Comment privacy blocker (Score 1) 1
is something of the sort
Submission + - Can I Make My Android Phone Lie? 1
Nom du Keyboard writes: After the Pandora personal information tracking fiasco (I wondered why that app always started every time I rebooted, even when I hadn't used it for weeks), and now having yet another app (today it's Layar) ask in its latest update for access to even more personal information that it absolutely doesn't need to do its job, I'd like to know: Can I make my Android phone just outright lie to these applications that don't need this personal information to start with? After all, it is MY phone.
Comment Re:What a shitbag... (Score 1) 464
You would be wrong. The mainstream media loves nothing more than death, destruction, and horrible people. A woman saving herself from rape would be poor ratings
Comment Re:Manufactured Crisis (Score 1) 5
Why would anyone else care? Oh no batman! we can no longer track your data through 7 wipes! what a crisis.
Submission + - SSDs cause crisis for digital forensics (techworld.com) 5
rifles only writes: Firmware built into many solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, Australian researchers have discovered.
They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker.
They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker.
Submission + - How cyborg tech could link the minds of the world (silicon.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Science writer Michael Chorost has written a book that suggests that mankind may one day be able to link individual minds to share thoughts, feelings and perceptions by genetically modifying individuals brains and implanting computers based on neural networks in the body. Here he talks about the implications for human relationships, our sense of self and phenomenon like telempathy and dream brainstorming that this so-called World Wide Mind would make possible.
Submission + - Combating Pornography (combatingpornography.org)
ntnsllc writes: Combating Pornography
Submission + - Online Radio moves into Vermont (freevermontradio.org)
radiofree writes: Radio Free Vermont is Vermont's largest online radio station with listeners in over 130 countries. Playing 99% Vermont made music where the listeners control the playlist by requesting, rating and commenting on songs.
Submission + - Using the Web to Turn Kids into Autodidacts
theodp writes: Autodidacticism — self-education or self-directed learning — is nothing new, but the Internet holds the promise of taking it to the masses. Sugata Mitra, an Indian physicist whose earlier educational experiments inspired the film 'Slumdog Millionaire,' is convinced that, with the Internet, kids can learn by themselves so long as they are in small groups and have well-posed questions to answer. And now, Mitra's Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLE) are going global, with testing in schools in Australia, Colombia, England and India. On their own, children can get about 30% of the knowledge required to pass exams, so to go further, Dr. Mitra supplements SOLE with e-mediators, amateur volunteers who use Skype to help kids learn online. While the U.S. has been slow to embrace SOLE, America does its autodidacticism evangelists. Dr. Yung Tae Kim (another physicist) similarly espouses setting up smaller high school and college classes as 'problem solving workshops' where students can work together in groups, with the teacher acting less as an instructor and more as a troubleshooter, helping students if and when they get stuck.
Submission + - Grad students at SLAC told not to access Wikileaks
An anonymous reader writes: In a recent Slashdot story, the state department warned graduate students not to discuss the leaked diplomatic cables online. Myself and other graduate students affiliated with SLAC, an entirely academic DOE research lab run by Stanford University, were warned about accessing Wikileaks altogether. The email follows:
To: SLAC Staff and Community
Subject: Do Not Access wikileaks.org Using Government Resources
The Department of Energy has determined that anyone using a DOE resource to access wikileaks.org poses a serious security risk. An extract from an official DOE communication is included here:
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Any users navigating to wikileaks.org will pose a serious risk of introducing classified information to an unclassified machine. Clem Boylston, CISO for the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence sent out a note to the community stating, “Any document that is on an Internet web site that is purported to be classified cannot be downloaded to an unclassified computer system without contaminating the unclassified computer system (i.e., a spill).” In this case, “downloaded” would not only mean the actual process of saving it to the hard drive, but also the simple case of viewing it as the information is cached on the local machine when doing so.
Anyone using their DOE computer to view the purported classified information posted on the website would merit involvement to the appropriate DOE authorities for a full review and analysis of severity
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Accordingly, no SLAC resource (i.e., computer, network, VPN, SLAC wireless) may be used to access or assist in accessing wikileaks.org by any SLAC staff member or visitor.
