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and here is the link http://pastebin.com/DwDJ0WW8

Full contract at http://pastebin.com/vec6vjv5/

Machinima lives of these kind of promotions (all Machinima affiliates get multiple offers per month)

The total cost for this promotion for Machinima is 3750$ (promotion ends when this CPM target is met)

It is likely Microsoft entered into a deal with Machinima to increase it's visibility and Machinima did the promotion on it's own (like it has done with a lot of brands before)

The problem is that they're trying to make the manufacture process cheaper in order to eek out a slightly higher profit. Plus, multitouch is increasing the amount of space necessary to devote to the touchkpad.

I really like the keyboard on my Thinkpad X201s, whose only isue is the Escape key being above the F1 rather than to the left of it, but at least it's at the upper-leftmost corner of the keyboard, so it was easy to adapt to (also, I mapped F1 to Esc in a lot of programs). The other problem with this laptop was the small touchpad. It supported multitouch, but it's tiny, measuring about two inches wide by one inch tall.

Clearing a row of keys obviously translates to increasing the vertical size of the touchpad. I get that, it just needs to be done more intelligently. The X1's touchkpad is about four rows of keys tall and has no buttons. The X201s's touchkpad, including keys, is about 3 1/3 rows tall. There are two rows of function keys up top which are each about two thirds of a row tall. Removing one of them solves the space problem to the millimeter. Don't get rid of those keys though! I think I could survive with that top (function) key row turned into a capacitive row the way the X1 does ... so long as there is still a normal Esc key on its far left (above the tilde, which is to the left of the digits).

How about:

• - Backspace must be the rightmost key on the digits row.
• - Esc must be the upper-leftmost key, one row above the digits' row.
• - Power is fine at the upper-rightmost key.
• - Also retain the standard positions for tilde (left of digits), CapsLk (under Tab).
• - The top row can remain "adaptive" as long as its end keys, Esc and Power, are real.
• - Give a non-multitouch middle-click option, either via emulation (right+left) or three spots at the touchpad's top.
• - Grow down instead of up:
  • - Bring back the numeric keypad's 0-9 and dot (default NumLk off) for 4 rows of arrows/numbers. This places PgUp/PgDn, Home/End, and Ins/Del.
  • - New buttons (like Fn and Compose) can go under each Alt key for easy thumb access
• - Fn is a hardware button, but if you add Compose, it's software (allow setting it as another bucky bit like Hyper or Option)

I've mocked this up and posted it in ascii art (mostly to scale) to pastebin at http://pastebin.com/sEECJKrh. If any laptop keyboard designers are reading this, it's free for you to use. I just want it to be used.

I remember that the site had some serious validation problems a while ago and 4chan had quite some fun skewing the ratio to 98% girls completing the Hour of Code. Sadly, someone noticed and rolled back most of the submissions. However, it looks like the vulnerability still hasn't been patched, so if anyone wants to have some fun promoting women in programming: http://pastebin.com/G95LMpK2

I made a little cheat sheet that is mostly a copy/paste from whatisdb, and somehow grouped the commands by theme. Comments are appreciated if you think something's missing. http://pastebin.com/yGmGiDQX

Yes, you can enable SSH on ESXi. There are also varying levels of support from third parties, most of which are easier to deal with than Microsoft.

Perhaps I should clarify what I mean when I say I'm a "Windows sysadmin"... For the past two years, I've been doing systems work with Windows. For the first year, it was mostly in a bog-standard admin capacity, but for the past year I've been working exclusively on a project in Windows Server 2012, using PowerShell heavily. I'm now in charge of maintaining and improving about 10k lines of PowerShell scripts.

