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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities?
* Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks
* Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time
* NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks
* Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions
* MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners
* Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS?
* Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation
* Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too
* How Photoshopped Is That Picture?
* Inside the World's Largest LAN Party
* 30 Years of the BBC Micro
* TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970
* Fire Burns Differently In Space
* WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study
* OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes
* Fate Saves Workprint of <em>Manos: The Hands of Fate</em>
* Aleph One 1.0 Released
* Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments
* UK Plans Space Based Radar System
* Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover'
* Mobile Industry Rolls Out Game Rating System
* New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs
* RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken
* Ruby Clouds: Engine Yard Vs. Heroku
* Tracking Censorship Through Copyright Proposals Worldwide
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| Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities?
| from the when-moral-rectitude-stinks-to-high-heaven dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @11:48 (Earth)
| with 773 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1644245/should-composting-be-mandatory-in-us-cities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "After San Francisco enacted the
[1]nation's strictest regulations on composting in 2009, the city has
increased the amount of food scraps and plant cuttings it composts to
more than 600 tons per day, more than any other city in North America,
and recently [2]celebrated the collection one million tons of organic
materials. Other cities have been watching as Seattle passed a similar
mandate in 2010 diverting about 90,000 tons of organic waste from
landfills in the first year and New York City is trying to figure out
[3]how to implement this type of program for its 8 million residents. The
impact is potentially huge in terms of reducing the load on landfills as
a study by San Francisco's Department of Environment shows that more than
one third of all waste entering landfills could be composted instead. "We
want to see composting be a standard for everybody," says Michael Virga,
executive director of the U.S. Composting Council. "Urban, suburban, it
doesn't really matter where you are." Although composting initially costs
more than land-filling, [4]over the long-term, the benefits will outweigh
the costs. "We can reduce a large source of landfill-generated greenhouse
gases, extend the life of our landfill, and generate a valuable resource
for the community in the form of premium soil and mulch," writes Shanon
Boase. "What's more, this [5]industry generates additional jobs.""
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https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1644245/should-composting-be-mandatory-in-us-cities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2011/11/composting-be-mandatory/587/
2. http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/11/sf-celebrates-composting-milestone.php
3. http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/04/26/why-composting-still-vexes-new-york-city/
4. http://earthcycle.com/blog/2010/04/09/benefits-of-city-composting/
5. http://www.fraserrichmond.ca/history/
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| Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks
| from the forced-charity dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 30, @22:32 (Crime)
| with 498 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0049204/anonymous-threatens-robin-hood-attacks-against-banks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "Just in time for the holidays, hacktivist collective
Anonymous has announced that it has teamed up with like-minded group
TeaMp0isoN to donate to charity. The catch: they're [1]using stolen
credit data from big banks to make donations, in a campaign they're
calling Operation Robin Hood. Is the #OpRobinHood campaign for real, or
like previous threats against Wall Street and Facebook, just another
hoax? Aesthetically, at least, the OpRobinHood video ticks all of the
traditional Anonymous aesthetic requirements: a mashed-up 'p0isoaNoN'
logo (green on black), a liberal dose of swelling choral music (via that
movie trailer staple 'Europa,' by Globus), together with selected clips
of Kevin Costner as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0049204/anonymous-threatens-robin-hood-attacks-against-banks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232200481
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| Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time
| from the low-cholesterol-for-everyone dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 30, @19:32 (Businesses)
| with 461 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/2233253/patent-expires-on-best-selling-drug-of-all-time?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The [1]U.S. patent has just expired on Lipitor,
the best-selling drug of all time, as the first generic versions go on
sale, marking the end of a brand that has dominated the drug industry,
lowered the cholesterol of tens of millions of patients, and generated
$10.7 billion last year in annual sales. But drug manufacturer Pfizer,
dependent on Lipitor for almost one-fifth of the company's revenue,
[2]does not intend to go down without a fight. Pfizer is employing
unprecedented tactics to hold onto as many Lipitor prescriptions as it
can with an aggressive marketing plan and forging deals with insurers,
pharmacy benefit managers and patients to meet or beat the price of its
generic replacements because even at the lower price, [3]Pfizer has a
huge profit margin because of the relatively low cost of materials for
Lipitor. Some deals require pharmacies to reject prescriptions for
low-cost generics and substitute a discounted name-brand Lipitor while
other deals block generic makers from mail-order services that account
for an estimated 40 percent of all Lipitor prescriptions. 'Pfizer's
tactic of [4]dressing up as a generics company is pulling the rug under
the incentive system created to foster the development of generic drugs,'
