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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* US Wiretap Report Released
* Facebook Connect Exposes Hulu User Data
* Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps?
* South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015
* Bionic Body Parts For the Disabled
* Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead
* Pdf.js Reaches First Milestone
* Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US
* Kinect-Based AI System Watches What You're Up To
* US, UK Targeting Piracy Websites Outside Their Borders
* America: Like It Or Unfriend It
* Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC?
* Indie Film Premieres On BitTorrent Before Cinema
* Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements
* In Australia, Censorship vs. DNS, and Porn As Network Driver
* NASA's Next Mars Rover
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| US Wiretap Report Released
| from the needs-improvement dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 03, @21:30 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/03/2315222/US-Wiretap-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sTeF writes "According to the [0]2010 Wiretap Report (Pdf), released
today by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC)
federal and state requests for [1]court permission to intercept or
wiretap electronic communications increased 34% in 2010 over 2009.
California, New York, and New Jersey accounted for 68% of all wire taps
approved by state judges."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/03/2315222/US-Wiretap-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/Statistics/WiretapReports/2010/2010WireTapReport.pdf
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/063011-wiretaps.html?hpg1=bn
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| Facebook Connect Exposes Hulu User Data
| from the eyes-on-your-own-account dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 04, @00:04 (Cloud)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/0216215/Facebook-Connect-Exposes-Hulu-User-Data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Over the weekend, Hulu rolled out Facebook
Connect integration. Almost immediately after launch, Hulu had to pull
the feature as the company discovered a technical issue affecting a
limited number of users. More specifically, [0]some users weren't seeing
their own Hulu account information upon login, but someone else's."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/0216215/Facebook-Connect-Exposes-Hulu-User-Data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/hulu-removes-facebook-connect-after-exposing-user-data/1897
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| Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps?
| from the endangered-species dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 04, @02:48 (Android)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/040215/Why-Are-There-So-Few-Honeycomb-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Fudge Factor 3000 writes "PC World's Brent Rose [0]investigates the
reason behind the dearth of Honeycomb apps even though the OS was
released in February with the release of the Xoom. One would have
expected an explosion of Android tablet apps like that seen with the iPad
but the Honeycomb-optimized apps remain in the low hundreds. The answer,
it turns out, is not that simple. The main contributing factors appear to
be the low demand for Honeycomb tablets and the difficulty in discovering
Honeycomb-optimized apps in the Market. Hopefully, this will be rectified
in the near future."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/040215/Why-Are-There-So-Few-Honeycomb-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218075/Mystery_of_the_missing_Honeycomb_apps
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| South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015
| from the all-in-one-place dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 04, @05:34 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/0411257/South-Korean-Textbooks-to-Go-Digital-by-2015?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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South Korea plans to spend $2.4 billion buying tablets for students and
digitizing materials in an effort to go [0]completely digital in the
classroom by 2015. From the article: "This move also re-ignites the
age-old debate about whether or not students learn better from screens or
printed material. Equally important, there's the issue of whether or not
devices with smaller form factors are as effective as current textbooks,
which tend to have significantly more area on each page."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/0411257/South-Korean-Textbooks-to-Go-Digital-by-2015?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26960/?ref=rss
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| Bionic Body Parts For the Disabled
| from the robot-hands dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 04, @08:06 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/043249/Bionic-Body-Parts-For-the-Disabled?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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DeviceGuru writes "An interesting 11-minute PBS News Hour video
[0]demonstrates several bionics projects that use high-tech robotics
technology to create artificial body parts capable of assisting people
with disabilities. The video demonstrates a robotic exoskeleton called
