Proof Positive - Extended Validation SSL Increases Online Sales and Transactions
Understand how the proper IT security policies can actually drive more sales. It also discusses how Extended Validation (EV) works, why phishing is such a problem, and how to get better results using EV SSL.
http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51427554/
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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers
* Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill
* Ask Slashdot: Laptop + DSLR Backpacks
* Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel?
* Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case
* Pakistan Lets China View US Stealth Technology
* Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen
* The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds
* Music Copyright War Looming
* Drug Companies Lose Special Protection On Facebook
* How Linux Mastered Wall Street
* China Cracks Down On Fake Apple Stores
* Does Android Violate the GPL? Not So Fast
* Star Wars Coins Issued By Pacific Island Nation
* <em>EVE Online</em> Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency
* Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan
* Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post
* WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud
* Fluidinfo, Wikipedia For Databases
* Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found
* NASA Opens New Office For Space Missions
* US and UK Zombies Demand Top Dollar
* Book Review: Getting Started With Audacity 1.3
* SpyEye Trojan Source Code Leaked
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| Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers
| from the numbers-are-a-distraction dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @13:57 (Firefox)
| with 581 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/177257/Mozilla-To-Remove-User-Facing-Firefox-Version-Numbers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "A great collective gasp issued from tuned-in Firefox
fans when Mozilla announced that it was switching to a Chrome-like
release schedule for its browser. Now Mozilla wants to take things one
step further and [1]remove Firefox version numbers entirely ��� from the
user-facing parts of the browser, anyway." You can see [2]the Bugzilla
entry for this change, and keep up on [3]Mozilla's reasoning and
discussion through a thread on the mozilla.dev.usability newsgroup.
Mozilla's Asa Dotzler explained, "We're moving to a more Web-like
convention where it's simply not important what version you're using as
long as it's the latest version. ... The most important thing is
confidence that they're on the latest release. That's what the About
dialog will give them."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/177257/Mozilla-To-Remove-User-Facing-Firefox-Version-Numbers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92792-mozilla-takes-firefox-version-number-removal-a-step-further
2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775
3. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/browse_thread/thread/fe75ec92c02be934#
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| Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill
| from the didn't-see-that-coming dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @08:42 (Android)
| with 536 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1228202/Google-To-Acquire-Motorola-Mobility-For-125-Bill?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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zacharye writes "Google and Motorola Mobility have announced an agreement
whereby [0]Google will acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. The
acquisition price equates to $40 per share of Motorola stock, or a
premium of 63% over Friday's closing price. The move is considered to be
an effort that will better-align Google to compete with Apple's iPhone,
which currently owns two-thirds of profits among the world's top-8
smartphone vendors..." That's one way to stop [1]royalty payments.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1228202/Google-To-Acquire-Motorola-Mobility-For-125-Bill?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/15/google-to-acquire-motorola-mobility-for-12-5-billion/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/13/036203/Motorola-To-Collect-Royalties-For-Android
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| Ask Slashdot: Laptop + DSLR Backpacks
| from the do-my-research-for-me dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @11:43 (Transportation)
| with 266 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1445237/Ask-Slashdot-Laptop--DSLR-Backpacks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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I typically travel with a laptop and camera, but usually with a bag for
each: a backpack for the laptop and a lowepro top loader for the camera.
I'd really prefer a single backpack for both a 17" macbook and a DSLR
with a larger 24-70mm or 70-200mm lens attached, as well as perhaps a few
spare lenses and accessories. I've seen options from Case Logic (the
SLRC-206), Kata (the DR-467), the Streetwalker Hard Drive, and LowePro
(the CompuDay Photo 250, the CompuPrimus AW), but I'm not seeing a clear
winner. I'm guessing a few of you have opinions on this subject, so share
them so I don't buy a piece of garbage.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1445237/Ask-Slashdot-Laptop--DSLR-Backpacks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel?
