As customers across Asia rush to use Google's Android mobile operating system in more and more devices, it looks to Joe Jensen, Intel vice president for its Internet of Things group, as though history is repeating itself with Android replicating the adoption pattern of its Linux predecessor.
"I lived through, in the telco days especially, Linux when it first emerged -- everybody was going to move to Linux, and it turned out they were going to Linux because it was free, and they all picked up a distribution and said: 'This is great. I'm going to stop paying for an OS, I'm going to have this free Linux'," Jensen told journalists at Computex 2015.
Our experiment is a little game we’ve been running on our Reglue kids and/or their parents since Ubuntu 10.10. That’s somewhere in 2010, if I recall correctly, but I am sure I am correct when reporting that the 10.10 default desktop was as exciting as…well, you couldn’t get a duller presentation if you honestly made an attempt to do so.
Dare we mention just how the average user will react to Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, the supported Linuxes under Horizon 6? Perhaps best to leave that to the comments, after donning a flame-retarding suit and pointing out that Citrix has similar plans in the works.
Most of our readers know that our organization, Reglue; was globally recognized at MIT by the Free Software Foundation this year for the work we do. I was honored to attend the ceremony during LibrePlanet 2015. You also know of the challenges we face daily in getting enough good hardware to build our Reglue kids their computers. A while back, we were notified that one of our most reliable sources for excellent computer hardware would no longer be supplying those much-needed parts and machines. The underlying reasons for this change chapped my southern nether-regions enough to talk about it over at Fossforce.com.
Web-based attacks executed over Web browsers are a common attack vector. To combat such attacks, Menlo Security today officially emerged from stealth mode with its Isolation Platform, which makes use of Linux containers to limit risks.
As usual with free software, the situation is getting better with time, but there is one other thing—security. Sensitive software systems go through rigorous certifications (like Common Criteria) or even formal verification procedures. If you want them to run virtualized (say, for consolidation purposes), the hypervisor must isolate them from non-certifiable workloads. This implies that the hypervisor itself must be small enough; otherwise, it may end up being larger (and more "suspicious") than the software it segregates, thus devastating the whole idea of isolation.
BFQ is a proportional-share I/O scheduler that shares a lot of code with the CFQ scheduler. The Completely Fair Queuing (CFQ) scheduler has long been part of the mainline tree but BFQ hasn't been pulled yet even after many revisions and code reviews, as outlined previously on Phoronix. While it doesn't look like it will be ready for the upcoming Linux 4.2 cycle, it appears BFQ getting accepted is becoming quite close.
Besides presenting a lot of new kernel features and functionality, the upcoming Linux 4.1 kernel release is potentially very exciting if you're an owner of certain classes of Intel hardware that offer better performance under this new kernel -- and in some cases, better battery life. Here's some tests from yet another system I found exhibiting some promising results from this new 2015 summer kernel version.
The 4.0.5, 3.14.44, and 3.10.80 stable kernels have been released. These contain a number of important bug fixes, including the fixes for the ext4 and RAID 0 data corruption issues discussed in this article.
In the world of open-source projects, Imad Sousou, General Manager of Intel's Open Source Technology Center, sees Linux and OpenStack as the two largest projects.
We at Orange have a long history of participating and contributing to open source communities and have been a leading supporter of open standards. As one of the largest global telecommunication operators, we provide a comprehensive range of fixed and mobile services to over 247 million customers in 29 countries. Since the launch of OpenDaylight in 2013 Orange has been an active participant in the community. Orange is also actively participating in OpenStack and is a founding member of OPNFV.
It's Sunday again, so Linus Torvalds has just informed us about the immediate availability for download and testing of Linux kernel 4.1's seventh Release Candidate (RC) version, which might also be the last, according to Mr. Torvalds.
Another Sunday, another Linux kernel update. Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 4.1-rc7 kernel release.
Rob Clark has sent in his feature updates for Freedreno's MSM DRM driver that will target the Linux 4.2 kernel.
Samuel Pitoiset has continued on his quest of implementing NVIDIA hardware counters support and exposing it to user-space within the Nouveau open-source driver stack.
The reference Wayland Live CD with various Wayland software components enabled has been updated against Wayland/Weston 1.8 and other new code.