says attorney David A. Balto."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/2233253/patent-expires-on-best-selling-drug-of-all-time?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/30/why-there-will-never-be-another-drug-like-lipitor/
2. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/30/lipitor-idUSN1E7AT06B20111130
3. http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/01/which-drugs-have-the-biggest-pre-tax-margins/
4. http://www10.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/health/generic-lipitor-sets-off-an-aggressive-push-by-pfizer.html?_r=5
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| NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks
| from the no-processor-left-behind dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @10:20 (Android)
| with 354 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1518244/nvidias-tegra-3-outruns-apples-a5-in-first-benchmarks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "NVIDIA's new Tegra 3 SoC (System on a Chip) has
recently been released for [1]performance reviews in the Asus Eee Pad
[2]Transformer Prime Android tablet. Tegra 3 is comprised of a quad-core
primary CPU complex with a 5th companion core for lower-end processing
requirements and power management. The chip can scale up to 1.4GHz on a
single core and 1.3GHz on up to four of its cores, while the companion
core operates at 500MHz. It makes for a fairly impressive new tablet
platform and offers performance that [3]bests Apple's A5 dual-core
processor in more than a few tests. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime
with optional keyboard dock and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 is set to be available
in volume sometime around December 19th."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1518244/nvidias-tegra-3-outruns-apples-a5-in-first-benchmarks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Asus-Eee-Pad-Transformer-Prime-Preview/
2. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/1624211/asus-unveils-quad-core-transformer-prime-tablet
3. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Asus-Eee-Pad-Transformer-Prime-Preview/?page=7
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| Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions
| from the source-is-open-start-your-own-distro dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @14:02 (Operating Systems)
| with 335 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1815242/red-hats-linux-changes-raise-new-questions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Last month two Red Hat developers proposed to
[1]replace the 30-year-old syslog system with a new Journal daemon.
Initial reaction was mostly negative and 'focused on the Journal's use of
a binary key-value form of data to log system events,' says blogger Brian
Proffit. But now, says Proffitt, it seems that the proposal to replace
syslog has less to do with the fixing syslog's problems than with Red
Hat's desire to [2]go its own way with Linux infrastructure."
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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1815242/red-hats-linux-changes-raise-new-questions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1733236/secure-syslog-replacement-proposed
2. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/229513/red-hats-linux-changes-fixes-or-isv-positioning
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| MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners
| from the jail's-too-good-for-them dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @12:33 (Transportation)
| with 274 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1730250/mit-algorithm-predicts-red-light-runners?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "Researchers at MIT have developed an [0]algorithm
that determines which drivers will run a red light, within one to two
seconds before a potential collision. The research, based on 15,000 cars
at a busy intersection, monitored various factors to determine which cars
were were likely to run a red light. They found that their predictions
were correct about 85 percent of the time, which is about 15-20 percent
better than existing traffic prediction algorithms."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1730250/mit-algorithm-predicts-red-light-runners?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397106,00.asp
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| Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS?
| from the when-you-want-to-control-the-vertical-and-horizontal dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @13:17 (Wireless Networking)
| with 272 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/182224/ask-slashdot-best-flash-friendly-router-to-replace-aging-wrt54gs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Juggler00 writes "I have been running DD-WRT (v24-sp2) on
my Linksys WRT54GS for a couple of years now. I'm now finding that the
box cannot keep up with the requests/requirements I have for it--it
simply does not have the MIPS/horsepower. I am turning to the collective
wisdom of the Slashdot community for 2 things: what alternative firmware
should I be using (DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, or something else?) and based
on the answer to this question, what is the suggested router to purchase
to flash? My software requirements include DynDNS client, DHCP server
providing option 66, static IP assignment based on MAC, port forwarding,
and basic QoS (bittorrent lowest priority). For hardware, I'm looking for
GigE ports and 802.11N (5.8GHz not a requirement)."
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| Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation
| from the keeping-the-cool dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 30, @21:03 (Earth)
| with 255 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0017231/permafrost-loss-greater-threat-than-deforestation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Pierre Bezukhov writes "Emissions from thawing [0]permafrost may
contribute more to global warming than deforestation this century,
according to commentary in the journal Nature. Arctic warming of 7.5
degrees Celsius (13.5 degrees Fahrenheit) this century may unlock the
equivalent of 380 billion tons of carbon dioxide as soils thaw, allowing
carbon to escape as CO2 and methane, University of Florida and University
of Alaska biologists wrote today in Nature. Two degrees of warming would
release a third of that, they said. The Arctic is an important harbinger
of climate change because the United Nations calculates it's warming at
almost twice the average rate for the planet. The study adds to pressure
on United Nations climate treaty negotiators from more than 190 countries
attending two weeks of talks in Durban, South Africa that began Nov. 28."
