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Comment Re:Review Ruby for the perl enthusiast please (Score 1) 121

For some reason, I always end up spending more time in debugging than in programming with Python. This could be because I don't use much of an IDE for Python (and there aren't very many compelling options...)

You are doing it wrong. There is a first-class IDE for Python (I mean, really first-class, by all standards), PyCharm. Give it a try and see the your productivity go way up.

Privacy

Submission + - The Privacy Illusion

LoLobey writes: Scott Adams has an entertaining entry on his Dilbert Blog about perceptions of privacy-
“It has come to my attention that many of my readers in the United States believe they have the right to privacy because of something in the Constitution. That is an unsupportable view. A more accurate view is that the government divides the details of your life into two categories:
1. Stuff they don't care about.
2. Stuff they can find out if they have a reason.

Written in response to some reader comments on another entry about privacy guardians and how swell life would be if we voluntarily gave up certain personal info.
Do slashdotters need privacy given that they don’t have it now?
Books

Submission + - In Soviet Russia, e-Books Read You!

theodp writes: 'Perhaps nothing will have as large an impact on advanced analytics in the coming year as the ongoing explosion of new and powerful data sources,' writes Bill Franks in Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave . And one of the hottest new sources of Big Data, reports the WSJ's Alexandra Alter in Your E-Book Is Reading You, is the estimated 40 million e-readers and 65 million tablets in use in the U.S. that are ripe for the picking by data scientists working for Amazon, Apple, Google, and Barnes & Noble. Some privacy watchdogs argue that e-book users should be protected from having their digital reading habits recorded. 'There's a societal ideal that what you read is nobody else's business,' says the EFF's Cindy Cohn.

Comment Re:The BBC isn't state sponsored media? I must be (Score 1) 250

I have no idea if they behave similarly with respect to the government that has power over them.

Yes, they do behave similarly. I prefer not to watch what RT is reporting about Russia and, respectively, what Al Jazeera is reporting about Quatar's interest spots, such as Syria and Libya.

Android

Submission + - Google's Nexus tablet to be unveiled next week (bgr.com)

zacharye writes: Google chairman Eric Schmidt revealed in December that the company was working on its first own-brand tablet, and the “Nexus 7” slate will finally be unveiled next week during the Google I/O developer conference, according to multiple reports. The last reaffirmation comes from DigiTimes, which has reported a number of details surrounding Google’s upcoming tablet that will seemingly prove accurate...

Comment Re:Yes, this is what we need (Score 1) 170

Oil running out, rampant corruption and government abuse in so-called "first world" countries, corporations buying the best laws they can, lobbyists, but what we really need is a *game* renaissance. No wonder the powers that be are not afraid, you're a bunch of children.

Don't forget, that before the *game* renaissance, we've seen a *documentary* renaissance on Kickstarter. Hopefully, some of the people who got attracted to games on Kickstarter, will allso donate money to serious documentary movies about what's really going on in the world.

Comment Re:Nasa.gov website unavailable in Russia (Score 1) 209

Switching to Google Public DNS fixed the issue.

Strangely enough, I'm unable to reach neither http://nasa.gov/ nor http://science.nasa.gov/. Other web sites and services are working perfectly well. Anyone experiencing the same issue? I'm using Corbina/Beeline, one of the largest internet providers in Moscow...

Microsoft

Submission + - Duqu Installer Includes Windows Kernel Zero Day (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: A newly discovered installer for the Duqu malware includes an exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability in the Windows kernel that allows remote code execution. Microsoft is working on a fix for the kernel vulnerability right now. The exact location and nature of the flaw isn't clear right now. The installer uses a Word document to exploit the vulnerability and then install the Duqu binaries.

The researchers at CrySyS Lab said that they have shared information on the Windows kernel flaw with other organizations.

"Our lab, the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) pursued the analysis of the Duqu malware and as a result of our investigation, we identified a dropper file with an MS 0-day kernel exploit inside. We immediately provided competent organizations with the necessary information such that they can take appropriate steps for the protection of the users," the lab said in a statement.

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