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Florence has led to at least 17 deaths as its devastating rainfall continues to inundate North Carolina. Nearly 1 million people lost power at the height of the storm.
Flooding has taken over entire towns, and officials are working frantically to restore power and rescue those trapped. Weather permitting, aerial imagery is being collected in specific areas identified by NOAA in coordination with FEMA and other state and federal partners. During the mission, NGS will attempt two missions a day. Images are updated every 12 hours, which includes flight and processing time.
Collected images are available to view online via the NGS aerial imagery viewer. View tips on how to use the imagery viewer. Sanders has also been highlighting some of the 19th-century working practices used by Amazon to control and discipline its workforce inside of its fulfilment centres.
Yet what I found while working for Amazon shocked me. I had done warehouse work previously when I was younger, along with a range of other poorly paid, manual jobs. In other words, my shock at the way workers were treated by Amazon was not a product of some wet-behind-the-ears naivety: I fully expected warehouse work to be tough. Yet what I witnessed at Amazon went far beyond that. This was a workplace environment in which decency, respect and dignity were absent.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the iconic news magazine is being sold for USD million to Benioff, one of four co-founders of Salesforce, a cloud computing pioneer. Out of episodes aired Monday through Friday over the course of six months, researchers and fellows representing think tanks were quoted times. Centrist think tanks were most commonly heard on Morning Edition, with 63 interview 44 percent of citations. Representatives from two think tanks—the pro-seafood Lobster Institute and the Rich Earth Institute, which promotes turning urine into fertilizer—could not be placed on the political spectrum.
We launched the Election DataBot in with the idea that it would help reporters, researchers and concerned citizens more easily find and tell some of the thousand stories in every political campaign. Just as before, the DataBot is a continuously updating feed of campaign data, including campaign finance filings, changes in race ratings and deleted tweets. Google does pretty much the same thing with Android phones here in the US, where everything in the ecosystem is tied to the originating phone.
In China, however, the phones are also registered with the government, removing the third-party hop needed to tie internet activity to a person. Companies make bad decisions when faced with doing the right thing or doing the most profitable thing. Google premised its existence on not being evil.
Pulling out of China lived up to that ideal. This does not. Concessions will always be made, but if these leaked documents are accurate, what Google is doing in China is far more than making small compromises to provide Chinese citizens with platforms not entirely controlled by their government.
Early in August, a report from The Intercept claimed that Google was working to make a China-friendly version of its search engine that would censor results to make the government happy. More than anything, the report — which is well worth reading in full — shows the extent that even the biggest tech companies will go to in order to capture a share in a major emerging market.
While civil liberties advocates have long suspected secret FISA court orders may be used and abused to conduct surveillance on journalists, the government—to our knowledge—has never acknowledged they have ever even contemplated doing so before the release of these documents today.
They must also get approval from the Attorney General. Three years after its inception, a prosecution involving possibly unlawful FISA-authorized surveillance, hints of parallel construction, and a very rare DOJ notification of Section evidence has reached a temporary dead end.
First, the defendants — all accused of providing material support to Al Qaeda remember them? The court [PDF] says these more-recent exposures are no reason to upset the precedential apple cart. The Trump administration wants more spying power — and Congress appears poised to give it to them.
Touting national security to justify spying powers that jeopardize our constitutional rights is a strategy that we have seen before. This time it involves a drone bill that some in Congress are pressing to be sneakily inserted into a larger piece of legislation that could be considered this month. Proponents of the bill claim that it will make our country safer. But, in reality, the drone legislation will give new surveillance powers to the Trump administration to spy on journalists, activists, and other Americans without a warrant.
Generally, these laws require the government to get a warrant if they want to wiretap or access other types of stored communications. The bill defined covered areas so broadly — including areas where there may be emergency responses or federal investigations— that it will inevitably sweep in areas where media organizations have a legitimate interest in reporting.
Media are certainly reporting the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Over the weekend, details of serious charges of sexual assault alleged to have been committed by Judge Brett Kavanaugh became public, as did the name of the woman raising these allegations. In a letter to Sen. Christine Blasey Ford described an incident in high school when she says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party. Judge Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.
Initially, Dr. Ford did not want her story to become public. Already, she has reportedly received threatening emails and is the subject of vicious online trolls, cruel tweets, and mocking Instagram posts, including one by Donald Trump Jr. It is critical that the confirmation hearings be delayed so that a thorough and transparent investigation can be conducted, including a hearing at which both Ford and Kavanaugh have an opportunity to testify under oath.
