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=> ↺ Linux Voice is a New Magazine for Linux Users

Desktop

=> ↺ Google Remote Desktop Lets Android Users Access Their PCs, but iOS Users Have to Wait

• Google’s new mobile app lets you control your Windows, Mac or Linux computer remotely using any Android smartphone or tablet.

=> ↺ Google’s remote desktop app for Android offers access to Windows and Linux machines

• ANDROID USERS can now access their desktop computers with a Chrome Remote Desktop (RDP) app.

• Based on Google’s recent introduction of its Chrome RDP extension, the Android app is designed to make it even easier to access your computer from a remote location.

=> ↺ Now you can access Windows PCs and Macs from Android devices

• Google has finally launched it’s Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android, which allows a Mac and Windows user to control their machines from an Android tablet or smartphone. It’s a really cool and one of the easiest Remote Desktop tool which works great.

Kernel Space

Graphics Stack

=> ↺ NVIDIA might be working on G-SYNC Linux support

• NVidia GSync is proprietary technology found on supported NVidia cards that reduces tearing, stuttering, input lag, and other similar gaming problems by not having the monitor’s refresh rate be fixed but rather it’s a dynamic refresh rate that will scan out whenever the GPU is finished rendering. Till now, this feature was only limited to Windows 7, 8 & 8.1. But maybe due to the flurry by the developers to bring games to Linux and game engines being released on Linux, it could be anyone’s guess that NVidia thought it to be a good time to give Linux users the full feature package too. Add to that Valve pushing Steam machines and Steam OS and NVidia has all the more reason to give their much needed attention in bringing more features to Linux.

=> ↺ R600 Gallium3D Disables LLVM Back-End By Default

Benchmarks

=> ↺ Intel Haswell Graphics Benchmarks From Linux 3.15

• Following this week’s 3.15-rc1 release, I ran some early tests of the Linux 3.15 kernel compared to the earlier kernel releases. In particular, the early Linux 3.15 Intel results were compared against the stable Linux 3.14 and 3.13 kernels. Testing was done from an Intel Core i7 4770K “Haswell” system with HD Graphics 4600.

=> ↺ AMD OpenCL Performance With AM1 Kabini APUs

Applications

=> ↺ QEMU 2.0 Released With ARM, x86 Enhancements

• QEMU 2.0 was supposed to be released in early April but it slipped until now. The QEMU 2.0 release has AArch64 ARM 64-bit improvements, support for the Allwinner A10-based Cubieboard, PowerPC improvements, Q35 x86 machine improvements, support for Intel MPX registers, the QEMU GUI supports SDL 2.0, GTK+ support for mouse wheel, new monitor improvements, TCG code generation improvements, and many other changes.

=> ↺ sar: One small part of a larger suite

=> ↺ saydate and saytime: Hear for yourself

=> ↺ scalpel: File extraction and recovery

=> ↺ Chrome app gives Chromebook Pixel owners control over Lightbar

Proprietary

=> ↺ Maxthon, the New Browser on Linux Land

• A while ago, a piece of news that stirred interest on the Linux community was the porting of Maxthon to Linux.

• Maxthon is a browser. I knew of its existence a while ago, when I learned that one of the kind readers of this blog used it to display one of my entries.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How To Install RSS Guard 1.9.9.8 On Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian And Their Derivative Systems

=> ↺ Apple Device Not Recognized By Your Arch Linux Or Manjaro System? We Have A Solution

=> ↺ How To Install RSS Guard 1.9.9.8 On Fedora And OpenSUSE

Games

=> ↺ Last Chance to Get the Cult Classic System Shock 2 on Steam for Linux with a 50% Discount

• System Shock 2, a cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG that was initially released back in 1999 and recently made available on Steam for Linux, can now be purchased with a 50% discount.

