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The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God 452

Posted by Soulskill from the there's-an-app-for-everything-these-days dept.
rossgneumann writes: Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God. He's done this work because God told him to. According to the TempleOS charter, it is "God's official temple. Just like Solomon's temple, this is a community focal point where offerings are made and God's oracle is consulted." [The TempleOS V2.17 welcome screen] greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall DESQview, the Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.
Sony

Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack 155

Posted by Soulskill from the try-long-enough-and-you-find-a-soft-target dept.
MojoKid writes: It appears that Sony Pictures has become the victim of a massive ransomware hack, which has resulted in the company basically shutting down its IT infrastructure. According to an unnamed source, every computer in Sony's New York Office, and every Sony Pictures office across the nation, bears an image from the hacker with the headline "Hacked By #GOP" which is then followed by a warning. The hacker, or group, claims to have obtained corporate secrets and has threatened to reveal those secrets if Sony doesn't meet their demands.

Comment Re:UPS (Score 1) 236

by dargaud (#48452171) Attached to: What is your computer most often plugged into?
Same experience here... until I changed brand of UPS. APC absolutely sucked, I had something like 10 different ones (I run a lot of hardware) fail in various ways. Since I changed brand: no more problems. I don't even remember what I have now since it's been under the desk for years without me needing to look.
The Internet

Leaked Documents Show EU Council Presidency Wants To Impair Net Neutrality 76

Posted by Soulskill from the power-to-the-isps dept.
NotInHere writes: The advocacy group "European Digital Rights" (EDRi) reports on leaked documents proposed by the Presidency of the council of the EU (currently held by Italy), which plans to remove vital parts from the telecommunications package that introduced net neutrality. The changes include removing the definition of "net neutrality" and replacing it with a "reference to the objective of net neutrality," which EDRi says will impair any ability to enforce it.

Also, the proposed changes would allow ISPs to "block, slow down, alter, degrade or discriminate" traffic in order to meet "obligations under a contract with an end-user to deliver a service requiring a specific level of quality to that end-user." EDRi writes that "[w]ith all of the talk of the need for a single digital market in Europe, we would have new barriers and new monopolies."

The council of the EU is one of its two legislative chambers. The EU parliament can now object or propose further changes to prevent the modified telecommunications package from passing.

Comment Re:Put your money where your mouth is. (Score 1) 247

by dargaud (#48432645) Attached to: Does Being First Still Matter In America?
Yeah and it's permeating the whole of society. This week only I heard (live, not on TV): a medical doctor say that there was solvent in one brand of D vitamin for babies; so many people say 'you never know' as an excuse to give homeopathy to their kids; a physics teacher say that radio waves are bad; kindergarten teachers say that wifi keep kids from sleeping well; a math teacher say she cannot stand to be near power lines; etc, etc, etc...

Comment Re:CAcert (Score 1) 212

by dargaud (#48416353) Attached to: Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web
I used StartSSL a couple years ago when the first versions of HTTPS-Everywhere came out. Great. It worked. But then after a year you had to do the whole procedure again. Which I of course forgot to do. And since HTTPS-Everywhere doesn't revert to HTTP is the certificate lapses, all my visitors got was a 404 (or the https equivalent). Not really optimum. If this new scheme wants to take off, they need a way to renew automatically. Provide us with a shell script we can put in cron once a year and forget about it. Or something like that.
Science

Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads 79

Posted by timothy from the this-nanoring-shows-how-much-I-care dept.
First time accepted submitter sokol815 writes Penn State University scientists discovered diamond nanothreads can be created from benzene when compressed. The compression brings the benzene molecules into a highly reactive state. It was expected that the molecules would create a non-ordered glass-like material, but due to the slow speed of decompression used, the benzene molecules ordered themselves into a naturally repeating crystal. The experiment took place at room-temperature. Early results indicate that these nanothreads are stronger than previously produced carbon nanotubes, and may have applications throughout the engineering industry.
Advertising

Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising 223

Posted by timothy from the my-twc-bill-went-up-this-week-too dept.
An anonymous reader writes According to a lawsuit filed Friday in a New York court, when Jeremy Zielinski signed up for Time Warner Internet service after seeing an ad that it was $34.99 a month, he didn't expect his first bill to be more than $94. He didn't expect he'd have to fight for weeks to resolve it. And he didn't expect that, Time Warner's next step would be to sell him faster speeds, not bother to tell him his modem couldn't handle them, send him a bill anyway, then demand that he drive to the local office at his own expense to get a compatible modem. So he's taking the cable giant to court, accusing it of false advertising and deceptive business practices. While a lone individual fighting in court against the second largest cable company in the world certainly doesn't have the odds in his favor, this could get interesting. According to the complaint, he opted out of TWC's binding arbitration clause a few days after he opened his account, so he might have a shot of keeping this issue in real court. Stay tuned for more.

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