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  1. Insurance? on WikiLeaks Cable: NASDAQ Folded To Chinese Pressure · · Score: 1

    I guess they're not in the 'Insurance' file because the password for that was leaked via the Guardian. And I think these files have been with Wikileaks since 2009 or before, so possibly those guys who split from Wikileaks have them too?

  2. What about the bank docs? on WikiLeaks Cable: NASDAQ Folded To Chinese Pressure · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Around the time the cables were released, Assange said Wikileaks were about to release a tranche of documents implicating a certain US bank in shenanigans. What happened to those?

  3. Plus a new Window Manager on Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2 · · Score: 2

    Agree, and he's done a great job with Cinnamon. I hope he doesn't suffer from burnout. Trying to do all that while doing the coding must be a lot of work!

    And as part of this latest release he's just forked Mutter - the fork is called Muffin. This for me is by far the most interesting aspect of this release.

  4. panopticlick on Ask Slashdot: Choosing Anonymous Proxies? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What degree of anonymity are you looking for? Exactly which of the HTTP request headers do you wish to be anonymized? Okay so your proxy is not passing on your IP address. So It's not passing on common proxy behaviours (like HTTP 1.0 requests). And there's no 'proxy' anywhere in the request. You're not even using TOR. Well done. Now check Panopticlick. You're not anonymous. Now exactly what kind of proxy where you looking for and what kind of anonymity were you looking for?

  5. "Authorities"? on NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The site operated from February 2008 until authorities shut it down in June 2010.

    Ninjavideo.net was among the first group of sites seized by ICE and their "authority" is questionable.

    Interestingly, ICE have not placed a redirect to their Youtube video yet on any of the Ninja* sites (see TVshack.cc for an example) so presumably the decision to steal/confiscate the site is still being contested by Matthew David Howard Smith or an associate.

  6. PowerVR? on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PowerVR drivers anyone?

  7. Re:Did they fire Asa? on Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox · · Score: 1

    Why 3.6, by the way? The current version (9, I think) is faster, uses less memory, and ...

    The last I used was 8 or 7. I was tempted to try it because of the promised dramatic reduction in memory use. I didn't find any reduction, plus I found some pages scrolled with lots of lag (I persisted for two or three weeks but it was just too painful). I tried version 4 too, along with many betas and release candidates - I used to monitor the latest alphas, betas and release candidates but I quit that when they started putting out betas for general release.

  8. Re:Oh no, it's Hugh... on Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/slash-stats/week

    Hugh Pickens: 9 this week from 18 submissions

    http://slashdot.org/slash-stats/month

    Hugh Pickens: 34 this month from 59 submissions

    theodp: 18 this month from 31 submissions

    smitty777: 18 this month from [less than 32] submissions

  9. Re:Did they fire Asa? on Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox · · Score: 1

    This is still reactive damage control to foolish arrogance by Asa "we don't give a crap about enterprises" Dotzler. That's what you get why you hire a fanboy to become the voice of your company.

    Indeed. Let me provide a link to go with your insight.

    By the way is the about box still showing the version number?, I'm still on 3.6.

  10. Re:Bad Timing on Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again · · Score: 1

    This seems like bad timing for me/other uk students. Most of us are going to be having exams during the period which it is set, e.g. the qualification round is 20th-23rd of January, and then i have 2 exams on the 24th and 26th of January so it looks like i won't be signing up for this.

    You Brits have got the GCHQ contest - you lucky buggers!

  11. HBGary? on Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    Meanwhile, the media effectively lionize groups like Anonymous by breathlessly reporting on their latest hacks,' writes Winkler.

    Well you've got to admit the HBGary hack, as reported by arstechnica, was pretty damn cool.

  12. Re:Or a fourth possiblility... on The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think) · · Score: 2

    Read TFA, this is a company that had just been bought out by Symantec. Quote: "I had already been sidelined ... it was a constant struggle for me to get the features I wanted in the product from a devteam I built. And a codebase I wrote, but no longer managed." - nobody is going to blame you in this situation.

