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by fpp 14y ago
their admins seemed to have blocked access now: "...Because of unsustainable subscription prices and conditions, the board of directors of the mathematics department has voted to cancel all of its subscriptions to Elsevier journals by 2013.
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Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions(ma.tum.de)
350 points by fpp 14y ago|84 comments
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Detailed Look At Tizen (Samsung’s First Prototype Device)(thehandheldblog.com)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
Similar or related initiatives: Mozilla web apps / web activities: https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/webapps.html http://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2011/07/web-apps-update-experim... A overview of currently envisioned use cases: http:
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by fpp 14y ago
When was the last time that you shelled out $10k, $100k or like those $500k (in 1980s terms) for a single person's air travel expenses? With today's real inflation + financing cost certainly far beyond $2M. Spending such amounts in the firs
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by fpp 14y ago
A great write-up and a typical example of what you should never do as a service company. The monetary damages for AA if at all (if any of their claims are actually true) is minimal (maybe $10-$20M over 30 years) - the damages to the brand,
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by fpp 14y ago
Guess letting someone 3rd party install your server / compile your server from source requires a bit more than trust. IMHO this will be the key problem for professional /paying users. Those who would just use e.g. an AMI from a repository w
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by fpp 14y ago
The person you're quoting / runs that site you're linking to is working for Oracle / gets paid as a consultant from Oracle.
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by fpp 14y ago
yes - they even had it on the screen yesterday - nevertheless very low response times are a core feature of OLED displays
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by fpp 14y ago
there were a couple of rather interesting features introduces - so if you're doing mobile development it certainly is interesting to know what the Android leader of the pack is doing or planning to provide for your next development platform
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by fpp 14y ago
For those not in London - they really shelled out some money yesterday for the presentation (the public parts were also streamed live) - London Metropolitan Orchestra playing, big stage etc. A few more things were mentioned there (not inclu
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PhoneGap 1.7.0 Released (with piles of fixes)(phonegap.com)
6 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
This is basically a HTML5 app with a native wrapper for all the things you need access rights to - security, storage, comm etc... From their dev. site ( http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-ipad-using-l... ) "...LinkedIn just rel
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by fpp 14y ago
A ruling could also go along the line that Sun / Oracle might have a copyright to the API but Google was free to use them. In any case I guess we will see appeals from either side. The author mixed in C# and VB in Mono - while MS has in the
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Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits A New Low With 2012 Report(michaelgeist.ca)
4 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
you can create / customize headers with extensions in chrome - there is an example extension provided with the Chrome extension development documentation.
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by fpp 14y ago
In a world of short attention spans I particularly want to listen to a podcast of the "Woz" because this is not the normal corporate gibberish that strongly contributed to the "short attention span". The occasions they let the Woz out are r
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by fpp 14y ago
You're right with much you said nevertheless you still have to solve something users (in millions) want - have a solution - be useful. They have / had millions of users and that's were such valuations with consumer products come from at lea
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by fpp 14y ago
Anybody having experience with running ESXi on these dedicated machines. Their online documentation says that it supports ESXi 5 and they put in a CD when you tell them with your order.
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by fpp 14y ago
You can use PhantomJS with Node e.g. with child_process and messages via stdout. Works pretty well. Running this in its own process context might actually be a benefit e.g. when you spawn multiple phantomjs browsers There is a project on gi
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by fpp 14y ago
Could someone describe the key differences to Phantomjs (indirectly referred to in credits via Casper.js) Phantomjs has just recently stopped their Python support.
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by fpp 14y ago
Have a look at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/889195 "Workarounds: ROS users can disable the rsh service and set the number of allowed telnet connections to 0." there is currently no solution available.
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by fpp 14y ago
Looks pretty much like a Blackberry from that time (then leading device reg. services etc). Compare this with the Openmoko Neo 1973 from about the same time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_1973 Sadly never really took off.
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by fpp 14y ago
complete administrative control of the device "...An attacker with knowledge of an ROS device's MAC address may be able to gain complete administrative control of the device..." see: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/889195
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by fpp 14y ago
What is most disturbing is that they knew about this since a year now and have still not acted on that - even with all the press around Stuxnet. BTW - RuggedCom was recently sold to Siemens for C$382 million - hope they have informed them a
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Rugged OS (industry, military & power plant OS) has backdoor into SCADA networks(seclists.org)
171 points by fpp 14y ago|31 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
The idea is not new (and certainly I'm not the only one using this since years - there must be hundreds of thousands doing it if not soon millions of users). I guess integration of storage aggregation might soon be seen in various apps (if
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by fpp 14y ago
Guess this very much depends on which position the financial investors have put the (technical) founders into. If they have taken a huge part of the equity for themselves and left the founders with far less than 50% such behavior might beco
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Manning trial: US Gov. ordered to release WikiLeaks damage assessments(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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Oracle v. Google Shows the Folly of U.S. Software Patent Law(wired.com)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments

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