If US retains the control, we will see global censorship based on copyright claims, like what's happening right now.
If we let UN to take control, we will still see global censorship based on copyright claims, as US will exert large influence on the Internet and the UN. We can also get the bonus of possibly international censorship policies coming from places like China and Middle East countries.
Now take you pick...
Political censorship is very different to copyright censorship. Not being able to express discontent about your president is very different to not being able to "pirate" some films.
I guess the feat is not to redo some porting of code to arm, which debian has done, but to configure the system/add drivers to support the chromebook. IMHO if chromebook wants to sell more than a tablet it must work as a real laptop, and a linux distro is at the moment the only way to have a complete personal computing experience on arm.
Google is selling Chromebook as their advertising platform... You might also get vendor lock in. You can't use the Gmail interface without using Gmail itself. Although you can indeed use Gmail via IMAP+SMTP.
The Internet was meant to be resilient to nuclear attacks... Now major websites simply go down when you take out major cloud service providers... This whole development is just silly.
I understand this is about Apple and Steve Jobs. However I don't feel think Steve Jobs worked in the fashion industry... He worked in the tech industry.
Personally I see this as a random company having fun...
Technically you are not breaking Chinese law by browsing those "banned" websites. The official explanation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is that the Chinese Internet is "fully open and the Chinese Government manages the Internet according to the law." (http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xwfw/s2510/2511/t555340.htm)
I don't think anyone has been convicted under those Internet regulation, because somewhere in the Chinese constitution says that freedom of expression should be protected. Normally people simply disappear then get charged under something that's not Internet related.
Anyway, I really don't think the Internet polices in China are bothered by you.
My parents lived in the UK for 5 years before moving back to China. I have create OpenVPN + Squid proxy combo for them, so they can use normal Internet. In China, you quite often get connection resets while using Google.
But yeh, my family have totally ignored Chinese government's censorship.
The sad reality is that if I want to start a protest about the Internet censorship, I can't. Quite a lot of people believing that censoring information on porn, religous cult, and separatist movement is a good thing. The central government has brainwashed the general populace very well. It has successfully taken the concept of freedom out of most people's soul.
So, as an aside, isn't the entire point of a tech aggregator to provide a technical summary? Not just copy and paste the article's summary... anyway...
FTFA:
Intel went to great lengths to highlight the new P-states and C-states in which it can completely shut down the clock of a core. The firm said the operating system needs to provide "hints" to the processor in order to make use of power states and it seems likely that such hints are presently not provided by the Linux kernel in order to properly make use of Clover Trail.
In other words, Intel has added new capabilities to Clover Trail that allow enhanced power management, and Linux doesn't currently support it. Anyone who thinks that this will continue to be the case for much longer is a moron, especially if Intel continues to release its architecture datasheets, which we have no reason to think that they won't.
The article really says: It can't run Linux because there's no support for it in Linux, and there's no support for it because it's literally brand-new.
I smell a bit of journalism problems here. Intel is trying hard to break into mobile market. Just take a look at their failed effort of MeeGo and their current endeavour with Android. I suspect that this whole thing is like "Oh, we haven't got around to write drivers for Linux yet. Microsoft want us to release the product quick, and they are a big customer."
Considering all the trade and economical sanction, and the collapsed economy, where does North Korea get its computers from? People in that country are starving, and they cannot afford computers. That reduces the talent pool for the malware defence team. Also I don't think communism ethos is compatible with hacker culture, so the people who get to use computers are as thick as wooden planks...
Putting aside the question of whether a company can patent stuff like a rectangle with rounded edges and other obvious design features, all these patent lawsuits of recent years have made me wonder how it's possible these days for any software or hardware startup to even get going.
Well, in countries where copyright is not respected, innovation may occur. e.g. China (Although currently they only seem to do low level copying.)
I think it is the time for everyone to revisit John F. Kennedy Moon's Speech. I wish I was alive in that era. Everything sounded so exciting and promising. http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
Yeah I'm not sure we actually want "profitable" slabbed on something as important as waste treatment. That word is commonly followed by words like "margin" and leads to all sorts of nasty shortcuts that are just barely inside the often arbitrary law requirements.
In developing countries such as China, economic development has higher priority over the environment. If protecting the environment is profitable, private businesses would do it. So I would say this is a step forward helping countries like China.
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Does the congress have a budget for this kind of thing...? Considering they are doing quite a lot of cuts.
The title is all you need to know...
Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel
Of course he will say that, his job depends on there being patents to work and litigate with.
When other companies start biting back at IBM, this guy will probably have something different to say. His butt will seriously hurt by then.
Let's organise an Apple boycott, and leave its products alone.
Even if there is temporal variation, why are they so certain that the methane in the air is due biological activities?
Why isn't other companies like Apple forced to include a browser selection screen in OSX?
