Myion - Slashdot User

Tux Paint Kids Drawing Contest-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2011, @01:13PM

An anonymous reader writes "We all know that geeks and nerds are not the best artists or graphic designers. However, their kids just might be talented. Tux Paint, the award winning program is having a drawing contest open to kids from 3 to 12 worldwide and sponsored by Worldlabel.com. Grab Tux Paint, make a cool drawing, win one of 3 OLPC XO laptops, one of 10 Sugar-on-a-Stick and other awesome prizes!"
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Comment: Another hoax! (Score 1) 109

by Myion on Wednesday October 27 2010, @10:59AM (#34037546) Attached to: Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia

Just like this one http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/1348257/Possible-Meteorite-Leaves-a-Crater-In-Latvia

Obama Responsible for Gulf Oil Spill-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 18 2010, @05:26PM

An anonymous reader writes "In 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, according to a group involved in the court case."
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Comment: Not the first 4G phone released (Score 1) 182

by Myion on Friday May 14 2010, @09:21AM (#32206298) Attached to: Sprint's $199 HTC EVO 4G Gets Release Date of June 4

The Evo is not the first 4G phone to be ever released. HTC released a WiMAX phone for Russian market back in 2008. http://www.htc.com/www/product/max4g/specification.html

Sony Sued Over Linux Removal On PS3-> 0

Submitted by zepo1a on Thursday April 29 2010, @07:08AM

zepo1a writes "Snip from article: "Court files reveal that Sony will appear in court on August 25th and September 1st, 2010 to face the charges brought against them. In a http://ia331218.us.archive.org/2/items/gov.uscourts.cand.226894/gov.uscourts.cand.226894.1.0.pdf seventeen page long case file, everything is carefully documented about the feature being touted as a key component of the PS3 and why it was unlawful to remove the feature from current PS3 units. In the case filing, the plaintiffs claims the removal of the 'OS' feature causes them to lose money and that Sony changed the system settings and more."
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Apple allows only "approved software" for OSX 10.7-> 0

Submitted by angelfly on Sunday April 25 2010, @08:28PM

angelfly writes "Apple seems to be moving in a direction to lock down OSX the same way they've locked down the iPhone and iPad. With 10.7 only approved software will be allowed to run. Freely installing software will require jailbreaking the OS."
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Google browser plugin autoupdates, wipes tracks 0

Submitted by SemperCogito on Thursday April 22 2010, @05:05PM

SemperCogito writes "So I come back to my MacBook after some time away, unlock the screen, and see some messages from the "Growl" hardware notifier that a strange Google volume has been mounted, and then unmounted, while I was away.

Now, I stopped updating Google Earth when they added their automatic software update "feature", which you must consent to or it won't install the app. OK, no app then! I do NOT like the idea of giving any vendor carte blanche to install stuff without telling me.

I looked at the running processes, and there were no google ones running. Looked in the logs, no google strings found.

This is looking like malware — something installed files with no tracks left — so I poke around, and consult with a colleague. Some testing shows the only new file that has appeared is the same one you get when you go manually install the Google Voice and Video browser plugin, aka googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin. However, my manual installation left nice log messages from the Installer.

Then I see this, dated yesterday (21-April-10), at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=7931301976c11fc1&hl=en

"Yesterday, we released the 1.1.2 update for the Google voice and video chat plug-in. This update includes all of the new features of version 1.1.1 and fixes the issues that some users with 1.1.1 were experiencing with their browser not recognizing the plug-in. All current installations will automatically update within the next day or two. If you don't want to wait, you can visit http://www.google.com/chat/video and re-run the installer."

I'll be damned — a browser plugin that auto-updates, attaining root privileges in the process, and wipes its tracks!

This makes me Very Unhappy. It modified my computer without asking and wasted over an hour of my time. Why was there nothing in the logs? Better yet, why didn't I get a "Google Talk plugin wants to update, OK?" request?

Needless to say said plugin is gone from my MacBook."

Comment: Microsoft's remorse (Score 2, Funny) 539

by Myion on Wednesday April 21 2010, @09:02AM (#31921504) Attached to: Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft

I believe Microsoft might actually have a problem with this. Seriously, why are they working 15 hours when they could as well work 18?

Wikileaks Releases Murder Video-> 0

Submitted by linguizic on Monday April 05 2010, @11:30AM

linguizic writes "Today Wikileaks released the video of US military firing large caliber weapons into a crowd that included two children as well as a photojournalist and a driver for Reuters. Wikileaks maintains that this video was covered up by the US Military when Reuters asked for an official investigation. This is the same video that supposedly has made the editors of Wikileaks a target of the State Department and/or the CIA as was discussed on Slashdot here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1321224/Wikileaks-Receiving-Gestapo-Treatment."
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PhotoNest: A new iPhone app that offers a cool new-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2010, @01:19PM

An anonymous reader writes "Hey guys! Love your blog! Just wanted to let you know about my iPhone app that I made. I was laid off from my job recently and took everything I had in savings and started a little company called MindTapp to make iPhone apps. Our first app is called PhotoNest and it offers a cool new way to view pictures your friends post to Twitter with a photo timeline you can flick through, as well as allowing you to upload photos to your Twitter account. We ran out of money for marketing and I'm trying to get PhotoNest out in front of as many people as possible so hopefully we can move money from sales back into advertising and feature updates. If you guys like it I'd love a review :) I'm sure you get a lot of requests for these but we really need it. We are a very small company and very broke. I think it’s a cool idea and I hope you guys like it! Let me know if you have any questions at all! Thanks so much for your time!

Here is a promo code so you can get the app for free! Let me know if you need more :)
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