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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online
* TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers
* Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source
* FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing
* The RMS Tour Rider
* Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market
* Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot
* Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had?
* 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems
* Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance
* Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering
* World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia
* Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader
* ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture
* Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found
* Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing?
* Superluminal Neutrinos, Take Two
* Stars Found To Produce Complex Organic Compounds
* Asteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet
* Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System
* Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria
* Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June
* RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages
* Agile Quadruped Robot Unveiled By Italian Roboticists
* Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules
* New Coral Named After <em>Call of Duty: Black Ops</em>
* Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software
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| 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online
| from the free-enegy-time dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @05:45 (Power)
| with 700 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/030244/1-mw-cold-fusion-plant-supposedly-to-come-online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]Jherico writes "Andrea Rossi ([1]covered
here a few [2]times before) is scheduled to bring his 1MW plant online
Oct. 28th. This will likely either be the point where 'unexpected
technical difficulties' unmask this for the scam it is, or the presence
of [3]an actual 1MW plant with no chemical fuel source will silence a lot
of skeptics. What would you do if it were real?"
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Links:
0. mailto:bdavis@NoSpAM.saintandreas.org
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1550205/italian-scientists-demonstrate-cold-fusion
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1430210/does-italian-demo-show-cold-fusion-or-snake-oil
3. http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/10/october-28th-e-cat-test-pre-game-thread-gather-here-for-news-and-discussion/
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| TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers
| from the give-the-people-what-they-do-not-want dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @15:23 (Privacy)
| with 529 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1921254/tsas-vipr-bites-rail-bus-and-ferry-passengers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "TSA's [0]VIPR program may be expanding. According
to the Washington Times, 'TSA has [1]always intended to expand beyond the
confines of airport terminals. Its agents have been conducting more and
more surprise groping sessions for women, children and the elderly in
locations that have nothing to do with aviation.' In Tennessee earlier
this month, bus passengers in Nashville and Knoxville were searched in
addition to [2]the truck searches discussed here previously. Earlier this
year in Savannah, Georgia, TSA [3]forced a group of train travelers,
including young children, to be patted down. (They were getting off the
train, not on.) [4]Ferry passengers have also been targeted. According to
TSA Administrator John Pistole's testimony before the Senate last June,
'TSA conducted more than 8,000 VIPR operations in the [previous] 12
months, including more than 3,700 operations in mass-transit and
passenger-railroad venues.' He wants a 50% budget increase for VIPR for
2012. Imagine what TSA would do with the extra funding."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1921254/tsas-vipr-bites-rail-bus-and-ferry-passengers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_and_Response_team
1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/26/tsas-power-grope/
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2212225/tsa-doing-random-truck-searches-on-tennessee-highway
3. http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/02/28/why-did-tsa-pat-down-kids-adults-getting-off-train/
4. http://autos.aol.com/article/tsa-screening-drivers-in-tennessee/
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| Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source
| from the free-music dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, @22:20 (IOS)
| with 499 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0115247/apples-lossless-audio-codec-alac-now-open-source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Revotron writes "Apple has released [0]the full source to their Apple
Lossless Audio Codec under the Apache license. ALAC was developed by
Apple and deployed on all of its platforms and devices over the last 10
years. Could the release of the ALAC source code mark a possible first
step in opening up more of the iOS platform?"
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Links:
0. http://alac.macosforge.org/
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| FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing
| from the watch-where-you're-pointing-that-thing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @00:49 (Security)
| with 351 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/019259/faa-goes-to-the-web-to-fight-laser-pointing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "The Federal Aviation Administration wants you to go
online to help it battle the growing safety problem of people pointing
lasers at flying aircraft. The FAA today said it created a new website to
[1]make it easier for pilots and the public to report laser incidents and
obtain information on the problem which continues to grow by leaps and
bounds. This year, pilots reported 2,795 laser events through Oct. 20.
