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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 01:10 PM EST |
Many of you Linux affectionados will recall Hans
Reiser, who developed
the ReiserFS journaled file system
for the Linux Kernel. Reiser was suspected
of murder after
the disappearance of his wife, Nina Reiser, in September
2006.
Many of us followed as the strange story developed. In
April 2008, Reiser was
convicted of the first degree murder
of his wife.
There have been
rumours and stories of late about John
McAfee that caused me to remember Hans
Reiser, though I
haven't really been following John McAfee's case that
closely. Lately the news has been about his flight from
Belize to Guatemala,
followed by his deportation to the USA.
Now I have for you a detail video
interview at Mashable in which John
McAfee gives his version of all the
events that have been in
the news lately.
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- John McAfee - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 05:18 AM EST
- Weird Interview - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 03:13 PM EST
- John McAfee - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 25 2012 @ 06:57 PM EST
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 01:32 PM EST |
| It is appreciated that if one starts the canonical threads
that you finish
them. I almost jumped in, but
noticed that you were current, so I waited for
you to
finish.
Sometimes that does not occur due to interruption,
and
sometimes we get duplicates that are not caught in
time so as to be
deleted.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 01:33 PM EST |
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South Korea's Occupational Safety government agency has ruled against
Samsung in a case where a woman worker died of breast cancer.
Huffington Post
Apparently there are other cases
pending. Looks like Samsung needs to
clean up its
factories.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 07:09 PM EST |
I have been searching for a decent RSS reader for Chrome and
came across RSS Live Links,
wow what a find, its a fantastic
extension.
Very very cool.
It even shows an extract of the RSS
item in a tooltip :-)
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 01:27 AM EST |
There seems to be a Higgs boson with a mass of 123.5 GeV
(gigaelectron volts, the measuring unit that particle physicists most often use
for mass), and another Higgs boson at 126.6 GeV—a statistically significant
difference of nearly 3 GeV.
[...]
Although certain extensions of the Standard Model of particle
physics postulate the existence of multiple Higgs bosons, none of them would
predict that two Higgs particles would have such similar masses. They also don’t
predict why one should preferentially decay into two Z particles (the 123.5 GeV
bump comes from decays of the Higgs into Zs), while the other would decay into
photons.
Michael Moyer, Scientific American[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 03:32 AM EST |
and comes out on
Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults
Thanks to
Cringely.com who has a link to a
fulminating response from musicians.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 10:34 AM EST |
Hundreds of camera traps were set up across Serengeti National Park
in one of the world's largest camera surveys.
[...]
Stretching 5,700 sq
miles (14,763 sq km), the Serengeti is Tanzania's oldest national park, covering
vast open grassland and wooded hills.
"The idea is that if we can
say what's in [the pictures] and what the animals are doing then we can get the
true picture of what... life on the Serengeti is like," said Dr Chris Lintott
from the University of Oxford who specialises in citizen science.
The scientists are calling on members of the public to help them via the
interactive website Snapshot Serengeti, launched this
week.
Michelle Warwicker, BBC[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 12:35 PM EST |
I have been trying to find this but no avail. We know there were 5 jurors
with patents. What I'd like to know is who the 4 jurors Apple and Samsung
picked to remove from the final 18. I think it would be interesting to see who
was picked BEFORE Hogan, or why Apple and Samsung thought other
jurors should have been removed when Hogan wasn't. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 12:53 PM EST |
"File sharing's invention is a quantum leap for civilization as such.
Imagine every human being having 24/7 access to humanity’s collective knowledge
and culture!
Moreover, it’s not even a pipe dream that needs to be funded with forty
gazillion eurodollars. All the technology has already been developed, all the
infrastructure has already been rolled out, and the tools already distributed.
