NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source 286
An anonymous reader writes "NoMachine has sneakily revealed it is closing its source of the NX compression technology with NX 4.0: 'This release marks an important milestone in the history of the company. Version 4.0 of the software, in fact, will be only available under a closed source license.'"
Sneakily revealed? (Score:5, Funny)
"NoMachine has sneakily revealed..."
That's quite remarkable.
Re:Sneakily revealed? (Score:5, Funny)
It would appear they've achieved the impossible.
Congrats NoMachine! No matter how often I try to sneakily reveal something, I'm either too sneaky and nothing is revealed, or its revealed and not very sneaky at all!
Re:Sneakily revealed? (Score:4, Funny)
It would appear they've achieved the impossible.
It's part of their new NX 4.0 implementation - they have other forms of encryption likes AES and 3DES but Sneaky Reveal is their own proprietary encryption algorithm.
Re:Buried in tl;dr (Score:5, Funny)
The problem with trying to hide something in a tl;dr changelog is that Someone - somewhere - WILL read the change log, and likely make mention of anything out of the ordinary on their blog.
In fact - I went to renew my Xbox live Gold membership a month ago or so... And they said that the terms and conditions of the service had changed since I last was on Gold. So I decided I would read through them. However - to continue this anecdote and help explain why it might be remotely funny - is that I had previously set my regional settings of my Xbox to Spain, and language to Spanish - so that when I got achievements in Halo 3 they came up as a different language. It's true, you can go and change it to like, Korean, then get some achievements, and no matter what language you go from there on out - they will come up in whatever language you achieved them in. I did this for a while, finding it to be of great amusement when someone new came over to my house and just happened to look at which achievements I had.
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish, but I thought perhaps there was English at the bottom. However, there is no fast scroll when looking at the TOC - its very slow and you have to hold the analog stick down. To my dismay, there wasn't English. Afraid that going next would Mean I accepted to terms I didn't actually agree too - I quickly pulled up my computer and typed it in verbatim the entire thing into Google Translator.
If you've ever tried reading legalese in a language you do not understand - I highly recommend you NEVER EVER try it. Even after going through an internet translator you still will have no idea what the heck they are saying.
In hindsight I probably just should have not accepted the terms, gone and changed my language settings, and then gone through it - but I guess that seems obvious now, it didn't back then.
Re:Buried in tl;dr (Score:5, Funny)
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish,
Nobody expects the Spanish interpretation!
Re:Sneakily revealed? (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm... 'Hmm... "proprietary encryption"?'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke [wikipedia.org]
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Re:So what (Score:4, Funny)
slashdot is dead when there are 2 misspellings of Linus' last name in the same thread and nobody corrects it