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.

 

Is the Mighty Ubuntu in Decline?; 7 Milliseconds Stolen from the Federal Reserve

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 Is the Mighty Ubuntu in Decline? 7 Milliseconds Stolen from the Federal Reserve Cop Issues 800 Tickets to Drivers Texting at Red Lights Valve's Linux-Based SteamOS Targets Your Living Room Why Did Microsoft Burn More Money on a Tablet Nobody Seems to Want? Hot Comment: "Greed? You call it greed? How can you? I am very happy that Apple has these..." From the Vault: Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? Watch It: Free-to-Play Massively Multiplayer FPS Firefall Preview Poll Booth: I'd prefer my money be made of ... Is the Mighty Ubuntu in Decline? Linux pundit Bruce Byfield writes that he is "increasingly convinced that this last year will be noted as the start of the decline of Ubuntu." After great initial success, Ubuntu and Canonical isolated themselves from the free software community, and Canonical, he says, has floundered in many of its initiatives. Sound Off>> 7 Milliseconds Stolen from the Federal Reserve Three to seven milliseconds before the fed moved interest rates, billions of dollars of trades were input that took advantage of the changed rates, reaping huge profits. How did this happen? Nobody knows for sure yet. Sound Off>> Cop Issues 800 Tickets to Drivers Texting at Red Lights Gwinnett County police officer Jessie Myers has issued more tickets for texting and driving than any other officer in Georgia because he busts drivers in the act while they are waiting at red lights. He said he expects to reach 1,000 tickets by year's end. Sound Off>> Valve's Linux-Based SteamOS Targets Your Living Room Valve Software took the wraps off of SteamOS, a Linux-based gaming operating system designed for, as the company puts it, "living room machines." One major feature Valve is touting is the ability to use the SteamOS machine to stream video games from other Windows and Mac computers in the house to your TV. Sound Off>> Why Did Microsoft Burn More Money on a Tablet Nobody Seems to Want? Never mind that sales of the original Surface were pitiful, or that the tablet failed to make Microsoft a player in the mobile-device wars: Microsoft's now rolling out Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, which feature upgraded specs and accessories but no radical adjustments to the first generation. Why did Microsoft bother? Sound Off>>   Re: In other news "Greed? You call it greed? How can you? I am very happy that Apple has these approved conductors. Using an unapproved conductor might result in some random positively charged electron flowing through my device. What kind of havoc might result from THAT? Oh, Please, Apple - put those chips into your conductive cables! Filter out those positive electrons!! Yea, though I walk through the valley of positiveness, Apple will protect me with negativeness!! Alright, so the inanity and the sarcasm are over done - I apologize." --by Runaway1956 Read More>>   Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? Three years ago, a study found that various state laws that ban texting while driving might actually make the roads more dangerous. If that seems counterintuitive, it's the laws of unintended consequences at work. Read More>> Free-to-Play Massively Multiplayer FPS Firefall Preview SlashTV: Ever since the MMORPG craze got underway, players and developers have been looking for ways to meld it with the FPS craze that's been going on since the days of Doom. But the creators of Firefall emphatically say their game is "a shooter first and foremost" and that it has MMORPG elements. Soulskill brings you an extended look at Firefall, which is currently in fully playable open beta. Watch the Video>> I'd prefer my money be made of ... Precious metals Base metals Paper Plastic Electrons and math Why not just use evil itself? Some other option entirely 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.

 

Invitation: Attn: Sir/Madam @ Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:30pm - 1:30pm (honbarrijered@gmail.com)

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New OS Aims to Replace Linux in the Cloud; Shadow Banking System's True Size Revealed

