Not that long ago Google was posting tasks on the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsource job platform that asked people to visit a Twitch user account page which was provided to the worker.

They wanted to know if that twitch user had a link to a YouTube page.... they wanted to know if there was an email address..... they wanted to know if the user had had some sort monetization link on youtube.. and if there were email/twitter contacts.

I wonder if this has anything to do with that.

were they just judging how much overlap there is between the communities?

were they seeking out 'popular' people to contact them?

LastPass supports this on their "Premium" and "Enterprise" accounts.

You can add sites to a folder which the administrator can control and that administrator can decide if the user will be able to 'see' the password or leave it hidden to all users.

Users will need their own unique password (and potentially Two Factor auth) to access the 'hidden' Twitter password account.

https://enterprise.lastpass.co... enterprise
https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/... 'premium'

they had to do this type of thing on spirit shortly after it arrived on mars..

read more here: http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/ds...

or the PDF linked therin here http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/ds...

its got all sorts of awesome details.

really a fun read. ..im guessing theyll be doing a lot of similar stuff

for those wary to look.....

it isnt quite as graphic as the beheading of Nick Berg that you may have seen... they do not show the entire act of beheading.

the content is interesting, and well worth a look if you want to understand this conflict a bit more.

They gave him one long ago, right here, on slashdot!

maybe they can celebrate a whole new section soon.

bennett.slashdot.org

it will be great. as beloved as idle.slashdot.org !!

Whenever these kinds of stories come up I really wonder what they mean by "cloud computing"

do they mean "virtualized computing" like the virtual compute stuff on Amazon EC2/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud ?

or do they mean "Cloud" in the sense that people refer to Dropbox as 'the cloud' or any other server storage/service thing?

Certainly if they are referring to the latter.. this kind of spending is mostly a waste, we know how to make server farms at datacenters...

if it's the former, what good is a mere 10million going to do when the big names in the industry, microsoft,google,amazon, ibm ..and others... are spending way more researhing and developing it?

With the uncertainty of what I should use going in to the future and feeling like the ones that were set aside in RFC2606 didnt exactly apply (or were misleading) I broke down and gave all my internal hosts a world resolvable unique name.

it certainly makes for longer hosts... but at least I won't have to worry about this problem they made.

For internal non-routeable IPs I now use:

server.lan.example.com

and for stuff exposed to the net via world routable ip4 or ip6 i use

server.wan.example.com

I liked it before, using .wan and .lan TLDs ..but who knows when some asshole is gonna get the rights to use those..

life goes on!

like firefox with its about:config the settings discussed in TFA have been in chromes chrome://flags for a least 6 months..

its the flags page and you can mess with options such as...:
Enable New Profile Management System
Enable New Avatar Menu
Enable Google Profile Name and icon

It is now the default, apparently.. in Canary.. (the alpha build) but this has been an option for a while now in the regular Chrome builds...... I used it for about a week and wasn't all that fond of it due to it wanting my password.. but maybe it was some option I had enabled that caused that.

fuck whoever decided that having a .systems TLD was a good idea.

it just aint right i tells ya.

While some might run away in horror at the mention of the name AOL Reader, which has been around for a while now.. is pretty great.

It was recently updated and the ad bar was removed, the software is much quicker and with the fact it is not an independent business project like Feedly, or Inoreader.. there is no upselling!

I tried feedly, it was pushing the upsell too hard and the product didn't feel very useful in its 'free' state... ( https://feedly.com/ )

I tried Inoreader and its free product was much better than the feedly one, but its interface felt slow and clunky compared to what I wanted ( http://www.inoreader.com/ )

I tried DIGG Reader but it was so minimal and featureless that I barely went a week of using it before moving on ( http://digg.com/reader )

I also used TinyTinyRSS locally for a good 6 months and while it is quite good, and the only data I'm revealing to others is that i fetched their feed..maintaining the thing is something of a pain that never comes up with other places. ( http://tt-rss.org/redmine/proj... )

As of right now I am back to using AOL Reader as my main RSS feed reader... It is fast, the design is good enough for me.. no upselling ...the feature set is just enough to allow me to do what I did on google reader, and not overload.. and they seem to be actively working on making it better ( https://reader.aol.com/ )

actually, no, he isn't ignoring it. in one of his first acts as president he signed an executive order to close gitmo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

he did this January 22 2009

The advice is, and I presume you're in America, that you should complain to the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, this is exactly what they want you to do.

from the www.consumer.ftc.gov website:

that line is linked to the following website where one can file your complaint: https://www.ftccomplaintassist...

everyone should follow through with these complaints when businesses do not comply with the law.

I love it when I can simply unsubscribe to things and it works, I do it maybe once a year when the sites I sign up to end up cluttering things and 9 times out of 10, it does its job.. there is not a way to reward those who do it right (save emailing them), but we can get the word to those responsible for monitoring this that some are doing it wrong.

Time Warner Cable is no longer affiliated with the Time Warner which makes content.

Originally controlled by Time Warner (the film and television production company and cable channel operator), that company spun out the cable operations in March 2009 as part of a larger restructuring. Since then, Time Warner Cable has been an entirely independent company, merely continuing to use the Time Warner brand under license from its former parent

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

as much as i hate them....... that is one thing you cannot blame them for....... comcast on the other hand.....

Whenever this happens I will now think of the Adobe password breach ... 130million accounts.

roughly 10% of those had "123456" as their password..

you can see the other top 99 herE: http://stricture-group.com/fil... ..probably a good time to reconsider the re-use of passwords.. use a password vault....