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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA
* Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial
* Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012
* HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers
* Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears
* Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public
* CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher
* OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k
* Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions?
* Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85
* 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook
* Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday
* Internet Water Army On the March
* Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed
* Lost Russian Mars Probe Phones Home
* US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE
* South Korea Blocks Late-Night Online Gaming for Adolescents
* Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed
* Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack
* Nokia-Siemens Axing 17,000 Positions
* Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses
* Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike
* The Physics of Wine Swirling
* MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits
* Evolution Of Debian Package Dependencies Resemble Predator-Prey Relationships
* A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab
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| 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA
| from the get-off-his-lawn dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 23, @00:26 (Government)
| with 678 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0327244/88-year-old-inventor-hassled-by-the-dea?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Calibax writes "30 years ago, Bob Wallace and his partner
came up with a product to help hikers, flood victims and others purify
water. Wallace, now 88 years old, packs his product by hand in his
garage, stores it in his backyard shed and sells it for $6.50. Recently,
[0]the DEA has been hassling him because his product uses crystalline
iodine. He has been refused a license to purchase the iodine because it
can be used in the production of crystal meth, and as a result he is now
out of business. A DEA spokesman describes this as 'collateral damage'
not resulting from DEA regulations but from the selfish actions of
criminals."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0327244/88-year-old-inventor-hassled-by-the-dea?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.mercurynews.com/saratoga/ci_19385037
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| Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial
| from the apparently-some-people-still-care-about-wordperfect dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 23, @08:11 (Businesses)
| with 391 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/048212/bill-gates-takes-the-stand-in-wordperfect-trial?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Remember WorldPerfect? Bill Gates took the
witness stand to defend his company against a [1]$1 billion antitrust
lawsuit that claims Microsoft duped Novell into thinking he would include
WordPerfect in the new Windows system, then backed out because he feared
it was too good. Gates testified Monday that Microsoft was racing to put
out Windows 95 when he dropped technical features that would no longer
support the rival's word processor. He said that in making the decision
about the code, he was concerned not about Novell but about one element
of the program that could have caused computers to crash. That code,
technically known as [2]'name space extensions,' had to do with the
display of folders and files. Novell attorney Jeff Johnson concedes that
Microsoft was under no legal obligation to provide advance access to
Windows 95 so Novell could prepare a compatible version but contends that
[3]Microsoft enticed Novell to work on a version, only to withdraw
support months before Windows 95 hit the market. 'We got stabbed in the
back.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/048212/bill-gates-takes-the-stand-in-wordperfect-trial?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_hBtA1v_-WRM_604OBn5ZEr62hg?docId=a850a50f1a544cc18d64da1ce2c8b8d4
2. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sports/52957314-79/gates-novell-microsoft-wordperfect.html.csp
3. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-21/bill-gates-novell-microsoft-lawsuit/51329388/1
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| Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012
| from the running-red-branding-exercise dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @10:20 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 291 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1430219/netflix-expects-to-be-unprofitable-in-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes with an article in CNN Money about Netflix's
prospects in 2012. From the article: "Netflix warned in its last earnings
report that it [0]expects to be unprofitable 'for a few quarters'
starting at the beginning of 2012. The primary culprit is Netflix's
pricey plan to expand its streaming video service [1]into the United
Kingdom and Ireland, but a wave of subscribers [2]jumping ship hasn't
helped. The filing also revealed that Netflix is in the process of
raising $400 million from investors to help bulk up its cash stash. While
that will give Netflix more money to invest in content, secondary
offerings are sometimes considered ominous signs."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1430219/netflix-expects-to-be-unprofitable-in-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/22/technology/netflix_unprofitable/index.htm
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/011235/netflix-expanding-streaming-service-to-the-uk-and-ireland
2. http://slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/1240248/netflix-loses-800000-subscribers-after-qwikster-gaffe
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| HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers
| from the watch-movies-on-your-laserjet dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @08:52 (HP)
| with 214 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1311246/hps-strange-obsession-with-webos-for-printers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ryzvonusef writes "VentureBeat's (typically unnamed) sources identifies
Intel and Qualcomm as being involved in talks for acquiring the Palm
asset portfolio. However, citing sources intimate with HP's negotiations,
it reports that the company wants to be able to license webOS back for
use in printers; it wants it so much, in fact, that [0]the issue has
become 'a crucial part' of discussions. Maybe there's something about
webOS and printers that HP knows and the rest of the world doesn't."
