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Commodore never used the PC acronym in its marketing or branding.

Yes, they did. For their IBM PC clones, for the C128 in some markets, and for the Amiga. Your theory that "PC" referred exclusively to IBM PC compatibles is not true. It did eventually come to mean that, but in the 1980's it simply meant "personal computer".

The thing about NASA's surface measurements is that they come from sparse temperature stations that are badly compromised by encroached urban heat islands, various other changes, and declining numbers, and the sea observations are way more sparse. Add to this that NASA has made "adjustments" to the data about ten times over the past 30 years and each time, of the six possibilities, they have always managed without fail to cool the past and warm the present.

This urban island effect is well known. This pushed some climate skeptics to do an independent reconstruction of the temperature history and their results match closely the existing reconstructions. So no. No conspiracy there.

If anything, in the last 50 years urban areas have reversed the previous trend and become more green, with more parks, bigger trees, reductions in paved area, etc. At very least, the onus on those relying on urban heat islands to explain the warming is to display particular data rather than handwaving vaguely. And as you say, in fact the hard data has been examined and does not support that.
Plus, the majority of the earth's surface does not happen to be urban. Or even land. And the warming is not by any means isolated or even concentrated in urban areas; in fact, the sea data overwhelmingly demonstrates warming.
Finally, from a more global perspective, the original post is one of those "in reality there is no warming" posts, so popular among rightwingers not that long ago, but today dismissed by them with a curt "Nobody is saying it isn't warming, but we disagree that humans are responsible". Denialists, denying the existence of other denialists.

The opening session speakers at The World Council of Science Journalists were Tim Hunt, representing Nobel Science, and Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook , Pulitzer Prize Journalism.

The biennial WCSJ conference is top-tier ---- legitimately "news for nerds."

The contrast between Matt Taylor and his guns and lace lingerie tee and the background shots of the women working the Philae landing can't have been far from anyone's mind.

The Royal Society, where Hunt is a fellow, issued a short statement entitled ''Science needs women.'' In it, it states that ''in order to achieve everything that it can, science needs to make the best use of the research capabilities of the entire population,'' and that it wanted to distance itself from Hunt's remarks. University College London, where Hunt had an honorary faculty position, announced his resignation by stating that ''UCL was the first university in England to admit women students on equal terms to men, and the university believes that this outcome [the resignation] is compatible with our commitment to gender equality.'' The American Association for the Advancement of Science pulled Hunt from a planned webinar in which he was scheduled to offer advice on ''persevering in science.''

Nobel Prize winner resigns a position after sexist comments publicized

The thing about NASA's surface measurements is that they come from sparse temperature stations that are badly compromised by encroached urban heat islands, various other changes, and declining numbers, and the sea observations are way more sparse. Add to this that NASA has made "adjustments" to the data about ten times over the past 30 years and each time, of the six possibilities, they have always managed without fail to cool the past and warm the present.

This urban island effect is well known. This pushed some climate skeptics to do an independent reconstruction of the temperature history and their results match closely the existing reconstructions. So no. No conspiracy there.

I guess you're not up on the latest news.

To be fair, in at least one case the NSA intercepted a Cisco router in transit and modified it. Even took pictures of the work (with obligatory obscuring of faces) but they didn't obscure the big bold CISCO logo on the box.

How do you think that made Cisco customers feel?

Look you mental midget, you don't seem to realise that iOS is the biggest games platform there is. All from treating games as just another category of apps.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...

"Booth Sweet" is not a player in this game...you seem to be thinking of Jason Sweet and Dan Booth, the lawyers who unraveled the finances of John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, and Paul Duffy.

How many people routinely check the source of their own web page through different connections to look for such injections? If some major US cell network or ISP did this, how likely they will be caught? Would https stop them from messing around with injections?

So long as the injector can't issue SSL certs that the user will trust, yes, https will stop such injections.

If the injector *can* issue SSL certs that the user will trust (e.g. the ISP requires users install their local CA, or they somehow have a global wildcard from a trusted CA), all bets are off -- the injector can impersonate and inject content into any https-secured site.

Not sure where you're coming from on this; how? Do you think the automated cars are going to be free/cheaper than existing taxi cabs and public transit? Or are you basing this claim on some rationale I have yet to consider?

