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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back
* Xbox Live Indie Games Struggle For Profitability
* Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US
* Bionic Eyeglasses May Boost Impaired Vision
* @Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday
* The Uzebox: an Open Source Hardware Games Console
* Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes
* DOT Exempts Maker of 'Flying Car' From Road Vehicle Safety Rules
* Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees
* 3D Chocolate Printer
* Nanomagnets Could Replace Transistors in Microprocessors
* How Apple Came To Control the Component Market
* Hubble Makes Millionth Observation
* Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here
* Australian Firm Targets Apple and Google Cloud Music Services
* Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!
* Construction of ESA Galaxy Mapping Satellite Completed
* Jailbreakme 3.0 Released
* Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone
* Facebook Announces Video Calling With Skype
* Microsoft Pays University $250K To Use Office 365
* Banks Faulted For Fake Antivirus Scourge
* Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording
* Google Wrestles With Privacy Bugs In Google+
* Twitter Testing Facebook-Like Profile Wall
* Dell Sets Stage To Take On Apple's iCloud
* Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks
* IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers
* Patent Troll Goes After Notebook Cooling
* Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie
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| How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back
| from the did-anyone-ask-dr.-evil dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 05, @20:01 (Businesses)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2311216/How-America-Can-Get-Its-Tech-Mojo-Back?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "The American tech industry is hobbled by a poor
education system, misguided spending priorities, and a byzantine patent
system. But America can still [1]come out on top, not least because of
its longstanding tradition of individuality and private R&D investment.
'Open, distributed projects have the potential to outperform the
traditional closed, controlled research model by reducing costs and
duplication of effort, making it easy to collect and analyze masses of
data from diverse sources, and allowing the best brains to participate no
matter where they live.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2311216/How-America-Can-Get-Its-Tech-Mojo-Back?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/178091/how-america-losing-its-tech-mojo-and-how-it-can-get-it-back
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| Xbox Live Indie Games Struggle For Profitability
| from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 05, @21:10 (XBox (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2346239/Xbox-Live-Indie-Games-Struggle-For-Profitability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An article at the Opposable Thumbs blog examines the Xbox Live Indie
Games economy, finding that developers are [0]having trouble making
enough money to justify continued work with the platform. Quoting: "If
you want to publish a console video game, there's no easier route than
the Xbox Live Indie Games program. But while it's relatively easy to get
your game on the service, it's hard to get it noticed. There's a lot of
junk on XBLIG, so much so that a group of developers banded together at
the end of last year to promote quality indie titles. There have been
success stories���like the recently released FortressCraft, which managed
to sell 16,000 units on the day of release���but they're not exactly
common. So with virtually no promotion, and with average earnings of just
$3,800 per title, why do developers continue to create games for the
platform? ...virtually all of the developers we spoke to are considering
moving on from the platform. But all seem to view their experience as
valuable, which in the end is part of the point of XBLIG: it's a place
where virtually anyone can make a game that can be played on a console.
Devs just need to know what they're getting into."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2346239/Xbox-Live-Indie-Games-Struggle-For-Profitability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/xblig-feature.ars
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| Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US
| from the let's-celebrate-with-a-ride-in-the-suv dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 05, @22:08 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2321210/Renewable-Energy-Production-Surpasses-Nuclear-In-the-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes "Renewable energy production has [1]surpassed nuclear
energy production in the U.S. according to the [2]latest issue of Monthly
Energy Review (PDF) published by the Energy Information Administration.
