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In this issue:
* CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US
* GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name
* 3D Hurts Your Eyes
* Why Waste Servers' Heat?
* Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve
* Bullet Train Derails In China
* Today's Lighter TVs Mean Much Less E-Waste
* BlackBerry PlayBook First Tablet To Gain NIST Approval
* Oracle Ordered To Lower Damages Claim On Google
* PayPal Joins London Police Effort
* Google Music Adds Linux, Ogg Vorbis Support
* Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser?
* When Patents Attack — the NPR Version
* Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit
* IBM Speeds Storage With Flash: 10B Files In 43 Min
* iPhones Can Read Tattoo Ink For Medical Info
* Personal DNA Sequencing Machine One Step Closer
* Team Sonia Takes Prize at RoboSub 2011
* Registration Opens For Software Freedom Day 2011
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| CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US
| from the yeah-but-I-want-a-diesel-subaru-outback dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @08:55 (Transportation)
| with 308 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/025201/CEO-Confirms-Chevy-To-Sell-Diesel-Cruze-In-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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s122604 writes "For the first time in almost 30 years, a U.S. carmaker is
[0]planning to market a non-truck diesel vehicle in the U.S. ��� the Chevy
Cruze. Estimated MPG for the automatic transmission version is in the mid
40s, which is better than the only other small diesel sedan sold in the
U.S. (the Volkswagen Jetta), and slightly better than their gasoline
powered 'Eco' model... I'd like to know what the MPG on the 6-speed
manual version is."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/025201/CEO-Confirms-Chevy-To-Sell-Diesel-Cruze-In-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2011-07-22-diesels_n.htm
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| GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name
| from the keyboard-chooser-by-any-other-name dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @13:32 (GNOME)
| with 219 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1631232/GNOME-and-KDE-Devs-Wrangle-Over-System-Settings-Name?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The developer of the KDE System Settings
application has launched [0]a formal complaint against GNOME for renaming
'Control Center' to 'System Settings' in GNOME 3.0. This developer is
demanding that GNOME immediately change the name of their control panel
area. Developers on both sides are now discussing this act."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1631232/GNOME-and-KDE-Devs-Wrangle-Over-System-Settings-Name?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY5OQ
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| 3D Hurts Your Eyes
| from the eat-your-vegetables dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @10:24 (Displays)
| with 206 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1358245/3D-Hurts-Your-Eyes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]sajjadG writes "After experimenting on 24 adults, a research team at
the University of California, Berkeley has determined that viewing
content on a stereo 3D display [1]hurts your eyes and your brain. This
can supposedly cause visual discomfort, fatigue, and headaches According
to the article, 3D content viewed over a short distance (like with
desktops and smartphones) is more visually uncomfortable when the stereo
content is placed in front of the screen. In a movie theater, it's the
opposite: Stereo content that is placed behind the screen causes more
discomfort than scenes that jump out at you. With the explosion of
3D-capable gadgetry such as televisions and mobile phones, understanding
just what this kind of technology is doing to our bodies may help us
better use it in the future. The only problem is that technology tends to
far outpace research, and until we get a better handle on its effects,
we're more or less walking blindly into a 3D world."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1358245/3D-Hurts-Your-Eyes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:sajjad.gerami@gmail.com
1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/who-could-have-guessed-3d-hurts-your-eyes/
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| Why Waste Servers' Heat?
| from the because-heat-makes-us-murderous dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @09:29 (Data Storage)
| with 172 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1320207/Why-Waste-Servers-Heat?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "A new [0]paper from Microsoft Research (PDF) suggests a
radical but slightly mad scheme for dealing with some of the more basic
problems of the data centre. Rather than build server farms that produce
a lot of waster heat, why not have [1]distributed Data Furnaces, that
heat home and offices at the same time as providing cloud computing? This
is a serious suggestion and they provide facts and figures to make it all
seem viable. So when it gets cold all you have to do is turn up the
number crunching ..."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/150265/heating.pdf
1. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/141-cloud-computing/2749-heat-your-home-with-a-server-or-two.html
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| Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve
| from the sticking-with-fiji-water-for-now dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @11:27 (NASA)
| with 155 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1430206/Astronomers-Find-Largest-Known-Extraterrestrial-Water-Reserve?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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gerddie writes "Two teams of astronomers have discovered the [0]largest
and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water,
equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean,
surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12
billion light-years away. One team, lead by Matt Bradford, made their
observations starting in 2008, using an instrument called 'Z-Spec' at the
California Institute of Technology's Submillimeter Observatory, a 33-foot
(10-meter) telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Follow-up
observations were made with the Combined Array for Research in
Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA), an array of radio dishes in the Inyo
Mountains of Southern California. The second group led, by Dariusz
Lisused, used the Plateau de Bure Interferometer in the French Alps to
find water. In 2010, this team serendipitously detected water in APM
8279+5255, observing one spectral signature. Bradford's team was able to
get more information about the water, including its enormous mass,
because they detected several spectral signatures of the water."
