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Comment Re:You mean other than what is installed by Defaul (Score 1) 531

by DadLeopard on Sunday March 02, 2014 @08:15PM (#46384449) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without?

That is the expected behavior in Calibre! When you open a file with it, it adds that book to your Calibre Library. If you only want one copy of the book delete the file in the original location. It is after all, primarily an ebook library management system. The conversion feature is really secondary, though very welcome since i don't need an extra application just for that! The editing and creation features have been greatly enhanced lately also! If you care to dig into it, it can do some pretty amazing and complicated things with ebooks, most of which Thankfully I don't need to do!!

Comment You mean other than what is installed by Default? (Score 3, Informative) 531

by DadLeopard on Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:38AM (#46380847) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without?

That would be Thunderbird, followed by Calibre and Skype. I don't care for Evolution, so Thunderbird which is nice and simple to use! Calibre since I have a Sony Reader which uses epub format, since Calibre can convert just about any eBook format to just about any other one, as long as they are not DRMed, it also keeps my eBook library nicely organized. Skype is because one son lives 800 miles away and another 6,157 miles away right now, and Skype works with MS, Apple and Linux OSes so we can keep in touch and see each others faces once in a while!

Comment Have you heard of "Burner" Phones (Score 1) 1

by DadLeopard on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:09PM (#46330861) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How do you delete accounts that have no obvious way to do so?

Just for places like that, you make a "Burner" email address. There are many places you can set up a free email account that you can access through your main account, and if it turns out to be a problem, just remove it from the ones you watch and let it fill up and start bouncing stuff back!

Submission + - Melting point of benzoic acid metabolic regulation study for new progress

Submitted by zdy on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:47PM

zdy writes: Recently, new found of melting point of benzoic acid metabolic regulation made progress by the research group of researchers. The studies show ICLR family regulation the protein GenR through two different modes for gentisic metabolic pathway genes genDFM and genKH of expression is activated, further inhibiting the expression of own encoding gene genR. cnsdib vbhx
Corynebacterium glutamicum is an igf-1 elisa kit http://www.cusabio.com/bio1-I-... important industrial strain, widely used in the production of amino acids, organic acids and so on, at the same time, it is also studied aromatics catabolism model system. This study shows that in corynebacterium glutamicum, melting point of benzoic acid metabolic pathways Gentisate coding genes located in the operon genDFM, genR and genKH three closely spaced. The IclR Family the regulatory factors GenR in the 3 — hydroxybenzoic acid and Gentisate, under to increase genDFM and the genKH operon transcription, and also lowered it own coding genes genR of transcription.
Western blot experiments showed that the combination of four loci in the this area, GenR the type of affinity and capacity. The binding sites of the two GenR in the genDFM promoter -35 region and -10 region upstream of the -41 to -81 region, and through them involved in genDFM activated transcription, which belong to the simple activation mode of the I type. The the GenR binding sites R-KHn01 (located between -47 to 16 ) and genKH -35 region of the promoter sequence overlap to participate in the increase of its transcription, which belong to the simple activation mode of a II type.
The regulatory protein GenR combined in the promoter region of its encoding gene genR the R-KHn02 sites, it imprinted region extending from -44 to -67, this the sites involved to cut genR promoter activity. In four GenR binding sites in the existence of a consensus sequence, which is composed of a palindrome structure by site-directed mutagenesis studies found that this structure must be involved in the regulation of GenR. These results indicate that in the participation in the the aromatics Metabolism IclR family, GenR exercise of a new function, which is the first two activation mechanisms exist in the gene encoding a metabolic pathway.
The result of this study provide a new theoretical foundation for a further study of 3-hydroxy benzoic acid and Gentisate metabolic regulation, at the same time, increasing the diversity of the the family of IclR regulation mechanism to study the universal law of this family and their model new basis for melting point of benzoic acid.

Submission + - NIC.py hacked, google.com.py redirected

Submitted by MrJones on Monday February 24, 2014 @09:27PM

MrJones writes: Last February 20th, hackers supposedly from Iran accessed and modified the www.NIC.py database, redirecting www.google.com.py to another site.
The hackers posted the whole NIC.py database containing full names, national ID numbers, street addresses, phone numbers and more. This is not the 1st time that NIC.py, managed by the 2 most respectful Computer Science(CS) Universities of Paraguay, was hacked.
Since the whole BD was released, local white hats could calculate how much money NIC.py was making annually by charging 44 US$ per .py domain.
The local CS community are urging the NIC.py administrators to do all whats possible to protect the .py domain names since the hack was done thanks to a simple RCE vulnerability.
If they can modify google.com.py, just imagine what they can do to banks and financial institutions. Maybe Google can helps us.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How do you delete accounts that have no obvious way to do so? (auctionpipeline.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24, 2014 @08:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last year, I registered for a car auction website, figuring that I may be able to save some money by getting lucky with a car auction. Unfortunately, it turned out that the site was a part of a network of hundreds of sites. Unsubscribing to their newsletters was easy enough, but I wanted to purge the account and delete it. That's when I discovered that there is absolutely nothing on their website that tells you how to do so. Worst yet, the reply-to email, "customerservice@auctionpipeline.com," bounced: "Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain." So I called their tech support number. Surprisingly, a live tech support person picked up within minutes, and I asked for my account to be deleted. The response went something like, "Uhm... we... don't... delete.. accounts..." With some insistence, he said he'll pass my email onto someone further up the chain of command for consideration and he'll get back to me in a few days. I'm not holding my breath. So now that every website has an option to sign up and join, but no obvious or established way to delete the account, what can be done if that service refuses to delete that account?

