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Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments 187

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 13, 2012 @01:40PM from the sounds-like-something-he'd-say dept.

Giorgio Maone writes "Ubuntu developer and fellow Mozillian Benjamin Kerensa chatted with various people about the new Amazon Product Results in the Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash. Among them, Richard Stallman told him that this feature is bad because: 1. 'If Canonical gets this data, it will be forced to hand it over to various governments.'; 2. Amazon is bad. Concerned people can disable remote data retrieval for any lens and scopes or, more surgically, use sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping."

Comment UltraVNC single click (Score 1) 247

by eliphas_levy on Sunday August 19, 2012 @10:53PM (#41050471) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software?

UltraVNC Single Click. I have a binary in my public dropbox for all buddies to download and run. Just a matter of starting the listener in my side.
OK, windows-only, but you can make a OSX shell script to do the same thing there; at least you have a full-featured shell.
And for security, UVNC have a DSM plugin, if you don't really care about full compatibility

NASA Considers Apollo-Era F1 Engine For Space Launch System 197

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 28, 2012 @08:08PM from the what's-old-is-new dept.

MarkWhittington writes "A company named Dynetics, in partnership with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, will perform a study contract for NASA to explore whether a modern version of the Saturn V F1 booster (PDF) could be used on the Space Launch System. These would be the basis for a liquid fueled rocket that would enhance the SLS to make it capable of launching 130 metric tons to low Earth orbit, thus making it capable of supporting deep space exploration missions in the 2020s."

MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Phone Deal 63

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:04PM from the progress-is-progress dept.

chill writes "Mobile company Jolla, which is continuing development of Linux-based mobile OS Meego, signed its first sales deal today, with D.Phone, China's largest smartphone retail chain. Jolla has not released details about its first product, which is expected to be revealed later this year. The company has not yet received access to any Nokia patents."

Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections 274

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @10:03PM from the I've-been-using-my-lungs-like-a-sucker dept.

ananyo writes "Rabbits with blocked windpipes have been kept alive for up to 15 minutes without a single breath, after researchers injected oxygen-filled microparticles into the animals' blood. Oxygenating the blood by bypassing the lungs in this way could save the lives of people with impaired breathing or obstructed airways (abstract). In the past, doctors have tried to treat low levels of oxygen in the blood, or hypoxaemia, and related conditions such as cyanosis, by injecting free oxygen gas directly into the bloodstream. But oxygen injected in this way can accumulate into larger bubbles and form potentially lethal blockages."

Black Death Discovered In Oregon 404

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 16, 2012 @03:02PM from the oregon-the-euthanasia-state dept.

redletterdave writes "The Black Death, a strain of bubonic plague that destroyed nearly a third of Europe's entire population between 1347 and 1369, has been found in Oregon. Health officials in Portland have confirmed that a man contracted the plague after getting bitten by a cat. The unidentified man, who is currently in his 50s, had tried to pry a dead mouse from a stray cat's mouth on June 2 when the cat attacked him. Days later, fever and sickness drove the man to check himself into Oregon's St. Charles Medical Center, where he is currently in 'critical condition.'"

Comment Re:Already done in 4KB of Java (Score 1) 160

by eliphas_levy on Thursday May 10, 2012 @10:49PM (#39962607) Attached to: Wolfenstein 3-D Celebrates 20 Years With Free Browser-Based Version

As of this posting, the port linked in the article doesn't work on Opera 11.64 (Win 32).

Worked fine in my Win32 11.62 build 1347, just got in two levels finished. Maybe they were just slashdotted when you tried :)

AMD's New Radeon HD 7950 Tested 120

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @10:03PM from the showing-those-pixels-who's-boss dept.

MojoKid writes "When AMD announced the high-end Radeon HD 7970, a lower cost Radeon HD 7950 based on the same GPU was planned to arrive a few weeks later. The GPU, which is based on AMD's new architecture dubbed Graphics Core Next, is manufactured using TSMC's 28nm process and features a whopping 4.31 billion transistors. In its full configuration, found on the Radeon HD 7970, the Tahiti GPU sports 2,048 stream processors with 128 texture units and 32 ROPs. On the Radeon HD 7950, however, a few segments of the GPU have been disabled, resulting in a total of 1,792 active stream processors, with 112 texture units and 32 ROPs. The Radeon HD 7950 is also clocked somewhat lower at 800MHz, although AMD has claimed the cards are highly overclockable. Performance-wise, though the card isn't AMD's fastest, pricing is more palatable and the new card actually beats NVIDIA's high-end GeForce GTX 580 by just a hair."

Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming 168

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @11:05PM from the more-than-meets-the-eye dept.

symbolset writes "ASUS, maker of the popular Transformer Prime Tegra 3 tablet, announced via their Facebook page that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will be available January 12th. In addition they are developing a boot unlocker which will void the warranty and break Google movie rentals, but will allow modding. They said, 'based on our experience, users who choose to root their devices risk breaking the system completely. However, we know there is demand in the modding community to have an unlocked bootloader. Therefore, ASUS is developing an unlock tool for that community. Please do note that if you choose to unlock your device, the ASUS warranty will be void, and Google video rental will also be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by security mechanism.' They also announced an intermediate software update to improve the camera and touch experience, and they're dropping GPS from the feature list for poor performance." Another article argues that the Transformer Prime is an example of ASUS struggling while breaking into a new market.

Gaining a Remote Shell On Android 124

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:07PM from the poking-google-with-a-stick dept.

SharkLaser writes "The security of Android devices has come under scrutiny in recent months. Android Market has been plagued with a number of trojaned apps, and researchers have identified various root exploits and permission leaks that can be exploited, for example, to send premium rate SMSs. Now researcher Thomas Cannon of ViaForensics is demonstrating a method for setting up remote shell on an Android device without using any exploits or vulnerabilities. The security hole is not new, and it has been pointed out for a number of years, but Google has yet to fix it. The method works on various versions of Android, up to and including the newest Ice Cream Sandwich."

AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report 215

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:26PM from the we-strongly-disagree dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AT&T has issued a scathing letter in response to the FCC's decision to release a staff report on its findings surrounding AT&T's planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. 'We expected that the AT&T-T-Mobile transaction would receive careful, considered, and fair analysis,' Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs, said. 'Unfortunately, the preliminary FCC Staff Analysis offers none of that.'"

Is HP Paying Intel To Keep Itanium Alive? 216

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday November 21, 2011 @11:10PM from the larry-ellison-has-no-reflection dept.

itwbennett writes "In a court filing, Oracle accused HP of secretly contracting with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that it can continue to make money from its locked-in Itanium customers and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers. Oracle says that Intel would have long ago killed off Itanium if not for these payments from HP. For its part, HP called the filing a 'desperate delay tactic' in the lawsuit HP filed against Oracle over its decision to stop developing for Itanium."

W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard 93

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:15PM from the federal-legislation-due-in-2013 dept.

In his first submission, kierny writes "A W3C working group is crafting two standards, due out by summer 2012, to enable consumers to opt out of online tracking. Numerous big players are involved, including Google, Facebook, IBM, Mozilla, Microsoft, plus the Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Federal Trade Commission. The first standard is Tracking Preference Expression, 'to define a standard for a how a browser can tell a website that a user wants more privacy,' says W3C working group co-chairman Dr. Matthias Schunter of IBM Research. 'So you send a signal, and you get a response from the website which tells you that the request has been honored.' The second standard, meanwhile, is the Tracking Compliance and Scope Specification, which details how websites should comply with Do Not Track preferences. But, don't expect Do Not Track to be active by default."

Siri Protocol Cracked 403

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday November 14, 2011 @11:38PM from the siri-like-way-ogg-speex dept.

First time accepted submitter jisom writes with something that will probably not be working come morning. Quoting the source: "Today, we managed to crack open Siri's protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri's recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! Or use Siri on an iPad! And we're going to share this know-how with you." Basically, Siri sends the data to the processing server using non-standard HTTP extensions. Of note is that the audio is encoded using Ogg Speex.

EU Court Rules Against Stem Cell Patents For Research 84

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @12:13AM from the i-hereby-patent-your-soul dept.

LibRT writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "Europe's highest court has ruled that stem cells from human embryos cannot be patented, in a case that could have major implications for medicine. ... The European Court of Justice said in a statement: 'The use of human embryos for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it is patentable. But their use for purposes of scientific research is not patentable.' It added: 'A process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst [early embryo] stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented.'"

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