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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program
* The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy
* Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile
* Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops?
* Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans
* Ask The Bad Astronomer
* Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans
* Wikileaks Suspends Publishing Of Cables Due To "Financial Blockade"
* Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off
* Microsoft Now Collects Royalties From Over Half of All Android Devices
* Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up
* Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools
* IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band
* Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU
* Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs
* Is Online Property Real? Lawyer Says Sort-Of
* Public Supports Geo-Engineering
* Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC
* 10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater
* Manufacturing Dreams
* Analysis of Google Dart
* Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution
* Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth
* UK Team Misses Balloon Altitude Record, But Beats a Few Others
* Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor
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| Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program
| from the seems-about-right dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @09:30 (Education)
| with 1585 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1316228/ron-paul-wants-to-end-the-federal-student-loan-program?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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On the heels of [0]declaring his intent to axe a few departments from the
federal government, Ron Paul has revealed more plans should he become
President. The_THOMAS writes "Ron Paul wants to end Federal student loans
stating that the [1]Government involvement artificially inflates the cost
of a college education and that once the government is out of the
situation, students will be able to work their way to a college degree.
What do you think?"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1316228/ron-paul-wants-to-end-the-federal-student-loan-program?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1541224/ron-paul-suggests-axing-5-us-federal-departments-and-budgets
1. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/10/23/paul_wants_to_phase_out_federal_student_loans/
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| The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy
| from the free-markets-for-the-rest-of-us dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @12:10 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 496 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1542240/the-147-corporations-controlling-most-of-the-global-economy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rubycodez writes "Researchers at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute
in Zurich have [0]identified a 'Capitalist Network' [PDF] of
well-connected companies that control most of the global economy. They
further identified the 147 'super-connected' [1]companies that control
forty percent or more of the global financial network. If one believes
the mega-corporations have most governments of the west in their pockets,
does this mean we have a global oligarchy?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1542240/the-147-corporations-controlling-most-of-the-global-economy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
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| Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile
| from the all-that-dessert-makes-you-sluggish dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, @20:27 (Android)
| with 342 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0016241/android-ics-will-require-16gb-ram-to-compile?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ozmanjusri writes "New smartphones may be lightweight, compact
objects, but their OSs are anything but. Ice Cream Sandwich will need
workstations with [1]no less than 16 GB RAM to build the source code,
twice the amount Gingerbread needed. It will take 5 hours to compile on a
dual quad-core 2+GHz workstation, and need 80GB disk space for all AOSP
configs. Android developers are also being [2]warned to be cautious of
undocumented APIs: 'In almost every case, there's only one reason for
leaving APIs undocumented: We're not sure that what we have now is the
best solution, and we think we might have to improve it, and we're not
prepared to make those commitments to testing and preservation. We're not
claiming that they're "Private" or "Secret" ��� How could they be, when
anyone in the world can discover them? We're also not claiming they're
forbidden: If you use them, your code will compile and probably run.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0016241/android-ics-will-require-16gb-ram-to-compile?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:aussie_bob@@@hotmail...com
1. http://tabletroms.com/index.php/2011/10/23/getting-ready-to-build-ics-from-android-source-code-heavy-duty-machines-required/
2. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/10/ics-and-non-public-apis.html
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| Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops?
| from the the-internet-tells-me-this-is-easier-today dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @19:08 (GNU is Not Unix)
| with 333 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/221245/ask-slashdot-gnulinux-laptops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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conner_bw writes "I'm an OS X user looking to switch to a Linux laptop. I
like the Unix/BSD aspect of OS X. Simple things like when I close the lid
the laptop goes to sleep, the sound card works out of the box, long
battery life, minimum cooling fan noise, and a comprehensive but
relatively straightforward backup system and 'AppleCare' package are
important to me. What all-inclusive model of laptop and distro would you
recommend?" He didn't mention it, but I am presuming that working Wifi
should be on that list too.
