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Submission + - Microsoft is coming for your default search engines again (microsoft.com)

Submitted by BoogieChile
BoogieChile writes: Microsoft announced today that beginning with Version 2002 of Office 365 ProPlus, coming in early March, they will install a browser extension in Google Chrome that makes Bing the default search engine in the browser.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...

Once this feature has rolled out, end users will only be able to change their search engine preferences via the extension; they cannot modify the default search engine in browser preferences. The extension can not be uninstalled from within Chrome, but needs to use a separate uninstaller.

The new "feature" will be expanded to Firefox "at a later date".

Submission + - Why Past Was Better Than The Present For Half The Americans? (primepost.in)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Trump thinks present America is far worse a place than it was in the past. So, his slogan for the election, “Make America great again.” He lashes his opponent’s policies as a continuation of the present. Hence his tweet: A vote for Hillary is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime, and lost opportunities.

Comment Re:But they help also (Score 1) 366

by boaworm (#49290447) Attached to: Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids

Totally agree. I started using Uber in Dallas a while ago, and it is vastly superior to normal Taxis there.

It may be different in other cities in the U.S though. And in European cities like London, Berlin where the normal taxi service actually works it is also a different story. So if Uber is doing something unfair, fix that. If they are really exploiting their drivers, people would stop driving, right? Which coincidentally is going to be a lot easier than stopping to drive a normal taxi.

Submission + - Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This morning, for the first time in months, The Pirate Bay disappeared offline. A number of concerned users emailed TF for information but at that point technical issues seemed the most likely culprit.

However, over in Sweden authorities have just confirmed that local police carried out a raid in Stockholm this morning as part of an operation to protect intellectual property.

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” read a statement from Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement.

Police are staying quiet on the exact location of the operation and the targets involved but the fact that the national police IP chief is involved at this early stage suggests something sizable.

Submission + - Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records Of Americans (weeklystandard.com) 1

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: The Weekly Standard reports, "... the Affordable Care Act aims to make the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) universal. This plan actually began with the 2009 stimulus ... Doctors and other health providers have been offered incentives to convert patient information and health histories to a compatible and transferable electronic format, and as of June 2014, 75 percent of eligible doctors and 92 percent of eligible hospitals had received payments under the program. This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the release of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which details the efforts of some 35 departments and agencies of the federal government and their roles in the plan to "advance the collection, sharing, and use of electronic health information to improve health care, individual and community health, and research." ... Now that HHS has publicly released the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, the agency is seeking the input from the public before implementation. The plan is subject to two-month period of public comment before finalization. The comment period runs through February 6, 2015." — Among the many agencies that will be sharing records besides Health and Human Services (HHS) are: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Justice and Bureau of Prison, Department of Labor, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Office of Personnel Management, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Submission + - Human Mobile Phone Charger, Charges From The Body Heat (gizmorati.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the hub of inventions, has got researchers who have developed a button sized self-charging battery that can scavenge energy from low temperature sources of heat.

Submission + - Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay Again. (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by o_ferguson
o_ferguson writes: TorrentFreak is reporting that police in Sweden carried out a raid in Stockholm today, seizing servers, computers, and other equipment. At the same time The Pirate Bay and several other torrent-related sites disappeared offline. Although no official statement has been made, TF sources confirm action against TPB. This is not the first time that this has happened.

Submission + - X.Org Hit By Security Issues With Code Dating Back To 1987 (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Some of the worst X.Org security issues were just publicized in an X.Org security advisory. The vulnerabilities deal with protocol handling issues and led to 12 CVEs published and code dating back to 1987 is affected within X11. Fixes for the X Server are temporarily available via this Git repository.

Submission + - Royal Mail pilots 3D printing service

Submitted by MRothenberg
MRothenberg writes: Just in time for the holidays, the UK's postal service is testing out a 3D printing service at its central London delivery center. Customers can order "ready-to-print" objects (including shoes, soap dishes and phone cases) or bring in their own originals to duplicate and send via Royal Mail. The postal company's COO predicts consumer demand for 3D printing will grow 95 percent by 2017.

Submission + - CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations

Submitted by mrspoonsi
mrspoonsi writes: The CIA carried out "brutal" interrogations of terror suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, a US Senate report has said. The summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report said the CIA misled Americans on the effectiveness of "enhanced interrogation". The interrogation was poorly managed and unreliable, the report said. President Obama has previously said that in his view the techniques amounted to torture. The Senate committee's report runs to more than 6,000 pages, drawing on huge quantities of evidence, but it remains classified and only a 480-page summary is being released. Publication had been delayed amid disagreements in Washington over what should be made public.

Submission + - Ubuntu Gets Container Friendly "Snappy" Core (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Canonical just announced a new Ubuntu Core which uses containers instead of packages. It's the biggest Ubuntu shakeup for 20 years, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, and is based on a tiny core, which will run Docker and other container technology better, quicker and with greater security than other Linuxes. Delivered as alpha code today, it's going to become a supported product, designed to compete with both CoreOS and Red Hat Atomic, the two leading container-friendly Linux approaches. Shuttleworth says it came about because Canonical found it had solved the "cloud" problems (delivering and updating apps and keeping security) by accident — in its work on a mobile version of Ubuntu

Comment Re:Last night (Score 4, Insightful) 819

by boaworm (#47845437) Attached to: 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room

I travel frequently across the north sea, between Scandinavia and Iceland. This is a 3 hour flight I generally do in coach. A while ago i started thinking of the good old days, when the vikings travelled this distance as well. Lets compare

Option 1: Longboat
Duration: Several weeks
Onboard meal service: Dried fish, mead, old water
Comfort level: Cold, freezing, wet, damp, salty and sea sickness.
Entertainment: Rowing!
Restroom: "Overboard"
Risks: Likely to die from sickness, fall overboard, freeze to death or get beaten up by a fellow traveller (everyone is armed!)
On-time arrival: Not applicable

Option 2: 757-200 in Coach
Duration: 3 hours
Onboard meal service: Light snacks and drinks complimentary. Warm dishes for purchase
Comfort level: Leather seats, personal cooling available, good temperature.
Entertainment: Loads of videos
Restroom: Complimentary
Risks: Extremely unlikely to plummet into the ocean. Unlikely to get beaten up by a fellow traveller (noone is armed)
On-time arrival: 90%+. Sporadic 1 day delays due to Eyjafjallajökull

I thought of this for a moment, then sat down and enjoyed my private leather seat and in-flight entertainment in "coach".

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