Comment Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score 3, Funny) 552
The cure is worse than the disease!
Comment Re:Got e-mail this morning from mail.whitehouse.go (Score 5, Informative) 608
He wasn't kicked out. He resigned before he could be impeached. He was then pardoned shortly afterwards.
Comment Re:Translation (Score 2) 608
We haven't applied enough pressure on our government, and as such it is not responding favorably to our polite request.
That's because most of us aren't billionaires and/or have a Super PAC.
Comment Re:I'd be more sympathetic if he weren't a doucheb (Score 5, Informative) 608
Instead, he indiscriminately handed sensitive national secrets over to a foreigner,
Glenn Greenwald is a "foreigner"? Since when?
Comment Re:By that logic (Score 4, Informative) 608
Silly plebe. Laws only apply to the little people. Not those with wealth and power.
Comment Re:Civil Disobedience (Score 4, Informative) 608
"and — importantly — accept the consequences of his actions." Isn't whistle blowing legally protected from retaliation?
On paper, but they've already wiped their ass with it so they don't care much.
Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition 608
An anonymous reader writes: In June of 2013, a petition was posted to Whitehouse.gov demanding that Edward Snowden receive a full pardon for his leaks about the NSA and U.S. surveillance practices. The petition swiftly passed 100,000 signatures — the point at which the White House said it would officially respond to such petitions. For two years, the administration was silent, but now they've finally responded. In short: No, Edward Snowden won't be receiving a pardon.
Lisa Monaco, the President's Advisor on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said, "Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it. If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and — importantly — accept the consequences of his actions. He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers — not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions."
Lisa Monaco, the President's Advisor on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said, "Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it. If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and — importantly — accept the consequences of his actions. He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers — not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions."
Submission + - Dice plans to liberate Slashdot and Sourceforge (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The current corporate overlords of both Slashdot and Sourceforge plan to sell off the properties:
The Company acquired Slashdot Media in 2012 both to provide the Dice business with broader reach into Slashdot's user community base and to extend the Dice business outside North America by engaging with SourceForge's significant international technology user community. The Company, however, has not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business; and with the acquisition of The IT Job Board and success of Open Web, the anticipated value to the Company of the SourceForge traffic outside North America has not materialized. The Company now plans to divest the business, as it does not fit within the Company's strategic initiatives and believes the Slashdot Media business will have the opportunity to improve its financial performance under different ownership.
Submission + - Dice announces plans to sell Slashdot Media (arstechnica.com)
cjm571 writes: DHI Group—formerly known as Dice Holdings Incorporated prior to this April—announced plans this morning to sell the combination of Slashdot and SourceForge. The announcement was made as part of DHI’s 2Q15 financial results.
Comment Re:Who has time? (Score 0, Redundant) 58
You must be extremely egotistical to think that your personal disinterest in the GP's personal disinteret in this project is worth declaring to the world.
Comment Re:Yay for HTML5 (Score 1) 56
Which isn't what GP was talking about. GP was talking about being able to block the HTML5 content like can be done with NoScript. Bugs in the HTML engine is an entirely orthogonal thing.
Comment Re:Battery life not so great (Score 4, Informative) 118
It's a prototype device for software development, not a shipping product.
Wrong on both accounts. The MX4 has been a shipping Android phone since September of last year. The Ubuntu phone is the exact same hardware.
It might have a substandard battery.
It does't. GSM Arena stated about 16.5 hours talk time, ~14 hours web browsing and around 9.5 hours for video playback. For the time of the battery benchmarks it was no worse than most other phones.
Such problems would not stop its deployment as a development device. It could be any of these problems and it's pretty pointless to speculate further.
Except it's not a development device.
Comment Re:Developers will not come (Score 2) 118
A few years ago you would be saying "You basically have two major players in mobile OS, Symbian and BlackBerry OS. I don't see that changing..."
Actually prior to the iPhone there was really only 1 major player. Which was Nokia with near 70% global market share with Windows Mobile and BlackBerries taking about up 11% a piece.
Google+ Photos To Shut Down August 1 153
An anonymous reader writes: Now that Google Photos exists separately from Google+, the company is shutting down the Google+ version of Photos starting on August 1. The Android version will be the first to go, followed shortly thereafter by the iOS and web versions. Fortune calls the old Photos app "a relic of the times when the search giant thought its social network Google Plus could become a huge hit."
Comment Re:28 is a dangerous age (Score -1, Flamebait) 173
If you are going to be a butthead don't do it anonymous coward....
Says the big man AC making threats.
