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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope
* 7 Days In Email Hell
* Germany Considers Banning Wild Facebook Parties
* Spanish Copyright Society Raided For Embezzlement
* Geocaching Shuts Down British Town
* Google Deleting Private Profiles
* Lawyer Attempts To Trademark Bitcoin
* Cassini Captures Audio of Storm On Saturn
* EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science
* Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers
* Bill Gates On Energy
* Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10
* A Million Node Supercomputer
* Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK
* HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA
* Media Companies Create Copyright Enforcement Framework
* Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant
* Chicago Mercantile Exchange Secrets Leaked To China
* IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking
* NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink
* Ask Slashdot: Open Patent Licenses?
* The View From the Ground At an Indian Call Center
* Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive
* Dropbox Releases Revised TOS
* Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk
* Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches
* Microsoft Releases Mobile Data Collection Source Code
* Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid
* SKA Telescope Set To Generate More Data Than Current Net
* Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese
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| Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope
| from the no-telescope-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @20:47 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0038247/Congress-Dumps-James-Webb-Space-Telescope?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Teancum writes "On the [1]list of items on the upcoming federal budget
for 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives has announced they are going
to cancel the continued development of the [2]James Webb Space Telescope.
While this debate is certainly still very much a [3]preliminary draft,
the road ahead for this project is now very much uncertain. In this time
of budget cuts, it seems unlikely that this project is going to survive
at this time. It certainly will be an uphill battle for fans of this
telescope if they want to keep it alive."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0038247/Congress-Dumps-James-Webb-Space-Telescope?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:robert_horning@@@netzero...net
1. http://appropriations.house.gov/news/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=250023
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
3. http://www.spacenews.com/civil/110706-nasa-budget-cancel-webb.html
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| 7 Days In Email Hell
| from the emails-of-note dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @22:38 (The Internet)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/232207/7-Days-In-Email-Hell?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "If you first went on line in the '90s, you
probably remember a time when every e-mail you received was exciting, or
at least relevant, and was worthy of your personal attention. One brave
writer decided to [1]take that approach to his present-day overflowing
inbox. He read every email he received and dealt with them all, either by
replying, filing, or unsubscribing. He even scanned his spam filter for
false positives. It was a lot harder than he thought it would be."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/232207/7-Days-In-Email-Hell?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/176317/7-days-email-hell
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| Germany Considers Banning Wild Facebook Parties
| from the shut-it-down dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 06, @23:45 (Facebook)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1259219/Germany-Considers-Banning-Wild-Facebook-Parties?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Wild Facebook parties tend to occur when a
Facebook Event invitation to a typical small gathering is mistakenly
posted publicly, [0]and then goes viral. This results in injuries and
arrests as hundreds or even thousands show up for a party meant for a
handful of people. A recent wave of these out-of-control Facebook parties
[1]has left German officials and politicians trying to figure how to deal
with the trend."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1259219/Germany-Considers-Banning-Wild-Facebook-Parties?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/16/162208/Teen-Cancels-Party-After-200000-RSVP-On-Facebook
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/germany-considers-banning-wild-facebook-parties/1961
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| Spanish Copyright Society Raided For Embezzlement
| from the under-the-table dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 07, @00:58 (Music)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0233213/Spanish-Copyright-Society-Raided-For-Embezzlement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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esocid writes "Senior officials in Spain's Society of Authors and
Publishers (SGAE), the country's leading collection society for
songwriters and composers, [0]face embezzlement charges in the wake of a
Friday raid on the organization's offices. Investigators say Jose Luis
Rodriguez Neri, the head of an SGAE subsidiary called the Digital Society
of Spanish Authors (SDAE), made payments for non-existent services to a
contractor that then paid kickbacks to Neri and his associates. SGAE, the
Spanish counterpart to American collecting societies like ASCAP and BMI,
is known for its high fees and aggressive enforcement tactics. According
to El Pa��s, 'the society has been often accused of exceeding its remit by
going as far as to infiltrate private weddings to check whether fees had
been paid for the music being played at the banquet.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0233213/Spanish-Copyright-Society-Raided-For-Embezzlement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Geocaching Shuts Down British Town
| from the everyone-panic dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 07, @01:44 (United Kingdom)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0249215/Geocaching-Shuts-Down-British-Town?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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DaveAtWorkAnnoyingly writes "Many geocachers will be thinking twice when