The Pentium 4 that powered up still was the Pentium 4 "C" 2.80GHz (SL6WT) Northwood processor with 512KB cache and 800MHz FSB. This Pentium 4 was manufactured on a 130nm process and was single-core but featured Hyper Threading. The TDP on this 2.8GHz HT CPU on the NetBurst micro-architecture was 69.7 Watts.
Nuvola Player is a cloud music player supports various services such as Google Play Music, This is My Jam, Rdio, Deezer, Bandcamp, Spotify, Jango, Mixcloud and KEXP Live Stream.
Its purpose is to integrate these music services with the desktop, providing MPRIS v2 support (integration with the Ubuntu Sound Menu, GNOME Shell MediaPlayer extension, Cinnamon Sound applet, etc.), desktop notifications, multimedia keys support, Unity quicklists as well as an optional tray icon.
Spotify is a popular music streaming site that gives you access to all your favorite songs. Spotify has also a Spotify client for Linux, that helps you use the spotify service better.
PhpMyAdmin, a tool built in PHP that handles the administration of MySQL databases, has been upgraded once more and is now at version 4.4.9.
One of the reasons I use Linux is because it allows me to get a lot of work done without the added distraction of malware. However, just because malware isn't a threat to my desktop doesn't mean that I shouldn't backup my data. Linux isn't fail proof and anyone who values their data is a fool if they don't have a solid backup plan in place.
In this article, we'll examine different tools that are used to backup desktop Linux installations. From the easy to use to the more in-depth, I’ll explore multiple options.
Opera Software has just announced that Opera 30 has been released, and it's the first browser to include sidebar extensions. This is a big and round version, so you can expect to see a lot more features.
Free Electrons has posted free detailed training materials for its course on building an embedded Linux project on a BeagleBone Black SBC using Buildroot.
If the term is unfamiliar to you, a "Live CD" is a bootable CD-ROM that runs Linux without needing to be installed on the hard drive of your computer. Linux runs directly from the CD with no other installation required. This lets you try out Linux without disturbing anything you already have installed (like, say, Windows). The downside is that CD drives are much slower than hard drives, so the "live" Linux will run slower.
Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol now ships with FNA, and is for the first time available for Linux on Humble and Steam. A Linux version using the MonoGame framework has been available on Desura since 2013, but with Bad JuJu Games filing for bankruptcy, it's good to have other purchase options.
The Desura digital distribution platform might on the brink of going under after the parent company, Bad Juju, had filed for bankruptcy and payments to developers have been delayed.
If you remember Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon, then you will love the open source remake named OpenTTD. The developers have pushed a new version out the door and it is full of fixes and various changes.
Search the world to discover materials needed to craft tools, weapons, and giant robotic suits that will help even the odds against the enormous creatures that rule the land in Goliath, coming soon to Mac, Windows, and Linux.
We are pleased to announce that Calligra Suite, and Calligra Active 2.9.5 have just been released. This recommended update brings further improvements to the 2.9 series of the applications and underlying development frameworks.
We're sad to inform you that Marco Pesenti Gritti, the creator of Epiphany and Evince, has passed away. He will be missed in the Linux community.
Arjen Balfoort has had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability of updated builds of the SolydX and SolydK Linux distributions, which are now based on the recently released Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (Jessie) operating system.
Arnault Perret has had the great pleasure of informing us about the immediate availability for download of the first point release of his lightweight and unique GNU/Linux distribution, HandyLinux 2.1.
Q4OS is a Linux distribution based on Debian that aims to provide users with a desktop experience that is similar to the one found on older Windows systems. The developers have finally moved passed the dreaded 1.x version, and they have upgraded their systems once more.
Clonezilla Live is a Linux OS that can be used by users for backup and regular system maintenance. It's based on DRBL, Partclone, and udpcast and a number of other packages. A new version of the distro has been released and is now available for download.
We call it “the famous release syndrome”! Part of Mageia servers are down at the moment. Investigation in progress, we hope to get it back on line soon. Stay tuned!
This is just a reminder that as of today, June 8th 2015, it is the last day for any changes to be submitted to aur.archlinux.org and for them to be kept. Any and all changes going forward should be made to aur4.archlinux.org. Any changes that occur to aur.archlinux.org after today will be LOST.
