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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Snowden's sophisticated efforts?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The AP (http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-suspected-bypassing-electronic-logs-134116925.html) is reporting today of the NSA's difficulty learning exactly what Snowden took, because of his "sophisticated efforts" that led to their logs being useless. My bet? It was nothing more sophisticated than sloppy security regarding root access, but what do you say?

Submission + - Ralph Nader on Verizon's entering Canadian wireless market: 'Bad idea' (ctvnews.ca) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper published by the Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/08/22/ralph_nader_to_canada_dont_open_door_to_verizon.html, Ralph Nader says Verizon has made extensive use of U.S. tax subsidies even though the wireless communications giant was profitable at the same time.

Verizon has been exploring an entry into the federally regulated wireless market, currently dominated by three Canadian companies — Rogers, Bell and Telus.

The three carriers and the domestic industry’s main association have responded with an extensive publicity campaign calling for the Harper government to drop policies that they say give Verizon an unfair advantage over them.

"Bottom line: Verizon is one of the country’s most aggressive corporate tax dodgers." Says Nader

Citing a report by the Center for Tax Justice and Good Jobs First, Nader says Verizon received $14 billion in U.S. federal and state income tax subsidies in the 2008-2012 period, even though it earned US$33.4 billion in pre-tax income.

“Question: Why would you allow one of our country’s most aggressive tax dodgers, a company with a track record of overtly ripping off our government, into your country,” Nader writes.

“What’s bad for the United States will be bad for Canada.”

Submission + - Yes, Open Source Jobs are Hot -- and We Have Stats to Prove It (smartbear.com)

Submitted by Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: If you want a tech job, you want to be in Linux and open source software. Because, Steven Vaughan-Nichols learned from research at OSCON and the world at large, that’s where the employers are slathering to find qualified personnel. And employers are anxious to hire anyone with open source skills.

Well, that's OSCON. Perhaps it's different elsewhere? Turns out... nope. "But this trend is more than the subset of the industry that attends an open source conference," writes sjvn. "To get to the real heart of what’s hot in open source job circles, I talked to Shravan Goli, the president of job site Dice.

Goli said, “The rise of open source jobs is part of a broader trend. We’re seeing tremendous tech job growth everywhere.” According to Goli and the Dice job trends, the hot areas are cloud, especially OpenStack; Big Data, Hadoop in particular; and the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python). Other really hot areas include the Solr open source search engine and anything with mobile phones, especially Android. In short, he says, “The newer tech is hot, hot, hot and recruiters are swarming.”

The article has a bit more information about the most in-demand jobs. So if you weren't considering open source as a career path before... now you have hard evidence that this is where the opportunities are.

Submission + - First rule of Frack club .. (post-gazette.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The non-disclosure agreement prohibiting Chris and Stephanie Hallowich from talking about the 2011 settlement of their high-profile Marcellus Shale damage case in Washington County, or saying anything about gas drilling and fracking, isn't unusual. It happens often in settling such cases.
But the insistence that their two minor children, then ages 7 and 10, are also bound by the "gag order" is.

Submission + - The consumer PC market will collapse quicker than anybody thinks (citeworld.com)

Submitted by mattydread23
mattydread23 writes: Computers are lasting longer than ever. Storage is getting cheaper and storage bounds are disappearing, especially as people start to offload files to the cloud. There's no new killer app that requires a PC upgrade. There's no necessary new networking technology that requires a new computer. Consumers don't care about the expiration of Windows XP next year. As a result, PCs will become like big-screen TVs: Expensive, luxury items that are rarely replaced. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th PCs in every house will be a tablet. Every student's first PC will be a tablet. And any company without a viable tablet strategy will be dead.

Submission + - Water Contamination from Fracking (blogspot.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In this report we will explain the details about a natural gas well that started hydraulic fracturing in 1984 in Weld County, Colorado and how it eventually affected Mr. Anderson's life. We will also illustrate what happened to the oil & gas company, how the industry appears to be permitted to elude their failures, and how a reporter appears to have jumped to conclusions without due diligence. Finally we expose the historical documents, details, and ask many questions that desperately need answers.

This is an incredible, un-redacted, actual case that should have been published long ago!

Submission + - Linux Desktop: Alternative Disk Layouts (linuxacademy.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Installing Linux on the desktop has largely become a “no brainer”. The installation routines of all major distributions have really matured to the point where you literally answer a few basic questions (a little more involved than Windows, but not much) and then you have a fully functional Linux desktop. However, that ease of installation has come with a bit of a price. Installing your system with the defaults can limit your flexibility when it comes layout and segregation (for backups). Today we will talk about some of the options for laying out your desktop storage a bit more “old school”.

Comment Solar power reduces electricity price .. (Score 3, Informative) 687

"Oh, the solar power haters* are going to love this oneâ"a recent study by Germanyâ(TM)s Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES), conducted on behalf of of the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), has found that, on average, solar power has reduced the price of electricity 10% in Germany (on the EPEX exchange). It reduces prices up to 40% in the early afternoon, when electricity demand is peaking and electricity typically costs the most. Thereâ(TM)s a visual of that (in German) here:" link

Comment Electricity production from solar and wind .. (Score 1) 687

According to the Fossel Fuel lobby in the UK, solar and wind isn't economical, drives up the cost of electricity and gas and is bad for the environment, the money should be given on the Fossel Fuel companies instead ..

Why is Wind power so expensive? An economic analysis

Npower delivers clarity on the changing cost of energy

Comment Cannot recover neurological state .. (Score 1) 155

by dgharmon (#44624353) Attached to: The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video #2)
"Today's interviewee is Cryonics Institute (CI) Director Andy Zawacki, who takes Slashdot's Robert Rozeboom into the facility where they keep the tanks with frozen people in them"

How are they going to recover the brain to the same neurological state it was in when the patient was unfrozen. Regardless of any future scientific advances, information lost cannot be restored.

Submission + - Git tip: Show your branch name on the Linux prompt (leaseweblabs.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It is important to know which branch you are working on, when committing code to the repository. This post explains how you can add the branch name in red to the prompt.

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