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Links:
0. http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/21/hp-webos-intel-qualcomm-printers/
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| Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears
| from the if-you-don't-know-what-knol-is-look-it-up-on-wikipedia dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 22, @20:16 (Businesses)
| with 208 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0035254/google-to-shutter-knol-wave-gears?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Google announced today on its official blog
[0]the impending closure of a number of its less successful services. In
addition to retiring minor features like Bookmarks List and Friend
Connect, Google has outlined a plan to close down Wave. The experimental
communication medium will go read-only on January 31, and on April 30
they will shut it down completely. Also on April 30, Google will be
changing Knol so that individual knols are not viewable, though users
will still be able to download and export them until October 1, at which
point they'll disappear entirely. Google Gears is also getting the axe,
as is Search Timeline and the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal
initiative."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0035254/google-to-shutter-knol-wave-gears?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html
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| Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public
| from the for-our-ears-only dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @15:21 (Encryption)
| with 199 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/193213/police-encrypt-radios-to-tune-out-public?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "Police departments around the country are
moving to [1]shield their radio communications from the public as cheap,
user-friendly technology has made it easy for anyone to use handheld
devices to keep tabs on officers responding to crimes and although law
enforcement officials say they want to keep criminals from using
officers' internal chatter to evade them, journalists and neighborhood
watchdogs say open communications ensures that the public receives
information as quickly as possible that can be vital to their safety.
'Whereas listeners used to be tied to stationary scanners, new technology
has allowed people ��� and especially criminals ��� to listen to police
communications on a smartphone from anywhere,' says DC Police Chief Cathy
Lanier who says that a group of [2] burglars who police believe were
following radio communications on their smartphones pulled off more than
a dozen crimes before ultimately being arrested. But encryption also
[3]makes it harder for neighboring jurisdictions to communicate in times
of emergency. 'The 9/11 commission concluded America's [4]number one
vulnerability during the attacks was the lack of interoperability
communications,' writes Vernon Herron, 'I spoke to several first
responders who were concerned that their efforts to respond and assist at
the Pentagon after the attacks were hampered by the lack of
interoperability with neighboring jurisdictions.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/193213/police-encrypt-radios-to-tune-out-public?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-20/police-encrypted-radios/51319598/1
2. http://dcist.com/2011/11/lanier_defends_police_radio_encrypt.php
3. http://dcist.com/2011/10/police_scanners_go_quiet.php
4. http://www.mdchhs.com/blog/dc-police-decision-jeopardizes-interoperability
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| CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher
| from the good-luck-with-that dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 22, @19:36 (Security)
| with 185 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0032233/carrieriq-tries-to-silence-security-researcher?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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phaedrus5001 sends this quote from a story at Wired: "A data-logging
software company is [0]seeking to squash an Android developer's critical
research into its software that is secretly installed on millions of
phones, but Trevor Eckhart is refusing to publicly apologize for his
research and remove the company's training manuals from his website.
Though the software is installed on millions of Android, Blackberry and
Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until the 25-year-old
Eckhart analyzed its workings, recently revealing that [1]the software
secretly chronicles a user's phone experience, from its apps, battery
life and texts. Some carriers prevent users who actually find the
software from controlling what information is sent."" The EFF is hosting
PDFs of [2]CarrierIQ's C&D letter, as well as [3]their response on
Eckhart's behalf.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0032233/carrieriq-tries-to-silence-security-researcher?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/rootkit-brouhaha/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1517248/carrieriq-most-phones-ship-with-rootkit
2. https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/eckhart_cease_desist_demand_redacted.pdf
3. https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/eckhart_c%26d_response.pdf
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| OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k
| from the money-well-spent dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @16:52 (Government)
| with 184 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/210241/osha-app-costs-govt-200k?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "How much does it cost to make a phone app to tell
local temperature and suggest [1]how not to get heatstroke, such as drink
water and avoid alcohol? If you're the U.S. Government, it'll cost you a
pretty penny. Using MuckRock to file a Freedom of Information Act,
[2]Rich Jones of GUN.IO discovered the Department of Labor, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration paid $106,467 for the Android version;
$96,000 for the iPhone version, and an additional $40,000 for a
BlackBerry app that never got distributed."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/210241/osha-app-costs-govt-200k?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/227687/worthless-osha-app-federal-government-costs-200000
2. http://gun.io/blog/the-governments-200000-useless-android-application/
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| Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions?
