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| Authored by: hardmath on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 11:51 AM EDT |
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I suppose it means I'm jaded that I
find this kind of thing
less than surprising.
Growing up in the Southeast
part of US caused me to be quite
familiar with anti-black racism and the
penchant of many
racists to constantly test new acquaintances for
confirmation
of their racist beliefs.
One summer however our church sent a group of us
out West,
primarily to teach vacation Bible school in Montana. I was
quite
surprised to find that the racial stereotyping was
aimed at Native Americans
instead of blacks.
File this under travel that broadens ones
perspectives.
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Rosser's trick: "For every proof of me, there is a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 04:40 PM EDT |
The broadcasters say that if Aereo, or any other company is allowed
to distribute their programming without
licensing it then nobody
will.
The Verge
That could be just
the ticket. No more free to air TV, watch the nation's IQ and productivity rise
...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 07:31 PM EDT |
I guess if I program in Perl then I could be branded as a
"hacker" as well. In the O'Reilly Camel book, Programming
Perl, they have a program which will get a web page from a
web server. (If you don't have the book, you can also type
"man perlipc". ipc means inter-process communication.) The
program is 17 lines long. I actually used that program for
a time, until I discovered wget. Does that mean I get put
away for 35 years? I hope I share a cell with Tim Berners-
Lee who published RFC 1945 HTTP/1.0 in 1996. Tim O'Reilly
would also be a good cellmate. And Larry Wall.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: whoever57 on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 08:16 PM EDT |
| Secret recording: Mark Shurtleff offers $2 million to
silence Darl McBride [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 11:09 AM EDT |
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/hacking/311869-how-to-hack-twitter-s-two-factor-a
uthentication
For example, since just one phone number can be
associated with an account, Twitter's two-factor authentication won't work for
organizations like the Associated Press, The Onion, or The
Guardian.
That's not a good reason. They could easily set up a
special company phone number for the very purpose of doing two-factor
authentications and work out a way to manage that. It's not as if none of these
organisations are so worst off that they can't afford it :p. There are of course
other reasons why Twitter's two-factor authentication doesn't work as intended
(like that SMS thingy mentioned later), but only supporting one phone number
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 10:48 PM EDT |
Microsoft blues: Windows 8... It was an
attempt to solve the
innovator’s dilemma by creating an
operating system and a user interface for
both PCs and
mobiles.
No. This is where the Economist got
it wrong. Imagine
that - this famous magizine, and they got it wrong! It is
not like New Coke at all. Windows 8 is about monetizing
the user's
desktop. Nothing more and nothing less, and
people aren't as stupid as
Steve Ballmer wants them to be.
They don't want to rent out their desktop for
free, with
software that they paid for, while Microsoft reaps the
profits.
When is the last time you saw somebody's desktop
with a big sign on it, "This
space for rent."???
Do you hear me Microsoft? It is my desktop.
If you
monetize it, at least give me a cut. Better yet, don't
charge me for
the OS. Google doesn't charge me for their
products, because they gain
advantages if I use them, just
like you. You pretend you are actually selling
the user
something of value, but in the end it is all about you. Wow
- the
arrogance of it all! Unbelievable.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 03:23 AM EDT |
Maybe it was OK for whoever looked at that and posted the link,
but there's a script on that page that refreshes it every two seconds
because its geolocation finds I am not in an approved market area.
OK, maybe that's Best Buy's fault, not Acer, but after all the bile
I've read on these pages spewed against BestBuy it seems odd
to put it mildly that one of their ads should feature as a Newspick.
While I'm ranting I could p'raps, maybe, no way, get one from
Tigerdirect - no they need javascript enabled to tell me it's
soldout online; or from the source, Play.Google.Com
Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.
[take a deep breath, now scream again] That dinky little toy has
50% added to its price when it crosses the dateline mid-Pacific.
