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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards?
* Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere
* Why UK FM Needn't Be Killed For Broadband
* Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service
* Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'
* UCLA Hospital Hit With HIPAA Fine On Celeb Records
* Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death'
* Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman
* Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet
* Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access?
* Google Chairman To Testify At Antitrust Hearing
* <em>Space Invaders</em>: The Movie
* Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+
* Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government
* Playdough For Fun and Profit
* 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter
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| Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards?
| from the letters-we-get-letters dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 08, @22:36 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0051204/Ask-Slashdot-How-To-Safely-Saw-Up-Motherboards?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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James-NSC writes "I like to do arts and crafts. I've been saving up
motherboards for a while as a new medium and I started working on it last
night. I wore the same gear I wear while painting ��� fine particulate
respirator and safety goggles. I just cut some templates out of some
motherboards and when I was done I used the shop-vac to clean myself &
workspace up before removing my mask. Even after 5+ minutes, in a well
ventilated area (not as well as it should have been apparently) my first
breath was pins and needles. I'm looking into containment and exhaust
solutions ��� ala baby's first iron lung, but seriously, am I nuts? Are
these materials just too toxic to work with?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0051204/Ask-Slashdot-How-To-Safely-Saw-Up-Motherboards?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere
| from the spin-do-not-sit dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @01:42 (Robotics)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0236254/Novel-Drive-Wheel-System-Based-On-Spinning-Sphere?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A Bradley University student has built a
mobile robot that uses a hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled, or HOG,
drive wheel. It consists of a [0]black rubber hemisphere that rotates
like a spinning top, with servos that can tilt it left and right and
forwards and backwards. The HOG system delivers an amount of torque
directly proportional to the tilt of the hemisphere, allowing the robot
to move incredibly fast nearly instantaneously."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0236254/Novel-Drive-Wheel-System-Based-On-Spinning-Sphere?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/youve-never-seen-a-drive-system-like-this-before
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| Why UK FM Needn't Be Killed For Broadband
| from the next-we'll-cure-all-known-diseases dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @04:40 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/08/2349259/Why-UK-FM-Neednt-Be-Killed-For-Broadband?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]superglaze writes "Alarmed by rumours of the UK telecoms regulator
Ofcom considering a shut-down of FM radio in order to give more spectrum
over to broadband, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins has proposed another idea:
the [1]reuse of the mostly disused 'Band I' and the creation of a new,
national open mesh network ��� a plan that could bring internet
connectivity to everyone at very low cost."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/08/2349259/Why-UK-FM-Neednt-Be-Killed-For-Broadband?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:superglaze@hotmail.com
1. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2011/07/07/dont-kill-fm-for-broadband-build-a-new-internet-40093344/
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| Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service
| from the innocent-whistling-at-very-high-pitch dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @07:51 (Privacy)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0250237/Apple-Store-Artist-Raided-By-Secret-Service?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Artist Kyle McDonald wanted to create
something that captured people's expressions as they stared at computers.
So the 25-year-old artist installed a program on computers in two New
York Apple Store locations that would automatically take a photo every
minute of whoever was standing in front of the computer. McDonald then
uploaded the photos to his Tumblr blog, 'People Staring at Computers,'
[0]made a video with the photographs, and set up 'an exhibition' at the
Apple stores to show what he had found. Within days, the Secret Service,
which investigates computer crimes, had raided McDonald's house, seizing
his two laptops, two flash drives and iPod."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0250237/Apple-Store-Artist-Raided-By-Secret-Service?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'
| from the new-old-meaning-for-spend-a-penny dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @08:29 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0412258/Armys-Huge-SAP-Project-At-High-Risk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The Army's [1]$2.4 billion SAP project is delayed,
over budget, and, once implemented may not even meet its original
objectives, according to a recent auditors' report. For its part, the
Army is less concerned with the auditors' findings about the project that
will manage a $140 billion annual budget and serve nearly 80,000 users
once it is complete: 'The Army believes the risks identified in this
report are manageable and do not materially impact the [project's] cost
and schedule,' said an official with the Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology)."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0412258/Armys-Huge-SAP-Project-At-High-Risk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/181379/auditors-armys-huge-sap-project-high-risk
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| UCLA Hospital Hit With HIPAA Fine On Celeb Records
| from the easier-than-getting-madonna's-pap-smear dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @09:27 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1245205/UCLA-Hospital-Hit-With-HIPAA-Fine-On-Celeb-Records?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The University of California at Los Angeles Health
