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Submission + - How to add 5.5 petabytes and get banned from Costco during a hard drive crisis (gigaom.com)

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concealment
concealment writes: "“We buy lots and lots of hard drives . . . . [They] are the single biggest cost in the entire company.”

Those are the words of Backblaze Founder and CEO Gleb Budman, whose company offers unlimited cloud backup for just $5 a month, and fills 50TB worth of new storage a day in its custom-built, open source pod architecture. So one might imagine the cloud storage startup was pretty upset when flooding in Thailand caused a global shortage on internal hard drives last year.

Backblaze details much the process in a Tuesday-morning blog post, including the hijinks that followed as the company got creative trying to figure out ways around the new hard drive limits. Maps were drawn, employees were cut off from purchasing hard drives at Costco — both in-person throughout Silicon Valley and online (despite some great efforts to avoid detection, such as paying for hard drives online using gift cards) — and friends and family across the country were conscripted into a hard-drive-buying army."
Your Rights Online

Submission + - Man arrested for April Jones Facebook joke convicted, sentenced to 3 months (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anduril1986
Anduril1986 writes: Following the recent reports that a man was arrested for posting a joke on Facebook, Matthew Woods, 20, has now been sentenced to 3 months in a young offenders institute. Chairman of the bench, magistrate Bill Hudson, said his comments were "so serious and abhorrent" that he deserved the longest sentence they could pass, less a third to give credit for his early guilty plea.
Google

Submission + - Google doesn't support OpenDocument Format (muktware.com)

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rysiek
rysiek writes: "After killing off support for old Microsoft formats, Google apparently decided to turn against OpenDocument Format (used by LibreOffice, OpenOffice and many other office suites).

The support for ODF is lacking from Chromebooks, Android phones, Google Drive and QuickOffice. However, Microsoft's controversial OOXML seems to be supported well."

Comment Re:FB shares (Score 1) 186

by bwintx (#41286547) Attached to: Mark Cuban Blames Himself For Losing Money On Facebook IPO

and then there was that other one with green background and red letters....horrible L&F. Thankfully I forgot the name of it.

Hotbot?

I don't remember the letters' colors, but the lime-green background -- yeah, that sticks with you like the bad taste resulting from a late-night case of acid reflux. (For those of you not so afflicted, trust me on that part.)
Security

Submission + - Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way onto Virtual Machines (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: The Windows version of the Crisis Trojan is able to sneak onto VMware implementations, making it possibly the first malware to target such virtual machines. It also has found a way to spread to Windows Mobile devices.

Samples of Crisis, also called Morcut, were first discovered about a month ago targeting Mac machines running various versions of OS X. The Trojan spies on users by intercepting e-mail and instant messenger exchanges and eavesdropping on webcam conversations. Launching as a Java archive (JAR) file made to look like an Adobe Flash Installer, Crisis scans an infected machine and drops an OS-specific executable to open a backdoor and monitor activity.

This week, researchers also discovered W32.Crisis was capable of infecting VMware virtual machines and Windows Mobile devices.
The Internet

Submission + - Class of 2016: No need for TV, CDs or airline tix; can't miss Daily Show (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "In one of the more interesting annual measurement of society the Beloit College Mindset List offers a snapshot of what the entering college class of 2016 likes and dislikes.
This year's report — the 14th annual version — starts out: The Class of 2016 has "come to political consciousness during a time of increasing doubts about America's future, and are entering college bombarded by questions about jobs and the value of a college degree. They have never needed an actual airline "ticket," a set of bound encyclopedias, or Romper Room. Members of this year's freshman class, most of them born in 1994, are probably the most tribal generation in history and they despise being separated from contact with friends. They prefer to watch television everywhere except on a television, have seen a woman lead the U.S. State Department for most of their lives, and can carry school books--those that are not on their e-Readers--in backpacks that roll. ""
Hardware

Submission + - Logitech releases K310 washable keyboard (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "Logitech has released its first washable keyboard. We’re not just talking about “splash proof” either — you can take the K310, immerse it in up to 30cm of water (12in), and give it a good scrub. The only limitation is you can only use standard washing up liquid — oh, and Logitech says you should try to keep the USB connector out of the water, too. Once you’ve washed the keyboard, simply leave it to dry. The user guide says it takes eight hours to air dry, and that you shouldn’t use a hair dryer. There are actually drainage holes on the backside of the K310, to help speed things along. This isn't the first washable keyboard — HP and Kensington have both had models on the market for a while — but the K310 does seem to be the first reasonably attractive, consumer-oriented washable keyboard. It goes on sale at the end of the month for $40."
Facebook

Submission + - New Facebook cameras that recognize you every time you walk into a shop (dailymail.co.uk) 1

Submitted by plastick
plastick writes: Shoppers could soon be automatically recognized when they walk into a shop using a controversial new cameras installed by Facebook in retail areas.

Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in. Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals.

The system is already being trialled in Nashville shops and bars. Is this the next level of Facebook's invasion of privacy?
AMD

Submission + - AMD takes the video card war to an appalling new low (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "When it comes to most things technology-related, I’m generally a roll-with-the-punches kind of guy. I understand that competition in the marketplace can be fierce, and I usually think that’s a Good Thing. Yesterday, however, I received an email from one of AMD's representatives with a new BIOS attached for flashing onto the reference-model Radeon HD 7950 I’d been sent last year. “Similar to the changes made to the HD 7970 GHz edition,” the email read, “we’ve added extra features, performance, and general goodness to the original AMD Radeon HD 7950 via this BIOS change. The engine clock has now been increased to 850MHz base/925MHz boost state.” So far, so good, right? Well, sort of. The problem is, this BIOS update came just before a rumored Nvidia release date — and, more heinously, AMD admits that that this new BIOS “is not guaranteed to work with all the 7950 boards in the field.” In other words, I get the speed increases now because I’m a member of the technology media. But you? You don’t. And, depending on which 7950 you own, you might not ever get them. This is, to put it nicely, appalling."

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