Hang on a mo', it's Acer, Made in Taiwan, it doesn't even have
to cross the Pacific. Huhn??? Oh, it's OK, Amazon.uk have just
rated the pound at parity with US$.
Anyhow, just to show there's no real ill feeling, here's a static page,
from the people who control the design and marketing, and it
lets me choose what country I think I'm in and who I'll buy from:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/acer-c7-chromebook.html
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| Authored by: joef on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 10:58 AM EDT |
| There are several tabs in the Best Buy ad referred to in the cited article: "
Overview |
Specifications |
Ratings & Reviews |
Accessories
"
If you click in "Accessories" it
brings up a panel listing mostly products for Windows, including several MS
Office variations, plus some anti-virus stuff "for Windows". There is, however a
HP wireless mouse for $9.99 and a Toshiba 500GB USB Portable Hard Drive for
$59.99.
In an ad at the top of the page they're also offering a Toshiba
Chromebook for $249.99; similar specs/features. It recommends mostly the
same accessories.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 12:19 PM EDT |
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FightCopyrightTrolls.com
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 04:57 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 07:58 PM EDT |
News
Picks Link
While not currently permitted under U.S. law, there
are increasing calls for creating a more permissive environment for active
network defense that allows companies not only to stabilize a situation but to
take further steps, including actively retrieving stolen information, altering
it within the intruder’s networks, or even destroying the information within an
unauthorized network. Additional measures go further, including photographing
the hacker using his own system’s camera, implanting malware in the hacker’s
network, or even physically disabling or destroying the hacker’s own computer or
network.
This must be an April's fool prank, can't be
serious...
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| Authored by: jbb on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 06:41 AM EDT |
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I don't see how this changes anything regarding the First Amendment
and the absolute illegality of government spying on journalists. For example,
the report says:
We concluded that Burke’s disclosure of the Dodson
memorandum
to Levine violated Department rules pertaining to media relations
contained in the United States Attorneys’ Manual, Sections1-7.210, 1-7.320, and
1-7.330. As described in Section II.B. of this report, these provisions require
that OPA be kept informed of requests of national media organizations that
relate to matters of national importance or significance, and that any media
efforts of a Department component that relate to such matters be coordinated
with OPA.
Why on Earth would rules in the United States Attorney's
Manual trump the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of
America? A similar upside-downness happened when Anwar al-Awlaki's father was
not allowed to legally contest the planned extra-judicial assassination of his
son. For some reason I cannot fathom, a judge decided that judicial procedures
took precedent over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The judge ruled
that the assassination target, Anwar al-Awlaki, had to show up in person in
order to be protected by the Constitution. It is difficult to show up in person
in a US court when the US government is trying to assassinate you. As a
practical matter, the judge ruled that you can only protest your extra-judicial
assassination after you are dead.
The Constitution is supposed to be the
highest law of the land. This means that if the rules in a manual or a judicial
procedure clearly conflict with the Constitution then those rules or that
procedure are illegal and unenforceable. Unfortunately, it is the Constitution
that keeps getting thrown under the bus. It seems that the only parts of the
Constitution that are still obeyed are the archaic pieces related to elections
that encourage gerrymandering and cause massively disproportionate
representation which means that the votes of a vast majority of Americans really
do not count.
It really doesn't matter what the extenuating circumstances
were that led to these egregious violations of the Constitution. If the
Constitution does not protect all of us, no matter how vile, then it protects
none of us because we are no longer under the rule of law.
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Our job
is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
Article link.
If rumors are correct, Monsanto
controls 90% of the Soybean market.
Given
the definition of "elitism":
The advocacy or existence of an elite as a
dominating element in a system or society.
It appears Monsanto is involved
in self projection. How can proponents of the potential 10% of the market be
considered the Elite in any way?
When Monsanto is complaining because the
Market is calling out for more choice and Monsanto controls 90% of the market -
it is Monsanto itself that is behaving in an Elite fashion.
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