HTML/JS/CSS web apps, they should be able to run Firefox OS apps, too. Although in practice, there aren't really any Firefox OS apps worth using elsewhere.

Mozilla, it's time to shut down the Firefox OS project. Firefox OS has already gotten some of the most scathing reviews of all time, and it's seeing pretty much no adoption at all.

The worst thing about Firefox OS is that it has taken resources away from improving Firefox, the only product from Mozilla that really sees any use (although its market share is dropping, too). If Firefox OS was cancelled, the money and people involved could be moved over to working on Firefox instead. They could strip out Pocket, Hello, Australis, and all of the other completely unwanted changes that have been made lately. After that is done, and Firefox's UI is usable again, they could tackle some of the decade-old bugs and performance problems that have yet to be fixed.

It's a real shame that Firefox OS wasn't cancelled sooner. It was clear from the onset that it was a failed project. The resources wasted on it could have been put to much better use elsewhere.

People buy apples because so many PC laptops and desktops suck. Take a walk to any Best Buy, Wal Mart, or even Microsoft Store and you will see stacks of cheap, plastic underpowered suckage. Apple has an incentive for their machines to run their OS well or they won't sell. PC manufacturers have the luxury of getting to sell junk to people who don't know any better. To Microsoft's credit, Windows 10 seems to work pretty well on underpowered PC's, but at the cost of substantial privacy issues.

There are some good PC laptops out there. I really like the new Dell XPS 13, for example. But pound for pound, it costs about the same as a comparable Mac, particularly if you go with an SSD, which is standard on all Macs (e.g., Dell XPS 13 with 256 GB SSD and 8GB RAM and Windows Home is $1599; a 13-inch Macbook Pro with similar specs comes in at $1499).

But as some other poster already said, the reputation of PC's generally stinks because the quality, and after-market support, is so spotty. A lot of people are posting that ThinkPads kick ass (and I can attest that they used to be awesome), but I've seen just as many people post ThinkPads have gone steadily downhill since Lenovo took over. Right now, the XPS 13 is the only laptop I have confidence recommending to people. And PC desktops? Roll you own, lest that retail box come with a two-year-old Celeron and a 90 Watt power supply.

If you read the ARS article on this, you would see that:

"In responses to FCC investigators, Smart City later revealed it "automatically transmitted deauthentication frames to prevent Wi-Fi users whose devices produced a received signal strength above a present power level at Smart City access points from establishing or maintaining a Wi-Fi network independent of Smart City's network," according to a consent decree filed in the case."

Well, hopefully the FCC's case puts an end to these practices.

Otherwise I could see somebody writing an app for any device whose wifi can be put in monitoring mode that just sends a de-auth frame for any Smart City connection it spots anywhere. Then nobody has wifi at their conferences and they go out of business.

Normally I wouldn't bother because educating you isn't my job, but I'll link you this one time because you're a n00b to Slashdot and the internet, apparently.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/08/14/1756220/windows-10-still-phones-home-with-data-in-spite-of-privacy-settings

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft

If you read the ARS article on this, you would see that:

"In responses to FCC investigators, Smart City later revealed it "automatically transmitted deauthentication frames to prevent Wi-Fi users whose devices produced a received signal strength above a present power level at Smart City access points from establishing or maintaining a Wi-Fi network independent of Smart City's network," according to a consent decree filed in the case."

Welcome to 2013! as it was then compressed memory was introduced in Mac OS X.

Slap in a 1tb SSD and it really makes a difference I run 2 VM's daily on 16gb on a late 2011 MBP and the SSD make it faster than any brand new dell I have seen come in the office.

Try spending a quarter as much on the dell next time you compare.

Hmm. 1tb SSD going on newegg today for $477. Quarter of that is ~$120. What would $120 buy to dramatically speed up an office-grade dell?

I think the point is swapping out a spinning hard drive with an SSD is the single best way to show dramatic improvement to your rig, and SSD's are cheaper and more reliable than ever (plus, that whole TRIM thing with macs is now solved). OTOH, spinning drives and 4GB RAM are still the standard on all the cheap new dells for sale out there. Once you deck out a dell with similar features to a mac, the prices become pretty comparable (e.g., Dell XPS 13 with 256 GB SSD and 8GB RAM and Windows Home is $1599, whereas a 13-inch Macbook Pro with similar specs comes in at $1499). The rule applies: fast, reliable, cheap (choose two).