The Senate cannot move forward with this lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land without considering the results of a fair, non-partisan, and complete process. If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, he could sit on the Supreme Court for the next 40 years. This confirmation process is the only process he will ever go through. Now is the time for the allegations to be investigated and testimony to be heard.
A hearing to determine whether Joe Bryan should be granted a new trial came to a dramatic conclusion on Monday with a surprise, eleventh-hour admission from the expert witness whose testimony had proved critical in convicting the former high school principal of the murder of his wife, Mickey. Therefore, some of my testimony was not correct. Bloodstain-pattern analysis is a forensic discipline whose practitioners regard the drops, spatters and trails of blood at a crime scene as clues, which can sometimes be used to reverse-engineer the crime itself.
Thorman had only 40 hours of training in the discipline when he was called in to work on the Bryan case. What connection the flashlight had to the crime, if any, was never clear; in , a crime lab chemist found that the blood on it was type O, which corresponded not only to Mickey but to nearly half the population.
But Thorman effectively tied the flashlight to the crime scene, going so far as to say that the killer had likely held the flashlight in one hand while firing a pistol with the other. He has always maintained that he was in Austin, asleep in his hotel room, at the time of the crime. Sex-segregated classified ads subsequently became a thing of the past. Today, five decades later, sex-segregated job listings are roaring back to life. The case is brought on behalf of three job seekers and the Communications Workers of America on behalf of a proposed class of millions of job applicants.
It alleges that these job advertising practices violate federal civil rights laws prohibiting sex and age discrimination in employment. The plaintiffs — Kashiya Nwanguma, Molly Shah, and Henry Brosseau — attended a Trump campaign rally for the express purpose of protesting it. ISPs recently met with Brown in a last-minute bid to get him to veto the bill a very real possibility despite widespread, majority public support. During the Obama years, when Pai was a mere FCC commissioner, he argued that states had the right to overrule federal telcoms rules.
Notice of intellectual property content, ownership, boundaries, scope of rights and limitations , enforcement institutions, and remedial consequences plays a central role in resource planning and other economic and social functions. This chapter examines the function, design, and economic effects of intellectual property notice and disclosure rules and institutions.
Based on this analysis, the chapter offers a comprehensive set of policy, institutional, and litigation reforms. Later, in , Mr. A circular was released by the govt. This circular addressed the issue of a Customs Officer not having the pre-requisite knowledge on Patents, Geographical Indication Infringements and design compared to Trademark and Copyrights. In order to deal with the infringements of the former kind, they should have been pronounced as offences by the court of law making the application by the Customs Officer simpler.
In order to deal with this, vide notification no. This case concerns the question of whether, and under what conditions, a supplier of infringing products who is located abroad can be held liable for infringement of the German patent for acts committed abroad. The FCJ held that the supplier may be liable if he was aware or should have been aware of the fact that the products he was supplying would eventually also reach the German market through his customers.
Where the supplier does not market the products directly to Germany, there is no general obligation to monitor the activities of his customers. The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision, and despite the two marks shown below looking substantially different in appearance at first glance, other factors weighed in favor of the cancellation.
First, the licenses operate in the sphere of copyright and similar rights. They do not attempt to license, say, personality rights, trademark, or patent rights. Also, the CC community recognizes that voluntary licensing schemes will never be a comprehensive solution for access to and reuse of knowledge and creativity around the world. This is one reason why CC works on international copyright reform issues, including the protection and expansion of user rights.
Traditional knowledge consists of a wide range of skills, cultural works, and practices that have been sustained and developed over generations by indigenous communities around the world. International and national instruments have attempted to codify the value of traditional knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples, but the place of such knowledge within conventional intellectual property structures remains deeply contested and uncertain.
These issues and more were brought up at the Creative Commons Global Summit as well, and has since started an important conversation within the CC community. A draft of the paper is complete, and we welcome your thoughts and suggestions to it. For some time, Swedish ISP Bahnhof has been sounding the alarm over copyright trolling practices in its home country.
While cynics will note that Bahnhof has absolutely made its refusal to hand over customer data a central part of its marketing messaging, the ISP has also made a point to publicly track copyright trolling court cases, threat letters, and pretty much everything else related to copyright trolling in Sweden. Last week we, like many others, wrote about the story of Anders G da Silva, who had complained on Twitter about how Apple had disappeared three movies he had purchased, and its customer service seemed to do little more than offer him some rental credits.
Some more details are coming out about the situation with da Silva, and some are arguing that everyone got the original story wrong and it was incorrect to blame Apple here. What happened was that da Silva moved from Australia to Canada, and apparently then wished to redownload the movies he had purchased.
