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Team was able to crack four digit-PINs with 70 percent accuracy on the first try, with 100 percent accuracy by try number five
A site accessed with malicious code can open the device to such sensor-based monitoring working in the background when browser tabs are left open.
The team suggests a number of ways to help combat vulnerabilities, including regularly changing PINs and quitting out of any apps not currently in use
Dan suggests: Simple way around this: randomize the display of numbers on the keypad. I think this should be standard for all PIN entry. I recall seeing this somewhere, years ago, but I don’t recall where. I’ve always wondered why I’ve never seen it again. If the numbers have a narrow field of vision, nobody can watch over your shoulder.
A better article on the issue
The PDF of the study
From the PDF: . In the latest Apple Security Updates for iOS 9.3 (released in March 2016), Safari took a similar countermeasure by “suspending the availability of this [motion and orientation] data when the web view is hidden”x

Computer security is broken from top to bottom

Robert Watson spoke at the very first BSDCan
There are three main fundamental causes of insecurity: technology complexity, culture, an the economic incentives of the computer business.

Deep Dive starts with Dan’s first blog post about PostgreSQL

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PostgreSQL < 9.6 has DATADIR is the same for all versions
PostgreSQL 9.6+ on FreeBSD, each major version has it’s own DATADIR
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Linux’s Amazing Year | LINUX Unplugged 124

chris — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:59:35 +0000

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We look back at the big year for Linux, for our show & our virtual LUG. Some of the most interesting projects in open source were discussed first in our LUG, we look at some of the great moments & then give you our fresh take on the big events.

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iPad Crow | TTT 211

chris — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:26:07 +0000

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Amazon tries to hide the bad news, Apple has a few big announcements & Chris and the crew have some crow to eat!

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Conditional Swift Justice | CR 164

chris — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:21:33 +0000

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Mike argues why the web is the default platform of the future, we debate if third party mobile platforms should be written off, first impressions of the Ionic Framework & Chris has a few surprises to announce.

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Phone Addiction | FauxShow 218

chris — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:51:30 +0000

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Angela & Chris go through the official name for being addicted to your phone, discuss the No Phone project they backed in a Tech Talk Today episode & go over 5 apps that can actually help you with your addiction!

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Ubuntu Calling | LINUX Unplugged 79

chris — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:02:52 +0000

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The first Ubuntu phone goes on sale tomorrow & we ask all the interesting questions you might have been wondering. The details on the launch of the phone, some of the great apps & what’s still missing.

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Bq Ubuntu Phone Goes on Sale Next Week at €169, Meizu Device Coming Soon – OMG! Ubuntu!

As we shared towards the end of last year, the Bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition handset will go on sale in Europe from next week priced at €169.

This Is Bq’s Exclusive Ubuntu Phone Case Accessory – OMG! Ubuntu!

Bq has you covered with an exclusive ‘Ubuntu Edition’ of their popular Duo case accessory designed especially for the Aquaris E4.5, which is being made available for purchase alongside the handset.

Debut Ubuntu phone’s first flash sale announced, more to come – CNET

The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is the first phone that will let phone fans snap up an Ubuntu-running device for themselves. Best known as an open-source operating system for computers, Ubuntu is expanding to phones as part of a plan that will see the software power everything from TVs to drones. And to kick things off, the BQ phone will be up for grabs between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. (CET) on Wednesday 11 February.

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Your TechSNAP Story | TechSNAP 200

chris — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:49:10 +0000

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A new major security breach at a large health insurance firm could expose 10s of millions, a phone phishing scam anyone could fall for & we celebrate our 200th episode with your TechSNAP stories.

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Security breach at health insurance firm Anthem, could expose 10s of millions

“Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurer, disclosed Wednesday that hackers had broken into its servers and stolen Social Security numbers and other personal data from all of its business lines. “
“Anthem didn’t specify how many consumer records may have been breached, but it did say all of the company’s business units are affected. The figures from Anthem’s Web site offer a glimpse at just how big this breach could be: “With nearly 69 million people served by its affiliated companies including more than 37 million enrolled in its family of health plans, Anthem is one of the nation’s leading health benefits companies.””
“The company said it is conducting an extensive IT forensic investigation to determine what members are impacted.”
It is reported that Anthem has hired Mandiant to investigate the attack
Exposed data:
Full Name
date of birth
member ID
Social Security number
address
phone numbers
email addresses
employment information
“According to Anthem’s statement, the impacted (plan/brands) include Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, Unicare, Healthlink, and DeCare. The company said impacted members will receive notice via mail which will advise them of the protections being offered to them as well as any next steps.”
“Anthem said once the attack was discovered, the company immediately made every effort to close the security vulnerability, contacted the FBI and began fully cooperating with their investigation.”
More detailed information is not available yet, but I am sure we’ll be following this story in the weeks to come
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Hacked hotel phones used in bank phishing scam