Powershell is the second-worst language I've encountered in almost two decades of programming. Here's a few reasons why:

• It's supposedly all based around objects, but you can't natively define your own classes. You have to embed C# for that.
• The "pipeline" passes objects from one command to the next, but there is no standard for what semantics a passed object must support.
• Opaque objects can't easily be manipulated or constructed for debugging.
• Commands are loaded modularly, but there are no namespaces. Collisions are inevitable.
• No include-like functionality for scripts. You can import (with .) a modular script multiple times, but it'll run multiple times.
• Multiple overlapping APIs. In addition to the PowerShell native commands, there are interfaces to .NET, WMI, COM, and command-line executables, any one of which may be the expected (or only) way to accomplish a given task, and of course the available features change with every revision of Windows.
• Context-sensitive errors. Assign several kinds of Get-* results to variables, and you can check that variable safely in an IF condition. Checking the Get-* directly in the condition will throw an error if the Get-* operation returns an empty set.
• Moving to an inner scope is copy-on-write.
• Far too much boilerplate to declare constants (38 characters) or globals (27 characters).
• Symbol aliases like "%" and "?" are not obvious when reading old code, and text aliases are also rarely intuitive unless you use them frequently.
• No cross-platform support whatsoever.
• Incomplete support in older OS versions, and no upgrades.
• No unified documentation (due mainly to aforementioned modularity hell and split APIs)
• Whitespace sensitive.
• No native support for test-driven development.
• No support for multiple entry points.
• Worse multithreading support than Perl.
• Little control over command output. Either you nitpick each command to accommodate its error, warning, and output streams, or you change the global error-handling variables
• As with all Microsoft products, absolutely no guarantee of support beyond the current version. As soon as Microsoft decides that SuperShell is the next big thing, PowerShell will go join other abandoned systems like COM, WSH, and VBScript.

My theory is that PowerShell started as a way to tack .NET support onto batch files, but then some brain-dead executive thought it'd be a suitable competitor to Bash, so they had to add pipes, but it's just gotta use objects, because Windows is all about the objects! Then somebody actually tried to use it for something productive, and realized it was still limited, so they added half-assed module support so it could be more useful later. Executives saw the progress, and declared that it had to be integrated into all the new 2012 stuff, so that meant that each team had to figure out their own way to make PowerShell make sense. Of course, in typical Microsoft fashion, nobody thought to look over a

So write a dumb little 10-liner to generate potentially-failing option combinations, with any luck it's just one or two of the ones enabled by the next level up from the lowest working `-On`.

Snowden has offered to help Brazil investigate US intelligence. Is that the patriotism you were referring to?

He offered to help "wherever lawful and appropriate" -- Do you have have a problem with lawful and appropriate actions? Are you advocating that Snowden do something to violate the law?

http://pastebin.com/3YaRWXFs

This was the actual text from Clayton Utz, the law firm acting for the Australian Department of Defence: "“The reason we believe your claim will fail is because you allege that the Commonwealth owes innovators submitting products or technology for evaluation a duty of care to ensure that the evaluations are either fair, proper and accurate or that the confidential information is respected. There is no such duty of care in Australian law.”

They are very disingenuous: The DSTO publicly solicits businesses to submit inventions to Defence under the "DSTO CTD Capability and Technology Demonstrator Program", and then screw them over behind closed doors.

Here the Defence Science Minister Warren Snowdon announced a DSTO Probity Board "to protect against conflict of interest" http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/news/6648/, while here he sends a letter to an independent MP in which he falsely claims the whistleblower didn't want the thefts from other companies to be investigated(!): http://victimsofdsto.com/doc/2011-02-28%20Letter%20from%20Defence%20Science%20Minister%20with%20false%20information%20to%20Independent%20MP%20(NAMES%20BLACKED%20OUT).pdf

Australia's Federal Police force, the AFP, are systemically corrupt. They ignore public service crime http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service-keeps-fraud-cases-private-20110923-1kpdr.html and terrorise whistleblowers: http://pastebin.com/tD8Vd6Vd http://victimsofdsto.com/psc/#kessing

You can't use the civil courts: Under the Model Litigant Policy the Australian government has to keep legal costs to a minimum, must offer alternate dispute resolution, etc. But the government lawyers simply ignore it, run up huge legal bills and threaten to bankrupt you with a costs order if you dare step foot into court. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/gillard-government-lashed-for-ignoring-breaches-of-model-litigant-rules/story-e6frg97x-1226325228917 Another department did actually bankrupt a guy. Not mentioned in the article, the DSTO also stole IP from some big defence companies (including an American one).