planting their treasure in an urban space as one geocacher found out in
England after the [0]police cordoned off the center of a small West
Yorkshire town and the Bomb Squad was called in. From the article: 'It
was a normal busy Friday morning in the small West Yorkshire market town
of Wetherby when someone working in a caf�� spotted a man acting a bit
suspiciously on the street. He appeared to have a small plastic box in
his hand and after fiddling with the container he bent down and hid it
under a flower box standing on the pavement. He then walked off, talking
to somebody on his phone.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0249215/Geocaching-Shuts-Down-British-Town?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14039229
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| Google Deleting Private Profiles
| from the out-of-the-shadows dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 07, @04:21 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0252228/Google-Deleting-Private-Profiles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Google announced that it will [0]no longer
support private Google Profiles after July 31. The move comes as Google
is rolling out its latest social experiment, Google+. Those who have
already been admitted to Google+ will see their Google+ profiles replace
their Google Profiles. At the moment the only information Google requires
users to reveal is their name and gender."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0252228/Google-Deleting-Private-Profiles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388120,00.asp
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| Lawyer Attempts To Trademark Bitcoin
| from the said-it-first dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 07, @08:02 (Bitcoin)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0326213/Lawyer-Attempts-To-Trademark-Bitcoin?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A NY based lawyer has submitted an
[0]application to the US Patent and Trademark Office claiming first use
of the term bitcoin on June 22nd, 2011. The evidence of first use in the
[1]form of a letter detailing his wife's offer to sell "bitcoin" for
$17.50 on June 23rd. A [2] pdf extolling the virtues of bitcoin has also
been uploaded to his law firms webpage."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0326213/Lawyer-Attempts-To-Trademark-Bitcoin?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://rogerwehbe.com/?p=73
1. http://tdr.uspto.gov/jsp/DocumentViewPage.jsp?85353491/SPE20110625085727/Specimen/1/22-Jun-2011/sn/false#p=1
2. http://www.pascazilaw.com/files/New_Coin_of_the_Realm_062311.pdf
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| Cassini Captures Audio of Storm On Saturn
| from the energy-beings-can-scream-in-space dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @08:41 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/120210/Cassini-Captures-Audio-of-Storm-On-Saturn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Sooner Boomer writes "The Cassini space probe has been monitoring an
[1]enormous storm on Saturn since it was detected last December. The
storm, dubbed '[2]The Great White Spot', now [3]500 times larger than any
previously seen by Cassini at Saturn, is 8 times the surface area of
Earth. Observers on Earth have been able to see a [4]bright white
'smudge' in the northern half of the planet." NASA released a recording
of the [5]electrical noise generated by the lightning.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://moc.liamgtarmoob.renoos/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/1410230/Saturns-Super-Storm
2. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20110706.html
3. http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/57070-cassini-monitors-biggest-ever-saturn-storm
4. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia12824.html
5. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/pia14310.html
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| EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science
| from the agribusiness-displeased dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @09:22 (Government)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1242210/EU-Proposal-Shift-Farming-Subsidies-To-Science?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "There is a proposal in the EU budget which would
provide a [0]45% increase in technology and innovation spending for the
2014-2020 time period. Interestingly, some of the increase from $79B to
$114B would come from the controversial farm subsidies program, the
[1]Common Agricultural Policy. The article states ... 'While some
scientists and observers feel optimistic that the proposal will pass, one
stated that "it is extremely unlikely that the member states will agree
to anything exceeding this, so we should regard it as a ceiling" on the
eventual research budget.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1242210/EU-Proposal-Shift-Farming-Subsidies-To-Science?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110705/full/475014a.html
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
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| Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers
| from the check-out-the-brisket-page dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 07, @09:39 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1145205/Using-Old-Linksys-Routers-to-Control-BBQ-Smokers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mache writes "It's scary when you find two completely unrelated areas
that you are passionate about merged. It happened to me with BBQ and
hacking home network infrastructure. People have taken old Linksys WRT54G
(and their derivatives) routers and [0]made them into automatic
temperature controllers for BBQ smokers. They support Wi-Fi and even have
a web browser to monitor progress."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://tvwbb.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9270072103/m/7691098906
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| Bill Gates On Energy
| from the agreeing-with-bill-gates-feels-dirty dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @10:00 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1324238/Bill-Gates-On-Energy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Sam the Nemesis submitted an interview in Wired with Bill Gates on the