Red Hat's latest language update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Software Collections 2, is now available.
Open source companies are unusual and different. The planning, product development, culture, and business of open source have defined new rules that challenge business traditions, but also open up interesting new opportunities.
Mammoth Data, Inc, the leader in big data consulting, is excited to announce it has joined the Red Hat Connect for Business Partners Program. By expanding its ecosystem to include Red Hat's technology stack, Mammoth Data aims to continue to provide high level data architecture strategy to customers.
The Fedora Project recently launched Fedora 22, the latest release of the popular, Red Hat sponsored distribution. The new version of Fedora brings with it a number of new and interesting features. The Workstation edition of the project offers users improved desktop notifications and the latest version of GNOME. The Server edition ships with XFS as the default file system and offers administrators the Cockpit management software. The Cloud edition of Fedora offers a rollback feature that allows administrators to undo changes to the base system as well as services.
The project's three branches (Workstation, Server and Cloud) are each available in 32-bit and 64-bit x86 builds. There are also some ARM images available. Since I tried Fedora 21 Workstation fairly recently I decided to explore another aspect of Fedora and looked at the Fedora spins. There are spins for most of the popular desktop environments, one for gaming and another for security. In fact there are lots of spins, but I chose to focus on just one, the KDE spin. The Fedora KDE spin ships with the Plasma 5 desktop and is provided as a 1.1GB ISO file.
I wanted to watch the Fedora Council meeting earlier today but ran into problems on all of my machines due to how the video hangouts work - you pretty much have to install Google Chrome (edit: removed part about Chromium as a possible alternative after comment about actual experience) and I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it.
I'm not trying to citicize the choice of Hangouts for these video meetings because there's not a viable alternative right now that can host, broadcast and record video conferences.
In Fedora 22, one of the new features from the Cloud SIG is a project called Tunir. It is a very simple system which can be used to test Fedora Cloud images, or it can be used to test any normal software project using the Cloud images or bare metal systems.
Fedora infrastructure engineer Kevin Fenzi sent an announcement today noting that there’s going to be a significant planned downtime on June 9th, 2015, starting at 23:00 UTC.
Today we're continuing our screenshot tour articles for the Fedora 22 Linux operating system with the MATE/Compiz edition, which is not as known as the Fedora 22 Workstation, Fedora 22 KDE, Fedora 22 Xfce, or Fedora 22 LXDE flavors.
Fedora 22 was released last month and, as expected, it brought many new features and introduced many new technologies to Fedora users. I am a Plasma user. Fedora uses Gnome as the default desktop environment (DE). So the question was which version to download.
The good news is that Fedora is one of the Linux distributions (distros) which makes it easy to use your desktop environment of choice. There is no prodigal son, with exceptional privileges, which makes the lives of other DEs hard. Everyone is treated equally. Almost.
It’s very easy to install multiple DEs on a Fedora system, but for the sake of purity, and this review, I downloaded both: the default Workstation and the KDE spin.
The Fedora Project announced it has released the Fedora 22 Linux operating system for the PowerPC and IBM System z (s390) 64-bit hardware architectures.
The Fedora 22 operating system is powered by Linux technologies, among which Linux kernel 4.0, GNOME 3.16, KDE Plasma 5, Xfce 4.12, LXQt 0.9.0, MATE 1.10.0, and other server software.
The Debian project announced the release of Debian 8.1, and update to 8.0 line released in April. Updated Jessie 8.1 brings over 100 bug fixes and security updates. Elsewhere, CrunchBang Plus Plus, founded in February, was added to the Distrowatch.com waiting list this week and the Free Software Foundation added a deprecated software license to its license list as compatible with the GPL.
Debian 8.1 Jessie has been released today, being available for free download. Being only a bug-fix release, Debian 8.1 updates the following packages: Caja, BlackBox, ClamAv, cwm, Debian Installer, DBus, didjvu, ejabberd, feed2imap, fai, FreeOrion, gdnsd, ganeti, GNOME Shell, GnuTLS, libav, MATE, mew, Mutter, node-groove, open-iscsi, OpenCV, pdf2DjVu, Perl, PHP, and systemd.
The first stable point release to Debian 8 "Jessie" is now available.
