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Submission + - Nginx-rtmp-module makes nginx a high-performance media streaming server (github.com) 1

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arut
arut writes: "Nginx is well-known for its great performance and extensibility. A new nginx-rtmp-module turns your nginx into a media streaming server. It provides support for Adobe RTMP protocol as well as Apple HLS for streaming video to mobile devices. Making use of nginx asynchronous single-threaded architecture it outperforms many streaming servers available out there built on top of multi-threaded technology. It can stream up to 2Gbps per CPU core with thousands of connected clients. Features supported are live streaming, video-on-demand, seamless ffmpeg integration for transcoding, recording, HTTP notifications for handling events and many more. The module is distributed under BSD-license."
Google

Submission + - Google+ – Can We Just Hangout? (sitepronews.com)

Submitted by
ktravel
ktravel writes: "Google+ may be the newbie in the social networking scene, but the excellent and unique features it offers within the site is really becoming popular among its users. One of the best features of the site is the Hangouts, which lets you video chat with up to 10 persons privately, and even do an “on air” broadcast that any viewer in the world can see"
Android

Submission + - Russia Yanks Google From Android Tablets (pcworld.com)

Submitted by
DevotedSkeptic
DevotedSkeptic writes: "If you’re not happy with your Android phone or tablet collecting your data and sending it to Google, you’re not alone. The Russian defense ministry announced a stripped-down and encrypted version of Google’s operating ssytem, destined for government and military devices, will also be on sale to the public.

Google collects a considerable amount of information from Android users, including personal information and usage data in order for the company to serve ads. This is also one of the reasons Android is offered free to manufacturers. But Russia is wary of Google’s OS and fears this data collected could fall in the hands of the U.S. government and expose sensitive communications.

Russia’s answer to this problem is the Russian Mobile Operating System (RoMOS), unveiled in the sidelines of the IFA event in Berlin, according to reports. RoMOS has the look and feel of Android, but does not call home to send your data and is virtually hack-proof, the developers claim. It also uses Russia’s own GPS alternative, the GLONASS or the Global Navigation Satellite System, in the eventuality the U.S. government shuts down the GPS system. The iPhone 4S also supports GLONASS.

The first 10-inch tablets running RoMOS will be available later this year, and are set to be shock-proof and waterproof, with a price tag around $460. The tablets will be assembled in Russia, using mostly foreign-built components. The finished product will be mainly aimed at state officials and military personnel, but there will also be a consumer-grade version of the device, which will have slightly different features and prices."
Security

Submission + - Is it time to knock infected PCs off the internet? (pcpro.co.uk) 1

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nk497
nk497 writes: "Malware could block your access to the internet – but in some cases by those on the right side of the security fence, who are deploying tactics such as blocked ports, letters in the mail and PCs quarantined from the net to combat the most damaging threats. The DNS Changer clean up saw some PCs prevented from accessing the web. Should such tactics be used more often to prevent malware from spreading — or is that taking security a step too far?"
Apple

Submission + - Man moves to US and is told to repurchase all apps (wordpress.com)

Submitted by kthreadd
kthreadd writes: Andreas Fredriksson describes the downside of app stores when moving between countries:

I recently moved from Sweden to the US. Now that my bank is here in the US, I switched my Apple account over to the US region.

Doing so made everything under “Purchases” and “Updates” disappear in the Mac App Store. After a long frustrating email exchange I was told by the App Store support that apps are tied to a region, so if you have downloaded an app in one region it’s forever tied to that region. Their message was: You have to keep your account in the Swedish region to receive updates. Note that this applies even to free stuff like Twitter!

Submission + - What would your first 24 hours of a "I've got to disappear" plan look like? 1

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diacritica
diacritica writes: "This Ask Slashdot is inspired by à-la-Bourne movies but taking a more realistic approach to the world we live in. You are native to and live in a big city (> 1M pop) in a G8 country of your choosing. T = 0h, you accidentally witness a strange event. T = 1h, you realize you're being followed AND you get the feeling that the police/government might be involved. Context data: you are able to speak one language apart from good English. You are 25 to 45 years old. You are computer savvy. You are engaged/married, you have family living in the same city. 99% of your money is in a bank account. You prefer to go "rationally" paranoid. What would you do in order to feel safe after those 24h? Remember, you didn't commit a crime, but there are plenty of real-world resources invested in catching you."
Red Hat Software

Submission + - What Is Red Hat Doing To Linux? (wordpress.com)

Submitted by quantic_oscillation7
quantic_oscillation7 writes: "I’ve seen what to me are disturbing patterns in what’s happening with Red Hat’s influence on core components used by Linux distributions. The latest came just after I discovered that some Flash-based DRM schemes are now using HAL for enforcement. As consolekit has always behaved like a broken DRM scheme, denying the user permission to use their own system, I wondered what was next now that HAL is deprecated – consolekit?

Then I read that udev is now being added to the systemd code, and Red Hat is sounding like they won’t support it unless you integrate it with systemd. Next, I read that systemd is now being expanded to replace consolekit/policykit!"

-- other slashdot articles that show this could be quite true, Red Hat's having to much control over technologies present in the GNU/Linux system:

http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/lennart-poettering-bsd-isnt-relevant-anymore

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1733236/secure-syslog-replacement-proposed

Submission + - Russian find a new particle (science20.com)

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physburn
physburn writes: "The Russian Dubna Nuctron accelerator has reported finded a new elementary particle. The E(38) Boson at 38 MeV, it interacts only with quarks and gluons, but decays (via quark diagrams) into pairs of photons. The particle was previously reported in February from data from the BaBar experiment, and the new data seems to confirm its existence."

Submission + - CAPTURING CO2 WITH TOMATOES (scienceaxis.com)

Submitted by
rosy rohangi
rosy rohangi writes: "California is a farmer to find a unique way to capture emissions of carbon dioxide – the gas play climate-change of a power plant greenhouse in his massive boost plant growth and tastier tomatoes."

Comment you need GITSO (Score 2) 247

by quantic_oscillation7 (#41050917) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software?

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"Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another's screen. First, the support person offers to give support. Second, the person who needs help connects and has their screen remotely visible. Because Gitso is cross-platform (Linux, OS X and Windows) and uses a reverse VNC connection, it greatly simplifies the process of getting support. "

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