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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Value of Bitcoin "Crashes"
* Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated
* Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age
* Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS
* Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released
* How Google's Autonomous Vehicles Work
* Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents
* Starships In a Century?
* Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2
* Will Apple Let Siri and Apps Connect?
* Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books
* Seeing Through Walls
* New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk
* Ballmer: We're Lucky Microsoft Didn't Buy Yahoo
* Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s
* Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation
* iPhone Keylogger Can Snoop On Desktop Typing
* Ask Slashdot: Which OS For an Embedded Display Unit?
* Coding Games In 48 Hours
* Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared
* Canadian Supreme Court Rules Linking Is Not Defamation
* EU Court Rules Against Stem Cell Patents For Research
* Intel Z68 Motherboard Round-Up
* PlayStation Vita Gets NA, EU Launch Date
* NASA To Test New Atomic Clock
* German Surveillance Trojan Spies On Fifteen Apps
* Lego NXT Bot Beats Rubik's Cube Record
* Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight
* NAND Gate Built From Bacteria
* GLORIA To Give Amateur Astronomers Access To Robotic Telescopes
* Youngest Exoplanet Discovered
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| Value of Bitcoin "Crashes"
| from the smells-like-real-currency dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @09:36 (Bitcoin)
| with 620 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/136259/value-of-bitcoin-crashes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]souravzzz writes with an update on the state of Bitcoin. Quoting the
Ars Technica article: "Bitcoin, the world's first peer-to-peer digital
currency, fell below $3 on Monday. That represents a [1]90 percent fall
since the currency hit its peak in early June." That's still three times
its value in April 2011.
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/136259/value-of-bitcoin-crashes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://souravchakraborty.co.nr/
1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/bitcoin-implodes-down-more-than-90-percent-from-june-peak.ars
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| Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated
| from the my-kid-is-better-than-your-kid dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @17:16 (Android)
| with 451 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2028219/ballmer-slams-android-as-cheap-and-overcomplicated?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "On the day [1]Android Ice Cream Sandwich was
released, Steve Ballmer livened up the Web 2.0 conference by [2]lobbing
potshots at Google's mobile OS, calling it the choice of 'cheap' phones
and claiming 'the biggest advantage we have over Android is that you
don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2028219/ballmer-slams-android-as-cheap-and-overcomplicated?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1222218/android-ice-cream-sandwich-sdk-released
2. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/214897/ballmer-slams-android-cheap-doomed-android-lenghtens-its-lead-two-big-steps
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| Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age
| from the getting-long-in-the-tooth dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @15:26 (Censorship)
| with 378 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1746248/actress-sues-imdb-for-revealing-her-age?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Alain Williams writes "An actress has sued Amazon.com for more than
$1m (��639,000) after her age was posted on its Internet Movie Database.
She says [1]revealing her age on the site will lose her acting
opportunities. From the article: 'The lawsuit states: "If one is
perceived to be 'over-the-hill,' i.e., approaching 40, it is nearly
impossible for an up-and-coming actress, such as the plaintiff, to get
work as she is thought to have less of an 'upside,' therefore, casting
directors, producers, directors, agents-manager, etc. do not give her the
same opportunities, regardless of her appearance or talent."' So is her
career dependent on lies?"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1746248/actress-sues-imdb-for-revealing-her-age?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.phcomp.co.uk/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15360864
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| Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS
| from the zombie-galileo-knows-how-to-get-to-grandma's-house dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @03:33 (EU)
| with 363 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0427232/galileo-to-be-europes-answer-to-us-gps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "Two [1]Galileo satellites that will signify the
start of the European Union's answer to the American Global Positioning
System [2]will be launched into orbit on Thursday aboard a Russian Soyuz
rocket. It's using Soyuz because it is cheaper than the French Ariane ���
and [3]the satellite system is supposed to free Europe from dependence on
a US-controlled positioning system."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)
2. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/galileo-navigation-satellites-gear-up-for-thursday-lift-off-42708
3. http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?type=I&mission=Galileo
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| Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released
| from the symbian-did-it-ten-years-ago dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @08:55 (Android)
| with 287 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1222218/android-ice-cream-sandwich-sdk-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Hitting the front page for the first time, ttong writes "The highly
anticipated [0]Android 4.0 (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich) has been
released and finally brings the features of 3.x [1]Honeycomb to
[2]smaller devices. Some of the highlights include: a revamped UI, a much
faster browser, face unlock, a vastly improved camera app, improved task
switching, streaming voice recognition, Wi-Fi Direct, and Bluetooth
Health Device Profile. ... The [3]API level is 14, download the [4]new
SDK here." calc noted that [5]the source code has yet to be released
(Google account required) except to legally required GPL components.
