Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 361
Won this war, and started this war.
Comment Re:As if Google cares about web standards (Score 1) 231
I'm with you...is Google even using valid HTML, or HTML5,* in the problem pages? Last I checked GOOG was great at breaking both.
*I did not repeat myself.
Comment Terrists (Score 3, Funny) 182
Good call! Wouldn't want those highly advanced scientists at al-Qaeda to reproduce it at the gene level or anything.
DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper 182
New submitter rex.clts writes "In the IT security world, it is common practice to withhold specifics when announcing a newly discovered software vulnerability. The exact details regarding a buffer overflow or race condition are typically kept secret until a patch is available, to slow the proliferation of exploits against the hole. For the first time, this practice has been extended to medical publishing. A new form of Botulism has been identified, but its DNA sequence (the genetic code that makes up the toxin) has been withheld, until an antidote has been found. It seems that censorship in the name of "security" is spreading (with DHS involved this comes as no surprise.) Is this the right move?"
Comment Re:Props to all sticking it out and trying Qt out! (Score 1) 79
It's probably due in part to the whole KDE Free Qt thing. It keeps Qt free in the event Qt isn't...um...kept free. It's pretty nice.
Comment Re:Could be good. (Score 1) 274
You mean "only non-Slashdotters"? People here routinely (and rightly) swoon over ad and cookie blocking.
Comment Re:Netflix wants to DRM the web (Score 1) 93
Exactly. Besides, their move to cable misses the point of why people were cutting cable for Netflix in the first place.
(Cutting both, of course, would be better.)
Comment Re: "what is necessary to be done" (Score 1) 461
"...or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Hasn't Clapper indeed adhered to, aided, and comforted enemies (i.e. the NSA) of the US?
Charge him with both.
Comment Re:Attack? (Score 1) 136
When I deleted the YouTube account (that I had linked to my non-tainted Google Account long before), it was partly because reloading the page didn't stop the Real Name harassment. Whether this was because cookies didn't save, or whether Google has changed this in the months since, doesn't really matter to me anymore. They wanted my business and didn't want my trust, and now have neither my trust nor my YouTube account.
Comment Re:Attack? (Score 2) 136
It's a direct attack on the people who search, get their mail, and watch videos through Google, and a direct love letter to Facebook and their vile business model.
South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software 185
An anonymous reader writes "The South African Education Department has effectively banned the use of FOSS software in state-run schools by forcing all candidates writing the Computer Applications Technology examination to use Microsoft's Office 2010 or 2013 as the only supported options. In the same circular, the state has mandated that all schools use Delphi, instead of Java, as the programming language for the country's Information Technology practical paper. South Africa, notorious for its poor performance in Maths and Science and for having vastly over-crowded and underfunded schools, are now locked into costly Microsoft licensing because of this decision."
Comment Re:No offense, but had to laugh (Score 1) 166
...or PWS?
Comment Re:They are going to block the NSA? (Score 3, Insightful) 78
Hell, I'd actually be impressed if LinkedIn blocked LinkedIn. Spammy bastards.
LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers 78
sholto writes "When Buzzfeed wrote about LinkedIn's stalker problem in June, LinkedIn claimed it had enough privacy tools "to effectively minimize unwanted connections". But a petition by a 24-year-old Ohio woman sexually assaulted by her boss and harassed through the network appears to have won the day for privacy advocates. LinkedIn said it was adding a blocking feature to protect members against stalkers. 'I can confirm that we’re in the process of building (a block feature),' responded Paul Rockwell, head of trust and safety at LinkedIn to a post in LinkedIn’s help forum called 'Stalking on LinkedIn'. 'Users on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other sites can easily block other users. LinkedIn appears to be an outlier among other top social media sites,' said petitioner Anna R."
Comment Re:Facebook? (Score 3, Insightful) 456
Seriously, Slashdot should continue adding "(PDF warning)" to PDF links, and add "(Facebook warning)" in the same fashion to fb links.