=> ↺ Broken Sword 5, Episode 2 out today on Windows, Mac, Linux

=> ↺ Original Hacker Evolution on Steam will be released for MacOS and Linux shortly

• Budding hackers of the Linux world rejoice! One of the best and fun hacking sim out there has just been confirmed to get a Linux port along with a Mac OS port. The announcement came on the official Facebook page of the Exosyphen Studios, the developer behind the game.

=> ↺ Valve’s OpenGL Debugger Now Supports Unreal 4 Engine with Linux Support

• Free software projects need licenses. But choosing a license is such a pain that most github projects don’t even bother (resulting in an initiative by Github to rectify this). And when taking a closed source project and making it free software, the topic of license choice will take a huge amount of time and effort.

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Kopete – a great Linux based instant messaging application for the KDE desktop

• I remember the first time I used the internet. The year was 1997 and I had been working for a company called Data Sciences for about 2 years prior to the IBM takeover.

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ GNOME Shell 3.12.1 Gets Improved HiDPI Support

• The GNOME Shell package is one of the first things that a user sees and it’s probably the defining feature of the GNOME 3 desktop environment. This means that most of the changes and improvements to this package will be easily observable by the users.

=> ↺ GNOME 3: It’s time to let go of the past

• No Linux desktop, including Unity, has generated more heated arguments than GNOME 3. Some people love it and some people despise it. Love it or hate it, GNOME 3 is here to stay and I think that’s a good thing. It’s time to let go of the past and enjoy GNOME for what it is, not what some of us would have it be.

• Datamation has an article that spells out why the writer switched to GNOME, and I think it’s well worth a read since it embodies the spirit of moving on and also of accepting GNOME as it is without comparing it to other desktop environments.

Distributions

=> ↺ SystemRescueCd 4.2.0 Recovery Distro Now Available for Download

• SystemRescueCd is a very famous Linux distribution that has been developed with a single purpose in mind, to be a system rescue disk that is able to run from bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. As the name implies, this OS is only useful after your computer has already crashed and you really need the data.

Screenshots

=> ↺ MakuluLinux 6.0 MATE

Red Hat Family

=> ↺ Docker becomes de facto Linux standard

=> ↺ Red Hat Touts Linux Containers For Cloud

=> ↺ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 moves closer to general release

• Due next week, RHEL release candidate features 64-bit architecture support, integration with Active Directory, and more

=> ↺ RHEL 7 roadmap reveals Linux container advancements, Docker integration

=> ↺ Red Hat integrates Docker virtual containers for Linux

=> ↺ Red Hat Announces New Linux Container Projects

=> ↺ 6WIND Announces Open vSwitch Acceleration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

=> ↺ Red Hat Award For Centre for Railway Information Systems

=> ↺ Short Stack: OpenStack takes center stage at Red Hat Summit, OpenStack governance process and Dell enhances OpenStack presence

• Welcome to the Short Stack, our weekly feature where we search for the most intriguing OpenStack links to share with you. These links may come from traditional publications or company blogs, but if it’s about OpenStack, we’ll find the best links we can to share with you every week.

Debian Family

=> ↺ Use Tails to Avoid Prying Eyes

• It was a bit of a slow-news day today, however, www.engadget.com has a bit of a summary of Tails in the context of avoiding certain prying eyes. www.deccanherald.com posted an overview of Linux for its readers a few days ago saying, “It may not be widely known, but Linux did revolutionize computing.” Red Hat has been hogging the headlines lately, but www.futuregov.asia recently published a two-part interview with Harrish Pillay, Red Hat Global Head for Community Architecture and Leadership.

=> ↺ Debian 6 “Squeeze” LTS Period Extended Until February 2016

• “This is an advance notice that regular security support for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (code name ‘squeeze’) will be terminated on the 31st of May. However, we’re happy to announce that security support for squeeze is going to be extended until February 2016, i.e. five years after the initial release. This effort is driven by various interested parties / companies which require longer security support,” reads the official announcement.

Derivatives

Canonical/Ubuntu

=> ↺ Ubuntu 12.04.4 vs. 13.10 vs. 14.04 LTS Desktop Benchmarks

• With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS being released today, here’s some fresh benchmarks comparing the Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit performance against Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. In this article are desktop and gaming benchmarks comparing these versions of Ubuntu Linux.

