10 Tips for Better Web Security
Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include:
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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been
* Terror Attack On Norwegian Government
* Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business?
* Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies?
* Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns
* Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement
* Share Links, Become Extradited To the US
* The Loudness Wars May Be Ending
* Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone
* Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document
* Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market
* Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack
* Linux Kernel 3.0 Released
* Google: Sun Offered To License Java For $100M
* Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company
* Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One
* Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications
* Advertising Network Caught History Stealing
* Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage
* Spotify To Bait and Switch?
* Indie RPG Struggles On Xbox, Yet Thrives On Steam
* Obama Administration Tests the Waters With Ocean Power Startups
* Has LHC Seen a Hint of the Higgs?
* The Brilliance of <em>Dwarf Fortress</em>
* The Code War Arms Race
* Lodsys Now Suing EA, Atari, Rovio and More
* Australian Attys General Agree in Principle on R18+
* First NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament
* Atlantis' Final Reentry Over Cancun, Mexico
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| Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been
| from the dude-where's-my-car dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @13:35 (Government)
| with 462 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1656234/Massachusetts-Plans-To-Keep-Track-of-Where-Your-Car-Has-Been?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Attila Dimedici writes "Massachusetts wants to establish a database with
[0]the information gathered by license plate scanners installed in police
cars. The scanners will scan license plates of every car the police
vehicle passes and transmit that information (along with the location) to
a database that will be made available to various government agencies.
The data wil be kept indefinitely."
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Links:
0. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1353264
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| Terror Attack On Norwegian Government
| from the be-safe dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @11:58 (News)
| with 322 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1556211/Terror-Attack-On-Norwegian-Government?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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techtech sends this quote from the BBC: "A [0]large bomb blast has hit
near government headquarters in the Norwegian capital Oslo, killing at
least one person. The offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens
Stoltenberg were damaged extensively ��� a government spokeswoman said he
was safe. Police said a number of people were injured in the city center
explosion. No-one has said they were behind the attack, which witnesses
said could be heard across the capital."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1556211/Terror-Attack-On-Norwegian-Government?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515
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| Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business?
| from the uphill-battle dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @10:15 (Businesses)
| with 317 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1347232/Will-Apples-Lion-Roar-For-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Apple has long had a troubled relationship
with IT departments. Any creative professional will testify just how hard
it can be to convince IT managers to allow the use of Macs in
Windows-dominated environments. And, despite the fact that the Mac OS is
now quite a well-behaved client on Windows LANs, Apple sometimes [0]does
little to help its own cause. The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion,
for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need
to conserve network resources. Most of all, IT departments would want to
see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop
and on the server. There are rumors that Apple will, itself, run a
virtualized version of Mac OS under VMware as part of its iCloud product.
Allowing OS X to run as a guest on non-Apple servers, and even on the
desktop under VDI, would bring enormous administrative benefits to
companies using Macs."
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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1347232/Will-Apples-Lion-Roar-For-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/264459,apple-will-lion-roar-for-business.aspx
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| Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies?
| from the steve-did-it-in-the-library-with-one-button dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @14:58 (Media)
| with 317 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/183218/Netflix-Killing-DVDs-Like-Apple-Killed-Floppies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cheezitmike writes "While there has been lots of outcry about Netflix
separating their DVD service from their streaming service, media expert
Eric Garland says they're just doing to the DVD [0]what Apple did to the
floppy disk. 'I was reminded of so many precedents: Facebook revamping
its user interface, the introduction of the first Blueberry iMac, the one
with the conspicuously missing 3.5-inch floppy drive on the front. All of
these were moments when there was a paradigm shift that led to an
immediate public outcry. People made a lot of noise and had a lot of
complaints. People were very upset about these shifts...until they
weren't. In the news cycle, the outcry is significant and it is
problematic, but it's also important to note how quickly these things are
forgotten.'"