[1]eLegs, an [2]artificial arm that gets wired into up to the user's
nerves, a robotic arm [3]operated by a monkey that's now going into human
trials, special glasses that provide bionic eyesight for the visually
impaired, and a runner with prosthetic legs who hopes to compete in the
2012 Olympics."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/043249/Bionic-Body-Parts-For-the-Disabled?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://deviceguru.com/bionic-body-parts-offer-hope-to-the-disabled/
1. http://berkeleybionics.com/exoskeletons-rehab-mobility/about-elegs/
2. http://www.dekaresearch.com/deka_arm.shtml
3. http://deviceguru.com/monkeys-brain-controls-robotic-arm/
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| Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead
| from the how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @09:11 (Twitter)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1259223/Hijacked-Fox-News-Twitter-Account-Falsely-Claims-Obama-Shot-Dead?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Frankie70 writes with word of a Twitter-account hijacking that's raised
eyebrows today, supplying a link to [0]the account in question. From the
Telegraph's account: "'The Twitter account of the American Fox News
Politics team was compromised and [1]used to falsely announce the death
of the U.S. president. Hackers, who identified themselves as 'The Script
Kiddies' and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group
Anonymous, used the account to write: 'BREAKING NEWS: President
@BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a
sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1259223/Hijacked-Fox-News-Twitter-Account-Falsely-Claims-Obama-Shot-Dead?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/#!/foxnewspolitics
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8615357/Fox-News-hackers-claim-Barack-Obama-assassinated.html
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| Pdf.js Reaches First Milestone
| from the daddy-what-were-operating-systems? dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @10:10 (Firefox)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/135249/Pdfjs-Reaches-First-Milestone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theweatherelectric writes "The pdf.js project aims to implement a PDF
viewer using standards-compliant Web technologies. The project has
reached its first milestone: [0]it renders the sample PDF (a paper on
Mozilla's Tracemonkey JavaScript engine) perfectly. However, that
perfection currently comes with some caveats: 'pdf.js produces different
results on pretty much every element in the browser��OS matrix. We said
above that pdf.js renders the Tracemonkey paper "perfectly" if you're
running a Firefox nightly. On a Windows 7 machine where Firefox can use
Direct2D and DirectWrite. If you ignore what appears to be a bug in
DirectWrite's font hinting. The paper is rendered less well on other
platforms and in older Firefoxen, and even worse in other browsers. But
such is life on the bleeding edge of the web platform.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/135249/Pdfjs-Reaches-First-Milestone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/07/03/pdf-js-first-milestone/
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| Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US
| from the how-to-spend-your-stimulus-bribe dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @11:13 (Transportation)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1327228/Roundabout-Revolution-Sweeping-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "BBC News reports that [0]U.S. cities are installing more
roundabouts than ever before. The first British-style [1]roundabout
appeared in the U.S. in 1990, and now some cities ��� such as Carmel in
Indiana, are rapidly replacing intersections with roundabouts. Supporters
claim that roundabouts result in increased traffic flow, reductions in
both the severity and incidence of accidents, and fuel savings. Critics
say that roundabouts are more difficult to navigate for unfamiliar
American drivers, lead to higher taxes and accidents, and require
everyday acts of spontaneous co-operation and yielding to others ��� acts
that are 'un-American.'" As a driver who's hit all of the continental
U.S. states except North Dakota, I dread roundabouts and rotaries for all
the near accidents (and at least one actual accident) I've seen them
inspire, and have been unhappy to see them spread. Spontaneous driver
cooperation [2]doesn't necessarily need the round shape, either.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1327228/Roundabout-Revolution-Sweeping-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13863498
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout
2. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/08/spontaneous-order-on-the-road.html
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| Kinect-Based AI System Watches What You're Up To
| from the 8-bit-necktie-on-the-door dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @12:09 (AI)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1426252/Kinect-Based-AI-System-Watches-What-Youre-Up-To?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Researchers from Cornell have used AI to create a system
based on the Kinect that [0]can recognize what you are doing ��� cleaning
your teeth, cooking, writing on a whiteboard etc. In a smart home it
could be used to offer help: 'Would you like some help with that recipe,