Pilots have reported the most laser events in 2011 in Phoenix (96),
Philadelphia (95) and Chicago (83). Since it began tracking laser events
in 2005 reports rose from nearly 300 to 2,836 in 2010, the FAA said."
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/faa-goes-web-fight-lasers-directed-aircraft-b
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| The RMS Tour Rider
| from the no-question-unanswered dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @11:22 (GNU is Not Unix)
| with 337 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1432221/the-rms-tour-rider?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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larry bagina writes "It's no secret that rock stars have riders ���
provisions on their contractual appearances that require a bowl of
brown-free M&Ms or specify the exact brand of bottled water, cocaine
purity, etc. Well, Richard Stallman has his own [0]quirky list of
provisions." Some of the best stuff is at the end, including: "I do not
eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do
[for] breakfast. Please just do not bring it up," and "One situation
where I do not need help, let alone supervision, is in crossing streets.
I grew up in the middle of the world's biggest city, full of cars, and I
have crossed streets without assistance even in the chaotic traffic of
Bangalore and Delhi. Please just leave me alone when I cross streets."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html
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| Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market
| from the taking-a-bite-out-of-apple dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @09:38 (Businesses)
| with 333 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1337252/samsung-takes-the-lead-in-the-smartphone-market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter landofcleve writes "When the writing is on the wall, you
fight harder ��� or at least that's what we've seen from Apple in recent
months. Now we know why: [0]Samsung has reached a market share above
Apple's for smartphone sales. 'Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones
in the last quarter, taking 23.8 percent of the market ... Apple���s 17.1
million shipments, comprising 14.6 percent of the market, pushed the
Cupertino, California-based company to second place. Nokia maintained its
third position.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/samsung-beats-apple-as-no-1-smartphone-vendor.html
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| Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot
| from the keep-it-fair dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @11:45 (Linux)
| with 252 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1527238/linux-foundation-releases-document-on-uefi-secure-boot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mvar writes "The Linux Foundation today released [0]technical guidance to
PC makers on [1]how to implement secure UEFI without [2]locking Linux or
other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included
a subtle tisk-tisk at Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky [3]for suggesting that
PC owners won't want to mess with control of their hardware and would
happily concede it to operating system makers and hardware
manufacturers." Canonical and Red Hat have also [4]published a white
paper (PDF) suggesting that all OEMs "allow secure boot to be easily
disabled and enabled through a firmware configuration interface," among
other things.
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1527238/linux-foundation-releases-document-on-uefi-secure-boot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/making-uefi-secure-boot-work-with-open-platforms
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/79050?hpg1=bn
2. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/062231/how-microsoft-can-lock-linux-off-windows-8-pcs
3. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi.aspx
4. http://ozlabs.org/docs/uefi-secure-boot-impact-on-linux.pdf
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| Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had?
| from the alternate-e-history dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @16:50 (Netscape)
| with 192 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2017224/microsoft-tried-to-buy-netscape-suppose-they-had?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Glyn Moody writes "In an interview, [1]Brendan Eich, the creator of
JavaScript and currently CIO at Mozilla, reveals that [2]Microsoft tried
to buy Netscape at the end of 1994. They were turned down because the
offer was too low, but imagine if Netscape had accepted: no browser wars,
no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox. How might the Web ��� and
the world ��� have looked today if that had happened?"
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Links:
0. http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/
1. http://brendaneich.com/
2. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/10/mozillas-brendan-eich-on-javascript---and-microsoft-buying-netscape/index.htm
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| 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems
| from the stop-glaring-at-me dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @11:03 (Displays)
| with 186 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1443230/invisible-glass-solves-screen-reflection-problems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The days of dealing with very reflective
glass panels may soon be behind us. Nippon Electric Glass has used the
FPD International 2011 conference in Japan this week to show off its new
'invisible glass' panel. What NEG has done is [0]added anti-reflection
films to both the front and back of the glass that are only nanometers
thick. Look at a typical sheet of glass and you will see about 8% of the
light reflected off of it. With NEG's anti-reflection film in place, that
is reduced to just 0.5%."