| from the disintegration-ray dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @14:38 (Encryption)
| with 173 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1832248/ask-slashdot-data-remanence-solutions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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MightyMartian writes "The company I work for has just had their
government contract renewed, which is good news, giving me several more
years of near-guaranteed employment! However, in going through all the
schedules and supplementary documents related to the old contract, which
we will begin winding down next spring, we've discovered some pretty
stiff data remanence requirements that, for hard drives at least, boil
down to 'they must be sent to an appropriately recognized facility for
destruction.' Now keep in mind that we are the same organization that has
been delivering this contract all along, so the equipment isn't going
anywhere. What's more, destruction of hard drives means we have to buy
new ones, which is going to cost us a lot of money, particular with
prices being so high. I've looked at using encryption as a means of
destroying data, in that if you encrypt a drive or a set of files with an
appropriately long and complex key, and then destroy all copies of that
key, that data effectively is destroyed. I'd like to write up a report to
submit to our government contract managers, and would be interested if
any Slashdotters have experience with this, or have any references or
citations to academic or industry papers on dealing with data remanence
without destroying physical media?"
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| Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85
| from the rest-in-peace dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 23, @01:25 (Books)
| with 169 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0359219/anne-mccaffrey-passes-away-at-85?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]JSC writes "Anne McCaffrey [1]died Monday at her home after suffering
a stroke. 'In the late 1960s she became the first woman to win a Hugo
Award for a work of fiction and the first woman to win a Nebula Award.
She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006.' She will
be missed by Dragons and their Riders the world over."
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Links:
0. mailto:jcoxen@v%5B%5Dzon.net%5B'eri'ingap%5D
1. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45409015/ns/today-books/#.TsxtqGOP5nI
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| 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook
| from the closer-than-you-think dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @17:43 (Facebook)
| with 142 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/218247/474-degrees-of-separation-on-facebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter perryizgr8 writes "Facebook Data Team has
taken all the friends data of everyone on Facebook and analyzed it,
finding out [0]the shortest distance between every two persons. They can
now confidently say that the average [1]degree of separation between any
two humans is 4.74, not six as previously claimed by various entities."
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https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/218247/474-degrees-of-separation-on-facebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/anatomy-of-facebook/10150388519243859
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/technology/between-you-and-me-4-74-degrees.html
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| Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday
| from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @16:05 (Businesses)
| with 136 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/2023223/malls-track-shoppers-cell-phones-on-black-friday?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]antdude writes in with a story about two U.S. malls that plan on
tracking shoppers' movements by monitoring the signals from their cell
phones this Friday. "The management company of both malls, Forest City
Commercial Management, says personal data is not being tracked. 'We won't
be looking at singular shoppers,' said Stephanie Shriver-Engdahl, vice
president of digital strategy for Forest City. '[1]The system monitors
patterns of movement. We can see, like migrating birds, where people are
going to.' Still, the company is preemptively notifying customers by
hanging small signs around the shopping centers. Consumers can opt out by
turning off their phones."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/2023223/malls-track-shoppers-cell-phones-on-black-friday?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/22/technology/malls_track_cell_phones_black_friday/index.htm
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| Internet Water Army On the March
| from the or-on-the-wade dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 22, @22:20 (Spam)
| with 132 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0050243/internet-water-army-on-the-march?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter kermidge sends in an article at the Physics arXiv blog
about what's called the "Internet Water Army," large groups of people in
China who are [0]paid to "flood" internet sites with comments and reviews
about various products. Researchers at the University of Victoria went
undercover to figure out exactly how these informational (or
disinformational) floods operate, and [1]what they learned (PDF) could
lead to better spam-detection software. Quoting: "They discovered that
paid posters tend to post more new comments than replies to other
comments. They also post more often with 50 per cent of them posting
every 2.5 minutes on average. They also move on from a discussion more
quickly than legitimate users, discarding their IDs and never using them
again. What's more, the content they post is measurably different. These
workers are paid by the volume and so often take shortcuts, cutting and
pasting the same content many times. This would normally invalidate their
posts but only if it is spotted by the quality control team. So Cheng and
co built some software to look for repetitions and similarities in
messages as well as the other behaviors they'd identified. They then
tested it on the dataset they'd downloaded from Sina and Sohu and found
it to be remarkably good, with an accuracy of 88 per cent in spotting
paid posters."
