utkonos - Slashdot User

+ - Arrested Development on Netflix: Now Please Do the Same For Firefly 0

Submitted by utkonos on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:42PM

utkonos writes "Now that Netflix is commissioning original content, something they should have been doing long ago, please please please commission new seasons of Firefly."

+ - iMessage DoS Attack-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Saturday March 30, 2013 @09:58PM

utkonos writes ""Here's the good news: Performing a denial-of-service attack on a person's iMessage account doesn't seem to be a widespread issue at this point. The bad news, however, is that it's certainly possible. Just ask some of the iOS developers who, for reasons unknown, have had their iMessage apps spammed with messages and notifications as of late.""
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+ - cPanel Hacked-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:21PM

utkonos writes "According to an email that went out to cPanel users who have opened a support ticket with cPanel in the last six months, one of their tech support servers has been compromised. They are recommending that all cPanel users who have received support change their root passwords or rotate their SSH keys."
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+ - Mitt Romney's New Web App Misspells "America"-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Thursday May 31, 2012 @12:01AM

utkonos writes "Some hapless off-shore developer hired by Mitt Romney to make his micro-donation iPhone app wasn't quite sure how to spell America."
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+ - FreeBSD X-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Friday May 18, 2012 @04:47PM

utkonos writes ""The infamous AT&T/BSD lawsuits caused FreeBSD to jettison two-thirds of its codebase and start over from scratch, knocking its feature-set back several years, causing it to be bought out and divested by hopeful investors and only reaching robustness with code infusions from two commercial unix systems, BSD/OS and Mac OS X.""
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+ - South Park Mocks Internet Memes-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Saturday March 31, 2012 @02:56PM

utkonos writes ""Last night's episode of South Park centered around all the fleeting internet memes that make up a part of our collective cultural dialogue these days, however sadly. The episode begins with the boys attempting to get a photo of Cartman "Faith Hilling" (making pretend boobies with your shirt) at a Republican debate, only to have Newt Gingrich call them out the next day in the press for being "so 2000-late" and "pretty stale...""
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+ - Senators ask feds to probe Facebook log-in requests-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Sunday March 25, 2012 @06:16PM

utkonos writes ""Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Charles Schumer ask Justice Department to investigate whether requesting job applicants' social network passwords is a violation of federal law.""
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+ - Where does infringement stop and fair use begin?-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Saturday March 03, 2012 @07:08PM

utkonos writes "Question: Where does infringement stop and fair use begin? Why would youtube take down a video containing bird song at Rumblefish's request, but all of the painfully bad videos of karaoke remain up?"
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+ - Cubrilovic spots another Facebook "tracker"-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:45PM

utkonos writes ""If nothing else, Australian blogger Nic Cubrilovic is giving Facebook a sense of what it feels like to have someone watching you all the time. No sooner is one Facebook cookie drama damped down than he triggers another.""
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+ - D.C. Police To Encrypt Radio Communications-> 1

Submitted by utkonos on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @12:50PM

utkonos writes "After decades of use, D.C.’s police scanners are about to go silent. Next month, the Metropolitan Police Department will start encrypting its radio communications.

With its constant crackle of police codes, the scanner has long provided the background music in many local newsrooms, as well as countless hours of chatter for hobbyists known as scanner junkies."
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+ - Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @11:13PM

utkonos writes ""After years of trying to cut off Linux growth as a desktop platform on x86 and x64 PCs, Microsoft may have actually figured out a way to stop Linux deployments on client PCs dead in their tracks.""
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+ - Off-Grid Hydrogen Production Method Found-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:26PM

utkonos writes ""A Penn State research team reports an unlimited supply of pure hydrogen gas can be produced using seawater, river water and organic waste. The news may mean our renewable energy infrastructure will soon undergo a dramatic shift.""
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+ - Origins of Beer Found in Argentina-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:29AM

utkonos writes "How did lager beer come to be? After pondering the question for decades, scientists have found that an elusive species of yeast isolated in the forests of Argentina was key to the invention of the crisp-tasting German beer 600 years ago."
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+ - Bing More Effective Than Google-> 0

Submitted by utkonos on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:30PM

utkonos writes "Information Week reports that Bing is more effective than Google. "While Google may control the lion's share of the search market, queries made through Microsoft's Bing search engine lead users to click on a Web page at a significantly higher rate than queries made through Google, according to data released Thursday.""
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