| from the the-creams-do-nothing dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @09:19 (Intel)
| with 219 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1311205/Sandy-Bridge-E-CPUs-Too-Hot-For-Intel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "Intel's next consumer CPUs ��� the Sandy Bridge-E ��� will
ship without a heatsink and fan. These new chips, which will feature up
to 15MB of L3 cache and integrated four-channel DDR3 and 32x PCI 3.0
controllers will run very hot ��� potentially up to 180W TDP. [1]Is Intel
unable to cool these extreme chips, or is there another reason for the
shift? Curiously, Intel will still offer 'sold separately' own-brand
cooling solutions for the new chips ��� so is this merely Intel trying to
cut costs for enthusiasts who don't need a stock cooler ��� or is this the
beginnings of Intel branching out into the cooling business?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1311205/Sandy-Bridge-E-CPUs-Too-Hot-For-Intel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrsebatmrsebdotcom/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/92760-sandy-bridge-e-cpus-too-hot-for-intel
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| Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case
| from the blame-the-metric-system dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @15:19 (The Courts)
| with 214 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1758224/Flawed-Evidence-In-EU-Apple-vs-Samsung-Case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Dutch site webwereld.nl has [0]found
incorrect evidence submitted by Apple (Google translation of [1]Dutch
original) in the EU design-right case against Samsung. In the ex-parte
case, a German judge recently [2]issued a temporary injunction against
the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the whole EU except the Netherlands.
The [3]faulty evidence is a side-by-side picture of an iPad 2 and the
Galaxy Tab. The Tab is scaled to fit the iPad2, and the aspect ratio is
changed from 1.46 to 1.36, which more closely matches the iPad 2 aspect
ratio of 1.3, according to webwereld.nl."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1758224/Flawed-Evidence-In-EU-Apple-vs-Samsung-Case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwebwereld.nl%2Fnieuws%2F107599%2Fapple-levert-onjuist-bewijs-in-zaak-tegen-samsung.html
1. http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107599/apple-levert-onjuist-bewijs-in-zaak-tegen-samsung.html
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/09/1832254/Sale-of-Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Blocked-in-the-EU
3. http://www.pcworld.com/article/238047/apple_offers_flawed_evidence_in_lawsuit_against_samsung.html
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| Pakistan Lets China View US Stealth Technology
| from the probably-made-there-anyway dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @17:24 (The Military)
| with 202 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/2057255/Pakistan-Lets-China-View-US-Stealth-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Oswald McWeany writes "Tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan have moved
up a notch in light of news that [0]Pakistan allowed China to examine the
downed stealth helicopter used in the [1]operation to kill Osama bin
Laden. Pakistan also [2]provided Chinese intelligence with samples of the
'stealth skin.' 'Pakistan enjoys a close relationship with China, which
is a major investor in telecommunications, ports and infrastructure in
the country.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/2057255/Pakistan-Lets-China-View-US-Stealth-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/world/asia/15copter.html
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/06/1524200/Crashed-Helicopter-Sparks-Concern-Over-Stealth-Secrets
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14527170
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| Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen
| from the none-more-black dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 15, @05:04 (Space)
| with 201 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0257205/Jupiter-Sized-Alien-Planet-Is-Darkest-Ever-Barely-Seen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thebchuckster writes "The [0]darkest alien world ever spotted by
astronomers has been discovered in the outskirts of our galaxy. 'It's
darker than the blackest lump of coal, than dark acrylic paint you might
paint with. It's bizarre how this huge planet became so absorbent of all
the light that hits it,' David Kipping, an astronomer at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0257205/Jupiter-Sized-Alien-Planet-Is-Darkest-Ever-Barely-Seen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/197025/20110812/darkest-alien-planet-seen.htm
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| The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds
| from the stop-dropping-my-packets dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @10:10 (Networking)
| with 201 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/146236/The-FCC-Says-ISPs-Arent-Hitting-Advertised-Speeds?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "The Federal Communications Commission has released the
[1]results of a year-long scientific study it conducted with regard to
the upload and download speeds of thirteen American Internet service
providers. Most of the ISPs hit 90 percent of their advertised upload
speeds. Of the 13 providers tested, only four (or less than a third)
averaged at or even above their advertised download speeds (Charter,
Comcast, Cox, and Verizon Fiber). The tests were performed by a private
firm that has run similar tests in the U.K. It measured performance at
6,800 'representative homes' nationally in March."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/146236/The-FCC-Says-ISPs-Arent-Hitting-Advertised-Speeds?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Most-ISPs-Dont-Inflate-Their-Speeds-Too-Much-FCC/
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| Music Copyright War Looming
| from the your-uppance-will-come dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @16:00 (Music)