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Links:
0. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html
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| Bullet Train Derails In China
| from the house-of-cards dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @12:30 (China)
| with 147 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1547240/Bullet-Train-Derails-In-China?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "Xinhua is reporting that a [0]Chinese bullet train has
derailed, resulting in [1]two of the train's coaches falling off a bridge.
This comes only a few months after officials at the Railways Ministry
expressed concerns that [2]builders had ignored safety standards in the
quest to build faster trains in record time ��� a claim that was
[3]subsequently retracted."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1547240/Bullet-Train-Derails-In-China?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i7DGrd6CDo5-fy1BIEwALk5yL93w
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14262276
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/28/021229/Chinas-High-Speed-Trains-Coming-Off-the-Rails
3. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-china-denies-safety-lax-high-speed.html
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| Today's Lighter TVs Mean Much Less E-Waste
| from the try-lugging-an-old-36"-crt dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @17:44 (Earth)
| with 125 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2042200/Todays-Lighter-TVs-Mean-Much-Less-E-Waste?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "We all know that today's flat-screen TVs weigh far
less than old-style CRTs, or they wouldn't be able to hang on the wall.
New research from the Consumer Electronics Association finds that this
translates into a [1]massive savings of electronics waste. The report
found that today's flat screen TVs are 82% lighter and 75% smaller than
cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs. In other words, 40- to 70-inch flat-panel TVs
weigh 34% less than 13- to 36-inch CRT TVs. This reduction in materials
has a staggering downstream effect. The report claimed that an old
36-inch CRT TV generated about the same amount of electronics waste as
5,080 cell phones. However, today's 70-inch flat-screen TV generate the
equivalent of just 953 cell phones."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/CEA-Says-TVs-Are-Growing-Lighter-and-Greener/
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| BlackBerry PlayBook First Tablet To Gain NIST Approval
| from the perfect-for-bureaucrats dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @22:05 (Blackberry)
| with 122 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/012245/BlackBerry-PlayBook-First-Tablet-To-Gain-NIST-Approval?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Despite its current struggles to win over
consumers, RIM has always been strong in the enterprise. The company
remained steadfast in its support for corporate environments with the
launch of the PlayBook, calling it the only business-grade tablet. The
NIST is now ready to back that claim, giving the [0]BlackBerry PlayBook
its stamp of approval ��� meaning it's now the lone tablet that is
certified for use in U.S. government agencies."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/mobile/231002423/
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| Oracle Ordered To Lower Damages Claim On Google
| from the that's-why-they-overreach-to-start dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @18:47 (Android)
| with 116 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2134229/Oracle-Ordered-To-Lower-Damages-Claim-On-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Oracle has been ordered to lower its
multibillion-dollar claim for damages in its patent infringement lawsuit
against Google and its Android operating system, court papers show.
Oracle's expert [1]'overreached' in concluding that Google owed up to
$6.1 billion in damages for alleged infringement of Oracle's Java
patents, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup said Friday in a sternly
written order. The 'starting point' for Oracle's damages claim should be
$100 million, adjusted up and down for various factors, he said. At the
same time, Google was wrong to assert that its advertising revenue is not
related to the value of Android and should therefore not be a part of
Oracle's damages, the judge wrote. He also warned Google, 'there is a
substantial possibility that a permanent injunction will be granted' if
it is found guilty of infringement."
