by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, LAW, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the answering-questions-of-patriotism dept. Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old U.S. Army soldier who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of internal memos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been held by the government for two and a half years. On...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the also-a-reservoir-of-hipness dept. After noticing artifacts and a 1600 × 900 image in the output from Apple’s new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, the Panic Blog sawed it open and found an ARM chip inside. They suspect that video bypasses the cable entirely...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the let’s-also-tax-keystrokes-and-thinking-about-cats dept. The Berkeley, CA city council recently met to discuss the closing of their downtown post office, in attempt to find a way to keep it from relocating. This included talk of ‘a very tiny...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the in-the-cloud dept. Now that President Obama’s federal health care reform is past its major political hurdles — and with renewed focus on out-of-control costs in healthcare — companies that sell ‘big data’ software are licking their chops....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Recently Facebook decided that in addition to visual notifications, it would start making a “beeping sound” when you receive a new notification. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that annoying beep. Note: this “feature” hasn’t been rolled out across all...
