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Submission + - Groklaw Shutdown in wake of Lavabit shutdown, NSA firestorm (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by KrisJon
KrisJon writes: Blogger Pamela Jones will shut down her award-winning legal news website Groklaw following revelations that the NSA is intercepting the world's internet communications. Jones, also known as PJ, said in a final farewell article that the shutdown of encrypted email provider Lavabit, used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, had prompted her decision to discontinue the site.

"The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too," she said. "There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum."
Software

Submission + - Mexican congressmen will pay 10 million dollars for an iOS & Android App.

Submitted by phylevn
phylevn writes: Mexican congressman will pay 10 Million Dollar for an iPhone and Android App that allow them to connect remotely to get information about the activities which occurred in the legislative day, this because they recquire an encrypted and secure connection to monitor in real time wherever they are.

  You will pay this amount for an App like this ?. How much yo will pay ?

News in Spanish
http://aristeguinoticias.com/1303/mexico/legisladores-pagan-115-mdp-por-una-app/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AristeguiNoticias+(Aristegui+Noticias)

News translate to English:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faristeguinoticias.com%2F1303%2Fmexico%2Flegisladores-pagan-115-mdp-por-una-app%2F%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BAristeguiNoticias%2B(Aristegui%2BNoticias)
Your Rights Online

Submission + - Obama to allow ALL spy agencies scour Americans' finances (reuters.com) 2

Submitted by
KrisJon
KrisJon writes: "The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. Financial institutions that operate in the United States are required by law to file reports of "suspicious customer activity." A move like the FinCEN proposal "raises concerns as to whether people could find their information in a file as a potential terrorist suspect without having the appropriate predicate for that and find themselves potentially falsely accused," said Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel for the Rule of Law Program at the Constitution Project, a non-profit watchdog group."
Open Source

Submission + - Why freeloaders are essential to FOSS project success (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619
dp619 writes: Outercurve Foundation technical director Stephen Walli has written a blog post arguing that attracting users is fundamental to the ability of open source projects to recruit "new blood" and contributors who are willing to code. "So in the end, it's all about freeloaders, but from the perspective that you want as many as possible. That means you're “doing it right” in developing a broad base of users by making their experience easy, making it easy for them to contribute, and ultimately to create an ecosystem that continues to sustain itself," he wrote.

Submission + - Porn troll smackdown in federal court (popehat.com)

Submitted by WhiteSlash
WhiteSlash writes: On Monday, Prenda, a porn copywrite trolling firm had its house of cards slowly begin to topple.

"Today United States District Court Judge Otis D. Wright II made it explicitly, abundantly, frighteningly clear that he believes the principals of Prenda Law have engaged in misconduct — and that he means to get to the bottom of it."

In a bizarre hearing, where even the lawyers had lawyers, Prenda's lawyers, named by former partner Brett Gibbs, were chastised for their messy (generous in this case) practicies of serving lawsuits to hundreds of Does expected of illegally downloading porn.

FAP carefully.
Advertising

Submission + - Samsung's advertising game outmuscled Apple in 2012 (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by anderzole
anderzole writes: With Samsung set to release its Samsung Galaxy S IV tomorrow in New York City, the South Korea based company has certainly learned a thing or two about creating a media buzz prior to a product launch. Previously, that was a talent that only Apple seemed to have mastered.

What’s more, Samsung has also proven rather shrewd at another one of Apple’s historic specialties – advertising. Not only are its latest people-centric ads resonating with consumers, they also bash Apple fans and iPhone users in the process. That’s a lot of bang for the buck.

And speaking of bucks, Samsung isn’t shy about spending a lot of its money on advertising efforts either. While Apple outspent Samsung by a factor of 3-1 in mobile advertising in 2011, Samsung stepped up its game in a major way in 2012. Last year, Samsung outspent Apple by $64 million in mobile advertising. Specifically, Apple spent $333 million on its advertising efforts while Samsung spent $401 million.
Google

Submission + - Ebay say Google ads not worth it (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by clickclickdrone
clickclickdrone writes: A report by auction website eBay has found that paying for advertising in the form of keywords on search engines has little effect on sales.

