Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 07:04 AM EDT |
Repurposed a HP microserver with Xubuntu as a desktop -dont
ask- ;-)...
...Great but none of the panel brightness tools work...
hmmm xrandr to the rescue:
"If lowering brightness by usual means don't get your screen
dark enough for you, you can lower it much more using the
xrandr command. First run it without arguments (once in
life) to find out the name of your output."
eg: VGA-1 or DVI-I-1.
If you have VGA-1 then...
xrandr --output VGA-1 --brightness 0.6
OR
xrandr --output VGA-1 --brightness 0.4
etc.,etc..
Very, very useful when none of the gadgets work.
From here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php%3f
p=11122964#post11122964
Big thanks to JC Cheloven!
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 07:30 AM EDT |
I recall back in the day when the NSA first began to
monitor the Internet,
and it broke upon the public
consciousness, and everybody first began
speculating on
backdoors in Microsoft's Windows. Everybody was putting
"keywords" in their emails to confuse the NSA.
Wish I could remember
when this all was - I think at
least back in the late 90's. I am sure others
will recall as
well.
Interesting how history repeats itself, but this
surveillance has been going on for a long, long time. The
entire lives of many
of you out there today are recorded by
the NSA. Who know maybe by now in the
first few years of a
person's life the NSA can predict who is going to grow up
to
be a criminal or a terrorist based on their data and do
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 08:17 AM EDT |
Link -
Android Autority
The big question is whether it is okay
for Apple to borrow features in the first place.
Personally, I think that
competition should be allowed to build upon existing ideas, as long as they
bring something new to the table to set it apart from what’s already out
there.
The problem is that Apple has gone to great lengths to stomp on
competitors for doing the same thing, while also claiming its own ideas are
brand new innovations. The most notable example is its long, drawn-out war with
Samsung, but that’s far from the only instance where Apple used litigation to
discourage competitors from “borrowing” their ideas.
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Authored by: kuroshima on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 08:38 AM EDT |
I remember similar initiatives back when Echelon was first
heard of. It was interesting seeing such keywords appear in
the .sig files in countless mailing lists and usenet channels. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: mcinsand on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 01:27 PM EDT |
It's interesting how unified the hate is for the XBox One. However, as I posted
on Reddit last night, Microsoft has nothing to worry about if the 'XBONE' fails;
they can always fall back on the success of Windows 8 and the Windows phone ;)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 02:15 PM EDT |
German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents
on software
https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.en.html
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Authored by: red floyd on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 02:28 PM EDT |
If you're a baseball fan, or even if you're not...
Please try to attend the
Giants/Dodgers game at AT&T on July 7, or the A's/Angels game in Oakland on
July 27.
These two games are designated to raise awareness and funds to
fight ALS, also
known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Obligatory vested interest notification: My
wife died of ALS this year.
Info on these events can be found at The ALS Association Web Site.
PJ or Mark,
feel free to delete this, if you believe it violates guidelines. -- red
floyd --- I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a
*CITIZEN* of the United States of America.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 02:37 PM EDT |
And a UN treaty to fix that could be undermined by
lobbyists.
New technologies have opened the door to greater
access for millions of people who are visually impaired, yet copyright law
frequently stands in the way. This is particularly true in the developing world,
where digital works are often unavailable due to legal restrictions.
On June
17, delegates from around the world will gather in Marrakesh, Morocco for a
diplomatic conference to negotiate the final text on a new United Nations treaty
that is designed to improve access to copyrighted works for people who are blind
or have other perceptual disabilities.
The Treaty for the Visually Impaired,
which has been the subject of years of discussion at the World Intellectual
Property Organization, seeks to address the access problem in two
ways.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 03:07 PM EDT |
London, 1772.
I have been asked by my superiors to give a
brief
demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the
simplest
techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke
Analysis in the pursuit of those
who would seek to undermine
the liberty enjoyed by His Majesty’s subjects. This
is in
connection with the discussion of the role of “metadata” in
certain
recent events and the assurances of various
respectable parties that the
government was merely “sifting
through this so-called metadata” and that the
“information
acquired does not include the content of any
communications”. I
will show how we can use this “metadata”
to find key persons involved in
terrorist groups operating
within the Colonies at the present time. I shall
also
endeavour to show how these methods work in what might be
called a
relational manner.
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Using Metadata to Find Paul
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
Time
http://www.google.com/news?q=greece+radio&lr=English&hl=en
for a
full panoply of reportage[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 05:03 PM EDT |
Again this is conjecture....
Would it be possible that those CEO's really do not know what is going on in/at
their companies due to gag orders on employees who are forced to implement
spying abilities by government (legal/snoop)goons ?
And on a side note:
Since some governments have plans/dreams to hack into pc's owned by nasty
people.
How well does it suit such governments that pc come preloaded with known os's ?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 05:53 PM EDT |
Link
Snowden
said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been
hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the
documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems, he
said.
One of the targets in the SAR, according to Snowden, was Chinese
University and public officials, businesses and students in the city. The
documents also point to hacking activity by the NSA against mainland
targets.
Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking
operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the
mainland.
“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically
– that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of
computers without having to hack every single one,” he
said.
CBS somehow managed to leave the above tidbits
out of
their article.
Kinda says they are not just looking for 'terrists,
no?
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Authored by: bilateralrope on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 06:36 PM EDT |
Microsoft have decided to limit the Xbox one to only 21 countries at launch. Here is a graphic showing which countries
are allowed to use it
I notice that only some countries in the EU
get to use the Xbox One, others won't. Which leaves me with two
questions:
How reliably can MS identify which country each console is
in ?