"To those who say that self-driving cars have nothing to do with Google's core business selling ads, listen up: Google was just awarded a patent for an ad-powered taxi service. The patent, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, would allow advertisers to offer potential customers a free ride to their place of business. This would solve one of the biggest problems for brick-and-mortar retailers: getting customers to their location. The system would offer free or discounted transportation based on an algorithm-powered decision-making process involving the user's current location, the cost of transportation, and the potential profit from a completed sale. The concept is basically a "free ride coupon" and mentioned transportation modes like taxis, trains, buses, or even autonomous vehicles." http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

"Apple bashing"? How inarticulate and ultimately blindly supportive of a known repeat bad actor to keep their customers from controlling the iThings they buy. It's hardly far-fetched to see how the company receives bad press. They've made an ugly history for themselves rife with mistreating workers, users, and harming the environment. They found they could get away with non-freedom in software also exploits app developers "mercilessly" as Richard Stallman put it on his reasons why one shouldn't do business with Apple. Apple also uses digital restrictions management on eBooks which is set up so that those eBooks won't work on jailbroken iThings, stuck users with a U2 album and made it hard to delete, censors bitcoin apps for iThings, deauthorized a Wikileaks access application, banned an erotic novel from iTunes because of its cover, left a security hole in iTunes unfixed for 3 years, and more.

Can Mr. Lee fly around the world delivering lectures on free software?

That depends on how long until a game's publisher makes the news for using copyright to stop "public performances" by a league that the publisher doesn't like. An article by Kyle Orland mentions that Nintendo has already shut down Smash Bros. tournaments, and Capcom routinely requires royalty payments to hold Street Fighter tournaments. Once more publishers adopt that practice, e-sports leagues may have to move to developing games for distribution under a free software license.

10 years ago? Someone didn't get the memo.

And you might want to reread his post. Are you aware of the State of Tennessee stopping the rollout of municipal broadband. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... That's to his point. The people of Chattanooga want it but the state representatives are putting a stop to it because they carry water for the telecoms.

iOS had it too http://arstechnica.com/securit...

No matter how many times you repost that - not even remotely the same fucking thing. And that's ignoring the false claim of crashing the phone.

iOS had it too http://arstechnica.com/securit...

iOS had it too http://arstechnica.com/securit...

iOS had it too http://arstechnica.com/securit...

iOS had it too http://arstechnica.com/securit...

At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers.

2. The reference by Fyodor that even if Sourceforge still isn't bundling anything on nmap, the page is designed to mislead the users with fake download buttons:

"So far they seem to be providing just the official Nmap files (as long as you don't click on the fake download buttons) (...)

Below I repost the original submission so you can compare:

Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account

Gordon Lyon (better known as Fyodor, author of nmap and maintainer of the internet security resource sites insecure.org, nmap.org, seclists.org, and sectools.org) warns on the nmap development mailing list that the Sourceforge Nmap account was hijacked from him.

According to him the old Nmap project page (located at http://sourceforge.net/project..., screenshot) was changed to a blank page and its contents were moved to a new page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap.mirror/, screenshot) which controlled by sf-editor1 and sf-editor3, in pattern mirroring the much discussed the takeover of GIMP-Win page discussed last week on Ars Technica, IT World and eventually this week Slashdot.

That happens after Sourceforge promises to stop "presenting third party offers for unmaintained SourceForge projects. At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers."

To their credit Fyodor states that "So far they seem to be providing just the official Nmap files (as long as you don't click on the fake download buttons) and we haven't caught them trojaning Nmap the way they did with GIMP" but reiterates "that you should only download Nmap from our official SSL Nmap site: https://nmap.org/download.html"

Because /. editors seem to have inconvenient hollidays I'll just spam this topic with the bahaviour of their mother company:

From http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2...:

From: Fyodor
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 00:56:23 -0700

Hi Folks! You may have already read the recent news about Sourceforge.net
hijacking the GIMP project account to distribute adware/malware.
Previously GIMP used this Sourceforge account to distribute their Windows
installer, but they quit after Sourceforge started tricking users with fake
download buttons which lead to malware rather than GIMP. Then Sourceforge
took over GIMP's account and began distributing a trojan installer which
tries to trick users into installing various malware and adware before
actually installing GIMP. Of course this goes directly against Sourceforge
CEO Michael Schumacher's promise less than two years ago:

"we want to reassure you that we will NEVER bundle offers with any project
without the developers consent"
--http://sourceforge.net/blog/advertising-bundling-community-and-criticism/

So much for that promise! Anyway, the bad news is that Sourceforge has
also hijacked the Nmap account from me. The old Nmap project page is now
blank:

http://sourceforge.net/project...

Meanwhile they have moved all the Nmap content to their new page which only
they control:

http://sourceforge.net/project...

You can see at the top that the owners of the Nmap page are now
'sf-editor1', and 'sf-editor3'. You can click on those to see other
projects they have hijacked.