Supposedly progress is being made toward getting AOSP [6]back online:
"We're working on it and we're making good progress, but we're [7]not
ready to announce any additional details yet." How many of the new
features will remain proprietary and tied to Google services remains to
be seen.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1222218/android-ice-cream-sandwich-sdk-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html
1. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html
2. http://asia.cnet.com/crave/nexus-s-getting-update-to-android-40-62211575.htm
3. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
4. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
5. http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_thread/thread/ade6fcd847fbb3fb
6. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/kernelorg-compromised
7. http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/896d57b1789a4b17
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| How Google's Autonomous Vehicles Work
| from the up-on-the-sidewalk-thump-thump-thump dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @05:17 (Transportation)
| with 264 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0420254/how-googles-autonomous-vehicles-work?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "IEEE reports that Google's autonomous cars
have logged more than 190,000 miles driving in all kinds of traffic, and
the company is also testing a fleet of self-driving golf carts on its
campus. In a recent talk, Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson of Google
[0]gave details of the project and showed videos of the robot cars
driving themselves and even doing some stunts. The goal is that the
technology will help reduce congestion, fuel waste, and accidents."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0420254/how-googles-autonomous-vehicles-work?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Galaxy Nexus Designed To Avoid Infringing Apple Patents
| from the samsung-looks-away-guiltily dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @12:24 (Android)
| with 207 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1610249/galaxy-nexus-designed-to-avoid-infringing-apple-patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with an except from an article on Geek.com
about the Galaxy Nexus: "Samsung has been on the receiving end of many an
Apple lawsuit in recent months, and in some cases a ban on selling its
products. The Galaxy Nexus smartphone, which was unveiled last night,
could also come under close scrutiny in the courts once Apple takes a
look at it. But unlike previous Samsung Android devices, the chances of
that happening are [0]apparently going to be diminished or even
non-existent. Shin Jong-kyun, the president of Samsung's mobile division,
admitted yesterday that the Galaxy Nexus has been [1]developed taking
into account Apple's patents."
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Links:
0. http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/samsung-galaxy-nexus-does-not-infringe-apple-patents-20111019/
1. http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2011/10/19/26/0501000000AEN20111019000200320F.HTML
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| Starships In a Century?
| from the away-to-the-stars dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @15:47 (Space)
| with 196 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/198210/starships-in-a-century?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In the New York Times, Kenneth Chang writes
about [0]the 100-year starship conference, where 'an eclectic mix of
engineers, scientists, science fiction fans, students and dreamers'
discussed ideas for how to travel across interstellar space, including
'how to organize and finance a century-long project; whether civilization
would survive, because an engine to propel a starship could also be used
for a weapon to obliterate the planet; and whether people need to go
along for the trip.' Some of the proposals were pretty far out, such as
Joseph Breeden's concept for an engine-less starship (propelled using a
gravity slingshot on a near-sun trajectory). Others were a little less
forward thinking, although still futuristic by current standards of space
exploration: nuclear rockets, fusion, lightsails, and so forth. So, can
we go to the stars? Wait a hundred years, and we'll see!"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/science/space/18starship.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
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| Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2
| from the and-don't-let-them-drive dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 18, @22:14 (Medicine)
| with 193 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/003245/doctors-recommend-against-tv-for-kids-under-2?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued
a recommendation to parents that [0]kids under the age of two should be
limited in their time watching television and using computers. They say
there's 'no such thing' as educational programming for kids that young,
and that [1]they benefit much more from real human interaction (PDF).