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| Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns
| from the wonder-what-al-gore-thinks-about-this dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @09:34 (Biotech)
| with 273 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1228230/Hybrid-Human-Animal-DNA-Experiments-Raise-Concerns?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Kevin Fishburne writes "British scientists are calling for a new
agency to [1]oversee the mixing of human and animal DNA, which is
progressing at a rate most may not be aware of: 'Among experimentation
that might spark concern are those where human brain cells might change
animal brains, those that could lead to the fertilization of human eggs
in animals and any modifications of animals that might create attributes
considered uniquely human, like facial features, skin or speech. ... Some
disagree. "We think some of these should be done, but they should be done
in an open way to maintain public confidence," said Robin Lovell-Badge,
head of stem cell biology and developmental genetics at Britain's Medical
Research Council, one of the expert group members. He said experiments
injecting human brain cells into the brains of rats might help develop
new stroke treatments or that growing human skin on mice could further
understanding of skin cancer.'"
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Links:
0. mailto:kevinfishburne@@@eightvirtues...com
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/uk-scientists-call-for-new-agency-to-oversee-experiments-mixing-human-and-animal-cells/2011/07/21/gIQArysRSI_story.html
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| Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement
| from the corporatism-with-a-bullet dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 21, @22:38 (Canada)
| with 261 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/0048231/Peter-Adekeye-Freed-Judge-Outraged-At-Ciscos-Involvement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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puppetman writes "Ars Technica has an article relating the recent release
of Peter Adekeye, a former Cisco employee who was arrested in Canada on
trumped-up charges that appear to have been fabricated by Cisco.
[0]Slashdot covered the story back in April, 2011, during which time Mr
Adekeye was still being detained. In the ruling, the judge [1]squashed
the US extradition request, rebuked both the Canadian and American
authorities for 'an appalling abuse of process,' and goes as far as to
say that the criminal proceeding was launched on behalf of Cisco, to
mirror the civil proceedings that Mr Adekeye had launched against the
powerful Cisco." The [2]full judgement (PDF) is quite readable and
damning.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/21/1324244/Cisco-Accused-of-Orchestrating-Engineers-Arrest
1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-flesh-how-ciscos-unmitigated-gall-derailed-one-mans-life.ars/1
2. http://www.multiven.com/media/news/pdfs/USAvsAdekeye-BC_Canada_Supreme_Court_Ruling-May_31_2011.pdf
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| Share Links, Become Extradited To the US
| from the idle-mice-are-the-devil's-playthings dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @10:54 (Crime)
| with 224 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1417214/Share-Links-Become-Extradited-To-the-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]castrox writes with an in-depth followup to a story [1]we discussed in
June: "Sharing links online, particularly links to copyrighted material,
may render you extradited to the United States of America. 'In May,
American law enforcement officials opened up yet another front in this
war by [2]seeking the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer. The 23-year-old
British college student is currently working on his BS in interactive
media and animation. Until last year, he ran a "link site" that helped
users find free movies and TV shows, many of them infringing. American
officials want to try him on charges of criminal copyright infringement
and conspiracy.' The case is unique because the site, which the accused
Englishman ran, was not located in the US in any way. Does this set a new
precedent of things to come? The agency responsible for the extradition
request is Immigrations and Customs Enforcement."
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Links:
0. mailto:lUR8weVWOXMYAQje@nospam.loveafraid.com.ar
1. http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2059204/British-Student-Faces-Extradition-To-US-Over-Copyright
2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/big-content-unveils-latest-antipiracy-weapon-extradition.ars
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| The Loudness Wars May Be Ending
| from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @15:36 (Music)
| with 214 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1831229/The-Loudness-Wars-May-Be-Ending?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Mike Barthel reports on a technique called
brick-wall limiting, where [1]songs are engineered to seem louder by
bringing the quiet parts to the same level as the loud parts and pushing
the volume level of the entire song to the highest point possible. '[2]Because
of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a
strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than
every other song. As a result, for a period, each new release came out a
little louder than the last, and [3]the average level of loudness on CDs
crept up (YouTube) to such a degree that albums actually sounded
distorted, as if they were being played through broken speakers.' But the
loudness wars may be coming to an end. Taking advantage of the trend
towards listening to music online ��� via services like Pandora, Spotify,
and Apple's forthcoming iCloud ��� a proposal by audio engineer Thomas
Lund, [4]already adopted as a universal standard (PDF) by the
International Telecommunications Union, would institute a volume limit on
any songs downloaded from the cloud, effectively removing the strategic
advantage of loudness. Lund's proposal would do the same thing for any
music you could buy. 'Once a piece of music is ingested into this system,
there is no longer any value in trying to make a recording louder just to
stand out,' says legendary engineer Bob Ludwig, who has been working with
Lund. 'There will be nothing to gain from a musical point of view. Louder
will no longer be better!'"
