Comment Re:Wonder why NSA didn't go to Fox network first ? (Score 2) 504
They probably figured it would be less 'obvious' if the so-called liberal media supported them instead of the 'obviously' biased Foxnooze.
Comment Big Bad Snowden (Score 1) 504
Test and answers to get hired? They are saying he didnt pass on his own (rather, hacked their systems before he got hired in order to get hired) or went from zero to evil the second he was given access and just went all grabby?
Or are they saying he planned to open a "work for the nsa now, ask me how" website?
Comment Re:Southwest.. (Score 1) 462
document thriller? lol
Comment Re:isn't it possible to detect (Score 1) 923
I think he put "glowing" in quotes to indicate we should have sensors that they can fly around with to find the stuff...not actual green blob stuff....like in the Peacemaker!
Submission + - Do Republicans Really Love Obamacare? (foxnews.com)
Yew2 writes: As one of the most read articles on foxnews.com in the last 24 hours, this opinion piece seems to be squarely in support of the ACA and opines this last ditch effort to defund it was critical to the GOP to prevent it from becoming a mainstay like Social Security and Medicare.
Republicans know what polls show — that most Americans don’t know what’s in ObamaCare, but when told what the law actually includes, a strong majority support the law. Once state health insurance exchanges take effect, and premiums for all Americans go down, Republicans know the law will only become more popular and harder to repeal.
#CAN SOMEONE DO THE HTML PLEASE? IM NET OPS, I H8 CODING ANYTHING!! (but i know how to comment out hostfiles ofc :) )
Republicans know what polls show — that most Americans don’t know what’s in ObamaCare, but when told what the law actually includes, a strong majority support the law. Once state health insurance exchanges take effect, and premiums for all Americans go down, Republicans know the law will only become more popular and harder to repeal.
#CAN SOMEONE DO THE HTML PLEASE? IM NET OPS, I H8 CODING ANYTHING!! (but i know how to comment out hostfiles ofc
Submission + - Neverwet Brings Superhydrophobic Tech To Everyone for $20 (junkee.com)
Yew2 writes: After a two year wait, Rust-Oleum’s NeverWet – an invention of Ross Nanotechnology (great business name, Ross) – has just hit shelves in the States.
It is “a family of super hydrophobic coating that completely repels water and heavy oils,” and you can buy it online here for $20 a can.
It is “a family of super hydrophobic coating that completely repels water and heavy oils,” and you can buy it online here for $20 a can.
Comment Re:Less than $1m each? (Score 1) 132
119m homes? Yea, Id throw every penny at it but maybe since its "research" we are paying salaries and office space (you know that chargeback/funny money stuff they do in companies?) and not much capex.
wonder if the fossil fuel industry is gonna like it - or if this is a smear mission...
Comment Re:Here we go... (Score 1) 918
'merrica, funk yeah!
Comment Re:Here we go... (Score 1) 918
heck with the oil, waitill we install walmarts!
Comment Re:never understood the appeal (Score 1) 189
I wanna play Lands of Lore like it was 1994...and i waited a year
Submission + - Green App Machine Software (greenappmacinesoftware.com)
znibs writes: "Green app machine mobile software allows you to basically, as you probably guessed, generate your own apps for the google play store. Even if you’ve never created an app or have no idea what one is, it will make all your little problems go away by giving you an easy and instructive way to make your own applications for extra money online. C’mon, who doesn’t want extra money in their pocket!?If you haven’t already heard, mobile apps are boosting in sales and creating all the hype for anybody with smartphones or touchscreen devices. Basically, people love them! I believe google play(the android app market store) already has around 25 Billion app downloads as of 2012. Think about how much money that generates!What Green App Machine does for marketing you ask?Well it shows anyone how to simply create an application, sell it, and make you money. I know, seems easy right? Thats because it is and you don’t need to be a brainiac to figure out how to make an app.Three reasons why Green App Machine is awesome:Lets you create and build an unlimited amount of apps!Gives you full legal rights to the applications you have created.Last but certainly not least, it basically requires little to no experience at all and helps you make money by selling what you’ve made."
Submission + - Bradley Manning Audio Leaked (wired.com)
Yew2 writes: Despite onerous Army rules prohibiting recording of the Manning hearings at Ft. Meade, Maryland, the recently formed Freedom of the Press Foundation published anonymously sourced audio of Manning’s full plea allocution on Tuesday, allowing the world for the first time to hear the crisp voice of the 25-year-old Army private as he details his leaking of thousands of Army field reports and a quarter-million State Department diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
Submission + - Mr. President we can't unlock cellphones we signed it away in the FTA with Korea (arl.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot had earlier reported on what appeared to be a positive response from the Obama administration on cellphone usage.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1942235/white-house-urges-reversal-of-ban-on-cell-phone-unlocking
Apparently, the Obama administration may not be able to do anything about it. We have signed away their rights under an FTA with Korea.
