Comment Re:Discontinued in Sep 2013. (Score 1) 166
WTF happened to
/.?
After the last sale of
I rarely even visit the site anymore. It's become really bad.
Comment Ubuntu's now going to be dead on the desktop (Score 4, Interesting) 80
I can't stand hamburger UI, giant title bars and that annoying menu/title bar at the top so I never "upgraded" to GNOME. It seems to me that GNOME team took a bunch of macOS features and stitched together a DE. However, while macOS is quite logical and there's a reason why things are on that OS, much of how GNOME works makes little sense from usability point of view.
This is why I stuck with Xfce, Unity and Cinnamon. I run all three of these DEs on my various computers and laptops.
But now that Ubuntu is moving to GNOME, what's the point of using Ubuntu over Fedora? RedHat has all the GNOME devs and they have the best GNOME + Wayland implementation. And that implementation actually works without Xorg. Other distros that run GNOME still can't get Wayland working right. Can Canonical/Ubuntu team make a better version of GNOME than RedHat? Given the history, I'm willing to bet money against that.
I'm also quite sick of apt-get and inflexible PPAs and managing them has been an absolute hell. Things just break, packages end up conflicting and untangling the mess can take you hours. I find Fedora's DNF and Copr a lot more sane (almost as sane as pacman and AUR on Arch but probably not as good).
So in conclusion, I really don't see a point in using Ubuntu anymore. If you want APT, just use Debian instead. If you care about GNOME, use Fedora. I'll be replacing Ubuntu with Fedora on one of my laptops later this year... and not with next version of Ubuntu+GNOME.
Comment Saying goodbye to /. (Score 1) 548
After all these years of visiting this site, I'm pretty much ready to go away and get my news from other sites. Slashdot has become a garbage propaganda site. It's really sad what happened to it. First, Timothy started his SJW crusade and propaganda push and now others have picked the same tack. There's really no point to come on here.
Comment UK will also have more Muslims than Christians (Score 2) 114
by 2045. I find that even scarier than robotization of military. That island is "royally fucked".
Comment The Cloud s a synonym for someone else's computer (Score 4, Insightful) 189
That's all it really is. You're basically entrusting your data with companies that have to somehow make money off you or off your data.
So don't be surprised when they pull crap like this on you.
Comment Curse of DRM strikes again... (Score 4, Informative) 66
If you've been a honest customer and actually purchased music from the Zune Marketplace store, it most definitely has DRM. And after the service is shut down, your music collection will be rendered useless and you won't be able to play it again.
From TFA:
Note Content that was purchased with DRM may not play if the license canâ(TM)t be renewed.
Submission + - OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit
rjmarvin writes: Now that its codebase is finally viewed as stable, OpenSSL is getting a good top-to-bottom once-over in the form of a sweeping audit http://sdtimes.com/openssl-und.... As part of the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative, the foundation and the Open Crypto Audit Project are sponsoring and organizing what may arguably be the highest-profile audit of a piece of open-source software in history. The audit itself will be conducted by the information assurance organization NCC Group, and its security research arm, Cryptography Services, will carry out the code review https://cryptoservices.github.... of OpenSSL's 447,247 line codebase over the next several months.
Submission + - New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users
An anonymous reader writes: A new Android Trojan that tricks users into believing they have shut their device down while it continues working, and is able to silently make calls, send messages, take photos and perform many other tasks, has been discovered and analyzed by AVG researchers. They dubbed it, and AVG's security solutions detect it as PowerOffHijack.
Comment Re:Advanced? Requires a Jailbreak & manual ins (Score 2) 72
jailbreak ios7 was developed by a previously-unknown Chinese haX0r group
Code for Pangu jailbreak was stolen from a well-known iOS hacker and security researcher i0n1c/Stefan Esser:
Comment Advanced? Requires a Jailbreak & manual instal (Score 5, Informative) 72
Here's the actual analysis of malware:
https://www.lacoon.com/lacoon-...
The iOS device needs to be jailbroken in order to be infected. Then with Cydia installed, the repository would be need to be added and then the package could be installed. All thatâ(TM)s known is that both the iOS and Android attacks share a CnC server.
