Why Is Windows So Awful with Battery Life?; OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Why Is Windows So Awful with Battery Life? First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights Experian Sold Social Security Numbers to ID Theft Service Hot Comment: "I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but..." From the Vault: Judge Rules 4-Year-Old Can Be Sued Watch It: Why Facebook Does Not Like Social Fixer Extension Poll Booth: I've done my current job in X time zones ... Why Is Windows So Awful with Battery Life? Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror is trying to figure out why the battery life for devices running Windows is so much worse than similar (or identical) devices running other operating systems. For example, although the Surface Pro 2 made great strides over the original Surface Pro, it still lags far behind Android and iOS tablets. Sound Off>> First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon Quantum physicists have performed an experiment that shows how time is an emergent phenomenon based on entanglement, in which case the contradiction between quantum mechanics and general relativity seems to melt away. Sound Off>> OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review John Siracusa at Ars Technica has put together a comprehensive review of Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This is the first time a major OS X update has been free, and it works on any device that supports Mountain Lion. This suggests Apple is trying to boost adoption rates as high as possible. Sound Off>> Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights As described on the DigitalBond blog, a security researcher was subjected to a court ordered search in which a lack of pre-notification was premised on his self-description as a "hacker." Sound Off>> Experian Sold Social Security Numbers to ID Theft Service Experian -- one of the three national U.S. credit bureaus -- reportedly sold social security numbers through its subsidiary to the operators of a website that offered all of the information online for a price. The website marketed the ability to look up full Social Security numbers, birthdays, drivers license records and financial information on millions of Americans. Sound Off>>   Re: I'm a non-degree slacker "I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but I've got the degree. The degree helps get your resume through the HR drones, though, but not much else." --by morgan_greywolf Read More>>   Judge Rules 4-Year-Old Can Be Sued Three years ago, a New York Supreme Court justice ruled that a girl could be sued over accusations the then 4-year-old ran over an 87-year-old woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk. The accident resulted in the elderly woman suffering a hip fracture that required surgery. Read More>> Why Facebook Does Not Like Social Fixer Extension SlashTV: Social Fixer is a plug-in that lets people view their feeds on Facebook more efficiently. And although it makes no changes to Facebook's servers and is not dependent on Facebook's APIs, the social media company demanded that creator Matt Kruze remove certain features if he doesn't want to be banned from the site. The company already removed his Social Fixer page from Facebook. Kruze talks to Timothy Lord about the ordeal. Watch the Video>> I've done my current job in X time zones ... Where X is 1 Where X is 2-3 Where X is 3-6 Where X is 7-12 Where X is >12 All of them Do you count unemployment? Cast Your Vote>>   Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.

 

