Comment Re:Next step - beer! (Score 5, Informative) 308
Read a Budweiser label. It's made with barley and rice. Many other American beers include "select grains" as well.
Submission + - The NSA Is Being Sued for Keeping Keith Alexander's Financial History Secret (vice.com)
Daniel_Stuckey writes: Now the NSA has yet another dilemma on its hands: Investigative journalist Jason Leopold is suing the agency for denying him the release of financial disclosure statements attributable to its former director. According to a report by Bloomberg , prospective clients of Alexander's, namely large banks, will be billed $1 million a month for his cyber-consulting services. Recode.net quipped that for an extra million, Alexander would show them the back door (state-installed spyware mechanisms) that the NSA put in consumer routers.
Submission + - Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users To Recover Their Data (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August have 72 hours (starting yesterday at 7 p.m. U.S. Central Time) to change their passwords and start recovering their data. 'Following the 72 hour period, Thursday, October 17th, the website will then allow users to access email archives and their personal account data so that it may be preserved by the user,' said Lavabit's founder and owner Ladar Levison.
Comment Re:Radio buttons, for that vintage look (Score 2) 101
Wow - make a very gentle crack on Apple, and my karma goes from excellent to good to positive in less than an hour. I have learned my lesson.
Comment Re:Radio buttons, for that vintage look (Score 0, Flamebait) 101
So you mean Apple will try to get a design patent on radio buttons?
Comment Re:Finally Government Transparency (Score 1) 83
In other news ... the CIA has been renamed "The Ministry for Information Sharing."
This is a double-plus good change.
Comment Re:Do the same with a handful of transistors (Score 1) 96
Hell, I'd be surprised if 2% of
BBROYGBVGW - For political correctness, I won't share the mnemonic I used 30 years ago. Now get off my lawn.
Comment Just like my coding (Score 3) 325
I do the same thing.
I write 15 times as much code by not bothering to fix the mistakes.
Submission + - Astroturfing on Slashdot? (penguinpetes.com)
walterbyrd writes: There's something about late spring that seems to bring the corporate asstroturf out of the woodwork (oops, I made a "Freudian typo" there!). College graduation is coming up after all, with all those fresh new students hitting the market and becoming truly adult consumers for the first time. Gotta get ready for them. Today's front page of Slashdot brings us not one, not two, but three examples.
Submission + - Former TSA Administrator Speaks (wsj.com)
phantomfive writes: Former TSA head Kip Hawley talks about the TSA:
"it's simply no longer the case that killing a few people on board a plane could lead to a hijacking. Never again will a terrorist be able to breach the cockpit simply with a box cutter or a knife. The cockpit doors have been reinforced, and passengers, flight crews and air marshals would intervene.
I wanted to reduce the amount of time that officers spent searching for low-risk objects, but politics intervened at every turn. Lighters were untouchable, having been banned by an act of Congress. And despite the radically reduced risk that knives and box cutters presented in the post-9/11 world, allowing them back on board was considered too emotionally charged for the American public.
I wanted to reduce the amount of time that officers spent searching for low-risk objects, but politics intervened at every turn. Lighters were untouchable, having been banned by an act of Congress. And despite the radically reduced risk that knives and box cutters presented in the post-9/11 world, allowing them back on board was considered too emotionally charged for the American public.
Comment Re:Privelege (Score 1) 482
A meta-cop bit my moose
Comment Re:Don't let users score their own tasks (Score 1) 304
And the people who understand the ref and could have modded me 'funny' wasted their points on troll-bashing. Ironic.
Comment Re:Don't let users score their own tasks (Score 4, Funny) 304
That won't work - most of the feature requests would be about GreatBunzinni.
Submission + - NASA Releases High Definition Image Of Earth From (nasa.gov)
klchoward writes: "Working for NOAA I have been really pleased to see the weather data from the new Suomi NPP satellite coming into our computer models already but have been blown away by it's capability to take stunning high definition images of our planet. See the article at Huffington Post or go straight to the image at NASA's website."
Submission + - Legality Of ACTA In U.S. Questioned In Petition (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt reports that a petition on the US Government's We the People website raises the question of whether ACTA is enforcable as an executive agreement — which allows the President to sign the agreement without getting approval — when it covers intellectual property, which is the mandate of Congress, and would require a vote before it becomes a treaty.
Slashdot has previously covered Senator Wyden questioning the constitutionality of ACTA before its signing last year; while the EU is said to be signing ACTA into force from today.
Slashdot has previously covered Senator Wyden questioning the constitutionality of ACTA before its signing last year; while the EU is said to be signing ACTA into force from today.
