Is Samsung's privacy policy something similar to an un-birthday, in that it isn't - private that is. And what are the penalties for disabling such a feature?
@gstoddart: "The problem is there will be a whole bunch of people who will loudly proclaim that having penalties for corporations failing to protect this information is tantamount to socialism."
It isn't down to the corporations that our computing infrastructure is so insecure, but our own Governments. As in order to protect us they need to keep us under constant surveillance. Some of us might still be able to recall when the NSA helped Microsoft secure Skype. See also where your Bitlocker keys are stored safely in the Cloud. The socialist East German Stasi could only dream of such technology:)
"As Ulbricht's trial unfolded over the last month, one character appeared again and again in the chat logs prosecutors pulled from the laptop seized from Ulbricht at the time of his arrest: a man calling himself Variety Jones, and later, Cimon
" ref.
"A new multi-purpose Linux Trojan that opens a backdoor on the target machine and can make it participate in DDoS attacks has been discovered and analyzed by Dr. Web researchers.
How does the 'Trojan' get onto the target machines?
"To spread the new Linux backdoor, dubbed Linux.BackDoor.Xnote.1, criminals mount a brute force attack to establish an SSL connection with a target machine.. The malware will only be installed in a system if it has been launched with superuser (root) privileges".
For fucks-sake slashdot, remember when this was a serious technology mag, instead of providing free adverts to some AV company.
"Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser! link
"Utah, the first state to reach out to Intuit, issued a notice Thursday saying the state tax commission has discovered 28 fraud attempts that "originate from data compromised through a third-party commercial tax preparation software process," as well as 8,000 returns flagged as potentially fraudulent."
@ItsJustAPseudonym: 'This phrase "undoing the interactions" is vague.'
The whole article is vague. They appear to be using a variant of 16QAM to create a super-channel, consisting of different frequencies channels, transmitting this and demodulating at the receiver, thereby eliminating cross-channel interference, which would occur if they transmitted each channel independently. They appear to be using a back-channel ("virtual digital journey" wha ?) to actively detect and send error-correction information back along the transmission path.
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"The UCL research.. has the potential to reduce the costs of long-distance optical fiber communications as signals wouldn't need to be electronically boosted during their journey, which is important when the cables are buried underground or at the bottom of the ocean."
Well, DOH !!!!
.NET is NOT “Open Source” as it cannot be forked and is patent encumbered. The whole project is a nothing more than a Microsoft marketing excercise, getting.NET and "open source" quoted in the technical press.
It's called push-polling depending on how the question was phrased.. A more relevant question would be - why does the government need to spy on its own people in order to protect then from the 'terrorists'?
"Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the government’s collection of telephone and internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts?" Poll Data
@Anonymous Ribbon Supporter: "This post was modded funny but I am not sure whether the poster was joking or not. The Slashdot groupthink mandates that everybody hate the ribbon interface, but you do realize that there are some people in the world who do not automagically subscribe to it, don't you?"
It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous..
Define 'native UI conventions' and give examples where the LibreOffice breaks them and if you're talking about the 'Office ribbon', then no one likes it, it makes simple tasks more complicated and is totally non-intuitive...
@Anonymous: "How come such a relatively simple files - something that essentially plays media content - continues to be such a hot-bed of vulnerabilities. And not just bugs, but zero-day exploits too."
These are not vulnerabilities in Adobe's plug-in, these are defects in the underlying platform, the name of which must never be mentioned on slashdot.
"Power and simplicity, expressiveness and readability, great for learning and for professional development alike, these are some of the traits of today's Object Pascal."
"A tool for all trades, with compilers and development tools, embracing the mobile era, A language ready for the future, but with solid roots in the past.", (Marco Cantù, 2014)
link
"On May 22, 1886.. Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for Alexander Graham Bell to award Bell the patent for the telephone over a rival inventor, Elisha Gray, who'd filed a patent document on the same day as Bell in 1876." ref
"In a previous post I presented the AR-Rift, a low-cost immersive video see-through AR head-mounted display based on the Oculus Rift DK1 and consumer cameras. Technology affording similar experiences will begin to emerge at a consumer level in the coming years."
"Most recently, Microsoft brought new memory defenses to the browser, loading Internet Explorer with two new protections called Heap Isolation and Delayed Free.. last week.. Jared DeMott successfully demonstrated a bypass for both"
This won't happen as so much of Internet Explorer code is mixed-in with the help sub-system, Microsoft Office or embedded in the Operating System. That's why Internet Explorer won't run on anything else except Microsoft Windows.
"Belfiore also showed a new notification center for Windows, which puts a user's notifications in an Action Center menu that can appear along the right side, similar to how notifications work in Apple OS X"
Slashdot Mirror
Is Samsung's privacy policy something similar to an un-birthday, in that it isn't - private that is. And what are the penalties for disabling such a feature?
@gstoddart: "The problem is there will be a whole bunch of people who will loudly proclaim that having penalties for corporations failing to protect this information is tantamount to socialism."
:)
It isn't down to the corporations that our computing infrastructure is so insecure, but our own Governments. As in order to protect us they need to keep us under constant surveillance. Some of us might still be able to recall when the NSA helped Microsoft secure Skype. See also where your Bitlocker keys are stored safely in the Cloud. The socialist East German Stasi could only dream of such technology
"As Ulbricht's trial unfolded over the last month, one character appeared again and again in the chat logs prosecutors pulled from the laptop seized from Ulbricht at the time of his arrest: a man calling himself Variety Jones, and later, Cimon " ref.
"A new multi-purpose Linux Trojan that opens a backdoor on the target machine and can make it participate in DDoS attacks has been discovered and analyzed by Dr. Web researchers.