Dave?' Or it could monitor patients or workers to make sure they are
doing what they are told. The study also reveals that there is probably
enough information in how activities are performed to recognize an
individual ��� so providing yet more biometrics. There are clearly a lot
more things that we can teach the Kinect to do with machine learning than
just gesture recognition."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1426252/Kinect-Based-AI-System-Watches-What-Youre-Up-To?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| US, UK Targeting Piracy Websites Outside Their Borders
| from the let's-call-them-corsair-sites-instead dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @13:12 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1439246/US-UK-Targeting-Piracy-Websites-Outside-Their-Borders?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]nk497 writes "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agency is going after piracy websites [1]even if they aren't hosted in
the U.S., by targeting those with .net and .com domain names, which are
managed by U.S. company Verisign. Meanwhile, a lawyer suggests even that
[kind of connection] isn't needed to take a site to court in the UK,
saying as long as the content is directed at UK users, that's connection
enough to ensure jurisdiction."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1439246/US-UK-Targeting-Piracy-Websites-Outside-Their-Borders?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368437/lawyer-no-hiding-place-from-us-for-web-pirates
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| America: Like It Or Unfriend It
| from the please-extend-below dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @14:15 (United States)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/165252/America-Like-It-Or-Unfriend-It?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "As we celebrate America's birthday today, head
over the to the NY Times and take a look at a very clever 'op-art'
creation, 'Like it or Unfriend It' by Teddy Wayne, Mike Sacks, and Thomas
Ng, that [1]represents what 'America's Wall' would look like through our
history. Beginning with 'Christopher Columbus wrote on America's wall:
'This IS India, right?,' through 'America added Great Britain to Kingdoms
I am Fighting With,' through 'The South has changed its privacy settings
to accept carpetbaggers,' and finishing with 'America stopped playing the
game Wild-Goose Chase While Nation-Building,' and 'America has joined the
China Network' the wall includes dozens of invitations, likes, posts and
changes to privacy settings that shows a summary of American history as
seen from a Facebook perspective. Our favorite from the 1980s: 'Ronald
Reagan created a page: "Trickle-Down Economics" followed by "Half a
million upper-income people like this.'" For another take on 4th of July
data visualization, Tim O'Reilly points out [2]flag.codeforamerica.org,
which aggregates twitter posts tagged #July4 into an evolving flag
tapestry.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/165252/America-Like-It-Or-Unfriend-It?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/04/opinion/20110704_OPART.htm
2. http://flag.codeforamerica.org/
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| Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC?
| from the are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @15:18 (Security)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1855258/Ask-Slashdot-Which-Registrars-Support-DNSSEC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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baerm writes "With GoDaddy being purchased by private equity firms (i.e.
it will be sucked dry with service reduction and price increases until it
dies) what other Registrars support DNSSEC? GoDaddy is the only registrar
I could find that supports DNSSEC for registrees running their own DNS.
It was fairly easy to add the Key Signing Keys' DS records to the parent
zone using its DNS config. I did find a couple other registrars that were
'testing' DNSSEC or that would support DNSSEC if they ran your DNS. But I
couldn't find any other registrars where you could just register, run
your own DNS, and use DNSSEC (i.e. with your DS record in your parent
zone). That being said, I was only able to research a small percentage of
the registrars out there. Does anyone know of registrars, other than
GoDaddy, that allow for DNSSEC? That is, registrars that have a method to
pass the DS records to the parent zones for their registeree's domains?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1855258/Ask-Slashdot-Which-Registrars-Support-DNSSEC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Indie Film Premieres On BitTorrent Before Cinema
| from the do-y'-have-a-benediction-boyo? dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @16:20 (Movies)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1932259/Indie-Film-Premieres-On-BitTorrent-Before-Cinema?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The first part of A Lonely Place For Dying is
[0]available on VODO while the filmmakers are [1]getting ready for a
theatrical run in early 2012. Viewers are asked to donate if they like
what they see and if enough cash is raised they will be able to watch the
film again on the big screen. In return for their contributions, donors
are receiving digital downloads or credits in the upcoming release, you
can even become an Executive Producer and get your name listed on IMDB.