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Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27357/?p1=blogs
1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4297
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| Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed
| from the why-all-the-hate dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @15:43 (Software)
| with 130 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1733236/secure-syslog-replacement-proposed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]LinuxScribe writes with this bit from IT World: "In an effort to foil
crackers' attempts to cover their tracks by altering text-based syslogs,
and improve the syslog process as a whole, developers Lennart Poettering
and Kay Sievers are [1]proposing a new tool called The Journal. Using
key/value pairs in a binary format, The Journal is [2]already stirring up
a lot of objections." Log entries are "cryptographically hashed along
with the hash of the previous entry in the file" resulting in a
verifiable chain of entries. This is being done as an extension to
[3]systemd ([4]git branch). The design doesn't just make logging more
secure, but [5]introduces a number of overdue improvements to the logging
process. It's even compatible with the [6]standard syslog interface
allowing it to either coexist with or replace the usual syslog daemon
with minimal disruption.
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Links:
0. mailto:brian@proffitt.org
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/227291/linux-syslog-may-be-way-out
2. http://lwn.net/Articles/468049/#Comments
3. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
4. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/log/?h=journal
5. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBAGRL6wl97tFxgjLUEHIX3MSTs
6. http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Syslog.html
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| Lost Russian Mars Probe Phones Home
| from the it-was-just-resting dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @13:55 (Australia)
| with 116 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1816209/lost-russian-mars-probe-phones-home?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "The [1]lost Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt has
made a surprise announcement: [2]she's alive. According to the European
Space Agency (ESA) in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a tracking
station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal from the ailing
spacecraft."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/11/1959212/russians-cant-make-contact-with-busted-space-probe
2. http://news.discovery.com/space/lost-russian-mars-probe-phones-home-111123.html
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| US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE
| from the dsm-v-to-add-congressional-service-to-axis-ii dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @09:36 (China)
| with 112 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1331209/us-government-probes-huawei-and-zte?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "Two leading Chinese telecoms companies, Huawei and
ZTE, are [1]under investigation for possible spying in the U.S. A
government committee says the companies may be stealing U.S. economic
secrets, and use of their equipment [2]might open U.S. infrastructure to
espionage."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1331209/us-government-probes-huawei-and-zte?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/us-probes-huawei-zte-spying-link-46769
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/21/us_probe_chinese_telco_firms/
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| South Korea Blocks Late-Night Online Gaming for Adolescents
| from the digital-curfew-keeping-the-zerg-safe dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 22, @23:28 (Games)
| with 105 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/030238/south-korea-blocks-late-night-online-gaming-for-adolescents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "In its effort to curb game addiction among
adolescents, South Korea [0]pulled the plug this weekend on young gamers
after midnight by blocking access to game websites, putting a hotly
debated law into practice. The new system called the 'shutdown law,' also
referred to as the 'Cinderella law,' blocks those under the age of 16
from accessing gaming websites after midnight and has fueled heated anger
among younger gamers and avid game fans. Critics point out that many
teenagers hold gaming accounts created with their parent's personal
information, easily providing them with an alternative log-in option.
'You can say someone is an alcoholic if they drink more than three
bottles (of liquor) a day, but you can't call them alcoholic because they
drink after midnight. It's the same with gaming,' Lee Byung-chan, the
lawyer who filed the petition on behalf of parents and a young gamer
said. 'From the parents' point of view, it violates their right to
educate their children,' Lee added. It is for the parents to decide what
time they want to allow their children to play games or not, not for the
government to exclude them from that process, the argument goes."
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Links:
0. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/south-korea-gaming/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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| Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed
| from the good-news-for-warp-core-engineers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 23, @05:12 (Space)
| with 105 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/044213/cosmic-antimatter-excess-confirmed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "In 2008, the Italian satellite PAMELA picked up an
unusual signal: a spike in antimatter particles whizzing through space.