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend New OS Aims to Replace Linux in the Cloud Shadow Banking System's True Size Revealed Did Apple Make a Mistake by Releasing Two New iPhones? Declassified Flu Pandemic Plan Predictions Are Sobering Blizzard to Shut Down Diablo III Auction Houses Hot Comment: "If you punish and take away people's means of non-violent stress relief..." From the Vault: Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap Watch It: IBM Makes Another $1 Billion Bet on Linux Poll Booth: The last time I used a dial-up modem was... New OS Aims to Replace Linux in the Cloud KVM veterans Avi Kivity and Dor Laor have revealed a new open-source (BSD license) operating system named OSv, which can run existing Linux programs and runtime environments such as a JVM. But unlike Linux, OSv was designed from the ground up to run efficiently on virtual machines. Sound Off>> Shadow Banking System's True Size Revealed The so-called shadow banking system, in which banks do business in ways that don't show up on conventional balance sheets, is thought to be huge, but nobody knows exactly how big. Until now. And it's worth significantly more than had been thought and more even than the GDP of the entire planet. Sound Off>> Did Apple Make a Mistake by Releasing Two New iPhones? However well the iPhone 5C ends up performing on the open market, Apple's decision to launch two iPhones this year--rather than a single "hero" device--could result in self-cannibalism, as users who would've bought the iPhone 5S instead gravitate toward the cheaper option. Sound Off>> Declassified Flu Pandemic Plan Predictions Are Sobering The Department of Defense has just declassified its 2009 Concept of Operations Plan for an Influenza Pandemic. Among its scary, yet reasonable, assumptions are that in the United States, such a pandemic will kill about 2 million people. Sound Off>> Blizzard to Shut Down Diablo III Auction Houses When Blizzard built Diablo III, one of the controversial features was an auction house for players to buy and sell gear. While it created a safe environment for trading, it trivialized one of the main points of the game--gathering loot. So, the company will remove the gold and real-money auction houses from the game.  Sound Off>>   Re:Really? "If you punish and take away people's means of non-violent stress relief, do not be surprised when they snap and resort to violent means." --by Anonymous Coward Read More>>   Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap Five years ago, Richard Stallman told The Guardian that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time. He also said that using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity." Read More>> IBM Makes Another $1 Billion Bet on Linux IBM famously pledged support to Linux to the tune of $1 billion in 2001, and at this year's LinuxCon the company did it again, announcing a fresh billion-dollar investment in the open source operating system. Timothy Lord talked with IBM vice president Brad McCredie about how IBM will go about spending the next billion dollars on Linux development. Watch the Video>> The last time I used a dial-up modem was... Right this minute! Within the past month Within the past year 1 to 5 years ago 5 to 10 years ago 10 to 20 years ago More than 20 years ago I'd say it was abouY!@#*ZNO CARRIER 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.

 

'Breaking Bad' Fan Sues Apple Over iTunes Pricing; Linus Torvalds Unleashes Fury at RdRand Petition

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend 'Breaking Bad' Fan Sues Apple Over iTunes Pricing Linus Torvalds Unleashes Fury at RdRand Petition Will the iPhone 5S Popularize Fingerprint Readers? A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs The Fifth Amendment Paradox Hot Comment: "When the NRA and ACLU both oppose something, you know it's..." From the Vault: Test Driving the Army's Pain Ray Gun Watch It: Is It Time to Replace Your HDTV? Poll Booth: I use spinning-drive storage media ... 'Breaking Bad' Fan Sues Apple Over iTunes Pricing A disgruntled 'Breaking Bad' fan has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple for false advertising when he found out that the $22.99 he forked over for a "Season Pass" of the drug-trade drama was only good for the first 8 episodes of the show's final season. Sound Off>> Linus Torvalds Unleashes Fury at RdRand Petition In a bid "to improve the overall security of the linux kernel," Kyle Condon raised a petition on Change.org to get Linus Torvalds to remove RdRand from /dev/random. Not surprisingly, Torvalds lambasted Condon by calling him ignorant for not understanding the code in the Linux Kernel. Sound Off>> Will the iPhone 5S Popularize Fingerprint Readers? While fingerprint-scanning technology isn't new, the technology has so far failed to become ubiquitous in the consumer realm. But will the new iPhone 5S--which is all but guaranteed to sell millions of units--can popularize something that consumers don't seem to want?  Sound Off>> A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs When Archie Cobbs encountered a relatively obscure performance bug in both MySQL 5.5.x and MariaDB 5.5.x (not surprising since they share the same codebase), he sent a report to Oracle and MariaDB. But as you can probably guess, the responses from each were very different. Sound Off>> The Fifth Amendment Paradox The ongoing case of New York Times reporter James Risen, whom the DOJ wants to force to testify against one of his sources for leaking classified CIA information, brings up a question about the Fifth Amendment: Why are criminal defendants allowed to remain silent, but not third-party witnesses like Risen? Sound Off>>    So it has come to this "When the NRA and ACLU both oppose something, you know it's bad for everyone." --by Anonymous Coward Read More>>   Test Driving the Army's Pain Ray Gun Six years ago, journalist Michael Hanlon got to experience the Army's not-so-secret weapon, dubbed "Silent Guardian". It is essentially a ray gun (even though Hanlon was told not to call it that), emitting a focused beam of radiation similar to your microwave tuned to a specific frequency to stimulate human nerve endings. Read More>>  Is It Time to Replace Your HDTV? Millions of Americans bought their first HDTVs between four and seven years ago, because that's when prices for 40" - 50" sets started dropping below $700. Are new ones so much more wonderful that it's time to get a new HDTV? Not necessarily. Alfred Poor, long-time display technology expert and senior editor for aNewDomain, shares some insight. Watch the Video>>  I use spinning-drive storage media ... For absolutely everything (or just about) More than solid-state, but not exclusively About the same as I use solid-state storage media Less than solid state, but I still use it For absolutely nothing (or just about) I just use The Cloud; is that "storage media"? 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.