It costs about $2M to litigate the gov. I don't know of a single company who has seen litigation through: SMEs can't afford it, and the large companies said litigating their biggest customer would lose future contracts. The only law firms capable of taking on the government pro bono in Australia are all on retainer to them! Here's a very good book "Our Corrupt Legal System" by an investigative crime journalist; Page 157- describes all the dirty tricks lawyers play: http://netk.net.au/Whitton/OCLS.pdf . play.

Jeremy Hammond, Sabu, and the Intelligence-Industrial Complex

Targets supplied by FBI to Jeremy Hammond

HTTPS is completely pointless when it comes to stopping spies. Even the Iranian government was able to snoop on gmail communications thanks to compromised root certificates.. While the Iranians had to actually compromise a CA, the US could just coerce a US based CA into cooperating without anyone else ever hearing about it.

I'm not up on my Audio Engineering, so excuse me if this question is recockulous, but since mic / speakers basically work on the same principles, is there any chance that its theoretically possible they are transmitting ultrasonic with the mic and receiving on the speakers!?

No. The input and output circuit amplifiers are arranged to only allow signal flow in one direction.

FYI, amplifiers can be arranged to allow 2 way signal flow (aka "full duplex") over a 2 wire connection. An example is a basic, landline telephone. You can demo this with 2 basic, landline phones, 2 phone jacks and a 9V battery. Connect the red wire from one jack to the red wire from the other, then both to + on the battery. Likewise, the green wires to - on the battery. Then with an assistant, each of you pick up one of the 2 handsets. You will be able to talk and hear each other over the 2 wire connection between the phones.

Over simplified diagram: http://pastebin.com/hQN58jDd - Download and save with the extension ".svg" then open file with Firefox, Chrome or Opera to view it.

Here we have a struct 100 bytes in size. However, st.a is not a pointer.

Where? Of course st.a is a pointer.... there are rules in C of pointer-array interchangeability.

st.a has type uint_t [100]. And sizeof both of those is the same.

&st.a has type uint_t (*)[100]

Just try it.... http://pastebin.com/7an0MS9g

.... Now what's really funny are two-dimensional arrays.

Remember: when you are defining an array of two dimensions dynamically, there are two completely different approaches.

1. List of pointers technique

int **Array = malloc(sizeof(int*) * OuterMax);

And 2. Built-in array type

Both result in the a[i][j] notation.

Both are structured completely differently.

Hilarity ensues, when a programmer accidentally forgets which type of 2D array it is, and tries to resize (a[i]); or bcopy/memcpy on 'a' in an array created using the list-of-pointers technique

[Post on slashdot instead]

How hard would it be to write a program to find vulnerable boxes and force a patch via the exploit?

From a strictly technical perspective, this particular vulnerability is in fact not hard at all to exploit and deliver a fix. diff: http://pastebin.com/aWCwdnhL We didn't actually make such a tool but VERT did discuss the possibility.

Ten ways to make NSA spying popular with Americans

This is relevant as well:

Anonymous claims link between iPhone 5S TouchID and US gov biometric database

http://www.itproportal.com/2013/10/01/anonymous-claims-link-between-iphone-5s-touchid-and-us-gov-biometric-database/

anonymous PasteBin with details:

http://pastebin.com/cmHs2VBn

In a nutshell:

3. It may be immaterial whether or not Apple's scanner is easily hackable and whether or not the NSA will have direct access to fingerprints granted to it by Apple and the FISA Court. Multiple industry leaders indicate that the real reason why the Intelligence Community was so keen on Apple launching AuthenTec’s biometric technology is because anything Apple touches automatically becomes über cool. Other biometric corporations are wetting themselves with delight.

Shortly on the heels of this news suddenly we see this Mastercard/FIDO article.