[1]future of energy. Gates sees [2]nuclear as the only feasible option
for base load generation. His views on the current direction of energy
funding are particularly distressing: "But the economics are so, so far
from making sense. And yet that's where subsidies are going now. We're
putting 90 percent of the subsidies in deployment ��� this is true in
Europe and the United States ��� not in R&D. And so unfortunately you get
technologies that, no matter how much of them you buy, there's no path to
being economical. You need fundamental breakthroughs, which come more out
of [3]basic research."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1324238/Bill-Gates-On-Energy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://slashdot.org/~Sam+the+Nemesis
1. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/mf_qagates/all/1
2. http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
3. http://web.mit.edu/dsadoway/www/sadowaygroup_research.html
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| Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10
| from the outlook-clones-no-longer-cool dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @10:40 (Mozilla)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/140204/Thunderbird-Unseats-Evolution-In-Ubuntu-1110?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Coinciding with the [0]recent release of
Mozilla Thunderbird 5 and its 400 performance and stability fixes,
Canonical has decided that it's now [1]fit for adoption in Ubuntu ��� and
as of version 11.10, Thunderbird will replace Evolution as the default
mail program. You can [2]download the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 today
and give Thunderbird a whirl."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/140204/Thunderbird-Unseats-Evolution-In-Ubuntu-1110?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/5.0/releasenotes/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/89334-mozilla-thunderbird-unseats-evolution-in-ubuntu-11-10
2. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/
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| A Million Node Supercomputer
| from the scooping-doctor-soong dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @11:21 (Supercomputing)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1436259/A-Million-Node-Supercomputer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Veteran of [0]microcomputing [1]Steve Furber,
in his role as ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of
Computer Science at the University of Manchester, has called upon some
old friends for his latest project: [2]a brain-simulating supercomputer
based on more than a million ARM processors." More detailed information
can be found [3]in the research paper.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1436259/A-Million-Node-Supercomputer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
1. http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/people/sfurber/
2. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/7/7/acorns-steve-furber-looks-arm-supercomputers/
3. ftp://ftp.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/amulet/papers/SBF_ACSD09.pdf
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| Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK
| from the old-media-is-so-cute dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @11:59 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1520256/Illegal-Film-Downloading-Up-33-In-the-UK?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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moderators_are_w*nke writes "The BBC have picked up a report from
'internet intelligence' company Envisional showing illegal film
downloading is up 33% in the UK since 2006. The solution is apparently
for content providers to '[0]compete with piracy and get their content
out there themselves as easily and as quickly and as cheaply as
possible.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1520256/Illegal-Film-Downloading-Up-33-In-the-UK?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14029865
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| HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA
| from the patent-warfare dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @12:39 (Graphics)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1556203/HTC-To-Buy-S3-Graphics-From-VIA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jones_supa writes "The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has
bought the graphics department of VIA Technologies, [1]S3 Graphics. This
$300 million dollar deal brings HTC the [2]ownership of new patents and
graphics visualization technologies. 'In addition to its traditional
markets in PCs and game consoles, [3]S3 Graphics Texture Compression
technology is increasingly being applied to smartphones and tablets, HTC
said.'" It appears that HTC will be turning the tables on at least
Microsoft and extracting royalties from them [4]for a change.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1556203/HTC-To-Buy-S3-Graphics-From-VIA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:jza@saunalahti.fi
1. http://www.s3graphics.com/
2. http://blogs.forbes.com/russellflannery/2011/07/06/taiwans-htc-to-buy-s3-graphics-gain-microsoft-as-licensing-customer/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression
4. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/28/0347235/HTC-Is-Paying-Microsoft-5-For-Every-Android-Phone
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| Media Companies Create Copyright Enforcement Framework
| from the copying-is-bad-mmkay dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday July 07, @13:20 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1644240/Media-Companies-Create-Copyright-Enforcement-Framework?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with an article in Ars Technica. From the
article: "American Internet users, get ready for three strikes^W^W 'six
strikes.' Major U.S. Internet providers ��� including AT&T, Verizon,
Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable ��� have just signed on to a
[0]voluntary agreement with the movie and music businesses to crack down
on online copyright infringers. But they will protect subscriber privacy
and they won't filter or monitor their own networks for infringement. And
after the sixth 'strike,' you won't necessarily be 'out.'" It's not
suspicious at all that most of the ISPs signing on for this are owned by
or own media companies.