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1831229/The-Loudness-Wars-May-Be-Ending?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-loudness-wars-is-musics-noisy-arms-race-over/242293/
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jan/18/pop.music/print
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
4. http://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-2-201103-I!!PDF-E.pdf
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| Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone
| from the circles-of-life dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @16:17 (Google)
| with 193 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/205229/Google-Growing-As-a-Social-Backbone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Google+ has
[0]added 20 million users in just 3 weeks. According to the article, no
other site has recorded such high growth in such a short time period.
Twitter did something similar once, but in months, not weeks. It's
especially surprising considering that access to Google+ is by invitation
only. Why is Google+ growing so quickly?" A recent article at O'Reilly
Radar offers a possible answer to this, calling Google+ "the [1]rapidly
growing seed of a web-wide social backbone," but one that requires
openness from Google to really flourish and supplant Facebook. The growth
of Google+ will be helped by [2]their acquisition of Fridge, a startup
company focused on group sharing. Meanwhile, recruiters and marketers are
already [3]eyeballing the growing social network and licking their chops.
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Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904233404576460394032418286.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
1. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/google-plus-social-backbone.html
2. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/394571/google_get_group_sharing_boost_from_fridge/
3. http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/social-media/google+-social-crm-tools.html
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| Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document
| from the more-where-that-came-from dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @07:09 (Security)
| with 182 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/0319253/Anonymous-Releases-Restricted-NATO-Document?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Anonymous has [1]released a document marked
'restricted' from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The
[2]36-page document, which is dated Aug. 27, 2007, appears to be budget
and equipment outlays for what was termed a new 'HQ ISAF JOINT CIS
CONTROL CENTRE.' NATO's press office could not be immediately reached.
Anonymous claimed on its 'AnonymousIRC' Twitter handle that it has [3]1GB
of material from NATO but said that most would not be published because
it would be 'irresponsible.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/394514/anonymous_releases_restricted_nato_document/
2. http://pdfcast.org/pdf/nato-1
3. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/21/135217/Anonymous-Hack-One-Gigabyte-of-Data-From-NATO
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| Android Catching Up In the Tablet Market
| from the making-a-big-dent dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @12:14 (Android)
| with 177 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1539253/Android-Catching-Up-In-the-Tablet-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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TyFoN writes "Year to year, the iPad market share is down from 94.3
percent to 61.3 percent while Android is up about the same, [0]going from
2.9 percent to 30.1 percent in the same period. 'Some 4.6 million
Android-based tablets shipped in this year's second quarter as compared
with just around 100,000 in the year-ago quarter, according to Strategy
Analytics. ...the tablet OS market as a whole grew a whopping 331 percent
in the last year and Apple grew right along with it in terms of unit
shipments. Tablet makers shipped 3.5 million in the second quarter of
2010, with Apple easily leading the charge with 3.2 million iPads
shipped. The number of units shipped exploded to 15.1 million in this
past quarter��� Apple was a bit behind the pace of that growth, but still
managed to ship an impressive 9.3 million iOS-based tablets. Microsoft,
meanwhile, had the third largest share of the global tablet OS market at
4.6 percent, with about 700,000 Windows 7-based tablets shipped in the
recent quarter.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388894,00.asp
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| Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack
| from the good-thing-they're-so-easy-to-replace dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @16:59 (OS X)
| with 176 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2021230/Apple-Laptops-Vulnerable-To-Battery-Firmware-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "Security researcher Charlie Miller, widely known for
his work on Mac OS X and Apple's iOS, has discovered an interesting
method that enables him to [0]completely disable the batteries on Apple
laptops, making them permanently unusable, and perform a number of other
unintended actions. The method, which involves accessing and sending
instructions to the chip housed on smart batteries, could also be used
for more malicious purposes down the road. Miller discovered the default
passwords set on the battery at the factory to change the battery into
unsealed mode and developed a method that let him permanently brick the
battery as well as read and modify the entire firmware. 'You can read all
the firmware, make changes to the code, do whatever you want. And those
code changes will survive a reinstall of the OS, so you could imagine
writing malware that could hide on the chip on the battery. You'd need a
vulnerability in the OS or something that the battery could then attack,
though,' Miller said."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-laptop-batteries-can-be-bricked-firmware-hacked-072211
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| Linux Kernel 3.0 Released
| from the thank-you-linus dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @01:29 (Operating Systems)
| with 171 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/0412220/Linux-Kernel-30-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Suchetha writes "In [1]a posting on his Google+ page Linus Torvalds
announced [2]the launch of Linux kernel 3.0. This follows the kernel
[3]missing the planned release date of the 19th because of 'a subtle
bug.'"
