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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70
* Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties
* Dell Ditches Netbooks
* Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet
* Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend
* Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive?
* BT Sues Google Over Android
* IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate
* NFL: National Football Luddites?
* Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws
* Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core?
* AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA
* Researchers Create "Mighty Mouse" With Gene Tweak
* Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle
* Man Changes Name to "Mark Zuckerberg" After Facebook Sues Him
* In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public
* Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions
* MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases
* Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism
* MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data
* Fermilab's New Commercial Research Center
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| North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70
| from the trying-to-contain-my-tears dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday December 19, @00:25 (Government)
| with 487 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/0334244/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-il-dead-at-70?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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As [0]reported [1]by [2]numerous [3]sources, Kim Jong Il has died at the
age of 70 (69 by some tallies), after 17 years as the brutal head of
North Korea. While the cause of death is uncertain, Bloomberg News says
"Kim [4]probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted
pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-korea-north-idUSTRE7BI05B20111219
1. http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/18/4131690/north-korea-says-its-leader-kim.html
2. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggTRbHnVT9qA8_cbG0p5dkbChBvA?docId=CNG.f422d650d5b8ced9ed3fbdc8e3558b87.e1
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693
4. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-19/kim-jong-il-north-korea-s-dear-leader-dictator-dead-at-70-yonhap-says.html
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| Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties
| from the they-don't-make-them-like-they-used-to dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @11:55 (Hardware)
| with 380 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1618254/hard-drive-makers-slash-warranties?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lucas123 writes "Both Seagate and Western Digital [0]have reduced their
hard drive warranties, in some cases from five years to one year. While
Western Digital wouldn't explain why, it did say it has nothing to do
with [1]the flooding of its manufacturing plants in Thailand, which has
dramatically impacted its ability to turn out drives. For its part,
Seagate is saying it cut back its warranties to be more closely aligned
with other drive manufacturers."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1618254/hard-drive-makers-slash-warranties?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222760/Hard_drive_manufacturers_slash_warranty_periods
1. http://bostonglobe.com/business/2011/12/14/thailand-floods-send-hard-drive-prices-soaring/suB0pqJADEMYtbepUgBVpM/story.html
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| Dell Ditches Netbooks
| from the but-what-about-mega-ultra-super-ueber-books? dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 18, @19:01 (Portables)
| with 330 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/2246203/dell-ditches-netbooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Dell has [1]ceased production of Inspiron Mini
netbooks; in effect ending its pursuit of the receding netbook market, at
least for consumer sales. When Dell ran through its stock of the netbooks
several months ago, it declined to manufacture more units."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/410558/dell_pulls_back_from_netbook_market
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| Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet
| from the seriously-the-warranty-just-lapsed-so-be-careful dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @16:15 (Piracy)
| with 209 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1953242/law-professors-on-sopa-and-pipa-dont-break-the-internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Law professors Mark Lemley, David S. Levine,
and David G. Post have just published a piece on the PROTECT IP Act and
the Stop Online Piracy Act. In [0]Don't Break the Internet, they argue
that the two bills ��� intended to counter online copyright and trademark
infringement ��� 'share an underlying approach and an enforcement
philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have
potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the
Internet's addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that
has helped drive the Internet's extraordinary growth, and for free
expression.' They write, 'These bills, and the enforcement philosophy
that underlies them, represent a dramatic retreat from this country's
tradition of leadership in supporting the free exchange of information
and ideas on the Internet. At a time when many foreign governments have
dramatically stepped up their efforts to censor Internet communications,
these bills would incorporate into U.S. law a principle more closely
associated with those repressive regimes: a right to insist on the
removal of content from the global Internet, regardless of where it may
have originated or be located, in service of the exigencies of domestic
law.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/dont-break-internet
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| Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend
| from the taking-care-of-things-personally dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @11:10 (Handhelds)
| with 198 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1526229/businesses-now-driving-bring-your-own-device-trend?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Companies are no longer waiting for users to bring in
their own smartphones and tablets into business environments, [1]they're
encouraging it, InfoWorld reports. 'Two of the most highly regulated
industries ��� financial services and health care (including life sciences)
��� are most likely to support BYOD. So are professional services and
consulting, which are "well" regulated. ... The reason is devilishly
simple, Herrema says: These businesses are very much based on using
information, both as the service itself and to facilitate the delivery of
their products and services. Mobile devices make it easier to work with
information during more hours and at more locations. That means employees
are more productive, which helps the company's bottom line.' Even those
companies who haven't yet embraced bring your own device policies yet
already have one in place, [2]but don't know it, according to recent
surveys."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1526229/businesses-now-driving-bring-your-own-device-trend?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/t/byod/the-new-byod-businesses-are-now-driving-adoption-181887
2. https://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/androids-secret-surge-in-business-181809
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| Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive?
| from the oh-just-grow-the-hair-it's-cool dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday December 19, @06:18 (Businesses)
| with 193 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/0222227/ask-slashdot-transitioning-from-developer-to-executive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter fivevibe writes "I'm about to switch from a
position where I did hands on development to one where I will be building
and managing technical team. I will be responsible for designing and
implementing the company's overall tech strategy. I am excited about this
move but also nervous. It will require a different focus than I had up to
this point, different skills, and different orientation. What should I be
learning, reading, thinking about in order to make this transition
successfully and avoid growing pointy hair?"
