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Submission + - Business finance raising

Submitted by ivanob
ivanob writes: Before you think about funding your business idea, it is vital to get a great deal of feedback on your idea, the last thing you want to do is take out a loan or borrow off your mum and then have to look her in the eye and say ‘sorry it turns out no-one wanted to buy my reusable toilet paper’. Don’t worry about putting your idea up online for getting feedback, it’s very unlikely that no-one has ever had your idea and I always think it’s the individual not the idea that makes the money. Be careful not to be put off though, a lot of people will just list the competition and say they have the market sown up. Ask them how come companies such as Red Bull and Google succeeded if you can’t beat the established competition. 9 ways to raise business finance for your startup idea. Personal savings, Friends and family, Crowdfunding ....

Submission + - NSA planned to discredit radicals based on web-browsing habits (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by wired_parrot
wired_parrot writes: New documents leaked show that the NSA was not only monitoring suspected radical sympathizers, but planned to discredit them based on their web-surfing habits. This includes not only evidence of porn browsing and online sexual activity, as well as extorsion and blackmail based on innapropriate use of funds. At the same time, the document leaked notes that very few of contacts noted were associated with terrorism

Comment Re:Passwords have to be in the clear anyway (Score 1) 482

by Kryai (#44499957) Attached to: Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy
There really isn't going to be malware that sophisticated where they will attack the browser just waiting for the master password to be entered. Additionally, it would need another avenue to attack the OS/browser. From a perspective of a normal user, I would say that the master password would protect you from the vast majority of attacks that rely on reading your password in plaintext stored in your settings. Additionally, while possible, sniffing out the master password is still possible, no malware authors would go so far to get those passwords outside of specific targeted attacks. There is just so much other low hanging fruit. I think a master password is an imperfect but effective tool to use. I've started to use Keepass myself for password management, they have browser plugins but I have not evaluated it yet myself. Password encryption for storage is a good thing, not a bad thing!

Submission + - MySQL 5.6 is much faster on IO-bound (blogspot.co.uk)

Submitted by
osoriojr
osoriojr writes: "Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6 and developers are saying that the MySQL 5.6 is too much faster than the older versions.
Some benchmarks are showing that the performance between the MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.1 has improved in 300%.
Also they said it has improved the scalability and the high availability. If its real, it will solve very common issues we have everyday."

Comment System76 (Score 4, Informative) 570

by Kryai (#42825561) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8
I just purchased a laptop from https://www.system76.com/ their laptops come only with Ubuntu, had excellent customization options, and reasonable pricing (why is it so hard to customize laptops nowadays, when did this happen =\ ) My colleague recommended them and I get my laptop Monday so I don't have first hand experience yet, but I just had to make this decision and that's what I ended with selecting.
Censorship

Tor Tests Undetectably Encrypted Connections In Iran 157

Posted by timothy from the great-song-from-flock-of-seagulls dept.
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Ahead of the anniversary of Iran's revolution, the country's government has locked down its already-censored Internet, blocking access to many services and in some cases cutting off all encrypted traffic on the Web of the kind used by secure email, social networking and banking sites. In response, the information-freedom-focused Tor Project is testing a new tool it's calling 'obfsproxy,' or obfuscated proxy, which aims to make SSL or TLS traffic appear to be unencrypted traffic like HTTP or instant messaging data. While the tool currently only disguises SSL as the SOCKS protocol, in future versions it will aim to disguise encrypted traffic as any protocol the user chooses. Tor executive director Andrew Lewman says the idea is to 'make your Ferrari look like a Toyota by putting an actual Toyota shell over the Ferrari.'" Reader bonch adds: "A thread on Hacker News provides first-hand accounts as well as workarounds."

Comment Re:Errors on me when I run the gui (Score 1) 31

by Kryai (#28963203) Attached to: Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution

I think the PHP Gtk binding are still a compile from source mission on ubuntu, there was not a package available when I needed it a few weeks ago. Plus if you leave the module in your default php config, it breaks php (as in won't run even non Gtk scripts) whenever it it run from somewhere without a window manager available (ssh, cron, etc).

All in all a pain in the ass.

I'm about to give up installing the requirements for a GUI on CentOS 5.3 trying to get php-gtk installed is quite the venture.
Windows

83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 545

Posted by CmdrTaco from the count-me-in dept.
Olipro writes "Most enterprises stated they won't bother with Windows 7 for at least a year as they simply continue to distrust that compatibility issues won't occur with their mission-critical software ... The Million Dollar question will be whether the fact that XP upgrades to Windows 7 requires a clean install will prove to be Microsoft's undoing." I suspect that will change before they actually release the OS.

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