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Links:
0. http://suchthegeek.com/
1. https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/CJpyYdCqBL8
2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/21/455
3. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/0313215/Linux-30-Release-Delayed
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| Google: Sun Offered To License Java For $100M
| from the how-generous dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @08:53 (Google)
| with 166 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1222217/Google-Sun-Offered-To-License-Java-For-100M?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Sun Microsystems [0]offered to license its Java
technology to Google for $100 million, a Google attorney said Thursday,
attempting to show that Oracle is out of touch as it seeks billions from
Google for patent infringement. Oracle and Google were in court for a
hearing in Oracle's lawsuit accusing Google of patent infringement in its
Android OS. Judge William Alsup was in a feisty mood, warning Oracle that
'this court is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation' and
telling Google that Andy Rubin, who runs its Android business, will be
'on the hot-seat' at trial. He also [1]criticized both parties for taking
unreasonable positions regarding the amount of damages owed for the
alleged infringement."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072211-google-sun-offered-to-license.html
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-oracle-google-lawsuit-idUSTRE76K7U820110721
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| Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company
| from the no-good-idea-goes-unpunished dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @08:13 (Facebook)
| with 158 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/0232240/Facebook-Is-Most-Hated-Social-Media-Company?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Inc. reports that Facebook, the most visited site
on the Internet, is also among the most hated, scoring 64 on a 100-point
scale, which [1]puts the company in the bottom five percent of private
sector companies and in the same range as airlines and cable companies,
'two perennially low-scoring industries with terrible customer
satisfaction,' according to the results of a survey by the American
Customer Satisfaction Index. 'Customers have shown that, so far, they
have been willing to suffer through a poor user experience in order to
enjoy the benefits Facebook provides,' according to the report. 'For
companies that provide low levels of customer satisfaction, [2]repeat
business is always a challenge unless customers lack adequate choices, as
in the case of near monopolies.' Overall, [3]social media is one of the
lowest-scoring industries measured by the ACSI ��� only airlines,
newspapers, and subscription television services score lower. However,
among social media companies, Wikipedia tops the list with a score of
77."
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.inc.com/news/articles/201107/facebook-scores-poorly-on-customer-satisfaction.html
2. http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=258:acsi-commentary-july-2011&catid=14&Itemid=336
3. http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=257:press-release-july-2011&catid=14&Itemid=289
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| Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One
| from the always-use-protection-when-browsing-strange-sites dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @14:17 (Government)
| with 145 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1738224/Malware-Is-a-Disease-Lets-Treat-It-Like-One?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "The most common metaphor we have for computer
malware ��� 'virus' ��� emphasizes that in many ways malicious computer code
mimics biological pathogens. And yet, while the U.S. government has rapid
response plans in place for an outbreak of a new disease, we're content
to let the private sector react to hugely damaging computer infections.
Tom Henderson thinks we need the [1]cybersecurity equivalent of the CDC."
