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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White'
* Facial Recognition Gone Wrong
* Security Consultants Warn About PROTECT-IP Act
* A Tale of Two Countries
* iOS 4.3.4 Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking
* Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux
* Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations
* Do 'Ultracool' Brown Dwarfs Surround Us?
* ISP Refuses To Block the Pirate Bay
* Outgoing Federal CIO Warns of 'IT Cartel' In DC
* LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal
* Sydney Has 10,000 Unsecured Wi-Fi Points
* Amazon Lets Students Rent Digital Textbooks
* Stanford Students Build "JediBot"
* The Science of Password Selection
* Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge
* Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update
* Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service
* <em>Chain World</em> — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate
* Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info
* Attachmate Does the Right Thing For Mono
* 7 Days With a Google Chromebook
* Inside Las Vegas' Biggest Data Centre
* How the New Spectrum Bill Would Harm the Tech Community
* Australian R18+ Rating For Games? Not Yet; NSW Refuses To Vote
* Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing
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| Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White'
| from the i'll-get-right-on-that dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @16:20 (Earth)
| with 571 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1951240/Bill-Clinton-Says-Paint-Your-Roofs-White?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Former President Bill Clinton thinks 'every black
roof in New York should be white; every roof in Chicago should be white;
every roof in Little Rock should be white. Every flat tar-surface roof
anywhere! In most of these places [1]you could recover the cost of the
paint and the labor in a week.' Noting that Mayor Bloomberg started a
[2]program to hire and train young people to paint New York's roofs white,
Clinton says a big percentage of the kids have been able to parlay this
simple work into higher-skilled training programs or energy-related
retrofit jobs. The benefit: not only will 'cool roofs' lower the utility
bill in every apartment house 10 to 20 percent, but it frees cash that
can be spent to increase economic growth. Clinton presented this with
fourteen [3]additional ideas for growing the economy, saving energy, and
attacking the jobs crisis."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/paint-your-roofs-white/241784/
2. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-10-14/local/27078055_1_cool-roof-greenhouse-gas-emissions-coating
3. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/19/it-s-still-the-economy-stupid.print.html
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| Facial Recognition Gone Wrong
| from the doppleganger-trouble dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 18, @08:08 (Government)
| with 348 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0335204/Facial-Recognition-Gone-Wrong?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "John H. Gass hadn't had a traffic ticket in
years, so the Natick resident was surprised this spring when he received
a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informing him
to cease driving because his license had been revoked. It turned out Gass
was [0]flagged because he looks like another driver, not because his
image was being used to create a fake identity. His driving privileges
were returned but, he alleges in a lawsuit, only after 10 days of
bureaucratic wrangling to prove he is who he says he is. And apparently,
he has company. Last year, the facial recognition system picked out more
than 1,000 cases that resulted in State Police investigations, officials
say. And some of those people are guilty of nothing more than looking
like someone else. Not all go through the long process that Gass says he
endured, but each must visit the Registry with proof of their identity.