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Links:
0. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/invisible-glass-may-solve-screen-reflection-problems-20111028/
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| Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance
| from the almost-up-to-par dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @13:12 (AMD)
| with 171 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1658212/smarter-thread-scheduling-improves-amd-bulldozer-performance?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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crookedvulture writes "The [0]initial reviews of the first
Bulldozer-based FX processors have revealed the chips to be notably
slower than their Intel counterparts. Part of the reason is the
module-based nature of AMD's new architecture, which requires more
intelligent thread scheduling to extract optimum performance. This
article takes a closer look at how [1]tweaking Windows 7's thread
scheduling can improve Bulldozer's performance by 10-20%. As with Intel's
Hyper-Threading tech, Bulldozer performs better when resource sharing is
kept to a minimum and workloads are spread across multiple modules rather
than the multiple cores within them."
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Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/12/0513244/amd-bulldozer-fx-cpu-reviews-arrive
1. http://techreport.com/articles.x/21865
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| Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering
| from the trade-secret-my-son dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @13:55 (Microsoft)
| with 168 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1734224/skype-goes-after-reverse-engineering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "It appears Microsoft's Skype Division is
[0]cracking down on reverse-engineering of the Skype client. Skype
[1]recently rolled out a new set of APIs for integration into other
desktop applications, but they have issued multiple DMCA takedown notices
to a researcher publishing open-source code to send Skype messages."
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Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNzI
1. http://blogs.skype.com/developer/2011/10/skypekit_for_desktop_video_calling.html
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| World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia
| from the because-they-can dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @04:31 (Australia)
| with 159 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0246227/worlds-biggest-gold-coin-minted-in-australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter shocking writes "The Perth Mint has created
[0]a gold coin that is just over one tonne in weight and worth over 50
million AUD. From the article: 'A team of a dozen people have worked
since late last year to create the coin which measures 80 centimeters
wide and 12 centimeters deep, featuring a kangaroo on one side and the
Queen's motif on the other.' Ron Paul eat your heart out!"
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Links:
0. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-27/one-tonne-coin/3604466
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| Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader
| from the must-include-web-browser dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 28, @18:36 (Firefox)
| with 144 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2223223/meet-firefoxs-built-in-pdf-reader?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Not long ago, Mozilla coders announced that
they were starting to build PDF.js, a way to display Acrobat documents in
the browser using pure web code. No longer will you have to fight with an
external PDF plug-in in Firefox. Development on [0]PDF.js has progressed
to the point now where [1]you can take an early peek at it. Huzzah!"
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Links:
0. http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/
1. http://www.geek.com/articles/news/this-is-what-firefoxs-built-in-pdf-reader-looks-like-20111027/
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| ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture
| from the new-and-improved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @08:11 (Hardware)
| with 137 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/036235/arm-goes-64-bit-with-its-new-armv8-chip-architecture?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "In less than a decade, a microprocessor core could
be [1]no bigger than a red blood cell, the CTO of ARM has predicted. ARM
has already helped develop a prototype, implantable device for monitoring
eye-pressure in glaucoma patients that measures just 1 cubic millimeter,
CTO Mike Muller said at ARM's TechCon conference. At the conference the
company also [2]introduced its first 64-bit chip. The ARMv8 adds 64-bit
addressing capabilities, an improvement over the current ARMv7-A
architecture, which is capable of up to 40-bit addressing. The
architecture puts ARM into more direct competition with Intel and its
64-bit Xeon processors."