Thanks for showing everyone that you are nothing but a religious nutter, as you simply cannot do anything but throw insults because the facts are against you because if your OS can't even update itself? Then its not an OS, its a joke. Oh and allow me to LMFAO at how you try to cop an elitist attitude when I created iron clad proof that your OS can't even perform the most basic of functions, you might as well say "It sucks nuts but that is good...because....Linux party!" /waves little penguin flag impotently while everyone laughs at you/ ROFL!

Get ready for some FACTS Sparky....FACT your OS driver model DOES NOT WORK, as even drivers controlled by the devs? Shit all over themselves, in fact the entire "let the devs handle it" argument has been pointed out repeatedly to be a classic mythical man month scenario but the devs are too vain and guys like you too busy guzzling the koolaid to understand it...FACT, The last Windows version Linux could compete against?" Windows ME...how long ago was that? 2000? Because Windows 2K actually PASSES the challenge, in fact it can go from RTM to EOL without shitting itself (which is about 8 years longer than any Linux "user friendly" distro can do), XP can go RTM to EOL which is FOURTEEN YEARS, twelve years longer than Linux, and Vista through 8.1 can go from RTM to current.

So you keep right on living in crazy land, where having a flatline for 22 years is considered a "success", where guys like you are so foolish to think Android is FOSS while they quietly released bog standard laptops that are so locked down they can't even run an OS without a bootloader hack or even run dual boot, meanwhile I'll keep printing the challenge to show people your emperor not only has no clothes but has shat down both legs and is playing with it like a chimp. And guys like you wonder why your kind have become the Butt of jokes?

Does everybody see NOW why ACs are worthless? they are apparently too fucking stupid to read headlines and certainly are too retarded to actually use a search engine because if they could do more than pick their own noses they would have seen that you can't turn off Windows 10 spying as the "privacy settings" are the equivalent of the button on a street light, something designed to make the user think he has control when its just bullshit.

Oddly enough, I just read an article on Ars that mentions MongoDB specifically. http://arstechnica.com/informa...

The content of your emails, your voice, your browsing history, everything you do with your PC is uploaded to Microsoft (and a copy goes to NSA too, of course). Every antivirus software would label Windows 10 as a spyware if it weren't made by Microsoft. And no, you cannot turn it off completely, Microsoft's bad faith is proven by the fact that the default settings are all anti-privacy, not to mention that you cannot be sure that a closed-source OS does what it says:

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

You can solve the "gotta wait for loads" problem by getting a cheap SSD and slapping the games on there, if you are on Windows look up "Steam Mover" which will let you just move the games you are currently playing over to the SSD. I've moved my War thunder onto my SSD and it fricking flies, whereas before it would take a good 30-50 seconds just for the levels to load at the start of the match now myself and the other SSD users are already under way by the time the first HDD users are spawning. Oh and the minimum frame issue will be fixed by DX12, just wait for the pirate version which strips out all the spying

As for the tablets? The majority don't have rooted Android tablets so the adblock is moot as rooting is beyond the skillset of the majority, they will just consider the device "broken" and move on. I talked to the Gonzalez brothers (the Mexican bros that run the phone shop down the street, nice guys) and they said they haven't run into anything rooted that came into their shop and since they handle more phones and tablets in a day than I've handled in a year? I think their experience is a good sampling of how much rooting goes on in the wild. Glad that you were able to root yours but if even 5% of the tablets out there are rooted I'd be amazed.

And the people DO care when it comes to the programs because I HAVE been dealing with those "transformer style" hybrids, they have those for $150-$200 at the local Walmart and so are quite popular, #1 complaint? ":I can't get this to do (X)" where X is some feature the PC program has the Android version doesn't. Users simply do not understand that just because it LOOKS like a laptop does not mean it will ACT like a laptop and they get quite pissed when they find out they simply will never be able to do what they want it to. I have had quite a few go take theirs back and spend the money to get the Windows 8.1 version and promptly bring it back so I can "Make it work" and behave like their home system does. A little ClassicStart, a little loading their programs and voila! They are happy.