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| Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too
| from the y'know-to-be-fair dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @09:33 (Cellphones)
| with 216 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1418245/carrier-iq-software-may-be-in-ios-too?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Howard Beale writes with this excerpt from The Verge: "To
date, the user tracking controversy surrounding Carrier IQ has focused
primarily on Android, but today details are surfacing that the company
also [0]may have hooks into Apple's iOS. Well-known iPhone hacker
[1]Chpwn tweeted today that versions at least as recent as iPhone OS
3.1.3 contained references to Carrier IQ and later confirmed it's in all
versions of iOS, including iOS 5." The details are still emerging;
however, iPhone users will be happy to hear that while it's reported that
the software is available to the OS, "the good news is that it does not
appear to actually send any information so long as a setting called
DiagnosticsAllowed is set to off, which is the default."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1418245/carrier-iq-software-may-be-in-ios-too?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2601875/carrier-iq-references-discovered-apple-ios-iphone
1. https://twitter.com/#!/chpwn
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| How Photoshopped Is That Picture?
| from the pretty-darn dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @12:54 (Graphics)
| with 196 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1752210/how-photoshopped-is-that-picture?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Freddybear writes "Digital forensics experts at Dartmouth have developed
[0]software that can analyze digital photos to rate [1]how drastically
they have been altered by digital editing techniques. 'The Dartmouth
research, said Seth Matlins, a former talent agent and marketing
executive, could be "hugely important" as a tool for objectively
measuring the degree to which photos have been altered.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/downloads/publications/pnas11/
1. https://nytimes.com/2011/11/29/technology/software-to-rate-how-drastically-photos-are-retouched.html
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| Inside the World's Largest LAN Party
| from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-bag-of-doritos dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 30, @20:20 (Network)
| with 189 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/2343229/inside-the-worlds-largest-lan-party?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "Last weekend, over 12,000 LAN party goers turned up at
DreamHack Winter 2011 in Jonkoping, Sweden with a PC under the arm, on
their back, or packed carefully in the trunk of their car. Every single
attendee is squeezed into just three massive halls ��� the largest holding
5,000 computers ��� or four days, only taking brief breaks to sleep or
check out one of the many stages (including some of the largest e-sport
tournaments of the year). Being [1]the largest LAN party in the world,
DreamHack's infrastructure is suitably monumental: it takes days to lay
the thousands of cables, and at the heart of the network is tower of
Cisco routers that interface with a 120Gbps internet connection provided
by Telia."
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/107245-inside-the-worlds-largest-lan-party
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| 30 Years of the BBC Micro
| from the still-living-in-the-basement-probably dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @08:50 (Education)
| with 189 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1335254/30-years-of-the-bbc-micro?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Alioth writes "The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer,
designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's Computer
Literacy project. It is now [1]30 years since the first BBC Micro came
out ��� a machine with a 2 MHz 6502 ��� remarkably fast for its day; the
Commodore machines at the time only ran at 1MHz. While most U.S. readers
will never have heard of the BBC Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy
project has had a huge impact worldwide since the [2]ARM (originally
meaning 'Acorn Risc Machine') was designed for the follow-on version of
the BBC Micro, the [3]Archimedes, also sold under the BBC Microcomputer
label by Acorn. The original ARM CPU was specified in just over 800 lines
of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now outsells all other CPU architectures put
together. The BBC Micro has arguably been the most influential 8 bit
computer the world had thanks to its success creating the seed for the
ARM, even if the 'Beeb' was not well known outside of the UK."
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Links:
0. http://www.stardot.org.uk/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
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| TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970
| from the blow-up-your-tv dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 01, @18:55 (Television)
| with 146 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/237221/tv-ownership-declines-for-second-time-since-1970?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "Almost every year, the estimated number of U.S. households
owning TV sets goes up. Until now. This year, for the second time since
1970, [0]TV ownership has gone down; by about 1%. TV ownership among the
key adult 18-49 demo also declined even steeper, down 2.7 percent and
percentage of homes without a TV is at the highest level since 1975. The
reasons behind this appear to be online media content and the recession."
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Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/Outside_News/11044.html
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| Fire Burns Differently In Space
| from the half-as-long-twice-as-bright dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @09:54 (ISS)
| with 135 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1447208/fire-burns-differently-in-space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter black6host writes with this interesting snippet from
Space.com: "NASA is [0]playing with fire on the International Space
Station ��� literally. Since March 2009, the space agency's Flame
Extinguishment Experiment, or FLEX, has conducted more than 200 tests to
better understand how fire behaves in microgravity, which is still not
well understood. The research could lead to improved fire suppression
systems aboard future spaceships, and it could also have practical
benefits here on Earth, scientists said."