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| Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant
| from the bet-they're-delicious dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @13:42 (Biotech)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1735203/Spanish-Surgeon-Performs-First-Synthetic-Organ-Transplant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Bob the Super Hamste writes "The BBC is reporting that surgeons in Sweden
have [0]transplanted a synthetic windpipe into a patient. The synthetic
windpipe was grown from a scaffolding and coated with the patients own
stem cells. The scaffolding was made using 3D images of the patient's own
windpipe. The new windpipe was made by scientists in London."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14047670
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| Chicago Mercantile Exchange Secrets Leaked To China
| from the like-coffee-to-south-america dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @14:03 (China)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1756205/Chicago-Mercantile-Exchange-Secrets-Leaked-To-China?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chicksdaddy writes with this excerpt from Threat Post: "A 10 year
employee of CME Group in Chicago is alleged to have stolen trade secrets
and proprietary source code used to run trading systems for the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange and [0]passed them to officials in China, where he
hoped to set up a software firm to help create electronic exchanges,
according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in
Illinois. Chunlai Yang, 49, is alleged to have downloaded "thousands of
files" containing "source code and proprietary algorithms" used by CME to
run its trading systems. The files were downloaded from a company-owned
source code repository maintained by CME to Yang's work computer, then
copied them to removable "thumb" drives. The complaint also cites
personal e-mail correspondence between Yang and an official in China that
contained proprietary CME information."
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| IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking
| from the router-vendors-salivate-copiously dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @14:25 (Networking)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1748214/IETF-Mulls-Working-Group-For-IPv6-Home-Networking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering
establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues
around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections in
homes. 'A [0]collection of protocols needs to be agreed upon, so vendors
of equipment used in home networks will have an interoperable suite of
protocols available,' said Ralph Droms, a distinguished engineer for
Cisco and among those who want to form the IETF working group. Home
networking is a fairly new area for the IETF. Many of its standards were
designed for large-scale organizational networks, rather than home use."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070611-ietf-mulls-ipv6-for-home.html
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| NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink
| from the I'm-afraid-that's-not-lemon-flavored-dave dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 07, @14:40 (NASA)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1152221/NASAs-New-Bag-Turns-Urine-Into-Sports-Drink?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "NASA's Atlantis shuttle is set to launch this
Friday, and its crew will be testing an [0]innovative device that can
recycle human urine into a sugary sports drink. The bag uses forward
osmosis technology and features a semi-permeable membrane capable of
isolating water from virtually any liquid. Recycling urine in this way
has a significant effect on a ship's payload, and considering that a
single pound adds $10,000 of cost, that slight weight difference can
translate to serious savings." CT: I'm at Kennedy Space Center now,
[1]tweeting as @cmdrtaco. And I think I'll stay away from the sports
drink.
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/nasa-osmotic-water-bag/
1. http://twitter.com/#!/cmdrtaco
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| Ask Slashdot: Open Patent Licenses?
| from the when-you-want-to-giveth-and-taketh dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @14:47 (Patents)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1829213/Ask-Slashdot-Open-Patent-Licenses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]felipe13 writes "We are working on a new piece of code that will be
protected under a GPL license, this is fine for the code itself, but what
about our 'innovations'? Are there any 'Open Patent License' models
similar to the GPL or Creative Commons? We have Google patenting the
highlight of search occurrences, Facebook protecting the word 'Book,' and
Apple registering body movements. This is becoming ridiculous to a point.
