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SCOTUS strikes down voting rights act
Authored by: designerfx on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 01:25 PM EDT
Scotus has struck down the voting rights act, more or less. They punted to congress. What is the outcome of them refusing the voting rights act like this? I heard unhappy comments all over the place, and I'm not sure I understand the ruling's impact.

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Chromebooks
Authored by: hans on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 02:26 PM EDT
This is in response to PJ's news pick comment about buying a Chromebook

I bought an Acer Chromebook for my son for school work.

In general I really like it, with one exception: No policy editor.

If you get a Chromebook for education or business, you gain access to the web
based Admin Console that lets you set up policies like white and black lists for
the internet.

If you get a Chromebook for personal use, you do not get access to this admin
console, and are not able to set policy without gaining root access to your
Chromebook. Beyond that the policy set available via the admin console is much
broader than that available from the local console.

I would be willing to pay for access to the web based admin console, but this is
simply not an option for personal use. As a work around, I've installed
FoxFilter, which has a web based policy editor for that plug in only. It works
fairly well, though it's policy options are fairly limited (lacking user
profiles, for instance).

Regards,

Hans

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interesting.... What's the matter with Microsoft?
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 03:20 PM EDT
What's the matter with Microsoft?

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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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Popehat - A Look At The Charges Against Edward Snowden
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 04:53 PM EDT
Link

Espionage charges usually describe someone with classified information leaking that information to powers hostile to the United States government.

We, the people, are those hostile powers.

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What if ads tracked you in real life?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 05:34 PM EDT
What if ads tracked you in real life?

Here is a short, but fun Firefox ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN91VeHdGwI

Scary?

Perhaps...

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Google still under attack - "regulation needed" - panic mode
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 06:46 PM EDT
Link

When one is comparing a search engine to a telco, perhaps a closer examination is in order.

As in, a closer exam of the brains of those saying that Google should be regulated like a telco.

They may have it backwards. See NSA.

Who is watching the watchers? Are you?

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We've got thousands of pages of US Gov't contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton: Help us analyze
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 07:11 PM EDT
Over the past several months, I've filed for contracts between Booz Allen Hamilton and over 75 federal agencies and departments. Eleven have completed those requests, releasing thousands of pages detailing how an increasing amount of America's governmental operations are being outsourced to private contractors.

Want to help keep our government accountable? Help read through the responsive documents, and flag material that is worth a closer look. So far, we have documents from the following agencies:

Michael Morisy, MuckRock

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ICANN working group seeks to kill WHOIS
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 01:21 AM EDT
An ICANN working group is seeking input on a replacement for the current WHOIS system for retrieving details of domain name registrations

ICANN working group seeks to kill WHOIS

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Joel Tenenbaum's $675000 Music Downloading Fine Upheld
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 02:06 AM EDT
A federal appeals court Tuesday found Tenenbaum's conduct was "egregious" because he illegally shared songs for years despite numerous warnings.

The U.S. Supreme Court last year declined to hear Tenenbaum's appeal.

Tenenbaum says he can't comment on the ruling.

Huffington Post

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Looking for a reference
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 06:42 AM EDT
Does anyone have a source for the comment from Sony about "don't trust what
we say in advertisements, that's just marketing lies"?

I've been trying to find the original quote for a while and failing.

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Another problem fixed!
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 10:13 AM EDT
My trusty Acer aspire 7520 has been running very slow, with the fan often at full speed, for a while, almost as if it was running is supplied OS, Vista, instead of something far more efficient.

Finally had a look, and it takes all of 2 minutes on this amazingly well-built machine to unscrew and prise out the RAM and CPU cover, and another minute to unscrew the fan from the base. There was a thick matted layer of dust, hair etc, like a piece of felt, between fan outlet and the fins of the heatpipe radiator, hence hardly any cooling and the CPU speed being throttled on heavy computational load to avoid overheating.

A minute with the vacuum cleaner, and two more to screw it all back together again, and it booted up in record time, and the fan is barely turning over right now.

Note to self: Check cooling of all computers at least every 6 months.

I wonder how many others are having such easily fixed performance problems?

This machine is fairly old now, but with a new lease of life I will be keeping it, and likely swapping one of my previous upgrades, a second internal hard drive, with a SDD.

Frankly, with a well-built machine like this, almost anyone could fix the cooling problem, which is more than can be said of a more recent HP, where access is a nightmare. Such is progress....

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Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype & Yahoo Hit With Prism Data Protection Complaints In Europe
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 11:02 AM EDT

The European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group, that has long been a thorn in Facebook’s side in Europe, have filed new complaints under regional data protection law targeting Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo for their alleged collaboration with the NSA’s Prism data collection program.