“A recent phishing campaign targeting customers of several major U.S. banks was powered by text messages directing recipients to call hacked phone lines at Holiday Inn locations in the south. Such attacks are not new, but this one is a timely reminder that phishers increasingly are using lures blasted out via SMS as more banks turn to text messaging to communicate with customers about account activity.”
“The above-mentioned phishing attacks were actually a mix of scams known as “SMiShing” — phishing lures sent via SMS text message — and voice phishing or “vishing,” where consumers are directed to call a number that answers with a voice prompt spoofing the bank and instructing the caller to enter his credit card number and expiration date”
It seems Holiday Inn’s telephone switching system may have been hacked, and used to record and exfiltrate the stolen information
It is likely the hotel also lost out on business from customers actually trying to reach the hotel, and instead getting fake voice prompts for various banks
“According to Jan Volzke, Numbercop’s chief executive, these scams typically start on a Saturday afternoon and run through the weekend when targeted banks are typically closed.”
““Two separate Holiday Inns getting hijacked in such short time suggests there is a larger issue at work with their telephone system provider,” he said. “That phone line is probably sitting right next to the credit card machine of the Holiday Inn. In a way this is just another retail terminal, and if they can’t secure their phone lines, maybe you shouldn’t be giving them your credit card.”
“A front desk clerk who answered the line on Tuesday said the hotel received over 100 complaints from people who got text messages prompting them to call the hotel’s main number during the time it was hacked.”
“Numbercop says the text message lures were sent using email-to-SMS gateways, but that the company also has seen similar campaigns sent from regular in-network numbers (prepaid mobile phones e.g.), which can be harder to catch. In addition, Volzke said, phishers often will target AT&T and Verizon users for use in furthering these schemes.”
Volzke says it’s unfortunate that more financial institutions aren’t communicating with their customers via mobile banking apps. “Banking apps are among the most frequently downloaded and used apps,” Volzke said. “If the user has an app from the bank installed, then if the bank really has something to say they should use the in-app messaging method, not text messages which can be spoofed and are not secure. And yet we see almost no bank making use of this.”
“Regardless of whether you communicate with your bank via text message, avoid calling phone numbers or clicking links that appear to have been sent via text message from your bank. Also, be extremely wary of any incoming calls from someone calling from your bank. If you think there may be an issue with your account, your best bet is to simply call the number on the back of your credit or debit card.”
Example call recording from Numbercop

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Switching Ubuntu to Gnome | LAS 330

chris — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:54:56 +0000

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Install the latest version of Gnome on your Ubuntu box, without losing your data, or needing to reinstall your apps. Our guide will get you up and running with the latest and greatest in no time. And also provides great insight for non-Ubuntu/Gnome users.

Plus ZFS on Linux gets the green light, the great news for Arch users

And so much more!

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The short answer is yes, depending on your definition of stable.

I believe the ZoL is production ready for the following reasons:

Key ZFS data integrity features work on Linux like they do on other platforms.
ZFS runtime stability on Linux is comparable to other filesystems, with certain exceptions that I document below.
ZoL is at near feature parity with ZFS on other platforms.
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Chrome OS can now run Android apps, no porting required

The app code is all running on top of the Chrome platform, specifically inside of Native Client. In this way the ARC (App Runtime for Chrome) apps run in the same environment as other apps you can download from the Chrome Web Store, even though they are written on top of standard Android APIs. The developers do not need to port or modify their code, though they often choose to improve it to work well with the Chromebook form factor (keyboard, touchpad, optional touchscreen, etc).

Android 4.4 mini-PC packs 64-bit quad-core Atom punch

Minix is prepping a sub-$150 mini-PC running Android 4.4 on a quad-core Intel Atom Z3735F and featuring WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, Ethernet, and USB connectivity.

