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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 22 2013 @ 04:10 PM EDT |
During the last week, my Yahoo account was broken into -
somebody logged
into my account and sent spam to everybody
in my Contacts list. Two other
people I know have had their
Yahoo accounts broken into, also in the last week.
And there
are several comments to the Facebook news story by others
who have
had their Yahoo accounts hacked - all in the last
week.
Whoever breaks
in, in all these cases, sends spam to
everybody on the victim's contact
list.
Has this happened to you? Has there been a general Yahoo
breakin
that Yahoo has not admitted to yet?
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, June 22 2013 @ 10:58 PM EDT |
Sixty-five years ago, in a cluttered lab in
Manchester, UK, three scientists changed the world of computing forever. Working
with a machine they’d built and nicknamed Baby, they ran the first ever program
to be stored electronically in a computer’s memory. --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 01:03 AM EDT |
"The US hacked into computers at Chinese mobile phone
companies and a major
Beijing university, the South China
Morning Post reported late Saturday, in the
latest
revelations from United States whistleblower Edward
Snowden"
..
"Snowden also told the newspaper that the NSA had hacked
into
computers at the Hong Kong headquarters of Pacnet,
which owns one of the
region’s largest fibre optic submarine
cable network" link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 10:01 AM EDT |
The treaty, years in the making, could be in jeopardy because of
unresolved differences between advocates for the blind and the Motion Picture
Association of America, which says the accord could undermine protections
important for filmmakers, publishers and other major industries.
The
agreement, known as the treaty for visually impaired persons, would allow for
such books to be distributed internationally, which is now largely prohibited,
and encourage governments to allow books to be converted to accessible formats
without having to get permission from copyright owners every time.
Advocates
for the blind are pressing to extend the kind of rights afforded by U.S. law —
which allow books to be converted to accessible formats without seeking
permission from copyright holders — to the 300 million blind and visually
impaired people around the globe. Only 1 percent of the world’s books are in
such a format, according to the World Blind Union.
But the MPAA has been
using its considerable clout with Washington officials to press for changes in
the accord, warning that loosening copyright protections to help the blind could
set a costly precedent.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 06:53 PM EDT |
BBC
SMH
Now, which company was it
first put the webcam inside the 'puter?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 07:10 PM EDT |
Crack Windows 8.1 Validation and enter the Hackers' Hall of Infamy or
Collect $100K? (microsoft.com link for the squeamish)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 07:40 PM EDT |
Bruce Schneier
I suspect a lot of the stuff described wouldn't
happen
if people used proper Operating Systems ...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 08:51 PM EDT |
I am planning a move from my old 2 drive system to a 3 drive with the OS on a
SSD and the 2 traditional drives set up as a mirror. At the same time moving
from Fedora to Debian.
Any suggestions as to the most appropriate file system to use for this.
Currently I am using ext3. Also, how do I ensure that data has been copied
correctly from the old drives to the new? There is a lot of data I need to move
reliably.
Tufty
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 23 2013 @ 10:55 PM EDT |
"Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are both operating systems designed
for the cloud. Oh,
cynics will laugh, but it’s damned true.
These operating systems are designed
to make Azure work;
nothing more, nothing less. I sat through three days of
having that drilled in to my head: Microsoft learns
something in Azure and
bakes it in to Server. Microsoft
learns something in Server and bakes it in to
Azure" ..
"That sure is a pretty looking Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow aircraft carrier floating way up there in the
clouds. Marvellous
technology that makes me pump my fist in
the air and go “hell yeah!” whenever
it passes overhead. But
once it has passed, I turn back to my busted bicycle
and
wonder: if I sell enough newspapers this month, can I afford
to get a new
chain? Maybe even some oil?" lin
k[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 12:10 AM EDT |
"It's been exposed that the operating system powering the
PlayStation 4 is
Orbis OS, which is a Sony spin of FreeBSD
9.0. It's not a huge surprise FreeBSD
is being used over
Linux, in part due to the more liberal licensing. The
PlayStation 4 is x86_64 based now rather than Cell-based,
which makes it
easier to use FreeBSD." link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 02:13 AM EDT |
did nothing about it
The Independent reports that the UK
Serious Organised Crime Agency supplied secret evidence to the Leveson Inquiry
(on phone-hacking by newspapers) saying that many other groups in the UK
routinely engaged in criminal, invasive hacking through private investigations
firms.
