Comment Re: Will the cooler manufacturers pay? (Score 1) 115
The first i7's to ship (6700k) did not ship with a cooler
Comment Re:Trust? (Score 2) 135
From: http://lwn.net/Articles/664385...
It is hosted by the Linux Foundation and sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai. Let's Encrypt also has a cooperation agreement with the certificate authority Identrust, which will sign the Let's Encrypt intermediate certificate. This cross-signature from an existing certificate authority will guarantee that the Let's Encrypt certificates will be accepted by all major web browsers.
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 116
Well if it's not done possibly, it was obviously done impossibly. Simple logic.
Comment Old News (Score 1) 46
Knew about it 3 months ago, release name Skynet: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/...
Comment Re:Traditional or white-box? (Score 1) 94
Microsoft Azure cloud using Dell containers: http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog...
HP also builds containers, fills them with compute/storage/network/power/cooling equipment and ships them to customers. It isn't all off-the-rack servers, customers work with HP/Dell engineers to get what they want. The big players saw Open Compute and jumped in on it too.
Samsung 'Smart' Camera Easily Hackable 62
An anonymous reader writes "The op-co.de blog has a post about the incredibly poor job Samsung did securing its new NX300 'smart camera.' One of the camera's primary features is that it can join Wi-Fi networks — this lets it upload photos, but it also lets you use your smartphone to access the photos on the camera directly. You can also connect with NFC. Unfortunately, the way they set it up is extremely insecure. First, there's an NFC tag that tells the camera where to download the app, and also the name of the access point set up by the camera. 'The tag is writable, so a malicious user can easily 'hack' your camera by rewriting its tag to download some evil app, or to open nasty links in your web browser, merely by touching it with an NFC-enabled smartphone.' Things aren't much better with Wi-Fi — a simple port scan reveals that the camera is running an unprotected X server (running Enlightenment). When the camera checks for new firmware, it helpfully reports your physical location. Its software also sets up unencrypted access points."
Kerry Says US Is On the "Right Side of History" When It Comes To Online Freedom 261
An anonymous reader writes "Addressing the audience at the Freedom Online Coalition Conference, Secretary of State John Kerry defended NSA snooping actions saying: 'Let me be clear – as in the physical space, cyber security cannot come at the expense of cyber privacy. And we all know this is a difficult challenge. But I am serious when I tell you that we are committed to discussing it in an absolutely inclusive and transparent manner, both at home and abroad. As President Obama has made clear, just because we can do something doesn't mean that we should do it. And that's why he ordered a thorough review of all our signals intelligence practices. And that's why he then, after examining it and debating it and openly engaging in a conversation about it, which is unlike most countries on the planet, he announced a set of concrete and meaningful reforms, including on electronic surveillance, in a world where we know there are terrorists and others who are seeking to do injury to all of us. And finally, transparency – the principles governing such activities need to be understood so that free people can debate them and play their part in shaping these choices. And we believe these principles can positively help us to distinguish the legitimate practices of states governed by the rule of law from the legitimate practices of states that actually use surveillance to repress their people. And while I expect you to hold the United States to the standards that I've outlined, I also hope that you won't let the world forget the places where those who hold their government to standards go to jail rather than win prizes.' He added: 'This debate is about two very different visions: one vision that respects freedom and another that denies it. All of you at the Freedom Online Coalition are on the right side of this debate, and now we need to make sure that all of us together wind up on the right side of history."
Comment This is horrible for portrait monitors (Score 1) 69
Lots of people use portrait monitors and the redesign makes the site horrible to use. So much wasted space! It's also just ugly with it's digg a version or two back/metro style.
Slashdot. The new Digg.
This boat is sinking if they move forward with this change.
Comment Tiling WM (Score 5, Funny) 234
Use a tiling window manage and just get rid of all those annoying UI elements. Serious suggestion.
Comment Re:Did I miss his point? (Score 1) 42
I think he's talking more about how cloud (Specifically OpenStack) needs a Linus Torvalds. Some marquee name to hold it all together and not let it fragment too much. Have a cloud at the core... then openstack/cloudstack/nebula/etc are "distributions" that sit on top. You can make a piece of the software and it will run on any of the distributions since they are all based on a core that works for them all.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/10/25/0128207/does-openstack-need-a-linus-torvalds