Psychologist Georgene Troseth said, 'We know that some learning can take
place from media, but it's a lot lower, and it takes a lot longer.' The
article continues: 'Unlike school-age children, infants and toddlers
"just have no idea what's going on" no matter how well done a video is,
Dr. Troseth said. The new report strongly warns parents against putting a
TV in a very young child's room and advises them to be mindful of how
much their own use of media is distracting from playtime. In some surveys
between 40 and 60 percent of households report having a TV on for much of
the day ��� which distracts both children and adults, research suggests.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html
1. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/10/12/peds.2011-1753.full.pdf
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| Will Apple Let Siri and Apps Connect?
| from the zombie-newton-seeks-agency dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @13:44 (AI)
| with 175 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1620246/will-apple-let-siri-and-apps-connect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "Developers want to know when their apps will be
able to connect to Siri, the virtual assistant built into the new iPhone
4S. Technology Review reports that providing APIs for Siri would not only
make it possible to control apps with casual voice commands, but could
also [1]make Siri smarter if it is connected with other AI services able
to do things like make very specific restaurant recommendations based on
a person's past actions."
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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1620246/will-apple-let-siri-and-apps-connect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38915/?a=f
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| Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books
| from the choose-your-own-novel dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @16:51 (Books)
| with 169 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2022242/flowchart-guides-readers-through-the-100-best-sf-books?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "T. N. Tobias writes that over the summer,
over [1]60,000 people voted at NPR to select the[2] top 100 science
fiction and fantasy books of all time. The result? A list of 100 books
with a wide range of styles, little context, and absolutely no pithy
commentary to help readers actually choose something to read from it. Now
SF Signal has come to the rescue with a [3]3800 x 2300 flowchart with
over 325 decision points to help you find the perfect SF or Fantasy book
to meet your tastes. Don't like to scroll? There's an [4]interactive
version that let's you answer a series of questions to find the perfect
SF book."
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/09/flowchart-for-navigating-nprs-top-100-sff-books/
2. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
3. http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg
4. http://www.sfsignal.com/interactive/npr100.htm
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| Seeing Through Walls
| from the life-imitates-quake dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @02:16 (Hardware)
| with 161 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0333215/seeing-through-walls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Lab have
developed new radar technology that provides [0]real-time video of what's
going on behind solid walls. 'The researchers��� device is an unassuming
array of antenna arranged into two rows ��� eight receiving elements on
top, 13 transmitting ones below ��� and some computing equipment, all
mounted onto a movable cart. But it has powerful implications for
military operations, especially "urban combat situations," says Gregory
Charvat, technical staff at Lincoln Lab and the leader of the project.'
... each time the waves hit the wall, the concrete blocks more than 99
percent of them from passing through. And that���s only half the battle:
Once the waves bounce off any targets, they must pass back through the
wall to reach the radar���s receivers ��� and again, 99 percent don���t make
it. By the time it hits the receivers, the signal is reduced to about
0.0025 percent of its original strength. But according to Charvat, signal
loss from the wall is not even the main challenge. "[Signal] amplifiers
are cheap," he says. What has been difficult for through-wall radar
systems is [1]achieving the speed, resolution and range necessary to be
useful in real time (PDF).'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0333215/seeing-through-walls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ll-seeing-through-walls-1018.html
1. http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/space/Real-time%20Through-wall%20Imaging.pdf
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| New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk
| from the hard-work-paying-off dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @08:13 (Biotech)
| with 140 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0337204/new-vaccine-halves-malaria-risk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "According to a report in Reuters, scientists
are celebrating the end of [0]a clinical trial which found [1]a malaria
vaccine reduces infection risk by half in children. From the article:
'While scientists say it is no "silver bullet" and will not end the
mosquito-borne infection on its own, it is being hailed as a crucial
weapon in the fight against malaria and one that could [2]speed the path
to eventual worldwide eradication. Malaria is caused by a parasite
carried in the saliva of mosquitoes. It kills more than 780,000 people
per year, most of them babies or very young children in Africa. Cohen's
vaccine goes to work at the point when the parasite enters the human
bloodstream after a mosquito bite. By stimulating an immune response, it
can prevent the parasite from maturing and multiplying in the liver. ...
