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Submission + - Instant Facial Recognition Coupons. What could possibly go wrong? (redpepperland.com) 1

Press2ToContinue writes: "Facial recognition cameras are installed at local businesses. These cameras recognize your face when you pass by, then check you in at the location. Simultaneously, your smartphone notifies you of a customized deal based on your Like history."

From Facebook, whose track record for privacy problems is legendary.

What could possibly go wrong?

Privacy

Submission + - Oliver Stone: "The US has become an Orwellian State" (rt.com)

dryriver writes: Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law. Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a lot because of the “nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him.” “He has taken all the Bush changes, he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them,” Stone told RT. “It is an Orwellian state. It might not be oppressive on the surface, but there is no place to hide. Some part of you is going to end up in the database somewhere.” According to Kuznick, American citizens live in a fish tank where their government intercepts more than 1.7 billion messages a day. “That is email, telephone calls, other forms of communication.”

Submission + - The Free Software Foundation Campaigning to Stop UEFI SecureBoot (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: The Free Software Foundation is on an offensive against restricted boot systems and is busy appealing for donations and pledge in the form of signatures in a bid to stop systems such as the UEFI SecureBoot from being adopted on a large-scale basis and becoming a norm in the future. The FSF, through an appeal on its website, is requesting users to sign a pledge titled "Stand up for your freedom to install free software" that they won’t be purchasing or recommending for purchase any such system that is SecureBoot enabled or some other form of restricted boot techniques. The FSF has managed to receive, as of this writing, over 41,000 signatures. Organizations like the Debian, Edoceo, Zando, Wreathe and many others have also showed their support for the campaign.
Linux

Submission + - Torque 3D Engine may come to Linux (indiegogo.com)

northar writes: Garage Games is also jumping on the Linux gaming wave (Steam, Humble indie bundle etc.)

Garage Games has started an IndieGoGo campaign in order to finance a port of the full toolchain of the succesor to Torque 3D engine.This Torque 3D plan would allow game developers to develop their software entirely on Linux!

Comment Actually, a cool thing (Score 1) 145

I have a stash of retrocomputers and consoles, and for everyone of them that i can get to run *nix it's always cool. Amiga now has DebianM68k and NetBSD in new versions, PS2 has the kernelloader live cd, My old Mac PPC has Linux Minut, and my Sam460 has Debian too. As for the Speccy - well at least it got esxdos:)

Comment Beats that Win8 crap anyday (Score 1) 202

While many of you are busy writing angry comments about one of the zillion distros, because you don't seem to know that it's deadeasy to change windowmanagers/desktop to whatever you want, i'll load up Steam on Ubuntu and play some good games. Or maybe Spotify. On my Ubuntu 12.10. At least i can do these things on Linux! in 2012, nothings impossible. Cheer up. Even we nerds doesn't want the "compile Gentoo" stuff all the time. Thank Mark for helping bringing Linux to the masses. Do what you wan't with your money and vision, and don't let the forumgnabbers get to you.:)

Comment Re:Whose perception? (Score 1) 202

it's the one without arguments that starts yelling ...) Q1:" Fedora, Suse, Mageia and PCLOS are all way better than Ubuntu" List some reasons why? Q2: "...way better than Ubuntu. To be fair, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are also better. It is only Ubuntu that is rotten."" In what ways do you mean that Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu arn't Ubuntu? Why is Ubuntu rotten?

Comment Whats up with the Unity obsession? (Score 2) 202

Or could it be that the people complaining about Unity doesn't know how to change to to Xubuntu, Kubuntu and so on? A lot of the comments are "Unity is crap" bla bla. I just don't get it, If you don't like Unity, just use Xubuntu or whatever. Unity has been here for over a year now, it's here too stay, just use Xubuntu or whatever if you don't like it.

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