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And this, and this, and this, and this.

In other words. :)

This reversible plug is good news for USB-challenged people like me. I have a 100% failure rate, you know. Sometimes I try to be clever and think "I just thought that this side is up. I have a 100% failure rate, so the other side must go up". I flip the connector and bam! it's wrong again. After that I get all smug and think "you stupid, of course you chose correctly at first".

Example of previous generation USB connector brain-damage.

• A single USB-A connector couldn't draw enough power, so they added a second USB-A on a Y cable to get extra power.
• The Micro-B connector didn't have enough space for the extra pins for USB 3.0 speeds, so they added a kludge to the side of the Micro-B making this "micro" connector freaking huge.

Don't forget about ad revenue...

Just because it doesn't accomplish anything major doesn't mean it won't be successful. Hell, has Facebook done a single worthwhile thing yet in its entire existence?

Smart suggestion... I wouldn't take the time (better things to do like post here)... their correspondence and suggestions do not pass the smell test, in my opinion...

I am working for an IT shop fixing the customers computers. This mostly means I end up working with Windows and XFCE and pure console. When I am borrowing my wife's computer it will be the UI coming with Elementary OS. My own computers are running either xmonad or dwm (both tiling window managers).

Tiling Window managers were clearly missing in the poll.

Sign in. I don't know how to reliably count votes of ACs.

The guy in the video wouldn't have stood a chance against that girl if he had tried to fight back and the girl obviously knew that judging by how confidently she kept walking up on him and pushing him around before she actually started beating him. The girl wouldn't even let him leave. She grabbed him and threw him on the ground. She was clearly stronger than he was, she knew it, and she wanted to humiliate him. That's why she posted the video of her beating him up to facebook. I feel bad for that guy. Something very similar happened to me last year. I drove to a friends school and one of that schools volleyball girls didn't like that I parked where she wanted to park. I knew I was in the right so I didn't move and she proceeded to knock me on the ground and beat me up even after I apologized to her and asked her to just let me leave. I tried getting her off of me and I couldn't. She was a 5'8'' volleyball player who lifted weights. The guy in the video looks like he was pretty much dealing with the same thing.

'The Wyvern project is supported by the National Security Agency lablet at Carnegie Mellon University.'

Thank you for reporting the error; you found a bug! (now fixed)

Your vote was indeed being correctly counted (which is why the number of votes changed) but the redirect back to the comments page was using your local time of your user account instead of UTC time. Thus it was trying to navigate to a date that was off by one (2014-08-12 vs 2014-08-11)

Enter a few passwords that you used in the past but are no longer in use and not similar to passwords that are, plus a few random passwords you never used. Check what they report back.

BTW, I see no poll buttons or dialog elements. How the heck does one "vote"? Color me confused.

DEFCON 22!

DEFCON 21 was last year.

yup. Been using xmonad for years now (switched from wmii), and I don't think I'll ever switch WMs again. To me, finding xmonad felt a lot like finding VIM a decade ago.

moved from awesome to i3 the other year, it feels a bit more cleanly designed and does the right thing for multi monitor setups

I use Windows at work but just use Android at home (phone and tablet). Usually only a single "window", but I do have Link Bubble and Pop-Up Browser which does a good impression of multiple "windows".

Using Palemoon 24.6.2 (x64) on Debian. Still getting the same message.
Same with Chromium 35.0.1916.153 Debian jessie/sid (274914).
And the same with FF 30 on winXP.
Same on my Android browser.

What I did:
1. On main page click 43 votes just below the pool on the right hand side.
2. Tick Windows + KDE and click Vote (other combinations do not work either)
Following link from the article has the same result.

Interestingly the number of votes seems to be going up or down (???) after it fails to submit vote. Especially if I tick several boxes the vote counter can decrease??? Could it be that the system checks that I already voted and subtracts my new votes?

If it works for other people, could it be my account???

Same here. I have found Awesome to be both extremely configurable as well as fast. I have used it for a couple of years now, and it should definitively have been in the poll. The main feature, I think, is the Lua API which makes it possible to configure it to work in pretty much any way you want.

working on three devices, for me by following the link from this article, and it counted my votes, too. Any ideas what it is?

When I try to vote I get:
poll not found - date [2014-08-12] title [in-any-given-month-i-use-as-interface]

xmonad ftw!

brownlist.com -> not found.

Oh, I also use the android interface on my phone. The buttons on my remote, my clock radio and my microwave oven could also be called an "interface"...

Hold on. I'll come back later with a much longer list.

I'm not totally convinced AMD's management knows what it is doing. This sounds like an also - ran strategy. That said, I seem to always root for the underdog, so I hope they make it.

"Other" being CDE at work.

I think I'll have to check them out - I keep hearing how great they are. Should ve put them on the poll. The great thing about linux is that the same apps are available to you no matter which enviro you choose.

I mostly only use the "awesome" tiling window manager (http://awesome.naquadah.org/).
It works really great with my dual-monitor setup.
Previously I worked with WMII (and sometimes still do on my notebook).
Of course if it comes to the "desktop environment" there are still KDE programs like Amarok, Krusader, kdesvn and Okular.

The guy's got name recognition, but not much after his recent trip through crazy town. But this sounds like a sure - fire failure. No one is going to rant here about their moron brother in law. Or maybe everyone is. Either way, who gives a shit?What happens after the rant - is there any political organization or will this site help gain social organization? Otherwise this thing is going to fall flat like a cold turd.