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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/405599/arm_cto_predicts_chips_size_blood_cells
2. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/405575/arm_goes_64-bit_its_new_armv8_chip_architecture
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| Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found
| from the fuel-for-the-cause dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @10:20 (Power)
| with 128 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1344222/highly-efficient-oxygen-catalyst-found?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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eldavojohn writes "As detailed in the journal Science ([0]abstract), a
new compound composed of cobalt, iron and oxygen with other metals
presents us with the most efficient way (found so far) of [1]splitting
oxygen atoms from water. These ten known compounds provide a reactivity
rate that is at least an order of magnitude higher than what is currently
known as the gold standard in [2]such reactions. During their research,
the team discovered that the reactivity is dependent on the configuration
of the outermost electron of transition metal ions, which they exploited
to develop this efficient catalyst. For rechargeable batteries and
hydrogen fuel, this is exciting work from MIT's Jin Suntivich, Kevin J.
May, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Yang Shao-Horn, and the University of
Texas's John B. Goodenough."
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Links:
0. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/10/26/science.1212858
1. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/efficient-catalyst-1028.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
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| Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing?
| from the show-your-work dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 28, @19:03 (Open Source)
| with 101 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2259218/ask-slashdot-image-recognition-for-race-timing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter int2str writes "[0]Autocross is a form of
motorsports practiced in the U.S. and around the world where car
enthusiasts explore the capabilities of their car in an open parking lot
or similar suited area. It's point-to-point racing (not closed circuit).
Most of these events are organized by car clubs and volunteers. Timing is
usually done with a form of detection beam at start and finish that gets
interrupted by the car crossing the beam. Many commercial systems are
available. All of these system require the operator to enter the car's
number or ID and requires the cars finishing in the order they started.
So if one car is not able to finish, the operator has to intervene, or
timing is broken. For closed circuit racing, transponder systems are
available to address this problem. But such systems require sensor loops
in the track or overhead (bridge setup) and the transponders are
expensive. Do you think it would be possible to design a timing system
using off-the-shelf parts and open source solutions to uniquely
distinguish about 100 participating vehicles and time them from a start
to a finish point, independently of their finishing order?" Read below
for some more details:
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocross
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| Superluminal Neutrinos, Take Two
| from the now-with-infinitely-more-scrutiny dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @08:55 (Opera)
| with 88 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1254213/superluminal-neutrinos-take-two?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Coisiche writes "To address the many [0]responses to their [1]original
findings, the OPERA team who reported the detection of faster-than-light
neutrinos is [2]starting a new and improved version of their experiment.
'The neutrinos that emerge at Gran Sasso start off as a beam of proton
particles at CERN. Through a series of complex interactions, neutrino
particles are generated from this beam and stream through the Earth's
crust to Italy. Originally, CERN fired the protons in a long pulse
lasting 10 microseconds (10 millionths of a second). ... [In the new
experiment], protons are sent in a series of short bursts ��� lasting just
one or two nanoseconds, thousands of times shorter ��� with a large gap
(roughly 500 nanoseconds) in between each burst. This system, says Dr
Bertolucci, is more efficient: "For every neutrino event at Gran Sasso,
you can connect it unambiguously with the batch of protons at CERN," he
explained.'"
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Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/15/2233209/ftl-neutrinos-explained-maybe
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1841217/cern-experiment-indicates-faster-than-light-neutrinos
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15471118
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| Stars Found To Produce Complex Organic Compounds
| from the galaxy-seeding dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @03:23 (Space)
| with 87 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0238221/stars-found-to-produce-complex-organic-compounds?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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InfiniteZero writes "Researchers at the University of Hong Kong observed
stars at different evolutionary phases and found that they are able to
[0]produce complex organic compounds and eject them into space, filling
the regions between stars. The compounds are so complex that their
chemical structures resemble the makeup of coal and petroleum, the
study's lead author Sun Kwok, of the University of Hong Kong, said."