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/221245/ask-slashdot-gnulinux-laptops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans
| from the more-work-for-the-robots dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @17:02 (Earth)
| with 332 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/207259/earth-officially-home-to-7-billion-humans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter arcite writes "It's official: planet Earth is now home to
over [0]seven billion ugly-bags-of-mostly-water (otherwise known as
humans). We're adding ten thousand new humans every hour, or [1]one
billion every nine years. Head over to 7 Billion Actions (put together by
the UN with the help of SAP) and check out the [2]population map data.
Short of adopting a strict diet of [3]Soylent Green, what viable
solutions will enable us to survive on this increasingly crowded pale
blue dot? What will the role of technology be in supporting this many
people?"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/207259/earth-officially-home-to-7-billion-humans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/23/why-population-growth-costs-the-earth-roger
1. http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Crowded-earth-Bursting-at-the-seams-20111023
2. http://7billionactions.org/data
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_green
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| Ask The Bad Astronomer
| from the but-nothing-dirty-this-time dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @14:15 (Space)
| with 308 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1734252/ask-the-bad-astronomer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Astronomer, author, columnist, and successful populizer of science
[0]Phil Plait, perhaps best known as [1]The Bad Astronomer, is a regular
sight on Slashdot for his unusual ability to find lucid explanations of
esoteric scientific claims and controversies. Phil has graciously agreed
to answer Slashdot readers' questions, so ask him below about space,
science, [2]debunking conspiracy claims, and anything else that makes
sense. [3]Asking more than one question is fine (and encouraged!), but
please separate unrelated questions into separate posts, lest your
questions be moderated down.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1734252/ask-the-bad-astronomer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Plait
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/
2. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/index.html
3. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans
| from the too-good-to-last dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, @23:30 (Wireless Networking)
| with 295 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0130214/sprint-cutting-unlimited-4g-data-plans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "In a notice posted Thursday on the customer support
section of its website, Sprint said it would [1]impose monthly data caps
on plans for all tablets, laptops, netbooks, USB and PC Card modems, and
mobile hotspot devices ��� everything, that is, except smartphones. The
caps will begin with each subscriber's next bill following notification,
the carrier said."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0130214/sprint-cutting-unlimited-4g-data-plans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/networking/215587/sprint-cutting-unlimited-4g-data-plans
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| Wikileaks Suspends Publishing Of Cables Due To "Financial Blockade"
| from the gotta-pay-for-dem-oracle-licenses-somehow dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @10:50 (Politics)
| with 280 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1419239/wikileaks-suspends-publishing-of-cables-due-to-financial-blockade?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]lee1 writes "Wikileaks has had to cease publishing classified files
due to what the organization calls a '[1]blockade by US-based finance
companies' that, according to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has
'destroyed 95% of our revenue.' Assange also opined that 'A handful of US
finance companies [2]cannot be allowed to decide how the whole world
votes with its pocket.' According to Assange the group was taking
'pre-litigation action' against the financial blockade in Iceland,
Denmark, the UK, Brussels, the United States, and Australia. They have
also filed an anti-trust complaint with the European Commission."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1419239/wikileaks-suspends-publishing-of-cables-due-to-financial-blockade?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://lee-phillips.org/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15434493
2. http://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html
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| Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off
| from the two-more-years-of-stagnant-graphics dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @15:58 (PlayStation (Games))
| with 271 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1943254/next-gen-game-consoles-still-years-off?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Gamers who have grown bored with the current
generation of game hardware [1]will have to sit tight a bit longer. Word
on the street has it that the next PlayStation won't be ready until 2014,
and the next Xbox won't appear until Christmas 2013 at the earliest."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1943254/next-gen-game-consoles-still-years-off?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/215893/next-gen-game-consoles-still-few-years-out
