Comment Re:Sorry guys, but you are full of shit (Score 1) 533
BYOD is no hindrance to MITM... or is that a choice.
Submission + - Popular Science Magazine: About the Cell towers (popsci.com)
Trachman writes: Popular Science magazine has published an article about a network of cell towers that are owned not by telecommunication companies but by internal US agencies that are, well... gathering, data of US citizens. Many of them are built in US military bases. The revelation states that individual users are being tracked without court order or any warrant nor the knowledge of cell service providers and are built with the sole purpose of .... data gathering (spying, monitoring).
Comment Re:Voltaire (Score 1) 441
i think he forgot to tag his life with a "satire" tag
Comment Re:Sue the bastards (Score 1) 441
this just in we can no longer afford freedoms, i think that has something to do with gay marriage or taliban, on or the other
Submission + - Jennifer Lawrence/iCloud Hack and the Need for Zero-Knowledge Data Storage (calltheninja.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The recent hack of dozens of celebrity iCloud accounts and subsequent theft/posting of their private photos highlights the need for host-proof aka "zero-knowledge" data storage. Companies like SpiderOak have been using this technology for years so why are DropBox and Apple so far behind?
Comment Re:Meanwhile in the Ukraine... (Score 1) 34
waiting for that movie to come out, justin bieber as putin
Comment Re:Elephant in the room (Score 1) 181
yes back then I couldn't afford a computer or memory upgrade
Submission + - Tribler makes Bittorrent anonymous with built-in Tor network (torrentfreak.com)
pouwelse writes: Researchers at Delft University of Technology have released the first public test of their anonymous BitTorrent client. With the new Tribler release users can share files more securely, without exposing their IP-address to the rest of the world.
Comment Re:The 3 year cycle... (Score 1) 181
please check out StarCItizen. if it's to your taste... you will upgrade
Comment Re:Elephant in the room (Score 1) 181
your lawn is too new, i paid close to 200/mb
Comment Re:*drool* (Score 1) 181
haha i am still using mine though soon i will succumb to starcitizen and an upgrade
Comment blackberry (Score 1) 635
yup still got my torch and its magnificent 3g speeds (in cell phone terms... its old i think)
Comment Re:Broadwell (Score 4, Informative) 181
if you can wait then you should always wait for new tech
Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia 579
Andreas Kolbe writes Wikipedia is well known to have a very large gender imbalance, with survey-based estimates of women contributors ranging from 8.5% to around 16%. This is a more extreme gender imbalance than even that of Reddit, the most male-dominated major social media platform, and it has a palpable effect on Wikipedia content. Moreover, Wikipedia editor survey data indicate that only 1 in 50 respondents is a mother – a good proportion of female contributors are in fact minors, with women in their twenties less likely to contribute to Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation efforts to address this "gender gap" have so far remained fruitless. Wikipedia's demographic pattern stands in marked contrast to female-dominated social media sites like Facebook and Pinterest, where women aged 18 to 34 are particularly strongly represented. It indicates that it isn't lack of time or family commitments that keep women from contributing to Wikipedia – women simply find other sites more attractive. Wikipedia's user interface and its culture of anonymity may be among the factors leading women to spend their online time elsewhere.
Submission + - Seagate Ships World's First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive (hothardware.com) 1
MojoKid writes: Seagate announced today that it has begun shipping the world's first 8 Terabyte hard drive. The 8TB hard drive comes only five months after Western Digital released the first ever 6TB HDD. Up until then, Seagate's high capacity HDDs had been shipping only to select enterprise clients. The 8TB HDD comes in the 3.5-inch form factor and, according to the manufacturer, features a SATA 6Gbps interface and multi-drive RV tolerance which makes it suitable for data centers. It's unclear what technology the drive is based on, or if PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) or low-resistance helium technology was employed.
