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Way Off Topic :-) xrandr command and screen brightness
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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We all used to do this years and years ago
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 something pro-active to fight Future Crime.

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iOS 7 borrows heavily from its competition. Is it OK?
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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*** Troll the NSA - They've done a fine job monitoring us. Let's see how they handle this
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.

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Anyone else following the XBox One backlash?
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 ;)

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Off Topic
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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OT to Bay Area types
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

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Copyright Stymies Access to Digital Works for Visually Impaired
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.

Michael Geist, The Tyee

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Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
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 Revere

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Euro Silences Greece
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

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conjecture on CEO's in denial of knowledge spy program
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 ?

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Snowden: 61,000+ NSA hacking operations globally
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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    Xbox One region locking, the EU and 2 questions
    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 segregating the market like this ?

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    German Parliament limit software patents ..
    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

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    Thomas Drake: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution
    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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    Bill Binney: "the intelligence community is bamboozling Congress and the administration"
    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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    Richard A. Clarke: Why you should worry about the NSA
    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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    Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense
    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 McMahon, Sun Sentinel

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    Mark Klein: "I was angry then. I'm angrier now."
    Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 01:56 AM EDT
    Link

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    IRS tracks your digital footprint
    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 Report / MSN

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    Nokia will stop shipping Symbian phones this summer
    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. Great phone!

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    Raspberry Pi and Lego Mindstorms to be united by BrickPi
    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....

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    Google Glass teardown
    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.

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    Prenda Law ordered to "Identify All personnel who hold any interest in Plaintiff"
    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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    Supreme Court: Human DNA can't be patented
    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

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    SCOTUS Decision on BRAC genes
    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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    BREAKING - Sup court - genes not patentable
    Authored by: designerfx on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 11:07 AM EDT
    Supreme court doesn't allow gene patents.
    Also Supreme court decision (link)

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    NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say
    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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