Not sure what we need but it's got to be better than the status quo. I read all the privilege needs and usually can't imagine why simple apps need such broad permissions. I hedge my bets by using paid apps rather than free apps than need to advertise. But ultimately reputation as risk and a broad app market vie against network effects and peer pressure. But let's say I love whatsapp for communicating with friends and suddenly that app gets greedy with permissions? If I choose not to allow I'm also choosing not to continue using the app. Rapacious and scumbag developers know this.

It's also possible to restore most devices so that it is difficult or impossible to tell that they have been rooted. I think the only reason they tell you it voids the warranty is to scare you off.

Void your warrant. It's worth it. If you're on a contract you can generally get a new phone every year, and android contract phones are pretty cheap (I got a pretty decent one for $.01). I had problems with my phone a while back and took it into an AT&T store. The clerks didn't even care that it was rooted, they still helped me out. Not sure if it was just the store or if they don't actually care, but it worked either way. Even if they hadn't helped me, I still would have been happy to have rooted. So much more control.

You're right of course, but you're only as secure as the weakest link in the chain. If MS has back doors in their OS it doesn't matter how secure your online habits are, honestly it's like putting a band-aid on the end of a hacked off limb. I myself am willing to admit I'm a little jealous that Windows seems to get all the goodies first.

Not the AC above, but it was a couple weeks ago, maybe last week. There was a story about the FBI using JavaScript enabled "malware" of sorts in a child pornography sting. My understanding is they "acquired" a server of a well known distributor and kept it running for a year. The server was setup to distribute code through TOR to people that had scripts enabled, which allowed the FBI to track people over the TOR network. Anyone competent would have been surfing with scripts disabled so TOR itself wasn't cracked, it was just how people were using it that made it appear that way.

[Citation required]

Yes. I do. I pay attention to what permission changes an update has and do not update if the permissions are excessive. Same for installing new apps. Google saying that internet access in apps is, in my opinion, leaning towards Evil. Seriously, does a calculator need internet access? Really? Perhaps it is time for Google to bundle a firewall with Android. It is just like Windows 95 all over again.

I still won't connect to or use Facebook on my tablet, but Tinfoil sounds interesting. I refuse to install any social media app. They're like glitter of the app world, and glitter is like herpes of the art world.

Overhead aside, I though Tor was already cracked and useless.

I didn't install the Facebook app on my new phone as I didn't like all of the permissions. I instead use Tinfoil For Facebook which is essentially a sand-boxed web browser for just Facebook. As an added bonus, I don't get notifications, and don't have it running in the background.

I haven't updated the LinkedIn app on my tablet for a long time after they added a permission I didn't want installed. I don't have it installed on my phone, so just don't use it. Their loss in my view *shrugs*.

Are you advocating that we toss the baby out with the bath water here? All Windows users can go to hell for their choice of OS?

So, if I have this right, this super department, which was formed four years ago for efficiency with a primary goal of removing outsourcing from the equation, is now being divided up and outsourced.

Does that make sense?

It's not like you aren't going to install the "Facebook" app if you don't fully agree with one of the bullet items on the permission list.

Actually that's the very reason I uninstalled the skype app a few months ago, it started asking for more and more permissions with every update. I think it currently asks for more permissions than any other apps (maybe short of facebook ? I don't have that app) and can read your emails, text messages, who you're calling (the normal way), what apps are running, it can even draw over other applications ... all of which are completely unnecessary for skyping. And it keeps running invisible in the background (i.e. it doesn't appear in the "running app list") even when you turn it off (and I know it did because popup with new messages kept showing up).

It looks as if it is trying to know more about you than Google itself ...

Anyway, I really wish vanilla Android would allow find tuning of the permissions. If I remember correctly, this ability was there at some point for a short period of time in 2013 and then quickly removed (found it: http://www.osnews.com/story/27469/Google_removes_vital_privacy_feature_from_Android).

If you're using Windows, then you don't have privacy to begin with. Why bother with this?

I cannot root my phone due to warrenty.Android needs better permission control and root option by default.

If you trust the app, you install it, otherwise you don't install it.

And on what do you place your trust? I.e. how do you decide if you can trust an app or not?

I use xprivacy to have control about every permission.

After the 1.0 release I bought one of these: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n, as it looked like the cheapest way to get a working piratebox - under $30 delivered, plus a 32gb thumbdrive I had lying around to use as storage. I've had it running for probably about a month.

So a few observations:

• Setup instructions are very simple and had me up and running in about 20 minutes.
• Zero maintenance required. Once it's set up, it'll chug along until it runs out of storage space.
• The one I chose runs off 5v microusb, so you can hook it up to any 5v source (including those external mobile phone battery packs)
• The web interface is a bit clunky at times, most obviously when it comes to uploading and organising files. Apparently you can get webDAV working on them, but I haven't tried yet.

It's pretty good fun for the price, and since it's all open source you can mod it till your heart's content.

After the first couple of app installs, I kind of lost interest with the huge list of requested permissions that go with every app. Since you can't selectively toggle the individual items to deny the app access (only to deny the app install completely) the list is kind of useless anyway.

If you trust the app, you install it, otherwise you don't install it. It's not like you aren't going to install the "Facebook" app if you don't fully agree with one of the bullet items on the permission list.

Looks like it would be good for low-latency home networking, too. Why not keep those hops local? Sneaker net rules.

seems like the encryption might be a source of overhead or slowdown? maybe not.