It was that region change that evidently caused the problem. Permalink Leave Your Comment Send this to a friend. However, I decided that it was worth keeping just one spare, for emergencies or other odd situations.
I have two candidate machines in my possession. The weight was the clincher. What do I use it for? I wrote nearly all of liquorice on it in downtime on a holiday to Turkey whilst my daughter was having her afternoon nap. I received a comment from Milton asking me about text to speech options in Linux. He also wanted to know what I recommended for audio dictation under Linux.
The first option is indeed, using FoSS awesomeness. Also, here is that article on controlling your mouse cursor with your webcam and no hands. Nothing particularly odd stands out on the technical side in the kernel updates for last week — rc4 looks fairly average in size for this stage in the release cycle, and all the other statistics look pretty normal too.
I am also mindful of ego. None of us like to admit we have an ago, but we all do. He built it…they came…and a revolution was energized because of what he created. His post today is a clear example of him putting Linux as a project ahead of his own personal ego.
This is important for a few reasons. I work with a lot of CEOs, and they often say it is the loneliest job on the planet. I have heard American presidents say the same in interviews. This is because they are the top of the tree with all the responsibility and expectations on their shoulders.
Ego forces these internal struggles under the surface and to push them down and avoid them. So, to accept them as publicly and openly as he did today is a very firm step in the right direction. Now, the true test will be results, but we need to all provide the breathing space for him to accomplish them.
So, I would encourage everyone to give Linus a shot. He is a human, and the best tonic for humans to resolve their own internal struggles is the support and encouragement of other humans. This is not unique to Linus, but to anyone who faces similar struggles. After writing yesterday about kernel contributions of AMD vs.
Intel, I kicked off the hours-long process of gitstats analyzing the Linux kernel Git repository for some fresh numbers on the current kernel development trends. But the process is done and offering a fresh look at the current Linux kernel activity in Git. Here are some of the findings:. The kernel repository is at , commits in total from around Prior to releasing Linux 4.
Over the decades, Torvalds has torn into security developers, open-source lawyers, and other kernel developers, such as Sage, formerly Sarah, Sharp. Every few months, there would be another four-letter Torvalds eruption. This became publicly accepted, but privately it left bad blood. No more F-words and angry outbursts from Torvalds anymore?
Linux creator Linus Torvalds is taking a break from Linux kernel development in order to take professional help for improving his behavior. To me, this came somewhat as a surprise. As I know from experience, admitting that you have made a mistake is hard.
Admitting that you have been making the same mistake over and over again is even harder. Doing so publically? Last month we covered early work being done on an Intel 2. Mir 1. There is now a patch pending that is once again attempting the Mir 1. Since then Mir has continued to mature but with a focus on offering Wayland protocol compatibility and a platform still catering to Snaps and Ubuntu IoT use-cases.
With the Wayland support within Mir squared away for the essentials, now it seems they are preparing for the Mir 1. You need software to drive that scanner. Because there are good scanning applications available for the Linux desktop.
They work with a variety of scanners and do a good job. Setting up a website is not an easy task especially when you have to maintain multiple websites including databases and other files. Its become more hectic, when you go for VPS servers or Cloud hosting those are not more than a just bare server machine with some Linux operating system such as CentOS or Ubuntu.
To solve such situations we have web hosting control panels or admin panels software those comes really handy and helps to get rid of the command interface for setting up each and everything. Three weeks ago I took a stab at playing this on my guitar. At least the first two thirds — but what I have is enough to get the feeling across, and it has a proper ending. It is used by a huge number of applications and devices.
But which applications, devices and users are the ones with the largest number of curl installations? If you have comments, other suggestions or insights to help me polish this table or the numbers I present, please let me know! Especially if that game was a MUD. The remaining video recordings from that event are finally available. Those bans have since been overturned, but some players were finding that their choice of OS was landing them with permanent account closure.
Gift of Parthax is an arena fighting game where you play as a Wizard who can create their own spells, looks interesting and it now has a Linux beta available for testing. For those of you who love over the top fast-paced action, Galaxy Champions TV is now officially available on Linux.
True to their word, they delivered a Linux build on the 14th. Nice to see a developer put in the effort! Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the final campaign in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove saga which has now been pushed back until next year.
Also announced is Shovel Knight Showdown, a local multiplayer version of the game. Do you like your meditative exploration games? It is very much live though. For those who think they can run a country or would like to have a go at it, this is probably the closest you will ever get. This is good to see, because we had Democracy 3 that supported Linux, but Democracy 3 Africa did not support Linux.