And, because nobody asked for it, but I might as well while I'm playing, re-skinned the comments section to look a little more familiar. Stylish preset is now on pastebin.

The hacker uploaded a load of email correspondence for several security contractors to pastebin, their wives and a colonel or two. it is being taken offline as fast as it is being distributed... it certainly does look damning evidence. Is anybody surprised given that we know Syria has been on the chopping block ever since "The New American Century" was published...

According to IGP/PGI Billing its not. as per the refund request I sent them, and this email I received: http://pastebin.com/89jGXvFg

Here's a link to the crasher string in question:

here

(warning: will crash Safari on OS X 10.8. Firefox doesn't crash.)

Fixed the link and...
It's just a mash of Arabic? Wow, that's anticlimactic. I was expecting something to actually employ the weird characters, but Apple has left itself vulnerable to random plaintext in a foreign character set.

So, let's pretend for a moment that banning foul language isn't completely ridiculous, but a worthy goal from Russian government. There's still a practical problem... how?

First of all, the censorsh... (oops, "child protection") department will need to monitor consistently all sites in the Russosphere, and maybe some in the Anglosphere. Some of those won't reside in Russian Federation, and RF's gov asking the responsible countries' govs for info about the criminal swearing scum will at least result in a "lolshto" (lol, what?) from the other govs.

Second, does Mizulina really think this is feasible? How? Censors? Well, good luck, they would need all Russian tech-savvy population for that... (exactly the ones they want to control).

Filters? Hell, it's hard to make those for Latin-based languages, but almost impossible for Cyrillic-based ones! Let's say you ban a swear word in Russian (I would use examples, but /. filters all Cyrillic letters). They would need to filter the word itself, anny misspell (intentional or not), different transliterations to Latin, Volapük encoding (a leetspeak-like transliteration using Latin letters that resemble Cyrillic ones), plus, any tactics the internet use regardless of language to avoid filters (like writing pr0n, FML, phuck...).

To show the infeasibility of that, I used a three-letters swearing, khuj ("dick") as example. Just on top of my mind, I got twelve variations - you can bet any Russian native can bring a dozen more. (Here: http://pastebin.com/bcH2bg2S ).

Third and last: if they do manage to make a comprehensible list of swear words with all the variations, just imagine the amount of false positives on an international scale - like Russian gov annoying Brazilian one because someone wrote "curva" in a fucking blog! (just "curve" in Portuguese, but an acceptable transliteration for kurva ["whore"] in Russian).

Frankly... I'm not worried with this censorship being implemented at all, but rather, the intentions behind it.

Actually the source of information was an email that Apple sent out earlier today regarding the situation. I have an iOS developer license so I got the email.

Here's a pastebin dump: http://pastebin.com/4dCWge1s

There seems to be a lot of posters on Slashdot who do not get just how useful it is that HTTP is text based. I rarely ever need to look at the raw TCP dumps. With the prevalence of REST APIs these days, viewing TCP dumps is overkill. You could argue that REST is a fad and we should all go back to binary RPC protocols, but HTTP is very nice because it allows you to debug so easily. Other posters have mentioned this ease of debugging only to be countered by the binary is just as easy crowd, so I'll go further and provide a worked example.

I use the following code snippet to debug HTTP. It's not the best example of code, but I use it regularly and it works. With it, I can write up the HTTP request in any text editor and shove it up the network and have the response printed out to console for inspection. An example of a HTTP request is like so. This returns a response that's human readable.

It's all nice and human readable. Could I do the same with a raw TCP frame? Sure. I could download it to disk and fire up some viewer like wireshark. Text is far more convenient as I could view it right in my terminal.

There seems to be a lot of posters on Slashdot who do not get just how useful it is that HTTP is text based. I rarely ever need to look at the raw TCP dumps. With the prevalence of REST APIs these days, viewing TCP dumps is overkill. You could argue that REST is a fad and we should all go back to binary RPC protocols, but HTTP is very nice because it allows you to debug so easily. Other posters have mentioned this ease of debugging only to be countered by the binary is just as easy crowd, so I'll go further and provide a worked example.

