Comment: Re:Why link to junk? (Score 2) 85
[...] autoplay videos [...]
Your computer is broken.
LulzSec Hackers Sentenced To Short Prison Terms 104
Posted
by
Unknown Lamer
from the off-to-the-gulag dept.
from the off-to-the-gulag dept.
mask.of.sanity writes with news of the jail sentences for three members of LulzSec. From the article: "Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to a total of six years in prison. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam were charged with attacks on the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Sony, Nintendo, 20th Century Fox and governments and police forces in a 50-day spree in the summer of 2011. Davis was sentenced to 24 months in a young offender's institution and he will serve half of the sentence. Al-Bassam received a 20-month sentence, suspended for two years and 300 hours unpaid work. Ackroyd was given a 30-month sentence; he will serve half. Cleary also pleaded guilty to possession of child abuse images following a second arrest on October 4, 2012. He will be sentenced at separate hearing."
The Guardian has a short article on the remaining loose ends in the story of LulzSec.
Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 711
Posted
by
samzenpus
from the or-else dept.
from the or-else dept.
First time accepted submitter exomondo writes "Google has given Microsoft until May 22nd to pull their Windows Phone 8 YouTube app from the marketplace and disable it on customer devices. It not only includes a built-in ad blocker but also allows users to download videos and doesn't impose device-specific streaming restrictions outlined in the YouTube Terms Of Service. A Microsoft spokesperson said in part: 'YouTube is consistently one of the top apps downloaded by smartphone users on all platforms, but Google has refused to work with us to develop an app on par with other platforms. Since we updated the YouTube app to ensure our mutual customers a similar YouTube experience, ratings and feedback have been overwhelmingly positive. We'd be more than happy to include advertising but need Google to provide us access to the necessary APIs. In light of Larry Page's comments today calling for more interoperability and less negativity, we look forward to solving this matter together for our mutual customers.'"
Comment: Re:Cool web site (Score 1) 224
I just have ABP with all of Fanboy's filters enabled and the site works fine for me.
Same here, but I figured NoScript would solve justthinkit's problem, as it displayed a blocked-redirect notification to me on that site.
Comment: Re:Cool web site (Score 3, Informative) 224
It sounds like you accidentally failed to install NoScript.
Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint 224
Posted
by
Unknown Lamer
from the steve-seagal-will-punch-them-instead dept.
from the steve-seagal-will-punch-them-instead dept.
cluedweasel writes "A Federal judge in Medford, OR has dismissed a piracy case lodged against 34 Oregonians. Judge Ann Aiken ruled that Voltage Pictures LLC unfairly lumped the defendants into what she called a 'reverse class action suit' to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate them into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that could be bought or rented for less than $10."
The judge was not enthused that they offered to settle for $7500 while noting that potential penalties could be as much as $150,000.
Comment: Re:guess they already know (Score 1) 301
This is completely legal under the Patriot Act.
That strikes me as a meaningless statement, tantamount to saying that an action is "completely legal within the confines of despotism."
Larry Page's Vocal Cords Are Partially Paralyzed 189
Posted
by
Soulskill
from the strong-silent-type dept.
from the strong-silent-type dept.
theodp writes "Last summer, unspecified voice problems caused Google CEO Larry Page to miss Google's Annual Shareholder Meeting, the I/O conference, and a quarterly earnings call. Now, Page has come forward and revealed that he suffers from partial paralysis of each of his vocal chords, an 'extremely rare' condition. Not unlike what Sergey Brin and his wife are doing with Parkinson's research, Page and his wife will be funding and overseeing 'a significant research program' led by Dr. Steven Zeitels of Harvard Medical School."
iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years 512
Posted
by
Soulskill
from the performance-is-a-luxury dept.
from the performance-is-a-luxury dept.
