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  1. Tip of the iceberg on Certificate Expiry Leads to Total Outage For Microsoft Azure Secured Storage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can't trust Microsoft for such kind of small but essential things, should you trust them with bigger ones?

  2. Plenty to cut on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And always at the neck. Putting the blame in the dot that is at the very tip of the iceberg makes simple people forget the 10% of it that is over the water, and normal people forget the 90% is below. If just gets considered the cost of starting wars (cyber and real world ones, even if they are disguised as humanitarian, or supporting rebels, or whatever), preserving the (corporate) order, or plainly stripping privacy/spying to all the world, including US citizens, would be evident where the real waste is.

  3. Re:Touchpad on Ubuntu Touch Port-a-Thon · · Score: 1

    Or Meego, Nitdroid and Ubuntu in my N9. But knowing the Maemo/Meego ecosystem, probably will be a compatibility layer to run unchanged binaries for Ubuntu in Meego. It eventually could exist for WebOS too.

  4. Re:working for million shuttleworth for free? no t on Ubuntu Touch Port-a-Thon · · Score: 1

    Ask Oracle regarding MySQL... you can always fork MySQL if you don't like Oracle direction, can you do that with Windows or OS/X? With open source you have the option.

    In fact, with the porting guide Ubuntu is giving to the community the control, they target is to bundle it with phones under their brand or companies that have an agreement with them. Port this to the devices you want, provided that had enough hardware support to run it. So far don't seem have ned connection to be tied to the company as Android do so if you want to do your own flavor probably the license will enable you to do it.

    Or just develop for it and the other ones that share the same ecosystem, Sailfish, Tizen, Mer, KDE Active Plasma, BB10, Meego and probably others use Qt/QML as base, develop for it and will probably work in all with minimal effort, without being tied to a single platform.

  5. Will be effective on Copyright Alert System To Launch Monday · · Score: 1

    The people with clue will not be affected, the people with not enough knowledge, in the other hand, will end being punished for doing things that they don't understand or see as possibly wrong, or even without doing anything, as being used as proxies or unsecure wifi access points.

    And considering what could be considered illegal this will be the perfect tool to put out of circulation inconvenient people or to push public opinion in the direction they want.

  6. Relevance on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    From the point of view of the robotic overlords, John Connor was a terrorist. Better that be good dodging drones and ex-governors.

  7. Re:sounds like a great mythbusters episode... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    The problem with 2 is semantic: who are the ones terrorizing civilians if someone in US (from a general to a field soldier) think that there could be terrorists in that zone, and that zone could be your entire country? So 2 maybe just "be the one that drives the drone".

  8. Re:so what? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That happened to someone with a loud voice that is not so easy to intimidate don't mean that it not happens all the time, with a lot of things (maybe not as expensive in absolute numbers, but could hurt even more to the victim), to people with not so loud or that are easier to intimidate in some way.

  9. Re:Like NK's nuclear program on Report: Windows Blue Reaches Its First Milestone Build · · Score: 2

    Rumors say that after the Windows 8 debacle, Ballmer don't throw chairs anymore, he took the game to the next level. Windows Blue will be (mushroom) cloud based.

  10. Re:Nokia Tablet on Ubuntu For Tablets Announced · · Score: 1

    Should be that way, but could be specific things even at the very bottom that could be different too, i.e. if something on the upper layer depends on certain kernel compile options, or not sure if the rest will support android device drivers directly as seem that Ubuntu will support (and if those are something more/different than usual linux device drivers/modules).

    And not forget that will be a lot of desktop environment specific programs, installing 2 will mean that you will be able to select from your installed apps a lot that won't work because are specific or part of the other desktop that will require more than just the libraries available.

  11. Re:only one outcome that was now possible. on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If didn't know about python, then the company wasn't about computers anyway, probably they assumed that computers were just fancy furniture.

  12. Re:Only a few billion years? on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1

    If will be that soon then Duke Nukem Forever 2.0 will never be released.

  13. Re:Nokia Tablet on Ubuntu For Tablets Announced · · Score: 2

    Nokia had back to 2005 a good Linux tablet already, and kept releasing improved versions of it till 2009. Then went into suicidal mode.

    The next one releasing a native linux tablet with WebOS was HP with the Touchpad, and then they got crazy too.

    Probably the best strategy for tablet manufacturers regarding Linux is to release them under some base, useful enough OS (i.e. Android) and let all drivers/boot/etc open enough to enable users to install on them the Linux flavor they want if need something better, be this Ubuntu, openWebOS, Mer, KDE Plasma Active or another.

