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Submission + - IT's Biggest 'Frenemies'

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: Colleagues can be both allies and adversaries, and InfoWorld's Dan Tynan discusses how IT can cope with the eight worst types of coworkers. 'These are people you deal with on a regular basis, largely because you have no choice. But even when their intentions are good, they can still cause you all manner of grief. They range from BYOD Betty, who insists on using her iPhone at work (but wants you to support it) to Cloudy Claudette, who's running her own shadow IT organization with the help of public cloud providers. And if Legacy Larry is your CEO, you might still be using hardware or software that hasn't been updated since the grunge era.'

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to start and manage a linux users group in a university

Submitted by ckugblenu
ckugblenu writes: I'm an undergrad computer engineering student in Ghana with some linux knowledge under my belt. How do i start a linux users group at my university and what kind of activities should occur. The engineering department is willing to provide meeting space but that's about it. The other computer groups are into mobile web and not as specialized as i would like. How do i successfully achieve it and build a following since it will be the first in the university.

Submission + - Now PETA Wants to Sue People Who Leave Anonymous Comments (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is incensed over an article in the Huffington Post that details that organization's unsettling practice of euthanizing animals in a Virginia facility that many have assumed is a no kill shelter.

According to the New York Post, PETA wants to sue some of the people who have left comments on the article. The problem is that, following the practice of many on the Internet, many of the comments are under assumed names or are anonymous. PETA is attempting to discover the true identities of their critics so that it can sue them for defamation.

Submission + - Vastly improved Raspberry Pi performance with Wayland

Submitted by nekohayo
nekohayo writes: While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a month ago, work has recently been done to bring true hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided additional technical details about the implementation.

Submission + - $125 Raspberry Pi Laptop (pythonicneteng.com)

Submitted by felipou
felipou writes: By using a Motorola Atrix laptop dock and tying it up with a Raspberry Pi, one can create a roughly $125 laptop running Linux.

Submission + - US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits (boingboing.net) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of malware in order to punish people believed to be copying illegally. The report proposes that software would be loaded on computers that would somehow figure out if you were a pirate, and if you were, it would lock your computer up and take all your files hostage until you call the police and confess your crime. This is the mechanism that crooks use when they deploy ransomware.

Comment Supplemental CAC Screening, anyone? (Score 2) 525

by A10Mechanic (#43323705) Attached to: Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers
I just love the TSA. They sent my CAC card back through the X-ray machine, all alone, in the little tray. It was in my wallet and had set off a wand. For those of you unfamiliar with the CAC, it's a MILITARY I.D. Card that tells people you're in the Armed Services. It has a little 'not-so-smart' metal chip and card-reader plate. Seeing my I.D. card take it's lonely journey through the x-ray machine brought tears to my eyes. Tears of laughter. And that laughter hurt them more than any indignation I might have shown.
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Submission + - Google wants variable-rate Ethernet (lightreading.com)

Submitted by
optikos
optikos writes: "When it comes to the fill-rate fraction/ratio of digital-domain Ethernet frames in the underlying analog-domain physical medium, a senior network architect at Google wants to have more flexibility regarding the denominator to push a link's typical fill-rate closer to 100%. The current scheme of inter-Ethernet-frame idle capacity as represented by a numerator that is notably smaller than the (currently-standardized fixed-size) denominator in the fill-rate is claimed to be unsuitable when interconnecting data-centers.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) isn't working on a variable-speed Ethernet standard yet, but Google is pushing for one. It was a point of focus for Bikash Koley, Google's principal architect and manager of network architecture, during a panel session on the last day of OFC/NFOEC last week. What he wants is variable-speed Ethernet. So, instead of running a connection at 100 Gbit/s or 400 Gbit/s, which are the two standard choices, he'd like to pick arbitrary speeds. The technology on the optical side is actually ready for what he's asking. Variable-speed transceivers and flexible-grid ROADMs exist. What's missing is on the packet side: a media access control (MAC) layer that's capable of dealing with a variable-bit-rate physical (PHY) layer.

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