=> ↺ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) review: Solid and stable, but no big changes

=> ↺ First look: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

=> ↺ Ubuntu 14.04 desktop: trusted OS for consumers and business

=> ↺ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop arrives this week as Windows XP alternative

=> ↺ Canonical’s new Ubuntu focuses on the long haul

=> ↺ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release date revealed

=> ↺ Ubuntu LTS Server 14.04 extends cloud support

=> ↺ Canonical ships Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with support for 64-bit ARM servers and OpenStack Icehouse

• Canonical has released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the latest version of its Linux distribution that offers long-term support (LTS) for commercial customers.

=> ↺ Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Officially Released

• This is the first LTS release for the developers of Ubuntu GNOME and, understandably, it is a very important version. The fans of this distribution have eagerly awaited for the new release in the series, especially because this is a major update for Ubuntu GNOME.

=> ↺ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Released, See What`s New [Video, Screenshots]

• Ubuntu 14.04 was released today, so let’s take a look at the most important new features and changes in this LTS release.

=> ↺ Ubuntu 14.04 ‘Trusty Tahr’ Brings Long-Term Linux Desktop Support

• Ubuntu 14.04, code-named the “Trusty Tahr” and set for general availability on April 17, is a special Linux distribution because it is a long-term support (LTS) release. An LTS release offers the promise of five years of support, making it a suitable candidate for enterprise-grade deployments. New Ubuntu LTS releases debut every two years, with the last LTS being the Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” distribution in April 2012. Non-LTS releases receive only nine months of security updates and support. The last non-LTS release was the Ubuntu 13.10 “Saucy Salamander,” which debuted in October 2013. Ubuntu 14.04 includes a number of updates for server and desktop users. The big highlight for server users is integration with the OpenStack Icehouse cloud platform that is also set to officially debut on April 17. On the desktop, Ubuntu developers have continued to improve the Unity Linux desktop interface. The ability to resize the Unity application launcher has been improved in Ubuntu 14.04, and users now have the option to leverage locally integrated menus for each application window. Unity is Ubuntu’s default Linux desktop, though users can choose to install other desktops, such as KDE, GNOME or Xfce. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the features in the Ubuntu 14.04 Linux distribution release.

=> ↺ Doing more with your Unity8 preview session in Ubuntu 14.04

• Ubuntu 14.04 will be released today and you couldn’t resist the itch to go try the Unity 8 preview session on the Desktop. How underwhelming… there are almost no apps, and some don’t even work and overall it’s actually pretty unexciting… let’s change that in the next few chapters.

Flavours and Variants

=> ↺ Six Clicks: Linux Mint tips and tricks

• Linux desktop distributions can vary wildly in their look and feel. Unlike Windows 8 before the recent Windows 8.1 update, where a one-size-fits-all interface was the order of the day, Linux gives you an almost endless number of primary desktops such as GNOME, KDE, and Enlightenment. Then you your choice of variations based on them. In GNOME’s case, for example, there’s Ubuntu’s Unity and MATE, and the interface I’ll be talking about today: Cinnamon.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ Princeton Whiz Kids Create Open-Source API For Voice Control Assistant, Runs On Raspberry Pi

• Charlie Marsh and Shubhro Saha are a couple of undergrads from Princeton University that could have a major league opportunities in front of them and I’m betting there are a few talent scouts looking to draft these boys in the first round. While Apple may be planning big things for Siri and Microsoft’s recently announced Cortana digital assistant update for Windows Phone 8.1 is looking kind of sexy, developers that want to build similar functionality for all kinds of devices within their applications, are left to reinvent some very complex functionality on there own – at least until now.