Cohen said that if all goes to plan, RTS,S could be licensed and rolled
out by 2015.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1102287#t=article
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/18/us-malaria-vaccine-scientist-idUSTRE79H59220111018
2. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/19/us-malaria-gates-eradication-idUSTRE79I06620111019
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| Ballmer: We're Lucky Microsoft Didn't Buy Yahoo
| from the if-only-they-had dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @10:17 (Microsoft)
| with 139 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1348225/ballmer-were-lucky-microsoft-didnt-buy-yahoo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes (quoting Networkworld): "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
feels intensely fortunate that his company's $44 billion bid for Yahoo
back in 2008 never materialized. 'Sometimes you're lucky,' he said with a
smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a question from conference
co-chair John Battelle. Careful not to offend his search market partner,
Ballmer put his comment in context, saying that any CEO would feel
[0]grateful for not making a major acquisition in the months prior to the
global financial collapse that started in the second half of 2008."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101911-ballmer-feels-lucky-microsoft-didnt-252133.html
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| Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s
| from the top-grease-gun dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @17:37 (The Military)
| with 131 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/211204/fat-replaces-oil-in-f-16s?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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It looks like the military has finally figured out a way to combine
Americans' love of french fries with their love of blowing stuff up. The
Air Force says all of its 40-plus aircraft models will be able to [0]burn
biofuels by 2013, three years ahead of schedule. From the article: "The
Army wants 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. The
Navy and Marines aim to shift half their energy use from oil, gas and
coal by 2020. 'Reliance on fossil fuels is simply too much of a
vulnerability for a military organization to have,' U.S. Navy Secretary
Raymond Mabus said in an interview. 'We���ve been certifying aircraft on
biofuels. We���re doing solar and wind, geothermal, hydrothermal, wave,
things like that on our bases.'���
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| Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation
| from the floating-around dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @15:05 (Transportation)
| with 120 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1738252/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-levitation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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UnknownSoldier writes "Wired reports that researchers at Tel Aviv
University have discovered you can [0]'lock' a magnetic field into place
with a superconductor. They have a very cool demonstration of a frozen
puck and some of the neat things you can do with it while its orientation
remains locked but its location is movable. Might we someday see high
speed trains that will be 'impossible' to tip over, or a new generation
of batteries with this technology?"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1738252/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-levitation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/quantum-levitation/
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| iPhone Keylogger Can Snoop On Desktop Typing
| from the technology-is-awesome-and-creepy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 18, @21:12 (Cellphones)
| with 100 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/2346222/iphone-keylogger-can-snoop-on-desktop-typing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Georgia Tech demonstrate that
a mobile phone located near a keyboard can [0]use its accelerometers to
recover text typed by a target. 'The technique works through probability
and by detecting pairs of keystrokes, rather than individual keys (which
still is too difficult to accomplish reliably, Traynor said). It models
���keyboard events��� in pairs, then determines whether the pair of keys
pressed is on the left versus right side of the keyboard, and whether
they are close together or far apart. After the system has determined
these characteristics for each pair of keys depressed, it compares the
results against a preloaded dictionary, each word of which has been
broken down along similar measurements (i.e., are the letters left/right,
near/far on a standard QWERTY keyboard).'"
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Links:
0. http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=71506
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| Ask Slashdot: Which OS For an Embedded Display Unit?
| from the a-little-help-please dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @18:52 (Android)
| with 95 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2119235/ask-slashdot-which-os-for-an-embedded-display-unit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter spouse writes "We are a small Software
Design team of 8 developers, working with home brewed Linux to make our
ARM7, ARM9 and Intel based embedded products work. Now we want to develop
our first 7 inch touch screen tablet-like device serving as control panel
for a set of our 'black box' devices. We see Android as a possible choice
due to the tablet like character of our applications. We will need App
management and the GUI elements. We do not need all the apps out there in
the store, we do not need any telephone/sms/email/webbrowser support.
