hkarau - Slashdot User

Google's 2nd Android Developer Contest kicksoff 1

Submitted by coffeeisclassy on Tuesday August 04 2009, @07:44PM

coffeeisclassy writes "Google's second Android Developer Contest (ADC2) has started, despite some confusion around how to submit applications. The prizes are different from the first ADC, with each category having prizes of 100k, 50k, and 25k and an overall best of 150k,50k and 25k, meaning the best Android application from ADC2 is eligible for ~250k. The rules seem to allow any application never published before August 1st to compete and is open through the end of August (so break out your keyboards!). The top prizes are certainly less than that of first ADC, but with the prizes broken down by category Google may be hoping to inspire some love for less popular categories. While some other developers are waiting to find out to submit, one developer has moved ahead and released one of there entires Pigs Can Fly Site Monitor (also on Google Market for those with Androids). So if you've been waiting for an excuse to start a new side-project, here you have it :)"

HP the Victim of Enterprising Greenpeace Stunt 36

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 29 2009, @11:38AM
from the set-phasers-to-ineffective dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Employees at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto received a shock this morning as they checked their voicemail and found that each and every one of them had received a message from Captain James T. Kirk, AKA William 'The Shat' Shatner, upbraiding the company for abandoning their plans to remove toxins from its hardware. The organization behind this stunt was Greenpeace, who, to underline their point, scaled the building and painted 'Hazardous Products' on the roof with toxin-free paint."

AT&T blocks 4chan 1

Submitted by

holdenkarau

on Sunday July 26 2009, @09:11PM

holdenkarau writes "Several news sources (mashable,the inquistr,etc.) are reporting that AT&T is blocking img.4chan.org in the southern united states. That server is used for the imfamous /b/ board (the home of anonymous). TechCrunch calls the decission to block 4chan "stupid" noting that they may have "opened perhaps the most vindictive, messy can of worms." The inquisitr suggests that "The global internet censorship debate landed in the home of the free". moot (the runner of 4chan) asks users to call AT&T while some others suggest more drastic action (like cutting AT&T fiber)."

Your browser history is showing 0

Submitted by tiffanydanica on Wednesday July 01 2009, @10:22PM

tiffanydanica writes "For a lot of us our browser history is something we consider private, or at least not something we want to expose to every website we visit.Web2.0collage is showing just how easy it is (with code!)for sites to determine what sites you visit. When you visit the site it sniffs your browser history, and creates a collage of the (safe for work) sites that you visit. It is an interesting application of potentially scary technology (imagine a job application site using this to screen candidates). You can jump right into having your history sniffed if you so desire. While the collages are cool on their own merit, they also serve as an illustration of the privacy implications of browser history sniffing."

Browser history sniffing illustrated 0

Submitted by Anonymous Pants on Tuesday June 30 2009, @10:19PM

Anonymous Pants writes "A new open-source website, Web2.0 Collage, illustrates just how easy browser sniffing is. Once it's gotten a list of all the sites you visit it constructs a (somewhat creepy) collage graphically illustrating the websites you visit. Depending on your browser history the results can be nifty or creepy (fortunately it does use a filtered SFW list). While the results on it own are kind of interesting, it also serves as a cool way to illustrate the privacy concerns of browser history sniffing."

Sniffing browser history for awareness & art 0

Submitted by tdalek on Tuesday June 30 2009, @12:26PM

tdalek writes "web2.0collage.com uses browser history sniffing to determine what websites you visit and then creates a collage of them. While the collage is kind of nifty, it also graphically illustrates just how easy it is for people to sniff your browser history. Before you get too worried, it uses a white-list of SFW sites, so the collage will (probably) be appropriate (unless you don't want your colleagues knowing about your slashdot habits). However, just because these people play nice is no guarantee that everyone else will. Other potential benign applications including customizing bookmark-lets, but the less than benign (say advertising or even hr site) implications or troublesome. An interesting application of potentially scary technology. For slashdotters not interested in warnings or explanations, you can jump straight to the browser history sniffing"

Browser sniffing ninjas 0

Submitted by tasteyf00dninja on Tuesday June 30 2009, @12:11PM

tasteyf00dninja writes "web2.0collage.com uses browser history sniffing to determine what websites you visit and creates a collage of them. Before you get worried, it uses a list of "web2.0" sites, so the collage will (probably) be appropriate (unless you don't want your colleagues knowing about your slashdot habbits). An interesting application of potentially scary technology. For those wanting to skip the warning & explanation screen and go straight to the browser history sniffing this should do the trick. While the results by them selves are kind of interesting, it also serves as a cool way to illustrate the privacy concerns of browser history sniffing."

The art of browser history sniffing 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2009, @03:57AM

An anonymous reader writes "There is a new kid in town doing something a bit different. web2.0collage.com uses browser history sniffing to determine what websites you visit and creates a collage of them. Before you get worried, it uses a list of "web2.0" sites, so the collage will (probably) be appropriate (unless you don't want your colleagues knowing about your slashdot habbits). An interesting application of potentially scary technology. For those wanting to skip the warning screen and go straight to the browser sniffing this should do the trick. While the results by them selves are kind of interesting, it also serves as a cool way to illustrate the privacy concerns of browser history sniffing."

Collages of sniffed browser history for !privacy 0

Submitted by hkarau on Monday June 29 2009, @04:28PM

hkarau writes "web2.0collage.com uses browser history sniffing to determine what websites you visit and then creates a collage of them. While the collage is kind of nifty, it also graphically illustrates just how easy it is for people to sniff your browser history. Before you get too worried, it uses a white-list of SFW sites, so the collage will (probably) be appropriate (unless you don't want your colleagues knowing about your slashdot habits). However, just because these people play nice is no guarantee that everyone else will. Other potential benign applications including customizing bookmark-lets, but the less than benign (say advertising or even hr site) implications or troublesome. An interesting application of potentially scary technology."

Sniffing browser history for art 0

Submitted by

holdenkarau

on Monday June 29 2009, @09:50AM

holdenkarau writes "You may remember previous slashdot discussions on browser history sniffing, but there is a new kid in town doing something a bit different. web2.0collage.com uses similar browser history sniffing to determine what websites you visit and creates a collage of them. Before you get worried, it uses a list of "web2.0" sites, so the collage will (probably) be appropriate (unless you don't want your colleagues knowing about your slashdot habbits). An interesting application of potentially scary technology. For those wanting to skip the warning screen and go straight to the browser sniffing this should do the trick."