Massachusetts began using the software after receiving a $1.5 million
grant from the US Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to
prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy
of personal identification documents that states issue."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0335204/Facial-Recognition-Gone-Wrong?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Security Consultants Warn About PROTECT-IP Act
| from the danger-danger-danger dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @23:33 (Security)
| with 281 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Warn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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epee1221 writes "Several security professionals released a [0]paper
raising objections to the DNS filtering(PDF) mandated by the proposed
PROTECT-IP Act. The measure allows courts to [1]require Internet service
providers to redirect or block queries for a domain deemed to be
infringing on IP laws. ISPs will not be able to improve DNS security
using DNSSEC, a system for cryptographically signing DNS records to
ensure their authenticity, as the sort of manipulation mandated by
PROTECT-IP is the type of interference DNSSEC is meant to prevent. The
paper notes that a DNS server which has been compromised by a cracker
would be indistinguishable from one operating under a court order to
alter its DNS responses. The measure also points to a possible
fragmenting of the DNS system, effectively making domain names
non-universal, and the DNS manipulation may lead to collateral damage
(i.e. filtering an infringing domain may block access to non-infringing
content). It is also pointed out that DNS filtering does not actually
keep determined users from accessing content, as they can still access
non-filtered DNS servers or directly enter the blocked site's IP address
if it is known. A statement by the MPAA disputes these claims, arguing
that typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server
and that the Internet must not be allowed to 'decay into a lawless Wild
West.' Paul Vixie, a coauthor of the paper, [2]elaborates in his blog."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Warn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.shinkuro.com/PROTECT%20IP%20Technical%20Whitepaper%20Final.pdf
1. http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/internet-bill-could-help-hackers-experts-warn-20110714
2. http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201103/blocking-dns
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| A Tale of Two Countries
| from the that's-from-a-book dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @18:25 (Businesses)
| with 270 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2140246/A-Tale-of-Two-Countries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Over at TechCrunch, Jon Bischke is troubled by [0]the
growing divide between Silicon Valley and unemployed America. While
people who spend most of their days within a few blocks of tech start-up
epicenters are enjoying a boom/bubble, the number of unemployed now
eclipses 14 million nationwide, labor under-utilization is 16.2%, and the
[1]mean duration of unemployment has spiked to 40 weeks. 'Which bring us
to an important question,' writes Bischke. 'Should Silicon Valley (and
other tech clusters throughout the country) care? After all, as long as
people in Nebraska or the Central Valley of California have enough money
to buy virtual tractors to tend their crops in Farmville, should the tech
community be worried about whether those same people are getting paid to
do work in the real world? Is what's best for Silicon Valley also good
for America?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2140246/A-Tale-of-Two-Countries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/16/tale-of-two-countries-silicon-valley-unemployed/
1. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
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| iOS 4.3.4 Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking
| from the higher-walls dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @21:05 (IOS)
| with 258 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/2311215/iOS-434-Prevents-Hacking-and-Jailbreaking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Mightee writes "Apple has released a [1]software update to iOS,
version 4.3.4, for the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 2, 1, and iPod Touch. The main
objective of this version is to prevent the hacking in Apple iOS devices
which occurs through malicious PDF files. Another objective is to prevent
the jailbreaking which occurs as a consequence of the previous effect. In
previous versions, the iOS device is easily vulnerable to attacks. It
happens because of mishandling of fonts embedded in the PDF file.
Sometimes a downloaded PDF may be malicious, and there is a possibility
that the file could inject malware into the iOS device, which gives a
chance for the hackers to access the hardware of the iOS device."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/2311215/iOS-434-Prevents-Hacking-and-Jailbreaking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/
1. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/2011/07/apple-releases-ios-4-3-4-prevents-hacking-jailbreaking/
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| Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux
| from the have-you-hurd dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @15:01 (GNU is Not Unix)
| with 245 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1854209/Test-Driving-GNU-Hurd-With-Benchmarks-Against-Linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "After last week's news that [0]GNU Hurd is
coming, Phoronix set out to install Debian GNU Hurd and to provide [1]GNU
Hurd vs. Linux benchmarks. Linux was mostly faster than The Hurd while
also having much better hardware support, multi-core SMP support, and
other modern functionality."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1854209/Test-Driving-GNU-Hurd-With-Benchmarks-Against-Linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2141229/Watch-Out-Linux-GNU-Hurd-Coming
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=debian_gnu_hurd&num=1
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| Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations
| from the bumping-really-uglies dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @18:08 (Science)
| with 214 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/211259/Neanderthal-Genes-Found-In-All-Non-African-Populations?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Med-trump writes "Neanderthals, whose ancestors left Africa about 400,000
to 800,000 years ago, evolved in what is now mainly France, Spain,
Germany and Russia, and are thought to have lived until about 30,000
years ago. Now scientists have [0]identified a piece of Neanderthal DNA
(called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome and conclude that this
haplotype is present because of [1]mating between our ancestors and
Neanderthals. The study was published in the latest issue of the journal
[2]Molecular Biology and Evolution."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uom-grc071411.php
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1853237/Neanderthals-Had-Sex-With-Modern-Man
2. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/01/25/molbev.msr024.abstract
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| Do 'Ultracool' Brown Dwarfs Surround Us?