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Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218613/Update_Oracle_ordered_to_lower_damages_claim_against_Google
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| PayPal Joins London Police Effort
| from the state-vs-man dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @06:25 (Piracy)
| with 110 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2345217/PayPal-Joins-London-Police-Effort?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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derGoldstein writes this excerpt from Ars Technica: "PayPal has joined a
music copyright association and the City of London police department's
bid to financially starve websites deemed 'illegal.' When presented with
sufficient evidence of unlicensed downloading from a site, the United
Kingdom's PayPal branch '[0]will require the retailer to submit proof of
licensing for the music offered by the retailer,' said the International
Federation of the Phonographic Industry's latest press release." The
[1]press release can be found here.
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Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/paypal-joins-london-police-bid-to-financially-starve-illegal-websites.ars
1. http://www.ifpi.com//content/section_news/20110721.html
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| Google Music Adds Linux, Ogg Vorbis Support
| from the such-funny-names dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @00:59 (Google)
| with 101 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/0443231/Google-Music-Adds-Linux-Ogg-Vorbis-Support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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luceth writes "According to Android Police, the Google Music library
manager [0]now supports Linux! Also available in the Linux upload manager
is new [1]support for Ogg Vorbis, though they transcode it to 320 Kbps
MP3 like they do with FLAC. Still, it will be nice to get some use out of
that beta invite."
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Links:
0. http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/07/22/better-late-than-never-google-music-manager-now-available-for-linux/
1. http://www.google.com/support/music/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1100462&topic=1100183
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| Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser?
| from the oh-you-want-everything dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @16:41 (GUI)
| with 93 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2019249/Ask-Slashdot-Chromeless-Cross-Platform-Browser?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]blakieto writes "Mozilla has the Prism project, which turned into
[1]Chromeless, which seems to have died [Note: last update was May 31].
I'm seeking a no-interface-what-so-ever cross-platform browser for use as
a 'user interface host' to a self-hosted web app. Slight background: I've
a professional market web app, with a large portion of the customer base
unable to access public Internet connections. So, I want to make a
version of my product self-hosted, with the web server and web app and
everything necessary to run the web app locally installed on a user's
machine. I have everything except a chromeless browser. Oh, and my
customers are local police & highway patrol type organizations, most
likely running an aged Windows box (probably IE6, too)."
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Links:
0. mailto:bsenftner@earthlink.net
1. http://mozillalabs.com/chromeless/
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| When Patents Attack — the NPR Version
| from the official-office-suite-of-rent-seeking dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @14:37 (Businesses)
| with 76 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1830215/When-Patents-Attack-mdash-the-NPR-Version?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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fermion writes "This American Life is running a story this week on
[0]Intellectual Ventures, a firm some consider the leader of the
[1]patent trolls. The story delves into the origins of the term patent
troll and the [2]rise of the patent troll industry. Much time is spent
presenting Intellectual Ventures both as a patent troll firm and a
legitimate business that allows helpless inventors to monetize patents.
It is stipulated that Intellectual Ventures does not in fact sue anyone.
It is also alleged that Intellectual Ventures creates many shell
companies, presumably to hide such activity. Intellectual Ventures is
compared to a Mafia protection racket that may never actually burn down a
business that does not pay the dues, but does encourage such burning to
occur."
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Links:
0. http://www.intellectualventures.com/Home.aspx
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
2. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
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| Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit
| from the dryer-lint-can-be-deadly dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @08:28 (The Military)
| with 74 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2313253/Blocked-Fuel-Line-Botched-Military-Satellite-Orbit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Dan Elliott reports that a [1]piece of cloth
inadvertently left in the fuel line during the manufacturing process may
be the reason for the botched delivery to orbit of a military
communications satellite that hasn't reached its planned orbit since it
was launched in August. The Air Force Space Command and the contractor,
Lockheed Martin, have devised a work-around plan using the remaining
propulsion systems ��� [2]reaction engine assemblies and electric [3]Hall
Current Thrusters drawing off of onboard fuel���to slowly raise the perigee
of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite until it reaches its
intended orbit 22,300 miles over the Earth in October, but the GAO says
that the $12.9 billion satellite system [4]incurred at least $250 million
in extra costs and a two-year delay because of quality problems due to
poor workmanship, undocumented and untested manufacturing processes, poor
control of those processes and materials and failure to prevent
contamination, poor part design, design complexity, and an inattention to
manufacturing risks. John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, which monitors
defense issues, says the two-year delay is a bigger problem than the
extra expense. 'You've got a lot of other things depending on the
launch,' says Pike, including ground-based weapons."