GNOME Software 3.14 Will Work On Arch Linux With PackageKit

Richard Hughes cleaned up the PackageKit back-end for Arch/Pacman this weekend so that GNOME Software will run with it and utilize native AppStream meta-data. This work is through the Alpm/Pacman back-end for using this GNOME application to install and manage new apps for the platform.

GNOME Software on #archlinux with native PackageKit backend, and native…

Ubuntu Phone – Meizu MX4 to come out in December

First it was the Mx3 Q3 but now it looks like Mx4 in December instead. We were also suppose to get a bq in Q3 but no news about any date.

Finally, remember that the MX4 is again pre-order (after registration) with shipments starting from September 25, through our official store, this is the link .

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The Cost of Free | Tech Talk Today 12

chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:44:03 +0000

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We go over Amazon’s new smart phone, and discuss if they’ve missed the mark.

Then the Feds screw up the Silkroad Bitcoin sale, and T-Mobile decided some bits are more privileged than others – and why they might just fool you into liking it.

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Amazon announces the Fire Phone, $199 with 2-year contract for 32GB

A quad-core 2.2GHz SoC
Adreno 330 GPU
2GB of RAM
802.11ac Wi-Fi
Fire OS 3.5.0
13MP camera with optical image stabilization.
A dedicated shutter button.

Fire Phone exclusively available July 25 on AT&T: $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB, $649 and $749 off-contract

Equipped with Firefly, its standout feature, the Fire Phone will be able to scan and identify more than 100 million items, enabling users to perform instantaneous price checks alongside a contextual database search of everything from music and street signs to the handwritten contents of notes and letters.

Firefly, when rolled into Amazon’s network of services anchored by Prime, is meant to be the linchpin of the Fire Phone. With a device that customers can take with them to every physical store and location and scan their surroundings, Amazon is adding a powerful new avenue to reroute users back to its platform and marketplace.

At closing, Amazon stock was up 2.69 percent, or 8.76 points, at $334.28 per share

List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals

A list of individuals interested in the auction of the 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS), the US government agency confirmed.

In a statement to CoinDesk, Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals spokeswoman, indicated that the emailer had intended to send all the recipients an attached informational document and to blind copy all those it intended to contact. The US Marshals service is the federal agency that has been charged with carrying out the auction of the bitcoins, originally seized by the FBI.

T-Mobile’s ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem | The Verge

T-Mobile has decided, arbitrarily, that some of the data traveling over its pipes should count against a cap, while other data should not. What’s to stop it from using data cap exemptions as a punitive measure against content providers that aren’t on good terms with T-Mobile (or its parent company Deutsche Telekom)?

Japan’s ruling party says won’t regulate bitcoin for now

Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency.

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Always Be Coding | CR 98

chris — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:45:14 +0000

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Chris and Mike face the limitations of remote workers, and the challenges they’ve experienced. We take your live calls, and discuss the awesome projects you\’re working on.

Why you should write code every day, the hard numbers about mobile games, and more!

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I consider this change in habit to be a massive success and hope to continue it for as long as I can. In the meantime I\’ll do all that I can to recommend this tactic to others who wish to get substantial side project work done.
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MS Gadget 2.0 | CR 96

chris — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:00:41 +0000

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Microsoft shocks the developer community by open sourcing some of their crown .Net jewels. Mike and Chris discuss the ramifications for Java, and the overall strategy Microsoft could be shifting too. Plus why the return of the Start Menu is a massive middle finger to devs, and other interesting bits from Build 2014.

Plus your follow up on Oculus VR, the Blame Game, and more!

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Zed: The Next Phase | Zed

So, I’m going to try something radical. As of today, I’m making Zed my day-time job.

I’ve launched a company to further develop Zed, with the goal to, over time, earn enough money on it to support me and my family, and to continue developing Zed into something great.

While an obvious option to make Zed profitable would be to make it proprietary and sell licenses, I won’t be doing that. I think there’s a lot of value for users in the fact that their editor is open source, in terms of hackability and longevity. Also, since I’m a company of one — for the foreseeable future — I think the best way to compete is if when the community helps out with enhancement and bug fixes, as it does already. So, Zed will remain open source.

Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise, announced the decision today is part of a broader initiative called .NET Foundation, the company’s move to open source multiple .NET components. T

Dev Hoopla: Build 2014

Microsoft open sources .NET compiler platform “Roslyn” and announces open source .NET Foundation initiative

At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft announced it is open sourcing its .NET compiler platform “Roslyn” – and then did exactly that, live on stage. Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg hit the button to make the project public on Codeplex.

For those who don’t know, Roslyn is a set of APIs for exposing the Microsoft C# and Visual Basic .NET compilers as services available at runtime. It includes versions of the C# and VB.NET compilers written in the languages themselves; in other words, the compilers are available via the traditional command-line programs, as well as APIs available natively from within .NET code.

Mobile-tool maker Xamarin, with whom Microsoft was partnering (rather than fighting/fearing, as some inside the company did initially) was a key advisor, Somasegar said. Some inside Microsoft were initially leery of Xamarin\’s goal to help .Net developers write apps that worked on Android and iOS because those platforms competed with Windows. But over time, Microsoft became more friend than foe to Xamarin — so much so that rumors are continuing to swirl that Microsoft may be negotiating to buy Xamarin.

Microsoft\’s open sourcing of .Net: The back story

Soma Somasegar, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft\’s Developer Division, told me during an interview at Build 2014 last week that the work around open-sourcing more of .Net began three years ago.

Windows will be free on phones, small tablets and the Internet of Things

The company has announced that Windows will be free for hardware makers to use on phones, tablets with screens under nine inches and Internet of Things devices.

Microsoft is bringing the Start Menu back

Microsoft announced a new Start Menu that looks like a hybrid of the best of Windows 7 and Windows 8. It\’s around the same size as the Windows 7 menu, but also features miniature Live Tiles along one side.

Microsoft also showed a new mode that allows modern Windows 8 apps to run in the desktop environment inside their own windows.

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NSA vs The World | Unfilter 73

chris — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:48:20 +0000

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While Obama signals that surveillance reforms could be on the way, the heads of national spying apparatus took to the hill to defend their spying on world leaders, claiming it’s no big deal, everyone does it. But the strong reactions around the world and embarrassing verbal gymnastics of the Obama administration seem to be evidence it’s a huge deal.

Then a major revelations in how the NSA collections data directly from Google and Yahoo’s data centers, the big money getting into the GMO labeling fight.

Plus your feedback, our follow up, and much much more.

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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say – The Washington Post

By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.

According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.

In a statement, Google said it was “troubled by allegations of the government intercepting traffic between our data centers, and we are not aware of this activity.”

Google Boosting Encryption Between Data Centers | September 9th, 2013

Google has accelerated an initiative to encrypt data moving between its data centers, citing growing concerns about privacy and data security amid ongoing revelations about the code-breaking capabilities of the NSA and other global security agencies.

The Post writes: “Google officials declined to provide details on the cost of its new encryption efforts, the numbers of data centers involved, or the exact technology used. Officials did say that it will be what experts call ‘end-to-end,’ meaning that both the servers in the data centers and the information on the fiber-optic lines connecting them will be encrypted using ‘very strong’ technology. The project is expected to be completed soon, months ahead of the original schedule.”

NSA fires back at Washington Post report

Asked about the story, Gen. Keith Alexander, the agency’s leader, said earlier Wednesday he was unaware of it — adding the NSA is “not authorized” to access companies data centers and instead must “go through a court process” to obtain such content.

As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | theguardian.com

the NSA’s director, General Keith Alexander, actually demanded Thursday that the reporting being done by newspapers around the world on this secret surveillance system be halted (

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NSA is CRAZY

Barack Obama ‘approved tapping Angela Merkel’s phone 3 years ago’ – Telegraph

The president allegedly allowed US intelligence to listen to calls from the German
Chancellor’s mobile phone after he was briefed on the operation by Keith
Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), in 2010.

The latest claim, reported in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, followed
reports in Der Spiegel that the surveillance of Mrs Merkel’s phone began as
long ago as 2002, when she was still the opposition leader, three
years before being elected Chancellor. That monitoring only ended in the
weeks before Mr Obama visited Berlin in June this year, the magazine added.

Cover Story: How NSA Spied on Merkel Cell Phone from Berlin Embassy – SPIEGEL ONLINE

According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations.

Spain summons US ambassador over claim NSA tracked 60m calls a month | World news | theguardian.com

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has summoned the US ambassador to explain the latest revelations to emerge from the files leaked by Edward Snowden, which suggest the National Security Agency tracked more than 60m phone calls in Spain in the space of a month.

