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Submission + - Gtalk message delivered, to the wrong person 1

Submitted by stormspirit on Thursday September 26, 2013 @04:50AM

stormspirit writes: Remember the last embarrassing moment of sending your text messages to the wrong recipients? Clearly, Google wants to remind you the fact that even though the (Gtalk) messages now live in the cloud, they could also be embarrassingly delivered to unintended recipients. But this time, it's not your mistake. According to the news, "So far, there seems no pattern to whom the message is being delivered to by mistake. Also, it is not clear how many users have been affected affected by the bug." Maybe it's time we talk about the cliché of privacy breach again?

Submission + - Ceylon programming language reaches version 1.0 beta 2

Submitted by informagicien on Thursday September 26, 2013 @03:07AM

informagicien writes: After more than three years of development, Ceylon is now feature-complete. Ceylon 1.0 beta implements the whole language specification, providing the capability to execute Ceylon programs on both Java and JavaScript virtual machines and to interoperate with native code written for those platforms.

Submission + - Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was A Mistake

Submitted by theodp on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:58AM

theodp writes: If he'd had his druthers, Bill Gates told a Harvard audience, Ctrl+Alt+Del would never have seen the light of day. However, an IBM keyboard designer didn’t want to give Microsoft a single button to start things up, and thus the iconic three-finger-salute was born.

Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 631

by trickstyhobbit on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @06:36AM (#44946097) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?

I learned to love that menu. At first I was really annoyed with how much work I had to do to set up the system the way I liked it but I had just come from Ubuntu where everything is done for you. It was a real eye opener to see how much customization is possible in Linux. I think that using CrunchBang really changed what I expected from a distro and more than anything, it helped me learn the system as a new user and gave me quite a bit more confidence.

Comment Not linear (Score 2) 631

by trickstyhobbit on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @06:31AM (#44946069) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?

It's not like their trajectory is set in stone. Canonical may respond to the criticisms from users and begin to move in a new direction. Plus, Ubuntu is a fantastic base to build on cf Linux Mint, and I still think Ubuntu is the best way to introduce new users to Linux. I think it is nearsighted to proclaim the beginning of the end.

Submission + - Honda recalls Odyssey, Acura MDX for airbag defect (azcentral.com)

Submitted by Margjer on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @06:22AM

Margjer writes: TOKYO--Honda Motor Co. said Thursday it is recalling 318,000 Odyssey minivans in the U.S. and 63,400 Acura MDX sport-utility vehicles in several nations for an airbag defect.

The Japanese automaker said there have been no crashes related to the problem. Honda is also recalling 23,300 Odyssey minivans in Canada.

Tokyo-based Honda said it received complaints recently that the airbag opened unnecessarily in the 2003 and 2004 model year Odyssey and the 2003 Acura MDX because the computer chip for airbag deployment was responding to electrical interference.

Honda said a part called an electrical noise filter needs to be installed to prevent the problem.

Submission + - Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft Model of Great Britain 1

Submitted by jeremyp on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @06:13AM

jeremyp writes: Ordnance Survey intern Joseph Braybrook has created a Minecraft World based upon accurate terrain mapping data of Great Britain. The world accurately represents the whole of Great Britain and surrounding islands (but excludes Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands). It maps 224,000 square kilometres of Greast Britain and contains 22 billion blocks. Graham Dunlop (Ordnance Survey Innovation Lab Manager) says:
We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data

The map can be downloaded from the Ordnance Survey here.

Submission + - Psychohistory advances

Submitted by cedarhillbilly on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @05:55AM

cedarhillbilly writes: Conflict reduction turns out to be the driver for emergence of complex civilization
from the article: "The study focuses on the interaction of ecology and geography as well as the spread of military innovations and predicts that selection for ultra-social institutions that allow for cooperation in huge groups of genetically unrelated individuals and large-scale complex states, is greater where warfare is more intense."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130923155538.htm

Submission + - The Hunt For The Perfect API (mulesoft.org)

Submitted by MuleSoft on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:49PM

MuleSoft writes: Revisiting Joshua Bloch's 2006 talk on How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters, James Donelan (VP, Engineering at MuleSoft) has written an article about designing the perfect API. Fast-forward nine years later and everything Joshua said holds true, even if the technology and approach for creating APIs is vastly different today.

