Comment: Re:Google the biggest fighter against govt data re (Score -1, Troll) 80
You forgot the disclaimer about your employer.
Comment: Learn (Score 2) 332
Lear all you can. how can he do less work and not create bugs? (if he creates bugs, stop fixing his work and let the problem fix itself)
All in all, he is you tomorrow. You will get like him. Maybe there's a reason for that. maybe it's just indifference that comes with age. either way, i'd recomend you to learn his ways and start sooner, for as soon as you start that, you will get better pay, more respect, and a youger idiot to clean up after you.
Comment: Re:I thought it was all about Apple (Score 1) 189
Sure it was.
- let's buy some crap for 12bi so we don't have to pay a couple billions in patent licenses.
It was because they wanted this money and they lost. They literally gambled with company money.
Comment: Re:Why didn't I think of that? (Score 1) 135
Not true, this worked for the guy, Adria Richard, from the dongle-gate
Comment: debunked (Score 1) 135
This pretty much debunked the myth that being a woman in tech is difficult and that is kjust because women opt to do other things that we don't see them around. And that the whole issue is around only for a few individuals special interests.
What i really want to see is someone pull that coverage by being a 50-60 yr old male white developer. The only group that really is absent in tech despite trying.
Comment: Re:Similar to some existing systems (Score 2) 84
yeah, didn't see how this is "new". but i'm sure they will get all the patents and billionaire grants.
4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101
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from the take-a-look dept.
SternisheFan points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."
DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants 146
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from the bending-the-rules dept.
from the bending-the-rules dept.
Via the EFF comes news that, during a case involving the use of a Stingray device, the DOJ revealed that it was standard practice to use the devices without explicitly requesting permission in warrants. "When Rigmaiden filed a motion to suppress the Stingray evidence as a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the government responded that this order was a search warrant that authorized the government to use the Stingray. Together with the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in support of Rigmaiden, noting that this 'order' wasn't a search warrant because it was directed towards Verizon, made no mention of an IMSI catcher or Stingray and didn't authorize the government — rather than Verizon — to do anything. Plus to the extent it captured loads of information from other people not suspected of criminal activity it was a 'general warrant,' the precise evil the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent. ... The emails make clear that U.S. Attorneys in the Northern California were using Stingrays but not informing magistrates of what exactly they were doing. And once the judges got wind of what was actually going on, they were none too pleased:"
Comment: Re:Reinstall Ubuntu. (Score 1, Interesting) 573
aymous coward couldn't be wronger.
Ubuntu makes you dumb. period.
your goal is to find a distro with good documentation. if you are 200% serious, I'd say start with openBSD. not Linux perse, but it's the only place where documentation issues are considered high priority bugs. also you will learn a lot more about best practices (the main reason I think the parent is being obnoxious as suggestion Ubuntu for someone who is clearly already abusing sudo more than he/she should)
also, I'd say 90% of
lastly, threat every choice as life threatening
Comment: Nice to be off the cloud (Score 4, Interesting) 61
Finally a office suite not forcing me to store all mydata on their servers.
Though be warned, it will download some 20mb of qt libraries. On my nexus one, this raises the bar on if i can even have the app by a huge margin
Comment: Re:OpenOffice (Score 1) 61
They say odt format is not available yet (with a typo missing the "not" on the store no less)
Comment: Re:backup orthogonal to encryption (Score 1) 148
So, if your backup is already online, let's say a vps, you would be sending everything unencrypted to the machine you can't really trust and encrypting there?
Comment: Re:No (Score 1) 456
Sadam was pretty much dying and there was a middle class elite in the country. That's the recipe for a Pacific revolution... Why do you think that was the timing for invasion?
Without sadam there would be no control.it would be an autonomous country.
Comment: Re:life-long updates (Score 1) 687
Only a neckbeard would say that.
A real human have his card on the back of a bar while he's getting hammered with cheap liquor at least twice a month.
Comment: Re:life-long updates (Score 2) 687
Most cc harvesters get data directly from banking systems or brick and mortar stores. Mainly because of volume.
Those small business are worthless.