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Submission + - DVD to Nexus 7 - Guide on how to play DVD on Nexus 7 (zimbio.com)

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adamlautner2012
adamlautner2012 writes: "Apart from browsing Web pages, playing games and reading Ebooks, playing DVD movies and videos on the High-Definition display of Nexus 7 may just be amongst the best ways to fill up the time no matter when you are on a rather long cross-country airline flight or waiting for someone who's usually late."
Security

Submission + - Harry Potter's Emma Watson most dangerous celebrity to search for on Web (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Emma Watson, best known for her portrayal of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, has been named most dangerous celebrity to search for on the Web in McAfee's annual report. "Searches for the latest Emma Watson pictures and free downloads have more than a 12% chance to land on a malicious site that has tested positive for spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses or other malicious stuff," according to McAfee, whose study is based on the company's site ratings technology. Such searches appear to be even more dangerous when Watson's name is linked with terms such as "nude pictures" and "fakes," as cybercrooks bait bad websites to nab unsuspecting Web surfers, often offering them free downloads.

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by slacker001 (#40287831) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE?

There is a lot more in the comment and if I could figure it out I'd link directly to it - but if there is a way to do it, I couldn't figure it out. Scrolling through this thread made me think there is room for lots of improvement in g+

Click the date on the top of the post. It's not obvious and there's definitely room for improvement, but now you know.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Hit By ID Fraud (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1
Velcroman1 writes: An AWOL soldier's simple scheme to defraud one of the richest men in the world has landed him in federal custody, according to a criminal complaint. In the complaint unsealed Monday, federal investigators allege Brandon Lee Price changed the address on a bank account held by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, then had a debit card sent to his Pittsburgh home so he could use it for payments on a delinquent Armed Forces Bank account and personal expenses.
Science

Submission + - James Cameron's Solo Dive to Deepest Spot on Earth (pics) (fellowgeek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ames Cameron, director of epic films like Avatar, Titanic, The Terminator 1 and 2 and Aliens, happens to have a bit of a love affair with the ocean. So much so that he decided to make a solo dive to plume its deepest depths.

Driving his own custom submarine called the ‘DEEPSEA CHALLENGER’, Cameron descended 35,756 feet, or 6.77 miles, to the deepest discovered spot on the bottom of the ocean, known as the ‘Challenger Deep.” His dive was part of ‘DEEPSEA CHALLENGE’ (they love their capitals in oceanography, apparently), an ocean exploration initiative by National Geographic, Rolex and Cameron. His dive makes him the first person to ever make the dive solo and only the second to ever make a manned dive.
Software

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to Get Better Developers out of less-than Average Ones (fluther.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I've asked this before in other places, and I'm now turning to you guys to see what sort of advice you can offer.
Some background: I'm a project manager at an offshore company. I don't get to choose the people I work with (can't hire or fire people). We are using all sorts of methodologies (agile, scrum, waterfall, RUP, you-name-it). We are holding both weekly and milestone meetings in which we are trying to learn what went wrong/right. So,this is not a question of motivation (my employer is paying them more than fair, they get full employment benefits, etc ), nor one of simply teaching them new skills. This is more about addressing a problem within the mind-set of the average developer.
I've worked with a lot of people both good and bad during the years. There were a few of them exceptional, but most of them were less-than average. Most of the times I'm usually confronted with guys that are getting stuck way to often, guys that are skipping solutions as they are not careful enough to see past their own coding mistakes and guys that are simply drifting away from the tasks to wherever their day-dream takes them.
I was wondering if (and how) can they be determined to properly pay attention to their work, to be able to determine solutions and to unstuck themselves without me having to check on their work 24/7.
I would really love to worry myself that I'm intervening in their work too much, that I'm always giving them the solution without letting them think. But at this point, I can't see this happening

Some ways I've been suggested to try so far are:
1. Make them read “Addison Wesley – Pragmatic Programmer”
  and "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" – hold periodic meetings for each chapter and discuss what they have learned so far.
2. Hold some sort of "Quick&Great Code of the Week competition", using a new/unknown language for implementation – given that this would be a new language for everyone, this should give me/us an idea over who is missing what.
3. Get the rest of the management team to analyze "a great TED talk about motivation by Dan Pink" and see if we find anything that works for further motivating them.

So, I'm now wondering: is there anything else? would this approach work?
Security

Submission + - LulzSec Hacks Military Singles

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Lulz Security (LulzSec), a hacktivist group loosely associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous, is claiming responsibility for a hack exposing 170,937 accounts from dating website Military Singles. The accounts have been posted publicly and appear to have authentic credentials for logging into e-mail addresses hosted on military domains.
Facebook

Submission + - Malicious Chrome Extensions Hijack Facebook Accounts (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cybercriminals are uploading malicious Google Chrome extensions which hijack Facebook accounts to the official Chrome Web Store. The rogue extensions are advertised on Facebook by scammers and claim to do things such as “Change the color of your profile” or “Discover who visited your profile” or “Learn how to remove the virus from your Facebook profile.”

Once you install one of the rogue Chrome extensions, it gives attackers complete control over your Facebook account. The scammers then use your account to spam your friends with a tempting message suggesting they also download the malware. Furthermore, the malware also automatically Likes certain Facebook Pages as part of a pay-per-Like scheme.

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