Services has agreed to [0]pay a $865,000 fine and pledged to tweak their
infrastructure after potentially violating the HIPAA regulation when
several employees apparently accessed the health records of various
celebrity patients at the hospital without valid justification. This is
the third major HIPAA fine issued by the Department of Health and Human
Services in 2011, following a fine of $4.3 million for Cignet and a
penalty of $1 million for Massachusetts General Hospital."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1245205/UCLA-Hospital-Hit-With-HIPAA-Fine-On-Celeb-Records?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ucla-health-services-pays-865k-settles-hipaa-violations-070811
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| Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death'
| from the cake-or-death-or-trapped-in-mysql dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @10:26 (Databases)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1256241/Facebook-Trapped-In-MySQL-a-Fate-Worse-Than-Death?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wasimkadak writes with this excerpt from GigaOM: "According to database
pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL
implementation equivalent to 'a fate worse than death,' and the only way
out is '[0]bite the bullet and rewrite everything.' Not that it's
necessarily Facebook's fault, though. Stonebraker says the social
network's predicament is all too common among web startups that start
small and grow to epic proportions."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1256241/Facebook-Trapped-In-MySQL-a-Fate-Worse-Than-Death?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/
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| Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman
| from the bloom-is-off-the-rose dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @11:30 (Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/150211/Sony-Announces-End-For-MiniDisc-Walkman?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Beloved of concert tapers for their small size, shock resistance, and
long battery life, MiniDisc recorders never much caught on with the
general public. I remember playing with one in the early '90s ��� before
high-quality solid state stereo recorders were affordable ��� and looking
forward to the day that I would have one of my own. Playback-only decks
were available, but understandably (in retrospect) never became big
sellers; when [0]MiniDisc was introduced, CDs were still a recent comer,
and 8-track was fresh in the mind. Music fans were probably tired of
replacing their vinyl and cassettes with the Next Big Thing. Still, with
its cheap media and decent portable recorders, MiniDisc struck a chord
for some uses, and stuck around better than the [1]Digital Compact
Cassette. Now, 19 years after the introduction of the MiniDisc format,
Sony has announced that it [2]will stop shipping its MiniDisc Walkman
products in September, though it will continue to produce blank media.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/150211/Sony-Announces-End-For-MiniDisc-Walkman?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc
1. http://jacg.home.xs4all.nl/philips/dcc.html
2. http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110707D07JFN01.htm
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| Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet
| from the barbed-wire-garden dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @12:32 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1541229/Ex-NSA-Chief-Supports-Separate-Secure-Internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Nextgove reports that Michael Hayden, former
director of both the NSA and the CIA, says the United States may
seriously want to consider creating a [1]new Internet infrastructure to
reduce the threat of cyberattacks and several current federal officials,
including U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander, also have
floated the concept of a '.secure' network for critical services such as
financial institutions, sensitive infrastructure, government contractors,
and the government itself that would be walled off from the public web.
Unlike .com, .xxx and other new domains now proliferating the Internet,
.secure would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and
would do away with users' Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. 'I think
what Keith is trying to suggest is that we need a more hardened
enterprise structure for some activities and we need to go build it,'
says Hayden. 'All those people who want to violate their privacy on
Facebook ��� let them continue to play.' Clay Dillow writes that on the
existing internet everyone does everything online anonymously, and while
that's great for liberties, it's also dangerous when cyber
criminals/foreign hackers are roaming the cyber countryside. Under the
proposed .secure internet 'you may not be able to go to certain
neighborhoods of the Web without [2]showing your papers at a checkpoint ���
and perhaps subjecting yourself to one of those humiliating electronic
pat-downs as well,' writes Dillow. 'Those who want to remain anonymous on
the Web can still frolic about in the world of dot-com, but in the
dot-secure realm you would have to prove you are you.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1541229/Ex-NSA-Chief-Supports-Separate-Secure-Internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110706_1137.php?oref=topnews
2. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-07/former-cia-chief-dot-secure-domain-could-curb-cyber-threats
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| Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access?
| from the you-thought-your-uncle-was-weird dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @13:36 (The Internet)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/164253/Ask-Slashdot-Living-Without-Internet-At-Home-Access?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I've decided that the internet is no longer a
positive influence on my life, and am interested in canceling my service.
In the interest of not forgoing all digital conveniences, I plan to set
up a small intranet, hosting a few resources that I think I'd like to
have access to on a regular basis (e.g. a text dump of Wikipedia). I'll
also still have access to the internet at my office, and have easy access
to public Wi-Fi at libraries and coffee shops. My questions are thus:
Does anybody have any experience living without the internet? What major
nuisances did you encounter? What resources should I put on my intranet?