I use the following code snippet to debug HTTP. It's not the best example of code, but I use it regularly and it works. With it, I can write up the HTTP request in any text editor and shove it up the network and have the response printed out to console for inspection. An example of a HTTP request is like so. This returns a response that's human readable.

It's all nice and human readable. Could I do the same with a raw TCP frame? Sure. I could download it to disk and fire up some viewer like wireshark. Text is far more convenient as I could view it right in my terminal.

There seems to be a lot of posters on Slashdot who do not get just how useful it is that HTTP is text based. I rarely ever need to look at the raw TCP dumps. With the prevalence of REST APIs these days, viewing TCP dumps is overkill. You could argue that REST is a fad and we should all go back to binary RPC protocols, but HTTP is very nice because it allows you to debug so easily. Other posters have mentioned this ease of debugging only to be countered by the binary is just as easy crowd, so I'll go further and provide a worked example.

I use the following code snippet to debug HTTP. It's not the best example of code, but I use it regularly and it works. With it, I can write up the HTTP request in any text editor and shove it up the network and have the response printed out to console for inspection. An example of a HTTP request is like so. This returns a response that's human readable.

It's all nice and human readable. Could I do the same with a raw TCP frame? Sure. I could download it to disk and fire up some viewer like wireshark. Text is far more convenient as I could view it right in my terminal.

Cute, but when gun owner lists were leaked. And that data was used by criminals to target homes for firearms. Some folks argue this is justification to not allow government entities to gather such information in the first place. All it takes is one activist to leak it.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/journal-news-gun-map-might-have-caused-burglary.html http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/second-home-identified-on-journal-news-gun-map-is-burglarized-vandals-steal-gun-safe/ http://pastebin.com/DjU5Km6q

Problem with crowdsourcing is lack of accountability. Suppose I dislike a person and want their house broken into. What would stop me from tagging them as a "dangerous gun owner", that is gone from 7:30AM to 5:30 Monday through Friday, SSN is 123-45-6789, driving such and such a car, no alarm system or dogs, and is regularly visited by XYZ Pool Company which would not raise suspicion? Would UCSD Lecturer Brett Stallbaum mind if he was added to his own list with that sort of information?

This is obviously not about dangerous objects or their owners. It's entirely ideological, and intent on pressuring folks opposed to Mr Stallbaum's opinion on a particular issue. It is interesting that pro firearms activists have not released a responding app for homes of anti firearm activists, which would obviously be easy marks for criminals. Either anti firearm activists would be easily robbed, or embarrassed in public if they used firearms to embarrass themselves. While an easy, effective tactic, it's still obviously wrong, hasn't been done and likely would be denounced by pro firearm owners. Says volumes about the moralities involved, I suppose.

Then You introduced overheads due to "callbacks" TCP does vs. UDP.

These 'overheads' do not effect the resolution of blocked domains at all.

DNS DATA IS LARGER, adds more "moving parts" above the TCP/IP stack (& hosts are a tightly integrated part of that - no "extra moving parts" like DNS, required).

Still nothing compared to a hosts file that has every possible subdomain combination bruteforced, just to block a single domain.

Hosts take up MORE MEMORY than an entire DNS setup according to you? Ok - Have you ever SEEN the interior of a custom hosts file vs. that of the config files on DNS servers???? Hosts file data is SMALLER than DNS server files data & programs!

A few million lines in a hosts file to block a single domain because you have to bruteforce every single subdomain verses a tiny zone file.

Yeah, no. Hosts file is not smaller in this instance. I can see it being smaller in the cases where you want to block a very specific address like update.adobe.com, but certainly not when it comes to blocking entire malicious/unwanted domains.

How do you figure a SINGLE FILE takes up more space in memory OR ON DISK, than an entire setup of a DNS server?? You're losing it!

Bruteforcing millions of lines for every single possible combination a domain can have to block that domain is going to make the file really large. Compared to just the zone file I wrote above.