TechCrunch article

Europe v. Facebook press release:

If a European subsidiary sends user data to the American parent company, this is considered an “export” of personal data. Under EU law, an export of data is only allowed if the European subsidiary can ensure an “adequate level or protection” in the foreign country. After the recent disclosures on the “PRISM” program such trust in an “adequate level of protection” by the involved companies can hardly be upheld.

There can in no way be an adequate level of protection if they cooperate with the NSA on the other end of the line. Right now an export of data to the US must be seen as illegal if the involved companies cannot disprove the reports on the PRISM program.

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SCOTUS strikes down DOMA
Authored by: designerfx on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 11:05 AM EDT
wow, what a hard hitting week for the courts! SCOTUS has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This one should be especially interesting going forward as this nullifies prop 8 in California altogether. Fark humorously worded it as "everyone now has a right to lose half their stuff".

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MS & Telefónica partnership to end Android/iOS duopoly
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 11:45 AM EDT
Link

Major mobile network operator Telefónica is partnering with Microsoft to double-down on Windows Phone 8 and launch an ‘enhanced marketing effort’ to boost handset sales running the mobile operating system.
Telefónica confirmed it would step up its advertising in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Chile over the coming year, to end what it describes as “the current duopoly” of Android and iOS.

Doesn't Telefónica know that those so called "MS partners" usually go downhill?
And frankly, seeing the Nokia/WP sinking shouldn't raise a red flag?

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IBM Researcher Wins Kyoto Prize for DRAM Invention
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 01:28 PM EDT
Robert Heath Dennard, an IBM Fellow, is named a recipient of the 2013 Kyoto Prize for his achievements in electronics.

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The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.

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Are we being forced into the cloud?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 01:29 PM EDT
Are the major software suppliers intentionally isolating the mobile world from the desktop in order to move everyone into the cloud where they can be tracked easier? Killing the desktop

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Springsteen helped bring down the wall?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 01:30 PM EDT
Another article about how Western music undermines totalitarian regimes. We've had the Beatles liberating the Soviet Union. Now it may be that Springsteen gave a significant push on the Berlin wall with his East Berlin concert in '88. A fun read.

Rocking the Berlin Wall

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More Women Pick Computer Science if Media Nix Outdated ‘Nerd’ Stereotype
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 01:34 PM EDT
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/3679/20130626/more-women-pick-computer- science-media-nix-outdated-nerd-stereotype.htm

"University of Washington psychologist Sapna Cheryan wanted to know if gendered stereotypes had any effect on young women's interest in becoming computer scientists. Specifically, she and colleagues studied whether the stereotypical view of the geeky male nerd so often portrayed in the media, most recently in CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory', discouraged women from pursuing computer science degrees."

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Chief justice running for president?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 02:30 PM EDT
Roberts has been awfully centrist lately. Liberal on DOMA and Obamacare and
conservative on the Voting Rights Act. After the 2012 Republican freak show,
would a chief justice be a reassuring presence in the Republican Party?

So, the chief justice is your opponent. What do YOU bring to the table? Senator?
Governor? Secretary of state?

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Don't like the legal outcome? Just change the Database!
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 04:01 PM EDT
Link

The Associated Press and several other large media outlets initially reported that the bill had passed, taking Lt. Gov. Dewhurst's word that the vote was taken "just before" 12 AM.

But Democratic State Senators and the tens of thousands who witnessed the vote live on a YouTube stream were skeptical.

As well they should have been.

Screengrabs of the official SB5 results page captured by several wonks clearly show the record vote was called after midnight local time, and was therefore dated 6/26.

A truly historic effort to prevent corrupt politicians from railroading their agenda.

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XINUOS.com now live with further details
Authored by: stats_for_all on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 10:33 PM EDT
The old UnXis.com has rebranded itself XINUOS and has a live website.

The most interesting feature of the rebrand is the job posting for a BSD engineer , to integrate a BSD userland on-top of the hoary SCO OS.

The posting states (in part):
Familiarity with Microsoft Operating System.
Ability to manage a proprietary, closed OS product based on FreeBSD
Previous experience discussing technical details of OS features with Development Managers
Ideas for enhancements to FreeBSD that would provide Xinuos with a competitive advantage.
Familiarity with policies and procedures of The Open Group, and UNIX branding.
Demonstrated ability to get access to Product Managers at leading software application vendors
A degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
Acquaintances on the FreeBSD Foundation BOD or with community contributors.
Familiarity with SCO OS products and UNIX

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