=> ↺ Linux-Based Autonomous Sub Leads Malaysia Airlines Flight Search

• It would appear that the Bluefin-21 now searching the Indian Ocean offers a similar, but perhaps more powerful computing system. Bluefin lists a 4GB flash drive, plus additional payload storage. The craft also incorporates GPS, RF, Iridium, and strobe communications, and can connect via Ethernet at short range for downloading data at shipside. Other features include a dead-reckoning drift that is typically less than 0.1 percent of distance traveled.

Phones

Ballnux

=> ↺ Samsung claims it still plans to ship Tizen phones in Q2

• Hope springs eternal for wannabe Android competitor Tizen, with Samsung saying it plans to ship the first smartphones based on the open source OS in the second quarter of 2014 – carriers’ cold feet be damned.

=> ↺ Samsung to bring Android Wear watch and Tizen phones this year

• Samsung will be introducing Google‘s Android Wear powered smartwatch and a Tizen powered smartphone in the market this year, Hankil Yoon, senior VP for product strategy at Samsung told Reuters in an interview.

=> ↺ Samsung Tizen smartphones now slated for 2Q release

• The interview raises hope among Tizen fans that the open source Linux-based platform will not fade away or be limited to other device categories such as Tizen’s Gear 2 smartwatches, which were announced in February at Mobile World Congress, and have recently begun to ship to mostly favorable reviews.

=> ↺ This is Amazon’s smartphone

• According to details from multiple sources, Amazon’s first phone will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and it will also include 2GB of RAM. It will run a heavily customized version of Google’s Android operating system similar to the version that powers Amazon’s tablets.

=> ↺ Is Amazon’s Fire TV a dud for gamers?

Android

=> ↺ In Intel, Android Has Gained a Mighty Friend

• For a couple of years now, efforts to usher in devices that can run both Microsoft’s Windows platform and Android have been in the works. We’ve written about BlueStacks Player, which runs a virtualized instance of Android that can be used alongside Windows. And we’ve covered Hybrid PCs, which run both operating systems.Now, this trend is set to pick up momentum, as Intel warms up to Android, and puts in place plans to produce chips and platform technology for new generation Android tablets.

=> ↺ Google Mounts $100K Project Ara Dev Challenge

• Modular product design is the wave of the future, said Shardul Kazi, Toshiba America senior VP, who sees the concept being extended to tablets and other products. Google is offering developers a carrot to help make that future materialize, in the form of a $100,000 prize for Project Ara innovation. The rules for the competition will be released in May

=> ↺ Amazon reportedly developing 3D-enabled Android phone

• Amazon reportedly will enter the Android smartphone arena later this year, with a device that makes some images appear to be 3D, similar to a hologram.

• The phone will be announced in June and ship in September, reports the WSJ. The unnamed phone is said to display 3D images using retina tracking technology.

Free Software/Open Source

=> ↺ Open source software: a guide for SMBs

• Many businesses are realizing the benefits of open source. According to a recent report, up to a third of IT professionals are already using the technology and this figure will grow.

• Open source is often cheaper, more flexible and easier to manage than its licensed counterparts. If you’ve got some technical ability, the basics are easy to implement yourself, with a multitude of “DIY” guides available online.

=> ↺ Open-source software is about to eat your world

=> ↺ Welcome to the open source renaissance

• In the span of just a few years, open source has produced businesses that are incredibly attractive to the investment community. In 2012, open source venture investment jumped 80 percent over the prior year with $553 million invested, compared to $307 million in 2011. VCs have flocked to darlings like MongoDB, Open Stack, Cloudera, Puppet Labs and Hortonworks because these companies are solving incredibly difficult challenges in the cloud and big data arena faster than any proprietary software vendor could.

=> ↺ Open Source enables government business continuity

• It is not unknown to hear about closed-source software companies that end technical support and security patches for their products. It is a technique that some of them use to force their customers to upgrade to a newer version. In addition, some unfortunate circumstances may force the companies to go out of business and in the process they abort their products as well. Such circumstances often leave the users with a choice between hard place and a rock.