Your data for DNS config is STILL BIGGER than a single host file is - again: Have you ever SEEN the interior of a hosts file vs. that for DNS config files? DNS ones are bigger... not just in summation, but on their interior(s) & there are MORE THAN JUST 1 too for DNS!

In my examples, blocking entire domains with their subdomains etc. is smaller than hosts files and less intensive on the system to look up.

There is the added benefit that no IP address is returned, so the system doesn't even bother trying to connect to the address.

Americans should be concerned about the creeping Caste system in USA due to H1B/Immigrants from India.

Caste system is worse than terrorism.
It's a hidden apartheid and a slow poison that will destroy your economy.

Google "Companies ruined or almost ruined by Indians".
http://pastebin.com/Uk7Y2dnZ

Americans should be concerned about the creeping Caste system in USA due to H1B/Immigrants from India.

Caste system is worse than terrorism. It's a hidden apartheid and a slow poison that will destroy your economy.

Google "Companies ruined or almost ruined by Indians".
http://pastebin.com/Uk7Y2dnZ

http://pastebin.com/NTJvUZdJ

Deleted Article by The Guardian

Original Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/european-private-data-america
Now redirecting to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/info/2013/jun/30/taken-down

===

Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America

Germany 'among countries offering intelligence' according to new claims by former US defence analyst

At least six European Union countries in addition to Britain have been colluding with the US over the mass harvesting of personal communications data,
according to a former contractor to America's National Security Agency, who said the public should not be "kept in the dark".

Wayne Madsen, a former US navy lieutenant who first worked for the NSA in 1985 and over the next 12 years held several sensitive positions within the
agency, names Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain and Italy as having secret deals with the US.

Madsen said the countries had "formal second and third party status" under signal intelligence (sigint) agreements that compels them to hand
over data, including mobile phone and internet information to the NSA if requested.

Under international intelligence agreements, confirmed by declassified documents, nations are categorised by the US according to their trust level. The US
is first party while the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoy second party relationships. Germany and France have third party relationships.

In an interview published last night on the PrivacySurgeon.org blog, Madsen, who has been attacked for holding controversial views on espionage issues,
said he had decided to speak out after becoming concerned about the "half story" told by EU politicians regarding the extent of the NSA's
activities in Europe.

He said that under the agreements, which were drawn up after the second world war, the "NSA gets the lion's share" of the sigint
"take". In return, the third parties to the NSA agreements received "highly sanitised intelligence".

Madsen said he was alarmed at the "sanctimonious outcry" of political leaders who were "feigning shock" about the spying operations
while staying silent about their own arrangements with the US, and was particularly concerned that senior German politicians had accused the UK of spying
when their country had a similar third-party deal with the NSA.

Although the level of co-operation provided by other European countries to the NSA is not on the same scale as that provided by the UK, the allegations are
potentially embarrassing.

"I can't understand how Angela Merkel can keep a straight face, demanding assurances from [Barack] Obama and the UK while Germany has entered into
those exact relationships," Madsen said.

The Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Ludford, a senior member of the European parliament's civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee, said
Madsen's allegations confirmed that the entire system for monitoring data intercept

While systemd takes a drastically different approach to initialization than upstart, the similarities between mir and wayland far outweigh their differences, and most of the stated reasons for not adopting wayland seem based on misunderstanding rather than significant issues with the architecture.

Perhaps mir will be a winning move for Canonical. Perhaps it will even be adopted outside Ubuntu. I wouldn't bet on it.

May be, but it got annoying with time and even for me prone to occasionally click the first link, so Greasemonkey script to clean google search results ad crap.

Now not only the annoying adds are gone, but also all lateral adds are nuked.

I wrote up a plain text summary, from the /. submission, and personalized it a bit so, if you want to copy / paste and sign it and email it to your reps, senators and Obama you can grab it from here: http://pastebin.com/VvHbTaZ8

Find your reps and links to their contact info with your zip code here: http://app.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/

If you're too apathetic to think it can make any difference no need to reply. Thanks much!