| from the itsatrap dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 18, @10:04 (Space)
| with 199 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/144238/Do-Ultracool-Brown-Dwarfs-Surround-Us?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "The recent discovery of two very cool 'T-class'
brown dwarfs in our cosmic neighborhood has prompted speculation that
[1]there may be many more ultracool 'failed stars' nearby ([2]abstract).
Not only are these objects themselves very interesting to study, should
there be many such brown dwarfs spanning interstellar space. Perhaps they
could be used as 'stepping stones' to the stars."
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Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/could-ultracool-brown-dwarfs-surround-us-110718.html
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4059
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| ISP Refuses To Block the Pirate Bay
| from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 18, @08:45 (Censorship)
| with 198 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1216205/ISP-Refuses-To-Block-the-Pirate-Bay?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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asto21 writes "Previously, representatives from the Finnish music
industry filed a lawsuit against Elisa, one of the country's largest
ISPs, demanding that it should block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.
In a reply filed at the district court, Elisa has [0]refused to comply,
describing the blocking demands as unreasonable."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1216205/ISP-Refuses-To-Block-the-Pirate-Bay?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/isp-refuses-to-block-the-pirate-bay-110717/
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| Outgoing Federal CIO Warns of 'IT Cartel' In DC
| from the interweb-industrial-complex dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @13:38 (Government)
| with 183 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1725247/Outgoing-Federal-CIO-Warns-of-IT-Cartel-In-DC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "In a wide-ranging discussion Friday with President
Barack Obama's top science advisors, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra [1]warned
of the dangers of open data access and was sharply critical of government
IT contracting, telling the committee: '...We almost have an IT cartel
within federal IT' made up of very few companies that benefit from
government spending 'because they understand the procurement process
better than anyone else.' He added: 'It's not because they provide better
technology.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1725247/Outgoing-Federal-CIO-Warns-of-IT-Cartel-In-DC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218466/Outgoing_federal_CIO_warns_of_an_IT_cartel_
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| LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal
| from the it-was-a-fadeaway-fake dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 18, @19:12 (Security)
| with 179 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/235237/LulzSec-Target-the-Sun-After-Phone-Hacking-Scandal?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]nk497 writes "LulzSec have come out of retirement to target Rupert
Murdoch's News International, [1]hacking the website of The Sun,
redirecting it first to a spoofed page reporting his death and then to
[2]Lulz's Twitter feed. 'The Sun's homepage now redirects to the Murdoch
death story on the recently-owned New Times website,' the hackers said
via Twitter. 'Can you spell success, gentlemen?' The hackers also started
to post email addresses and passwords they claimed were from Sun staff,
and said to have accessed a mail server at now-defunct News of the
World."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/368734/hackers-target-sun-website-emails
2. http://twitter.com/#!/lulzsec
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| Sydney Has 10,000 Unsecured Wi-Fi Points
| from the throw-a-dart dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 18, @05:06 (Australia)
| with 170 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0320209/Sydney-Has-10000-Unsecured-Wi-Fi-Points?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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daria42 writes "A bunch of researchers have been driving around Sydney,
Australia, and scanning for unsecured Wi-Fi networks. You'd think that in
this day and age, with all that we've learned about security, that Wi-Fi
security would be almost universal ... but the truth is that about 2.6
percent don't even have basic password protection. Extrapolating a
little, that adds up to [0]10,000 unsecured Wi-Fi networks across Sydney
alone."