  14. What about plastic bags? on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 0

    Could be a nocebo effect case? if enough people think that plastic bags are bad in a way they don't understand, and keep getting food on them, could became sick by their own. Seem to be happening to smokers

  15. Scope on Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? · · Score: 2

    Probably the target is something that can be done by you alone and resulting in something functional in short term, then kick it into open source (not sure if could be considered yours for the course if had major contributions from a community).

    A web app or a webservice to be used by a mobile app could be popular. Think in something in that categories that you could need (so you'll be your own client, knowing the requirements), and don't find in F/OSS (or what you found don't match your exact needs).

    Another alternative would be extending an existing open source program with a plugin or extension with a functionality that it don't have currently (it could be implemented already in alternative, maybe commercial, software) and you would like and understand (but must to be one that actually uses a database). CMSs and similar are good candidates for that.

  16. Re:Kissability? on Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution · · Score: 1

    When you was a baby, your mother passed you a good load of healthy bacterias while feeding you. And not sure if were just intestinal ones.

    Even later in life, kissing increases immunity and reduce allergies, probably because of that passed biodiversity. But with our generation addicted to antibacterial toothpastes and antibiotics, most that will be passed will be antibiotic/antibacterial resistant bacteries, good luck with that.

  17. Re:humans on Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution · · Score: 1

    We don't "evolve" or "are designed", if increased our odds to survive and procreate, then it probably is there. But is too close in time when we developed farming to make a difference in population, and for refined sugar diet, it even coincided with our increased lifespan because other factors, so won't become an evolutionary factor unless civilization falls and then refined sugar won't matter anyway (unless we improve our own genetic code, we are in the right moment for that).

    In the other hand, what can evolve to adapt to our new diet is our bacterial associates, and did, for the worse, as said the linked article. And we probably are adding more negative factors to that evolution with oral antibiotics and antibacterial toothpastes. If ever those bacterias had a positive action in our health (i.e. preprocessing food that we can't, or stopping others) we are making sure that it won't be there anymore, and whatever remains, will be hard to kill.

  18. Next toy to oversold on Amazon Sells Out Predator Drone Toy After Mocking Reviews · · Score: 1

    Missing (yet) in the Amazon catalog are puppets, in particular of judges, senators and other high government positions. They could use it in a (incoming) role playing game called Lobby, a bit much like Troika, but with puppets to give it more realism.

  19. Head in sand on Dutch MP Fined For Ethical Hacking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Make illegal to get warned that you are insecure and you will deserve being raped by unethical hackers. Is pretty much like suing the ones that could predict quakes, making sure that noone, ever, will warn you till is too late.

  20. Interesting times... on Russian Meteor Largest In a Century · · Score: 1

    ... will come when the top 0.1% realizes that as things are now, they could be wiped without warning, no matter where they are. Maybe this could convince a few of then in investing in something for everyone's benefit.

  21. Re:i could see it. on Ubuntu For Phones To Arrive Next Week On Nexus 4 · · Score: 2

    The interesting point there is that potentially could be installed in most actual android phones, at least the ones where cyanogenmod could be installed. Is not just one device, but a lot of them, available now, not in october. Would love to see it ported to the N9 (a phone designed for gestures), but probably Sailfish will win there, mostly because device drivers.

  22. Re:Unrelated to 2012 DA14? on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

    It was an attack that was supposed to strike at the hour of the other asteroid, so the government would be able to blame to it the event. Unfortunately, they used imperial time units instead of metric ones to coordinate the moment, and missed the right time by 16 hours.

  23. Re:Virtually or Literally? on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    It's broken by design anyway, why worry?

  24. Re:Great business model! on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    That business model goes to other industries too. We are a fertile field for memes like the music and stories from movies. And if we try to do what is in our nature to do, like spreading that meme in any way, we got sued or forced to buy the permission to use that meme from them.

  25. Creating an economy on The Malware Industrial Complex · · Score: 1

    Doing this they are promoting the creation of entire industries based on finding, and "renting" zero day vulnerabilities. Once you knew it, until it get fixed, you could eventually take more advantages from it, just maybe not in a public way. Its the way the corporate world works after all, in the end what matter is maximizing benefits. If somehow that finding gets filtered to people that uses it against US companies and individuals, would be an "uh, we got hacked", and shut up about the increase in your bank account or other benefits (like zero day vulnerabilties exchange, you get more to sell, and give to the other kind of wrong people that information).

    In the end, will benefit the government posture. Will be more attacks to both sides, from government to other countries, and from hackers in any place to US and the rest of the world, reason enough to claim that the other countries are the ones that are attacking and escalate to a more physical kind of war. There is no better emergency than the one that you created.

    Just remember this every time government representatives claim that they didnt start the fire.