Ready for more adventures? He also noted that those on Ubuntu can grab it from a different PPA provided by Canonical for easy installation. Talking about it in our forum also reddit , users noted improvements to games run on Linux.
The improvements look pretty impressive too. Pig Eat Ball looks totally weird, but also quite fun. Funded on Fig back in back in April, thanks to backers along with a fair bit of help from Fig directly. The developer has now announced, that the release is expected on September 27th.
Wizard of Legend, the dungeon crawler that has you take on the role of a Wizard is getting a fresh content update named Sky Palace. The update is going to include more enemy types, more special signature moves and a new location to fight in.
This is a small file that handles common code conventions per project, for instance the tab vs spaces thing. Yeah I am not in the picture, but I was there! You can find me over on the left there, where several of us were cut off Akademy was held in the lovely city of Vienna, Austria this year. Hats off to the akademy team for a great job! I am happy to report Ben Cooksley is real! Due to my flights, I missed the first and last day. It was still a productive akademy.
I also did a bit of volunteering. I hope to be able to merge debian packaging into Neon soon so that we can have better collaboration within the team. This of course is on my free time, but do keep an eye out! The distribution was easy to set up, I liked the quick access to common tools in the welcome window.
Everything is high contrast and attractive. The fonts are a little thin for my taste, but this can be easily changed with a few clicks in the settings panel.
I was a little disappointed the system installer defaults to using ext4 instead of Btrfs. Since Mint recommends and relies on Timeshift for system recovery, and Btrfs snapshots are much more efficient than rsync snapshots, it makes sense to me to use Btrfs by default. On a related note, when Timeshift is set up to use rsync snapshots, the rsync command will drag down system performance for about 20 minutes at a time.
Having the snapshots run as a lower priority in the background would have avoided slowing down the desktop once a day. I realize Cinnamon is an in-house desktop project and it makes sense for the Mint developers to focus on using and promoting Cinnamon. However, since I suspect many of the people who want to use the Debian branch over the Ubuntu branch will be doing so for performance reasons, I think MATE would make the sensible default.
Finally, I want to give credit to the Mint team for integrating Flatpak support into the software manager. It is easy to find Flatpaks without having them blend in with other packages, potentially confusing users. I think Flatpak support was handled well by the Mint team. On the whole, the above points are minor style preferences for a distribution that I was impressed by.
I think the Debian branch might be slightly less appealing to beginners than the main, Ubuntu-based edition, but there are few practical differences and most people will probably find either branch works for them. I think LMDE will be a good fit for most people, whether beginners or more experienced users. With the 1. However, there is a potential issue that may slow down the adoption rate: Pods that belong to the Istio mesh require elevated privileges in order to function properly.
In this article we will present the istio-pod-network-controller, a solution to mitigate this issue. The istio-pod-network-controller is an option to make Istio deployments more secure. It does so by removing the need to run pods in the Istio mesh with the privileged SCC and allows them to run just with the nonroot SCC.
If you decide to adopt this solution, please keep in mind that this is currently a best effort project and not officially supported by Red Hat. The event brings together Ansible users, contributors, developers and industry partners to share innovative practices, case studies, Ansible news and much more.
Red Hat will add support for the Container Storage Interface to its existing OpenShift container platform and storage products next year, according to Red Hat executives who spoke to Computer Weekly last week.
Look at NetApp. Its Trident storage orchestrator is the only one it supports and storage can only be NetApp storage. A portion of downtown Raleigh had to be cleared Monday morning after a gas leak in front of Red Hat. The Raleigh Fire Department responded to the intersections of Wilmington and Davie streets and Davie and Blount streets just before a. Monday and had to evacuate the immediate area. They were able to get PSNC on the scene and get it under control. Rather than having customers approach the technology company first, Red Hat decided to take a more proactive approach by cramming a bevy of open source platforms and technologies into an wheeler trailer and visit customers directly across North America.
GIMP 2. The last major version of GIMP 2. Plane theme is designed to make desktop more elegant and simple, it goes very well along with its own icon pack. Now a days many themes are under development for Gnome and Plane is one of them, it is constantly updating since , fixing and making theme look better.
It has some parts from Arc and Adwaita themes, also some other themes inspired author to make Plane more eye catching. There are two versions in this theme: light version and dark version which gives comfort to your eyes. This pack includes Gnome shell themes as well, which lets you match your Gnome shell with your Gtk theme. Primarily, this pack targets Gnome Shell desktop but can be used on other desktops as well such as: Cinnamon, Xfce, Mate etc. Icons are designed to use with this theme pack but if you want then you can use them with any theme of your choice.
