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Submission + - Bitcoin Black Friday Proves Digital Currency Isn't Just For Saving (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Bitcoin Black Friday deals encourage users to actually use their bitcoins like a real currency with over 150 retailers offering deals.

The biggest bitcoin stories tend to focus on the crypto-currency's value and how it has made some early investors incredibly rich — but now is the time to actually start using the coins according to those behind Bitcoin Black Friday.

Submission + - NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers' (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by Jah-Wren Ryel
Jah-Wren Ryel writes: The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document.

This plan is remarkably similar to the way the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King, aka "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation," with an audiotape they got by bugging his bedroom.

Submission + - Ralph Nader: Corporate espionage undermines democracy (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It’s not just the NSA that has been caught spying on Americans. Some of our nation’s largest corporations have been conducting espionage as well, against civic groups.

For these big companies with pliable ethics, if they don’t win political conflicts with campaign donations or lobbying power, then they play dirty. Very dirty.

That’s the lesson of a new report on corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations, by my colleagues at Essential Information. The title of the report is Spooky Business, and it is apt.

Spooky Business is like a Canterbury Tales of corporate snoopery. The spy narratives in the report are lurid and gripping. Hiring investigators to pose as volunteers and journalists. Hacking. Wiretapping. Information warfare. Physical intrusion. Investigating the private lives of nonprofit leaders. Dumpster diving using an active duty police officer to gain access to trash receptacles. Electronic surveillance. On and on. What won’t corporations do in service of profit and power?

Comment Re:Wagging the dog. (Yahoo - please read) (Score 1) 292

by G-forze (#45525731) Attached to: Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food"
The "Previous message" arrow also sucks. If we disregard the fact that the previous-next-order is backwards IMO, it still simply does not work when newer messages have arrived since opening the latest one. If I open the lastly arrived message in the inbox, and another one arrives while I am reading it, the inbox link displays a new message, but clicking the "Previous" arrow displays the message "You have reached the first message in Inbox.", and I have to go back to Inbox and click the new message from there. What a piece of shit. Same thing with the threaded conversations, btw.

Submission + - The Neo900 fundraising campaign has started

Submitted by G-forze
G-forze writes: The Neo900 project, aiming to build new phones in the same design as the Nokia N900 Maemo phone, opened their fundraiser wednesday. Their aim is to get $25 000 for prototyping.

The Neo900 project hasn't been forgotten. We're working very hard in order to make our dream come true, and we still keep in mind our promises about not working behind the walls. To be able to properly develop bug-free devices, we first need to build prototypes, which are quite expensive. That's why we have launched a fundraiser with a goal of 25k EUR. The fundraiser will actually provide triple purpose, as your donated money will also serve as a discount on the final device price and it will give us a feedback about number of interested customers, so we can bring the project forward. The further development will start as soon as the minimal amount needed to proceed arrive.

The Neo900 project aims to support a range of different operating systems on the hardware, and mention QtMoko, SHR, Debian, Replicant as well as Maemo, Ubuntu and Firefox OS. Personally, I am hoping that it will be compatible with Sailfish OS.

Comment Re:They do worse to themselves (Score 1) 610

by G-forze (#45140943) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations?
"Your honor! Sure my client raped the defendant, but she has been hooking up with guys at bars all summer! Posting pictures of herself online! Wearing revealing dresses! So you see, my client's rape of her is just a drop in the bucket compared to what she has been choosing to do herself. That makes it alright!"

Comment Re:Liars, liars, pants on fire (Score 3) 301

by G-forze (#45094243) Attached to: Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks'
Aren't you furloughed? Guess your kind is considered "essential", then. Why am I not surprised...

Anyway, bringing up the drug cartels is a bit rich, considering they exist mostly because of stupid government policies, even being supported directly by government stooges. Fast and Furious, anyone?

And to answer your question. No, I would not want "the police or security services to be able to listen in on the phone calls, or read the emails, of a gang that had kidnapped one of your loved ones" if that means that they have undermined the very fundamentals of democracy to do so.

Submission + - Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics (simonsfoundation.org)

Submitted by Lee_Dailey
Lee_Dailey writes: Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality.

“This is completely new and very much simpler than anything that has been done before,” said Andrew Hodges, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University who has been following the work.

Submission + - What to do when your Government is out of control 1

Submitted by buss_error
buss_error writes: I've been watching the NSA and related stories. All I can say is that my personal feeling is that our government is completely out of control, ignoring our rights, and doing what ever they want. I hate to say this, but it seems that no matter who we vote for, it doesn't affect the out of control cowboy moves made by the minions of Bureaucracy. Peaceful protests are ignored. Legal challenges, directives, and congressional orders are shrugged off with less effort than rain. They do what they do when they want, how they want.

No one sane wants to see a city vaporized by a terrorist's atomic bomb, but it that any worse than a society where we have no secrets from the Government? "I've got nothing to hide" is a mind set that trusts that someone won't find a rationale that something you did was harmful. Then make your life a living hell with "secret evidence" you are not able to see or refute.

To quote Ben Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

How do we, the citizens, reign in the over broad, overzealous surveillance culture? Normally I'd say "cut off the money" but that depends on elected representatives to pass a budget to do just that. Time and again, they have failed to do so.

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