Platforms such as Google and Bing offer companies the option to "buy" words. This means their websites appear more prominently if a person searches for a particular term.

The eBay study found that most people who clicked through as a result of this service were loyal customers who would have come to the site anyway.

As the article goes on to suggest though, these results will be heavily skewed by the fact Ebay is such a well known brand to begin with, it would already show high in the listings. Smaller advertisers would probably see more benefit.
Apple

Submission + - Strike Two For Yahoo!'s Marissa Mayer? (t-gaap.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: E. Werner Reschke @tgaap — Interesting look at how Yahoo!'s Marissa Mayer's latest move (reviewing everyone's resume before hiring anyone) is part of her master plan. A comparison made to Steve Jobs which in 1998 had a similar task.
Twitter

Submission + - Obama has 13 million fake followers (nydailynews.com)

Submitted by
KrisJon
KrisJon writes: "Multiple sources are reporting that forty-one percent of the commander in chief's 18.6 million Twitter followers are fake, 35 percent are inactive and 25 percent are "good," or likely to be authentic, according to Fake Follower Check, which scours the messaging service specifically for phony adherents."
Science

Submission + - 6 Scientific Discoveries That Laugh in the Face of Physics (cracked.com)

Submitted by
KrisJon
KrisJon writes: "There are some startlingly simple questions that science can't answer. And then there are the special occasions where the universe up and does a freaking magic trick that seems to be designed by an unjust, all-powerful entity dedicated to making scientists slowly pull off their glasses while saying, "What in the hell?"

Comment Re:teachers' unions (Score 1) 311

by KrisJon (#38592902) Attached to: Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools
Our per capita spending is very much at the high end of the spectrum: http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/k-12-education-spending-pdf_0.pdf And this spending has doubled since 1970: http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/8944CCA9757394F0CCE1821F36C34E6E.gif I don't think throwing more money at the problem is a solution.
Spam

Submission + - India: Spam Center of the World? (fellowgeek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: India seems to hold top spot in exporting junk mail according to recent a recent report. A study by Internet security company, Kaspersky Lab, claims that in the third quarter of 2011, more spam was sent from the Subcontinent than any other nation...

Submission + - SOPA Blackout Simulator (vilimpoc.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I've written up a quick and simple client-side Javascript function that obscures DIVs, or any other CSS selector you like, to show what the Web would look like if SOPA passes.

You can build this into your websites and give people a real sense of what an arbitrary and capricious SOPA web censorship regime might look like.
Intel

Submission + - Gigabyte Motherboard Breaks Sandy Bridge-E Overclo (hothardware.com) 1

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Renowned overclocker "Hicoookie" achieved a new high clock speed on the Intel Core i7 3930K processor by cranking the chip past 5.6GHz using a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard, the first mobo in the world to achieve a mulitplier of 57x. There was a bit of a scandal with Gigabyte recently when a YouTube video showed one of its X79 boards going up in smoke. Gigabyte released a BIOS update for several of its X79 boards to prevent such incidents from happening, and there were outcries that the new F7 BIOS would essentially gimp overclocking performance Hicookie's achievement should erase those concerns."

Submission + - H5N1 Bird Influenza - not a credible threat (cbsnews.com) 9

Submitted by
rubycodez
rubycodez writes: "A 39 year old bus driver has died of H5N1 in Shenzhen, a city next to Hong Kong. But none of the 120 people he had close contact with show any signs of infection with the virus. Usually only those with close contact with dead animals get H5N1, and there are no cases of person to person transmission. In the last seven years, less than 350 people have died from H5N1. Meanwhile, they more common flus that children bring home from school every year will kill tens of thousands. It is time to stop worrying about a rare disease that has killed hardly anyone, and put to rest the hype."

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