Comment Oh Really? (Score 0) 1
A bunch of us have already figured that out and it's called Paleo.
Submission + - Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked (securecomputing.net.au) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Three information security consultancies with links to US spy agencies cooked up a dirty tricks campaign late last year to destroy Wikileaks by exploiting its perceived weaknesses, reads a presentation released by the whistleblowers'(TM) organisation that it claimed to be from the conspirators. Consultants at US defence contractors Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and HBGary proposed to lawyers for a desperate Bank of America an alliance that would work to discredit the whistleblowers’ website using a divide and conquer approach. Since the plan was hatched, disgruntled volunteers mentioned in the PDF broke away from Wikileaks, financial institutions withdrew services, Apelbaum was harassed by the US Government and Amazon denied service to Wikileaks' website.
Submission + - Girlfriend's Revenge courtesy of Google Images (huffingtonpost.com) 2
another similar writes: This article on HuffPo teaches us that if you happen to have a bad break up with someone who's reasonably tech-savvy, beware where your descriptively captioned photos might end up after the breakup. Dude...
Submission + - I guess Anonymous isn't Anonymous anymore? (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apparently some small security firm has been able to determine the real identity's of several key Anonymous hackers which is resulting in a ton of arrests.
Submission + - EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violation (eff.org)
An anonymous reader writes: EFF has uncovered widespread violations stemming from FBI intelligence investigations from 2001 — 2008. In a report released today, EFF documents alarming trends in the Bureau’s intelligence investigation practices, suggesting that FBI intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of American citizens far more frequently, and to a greater extent, than was previously assumed.
Using documents obtained through EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation, the report finds:
- Evidence of delays of 2.5 years, on average, between the occurrence of a violation and its eventual reporting to the Intelligence Oversight Board
- Reports of serious misconduct by FBI agents including lying in declarations to courts, using improper evidence to obtain grand jury subpoenas, and accessing password-protected files without a warrant
- Indications that the FBI may have committed upwards of 40,000 possible intelligence violations in the 9 years since 9/11
Comment Make it a Hybrid Solution... (Score 0) 2
Install heaters that can be controlled by people or with sensors..most of the time you won't need them and will still over all reduce the energy costs...now quit whining and get back to plowing.
Comment Clark Howard to the Rescue? (Score 0, Offtopic) 593
Contact Clark Howard at clarkhoward.com and I am sure they will get you results. Wouldn't surprise me if Dell didn't push you a laptop and a thank you gift on the next transport after a phone call from them.
Comment Simple, here you go, (Score 5, Insightful) 742
Find a place that has nice office chairs and do measurments.
Take him there, treat him like a king while it he gets the measurements and adjustments done.
He can pick out all the colors he wants.
After words a nice meal with some good drinks.
When the chair gets delivered, put the 10 month old down for a nap and fuck your husband in the chair.
You now have the perfect, favorite chair.
Take him there, treat him like a king while it he gets the measurements and adjustments done.
He can pick out all the colors he wants.
After words a nice meal with some good drinks.
When the chair gets delivered, put the 10 month old down for a nap and fuck your husband in the chair.
You now have the perfect, favorite chair.
Submission + - Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab (newscientist.com)
Auxbuss writes: A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events.
Comment 1, 2, 3 ... SHUN! (Score 5, Insightful) 502
Wow. Have to admit I'm on Microsoft's side here. Let's see:
- automatically download browser as an update whether user likes it or not;
- have the audacity to set the browser as default, again whether the user likes it or not;
- introduce vulnerability;
- ...
- errr, no.
It's not just the vulnerability that hurts, but the compund bullshit caused by Apple's -- rather arrogant -- actions. This reads like something Microsoft would do!
Also, vulnerabilities in Apple software (and this bug affects both Windows and Mac), make all *nix stuff look bad: watch MS shills roll out the 'Microsoft software is only vulnerable because hackers target it' FUD in short order.
Posting as AC due to Apple fanboy-mods. Modding this down doesn't stop it being the truth.
Submission + - Dag Wieers intelligent swipe at Ubuntu (wieers.com)
Nic Doye writes: "Dag Wieers responds to Mark Shuttleworth's recent request to ask major Enterprise Linux distributions to synchronise releases, claiming that it "is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space". He's confessing to playing Devil's Advocate here, but it is an interesting view from someone with a large amount of experience in the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS space."
Submission + - Walk through the Hard Drive Recovery Process
Fields writes: Everyone knows that failed hard drives can be recovered, but few people ever actually use the service because it is expensive and not always succesful. Even fewer people ever get any insights into the process as recovery companies are secretive about their methods and rarely reveal any more information that is necessary for billing. Geek.com has an article walking through a drive recovery handled by DriveSavers. The recovery team did not give away many secrets, but they did reveal a number of insights into the process. From the article, "Again, my drive failed in about every way you can imagine. It had electro-mechanical failure resulting in severe media damage. Seagate considered it dead, but I didn't give up. It's actually pretty amazing that they were able to recover nearly all of the data. Of course, they had to do some rebuilding, but that's what you expect when you send it to the ER for hard drives.".
Submission + - Just how Effective is System Hardening? (arnnet.com.au) 1
SkiifGeek writes: "Recent Coverage of what the NSA went through to create SELINUX raises an interesting question as to just how effective system hardening is at preventing successful attack?
When Jay Beale presented at DefCon 14, he quoted statistics that Bastille protected against every major threat targeting Red Hat 6, before the threats were known. With simple techniques for the every day user which can start them on the path towards system hardening, just how effective have you found System and network hardening to be?
The NSA does have some excellent guides to help harden not only your OS but also your browser and network equipment."
When Jay Beale presented at DefCon 14, he quoted statistics that Bastille protected against every major threat targeting Red Hat 6, before the threats were known. With simple techniques for the every day user which can start them on the path towards system hardening, just how effective have you found System and network hardening to be?
The NSA does have some excellent guides to help harden not only your OS but also your browser and network equipment."
Submission + - Microsoft 'Shared Source' attempts to hijack FOSS (ostatic.com) 1
aacc1313 writes: An article that details how Open Source is being hijacked by Microsoft and the sort via 'Shared Source' licenses and how Open Source licenses have become so much more confusing. From the article, "The confusion stems from the fact that Microsoft's 'shared source' program includes three proprietary licenses as well, whose names are similar in some ways to the open-source licenses. Thus, while the Microsoft Reciprocal License has been approved by OSI, the Microsoft Limited Reciprocal License (Ms-LRL) is not, because it allows users to modify and redistribute the software only on the Windows platform" and "The 'shared source' program was and is Microsoft's way of fighting the open source world, allowing customers to inspect Microsoft source code without giving those customers the right to modify or redistribute the code. In other words, "shared source" is not open source, and shouldn't be confused with it."
Submission + - VIA releases 16,434-line FOSS framebuffer driver
billybob2 writes: VIA has released 16,434 Lines Of Free & Open Source code that enables Linux to natively use the framebuffer on VIA's graphics chipsets. This comes a month after VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and documentation on its website so that its hardware will work out of the box with Linux distributions. This gives VIA-powered systems that come pre-installed with Linux, such as the gPC, 15.4" gBook, CloudBook and Zonbu the ability to output graphics through digital connections such as HDMI and possibly making them the best-supported framebuffers Linux has ever had. Look forward to documentation and X.org drivers from VIA as well in the near future.
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