Comment Re:To summarize the article ... (Score 1) 696
Its less than one percent that have been released so far. 1,942 of 250,000 cables.
Comment Re:Perspective (Score 2) 696
Mr. Assange is giving the materials, a few at a time, to the NYT, and others, so that they may determine, in their journalistic opinion, based not just in support of a single government, but with the principles they hold defending democracy.
It must always be remembered, the data is being filtered, and redacted, and withheld, if immediate danger to individuals is expected, among other reasons.
I for one am glad that The Guardian, El Pais and Le Monde have access too.
He is not releasing all the data at once, or just on the opinions of wikileak volunteers or staff.
Comment Re:Journalistic Hubris (Score 1) 696
"Very noble of them to take on this weighty responsibility."
As in a people governing themselves, as in government of the people by the people for the people. Which is I think very noble of them, to take on this weighty responsibility, but more than noble, Americans have offered their lives over and over again to ensure that such a government shall not perish from the earth.
Submission + - Why Do-Not-Track Could Make Web Advertising Worse (technologyreview.com)
KRK-TR writes: IE9's "Tracking Protection" is technically flawed—it can't stop websites from tracking you, and is a step in the wrong direction for internet privacy.
Submission + - German researchers claim to have found AIDS cure (dw-world.de)
Lisandro writes: Deustche Welle is reporting that Timothy Ray Brown, an AIDS-positive leukemia patient was apparently cured of his HIV infection after receiving a blood stem cell transplant in 2007. The study found that "the patient remained without viral rebound 20 months after transplantation and discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy."
Submission + - Apple quietly drops iOS jailbreak detection API (networkworld.com)
bednarz writes: "Apple has disabled, without explanation, a jailbreak detection API in iOS less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been modified so they can load and alter applications outside of Apple's iTunes-based App Store."
Submission + - Software Patent Threats Take Down Great Site (runwayfinder.com)
mattncsu03 writes: Patent lawsuit threats from commercial flight planning site FlightPrep results in an awesome free resource that allows users to browse aviation charts in google maps going dark. RunwayFinder.com is closing their doors rather than fight what they claim may be a bogus patent.
Submission + - Politics Meets Open Source (projectrestoration.com) 1
Xanadu13 writes: New member, but reader for years, finally writing. This submission is my blog, which came to mind as being newsworthy because of the connection that I draw between WikiLeaks and Open Source. This is not something I'm seeing elsewhere. Also, I figured this was as good a place as any to introduce myself as part of a larger initiative that may be of interest to the Slashdot community, as it is about using collective intelligence to generate "a revolution consciousness" (and that would definitely seem to fall under the header of stuff that matters). See formal press release here: http://big-i-group.com/pr_criticalmass.html
Thanks in advance for your consideration to run this as prominently as you like. You're the first media group we're submitting to, your audience is extremely likely to get what we're up to, and getting a lot of hits is the key to our being able to actually effect a change.
Thanks in advance for your consideration to run this as prominently as you like. You're the first media group we're submitting to, your audience is extremely likely to get what we're up to, and getting a lot of hits is the key to our being able to actually effect a change.
Comment And now with wonderful life giving NASA Arsenic (Score 1) 747
I love our new NASA world of science.
Comment Hooray for adam (Score 1) 1
it looks a killer second gen tablet. Wow is the obvious short phrase
Submission + - The Adam has arrived (wordpress.com) 1
Clueless Nick writes: The much awaited Pixel Qi and NVIDIA Tegra 2 based tablet, the Adam, designed by Indian start up Notion Ink has been finally opened for prebooking. Notion Ink's CEO Rohan Shravan has given details about the Eden UI sporting multiple panels, native applications and the price range on his widely followed blog. The 10.1" tablet will run on Android and incorporates feature sets of both 2.3 Gingerbread and 3.0 Honeycomb.
The base version (LCD + WiFi) starts at $375.33 and the top one costs (Transreflective Pixel Qi + WiFi + 3G) $549.99, and will be priced at the same level for all markets! What is not revealed so far is a mystery feature (cryptically denoted -D5720A80), which may see gradual unlocking through fortnightly updates. Also on the way are replaceable side panels with colours of your choice, to complement the matt black finish of the tablet.
Also read, at the end of the blog, Rohan's fitting reply to a FUD post by Engadget, the tech blog that loves a certain premium hardware vendor.
The base version (LCD + WiFi) starts at $375.33 and the top one costs (Transreflective Pixel Qi + WiFi + 3G) $549.99, and will be priced at the same level for all markets! What is not revealed so far is a mystery feature (cryptically denoted -D5720A80), which may see gradual unlocking through fortnightly updates. Also on the way are replaceable side panels with colours of your choice, to complement the matt black finish of the tablet.
Also read, at the end of the blog, Rohan's fitting reply to a FUD post by Engadget, the tech blog that loves a certain premium hardware vendor.
Comment Booth is (Score 1) 586
Booth has been rotting for more than century, and as such is building this great country, building the soil of a land of plenty, as such he is certainly contributing, and many can not say the same.
Comment Re:'Never forwarded that information' (Score 0) 179
That kind of posting is allowed on slashdot? Please delete(#34428130)
Submission + - Help buy a satellite! (buythissatellite.org)
An anonymous reader writes: these guys are crowd-funding to buy a satellite from a bankrupt company in order to deliver free Internet access to millions of people in the developing world. They are also giving away sweet shirts with donations.
Submission + - Wikileaks DNS shut down
Sparx139 writes: EveryDNS.net, the DNS provider for Wikileaks, has terminated the domain name wikileaks.org
The decision came as a result of the recent DDOS attack on wikileaks.org, with EveryDNS attempting to protect their infrastructure and other clients from the attacks.
Wikileaks confirmed via twitter that wikileaks.org has been "killed". The website can now be reached from http://wikileaks.ch/
The decision came as a result of the recent DDOS attack on wikileaks.org, with EveryDNS attempting to protect their infrastructure and other clients from the attacks.
Wikileaks confirmed via twitter that wikileaks.org has been "killed". The website can now be reached from http://wikileaks.ch/
