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Submission + - Spy Cam Found in American Airlines Lavatory (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by mreed911
mreed911 writes: Someone staring at the ceiling while "doing their business" in a lavatory on an American Airlines 767 from New York to San Francisco noticed something that didn't belong — a spy cam. Apparently some flash-drive/cam combo, the object was simply taped to the ceiling. No reports as to whether anyone on the plane claimed ownership, but the plane was diverted to Kansas City, evacuated and searched. So far, NBC News is the only one reporting the story.

Comment Re:Clever? (Score 1) 229

I see, so expecting one and only one telco to opt out of the lobbying process is normal behavior, then, is it?

It is truly stunning how you've missed the point. I sincerely believe you are a psychopath now. I'll spell it out ... when a specific group decides to do something bad that doesn't make it neutral just because they are all doing it. Your argument is akin to saying, if a gang requires each member to commit a murder in order to be inducted, then that's not bad, its neutral because everybody in the gang did it -- totally normal behavior for gangs.

Submission + - The Other Exam Room: When Doctors "Google" Their Patients

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Writing in the NY Times, Dr. Haider Javed Warraich shares a dirty little medical secret: doctors do "Google" their patients, and the practice is likely to only become more common. And while he personally feels the practice should be restricted to situations where there's a genuine safety issue, an anecdote Warraich shares illustrates how patient search could provide insight into what otherwise might be unsolved mysteries — or lead to a snap misdiagnosis: "I was once taking care of a frail, older patient who came to the hospital feeling very short of breath. It wasn’t immediately clear why, but her breathing was getting worse. To look for accidental ingestions, I sent for a drug screen and, to my great surprise, it came back positive for cocaine. It didn’t make sense to me, given her age and the person lying before me, and I was concerned she had been the victim of some sort of abuse. She told me she had no idea why there was cocaine in her system. When I walked out of the room, a nurse called me over to her computer. There, on MugShots.com, was a younger version of my patient’s face, with details about how she had been detained for cocaine possession more than three decades earlier. I looked away from the screen, feeling like I had violated my patient’s privacy. I resumed our medical exam, without bringing up the finding on the Internet, and her subsequent hospital course was uneventful."

Submission + - Homeland Security Director used handgun targeting laser as presentation pointer (timesunion.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: The Albany, NY Times Union newspaper reports (http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Ready-aim-point-talk-5116592.php) that Jerome M. Hauer, the New York State Director of Homeland Security, took out his handgun and used its laser sighting device attached to the barrel as a pointer during a presentation given in the "highly secure" state emergency operations center below NY State Police headquarters.

Three Swedish emergency managers in the audience were rattled when the gun's laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York at which he wanted to point. Hauer was disabled by a stroke a few years ago and can be unsteady.

Although Hauer is not a law enforcement official, he carries his loaded 9-millimeter Glock in a holster into state buildings, which is an apparent violation of NY State's Public Facilities Law prohibiting employees from entering state buildings with weapons.

Submission + - MPAA joins the W3C 1

Submitted by Presto Vivace
Presto Vivace writes: TechDirt:

The W3C has been at the forefront of open standards and an open internet for many years, obviously. So it's somewhat distressing to see it announced this morning that .

So does the W3C still support open standards?

Submission + - Security Leaders Call For RSA Boycott (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Following reports that RSA Security colluded with the NSA to include a back door in its BSafe product, some security researchers cancelled their talks at the RSA Security event. Now some are calling for an outright boycott of the firms products, pointing out that the RSA show has little to do with the EMC-owned company. Cambridge cryptography professor Ross Anderson backed the boycott, likening RSA to a partner caught having an affair.

Comment Re:Clever? (Score 3, Insightful) 229

If that's the terms the government wants, they can set those terms.

Since AT&T's lobbyists were responsible for most of the terms, I'm comfortable with Vanderhoth's original assessment. Just because our government representatives were corrupted doesn't mean AT&T is in the right.