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| Amazon Lets Students Rent Digital Textbooks
| from the disrupting-the-textbook-cartels dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @12:58 (Education)
| with 166 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1654246/Amazon-Lets-Students-Rent-Digital-Textbooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]nk497 writes "Amazon has unveiled a new [1]digital textbook rental
service, allowing students to choose how long they'd like access to an
eBook-version of a textbook via their Kindle or app ��� with the retailer
[2]claiming savings as high as 80%. [3]Kindle Textbook Rental will let
students use a text for between 30 and 360 days, adding extra days as
they need to. Any notes or highlighted text will be saved via the Amazon
Cloud for students to reference after the book is 'returned.' Amazon said
tens of thousands of books would be available to rent for the next school
year."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1654246/Amazon-Lets-Students-Rent-Digital-Textbooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368722/amazon-lets-students-rent-digital-textbooks
2. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Students-Can-Now-Save-Up-To-bw-1965303422.html?x=0&.v=1
3. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000702481
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| Stanford Students Build "JediBot"
| from the may-the-grades-be-with-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 18, @10:45 (AI)
| with 153 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1339235/Stanford-Students-Build-JediBot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "By combining a dexterous robotic arm, a
foam-padded lightsaber, the movement tracking capabilities of Microsoft's
Kinect sensor, and some clever software, students at Stanford University
have created what can only be called a JediBot. Using a series of
pre-programmed 'attack moves', and Kinect to detect the location of the
enemy's light saber, [0]JediBot can attack and defend with surprising
grace. For now its attack moves are fairly slow ��� it can only attack once
every 2 or 3 seconds ��� but presumably you could tweak a knob (and remove
the foam padding) to turn JediBot into a real killing machine." I look
forward to model that can also "force choke" an opponent.
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Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/90204-lightsaber-kinect-robotic-arm-jedibot
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| The Science of Password Selection
| from the insert-horror-stories-here dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 18, @19:50 (Security)
| with 149 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2327208/The-Science-of-Password-Selection?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]troyhunt writes "We all know by now that most people do a pretty poor
job of choosing passwords, but what's behind the selection process?
What's the inspiration for choosing those short, simple passwords that so
often adhere to such predictable patterns? It turns out there's a
[1]handful of classic routes that people follow to consistently arrive at
the same poor choices ��� and some of them are pretty shocking."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.troyhunt.com/
1. http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/07/science-of-password-selection.html
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| Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge
| from the we-like-a-challenge dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 18, @02:18 (Education)
| with 130 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0312202/Queen-Elizabeth-Sets-a-Code-Breaking-Challenge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Queen Elizabeth II has made her first ever visit to
Bletchley Park, the home of the UK's World War II code-breaking efforts
and now a museum. To mark the occasion, the Queen has issued a code
cracking challenge of her own ��� '[0]the Agent X Code Book Challenge' ���
aimed at getting children interested in cryptography. Perhaps a royal
programming or general technology challenge is next."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0312202/Queen-Elizabeth-Sets-a-Code-Breaking-Challenge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/2747-queen-sets-code-breaking-challenge.html
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| Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update
| from the give-us-the-option dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 18, @09:25 (IOS)
| with 112 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1255252/Apple-IOS-434-Jailbroken-Hours-After-Update?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Stoobalou writes "The cat and mouse game between Apple and the
jailbreaking community continues unabated as an updated version of
PwnageTool hits the web [0]just hours after apple updated its iOS mobile
operating system to lock out the JailbreakMe PDF-based exploit."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/7/18/apple-ios-434-jailbroken-hours-after-update/
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| Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service
| from the you-can't-see-me dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 18, @11:32 (Privacy)
| with 112 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1522255/Researchers-Debut-Proxy-Less-Anonymity-Service?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "As state-level censorship continues to grow in
various countries around the globe in response to political dissent and
social change, researchers have begun looking for news ways to help Web
users get around these restrictions. Now, a group of university
researchers has [0]developed an experimental system called [1]Telex that
replaces the typical proxy architecture with a scheme that [2]hides the
fact that the users are even trying to communicate at all."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1522255/Researchers-Debut-Proxy-Less-Anonymity-Service?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-develop-proxy-less-anonymity-system-071811
1. https://telex.cc/
2. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/anticensorship-internets-infrastructure
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| <em>Chain World</em> — Innovative Game Design Sparks Debate
| from the more-new-ideas-please dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @17:43 (Games)
| with 111 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2051249/Chain-World-mdash-Innovative-Game-Design-Sparks-Debate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A story at Wired charts the course of Chain World, a video game designed
by Jason Rohrer to be [0]different from any game that came before it.