| with 193 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1913246/Music-Copyright-War-Looming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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quarterbuck writes with this excerpt from the NY Times: "When copyright
law was revised in the mid-1970s, musicians, like creators of other works
of art, were granted 'termination rights,' which [0]allow them to regain
control of their work after 35 years, so long as they apply at least two
years in advance. Recordings from 1978 are the first to fall under the
purview of the law, but in a matter of months, hits from 1979, like 'The
Long Run' by the Eagles and 'Bad Girls' by Donna Summer, will be in the
same situation. ... 'We believe the termination right doesn���t apply to
most sound recordings,' said Steven Marks, general counsel for the
Recording Industry Association of America, a lobbying group in Washington
that represents the interests of record labels. As the record companies
see it, the master recordings belong to them in perpetuity, rather than
to the artists who wrote and recorded the songs, because, the labels
argue, the records are 'works for hire,' compilations created not by
independent performers but by musicians who are, in essence, their
employees."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1913246/Music-Copyright-War-Looming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Drug Companies Lose Special Protection On Facebook
| from the now-available-in-rectal-suppositories dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 15, @08:12 (Businesses)
| with 169 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0411239/Drug-Companies-Lose-Special-Protection-On-Facebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Christian Torres writes that Facebook and the
pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years
and many drug companies didn't join the site until Facebook gave them a
privilege that others do not have ��� blocking the public's ability to
openly comment on a page Wall. But that's about to change when, starting
Monday, [1]most drug company pages will have to have open Walls. 'We
think these policy changes support consistency for the Facebook Pages
product and encourage an authentic dialogue between people and businesses
on Facebook,' wrote Facebook in an email. AstraZeneca, which sells the
antidepressant Seroquel, already shut down a page devoted to depression,
Johnson & Johnson says it will close four of its pages, and other
companies say they will monitor their pages more closely once the changes
take effect. The industry is concerned that [2]users might write about
bad side effects, promote off-label use or make inappropriate statements
about a product, and that the comments could raise concerns from
government regulators."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0411239/Drug-Companies-Lose-Special-Protection-On-Facebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/pharmaceutical-companies-lose-protections-on-facebook-decide-to-close-pages/2011/07/22/gIQATQGFBJ_story.html
2. http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/facebook-no-more-no-comment-pharma/2011-05-23
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| How Linux Mastered Wall Street
| from the penguins-in-charge dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @19:27 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 153 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/2245224/How-Linux-Mastered-Wall-Street?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Linux has [1]become a dominant player in finance
thanks to its ability to pass messages very quickly, said Linux kernel
contributor Christoph Lameter. 'The trading shops saw that the
lowest-latency solutions would only be possible with Linux,' Lameter
said. 'The older Unixes couldn't move as fast as Linux did.' One key
attribute was the TCP/IP stack, the configuration of which determines how
fast a message can be passed between two systems. Linux also offers
financial firms the ability to modify the source code to further speed
performance. 'It depends on how daring the exchange is,' he said, noting
that NASDAQ uses a modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
Lameter will discuss how Linux became widely adopted by financial
exchanges at the LinuxCon conference in Vancouver this week."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/2245224/How-Linux-Mastered-Wall-Street?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street
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| China Cracks Down On Fake Apple Stores
| from the love-apple-but-a-tomato dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 14, @22:50 (China)
| with 144 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0152200/China-Cracks-Down-On-Fake-Apple-Stores?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "The Chinese city of Kunming has [1]stopped 22 fake
Apple stores from illegally using the company's iconic trademarks after
Apple lodged a complaint with authorities. Kunming authorities found 20
unauthorized Apple resellers. Currently, 11 of those resellers are being
investigated. Two other stores were discovered for related violations.
Slashdot first discussed [2]the mushrooming of fake Apple Stores in July."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0152200/China-Cracks-Down-On-Fake-Apple-Stores?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/397084/china_stops_fake_apple_stores_from_using_trademarks/
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/175220/Fake-Apple-Stores-Mushrooming-In-China
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| Does Android Violate the GPL? Not So Fast
| from the sanity-check dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @16:41 (Android)
| with 140 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1959226/Does-Android-Violate-the-GPL-Not-So-Fast?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Patent gadfly Florian Mueller's latest post has
made a fairly bold claim: that [1]virtually all Android licensees are
violating the GPL because of their failure to redistribute the code, and
have thus lost their rights to redistribute Android. Mueller here is
mostly promoting ideas put across by patent lawyer Edward J. Naughton.
