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Submission + - Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.5 released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.5. The latest version of the commercial enterprise Linux platform. Serving as a consistent foundation for hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 provides enhanced security and compliance controls, tools to reduce storage costs, and improved usability, as well as further integration with Microsoft Windows infrastructure both on-premise and in Microsoft Azure. New feature includes a large combination of Ansible Automation with OpenSCAP, LUKS-encrypted removable storage devices can be now automatically unlocked using NBDE, Gnome 3.26, Kernel 3.10.0-862 and 4.14 for ARM/Power 8, KVM for POWER8, LibreOffice 5.3, GIMP 2.8.22, Inkscape 0.92.2 and much more. The detailed release note is here and a quick RHEL 7.4 to 7.5 update is posted here.
NASA

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.
longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."

Comment Re:The only prudent thing to do with these things. (Score 1) 185

by aaaaaaargh! (#29834715) Attached to: Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users

Not that I care very much, but I still think it's weird that the people responsible for security holes like that don't go to prison for it or have to face other serious consequences. It seems to me that in every other engineering domain engineers are more liable for what they do and companies at one point or another are held responsible for failures and malfunctions than in end-consumer hardware and particularly software, where people seem to get away with just about anything that doesn't kill the customer instantly. I'm not talking about bugs or mistakes, which cannot be avoided 100%, but obvious negligence or incompetence like in the above case. Strange.

Comment Re:Its a Fractal (Score -1, Troll) 277

by Taikutusu (#29832465) Attached to: Google To Take On iTunes?

iPods and the like are not the best, and you're kidding yourself if you think they're anywhere close. They basically pulled off a Microsoft of their own - in the right place at the right time. They got a critical mass of brand name recognition and rode that to where they are today.

Terrible stock speakers, comparitively crappy audio decoding hardware, and tying them to annoying and crappy programs (iTunes) is just the start. "Popular" does not imply "Superior".
Google

Submission + - Google's Street View meets resistance in France (thestandard.com)

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Ian Lamont
Ian Lamont writes: "Google has begun to scan the streets of Paris as part of its Street View service, but the company may be hindered from publishing them unedited. The reason? French privacy laws:

... In France, citizens have a "droit à l'image," the right to their own image: pictures identifying them as they go about their private business may not be published without their permission. That could put the brakes on Google's deployment of Street View in France, unless the camera-cars are accompanied by an army of clipboard-wielding legal assistants asking bystanders to sign release forms as they sip their coffee.
The article says Google may be forced to blur faces or use low-resolution versions of the photographs. The Embassy of France in the U.S. has a page devoted to French privacy laws, that says the laws are needed to "avoid infringing the individual's right to privacy and right to his or her picture (photograph or drawing), both of them rights of personality.""

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