Will we end with modifying Android just as much as our own Linux derivate
to make things work? Does it make sense to build the hardware of the
touch panel based on google reference design to minimize the effort? Are
there any experiences out there? Who has done that before and what are
the experiences of that? How hard is it to make a product really work
with Android? What is the right choice here? Shall we try?"
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| Coding Games In 48 Hours
| from the starring-nick-nolte-and-eddie-murphy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @06:30 (Programming)
| with 93 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0439232/coding-games-in-48-hours?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The Opposable Thumbs blog covers a 48-hour-long "game jam" at the
Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Twenty teams of game
developers ��� 16 indie and four professional ��� compete over a weekend to
build a functional game based on a few deliberately vague keywords. This
article documents [0]the brainstorming sessions and the early prototyping
work. Quoting: "The teams become less talkative as midnight draws near
and the individual team members all settle down into their jobs.
Everybody seems determined to not let sleep take over just yet. I take a
tour of some of the other teams. Badgers are being animated, leg
movements first with static bodies above them. Other teams have no art
yet and just use colored rectangles as they get the mechanics down.
Others are still sketching beautiful concept art and coding level
editors.'To move around the room is to hear random snippets of creativity
and math. 'If we move the z-axis, too, we can do this thing' or 'what if
we procedurally generated that object.' In this one spot, sixteen games
are coming into being that weren't even concepts eight hours ago."
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| Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared
| from the line-them-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @19:37 (Data Storage)
| with 90 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2253232/entry-level-nas-storage-servers-compared?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Desmond Fuller provides an [1]in-depth
comparison of five entry-level NAS storage servers, including cabinets
from Iomega, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, and Thecus. 'With so many use cases
and potential buyers, the vendors too often try to be everything to
everyone. The result is a class of products that suffers from an identity
crisis ��� so-called business storage solutions that are overloaded with
consumer features and missing the ease and simplicity that business users
require,' Fuller writes. 'Filled with 10TB or 12TB of raw storage, my
test systems ranged in price from $1,699 to $3,799. Despite that gap,
they all had a great deal in common, from core storage services to
performance. However, I found the richest sets of business features ���
straightforward setup, easy remote access, plentiful backup options ��� at
the higher end of the scale.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/nas-shoot-out-5-storage-servers-battle-business-176531
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| Canadian Supreme Court Rules Linking Is Not Defamation
| from the keep-those-anchors-polite dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @11:42 (Canada)
| with 88 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/150241/canadian-supreme-court-rules-linking-is-not-defamation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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omega6, joining the legions of accepted submitters, writes "The
[0]Supreme Court of Canada ruled that posting links is [1]not the same as
posting the actual content, but more similar to a footnote. 'The top
court ruled against former Green party campaign manager Wayne Crookes,
who argued that [2]posting links to sites with defamatory statements was
the same as publishing the defamatory material.'"
