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Submission + - New Cryptographic Timestamping Service Leveraging Bitcoin (cryptostamp.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Crypto Stamp places a timestamp on your files such that you can prove the time the file existed to anyone else without relying on Crypto Stamp as a trusted third-party. Obvious uses are proving patent designs or homework completion before a certain date. But, people could find many other uses for their personal or business life. A mobile app allows you to keep secure timestamps of all photos you take, and a developer API allows others to develop services which use Crypto Stamp.

Submission + - Google Removes CSS Regions From Blink - An Optimization Too Far (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Google and Opera split from WebKit to create Blink, their own HTML rendering engine, and everyone was worried about the effect on standards. Now we have the first big example of a split in the form of CSS Regions support. Essentially Regions are used to provide the web equivalent of text flow, a concept very familiar to anyone who has used a DTP (DeskTop Publishing) program. The basic idea is that you define containers for a text stream which is then flowed from one container to another to provide a complex multicolumn layout. The W3C standard for Regions has mostly been created by Adobe — long time DTP company. Now the Blink team propose to remove Regions support saving 10,000 lines of code in 350,000 in the name of efficiency.
If Google does remove the Regions code, which looks highly likely, this would leave Safari and IE 10/11 as the only two major browsers to support Regions. Both Apple and Microsoft have an interest in ensuring that their hardware can be used to create high quality magazine style layouts — Google and Opera aren't so concerned. I thought standards were there to implement not argue with.

Submission + - Stop Trying To "Innovate" Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by FuzzNugget
FuzzNugget writes: Ars Technica brings the hammer down on the increasing absurdities plaguing laptop keyboards, from the frustrating to the downright asinine "adaptive keyboard" of the new Lenovo X1 Carbon. When will laptop manufacturers finally perform a much needed cranialrectalectomy instead of needlessly reinventing the wheel with every new generation?

Comment Re:Now we're in trouble... (Score 1, Funny) 278

by greenfruitsalad (#45937639) Attached to: British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit

I don't think it's a trust thing, I believe it's to do with cost and danger self regulation. A car crash at 250 km/h doesn't need an ambulance, only a cleaning service and a token policeman to take a few photos. Also, it's like a sped up evolution: Idiots disappear rather quickly and permanently.

I for one, only pushed my car to its max once, got that urge out of my system and rarely exceeded 150 km/h after that.

Comment Re:The Slashdot Beta needs to go. (Score 1) 51

by greenfruitsalad (#45837695) Attached to: Partially Censored Database From Snapchat Intrusion Released

it's because people who like it don't feel the need to post comments to unrelated discussions. i for one, despise the current look and look forward to having the new one as standard. then again, i would not want to impose it on people who hate it just because I like it. theme should be settable in account preferences.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best way to implement Wave protocol self hosted? (rizzoma.com)

Submitted by zeigerpuppy
zeigerpuppy writes: It's time to revisit Wave, or is it? I have been looking to implement a Wave installation on my server for private group collaboration. However, all evolutions of Wave seem to be closed-source or experiencing minimal development. I was excited about Kune, but its development looks stalled and despite Rizzoma claiming to be Open-Source, their code is nowhere to be found! Wave-in-a-box looks dead. So Slashdotters, do any of you have a working self-hosted wave implementation?

Submission + - Document Management system for home use? 3

Submitted by mrkimile
mrkimile writes: I'm looking for a Document Management system that would help me reduce the amount of papers I need to have lying around.
The general idea would be to have all the incoming papers scanned and 'stored' into the DMS — with references to the filing cabinets/folders in my 'storage' area. I'd like to use it for most of the stuff I keep receiving at my household — for instance, all the government/IRS related stuff. Then, all the work orders from car repair shop(s), house appliance maintenance lads (for instance: I had a refrigerator fixed, under warranty, and currently I have the receipts stored in a 'Refrigirator' folder in my folder-cabinet, along with the warranty cards and all of it), etc. etc.
Also, now that I have a newborn coming along I'd like to keep all his papers in the DMS (the birth certificate, vaccination stuff, all the medical papers that I'll be receiving from various specialists), etc, etc. (I do live in Croatia and we still receive TONS of papers from various government offices/departments).