Is there anything I'm overlooking?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/164253/Ask-Slashdot-Living-Without-Internet-At-Home-Access?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Google Chairman To Testify At Antitrust Hearing
| from the what-about-the-congressional-monopoly? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @14:40 (Google)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1831210/Google-Chairman-To-Testify-At-Antitrust-Hearing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bonch writes "Following a threat of subpoena, Google chairman [0]Eric
Schmidt will be testifying at a Senate antitrust subcommittee in
September. Google has denied acting anticompetitively and cites its
success as the cause of the increased scrutiny. The Federal Trade
Commission and European Commission have both launched antitrust
investigations into the company, and the Justice Department is also
conducting a criminal probe into their acceptance of ads from rogue web
pharmacies, an investigation Google has [1]set aside $500 million to
settle."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1831210/Google-Chairman-To-Testify-At-Antitrust-Hearing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576434242590555286.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/13/0439218/Google-Expected-to-Settle-Over-Drug-Ads-to-the-Tune-of-500M
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| <em>Space Invaders</em>: The Movie
| from the they-want-our-unobtanium dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @15:45 (Movies)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1941230/Space-Invaders-The-Movie?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rainmouse writes "Hollywood, clearly after witnessing the staggering
success and endless critical acclaim of other computer game adaptations
with their typically engrossing story line and deep, believable character
development, have now apparently picked up the rights to make [0]a film
based upon Space Invaders. 'The classic 1980s arcade game from Taito and
Midway, which is ranked as the top arcade game of all time by Guinness
World Records, is heading to the big screen courtesy of producers Lorenzo
di Bonaventura and Odd Lot Entertainment's Gigi Pritzker.'" Please help
out by providing appropriate plot-lines and character sketches below.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/space-invaders-video-game-headed-208968
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| Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+
| from the optimism-defined dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @16:43 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2032232/Google-Orkut-Will-Co-Exist-With-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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splitenz writes "Google's other social networking site, Orkut, which has
been around for about seven years and has tens of millions of users
worldwide, [0]will continue to operate alongside the new Google+ for now.
However, Google is leaving its options open regarding the possibility of
fusing the two through some sort of integration further down the road."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2032232/Google-Orkut-Will-Co-Exist-With-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/392970/google_orkut_will_co-exist_google
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| Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government
| from the more-of-an-ethos-or-perhaps-a-lifestyle dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @17:46 (Government)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2133212/Idle-File-Sharing-Is-Not-a-Religion-Says-Swedish-Government?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting on an attempt in Sweden to
[0]recognize filesharing as a religion. The religion's website [1]calls
this 'Kopimism' and says that sharing of knowledge is sacred. Apparently,
Swedish authorities were not convinced. A recent report shows that the
attempt [2]failed to convince the authorities to recognize Kopimism as a
religion."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2133212/Idle-File-Sharing-Is-Not-a-Religion-Says-Swedish-Government?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/94257/swedish-authorities-disconnects-filesharing-as-a-religion/
1. http://kopimistsamfundet.se/english/
2. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/07/07/Sweden-File-sharing-not-act-of-worship/UPI-57381310055881/?spt=hs&or=on
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| Playdough For Fun and Profit
| from the not-the-trademarked-version dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @18:48 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2157229/Playdough-For-Fun-and-Profit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]morgan_greywolf writes with this snippet from Wired:"You're never too
young (or too old) to start learning the joys of electronics. You don't
need to know how to solder, or even how to plug circuit components into a
breadboard. As long as you're past the 'I'm going to stick this up my
nose' phase, this [1]homemade playdough circuit project is a great way to
introduce kiddos and adults alike to basic circuits and electricity."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2157229/Playdough-For-Fun-and-Profit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://robsworldoftech.blogspot.com/
1. http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Homemade_Playdough_Circuits?oldid=77217
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| 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter
| from the lovely-shade-of-black-don'tcha-think? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @19:54 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2351220/5-Concerns-About-Australias-New-Net-Filter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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daria42 writes "As you might have heard, this month [0]Australia gets a
new Internet filter, using Interpol's blacklist of 'worst of the worst'
child pornography sites. In general, it seems like most people don't
object to the idea in principle, but [1]concerns are being raised around
the transparency of the scheme, which so far has no civilian oversight,
unclear backing legislation and an appeals process which does not exactly
inspire confidence. Why is it those who want to implement this kind of
filtering never quite address these sort of concerns up-front?"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2351220/5-Concerns-About-Australias-New-Net-Filter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/052258/Australian-ISPs-To-Start-Filtering-the-Internet
1. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/09/five-disturbing-things-about-the-interpol-filter/
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