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| Microsoft Now Collects Royalties From Over Half of All Android Devices
| from the where-can-i-get-me-some-patents dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @08:48 (Android)
| with 223 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1228232/microsoft-now-collects-royalties-from-over-half-of-all-android-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has [0]inked a deal with Compal
Electronics, which pumps out gadgets that run Android and Chrome OS, for
an undisclosed sum." Microsoft has an [1]explanatory weblog post; with
this deal over half of all Android devices are [2]licensing patents from
Microsoft. Notably refusing to cooperate and instead opting for the court
battle route are [3]Motorola and [4]Barnes and Noble.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1228232/microsoft-now-collects-royalties-from-over-half-of-all-android-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/microsoft_compal_patent_deal/
1. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/10/23/microsoft-s-new-patent-agreement-with-compal-a-new-milestone-for-our-android-licensing-program.aspx
2. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/microsoft-collects-license-fees-on-50-of-android-devices-tells-google-to-wake-up.ars
3. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/01/1936213/microsoft-sues-motorola-over-android-related-patent-infringement
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/28/039255/bn-responds-to-microsofts-android-suit
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| Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up
| from the remember-to-only-accept-domestic-subsidies dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @08:07 (Power)
| with 218 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0022200/solar-panel-trade-war-heats-up?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Reuters reports that Chinese solar companies
could soon find themselves bereft of some of their biggest foreign
markets as Western manufacturers [1]intensify a solar trade war and seek
stiff anti-dumping duties on low-cost Chinese products. German group
SolarWorld says it is working on steps to curb alleged price dumping by
Chinese rivals in Europe as a group of seven U.S. solar companies urges
the U.S. government to [2]slap anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made solar
energy products. Western solar companies have been at odds with their
Chinese counterparts for years, alleging they receive lavish credit lines
to offer modules at cheaper prices. 'American solar operations should be
rapidly expanding to keep pace with the skyrocketing demand for these
products,' says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon whose office authored a
whitepaper called '[3]China's Grab for Green Jobs.' (PDF) 'But that is
not what has been happening. There seems to be one primary explanation
for this; that is, that China is cheating.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0022200/solar-panel-trade-war-heats-up?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-solar-trade-idUSTRE79J4MP20111020
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/business/global/us-solar-manufacturers-to-ask-for-duties-on-imports.html
3. http://wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=f57bb45c-cd7a-487b-a672-2c27eb7eea5a
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| Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools
| from the principals-need-golden-parachutes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @15:38 (Education)
| with 216 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1836248/bill-gates-on-what-business-can-teach-schools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Most workplaces build a system to evaluate worker
performance, provide feedback that yields information employees can use
to improve, and then hold employees accountable for results. However,
Bill and Melinda Gates write that in the field of education, we really
[1]don't know very much at all about what makes someone an effective
teacher. 'We have all known terrific teachers,' write the Gates. 'But
nobody has been able to identify what, precisely, makes them so
outstanding.' For the last several years, the Gates Foundation has been
working with more than 3,000 teachers on a large research project called
Measures of Effective Teaching to [2]get a better sense of what makes
teaching work (PDF) so that school districts can start to hire, train and
promote based on meaningful standards. 'Once the MET research is
completed, we hope that school districts will work with teachers and
their unions to create fair and reliable evaluations that reward teachers
who are effective and identify and help those who need to improve. When
that happens, we believe that districts will be on the cusp of providing
every student with an effective teacher, in every class, every year.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1836248/bill-gates-on-what-business-can-teach-schools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204485304576641123767006518.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
2. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/highschools/Documents/met-framing-paper.pdf
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| IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band
| from the crowding-the-ethertubes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @14:56 (Wireless Networking)
| with 147 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1731204/it-shops-coping-with-overloaded-24ghz-wifi-band?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day