Submission + - Radar expert explains how to cheaply add radar to your own hardware projects

Submitted by szczys on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:24PM

szczys writes: Gregory Charvat has been playing with and teaching others about entry-level radar concepts for a long time. Now he sat down and explained how you can do it yourself for a few Hamiltons.

http://hackaday.com/2014/02/24...

Comment Re:"Not Reproduclibe" (Score 1) 618

by DadLeopard on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:12PM (#46198221) Attached to: GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible

OH, My God! Are you suggesting that the GOP and the Laws they pass should be held to the same level of scrutiny as the EPA, and that no laws should be passed that can't be backed by transparent and reproducible scientific data! You just know that idea is not going to fly!

Comment Re:good riddance (Score 1) 304

by DadLeopard on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:03PM (#46156337) Attached to: Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July

You never "Bought" the book, you just bought a license to read the book on the allowed device, or devices! You want to "Buy" an ebook, buy non-DRMed ebooks, then you "Own" them and can do anything with them you can do with the dead tree versions, except a few things like start the fire in the wood burner stove!

Comment Not here! (Score 4, Interesting) 324

by DadLeopard on Sunday January 19, 2014 @05:28PM (#46007669) Attached to: In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page

Thankfully the Separation of Church and state is still "mostly" intact in the USA. Though Texas and several other States like Louisiana and Missouri are working to change that, and a couple have been bitten in the butt by their attempt to get state funded religious Schools mean that ALL religions get to have them!

Submission + - Science Museum Declines to Show Climate Change Film (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Monday November 25, 2013 @11:14PM

sciencehabit writes: A premier science museum in North Carolina has sparked controversy by refusing to show an hourlong film about climate change and rising sea levels. The museum may be in a bit of a delicate position. It is part of a state agency, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The state government has been perceived as hostile to action on climate change; last year, the legislature passed a bill forbidding the state coastal commission from defining rates of sea-level rise for regulation before 2016.

Submission + - The US has 43 nuclear power plants' worth of solar energy in the pipeline (qz.com) 2

Submitted by mdsolar on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:38PM

mdsolar writes: The boom in solar energy in the US in recent years? You haven’t seen anything yet. The pipeline of photovoltaic projects has grown 7% over the past 12 months and now stands at 2,400 solar installations that would generate 43,000 megawatts (MW), according to a report released today by market research firm NPD Solarbuzz. If all these projects are built, their peak electricity output would be equivalent to that of 43 big nuclear power plants, and enough to keep the lights on in six million American homes.

Submission + - Dell Staff Shows Ubuntu Linux Some Love (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by thevarguy2 on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:34PM

thevarguy2 writes: Engineers inside Dell are enthusiastic about support for Linux and Ubuntu, even if Dell's official offerings in this space remain limited. Here's why.

Feed Techdirt: DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet (google.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:12PM

With the DOJ tracking down and arresting the alleged founder/owner of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it was noted that it had also seized 26,000 or so Bitcoins. However, in the criminal complaint against Ulbricht, it suggested that his commissions were in the range of $80 million -- or about 600,000 Bitcoins. You might notice the disconnect between the 26,000 Bitcoins seized and the supposed 600,000 Ulbright made. It now comes out that those 26,000 Bitcoins aren't even Ulbricht's. Instead, they're actually from Silk Road's users. In other words, these were Bitcoins stored with user accounts on Silk Road. Ulbricht's actual wallet is separate from that, and was apparently encrypted, so it would appear that the FBI does not have them, nor does it have any way of getting at them just yet. And given that some courts have argued you can't be forced to give up your encryption, as it's a 5th Amendment violation, those Bitcoins could remain hidden -- though, I could see the court ordering him to pay the dollar equivalent in restitution (though still not sure that would force him to decrypt the Bitcoins).

The other amusing bit in all of this is that the FBI's Bitcoin wallet has been identified and renamed as "Silkroad Seized Coins" allowing users to send the FBI tiny amounts of Bitcoin with public messages attached, some of which are fairly amusing -- and many of which are critical of the government and the takedown of Silk Road. Personally, I like the one that reads: "This page shows how Bitcoin is more transparent than the US government."

Kash Hill, over at Forbes (the link above) who highlighted this story, also asked the FBI about what they're going to do with all that Bitcoin. Apparently, the plan is to hold onto it for now, and then "liquidate it" after any trial is concluded, though the FBI's spokesperson admits that "this is kind of new to us." Does that mean that someday soon folks will be able to buy some Bitcoin at a government auction?

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Comment Pretty much like every Blah website out there (Score 1) 1191

by DadLeopard on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:49PM (#45007395) Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)

Pretty sure most of us come to Slashdot for the content and not the Pretty. Lots of wasted space on the Beta page and the comment section could be a whole lot better than it is, I'm probably in some kind of minority now, but I don't use the screen on a phone to read Slashdot, and that is the only way this new layout makes any sense! It's made for mobile users!

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