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Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/data-centerservers/185719/us-lacks-cohesive-plan-malware-control-can-cdc-model-work
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| Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications
| from the summer-reading dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @18:59 (Wikipedia)
| with 140 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2254204/Release-of-33GiB-of-Scientific-Publications?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A Wikipedian, Greg Maxwell, has [0]released
33GiB of scientific publications [note: torrent] from the Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society in response to the [1]arrest of Aaron
Swartz for, effectively, downloading too many articles from JSTOR. The
release consists of 18,592 scientific articles previously released at
$8-$19 each and all published prior to 1923 and so public domain."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2254204/Release-of-33GiB-of-Scientific-Publications?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/1839237/Aaron-Swartz-Indicted-in-Attempted-Piracy-of-Four-Million-Documents
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| Advertising Network Caught History Stealing
| from the sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @11:32 (Privacy)
| with 135 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/156225/Advertising-Network-Caught-History-Stealing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jonathanmayer writes "Last week the Stanford Security Lab reported
some [1]surprising results on how advertising networks respond to opt
outs and Do Not Track. This week we made a new discovery in the online
advertising ecosystem: Epic Marketplace, a member of the self-regulatory
Network Advertising Initiative, is [2]history stealing with unprecedented
scale and sophistication. And Epic is snooping some remarkably sensitive
information, including pages from the FTC, IRS, NIH, Mayo Clinic, and
more. Epic has written [3]a response defending its practices."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/156225/Advertising-Network-Caught-History-Stealing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.stanford.edu/~jmayer/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/15/1639206/Study-Ad-Networks-Not-Honoring-Do-Not-Track
2. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6695
3. http://epicmediagroup.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/epic-marketplace-response-to-behavioral-advertising-and-tracking-allegations/
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| Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage
| from the liability-for-someone-only-not-you dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @08:35 (Sony)
| with 118 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/017206/Sony-Insurer-Suing-To-Deny-Data-Breach-Coverage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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idontgno writes "It keeps getting better and better for Sony and its
business units. Reuters reports that Sony's insurer, Zurich American, is
[0]suing to avoid paying out on [1]Sony's legal liability which may arise
from its spectacular online [2]security [3]breaches a few months ago."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/017206/Sony-Insurer-Suing-To-Deny-Data-Breach-Coverage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/insurance-sony-idUSN1E76K0V920110721
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/27/2122241/Sony-Sued-For-PlayStation-Network-Data-Breach
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/27/142238/77-Million-Accounts-Stolen-From-Playstation-Network
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/03/0439203/Sony-Breach-Gets-Worse-246-Million-Compromised-Accounts-At-SOE
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| Spotify To Bait and Switch?
| from the hard-to-argue-with-the-mafiaa dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @12:55 (DRM)
| with 106 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1637210/Spotify-To-Bait-and-Switch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hype7 writes "The Harvard Business Review, of all places, is running a
story suggesting that [1]Spotify may have to rely on a bait & switch
strategy ��� or might have one forced upon it by the record labels. From
the article: 'Spotify gets all its content from the same place everyone
else does ��� the same industry that has forced price increases on other
online services once they have become successful. That appears to be at
least partly what happened with Netflix last week. At least in the case
of the existing a la carte music services, if you don't like the new
price, you don't have to buy the new track. In Spotify's world, if you
don't like the new price, there goes your music library. Or, if Spotify
tries to stand up for its users, the labels can just pull the songs and
those songs simply disappear.'"
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https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1637210/Spotify-To-Bait-and-Switch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://u3295110atanu.edu.au/
1. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/07/why_im_not_going_near_spotify.html
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| Indie RPG Struggles On Xbox, Yet Thrives On Steam
| from the location-location-location dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @15:19 (Role Playing (Games))
| with 103 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1821252/Indie-RPG-Struggles-On-Xbox-Yet-Thrives-On-Steam?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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derGoldstein writes "Two weeks ago Robert Boyd started offering his two
RPGs Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World on Steam, for $2.99
(for both games combined). It [0]fared far better than it had on the Xbox
Live Indie channel: 'In less than a week, our Steam revenue has actually
exceeded over a year and a half of XBLIG revenue for us.' Hopefully this
will prompt more developers to port 'smaller' games over to Steam,
especially since many of them can run on low-spec machines, like
netbooks."
