The tricky part is there was no leak. The data was available, but there is no evidence of any unauthorized access. So technically they were not required to report the leak, because there was no leak.
Let's say they promised to keep your cash safe, then kept the safe unlocked for a couple of months, then realized what's up and locked it before anyone noticed. Are they legally obliged to tell you about it?
So even if they are assholes from moral point of view, legally they may be clean.
Limor Fried is the first lady who comes to my mind when I think of tech leaders. Marissa Mayers seems to be a successful product manager who evolved into business leader than a truly tech person.
No Linux client? Would it really be THAT expensive? There are big companies, especially in the software development business, where engineering department runs Linux as their desktop OS. For such companies luck of Linux support is a deal breaker.
Exactly. Crowdfunding is about donating. If the receipients of the donation succeed and give you something as a thank you gift that's nice, but that's not what's all about.
People confuse crowdfunding with pre-ordering. In crowdfunding you sponsor someone's attempt to achieve something, because you want it to happen. Perks are just an additional incentive. Sometimes a perk happens to be a product, but it's still a perk for your sponsorship, not something you bought or pre-ordered.
I would happily pay to have Snapseed open-sourced. I really like its effects / filters, but the fact the app is limited to Android and iOS is ridiculous. If it was open-sourced, I hope the effects / filters could be ported to a library which then could be used by GIMP or DigiKam.
If this G-putty becomes easily accessible, I see endless possibilities for cool DIY projects. I could build a smart threshold in my bedroom door which would kill any spider trying to enter. It could even make this cool zzzzzap sound;)
No, Vulkan is not superseding OpenGL.
Vulkan is a low level API and although it can be used directly by applications, it's not its main use case. It's mostly intended for use by game engines and similar middlewareon, which application are then based.
OpenGL is a high level API, which is intended to be used directly by applications.
C'mon, Klout is fun! Exactly because its metrics are so bizarre, it's really fun to check out yours and your friends' score, and compare it with some well known people. At my workplace we do it like every couple of days, and its like watching Monty Python. You can't keep a straight face when for example a guy sitting in the next cubicle suddenly turns out to be - according to Klout - more influential then the company CEO.
If you read TFA, you would notice that they said they had "decided to to temporarily disable this feature". They are not claiming it was a bug. In fact they provided quite a reasonable explanation what the feature did and why it needed to check urls against the server-side database.
It's not that easy. People would still like to go to work in the morning and get back home in the afternoon. But that, depending on where they live, would mean they start their work day on one calendar day and finish it on the next one. That would be difficult to handle by HR / payroll departments, especially for companies which are not used to deal with night shifts. For example if you want a day off, which day that would be: the one you start your work, the one you end, or both?
I agree with the parent. I don't see any reason why KDE would follow KOffice an change the name. TFA does not provide any valid reason either, only wide speculations.
And even if KDE guys decided to rebrand it, I don't see how it would mean the End of KDE? After all, a rose by any other name...
Here in Europe most netbooks come with a version of MS Windows, but Linux netbooks are available as well. Not so long ago I bought a slick HP Mini 5102 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The OS was very polished and all the hardware features were supported out of the box.
Firefox has one extremely annoying bug (or is it a feature?) which stops me from switching from Mozilla: preferences are in a wrong place!
Instead of Edit > Preferences like other applications, Firefox has preferences under Tools > Options. I don't know whose stupid idea was that, but it is real pain in you know what.
The authentication needs to be done using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). [..] These two programs provide an excellent means of determining the authenticity of the author.
These programs would NOT guarantee authenticity of the author.
As you probably know the whole idea of PGP is based on a web of trust, which in turn is based on signing your public key by peers, after they verified your identity. And this peer-based verification is the weak point of establishing TRUE identities.
First of all establishing a web of trust would be difficult, because it requires everyone to meet at least one other person face-to-face in order to check each other's ids and exchange key signatures. This alone is quite troubloesome for such a diverse community as Linux kernel devs.
Second, kernel devs are not typically trained in spotting a fake, or even completly bogus, ids.
Even if we met face-to-face, could you - by checking my Ukrainian ID - gurantee that I REALLY am who I claim I am?