So far they seem to be providing just the official Nmap files (as long as
you don't click on the fake download buttons) and we haven't caught them
trojaning Nmap the way they did with GIMP. But we certainly don't trust
them one bit! Sourceforge is pulling the same scheme that CNet
Download.com tried back when they started circling the drain:

http://insecure.org/news/downl...

We will ask Sourceforge to remove the hijacked Nmap page, but more
importantly we want to reiterate that you should only download Nmap from
our official SSL Nmap site:

https://nmap.org/download.html

If you don't trust SSL by itself (and we don't blame you), you can also
check the GPG signatures: https://nmap.org/book/install....

Cheers,
Fyodor

PS: Ars Technica has a good article about the Sourceforge/GIMP fiasco:
http://arstechnica.com/?p=6734...

PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the
developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before.

Let it be noted early and often that Slashdot's sister site, Sourceforge, likes to impact your system with maleware so they can profit from it.

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

New boss, same as the old boss...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

It all hinges on the circle jerks agreeing with each other, which they have always done.
Nothing new, and one wonders what the "telecoms" are doing with the metadata.

SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

The GIMP developers aren't happy at all about this. They say that Sourceforge impersonated the GIMP developers, and abused the trademarks owned by the GNOME foundation.

https://mail.gnome.org/archive...

SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.

Link to original source
The GIMP developers aren't happy at all about this. They say that Sourceforge impersonated the GIMP developers, and abused the trademarks owned by the GNOME foundation

A lot of this type of process is SOP for pretty much any safety-critical real-time embedded software. The companies that design flight software for airplanes around the world follow a process that is not entirely unlike NASA's process. Because lives are at stake there too. Similar standards are applied to medical equipment as well, for much the same reason.

I have heard otherwise about some classes of medical devices. I think of the embedded type.

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

There was a story recently where a device or class of devices listened on Telnet ports, but I can't seem to find a link.

Of course, there's the famous case(s) of the radiation overdoses from faulty UI implementations, etc.

What type of medical devices are you referring to?

A lot of this type of process is SOP for pretty much any safety-critical real-time embedded software. The companies that design flight software for airplanes around the world follow a process that is not entirely unlike NASA's process. Because lives are at stake there too. Similar standards are applied to medical equipment as well, for much the same reason.

I have heard otherwise about some classes of medical devices. I think of the embedded type.

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

There was a story recently where a device or class of devices listened on Telnet ports, but I can't seem to find a link.

Of course, there's the famous case(s) of the radiation overdoses from faulty UI implementations, etc.

What type of medical devices are you referring to?

SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.

Link to original source
The GIMP developers aren't happy at all about this. They say that Sourceforge impersonated the GIMP developers, and abused the trademarks owned by the GNOME foundation.

It's not just the government spooks who want to spy on you. Look at what Slashdot Media-owned SourceForge has been up to:

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

Also, scroll through the Slashdot Firehose. You'll see a lot of submissions on this topic over the past few days, all voted up to the highest level, yet nothing has appeared on the front page.

No, it's not the same story. The story now is about what Sourceforge did after that (i.e., locking the GIMP-for-Windows developer out of his account -- despite the fact that he had not "abandoned" it as Sourceforge claimed -- and distributing the crapware-bundled installer anyway).

Before the sentence was handed down, the court heard from two parents of young men who died from drugs purchased on the Silk Road.

''You don't fit a typical criminal profile,'' she began. ''It's not TV or the movies in here. You're educated. You've got two degrees, an intact family, and 98 people willing to write letters on your behalf. And yet, we have you. And you are a criminal.''

Ulbricht had been betrayed by his own words, and over the next several minutes, Forrest proceeded to read the most damning passages from his own logs and journals.

'It's still not clear to me why you kept a journal,'' she noted, an aside that apparently produced laughter in the overflow room.

''You were captain of the ship. It wasn't a world of 'freedom'---it was a place with a lot of rules. It was a world of your laws.''

''It was a carefully planned life's work,'' she said, pointing to a 2010 journal entry saying he'd already been thinking about the site for a year. ''It was your opus. You wanted it to be your legacy---and it is.''

Ulbricht's ideological messages on Silk Road boards ''reveal a kind of arrogance,'' she said. ''Silk Road's creation shows that you thought you were better than the laws.''

As for the ''harm reduction'' arguments, the judge could not have been more cutting. She read every academic study suggested by the defense, and then some, and was not impressed.

''No drug dealer from Harlem or the Bronx would have made these arguments,'' said Forrest. ''It's an argument of privilege.''

