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Submission + - Three years in jail for receiving an image of fisting? 1

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wwwrench
wwwrench writes: "In the UK, it may be illegal to receive an emailed image of legal and consensual sex. The Crown Prosecutation Service is currently trying a man for receiving an image of two people fisting. Under the U.K.'s 2008 obsenity law it is illegal to view a pornographic image of extreme sex, even if the image depicts a legal act. Questions have been raised about the motives for the case, as the defendent is openly gay, and used to prosecute corrupt police officers. Although the case has been virtually ignored by the media, this is also the first trail in the U.K. where one of the lawyers has been allowed to tweet during the trial (under the hashtag #porntrial).""
Security

Submission + - Reuters Was Hacked Via An Old Version Of WordPress

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Reuters blogging platform was hacked on Friday, and a false story about an alleged interview with a Syrian rebel leader was posted. On Sunday, Reuters suffered a second security breach in which hackers gained control of one of its Twitter accounts. While Twitter hasn't commented on the latter, we have more information on the former: Reuters forgot to keep its WordPress installation updated.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Understanding SNES 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As a product of the 90s I grew up loving the classics that kids today know about from Wikipedia and pop-culture references. Games like Super Bomberman, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country I and III (II was a sellout, come on) are the foundations of my childhood memories. Now, though, as a fourth-year electrical engineering major I find myself increasingly impressed by the level of technical difficulty embedded in that 16-bit console. I am trying, now, to find a resource that will take me through the technical design of the SNES (memory layout, processor information, cartridge pin layouts/documentation) to get a better understanding of what I naively enjoyed 15 some years ago. I am reaching out to the vast resources available from the minds of the Slashdot community. Any guide/blog series that you know of that walks through some of the technical aspects of the, preferably, SNES (alternatively, NES/Nintendo 64) console would be much appreciated.

Comment Re:Weak security questions (Score 1) 266

by LSDelirious (#40889055) Attached to: Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account
The worst security question setup I've ever seen by far has to be my College's Oracle PeopleSoft (eServices, Blackboard, etc). The security question is: "Excluding the state you currently live in, what other state would you most like to live in?" And you have to answer with a fucking dropdown list of the other 49 states!

Comment Re:TRWTF (Score 1) 93

by LSDelirious (#40865383) Attached to: Yahoo Sued For Password Breach
bullshit! It's entirely possible to store password hashes that cannot be reversed... say I make a hash of both username and password, then combine the 2 hashes based on a formula dependent on the respective string lengths of the username and password, and then hash that combination and store the result. It's motherfuckin hashception! Even if someone stole my whole accounts table it would be worthless, since the stored hash's portion of the hash is based on the (unknown) password string length. Hell even if they had the whole table AND my login script it would still probably an eternity if you ever could get a password back out seeing as how the stored value is a hash of a combination of hashes and even with the known username hash, its unknown what parts of that hash were used since that is affected by password string length :P
Piracy

Submission + - Pirates Evicted From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: Well, here’s a story we’ve heard before in a flavor we haven’t. The Swedish Young Pirates association had a tent at a local municipal festival (Trästockfestivalen in Skellefteå), and were handing out free waffles as an attraction. They were targeted with eviction from the festival, not because they weren’t allowed to make food or give things away (they were), but because the traditional festival waffle makers couldn’t get paid anymore.
Australia

Submission + - Anonymous Threatens To Expose Australian ISPs Over Data Retention (gizmodo.com.au)

Submitted by
lukehopewell1
lukehopewell1 writes: "The Australian government is currently discussing a plan that would force local internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain user browsing data for up to two years in a new National Security inquiry.

This has ruffled the collective feathers of Anonymous, who have formed Operation Australia to show just how insecure data actually is when retained by governments.