But [2]others in the community are skeptical of the claims. Software
Freedom Conservancy head Bradley Kuhn says he's never heard from
Naughton. 'Don't you think if he was really worried about getting a GPL
or LGPL violation resolved, he'd contact the guy in the world most known
for doing GPL enforcement and see if I could help?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1959226/Does-Android-Violate-the-GPL-Not-So-Fast?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/most-android-vendors-lost-their-linux.html
2. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/193751/android-foes-still-beating-gpl-non-compliance-drum
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| Star Wars Coins Issued By Pacific Island Nation
| from the judge-this-coin-by-its-size-would-you? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 15, @11:26 (Star Wars Prequels)
| with 115 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1446217/Star-Wars-Coins-Issued-By-Pacific-Island-Nation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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19061969 wrote in with a link about how the Pacific Island of Niue is
issuing [0]a set of commemorative Star Wars coins. While the $2 coins can
be used as legal tender on the island, the government hopes they'll be
bought by collectors and help increase tourism to the tiny nation. From
the article: "The coins, which will show a [1]Star Wars character on one
side and the Queen of England on the other, will be worth NZ$2, but made
of NZ$117.25 worth of silver, meaning that if you're looking for
practical tender, these aren't the coins you're looking for. 'You
wouldn't want to go and spend them because they're only worth $2, but the
value is much more than that,' Chris Kirkness of the New Zealand Mint
told the Australian Associated Press."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1446217/Star-Wars-Coins-Issued-By-Pacific-Island-Nation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/12/niue_island_star_wars_coins/
1. http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/08/11/star-wars-next-sequel-pacific-island-coins/
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| <em>EVE Online</em> Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency
| from the almost-enough-for-a-monocle dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @16:58 (Crime)
| with 114 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1951230/EVE-Online-Ponzi-Scheme-Nets-50k-Worth-of-In-Game-Currency?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Calidreth writes "EVE Online is famous for its stories of theft,
underhanded dealings, criminal empires and general unscrupulous play. For
EVE players, this is generally an accepted part of the game and part of
the risk players run. The type of scheme might be old, but [0]the profits
were big in the latest EVE Online scam, which has broken records and is
now being called [1]the biggest scam in the game's history."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1951230/EVE-Online-Ponzi-Scheme-Nets-50k-Worth-of-In-Game-Currency?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gamergaia.com/pc/1724-eve-online-space-heist-one-trillion-isk.html
1. http://www.phaserinc.com/index.html
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| Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan
| from the watch-how-you-play dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 15, @16:19 (Security)
| with 109 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1523245/Essex-Police-Arrest-Man-Over-Blackberry-Water-Fight-Plan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Under the banner headline 'Police reassure
residents they are working to keep county safe,' Essex police proudly
proclaimed that they arrested a 20-year-old man from Colchester who
'allegedly [0]sent messages from a Blackberry encouraging people to join
in a water fight.' Having also made a number of [1]arrests of people
sitting at home on Facebook, Acting Assistant Chief Constable Mason
wrote: 'Police will continue to monitor social networking sites for
unlawful activity.'" That's some good police work there, Lou.
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1523245/Essex-Police-Arrest-Man-Over-Blackberry-Water-Fight-Plan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/15/essex-water-fight-blackberry-messenger
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/11/1937221/UK-Police-Arrest-12-Over-Facebook-Use-Inciting-Riots
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| Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post
| from the gotta-be-gentle-with-that-thing dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 15, @01:55 (Censorship)
| with 101 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/0156222/Egyptian-Charged-For-Threatening-Facebook-Post?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Egyptian Military Prosecution has charged
26-year-old activist and blogger Asmaa Mahfouz for [0]allegedly defaming
the country's ruling generals and calling for armed operations against
the military and the judiciary. Mahfouz, a prominent activist, was
accused of using Facebook to call for the assassinations of Supreme
Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) members and certain judges."
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| WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud
| from the its-different-cuz-its-cloudy dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @12:33 (Security)
| with 94 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1554241/WPAWPA2-Cracking-With-CPUs-GPUs-and-the-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wintertargeter writes "Yeah, it's another article on security, but this
time we finally get a complete picture. Tom's Hardware looks at
[0]WPA/WPA2 brute-force cracking with CPUs, GPUs, and Amazon's Nvidia
Tesla-based EC2 cloud servers. Verdict? WPA/WPA2 is pretty damn secure.
Now to wait for a side-channel attack. Sigh...."