Earlier this year Dell released their XPS 13 laptop with an Intel Broadwell processor and all-around looks like a great developer laptop. Back when the hardware first appeared, the Linux support wasn't in great shape. Dell is now shipping the XPS13 2015 model with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS preloaded, but sadly, there's still some issues with the initial pre-install.
Canonical, through à Âukasz Zemczak, announced a few minutes ago (June 8) that the highly anticipated OTA-4 software update for the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system might be delayed after all.
After having informed users about the immediate availability of a new kernel update for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system, Canonical has also announced that Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) received an important kernel update.
On June 8, Canonical issued a new Ubuntu Security Notice informing all users of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system that a new kernel update is available.
The BQ Aquaris EQ HD Ubuntu Edition is a smartphone with a 5 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel display, a quad-core MediaTek ARM Cortex-A7 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage.
It’s now available for pre-order for about €200 and the phone should ship after June 22nd. There’s one small catch though: the BQ Aquaris HD Ubuntu Edition is only available in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland at launch.
The latest Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition from the Spanish company BQ is now available for purchase on the official website. This latest Ubuntu phone was announced just a couple of weeks ago and it's finally here.
Ubuntu developers have managed to build the first Ubuntu Desktop Next version based on Snappy package, although it's only for the 32-bit systems. This is just the first step towards the final goal of having a full Ubuntu release that is based entirely on Snappy.
The new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition that ships with Ubuntu is a great piece of hardware, but another cool thing has been revealed about it. From the looks of it, the laptop comes with the greatest boot animation you have ever seen.
Will Cooke of Canonical shared this morning that they have got the first Snappy build of Ubuntu Desktop Next built for i386.
Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available for pre-order in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland.
The hard-working developers behind the REMnux Linux distribution, an Ubuntu derivative that promises a lightweight solution for assisting malware analysis with reverse-engineering malicious software, have announced the release of REMnux 6.0.
Acrosser’s latest ruggedized vehicle PC is only 35mm tall, runs Linux on a 3rd Gen Core with 16GB RAM, and offers extensive I/O including optional wireless.
PiScan is an open-source version of the Amazon Dash Button using a Raspberry Pi and an off the shelf usb barcode scanner.
Before Amazon’s announcement (which, because of the timing on March 31, led some people to think erroneously that it was an April Fools Joke), I had been working on an open-source barcode scanner.
While Huawei has steadily become known as a company capable of releasing quality devices without massive price tags, there are a few things that the company needs to work on. One of those is definitely their update strategy when it comes to keeping up with the latest version of Android. While devices like the Huawei P8 have launched with Android 5.0.2 Lollipop, other devices are waiting for their updates to the version of Android that was launched at the end of 2014. LG and Motorola were first to jump on the Lollipop update wagon, with Samsung and then Sony following behind. Huawei however, still has a lot of their work cut out for them.
Android, of course, is still the most popular operating system overall, with 80 percent share of the smartphone market.
CarPlay and Android Auto announcements are finally starting to pick up in recent months — and the latest is Cadillac, which just announced it'll be deploying both across the line starting with 2016 models. The add-ons come on the heels of an upgrade for Cue, Cadillac's homegrown connected car platform, which gets a faster processor to try to alleviate some of the lag woes that the current system has been derided for.
As an Android user, it’s hard not to watch an Apple event and think of all the things Cupertino is “borrowing” from Google. In fact, I spent most of today’s WWDC keynote tweeting out a comparison list. In some cases, Apple seems to have simply improved upon some of the features that Google has helped make mainstream in the mobile world, but other cases made it seem as though Apple is playing catch-up.
For the most part, what Apple announced today will likely improve the lives of its iOS and Apple Watch users, though I just couldn’t help but notice many of the things Google innovated on first.
“SourceForge are (sic) abusing the trust that we and our users had put into their service in the past,” according to the GIMP project. Since 2013, SourceForge has been bundling junkware along with their installers — sometimes without a developer’s permission.
Don’t download software from SourceForge if you can help it. Many open-source projects now host their installers elsewhere, and the versions on SourceForge may include junkware. If you absolutely have to download something from SourceForge, be extra careful.
