Submission + - Pentagon' Distinguished Warefare Medal: for cyber attacks and drone wars (boston.com)
Submission + - Do Not Track ineffective and dangerous, says researcher (nadim.cc)
In fact, Google’s search engine, as well as Microsoft’s (Bing), both ignore the Do Not Track header even though both companies helped implement this feature into their web browsers. Yahoo Search also ignored Do Not Track requests. Some websites will politely inform you, however, of the fact that your Do Not Track request has been ignored, and explain that this has been done in order to preserve their advertising revenue. But not all websites, by a long shot, do this.
The revalations come as Congress and European legislators consider to tighten privacy standards amidth massive advertiser lobbying. "Do not track" received strong support from the European Commission.
Submission + - Gut Bacteria Conspired in Melamine Poisonings (sciencemag.org)
Submission + - Punkbuster Service Goes Down, Hundreds of Online Game Servers Affected (hothardware.com)
Submission + - Monsanto takes home $23m from small farmers (rt.com)
Submission + - Source code for Photoshop 1.0 (computerhistory.org)
This the kind of code I aspire to write.
The Computer History Museum has earlier made available the source code to MacPaint (which you'll find here http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/)."
Submission + - Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint at Cloudy Future for Cars (slashdot.org)
Submission + - Ask slashdot: spreadsheet with decent programming language?
Submission + - How do you store sensitive data on your mobile devices?
Submission + - BYOD nightmare: iOS devices hobble Exchange servers when they synch (networkworld.com)
Submission + - The Malware Industrial Complex (technologyreview.com) 1
Submission + - Intel Supports OpenGL ES 3.0 On Linux Before Windows (phoronix.com)
Submission + - Heart Attack Grill's Top Customer Dies of Heart Attack (cnn.com)
According to the Las Vegas Sun, Alleman suffered a heart attack while waiting for a bus in front of the restaurant, which boasts highly caloric menu items such as the 9,982 calorie Quadruple Bypass Burger, Butterfat Milkshakes and Coronary Dogs.
May he rest in peace.