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  1. A new threat against Linux users? on New Linux Trojan Can Spy on Users by Taking Screenshots and Recording Audio (drweb.com) · · Score: 1

    How does this Linux.Ekoms.1 trojan get onto the computer without the end user explicitly downloading and installing it.

  2. Unduly burdensome and not necessary .. on Apple Releases 2015 EEO-1 Diversity Data Over Weekend (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't the function of a commercial company to fix societies diversity issues. Apple is there to make money for the investors. People should get promoted depending on merit and not just to fill some quota.

  3. ISIS and other terrorist organizations .. on Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Since ISIS is largely a construct of US intelligence, I don't think they need a 'backdoor' into their information transmitted across the internet.

  4. Re:The GPL is too damn confusing. on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    What parts of the GPL don't you understand: GNU General Public License

    "All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met."

    "You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License."

    "You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program."

    "Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work, subject to this License. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties with this License."

    "Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."

  5. Adverse effects of GM crops found .. on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    "Pigs on the GM diet were 2.6 times more likely to get severe stomach inflammation than control pigs. Males were more strongly affected. While female pigs were 2.2 times more likely to get severe stomach inflammation when on the GM diet, males were 4 times more likely. These findings are both biologically significant and statistically significant." ref

  6. Linux could be replaced with BSD on AT&T Chooses Ubuntu Linux Instead of Microsoft Windows (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    @perpenso: "Linux could be replaced with BSD and few would care or notice"

    Android is the Linux kernel with a Java implementation running on top.

  7. Yes, A linux OS running enterprise applications in the cloud doesn't generate as much revenue as on the desktop.

  8. Linux webcam compromised .. on Cheap Web Cams Can Open Permanent, Difficult-To-Spot Backdoors Into Networks · · Score: 2

    "Limitations to this type of attack are obvious: attackers must be skilled enough to create a backdoored flash image, and find a way to deliver it to the device - either by "updating" an already deployed device, or by getting their hands on it before it's installed." ref

  9. Geoff Marcy was set up .. on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I read somewhere that the sexual harassment investigation was instigated by a fellow facility member at Berkeley. The head of some women's group who actively sought out students to make a complaint against Marcy. Yet another case of political correctness gone insane.

    "The 15 April 2011 complaint, the first in the documents, involves a witness report from someone who described Marcy rubbing the bare shoulder of a female undergraduate student"

    "On 18 March 2014, someone writing from outside Berkeley .. asked Oldham whether the university was doing all it could to address allegations involving sexual harassment of students by a faculty member" ref

    There is a concern that protecting the campus may be a higher priority than addressing the problemsref

  10. ChakraCore Contributor License Agreement .. on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    * I have sole ownership of intellectual property rights to my Submissions and I am not making Submissions in the course of work for my employer.

    * I am making Submissions in the course of work for my employer (or my employer has intellectual property rights in my Submissions by contract or applicable law). I have permission from my employer to make Submissions and enter into this Agreement on behalf of my employer.

    Copyright License. You grant Microsoft, and those who receive the Submission directly or indirectly from Microsoft, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license in the Submission to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute the Submission and such derivative works, and to sublicense any or all of the foregoing rights to third parties.

    Patent License. You grant Microsoft, and those who receive the Submissiondirectly or indirectly from Microsoft, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license under Your patent claims that are necessarily infringed by the Submission or the combination of the Submission with the Project to which it was Submitted to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell and import or otherwise dispose of the Submission alone or with the Project ..

    Notice to Microsoft. You agree to notify Microsoft in writing of any facts or circumstances of which You later become aware that would make Your representations in this Agreement inaccurate in any respect. ref

    ChakraCore Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

  11. Chakra: the GNU/Linux distribution .. on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Chakra not to be confused with Chakra, the GNU/Linux distribution: "Chakra is a GNU/Linux distribution with an emphasis on KDE and Qt technologies that focuses on simplicity from a technical standpoint and free software." ref

  12. Trojan launched from compromised websites .. on New Remote Access Trojan Used In Cyberespionage Operations (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Trojan launched from compromised websites and is only exploitable on Microsoft Windows.