Themes are available for Ubuntu Icons available for Ubuntu If you find any kind of bug or problem with this theme pack then report it to author and it will get fixed in the next update.
Shadow icon theme is a new comer for Linux desktop, it looks beautiful with all kind of themes. It is meant to be modern clean and customizable, the primary color of this set most likely bluish and many apps icons are in round shape. So basically this theme is mixture of round and normal square shape icons, lets see where this theme will head in the future, it should choose shape what users asks.
As creator mentioned this icon theme is his first so please bare any bugs or missing icons. You can report bugs or suggest new icons to include in this set via this link. This release contains security bug fixes. A security announcement will follow within the next 24 hours. It looks like this tech demo might be soon open-sourced. London: Zinc, a UK based start-up, today launches its blockchain based hiring software, which promises to eliminate many of the inefficiencies associated with recruitment within the technology sector.
Available to the public from today, Zinc has been successfully tested in beta with customers including GoCardless and Booking. Open source networking leader Lumina Networks today announced the addition of three industry leaders to their engineering team. Parwaney is formerly from Cisco where he was Senior Director of Engineering.
The addition of Prem and Iyappa to the team will further strengthen our ability to help lead the open source networking community, driving innovation and productization.
SQLite 3. The big feature to SQLite 3. All decision proposals and final decisions for the open banking standards will be published on GitHub. Although many large scale technical organisations and cloud vendors custom build their own hardware, including Google, AWS and Azure, they do not typically release this as open source. The final version of 7.
It is identical to rc3 modulo release notes and docs changes. Release manager Hans Wennborg announced minutes ago on the mailing list that the 7. SEGA began studying submitted proposals this Tuesday. The portal uses CKAN — open source software for data repositories.
Subleq is a OISC, a language with only a single command. It lacks the most basic features of programming languages, and yet is Turing Complete. This weekend I ran some fresh PHP benchmarks looking at its performance. The PHP 7. The list of changes can be found via the NEWS entry. Ridership is down on nearly every major public transit system in the country. The argument is that agencies have failed to invest in basic upgrades which would have improved service and frequency. Sweden, for example, subsidizes infrastructure improvements meant to eliminate the need for cars as part of a nationwide strategy to eliminate traffic deaths.
The U. Especially if it helps get a car off the road during rush hour. The company did not specify how Fortnite contributed to the separations, though its highly addictive, time-consuming nature is a sure contender. Addiction to drugs, alcohol, and gambling are often cited as reasons for relationships ending, and as digital technology increasingly takes over our lives, many argue that social media is as addicting as drugs.
I seriously feel games are going to take over this world real soon. According to a recent report by U. K divorce resource site Divorce Online, over couples have filed divorce citing Fortnite game addiction as the root of their split. The iPhone reveal saw Pornhub traffic drop a staggering The Apple Watch Series 4 was also briefly popular down 9. The last remaining paper exam is in mathematics, which will only be offered digitally as of next spring.
Yet, more than a year since Microsoft released patches that slammed the backdoor shut, almost a million computers and networks are still unpatched and vulnerable to attack. Although Microsoft indicated that they have closed the backdoor used by this ransomware, more computers globally are not fully secured to prevent the infection by the malware.
Interestingly, the hackers have shifted their game from asking for ransom and are now infecting new computers with cryptojacking malware. The DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village aimed to raise awareness in voting security through a full day of speakers and panel discussions along with a challenge for attendees to hack more than 30 pieces of voting equipment. A partnership with rOOtz Asylum offered youths between 8 and 16 years old an opportunity to hack replicas of the websites of secretaries of state to demonstrate that even hackers with limited years of experience can easily compromise critical systems.
The goal was to break as many voting machine pieces as possible in order to draw attention to the vulnerabilities that will be present in the upcoming elections. The focus on election equipment, however, ignores the greater danger caused by hacking into the diverse collection of sensitive information that flows through political campaigns and the electoral process, and using that to influence and sow distrust among voters. It does a nice job explaining many existing security problems in a simple manner.
This free software lets you analyze network traffic in real time, and is often the best tool for troubleshooting issues on your network. Common problems that Wireshark can help troubleshoot include dropped packets, latency issues, and malicious activity on your network.
It lets you put your network traffic under a microscope, and provides tools to filter and drill down into that traffic, zooming in on the root cause of the problem. Administrators use it to identify faulty network appliances that are dropping packets, latency issues caused by machines routing traffic halfway around the world, and data exfiltration or even hacking attempts against your organization. While Wireshark supports more than two thousand network protocols, many of them esoteric, uncommon, or old, the modern security professional will find analyzing IP packets to be of most immediate usefulness.
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