Now the patent trolls are making a killing as well. Does the open source
community has a good way to protect its innovations and inventions? There
are some initiatives to buy patents and release them to the public or at
least place them is a protected area, but where would my very small
company register a new way to include titles in a private message? Where
could Drupal patent the use of 'hooks' to let developers interact with
the core of the application? (If they invented this, I am not really
sure.) I don't want to wake up in 10 years and discover that X huge
company patented my innovation and that now I actually have to pay them
for it." There's [1]OpenPatents.org, there's the [2]Open Source Hardware
and Design Alliance, there's CERN's [3]newly-updated Open Hardware
license, and there are domain-specific patent sharing organizations like
[4]the Open Patent Alliance; what else is out there?
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1829213/Ask-Slashdot-Open-Patent-Licenses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:felipe@intribu.org
1. http://www.openpatents.org/
2. http://www.ohanda.org/
3. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR08.11E.html
4. http://openpatentalliance.com/
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| The View From the Ground At an Indian Call Center
| from the division-of-labor-limited-by-extent-of-market dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @15:31 (Communications)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1842252/The-View-From-the-Ground-At-an-Indian-Call-Center?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A feature story in Mother Jones gives a fascinating inside look at
[0]what it's like to work in a Delhi call center. In this area alone,
says the author, "100,000 call-center agents make their living selling
vitamins to Britons or helping Americans troubleshoot their printers. I
am almost certainly the only one who acquired his conversational skills
accidentally ��� by being born in the United States." The slots at the call
centers are limited and highly sought; the training is intense, and the
infrastructure is poor.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1842252/The-View-From-the-Ground-At-an-Indian-Call-Center?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://motherjones.com/print/114946
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| Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive
| from the no-you-probably-can't-put-it-on-your-netbook dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @15:53 (Media)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1950216/Creating-a-Mac-OS-X-107-Lion-Bootable-Flash-Drive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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WankerWeasel writes "With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this month,
Apple will no longer offer a bootable installer DVD and is making 10.7
Lion available only through the App Store. This guide provides quick
instructions on how to use the OS X 10.7 Lion installer to [0]create a
bootable flash drive (instructions for making a bootable DVD are also
included on the blog)."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1950216/Creating-a-Mac-OS-X-107-Lion-Bootable-Flash-Drive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://subrosasoft.com/blog/2011/07/create-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-flash-drive/
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| Dropbox Releases Revised TOS
| from the model-of-clarity dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @16:14 (Cloud)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1930235/Dropbox-Releases-Revised-TOS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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vanstinator writes "Today Dropbox has released a revised Terms of Service
agreement due to the [0]controversy caused by their recent update. This
new version clarifies their position on data ownership and makes it very
clear that [1]you, and only you, have a right to your data. This is
welcome news to any serious Dropbox user." On the downside, though,
NorbMan writes that a company called FilesAnywhere.com is "[2]suing
Dropbox, Inc. for trademark infringement. The complaint alleges that
FilesAnywhere has been using the term 'DROPBOX' since 2004 as part of its
service, and that Dropbox, Inc. has also closely duplicated one of its
logo designs."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1930235/Dropbox-Releases-Revised-TOS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0515218/Dropbox-TOS-Includes-Broad-Copyright-License
1. http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=867
2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/59122451/Officeware-v-Dropbox
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| Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk
| from the no-room-for-oopses dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @16:36 (Communications)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2014214/Real-Time-Text-Over-JabberXMPPGoogle-Talk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdrejhon writes "Geeks who miss the UNIX 'talk' days, have a new
modern savior: XMPP.org has published the new XEP-0301 Real-Time Text
standard, which allows [1]streaming text that is continuously transmitted
as it is typed or otherwise composed. It allows conversational use of
text, where people interactively converse with each other."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2014214/Real-Time-Text-Over-JabberXMPPGoogle-Talk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.realjabber.org/real_time_text_demo.html
1. http://www.realtimetext.org/index.php?pagina=nieuws&nieuws=23
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| Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches
| from the old-revolvers-are-nice-too dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @16:58 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1958255/Digital-Generation-Rediscovers-Analog-Wristwatches?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "As recently as a half-decade ago, time seemed to