Submission + - How to Create a Better Malware Warning Through Psychology (threatpost.com)

Submitted by msm1267
msm1267 writes: Generic malware warnings that alert computer users to potential trouble are largely ineffective and often ignored. Researchers at Cambridge University, however, have proposed a change to the status quo, believing instead that warnings should be re-architected to include concrete, specific warnings that are not technical and rely less on fear than current alerts.

Submission + - Intel drops McAfee brand, much to John's delight (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by TinTops
TinTops writes: Intel has distanced itself further from the controversial (to put it mildly) John McAfee, but gradually phasing out his eponymous brand from its security products. Re-branding to Intel Security, the only reminder of McAfee's involvement will be the "red shield" icon within Intel Security's logo. John McAfee was oddly delighted:

"I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet," he said. "These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users. My elation at Intel's decision is beyond words."

Submission + - AT&T's Sponsored Data is bad for the internet, the economy, and you (theverge.com)

Submitted by sirhan
sirhan writes: From The Verge: AT&T is looking into what they call Sponsored Data, a program designed to let content providers bypass bandwidth caps if they pay AT&T. Simply enough, "if YouTube doesn't hit your data cap but Vimeo does, most people are going to watch YouTube. If Facebook feels threatened by Snapchat and launches Poke with free data, maybe it doesn't get completely ignored and fail. If Apple Maps launched with free data for navigation, maybe we'd all be driving off bridges instead of downloading Google Maps for iOS."

Comment Re:More accurate headline (Score 1) 510

by Jherek Carnelian (#45880943) Attached to: Anti-GMO Activists Win Victory On Hawaiian Island

Peanuts

What part of "normal conditions" do you fail to understand? Sunlight is fatal to people who have erythropoietic protoprohphrya. By your logic, sunlight is fatal too.

You show me that scientific proof that there is no why what so ever that DNA from one organism can transferred to another.

What part of "cross-breeding" do you fail to understand?

Oh, I get it, you are a nut.

Submission + - Mozilla Firefox OS Landing on Panasonic TVs - Tablets and Desktops on Tap (eweek.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Mozilla's Firefox web browser isn't just for computers running Windows, Mac or LInux anymore. Soon you can get a whole TV powered by Firefox OS. That's the big Mozilla news out of the CES 2014 show as the open source browser vendor announced new efforts to bring Firefox OS to TVs, tablets and even desktops. Why is Firefox OS gaining traction? It's all about open standards and HTML5 according to Panasonic.
"We share a mutual vision—that is, we want to support an open and independent platform based on HTML 5—and we found that the Mozilla Firefox OS platform is the ideal way for us to accomplish that vision,"Merwan Mereby, Panasonic's U.S. vice president of the Interactive Content and Services Group said.

Comment Re:"Android most important platform for gaming" (Score 1) 128

by Jherek Carnelian (#45877937) Attached to: Nvidia Announces 192-Core Tegra K1 Chips, Bets On Android

Except that it *is* the same audience NOW because now everyone has a cell phone. When the choice was console or portable, consoles won big. But now the choice is portable or portable and console. The experience isn't the same, but it isn't wholly different either. It is close enough for some people to decide that gaming on their phone is good enough and skip buying a console.

How large will the number of people be? I don't know, but in the past that number was zero so drawing comparisons between the past and present isn't so simple.

Comment Re:More accurate headline (Score 1) 510

by Jherek Carnelian (#45877327) Attached to: Anti-GMO Activists Win Victory On Hawaiian Island

For millions of years non GMO crops have been killing people.

If EVER there was a "citation needed" that bullshit is it. Name one widely consumed food that has been shown to kill people under normal conditions.

Response: No amount of selective breeding will transfer genes between incompatible species.

Citation needed

No, that is the definition of incompatible. The day you can demonstrate cross-breeding between oranges and corn is the day you'll have a point.

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