... During the first three months of 2011, energy produced from renewable
energy sources (biomass/biofuels, geothermal, solar, hydro, wind)
generated 2.245 quadrillion Btus of energy equating to 11.73 percent of
U.S. energy production. During this same time period, renewable energy
production surpassed nuclear energy power by 5.65 percent. In total,
energy produced from renewables is 77.15 percent of that from domestic
crude oil production."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2321210/Renewable-Energy-Production-Surpasses-Nuclear-In-the-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://domesticfuel.com/2011/07/05/renewable-energy-production-surpasses-nuclear/
2. http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_5.pdf
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| Bionic Eyeglasses May Boost Impaired Vision
| from the seeing-is-believing dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 06, @00:14 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/000206/Bionic-Eyeglasses-May-Boost-Impaired-Vision?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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fangmcgee writes with this excerpt from a University of Oxford news
release: "Technology developed for mobile phones and computer gaming ���
such as video cameras, position detectors, face recognition and tracking
software, and depth sensors ��� is now readily and cheaply available. So
Oxford researchers have been looking at ways that this technology can be
[0]combined into a normal-looking pair of glasses to help those who might
have just a small area of vision left, have cloudy or blurry vision, or
can���t process detailed images. ... The glasses have video cameras mounted
at the corners to capture what the wearer is looking at, while a display
of tiny lights embedded in the see-through lenses of the glasses feed
back extra information about objects, people or obstacles in view. In
between, a smartphone-type computer running in your pocket recognizes
objects in the video image or tracks where a person is, driving the
lights in the display in real time. The extra information the glasses
display about their surroundings should allow people to navigate round a
room, pick out the most relevant things and locate objects placed
nearby."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/000206/Bionic-Eyeglasses-May-Boost-Impaired-Vision?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/110705.html
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| @Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday
| from the for-the-birds dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 06, @02:17 (Twitter)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2349215/Whitehouse-Hosting-Twitter-Town-Hall-On-Wednesday?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "In another milestone, [1]the White House will hold its
first Twitter town hall forum on Wednesday. President Barack Obama, known
for [2]using technology and Web 2.0 tools since his presidential
campaign, will answer Twitter users' questions ([3]submit them here) in a
live webcast about the U.S. economy and jobs at 2 p.m. Eastern time on
Wednesday. Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey will
moderate a conversation between Obama and Twitterers across the country.
Twitter users can submit questions using the hashtag #AskObama. Some
questions will be taken up in advance and others will be grabbed
real-time during the event, Twitter said. [4]In a blog post, Twitter
executives said a conversation about the U.S. economy will fit right in
with regular Twitter activity."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2349215/Whitehouse-Hosting-Twitter-Town-Hall-On-Wednesday?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218179/_whitehouse_takes_on_Twitter_Town_Hall
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9124201/Obama_transforms_Web_based_politics
3. http://askobama.twitter.com/
4. http://blog.twitter.com/2011/07/twitter-town-hall.html
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| The Uzebox: an Open Source Hardware Games Console
| from the throw-one-together dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 06, @03:31 (Open Source)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/0524247/The-Uzebox-an-Open-Source-Hardware-Games-Console?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Lots of people are familiar with open source
software. Open source hardware, however, is still more of niche category.
The Uzebox is [1]an open source, 'retro minimalist' 8-bit games console,
licensed under version 3.0 of the GNU GPL. 'The console uses an
overclocked ATmega644 microcontroller and classic Super Nintendo
controllers, supports 256 colors and 4 sound channels and has an SD card
interface from which games can be loaded from.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/0524247/The-Uzebox-an-Open-Source-Hardware-Games-Console?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/392560/uzebox_an_open_source_hardware_games_console/
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| Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes
| from the google-is-in-all-the-things-now dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 06, @05:12 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/0513216/Tilting-Bike-Uses-Google-Maps-To-Simulate-Routes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "One of the differences between real cycling and indoor
training is the fact that when riders are on the road, the topography of
the area determines the pedaling effort required. By contrast, when on a
stationary bike, riders usually just vary their output as they feel like
it. In an attempt to make indoor training more like the real thing,
Pro-Form's Le Tour de France Indoor Cycle lets users [0]choose or create
real-world routes using Google Maps, then adjusts the angle of the riding
platform to replicate the experience of riding up and down those roads."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/0513216/Tilting-Bike-Uses-Google-Maps-To-Simulate-Routes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/pro-form-le-tour-de-france-tilting-stationary-bike/19125/
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| DOT Exempts Maker of 'Flying Car' From Road Vehicle Safety Rules
| from the great-now-i-can-text-and-flydrive dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 06, @08:18 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/0536215/DOT-Exempts-Maker-of-Flying-Car-From-Road-Vehicle-Safety-Rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Stirfry192 writes with news that Terrafugia, makers of a vehicle
alternately called a 'flying car' or '[0]roadable aircraft,' have been
granted [1]a three-year exemption to federal motor vehicle safety rules
in order to foster further development and innovation. "The DOT granted
the three-year 'hardship' exemption because it bought the argument from
Terrafugia that its attempt to comply with DOT regulations at the same
time as Federal Aviation Administration rules would be prohibitively
expensive. Terrafugia had argued that an exemption would allow it more
time to research more appropriate solutions to the requirements at the
same time as making the flying car a feasible project. The company, an
MIT spin-off located in Woburn, Mass. intends to use motor-cycle tires
and rims instead of tires usually used for regular cars. The purpose is
