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Submission + - Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from Star Trek, Hospitalized with Stroke (variety.com)

Submitted by fightinfilipino
fightinfilipino writes:

“Last night while at her home in L.A., Nichelle Nichols suffered from a mild stroke,” McGinnis wrote. “She is currently undergoing testing to determine how severe the stroke was. Please keep her in your thoughts.” Nichols, 82, appeared in the original “Star Trek” TV series, which ran from 1966-1969, as well as the “Star Trek” movies. She also played the role of Nana Dawson in the ABC show “Heroes,” and voiced characters in the TV series “Futurama,” “Gargoyles” and “Spider-Man.”

Comment And nothing of value was lost... (Score 0, Troll) 73

by countSudoku() (#49843399) Attached to: US Office of Personnel Management Hacked Again

"We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously, and will continue to investigate (hang out and drink coffee) and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace, except when those posing the threat are the victims who lack any basic Internet security measures and just put any fucking thing online and expect someone else to rescue them when they get breached so hard it's news" -- Fucking Blithering Idiots

Submission + - Family served arrest warrants for 'disturbing the peace' at graduation (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: Four people who cheered — allegedly excessively — for their loved ones at a high school graduation ceremony in Senatobia, Mississippi, say they've now been slapped with an excessive punishment.

Two weeks after watching her niece walk across the stage at Senatobia High School's graduation ceremony on May 21, Ursula Miller received a warrant for her arrest for disturbing the peace.

"I just called her name out. 'Lakaydra,' Just like that," Miller told CNN affiliate WREG.

Now, Miller said, she has to appear in court or could face at least a $500 fine.

Submission + - U.S. Office of Personnel Management Hacked - Again

Submitted by tranquilidad
tranquilidad writes: According to a story in the Washington Post, China hacked into the computer system of the United States' Office of Personnel Management last December. This was the second major intrusion in less than a year. According to an AP story, personally identifiable information of approximately 4 million individuals may have been compromised. The compromised information was related to security clearances and employee records. Using new tools, the breach was discovered in April. The agency's director said, "Protecting our federal employee data from malicious cyber incidents is of the highest priority at [Office of Personnel Management]."

Submission + - Ransomware script kiddie scared out of business (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17
tdog17 writes: A criminal coder wrote a kit for ransomware that made it easy for others to encrypt victims' hard drives and then extort money from them in order to get the decryption keys. But when Intel Security wrote about the kit — called Tox — the author got cold feet. Now he or she is trying to sell the whole business.

Submission + - Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! (vortex.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: Finally! There's something that apparently virtually all governments around the world can actually agree upon. Unfortunately, it's on par conceptually with handing out hydrogen bombs as lottery prizes.

If the drumbeat isn't actually coordinated, it might as well be. Around the world, in testimony before national legislatures and in countless interviews with media, government officials and their surrogates are proclaiming the immediate need to "do something" about encryption that law enforcement and other government agencies can't read on demand.

Comment Bell-End Media, we speak your name! (Score 1) 408

Now pipe down you silly bunt. You got your stupid company name out and we viewed it, and now we go back to our lives of overeating and purchasing ever-more-powerful Rascel Scooters to move our pendulous boobs from one fast-food joint to the next!

Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
This Bell-End Media is no surprise, their flapping heads all filled with lies!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
Actually all our actors come from there anyway!

Submission + - NSA Said To Increase Monitoring of US 'Net Traffic To Catch Hackers (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The U.S. National Security Agency is reportedly intercepting Internet communications from U.S. residents without getting court-ordered warrants, in an effort to hunt down malicious hackers. The previously undisclosed NSA program monitors Internet traffic for data about cyberattacks originating outside the U.S., according to a New York Times article published Thursday and based on leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Comment Re:I thought (Score 1) 88

by countSudoku() (#49842193) Attached to: Dealing with Google's 'Mobilegeddon' Algorithm Changes (Video)

Thank The Maker! I support the videos taking up screen space and NOT auto starting. Still, this is one I may take the plunge (into my desk for !Beats Headphones) because of the subject matter. Nice they always have the trannys, well that didn't sound right. Nice of them to include a transcript in-line! (there we go)

Submission + - Yahoo kills Pipes, Maps, and some TV and Music services in prioritization drive (betanews.com)

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: Yahoo today announced that it is fine-tuning its focus moving forward, and this means that some products and services are being dropped. In its Q2 2015 progress report, the company explains that it looking to dedicate its energy and resources to "search, communications and digital content."

One of the most surprising casualties is Yahoo Maps — the site will close at the end of June. Despite the closure, maps will still be supported by other Yahoo products such as Flickr, but it illustrates Google's dominance in this arena. Other victims of the cull include Yahoo Pipes, Yahoo Mail on old versions of iOS, as well as Yahoo Music and Yahoo TV in some regions.

Comment Re:Waiting on the Raspi (Score 1) 133

by countSudoku() (#49841581) Attached to: Microsoft To Release Low-Cost Windows 10 With Bing Branding

Make that a RPi 2, not the 1 series, which I have two of the little beasties. They're so much fun to futz with! Anyway, I'm not sure why they are porting Win to RPi, since it already comes with a very nice OS that is highly customizable and extendable, and generally several other flavors to boot from, if Raspbian is not what you need for your project. Using the bulk of the horsepower of this little guy for propping up a giant monolithic kernel's GUI such as Win10 might be a lot of wasted cycles to just make the Aero function. Or whatever they call it now. Now, if you could run it headless and get some DOS action down below, then I could see the value for the Windows-savvy folks doing their thing on the software side of this little project system to interface with the GPIOs and other sweet interfaces on RPi. Still, good for them to port it anyway, if just to say mee too. More RPis sold means more support, and that's good for the RPi community at large.

Submission + - Yahoo killing Maps, Pipes & more (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: In case you were wondering what it is exactly that Yahoo does these days, the company says its focus is on "search, communications and digital content." The rest must go, and as such, Yahoo today has announced some things it is getting rid of. For starters, the company is doing away with maps.yahoo.com (a.k.a. Yahoo Maps) at the end of June. Though maps will live on within Yahoo search and Flickr in some fashion. "We made this decision to better align resources to Yahoo's priorities as our business has evolved since we first launched Yahoo Maps eight years ago."

Comment Re:Sure, sure, sure.... (Score 1) 830

We love you 'merica! With your American Football, and your Imperial measurements, and your overweight people riding scooters at Dizknee Whirled pretending they are disabled and shit! You go, grrrl!

Seriously though, this is one of those 3rd tier issues that you don't bring up until AFTER you forcefully take over the government and dismantle K-Street and all the rats who inhabit it. THEN, we'll know you're not a crackpot, wacko, hoodlum, nogoodnik with the Evil Bit set

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