Well, MPlayer G2 vision statement says: The main goal of this project is to create a clean modular framework, with minimum cross-dependency of the modules, and at the same time solve some of the design issues/implementation limitations of MPlayer 0.90.
I know that the priorities of these two projects are different, I was just wandering if they will simply compete/coexist, or whether they will somehow combine their forces.
Recently I read a short but interesting discussion of GStreamer in context of MPlayer, triggered by an announcement of a bonobo component wrapping MPlayer.
I wonder what will happen when MPlayerG2 comes out from an incubator. Will the two projects simply compete, or will they work out some way to integrate/support each other?
In the 80's Umberto Eco wrote a piece titled "How not to use a fax". It was first published by "L'Espreso" and then included in "Il secondo diaro minimo".
Anyway, in this short essay Eco describes fax spam as a serious problem that almost renders the whole technology useless. He even proposes a simple but clever solution. Well, sort of.
Of course they haven't left anything there. Mount Sniezka is in the Karkonoski National Park and in Poland they treat their nationat parks quite seriously. The guys from Interline even had to obtain the special, one-time permit to enter the Park in a car - the scanned permit is attached to the article. BTW, as you can seen on the scan, the permit costed them 100zl which is about 25 USD. I'm surprised it was so cheap.
I fail to see the necessity to produce hundreds of windows-clone distros
I couldn't agree more. A couple years ago I switched to Linux on desktop beacuse I couldn't stand MS Windows user interface. I was happy for awhile, but now I see that with each next release of Gnome or KDE both environments are geting more and more similar to Windows. It doesn't make sense!
I'm sick and tired of this "we need to make it like Windows to get people switch from Windows" mantra. It just doesn't work this way. If I wanted wanted Windows, I would run Windows. If I use Linux, it's because I want something else.
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It seems that recently we witness a constant stream of KDE-based solutions for Outlook/Exchange replacements. Yes, I know it's all about having a choice and each of them makes me happy we have another alternative, but at the same time it makes me even more confused.
We have the set of standard KDE apps: KMail, Korganizer, KAddressBook and so on, we have Kroupware project that produced Kolab Server and Kolab Client, we have Kontact (which according to its FAQ is supposed to replace Kolab Client) and now we have Aethera.
At my company I'm lobbying for approving a Linux/KDE-based workstation an an alternative for MS Windows-based setup. However, the requires picking up and recommending a single, unified PIM solution that would be used by employees with Linux/KDE setups.
With all those competing solutions appearing one by one it's starting to be quite a difficult task.
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Let's say they promised to keep your cash safe, then kept the safe unlocked for a couple of months, then realized what's up and locked it before anyone noticed. Are they legally obliged to tell you about it?
So even if they are assholes from moral point of view, legally they may be clean.
Limor Fried is the first lady who comes to my mind when I think of tech leaders. Marissa Mayers seems to be a successful product manager who evolved into business leader than a truly tech person.
Actually if I met a dog claiming it's using AI, I would say it's a pretty smart dog.
No Linux client? Would it really be THAT expensive? There are big companies, especially in the software development business, where engineering department runs Linux as their desktop OS. For such companies luck of Linux support is a deal breaker.
Exactly. Crowdfunding is about donating. If the receipients of the donation succeed and give you something as a thank you gift that's nice, but that's not what's all about.
People confuse crowdfunding with pre-ordering. In crowdfunding you sponsor someone's attempt to achieve something, because you want it to happen. Perks are just an additional incentive. Sometimes a perk happens to be a product, but it's still a perk for your sponsorship, not something you bought or pre-ordered.
I would happily pay to have Snapseed open-sourced. I really like its effects / filters, but the fact the app is limited to Android and iOS is ridiculous. If it was open-sourced, I hope the effects / filters could be ported to a library which then could be used by GIMP or DigiKam.
If this G-putty becomes easily accessible, I see endless possibilities for cool DIY projects. I could build a smart threshold in my bedroom door which would kill any spider trying to enter. It could even make this cool zzzzzap sound ;)
No, Vulkan is not superseding OpenGL. Vulkan is a low level API and although it can be used directly by applications, it's not its main use case. It's mostly intended for use by game engines and similar middlewareon, which application are then based. OpenGL is a high level API, which is intended to be used directly by applications.