to minimize the weight of the craft."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/0536215/DOT-Exempts-Maker-of-Flying-Car-From-Road-Vehicle-Safety-Rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/10/19/1753252/Roadable-Aircraft-Moving-Towards-Launch
1. http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/dot-exempts-makers-of-flying-car-from-road-vehicle-safety-specs.php
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| Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees
| from the win-or-lose-we'll-make-you-pay dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @09:00 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1225222/Defendant-Says-Righthaven-Should-Pay-Legal-Fees?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "On June 20 District Court Judge Philip Pro found
that Kentucky resident Wayne Hoehn was [1]protected by fair use in
posting a Las Vegas Review-Journal column on a sports website. Now
[2]Hoehn's attorneys have submitted a $34,000 bill and asked that Judge
Pro require Righthaven to pay it. The $34,000 could be just the tip of
the iceberg for Righthaven, should the Democratic Underground prevail in
what [3]likely will be a far larger fee demand."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1225222/Defendant-Says-Righthaven-Should-Pay-Legal-Fees?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/58320664/Order-to-Dismiss-Righthaven-v-Wayne-Hoehn
2. http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/jul/05/defendant-righthaven-should-pay-34000-legal-fees/.
3. http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/jun/14/judge-rules-righthaven-lacks-standing-sue-threaten/
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| 3D Chocolate Printer
| from the print-me-off-a-candy-bar dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @09:24 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1251239/3D-Chocolate-Printer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]BoxRec writes "Scientists in England have developed a [1]3D chocolate
printer that prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic. 'Now
we have an opportunity to combine chocolate with digital technology,
including the design, digital manufacturing and social networking.
Chocolate has a lot of social purpose, so our intention is to develop a
community and share the designs, ideas and experience about it,' says
lead scientist Dr Liang Hao."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1251239/3D-Chocolate-Printer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdotatboxrecdotcom/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14030720
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| Nanomagnets Could Replace Transistors in Microprocessors
| from the remember-when-moore's-law-failed dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @09:39 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1259214/Nanomagnets-Could-Replace-Transistors-in-Microprocessors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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redwolfe7707 writes "Computers today move electrons, using lots of energy
in the process. A new report out of UC Berkely shows that doing computing
with nano magnetic domains could [0]reduce the energy consumption by a
factor of a million." As usual, the factor of a million would be in the
ideal case and is close to the [1]minimum permitted by the universe.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1259214/Nanomagnets-Could-Replace-Transistors-in-Microprocessors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110701101737.htm
1. http://www.sp.phy.cam.ac.uk/~SiGe/Fundamental%20Limits%20of%20Computation%20-%20Landauer%20and%20Heisenburg.html
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| How Apple Came To Control the Component Market
| from the one-i-ring-to-rule-them-all dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @10:21 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1337204/How-Apple-Came-To-Control-the-Component-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Phillip Elmer-Dewitt draws on several sources
to argue that 'Apple has become not a monopoly (a single seller), but a
monopsony ��� the one buyer that can control an entire market.' According
to Dewitt, Apple uses its $70 billion cash hoard to 'pay for the
construction cost (or a significant fraction of it) of [tech factories]
in [0]exchange for exclusive rights to the output production of the
factory for a set period of time...' This gives Apple 'access to new
component technology months or years before its rivals and allows it to
release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to
duplicate.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1337204/How-Apple-Came-To-Control-the-Component-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/05/how-apple-became-a-monopsonist/
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| Hubble Makes Millionth Observation
| from the not-bad-for-an-american-telescope dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @11:01 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1427247/Hubble-Makes-Millionth-Observation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sfcrazy wrote in with an article about the Hubble telescope. From the
article: "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its
space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the
Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation
during a [0]search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000
light-years away."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1427247/Hubble-Makes-Millionth-Observation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/22/full/
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| Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here
| from the childhood-dreams-fufilled dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @11:50 (Star Wars Prequels)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1546213/Star-Wars-Landspeeders-Are-Here?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "All you Jedis can stop [0]building fake landspeeders in
your driveway now ��� the real deal is finally here. Wired is reporting on
an Israeli company that has been [1]testing one for use as an ambulance
called the AirMule. Watch out, Womp Rats."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1546213/Star-Wars-Landspeeders-Are-Here?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/guy_makes_full_size_driveable.php
1. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/video-israeli-landspeeder-sorta-takes-flight/
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| Australian Firm Targets Apple and Google Cloud Music Services
| from the can-i-patent-urls dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @12:33 (Cloud)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1611227/Australian-Firm-Targets-Apple-and-Google-Cloud-Music-Services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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littlekorea writes "The online music services of Apple and Google are
likely to be challenged by a Sydney-based company that has been
[0]granted three new patents around file hashing and deduplication. . The
patents are being managed by Kevin Bermeister, of Altnet/Kazaa fame, who
believes that the technology behind P2P music services has been
commercialized by the music industry without license." In semi-related
patent troll news Google is being sued over [1]using interactive
panoramic images in Streetview. Because [2]QuickTime VR didn't exist
years before the patent was filed.