=> ↺ Coverity finds open source software quality better than proprietary code

=> ↺ FLOSS Is A Winner

=> ↺ CliQr launches cloud marketplace featuring 100 open source apps

• Google-backed CliQr Technologies, which focuses on helping businesses migrate applications into private or public cloud environments, has flipped the switch on the CliQr App Store, a collection of more than 100 popular open source applications.

Events

=> ↺ The tranSMART Foundation to Present its Open-Source Knowledge Management Platform at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

=> ↺ Leaders in Learning Analytics and Open Source Software Hold Open Learning Analytics Summit; Marist College to Host 2015 Summit

SaaS/Big Data

=> ↺ OpenStack Icehouse Features a Trove of Open-Source Cloud Updates

• Database-as-a-service technology, live upgrades, storage improvements and federated identity are part of the new open-source cloud platform release.

=> ↺ The next generation data center : Fully open sourced

• While it seems that only recently open source gained public buzz in the media and enterprise market, open source software has been on the rise for more than a decade, quietly changing the foundational structures of businesses and the way they operate in competitive environments. Savvy IT folks recognized early on open source’s benefits of continual innovation, vendor lock-in and perhaps most appealingly, cost savings. These unique benefits are what have contributed to open source’s growing dominance today.

=> ↺ OpenStack Deployments Spread Out as the Icehouse Release Arrives

CMS

=> ↺ Fusionbox Announces Widgy, a New Python/Django Open Source CMS Framework

=> ↺ WordPress 3.9 arrives with stunning editor and more features

• WordPress users can now rejoice as the much awaited 3.9 arrives with some really stunning improvements. Writers and bloggers will now enjoy the brand new visual editor which is fully redesigned and looks more or less like Google Docs. It’s very mature, user-friendly and elegant looking.

Education

=> ↺ How to introduce open source to your public library

=> ↺ Resources for libraries exploring the open source option

• Libraries of all types have the same questions about open source software that are asked by technologists in other fields. Does open source make sense for me? What open source packages mesh well with the skills already in my organization? Where can I go to get training, documentation, hosting, and/or contract software development for a specific open source package?

=> ↺ The maker movement helps transform our public libraries

Business

=> ↺ Box launches an open source initiative to give back to the community

Public Services/Government

=> ↺ Councils stage open source revival

• Local councils behind an ambitious public open source software scheme that flourished briefly with boom-time investment under the last government are attempting to revive it under the cost-cutting coalition’s digital strategy.

• But their old rival Microsoft is making its local government come-back too, after a 10-year gestation with the London Borough of Newham under a deal that became the focus of bitter opposition between the proprietary and open source software camps.

• Last time, with central government funding but only lacklustre policy support, Bristol City and Camden London Borough built an open source content management system that was propagated as far afield as India and Bremen.

=> ↺ GNU/Linux Works In Computer Labs In Greece

• Now even more of the configuration and additional tools are all available by a set of scripts developed in Greece. 500 schools is a whole bunch more than I worked. GNU/Linux works in education. It can work anywhere. Finding the recipes for all this and sharing is obviously more efficient than buying solutions sold by M$ and “partners” that cost too much or don’t work at all sometimes. The world can and does make its own software better than those guys. This is just another example of doing IT the right way.

Licensing

=> ↺ Choosing a license

• Free software projects need licenses. But choosing a license is such a pain that most github projects don’t even bother (resulting in an initiative by Github to rectify this). And when taking a closed source project and making it free software, the topic of license choice will take a huge amount of time and effort.

Openness/Sharing

=> ↺ Plant Breeders Release First ‘Open Source Seeds’

Open Data

=> ↺ Boston Pushes City Data Transparency Via Open Source; Justin Holmes Comments

• Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has signed an executive order to open source municipal data as part of the city’s efforts to make the local government more transparent to the public, BostInno reported Monday.

• The executive order calls for city departments to release public record data sets on Boston’s open data portal or through other methods, Nick DeLuca writes.

