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Comment Look at the ELK Stack (Score 1) 137

The ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) are great tools for capturing logs from *anything*, indexing and massaging of the data captured, and then offering up visualization, searches, and dashboards (that refresh). Built with Angular.js so the speed happens.

We could be talkin' web server logs of the NY Times servers, centralized and displaying dashboards in real-time, or maybe 24/7 sensor data streaming from the ocean floor. The ELK Stack can do it.

First googled citation, and there's plenty more where this came from: http://thepracticalsysadmin.co...

Submission + - Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help (itworld.com)

jfruh writes: Oracle and the state of Oregon are in the midst of a particularly nasty set of lawsuits over the botched rollout of Oregon's health care exchange site, with Oregon claiming that Oracle promised an "out-of-the-box solution" and Oracle saying that Oregon foolishly attempted to act as its own systems integrator. But one aspect of the dispute helps illustrate an unpleasant reality of these kinds of disputes: even as Oregon tries to extract damages from Oracle, it still needs Oracle's help to salvage the site.

Comment Re:Around or on top of millitary bases? (Score 2) 237

This is a good article, as before I had no idea such sophisticated rogue towers were such a threat all over the US.

So when Goldsmith and his team drove by the government facility in July, he also took a standard Samsung Galaxy S4 and an iPhone to serve as a control group for his own device.

”As we drove by, the iPhone showed no difference whatsoever. The Samsung Galaxy S4, the call went from 4G to 3G and back to 4G. The CryptoPhone lit up like a Christmas tree.”

Though the standard Apple and Android phones showed nothing wrong, the baseband firewall on the Cryptophone set off alerts showing that the phone’s encryption had been turned off, and that the cell tower had no name – a telltale sign of a rogue base station. Standard towers, run by say, Verizon or T-Mobile, will have a name, whereas interceptors often do not.

Submission + - Popular Science Magazine: About the Cell towers (popsci.com)

Trachman writes: Popular Science magazine has published an article about a network of cell towers that are owned not by telecommunication companies but by internal US agencies that are, well... gathering, data of US citizens. Many of them are built in US military bases. The revelation states that individual users are being tracked without court order or any warrant nor the knowledge of cell service providers and are built with the sole purpose of .... data gathering (spying, monitoring).

Comment Re:The deputy initially claimed... (Score 4, Informative) 463

...from Witnesses, (page 3 of the Police PDF Report):

Andrew McCown was the driver of a vehicle that was traveling eastbound on Mulholland Highway approximately 60 feet behind Wood's patrol vehicle when the collision occurred. He indicated he did not see Olin until he "flew into the air" after being struck by the patrol vehicle. He did not see the patrol vehicle swerve or the brake lights activate until after a collision occurred. McCown is an emergency medical technician and stopped to render aid to Olin. Olin had no pulse and had a severe injury to his head.

Ashely McCown was the passenger in that vehicle. She stated that she also noticed Olin in the bicycle lane prior to the collision.

Comment Nokia Handsets Can Rise Again (Score 4, Interesting) 67

Nokia did not sell the name 'Nokia' to Microsoft, and from January 1, 2016, is free from Microsoft's shackles to sell mobile phones again. Microsoft can't sell "Nokia Lumias", only Microsoft Lumias.

The option remains open to, for example, purchase Jolla and in doing so, regain much of the former Nokia team and (and their funky Linux from Finland, where it all started...) and use the modern version that's available to them of the OS that once was Harmatten/Meego, that drives the awesome N9/N950.

In fact some of the funding to start Jolla came from severance packages to the team that was laid of by Elop, having delivered the N9, in spite of Elop's interference and obstacles on the way to enriching himself and his masters.

Submission + - Hacker dubbed "Rawshark" causes political mayhem in New Zealand (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: New Zealand is facing its weirdest election ever with a hacker calling himself "Rawshark" progressively dumping emails hacked from a controversial blogger. This weekend, revelations forced the resignation of one Government minister and nobody knows what will drop next.

Emails revealed that the blogger, called "Whale Oil", was in contact with both a government minister in charge of New Zealand's white collar crime investigations unit and with a PR man acting for a founder of a failed finance company then under investigation.

Submission + - Facebook's Ukrainian office is in Russia. Blocks Ukrainians...

mi writes: Ukrainian media are reporting (link in Ukrainian), that Facebook is getting increasingly heavy-handed blocking Ukrainian bloggers. The likely explanation for the observed phenomenon is that Facebook's Ukrainian office is located in Russia and is headed by a Russian citizen (Catherine Skorobogatov). For example, a post calling on Russian mothers to not let their sons go to war was blocked "Due to multiple complaints". Fed up, Ukrainian users are writing directly to Zukerberg to ask him to replace Catherine with someone, who would not be quite as swayed by the "complaints" generated by Russian bots. The last link (in both Ukrainian and English) is also on Facebook. Will it survive for long?

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