Included in the list of those purchasing criminal services are the
super-rich, insurance companies, law firms and telecoms companies.
The
Leveson Inquiry took the evidence, but kept it secret, including the fact that
the police knew about and tolerated this kind of activity. The spying included
bribing police officers, perverting the course of justice, real-time tapping of
phone lines, using specially built spying gadgets attached by BT engineers who
assisted in the crimes.
Cory
Doctorow, boing boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: complex_number on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 02:43 AM EDT |
yro.slashdot.org]
To quote 'Dark Side
of the Moon'
The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my
hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the
paper boy brings more.
IMHO, for an official to even suggest that
making a legitimate complaint about a service you are paying for could be
considered an act of terrorism should be a quick and easy way for said official
to get his 'pink slip'.
The loonies are taking over and it seems that the
majority of US Citizens don't even care. Sad really.
--- Ubuntu &
'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which is of
course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 12:13 PM EDT |
On occasion here, we've reflected on a general lack of education in many,
touching on things like basic arithmetic, comparisons and more. Another issue
I've seen is the basic lack of the rules of grammar. I was recently reading this article and came across "Kahn announced his well-earned
retirement on Jan. 1995. He would be replaced by Gary Wetsel. Who was replaced
by William F. Miller". Is "Who was replaced by William F. Miller" supposed to
be a question, with a question mark at the end? Or is it supposed to be part of
the previous sentence, separated by a comma? e.g. "He would be replaced by Gary
Wetsel, who was replaced by William F. Miller". Another example of the poor
education these days is this article,
which tells how high school students can't even sign their own name! What is
education in this world coming to? --- The following program contains
immature subject matter.
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Authored by: squib on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 02:19 PM EDT |
See Table two in Gartner's press release:
Gartner Says Worldwide PC,
Tablet and Mobile Phone Shipments to Grow 5.9 Percent in 2013 as
Anytime-Anywhere-Computing Drives Buyer Behavior
I notice too, that the
operating system called Others has a pretty good market share as well.
Where can I get a disto' to try out?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
An American executive said Monday he has been held hostage for four
days at his medical
supply plant in Beijing by scores of workers demanding
severance packages like those given to 30 co-
workers in a phased-out
department.
Wall St Journal
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
Microsoft-Oracle deal: What you need to know
Oh boy, Microsoft
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 05:47 PM EDT |
Link
This is in regards to a murder trial, where the defendant
asked
prosecution to produce cell phone location data.
As I expected, they would
not do so without a fight.
Interestingly, they did not argue that they did
not have
them because it was not Verizon, so basically they have
confirmed that
it is everyone's phone records.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 08:23 PM EDT |
The International Trade Commission said it will soon require some complaining
companies to prove upfront that they have a significant presence in the United
States.
US Panel Deals A Big Blow To 'Patent Trolls' [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 02:23 AM EDT |
Is this guy one of those who always seem to attract trouble? Or has Apple really
set the bar too high?
modaco.com
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT |
http://ig.whocalledmyphone.net/privacy.jpg [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 01:02 PM EDT |
Hmmm. This article is strange: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bus
iness-23052445
Why do I say it is strange? Microsoft has been angling to
kill the Android/Linux based Nooks from the beginning, and now they're angling
to acquire the Nook division entirely.
As an Android developer, I have 50+
apps in the B&N Nook Shop, Google Play store, and Amazon Appstore. Revenue
for B&N is 3x what Google Play is, and 5x Amazon.
I don't think there is
anything anomalous about my apps.
Given the financials I've seen first hand,
there is just something that seems fishy here, and I have a strong suspicion the
B&N shareholders will get the short end of the stick in this deal that
Microsoft is trying to force on B&N.
Economically, any platform is really
all about the developers and the software. Microsoft knows this, and I find it
interesting that they're targeting one of the big three distribution points for
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