Quoting: "It would exist on [a USB flash drive] and nowhere else.
According to a set of rules defined by Rohrer, only one person on earth
could play the game at a time. The player would modify the game���s
environment as they moved through it. Then, after the player died in the
game, they would pass the memory stick to the next person, who would play
in the digital terrain altered by their predecessor���and on and on for
years, decades, generations, epochs. In Rohrer���s mind, his game would
share many qualities with religion���a holy ark, a set of commandments, a
sense of secrecy and mortality and mystical anticipation. This was the
idea, anyway, before things started to get weird."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/mf_chainworld/all/1
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| Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info
| from the dead-or-alive dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @14:19 (Botnet)
| with 95 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1752258/Microsoft-Offers-250000-Reward-For-Botnet-Info?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "Microsoft decided to extend their efforts to establish the
identity of those responsible for controlling the Rustock botnet by
[0]issuing a $250,000 reward for new information that results in the
identification, arrest and criminal conviction of such individual(s).
'While the primary goal for our legal and technical operation has been to
stop and disrupt the threat that Rustock has posed for everyone affected
by it, we also believe the Rustock bot-herders should be held accountable
for their actions.' Residents of any country are eligible for the reward
pursuant to the laws of that country."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1752258/Microsoft-Offers-250000-Reward-For-Botnet-Info?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Attachmate Does the Right Thing For Mono
| from the being-good-is-good dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 18, @12:15 (Open Source)
| with 92 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1612201/Attachmate-Does-the-Right-Thing-For-Mono?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Attachmate, who recently decided to dump the Mono
development team, has [0]done the right thing in allowing Miguel de
Icaza's new company, Xamarin, [1]a perpetual license to all the
intellectual property of Mono, MonoTouch, Mono for Android and Mono for
Visual Studio. This allows them to [2]continue to develop and sell the
products. Of course this income might just give them the time needed to
support the software, which is a good thing, as Attachmate has also
handed over the support for all existing customers to Xamarin."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1612201/Attachmate-Does-the-Right-Thing-For-Mono?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/2755-attachmate-do-the-right-thing-for-mono.html
1. http://blog.xamarin.com/
2. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Jul-18.html
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| 7 Days With a Google Chromebook
| from the potent-portables dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @17:02 (Cloud)
| with 75 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2020215/7-Days-With-a-Google-Chromebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Now that Chromebook laptops are finally here, the
question is: can you really do serious work with them? The only way to
find out is to dive on in, and so Steven Vaughn-Nichols [1]spent a week
using a Chromebook for all his daily computing tasks. In the end, he was
mostly positive on the experience ��� but was frustrated by a number of
rough edges, including poor documentation and a failure of some
components of the system to work together."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2020215/7-Days-With-a-Google-Chromebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/print/183507
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| Inside Las Vegas' Biggest Data Centre
| from the you-must-walk-through-the-casino-first dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 18, @18:50 (Data Storage)
| with 74 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2249250/Inside-Las-Vegas-Biggest-Data-Centre?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twoheadedboy writes "Las Vegas data centres are just as opulent as the
casinos which litter the vibrant city. SuperNAP is the biggest in all Las
Vegas, with 400,000 square feet of servers using around 100 megawatts of
power. There's some serious security too, comprised mostly of ex-US
Marines who patrol the perimeter on foot and in Humvees, all armed with
assault rifles. Private military contractors are needed in the IT world
too, it seems. IT Pro got [1]a look around this impressive DC."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2249250/Inside-Las-Vegas-Biggest-Data-Centre?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.itpro.co.uk/634972/inside-the-data-center-that-powers-las-vegas-casinos