Oracle Blasts Open Source as Inferior; How to Develop Unmaintainable Software

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Oracle Blasts Open Source as Inferior How to Develop Unmaintainable Software Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All Why Isn't There More Outrage About NSA Revelations? Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos Hot Comment: "The reason Java is still alive and well is not because it's a good language. It's..." From the Vault: If Not America, Then Where? Watch It: Why Targeted Ads Don't Work Poll Booth: I typically visit a doctor (for medical reasons) ... Oracle Blasts Open Source as Inferior In a whitepaper for the Department of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source and that community-developed code is inferior and less secure than software from commercial companies. Sound Off>> How to Develop Unmaintainable Software Greg Jorgensen specializes in debugging, fixing, maintaining, and extending legacy software systems. His typical client has a web site or internal application that works, more or less, but the original developer isn't available. Greg lists some things you can do in your own software projects to keep him in business. Sound Off>> Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All As a followup to Linus Torvalds' opinion about people skeptical of the Linux random number generator, a new paper analyzes the robustness of /dev/urandom and /dev/random and found "several attacks proving that these PRNGs are not robust according to our definition, and do not accumulate entropy properly." Sound Off>> Why Isn't There More Outrage About NSA Revelations? We have been hit with a number of reports about the NSA's cloud surveillance in the press, yet the public seems to have greeted each new revelation with weakening outrage. In fact, the unveiling of the NSA's Great Contact-List Caper has ranked below invites for Apple's upcoming iPad event. Sound Off>> Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos Nokia's former head designer has called on Apple to work with the broader technology industry and end its policy of having proprietary connectors for its device chargers and accessories. Other experts say Apple cannot continue to go it alone with Lightning Connectors and ignore Micro USB. Sound Off>>     Java won't die. "The reason Java is still alive and well is not because it's a good language. It's not because Oracle does a good job patching security faults with it. It's not because it may be able to run most of its code on any given OS that can run its VM. The reason Java is still alive and well is because it is the OO language most schools, universities and colleges teach in their CS classes." --by sirsky Read More>>   If Not America, Then Where? Seven years ago, Wellington Grey wrote that during heated political discussions on Slashdot, several people mention their desire to leave the country and asked two questions of the restless: 1) Where would you live, if not in America and 2) What's stopping you from going? Read More>>  Why Targeted Ads Don't Work SlashTV: Conventional wisdom about online advertising is that targeted ads result in more revenue, but that's not necessarily true. A recent report found that print consumed 7 percent of people's media time in 2011, but 25% of ad budgets. Don Marti discusses the reason for the disparity and why targeted advertising is harmful. Watch the Video>> I typically visit a doctor (for medical reasons) ... Less than once a year Once a year, roughly 2-3 times a year 4-10 times a year More than 10 times a year Are you counting the vet? Cast Your Vote>>     Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.

 

Why 'Don't Talk to the Cops' Video Is Flawed; Crucial Milestone for Nuclear Fusion Reached

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Why 'Don't Talk to the Cops' Video Is Flawed Crucial Milestone for Nuclear Fusion Reached HP Cracks Down on Telecommuting The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? Hot Comment: "Crime's like any other job: the high-paying, less risky jobs all require..." From the Vault: When Libertarians Attack Free Software Watch It: Deep in the Heart of Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace  Poll Booth: My productivity peaks between... Why 'Don't Talk to the Cops' Video Is Flawed In response to Bennett Haselton's previous articles that raised questions about the Fifth Amendment, readers sent him a link to the famous video "Don't Talk To Cops" delivered by law professor James Duane. Haselton outlines what he thinks is wrong with Duane's position. Sound Off>> Crucial Milestone for Nuclear Fusion Reached In a breakthrough that brings us closer to achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion, scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Livermore in California, conducted a test in September in which the power output was stronger than the power used by the lasers. Sound Off>> HP Cracks Down on Telecommuting Hewlett-Packard has enacted a policy requiring most employees to work from the office and not from home in an attempt to instigate a cultural shift, according to AllThingsD. But as many as 80,000 employees were working from home partly because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings. Sound Off>> The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 Ed Felton writes about an incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. It didn't work because the Linux team noticed that the code was in the CVS repository without having gone through the normal approval process. Who could have been behind the attack? Sound Off>> What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? Computer Scientist Daniel Lemire writes that many people try to convince software developers to adapt new ideas despite their dubious practical value. So, he came up with a list of ideas in software that are universally recognized as useful, which has sparked an interesting discussion. Sound Off>>   Re: Crime "Crime's like any other job: the high-paying, less risky jobs all require tons of skill and training, or family connections. If you haven't got a crime education or a crime pedigree, your only choices are super high-risk jobs like mugging or super low-paying jobs like corner drug sales." --by goodmanj Read More>>   When Libertarians Attack Free Software Four years ago, Timothy B. Lee posted an article that analyzed the unfortunate tendency of libertarian and free-market organizations to attack free software. He used an example of a policy analyst at the Heartland Institute who attacked network neutrality regulations by arguing that advocates have "unwittingly bought into" the "radical agenda" of the free software movement. Read More>> Deep in the Heart of Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace That things are bigger in Texas is sometimes more than just a cliche. A few weeks ago, on the way to LinuxCon, Timothy Lord stopped by Houston's TX/RX Labs and the hackerspace is not just big -- it's busy, and booked. Besides an array of CNC machines, 3-D printers, and both wood- and metal-working equipment, TX/RX has workbenches available for members to rent. Take a tour.  Watch the Video>> My productivity peaks between... 12AM to 4AM 4AM to 8AM 8AM to 12PM 12PM to 4PM 4PM to 8PM 8PM to 12AM I am never productive. Only on leap-seconds Cast Your Vote>>     Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.