at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band,
representing an extreme example of how today's surging number of Wi-Fi
clients is [0]crowding the band least able to accommodate them. At ACU,
this is not considered a problem, at least not yet. In part, that's
because of careful wireless LAN design and capacity planning. And partly
because a goodly percentage of mobile devices that can run on the
alternative 5GHz band, do so: on that same day, 47% of the school's
laptops and desktops, and two-thirds of its iPads cruised on 5GHz, via
either 802.11a or 802.11n. Yet relatively few of today's Wi-Fi clients
support 5GHz."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1731204/it-shops-coping-with-overloaded-24ghz-wifi-band?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/102411-wifi-unbalanced-252237.html
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| Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU
| from the hardware-wants-to-be-free-too dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @12:50 (Open Source)
| with 146 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1445250/linux-31-released-with-support-for-the-openrisc-cpu?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]diegocg writes "Linux 3.1 [1]has been released. The [2]changes include
support for the [3]OpenRISC opensource CPU; performance improvements to
the writeback throttling; some speedups in the slab allocator; a new
iSCSI implementation; support for NFC chips; bad block management in the
generic software RAID layer; a new 'cpupowerutils' [4] utility for power
management; filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3; Wii
Controller support; and [the usual] new drivers and many small
improvements."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1445250/linux-31-released-with-support-for-the-openrisc-cpu?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:diegocg@teleline.es
1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/24/212
2. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.1
3. http://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page
4. http://lwn.net/Articles/433002/
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| Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs
| from the improve-on-reality dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @02:19 (Graphics)
| with 128 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0513215/rendering-synthetic-objects-into-old-photographs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]IDarkISwordI writes "A new abstract
headed to SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 provides a method for rapid execution of
computer graphics, [1]synthesized into photographs with accurate lighting
and physics based on limited input from a user and interpretation by
their code." The results are impressive; hard to watch the video demo (on
linked page) without boggling.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:zacldoyle@gmail.com
1. http://kevinkarsch.com/publications/sa11.html
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| Is Online Property Real? Lawyer Says Sort-Of
| from the i-paid-10-btc-for-this-dire-wolf dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @10:11 (Games)
| with 120 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1335252/is-online-property-real-lawyer-says-sort-of?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Bob the Super Hamste writes "The St. Paul Pioneer Press is reporting
on an analysis by lawyer Justin Kwong in the William Mitchell Law Review
about [1]virtual property and ownership. Justin Kwong asserts that
[2]virtual items are not real items (PDF) and that you do not own them
but only have a license. The analysis stems from a 2008 case of a Blaine,
MN man who filed a police report for the [3]online theft of approximately
$3800 of virtual goods. Justin Kwong compares virtual items to a mug club
at a bar where patrons purchase rights to a specific numbered mug but
cannot remove the mug from the premises. He does note that if in game
items are purchased there needs to be clear language stating: 'the
transaction is a license, not a sale, and that traditional consumer
protections afforded by sales of goods do not necessarily apply.'" Justin
Kwong also made a weblog entry [4]responding to misconceptions expressed
in comments on the St. Paul Pioneer Press article.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1335252/is-online-property-real-lawyer-says-sort-of?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ocdcc.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_19167421
2. http://www.wmitchell.edu/lawreview/Volume37/documents/Kwong.pdf
3. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/02/police-refuse-t/
4. http://virtualnavigator.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/is-your-online-game-gold-real/
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| Public Supports Geo-Engineering
| from the turn-antarctica-into-a-penguin-hotel dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @16:19 (Earth)
| with 108 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1941257/public-supports-geo-engineering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Bob the Super Hamste writes "The BBC is reporting that there is strong
support among the public in the U.S., U.K., and Canada for [1]research
into geo-engineering with approximately [2]72% respondents supporting the
research (PDF). The survey was focused on solar radiation management. The
article also mentions the U.K. [3]Stratospheric Particle Injection for
Climate Engineering (SPICE) project, which would inject water particles
into the upper atmosphere as a prelude to spraying cooling sulphate.