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| How the New Spectrum Bill Would Harm the Tech Community
| from the segregating-the-ether dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @15:40 (Wireless Networking)
| with 51 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/191237/How-the-New-Spectrum-Bill-Would-Harm-the-Tech-Community?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "One version of new spectrum legislation
[0]poses a threat to unlicensed wireless, which is where technologies
such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth operate. Your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
technologies are safe, but the future of the proposed White Spaces
broadband also known as Super Wi-Fi, and new unlicensed spectrum is in
doubt under the draft bill. And hiding in those unlicensed airwaves could
be the next Wi-Fi. 'The draft bill says that in order for unlicensed
spectrum to win out over a licensed bidder, an entity or a group of
people would have to collectively bid more than a licensed bidder would.
This would be akin to having a group of people who want more unlicensed
airwaves going up against Verizon or AT&T. As a reminder Verizon spent
$9.63 billion on spectrum licenses in the last auction while AT&T spent
$6.64 billion. The legislators may have envisioned Google playing a
heroic role here and thus enabling the government to make some extra
money in a spectrum auction as opposed to just letting such potentially
lucrative spectrum become a public radio panacea regulated by the FCC.'"
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https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/191237/How-the-New-Spectrum-Bill-Would-Harm-the-Tech-Community?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gigaom.com/broadband/how-congress-spectrum-bills-screw-the-tech-community/
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| Australian R18+ Rating For Games? Not Yet; NSW Refuses To Vote
| from the that's-not-nice-mate dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @16:42 (Australia)
| with 50 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2028258/Australian-R18-Rating-For-Games-Not-Yet-NSW-Refuses-To-Vote?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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UgLyPuNk writes "Just a few hours after the Australian gaming public was
confused by the stance taken by the South Australian Attorney-General,
they're now getting angry over his New South Wales counterpart's
decision. While the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General had planned
on making a decision regarding the introduction of an R18+ rating for
video games on Friday at a meeting in Adelaide, the NSW Attorney-General
has announced [0]he will not vote on the topic at this time."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/2028258/Australian-R18-Rating-For-Games-Not-Yet-NSW-Refuses-To-Vote?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/07/18/australian-r18-rating-unlikely-nsw-will-not-vote/
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| Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing
| from the advancing-in-fundamental-increments dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 18, @15:59 (Supercomputing)
| with 49 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1919210/Breakthrough-Toward-Quantum-Computing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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redwolfe7707 writes "Qubit registers have been a hard thing to construct;
this looks to be [0]a substantial advance in the multiple entanglements
required for their use. Quoting: 'Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics
in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has just
[1]published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters
demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of
entangled qubits, more precisely a multilevel variant thereof called
Qmodes. ... Pfister and researchers in his lab used sophisticated lasers
to engineer 15 groups of four entangled Qmodes each, for a total of 60
measurable Qmodes, the most ever created. They believe they may have
created as many as 150 groups, or 600 Qmodes, but could measure only 60
with the techniques they used.'" In related news, research published in
the New Journal of Physics ([2]abstract) shows "[3]how quantum and
classical data can be interlaced in a real-world fiber optics network,
taking a step toward distributing quantum information to the home, and
with it a quantum internet."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1919210/Breakthrough-Toward-Quantum-Computing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=15525
1. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i3/e030505
2. http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/6/063039/
3. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-physicists-quantum-home.html
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