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Submission + - The McAfee Guide to Uninstalling McAfee Software (youtube.com)

Submitted by Shivantrill
Shivantrill writes: John McAfee has released a video guide to uninstalling the software that bears his name. In every comment section for every article about John McAfee at least one person asks "how do I uninstall this crappy software". John McAfee has heard your cries and has produced a very NSFW video guide. Whatever you may personally think of Mr. McAfee, we all can agree that he has a sense of humor and is not above making fun of himself. This isn't a home made video either, it is production quality

Submission + - Monsanto executive gets Nobel Prize for food and agriculture (muktworld.com) 4

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: A top Monsanto executive has won the prestigious World Food Prize. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the award where Robert T. Fraley, the executive vice president and CTO of Monsanto, won the prize along with two other scientists from Belgium and the US. What's next Gaddafi to get the Nobel prize for world peace?

Submission + - Congress Becomes Aware of Patent Trolls

Submitted by phantomfive
phantomfive writes: Congressman Charles Schumer has written a piece decrying the evils of patent trolls. "Because of the high cost of patent litigation—the average litigation defense costs a small or midsize company $1.75 million—it is often marginally cheaper for a defendant to pay up front to make the case go away. The average settlement for the same group of companies is $1.33 million....Patent trolls cost U.S. companies $29 billion in 2011 alone."
His solution? Make it easier for low quality patents to be re-examined and rejected by the patent office.

Submission + - TreeSheets (cross-platform free form data organizer) now Open Source

Submitted by Aardappel
Aardappel writes: TreeSheets ( http://treesheets.com/ ) has been available as freeware for Windows / Linux / OS X since 2008, but is now also Open Source (ZLIB license): https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets .
TreeSheets is a cross between a spreadsheet (you can create grids) and an outliner (you can create grids inside grids) allowing you to create almost any structure to organize your data in.

Submission + - Toddlers possibly being posioned, and IT is being blamed! (foodwhistleblower.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am Colin Chase, the man in this story. After coming clean, getting fired, and launching a Federal lawsuit, the company behind the popular Brothers-All-Natural brand launches lawsuit against me. And their lawsuit deals with my access to files, the very files I am using to prove their guilt.

Please post something about this. Toddlers may be at risk with a Disney product being sold at Walmart!

http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/press/press-releases/29-2013/543-food-safety-modernization-act-whistleblower-case-filed-in-federal-court

You can reach me at 585-802-4573 or colin.chase.cell@gmail.com. (Please do not share my contact info.)

Thanks,

Colin

Submission + - They are calling him a "TRAITOR" !! (independent.co.uk)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: If by now, you still haven't heard of "EDWARD SNOWDEN"", please read https://news.slashdot.org/story/13/06/10/1134226/usa-calling-for-the-extradition-of-snowden

As I am typing this message, a lot of critters on the Capitol Hill are calling Mr. Snowden a " TRAITOR "

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-rages-at-traitor-edward-snowden-as-nsa-faces-fire-over-protection-of-secrets-8653325.html

They got so desperate that they even announced a poll result showing that the majority of the Americans preferred to have their Rights stripped away, in exchange for "protection from terrorism" (see http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/11/0316209/majority-of-americans-say-nsa-phone-tracking-is-ok-to-fight-terrorism )

What I want to know is, what kind of government are we having on Washington, D.C. ??

More info @

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-profile

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/boehner-calls-snowden-a-traitor/

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bolton-snowden-nsa-leaks/2013/06/11/id/509318

As an American, I am totally sick of what is happening

Are you ??

Submission + - Slashdot poll

Submitted by vikingpower
vikingpower writes: "Precision of the most precise measuring device you ever used:
- picometers
- femtofarads
- microvolts
- attobreadcrumbs
- metric tons
- evacowboyneals
- what is this precision thing you are talking of ?
- I am in marketing, you insensitive clod !"

Submission + - Groklaw on ten years of Linux legalities: (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn't know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal journalist, Pamela "PJ" Jones and her Website Groklaw, executives who wanted to know what was really what with SCO's multitude of lawsuits soon learned of the FUD behind SCO's claims. SCO and its silent backer Microsoft hope for profits and slowing down Linux's corporate success would come to nothing, and SCO ended up in bankruptcy.

Comment Fuck that (Score 1) 2

by fireman sam (#43786425) Attached to: 3-D Printable Food for NASA and the Very Hungry

Who would ever want to live in a place where food is marketed the same as printer cartridges? You get the food printer with a "lite" cartridge that can only print 4 meals for $500. To purchase additional cartridges it will cost $5000. If you try to put your own food substance in the cartridge you will have the full force of the US [private company] defense force come down on you screaming DMCA.

Control the food, control the people

Submission + - Google converts links sent via Google Chat to referral links 1

Submitted by MotorMachineMercenar
MotorMachineMercenar writes: Google has apparently introduced a new feature to track user behavior in the revamped Google Chat, called Hangouts.

A friend of mine sent me a link, incidentally about an MIT study about the futility of folio hats in blocking the thought police. I use Chrome for Gmail, but being the folio-hat -wearing type, I do all my other browsing in a tightly locked down FF. I copy-pasted the link to FF, and noticed that there was flash of a Google URL before it went to the right URL.

After pasting the link to a note, I noticed it's a Google referral link, similar to the ones most (all?) links on Google search are — in case you weren't aware. So now Google knows who sent what link to whom. The only way around that is to select the entire link, and copy the text.

Now, I'm aware that by definition of me being on a Google platform they implicitly know our conversations. But the fact that they bother to make a referral link means there is even more datamining going on behind the scenes than what we already knew of.

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