Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense; Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free How Do You Prove a Manager Is Incompetent? Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info Linus Torvalds to Find New Ways to Curse Devs, Their Mothers Hot Comment: "Indoctrination is not education. They often call it..." From the Vault: Japan Imposes 'Fine on Fat' Watch It: How to Remote-Control Cockroaches Voting Booth: To replace Google Reader, I favor ... Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense Apple has always been extremely anti-jailbreaking, but it might now have a good reason to plug up the exploits. As Hardware 2.0 argues, Apple's new iOS 7 Activation Lock anti-theft mechanism, which renders stolen handsets useless (even after wiping) unless the owner's Apple ID is entered, relies on having a secure, locked-down OS. Are the days of jailbreaking iOS coming to a close? Sound Off>> Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free In the days since stories based on classified information leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden hit the headlines, a string of reports and editorials claim that he had his facts wrong, accuse him of treason -- or both. But nobody has seriously challenged the basic truth of Snowden's leak: that many telecoms and tech firms are regularly divulging information about users' activities to intelligence agencies. Sound Off>> How Do You Prove a Manager Is Incompetent? What do you do when you find out that the "head of IT" is the main reason a company's IT group is ineffective? An anonymous reader turned to Slashdotters to answer the question: How can one objectively illustrate that a person doesn't have the knowledge sufficient to run a project, let alone a department? Sound Off>> Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info A hacker named SuperDaeE, who breached multiple gaming companies, including Sony, Microsoft, Valve and Blizzard, has released a 1.7TB file for download, according to Kotaku. The file, which contains source code for older titles and development kits for the PS4 and Xbox One consoles, is encrypted and SuperDaeE is using it as "insurance" in case he gets arrested. Sound Off>> Linus Torvalds to Find New Ways to Curse Devs, Their Mothers Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.10-rc5, and he is definitely not happy with the changes merged last week. Rc5 is bigger than rc4 and has code scattered across its entire code base because it addresses many outstanding problems. He warned developers if they don't stop sending him non-critical stuff, he is going to "try to come up with new ways to insult you, your mother, and your deceased pet hamster." Sound Off>> Re: "Liberty-Minded"? "Indoctrination is not education. They often call it that though. Being told you have to submit to the state authority on all things is exactly what is wrong with our current system. IRS, NSA, DOJ scandals all presuppose power to the state." --by Archangel Michael Read More>>   Japan Imposes 'Fine on Fat' Five years ago, CNN reported that Japan introduced a law that requires all businesses to have mandatory obesity checks for all their employees and employees' family members over the age of 40. If the employee or family member is deemed obese, and does not lose the extra fat soon, their employer faces large fines. Read More>> How to Remote-Control Cockroaches SlashTV: Backyard Brains (Motto: "Neuroscience for Everyone!") makes roaches crawl on command. Watch the video to learn about the roboroaches and watch how, with little circuit boards on their little backs, scurry hither and yon under control of their human masters. Watch the Video>> To replace Google Reader, I favor ... Newsblur Feedly Net News Wire Taptu Google Currents Flipboard None of these; I don't use Reader None of these; I favor a different alternative 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.