I would like to install a webcam in your house then so we can all watch what you do 24/7.

Along with your social security number, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers and address.

Oh, what's that? You don't want that? That's what privacy is. Keeping info from going where you don't want.

http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5

You went anon for a good reason, and if you want to know why read that.

After doing a bit more research, I'd say your concerns about swappable batteries and extra weight are unfounded or overblown.

Here's some curb weight data - http://pastebin.com/GXJKTYYJ ( the Slashdot filter wouldn't accept this )

Looking at that list, it's unreasonable to conclude that making a swap-capable car imposes some unreasonable weight restriction since Renault has already done so for an apparent weight penalty of about 3%.
Unless you plan to argue that they could have installed a similar sized battery & motor into the Fluence chassis with no penalty over the petrol version - in which case the Leaf and the Zoe's curb weights are perplexing.

The Tesla Model S poses an interesting question, especially given Musk's recent cryptic tweet. Internet sources say that he's been hinting at battery swap since 2009 but in order for it to be practical for Model S / Model X, it would have to be already in the design since the Model S battery is basically the entire floor.
The other possibility is that he really means adding an Aluminum-air fuel cell but that's not rechargeable and the aluminum oxide would have to be disposed of or recycled by electrolysis - requiring LOTS of electricity.

600MHz Celeron UnixBench 4.1.0
Raspberry Pi 700MHz UnixBench 5.1.3
For Dhrystone 35% better performance per clock for the Pi and 23% better for the Celeron on the Whetstone. It also shows the Pi with an overall of 53% faster for the Pi (though much of this is due to I/O performance not directly related to the CPU).

Like the app is broken?

Ephemeral haemorrhage anyone?

http://pastebin.com/YCMHb9Vw

> So 20 million Yahoo user names are revealed. Why is that interesting at all?

This is almost as bad as the pin number leak the other week:

http://pastebin.com/2qbRKh3R

I've already changed my pin because of this; I guess a lot of Yahoo users will be changing their user names now.

Found this, seems legit:

http://pastebin.com/We3xgT4J

Won't help... FB is tracking people even when they're not signed up. So you'd also have to install stuff like NoScript (and and forbid any and all connections to FB domains...) and Ghostery to keep them from tracking you. Don't know whether or how I can post code here, so the code for ABE is here: http://pastebin.com/uAezZEh4

Slashdot devs seem in no hurry to fix this problem and it's been driving me nuts. So for anybody who values viewing at -1 and uses greasemonkey here's a Script. There's a chance of false positives and it's not the most optimized. But I value not having to scroll through > 10 paragraphs of APK, custom hosts files, or 'acceptable ads' spam.

Miss the pastebin link given above, did you?

http://pastebin.com/tUruZvCN

And now posted to Pastebin.com, because Slashdot can't handle awesomeness:
http://pastebin.com/tUruZvCN

I had to wait 6 minutes before I could post this, by the way. Slashdot told me:
"You must wait a little bit (6 minutes) before using this resource; please try again later."

I agree: she is highly hypocritical. Adria's work seems to be primarily in marketing, not technology, so she isn't exactly a poster girl for women in technology. And she is using sexual innuendo, unprofessional dress and gestures, and controversy over feminist causes as part of her image and work.

The Mysterious Death of Shannon Larratt and Encryption/Privacy/Deep-Dark-Web/

http://hpaste.org/raw/84300
http://pastebin.com/6yR0FTfp

Self-hosting solutions are available, will never get canned in this manner, and are highly customizable. But, of course, require a place to host it.

I've tried both Tiny Tiny RSS and RSSLounge before in an attempt to rid myself of the Google Reader addiction, but found them both lacking in some respects every time. Since Google Reader is disappearing though, I made a new attempt this morning.

RSSLounge seems to have been abandoned a year or two ago, but perhaps it was stable enough (RSS aggregation is not nuclear science).

Tiny Tiny RSS have some in my eyes quite horrible default settings, especially coming from Google Reader. The good news, however, is that it is configurable to mimic Google Reader quite closely. With some work with custom CSS rules it is quite close at a first glance.

