Comment Re:Block on the phone. (Score 1) 76
it';s called block mode on android. turn it on and nothing but the people in your contact list will ring.
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 574
how exactly does a parable that teaches you not to tell the same lie twice apply here?
Comment Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? (Score 1) 1718
atheism follows the same general structure and societal behaviors as a religion. plus most early atheist organizations branded themselves with names similar to churches but with an anti theism twist such as calling themselves the church of non believers.
Comment I KNEW IT! (Score 1) 232
i knew as soon as they got the order the case would be dropped and they would announce they got into the phone. this entire bs was about setting a legal precedent.
Comment Re:Torn (Score 2, Insightful) 405
this is because the fbi screwed up on purpose and refused to use a very easy way to get the data to try and break American freedom to privacy
Submission + - FBI wants Pirate Bay logs for criminal investigation into copyright trolls. (torrentfreak.com)
the simurgh writes: It has been revealed today that In the past few months, two of the Pirate Bay co-founders have been repeatedly questioned by Swedish authorities, acting on behalf of the FBI. the internet now has clear evidence that Prenda is indeed being investigated by the US Government for uploading their own copyrighted content in torrents placed onto The Pirate Bay, for the sole purpose of creating a honeypot trap to sue over pirated downloads. the full story is included in the link below
Feed Engadget: DEA kept records of US phone calls for nearly 15 years (engadget.com)
The NSA isn't the only American government agency keeping track of phone call metadata... or rather, it wasn't. A Department of Justice court filing has revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration maintained records of every call made from the ...
Submission + - Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub
rossgneumann writes: Porn production companies are currently engaged in a scorched earth copyright infringement campaign against torrenting sites with URLs containing specific keywords—say, “thrust” or “glob-watcher.” Github is getting caught in the crossfire. Several Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints filed to Google by companies representing various porn companies in the last month alone have resulted in dozens of legitimate Github URLs being removed from the search engine’s results, TorrentFreak first reported.
Submission + - Sony Accused of Pirating Music in The Interview (torrentfreak.com)
the simurgh writes: As the controversy surrounding Sony's handling of it's hack, the movie The Interview and it's aftermath continues, a singer is claiming that after failing to reach terms with Sony, the company put her music in the movie anyway. Yoon Mi-rae (real name Natasha Shanta Reid) is a US-born hip hop and R&B singer who currently releases music on the Feel Ghood Music label. she and her label claim that her track we learned that the track 'Pay Day' has been used without permission, legal procedure, or contracts. So, while Sony is trying to destroy the internet to combat piracy, it’s now facing copyright infringement allegations of its own.
Submission + - AirAsia Flight Loses Contact With Air Traffic Control (www.cbc.ca)
iONiUM writes: As reported by many news sources, yet another plane has lost contact during a trip.
This comes on the heels of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which is still missing, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down.
The question has to be asked: is airline travel still safe, especially within Asia? And, why has the news completely forgot about flight 370?
This comes on the heels of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which is still missing, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down.
The question has to be asked: is airline travel still safe, especially within Asia? And, why has the news completely forgot about flight 370?
Comment it has to be said (Score 1) 69
ppppppppppiiiiirrrraaaaacccyyy iiiinnnnnn sssspppaaaccceee
the MPPA/RIAA must be crapping their pants.
Submission + - Check Out The Source Code For The Xerox Alto (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: The Xerox Alto is a computer legend: it was never sold to the public, but its window-based OS was the inspiration for both the original Mac operating system and Windows. Now you can check out its source code, along with code for CP/M, a similarly old school (though not graphical) operating system.
Submission + - Labor Dept. to destroy H-1B records 3
Presto Vivace writes: Records that are critical to research and take up a microscopic amount of storage are set for deletion
In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or electronic, "are temporary records and subject to destruction" after five years, under a new policy.
... There was no explanation for the change, and it is perplexing to researchers. The records under threat are called Labor Condition Applications (LCA), which identify the H-1B employer, worksite, the prevailing wage, and the wage paid to the worker. ... ... The cost of storage can't be an issue for the government's $80 billion IT budget: A full year's worth of LCA data is less than 1GB.
Submission + - Encryption Keys for Kim Dotcom's data Can't Be Given to FBI, court rules (torrentfreak.com)
the simurgh writes: as many who follow the Dotcom saga knows in 2012, New Zealand police seized encrypted computer drives belonging to Kim Dotcom, copies of which were illegally passed to the FBI. fast-forward to 2014, Dotcom wants access to the seized but encrypted content. A New Zealand judge has now ruled that even if the Megaupload founder supplies the passwords, the encryption keys cannot be forwarded to the FBI.
Submission + - Following EU ruling, BBC article excluded from Google searches. 1
Albanach writes: In 2007, the BBC's economics editor, Robert Peston, penned an article on the massive loses at Merrill Lynch and the resulting dismissal of their CEO Stan O'Neil. Today, the BBC have been notified that the 2007 article will no longer appear in some Google searches made within the European Union, apparently as a result of someone exercising their new-found 'right to be forgotten'. O'Neil was the only individual named in the 2007 article. While O'Neil has left Merrill Lynch, he has not left the world of business, and now holds a directorship at Alcoa, the world's third largest aluminum producer with $23 billion in revenues in 2013.
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