The discovery, controversial at the time, hinted that physicists might be
coming close to detecting dark matter, an enigmatic substance thought to
account for 85% of the matter in the universe. Now, [0]new data from
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirm the spike ([1]abstract)."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/cosmic-antimatter-excess-confirm.html?ref=hp
1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0521
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| Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack
| from the anonymous-not-affliated-with-yippies dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @11:44 (Security)
| with 83 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1618235/water-pump-destruction-not-due-to-scada-hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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knifeyspooney writes "According to the Springfield State
Journal-Register, the city's recent public water system [0]failure was
not caused by malicious activity. One water district trustee spoke this
gem: 'First, they tell us that it's the [1]first instance of cyber
hacking in the entire world, and everyone goes nuts. Now, all of a
sudden, [2]they tell us it's not.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x1514729787/Homeland-security-official-No-malicious-activity-linked-to-water-pump
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/18/1830230/feds-investigating-water-utility-pump-failure-as-possible-cyberattack
2. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11997
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| Nokia-Siemens Axing 17,000 Positions
| from the competition-is-tough dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @12:30 (Networking)
| with 71 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1658246/nokia-siemens-axing-17000-positions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes with troubling news for the network hardware
joint-venture between Nokia and Siemens. Quoting the article: "Struggling
network infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to cut
17,000 jobs worldwide, as it [0]aims to cut $1.35 billion from its costs
by the end of 2013, the company said Wednesday. About 23% of the
company's 74,000 employees will be laid off. The 4 1/2-year-old joint
venture between Nokia and Siemens has been struggling to compete with
Swedish Ericsson and Chinese vendor Huawei. Parent company Nokia's
ongoing problems have made Nokia Siemens' situation even more difficult."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112311-nokia-siemens-to-slash-17000-253436.html
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| Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses
| from the get-your-learn-on dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @18:33 (Education)
| with 71 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/2159216/stanfords-free-computer-science-courses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Stanford University is offering the online world more of
its [0]undergraduate level CS courses. These free courses consist of You
Tube videos with computer-marked quizzes and programming assignments. The
ball had been started rolling by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig's free
online version of their [1]Stanford AI class, for which they hoped to
reach an audience in the order of a hundred thousand, a target which they
seem to have achieved. As well as the previously announced [2]Machine
learning course you can now sign up to any of: Computer Science 101,
Software as a Service, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language
Processing, Game Theory, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Cryptography and
Design and Analysis of Algorithms. Almost a complete computer science
course and they are adding more. Introductory videos and details are
available from each courses website."
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Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3361-stanfords-free-computer-science-courses.html
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/04/1646210/Stanford-Intro-To-AI-Course-Offered-Free-Online
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/21/1820240/more-stanford-computing-courses-go-free
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| Ask Hacker and Security Gadfly Moxie Marlinspike
| from the pre-thanksgiving-treat dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday November 23, @13:10 (Android)
| with 60 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1612230/ask-hacker-and-security-gadfly-moxie-marlinspike?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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As a security researcher, [0]Moxie Marlinspike has played a big role in
explaining [1]what can go wrong in using Certificate Authorities to
authenticate SSL traffic, an issue that's been top of mind this year
thanks to [2]compromised and [3]faked certificates. On that front, he's
lately come up with a [4]system designed to circumvent CAs entirely,
which means bypassing compromised (or invidious) authorities, rather than
trying to patch the CA system. Another line of research, but not the only
one, is mobile security and privacy; his [5]Whisper Monitor Android
firewall, released earlier this year, gives Android users notifications
(and fine-grained permissions) when apps ��� including location-tracking or
malware apps ��� want to make outbound connections. Possibly related: Moxie
can also speak first-hand about what new border-search policies mean for
travelers, having [6]had his laptop and phones seized on returning to the
U.S. from a trip. (And by the way, he's also an accomplished sailor and
film-maker.) Moxie's agreed to answer your questions. Ask as many
questions as you'd like, but please, be kind of rewind^wask [7]don't ask
unrelated questions in the same post.