Lawyer Jonathan Band, who works for the Association of Research Libraries writes:
"The White House position, however, may be inconsistent with the U.S. proposal in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and existing obligations in the KoreaU.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) and other free trade agreements to which the United States is a party. This demonstrates the danger of including in international agreements rigid provisions that do not accommodate technological development."
You can read more about this issue on a short eight page legal primer by Jonathan Band:
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/band-cell-phone-unlocking-dmca-08mar13.pdf
On an interesting note the US KOREA FTA is possibly inconsistent with our domestic patent/drug law on the Hatch-Waxman Act as well. The FTA requires us to grant injunctions until the patent is invalidated as opposed to thirty months under current domestic law."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1942235/white-house-urges-reversal-of-ban-on-cell-phone-unlocking
Apparently, the Obama administration may not be able to do anything about it. We have signed away their rights under an FTA with Korea.
Lawyer Jonathan Band, who works for the Association of Research Libraries writes:
"The White House position, however, may be inconsistent with the U.S. proposal in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and existing obligations in the KoreaU.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) and other free trade agreements to which the United States is a party. This demonstrates the danger of including in international agreements rigid provisions that do not accommodate technological development."
You can read more about this issue on a short eight page legal primer by Jonathan Band:
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/band-cell-phone-unlocking-dmca-08mar13.pdf
On an interesting note the US KOREA FTA is possibly inconsistent with our domestic patent/drug law on the Hatch-Waxman Act as well. The FTA requires us to grant injunctions until the patent is invalidated as opposed to thirty months under current domestic law."
Submission + - [Call to Arms] Fedora 19 Test Days starts this week (fedoraproject.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Hi Fedora users, developers and friends!
today Fedora 19 was branched from Rawhide. That means testing season begins now and will continue till Fedora 19 Final Release, which may be (or may not be) on 2013-06-25. Please, fasten your seatbelts, fire up your virtual or baremetal machines and enjoy this crash testing ride with us.
Remember: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix/D1Y3XKHJVN4GIMRW.jpg
Before Alpha will (or won't) be ready on 2013-04-16, we have prepared some Test Days[0] for you. Starting this Thursday with KDE 4.10 [1] with one major innovation. You are invited to try how new KDE 4.10 [2] stuff not only using Fedora 19 Live test images, but also from updates-testing repository on your current Fedora stable installation, including both Fedora 18 and Fedora 17 releases. For first time, you can test new version of whole KDE platform before it rolls up and in as an stable update for your Fedora!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-03-14_KDE_4.10
[2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.10/
Well, you may already know about and use Bodhi[3] with karma voting process. But Test Day provides an opportunity to actually talk to developers before KDE 4.10 reaches stable updates and interactively report, explore, debug and fix your issues (or at least find workarounds for the time being). Together we can make this update less painful for everyday Fedora KDE users.
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode and ask QA or developers for help, if you get into trouble. We can try to find workarounds and help you with debugging. Please report all bugs under appropriate component preferably at upstream bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/ regarding common KDE 4.10 issues or Red Hat bugzilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you have problems with Fedora distribution integration. You can also report other Fedora bugs not related to this Test Day. Feel free to ask on IRC, if you don't know against which component or on what bugzilla you should fill the report.
See you in Bugzilla!
today Fedora 19 was branched from Rawhide. That means testing season begins now and will continue till Fedora 19 Final Release, which may be (or may not be) on 2013-06-25. Please, fasten your seatbelts, fire up your virtual or baremetal machines and enjoy this crash testing ride with us.
Remember: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix/D1Y3XKHJVN4GIMRW.jpg
Before Alpha will (or won't) be ready on 2013-04-16, we have prepared some Test Days[0] for you. Starting this Thursday with KDE 4.10 [1] with one major innovation. You are invited to try how new KDE 4.10 [2] stuff not only using Fedora 19 Live test images, but also from updates-testing repository on your current Fedora stable installation, including both Fedora 18 and Fedora 17 releases. For first time, you can test new version of whole KDE platform before it rolls up and in as an stable update for your Fedora!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-03-14_KDE_4.10
[2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.10/
Well, you may already know about and use Bodhi[3] with karma voting process. But Test Day provides an opportunity to actually talk to developers before KDE 4.10 reaches stable updates and interactively report, explore, debug and fix your issues (or at least find workarounds for the time being). Together we can make this update less painful for everyday Fedora KDE users.
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode and ask QA or developers for help, if you get into trouble. We can try to find workarounds and help you with debugging. Please report all bugs under appropriate component preferably at upstream bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/ regarding common KDE 4.10 issues or Red Hat bugzilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you have problems with Fedora distribution integration. You can also report other Fedora bugs not related to this Test Day. Feel free to ask on IRC, if you don't know against which component or on what bugzilla you should fill the report.
See you in Bugzilla!
Submission + - Skyrim New DLC Confirmed As Redguard Release 9th June 2013 (thegamedraw.com)
skyrim writes: Skyrim‘s new download content has been mistakenly revealed on the Australian version of Steam, where the rumoured new DLC content codenamed ‘Redguard’ was shown in the buying menu on Steam with a release date of 9th June 2013.
