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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Do You Really Need a Smart Phone?
* Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com
* Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models
* Is Overclocking Over?
* Spanish Court Rules In Favor of P2P Engineer
* Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?
* AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested
* Average Web Page Approaches 1MB
* The Fjord-Cooled Data Center
* Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab?
* Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling
* The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password
* New Particle Identified At LHC
* ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent
* Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials
* Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker
* KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available
* USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List
* EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent"
* ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA
* Solar Cells Made From a Spreadable Nanoparticle Paste
* Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech
* Astronaut Photographs Comet Lovejoy<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... From Space
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| Do You Really Need a Smart Phone?
| from the all-depends-on-the-context dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @13:48 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 702 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1839253/do-you-really-need-a-smart-phone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Roblimo writes "My phone is as stupid as a phone can be, but you can
drop it or get it wet and it will still work. My cellular cost per month
is about $4, on average. I've had a cellular phone longer than most
people, and I assure you that a smart phone would not improve my life one
bit. You, too, might find that you are just as happy with a stupid phone
as with a smart one. If nothing else, [1]you'll save money by dumbing
down your phone." I stuck with a dumb phone for a long time, but I admit
to loving the versatility of my Android phone, for all its imperfections.
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Links:
0. mailto:robin@roblimo.com
1. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-ladder/do-you-really-need-a-smart-phone/
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| Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com
| from the dirty-domain-tricks dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 22, @08:49 (The Internet)
| with 597 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0422231/democratic-super-pac-buys-newtgingrichcom?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]netbuzz writes "The [1]purchase of newtgingrich.com by a Democratic
Super PAC ��� and the use of it to highlight Newt Gingrich's political
weaknesses ��� is either amusing or a dirty trick, depending on your
politics and your view of the Republican presidential hopeful. In either
case, however, it is a cautionary tale about the importance of
controlling your brand online, a task that is about to get more difficult
for everyone thanks to the impending expansion of generic top-level
domains."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/227
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/dem-pac-buys-newtgingrichcom-wallops-him-it
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| Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models
| from the baptists-pay-for-bootleggers'-road-trips dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @13:00 (Transportation)
| with 415 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1738227/tesla-motors-announces-prices-for-their-upcoming-models?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Shivetya writes with a list of prices for upcoming models from Tesla,
noting that "[0]they aren't cheap and the prices are listed assuming the
$7500 tax credit. A 160-mile range S will set you back $49,900, the
230-mile is at $59,000, and the 300-mile range S will cost $69,000.
Battery sizes are 40, 60, and 85kwh respectively. For your money these
cars also include a very large seventeen-inch touchscreen. Is this the
electric car you've been waiting for or another rich person's toy?"
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Links:
0. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-update-pricing-and-options
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| Is Overclocking Over?
| from the greased-lightning dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 22, @05:41 (Hardware)
| with 381 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/045245/is-overclocking-over?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "Earlier this week, an ExtremeTech writer received a
press release from a Romanian overclocking team that smashed a few
overclocking records, including pushing Kingston's HyperX DDR3 memory to
an incredible 3600MHz (at CL10). The Lab501 team did this, and their
other record breakers, with the aid of liquid nitrogen which cooled the
RAM down to a frosty -196C. That certainly qualifies as extreme, but is
it news? Ten years ago, overclocking memory involved a certain amount of
investigation, research, and risk, but in these days of super-fast RAM
and manufacturer's warranties it seems a less intoxicating prospect. As
it becomes [1]increasingly difficult to justify what a person should
overclock for, has the enthusiast passion for overclocking cooled off?"
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/109821-is-overclocking-over
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| Spanish Court Rules In Favor of P2P Engineer
| from the no-fine-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 22, @00:52 (Piracy)
| with 321 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0235235/spanish-court-rules-in-favor-of-p2p-engineer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sir Mal Fet writes "In line with [0] previous rulings discussed here, a
judge in Spain has ruled that P2P technologies are "completely neutral" ([1]original
in Spanish ; [2] Google translation ), thus dismissing a lawsuit
originated in 2008 from the Spanish Association of Musical Producers
(Promusicae), Warner, EMI, and Sony suing Pablo Soto, a Spanish man who
created the Blubster, MP2P y Piolet programs to share files. The labels
demanded 13 million euros in damages arguing that the mere existence and
distribution of P2P technologies violated copyright, but the ruling
stated the technology itself was neutral, so the creator could not be
held responsible for how the software was used, and demanded that they
pay for legal expenses. Promusicae said it was going to appeal the
ruling."
