Comment "senior members" (Score 1) 407
Ha, that's some quality research.
Submission + - Chrome 9 Released (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Version 9 of Google Chrome is now ready to use and it has three major new features but the most important is the attempt to retrain users to think that widgets are apps!
It now comes with an app store tab that encourages the use of Chrome apps which are essentially HTML/JavaScript widgets. The whole thing is an attempt to bring the mobile app mentality to the browser.
It now comes with an app store tab that encourages the use of Chrome apps which are essentially HTML/JavaScript widgets. The whole thing is an attempt to bring the mobile app mentality to the browser.
Comment Re:Unfortunately. (Score 1) 334
'Layers'? Pimp?
Submission + - Wikileaks Nominated for 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 3
mvar writes: Whistle-blower site WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian politician who cited its role in freedom of speech, news agency NTB reported Wednesday. "WikiLeaks is one of this century's most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency," parliamentarian Snorre Valen said in his nomination. Valen cited WikiLeaks role in disclosing the assests of Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his nearest family, contributing to the protests that forced them into exile.
Submission + - Linux Looks to Apple Model for Software Installs (serverwatch.com)
Hugh Pickens writes writes: Paul Ruebens writes on Server Watch that work is well under way toward a Linux equivalent of Apple's App Store that will work with pretty much every major distro with OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Mageia getting together to develop an app installer system that will allow anyone, using any of these distros, to browse an application store, read or contribute ratings and comments, and ultimately click on a button to download and install an application. "If we want to push Linux as an alternative to Mac OS X or Windows 7, we have to provide this type of functionality," says developer Richard Hughes. When a user requests a particular application, the system will work out which packages for that distro contain the necessary files needed to run the application, and then download and install them. "I think we need to hide the concept of repos completely, and just show users a lot of applications."
Submission + - Facebook Private Info Increasingly Used in Court (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: Making the content of your Facebook account private can thwart the social network's plan to share as much information possible with advertisers, but may not keep out lawyers looking for material that will contradict your statements in a court of law. US lawyers have been trying to gain the permission to access the private parts of social network accounts for a while now, but it seems that only lately they have begun to be successful in their attempts. And this turn of events is another perfectly good reason to think twice about what you post online.
Submission + - Egypt coming back on the 'net (computerworld.com.au)
An anonymous reader writes: Computerworld is reporting that Egypt is coming back on the web. Some sites that didn't use to be available and are now back include two telcos: Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Egypt.
Guess that we can't have those IPv4 address back after all then.
Guess that we can't have those IPv4 address back after all then.
Submission + - Google executive kidnapped (cnn.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Egyptian plainclothes wearing buzzcut men kidnapped a
google marketing executive yesterday for tweeting about the
government. Google had since opened a telephone to tweet
service. His whereabouts are still unknown.
Photo link:
http://i.imgur.com/hVb2W.png
google marketing executive yesterday for tweeting about the
government. Google had since opened a telephone to tweet
service. His whereabouts are still unknown.
Photo link:
http://i.imgur.com/hVb2W.png
Comment Best Part (Score 3, Funny) 174
The best part was when he/she downloaded a copy of win2ksp3.exe.
Comment When will they learn? (Score 1) 221
Do they not realize the dynamic structure of anonymous? That an activist involved in one campaign might not be involved, or indeed care about, the next?
The hint is in the article: "loosely organized".
Comment Wrong conclusion: teachers must be trained. (Score 1) 947
Actually, if the post is asserting that teachers should be trained more as teachers before they can become teachers, then that is the wrong conclusion.
The school in which I work at as an IT tech demonstrates this well. The ICT teachers are fine with the basic theory they teach year round, but as soon as they are asked a question outside of their 'comfort zone' they are utterly clueless. It's quite amusing to replace their Windows machine with a Linux one.
Tens of Thousands Protest In Cairo, Twitter Blocked 167
Haffner writes "Protests in Cairo, Egypt have now reached the tens of thousands. Police have deployed water cannons and tear gas. I am writing this live from Cairo, where I witnessed a throng of 1000-3000 march towards Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. I also witnessed 300-500 protesting on one of the bridges heading downtown. Most importantly, twitter has been blocked by many national carriers."
Why Twitter?
As reader pinkushun writes "Using Twitter and Facebook, the people instigated a series of fast-moving, rapidly shifting demos across half a dozen or more Egyptian cities. The police could not keep up – and predictably, resorted to violence. Sadly this has led to three known deaths thus far."
Update: 01/26 02:05 GMT by T : Jake Appelbaum is tweeting up a storm about the state of the active filters.
Comment Re:The funny part? (Score 1) 344
No the funny part will be the text underneath your photo that will read "Can't get enough of that Starbucks cappuccino!", and the cappuccino mustache Photoshop'ed onto your lip.
Your Face Will Soon Be In Facebook Ads 344
jfruhlinger writes "If you're planning on checking into Starbucks using Facebook Places, your friends may soon see your profile picture in a Facebook ad for Starbucks — and, it goes without saying, you won't be paid a dime. You can't opt out, unless, as Dan Tynan puts it, "studiously avoid clicking "Like" or checking into any place that has a six- or seven-figure ad budget." The ad will also include whatever text you use in your checkin, so Tynan suggests some judicious pranksterism ("Just checked into the Starbucks around the corner and this doppio mocha latte tastes like goat urine")."
Fedora Infrastructure Compromised 115
Trailrunner7 writes "The infrastructure of the Fedora Project was compromised over the weekend and an account belonging to a Fedora contributor was taken over by an attacker. However, Fedora officials said they don't believe that the attacker was able to push any changes to the Fedora package system or make any actual changes to the infrastructure. The attack appears to have targeted one specific user account, which had some high-value privileges. The attacker was able to compromise the account externally, and then had the ability to connect remotely to some Fedora systems. The attacker also changed the account's SSH key, Fedora officials said."
