Linux fréttir

Phone-home copy protection

Android now comes with an API allowing applications to phone home to check for a licence when launched, locking out pirates and anyone with an unreliable data connection.…

Strong sports line-up. And golf

Sky is launching a 3D TV channel, Europe's first, on October 1.…

Last stocks of RN hard stuff offered to landlubbers

Those of you with a taste for rum and 600 quid to spare might like to uncork a bottle of Black Tot "Last Consignment" British Royal Naval Rum, lovingly decanted from the official stocks held by the Senior Service since sailors' final rum ration in 1970.…

Hackers feast on financial sector security mistakes

Cybercrooks continue to be a menace to corporate security, with hackers and malware authors collectibly responsible for 85 per cent of all stolen data.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

'Nothing personal'

The “pay-load” data collected by Google’s Street View cars did not slurp up “meaningful personal details”, the UK’s privacy watchdog concluded today.…

Can you wash it, drop it, stop your patients from stealing it?

Next year, 500 doctors and nurses in Victoria hospitals, will trial the use of iPads.…

Rubbish - priests always cover their knees

The Vatican's stripey knickerbocker-clad Swiss Guards have launched a crack down on scantily-clad tourists in and around the Holy See.…

Er yes, nearly all the happy campers did work for us

A cackling Phil Booth, No2ID National Coordinator, writes to tell us that six months after he first pestered the Identity & Passport Service about its quotes from ID card-toting happy campers in its publicity material, it has confessed - um yes, all but one of those quoted worked for the government.…

More powerful than the original?

Daryl Brach, known as pfaffen online, has built a scale model of the Cray-1 supercomputer to house a PC.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Rumours of their awesomeness exaggerated, dept admits to Reg

Exclusive The Department for Transport (DfT) has "unwittingly" misled the public over the benefits of speed cameras for the last four years.…

Plus new-for-old deal for PMSE

The government has endorsed the plan to pass organisation of the digital dividend mega auction back to Ofcom, with universal service guarantees, and promises a new-for-old deal for the Programme Makers and Special Events (PMSE) crowd.…

Election fun and games

Australia's general election is in full swing and disputes over tech funding and tech policy continue to intrude on today centre stage.…

The rudeness of crowds

Facebook's attempts to crowdsource translations have gone awry in Turkey.…

Braces for UK.gov cuts

Layoffs and cost-cutting at BT have boosted BT's first quarter net profits by a third to £284m.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

A can of worms?

Workshop Nothing stands still forever, particularly not in IT, and with good reason. When we researched the drivers that were having the most impact on how x86 server environments are architected, evolved and operated for example, we found that data growth was the number one driver, followed closely by new application requirements, and then changing requirements from existing applications (Figure 1).…

js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

storagedude writes "The FTC wants a do-not-track mechanism that would allow Web users to opt out of online behavioral tracking, similar to the national do-not-call registry. The agency's preferred method for accomplishing this would be a browser-based tool that would give users the option of blocking data collection across the Web. The only problem is that the agency may not have the authority to require this, thanks to concerted lobbying efforts by the advertising industry. The first step may just be voluntary measures, to be released this fall."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

War-winning gnashers

A set of dentures belonging to Winston Churchill and described as "a vital weapon" in Britain's struggle against Nazism come under the hammer today, the BBC reports.…

New boss plots €650m bid

The recently installed chief executive of Sage is planning a massive bid for Italian business management firm TeamSystem.…

Clampdown on 'extremist' material

The Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered ISP Rosnet to "restrict access" to YouTube and four other websites containing "extremist" material, Pravda reports.…