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Comment Re:Best is two shifts with some recovery time betw (Score 1) 311

by Bucky24 (#44907687) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive?
I tried out a pair of these the other day:
http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/headphones/noise_cancelling_headphones/quietcomfort_3/index.jsp

Even without music they seemed to be able to almost completely cancel out background noise (though, again, sadly not people talking a few feet away). I would have bought them if I could justify spending over $300 on a pair of headphones right now. It was like ear pillows.

Submission + - 11 Million Users Leave FaceBook (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: Earlier this year, reports suggested that Facebook lost nine million active monthly users in the U.S and two million in Britain. These figures originated from research carried out by SocialBakers in April. The figures come straight from Facebook's API, but is not the same as Facebook losing user numbers, for example. Monthly active users are the number of people who log into their account over a 30-day period. SocialBakers saw a drop in this figure prior to the report in April. Reasons for quitting Facebook were mainly privacy concerns (48.3 per cent), followed by a general dissatisfaction (13.5 per cent), negative aspects of online friends (12.6 per cent) and the feeling of getting addicted (6.0 per cent). That said, psychologist Stefan Stieger from the university recorded each of the 600 participants' responses to assessment measures based on their level of concern over various issues. Those who stopped using social media were more concerned about privacy, had higher addiction scores and tended to be more conscientious.

Comment Re:Monopoly on social interaction (Score 1) 192

by Bucky24 (#44833967) Attached to: Facebook Deletes Social Fixer Community Page Without Explanation
The costs involved in creating a social media site are trivial compared to creating an oil company. Creating a social media site can be done by a programmer in a basement living off of cheetos (though it probably wouldn't be a great site). Creating an oil company would take many more people and much more money. The two things aren't really comparable.

I have a feeling what you're trying to say is that you have as much chance of being successful at creating a thriving social media site as you do starting your own oil company. Which may be true. But that's not what GP was saying.

Submission + - Guy DDoS's his old boss and gets caught (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Brian Krebs writes about a story abouy a hacker who gets caught doing DDoS attacks against his former employer. He ends up learning the hard way what NOT to do when launching DDoS attacks using Booter services.

Submission + - Can a Japanese AI Get Into University? (ieee.org)

Submitted by the_newsbeagle
the_newsbeagle writes: Japanese researchers are trying to develop an artificial intelligence program that can pass the standardized test required of all college-bound high school students. Interestingly, the AI is showing good progress in the history portion of the exam, because it's fairly adept at looking up answers in a vast textual database. But the so-called Todai Robot is having trouble with math, "because the questions are presented as word problems, which the Todai Robot must translate into equations that it can solve," as well as with physics, which "presumes that the robot understands the rules of the universe." If the AI does succeed in mastering the general university exam, researchers will next tackle the notoriously difficult University of Tokyo entrance exam, which will require the bot to write essays.

Submission + - 5 Signs That Your Team Member Wants a Promotion (as told by Star Trek) (smartbear.com)

Submitted by Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: A good manager needs to be constantly on the lookout for signals of ambition, lest their subordinates move on to a job where a career path doesn't have a stop sign or they may look to Mirror Chekov as an example. Carol Pinchefsky uses examples from Star Trek to show managers how to tell that a protégée, assistant, team member, or red shirt is looking to move up in rank. Or maybe just get a different shirt.

And, as with so many of her articles, the article is both funny and a truly useful guide.

Your assistant has been busy lately. He isn’t just doing his job; he also is helping the new hire with hers. In addition to showing her the workings of the office coffee machine (obviously the most important part of the job), he has been answering the little questions that crop up every day, as well as the bigger questions such as procedures.

And when the new hire slips up, your assistant never once asks her for her agonizer.

Comfortably guiding a new employee and making her feel welcome in your group is one of many ways that your assistant plays well with others. And that’s something any decent corporate culture needs more of.

Besides, how often do you get to watch Star Trek clips and tell yourself they are helping you be a better team lead?

Submission + - NSA Still Funded to Spy On US Phone Records,Vote Fails 3

Submitted by turp182
turp182 writes: The Amash Amendment (#100) to HR 2397 (DOD appropriations bill) failed to pass the House of Representatives (this link will change tomorrow, it is the current day activity of the House) at 6:54PM EST today, meaning it will not be added to the appropriations bill. The amendment would have specifically defunded the bulk collection of American phone records.

Roll call may not be available until tomorrow.

Subjective: Let freedom be reigned.

Comment Re:Spikes (Score 1) 391

by Bucky24 (#44106745) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance?
It does look like an interesting browser, though there are two issues that would make me leery about using it if I was trying to be completely secure:
1) Encrypted tunnels. There seems to be rumors floating around that the NSA in particular is capable of breaking encryption.
2) It appears, from looking at your datasheet, that some form of metadata is persisted in the cloud.

Reporting – Intuitive dashboard reports on browsing activity, various security events and alarms, and top trends in users and groups.

Unless this data collection could be completely turned off by the user, I would not consider this to be perfectly safe, because, as you said, you have to comply with warrants. And even if it was turned off, who's to say that it can't be turned back on, without notification to the user, again by a warrant?

Though I suppose the second could be avoided by purchasing a Spike Appliance, but then again, that's trusting a "black box" server with all your traffic. If the server itself was made open source it would be a lot safer but that would take away your revenue stream so there's little chance that will happen.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 276

by Bucky24 (#44106053) Attached to: Join COBOL's Next Generation

Let me guess: you are one of the new breed of brogrammers that think Java and C# are real languages.

I know you're just trolling, but I am curious to know: What is it you think that prevents Java and C# from being real languages?

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