‘We’re Really Screwed Now’: NSA’s Best Friend Just Shivved The Spies | The Cable

In a pointed statement issued today, Senate Intelligence
Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein said she was “totally opposed” to gathering
intelligence on foreign leaders and said it was “a big problem” if President
Obama didn’t know the NSA was monitoring the phone calls of German Chancellor
Angela Merkel.

The USA Freedom Act – Jim Sensenbrenner’s NSA reform bill | World news | theguardian.com

The bill introduced by the Republican author of the Patriot Act aims to end bulk metadata collection, order greater transparency in intelligence gathering and close foreign loopholes

Germans want to interrogate Snowden – The Local

“The service Edward Snowden has done for the disclosure of the NSA spying methods are undeniable. Germany should, together with other European states, seriously look into whether it is possible to take Snowden in,” Lars Klingbeil, SPD internet policy spokesman told Handelsblatt over the weekend.

Royal Phone Hacking

Top Murdoch editors oversaw royal phone hacking, court says – World News

Two of Rupert Murdoch’s top editors, Rebekah Brooks and Andrew Coulson oversaw a system of phone hacking and illegal payments to officials when they ran the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, a London court heard Wednesday.

Oh no… GMO?

Monsanto dumps another $540,000 into Wash. food labeling fight | KING5.com Seattle

Biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. on Monday dumped another $540,000 to fight a Washington state ballot measure requiring genetically engineered foods be labeled.

Big Food Is Quietly Spending Millions To Prevent GMO Labeling In The U.S

Food companies including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Campbell Soup, and Hershey already sell GMO-labeled products in some of the 60-plus other countries around that world that require it, but have fought hard to avoid putting the same information on drinks and snacks in the U.S., their biggest and most lucrative market. So far, it’s worked: Deep pockets and effective lobbying through the GMA, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, have helped stall or defeat both state-by-state legislation and a nationwide FDA ruling to require labeling.

Food giants pour millions into defeating Washington GMO label measure – Yahoo Finance

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), which
represents more than 300 food and beverage companies, has put
roughly $11 million into fighting the measure, or roughly half
of the nearly $22 million raised by opponents of labeling,
according to Washington Public Disclosure Commission figures as
of Tuesday.

That far outstrips the roughly $6.8 million raised by
supporters of the labeling initiative, according to the
Commission.

“They are making this the most expensive race and are
desperately adding last-minute money to try and buy this
election,” said Liz Larter, spokeswoman for “Yes on 522”
campaign, a reference to the ballot measure’s number.

Monsanto and Pepsi trying to stop GMO labeling law in Washington state

Regardless of the reason, the race has certainly tightened. In
September, one poll showed support for labeling up by a
staggering 45 percent. Two recent polls tell a much different
story, though: Supporters are still leading, but by much smaller
margins. One poll showed them ahead 45 to 38 percent, while the
other indicated an even slimmer advantage of 46 to 42 percent.

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The document – obtained by Al Jazeera through a Freedom of Information Act request – contains talking points and suggested statements for NSA officials (PDF) responding to the fallout from media revelations that originated with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Invoking the events of 9/11 to justify the controversial NSA programs, which have caused major diplomatic fallout around the world, was the top item on the talking points agency officials were encouraged to use.

Under the sub-heading, “Sound Bites that Resonate,” the document suggests the statement: “I much prefer to be here today explaining these programs, than explaining another 9/11 event that we were not able to prevent.”

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Ubuntu’s Edge Gamble | LAS s28e01

chris — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:05:15 +0000

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Canonical hopes to smash crowdfunding recordings with their massive Ubuntu Edge campaign. We’ll share our thoughts on this effort, what the impacts are if it succeeds or fails, and why even an Ubuntu critic should be paying attention

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In the car industry, Formula 1 provides a commercial testbed for cutting-edge technologies. The Ubuntu Edge project aims to do the same for the mobile phone industry – to provide a low-volume, high-technology platform, crowdfunded by enthusiasts and mobile computing professionals. A pioneering project that accelerates the adoption of new technologies and drives them down into the mainstream.