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1611227/Australian-Firm-Targets-Apple-and-Google-Cloud-Music-Services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/262659,aussie-eyes-apple-google-over-cloud-music-patents.aspx
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-microsoft-aol-sued-over-street-view-patent/3103
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR
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| Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!
| from the that's-a-nice-bomb-job dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @12:53 (Security)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1623250/Dont-Fly-If-You-Just-Had-Surgery?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mcgrew writes "The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the TSA is now
[1]worried about surgically implanted bombs. Are they trying to get
everyone to stop flying entirely? I know there's no way they'd get me in
an airliner these days. I'll drive, even though it is far, far more
dangerous."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1623250/Dont-Fly-If-You-Just-Had-Surgery?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~mcgrew/journal/267648
1. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-cnn-implant-bombs,0,7695785.story
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| Construction of ESA Galaxy Mapping Satellite Completed
| from the beach-photos-with-a-zeta-reticulan dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, @13:10 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1637230/Construction-of-ESA-Galaxy-Mapping-Satellite-Completed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes with an article in Network World. From the article:
"The European Space Agency says it has completed what it calls the
largest digital camera ever built for a space mission ��� a [1]one billion
pixel array camera that will help create a three-dimensional picture of
the Milky Way Galaxy. Set to be launched onboard the ESA's
[2]galaxy-mapping Gaia mission in 2013, the digital camera was 'mosaicked
together from 106 separate electronic detectors.' ESA says that Gaia's
measurements will be so accurate that, if it were on Earth, it could
measure the thumbnails of a person on the Moon."
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/billion-pixel-camera-set-snap-milky-way-shots
2. http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=26
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| Jailbreakme 3.0 Released
| from the tonight-there's-gonna-be-a-jailbreak dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @13:53 (IOS)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1714224/Jailbreakme-30-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Beardydog writes "Jailbreakme.com has been officially updated, providing
the first public method for [0]jailbreaking the iPad 2, and the easiest
method for jailbreaking most other iOS devices. The jailbreak works with
iOS 4.3.3, and it is recommended that users update before a new release
from Apple closes the vulnerability exploited by the jailbreak."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1714224/Jailbreakme-30-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.jailbreakme.com/
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| Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone
| from the pay-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @14:38 (Android)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1721227/Microsoft-Wants-15-Per-Android-Smartphone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sfcrazy writes "Microsoft Corp has demanded that Samsung Electronics Co
Ltd [0]pay $15 for each smartphone handset it makes based on Google Inc's
Android operating system. The software giant claims to own a wide range
of patents used in the mobile platform. From the article: 'Samsung would
likely seek to lower the payment to about $10 in exchange for a deeper
alliance with Microsoft for the U.S. company's Windows platform, the
Maeil Business Newspaper quoted unnamed industry officials as saying.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1721227/Microsoft-Wants-15-Per-Android-Smartphone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/06/us-samsung-microsoft-idUSTRE7651DB20110706
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| Facebook Announces Video Calling With Skype
| from the call-list dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @15:19 (Cloud)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1815259/Facebook-Announces-Video-Calling-With-Skype?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "As [0]rumored and anticipated, Facebook
co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced [1]video calling,
powered by Skype. The company also revealed other chat improvements,
including an option to see the friends you message most and group chat,
and confirmed that it now has 750 million users."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1815259/Facebook-Announces-Video-Calling-With-Skype?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/2135223/Facebook-To-Launch-In-Browser-Video-Chat-With-Skype
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-announces-video-calling-powered-by-skype/1993
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| Microsoft Pays University $250K To Use Office 365
| from the use-our-product-please dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @15:38 (Cloud)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1850226/Microsoft-Pays-University-250K-To-Use-Office-365?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]BogenDorpher writes "Microsoft has offered to give the University of