Are there any EU laws that say anything about MS artificially
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 07:00 PM EDT |
"On Friday the 7th of June the German Parliament decided
upon a joint motion
to limit software patents (see English
translation by BIKT). The Parliament
urges the German
Government to take steps to limit the granting of patents on
computer programs.
"Software should exclusively be
covered by
copyright, and the rights of the copyright holders should
not be
devalued by third parties' software patents.
The only exception where
patents should be allowed are
computer programs which replace a mechanical or
electromagnetic component. In addition the Parliament made
clear that
governmental actions related to patents must
never interfere with the legality
of distributing Free
Software". link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 07:54 PM EDT |
Link
This executive fiat of 2001
violated not just the fourth amendment, but also Fisa rules at the time, which
made it a felony – carrying a penalty of $10,000 and five years in prison
for each and every instance. The supposed oversight, combined with enabling
legislation – the Fisa court, the congressional committees – is all a kabuki
dance, predicated on the national security claim that we need to find a threat.
The reality is, they just want it all, period.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 08:01 PM EDT |
RT interviews whistleblower Bill Binney about the recent NSA leaks:
http://rt.com/usa/bill-binne
y-nsa-leaks-546/
"BB: My personal view is that the intelligence
community is bamboozling Congress and the administration. They are telling them
that they have to do this in order to find the bad guys in the networks, and
that’s just absolutely false."
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 09:07 PM EDT |
Link
He should know. He dealt with this stuff on a daily basis
for
years. Then the Bush admin forced him out.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 12:50 AM EDT |
The FBI and federal prosecutors are using
cellphone records
in
court to try to prove that the five accused men were all
nearby when the
robbery attempts and planning occurred, as
Moss, who is cooperating with the
U.S. Attorney's Office,
testified.
The prosecution had told defense
attorneys that they were
unable to obtain Brown's cellphone records from the
period
before September 2010 because his carrier, MetroPCS, had not
held on to
them.
[...]
Brown's attorney Marshall Dore Louis argued in court
Wednesday that the government should be forced to turn over
phone location
records for two cellphones Brown may have
used because it could prove he was
not present for one of
the attempted bank robberies, on July 26 on Federal
Highway
in Lighthouse Point.
"The president of the United States has
recognized this
program has been ongoing since 2006 … to gather the phone
numbers [and related information] of everybody including my
client in 2010,"
Louis said.
U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenbaum agreed to give
prosecutors
an extra week or two to respond fully after they
said they needed more
time.
Paula
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 01:56 AM EDT |
Link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 06:52 AM EDT |
The IRS has quietly upgraded its technology so
tax collectors can
track virtually everything people do
online.
The Internal Revenue
Service is collecting a lot
more than taxes this year -- it's also acquiring a
huge
volume of personal information on taxpayers' digital
activities, from
eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for
the first time ever, credit card and
e-payment transaction
records, as it expands its search for tax cheats to
places
it's never gone before.
The IRS, under heavy pressure to help
Washington out of its
budget quagmire by chasing down an estimated $300
billion in
revenue lost to evasions and errors each year, will start
using
"robo-audits" of tax forms and third-party data the
IRS hopes will help close
this so-called "tax gap." But the
agency reveals little about how it will
employ its vast, new
network scanning powers.
Tax lawyers and watchdogs are
concerned about the sweeping
changes being implemented with little public
discussion or
clear guidelines, and Congressional staff sources say the
IRS
use of "big data" will be a key issue when the next IRS
chief comes to the
Senate for approval.
Richard Satran, U.S. News & World
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 07:24 AM EDT |
Link
Nokia will stop shipping Symbian
smartphones this summer, thus leaving the revered 808 PureView as its last
developed product on the "burning platform."
I was a proud
owner of a N95-8GB (aka "The King") for 2 years.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 08:17 AM EDT |
The H Well, yet another nice new toy
for us adults to play with! I am not suggesting that kids will not use and learn
from it, but it does seem to me that most people buy this sort of thing for
their kids because they really want to play with it themselves. Which of course
means that if we have kids, we will by an extra one for ourselves. We are all
just big kids really. Some of us may have outgrown the childish tantrums, others
have become CEOs in the software industry.... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 09:43 AM EDT |
Ever wondered about
the
hardware that enables Google Glass? The article reveals
there is not
much too it beyond miniaturization of
components and cleverness to fit the form
factor. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 09:45 AM EDT |
Judge Snow Asks Some
Hard Questions (Order To Show Cause) – AF Holdings LLC v. Harris – 2:12-cv-02144
(AZ)
If the signatures (Rogers and Cooper) on the
copyright assignment by are not valid, why Plaintiff AND Counsel (Goodhue)
should not be sanctioned? ...
How many defendants and/or users has
Plaintiff settled in those other suits, including the D.D.C. case, based on the
same BitTorrent swarm, and what were the nature and amounts of those
settlements?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 10:53 AM EDT |
Mixed ruling for Utah's Myriad Genetics
Supreme Court: Human DNA can't be patented [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 11:05 AM EDT |
SCOTUS says genes are naturally occurring and cannot be
patented. Decision handed down just today. PDF here.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf
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Authored by: designerfx on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 11:07 AM EDT |
Supreme court doesn't allow gene
patents.
Also
Supreme
court decision (link) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
Link
Lawyers and intelligence experts with direct
knowledge of two intercepted terrorist plots that the Obama administration says
confirm the value of the NSA's vast data-mining activities have questioned
whether the surveillance sweeps played a significant role, if any, in foiling
the attacks.
There is a simple explanation as to why the NSA
data
collection effort is not really working at preventing
attacks (see Boston
for example):
Because they are not really using it the way they say they
are!
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