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Comment Re:Who was it? (Score 3, Interesting) 134

by richi on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @07:28PM (#37927594) Attached to: Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam

Richi Jennings, author of TFA here.

I have a couple of leads on the identity of the advertiser; I plan to name&shame once I have enough evidence.

However, as Bill rightly points out in his reply, it's Carbonite that's primarily to blame, for ignoring its own privacy policy.

Submission + - Consumer Tech: An IT Nightmare (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:25PM

snydeq writes: "Advice Line's Bob Lewis discusses the difficulties IT faces in embracing the kinds of consumer technologies business users are demanding they support. 'Let's assume the consumerization of IT is the big trend many think it is. But using consumer tech in a business environment is a very different matter from being satisfied with consumer tech in a business environment. One of IT's legitimate gripes is that we're often asked to turn consumer-grade technology into business-grade technology with a wave of our magic wands. On top of the intrinsic technical challenges, there's this: IT doesn't have anything that even resembles a methodology for performing the business analysis we need to figure out what it means to put consumer tech to productive day-to-day use.'"

Comment Duplicate submission (Score 1) 2

by richi on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:02PM (#37923994) Attached to: Carbonite leaks email addresses

Dupe of http://slashdot.org/submission/1836528/carbonite-privacy-breach-leads-to-spam

Submission + - Best Android Apps For Boosting Battery Life (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:00PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp provides a look at the best apps for boosting the battery life of your Android device. 'The best place to start if you just want to survey your power usage habits is Battery Indicator. To follow that up with actual power management, Green Power and JuiceDefender are your best bets. 2x Battery is not a bad program, but it's limited to managing cell data and not Wi-Fi connections. If that feature were added in a future revision, 2x Battery would be a real contender.'"

Submission + - Carbonite leaks email addresses (computerworld.com) 2

Submitted by NorbMan on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:58PM

NorbMan writes: It looks like Carbonite has been giving out it's customers' email addresses to a third party, who is now spamming those addresses.

Submission + - Carbonite privacy breach leads to spam (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

richi

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:17PM

richi writes: "It looks like Carbonite, Inc. has been giving out customers' personal information. The company's admitted giving customer email address to a third party, in direct contravention of its privacy policy.

Lest we forget, this is the same online backup company that lost the backups of thousands of its customers, while denying any data were lost, despite reports from customers who said they had (ahem) lost data. It's also the company whose VP of marketing was caught red-handed astroturfing on Amazon, along with other Carbonite employees. When the news broke, the company denied it had sanctioned the phony reviews.

So I guess this is Strike Three, right?"

Submission + - Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem (itworld.com) 3

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:15PM

jfruhlinger writes: "Even Linux's most passionate partisans will admit that its filesystem, which stashes vital files in a variety of arcane directories, can be baffling to users. The developers at the Fedora project want to cut the Gordian know and consolidate all executables into /usr/bin and all libraries into /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. One downside: this system would conflict with the standards developed by the Linux Standard Base, or the (rarely used) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard."

Submission + - DisplayPort standard no longer open (vesa.org)

Submitted by ShoulderOfOrion on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:39PM

ShoulderOfOrion writes: Open-standards advocates have heralded and championed DisplayPort as an open standard available free of charge and free from royalties. Now that DisplayPort is beginning to appear on more PCs, graphics cards and monitors, this situation quietly changed last year with no one taking notice. Has another 'open' PC standard fallen victim to corporate interests?

Submission + - NASA wants to make 'tractor beams' a reality (physorg.com) 1

Submitted by intellitech on Monday October 31, 2011 @09:42PM

intellitech writes: Tractor beams — the ability to trap and move objects using light — are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft for analysis.

Comment Reactors need electricity (Score 1) 4

by richi on Sunday March 13, 2011 @06:09AM (#35469836) Attached to: Whatever Happened to “Gravity” Nuclear Reactor Safety Controls?

As I understand it, the problem was that the reactor couldn't cool itself because it had no electricity to run the cooling pumps.

The quake cut the power from the grid and the backup diesel generators were also destroyed. This left the final backup: batteries, which had about eight hours of juice in them.

Once the batteries were exhausted, there was nothing to cool the reactor and the pressure built up in the containment vessel.

Submission + - ITER cable fails test (nature.com)

Submitted by

gbrumfiel

on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @01:54PM

gbrumfiel writes: "Fusion has the potential to satisfy humanity's energy needs for the foreseeable future, but it isn't cheap, or easy, as scientists are finding out at ITER, an experimental reactor in France. A section of cable for the superconducting magnet at the heart of the machine has failed initial tests, according to the journal Nature . Researchers on three continents are now rushing to understand the cause of the problem. They are hopeful the issue can be worked out by June, but if it can't, then the US$21 billion project may be delayed still further."

Submission + - Lord Sugar Appointed New Head Of YouView (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

geek4

on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @01:30PM

geek4 writes: "Can Lord Sugar steer the much-delayed YouView video-on-demand project to success?

Lord Alan Sugar has been appointed non-executive chairman of long-delayed Internet TV project YouView with immediate effect, replacing former head Kip Meek.

“It has been apparent for some time that the YouView board would benefit from additional expertise in consumer marketing and technology delivery. Lord Sugar supplies this,” said departing Meek, who had been in the job for less than eight months.

Formerly known as Project Canvas, YouView is an internet-connected television platform owned by four broadcasters – the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five — along with communications companies Arqiva, BT and Talk Talk.

The project was initially set to launch in 2010, as a hardware-assisted, more open successor to the BBC’s iPlayer video-on-demand application. However, it was pushed back to 2011 before getting postponed again until 2012."

Submission + - Anon demands US give clothes back to Manning (forbes.com)

Submitted by hajus on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:33PM

hajus writes: Anonymous has given the US one week to restore certain rights for Bradley Manning in his time in prison awaiting his trial including clothes, any religious texts, a ball, blankets, and bedsheets or they will begin to 'dox' Department of Defense Press Secretary Geoff Morell and chief warrant officer Denise Barnes. 'Dox'. "Dox" will involve digging up personal information on the two officials and mass harassment or public embarrassment. “Targets established,” reads the document, before naming Morell and Barnes. “We’re in the ruining business. And business is good.” The operation has been termed "Operation Bradical" by Anonymous.

Submission + - Tiny Four-Keyed Keyboard Developed for iPads (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Friday November 26, 2010 @11:05AM

Zothecula writes: If there’s one major weakness of devices like the iPad and touchscreen-only mobile phones, it’s their onscreen keyboards. This is evidenced by the selection of portable keyboards available, such as the Jorno Bluetooth and Thanko folding keyboards. Citta Consulting is taking a different approach to portability to with its Kee4 Keyboard – a device that has just four keys and can be operated with one hand using a "composite keystroke" system.

Submission + - 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie on Friday November 26, 2010 @10:47AM

coondoggie writes: There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky — everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars. There are tons of iPhone apps that can help everyone who has a little (or a lot) of astronomer blood in them watch the sky with more authority.

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