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Links:
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wireless-security-hack,2981.html
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| Fluidinfo, Wikipedia For Databases
| from the all-your-base-are-belong-to-us dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @13:16 (Databases)
| with 71 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1629207/Fluidinfo-Wikipedia-For-Databases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Slags writes "The idea behind Fluidinfo is that read-only information is
just not as useful on the Web as openly writable information. Metadata is
used routinely in the real world from name tags to post-it notes but it
is much harder to apply metadata to information on the Internet. [0]That
is where Fluidinfo comes along. When information needs to be stored about
an object the Fluidinfo database is queried. If the object exists in
Fluidinfo, the information is appended to the object. If the object does
not exist then it will be created and stored."
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Links:
0. http://www.fluidinfo.com/about/
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| Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found
| from the more-efficient-than-the-coal-burning-shrimp dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @14:58 (Power)
| with 67 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/187217/Mussels-With-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cells-Found?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]greenrainbow writes "According to scientists, there are mussels at the
bottom of the ocean that are [1]efficiently converting hydrogen into
energy in their very own, nature-made hydrogen fuel cells ([2]abstract).
The mussels were found near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and
have onboard symbiotic bacteria that convert hydrogen into energy. With
this discovery, researchers might be able to clone the hydrogen eating
bacteria to create all-natural hydrogen fuel cells to power things other
than sea life."
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Links:
0. http://thegreenbandaid.com/
1. http://www.mpg.de/4390896/hydrogen_symbionts
2. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7359/full/nature10325.html
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| NASA Opens New Office For Space Missions
| from the directorate-of-hot-air-balloons dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @18:47 (NASA)
| with 65 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/2153239/NASA-Opens-New-Office-For-Space-Missions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "NASA has been tasked with landing astronauts
on a space rock by 2025, and on the Red Planet by the mid 2030s. To reach
those goals, the United States must develop a new heavy-lift rocket
capable of traveling that far, and a capsule to bring people safely there
and back again. The new Human Exploration and Operations Mission
Directorate will be [0]responsible for overseeing all this and more.
'America is opening a bold new chapter in human space exploration,' NASA
Administrator [1]Charles Bolden said in a statement. 'By combining the
resources of Space Operations and Exploration Systems, and creating the
Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, we are recommitting
ourselves to American leadership in space for years to come.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.space.com/12621-nasa-human-spaceflight-exploration-office.html
1. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/aug/HQ_11-264_HEO.html
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| US and UK Zombies Demand Top Dollar
| from the prefer-domestic-spam dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 15, @11:01 (Security)
| with 60 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1442241/US-and-UK-Zombies-Demand-Top-Dollar?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "Denizens of the malware underworld who sell access
to compromised computers do so at [1]varying rates depending on where the
machines are located, researchers told the Usenix Security Symposium this
week. The researchers followed what they called the pay-per-install (PPI)
industry, which obtains infected machines from which malware can be
launched and sells access to these machines to parties looking for
someplace to execute malicious code. Sometimes the PPI sellers hire
middlemen to supply the compromised machines, and the PPI dealer retails
them."
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Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/081511-usenix-ppi.html?hpg1=bn
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| Book Review: Getting Started With Audacity 1.3
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 15, @14:39 (Book Reviews)
| with 46 comments
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1342248/Book-Review-Getting-Started-With-Audacity-13?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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MassDosage writes "Getting Started with Audacity 1.3 by Bethany Hiitola
covers the basics of using the [0]Audacity software package for recording
and editing audio. This book is written in a tutorial style and stays
true to its title by covering Audacity from a newcomer's perspective with
lots of diagrams and detailed explanations of how to install and setup
Audacity and use its most essential features. This is all very much aimed
at people who are new to audio software and are looking for a simple way
to get started and be guided through creating and editing an audio
recording. On the whole it achieves this but is occasionally let down by
overly simplistic content and shoddy editing." Read below for the rest of
Mass Dosage's review.
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Links:
0. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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| SpyEye Trojan Source Code Leaked
| from the without-the-consent-of-major-league-baseball dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, @18:05 (Security)
| with 36 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/2125203/SpyEye-Trojan-Source-Code-Leaked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "The SpyEye malware kit has long been both the bane of
unsuspecting victims and a boon for cyber-criminals. Now, according to
security researchers, [0]the situation may have taken a turn for the
worse. The SpyEye Builder patch source code for release 1.3.45 was leaked
by the Reverse Engineers Dream Crew (RED Crew) recently after a crew
member was able to locate a copy of SpyEye Builder 1.3.45 and create a
tutorial that enables a reader with SpyEye Builder to crack the hardware
identification."
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Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/spyeye-source-code-leaked
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