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Comment windows tablets (Score 1) 125

currently there are a number of 32bit tablets running windows 8 and they are remarkably cheap if lacking a little in the ram department.

These tablets would be great for Linux if it was possible to run on any of them. £150 with windows 8.1, with a proper linux distro. I would buy one, i might even dual boot it if there was enough space. I wouldn't even begrudge buying an iso file from canonical at a reasonable price if the hardware was fully supported.

There is work being done to support some of these tablets but it would be great if canonical could find some devices it could fully support. I don't think another tablet will be on my christmas list this year and i'm not going to buy another android device that is abandoned at birth by it's manufacturer again.

Comment Re:Looks pretty impressive... (Score 1) 115

I installed the beta at the weekend, and had to follow an eclipse tutorial which mostly worked ok. There were differences but I figured them out. There were some imports that were not mentioned. I believe eclipse can automagically find needed imports and add them in (ctrl 0 i think) but I had to add them myself in android studio.

Maybe now its out of beta there will be some tutorials written for it. eclipse is not perfect, i found that it wouldn't load a project using the latest api and had to drop to api 21 or 20 before it would work. Took a good while for me to resolve a situation which I shouldn't have run in to as I was making my first steps.

Comment Re: Predatory? (Score 1) 137

i haven't a clue as to how to proceed , if you can proceed with this.
I wish you luck and hope you can persevere maybe it can be fought in the european court of human rights, although finding the financial support to do so and a legal procedure that can be applied ...

good luck and I hope they have some success

Comment Re:Ideological purity ... (Score 1) 96

years ago there used to be a lot of "free" software that wasn't really free.

It was "free" to download and then pay for a license.
or "free" to try but save disabled (sometimes after x number of clicks).

But we got wise to that one and started looking for open source and generally it was as good as it could be at the time. Sometimes you might find a bug, report it and work with the developers to fix it.
(oh and download from the projects website or a link provided by the project to avoid the dodgy repack with extra ... ).

Sounds like this reworking of opensource to "opensource" is trying to be the new "free"

"Slightly Annoying"

Submission + - Is Google Chrome Browser backdoored by extensions?

blackest_k writes: I've been playing around with html5 and javascript and put up a couple of pages on my webhost while using chrome on osx i had a strange tab open saying chrome was out of date and offering to let me download an updated version "setup.exe" the page was on an info site. So i asked myself why did that open? and I made a curious discovery. when i viewed my page source it was as i wrote it. A simple page to play a mp4 video with html5. however when i chose to download the page as webpage complete i found an extra js file app.js also the page header had this line added.

script type="text/javascript" src="./End Credits_files/app.js">script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.youradexchange.com/ad/display.php?r=32796">link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/skin/socialwidgets.css"> The extension part directed me to privacy badger. uninstalling the privacybadger extension resulted in

script type="text/javascript" src="./End Credits-b_files/app.js">script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.youradexchange.com/ad/display.php?r=32796">/script>/head> So that had removed part of the problem but not the part that was trying to get me to download (presumably malware). I tried the same exercise in linux and got the same result in google chrome. however in firefox my page was as I had written it. there was no app.js in the complete webpage or on my server. Anyway this seems to be an issue from google chrome or an extension. Has anyone any light to shine on this issue? I wouldn't normally post an ask slashdot but as this appears to be modifying normal web pages i'm quite concerned.

Comment Re: Predatory? (Score 1) 137

London Borough of Haringey ?

http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

might be of interest to you, Obviously I don't know about the case you bring up I can believe that the children and parents were shown to be related by DNA although it doesn't mean that automatically disqualifies the child sex trafficking charge.

You might think that there should be some existing evidence to backup the presumed intent. If the parents were not criminally charged and convicted then it would make the councils grounds for their actions very shakey.

You seem convinced that the case was groundless and I wish you luck in persuing the matter, maybe there is some chance of involving the investigation of Harringey social services in your case. Its going to be tough for them to be fair especially after the death of a 17 month old child where they didn't do enough after which there must have been an attitude change and a desire to not make any more mistakes.

good luck with it, I hope it ends well.

On the positive side those children in care should be safe and fostered and adopted into happy homes, it is there well being that matters above all else.

Comment Re: Predatory? (Score 1) 137

It is a fair point that generally kids are taken in to care due to unfit parents, but that is not the purpose of the paper is it?

The UK signed the Convention in 1964. Signatories have the following duty, without exception, under Article 37 (b) of the Vienna Convention of Consular Relations 1963: Article 37 (b):
âoeIf the relevant information is available to the competent authorities of the receiving State, such authorities shall have the duty:
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  to inform the competent consular post without delay of any case where the appointment of a guardian or trustee appears to be in the interests of a minor or other person lacking full capacity who is a national of the sending State.â

Thats pretty clear, if you take a kid into care you are obligated to inform the consol for that childs country that you are doing so. The Consol may or may not intervine but they should be informed.

while you do get circumstances where parents are unfit, there are also cases where familys have been made homeless after losing jobs and having no recourse to public funds have ended up on the streets and the kids have been taken in to care.

Consul assistance could be quite essential to the outcome of such cases even if it is limited to informing family back home or enabling assistance from ex pats within communities in the UK. From providing some sort of housing maybe even the use of a spare room or help returning home. It depends on the case and the nationality and circumstances as to what can be done.

While some consuls will not lift a finger to help while others will but without being informed they can do nothing
at all and the UK has obligations under the Vienna Convention of Consular Relations 1963.

Going by the numbers of children affected this report should be noted and acted upon.

 

Comment Re:Not resigning from Debian (Score 1) 550

If anything even close to a majority opposing systemd existed then maintaining sysv absolutely is viable.

it was said by the very same dev that just resigned

The vote ends with systemd being the winner, after bdale's casting vote as the CTTE chair.

how is that not close to a majority when the chair (and main proponent of systemD) was forced to use his casting vote to get a ruling in systemd 's favour? From where i'm sat that looks like forced through .

perhaps someone will explain how it wasn't forced through on a single vote(r)

Comment Re:Formatting. (Score 1) 308

Surprisingly good, thou its worth bearing in mind he is using the same techniques as the people who he says are telling us how to think but to push back in th opposite direction.

He does come out with some really stupid stuff like don't vote as a revolt against the system, which really means be apathetic and just be a sheep. It doesn't matter how many protests you participate in, the only way to change things is to change the people who are doing the things you don't like.

Politics is largely sterile partys have a rock solid majority on most of them. In the UK the lowest majority was held by 92 votes, just 93 people getting of their backsides and voting would have been enough to change that seat. Of the 50 most marginal seats less than 200,000 people could change the government of the day by voting in the right seats around half have less than a 2000 vote majority.
Of course without PR its a case of voting for the lesser evil however when your vote is crucial there is a slim chance of change. No chance at all if you don't vote.
 

Comment Re:Doesn't look like much (Score 2) 313

As long as Apple is not then storing that randomMailHost.com is associated with a particular user - then there's no issue at all.

As a NSA agent for example. it wouldnt be useful to check with apple all the internet searches person of interest has conducted and while it might be disapointing that apple does not have his email on file and contacts they do at least know his email account with another provider and may be able to give login credentials for that service even if its outside of us juristiction.

sounds paranoid until you consider what edward snowden has said already.

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