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New Help Desk - The Boss has a Plan...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 11:56 PM EST

I love Help Desk.

Help Desk

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Girls Who Code expands across the US with summer programs in Detroit, San Jose and Miami
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 09:49 AM EST
Girls Who Code is set to expand its female-oriented tech education program to Detroit, Miami and San Jose thanks to $435,000 in funding from Knight Foundation, the non-profit organization announced today.

As you may have guessed from its name, Girls Who Code’s ambition is to empower young women to pursue careers in tech and engineering, contributing to closing the gender gap in this job-generating sector. Knight Foundation is supporting this goal as part of its Tech for Engagement Initiative

Anna Heim, The Next Web

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ASLR bypassed in Windows 7
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 11:21 AM EST
"Microsoft upped its security ante with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) in Windows 7 and Windows 8 but, it seems that this mechanism to preventing hackers from jumping to a known memory location can be bypassed as a hacker has released a brilliant yet simple trick to circumvent the protection."

"Attacking the Windows 7/8 Address Space Randomization"

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Have Questions For MIT's Aaron Swartz Review
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 12:03 PM EST
Jump to Slashdot for all details

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/1610202/have-questions-for-mits-aaron-swa
rtz-review

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Offtopic
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 02:48 PM EST
We've made comments in the past about some of the pithy and unconventional judgements made by Lord Denning when he was Master of the Rolls.

It looks like he has a rival - Lord Dyson the current holder of that office. In particular the remark about extracting digits recorded about half way through this BBC report.

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Loong interview with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer
Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 03:21 PM EST

underwhelming.

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After midnight, unlocking your cell phone becomes a DMCA violation
Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 03:24 PM EST

I though we already won that battle.

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Only Ten Years Ago?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 07:37 PM EST
It seems longer than that, Slammer worm

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New Help Desk - Partition Not Found
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 07:43 PM EST

ROFL

Ho w did he get that baseball bat past Security?

Wayne
http:// madhatter.ca

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Something Sinister About the Lack of Prosecutions at Lehman Brothers
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 07:47 PM EST
The reason that no director of Lehman Brothers has been brought to book would appear to be that US financial regulator the Securities & Exchange Commission, which had a dedicated team inside Lehmans’ headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue prior to the uber-leveraged bank’s collapse, knew all this chicanery was going on, and must therefore have given it the nod at the time.

The SEC may therefore be complicit in the alleged crime and no less guilty than Lehman.

Ian Fraser, Naked Capitalism

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Is the fox really a honey badger?
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 12:20 AM EST
Link

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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That Munich report - cat out of bag?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 10:06 AM EST
For those who read German:-

www.muenchen.info/pia/RSS/015.pdf

Strong rebuttal there.

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Anonymous: The Final Conflict
Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 12:26 PM EST

Link

Anonymous takes down US Sentencing Commission website Hacking collective threatens to make public classified material and that when Aaron Swartz killed himself 'a line was crossed'

The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch involved in sentencing, was replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago "a line was crossed." In a message posted on the website and in an accompanying YouTube video, the hackers said they had infiltrated several government computer systems and copied secret information they threatened to make public.

Wow - what a video! I loved it. Does that make me a criminal?

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Apple crumble
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 01:55 PM EST
From the BBC News: On Thursday, about $50bn was wiped off Apple's value after
the biggest daily drop in the firm's stock in four years.

50 Billion? Makes 'winning' $1bn off of Samsung seem very small fry indeed by
comparison.

Bob

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Dear Microsoft
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 03:38 PM EST
Dear Micrsoft,
I'd like to start off saying i ( a user ) have been using
windows xp for some time and because of all the issues that
came from vista and then to start with windows 7 ( NOW fixed
)
i decided this year finally to do an upgrade ( for you nicx
users i have used or use some form of linux as well so relax
i go back to red hat 3 ).

I wanted a pc that with some of the free tools i can use
like bryce 7.1 carrera and others ....to get into some 3d
stuff yes that also includes blender...
I came into a nice chunk of cash and grabbed up autdesk
3dsmax with all its bells and whistles.

I got a not extreme high end pc but one that could play any
game out there and came with 8GB ram i then upgraded it to
16 and will have to go as high as 64 gb to do this stuff.

NOW i would never and will never buy an os that looks like a
dumb cell phone ....for that i also bought unity and it will
make my apps and games for mac , pc , all cell phone makers.

In other words you need to relaize that the developers dont
want your os but hey we'll make the stuff for it LOL. SEE
what i am saying...if you got a brain and want an operating
system that YOU can do stuff with and what not win8 just
doesn't even look like what you want.

windows users are the lower order of brains and when you go
and remvoe major features on them they panic and will jsut
stay where they are.

THE claims that start menu won't come back are funny. it has
too or they are done for...
what win 8 shows me is that ms are out of ideas and are now
lazy. Instead fo making a phone os and a desktop one they
are really trying to push the phone cause in that area they
can control you better.

This is also why steam is moving to linux.
that is not gonna go well for micrsoft nor nvidia nor
autodesk when all the games coming out require linux.
what ive seen a game consoles totally unimpressed me.
they always have when your televisions up till recently were
awful compared to computer resolutions and when you plugge
din a tv BOY stuff looked wicked.

NOW add the fact for on the cheap we can get daz character
model software and some other stuff soon the indies will be
doing a lot more tv animation and as this improves soon no
one will be using real actors( BET thats got some heads
spinning exorcist wise )Musicans also wrongly think they are
not replaceable as software continues to improve at music
making and there are enough neighbors around you to do sound
bits on the cheap. BEER WORKS....


THIS copyright you signed with the mpaa to create is and
will now slowly start to unfold as we the people say hey we
don't need you still and instead of downloading it i'll
create it and share it freely with a donate button.
who cares about money i don't. THEY DO. and they are years
too late. NOTE to apple what now ....

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Bill Gates wants us to forget his malicious malevolent monopolistic past
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 05:21 PM EST
My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems

From the fight against polio to fixing education, what's missing is often good measurement and a commitment to follow the data. We can do better. We have the tools at hand.

We can learn a lot about improving the 21st-century world from an icon of the industrial era: the steam engine.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book "The Most Powerful Idea in the World." Among the most important were a new way to measure the energy output of engines and a micrometer dubbed the "Lord Chancellor" that could gauge tiny distances.

Such measuring tools, Mr. Rosen writes, allowed inventors to see if their incremental design changes led to the improvements—such as higher power and less coal consumption—needed to build better engines. There's a larger lesson here: Without feedback from precise measurement, Mr. Rosen writes, invention is "doomed to be rare and erratic." With it, invention becomes "commonplace".

Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal

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no mention of the mandatory use of Microsoft wares in order to receive Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding

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