Open Hardware

=> ↺ Leaders in Learning Analytics and Open Source Software Hold Open Learning Analytics Summit; Marist College to Host 2015 Summit

Leftovers

=> ↺ Witnesses Report a ‘Loud Noise’ Before Ferry Sinks Off South Korean Coast

• It’s not clear what caused the multi-story vessel to list and sink, but witnesses reported an impact and loud noise just before the ship began to roll over in the water.

Health/Nutrition

=> ↺ UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World

• Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and trade systems in order to increase diversity on farms, reduce our use of fertilizer and other inputs, support small-scale farmers and create strong local food systems. That’s the conclusion of a remarkable new publication from the U.N. Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression

=> ↺ Donetsk leaflet: Jews must register or face deportation

• Fear replaced communal atmosphere in Donetsk’s Jewish community as armed men handed out a leaflet Passover eve calling on Jews register their religion and property with the interim pro-Russian government or face deportation and loss of citizenship.

=> ↺ “We Are Not Beginning a New Cold War, We are Well into It”: Stephen Cohen on Russia-Ukraine Crisis

• As negotiations over the crisis in Ukraine begin in Geneva, tension is rising in the Ukrainian east after security forces killed three pro-Russian protesters, wounded 13 and took 63 captive in the city of Mariupol. Ukrainian officials said the pro-Russian separatists had attempted to storm a military base. The killings came just after the unraveling of a Ukrainian operation to retake government buildings from pro-Russian separatists. Earlier today, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the authorities in Kiev of plunging the country into an “abyss” and refused to rule out sending forces into Ukraine. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has announced a series of steps to reinforce its presence in eastern Europe. “We will have more planes in the air, more ships on the water and more readiness on the land,” Rasmussen said. We are joined by Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University. “We are not at the beginning of a new Cold War, we are well into it,” Cohen says, “which alerts us to the fact ‘hot war’ is imaginable now. It’s unlikely, but it’s conceivable — and if it’s conceivable, something has to be done about it.”

=> ↺ Putin reveals NATO chief secretly recorded their talk, leaked it to media

• Vladimir Putin says that current NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen secretly recorded and leaked a private conversation with him, when he was the head of the Danish government.

Transparency Reporting

=> ↺ Army general upholds Manning’s prison sentence in WikiLeaks case

=> ↺ Chelsea Manning’s 35-year prison sentence upheld by US army general

=> ↺ Wikileaks backs Ukip over list against journalists at Times

• In its list, the party described the apparent connections between journalists and the Conservative Party and accused them of being from “immensely privileged backgrounds”.

• The names listed include columnists Daniel Finkelstein and Matthew Parris, a former Tory official and MP respectively, and all but one are described as “privately educated”.

• Tweeting a link to the party’s site, WikiLeaks described it as a list of “oppositional journalists at the Times (Murdoch)”. “Good example of cronyism in UK media sector,” it added.

=> ↺ U.S. Army Rejects Clemency for WikiLeaks Source Manning

• A U.S. Army general has endorsed the 35-year sentence imposed on the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks

=> ↺ WikiLeaks’ Manning To Be Honored At San Francisco Pride Parade

=> ↺ San Francisco Pride organizers apologize to Chelsea Manning

=> ↺ Greens attempt to have Julian Assange and Edward Snowden give evidence

Environment/Energy/Wildlife

=> ↺ Linc Energy facing criminal charges over alleged environmental harm

Finance

=> ↺ Thousands of China workers on strike

• Labour disputes pop up regularly in China, but one strike in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan is attracting attention because of its size.

=> ↺ The Neoliberal Theory of Society: The Ideological Foundations of Neo-liberalism

• Neoliberalism presents itself as a doctrine based on the inexorable truths of modern economics. However, despite its scientific trappings, modern economics is not a scientific discipline but the rigorous elaboration of a very specific social theory, which has become so deeply embedded in western thought as to have established itself as no more than common sense, despite the fact that its fundamental assumptions are patently absurd. The foundations of modern economics, and of the ideology of neoliberalism, go back to Adam Smith and his great work, The Wealth of Nations. Over the past two centuries Smith’s arguments have been formalised and developed with greater analytical rigour, but the fundamental assumptions underpinning neoliberalism remain those proposed by Adam Smith.

