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  1. Flash included under very long if statement on Google Admits That Google.com Is Partially Dangerous (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone know why they might call Flash on Google.com? (View the source and search)

  2. And it has positive reviews! on Researcher Uses Valve Security Bug To Upload Paint Drying Game On Steam (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    (alright, maybe they are all sarcastic but still)
    He should have submitted it through normal means, who knows how many people would buy it...

  3. Re:It's a hoax on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2
  4. Congrats Slashdot! on How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the first time one of these stories have come up and slashdot has had HTTPS enabled!

  5. Is anyone using Google Photos? on 9 Open Source Alternatives To Picasa · · Score: 1

    I like the idea of it being a backup of my Photos, but there is no official uploader on Linux. (They also pitch it as the opposite, backup from your phone to the cloud. I want to get it to my desktop....)

    I want any organization/metadata added to be present in the photos or folder structure itself. Is that possible to do?

  6. Email it to me... on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    I really don't care if it's not completely private that I pay comcast $72 a month.

    Just don't provide any links to pay it in the email, so you don't get people even more prepared to be phished.. People can manaully go to comcast.net or use their bank's bill pay system.

     

  7. Can we have a Young Turks/Slashdot/Reddit debate? on FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates (muckrock.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd really like to see debates run not by the 6 largest media companies.. They have a vested interest in keeping money *in* politics (because they get a lot of it!)

  8. So serve from less domains on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    According to Ublock Origin.

    25 or 30% requests were blocked.
    Only showing 7 out of 23 domains!

    Here's my deal.. Serve all the ads/tracking from at most 3 domains and I'll reconsider whitelisting.. Oh, and default to https which makes browsers behave a bit more securely with what to give to third party domains.

  9. Re: So switch to something open? on Developers Frustrated with GitHub Prod For Changes In Bug Reports, Transparency · · Score: 1

    It's free for open source products. Ubuntu get's an advantage when open source projects that are also in Ubuntu use it. It makes it easier for our developers to track the upstream bugs..

    You can buy it for proprietary products - https://help.launchpad.net/Com...

  10. So switch to something open? on Developers Frustrated with GitHub Prod For Changes In Bug Reports, Transparency · · Score: 1

    Launchpad.net has git support now. The bug tracker is very good. Oh, and it's open source so you can actually help fix issues!

  11. They had a warrant... on An FBI Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The issue was did this one warrant let the government hack into everyone who tried to use Tor to connect this hidden site. Tor prevented the FBI from determining their IP address without further attacks on individual computers. The other issue is if the Judge knew they were authorizing this many computers to possibly be hacked.

    I believe they waited until the user tried to login, create an account, or something like that, so just accidentally browsing to the site shouldn't have triggered the attack.

    From the facts I have from this article, I think the FBI did the right thing.

  12. Re:It used to be terrible on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There have been a lot of other improvements in LibreOffice (as oppposed to OpenOffice).

    Care to be more specific on the bugs?

  13. Re:It used to be terrible on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I do remember there used to be something that I considered basic missing, don't remember if it was page breaks.

    Anyway, Page breaks are available (at least in version 5).

  14. Re:Benefits? Vacation" on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    >For couples where the other spouse has a good deal on insurance, it might be nice to have the money rather than overlapping policies.
    So ask for it. My wife has negotiated higher wages because she doesn't need to use her companies' health insurance.

  15. Why not port Thunderbird to HTML/Javascript? on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    They made a new HTML/Javascript email client for Firefox OS, why not work on converging the features so one email client can scale from mobile to desktop?

  16. Faceplam indeed on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I do wonder if they can get a Picard specific facepalm one...

    Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  17. Re:systemD on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure. systemd is fine. People hate change. Hate is louder than praise.

    I like it.

  18. Just to be clear on SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    These tests were done on their own custom built steam machine from 2 years ago. (Mentioned in article)
    They have an older video card and older CPU than any of the steam machines for sale.

    I'm guessing most optimization work has gone into the latest nVidia series rather than 1-2 previous ones.

  19. "Open, therefore secure" on Open Source Code Isn't a Warranty (opensource.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or maybe...

    Open, therefore not illegal to review?

  20. Malpractice.. on Interviews: John McAfee Answers Your Questions About His Presidential Bid · · Score: 5, Informative

    >McAfee: Healthcare costs would be cut by 75% if medical malpractice lawsuits were outlawed or at least massively curtailed.

    Or around 2.5% - http://health.usnews.com/healt...

    Maybe if we design our system so it's not so hard to apologize when a doctor makes a mistake that would help...
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

  21. Re:Shameless Plug - How about the current sites? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    An HTTPS iframe on an HTTP page is not secure. Would you recommend people enter their credit card information there? How about doing it on public wifi?

    You are correct Jindal's fail was somewhat less than Gilmore's failure, but he was the only one in the crowd that tried to SSL and got a C rating.

  22. Shameless Plug - How about the current sites? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I looked at all the current presidential candidates websites to see how good their security/tech was:
    https://bryanquigley.com/polit...

    In summary:
    Epic fail - Jim Gilmore, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki
    IPv6 - Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio.
    Complicated Setups - Clinton and Christie
    CloudFlare and WordPress are popular

  23. Except Bernie is already fighting the game on Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    by showing up as competitive without having a SuperPAC at all.

    I don't see Lessig's referendum only strategy to be any more likely to come to pass than his previous let's build our own SuperPAC attempt. He could have actually ran for senator and had some impact from within the system. It would have also gotten him more of a podium for advocating for these changes.

  24. git
    gerrit (especially how implented via LibreOffice/Openstack)

    Launchpad (what Ubuntu uses) also just added git support, and it's $250 flat a year for a proprietary project. This would not be hosted locally though (https://help.launchpad.net/CommercialHosting). I wouldn't recommend starting a new project with Bazaar today.. but if this was 5+ years ago it might be perfect for your use case.. (great Windows client)

  25. Online retailers on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 1

    How does this work for online retailers? How do I get my own time pin out of the card? Does this mean you can't save a credit card anymore?