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/07/21/gao_blocked_fuel_line_hampered_military_satellite/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_engine
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_thruster
4. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-404
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| IBM Speeds Storage With Flash: 10B Files In 43 Min
| from the you-sure-have-a-lot-of-mp3s dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @03:40 (Data Storage)
| with 66 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/0523219/IBM-Speeds-Storage-With-Flash-10B-Files-In-43-Min?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "With an eye toward helping tomorrow's data-deluged
organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system
[1]capable of scanning in 10 billion files in 43 minutes. This system
handily bested their previous system, demonstrated at Supercomputing
2007, which scanned 1 billion files in three hours. Key to the increased
performance was the use of speedy flash memory to store the metadata that
the storage system uses to locate requested information. Traditionally,
metadata repositories reside on disk, access to which slows operations. ([2]See
IBM's whitepaper.)"
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Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218610/IBM_speeds_storage_with_flash_10B_files_in_43_minutes
2. http://www.violin-memory.com/images/IBM-Violin-GPFS-Record.pdf?d=1
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| iPhones Can Read Tattoo Ink For Medical Info
| from the open-your-shirt-and-say-aaaaah dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 22, @21:08 (Biotech)
| with 51 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/0053223/iPhones-Can-Read-Tattoo-Ink-For-Medical-Info?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Northeastern University have
modified an iPhone to take readings from a special [0]fluorescing
nanoparticle tattoo ink, which can then measure sodium and gloucose
levels in the blood."
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Links:
0. http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/07/22/theres-a-tatt-for-that.aspx
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| Personal DNA Sequencing Machine One Step Closer
| from the who-the-hell-are-you? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @19:50 (Medicine)
| with 45 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2058233/Personal-DNA-Sequencing-Machine-One-Step-Closer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oxide7 writes "A new, low cost semiconductor-based gene sequencing
machine has been developed and may unlock the door to advanced medicines
and life itself. A team led by Jonathan Rothberg of Ion Torrent in
Guilford, Conn is working on [0]a system which uses semiconductors to
decode DNA, dramatically reducing costs and taking them closer to being
able to reach the goal of a $1000 human genome test. The current optical
based system costs around $49000 and is already on the market and being
used in over 40 countries."
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Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/185688/20110723/personal-dna-sequencing-machine-one-step-closer.htm
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| Team Sonia Takes Prize at RoboSub 2011
| from the dive-dive-dive-fatal-exception dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @15:40 (Robotics)
| with 13 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1925238/Team-Sonia-Takes-Prize-at-RoboSub-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The [0]RoboSub [1]2011 competition final was
held on July 17. Each year, teams from around the world gather to see who
has the best autonomous underwater vehicle. The goal of the competition
is to complete an obstacle course with no human intervention. This year a
team from Montreal, Canada ��� [2]team SONIA AUV from ETS ��� won first
place." Read on for a list of the top-placing teams.
This story continues at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/1925238/Team-Sonia-Takes-Prize-at-RoboSub-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Links:
0. http://www.robosub.org/
1. http://www.auvsi.org/news/#RoboSub2011
2. http://sonia.etsmtl.ca/
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| Registration Opens For Software Freedom Day 2011
| from the barter-is-ok-though dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, @17:29 (GNU is Not Unix)
| with 10 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2128207/Registration-Opens-For-Software-Freedom-Day-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "For those of you who think technology and
more importantly software should be open and shareable, the annual
celebration of [0]Software Freedom Day has [1]opened its registration and
you have about 10 days to get a free team pack to help you with your own
event organization. SFD represents about 500 teams worldwide organizing
events to discuss about the importance, benefits and usage of Free and
Open Source Software on the same day: September 17th this year! It's also
an opportunity to preach to your local community and gives them ideas and
reasons about why they should care and use FOSS."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2128207/Registration-Opens-For-Software-Freedom-Day-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://softwarefreedomday.org/
1. http://mail.sf-day.org/pipermail/sfd-announce/2011-July/000126.html
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