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Links:
0. http://scc.lexum.org/en/2011/2011scc47/2011scc47.html
1. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6069/125/
2. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/web-links-dont-constitute-defamation-supreme-court-rules/article2206256/
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| EU Court Rules Against Stem Cell Patents For Research
| from the i-hereby-patent-your-soul dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @00:13 (Patents)
| with 81 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0158237/eu-court-rules-against-stem-cell-patents-for-research?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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LibRT writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "Europe's highest court has
ruled that [0]stem cells from human embryos cannot be patented, in a case
that could have major implications for medicine. ... The European Court
of Justice said in a statement: 'The use of human embryos for therapeutic
or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are
useful to it is patentable. But their use for purposes of scientific
research is not patentable.' It added: 'A process which involves removal
of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst [early embryo]
stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15350723
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| Intel Z68 Motherboard Round-Up
| from the compare-and-contrast dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @14:24 (Intel)
| with 69 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1725233/intel-z68-motherboard-round-up?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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AmyVernon writes "Until Intel's next-gen, high-end Sandy Bridge-E
processor is released sometime this quarter, Intel's second generation
Core family of processors and the Z68 Express chipset are Intel's current
premiere desktop platform for the mainstream. This look at several
different motherboard offerings from manufacturers that cover a range of
form factors, feature sets, and price points. [0]Asus, MSI, ASRock,
Gigabyte, eVGA and Zotac are all represented here. In addition to support
for the entire line of 2nd-gen Intel Core chips with Turbo Boost 2.0, the
Z68 chipset supports Intel High Definition Audio, 8 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes
(16 more in the CPU), 6 SATA ports (2 x 6Gbps, 4 x 3Gbps), integrated
Gigabit Ethernet, 14 USB ports, and a smattering of A/v ports including
HDMI and DisplayPort."
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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Z68-Motherboard-Roundup-ASRock-ASUS-EVGA-Gigabyte-MSI-ZOTAC/
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| PlayStation Vita Gets NA, EU Launch Date
| from the new-and-...-well-it's-new dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 19, @01:20 (Portables (Games))
| with 62 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/0415208/playstation-vita-gets-na-eu-launch-date?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sony's upcoming portable gaming console has now gotten a firm launch
date. After arriving in Japan on December 17, the PlayStation Vita will
[0]come to North America and Europe on February 22. "The two versions of
the console ��� one with Wi-Fi only and one with both Wi-Fi and 3G
connectivity ��� will be priced at $249.99 and $299.99, respectively, in
both Canada and the United States. The launch price in Europe will be
���249.99 and ���299.99." Users will be limited to downloading games [1]no
bigger than 20MB over 3G ��� larger games, which may require [2]up to 4GB
of storage space, will need to go over a Wi-Fi connection or be installed
from a memory card. Despite abandoning UMD, Sony reportedly has "plans"
to [3]allow some sort of transfer of PSP games to the Vita, though it
will likely cost money.
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Links:
0. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37742/PS_Vita_Comes_To_America_Europe_February_22.php
1. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6339649/ps-vita-3g-20mb-download-cap-confirmed
2. http://www.1up.com/news/why-didnt-playstation-vita-games-go-digital-only
3. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-11-sony-has-psp-umd-to-vita-plan
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| NASA To Test New Atomic Clock
| from the no-time-like-the-precise-present dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @18:04 (NASA)
| with 60 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2125212/nasa-to-test-new-atomic-clock?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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edesio writes "Many satellites and spacecraft require accurate timing
signals to ensure the proper operation of scientific instruments. In the
case of GPS satellites, accurate timing is essential, otherwise anything
relying on GPS signals to navigate could be misdirected. The third
technology demonstration planned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is
[0]the Deep Space Atomic Clock. The DSAC team plans to develop a small,
low-mass atomic clock based on mercury-ion trap technology and
demonstrate it in space."
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Links:
0. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-nasa-atomic-clock.html
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| German Surveillance Trojan Spies On Fifteen Apps
| from the father-knows-best dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @13:05 (Government)
| with 55 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1639248/german-surveillance-trojan-spies-on-fifteen-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered that
the R2D2 surveillance Trojan, which is [1]used by German law enforcement
to intercept Internet phone calls, is [2]capable of monitoring traffic
from popular browsers and instant messaging applications. 'Amongst the
new things we found in there are two rather interesting ones: Firstly,
this version is not only capable of running on 32 bit systems; it also
includes support for 64 bit versions of Windows,' said Tillmann Werner, a
security researcher with Kaspersky in Germany. 'Secondly, the list of
[3]target processes to monitor is longer than the one mentioned in the
[4]CCC report. The number of applications infected by the various
components is 15 in total.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/11/1322202/german-state-confesses-to-downplays-government-spyware
2. http://www.itworld.com/security/214797/german-federal-trojan-eavesdrops-15-applications-experts-find
3. http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193167/Federal_Trojan_s_got_a_Big_Brother
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/2029221/german-governments-malware-analyzed
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| Lego NXT Bot Beats Rubik's Cube Record
| from the robots-do-it-better dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @12:05 (Robotics)
| with 49 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1538225/lego-nxt-bot-beats-rubiks-cube-record?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kkleiner writes "The current official human record for the Rubik's
cube 3��3 puzzle is just [1]5.66 seconds. Now a [2]robot called
CubeStormer II did it in just 5.35 seconds. CubeStormer II is controlled
by four Lego NXT 'bricks' that communicate via Bluetooth with a Samsung
Galaxy SII smart phone. A special app on the phone takes a picture of the
cube, solves the puzzle virtually, and then relays the solution to the
Lego robot. From click to finish the whole process takes just seconds."
