Comment Re:Think of it as 4.0.2 (Score 1) 599
A compatible version of All-In-One Gestures is available from the developer's site:
http://marc.boullet.pagesperso-orange.fr/ext/extensions-en.html
Comment Re:Do they have the truth about electricity? (Score 1) 119
The publisher's page: http://www.bjupress.com/about/look-inside-science-4.php
You can view some sample pages.
And cry.
Submission + - DMCA takedown of Wikipedia hyperlinks to PCI spec (wikipedia.org)
michaelmalak writes: "The entire Wikipedia page describing the PCI spec is protected from editing because of a DMCA takedown notice regarding the hyperlinks to "pirated" copies of the specification for this 18-year-old standard."
Submission + - Adverts suddenly appearing on slashdot (slashdot.org) 1
mrthoughtful writes: After years of perfect karma, and loyal readership, Slashdot appears to have revoked user privileges that mask off advertising for these users.
What happened?
What happened?
Submission + - Jungle Disk remarkably insecure (daemonology.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Insecurity in the Jungle (disk)
A few weeks ago, in the wake of stories about Dropbox's poor security, a user of my Tarsnap online backup service mentioned that he had heard Jungle Disk recommended as a secure alternative. This surprised me, since I remembered from the early days on the Amazon Web Services developers forums that JungleDave — as the author called himself — was always far more concerned with ease of use than with security. Had things improved? I decided to investigate, and I wasn't impressed with what I found.
Unlike most online backup / storage companies, Jungle Disk has released source code, here and here. They did this because in the early days of Jungle Disk, people wanted some assurance that they could get their data back if Jungle Disk went out of business; since the Jungle Disk client stores data directly to Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files, it is also possible to read files directly from those services. (This is also a feature which Tarsnap users frequently request, but the design of Tarsnap — including amortizing S3 PUT costs across blocks uploaded from multiple users — makes it impossible to provide such a mechanism for Tarsnap.)
Now, this code is not the code used in the actual Jungle Disk client — like most other online backup services all you get is a binary, and you have to trust that it isn't doing anything wrong (either due to intentional mis-features or accidental bugs) — but the fact that the published source code can interoperate with the Jungle Disk client code does at least provide us with some information about what Jungle Disk does cryptographically.
A few weeks ago, in the wake of stories about Dropbox's poor security, a user of my Tarsnap online backup service mentioned that he had heard Jungle Disk recommended as a secure alternative. This surprised me, since I remembered from the early days on the Amazon Web Services developers forums that JungleDave — as the author called himself — was always far more concerned with ease of use than with security. Had things improved? I decided to investigate, and I wasn't impressed with what I found.
Unlike most online backup / storage companies, Jungle Disk has released source code, here and here. They did this because in the early days of Jungle Disk, people wanted some assurance that they could get their data back if Jungle Disk went out of business; since the Jungle Disk client stores data directly to Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files, it is also possible to read files directly from those services. (This is also a feature which Tarsnap users frequently request, but the design of Tarsnap — including amortizing S3 PUT costs across blocks uploaded from multiple users — makes it impossible to provide such a mechanism for Tarsnap.)
Now, this code is not the code used in the actual Jungle Disk client — like most other online backup services all you get is a binary, and you have to trust that it isn't doing anything wrong (either due to intentional mis-features or accidental bugs) — but the fact that the published source code can interoperate with the Jungle Disk client code does at least provide us with some information about what Jungle Disk does cryptographically.
Submission + - UK launches Peer to Patent pilot project (h-online.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Inspired by a proposal by Beth Noveck, professor of law at New York Law School, the Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Wilcox laucnched a UK "Peer To Patent" pilot project to identify prior art in patent applications by harnessing the wider community of experts and engaged citizens
Submission + - Microsoft Unveils First Windows 8 Preview On Video (dlhub.net)
An anonymous reader writes: We have seen leaked images and downloads of Windows 8 OS but this time Microsoft has finally unveiled the very first video demonstration showing us what's in the store for upcoming major upgrade to Windows platform.
The video demos the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8”. According to the official announcement the "Windows 8" based PC is really a new kind of device completely revamped from the chip to the user-interface, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse.
The video demos the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8”. According to the official announcement the "Windows 8" based PC is really a new kind of device completely revamped from the chip to the user-interface, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse.
Comment Re:Why Firefox 3.5? (Score 1) 353
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/3.5_EOL
It's dead, Jim.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 591
FACT: If Google doesn't renew the search deal, Bing gains a few hundred million users overnight.
End of story.
Comment Re:Going out on a limb here... (Score 1) 673
Unrelated note: For some reason, I mis-read the slashdot headline as "What To Do When the Raptors Come?"
Comment Re:Nuke power (Score 2) 483
"Atomic" is still kinda iffy, "atomic bomb" and all that.
I propose "Sub-molecular thermoelectric generator" instead.
Comment Re:too late (Score 1) 233
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/psn-outage-begins-to-hit-retail
“In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” says one source, a store manager at a major UK retailer speaking on condition of anonymity. “However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
Comment Re:And the top US search terms are any better... (Score 1) 537
My country's search terms: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#geo=HU&gprop=images&cmpt=q
The number 1 by a wide margin is "képek" which means "images".
Searching for images on an image search site...
And the margin seems to grow bigger every year.
This is so sad.
Comment Re:The IE Fate (Score 1) 76
Nope.
Not even that:
ftp -A ftp.mozilla.org
cd pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/
mget *.exe
quit
Comment Re:At the end of the day (Score 1) 83
LastPass gives the user the option to use all these security features (strong master password, authentication grid, fingerprint/card reader, hardware key), but they can't force the user to be secure.
The user is always the weakest link, but this doesn't mean that those who know what they are doing can't be safe.