C'mon, Klout is fun! Exactly because its metrics are so bizarre, it's really fun to check out yours and your friends' score, and compare it with some well known people. At my workplace we do it like every couple of days, and its like watching Monty Python. You can't keep a straight face when for example a guy sitting in the next cubicle suddenly turns out to be - according to Klout - more influential then the company CEO.
If you read TFA, you would notice that they said they had "decided to to temporarily disable this feature". They are not claiming it was a bug. In fact they provided quite a reasonable explanation what the feature did and why it needed to check urls against the server-side database.
It's not that easy. People would still like to go to work in the morning and get back home in the afternoon. But that, depending on where they live, would mean they start their work day on one calendar day and finish it on the next one. That would be difficult to handle by HR / payroll departments, especially for companies which are not used to deal with night shifts. For example if you want a day off, which day that would be: the one you start your work, the one you end, or both?
I agree with the parent. I don't see any reason why KDE would follow KOffice an change the name. TFA does not provide any valid reason either, only wide speculations. And even if KDE guys decided to rebrand it, I don't see how it would mean the End of KDE? After all, a rose by any other name ...
Here in Europe most netbooks come with a version of MS Windows, but Linux netbooks are available as well. Not so long ago I bought a slick HP Mini 5102 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The OS was very polished and all the hardware features were supported out of the box.
I'll definitely give Firefox another chance then.
Instead of Edit > Preferences like other applications, Firefox has preferences under Tools > Options. I don't know whose stupid idea was that, but it is real pain in you know what.
These programs would NOT guarantee authenticity of the author.
As you probably know the whole idea of PGP is based on a web of trust, which in turn is based on signing your public key by peers, after they verified your identity. And this peer-based verification is the weak point of establishing TRUE identities.
First of all establishing a web of trust would be difficult, because it requires everyone to meet at least one other person face-to-face in order to check each other's ids and exchange key signatures. This alone is quite troubloesome for such a diverse community as Linux kernel devs.
Second, kernel devs are not typically trained in spotting a fake, or even completly bogus, ids. Even if we met face-to-face, could you - by checking my Ukrainian ID - gurantee that I REALLY am who I claim I am?
What arey talking about? SuSE includes both Sun's JRE and Sun's JDK in their distro.
The main goal of this project is to create a clean modular framework, with minimum cross-dependency of the modules, and at the same time solve some of the design issues/implementation limitations of MPlayer 0.90.
I know that the priorities of these two projects are different, I was just wandering if they will simply compete/coexist, or whether they will somehow combine their forces.
I wonder what will happen when MPlayerG2 comes out from an incubator. Will the two projects simply compete, or will they work out some way to integrate/support each other?
I think if Bill Gates was to say it, it would rather be "From my cold, dead Visual SourceSafe".
Anyway, in this short essay Eco describes fax spam as a serious problem that almost renders the whole technology useless. He even proposes a simple but clever solution. Well, sort of.
Of course they haven't left anything there. Mount Sniezka is in the Karkonoski National Park and in Poland they treat their nationat parks quite seriously. The guys from Interline even had to obtain the special, one-time permit to enter the Park in a car - the scanned permit is attached to the article. BTW, as you can seen on the scan, the permit costed them 100zl which is about 25 USD. I'm surprised it was so cheap.
I couldn't agree more. A couple years ago I switched to Linux on desktop beacuse I couldn't stand MS Windows user interface. I was happy for awhile, but now I see that with each next release of Gnome or KDE both environments are geting more and more similar to Windows. It doesn't make sense!
I'm sick and tired of this "we need to make it like Windows to get people switch from Windows" mantra. It just doesn't work this way. If I wanted wanted Windows, I would run Windows. If I use Linux, it's because I want something else.
We have the set of standard KDE apps: KMail, Korganizer, KAddressBook and so on, we have Kroupware project that produced Kolab Server and Kolab Client, we have Kontact (which according to its FAQ is supposed to replace Kolab Client) and now we have Aethera.
At my company I'm lobbying for approving a Linux/KDE-based workstation an an alternative for MS Windows-based setup. However, the requires picking up and recommending a single, unified PIM solution that would be used by employees with Linux/KDE setups. With all those competing solutions appearing one by one it's starting to be quite a difficult task.