Nebraska [1]$250,000 dollars to make the switch from IBM Lotus Notes to
Office 365, which they say offers newer technology, greater flexibility,
and operational savings. Microsoft did this in hopes that the University
would not make the transition over to Google Apps."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1850226/Microsoft-Pays-University-250K-To-Use-Office-365?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.winbeta.org/
1. http://www.winbeta.org/?q=news/microsoft-pays-university-250000-adopt-office-365
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| Banks Faulted For Fake Antivirus Scourge
| from the passing-the-buck dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @16:02 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1858253/Banks-Faulted-For-Fake-Antivirus-Scourge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]krebsonsecurity writes "Merchant banks that process credit card
payments for fake antivirus or 'scareware' exhibit a distinctive pattern
of card processing that could be used by Visa and MasterCard to [1]weed
out the rogue processors, according to a new study by the University of
California, Santa Barbara. From the study: 'The UCSB team found that the
fake AV operations sought to maximize profits by altering their refunds
according to the chargebacks reported against them, and by refunding just
enough to remain below a payment processor's chargeback limits. Whenever
the rate of chargebacks increased, the miscreants would begin issuing
more refunds. When the rate of chargebacks subsided, the miscreants would
again withhold refunds.' The study also highlights how few customers ever
request a refund, and how affiliates pushing this junk software made more
than $133 million."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1858253/Banks-Faulted-For-Fake-Antivirus-Scourge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://krebsonsecurity.com/
1. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/07/which-banks-are-enabling-fake-av-scams/
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| Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording
| from the before-cassette-tapes dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @16:23 (Music)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1920247/Scientists-Play-Worlds-Oldest-Commercial-Recording?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "The scratchy, 12-second audio clip of a woman
reciting the first verse of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star doesn't sound
like much. But the faint, 123-year-old recording���etched into a warped
metal cylinder and brought back to life after decades of silence by a
three-dimensional (3D) optical scanning technique���appears to belong to
[0]the first record intended for sale to the public. Made for a talking
doll briefly sold by phonograph inventor Thomas Edison, the early record
is the oldest known American recording of a woman's voice and may be the
oldest known record produced at Edison's laboratory in West Orange, New
Jersey."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1920247/Scientists-Play-Worlds-Oldest-Commercial-Recording?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/scientists-play-worlds-oldest-co.html?ref=hp
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| Google Wrestles With Privacy Bugs In Google+
| from the a-few-cracks-in-the-cement dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @16:44 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1938206/Google-Wrestles-With-Privacy-Bugs-In-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Google's new social networking site, Google+ ��� built to
beat Facebook primarily on privacy features ��� [1]has several privacy bugs
the company is working to fix. While some enthusiastic beta testers
clamor for Google to open the social networking site to everybody now,
it's clear Google needs to address these issues before launching Google+
more broadly. Stumbling right out of the gate over privacy problems would
likely doom Google+'s chances of emerging as a viable, realistic rival to
Facebook, which rules the social networking market with about 700 million
account holders. So far, beta testers have been [2]mostly positive about
Google+, particularly over its design to make it easier for users to
share posts and content with different sets of people, as opposed with
their entire list of contacts. Many of the [3]existing privacy bugs in
Google+ revolve around the site's mechanism to block users, according to
this published list."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1938206/Google-Wrestles-With-Privacy-Bugs-In-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218199/Google_dealing_with_privacy_bugs_in_Google_
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218027/First_look_Google_lets_you_hang_with_a_small_or_large_circle_of_friends?source=toc
3. https://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs
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| Twitter Testing Facebook-Like Profile Wall
| from the imitation-is-the-highest-form-of-flattery dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @17:08 (Social Networks)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1941248/Twitter-Testing-Facebook-Like-Profile-Wall?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Mightee writes "Twitter is experimenting with a [1]Facebook-Like
message wall to its users' profile pages, that will allow twitter users
to send '@ replies or mentions' directly from their profile. The change
is apparently coming in order to enhance conversation between tweeters.