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/18/0027235/p2p-and-p2p-links-ruled-legal-in-spain
1. http://www.publico.es/ciencias/413023/un-juez-dicta-que-la-tecnologia-p2p-es-totalmente-neutra
2. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publico.es%2Fciencias%2F413023%2Fun-juez-dicta-que-la-tecnologia-p2p-es-totalmente-neutra
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| Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?
| from the gnome-panel-and-thunar dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @11:40 (GNOME)
| with 290 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1544244/ask-slashdot-assembling-a-linux-desktop-environment-from-parts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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paxcoder writes "Gnome Shell ... is different. Very much so. The fallback
was inadequate. I suspect that many people, like me, turned to the
alternatives. My choice was LXDE, which worked ok, until (lx-)panel broke
in the unstable branch of the distro that I use. Tired of using the
terminal to run stuff, I replaced the standard panel with the one from
Xfce. That made me realize that we really don't need a packaged desktop
environment, there are pieces ready for assembly. If you customize your
graphical environment, what elements do you use? Which window manager,
file manager, panel(etc.) would you recommend? Do you have a panel with a
hardware usage monitors, how do you switch between workspaces? Anything
cool we might not know about?"
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| AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested
| from the that's-rent-in-some-towns dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @12:21 (Graphics)
| with 262 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1559255/amd-radeon-hd-7970-launched-fastest-gpu-tested?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Rumors of AMD's Southern Island family of graphics
processors have circulated for some time, though today AMD is officially
announcing their [1]latest flagship single-GPU graphics card, the Radeon
HD 7970. AMD's new Tahiti GPU is outfitted with 2,048 stream processors
with a 925MHz engine clock, featuring AMD's Graphics Core Next
architecture, paired to 3GB of GDDR5 memory connected over a 384-bit wide
memory bus. And yes, it's crazy fast as you'd expect and supports DX11.1
rendering. In the benchmarks, the new Radeon HD 7970 bests NVIDIA's
fastest single GPU GeForce GTX 580 card by a comfortable margin of 15 ���
20 percent and can even approach some dual GPU configurations in certain
tests." PC Perspective has a [2]similarly positive writeup. There are
people who will pay $549 for a video card, and others who are just glad
that the technology drags along the low-end offerings, too.
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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-28nm-Tahiti-GPU-Review/
2. http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-3GB-Graphics-Card-Review-Tahiti-28nm/
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| Average Web Page Approaches 1MB
| from the includes-the-toaster-and-the-pool dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @15:18 (The Internet)
| with 242 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2015231/average-web-page-approaches-1mb?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "According to new research from HTTP Archive, which
regularly scans the internet's most popular destinations, the average
size of a single web page is [1]now 965 kilobytes, up more than 30% from
last year's average of 702KB. This rapid growth is fairly normal for the
internet ��� the average web page was 14KB in 1995, 93KB by 2003, and 300KB
in 2008 ��� but by burrowing a little deeper into HTTP Archive's recent
data, we can discern some interesting trends. Between 2010 and 2011, the
average amount of Flash content downloaded stayed exactly the same ��� 90KB
��� but JavaScript experienced massive growth from 113KB to 172KB. The
amount of HTML, CSS, and images on websites also showed a significant
increase year over year. There is absolutely no doubt that these trends
are attributable to the death throes of Flash and emergence of HTML5 and
its open web cohorts." If you have a personal home page, how big is it?