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Links:
0. http://www.space.com/13401-cosmic-star-dust-complex-organic-compounds.html
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| Asteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet
| from the planetary-life-begins-at-accretion dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @13:34 (Space)
| with 83 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1712209/asteroid-lutetia-revealed-as-a-protoplanet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Asteroids visited by spacecraft have all turned
out to be piles of rubble or chunks broken off of larger bodies, [1]but
that's not the case with 21 Lutetia, a 75-mile long, 47-mile wide body
orbiting in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
[2]Europe's comet-bound Rosetta probe flew by Lutetia last year and gave
scientists a big surprise. With its dense body and an interior that seems
to have survived intact, the large asteroid appears more like a
protoplanet ��� a leftover building block from the formation of the solar
system."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroid-protoplanet-lutetia-rosetta-111027.html
2. http://news.discovery.com/space/photos-lutetia-protoplanet-asteroid-warm-heart-111027.html
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| Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System
| from the anti-social-network dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, @20:14 (Cloud)
| with 59 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/27/2319243/inside-facebooks-cyber-security-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Facebook Immunity System (FIS) processes
and [0]checks 25 billion actions every day, or 650,000 actions every
second. The social networking giant's cybersecurity system was developed
over a three-year period to keep the service's users safe from spam and
cyberattacks. FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could
suggest something malicious is spreading across the social network."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/27/2319243/inside-facebooks-cyber-security-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-immune-system-checks-25-billion-actions-every-day/4895
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| Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria
| from the hat-tip-to-jake dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 28, @19:49 (Censorship)
| with 53 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2330218/blue-coat-concedes-its-devices-operating-in-syria?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A few weeks ago, in reaction to claims that [0]Blue Coat systems were
being used to track internet use in Syria, a [1]company spokesman denied
the charges here, saying "To our knowledge, we do not have any customers
in Syria," and that the company followed the web of regulations that
would prohibit sale to certain countries, Syria among them. In response
to the logs on which the claims were based, he said "it appears that
these logs came from an appliance in a country where there are no trade
restrictions." A report at the Wall Street Journal says that the company
has now [2]acknowledged that Blue Coat devices are being used in Syria
after all; the paper reports that at least 13 of the censorware boxes are
in use there, and cites an unnamed source who says "as many as 25
appliances have made their way into Syria since the mid-2000s, with most
sold through Dubai-based middlemen."
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/05/1249209/telecomix-releases-54gb-of-syrian-censorship-logs
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/11/1629238/blue-coat-denies-its-devices-helping-syrian-govt
2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577001911398596328.html
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| Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June
| from the four-whole-californias-wow dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @16:08 (The Internet)
| with 52 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1954201/four-cas-have-been-compromised-since-june?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The EFF, through the use of its SSL Observatory, has
[0]taken a look at the data from certificate revocation lists for SSL
certificates in recent months, and found that [1]there were four separate
CAs compromised in the last four months. The only widely known CA
compromise since June is the [2]attack on DigiNotar this summer that
completely compromised that company's CA infrastructure and eventually
led to it being [3]shut down. All of the major browser vendors were
forced to revoke their trust in the DigiNotar root certificates and the
attacker who claimed credit for the attack said that he also had
compromised several other CAs. There are apparently three other CAs that
have discovered compromises since June, but have not made them public."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1954201/four-cas-have-been-compromised-since-june?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/how-secure-https-today
1. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/eff-data-shows-four-cas-compromised-june-102711
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/30/0253254/another-ca-issues-false-certificates-to-iran
3. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1237207/diginotar-goes-bankrupt-after-hack
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| RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages
| from the giving-up-the-ghost dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @17:33 (Blackberry)
| with 47 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/212229/rim-helps-indian-authorities-access-blackberry-messages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "RIM has [1]set up a surveillance facility in India
to help the authorities [2]monitor users' BlackBerry messages, according
to reports. This comes after a long argument in which RIM at first
[3]tried to resist opening up to Indian government scrutiny."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/212229/rim-helps-indian-authorities-access-blackberry-messages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/rim-establishes-indian-blackberry-surveillance-lab-44065
2. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3TfykX26pDWFN8e6ebjIZ9PRzOA?docId=CNG.e6ee2abbf277f4249e6d667612b5cf57.421
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/1815231/rim-reaches-temporary-agreement-with-india
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| Agile Quadruped Robot Unveiled By Italian Roboticists
| from the can-i-borrow-it-for-halloween dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @14:39 (Robotics)
| with 43 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1756226/agile-quadruped-robot-unveiled-by-italian-roboticists?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Italian roboticists have [0]built a quadruped
robot called HyQ that can walk, trot, jump, and rear. Unlike with another
quadruped project, the famous [1]BigDog from Boston Dynamics, the Italian
team wants to make their design 'as open as possible,' so other research
groups can use it to collaborate. [2]HyQ is a hydraulic system with
torque-controlled, compliant legs. It's currently tethered, but the
researchers plan to make the robot self-contained with an on-board pump,
add a head with cameras and laser-range finder, and take it for tests
outdoors."
