Another Bitcoin Exchange Bites the Dust After Theft; Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration, Cites Linux GPU Bugs

Microsoft's Attempt to Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires | Does Your Company Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks on Employees? To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Another Bitcoin Exchange Bites the Dust After Theft New Keurig Uses DRM to Lock Out Competitors Does Your Company Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks on Employees? Microsoft's Attempt to Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration, Cites Linux GPU Bugs Hot Comment: "People don't like being recorded, or even the possibility of being..." From the Vault: Living Free With Linux, Round 2 Watch It: 'Unbreakable' Laser-Based Quantum Crypto?  Poll Booth: Time sucked into Netflix or similar, weekly... Sponsored Resource: DevOps for Dummies Another Bitcoin Exchange Bites the Dust After Theft Joining MtGox, Flexcoin announced that hackers wiped out its vault to the tune of some 896 BTC (about $615,000). The theft dealt a fatal blow that forced the self-described "world's first Bitcoin bank," to shut its doors immediately. Sound Off>> New Keurig Uses DRM to Lock Out Competitors Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, maker of the popular Keurig coffee-brewing system, said it will make its new machines work with licensed pods only. GMCR's CEO said to ensure consistent quality, "we use interactive technology to help us perfectly brew all Keurig brew packs." Sound Off>> Does Your Company Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks on Employees? Matt.Battey writes that while recently working on-site with a client, he noticed that the company performed Man-In-The-Middle attacks on employees, interrupting HTTPS communications via a network coordinated reverse-proxy with false certificate generation. Is this a common practice? Sound Off>> Microsoft's Attempt to Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires Microsoft has attempted to make it widely known that all support and service for Windows XP and Office 2003 shuts down on April 8. But since the company actually saw a slight uptick in users on the old OS, it launched an effort to recruit tech-savvy friends and family to tell old holdouts to get off XP. It did not go well. Sound Off>> Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration, Cites Linux GPU Bugs Citing "code we consider to be permanently 'experimental' or 'beta,' Google Chrome engineers have no plans to enable video acceleration in the Chrome/Chromium web browser. Code has been written but is permanently disabled by default because "supporting GPU features on Linux is a nightmare." Sound Off>> There won't BE any 'general acceptance' "People don't like being recorded, or even the possibility of being recorded, without their express permission. That's not going to change, therefore there isn't going to be any 'general acceptance' of technology like this." --by kheldan Read More>>   Living Free With Linux, Round 2 Five years ago, Preston Gralla wrote about what life was like for a long-time Windows user trying to live with Linux. His main problems came when he tried to install or update software. Loads of people responded with advice -- so he went back and tried again. Here's what he learned, and what did and didn't work for him. Read More>> 'Unbreakable' Laser-Based Quantum Crypto? According to the QuintessenceLabs website, the firm is "The world's first company to harness the quantum properties of lasers to herald a new generation of data security." Tim Lord caught up with QuintessenceLabs CTO John Leiseboer at RSA to discuss the technology. Watch the Video>>   Time sucked into Netflix or similar, weekly: None - pure abstinence. Less than 5 hours 5-9 hours 10-19 hours 20-39 hours 40 or more hours I never turn it off Oh, you mean of *my* time? Cast Your Vote>>   DevOps for Dummies Today's fast-moving world makes DevOps essential for any business aspiring to be agile and lean in order to respond rapidly to changing customer and marketplace demands. This book helps you understand DevOps and how your organization can gain real business benefits from it. You'll also discover how a holistic view of DevOps that encompasses the entire software delivery life cycle - from ideation and the conception of new business capabilities to implementation in production - can bring competitive advantage in a continuous delivery world. Learn More>> 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.