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/110099-the-web-in-2011-html5-dominates-flash-trouble-for-data-capped-mobile-surfers
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| The Fjord-Cooled Data Center
| from the norwegian-blue dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 21, @22:18 (Earth)
| with 189 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0110206/the-fjord-cooled-data-center?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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1sockchuck writes "A new data center project in Norway plans to use a
[0]fjord-powered cooling system, drawing cold water from an adjacent
fjord to cool data halls. The fjord provides a ready supply of water at 8
degrees C (46 degrees F), eliminating the need for an energy-hungry
chiller. The [1]Green Mountain Data Center joins a small but growing
number of data centers are slashing their cooling costs by using [2]the
environment as their chiller, tapping nearby lakes, wells and even the
[3]Baltic Sea."
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Links:
0. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/12/20/norways-fjord-cooled-data-center/
1. http://www.greenmountain.no/
2. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/29/using-mother-nature-as-your-chiller/
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/google_finland_data_center_video/
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| Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab?
| from the all-lisp-machines-and-dot-matrix-printers dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @18:23 (Education)
| with 175 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2255200/ask-slashdot-ideal-high-school-computer-lab?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter dmiller1984 writes "I am a high school
computer teacher and I've been put in the unique situation of designing
my ideal computer lab since our high school will be undergoing a major
expansion over the summer. I thought the Slashdot community might have
some great ideas to help me out. I've never liked the lecture hall labs
that I've seen in some schools, but I would like some way to get natural
light in the room without worrying about glare on the computer screens
(skylights, perhaps?). What are some of your ideas for a great computer
lab for education?"
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| Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling
| from the opening-the-tubes dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 21, @19:24 (Canada)
| with 153 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/2237207/bell-canada-to-stop-internet-throttling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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inject_hotmail.com writes "I just caught wind of a story over at the
Huff. [0]Bell Canada has written a letter to the CRTC indicating that it
will end traffic shaping on March 1, 2012. Although Bell says that this
is due to "increasing popularity of streamed video and other traffic" and
'P2P file-sharing, as a proportion of total traffic, has been
diminishing,' it's far more likely that they are interested in higher
revenue. In all likelihood, the change of heart is based on the fact that
Bell has moved most of their customer base to, and offer no alternative
to, low-usage-cap UBB packages, which would ultimately generate more
income or deter full usage of their service (and thus require less
infrastructure investment)."
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Links:
0. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/20/bell-internet-throttling-web_n_1160416.html
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| The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password
| from the guy-with-a-video-camera-also-a-threat dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @17:34 (Security)
| with 152 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2213209/the-problem-with-windows-8s-picture-password?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch
certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's
[0]not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID
token. 'It's cute,' says Kenneth Weiss, who now runs a three-factor
authentication business called Universal Secure Registry. 'I don't think
it's serious security.' The major downside of the picture password is
that drawing a finger across a photo on a touch screen is easy to video
record from a distance ��� making it relatively easy to compromise, he
says."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/122211-windows8-authentication-254372.html?hpg1=bn
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| New Particle Identified At LHC
| from the particularly-new dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @10:14 (Science)
| with 147 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1427215/new-particle-identified-at-lhc?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter m4ktub writes "A team of researchers
working with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC have published an [0]article
in arXiv where they describe what is believed to be the [1]first
observation of a new particle: the boson Chi-b (3P). Professor Roger
Jones, Head of the Lancaster ATLAS group, said 'While people are rightly
interested in the Higgs boson, which we believe gives particles their
mass and may have started to reveal itself, a lot of the mass of everyday
objects comes from the strong interaction we are investigating using the
Chi-b.'"
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Links:
0. http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5154
1. http://www.noodls.com/viewNoodl/12572957/university-of-birmingham/new-particle-at-the-large-hadron-collider-discovered-by-atla
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| ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent
| from the let-the-suing-begin dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 21, @20:11 (Android)
| with 134 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/2344202/itc-judge-motorola-mobility-infringed-microsoft-patent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "An International Trade Commission judge has issued a
preliminary ruling that [0]Motorola Mobility infringed one of Microsoft's
patents. The [1]disputed patent covers storing a meeting request on a
mobile device, and was rejected by the European Patent Office as being
'obvious.' The judge also ruled that six other Microsoft patents were not
being infringed. Experts say that this will strengthen Microsoft's hand
in collecting patent fees on Android. Microsoft recently claimed that it
now collects patent fees on [2]over half of all Android devices sold."
