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Submission + - The Pirate Bay Experiences Downtime (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds
Dangerous_Minds writes: It appears that BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay is experiencing some downtime. ZeroPaid notes that users who attempt to access the site see a "Could not connect to caching server 00" error message. Drew Wilson says that it's unlikely that a raid has occurred and that it couldn't be a DNS problem as users can access enough of the site to receive the error message. Still, details are sparse as to the precise problem of the site at this point in time.

Submission + - UK Heat Wave Causes Bird To Transform Natural Stance Into 'Flamingo Swan' (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Rebecka
Rebecka writes: After weeks of battling unusually warm temperatures in the UK, one flamingo has already adapted to the rapid change in climate.

Multiple onlookers at Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire have captured images of one the centre's 250 famously pink birds adapting its natural stance to mimic that of a swan. According to a report from the Telegraph, the wading animal's adaption has experts baffled and has resulted in the new name for the 52-year-old bird: flamingo swan.

Submission + - Ethiopia criminalises Skype (techcentral.co.za)

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: Ethiopia’s state-owned Internet service provider, the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (Ethio-Telcom), has begun performing deep-packet inspection of all Internet traffic in the country. The country’s government recently ushered in new legislation that criminalises the use of services such as Skype, Google Talk and other forms of Internet phone calling. The new law, which came into effect on 24 May, makes use of Internet voice services punishable by hefty fines and up to 15 years in prison. The official line from the government is that the move is intended to protect national security and protect the national, state-owned telecoms carrier from losing revenue to Skype and similar services; this, despite the fact that Ethiopia’s fixed-line penetration rate is the second worst in Africa (after Sierra Leone) at an estimated 1% of its 85m strong population.

Submission + - Ubuntu Touch container flip announced (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Ubuntu Touch development team has made available pre-release test images of the mobile operating system wherein the Ubuntu system launches directly instead of firing up after Android has booted. Up until now Ubuntu resided in a separate area and the OS was fired up on top of Android using ‘change root (chroot).’ This led many to claim that Ubuntu Touch was just another Android shell. The scenario has changed now and new images boot Ubuntu directly following which Android is initialized inside an LXC Container.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Hosting location recommendations in light of NSA'S PRISM & Co. 1

Submitted by digisus
digisus writes: With more and more information about the extent of NSA wiretapping on the world becoming public, I consider moving away from my US-based ISP to one in Europe (or somewhere else) as one step to exercise my right to be left alone. As I would assume a few others share this interest, I am asking the slashdot community for the benefit of all of us: Which countries/jurisdictions and maybe ISPs would you recommend and why?

Submission + - $20,000 Gada prize for reinventing RepRap won (htxt.co.za)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: South African Quentin Harley has picked up the $20,000 Gada Uplift prize for making the open source RepRap 3D printer design easier to build, cheaper to construct and — most importantly — capable of printing more of its own parts. Lots of background on Harley and his RepRap Morgan here

Submission + - Homo Erectus Was The Original Starting Pitcher (insidescience.org)

Submitted by LalenaAIP
LalenaAIP writes: "It's completely ordinary to see today's athletes throw a javelin hundreds of feet in the air or fire baseballs accurately and in excess of 90 mph dozens of times during a game. However, not every close human relative has that ability to throw, despite the great strength that many possess."

Submission + - London house as an optical illusion (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Kittenman
Kittenman writes: The BBC is carrying footage of a London house that allows members of the public to scale walls, stand on windows, and other superhero stuff, all without any bite from a radioactive spider.

Submission + - MS to Indie Devs: Ya' gotta have a publisher! (forbes.com)

Submitted by Loadmaster
Loadmaster writes: The new Oddworld game New 'n' Tasty is coming to every platform in the current generation and even the next generation but not the Xbox One. It's not that developer Oddworld Inhabitants isn't porting the game. It's not that they hate Microsoft or the Xbox One. No, it's that Microsoft has taken an anti-indie dev stance with the Xbox One. While the game industry is moving to Kickstarter and self-funded shops, Microsoft has decided all developers must have a publisher to grace their console.

It just gets worse for Microsoft's new console. They spy on you, control who you let borrow, restrict how you can sell the game, and now they are forcing indie developers to split profit with a partner in the form of an unnecessary publisher. The adage for Microsoft products is that they get it right on rev. 3, but here it seems they've bombed it. Big time.

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