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Submission + - US Government confiscates passport of citizen while overseas, doesn't say why (motherjones.com) 1

Submitted by Faizdog
Faizdog writes: The US State Department has confiscated the passport of a US citizen who is overseas. Due to that, he is in a precarious situation regarding his legal status.

The State Dept. has given no explanation for their actions.

Federal law requires that US citizens be granted a hearing before their passports are revoked. According to the man’s attorneys: “Having a passport is part of a citizen’s right to international travel, because without a passport you’re not able to move about or return to the US they can revoke it if they believe it has been obtained fraudulently. But here, there isn’t any allegation of wrongdoing.”

How does one answer the question “papers please?” when they government has taken your papers?

Submission + - Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Since the announcement, there has been buzz around the underground and malicious actors have been actively leaking software library data and using one of the several provided PoC code to attack the massive amount of services available on the internet. One of the more complicated issues is that the OpenSSL patches were not in-line with the upstream of large Linux flavors. We have had a opportunity to review the behavior of the exploit and have come up with the following IDS signatures to be deployed for detection.

Submission + - Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers (readwrite.com)

Submitted by redletterdave
redletterdave writes: Eben Upton, cofounder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is generally credited as the magician behind this incredible machine. While working on his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Cambridge's computer laboratory, Upton painstakingly put together Raspberry Pi prototypes by hand. Today, Upton is CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s trading company, where he oversees production and sales of the Raspberry Pi. In a lengthy interview with ReadWrite, Upton shares how he invented Raspberry Pi, and what's coming next for the $35 microcomputer.

Submission + - Scientists 'Tricked' Into Appearing in Geocentric Universe Documentary (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by EwanPalmer
EwanPalmer writes: Three scientists and Star Trek actress Kate Mulgrew say they were duped into appearing in a controversial documentary which claims the Earth is the center of the Universe.

The Principle, a film which describes itself as "destined to become one of the most controversial films of our time”, argues the long-debunked theory of geocentrism – where the earth is the center of the Universe and the Sun resolves around it – is true and Nasa has tried to cover it up.

The film features the narration of actress Mulgrew, who played the part of captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek Voyager, as well as three prominent scientists.

Comment Re:not hounded for his views/opinions (Score 1) 1746

by Unknown Lamer (#46659203) Attached to: Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO

Balancing that, of course: "Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein."

And the right to form a family is fundamental. Ethics is complicated.

Comment Re:Why the Hell Didn't He Just Apologize? (Score 1) 1746

by Unknown Lamer (#46659079) Attached to: Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO

Sort of ambivalent on the whole thing personally, but I think he refused to recant because he makes a point of not discussing his political views in public. When he made the donation, the record was between him and the state, and was only later made an open record. It seems consistent with his previous actions to refuse to discuss it. Of course, that's an approach that ended up costing him greatly. Maybe it was worth it to him. Maybe it will be the nudge that makes him introspect and change his views if he hasn't already.

There's a bit of a logical problem with assuming guilt from a refusal to make a statement, despite the human tendency to do so.

Submission + - OpenBSD documentation now in DocBook (gmane.org)

Submitted by api
api writes: With the release of docbook2mdoc, mandoc maintainer Ingo Schwarze has moved the OpenBSD documentation repository to DocBook format. Theo de Raadt added that this move opens the door to a more streamlined approach such as: ssh-keygen -? -> usage2pod -> pod2mdoc -> doclifter -> docbook2mdoc -> man

Submission + - Wayland Support Aimed For Next X.Org Server Release (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Support should finally come with X.Org Server 1.16 this summer for supporting XWayland, the means of allowing legacy X11 applications to run within a root-less X server window on Wayland-based compositors without the need for any application/game changes. With the revised design, XWayland has generic 2D acceleration over OpenGL and a cleaner design compared to earlier revisions. With GNOME 3.12 having better Wayland support and Plasma Next around the corner, it looks like 2014 could be the year of Wayland's take-off!

Submission + - Rebooting the Full Disclosure List

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Hi Folks. This is a one-time email to everyone who posted to Full Disclosure since the start of 2013. As an F-D subscriber and occasional poster myself, I was as shocked as you all last week when John Cartwright threw in the towel and shuttered the list (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332).

Now I don't blame him one bit. He performed a thankless job admirably for 12 years and deserves some time off. But I, for one, already miss Full Disclosure. So I decided to make a new list today which is a successor in name and spirit. Like the old one, it uses Mailman and is being archived by my Seclists.org site as well as numerous other archives around the world.

This list is a fresh start, so the old userbase won't automatically transfer over. And I haven't added any of you either, because it is your choice. But IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE NEW LIST, you can do so here:

http://nmap.org/mailman/listin...

The list launched just 7 hours ago and we already have 904 members subscribed. I hope you'll join us and resume posting your security info and advisories. If not now, then someday :).

Cheers,
Fyodor

Submission + - PostgreSQL Adds Binary JSON Support To Compete With MongoDB (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The PostgreSQL 9.4 release is going to feature full support for binary JSON which is currently a lead feature of MongoDB. This feature should make PostgreSQL more powerful and appealing to the NoSQL crowd with now being the first relational database system to support semi-structured data. Benchmark figures show PostgreSQL now out-performing MongoDB.

Submission + - Lost smartphones usually probed for private data (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb
innocent_white_lamb writes: Security software company Symantec dropped 10 phones in each of six Canadian cities and waited to see if they would be returned. Among the questions that Symantec wanted to answer with the study was how persistent people would be in poking around a found phone.

The odds of having a lost cellphone returned are just a little better than 50/50, while the chances of it being probed by its finder are close to 100 per cent, according to the results of the experiment. Each phone was preloaded with icons for phoney apps designed to tempt the finders into tapping on them. Tracking software recorded what they couldn't resist peeking at.

Submission + - Margery Kempe, the first English autobiographer, goes online (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Laying claim to being the first autobiography ever written in English, the "extraordinary" life story of the medieval mystic Margery Kempe, which exists in only one known copy, has been digitised by the British Library for the world to view.

Comment Re:Pleeeeeeeease? (Score 1) 276

by Unknown Lamer (#46535451) Attached to: Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will

I'd like to add to this question, since I missed my chance last time and I'm a huge B5 fan (it was on PTEN when I was a kid, and we didn't have cable so it was UHF channels for me... and then I missed season 5 entirely which led to rewatching it a couple of years ago... and hooking plenty of other people since then).

Would it be possible to have the portions that were not composited retransfered in HD, progressive scan video? And maybe the CGI portions upscaled and transferred as full frames at the original frame rate instead of being converted to interlaced/24fps video? Running a version of the filter at the previous link does result in a noticeable quality improvement, and it would be great if officially released versions didn't have to be ripped/filtered to restore the quality.

Availibility in DRM-free formats (Bluray and GNU/Linux aren't really friends, and it sucks having to break the law to watch video you paid for) would be awesome too.

Of course, I hear that the rights situation with the whole PTEN explosion is likely what is preventing any of this from being possible...

Submission + - DARPA's Gill Pratt on Google's robotics investments (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: When Google bought Boston Dynamics last December, the news made headlines, but it was not the first time the Internet giant has invested in DARPA-funded robotics. As part of Robohub’s Big Deals series, we asked Gill Pratt, Program Manager of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, to shed some light on what DARPA thinks about Google’s robotics acquisitions, and what it might mean to the robotics and open source communities.

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