Comment similar to the classic xkcd (Score 1) 92
have a laugh from the past :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:The Internet responded by pirating his album (Score 1) 311
Comment Re:Polls like these (Score 1) 403
Logged in to say:
great news!
Comment great news (Score 1) 454
so happy, looking forward to another 10 years!
Submission + - SourceForge MITM Projects (github.io) 2
lister king of smeg writes: What happened?
SourceForge, once a trustworthy source code hosting site, started to place misleading ads (like fake download buttons) a few years ago. They are also bundling third-party adware/malware directly with their Windows installer.
Some project managers decided to leave SourceForge – partly because of this, partly just because there are better options today. SF staff hijacked some of these abandoned accounts, partly to bundle the crapware with their installers. It has become just another sleazy garbage site with downloads of fake antivirus programs and such.
How can I help?
If you agree that SourceForge is in fact distributing malicious software under the guise of open source projects, report them to google. Ideally this will help remove them from search results, prevent others from suffering their malware and provide them with incentive to change their behavior.
SourceForge, once a trustworthy source code hosting site, started to place misleading ads (like fake download buttons) a few years ago. They are also bundling third-party adware/malware directly with their Windows installer.
Some project managers decided to leave SourceForge – partly because of this, partly just because there are better options today. SF staff hijacked some of these abandoned accounts, partly to bundle the crapware with their installers. It has become just another sleazy garbage site with downloads of fake antivirus programs and such.
How can I help?
If you agree that SourceForge is in fact distributing malicious software under the guise of open source projects, report them to google. Ideally this will help remove them from search results, prevent others from suffering their malware and provide them with incentive to change their behavior.
As this story has been submitted several times in the past several days, by various submitter and is going around various other tech forums( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... , https://soylentnews.org/articl... , https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
Submission + - After a year of police action, dark net black markets see 37% annual growth (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill writes: Even as police around the world continue to pressure and take down numerous dark net markets, the industry grew 37% by product listings in the last year. Two of the biggest markets ever are gone--Silk Road 2.0 fell to US police and Evolution stole its customers' cash--but, as usual, new markets have filled in the void with haste. This is the fourth straight year of big growth here since the creation of Silk Road in 2011.
Submission + - BitTorrent Launches Encrypted P2P Chat App Bleep For Android, iOS, Windows, Mac
An anonymous reader writes: BitTorrent today launched its encrypted P2P chat app Bleep. You can download the first stable version for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac from bleep.pm. Formerly known as BitTorrent Chat, Bleep was first released in private alpha in July (but only for Windows 7 and Windows 8) and then as a public alpha in September with apps for Android and OS X. While there have been numerous updates since, today’s release brings Bleep to iOS for the first time, and removes the alpha tag on all platforms. That’s right — Farid Fadaie, senior director of product development at BitTorrent, confirmed with VentureBeat that Bleep is skipping the beta phase entirely and going straight to public release.
Comment i dont have the money for even the regular one... (Score 1) 192
but damn this poll is likely the greatest piece of sheet i've seen here in a while.
a giant circle jerk.
No serious yes option?
I guess hivemind is strong on this one
Comment Summary got it wrong (Score 0) 206
There WILL be physical discs available.
Only SL users can upgrade by download.
Submission + - Reported Costs of Drug R&D Questioned (genengnews.com)
Alicat1194 writes: When one of the world’s most extensive press operations, whose full-time staff of journalists write copy for editors, TV producers, government reports, and internet outlets, tells us over and over that the average cost for research (R&D) to bring a new drug to market is $1.32 billion, we assume that the pharmaceutical industry knows what it is talking about. However a new study published in the Journal of Health Economics, concludes that this cost was so subject to internal and external sources of variability that estimates based on it should not be trusted.
Submission + - Advice on Creating HIPAA-compliant Websites? (slashdot.org) 2
supahdren writes: I'm an emergency medicine doctor who also has a fairly serious background in building database-backended websites. I'm currently creating an online system to track and follow-up on patients that I see so that I can close the feedback loop on diagnoses that I make and outcomes of treatments that I give. I'm worried, though, because the law that governs access to and retention of personal health information in the US, HIPAA, is obtuse and complicated, and I don't know if my final product will be compliant with it. Have any slashdotters built HIPAA-compliant websites before? What are the actual requirements? Any pitfalls to watch out for?
Submission + - HTC buys S3 Graphics (forbes.com)
jones_supa writes: "The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has bought the graphics department of VIA Technologies, S3 Graphics. This $300 million dollar deal brings HTC the ownership of new patents and graphics visualization technologies. In addition to its traditional markets in PCs and game consoles, S3 Graphics’ texture compression technology is increasingly being applied to smartphones and tablets, HTC says."
Submission + - WSJ: Google Makes Kids Cry
theodp writes: One week after the launch of Google+, the Wall Street Journal reports the search engine giant’s push into social networking continues to drive the conversation — rebranding beloved products one minute, making kids cry the next. Ten-year-old Alex, a very active Gmail user, lost his account after the Google+ Profile he created triggered a Google Terms of Service age violation. 'You made my son cry, Google,' wrote blogger Martin Sutherland. 'I'm not inclined to forgive that.' Sorry Alex and Martin, life doesn't always turn out like a Google Chrome commercial. Not to pile on, but Alex may also be persona non grata at Google-backed Khan Academy, where learning under the age of 13 can also constitute a TOS violation.
Submission + - Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism? (larrysanger.org) 1
Larry Sanger writes: "Geeks are supposed to be, if anything, intellectual. But it recently occurred to me that a lot of Internet geeks and digerati have sounded many puzzlingly anti-intellectual notes over the past decade, and especially lately. The Peter Thiel-inspired claim that "college is a waste of time" is just the latest example. I have encountered (and argued against) five common opinions, widely held by geeks, that seem headed down a slippery slope. J'accuse: "at the bottom of the slippery slope, you seem to be opposed to knowledge wherever it occurs, in books, in experts, in institutions, even in your own mind." So, am I right? Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?"
