Former Minister Scholz will discuss German nuclear weapons - hopefully no one else. There are already far too many nuclear weapons in the world, we certainly don't need German atomic bombs. Sometimes you really wonder what kind of idiots are running around in politics. There is no other appropriate response to nuclear threats than total nuclear disarmament. If someone drops atomic bombs on a country, it is completely irrelevant for survival whether the attacked state also has atomic bombs - and no, the threat scenario is complete nonsense if you are not also willing to use these monstrosities. And that's where the madness begins.
Olympus introduces a SLR camera with preview image - either via an auxiliary CCD with AF support or with mirror lock-up via the main CCD. The latter, in my opinion, manufacturers could have installed for a long time - because for macro photography it would be a real blessing if you could get preview images with the normal chip for the first settings.
The title Smallest Earth-like planet discovered is a bit strange. Okay, if you define "Earth-like" as "orbits a sun and is not a gas planet or ice lump," it might fit. But what does such a definition bring then? 5.5 times as large as Earth, the distance to the sun 3 times as far, the sun weaker than Earth's, and the temperature at minus 220 degrees - sorry, that's really not particularly Earth-like ...
If someone wants to check out Second Life:
Second Life needs to connect to ports 443/TCP, 12035/UDP, 12036/UDP, and 13000-13050/UDP. You should configure your firewall to allow outbound traffic on those ports, and related inbound traffic.
Ok, so TCP is fine with NAT firewalls - but apparently it also wants all those UDP ports inbound. And why does a game client need 51 UDP ports in a block? And why so many UDP ports at all? Do game designers ever think about what they're doing? In the case of Second Life, apparently not ...
Linus claims to know again - this time about licenses:
The new license requires that all keys necessary to run the software must be delivered with the software, for example in the case of Trusted Computing systems that may require a signature of the programs. In Torvalds' opinion, the regulation also covers the private keys of Linux developers and he is not willing to publish his private key.
Yeah, sure, if I interpret a license in the most absurd way possible, I might come up with such an outlandish idea with enough idiocy. If he now only proves to me that his private key is necessary to make the kernel runnable (because that's what it's about in the corresponding section of the GPL v3), then I would agree with him. However, it's going to be difficult, because so far I have always been able to run all Linux kernels without ever needing any key.
You can be against the switch to GPL v3 - there is definitely a problem with the license change in the kernel with the extremely many contributions and authors - but the above "reason" is simply ridiculous.
Microsoft gives in to EU in antitrust dispute:
In the antitrust dispute with the EU Commission, the software manufacturer Microsoft has now given in and will disclose the source code of the computer operating system Windows.
Let's wait and see how this disclosure will look. Will every Windows license holder actually be able to view the sources? And will the sources match the system? And which parts of the source will be left out? Will the EU Commission be able to recognize such deceptive packaging?