  13. Re:You are the problem, a big one sadly. on The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think) · · Score: 4, Funny

    o <-- joke here

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    o <-- you here

  14. Code can be surprisingly complex ... on The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think) · · Score: 0

    ... I'd opened quite a few Wordpress scripts before I did anything beyond modifying lines in header.php, footer.php, index.php.

  15. And the existing providers? on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People who've invested their own time, money and effort into providing (and charging for) Wifi must be just thrilled that the council have given a private operator rights to erect equipment in public spaces right next to their premises that effectively kicks their product out of the market. Is the need for public Wifi that pressing that the council are being diverted from their normal duties like, you know, sweeping the streets?

  16. Re:Do something - When? on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    The only true solution will be point-to-point community networks. ( mainly neighborhood wifi mesh )Get rid, and get around, the need for a link to the 'public internet' except for perhaps your online banking and buying stuff from amazon.

    Oh great. And here we are in 2012 and only half the Linux distros I try can connect to a Windows XP ad-hoc network. I've never seen a demonstration of hetrogenous Linux distros connecting in a 'wifi mesh'.

  17. Re:Solar Powered Charger? on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 2

    Once charged, it will charge anything with a USB power plug from its internal battery.

    Anything? Remember it's Nokia we're talking about here. They were very slow in getting into the USB-charging game and even now their USB chargers require some kind of circuitry to negotiate the connection (like on the USB port of a laptop) - you can't just plug them into a dumb USB port.

  18. The real reason ... on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    This research was killed by several three-letter agencies who shiver at the prospect of people not actually carrying their phones ON THEIR PERSON. Those hellfire missiles aren't cheap and they want them to hit those nasty mujahadis when they're least expecting it - having the missile crash through the roof - not blowing the poor bugger's Nokia up while it's sitting on the porch and he's sitting in the outhouse.

  19. Horrible Flash interface - posting proper links on USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List · · Score: 2

    Don't make me load Flash then have to click twice to allow it store date on my machine please - I just want to read a document.

    Source is here: http://www.ustr.gov/node/6520 (pdf)

    Here's some Pastebin goodness: http://pastebin.com/Q5WzwXq0

  20. Re:Amnesty - No way on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 1

    23 November 2011, 27 September 2011, 31 July 2011, 17 February 2011 - my gawd they're being a proper pain in the backside over there aren't they? (Yes, sarcasm)

  21. Re:Amnesty - No way on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 1

    If this is all you can come up with against such a huge organization I think my money is very well spent.

    People who are being persecuted in Thailand might wonder how it's being spent: http://asiancorrespondent.com/42468/whats-the-point-of-amnesty-international-in-thailand/

  22. Re:we are all doomed! on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 1

    It's going to come back and smash into the earth in 2012.

    Quite possible as, quoting TFA:

    "There is still a possibility that Comet Lovejoy will start to fragment,"

    No telling which directions those pieces might fly off.

  23. Re:Amnesty - No way on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 1

    I've come to the conclusion that the best long term charity is Amnesty International. Sure, feeding the hungry saves more people in the short run, but I believe that democracy and freedom of speech is the only way to stop hunger and famine to return to the same areas again and again.

    No way. http://asiancorrespondent.com/49045/amnesty-international-and-the-us1-37million-pay-off/

  24. Re:Metrics suck on Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team? · · Score: 1

    I think the main thing the submitter can take away from that article is that you measure the availability of systems rather than trying to painstakingly log activities among the IT staff. What is considered 'optimal' is not covered in the previous story. You'd be working on something like: Internet access only being down 5 mins per day; email for 10 mins; each workstation only suffering 30 mins per month - or whatever. The most important stats probably won't be in your 'ticket management system' - the good news is that you can generate lots of juicy data automagically - Nagios.

  25. Re:Easy and Advanced on The Condescending UI · · Score: 2

    ... silly analogies ("Desktop", "Trash", Eject by dropping to trash) ...

    Icons for the trash bin, control panel, application shortcuts might be great. But the over-elaboration we see these days - eg calendar complete with torn page - is what the submitter is taking issue with.