Comment Re:how many pages is the "insert for details" (Score 1) 277
It used to only be a few lines, starting with:
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;"
Comment This confuses me (Score 1) 89
If Gucci won a court injunction against a knockoff maker of handbags, then Google could still index the knockoff makers results, even though it harmed Gucci - because 'free speech'?
Comment Same thing happened at the Canadian Embassy. (Score 5, Informative) 224
Global Affairs Canada has confirmed at least one Canadian diplomat in Cuba has been treated in hospital after suffering headaches and hearing loss.
The information comes a day after the U.S. government said it believed some of its diplomats in Havana had been targeted with a covert sonic device that left them with severe hearing loss.
The Canadian diplomat's family members were also affected and treated.
"We are aware of unusual symptoms affecting Canadian and U.S. diplomatic personnel and their families in Havana. The government is actively working - including with U.S. and Cuban authorities - to ascertain the cause," said Brianne Maxwell, a Global Affairs Canada spokesperson.
Comment It's a shame. (Score 4, Interesting) 90
I like my Z10 and Z30. I really like BB OS 10. I love the way messages are organized in "Blackberry Hub"
But if Blackberry is moving to an OS they don't write, on hardware they don't design or build - is there any reason to buy their stuff any more?
Sad. I've had a Blackberry in my pocket since the 5790, a three line pager with the iconic keyboard.
Comment Re:What I would buy (Score 1) 78
And the passport.
And I've got both a Z10 and Z30, and love them as much as my BB 5790, 6210, 6750, 7230, 8820, 9700 Bold, and 9900.
Submission + - BlackBerry hands over user data to help police 'kick ass,' insider says (www.cbc.ca)
Dr Caleb writes: A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data â" including BBM messages â" to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals.
CBC News has gained a rare glimpse inside the struggling smartphone maker's Public Safety Operations team, which at one point numbered 15 people, and has long kept its handling of warrants and police requests for taps on user information confidential.
CBC News has gained a rare glimpse inside the struggling smartphone maker's Public Safety Operations team, which at one point numbered 15 people, and has long kept its handling of warrants and police requests for taps on user information confidential.
Comment RIP (Score 1) 7
Ghost of Tiber, we hardly knew you.
Comment Re:Gassholes (Score 1) 735
Troll harder, you haven't mastered it yet.
Vegetables don't release 200 - 500 litres of methane a day. And why feed 20 calories of grains to a chicken to get 1 calorie of meat, when you can just eat the grain? Then you have 20 times more land to produce food for people, and we can stop clearcutting a major carbon sink like the rainforest and keep that carbon in place too.
Reality sucks, don't it?
Comment Re:Gassholes (Score 1, Insightful) 735
lol.
Gasoline is such a small part of emissions. You want a real target? Look at the meat farming industry!
A vegan driving a hummer makes far less emissions than a meat-eater driving a bicycle.
Submission + - Canadian Music Industry Faces Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Records (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: A Canadian record label specializing in public domain releases has filed
a complaint with the Competition Tribunal over alleged
anti-competitive conduct by Universal, Sony, and host of other music
industry leaders. The complaint tells a fascinating
behind-the-scenes tale, with the recording industry doing everything
in its powers — including posting false reviews, pressuring
distributors, and lobbying for changes to the law — to stop the sale
of competing public domain records.
Submission + - US Government detained Laura Poitras every time she flew .. (techdirt.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Since the 2006 release of “My Country, My Country,” Poitras has left and re-entered the U.S. roughly 40 times. Virtually every time during that six-year-period that she has returned to the U.S., her plane has been met by DHS agents who stand at the airplane door or tarmac and inspect the passports of every de-planing passenger until they find her (on the handful of occasions where they did not meet her at the plane, agents were called when she arrived at immigration).
Each time, they detain her, and then interrogate her at length about where she went and with whom she met or spoke. They have exhibited a particular interest in finding out for whom she works.
Each time, they detain her, and then interrogate her at length about where she went and with whom she met or spoke. They have exhibited a particular interest in finding out for whom she works.
Comment Re:Conterproductive, perhaps? (Score 5, Informative) 79
No, the law isn't about hacking. Bill C-51 gives the government power to share information about citizens between departments. It also authorizes heavier surveillance, stronger powers of arrest, while not adding any accountability.
Comment Re:Soylent News Looks pretty good (Score 1) 172
Kiro5hin looked good at one time, but went full-bore political.
Political?? It went hard core trollfest. I actually liked it better at it's prime than Slashdot at it prime.
But then Rusty sold 'memberships', and it was all downhill since then.
Submission + - SF Says AdWare Bundled with Gimp Is Intentional (google.com) 5
tresf writes: In response to a Google+ post from the Gimp project claiming that "[Sourceforge] is now distributing an ads-enabled installer of GIMP", Sourceforge had this response:
In cases where a project is no longer actively being maintained, SourceForge has in some cases established a mirror of releases that are hosted elsewhere. This was done for GIMP-Win.
Editor's note: Gimp is actively being maintained and the definition of "mirror" is quite misleading here as a modified binary is no longer a verbatim copy. Download statistics for Gimp on Windows show SourceForge as offering over 1,000 downloads per day of the Gimp software. In an official response to this incident, the official Gimp project team reminds users to use official download methods. Slashdotters may remember the last time news like this surfaced (2013) when the Gimp team decided to move downloads from SourceForge to their own FTP service.
Therefore, we remind you again that GIMP only provides builds for Windows via its official Downloads page.
Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent.
Submission + - Two Programmers Expose Dysfunction and Abuse in the Seattle Police Department (thestranger.com)
reifman writes: Programmers Eric Rachner and Phil Mocek are now the closest thing Seattle has to a civilian police-oversight board. Through shrewd use of Washington's Public Records Act, the two have acquired hundreds of reports, videos, and 911 calls related to the Seattle Police Department's internal investigations of officer misconduct. Among some of Rachner and Mocek's findings: a total of 1,028 SPD employees (including civilian employees) were investigated between 2010 and 2013. (The current number of total SPD staff is 1,820.) Of the 11 most-investigated employees—one was investigated 18 times during the three-year period—every single one of them is still on the force, according to SPD. In 569 allegations of excessive or inappropriate use of force (arising from 363 incidents), only seven were sustained—meaning 99 percent of cases were dismissed. Exoneration rates were only slightly smaller when looking at all the cases — of the total 2,232 allegations, 284 were sustained. This is partly why the Seattle PD is under a federal consent decree for retraining and oversight. You can check out some of the typically excellent Twitter coverage by Mocek from his #MayDaySea coverage.
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