Fifteen years ago, the deep tech side of the Internet was a vastly different place. Geek news aggregator Slashdot was the place to go for all the latest IT and open source news and discussion, and SourceForge was the spot for open source project hosting and distribution. Much like MySpace, it seemed that these two stalwarts of the open source community would reign forever.
Much like MySpace today, these two sites now live mainly on the margins, and at least in the case of SourceForge, that's been of its own doing.
After drawing the ire of the open-source community over the past couple of weeks, SourceForge published a blog post today explaining how it will generate ad revenue going forward.
The online software repository landed itself in hot water after it was found to be bundling adware with free and open-source software downloads, most notably the Windows version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
You may have heard of this thing called Docker. You know, the one which has fostered over 20,000 open source projects (including orchestration tools and management frameworks) and over 85,000 Dockerized applications?
The whole Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright infringement litigation would never have happened if Google had adopted Java under the GPL (the license under which Sun Microsystems already made Java code available before being acquired by Oracle), but it feared that copyleft would prevent its device makers from differentiating through proprietary add-ons.
Apple brought out the big guns, from CEO Tim Cook to musical performer Drake, but perhaps the loudest reaction at the company's Worldwide Developers' Conference Monday in San Francisco resulted from news that the Swift programming language is being open sourced.
Apple today announced Swift 2, the latest version of its programming language for iOS, OS X and watchOS with all-new Whole Module Optimization technology. Apple executive Craig Federighi also announced that Swift will be open source and made available for Linux later this year.
Docker has dominated the container business since it first exploded on the scene. Now, with its new certification program, Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP), it's trying to turn its current momentum into long-term partnerships.
This week, NASA released its second annual Software Catalog, a giant compendium of over 1,000 programs available for free to industry, government agencies, and the general public. The Software Catalog contains the actual advanced engineering and aeronautics codes NASA engineers purpose-built for their daily work.
A year and a half ago, we forged a partnership with the Apache Software Foundation to become the producer of their official ASF events. The ASF has long blazed a trail of innovation in open source and our work with them has yielded results in successful developer collaboration and events. It’s been a great partnership, in our opinion, led on our side by my colleague Angela Brown.
The Mautic Association provides resources and a network for people to connect and grow both personally and professionally through collaboration and co-creation.
Among the myriad vendors in the Software Defined Networking (SDN) landscape, Cumulus Networks has managed to carve out a niche as a leading innovator of open source-based technology. Helping to lead Cumulus Networks is co-founder and CTO Nolan Leake.
Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3 has arrived. Following the company's IPO late last year, it has been stepping up its development and training offerings surrounding Hadoop, and the new version of HDP incorporates many of the most recent innovations that have happened in Hadoop and its supporting ecosystem of projects.
MapR Technologies, which focuses on Apache Hadoop, unveiled at Hadoop Summit version 5.0 of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop, featuring improved security, self-service data exploration and agility. MapR 5.0 is built for processing big and fast data on a single data platform that enables a new class of real-time applications, according to the company. Here are more details.
Every once in a while, a software developer releases a long-awaited update to much fanfare and user enthusiasm…and then it bombs miserably. We’re not saying that’s what happened with PostgreSQL, but just in case you didn’t love the way it runs after you updated it last, the publisher has released a new update that addresses most of the necessary bug fixes from the last update.
The first RC release for LibreOffice 5.0 has been made available by The Document Foundation and it's now available for download and testing. Developers are organizing a new bug hunting session for this release.
Canonical has used a variety of content management systems throughout the years, including Drupal and Zope, and a large number of our websites have run on WordPress; in fact, many still do. Our developer portal was one of these standard WordPress instances, which worked well enough for a simple website that didn't get very heavy traffic, but we began to outgrow it. The launch of the Ubuntu phone project, and its accompanying SDK for app development, meant that this site was going to start getting a lot more attention—from a very different audience—and it needed to do a lot more than it currently did.
Virtualization startup Rancher Labs today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round of funding from Mayfield and Nexus Venture Partners. Rancher Labs' founders are well-known in the cloud industry as the founders of cloud.com, which was sold to Citrix and evolved to become the Apache CloudStack cloud platform.
Matthew Dillon's latest addition to DragonFlyBSD will help those that build out the full kernel themselves: parallelized kernel module builds. This change for developers allows the the kernel build process to be multiple times faster when doing a full kernel build.