Thank you,
Sandy Merola
To: SLAC Staff and Community
Subject: Do Not Access wikileaks.org Using Government Resources
The Department of Energy has determined that anyone using a DOE resource to access wikileaks.org poses a serious security risk. An extract from an official DOE communication is included here:
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Any users navigating to wikileaks.org will pose a serious risk of introducing classified information to an unclassified machine. Clem Boylston, CISO for the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence sent out a note to the community stating, “Any document that is on an Internet web site that is purported to be classified cannot be downloaded to an unclassified computer system without contaminating the unclassified computer system (i.e., a spill).” In this case, “downloaded” would not only mean the actual process of saving it to the hard drive, but also the simple case of viewing it as the information is cached on the local machine when doing so.
Anyone using their DOE computer to view the purported classified information posted on the website would merit involvement to the appropriate DOE authorities for a full review and analysis of severity
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Accordingly, no SLAC resource (i.e., computer, network, VPN, SLAC wireless) may be used to access or assist in accessing wikileaks.org by any SLAC staff member or visitor.
Thank you,
Sandy Merola
Submission + - State Dept Warns Students Not to Discuss Wikileaks (huffingtonpost.com)
Maestro485 writes: Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week... Students who will be applying for jobs in the federal government could jeopardize their prospects by posting links to WikiLeaks online, or even by discussing the leaked documents on social networking sites, the official was quoted as saying.
Submission + - Update on Paypal's rejection of WikiLeaks
thetinytoon writes: Just to be clear: Paypal did not deactivate an account of Wikileaks, but of the german Wau Holland Foundation. Wau Holland was a german hacker and journalist and one of the founders of the largest german hacker community, the Chaos Computer Club. After his death in 2001, family and friends of Wau founded the Wau Holland Foundation to preserve his ideals and attitudes by broadening the knowledge and fun in (information) technology.
Although no clear statement has been released so far, the foundation did provide monetary help to WikiLeaks, among other projects. Suspending the account of the foundation for a loose link to WikiLeaks is a really bold step for PayPal. There are still other methods to support WikiLeaks. Hopefully, the online support button will be back soon. Hey Peter, how about PayPal-functionality in Flattr?
Although no clear statement has been released so far, the foundation did provide monetary help to WikiLeaks, among other projects. Suspending the account of the foundation for a loose link to WikiLeaks is a really bold step for PayPal. There are still other methods to support WikiLeaks. Hopefully, the online support button will be back soon. Hey Peter, how about PayPal-functionality in Flattr?
Submission + - China views Internet as "controllable" (nytimes.com)
Radcliffe_V writes: "According to a leaked cable via Wikileaks, the Chinese government views the internet as very controllable, despite western views otherwise. The New York Times article also sheds light on how involved the Chinese government is in cyber attacks against US assets and companies such as Google."
Submission + - Wave goodbye to Internet freedom (washingtontimes.com)
broknstrngz writes: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries. The agency's chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement could better reflect the gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama administration policies.
With a straight face, Mr. Genachowski suggested that government red tape will increase the "freedom" of online services that have flourished because bureaucratic busybodies have been blocked from tinkering with the Web. Ordinarily, it would be appropriate at this point to supply an example from the proposed regulations illustrating the problem. Mr. Genachowski's draft document has over 550 footnotes and is stamped "non-public, for internal use only" to ensure nobody outside the agency sees it until the rules are approved in a scheduled Dec. 21 vote. So much for "openness."
With a straight face, Mr. Genachowski suggested that government red tape will increase the "freedom" of online services that have flourished because bureaucratic busybodies have been blocked from tinkering with the Web. Ordinarily, it would be appropriate at this point to supply an example from the proposed regulations illustrating the problem. Mr. Genachowski's draft document has over 550 footnotes and is stamped "non-public, for internal use only" to ensure nobody outside the agency sees it until the rules are approved in a scheduled Dec. 21 vote. So much for "openness."
OpenSUSE To Offer a Rolling Release Repository 72
dkd903 writes "While the rumors of Ubuntu moving to a rolling release have been brought to a halt, another major Linux distribution is looking to provide a rolling release. In a message to the opensuse-project mailing list, openSUSE developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a new project – openSUSE Tumbleweed. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed will provide a rolling release for those openSUSE users who wishes to have a rolling release. It will essentially be a repo containing the latest stable versions of the applications."