This is a brave move challenging Hollywood and their traditional 'release
windows.'" "Indie" in this case definitely does not mean a Grade Z
student film; James Cromwell knows his crime drama. The movie is being
released serially, and BitTorrent donations are to be used to "complete a
theatrical mix of the motion picture, create a digital cinema package,
and get everything else ready to position the film in U.S. movie
theaters."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1932259/Indie-Film-Premieres-On-BitTorrent-Before-Cinema?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://vo.do/alpfd
1. http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-star-reverses-movie-distribution-model-with-bittorrent-110701/
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| Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements
| from the who-the-hell-is-julian-simon? dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @17:22 (China)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/2058218/Japanese-Team-Finds-New-Source-of-Rare-Earth-Elements?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gyaku_zuki writes "As reported in the BBC, a Japanese survey team has
discovered [1]'vast' quantities of rare earths in international waters in
the Pacific Ocean. The search for alternative sources of these expensive
elements (used in common consumer electronics including mobile phones)
was intensified recently after a territory dispute with China, which
produces more than 90% of the world's rare earths, resulted in China
blocking export to Japan."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/2058218/Japanese-Team-Finds-New-Source-of-Rare-Earth-Elements?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://zuki.org.uk/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14009910
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| In Australia, Censorship vs. DNS, and Porn As Network Driver
| from the ok-you're-going-to-need-2-jiggers-of-porn dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 04, @18:26 (Australia)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1632231/In-Australia-Censorship-vs-DNS-and-Porn-As-Network-Driver?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]daria42 writes "Remember how [1]Australia's planning to censor its
Internet? Well, it looks as though the country's second-largest ISP,
Optus, has made a stumble right out of the gate. Optus today [2]confirmed
you could circumvent its filtering technology simply by setting your PC
to use a different DNS server than the default. Yup, it's really that
easy. Oops." And why would anyone want to change their DNS settings?
[3]angry tapir writes "While the Australian Government has extolled the
virtues of its currently under construction [4]National Broadband Network
(NBN) in delivering e-health and government agency services to every
Australian, [5]adult content will be the major driver of consumer
adoption."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/1632231/In-Australia-Censorship-vs-DNS-and-Porn-As-Network-Driver?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/04/optus-filter-ca
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0053220/Telstra-Starts-Implementing-Australian-Censorship-Scheme
2. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/04/optus-filter-can-be-defeated-by-trivial-dns-change/
3. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
4. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/0042200/Landmark-Steps-Forward-For-Australias-NBN
5. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/392347/high_speed_adult_content_may_drive_nbn_uptake/?fp=4&fpid=5
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| NASA's Next Mars Rover
| from the would-do-well-on-battlebots-too dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 04, @19:29 (Mars)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/2259247/NASAs-Next-Mars-Rover?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In August 2012, the NASA rover Curiosity is
scheduled to touch down on the surface of Mars. The size of a small car,
it's four times as heavy as predecessors Spirit and Opportunity, and
comes with a large robot arm, a laser that can vaporise rocks at seven
meters, a percussive drill and a weather station. Oh, and 4.8kg of
plutonium-238. [0]Wired has some high-resolution photographs from lab
that is putting the next rover together." [1]Curiosity's destination on
Mars has reportedly been chosen: Gale Crater. The 150-kilometer wide
depression 'includes a tantalizing 5-kilometer-high mound of ancient
sediments, [and] may have once been flooded by water.' The Planetary
Society blog has a couple of [2]additional pictures and a time-lapse
video of the delicate, lengthy process of [3]preparing the lander for
transport. Curiosity will launch near the end of 2011. No cats were
harmed during its construction.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/2259247/NASAs-Next-Mars-Rover?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/07/features/rover-returns
1. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110623/full/news.2011.380.html
2. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003051/
3. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003074/
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