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| BT Sues Google Over Android
| from the sue-cycle dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @08:53 (Android)
| with 188 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/139236/bt-sues-google-over-android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]phonewebcam writes "British Telecom is claiming billions of dollars of
damages from Google in a lawsuit filed in the US which says that [1]the
Android mobile operating system infringes a number of the telecoms
company's key patents. The lawsuit, filed in the state of Delaware in the
US, relates to six patents which BT says are infringed by the Google
Maps, Google Music, location-based advertising and Android Market
products on Android. If successful, the suit could mean that Google or
mobile handset makers will have to pay BT royalties on each Android
handset in use and which they produce."
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Links:
0. http://www.androidacademy.com/
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/19/bt-sues-google-over-android?newsfeed=true
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| IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate
| from the name-your-food dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @13:23 (Earth)
| with 188 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1726229/ibm-tracks-pork-chops-from-pig-to-plate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dcblogs writes "IBM is deploying technology in China that allows meat
suppliers to [0]track a single pig all the way from farm animal to pork
chop. Pigs are initially identified with a barcoded ear tag. This
identification is then put on bins used to track the various pig parts as
they pass through the slaughterhouse, processing plant, distribution
center and finally to the clear plastic-wrapped package in a grocer's
case. If a consumer buys three pork chops in a package, 'you know that
these three pieces of pork chop came from pig number 123,' said Paul
Chang, who leads global strategy for emerging technologies at IBM. The
goal is to control disease outbreaks, but theoretically this technology
could allow a grocer to put a picture on the store package of the pig you
are eating."
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222740/IBM_tracks_pork_chops_from_pig_to_plate
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| NFL: National Football Luddites?
| from the let's-take-a-reading-from-the-concussiontron-2000 dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @18:29 (Entertainment)
| with 161 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/2221210/nfl-national-football-luddites?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "The National Football League has been brainstorming with
tech and communications companies on [0]how to bring the NFL into the
21st century. Major-league sports are famously technophobic ��� the NFL
outlaws computers and PDAs on the sidelines, in the locker room and in
press-box coaching booths within 90 minutes of kickoff. But that may be
about to change, which the WSJ's Matthew Futterman speculates could mean:
'Coaches selecting plays from tablet computers. Quarterbacks and
defensive captains wired to every player on the field and calling plays
without a huddle. Digital video on the sidelines so coaches can review
plays instantly. Officials carrying hand-held screens for replays.
Computer chips embedded in the ball and in the shoulder pads (or mouth
guards) that track every move players make and measure their speed, the
impact of their hits, even their rate of fatigue.' Part of the impetus
for the changes is the chance for a windfall ��� the NFL's sponsorship
deals with Motorola and IBM will expire after this season, and the NFL
will be seeking more technology (and presumably cash) from its next
technology partner(s)."
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Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203893404577100683039518086.html
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| Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws
| from the looking-for-that-silver-lining dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @14:50 (Government)
| with 157 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1925208/domestic-surveillance-drones-could-spur-tougher-privacy-laws?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever been spied on by a surveillance
drone? No? Are you sure? Maybe it looked like a hummingbird. Or an
insect. Or maybe it was just really high up. Maybe there's one looking in
your window right now, and if so, [0]there's no law that says it
shouldn't. In a recent article in the Stanford Law Review, Ryan Calo
discusses how domestic surveillance drones would fit into the current
legal definitions of privacy (and violations thereof), and [1]how these
issues could inform the future of privacy policy. The nutshell?
Surveillance robots have the potential to fundamentally degrade privacy
to such an extent that they could serve as a catalyst for reform."
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Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/could-domestic-surveillance-drones-spur-tougher-privacy-laws
1. http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/drone-privacy-catalyst
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| Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core?
| from the told-you-not-to-drink-all-that-soda-pop dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @14:06 (Space)
| with 149 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1842210/is-jupiter-dissolving-its-rocky-core?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Jupiter is the victim of its own success.