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Links:
0. http://singularityhub.com/
1. http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/regions.php
2. http://singularityhub.com/2011/10/19/lego-robot-beats-human-world-record-for-solving-the-rubiks-cube/
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| Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight
| from the not-to-mention-the-origins-of-skynet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 18, @20:10 (Robotics)
| with 48 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/2341213/winged-robots-hint-at-the-origins-of-flight?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Here's what we know about the evolution of flight:
By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying ��� or
perhaps just gliding ��� dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to
the ancestor of modern birds. What we don't know is what primitive wings
were used for before bird ancestors could fly. A new study ([0]abstract)
provides some [1]fresh data for this debate, not from fossils but from a
winged robot (video included)."
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Links:
0. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-3190/6/4/046008
1. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/winged-robots-hint-at-the-origin.html?ref=hp
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| NAND Gate Built From Bacteria
| from the squishy-computing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @16:29 (Biotech)
| with 46 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/200210/nand-gate-built-from-bacteria?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thodelu writes "Scientists have taken [0]another step towards biological
computing, with the creation of logic gates from gut bacteria and DNA.
While something similar has been done before, the team says its logic
gates behave more like the standard electronic version. They're also
modular, which means that they can be fitted together to make different
types of logic gates, paving the way for more complex biological
processors to be built in the future."
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Links:
0. http://zeenews.india.com/news/technology/biological-computers-come-closer-to-reality_737401.html
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| GLORIA To Give Amateur Astronomers Access To Robotic Telescopes
| from the just-like-youtube dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday October 19, @11:00 (Space)
| with 35 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1438219/gloria-to-give-amateur-astronomers-access-to-robotic-telescopes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Zothecula writes with an excerpt from a Gizmag article: "Amateur
astronomers wanting to observe celestial bodies soon won't be limited to
just their own personal telescopes, or visits to the local public
observatory. Starting next year, the first in a worldwide network of
robotic telescopes will be going online, which users from any location on
the planet will be able to operate for free via the internet. Known as
GLORIA ([0]GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science),
the three-year European project will [1]ultimately include 17 telescopes
on four continents, run by 13 partner groups from Russia, Chile, Ireland,
the United Kingdom, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland and Spain. Not only
will users be able to control the telescopes from their computers, but
they will also have access to the astronomical databases of GLORIA and
other organizations."
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Links:
0. http://venus.datsi.fi.upm.es/gloria/index.php/en/
1. http://www.gizmag.com/gloria-internet-astronomy-project/20196/
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| Youngest Exoplanet Discovered
| from the it's-just-a-baby dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @16:08 (Space)
| with 14 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/1950214/youngest-exoplanet-discovered?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "We know that the planets in our solar system were
born from a dusty disk surrounding the sun billions of years ago;
wouldn't it be amazing if we could see another star system going through
the birthing throes of this protoplanetary phase? Today, a team of
astronomers using the awesome power of the twin 10-meter Keck Telescopes
atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have announced just that. Meet "LkCa 15 b",
[1]the youngest proto(exo)planet ever observed."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/youngest-baby-exoplanet-discovered-111019.html
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