Comment Re:Misleading title... (Score 1) 641
You must be new here. It's posted blatant and sensationalist FUD many times before, just not necessarily Linux-oriented.
Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer 641
alphadogg writes: "An argument between developers of some of the most basic parts of Linux turned heated this week, resulting in a prominent Red Hat employee and code contributor being banned from working on the Linux kernel. Kay Sievers, a well-known open-source software engineer, is a key developer of systemd, a system management framework for Linux-based operating systems. Systemd is currently used by several prominent Linux distributions, including two of the most prominent enterprise distros, Red Hat and SUSE. It was recently announced that Ubuntu would adopt systemd in future versions as well. Sievers was banned by kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds on Wednesday for failing to address an issue that caused systemd to interact with the Linux kernel in negative ways."
Comment Re:what stuns me (Score 3, Insightful) 509
It's because these people speak Party orthodoxy and can be relied upon to keep politically-inconvenient science tied up.
The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates 509
Lasrick (2629253) writes "Brian Merchant at Motherboard examines the March 26th House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's 2015 budget request hearing. White House adviser Dr. John Holdren addressed the committee to defend funding for science programs. Video clips show comments that are difficult to believe, when you hear them. From the article: '"So, when you guys do your research, you start with a scientific—what do they call it—postulate or theory, and you work from that direction forward, is that right?" Representative Randy Weber (R-TX) said. "So, I'm just wondering how that related, for example, to global warming and eventual global cooling." He paused to make a joke about getting the scientists' cell phone number so he could call to ask when to buy a coat, before concluding that science just isn't up to the task.'"
Comment Re:Dubbing car noise over the original footage? (Score 1) 544
groaaaaaaan
Comment Re:FTP? (Score 1) 161
FTP is not even in the same league of functionality or convenience, to say nothing of security. OwnCloud would be a more reasonable solution.
Comment Re:First! (Score 2) 86
You should have used APK's hosts.txt.
Senate Report Says CIA Misled Government About Interrogation Methods 207
mrspoonsi sends this news from the Washington Post:
"A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques. The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document. ... At the secret prison, Baluchi endured a regime that included being dunked in a tub filled with ice water. CIA interrogators forcibly kept his head under the water while he struggled to breathe and beat him repeatedly, hitting him with a truncheon-like object and smashing his head against a wall, officials said. As with Abu Zubaida and even Nashiri, officials said, CIA interrogators continued the harsh treatment even after it appeared that Baluchi was cooperating."
Comment Re:I miss the old days... (Score 1) 162
I don't miss those days when every goddamn post on 1 April was an unfunny joke.
Comment Microgravity (Score 1) 113
I'll be that guy and point out that in low Earth orbit (indeed, any orbit) we experience *microgravity*, not zero gravity. Nowhere in the universe is gravitational force zero.
UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming 987
iONiUM (530420) writes "'The impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible", a major report by the UN has warned.' A document was released by the IPCC outlining the current affects on climate change, and they are not good. For specific effects on humans: 'Food security is highlighted as an area of significant concern. Crop yields for maize, rice and wheat are all hit in the period up to 2050, with around a tenth of projections showing losses over 25%.'"
Comment Re:Chip and PIN (Score 1) 455
Would it have killed you to post a link that backs up your assertion?
Comment Re:Chip and PIN (Score 1) 455
This time for sure!
No, really. Mastercard and Visa have set the deadline as October 2015. This will be enforced thus: past this date, any merchant that lacks chip-and-PIN readers will be liable for any fraudulent transactions; contrariwise, if the person's bank hasn't issued a chip-and-PIN card but the merchie has a C-and-P reader the bank will be liable.
Comment Re:Chip and PIN (Score 1) 455
That's going to change next year.
Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins 275
An anonymous reader writes: "Mining new Bitcoins is computationally expensive — you can't expect to do much on your standard home computer. Many miners have built custom rigs to mine more efficiently, but it was only a matter of time until somebody went industrial. Dave Carlson's goal is to mine 10% of all new Bitcoins from now on. He's built literally thousands of units. They collectively use 1.4 million BitFury mining chips, which are managed by a bunch of Raspberry Pis. 'The current rigs each contain 16 boards, with each board containing 16 BitFury chips, for a total of 256 mining chips on each rig. Carlson said about 90,000 processor boards have been deployed, which would put the number of rigs at about 5,600. A new board [being designed] will have 756 chips on each rig instead of 256.' Carlson says his company spent $3-5 million to get everything set up. They current generate 7,000 — 8,000 Bitcoins per month, which, at current rates, would be worth over $4 million."
