Comment Facebook Does (Score 4, Interesting) 302
Facebook deploys its 4GB binary to its 500,000 servers using a torrent client that has rack and switch affinity. Each client goes for data chunks that are already locally on a rack or switch that it is connected to. That is a crap-ton of data.
Comment Mirror (Score 1) 65
I wonder if I will get a DMCA take down for this PDF snapshot? http://db.tt/Y9GCT7N4
Submission + - Seattle Lawmaker Wants to Tax Breathing (seattlebikeblog.com)
terbeaux writes: The fact that Rep Ed Orcutt (R — WA) wants to tax bicycle use is not extraordinary. The representative's irrational conviction is. SeattleBikeBlog has confirmed reports that Orcutt does not feel bicycling is environmentally friendly because the activity causes cyclists to have “an increased heart rate and respiration.” When they contacted him he clarified that “You would be giving off more CO2 if you are riding a bike than driving in a car...” Cascade blog has posted the full exchange between Rep Ed Orcutt and a citizen concerned about the new tax.
All of this is in spite of Orcutt receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Maine.
All of this is in spite of Orcutt receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Maine.
Comment Letter to Rep. Lance Gooden (Score 1) 387
You can send a similar one from here: http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/email/?district=4&session=83
Representative Gooden,
I am writing to alert you to public opinion that is forming about your new HB912. A consensus is bubbling up on internet forums that your intention in drafting this bill was to protect corporations like Columbia from incidents similar to the Oak Cliff pig blood dumping which resulted in criminal charges. I have not found any post yet that interprets this new bill as protecting the privacy of individual citizens. I know that this was not your intention and I urge you to take action by retracting the bill and releasing a clarifying statement.
Regards,
Terbeaux Nou
P.S.
Please find attached links for two popular internet sites which are discussing your new bill:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/03/01/153241/texas-declares-war-on-robots
http://www.reddit.com/r/CCW/comments/18v0xr/hey_texas_time_to_start_writing_those_emails/
Comment Re:Oh this will go well. (Score 1) 268
Being a very large site they often make outrageous and unfounded claims like "The Galaxy's Largest BitTorrent Site."
I think it is hilarious if not true as well.
Did you see the documentary? http://youtu.be/eTOKXCEwo_8
Submission + - Documentary: The Pirate Bay AFK (tpbafk.tv)
terbeaux writes: The documentary "TPB AFK" follows the creators of The Pirate Bay: Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm; through their technical and logistical trials of keeping TPB online as well as their court appearances in Sweden.
After its premiere at Berlin International Film Festival, TechCrunch is reporting that TPB AFK is now available under a Creative Commons license for purchase, download on TPB, or viewing on YouTube. The budget for the film was raised on kickstarter where they achieved twice the funding goal in the allotted month long funding campaign.
The film already has 40,000 YouTube views, 19,000 torrent seeders, and over 2,000 paid downloads. There are public screenings happening world wide.
After its premiere at Berlin International Film Festival, TechCrunch is reporting that TPB AFK is now available under a Creative Commons license for purchase, download on TPB, or viewing on YouTube. The budget for the film was raised on kickstarter where they achieved twice the funding goal in the allotted month long funding campaign.
The film already has 40,000 YouTube views, 19,000 torrent seeders, and over 2,000 paid downloads. There are public screenings happening world wide.
Comment Who Cares? (Score 2) 129
There are bugs much older than this in the wild. Publishing this arcane factoid will just make the KDE devs feel inadequate when our bro Thiago Macieira could have earned a PhD in CS and submitted a patch herself. Can you mod an entire story -1 TROLL?
Comment Effect on Mass Surveillance? (Score 1) 101
One of the main benefits of increasing the amount of encrypted traffic on the Internet is that it makes illegal mass surveillance more difficult. The EFF did this with HTTPS Everywhere.
Do surveillance agencies have some way of accessing all of this data in spite of it being encrypted in transport?