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1821252/Indie-RPG-Struggles-On-Xbox-Yet-Thrives-On-Steam?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Obama Administration Tests the Waters With Ocean Power Startups
| from the wave-of-the-future dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @18:17 (Power)
| with 76 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2114236/Obama-Administration-Tests-the-Waters-With-Ocean-Power-Startups?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Stirfry192 sends this excerpt from an article discussing the Obama
Administration's funding of [0]renewable energy projects that are
experimenting with hydrokinetics: "Currently, the Department of Energy
has a mandate to spend $50 million a year on backing such research. For
its part, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved 72
permits for pilot projects over the past two years , according to its
records. Ocean Renewable Energy Power Company, LLC , which has plans to
build the largest ocean-based system in the U.S., is one of the companies
that has won such funding. ... Virtually all hydrokinetic turbines
resemble giant manual lawnmowers, a design patented by Alexander Gorlov
of Northeastern University in 2001. [CEO Chris Sauer] calls what his
company uses an 'advance cross-flow' model, and he says each of his 150
kilowatt units could power 50 to 75 homes. ... The company plans to
install one of its 150 kilowatt turbines this year, and four next year,
anchoring them near the floor of the bay, and progressively build out to
3.2 megawatts by 2014. The system would tie into Bangor Hydro Electric
Co. grid."
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| Has LHC Seen a Hint of the Higgs?
| from the or-did-ted-drop-his-sandwich-in-the-machine-again dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @15:55 (Science)
| with 70 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1926205/Has-LHC-Seen-a-Hint-of-the-Higgs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gbrumfiel writes "Researchers at two detectors at the Large Hadron
Collider [1]are seeing something unusual. The signal is faint, but it
could be from the long-sought Higgs particle. The Higgs is part of the
mechanism that gives other particles mass, and it also unifies the
electromagnetic and electroweak forces. [2]No one is willing to declare
it found just yet, but the new data from the CMS and ATLAS detectors are
an independent, 'tantalizing' hint of what's to come. The results were
presented today at [3]HEP-2011 in Grenoble, France."
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Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/
1. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110722/full/news.2011.435.html
2. http://profmattstrassler.com/2011/07/22/atlas-and-cms-summarize-their-higgs-searches/
3. http://eps-hep2011.eu/
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| The Brilliance of <em>Dwarf Fortress</em>
| from the in-all-its-ascii-glory dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @17:56 (Games)
| with 60 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2130222/The-Brilliance-of-Dwarf-Fortress?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The NY Times is running a story about [0]Dwarf Fortress, an
[1]independently produced, ASCII-rendered fantasy game that thrives on
its own uniqueness and has influenced countless other game developers
(and runs on Linux). Quoting: "Though it may seem ungainly at first, the
game���s interface ��� rendered in what are known as extended ASCII
characters ��� has a sparse elegance. As seasons change, trees, represented
by various symbols, shift from green to yellow. Goblins��� eyes appear as
red quotation marks; if you shoot out an eye with an arrow, the symbol
becomes an apostrophe. On a message board, one fan likened the ASCII
experience in Dwarf Fortress to the immersive pleasures of reading a
book: 'You can let your imagination fill in the gaps.' The community that
has arisen around Dwarf Fortress is remarkable. Fans maintain an
extensive wiki, which remains the game���s best (and, effectively, only)
instruction manual, and which even Tarn and Zach admit to consulting. ...
Perhaps most fascinating are the stories that fans share online,
recounting their dwarven travails in detailed and sometimes illustrated
narratives. In a 2006 saga, called Boatmurdered, fans passed around a
single fortress ��� one player would save a game, send the file to another
player and so on, relay-race style ��� while documenting its colorful
descent into oblivion."