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Links:
0. http://www.space.com/13766-international-space-station-flex-fire-research.html
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| WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study
| from the tools-for-racking-the-mud dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @11:03 (Privacy)
| with 92 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1530255/wikileaks-launches-new-platform-privacy-study?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "WikiLeaks has launched a new submissions platform,
along with a [1]study of the global trade in surveillance products.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told press conference attendees in
London that all the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Gmail users in the crowd were
'screwed.' 'The reality is intelligence contractors are selling right now
to countries across the world mass surveillance systems for all of those
products,' Assange said."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1530255/wikileaks-launches-new-platform-privacy-study?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/229473/bulletin-wikileaks-launches-new-whistle-blowing-platform
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| OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes
| from the yews-uh-spelt-czech-her dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @16:51 (Cellphones)
| with 90 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1910213/openmokos-freerunner-rises-from-the-ashes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ChristW writes "Remember OpenMoko's first free and open source phones,
the GTA-01 and GTA-02 (also called FreeRunner)? There is a new project
called Phoenux. The German company Golden Delicous is building a new main
board (called [0]GTA-04) for the GTA01/02 case. The new hardware features
a DM3730 (800 MHz) processor, a GTM601W UMTS (HSPA) module, and lots
more." Would you pay extra for a phone that comes with a Debian build?
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Links:
0. http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/
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| Fate Saves Workprint of <em>Manos: The Hands of Fate</em>
| from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-torgo? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 01, @05:24 (It's funny. Laugh.)
| with 88 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0245203/fate-saves-workprint-of-manos-the-hands-of-fate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SEWilco writes "One of the worst horror movies, Manos: The Hands of Fate,
has come back from the grave. The work print was rediscovered during a
move, and an attempt has begun to [0]transfer it to digital HD medium."
If you've never had the joy of watching MST3K's treatment of Manos: The
Hands of Fate you're missing out on 90 mins of magic.
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Links:
0. http://www.manosinhd.com/?page_id=277
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| Aleph One 1.0 Released
| from the win-one-for-the-forge dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @16:10 (Classic Games (Games))
| with 84 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1852225/aleph-one-10-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter treellama writes "Nearly 12 year since
Bungie released the source code for Marathon 2, the Aleph One team is
thrilled to release [0]version 1.0 of the Aleph One game engine. Aleph
One is a Free software, cross platform game engine that supports all
three original Marathon games with enhancements such as OpenGL and
Internet play; as well as numerous third party mods known as 'scenarios.'
Easy to install full versions of Marathon, Marathon 2, and Marathon
Infinity, now featuring high resolution graphics and modern widescreen
HUD support, can be downloaded for free from the project website!"
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Links:
0. http://marathon.sourceforge.net/
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| Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments
| from the not-my-responsibility dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 01, @03:53 (The Internet)
| with 68 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/036253/italian-court-rules-web-editors-not-responsible-for-comments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Internet freedom got a boost Wednesday when Italy's
highest court ruled that the editors of online publications [1]can't be
held legally responsible for defamatory comments posted by their readers.
The judges said online publications could not be treated in the same way
as traditional print media and could not be expected to exercise
preventative editorial control over readers' comments."
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/229303/italian-court-online-editors-not-responsible-reader-comments
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| UK Plans Space Based Radar System
| from the pings-in-space dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 01, @01:08 (Space)
| with 66 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0222211/uk-plans-space-based-radar-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter peepster84 writes "The UK government is to
kick-start an innovative project to [0]fly radar satellites around the
Earth, with an initial investment of ��21m. NovaSar-S would have a number
of viewing modes that could enable it to perform a wide range of roles,
from flood monitoring and land cover management to disaster mapping and
maritime enforcement ��� notably ship tracking and oil spill detection."
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15899186
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| Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover'
| from the fewer-atm-fees-at-least dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @18:12 (Security)
| with 49 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/220203/bank-accounts-vulnerable-for-victims-of-zeus-trojan-variant-gameover?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tsu doh nimh writes "Organized crooks have begun launching
[0]debilitating cyber attacks against banks and their customers as part
of a smoke screen to prevent victims from noticing simultaneous
high-dollar cyber heists, the FBI is warning. The thefts, aided by a
custom variant of the ZeuS Trojan called 'Gameover,' are followed by
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against banks and the victim
customers. The feds say the perpetrators also are wiring some of the
money from victim organizations directly to high-end jewelry stores, and
then sending money mules to pick up the pricey items."
