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Comment Re:Because they will kill AND torture Snowden (Score 2) 616

Not to mention our noted inability to call anything torture. I'm pretty sure the government's official stance is that water boarding is "enhanced interrogation," not torture. We "won't do it," because something-something-hope-city-on-a-hill... But we -could- do it, and we could do it in secret, and if anyone told the American people, they'd have to flee to Russia to avoid the same.

Comment Re:Eric Holder (Score 1) 616

Long-term trending increases in third-party votes, especially for parties with narrow and identifiable issues, can alert the major parties to changes in public thinking, even if the third-party candidates aren't elected. Voting for a major party tells one party to stay the course, and the second party to be more like the first party. That's the last thing we need.

Comment Re:I hope it happens. (Score 4, Insightful) 341

If the federal government wanted to use drones for science and fire control, they shouldn't have broken trust with the American people vigorously and repeatedly, to the point that no one believes anything they say about their own motives or operations. I mentally append "and spying" to every described use they offer. "On intermodal" is a childish straw man.

Submission + - Heml.is, new encrypted messaging service from the brokep of The Pirate Bay 1

freddej writes: Heml.is ("secret" in Swedish), is a new peer encrypted messaging service from some of the guys behind TPB and Flattr. They describe it as this: "Our focus is your privacy so we are building everything from software to company structure to protect that. The others are focused on maximising profit.". So if you agree on the mantra that "if you're not paying, you're the product" then you might want to check them out.

Submission + - Android Master Key Bug Details Made Public (threatpost.com)

msm1267 writes: The details of the Android vulnerability that enables an attacker to create a malicious update to an APK file without breaking its cryptographic signature have become public but it appears as though Google will have a patch ready for the flaw by the time it’s fully disclosed early next month.

The vulnerability involves the way that Android handles integrity checks on APK files and enables an attacker to create two versions of a given file with the same name, one that is benign and will pass the signature check and another that contains exploit code. The two files can be combined in one zip file in such a way that the benign one will be used when the device checks the signature on it and then the malicious one will be loaded onto the device.

Comment Needs an Official App (Score 1) 172

I use a Google Voice number exclusively, and I'd be thrilled to have any kind of usable first-party iOS app. There are about 500 apps that will let me check my voicemail and initiate a callback-call from a cellphone or landline, but as far as I know, Talkatone is the only one that does actual in-app VoIP, and I'd club a seal for a crisp, clean Google version... or at least some more options.

Comment Web Controlled Power Switch (Score 1) 284

Plug the switch into a web controlled power switch:
http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html

Eight power jacks that can be independently controlled over your network. You can control access to the entire device or individual sockets with multiple users and passwords, and they have built-in scripting functionality that shut off sockets based on the time, power-cycle if a repeating ping test ever fails to get a response, and other options I haven't bothered to look into. A real party. I think they're about $100.

Comment Re:show me hello world on my own pc or STFU (Score 3, Interesting) 240

I'm not worried about it, or complaining about the difficulty of installing it, as I'm aware that I'm currently not the target audience (although the Apache comment was hyperbole). Just wondering if I had missed anything, or if the current situation really was "build xwayland or gtfo." It sounds like the answer is, "build xwayland or gtfo."

Comment Re:show me hello world on my own pc or STFU (Score 1) 240

As the only other human I've seen mention Wayland on the Raspberry Pi, I'm forced to funnel my questions to you. I apologize. I tried to install it months ago using the huge pile of instructions at freedesktop.org. It didn't work. When they put the actual install package up, I ran that, and it sort-of worked. I have to run export somethingorother_path=/tmp/ && weston to run it every time. That's all fine.

I don't NEED it, but I'm excited to try it. And now here I am without a file manager, or really anything at all that runs under Weston. They all complain about needing an X display. Do I really have to install X11-under-Weston using their other huge page of instructions to do anything interesting? Because if I do, I'm guessing it won't work... Is there a repo, or are they any package around that I can install just to have some fun, and take it for a legitimate non-X11 spin?

I barely got Apache installed properly. I wish the Raspberry Pi Foundation would just release a Weston Testng Fun Times Image I could flash.

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