Ulbricht was focused on harm that could come the user. But most drug violence didn't come from buys on the street, but from ''upstream'' violence that grows as demand grows, she asserted. Believing that the user is the only person affected by drug violence is ''f'antasy, it's magical thinking,'' she said.

As for Fernando Caudevilla, or ''Doctor X,'' the Spanish doctor hired by Ulbricht to give advice to users, the judge read his messages, and found them ''breathtakingly irresponsible.''

Caudevilla told a diabetic that using MDMA would be OK, as long as he remembered to check his glucose levels by setting an alarm. In another message, he advised an 18-year-old first time drug user to ''be careful and I think you'll be fine,'' and to ''stick to psychedelics.''

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal? Oh, yeah, that's why. SHAME ON YOU DICE!

You've been spamming every single article today with a completely off topic comment. You're doing way more harm to your story's reputation than you are helping it - this belongs on a blog or something, not in the comments section of another story.

I wish I was professional ... no one wants to pay me. Certainly not Dice.


Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot? So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals! SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story

I know my friend...

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?
So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!
SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story

Why did Dice buy Slashdot? So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals! SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Memory around here is so short.

Apple had long called their programs "applications" while Windows used "Programs" and DOS used "executables".

Then came the iPhone with the "App Store" which Apple Trademarked, quickly everybody else started using the same term to ride on high consumer awareness of the term. Apple sued, and Amazon and finally gave up on it.

Since then "Apps" has become a widespread generic term, and Tim Cook cries a little inside every time he sees it used for non-Apple software.

./ --

Run this article, respond appropriately and this protest will be over. You're acticting like a manager/laywer-type person at Oracle. You can do better than this.

This is "the" scandal in tech right now, and you're actively supressing discusstion --

http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7477721&cid=49793333

Mod this up like all the other SF posts, please.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/

SourceForge grabs GIMP for Windows’ account, wraps installer in bundle-pushing adware

Looks like this is true (here's one of the story submissions, and the Ars acticle it links to). Shame on Slashdot for trying to hide this.

...talking about is this!!!

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

SLASHDOT. What the hell is your problem?

Did Ulbricht Pay a Hitman to Kill A Silkroad Employee?

A 'murder for hire' indictment was brought against Ulbricht but the prosecution declined to bring charges.

Indictments that aren't brought as charges infer nothing more than prosecutorial strategy, and it doesn't indicate the existence or not of a criminal action. Prosecutors typically have many more indictments than charges, and as the case proceeds they trade off indictments for the good of their case (e.g. plea bargains, shedding weaker parts, or simply the prosecutor merging indictments to bolster charges, as seems to be the case here).

The government say,

1. Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) was the operator of Silkroad, an illegal drug-related website.
2. DPR was Ulbricht which now no one disputes (even Ulbricht now admits it, now that he's lost the case),
3. The Silkroad DPR account wanted the murder of a Silkroad employee for $80k which no one disputes,
4. A DEA agent posed as a hitman
4. Someone paid $40k to the hitman before it was done,
5. A DEA agent posed as a hitman and received $40k.
6. The DEA Agent sent the DPR account doctored photos of a dead body. DPR was told the person was tortured to death, and responded "I'm pissed I had to kill him ... but what's done is done,I just can't believe he was so stupid. I just wish more people had some integrity",
7. Another $40k was paid immediately afterwards,
8. No one was actually murdered.
9. Ulbrichts recovered laptop had his journal with an April 6 entry that says "gave [Hells Angels] go ahead to find tony76," and "sent payment to angels for hit on tony76 and his 3 associates.", and finally
10. When Ulbricht was caught in the library his computer was logged into the adminstration page of Silkroad under the DPR account.
(source: 1, 2)

Then at trial the `murder for hire` wasn't brought as a charge, but it was allowed to be used to describe the character of Ulbricht.

Character witnesses, and character evidence is allowed in trials.

As Judge Forrest said "the prejudicial effect is reduced by the Government’s stipulation that no actual murders were carried out". Apparently the judge considered that prosecutors might be worried a jury in this landmark case might be convinced that Ulbricht was non-violent, detached from reality behind a computer, and that his operation was quite different to a conventional drug ring. The murder for hire charge was unnecessary, and it might be a better prosecutorial strategy to use the murder for hire to attack Ulbricht's character as a backdrop for all other charges, to brand him as a violent drug dealer.

Of course there's no visibility to the prosecutorial strategy process but that strategy seems possible, and so I don't think much of the fact that the murder for hire charges were dropped and instead used elsewhere.