.. The malware will only be installed in a system if it has been launched with superuser (root) privileges".
How does the 'Trojan' get onto the target machines?
"To spread the new Linux backdoor, dubbed Linux.BackDoor.Xnote.1, criminals mount a brute force attack to establish an SSL connection with a target machine
For fucks-sake slashdot, remember when this was a serious technology mag, instead of providing free adverts to some AV company.
"Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser! link
"Utah, the first state to reach out to Intuit, issued a notice Thursday saying the state tax commission has discovered 28 fraud attempts that "originate from data compromised through a third-party commercial tax preparation software process," as well as 8,000 returns flagged as potentially fraudulent."
@ItsJustAPseudonym: 'This phrase "undoing the interactions" is vague.'
.. has the potential to reduce the costs of long-distance optical fiber communications as signals wouldn't need to be electronically boosted during their journey, which is important when the cables are buried underground or at the bottom of the ocean."
Well, DOH !!!!
The whole article is vague. They appear to be using a variant of 16QAM to create a super-channel, consisting of different frequencies channels, transmitting this and demodulating at the receiver, thereby eliminating cross-channel interference, which would occur if they transmitted each channel independently. They appear to be using a back-channel ("virtual digital journey" wha ?) to actively detect and send error-correction information back along the transmission path.
--
"The UCL research
.NET is NOT “Open Source” as it cannot be forked and is patent encumbered. The whole project is a nothing more than a Microsoft marketing excercise, getting .NET and "open source" quoted in the technical press.
It's called push-polling depending on how the question was phrased .. A more relevant question would be - why does the government need to spy on its own people in order to protect then from the 'terrorists'?
"Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the government’s collection of telephone and internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts?" Poll Data
"the use of leading questions to skew an opinion survey"
"one thing is clear: At least one person, and maybe more than one person, really doesn't like Comcast's customers"
More like one person doesn't like Comcast's managers and is passing it on to the customers.
Who finances this 'prominent environmental think tank'?
Oil and gas lobby sues EPA over biofuel mandate
CREW seeks EPA docs to uncover undue oil lobbying pressure
@tlhIngan: "Oracle updated Vbox with a new release just 2 weeks ago"
@Phoronix: 'The v4.3 series has been receiving some maintenance updates during the last two years, but that's about it.'
"VirtualBox 4.3.20 (released 2014-11-21) | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: ref
See the value of K-8 programming by watching an interview of a 9 year old!
How can I teach my child electronics with an Arduino kit?
@ArmoredDragon: "I've always found AMT useful. It's turned off by default, so I'm not sure how it's a security risk."
Either by accident or design, it allows for a backdoor into the system. I wouldn't be suprised it it didn't come with its own backdoor ref.
" Intel Active Management Technology: Known Vulnerabilities and Exploits"
:)
What is needed is another OOB security-sub-system to protect the Intel Active Management Technology from getting compromised
@Anonymous Ribbon Supporter: "This post was modded funny but I am not sure whether the poster was joking or not. The Slashdot groupthink mandates that everybody hate the ribbon interface, but you do realize that there are some people in the world who do not automagically subscribe to it, don't you?"
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It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous
@nine-times: 'One of my problems with LibreOffice (and OpenOffice, and some other FOSS apps) is that it doesn't fit with native UI conventions'
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I've sat people down in front of LibreOffice Writer - and they can't tell the difference. LibreOffice-Writer (1) A First Look
Define 'native UI conventions' and give examples where the LibreOffice breaks them and if you're talking about the 'Office ribbon', then no one likes it, it makes simple tasks more complicated and is totally non-intuitive
Dell Precision M6800 Workstation: Windows 7 Professional: £2,299
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Dell Precision M6800 Mobile Workstation: Red Hat Linux: £2,506
@Anonymous: "How come such a relatively simple files - something that essentially plays media content - continues to be such a hot-bed of vulnerabilities. And not just bugs, but zero-day exploits too."
These are not vulnerabilities in Adobe's plug-in, these are defects in the underlying platform, the name of which must never be mentioned on slashdot.
"Power and simplicity, expressiveness and readability, great for learning and for professional development alike, these are some of the traits of today's Object Pascal."
"A tool for all trades, with compilers and development tools, embracing the mobile era, A language ready for the future, but with solid roots in the past.", (Marco Cantù, 2014) link
"On May 22, 1886 .. Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for Alexander Graham Bell to award Bell the patent for the telephone over a rival inventor, Elisha Gray, who'd filed a patent document on the same day as Bell in 1876." ref
Bell's telephone sketch
Elisha Gray's sketch of a telephone
AR-Rift: Stereo camera rig and augmented reality showcase
What is Presence in Immersive Augmented Reality?
"In a previous post I presented the AR-Rift, a low-cost immersive video see-through AR head-mounted display based on the Oculus Rift DK1 and consumer cameras. Technology affording similar experiences will begin to emerge at a consumer level in the coming years."
"Most recently, Microsoft brought new memory defenses to the browser, loading Internet Explorer with two new protections called Heap Isolation and Delayed Free .. last week .. Jared DeMott successfully demonstrated a bypass for both"
ref.
This won't happen as so much of Internet Explorer code is mixed-in with the help sub-system, Microsoft Office or embedded in the Operating System. That's why Internet Explorer won't run on anything else except Microsoft Windows.
"Belfiore also showed a new notification center for Windows, which puts a user's notifications in an Action Center menu that can appear along the right side, similar to how notifications work in Apple OS X"
Yosemite's revamped Notification Center
Windows 10 Build 9860 - Notification Center, Animations, PC