be running out for the wristwatch; the mechanical device was declared to
be going the way of the abacus. But now the NY Times reports that [1]the
'sundial' of the wrist is experiencing an uptick among members of the
digital generation, particularly by heritage-macho types in their 20s and
30s who are drawn to the wristwatch's retro appeal, just as they have
seized on straight razors, selvedge denim and vintage vinyl. 'A cool
machine that is all moving parts has got to be intrinsically interesting
to someone born into this generation,' says Mitch Greenblatt, an online
retailer of design-forward watches who is seeing a surge in business,
'because there's just nothing like that in their life.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/1958255/Digital-Generation-Rediscovers-Analog-Wristwatches?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fashion/watches-are-rediscovered-by-the-cellphone-generation.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
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| Microsoft Releases Mobile Data Collection Source Code
| from the but-the-secret-room-isn't-in-the-blueprints dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @17:43 (Microsoft)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2057240/Microsoft-Releases-Mobile-Data-Collection-Source-Code?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "To avoid the problems that Google and Apple have had with
collecting WiFi data and privacy issues Microsoft has just released [some
of] the [0]source code used in its mobile data collection system. The
code shows how the phones that it drives around don't collect any
personal data ��� just WiFi and cell tower identification so that they can
be used in geolocation. The source code is a great educational resouce
but as to proving that Microsoft is doing the right thing it just doesn't
work. First off, it isn't complete. Second, who is to say that it is the
code used in the phones? That's the point of software ��� it's easy to
change. Now if only we can provoke them to release large chunks of
Windows or Windows Phone 7...."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2057240/Microsoft-Releases-Mobile-Data-Collection-Source-Code?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid
| from the wait-for-the-rename-and-reorg dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @18:27 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/210214/Voicemail-Hack-Scandal-Leads-To-Closure-of-UK-Tabloid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Some Bitch writes "Britain's biggest selling Sunday tabloid [0]will close
after this Sunday's issue. The tabloid has been embroiled in a
[1]voicemail hacking controversy for some time now and the news that they
[2]compromised the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl and [3]paid bribes
to Metropolitan police officers for stories kicked off a renewed assault
on the paper. The News Corp daily counterpart to Sunday's News of the
World is the Sun; the domain sunonsunday.co.uk was registered two days
ago."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/210214/Voicemail-Hack-Scandal-Leads-To-Closure-of-UK-Tabloid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_phone_hacking_affair
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661
3. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fmedia%2F2011%2Fjul%2F07%2Fphone-hacking-bribes-five-police-officers&ei=y_gVToztDNOEhQeBqMxJ&usg=AFQjCNHLYnkfG5ENULuUyJB9rPJRqe_cIw&sig2=LsUXMAZTenCU91NNKKsmcA
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| SKA Telescope Set To Generate More Data Than Current Net
| from the recycle-the-bits-responsibly dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @19:11 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2233230/SKA-Telescope-Set-To-Generate-More-Data-Than-Current-Net?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "The forthcoming $2.1 billion [1]Square Kilometre
Array (SKA) radio telescope [2]could generate more data per day than the
entire internet when it comes online in 2020, according to the director
of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR),
Professor Peter Quinn. SKA ��� which Australia with New Zealand and South
Africa are competing to host, and which will help the search for
Earth-like planets, alien life forms, dark matter and black holes ��� will
be 10,000 times more powerful than any telescope currently used. Slashdot
has [3]previously discussed the proposal to use [4]'Skynet' ��� a
grid-computing-based solution for processing and storage."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2233230/SKA-Telescope-Set-To-Generate-More-Data-Than-Current-Net?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/378731/second_stage_csiro_ska_project_released/
2. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/392735/ska_telescope_set_generate_more_data_than_entire_internet_2020/
3. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/25/0135224/Australians-Look-To-SkyNet-For-SKA-Telescope
4. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/387097/exclusive_ska_bid_looks_skynet_computing/
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| Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese
| from the articulate-sans-articles dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 07, @19:54 (China)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2328226/Why-People-Who-Make-Things-Should-Learn-Chinese?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine is making that case that [1]any 'maker'
who builds, buys or creates electronics should learn (Mandarin) Chinese.
MAKE outlines the resources for anyone wishing to learn the language of
the soon-to-be largest economy and source of just about everything we buy
in the USA."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/2328226/Why-People-Who-Make-Things-Should-Learn-Chinese?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:pt@adafPLANCKruit.comminusphysicist
1. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/why-every-maker-should-learn-chinese.html
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