41692587
submission
dgharmon writes:
"After a years long legal battle, federal prosecutors in Belgium now believe their investigation is complete enough to charge the Church of Scientology and its leaders as a criminal organization on charges of extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine .. The Belgian government won't charge Scientology for being a cult — authorities are focusing on prosecuting it as a criminal organization" ...
41690909
submission
dgharmon writes:
'New York City police .. claim they found 7 grams of HMTD .. “The Terrorist Encyclopedia” .. a flare launcher that replicates a grenade launcher, a modified 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun, ammunition, and nine high-capacity rifle magazines .. officers obtained a search warrant to enter the apartment stemming from a case of credit card-theft, which Gliedman was allegedly wanted for' ...
41662927
submission
dgharmon writes:
"Nick Stahl was arrested .. inside the store's private porn-viewing booth committing a lewd act. He was taken into custody and booked on misdemeanor lewd conduct .. one of the cops who brought Stahl in was also responsible for interrupting Fred Willard's visit to an adult movie theater in mid-July" ...
41656133
submission
dgharmon writes:
New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
41319261
submission
dgharmon writes:
As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations.
Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8.
The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange.
The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols.
41177363
submission
dgharmon writes:
The famed futurist will focus on machine learning and language processing, he says on his Web site.
41064173
submission
dgharmon writes:
"IT problems have led to a two-year delay in rolling out a bowel cancer test that could save thousands of lives, the Department of Health has admitted".
"BCSS bowel cancer screening system .. PCT Exeter System X 84 .. Open Exeter Database Server .. The live environment consists of Redhat, Tomcat and Apache set up on BCSSBIWEB1. Redhat and Oracle client are on BCSSBIAPP1 with BCCDMI running the Oracle database in a Unix environment.
41047053
submission
dgharmon writes:
"Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his .. embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins' charity .. Dawkins hired Josh Timonen in 2006 to run his website and produce videos for him .. Because legal requirements imposed by the British Charities Commission prohibited the British wing of the foundation from running its own store, Dawkins says he asked Timonen to run the store through his company, Upper Branch Productions.\"
Our new YouTube account is now closed
40992083
submission
dgharmon writes:
If you’ve been paying for an antivirus for Windows XP, Vista, or 7, you can consider cancelling that next subscription if you’re moving to 8 .. The fact that only Microsoft has access to the source code is one major reason why you should be trusting them to secure your system ...
40979409
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dgharmon writes:
A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working on. Mathematicians don't answer questions by working them out on paper the way schoolchildren are taught to.
They do more in their heads: they try to understand a problem space well enough that they can walk around it the way you can walk around the memory of the house you grew up in. At its best programming is the same. You hold the whole program in your head, and you can manipulate it at will.
40849549
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dgharmon writes:
The man revealed by The Independent to be running a website offering to pay the tuition fees of female students in return for sex can today be named as a highly paid computer consultant who claims to have top-level Ministry of Defence security clearance and access to top secret material.
40848573
submission
dgharmon writes:
"A mysterious shell company [Clouding IP LLC] is suing the New York Times and other major media outlets for patent infringement because they offer mobile apps and a website."
"Plaintiff Clouding IP, LLC ("Clouding") is a Delaware limited liability company having a principal place of business at 2 Terrace Way, Suite C, Greenboro, North Carolina 27403"
' StecIP, LLC 2 Terrace Way, Greenboro, North Carolina
40581909
submission
dgharmon writes:
More than five years after it began selling PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled in the United States, Dell has compiled a lackluster record in the eyes of many Linux advocates when it comes to promoting open source alternatives to Windows.
Yet as a Canonical employee recently pointed out, Dell is now offering a $70 markdown on one laptop model when customers purchase it with Ubuntu instead of a Microsoft OS. Is this a mistake, or a sign of changes to come on Dell’s part?
40309835
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dgharmon writes:
A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the computers of Stratfor.
Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he could be sentenced to serve anywhere from 360 months-to-life if convicted on all charges relating to last year’s hack of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, a global intelligence company whose servers were infiltrated by an offshoot of the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Hammond is not likely to take the stand until next year, but so far has been imprisoned for eight months without trial. Legal proceedings in the case might soon be called into question, however, after it’s been revealed that Judge Preska’s husband was a victim of the Stratfor hack.
40304305
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dgharmon writes:
Microsoft obviously designed most of its stores by taking photographs of an Apple Store and literally copying every last aspect. I would say "detail," but that makes it sound like Microsoft was thorough in its larceny. There are no cosmetic distinctions. None.