 

Slashdot Rolls Out a New Look; Pentagon Spent $5 Billion for Weapons Day Before Shutdown

Editor's Note: Do you know where most denied traffic/attacks come from? Do you have too much data about your network security? Too little? We have questions and if you have answers, take our IT security survey. To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Slashdot Rolls Out a New Look Pentagon Spent $5 Billion for Weapons Day Before Shutdown Ex-Microsoft Privacy Chief No Longer Trusts Company Silk Road Founder Arrested, $3.6M of Bitcoin Seized in FBI Raid Latest 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes Unreflected Hot Comment: "Yes, 'preventing terrorism' is not essential. It kills very few people ..." From the Vault: Inside Gadget-Aided, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory Watch It: The Internet Society Blasts U.S. Online Spying Poll Booth: My favorite brand of snake oil is ... Slashdot Rolls Out a New Look We've unveiled our biggest redesign effort ever and the comments and emails have been tremendously valuable as we continue to implement our current features into the beta. Please keep them coming. The new design is meant to be richer but also simpler to use, while maintaining the spirit of what Slashdot is all about. Sound Off>> Pentagon Spent $5 Billion for Weapons Day Before Shutdown John Reed at Foreign Policy reports that the Pentagon awarded 94 contracts on its annual end-of-the-fiscal-year buying spree, spending more than $5 billion on everything from robot submarines to Finnish hand grenades and a radar base mounted on an offshore oil platform. The dollar-dump happened on the eve of the U.S. government's shutdown that saw 400,000 Defense Department employees furloughed. Sound Off>> Ex-Microsoft Privacy Chief No Longer Trusts Company Microsoft's onetime Chief Privacy Advisor says he doesn't trust the company's long-term privacy measures and ability or interest to secure user data in the wake of the NSA's PRISM program. Also, in the two years since leaving Microsoft, he has stopped carrying a cell phone and has become a staunch open source user. Sound Off>> Silk Road Founder Arrested, $3.6M of Bitcoin Seized in FBI Raid Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," was arrested and charged with one count each of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy, according to a court filing. Silk Road has been shut down and some $3.6 million in Bitcoin (26,000 Btc) seized.  Sound Off>> Latest 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes Unreflected In March, we saw the first ever 100 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possibly due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack. Now word is out that a new 100 Gigabit attack has struck using raw bandwidth, without any DNS Reflection. Sound Off>>   Re: Priorities "Yes, 'preventing terrorism' is not essential. It kills very few people compared to, oh, I dunno, being poor, for one. Any anyway, you cannot actually prevent terrorism. If someone is really determined to do something we label terrorism, they'll find a way, and no amount of state apparatus can stop it." --by GrahamCox Read More>>   Inside Gadget-Aided, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory Six years ago, Wired magazine wrote about Alex Roy and his quest to break the record time for a cross-U.S. road trip. To deal with about 31,000 highway patrol officers along the way, Roy decked out his E39 BMW M5 with a thermal camera, radar/laser detectors, GPS devices, police scanners, and other high-tech gadgets. Read More>> The Internet Society Blasts U.S. Online Spying SlashTV: In a position paper responding to reports of the U.S. government's circumvention of encryption technology, The Internet Society expressed alarm at the alleged programs that "are a fundamental threat to the Internet's economic, innovative, and social potential." The Society's Paul Brigner talks about the group and its reaction to government online surveillance. Watch the Video>> My favorite brand of snake oil is ... Homeopathy Reiki Goat testicle implants Magnet therapy Actual snake oil Something else you just don't understand. Cast Your Vote>>   Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.