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Gunman kills four Marines at US military facilities AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at July 16, 2015, 11:59 pm)

Suspect also killed in Tennessee incident, which US attorney called an act of "domestic terrorism".
Wikileaks Release: Hacking Team Says It Sold Spyware To FSB, Russia's Secret Police SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at July 16, 2015, 11:59 pm)

External Link: Neil Young to Stop Rocking in the Streaming World TidBITS(cached at July 16, 2015, 11:33 pm)

Musician Neil Young has declared that he will be removing his music from all streaming services, due to poor audio quality. In a post on Facebook, Young claimed that streaming music sounds worse than FM radio, 8-track tapes, and Compact Cassettes. “Streaming is the worst audio in history,” Young said. In 2014, Young developed a competitor to iTunes, PonoMusic, which offers high-quality audio downloads, meant to be played on the company’s Toblerone-shaped music player, which Ars Technica called, “a tall, refreshing drink of snake oil.”

 

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External Link: President Obama Announces Low-Income Broadband Initiative TidBITS(cached at July 16, 2015, 11:33 pm)

The Obama administration has announced a new initiative, called ConnectHome, that will bring broadband access to over 275,000 low-income households in the U.S. The pilot program will start in 27 cities, including New York, Boston, Seattle, and the Choctaw Tribal Nation in Oklahoma. The federal government is partnering with ISPs such as Google Fiber, CenturyLink, Cox Communications, and Sprint. ConnectHome is being funded by private industry, nonprofit organizations and local leaders; the federal government will not be contributing any more money beyond the $50,000 allocated by the Department of Agriculture to deploy broadband to the Choctaw tribal nation.

 

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Epic Games forums compromised, passwords to be reset (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at July 16, 2015, 10:59 pm)

Google expanding security feature that prevents malware installs (ZDNet) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at July 16, 2015, 10:59 pm)

Thousands of vulnerabilities identified in government system (SC Magazine) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at July 16, 2015, 10:59 pm)

Siemens energy automation bug could have allowed unauthorized control over device SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at July 16, 2015, 10:59 pm)

There are two kinds of software Scripting News(cached at July 16, 2015, 10:31 pm)

There really are only two kinds of software.

  1. Software you can use while not paying attention, multitasking, in a haze.

  2. Software that you have to pay attention to. Requires you to learn how to use it, setup. If you use it without paying attention you will lose work, or money, or give up secrets.

Examples of the first kind of software -- chat programs, Instagram, Facebook, news sites. Amazon when you're browsing around..

The second kind: running a server, programming, bank, much email, Amazon when you're making a purchase. Anything that involves giving up a password that controls money is something you should be paying attention to while using it. Programming is probably the most intense software activity in the second category.

I mention this because a lot of people seem to think all software is in category 1. Totally not true.

List-UtilsBy-0.10 search.cpan.orgby Paul Evans at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 16, 2015, 9:55 pm)

higher-order list utility functions
Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-RuleTimingRedis-1.002 search.cpan.orgby Markus Benning at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 16, 2015, 9:55 pm)

collect SA rule timings in redis
Data-Mining-Apriori-0.02 search.cpan.orgby Alex Graciano at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 16, 2015, 9:55 pm)

Perl extension for implement the data mining algorithm apriori.
Starch-0.02 search.cpan.orgby Aran Clary Deltac at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 16, 2015, 9:55 pm)

Implementation independent persistent statefulness.
Dist-Zilla-Plugin-RewriteVersion-Transitional-0.007 search.cpan.orgby Karen Etheridge at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 16, 2015, 9:55 pm)

Ease the transition to [RewriteVersion] in your distribution
DateTime-Age-0.100000 search.cpan.orgby Mario Zieschang at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 16, 2015, 9:55 pm)

Calculates the age from specific date.
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