Slashdot Mirror


User: Zombie+Ryushu

Zombie+Ryushu's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
670
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 670

  1. Battery Composition safety? on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm concerned that in some dodgy situations, the batteries could be carcinogenic, because the batteries might have Colbalt, or other dangerous heavy metals. This seems rather series in situations where the battery comes from a place where maybe the safety and environmental laws are not enforced? The danger from the battery leaking or exploding from over charge?

  2. Eliminate Cable Boxes Entirely. on Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Eliminate Cable Boxes Entirely. If you want Cable, it should be an entirely Clear QAM Affair with channels that make logical sense.

    The reason Cable boxes exist, is that when a cable came into being, TV was split between VHF and UHF. Cable was "more VHF Channels" that went beyond the number 13. You could tine 2-13 on any Analogue TV set. If you wanted 14 or higher, you needed a Cable ready TV, or a Cable Box.
    Then sometime in the 1990s, it became: Cable Boxes are the Gatekeepers to the Premium Channels.
    Now it's: Cable Boxes are required to access cable at all.

    The requirement should be clear. Universal Clear QAM. Flat Rate Neutral Pricing.

  3. I have Cerebral Palsy. on PlayStation Employee Designs Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy (9news.com.au) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have Cerebral Palsy. Have my entire life. I play Playstation. I sometimes have issues manipulating the controllers in certain ways. So, I'm happy to see this, I have always done better with Genesis style controls, and try and use a Mad Catz Fight Pad whenever possible.

  4. I use Linux, my WebCam Works on The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I use Linux, my WebCam Works. So does the LED. But there was a previous Kernel revision where the Camera LED did NOT turn on. This was fixed. If I wanted to be sure my Camera couldn't use used to spy. I either could tape it or unload the driver.

  5. XFA Should be a top priority. on Apache PDFBox Hits 2.0 (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    XFA Should be a top priority for the Poppler project and any other project that works with PDF Forms. Many government agencies rely on XFA to submit forms. Currently, the only instance of Acroread that supports XFA under Linux is Acroread 9.5.5; which Adobe has pulled from their download site and requires third parties to acquire. All Poppler based Adobe Acrobat readers, while some of them can use Acro Forms, they can't use XFA.

    I think that it should be the goal of the goal of the Open Source Community to either create or Acquire XFA ability by whatever means necessary.

  6. Like with SOPA and and PIPA on The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There needs to be massive outcry from Google to stop this. As well as Street Demonstrations.

  7. Linux can UEFI Boot on Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux can UEFI Boot with and without Secure Boot. With Secure Boot you have to be able to install keys or use a Grub Shim, but I have seen both Toshiba and HP Laptops boot Mageia and RedHat in UEFI and CSM modes.

  8. Thunderf00t found the problem. on Feds Say There Isn't A Single Safe 'Hoverboard' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Thunderf00t found the problem. These boards have a faulty kill switch on their charging system that prevents the batteries from overcharging, or falling below 1% of battery power. A large number of these boards can be over charged which makes them blow up like they do. This is a defect that should be resolved by a class action against the manufacturer, and a recall of the boards to have the charging system retrofitted and upgraded.

  9. Poppler project was supposed to work on XFA on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 1

    The Poppler Project, which both Okular and Evince use was supposed to start work on figuring out how XFA Worked years ago when adobe Dropped support for Acrobat 9.5.5 on Linux. They never completed their work. There was too little demand for it.

  10. Re:Adobe 9.5.5 and Linux on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a normal thing I've known about for ages. You can't download 9.5 from Adobe's site anymore, you need to get it from Suse, or Fedora's Repo.

  11. Adobe 9.5.5 and Linux on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    In order to get this working under Linux, you have to install the (Ancient) Adobe 9.5.5 Reader and its associated npppf module. Then it will work. I have alot of experience with this. While Okular, Evince, and XPDF can fill out forms, there is no support for submitting an XFA Form under anything other than the real Acrobat Reader.

  12. Re:Why do we allow this? on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Because to them, if Genesis is false, so is John 3:16, Evolution dissolves the contract of the religion. This is about preserving a cult in the face of facts pushing to the contrary. If Evolution is fact, their god, and its associated salvation is false.

  13. Play it, its good! on John Romero Creates New Doom Level (gamasutra.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Play it, its good! Play it with Brutal Doom V20B.

  14. OwnCloud and LibreOffice normally self contained on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    OwnCloud is usually self contained. Not out on the Public Internet. OwnCloud is a replication service that keeps Synchronization between different machines. It is a good stop-gap measure to address the LibreOffice Android issues.