colinneagle sends this quote from an article at NetworkWorld:
"I run a very nifty desktop utility called Rainmeter on my PC that I heartily recommend to anyone who wants to keep an eye on their system. One of its main features is it has skins that can monitor your system activity. Thanks to my numerous meters, I see all CPU, disk, memory and network activity in real time. the C: drive meter. It is a circle split down the middle, with the right half lighting up to indicate a read and the left half lighting up for write activity. The C: drive was flashing a fair amount of activity considering I had nothing loaded save Outlook and Word, plus a few background apps. At the time, I didn't have a Rainmeter skin that lists the top processes by CPU and memory. So instead, I went into the Task Manager, and under Performance selected the Resource Monitor. Under the Processes tab, the culprit showed its face immediately: AppleMobileDeviceService.exe. It was consuming a ridiculous amount of threads and CPU cycles. The only way to turn it off is to go into Windows Services and turn off the service. There's just one problem. I use an iPhone. I can't disable it. But doing so for a little while dropped the CPU meters to nothing. So I now have more motivation to migrate to a new phone beyond just having one with a larger screen. This problem has been known for years. AppleMobileDeviceService.exe has been in iTunes since version 7.3. People complained on the Apple boards more than two years ago that it was consuming up to 50% of CPU cycles, and thus far it's as bad as it always has been. Mind you, Mac users aren't complaining. Just Windows users."
NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC 984
Posted
by
Soulskill
from the americans-pledge-to-get-fatter-in-response dept.
from the americans-pledge-to-get-fatter-in-response dept.
Officials for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board have recommended a nationwide lowering of the blood-alcohol level considered safe for operating a car. The threshold is currently 0.08% — the NTSB wants to cut that to 0.05%.
"That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 lbs., two for a 160 lb. man. More than 100 countries have adopted the .05 alcohol content standard or lower, according to a report by the board's staff. In Europe, the share of traffic deaths attributable to drunken driving was reduced by more than half within 10 years after the standard was dropped, the report said. NTSB officials said it wasn't their intention to prevent drivers from having a glass of wine with dinner, but they acknowledged that under a threshold as low as .05 the safest thing for people who have only one or two drinks is not to drive at all. ... Alcohol concentration levels as low as .01 have been associated with driving-related performance impairment, and levels as low as .05 have been associated with significantly increased risk of fatal crashes, the board said."
Comment: Re: I dont want to live on this planet anymore (Score 2) 353
Not only do you eat McDonald's for lunch, you bring your family there?
Do you want your children to be obese and have health problems?
Do poor people simply dislike money?
Comment: Re:For specific groups this is a good thing (Score 1) 55
Fascists have always been of the left. Leftest continue to deny it.
Apparently some leftist has vandalized this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Position_in_the_political_spectrum
Comment: Re:I dont want to live on this planet anymore (Score 1) 353
Stop being a crank or just kill yourself.
Is killing himself the way by which he becomes uncranked, or do you want him to see the error of his ways (and perhaps shed a single tear) as he squeezes the trigger?
UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? 623
Posted
by
samzenpus
from the other-other-white-meat dept.
from the other-other-white-meat dept.
PolygamousRanchKid writes in with news about a U.N. plan to get more bugs in your belly. "The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets. Insects are 'extremely efficient' in converting feed into edible meat, the agency said. Most insects are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful greenhouse gases, and also feed on human and food waste, compost and animal slurry, with the products being used for agricultural feed, the agency said. 'Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly,' the agency said, adding they leave a 'low environmental footprint.' The agency noted that its Edible Insect Program is also examining the potential of arachnids, such as spiders and scorpions."
Comment: Re:Not your problem (Score 1) 188
Government slaughter of civilians should be everyone's problem.
What do you suggest — that the United States MIC commit to another "humanitarian" invasion and occupation in order to "liberate" a sovereign nation engaged in a civil war? I suppose you could say we're good at it, as long "good" means a good number of dead foreigners who weren't bothering us, and a good chunk of taxpayers' dollars in the pockets of Halliburton, Blackwater/Xe/Academi/whatever-the-fuck they're calling themselves these days, etc.
My apologies if that's not what you had in mind; if you have a different idea — one that would realistically take place, given our track record for atrocities — please share it.
Here's my idea: Let's stay home, and maybe fix our crumbling infrastructure or something.