I've checked several of them, but those are either too complicated, or seem like an overkill (Alfresco), or don't have the necessary functionality (openKM — no way to add additional metadata, and then link documents via that metadata, etc, etc).

I'd prefer to use opensource web based Linux running system (so that both my wife and myself have easy access to the stuff), but i'm fine with desktop-based solution (either Linux or Windows). Also, I'd like it to be self-hosted, I kind-of don't want to share my documents with cloud-based services.

Submission + - Free open source YouTube-clone alternatives for DIY hosting? (gamespot.com)

Submitted by BlueToast
BlueToast writes: With the recent waves of content ID take-downs and backlash, what alternatives and options do YouTube content creators have to host videos themselves while still having the user friendliness of YouTube video browsing, channel management, editing, annotations, and highly-compatible automated video transcoding processing?

I like being able to take recordings straight from my phone and camcorder and upload them straight to YouTube and be automatically processed into different quality versions and guaranteed compatibility, but do not have the same experience with DIY self-hosted solutions that often are sensitive to the video format and troublesome to get working in Flash/HTML5-players. I just want to have something as easy to install and configure like WordPress while being as functional and powerful as YouTube and in my full control through my own resources. I have uses for this privately on company intranets and in public on the web.

Comment Re:Hyperbole (Score 1) 107

by greenfruitsalad (#45714713) Attached to: Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network

what kind of mentality is this? you hate assholes like me? do you know me or anything about me?

do you objectively not see anything wrong with this approach to people? i.e.: you're not for us, therefore you're against us and i hate your guts.

i have not, in my entire life, seen a christmas parade (probably an american thing) but if there ever was one, i'm sure it was just as inclusive a commercial event as any coca cola advert. on the other hand I have personally seen no fewer than 3 major gay protests/parades/events this year.

Comment Re:Hyperbole (Score 1) 107

by greenfruitsalad (#45712313) Attached to: Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network

While I'm in no way defending the russian approach, surely I cannot be the only one who, after reading this, thinks of all the stupid omnipresent parades, billboards, buses with posters, tv shots, etc... that rub gay behaviour in people's faces in UK. We need a "we don't care (but you are getting annoying), get used to it!" campaign.

Obligatory Simpsons s13e06, Gay pride parade scene:

Gay Men: We're here, we're queer, get used to it!
Lisa: You do this every year. We are used to it!
Gay Man: Spoilsport!!

I've got karma to waste, so go ahead.

Submission + - Google Autocomplete Ruins Man's Life (ibtimes.co.uk) 1

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: Google's autocomplete function turned a mild-mannered man into a terror suspect and four years of sustained harassment by various US government investigators, according to a lawsuit filed today. Jeffery Kantor says that Google's autocomplete changed ""How do I build a radio controlled airplane?" to "How do I build a radio controlled bomb?" triggering a sequence of events which saw him lose his job. He is seeking $58million in damages.

Submission + - Heavy metal shows piracy is not killing music, offers new business model (deathmetal.org)

Submitted by hessian
hessian writes: Despite being extensively pirated worldwide, Iron Maiden have managed to put themselves in the £10-20m for 2012. This means that despite the growing popularity of the band on social media, and the extensive and pervasive torrent downloading of the band’s music, books and movies, the band is turning a profit. This is in defiance of the past business model, and the idea that piracy is killing music. In fact, piracy seems to be saving music in Iron Maiden’s case.

One reason for this may be metal itself. It has a fiercely loyal fanbase and a clear brand and identity, even down to the uniform-style black tshirts that fans wear that differ only in band logo and art. The audience identifies with the genre, which stands in contrast to genericized genres like pop, rock and rap. It doggedly maintains its own identity and shuns outsiders. As a result, fans tend to identify more with their music, and place a higher value on purchasing it.

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