Why would we need WikiLeaks after all? Now, the information and conclusions below don’t necessary reflect the actual state of things and in no way represent true events and situations. It was taken out of context and merely collected from pieces. All of this is just a creation of my conspiracy theory. Don’t read it. … Read More →
When A Fly Flies Into Coffee The Italian: throws the cup and walks away in a fit of rage The Frenchman: takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee The Chinese: eats the fly and throws away the coffee… The Russian: drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge The … Read More →
The company in question is MobileMedia Ideas LLC, a company without any products of its own. It acquired a number of patents from Nokia and Sony, 122 to be exact, and is now using those patents to sue several smartphone makers earlier this year, including Apple, HTC, and Research In Motion. MobileMedia Ideas is owned … Read More →
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Once there was a way to open ODF (Open Document Format, read OpenOffice) docs in MS Office. You could get a free (as in beer) plugin from sun and open files. Not anymore. Although the Oracle site still, at the time of writing, offers the software for free with the tagline “Get it now: FREE”, … Read More →
Joe from this story was collecting the garbage of his neighbours charging them third of what San Francisco garbage collecting company does. And he was going pretty good as business. The story did not last for long: When the local garbage company and its union found out about “Joe” they complained to the city. Within … Read More →
Oracle has changed Solaris 10 license from “free to use” to “90 days trial” Expect trials for Java SE, MySQL and some “light” versions barely working you can get for free: Now, with its acquisition of Sun finalized, it seems that Oracle has appended this sentence to the license paragraph above: Please remember, your right … Read More →
Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands. Sad. Here is what their opposition says: Does New Zealand have internet filtering? Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from … Read More →
Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube – Free Software Foundation. With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 … Read More →
Russian prosecutors have closed domain delegation of torrents.ru which is a 4-30m users torrent tracker. Arguably the largest one in .ru zone. In a couple of hours the tracker came back under another domain name. The Russian Internet is full of speculations though the idea is clear, western copyright fighters just have got another bone … Read More →