All we have to do to realize this is, frankly, to remove the ban on using
it."
http://falkvinge.net/2012/12/13/four-more-reasons-the-pirate-bay-is-effectively-
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 04:27 PM EST |
BBC
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 04:49 PM EST |
We started the design in June, and last week I got my first
prototype motherboards, hot off the SMT line. It’s booting linux, and I’m
currently grinding through the validation of all the sub-components. I thought
I’d share the design progress with my readers.
Of course, a feature of a
build-it-yourself laptop is that all the design documentation is open, so others
of sufficient skill and resources can also build it.
The hardware and its
sub-components are picked so as to make this the most practically open hardware
laptop I could create using state of the art technology.
Andrew Huang, bunnie's
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 08:40 PM EST |
Ever since the UK record labels got a court to order our national
ISPs to censor The Pirate Bay, the UK Pirate Party has been offering a proxy
that allows Britons to connect to the site and all the material it offers, both
infringing and non-infringing.
The record industry has finally struck
back.
Rather than seeking an injunction against the proxy, or suing the
party, it has individually sued the party's executives, seeking to
personally bankrupt them and their families. It's an underhanded, unethical, and
unprecedented threat to democracy -- essentially a bid to use their financial
and legal might to destroy a political party itself.
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 09:33 PM EST |
| Link
Spider.io goes
on to state that other browsers do not leak mouse-cursor position outside
of the browser window in the way that Internet Explorer does. The company also
argues Hachamovitch's claims that exploitation of the vulnerability to
compromise login details and other confidential information is "theoretical",
"hard to imagine" and would require "serving an ad to a site that asks for a
logon."
"This is not the case," Spider.io said. "Ads do not need to
be served to sites requiring login details. Ads need only to be served to some
page which is open in Internet Explorer. The page with an embedded ad may be in
a background tab. The page may be minimised. You may be using an entirely
different application – potentially a different browser or some other desktop
application – to log in."
To read the full response from Microsoft,
head here. To read
the feedback from Spider.io,
head here. To
skip all the mouse tracking on the Internet, simply shut down your PC and read
from a tablet or smartphone. Or go read a book. Seriously, it's getting insane
out here on the World Wide Web.
Of course the 'ad' could be
just one pixel, with
all of the spying javascript hidden behind
it.
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, December 15 2012 @ 09:45 PM EST |
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According to court filings,
these patents were originally acquired from Nokia and Sony back in 2010, and
cover the camera phone, call handling and call rejection. A court disclosure
statement also revealed that 10-percent or more of MobileMedia's stock is owned
by Nokia, Sony of America and MPEG LA, a patent-licensing
authority.
MobileMedia, which has a portfolio of over 300 patents, also has
litigation pending against HTC Corp and Research in Motion Ltd., Reuters
said.
"Our goal is really to license these patents broadly to the market,"
said Larry Horn, chief executive of MobileMedia. "We’re not in the litigation
business."
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 16 2012 @ 02:58 PM EST |
Bardeen and Brattain operated the first working point-contact
transistor
during an experiment conducted on 16 December 1947.
The Register also observes that the field effect transistor might
be 77 years old.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 16 2012 @ 03:24 PM EST |
Wall Street Journal but other sources suggest
pent up consumer demand .
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 16 2012 @ 07:47 PM EST |
The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism
Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal
behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. That is a departure from
past practice, which barred the agency from storing information about ordinary
Americans unless a person was a terror suspect or related to an
investigation.
Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases—flight
records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange
students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about
innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious
patterns of behavior.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 16 2012 @ 08:26 PM EST |
Another week, another shooting spree ... With the NRA, recent SCOTUS decisions
and the 2nd amendment the US will never get 'gun control'<BR>
But what about requiring that firearms be stored safely? If gun owners were
required to provide safe storage they might think twice? Yes, you have a legal
right to have possess something pretty close to a machine gun with 40-100 round
magazines ... but to prevent theft you have to keep it safely in a purpose built
safe (cost say $20k), safes need an annual inspection (say $2k), and replacement
if they don't meet standards ...<BR>
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