Researchers for the SPICE project calculate that 10-20 balloons could
cool the global climate by 2C. Also mentioned in the article is the
voluntary moratorium on the procedure by the international Convention on
Biological Diversity."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1941257/public-supports-geo-engineering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ocdcc.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15399832
2. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044006/pdf/1748-9326_6_4_044006.pdf
3. http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/SPICE/SPICE.htm
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| Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC
| from the will-it-still-run-quake dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @15:17 (Hardware Hacking)
| with 90 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1859224/build-the-2006-prototype-25-pc?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "As the launch of the $25 PC gets ever closer
(sometime next month), members of the Raspberry Pi team have found time
to start blogging about the history of the project. Eben Upton, director
of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has been working on the project for many
years, and decided to [0]share a couple of very early prototypes for the
$25 PC with the community. The 2006 edition of the PC used an Atmel
ATmega644 microcontroller. It ran at 22.1MHz with 512K of SRAM. Compare
that to the final version of the PC, which will use a 700MHz ARM11
processor and 128MB/256MB of SDRAM. Five years clearly brings a massive
leap in performance. For those of us happy to [1]play around with
components at this level, Eben has made the schematics and PCB layout
[2]available to download (ZIP file). Armed with this information you can
create your very own 2006 Raspberry Pi machine."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1859224/build-the-2006-prototype-25-pc?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=264
1. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/build-the-2006-prototype-of-raspberry-pis-25-pc-20111024/
2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/ABCMicro.zip
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| 10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater
| from the beware-the-leviathan dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @17:23 (Science)
| with 80 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2047240/10-centimeter-single-celled-organisms-photographed-6-miles-underwater?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter roat35 tips news that researchers from the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography have used Dropcam ��� a relatively small,
glass-walled device containing an HD camera ��� to make videos of lifeforms
that exist in the Mariana Trench, more than six miles below the surface
of the Pacific Ocean. One of the more interesting organisms at those
depths is the Xenophyophore, a creature which, [0]despite being
single-celled, can grow to be over 10 centimeters wide. "Scientists say
xenophyophores are the largest individual cells in existence. Recent
studies indicate that by trapping particles from the water,
xenophyophores can concentrate high levels of lead, uranium and mercury
and are thus likely highly resistant to large doses of heavy metals. They
also are well suited to a life of darkness, low temperature and high
pressure in the deep sea."
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Links:
0. http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=1206
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| Manufacturing Dreams
| from the starring-leonardo-dicaprio dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @18:27 (Medicine)
| with 75 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2129202/manufacturing-dreams?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter geekgirl09 sends in a story from Wired about the U.S.
Army's efforts to develop methods for [0]digitally manufacturing dreams
to soothe combat vets who suffer from PTSD. From the article: "Fifty-two
percent of combat veterans with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
reported having nightmares fairly often, according to the National
Vietnam Veterans��� Readjustment Study. ... So the researchers will ask
troops to take control of the 'creation of the customized healing imagery
(therapeutic dreams) to counter the impact of nightmares,' according to a
military contracting document. The hope is that these 'power dreams' can
be watched from laptops and 'home training and 3-D goggles work to
gradually enhance the strength of these new neurological images.'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2129202/manufacturing-dreams?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/real-life-inception/
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| Analysis of Google Dart
| from the google-announces-replacement-for-english dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @19:52 (Google)
| with 58 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2320244/analysis-of-google-dart?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Google's new language landed with a loud
thud, causing lots of [0] interesting debates about the best place to
stick semicolons... An article [in InfoQ] ... [1]looks at some of the
less discussed features. Snapshots seem to bring something like Smalltalk
images and allow instant startup of applications (something Java has
spent the last 15 years not delivering). Isolates are like OS processes
and communicate with message passing ��� and as the article suggests, can
fix the problem of Garbage Collection pauses by splitting up the heap
(sounds like Erlang). There's more, mostly about features that remove
some dynamic behavior in order to make startup and code analysis easier.