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16284020
1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6370566.PN.&OS=PN/6370566&RS=PN/6370566
2. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/10/23/microsoft-s-new-patent-agreement-with-compal-a-new-milestone-for-our-android-licensing-program.aspx
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| Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials
| from the it's-curtains-for-you-elizabeth-my-dearbook dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @10:57 (China)
| with 99 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1451233/chinese-developer-forum-leaks-6-million-user-credentials?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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gzipped_tar writes "The 'Chinese Software Developer Network' (CSDN),
operated by Bailian Midami Digital Technology Co., Ltd., is one of the
largest networks of software developers in China. A text file with 6
million CSDN user credentials including user names, password, emails, all
in clear text, [0]got leaked to the Internet. The CSDN has issued a
[1]letter of apology to its users. In the letter, it is explained that
passwords created before April 2009 had been stored in plain text, while
later passwords were encrypted. Users created between September 2010 and
January 2011 may still suffer from email address leaks. A summary of the
[2]most frequent passwords without the corresponding usernames is
available at GitHub. Somewhat surprisingly, the cryptic sounding password
'dearbook' ranks 4th with 46053 accounts using it."
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Links:
0. http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/china-software-developer-network-csdn-6.html
1. http://news.csdn.net/a/20111221/309505.html
2. https://gist.github.com/1508676
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| Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker
| from the with-a-method-or-mechanism-for-shaking-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @09:33 (Businesses)
| with 94 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/148256/reinventing-xerox-parc-as-a-money-maker?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bonch writes "After a historical reputation for not monetizing
breakthrough technologies (including the mouse and desktop GUI), [0]Xerox
PARC is now focused on making money from its inventions. CEO Anne Mulcahy
vowed in 2001 to return the company to profitability, encouraging 'open
innovation' and mandating that research turned a profit. The latest
innovation is [1]thin-film printed electronics, intended for a variety of
products, from RFID readers to price labels."
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Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39222/
1. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209572/Thinfilm-Xerox-PARC-team-on-polymer-memory
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| KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available
| from the many-thousands-of-hours-of-work dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @16:21 (KDE)
| with 82 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2053243/kde-48-rc-1-now-available?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jrepin writes "Just in time for some holiday testing, the [1]KDE SC
4.8 Release Candidate is now available. The final release of KDE 4.8 is
about one month away, but now the release candidate is available to
ensure it shapes up to be a solid release. Among the features of KDE
Software Compilation 4.8 is support for Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces,
quite visible improvements to the Dolphin file-manager, KSecretService is
now available as a shared password storage pool, and there's many
performance improvements. Lots of bug fixes (measured in hundreds) can
also be found in KDE 4.8."
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~jrepin
1. http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.8-rc1.php
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| USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List
| from the for-all-your-dungeon-crawling-needs dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @16:02 (Piracy)
| with 60 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2042231/ustr-publishes-rogue-sites-list?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "The U.S. Government has [0]classified some of the largest
websites on the Internet as examples of sites which sustain global
piracy. The list released by the United States Trade Representative draws
[1]exclusively on input from rightsholders. It includes popular torrent
sites such as [2]The Pirate Bay, file-hosting service Megaupload, and
Russia's leading social network VKontakte. VKontakte says that company's
copyright problems are in the past after a deal was made with the USTR.
Also, for the first time in many years, China's leading search engine
[3]Baidu has been removed from the list. However, China's widely used
online consumer and business-oriented online shopping service Taobao
remains listed. The full report can be viewed [4]here. It has no legal
implications whatsoever, but may be referred to by policy makers
regarding future legislation (e.g. [5]SOPA)."