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Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/hyq-quadruped-robot
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/03/19/0045255/new-bigdog-robot-video
2. http://www.iit.it/en/advanced-robotics/projects/hydraulically-actuated-quadruped-hyq.html
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| Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules
| from the thin-client-solutions dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @12:30 (Science)
| with 42 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1629231/massively-parallel-computer-built-from-single-layer-of-molecules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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djeps sends in this excerpt from the Physics arXiv Blog: "Japanese
scientists have built a cellular automaton from individual molecules that
[0]carries out huge numbers of calculations in parallel. ... At the heart
of their experiment is a ring-like molecule called
2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone, or DDQ. This has an unusual
property: it can exist in four different conducting states, depending on
the location of trapped electrons around the ring. What's more, it's
possible to switch the molecule from one to state to another by zapping
it with voltages of various different strengths using the tip of a
scanning tunnelling microscope. It's even possible to bias the possible
states that can form by placing the molecule in an electric field. Place
two DDQ molecules next to each other and it's possible to make them
connect. ... When one molecule changes its state, the change in
configuration ripples from one molecule to the next, [1]forming and
reforming circuits as it travels."
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Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27291/
1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5844
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| New Coral Named After <em>Call of Duty: Black Ops</em>
| from the Cnidarian-shooter dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @01:29 (First Person Shooters (Games))
| with 26 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0232201/new-coral-named-after-call-of-duty-black-ops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dotarray writes "An American aquarium supplier obviously has a gamer on
the payroll, after [0]naming two new forms of Acanthastrea coral after
Activision's shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. From the article: 'The
Facebook post announcing the two new forms openly admits to the video
gaming influence ��� and it���s not the first time a video game has inspired
the Quality Marine coral namer ��� One of Swords points out that earlier
this month, The Master Chief made its glorious pink-and-purple debut.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/10/27/new-coral-named-after-call-of-duty-black-ops/
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| Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software
| from the defining-the-mathematically-perfect-swagger dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @18:15 (Medicine)
| with 11 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2111228/stanfords-open-source-human-motion-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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eldavojohn writes "Stanford's [0]OpenSim software is a human motion
modeling package that [1]is currently making the rounds at museums where
'visitors walk across a pressure-sensitive floor and are presented at the
other side with color-coded print outs of their weight distribution,
identifying even slight imbalances that might be putting undue stress on
their limbs and joints.' This project can also help with [2]planning
surgery (video). The work has been [3]published in IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering (note that this is a different effort from [4]the
virtual world of the same name). Although Stanford's press release says
it is now open source, I cannot find what license they are using, nor can
I access their SVN browser after registering."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2111228/stanfords-open-source-human-motion-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://simtk.org/project/xml/downloads.xml?group_id=91
1. http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-software-that-models-human-motion-travels-to-museum
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0VHfCtIM0
3. https://simtk.org/docman/view.php/91/786/Delp.OpenSim.2007.pdf
4. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/08/08/19/1233203/an-intro-to-opensim-the-apache-of-virtual-worlds
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