Maybe Dart is worth a second look?"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2320244/analysis-of-google-dart?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4377
1. http://www.infoq.com/articles/google-dart
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| Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution
| from the social-engineering-never-works dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @11:31 (Bug)
| with 55 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/151238/bug-opens-chrome-to-easy-remote-code-execution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "ACROS Security notified Google about a peculiar behavior
of the Chrome browser that can be exploited for [0]execution of remote
code outside Chrome sandbox under specific conditions. It is another case
of file planting, where an application loads a data file (as opposed to
binary file, leading to binary planting) from the current working
directory. Google decided that this was not a vulnerability, but rather a
'strange behavior that [they] should consider changing.' The reason they
provided was that 'the social engineering level involved here is
significantly higher than "Your computer is infected with a virus,
download this free anti-virus software and run the exe file to fix it."'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/151238/bug-opens-chrome-to-easy-remote-code-execution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11824
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| Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth
| from the not-in-my-back-yard-unfortunately dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @13:32 (Space)
| with 41 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1710205/predicting-when-space-junk-will-come-home-to-earth?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Following up on recent news of a NASA satellite [0]falling from the sky
and a German satellite that [1]did the same, new submitter [2]blais
writes "NPR has an interesting interview about space junk falling back to
Earth ��� and [3]the odds of it possibly hitting someone. I thought it
might be of interest to the other space nerds out there. Quoting: '...
it's very difficult to know exactly when a satellite's going to come
down. The Earth's atmosphere is hard to model. It's very thin up there,
100 miles or more up, but it exists. And sometimes it's a little bit
denser, sometimes not, and the satellite might be tumbling, and so it
makes it very difficult to know exactly when it's ... going to come
down."
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Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1329240/nasa-satellite-falls-back-to-earth-landfall-in-canada
1. http://slashdot.org/story/11/10/22/1655220/German-Satellite-To-Fall-From-Sky
2. mailto:slashdot@furius.ca
3. http://www.npr.org/2011/10/21/141591189/predicting-when-space-junk-will-come-home-to-earth
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| UK Team Misses Balloon Altitude Record, But Beats a Few Others
| from the good-show-and-congratulations dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @05:07 (Communications)
| with 32 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/23/2330244/uk-team-misses-balloon-altitude-record-but-beats-a-few-others?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this report from Hackaday, which recently
covered an [0]attempt at the UK altitude record for an amateur balloon
launch. Says the story: "Things don't always go as planned, but the APEX
team [1]did manage to beat the several other UK records, including ones
for the longest distance and flight duration for a latex balloon." The
balloon drifted east from its launching point England, being tracked by
Ham radio operators for much of the way, but eventually fell out of
range, and is suspected to have ended its flight in Poland or Russia:
"The APEX team is offering a reward for finding Alpha, so if you see a
small styrofoam box in Eastern Europe, drop the APEX boys a line."
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Links:
0. http://www.apexhab.org/alpha/
1. http://hackaday.com/2011/10/23/beating-the-wrong-amateur-balloon-record/
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| Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor
| from the teaching-androids-to-feel dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @17:44 (Robotics)
| with 16 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/214231/stanford-scientists-show-stretchable-skin-like-sensor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]SkinnyGuy writes with news of an invention out of Stanford that
improves upon [1]previous work: [2]a transparent, stretchable, skin-like
sensor that could have applications for prosthetic limbs and robotics.
Quoting: "The sensor uses a transparent film of single-walled carbon
nanotubes that act as tiny springs, enabling the sensor to accurately
measure the force on it, whether it's being pulled like taffy or squeezed
like a sponge. ... The sensors consist of two layers of the
nanotube-coated silicone, oriented so that the coatings are face-to-face,
with a layer of a more easily deformed type of silicone between them. The
middle layer of silicone stores electrical charge, much like a battery.
When pressure is exerted on the sensor, the middle layer of silicone
compresses, which alters the amount of electrical charge it can store.
That change is detected by the two films of carbon nanotubes, which act
like the positive and negative terminals on a typical automobile or
flashlight battery. The change sensed by the nanotube films is what
enables the sensor to transmit what it is 'feeling.'"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/214231/stanford-scientists-show-stretchable-skin-like-sensor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.mashable.com/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/178259/two-research-groups-create-electric-skin
2. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/stretchy-skinlike-sensor-102411.html
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