According to Official Twitter Spokeswoman: 'Twitter is testing the
feature with a small percentage of users. It was designed to "make it
easier for users to engage with each other" on the microblogging
service.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1941248/Twitter-Testing-Facebook-Like-Profile-Wall?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/
1. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/2011/07/twitter-testing-with-facebook-like-profile-wall/
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| Dell Sets Stage To Take On Apple's iCloud
| from the head-in-the-clouds dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @17:26 (Cloud)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2028233/Dell-Sets-Stage-To-Take-On-Apples-iCloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "[0]Dell has quietly created a cloud-based service
offering that could offer consumers a compelling reason to keep investing
in Dell devices. The new release, which began shipping last week, allows
users who snap a picture with a Dell Streak or other Dell mobile device
to automatically upload it to a pool of free, shared cloud storage. The
new software also allows devices to remotely control and play back shared
audio and video, plus other services."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2028233/Dell-Sets-Stage-To-Take-On-Apples-iCloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388112,00.asp
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| Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks
| from the never-do-laundry-again dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @17:45 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2111225/Scientists-Put-an-End-To-Smelly-Socks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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athe!st writes "A new anti-microbial treatment that can make clothing ���
including smelly socks ��� permanently germ-free has been developed by US
scientists. In a [0]paper published in the [1]American Chemical Society
journal Applied Materials and Interfaces, Dr Jason Locklin and his
colleagues state that [2]the treatment kills a wide range of dangerous
pathogens, including staph, strep, E. coli, pseudomonas and
acetinobacter."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2111225/Scientists-Put-an-End-To-Smelly-Socks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://pubs.acs.org/cookieabsent.html
1. http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14045387
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| IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers
| from the coming-to-a-drive-thu-near-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @18:08 (AI)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2116221/IBM-Watson-To-Replace-Salespeople-and-Cold-Callers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "After conquering Jeopardy! and making inroads
into the diagnosis of medical maladies, [0]IBM's next application for
Watson is improving sales and customer support. Companies will be able to
simply fill Watson (or rather, DeepQA) with domain-specific information
about products and services, and sit back as it uses its natural language
processing skills to answer the queries of potential customers. The
potential benefits are huge. Watson could either augment existing sales
and support teams, or replace them entirely. Also, in a beautiful and
self-fulfilling twist, the first application of this re-purposed Watson
will be be internally, at IBM, to help sell more IBM Watsons to other
companies."
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https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2116221/IBM-Watson-To-Replace-Salespeople-and-Cold-Callers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Patent Troll Goes After Notebook Cooling
| from the cool-before-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @18:52 (Patents)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2154210/Patent-Troll-Goes-After-Notebook-Cooling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "If you are manufacturing notebooks and you
are using hardware that needs to be cooled down occasionally, [0]you may
be in the crosshairs of IPventure, which claims patent rights to an
approach that is common in all notebooks today. For now, the company
appears to be establishing its case by suing Fujitsu and Lenovo over the
use of its invention in the Lifebook and Thinkpad series of products."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2154210/Patent-Troll-Goes-After-Notebook-Cooling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.conceivablytech.com/8274/business/patent-troll-goes-after-notebook-cooling
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| Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie
| from the low-difficulty dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @19:40 (Linux)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2149258/Ask-Slashdot-Easiest-Linux-Distro-For-a-Newbie?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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anymooseposter writes "My mom is taking a computer class at the local
Community College. she asks: 'I need to download a Linux OS and try it
out for class. The assignment is to use an OS different from what you
normally use. Well, since I use Windows and OS X, the assignment suggests
Linux. But, my question is, what is the easiest version based on Linux
for me to put on CD and try? I saw several on the web. Any thoughts off
the top of your head?' What Linux Disto would be easiest to set up
without having to resort to dual booting and/or driver issues?"
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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2149258/Ask-Slashdot-Easiest-Linux-Distro-For-a-Newbie?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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