Submission + - Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists 1
HughPickens.com writes: The Interecept reports that contrary to lurid claims made by U.S. officials, a new independent analysis of Edward Snowden’s revelations on NSA surveillance that examined the frequency of releases and updates of encryption software by jihadi groups has found no correlation in either measure to Snowden’s leaks about the NSA’s surveillance techniques. According to the report "well prior to Edward Snowden, online jihadists were already aware that law enforcement and intelligence agencies were attempting to monitor them (PDF).” In fact, concerns about terrorists' use of sophisticated encryption technology predates even 9/11.
Earlier this month former NSA head Michael Hayden stated, “The changed communications practices and patterns of terrorist groups following the Snowden revelations have impacted our ability to track and monitor these groups”, while Matthew Olsen of the National Counterterrorism Centre would add “Following the disclosure of the stolen NSA documents, terrorists are changing how they communicate to avoid surveillance.” Snowden’s critics have previously accused his actions of contributing from everything from the rise of ISIS to Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. "This most recent study is the most comprehensive repudiation of these charges to date," says Murtaza Hussain. "Contrary to lurid claims to the contrary, the facts demonstrate that terrorist organizations have not benefited from the NSA revelations, nor have they substantially altered their behavior in response to them."
Earlier this month former NSA head Michael Hayden stated, “The changed communications practices and patterns of terrorist groups following the Snowden revelations have impacted our ability to track and monitor these groups”, while Matthew Olsen of the National Counterterrorism Centre would add “Following the disclosure of the stolen NSA documents, terrorists are changing how they communicate to avoid surveillance.” Snowden’s critics have previously accused his actions of contributing from everything from the rise of ISIS to Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. "This most recent study is the most comprehensive repudiation of these charges to date," says Murtaza Hussain. "Contrary to lurid claims to the contrary, the facts demonstrate that terrorist organizations have not benefited from the NSA revelations, nor have they substantially altered their behavior in response to them."
Comment Re:Is 4chan really unprofitable? Sounds like a myt (Score 3) 79
Good points on pricing! But like I mentioned, advertising is bringing in a lot of funds as well. Bandwidth is cheaper than ever these days and a lot of it is "subsidized" by Cloudflare which don't charge for bandwidth. 4chan also doesn't run on AWS/VMs (you can find pics of 4chan servers on 4chan blog). And we can tell how much Cloudflare costs: http://www.cloudflare.com/plan...
So I still don't see why, after all this revenue, the site would be unprofitable. It's not like moot has a large dev team behind it.
Comment Is 4chan really unprofitable? Sounds like a myth (Score 1) 79
Recent hack, the one that has prompted this change in policy and security issues reward process, revealed that 4chan sold about 12740 passes this year. At the price of $20 per pass, that's about $254,800 so far. And there's also a lot of revenue coming in from advertising.
If 4chan was truly unprofitable, it would have closed years ago. Seems to me that this is just an image that the owner is trying to project.
Comment iWatch is not about telling time (Score 1) 399
iWatch is not really a timepiece. It's a collection of highly sophisticated sensors that "watch" your vitals. All these other companies (Samsung etc) assumed that iWatch was just another smart watch: a watch with few apps on it. But from all the leaks and reports weâ(TM)ve seen so far (if they were to believed), iWatch is none of those things.
Yes, it will probably tell time as well but iWatch will be much more than that.
Submission + - Google Chrome allows websites to spy on nearby conversations (ibtimes.com)
AllTheTinfoilHats writes: A security flaw in Google Chrome that allows any website you visit with the browser to listen in on nearby conversations. It doesn't allow sites to access your microphone's audio, but provides them with a transcript of the browser's speech-to-text transcriptions of anything in range.
It was found by a programmer in Israel, who says Google issued a low-priority label to the bug when he reported it, until he wrote about it on his blog and the post started picking up steam on social media.
The website has to keep you clicking for eight seconds to keep the microphone on, and Google says it has no timeline for a fix.
It was found by a programmer in Israel, who says Google issued a low-priority label to the bug when he reported it, until he wrote about it on his blog and the post started picking up steam on social media.
The website has to keep you clicking for eight seconds to keep the microphone on, and Google says it has no timeline for a fix.
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