=> ↺ Markets Are the Problem (Not the Solution)

• As might be expected, underlying this monument to excess is an army of laborers from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. These desperate souls arrive heavily indebted to recruiters and those who pay their passage, only to be brutally exploited by sponsoring employers, who confiscate their passports. It is a system of semi-slave labor; workers are not free to leave, even if they have not been paid.

=> ↺ Nearly one million people relying on food handouts in UK

• One of Britain’s largest food charities says that more than 900,000 people visited its food banks last year. The Wednesday report comes as 600 religious leaders urge the government to take action against the country’s growing hunger problem.

• The new information shows the shocking number of people reliant on food handouts in the UK, largely because of harsh new benefits sanctions.

• According to The Trussell Trust, Britain’s largest food bank charity, 913,138 people received emergency food aid from the organization in 2013-2014, compared to just 346,992 in 2012-2013 – marking an increase of 163 percent.

Censorship

=> ↺ Did You Retweet The USAir Pornographic Tweet? You May Have Violated New Jersey’s Revenge Porn Law

• We’ve pointed out for a while how the various attempts at creating revenge porn bills will have serious unintended consequences and raise serious First Amendment issues. This is not to minimize the problems of revenge porn (or to absolve the sick and depraved individuals who put together, submit to or regularly visit such sites). However, it’s to point out that pretty much any way you try to legislate such actions as criminal likely will create other problems. For example, I’m sure many of you heard the story recently about US Airways… um… unfortunate pornographic tweet. It was the story of the internet a few days ago, in which a United Air social media employee did a very unfortunate cut and paste error, tweeting out a very graphic image that involved a naked woman and a plane where it… doesn’t quite belong (for slightly lighter fare, I highly recommend reading some of the of the funny replies to that tweet). For what it’s worth, US Air has said that it was an honest mistake and it’s not even firing the person responsible.

=> ↺ US Airways Tweeted An Extreme Pornographic Image And Left It Up For A Long Time

• The photo shows a completely nude woman on her back with a plane inserted into her vagina.

Privacy

=> ↺ Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner hacked with glue mould

• The fingerprint sensor on Samsung’s Galaxy S5 handset has been hacked less than a week after the device went on sale.

• Berlin-based Security Research Labs fooled the equipment using a mould it had previously created to spoof the sensor on Apple’s iPhone 5S.

Civil Rights

=> ↺ Chris Hedges’ Indefinite Detention Lawsuit and the Struggle to Restore Our Civil Liberties

• When President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, on Dec. 31, 2011, civil liberties advocates were alarmed at several provisions within the legislation, particularly Section 1021, which empowers current and all future presidents to indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens and non-citizens who were either part of or “substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.” Persons accused under this provision can be held by the U.S. military indefinitely or transferred to any nation in the world, without charge, trial or access to an attorney.

=> ↺ Ohio House targets federal ability to imprison without trial

• Our fundamental constitutional rights include being promptly informed of criminal charges placed against us and a speedy trial by a jury of our fellow citizens.

=> ↺ A Guide to John Rizzo’s Lies, For Lazy Journalists

• Back in 2002, Rizzo told John Yoo that Abu Zubaydah was a top al Qaeda figure during the drafting of the August 1, 2002 Bybee Memo authorizing torture.

=> ↺ Egyptian police ‘using rape as a weapon’ against dissident groups

• Claim comes amid widespread anger at crackdown that has seen 16,000 arrested

Intellectual Monopolies

Copyrights

=> http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/28/egypt.us.tear.gas/ ↺ Tear Gas Unleashed as Tens of Thousands in Paris and Rome Protest Austerity

• Anti-austerity protests took over parts of Paris and Rome on Saturday, with one demonstration in Rome spurring violence when protesters threw rocks, eggs and firecrackers at police, with at least one person injured.

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