Google announced that it was delaying the launch of two Android phones in China due to a dispute with the Chinese government over censorship issues. The delay will affect Google-endorsed Android phones from Samsung and Motorola that were to be carried by China Unicom, says an eWEEK story.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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can.axis
2 years 17 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago
People who break security are “crackers”
RMS: «Many who criticize the Chinese government have found their email has been cracked or diverted, apparently by China. It's unfortunate that they use the term "hack" as meaning "attack", but that doesn't reduce the importance of the article's point.»
Lanadapter
2 years 16 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago
Words change meaning all the time
See: Meat, flesh, girl, boy, faggot, and of course hack.
It's part of the natural evolution of language, nothing to get up in arms about.
eastwind
2 years 16 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago
black hat and white hat
Maybe should we use much more the term black hat and white hat , to bordering confusion . At least the meaning really clear enough for anybody to know what s mean behind it .