If you ask a lot of people why Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel that he wrote became one of the most prominent open source projects of all time, while Richard Stallman's GNU project has received much less attention beyond hacker circles, they'll tell you the difference has to do with Stallman's excessive commitment to an uncompromising ideology. Is that really accurate?
We recently updated our list of various licenses and comments about them to include the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer(HPND). The HPND is a simple permissive license, compatible with all versions of the GPL. The HPND is actually more of a template, allowing developers to select a few options, such as whether to include a disclaimer.
As an essential member of an open source compliance program’s advisory board, legal counsel provides numerous services to ensure a company’s products comply with open source copyright and licenses. They provide approval around the use of FOSS in products, for example, advise on licensing conflicts, and advise on IP issues associated with the use of FOSS. (See the previous article, 5 Essential Duties of Legal Counsel in an Open Source Compliance Program.)
The Facebook team working on the HHVM project for being a faster PHP interpreter and powering their Hack language have just come out of a two-week, open-source performance lockdown. Over the past two weeks they focused on making strides to make HHVM's compelling performance even better.
When it comes to taking advantage of the Linux kernel's (e)BPF in-kernel virtual machine, LLVM has served as the compiler of choice for targeting this virtual machine
Public administrations that continue to ignore the policy to implement open standards in their ICT solutions should be fined, says Dutch MP Astrid Oosenbrug. “Public administrations should come to grips with open data, open standards and open source. With all their talk about regaining the trust of their citizens and creating a participatory society, public administrations should take a cue from open source communities.”
Sweden’s governmental procurement specialists at Statens inköpscentral are fine-tuning the list of ICT standards that public authorities may use as mandatory requirements when procuring software and ICT services. The procurement agency is working with standardisation specialists at the University of Skövde, to check which ICT standards are truly open.
For the first time, Queen Elizabeth II will travel to a former Nazi concentration camp on her trip to Germany this month, the Associated Press reported Monday. In addition to Bergen-Belsen, where Anne Frank and her older sister, Margot, died, the queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, will visit Berlin and Frankfurt during the June 23-26 trip.
Police in Scotland are understood to be investigating claims Labour peer Lord Janner abused a boy there in the 1970s.
Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most influential Sci-Fi writers of the 20th century, and anyone should recognize his name as the author of mesmerizing 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was also called a futurist, and he made some interesting predictions that seem to have come through.
Australian academics who teach mathematics may need to run new ideas by the Department of Defence before sharing them or risk imprisonment.
Some academics are set to become much more familiar with the department's Defence Export Control Office (DECO), a unit that enforces the Defence Trade Control Act 2012, Australia's end of a 2007 pact with the US and UK over defence trade.
In April, federal authorities detected an ongoing remote attack targeting the United States' Office of Personnel Management (OPM) computer systems. This situation may have gone on for months, possibly even longer, but the White House only made the discovery public last Friday. While the attack was eventually uncovered using the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Einstein—the multibillion-dollar intrusion detection and prevention system that stands guard over much of the federal government's Internet traffic—it managed to evade this detection entirely until another OPM breach spurred deeper examination.
On Monday afternoon, the site was disabled after it displayed messages including, "YOU'VE BEEN HACKED" and "YOUR COMMANDERS ADMIT THEY ARE TRAINING THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE SENT YOU TO DIE FIGHTING," according to NBC News.
The U.S. Army confirmed to CNN the web page had been compromised.
"Today an element of the Army.mil service provider's content was compromised. After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily," spokesman Brig. Gen. Malcom B. Frost said in a statement.
While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international students alike. An increasing number of Americans are taking advantage and saving tens of thousands of dollars to get their degrees.
Broad agreement on a controversial trade deal between Europe and the United States should be completed by the end of this year, the G7 leaders have announced as they outlined a string of initiatives designed to boost growth, tackle climate change and check Russian ambitions in Ukraine.
If you're looking for the number of citizens killed by police officers, don't ask the government. It just doesn't know. The DOJ is nominally in charge of compiling this information, but it has not made anything resembling an honest effort to do so.
To begin with, it has mostly ignored the federal law ordering the compilation of stats on excessive force by law enforcement officers. And it has ignored this for the last 20 years. To make things worse, it has turned over the duty of collecting data on police-involved shootings to the FBI, which has even less interest in ensuring the comprehensiveness of its "collection."