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Links:
0. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/11/ddos-attacks-spell-gameover-for-banks-victims-in-cyber-heists/
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| Mobile Industry Rolls Out Game Rating System
| from the rated-g-for-good-luck-with-that dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 01, @02:23 (AT&T)
| with 47 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0519205/mobile-industry-rolls-out-game-rating-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Mobile telecom trade group CTIA and the Entertainment
Software Rating Board will [0]roll out a rating system for mobile
applications similar to ratings on other electronic games, [1]the groups
announced Tuesday. Six mobile application storefronts will support the
rating system and will roll out the ratings in the coming months, CTIA
said. AT&T, Microsoft, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular and
Verizon Wireless are the founding members of the rating system." An
opinion piece at Gamasutra points out that [2]this initiative falls a bit
flat without Apple or Google on board, since iOS and Android are so vital
to the current mobile gaming industry. "In the long run, the ESRB/CTIA
announcement could be another sign of shifting power in the gaming
industry. Normally, the ESRB gets what it wants. But it has no leverage
against Apple and Google."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112911-mobile-industry-rolls-out-gaming-253529.html?hpg1=bn
1. http://www.ctia.org/media/press/body.cfm/prid/2147
2. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38789/Opinion_ESRB_Mobile_App_Initiative_Underscores_Industry_Power_Shift.php
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| New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs
| from the new-nightmare dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @15:28 (Robotics)
| with 46 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1842232/new-rubber-robot-crawls-through-small-spaces-with-inflatable-limbs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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JoeRobe writes "Researchers at Harvard have developed a
pneumatically-controlled [0]rubber robot that combines undulation and
quadrupedal 'crawling,' allowing it to maintain a low profile while
moving. In a [1]paper published in PNAS (abstract), they describe it as a
'soft robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric
polymers), which is inspired by animals (e.g., squid, starfish, worms)
that do not have hard internal skeletons.' The robot is solely powered by
relatively low pressure (10 psi), and controlled by 5 pneumatic
actuators. The research was funded by DARPA." The paper is [2]also
available (not paywalled) from the researchers' project site (PDF),
complete with more creepy images of the squidbot.
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Links:
0. http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/29/new-rubbery-robots-no-threat-to-r2-d2/?hpt=hp_c2
1. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/21/1116564108.abstract
2. http://slashdot.org/gmwgroup.harvard.edu/pubs/pdf/1135.pdf
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| RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken
| from the hardware-wants-to-be-free dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @17:30 (Blackberry)
| with 45 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/2046249/rim-playbook-tablet-jailbroken?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "A group of researchers is claiming that they've
found [0]a root exploit that enables them to jailbreak the BlackBerry
PlayBook tablet made by Research In Motion. In a video demonstration of
the jailbreak, one of the researchers shows off the ability to change the
settings on a PlayBook and says that he also has the ability to install
the Android Market app on the tablet."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/rim-playbook-jailbroken-researchers-claim-120111
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| Ruby Clouds: Engine Yard Vs. Heroku
| from the silverest-lining dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 01, @08:08 (Programming)
| with 40 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/0432230/ruby-clouds-engine-yard-vs-heroku?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Andrew Glover provides an [1]in-depth
comparison of Engine Yard and Heroku, two cloud-based,
platform-as-a-service offerings for Ruby development. 'To put it simply,
Heroku will appeal more to developers and Engine Yard will appeal to
operations folks. Consequently, when evaluating the two platforms, one's
choice usually comes down to what's more important: Heroku's rapid
deployment via a hands-off infrastructure, or Engine Yard's total control
over all aspects of application deployment, provisioning, and
monitoring.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/ruby-clouds-engine-yard-vs-heroku-180358
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| Tracking Censorship Through Copyright Proposals Worldwide
| from the whack-a-mole-is-played-with-real-hammers dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 01, @14:43 (Censorship)
| with 28 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1827238/tracking-censorship-through-copyright-proposals-worldwide?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jrepin writes "[1]Global Chokepoints is an online resource created to
document and monitor global proposals to turn Internet intermediaries
into copyright police. These proposals harm Internet users' rights of
privacy, due process and freedom of expression, and endanger the future
of the free and open Internet. Our goal is to provide accurate empirical
information to digital activists and policy makers, and help coordinate
international opposition to attempts to cut off free expression through
misguided copyright laws, policies, agreements and court cases. Scroll
down to see a list of countries currently featured for threatening free
expression through copyright censorship."
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Links:
0. http://identi.ca/jrepin
1. http://www.globalchokepoints.org/
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