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Comment Keep XP (Score 1) 1

by u64 (#43388735) Attached to: Set your watches for the end of Windows XP

Does everyone really need XP updates. Just switch to a sane Browser. Stay away from MS Office. Uninstall JAVA. Uninstall Flash and use HTML5. Install a good Antivirus and proper Firewall. Use Foxit Reader rather than Adobe Reader. In short, just secure XP and it should be fine for another decade or so.

Do something *useful* with the money rather than paying for Windows upgrades over and over.

Finally, try out some Linux distros on a few machines. [ducks an avalanche of chairs from Ballmer]

Submission + - WikiLeaks releasing 1.7 million records called "The Kissinger Cables" (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The cables are all from the time period of 1973 to 1976. Without droning about too many numbers that can be found in the press release, about 200,000 of the cables relate directly to former U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. These cables include significant revelations about US involvements with fascist dictatorships, particularly in Latin America, under Franco's Spain (including about the Spanish royal family) and in Greece under the regime of the Colonels. The documents also contain hourly diplomatic reporting on the 1973 war between Israel, Egypt and Syria (the "Yom Kippur war"). While several of these documents have been used by US academic researchers in the past, the Kissinger Cables provides unparalled access to journalists and the general public.

"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." — Henry A. Kissinger, US Secretary of State, March 10, 1975

Submission + - French intelligence agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article

Submitted by twkozlowski
twkozlowski writes: After being refused by the Wikimedia Foundation — the organisation that operates Wikipedia — the French intelligence agency DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) forces a volunteer Wikipedia administrator to remove an article about a military radio station in central France, citing the French penal code and threatening him with "serious and immediate reprisals".

The article had been deleted as demanded, but in a revenge move, it was restored by a different volunteer administrator, improved, and subsequently translated into English for the whole wide world to read.

The story has since hit the German news, and received an official statement from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Submission + - Film critic Roger Ebert dead (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by AndyKrish
AndyKrish writes: Chicago Sun-Times reports of the passing of Roger Ebert — arguably the world's most famous film critic — succumbing to cancer.

Submission + - Massive data leak reveals how the ultra rich hide their wealth (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by bshell
bshell writes: According to the CBC, there was a massive leak of "files containing information on over 120,000 offshore entities — including shell corporations and legal structures known as trusts — involving people in over 170 countries. The leak amounts to 260 gigabytes of data, or 162 times larger than the U.S. State Department cables published by WikiLeaks in 2010...In many cases, the leaked documents expose insider details of how agents would incorporate companies in Caribbean and South Pacific micro-states on behalf of wealthy clients, then assign front people called "nominees" to serve, on paper, as directors and shareholders for the corporations — disguising the companies' true owners." Makes a good read and there are some good interactive components. Perhaps slashdot readers can figure out how the source of the leak, the D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists got their hands on this data.
Power

Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America 89

Posted by samzenpus from the guided-by-the-light dept.
First time accepted submitter markboyer writes "The Solar Impulse just landed at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to announce a journey that will take it from San Francisco to New York without using a single drop of fuel. The 'Across America' tour will kick off this May when founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg take off from San Francisco. From there the plane will visit four cities across the states before landing in New York."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Obama signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' Into Law (rt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Despite over 250,000 people's names on a petition asking for a veto of the the spending bill, Obama on Thursday signed into law HR 933 which includes a rider referred to as the "Monsanto Protection Act." This provision "effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future... With HR 933 now a law, however, the court system no longer has the right to step in and protect the consumer."

Comment This User Agent madness needs an ending. (Score 1) 252

by u64 (#43269941) Attached to: Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String

During my Privoxy experimental years i tried life without sending any HTTP User Agent header.
It mostly worked fine. Some pages looked wierd. And a few pages refused, and barfed errors;
"Danger! Danger! Server is confused. Evil user for sure."

The only way to end these endless UA detection games is to NOT play.

There will be some rough sailing for some years. But once we've crossed that problem,
the benefits makes it worth it.
Bitcoin

Submission + - Canadian man to sell home for Bitcoin virtual currency (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "It's not often that Canadian real estate listings make international headlines, but a mid-sized Alberta bungalow has people around the world buzzing today after its owner declared that he would like to sell it — for Bitcoins. If successful, 22-year-old entrepreneur Taylor More would be the first person ever to accept the fast-rising virtual currency in exchange for property. "My home is being traded for Bitcoins!" reads the listing for More's "quaint" two bedroom home in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. "Properties like this rarely come on the market and this one's priced to sell in one of the most sought after recreation areas of the Rockies." The property is listed for $405,000 CDN, but More writes that "the price can be reduced" if a buyer has some Bitcoins to spare." eh, -ZU

Comment TorBrowser helps (Score 1) 1

by u64 (#43257037) Attached to: How to simplify online privacy?

As a start, use TorBrowser as primary browser for non-flash sites. https://www.torproject.org/

As for secondary browsers with Flash - then firefox-addons helps.

As usual: uninstall Google Chrome and replace it with Chromium portable, http://crportable.sourceforge.net/

Here's a neat thing for Chromium browsers, how to rotate random User Agent,
ChromiumStart.bat
set/a A=%random%*2/32768+5
set/a B=%random%*2/32768+1
set/a C=%random%*10/32768
start ChromiumPortable.exe --no-pings --prerender=disabled --disable-remote-fonts --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT %A%.%B%; rv:1%C%.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/1%C%.0"

(Works in Chromium and Dragon. Fails in Iron.)

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