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Links:
0. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html?pagewanted=all
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| The Code War Arms Race
| from the mr-gorbachev-tear-down-this-firewall dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @17:37 (The Military)
| with 56 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/210257/The-Code-War-Arms-Race?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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pacopico writes "A story in Bloomberg Businessweek gives the first
in-depth look at [0]a wave of new start-ups selling cyber weaponry. The
story describes this as the evolution of the defense industry in response
to a wave of brazen attacks against Google, the Pentagon, the IMF and
thousands of companies. It's pretty scary stuff, especially considering
that these new weapons are not regulated at all."
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Links:
0. http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/cyber-weapons-the-new-arms-race-07212011.html
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| Lodsys Now Suing EA, Atari, Rovio and More
| from the doubling-down dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @17:19 (Patents)
| with 54 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2033215/Lodsys-Now-Suing-EA-Atari-Rovio-and-More?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Patent troll Lodsys has now amended its
original complaint against iOS and Android developers to [0]include some
big name defendants of infringing upon its patent that [1]allegedly
relates to in-app purchasing. The new defendants include EA, Atari, Rovio
and more."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2033215/Lodsys-Now-Suing-EA-Atari-Rovio-and-More?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14245047
1. http://www.edibleapple.com/lodsys-ups-the-ante-files-suit-against-ea-atari-rovio-and-more/
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| Australian Attys General Agree in Principle on R18+
| from the by-default-gentlemen-let's-censor dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @04:20 (Australia)
| with 29 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/0218253/Australian-Attys-General-Agree-in-Principle-on-R18?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dotarray writes "In Adelaide today, the Standing Committee of
Attorneys-General was again [0]unable to reach a unanimous decision on
the topic of whether or not Australia should have an R18+ rating for
video games." Nonetheless, the committee has reached a [1]decision in
principle to allow such a rating, with only one Attorney General having
abstained from today's vote.
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Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/07/21/still-no-r18-for-australia/
1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-22/games-rating-agreement/2806200
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| First NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament
| from the gather-'round dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @19:44 (Classic Games (Games))
| with 25 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2338215/First-NetHack-Cross-Variant-Summer-Tournament?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]bhaak1 writes "The first ��� and hopefully annual ��� NetHack
Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called [1]Junethack started last Sunday
and runs until the end of August 14th.This tournament features Vanilla
[2]NetHack and several of its forks: [3]SporkHack, [4]UnNethack,
[5]AceHack and as a special bonus game ��� never seen on a public server
before ��� [6]NetHack 1.3d, the first version of the game called NetHack,
released 1987. There are various [7]achievements to gain, even for those
poor souls that can't win this complex and sadistic game. The source code
of the tournament management and website software is [8]available for
hacking on GitHub if you prefer hacking code to hacking monsters."
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2338215/First-NetHack-Cross-Variant-Summer-Tournament?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://bhaak.dyndns.org/
1. http://junethack.rawrnix.com/
2. http://nethack.org/
3. http://sporkhack.com/
4. http://unnethack.wordpress.com/
5. http://patch-tag.com/r/ais523/acehack/wiki/Front+Page
6. http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack_1.3d
7. http://junethack.rawrnix.com/trophies
8. https://github.com/junethack/Junethack
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| Atlantis' Final Reentry Over Cancun, Mexico
| from the going-out-with-a-flourish dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, @14:37 (NASA)
| with 23 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/180200/Atlantis-Final-Reentry-Over-Cancun-Mexico?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Once again, videographer Noe Castillo [1]has
captured space shuttle history through his camera lens. On June 1, 2011,
he witnessed the final reentry of space shuttle Endeavour. Now he's
released a video via his [2]YouTube account showing the final reentry of
Atlantis... and the final reentry of any space shuttle." Many other
cameras were trained on Atlantis yesterday, including one from the ISS,
which [3]captured the re-entry from the other side. Thierry Legault
caught Atlantis [4]transiting the sun for the last time, and NASA has
[5]pictures and [6]video of the landing.
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Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/atlantis-final-reentry-over-cancun-mexico-110722.html
2. http://www.youtube.com/user/neocastillo
3. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
4. http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/STS-135.html
5. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/multimedia/fd13/fd13_gallery.html
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDG5sNMX2M&feature=player_profilepage#t=553s
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