The specs:

Fastest multi-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage
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8mp low-light rear camera, 2mp front camera
Dual-LTE, dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4, NFC
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Stereo speakers with HD audio, dual-mic recording, Active Noise Cancellation
MHL connector, 3.5mm jack
Silicon-anode Li-Ion battery
64 x 9 x 124mm
Ubuntu Edge: Design process | Ubuntu Design Blog

In this post I will share some materials, stories and process during the development of the Ubuntu Edge.

OSCON 2013: Mark R. Shuttleworth “Redefining What’s Possible”

What the Goals of Edge are, and first gen nature of it: https://youtu.be/ZqmFXalqKic?t=3m26s
Q&A session with Linus Torvalds: Why is Linux not competitive on desktop?
Ubuntu Edge: convergence in action – YouTube

Victor Palau of Canonical shows how the Ubuntu Edge’s convergence will work, using a Nexus 4 as a demo unit.

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The ReactOS software includes binary and source distributions of the latest ReactOS. This includes the kernel, various subsystems and some basic applications.

Notes:

Installer looks straight outta NT4 / Win2k DOS days.
File system choices are FAT32 or ext2
In a future where ChromeOS and tablets are a viable platform for the majority of your computing, ReactOS could play the role of enabling legacy support for old Win32 apps. In a sense, further eliminating in shred of legitimacy the Windows platform could hold 7+ years out.

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Killer Chrome | CR 41

chris — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:03:34 +0000

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Google shuffles the head of Android to a new role, folding Android under the Chrome division. We take live calls and speculate on the long-term possible transition from Android to ChromeOS, how it would impact developers and how the transition could be accomplished.

Plus rumor has it Windows Phone 8 will lose support in July 2014, and the dark cloud of uncertainty around the struggling platform this creates.

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My guess is that the conversion will start slow. Perhaps Google will start to push Chrome apps for the Android version of Chrome. Maybe in a year, when those rumored Google stores start to show, we’ll see a Chrome for Mobile “developer phone.” Regardless of the conversion starts, my bet is that within the next five years Google will start publically pushing Chrome as its next generation operating system.

Samsung Dominates Android, Threatens HTC and Google (Videos – International Business Times

Google is fixing its eyes on its favoured partner, Samsung. The Android OS made the South Korean tech giant become the dominant smartphone maker in the world with nearly 215 million smartphones in 2012 or 40 per cent of the global market.

Apple leads mobile revenues, well ahead of Samsung | Electronista

Data released by UK\’s Juniper Research shows that although Samsung has retaken the smartphone sales lead from Apple, with 42.2 million sold against 35.1 million, Apple is easily leading in terms of revenue from mobile sales. It estimates that Apple\’s mobile revenues were $29.3 billion, when including the iPad. By comparison, Samsung\’s revenue from all mobile devices including feature phones came in at $17 billion.

They\’re actually generating more than 100 percent of the industry\’s earnings — 106 percent, to be precise — according to a report from Canaccord Genuity.

That may seem impossible, but it\’s largely because rivals — like Research In Motion, Nokia, and Motorola — posted operating losses during the September quarter, the firm said.

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Wrath of Cron | LAS | s25e08

chris — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:23:38 +0000

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An overview of cron, the little soldier in your computer performing duties for you every single day. Plus our ideas to play with cron, and the powerful things it’s used for in the Enterprise.

Plus Steam officially launches for Linux, and Valve turns on the love lamp for Linux gamers. Munich responds to Microsoft’s outrageous study, Ubuntu Phone images are on the way, a look at Chrome OS’s recent successes…

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Cron is a daemon that executes scheduled commands. Cron searches its spool area (/var/spool/cron/crontabs) for crontab files.

Note that crontabs in this directory should not be accessed directly – the crontab command should be used to access and update them.

crontab entries sequence:

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Must Try Linux Games | LAS | s25e05

chris — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:04:30 +0000

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We highlight the must try Linux games for casual, hardcore, and the thinker players. Also some of the best games coming out of Kickstarter, and resources to track future Kickstarter games with Linux support.

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Linux Wins CES | LAS | s25e03

chris — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:20:16 +0000

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The best gadgets at CES this year were running Linux. We round-up the highlights of these Linux powered goodies, and speculate about the future of the expo.

Plus Blizzard’s big Linux bombshell, the sunset of WebcamStudio, why you might see a Firefox OS powered smartphone soon, and is Samba less relevant these days?

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