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Links:
0. http://www.thoughtcrime.org/about.html
1. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/11/1814220/ssl-and-the-future-of-authenticity
2. http://slashdot.org/slashdot.org/tag/diginotar
3. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1957200/phony-web-certs-issued-for-google-yahoo-skype
4. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/05/2134219/ssl-certificate-authorities-vs-convergence-perspectives
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/0428224/marlinspikes-droid-firewall-kills-tracking
6. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0332243/whitehat-hacker-moxie-marlinspikes-laptop-cellphones-seized
7. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| The Physics of Wine Swirling
| from the just-drink-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 23, @16:24 (Idle)
| with 57 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/2036211/the-physics-of-wine-swirling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Meet the new flavor of wine: [0]fruity with a hint
of fluid dynamics. Oenophiles have long gotten the best out of their reds
by giving their glasses a swirl before sipping. A new study has revealed
the physics behind that sloshing, showing that three factors may
determine whether your merlot arcs smoothly or starts to splash. The
researchers also landed on another important discovery: how overly
enthusiastic wine swirlers manage to splash their drinks, possibly
staining their sweaters."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/the-physics-of-wine-swirling.html?ref=hp
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| MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits
| from the look-into-the-light dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @11:03 (Network)
| with 50 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1519205/mit-researchers-make-advance-toward-photonic-circuits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with this excerpt from an article in Extreme Tech:
"Light-emitting diodes are a cornerstone of consumer tech. They make
thin-and-light TVs and smartphones possible, provide efficient household,
handheld, and automobile illumination, and, of course, without LEDs your
router would not have blinkenlights. Thanks to some engineers from MIT,
though, [1]a new diode looks set to steal the humble LED's thunder.
Dubbed a diode for light, and crafted [2]using standard silicon chip
fabrication techniques, this is a key discovery that will pave the path
to [3]photonic (as opposed to electronic) pathways on computer chips and
circuit boards. The diode for light ��� which is made from a thin layer of
garnet ��� is transparent in one direction, but opaque in the other. Garnet
is usually hard to deposit on a silicon wafer, but the MIT [4]researchers
found a way to do it."
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/106433-mit-creates-diode-for-light-makes-photonic-silicon-chips-possible
2. http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/optical-computing-diode-1123.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_integrated_circuit
4. http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2011.270.html
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| Evolution Of Debian Package Dependencies Resemble Predator-Prey Relationships
| from the tastes-like-superturkey dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, @14:58 (Debian)
| with 48 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1547234/evolution-of-debian-package-dependencies-resemble-predator-prey-relationships?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have [0]performed an ecological
analysis of software packages in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution over
time; they found that dependencies can be [1]successfully modeled as a
predator-prey relationship."
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Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/over-time-linux-package-dependencies-show-predatorprey-relationship.ars
1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115960108
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| A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab
| from the not-that-lab-but-the-other-lab dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 23, @02:19 (Robotics)
| with 44 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/0347212/a-new-class-of-inflatable-robots-by-otherlab?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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HizookRobotics writes "Inflatable robots have the potential to be
low-cost, lightweight, extremely powerful, and yet 'human safe' ��� in
other words, perfect for many robotics applications. Here are two new
examples: [0]a 15-foot-long walking robot (a Pneubot named Ant-Roach) and
a complete, inflatable robot arm (plus hand). Both of these robots were
developed by [1]Otherlab as part of their 'pneubotics' project (in
collaboration with [2]Meka Robotics and Manu Prakash at Stanford
University), with some funding from [3]DARPA's Maximum Mobility and
Manipulation program. These robots use textile-based, inflatable
actuators that contract upon inflation into specially-designed shapes to
effect motion. Since these robots are built out of lightweight
fabric-and-air structural members and powered via pneumatics or
hydraulics, they exhibit large strength-to-weight ratios. For example,
Ant-Roach is less than 70 lbs and can probably support up to 1000 lbs;
the inflatable robot arm is less than 2 lbs and can lift a few hundred
pounds at 50-60 psi."
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Links:
0. http://www.hizook.com/blog/2011/11/21/inflatable-robots-otherlab-walking-robot-named-ant-roach-and-complete-arm-plus-hand
1. http://www.otherlab.com/
2. http://mekabot.com/
3. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Maximum_Mobility_and_Manipulation_(M3).aspx
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