 

What Microsoft Gets with Nokia Buy; Prankster Calls NSA to Restore Deleted E-mail

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend What Microsoft Gets with Nokia Buy Prankster Calls NSA to Restore Deleted E-mail Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Lithium-Ion Cells Is Sending Your Kid to Private School Evil? Building Melts Car Hot Comment: "The best way to stop whistleblowers is to stop giving people..." From the Vault: Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? Watch It: Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? Poll Booth: What's your favorite medium for Sci-Fi? What Microsoft Gets with Nokia Buy Microsoft will acquire substantially all of Nokia's Devices & Services business, license Nokia's patents, and license and use Nokia's mapping services for about $7.2 billion. Also in the deal is former Microsoft exec Stephen Elop, who will rejoin the software giant after the transaction closes. Sound Off>> Prankster Calls NSA to Restore Deleted E-mail Since the NSA reportedly intercepts and stores our emails forever, a man decided to try to use it as a backup service. He called the agency after accidentally deleting an important e-mail to get help in retrieving it and posted a video of the conversation. Sound Off>> Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Lithium-Ion Cells Assuming Tesla doubles production from its current 21K cars/year to 40K cars/year (something it expects to do by 2015), the carmaker would require the entire existing global capacity for 18650 commodity cells. That assumes no other growth, no next gen model, nada. Sound Off>> Is Sending Your Kid to Private School Evil? Slate's Allison Benedikt is ruffling some feathers with her recent manifesto, "If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person." "Not bad like murderer bad," Benedikt writes, "but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation's-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what's-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad." Sound Off>> Building Melts Car A 37-story skyscraper, dubbed the "Walkie Talkie" because of its shape, under construction in London has been blamed for reflecting light which melted parts of a car parked on a nearby street. As a precautionary measure, the city is closing off parking spots in the area during an investigation into the matter. Sound Off>>   A corollary "The best way to stop whistleblowers is to stop giving people a reason to want to blow the whistle." --by Myria Read More>>   Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? Three years ago, in a follow up to its September 2008 article, IEEE Spectrum revisited the question of why a disproportionate number of terrorists have engineering degrees. According to its summary of the interview with political scientist Steffen Hertog, "nearly half of (individuals involved in political violence) with degrees have been engineers," a rather ambiguous statement especially for a publication targeted at engineers. Read More>> Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? Low enrollment has lead to the closure of many public schools throughout the country, but those buildings can continue on as beacons of creativity and learning. Educator and technology access activist Phil Shapiro wants to see those shuttered schools turned into makerspaces. Timothy Lord chats with Shapiro about how that could happen. Watch the Video>> What's your favorite medium for Sci-Fi? Movies Radio Television Books Games Magazines Comics Holodeck 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.