Comment Renamed Borland to Inprise (Score 1) 121
Just sayin' he destroyed one of the best compiler brand assets at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Yocam
Comment Billions of Fricken Dollars (Score 5, Interesting) 284
Billions of dollars to shutdown airports for no reason. They were thrown off the tracks by Amtrak Chief of Police for trying to encroach on American's 4th amendment rights outside of their "jurisdiction". http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/opinion/don-phillips-tsa-vipr-teams/
I wrote to my representatives about how I feel about the TSA. You can too: https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/tsa/
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The automakers are expected to demonstrate autonomous-driving features next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to The Wall Street Journal. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. January 3, 2013 6:41 PM PST Follow @stevenmusil ...
Toyota says December sales rose 9%USA TODAY
Pull Over, Google: Toyota Has a Self-Driving Car TooMashable
Toyota sneak previews self-drive car ahead of tech showBBC News
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The automakers are expected to demonstrate autonomous-driving features next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to The Wall Street Journal. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. January 3, 2013 6:41 PM PST Follow @stevenmusil
Toyota says December sales rose 9%USA TODAY
Pull Over, Google: Toyota Has a Self-Driving Car TooMashable
Toyota sneak previews self-drive car ahead of tech showBBC News
SlashGear-Auto World News-Broadway World
all 46 news articles
Submission + - Scary Toothbrush prompts shutdown of world's busiest airport (ajc.com)
McGruber writes: The big buzz for travelers today is the story (http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/atlanta-airport-closed-by-toothbrush/nTmqK/) of how a scary toothbrush prompted the closure of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: "Airport officials told Channel 2 Action News that an electric toothbrush began vibrating inside a bag checked onto an AirTran flight, causing workers to alert airport officials to the strange noise." The terminal and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) subway were both temporary closed "out of an abundance of caution".
ATL has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs since 2005.[
ATL has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs since 2005.[
Submission + - Breast Milk Contains Over 700 Bacterial Species
An anonymous reader writes: It is well-known that breastfeeding gives infants nutrients. However, for the first time Spanish researchers created a map of the bacterial microbiota in new mothers' breast milk. They found that, on average, women's breast milk contains about 700 bacterial species.
Submission + - Deriving Passwords from LinkedIn Profiles (securityledger.com)
chicksdaddy writes: "It’s already common knowledge that hackers and other “bad guys” comb through worker profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and other sites to help craft targeted attacks. But could your social networking profile provide more useful information – like your password? Independent security researcher Itzik Kotler thinks so.
Kotler is the creator of Pythonect, a new, experimental dataflow programming language based on Python. Using it, he said he’s been able to derive passwords from the public content of individuals’ LinkedIn profiles.
Kotler’s method was straight forward: he used Google’s Custom Search Engine to find all the employees for a given company. For the profiles that are returned, Kotler then scraped their personal information for analysis- a job made easier by LinkedIn’s adoption of the Google hCard microformat, which is used to display the contact details of people, companies, organizations, and places in easy-to-read form on search results pages. The resulting data was then crunched the resulting data using Pythonect.
The strategy isn’t the most efficient means of breaking into an account, Kotler admits, but it does suggest that the treasure troves of personal data we make available online could be useful as more than just fodder for social engineering attacks. Kotler did a Q&A about Pythonect with The Security Ledger."
Kotler is the creator of Pythonect, a new, experimental dataflow programming language based on Python. Using it, he said he’s been able to derive passwords from the public content of individuals’ LinkedIn profiles.
Kotler’s method was straight forward: he used Google’s Custom Search Engine to find all the employees for a given company. For the profiles that are returned, Kotler then scraped their personal information for analysis- a job made easier by LinkedIn’s adoption of the Google hCard microformat, which is used to display the contact details of people, companies, organizations, and places in easy-to-read form on search results pages. The resulting data was then crunched the resulting data using Pythonect.
The strategy isn’t the most efficient means of breaking into an account, Kotler admits, but it does suggest that the treasure troves of personal data we make available online could be useful as more than just fodder for social engineering attacks. Kotler did a Q&A about Pythonect with The Security Ledger."