  15. Re:Use OpenLDAP and Kerberos on Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? · · Score: 2

    OpenLDAP (and similar LDAP like Databases are meant for Authorization and Authentication functions. They can use ACLs and are better designed for this use, and th ACLs can make them resistant to data leakage. If you must use a SQL database for other custom things, link some form of User ID in LDAP to a corresponding field in SQL.

  16. Use OpenLDAP and Kerberos on Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use Kerberos with one of the heftier encryption types. Don't use the default Crypt Password type used in Shadow Passwords, and store your accounts in OpenLDAP, not a SQL Database

  17. Novell Netware Emulation got me into Linux. on Debian Founder: How I Came To Find Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was a largely MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 user in the 1990s, but in late 1998, I found that I hated Windows 9x. I felt like the days of my completely controlling computers were starting to slip away. I also had ambitions to be a Network Administrator pst High School. So on a 25 Mhz 486 SX I installed a very Rudimentary thing called ZipSlack. My first experiences on the Internet were on a Tandy 1000 TL using a Dial up PPP Connection. I found out that ZipSlack could emulate/simulate the PPP Connection and NAT my Tandy over the Tandy's Remaining serial Port. When I didn't need the Network connection, I could reboot into MS-DOS 6 and play my DOS games.

    Fast forward to 2000 and I found out that my new Mandrake Linux 7.1 Pentium 200 that replaced that 486 could not only NAT Internet connections, but using a software called Mars NWE, simulate a Novell Netware Server and provide logins to DOS Computers, and Windows 95 machines alike. It wasn't very stable, but it worked to my astonishment. Months later that became a Samba 2.0.6 Domain controller. Combined with seeing KDE 1 at the time and I was like "This is the future"

    The Domain created by that 2.0.6 Domain controller still exists to this day, running Samba 4.1.19.

  18. Gimp can open a PSD File. on Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School · · Score: 0

    Gimp can open a PSD Template, you might want to see if the GimpShop Plugin is still supported as well. IE can be run under Wine.

  19. What Marketing is vs. What it should be. on Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Marketing is by the College Textbook definition, the act of communicating that you provide something that meets someone's wants and needs and provide utility. Government Agencies, Schools, Non-Profit institutions, also engage in Marketing. But Marketing has a few stipulations to it. One is that Marketed ideas have to be factual. Or "True". And that our society of markets, consumers are supposed to know everything about the products they buy. They don't. And Advertisers are a huge part of the problem.

    Advertisers in todays world are not only misleading people, they in some cases use malicious code to deceive and steal from people by any means necessary. They are effectively burglars who attempt to break into your computer and steal any information possible by using security vulnerabilities to do that.

  20. Re:Google should revert that decission on Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has been Addressed by FreshPlayerPlugin allowing FireFox to use PPAPI

  21. Re:"This plugin is vulnerable" on Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US · · Score: 1

    If you are using FireFox Linux, either use the latest security patch to NPAPI Flash 11.2, I think the latest is 11.2.202.460, or install FreshPlayerPlugin 0.2.4 API Layer and you can use Chromium Pepper Flash 17.0.0.188 in FireFox. This is slightly less stable but can get you better results.

  22. The current system is fascism on Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead · · Score: 0

    The current system is Fascism. We do need copyright reform. Copyright won't go away, but there needs to be reform, mass demonstrations, marches, removal of politicians from office and it needs to happen by millions and millions of people. In multiple country.

  23. There is no need for the Patriot Act on Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no need for the Patriot Act to exist any longer. There hasn't been for many years. The War on Terrorism is really the war on Fundamentalist a Saudi inspired Sunni Wahabi radicalism. The Patriot act should go away and the US powers that be should focus its efforts on neutralizing the Sunni-Wahabi threat by whatever means necessary.

    Unfortunately we are taking the wrong side here in helping the Saudi's eradicate a Shia Minority in Yemen. Because the American leadership is the village idiots. We're also responsible for the Sunni Wahabi's creating ISIS in Iraq because we over threw a Ba'thist regime and created a power vaccum.

    The "War on Terrorism" will end only when the Saudi's Sunni Wahabii ability to create colonies like this is neutralized.

  24. How about proper support for OFX first? on How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking · · Score: 1

    How about proper support for OFX first? I have enough issues with my bank sending me broken OFX Files that are broken, or that every OFX Client for Linux remotely supports.

  25. Re:I like imaging systems like this, but... on First Alpha of Public Sector Linux Deployment System · · Score: 1

    Now I see. Does your OpenLDAP installation use the smbk5pwd.so module to Sync LDAP and Kerberos?