To think a user that is happy with X/Y/Z will be happy with just X is the classic Linux advocate mistake, the "as long as you have a browser its enough" but people today are VERY picky and they like what they like, especially when it comes to their programs. If the mobile version doesn't do 100% of what they are used to getting on the desktop? Then its shit as far as they are concerned. And last I checked the asus transformer? yeah that's a $300+ device, that AIN'T what the majority are buying, they are buying those "Walmart specials" and those keyboards simply aren't as good as a first gen chiclet on a netbook, they really suck. To say "tablets have great keyboards" and bring up the Transformer is like saying "ChromeOS is the best laptop" and bringing up the Pixel as the example, when in both cases they aren't the majority, hell they aren't even the minority when it comes to sales, probably more in the 3%-4% range. If you have a local Walmart Supercenter? Go in and try their sub $200 convertibles as THAT is what folks are getting. They are limited to just 1Gb of RAM (and all the OEM crap you can't uninstall is sucking a good half of that) with 8Gb of storage which for some damned reason the OEMs partition REALLY badly and by default the larger of the two can't have apps installed to it, and the keyboards? Fucking terrible. Remember it wasn't the IDEA of a netbook that killed the netbook, it was rising prices with lousy build quality that killed the things. When I could get the AMD E350s for $300, the C50/C60s for $240 and the Intel Atom for $200? I couldn't keep enough of the things, folks gobbled 'em up like candy, it was when the OEMs added a good $100-$120 to the price so that a more powerful laptop was cheaper that everybody bailed.

Do I think tablets are gonna die? Of course not, I can still buy new netbooks, I have no doub

One word: ineffective.

Deutsche did in fact shortly agree to sell T-Mobile to AT&T [wikipedia.org], which ultimately fell through due to FCC/antitrust objections.

When this deal fell through, AT&T had to give TMobile a nice parting gift.. of 3 Billion dollars and some roaming agreements. This is when TMobile started to become a force. Between having cash for towers and customer acquisition, and better effecgive networking, AT&T was the one that helped TMobile move forward.

Lol, just shut up, neckbeard. You can't win, by most measures Windows is more secure than Linux and has been for a while.

Safes can be opened ... with a warrant. Mail can be opened ... with a warrant. Vehicles can be searched ... with a warrant. There's no reason to make smartphones that can't be searched ... with a warrant. I'm starting to get on board that Cortana should be accessible to law enforcement if needed to solve crimes. This is getting ridiculous, when there is evidence that could solve multiple murders and they have it so locked down that even LEO cannot get at it. That type of encryption is for the government, not for joe six-pack.

They are welcome to brute force the phone just like they do the safe or the mail. The owner of a safe isn't required to open it just because there is a warrant. These are also police who believe they have an expectation of privacy while doing their official duty but you don't have expectation of privacy on your phones contents? They're lucky we allow them to attempt to decrypt the things on their own and don't remove that power from them as well.

with the Internet, who pays for porn?

http://arstechnica.com/busines...

Install Firefox OS on it. Based on this review, it'll be extremely secure, because you probably won't actually be able to do anything at all with it. Apparently there will be a good chance that the phone's GPS, camera, and other functionality won't work, and if they aren't working then they can't be abused.

Yes, claims have been brought against individuals and companies who abuse the DMCA takedown process. The EFF has sued over exactly these grounds for DMCA abuse, but this happens all too infrequently to make a difference. If victims of DMCA abuse sought recourse more frequently, it might discourage these frivolous claims, but it seems like it rarely happens. The penalties for perjury are severe, but the other issue is that perjury is difficult to prove. If the notices are sent because automated systems indicated that something contained copyrighted material, it would he hard to say that actual perjury occurred, though it's clearly negligent. I don't think an automated system actually has the ability to commit perjury in any legal sense, which may also serve to protect the abusers from counterclaims. Such abuse might also fall under the category of frivolous litigation, though I'm not a lawyer and can't say for sure. It seems like it ought to be a lot easier to prove frivolous litigation, though it probably also requires a lawsuit for it to happen and therefore the simple act of sending a DMCA takedown notice might not fall under this claim. The best bet might be to try to get a judge to agree that a particular company or law firm is abusing DMCA takedowns and get an injunction to prevent them from sending further notices. Continuing to do so when ordered not to would be contempt of court. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of recourse. In theory, yes, there is. But practically speaking, probably not.

"The days of mainstream operating systems that don't integrate cloud services, that don't exploit machine learning and big data, that don't let developers know which features are used and what problems occur, are behind us, and they're not coming back. This may cost us some amount of privacy, but we'll tend to get something in return: software that can do more things and that works better."

Said Peter Bright, a longtime Microsoft booster ref .. and MICROS~1 SPYWAR~1 is not getting on this mainstream operating systems ..

amen. And if anyone has followed the tutorials about disabling Cortana to get rid of the "all your keypresses are sent to Bing for.. processing", you'll find that it still sends all your data to Bing anyway.