If US retains the control, we will see global censorship based on copyright claims, like what's happening right now.
If we let UN to take control, we will still see global censorship based on copyright claims, as US will exert large influence on the Internet and the UN. We can also get the bonus of possibly international censorship policies coming from places like China and Middle East countries.
Now take you pick...
Political censorship is very different to copyright censorship. Not being able to express discontent about your president is very different to not being able to "pirate" some films.
I guess the feat is not to redo some porting of code to arm, which debian has done, but to configure the system/add drivers to support the chromebook.
IMHO if chromebook wants to sell more than a tablet it must work as a real laptop, and a linux distro is at the moment the only way to have a complete personal computing experience on arm.
Google is selling Chromebook as their advertising platform... You might also get vendor lock in. You can't use the Gmail interface without using Gmail itself. Although you can indeed use Gmail via IMAP+SMTP.
The Internet was meant to be resilient to nuclear attacks... Now major websites simply go down when you take out major cloud service providers... This whole development is just silly.
I guess we just have to "pirate" some stuff back.
Seriously Slashdot, stop. Just stop.
Because computer network is something every geek is interested in?
Ahh, I see. It came up in Apple in the RSS feed.
I understand this is about Apple and Steve Jobs. However I don't feel think Steve Jobs worked in the fashion industry... He worked in the tech industry.
Personally I see this as a random company having fun...
Labours launched some random identity card program, now coalition government is launching a virtual ID card program. I don't know which is worse.
Voyager's pictures are here:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html
Why is this not in the idle section?
Technically you are not breaking Chinese law by browsing those "banned" websites. The official explanation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is that the Chinese Internet is "fully open and the Chinese Government manages the Internet according to the law." (http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xwfw/s2510/2511/t555340.htm)
I don't think anyone has been convicted under those Internet regulation, because somewhere in the Chinese constitution says that freedom of expression should be protected. Normally people simply disappear then get charged under something that's not Internet related.
Anyway, I really don't think the Internet polices in China are bothered by you.
How about this? Pakistan's PM's comment is blasphemous in my personal religion.
My parents lived in the UK for 5 years before moving back to China. I have create OpenVPN + Squid proxy combo for them, so they can use normal Internet. In China, you quite often get connection resets while using Google.
But yeh, my family have totally ignored Chinese government's censorship.
The sad reality is that if I want to start a protest about the Internet censorship, I can't. Quite a lot of people believing that censoring information on porn, religous cult, and separatist movement is a good thing. The central government has brainwashed the general populace very well. It has successfully taken the concept of freedom out of most people's soul.
So, as an aside, isn't the entire point of a tech aggregator to provide a technical summary? Not just copy and paste the article's summary... anyway...
FTFA:
Intel went to great lengths to highlight the new P-states and C-states in which it can completely shut down the clock of a core. The firm said the operating system needs to provide "hints" to the processor in order to make use of power states and it seems likely that such hints are presently not provided by the Linux kernel in order to properly make use of Clover Trail.
In other words, Intel has added new capabilities to Clover Trail that allow enhanced power management, and Linux doesn't currently support it. Anyone who thinks that this will continue to be the case for much longer is a moron, especially if Intel continues to release its architecture datasheets, which we have no reason to think that they won't.
The article really says: It can't run Linux because there's no support for it in Linux, and there's no support for it because it's literally brand-new.
I smell a bit of journalism problems here. Intel is trying hard to break into mobile market. Just take a look at their failed effort of MeeGo and their current endeavour with Android. I suspect that this whole thing is like "Oh, we haven't got around to write drivers for Linux yet. Microsoft want us to release the product quick, and they are a big customer."
IRDA, but without the "IR".
fixed that for you.
The patent troll is trolled.
Considering all the trade and economical sanction, and the collapsed economy, where does North Korea get its computers from? People in that country are starving, and they cannot afford computers. That reduces the talent pool for the malware defence team. Also I don't think communism ethos is compatible with hacker culture, so the people who get to use computers are as thick as wooden planks...
Putting aside the question of whether a company can patent stuff like a rectangle with rounded edges and other obvious design features, all these patent lawsuits of recent years have made me wonder how it's possible these days for any software or hardware startup to even get going.
Well, in countries where copyright is not respected, innovation may occur. e.g. China (Although currently they only seem to do low level copying.)
I think it is the time for everyone to revisit John F. Kennedy Moon's Speech. I wish I was alive in that era. Everything sounded so exciting and promising.
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
Yeah I'm not sure we actually want "profitable" slabbed on something as important as waste treatment. That word is commonly followed by words like "margin" and leads to all sorts of nasty shortcuts that are just barely inside the often arbitrary law requirements.
In developing countries such as China, economic development has higher priority over the environment. If protecting the environment is profitable, private businesses would do it. So I would say this is a step forward helping countries like China.