Sophisticated new calculations indicate that our solar system's largest
planet, which weighs more than twice as much as all of the others put
together, has [0]destroyed part of its central core. The culprit is the
very hydrogen and helium that made Jupiter a gas giant, when the core's
gravity attracted these elements as the planet formed. The finding
suggests that the most massive extrasolar planets [1]have no cores at all."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/is-jupiter-eating-its-own-heart.html?ref=hp
1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6309
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| AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA
| from the admitting-defeat dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @17:38 (AT&T)
| with 123 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/223231/att-officially-ends-plans-to-acquire-t-mobile-usa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "AT&T has officially announced that [0]it no
longer plans to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. In a press
release, the company said, 'The actions by the Federal Communications
Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not
change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry. It is one of the most
fiercely competitive industries in the world, with a mounting need for
more spectrum that has not diminished and must be addressed immediately.
The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim
solution to this spectrum shortage. In the absence of such steps,
customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/19/att-cancels-plans-to-acquire-t-mobile-usa/
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| Researchers Create "Mighty Mouse" With Gene Tweak
| from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-trap dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @10:24 (Biotech)
| with 100 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1435257/researchers-create-mighty-mouse-with-gene-tweak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "He can't fly just yet, but a team of scientists have
made a big step towards creating a real-life Mighty Mouse. By [0]tweaking
a gene that normally inhibits muscle growth the researchers created a
batch of super-strong mice and worms. The scientists acted on a genome
regulator ��� known as NCOR1 ��� and were able to change the activity of
certain genes. In simpler English, the scientists shut off the thyroid
hormone that keeps most mammals from turning into the Incredible Hulk.
The result was a strain of mice with muscles that were twice as strong as
normal."
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Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/gene-tweak-doubles-muscle-strength/20879/
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| Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle
| from the can't-always-get-what-you-want dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @15:32 (NASA)
| with 99 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1946216/inside-a-last-ditch-effort-to-save-the-space-shuttle?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SkinnyGuy writes "NASA's Space Shuttle could have flown again as early as
2014 [0]if a secret effort to repurpose them for commercial flight had
succeeded. From the article: '[1]Though secret, the plan quickly gained
support and Dittmar described how funding and interest grew dramatically.
"Initially skeptical," she wrote, "people became caught up in the vision
of a Commercial Space Shuttle funded entirely by private and
institutional investors and put back into service to shape new markets."
...In the end, two crucial factors made it all but impossible to revive
the shuttle program as a commercial enterprise or in any fashion. One was
that [2]so much of the Shuttle infrastructure has already been shifted to
other efforts that the revival team could never pull together sufficient
funds to return those resources to the Space Shuttles. Two: The [3]SLS
program.'"
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Links:
0. http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/effort-to-save-space-shuttle/
1. http://www.marylynnedittmar.com/?p=1303
2. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/12/next-gen-shuttle-vehicle-secret-effort-save-orbiters-ends/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
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| Man Changes Name to "Mark Zuckerberg" After Facebook Sues Him
| from the you-need-a-better-plan dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @10:45 (Cloud)
| with 98 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1450204/man-changes-name-to-mark-zuckerberg-after-facebook-sues-him?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "This has to be the funniest [0]Facebook name
story in a while. Facebook disabled the account of Israeli entrepreneur
Rotem Guez because he runs a business called the Like Store, where he
sold Likes to advertisers. Guez countered by suing Facebook for deleting
his accounts on the social network. Facebook countered with its own cease
and desist letter. Guez didn't respond to Facebook's demands. Instead,
[1]he legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. 'If you want to sue
me, you're going to have to sue Mark Zuckerberg,' Guez reportedly told
Facebook."
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Links:
0. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/22/1339223/egyptian-father-names-his-daughter-facebook
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-is-suing-mark-zuckerberg/6375
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| In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public
| from the all-nimbly-pimbly dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday December 19, @03:22 (Australia)
| with 68 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/0525251/in-australia-even-private-facebook-photos-are-public?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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littlekorea writes "Australia's telecommunications regulator has ruled
that one of the country's largest broadcasters, Channel 7, did not breach
the industry code of conduct by [0]lifting photos of deceased persons and
minors from social networking site Facebook. Significantly, the regulator
noted that it doesn't have the legal authority to crack down on
broadcasters that lift material tagged as 'private,' looking to the
Attorney General to provide some legal clarity."
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Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/284896,acma-finds-facebook-photos-are-not-private.aspx
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| Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions
| from the here's-the-scoop dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @12:40 (Privacy)
| with 68 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/179256/moxie-marlinspike-answers-your-questions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A few weeks ago you asked security guru [0]Moxie Marlinspike about all
manner of security issues, being searched at the border, and how to come
up with a good online name. He's graciously answered a number of your
inquiries which you will find below.