You have to block it in the firewall to get the behaviour what normal people would expect.

Moronic and Insane. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result. (Like the Republican and Democratic parties doing the same thing that has gotten us to this economic hell an telling us it will fix it this time...yea right.)

Like Microsoft has never lied to us.

Reminded me of the setting in Windows 2000, that would prevent updates from happening without the user's expressed consent, but updated anyway....pathetic.

If the only way to prevent is to block in a firewall rule, its a definite FAIL! Enough excuses.

From the first line of my post:

This is a new update mechanism for security updates [and bug fixes, hopefully]

Also, see http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Google also announced changes to the way the company distributes Nexus security updates. Starting Wednesday, Nexus devices will receive regular monthly security updates.

There is already a mechanism to push full Android updates. That's been the problem. It's all or nothing [if the vendor doesn't want to re-QA the entire update] (e.g. going from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0).

It may involve sending a full load [if that makes sense]. But, with just the necessary patches. It will be done monthly and not just when a new version [with new features] is stable and available. Since Android already does a.b.c versioning for features/fixes, we may see a.b.c.d versions for the monthly updates.

Just like Windows update, if there's a security flaw in [say] IE, a patch to IE is sent. If the IE fix involves fixes to five underlying DLLs, they will be part of the update. But, all of WinX doesn't get updated. Current Android updates are like going from Win7 to Win8. The new update process will be more like Windows update for a given version.

This new mechanism should have [and could have] been done years ago. There wasn't as much incentive.

The MMS security flaw is so dangerous that it forced this. It is so bad that the FTC [and/or FCC] might fine Google, vendors, and carriers. Under its authority, the FTC can issue fines of up to $11,000 per device in the field. With 100 million [or more] phones in the field, this total fine can be one trillion dollars.

Recently, IIRC, either Chrysler/Fiat [for failing to implement a recall], or AT&T [for misrepresenting "unlimited" plans] got a $100M fine. The agency said [effectively] "large enough to be painful, but not enough to do serious harm to [bankrupt] the company.".

amen. And if anyone has followed the tutorials about disabling Cortana to get rid of the "all your keypresses are sent to Bing for.. processing", you'll find that it still sends all your data to Bing anyway.

You have to block it in the firewall to get the behaviour what normal people would expect.

A better link than to a hard to read forum.

The walls are buzzing. I know this because I have a magnet implanted in my hand and whenever I reach near an outlet I can feel them.

I enjoy doing laundry about as much as doing dishes. I get my clothing custom made in China for prices you would not believe and have new ones regularly shipped to me. Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them, and I donate my used garments.

How I Gave Up Alternating Current

555 posters at Ars Technica spent a glorious summer's day ripping Rhinehart to shreds. Op-ed: How I gave up alternating current

"I'm an idiot who doesn't understand the energy footprint of Soylent Green and shipping cotton to china for cheap underwear, then shipping those underwear to my house on a weekly basis. I am so far up the ass of my OCD neurosis that I am living a contrafactual life and pretending it's not destroying the world."

It's unbelievable how pretty much everything relating to Firefox OS is a total, unmitigated disaster.

We know that Mozilla has poured a huge amount of resources into its development. These are resources that could have been put to better use, like by improving desktop Firefox, the only product of theirs that really sees any actual use these days. Every cent put into Firefox OS has been, in my opinion, a complete waste. Their willingness to put money and effort toward Firefox OS in the first place is why I will no longer donate to Mozilla.

The most scathing review I've ever read about a phone and its software involved Firefox OS. Having read probably thousands of reviews, that one sticks out in my mind for just how pathetic the problems were. Some people will blame it on the hardware, but many of the complaints revolved around Firefox OS, and would be a problem regardless of the hardware being used.

Then there's the whole issue of Firefox OS choosing the limited, rather shitty JavaScript/HTML/CSS stack as its only option. It's really bad when people refer to apps written using those technologies as being "native" apps just because the platform is so awful that it doesn't support anything resembling real native code or even proper bytecode of some form.

Now we have this, which is yet another failure directly associated with Firefox OS.

Mozilla, why do you keep dragging out the Firefox OS project? When we look at the big picture, it is not positive at all! Firefox OS is being rejected in the market place. It's uninspiring compared to its competitors, even when compared to what the competitors were capable of years ago. Failure surrounds the project. It wastes valuable resources.

Like the Slashdot Beta, sometimes it's better to cut your losses as early as possible. Firefox OS is clearly one of those cases. Sometimes failures happen, and when they do, it's best to move on quickly. So Mozilla, please, finally put an end to the Firefox OS project. Direct the resources toward something useful. Please!