My Tiny Tiny RSS configuration:

• Enable "Automatically expand articles in combined mode"
• Enable "Combined feed display"
• Long date format: "Y-m-d H:i"
• Short date format: "Y-m-d H:i"
• My custom RSS

Last time I installed it on Debian I ran into enough caveats that it led me to write a guide for others to install it, but since then it has been included in the unstable repository. To install it, some manual work was still needed, though:

• sudo aptitude install tt-rss libphp-simplepie #the second package is a correct dependency now, bug fixed very recently, so that should no longer be needed.
• sudo vi /usr/share/tt-rss/www/config.php #Enter server URL. I also set SINGLE_USER_MODE=true per preference.
• ln -s ../conf-available/50-tt-rss.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d #A bit weird by the Debian package to not put it directly in conf.d/
• sudo vi tt-rss.local #This was for my local configuration. Needed a entry for Apache to give access to a directory outside of DocumentRoot. I also locked it to localhost access per preference.
• sudo service apache2 reload
• sudo vi /etc/default/tt-rss #Set DISABLED=0 to be able to start the service.
• sudo service tt-rss start #Hopefully the aggregator will start fetching feeds.

Then go to http://localhost/tt-rss and start configuring. All subscriptions can be exported from Google Reader and imported in Tiny Tiny RSS, keeping dirctory structure intact.

I'll try to migrate fully to this solution now that Google apparently no longer wants my traffic :-) . I'd say I probably use Reader the most of all Google's services, including Search, Gmail, Youtube, etc., so the decision to can it is quite strange from my personal view.

Here is a rather long IRC discussion between the Wayland and a Mir developer(s) on why..

AFAI can tell, a year ago when Canocial/Ubutunu were deciding which way to go, they stopped believing that Wayland would mature into something that fits their grand plans. Instead of discussing these concerns with the wayland people, they decided to fork Android's graphic stack. (and thus be able to talk to all the ARM SoC blob drivers that support it).

So we're going to get one Unity/Mir/Ubuntu stack on everything from Phones to Desktops....

In the end none of their concerns about wayland turned out to be valid. Daniel Stone even has a compositor that does server-side buffer allocation and runs on said ARM SoC h/w. None of the insecure wayland input remarks on Mir's wiki are true, etc.. Not that it matters now, Ubuntu have already invested in Mir and will likely continue to do so; it will after all, being under their control, no doubt fit perfectly into their grand plans.

Just recently, FetLife – a well-known, large "social networking website that serves people interested in BDSM, fetishism, and kink" – had to make dramatic changes to their Content Guidelines, effectively banning all discussion on several fetishes (including poop play and incestuous relationships – or fantasies of such, possibly with an "ageplay" twist – between consenting adults, as well as all fantasizing on the themes of bestiality or necrophilia.)

This change was done to appease their Canadian payment processor who threatened them with fines for violating the Visa guidelines. Apparently there was something fishy going on with the first payment processor they used – possibly an attempt at scam of some type – but the second one they contacted turned them down as well, citing their fear for potential fines as the reason. So, having no good options left to them, they have now changed their Content Guidelines, which currently read as follows:

https://fetlife.com/fetlife/content_guidelines

You can find a more complete story about this on their website, in the FetLife Announcements discussion group, and especially in this post, but since reading it requires registration, here's a PasteBin copy.

This story is not directly related to Google, of course... but just goes on to show how the payment processors indeed have great power over defining which sexual fantasies and moral views are deemed "allowed" on the Internet and which are "thought crimes". If given this power, I fear they might not stop just to the (somewhat arbitrary) subjects of fantasy listed above, but there will be more in the future...

(FetLife is a free site for a casual user but accepts and encourages voluntary payments to keep the site running. Paying users get access to videos posted by other members. However, this is more of a way to make paying seem worthwhile; not the primary "purpose" of the site. FetLife is primarily based on the free social networking/contacts aspect and the discussions between the members: videos are only a side dish in the big picture.)