Submission + - Visionary Nintendo President Yamauchi Dies (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by trickstyhobbit on Thursday September 19, 2013 @05:57AM

trickstyhobbit writes: Former Nintendeo president and majority stockholder Hiroshi Yamauchi has died. He was president of the comapany for over 50 years and saw the development of the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube among other devices

Submission + - Top 5 Glorified Widgets Which Were Never Dispatched! (gizmofeast.com)

Submitted by mukulchauhan3 on Thursday September 19, 2013 @05:57AM

mukulchauhan3 writes: Isn’t it just troublesome when curiosity gets the best of you? When a technology lover see’s new widgets’ being displayed all over but then never gets a chance to hold it in his/her hands, it’s upsetting. It’s like showing a baby a lollipop and then not giving it to him/her. Unfortunately a lot of gadgets made it till the big screen but were never used and felt. Being listed below are a few gadgets which were talked a lot about but then they were never released...

Submission + - Skype Bypasses Windows 8.1 Lock Screen 2

Submitted by ChristW on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @05:35AM

ChristW writes: From a blog entry on the Skype website, it is clear that "you can answer calls directly from your lock screen". So, if I lock my Windows PC and walk away, any passer by can answer my personal Skype calls.

Submission + - Change.org petition, ARM SoC changes for Linux 3.12 invite Torvalds' fury (paritynews.com) 1

Submitted by hypnosec on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @05:35AM

hypnosec writes: Linus Torvalds, in response to a petition on Change.org to remove RdRand from /dev/random, has lambasted the petitioner by called him ignorant for not understanding the code in Linux Kernel. Kyle Condon from UK raised a petition on Change.org to get Linus to remove RdRand from /dev/random in a bid “to improve the overall security of the linux kernel.” In his response, Torvalds asked the Condon and the supports of the petition to gain an understanding of Linux drivers, cryptography and then "come back here and admit to the world that you were wrong." Torvalds stressed that kernel maintainers knew what they were doing and the petitioner didn’t. Torvalds, in a similar outburst just yesterday, hoped that "ARM SoC hardware designers all die in some incredibly painful accident." This came in response to a message from Kevin Hilman when he noted that there were quite a few conflicts in the ARM SoC pull request for Linux 3.12, which were a result of the platform changes conflicting with driver changes going in to the V4L tree.

Submission + - Credit Suisse CIO Discusses Return On Investment for IT (diginomica.com)

Submitted by Drewdad on Friday August 30, 2013 @08:25AM

Drewdad writes: Stuart Lauclan writes on Steve Hilton's statements at VMWorld:

Hilton has been speaking at the VMworld conference in San Francisco this week about the challenges he faces as an IT decision maker of a major enterprise. His account makes for insightful reading – and covers a set of challenges all too familiar to his peer group.
On security:
“I was saying to somebody just the other day, I actually believe that we need to start viewing the data center network as untrusted. We’ve just got to the point we’re viewing our LAN, our office network, we’re viewing as untrusted."
On hybrid clouds:
And while hybrid cloud is something that is worth considering, Hilton isn’t keen on the idea of OpenStack: “My answer’s no. It’s not worth it. I’ve got 15,000, 20,000 VDI systems running on VMware. I’ve got probably another 30,000 virtual servers, 25,000 to 30,000. I like having a single fabric. It’s very important to have a single fabric. If I go back and go OpenStack, that’s not where the money is. “The money is in my people having to build, having to certify, and run it and operate it. The money we spend with integrated stack like VMware pays for itself, magnitudes, like hundreds of times when it comes to my people’s cost to run it.”

Submission + - Indian Government to ban use of US email services for official communications (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec on Friday August 30, 2013 @07:22AM

hypnosec writes: The Government of India is planning to ban the use of US based email services like Gmail for official communications and is soon going to send out a formal notification to it half a million officials across the country asking them to use official email addresses and services provided by National Informatics Centre. The move is intended to increase the security of confidential government data and information and protect it from overseas surveillance.

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