The group started by hacking 10 state government websites and have now threatened to hack a local ISP if the inquiry doesn't rule out data retention."
Networking

Submission + - Cisco cuts 1,300 jobs in "limited restructuring" (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Cisco is cutting 2% of its global workforce, or about 1,300 employees, in a “limited restructuring,” the company said today.
“We routinely review our business to determine where we need to align investment based on growth opportunities,” wrote Cisco spokesperson Karen Tillman in an e-mailed statement. “Additionally, we continue to evaluate our organizational structure as part of our plan to drive simplicity, speed of decisions and agility across Cisco." Cisco last July said it was cutting 6,500 jobs, or 9% of its workforce, in an effort to better focus its business and reduce operating expenses by $1 billion a year.
United States

Submission + - The Nation is Losing its Toolbox 2

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Louis Uchitelle writes that in Aisle 34 of Home Depot is precut vinyl flooring, the glue already in place, in Aisle 26 are prefab windows, and if you don’t want to be your own handyman, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will arrange for an installer as mastering tools and working with one’s hands recede as American cultural values. "At a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship," writes Uchitelle. "Craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people." Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do. But the damage to skill and craftsmanship — what’s needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machinist to supervisor — has gone largely unnoticed. “In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on,” says Michael Hout. “People who work with their hands are doing things today that we call service jobs, in restaurants and laundries, or in medical technology and the like.” The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the precipitous slide in manufacturing employment. and manufacturing’s shrinking presence helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation’s assembly line workers were skilled in craft work. “Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house,” says Richard T. Curtin. “They know about computers, of course, but they don’t know how to build them.”"
Crime

Submission + - Brazil is Turning Inmates into Power Plants

Submitted by derekmead
derekmead writes: Since the oil shocks of the ‘70s, Brazil has been home to a carnival of renewable energy initiatives that now generate a whopping 85 percent of the country’s power. At Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison, inmates are contributing to the effort by riding stationary bikes which charge batteries that fuel lights at a nearby park that previously didn’t have electricity. That makes the park safer and shaves a little off the city’s carbon footprint, while giving the inmates a chance to get buff – and reduce their sentences.

City judge José Henrique Mallmann was apparently inspired by other prisons that offer prisoners incentives for riding bikes. At Phoenix, Ariz.’s Tent City Jail, female prisoners who want to watch television are required to pedal stationary bikes that power TVs. The technology has been in use at some fitness clubs for years, and is gaining traction for use in everyday life by cycling enthusiasts.
Music

Submission + - Universal Music failed to declare more than 110 million USD in income in Japan (yomiuri.co.jp)

Submitted by soramimicake
soramimicake writes: Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reports that Japanese tax authorities have found that Universal Music LLC, the local arm of Universal Music Group, failed to declare about 9 billion yen (more than 114 million USD) in taxable income over a three-year period through Dec. 31, 2010. Japanese sources said Univeral Music is being pursued for 3 billion yen of additional tax because of this, and UM LLC has appealed to the National Tax Tribunal.
The Media

Submission + - The Fate of Newspapers: Farm it, Milk it, or Feed it

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Alan D. Mutter writes that with a 50% drop in newspaper advertising since 2005, the old ways of running a newspaper can no longer succeed so most publishers are faced with choosing the best possible strategy going-forward for their mature but declining businesses: farm it, feed it, or milk it. Warren Buffett is farming it and recently bucked the widespread pessimism about the future of newspapers by buying 63 titles from Media General and is concentrating on small and medium papers in defensible markets, while steering clear of metro markets, where costs are high and competition is fierce. “I do not have any secret sauce,” says Buffett. “There are still 1,400 daily papers in the United States. The nice thing about it is that somebody can think about the best answer and we can copy him. Two or three years from now, you’ll see a much better-defined pattern of operations online and in print by papers.” Advance Publications is milking it by cutting staff and reducing print publication to three days a week at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, thus making the Crescent City the largest American metropolis to be deprived of a daily dose of wood fiber in its news diet. Once dismantled, the local reporting infrastructure in communities like New Orleans will almost certainly never be rebuilt. "By cutting staff to a bare minimum and printing only on the days it is profitable to do so, publishers can milk considerable sums from their franchises until the day these once-indomitable cash cows go dry." Rupert Murdoch is feeding it as he spins his newspapers out of News Corp. and into a separate company empowered to innovate the traditional publishing businesses into the future. In various interviews after announcing the planned spinoff, Murdoch promised to launch the new company with no debt and ample cash to aggressively pursue digital publishing opportunities across a variety of platforms. "If the spinoff materializes in anywhere near the way Murdoch is spinning it, however, it could turn out to be a model for iterating the way forward for newspapers.""

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