With all due respect, I'd rather eat Ramen and take a vitamin pill than consume the current Soylent formulations and fart all night long.

According to an Ars Technica review the extreme farts are gone with the latest versions.

If you don't like the real thing, there are a bunch of DIY recipes that you can try for yourself.

Uh, not quite the same era. "Steamboat Willie" was 1927, but "The Birthday Song" was originally penned by [attributed to] Patty and Mildred J Hill in 1893.

Disney has always renewed copyrights, but only so many can be granted. Hence, the Sonny Bono Copyright Act.

Birthday song is different [I'll try to summarize the legal brief found in the article]:

- In 1922, "The Cable Company" published the "The Everyday Songbook". It had "Good Morning and Birthday Song" [aka "Happy Birthday"] in it, with "Special permission through courtesy of Clayton F Summy Co." under the title. Note that the song above it on the page had a copyright notice.

- Modern copyright law is different than it was in 1922, which was governed by the Copyright Act of 1909. Under this act, a work must have an explicit "Copyright", "(C)", or "Copr." in it.

- Under the 1909 act, if a compilation of various works is published, and a work does not have an explicit copyright, the original author loses their copyright to that work.

- The "special permission" probably means that the work was already in the public domain.

- Even if the "special permission" notice could be construed as a copyright, it would have to be renewed in 25 years [the copyright term in those days]. Thus, copyright would have to be renewed no later than 1949, either by Summy or Cable. Neither of them did so.

- Even if Summy and/or Cable had renewed in 1949, the work would still have become public domain in 1997.

Warner/Chappell's response is that the 1922 songbook was an "unauthorized" and/or "piratical" copy. See http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

This comes up whenever audiophile cables are discussed, but it's worth repeating: don't buy the cheapest cable.

I'm not sure if you read the follow-up article, but this bears repeating.

The cable that was used for comparison was the cheapest cable. In fact, it didn't even pass the Cat-6 certification tests done by Blue Jeans Cable after the even had finished.

But even with that nobody could tell the difference in the final sound quality.

What is your opinion on non-military licenses? (i.e. licenses that are almost FOSS, but prohibit usage for military purposes and thus aren't recognized free software).

I feel like this becomes an issue in recent years, when you look at news like this:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
http://linuxgizmos.com/u-s-mil...

Do you reject those licenses? Or could there even be a GPL-NonMil license at some point?

Why would a streaming XBox make a steam machine irrelevant?

The $50 streaming device from Valve makes the XBox+App irrelevant: Steam Link Streaming Box

An ars article seems to give the clearest view of a rather murky subject. Basically, there appears to have been multiple ways in to the data. Including situations like IT contractors hiring database admins located in places like Argentina and China, at which point it doesn't matter what technical security solutions are put in place since people are explicitly given full access to the data. (I guess technically that falls under the "inside job" scenario?)

The company filed bankruptcy a few months ago. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

there are better legal and technical deterrents and preventatives to this type of thing now.

Apparently not at the NSA.

Why is the story of Slashdot being sold not on SLASHDOT!?!?!?

Well, ignoring the rest of your comment, this is actually worth highlighting.

The Company acquired Slashdot Media in 2012 both to provide the Dice business with broader reach into Slashdot's user community base and to extend the Dice business outside North America by engaging with SourceForge's significant international technology user community. The Company, however, has not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business; and with the acquisition of The IT Job Board and success of Open Web, the anticipated value to the Company of the SourceForge traffic outside North America has not materialized. The Company now plans to divest the business, as it does not fit within the Company's strategic initiatives and believes the Slashdot Media business will have the opportunity to improve its financial performance under different ownership.

Good riddance, dice.

Sorry we couldn't help you leverage your synergies.

Actually, we're not sorry at all.

I don't think I have to point out some thing that was widely covered by media about a year ago: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

So cultist, good to know. Would you like to blather on about the Rpi now? or maybe about the "soon to be as open as a TiVo" Android OS?

Ya know what is sad? Its the fact nobody can even talk about fucking DESKTOPS here without some FOSSies trying to move the goalposts, why do they feel they have to do that? Oh yeah just like Scientology they are a teeny tiny itsy bitsy minority, so small that most OS statistics now list Linux under "other" along with other hobbyist desktops like ReactOS and Haiku. Meanwhile the Hairyfeet Challenge is proudly celebrating 8 years of Linux not being able to pass simple tests like "can it update without shitting on its own drivers" and in its current direction I have ZERO doubt that if you are here in 12 years you can help me celebrate 20 years of Linux failure!