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://www.thoughtcrime.org/about.html
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| MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases
| from the cutting-out-the-middleman dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 19, @16:59 (Encryption)
| with 57 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/2140237/mit-software-allows-queries-on-encrypted-databases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sparrowvsrevolution writes "CryptDB, a piece of database software that
MIT researchers presented at the Symposium on Operating System Principles
in October, allows users to [0]send queries to an encrypted SQL database
and get results without decrypting the stored information. CryptDB works
by nesting data in [1]several layers of cryptography (PDF), each of which
has a different key and allows a different kind of simple operation on
encrypted data. It doesn't work with every kind of calculation, and it's
not the first system to offer this sort of computation on encrypted data.
But it may be the only practical one. A previous crypto scheme that
allowed operations on encrypted data multiplied computing time by a
factor of a trillion. This one adds only 15-26%."
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Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/12/19/an-mit-magic-trick-computing-on-encrypted-databases-without-ever-decrypting-them/
1. http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/raluca-cryptdb.pdf
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| Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism
| from the army-of-one dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday December 19, @08:07 (The Media)
| with 36 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/1929237/using-wikileaks-as-a-tool-in-investigative-journalism?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "It took a team of ten reporters working
two months to [1]sift through 250,000 confidential American diplomatic
cables at the NY Times, but when a story idea recently came up that I
wanted to research in more detail, I found Wikileaks to be a very useful
and accessible tool for further investigation. First, some background:
For the past ten years I have written stories about Peace Corps safety
and medical issues, the Peace Corps' budget appropriations, and the work
done by volunteers in their countries of service on a web site I publish
called 'Peace Corps Online.' When the Peace Corps announced last month
they were taking the unusual step of suspending their program in
Kazakhstan and withdrawing all 117 volunteers, I decided to dig deeper
and find out what was behind the decision to leave the country. First I
went to blogs of volunteers serving in Kazakhstan and found that [2]four
rapes or sexual assaults of volunteers had occurred in the past year and
that it had became increasingly difficult for volunteers to conduct their
work. But the biggest revelation was when I found [3]fourteen U.S.
diplomatic cables on Wikileaks that cited elements in the Kazakhstani
'pro-Russian old-guard at the Committee for National Security (the KNB,
successor to the KGB) aimed at discrediting the Peace Corps and damaging
bilateral relations' with the U.S. Further investigation on Wikileaks
revealed how [4]one Peace Corps volunteer had been sentenced to two years
imprisonment in 2009 after 'what appeared to be a classic Soviet-style
set-up.' The volunteer was only freed through the diplomatic efforts of
U.S. Ambassador Richard Hoagland and the personal intervention of
Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/1929237/using-wikileaks-as-a-tool-in-investigative-journalism?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://peacecorpsonline.org/
1. http://www.neontommy.com/news/2010/12/wikileaks-and-future-journalism-interview-new-york-times-scott-shane
2. http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pickens-writes-writes/2011/11/18/sexual-assaults-and-terrorism-are-factors-leading-peace-corps-to-suspend-program-in-kazakhstan/
3. http://researchandideas.com/index.php?title=PCV_Anthony_Sharp
4. http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/4004545.html
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| MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data
| from the gotta-be-here-some-place dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 18, @21:54 (Programming)
| with 29 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/0154227/mapreduce-for-the-masses-with-common-crawl-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter happyscientist writes "This is a nice 'Hello World' for
[0]using Hadoop MapReduce on Common Crawl data. I was interested when
[1]Common Crawl [2]announced themselves a few weeks ago, but I was
hesitant to dive in. This is a good video/example that makes it clear how
easy it is to start playing with the crawl data."
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https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/0154227/mapreduce-for-the-masses-with-common-crawl-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.commoncrawl.org/mapreduce-for-the-masses/
1. http://www.commoncrawl.org/
2. https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/11/15/0057200/common-crawl-foundation-providing-data-for-search-researchers
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| Fermilab's New Commercial Research Center
| from the check-it-out dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 19, @09:40 (Science)
| with 19 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1352200/fermilabs-new-commercial-research-center?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "When completed in 2013, the new research
center will wrap around the Collider Detector at Fermilab and provide a
state-of-the-art facility for [0]research, development and
industrialization of particle accelerator technology. Whereas particle
accelerators like Fermilab's now-defunct Tevatron were once the realm of
the scientist doing basic research on the nature of the universe,
accelerators now have a broader mandate for commercial applications, said
Fermilab Director Pier Oddone. The goal for the facility is to develop
relationships between scientists and private businesses to develop
accelerator technology that can be used in medicine, industry and
national security. Though most people think of accelerators on the scale
of Fermilab's Tevatron or the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, more than
30,000 smaller particle accelerators exist around the world and can be
used for applications other than basic science research. 'The innovation
now implemented in many areas often came about as the by-product of our
pushing the technological envelope of our own accelerators...needed for
advancing particle physics,' said Oddone."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1352200/fermilabs-new-commercial-research-center?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/9487420-417/fermilab-begins-work-on-new-research-center.html
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