The "do something" resulting from the Enron scandal was Sarbanes-Oxley. To date, the law has done very little to curb corporate fraud -- its intended target. But it has become a handy tool for prosecutors looking to stack charges against defendants far removed from the financial world.
I had a friend once who told me that after being abused by a stranger over the phone, she never picks up from numbers she doesn't have in her phone. In fact, her phone doesn't even ring. If somebody who doesn't know wants to get in touch, she says, they can send her a text. She told me that her life improved dramatically after that decision: no more abuses, telemarketers, unwanted phone calls, ever. It's an important lesson for me too: if an anonymous person is attacking you, you can always ignore them. What gives them power, is your responses. This way, everybody wins -- and the trolls eventually will get bored of being ignored.
Even as the US government bids adieu to Clipper Chip, an infamous episode that influenced the cryptography debate for years, there is renewed focus in a number of quarters that it should not repeated.
The most recent evidence comes from a new report from the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). A Special Rapporteur, David Kaye, was appointed to look into the use of encryption and anonymity in digital communications. In preparing the report—which will be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council later this month—he drew from research on international and national norms and jurisprudence, and received input from governments and civil society.
No, the “incidents” raising concerns have not involved black “suspects.” Freddie Gray was not a suspect, nor Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice and John Crawford held toy guns, and Ferguson officers evidently “suspected” Michael Brown of nothing more than not walking on the sidewalk. A number of those killed have been “suspected” of being mentally ill and in need of help.
As a matter of fact, the presumption by law enforcement—and media—that any black person involved in an altercation with police must be a criminal suspect is part of the outrage driving public protest.
Telling, too, that in its description of police killings in the news over the last several months—including one officer who went free after leaping on top of the car of two unarmed black people and firing dozens of bullets into them, and another who saw all charges dropped for a putting a bullet through the head of a 7-year-old girl sleeping on her living room sofa—the only thing AP sees fit to describe as “violent” are the protests.
Progressive critics enamored of the semantically fraudulent junk label “Islamophobe” are de facto aiding the assassins of free-thinkers, abetting the oppressors of women, and shielding razor-happy butchers slicing off the clitorises of little girls. And at no time do they betray the ideals for which they supposedly stand more than when they call ex-Muslims living in the West “Islamophobe.”
To understand why, let’s examine the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. No one exposes the faulty thinking, moral incoherence and double standards pervading the Western liberal reaction to Islam better than this Somali-born, self-professed “infidel” and “heretic.” Herself a survivor of female genital mutilation, civil war and forced marriage, and, for more than a decade now, the object of Islamist death threats, Hirsi Ali deserves the respect of all who cherish free speech, equality between the sexes, and the right to profess the religion (or no religion) of one’s choosing.
Towns is now suing the Clay County Sheriff's Department for this mix-up, which resulted in some jail time for a crime he didn't commit. His claim that his ID was stolen is backed up in the court filing, which includes a report made to another sheriff's department in 2011. That report includes him informing the Jacksonville Sheriff's Dept. that someone using his name and ID was cited for shoplifting earlier that year. He finally turned himself in to the Clay County Sheriff's Dept. in 2013, presumably to clear the whole thing up. Obviously, that plan didn't work.
A Jacksonville man and the State Attorney’s Office say that the Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested the wrong man in a case involving stolen cologne and missed court appearances.
The music streaming pioneer has come under fire from critics such as Taylor Swift for giving away songs. Now he faces a new challenge from Apple
It looks like Team Prenda has been smacked around once again. This is in the Lightspeed case -- which is one of the rare earlier cases where they were actually representing a real third party, rather than a made up entity that they really owned themselves. This was the case where they tried to drag Comcast and AT and T into the lawsuit and it all failed terribly. If you don't recall, in late 2013, the district court smacked them around as judge Patrick Murphy clearly figured out what was going on: "The litigation smacked of bullying pretense." Yup, you got that right. The defendant, Anthony Sweet, represented by Prenda killers Booth Sweet, asked for attorneys' fees and got them at the end of 2013, with the court ordering Team Prenda to pay up $261k, saying that Team Prenda "flat-out lied" to the court.