BTW be sure to get a little party hat and blow a noisemaker in celebration of the Hairyfeet Challenge lasting so long, after all it was guys like you making excuses and moving the goalposts that have let Linux devs get away with such sub par shite for so long so the challenge couldn't have lasted as long as it has without guys like you, thanks.

Damn. I came back to see if anybody commented. hairyfeet, you are a total fucking dickhead.

"FOSSies"? Seriously cunt?

You are on a website running on Linux. Slashdot runs CentOS. If you go to www.microsoft.com you will be accessing a website running on LINUX.

The only people who don't use Linux are fucking idiots. Android is way way better than Apple's iShit.

Supercomputers? Go to top500.org and see what they are running on. Billions and billions of dollars of equipment... running on Linux. None on Windows or Mac. International Space Station? Linux. Amazon? etc etc. Fuck you for being this stupid.

You really think supercomputers have downtime EVER because Linux can't update without "shitting on it's drivers"?

Were you drunk or high when you wrote that? You look like a moron. Everything you said was this OH NOES I'M A BITCH emotional chaos.

Fuck you 1000x. You must have been mad at your life then thought you would unleash those emotions in defense of Windows.

Go to google.com (you know, the #1 search engine which also happens to be running worldwide on Linux) ... and search for windows sucks. "windows sucks" or windows sucks.

Get it? Windows sucks.

You are a dumb bitch on your best day. Maybe you make your living on Microsoft shit. Well if so, I want to give a special LMFAO to you and your future starving family. Maybe you can regroup and make some sales at a flea market.

Windows is death knell.

Hasn't the write-once-run-anywhere sandboxed Java Virtual Machine been hit with much security breeches recently. So much that some people advice removing it from your computer. ref

It's a 1-way street; you're basically trading your Windows 7 license for a Windows 10 one, so after you've installed 10, you're no longer licensed for 7.

Windows 8 changed more than the UI; there are some under the hood improvements that don't have anything to do with the tiles crap. Personally, I'm not sure if it's worth it to switch because I imagine it'll kill my dual-boot and I'll have to spend a few hours wrestling with OSes (not to mention reconfiguring 10 into a UI mode that I like). You may be of a similar opinion, for that reason or a different one. What I've seen seems like an improvement over Windows 8, at least.

As much as people want to believe, in the age of unattended Windows updates and package managers, that updating is painless and causes no problems, there are many famous examples of times people installed updates that proceeded to destroy or seriously disrupt operation of production environments.

Basically, what I'm saying is not that she imagined the threats; in fact I believe that she has received them - part and parcel for being a public figure, you see.

I don't even know where to begin to go with that. She wasn't public figure otuside the game-dev community. She only time she's been a fublic figure is when she got in the corsshairs of the internet hate machine.

No, what I am saying is that she used the few threats she got and "inflated" it into what she characterizes as a "terror movement" for which she can call out a snipe hunt.

The "few" threats: your choice of words, not mine. On what do you base that claim?

And think what you want of Gamergate*, but I have zero belief that it is an organized threat aimed at hounding women out of videogames.

Say what *you* want about gamergate, but here's how it got started:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/...

So cultist, good to know. Would you like to blather on about the Rpi now? or maybe about the "soon to be as open as a TiVo" Android OS?

Ya know what is sad? Its the fact nobody can even talk about fucking DESKTOPS here without some FOSSies trying to move the goalposts, why do they feel they have to do that? Oh yeah just like Scientology they are a teeny tiny itsy bitsy minority, so small that most OS statistics now list Linux under "other" along with other hobbyist desktops like ReactOS and Haiku. Meanwhile the Hairyfeet Challenge is proudly celebrating 8 years of Linux not being able to pass simple tests like "can it update without shitting on its own drivers" and in its current direction I have ZERO doubt that if you are here in 12 years you can help me celebrate 20 years of Linux failure!

BTW be sure to get a little party hat and blow a noisemaker in celebration of the Hairyfeet Challenge lasting so long, after all it was guys like you making excuses and moving the goalposts that have let Linux devs get away with such sub par shite for so long so the challenge couldn't have lasted as long as it has without guys like you, thanks.

Some very simple tests based on cut and paste from http://arstechnica.com/securit... indicate that on a default install of OpenBSD with a randomly picked username, you'll get 3 tries only before the connection shuts down.