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Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-12-21d/US_Government_Targets_The_Pirate_Bay_Megaupload_and_Others.html
1. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111220/16450617147/ustr-puts-out-its-rogue-sites-list-cant-even-find-20.shtml
2. https://thepiratebay.org/
3. http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-baidu-removed-u-notorious-markets-list-195203531.html
4. http://www.techdirt.com/docstoc_frame.php?oid=109259747
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
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| EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent"
| from the do-we-have-a-password? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 22, @03:18 (EU)
| with 53 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0242235/eu-shipping-sector-cyber-security-awareness-non-existent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twoheadedboy writes "The European maritime sector has [1]next to no
idea about cyber security, according to a report released by the European
Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). The shipping industry,
which carried 52 per cent of goods traffic in Europe in 2010, has
'currently low to non-existent' awareness of cyber security needs and
challenges, the report said. ENISA claimed the lack of understanding was
evident at every layer of the industry, from government bodies to port
authorities and maritime companies."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0242235/eu-shipping-sector-cyber-security-awareness-non-existent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.itpro.co.uk/638005/shipping-sector-security-awareness-low-to-non-existent
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| ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA
| from the why-yes-interior-decoration-is-important dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @14:35 (AMD)
| with 50 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1933256/ornls-newest-petaflop-climate-computer-to-come-online-for-noaa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bricko writes with a description of [0]NOAA's Gaea supercomputer, being
assembled at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It's some big iron: 1.1
petaflops, based on 16-core Interlagos chips from AMD, and built by Cray.
"The system, which is used for climate modeling and resource, also
includes two separate Lustre parallel file systems 'that handle data sets
that rank among the world's largest,' ORNL said. 'NOAA research partners
access the system remotely through speedy wide area connections. Two
10-gigabit (billion bit) lambdas, or optical waves, pass data to NOAA's
national research network through peering points at Atlanta and
Chicago.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1933256/ornls-newest-petaflop-climate-computer-to-come-online-for-noaa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2011/12/noaas-petascale-computer-for-c.html
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| Solar Cells Made From a Spreadable Nanoparticle Paste
| from the soylent-goo dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @16:48 (Science)
| with 45 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2144231/solar-cells-made-from-a-spreadable-nanoparticle-paste?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Notre Dame have [0]created a
nanoparticle paste, which acts as the main ingredient in solar cells that
are very easy to construct. In a [1]short video clip, they can be seen
assembling a functional solar cell with little more than a heat gun,
tape, and some binder clips. The paste is made from a mix of t-butanol,
water, and a mix of cadmium selenide with cadmium sulfide nanoparticles.
So far, the experimental devices are not nearly as efficient as standard
solar cells, but they were just developed. If the materials were slightly
less toxic, it might even be a project that kids could do at home."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/2144231/solar-cells-made-from-a-spreadable-nanoparticle-paste?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://cen.acs.org/articles/89/web/2011/12/Solar-Cells-Paintbrush.html
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cEyOxCwUw8&feature=youtu.be
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| Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech
| from the set-it-free dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 22, @08:07 (Android)
| with 28 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/049241/twitter-to-open-source-android-security-tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Following last month's acquisition of Whisper
Systems, Twitter is [1]open sourcing 'some' of the company's Android
security products. First up: TextSecure, a text messaging client that
encrypts messages. Souce code is on [2]GitHub now. 'Offering the
technology to the community so soon after the acquisition could indicate
that Twitter made the acquisition primarily for the developer talent,'
writes IDG News Service's Nancy Gohring."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/049241/twitter-to-open-source-android-security-tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/234715/twitter-open-source-android-security-tech
2. https://github.com/whispersystems
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| Astronaut Photographs Comet Lovejoy<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... From Space
| from the just-in-the-neighborhood dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 22, @14:54 (NASA)
| with 25 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1946246/astronaut-photographs-comet-lovejoy--from-space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "The sungrazing comet that survived the plunge deep
into the solar corona, only to escape after swinging behind the sun last
week, [1]has posed for an extraordinary photograph. Space station
commander Dan Burbank caught Comet Lovejoy and its impressive tail
hanging above the Earth's horizon as it begins its long journey back into
deep space."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/1946246/astronaut-photographs-comet-lovejoy--from-space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/astronaut-photographs-comet-lovejoy-from-space-111222.html
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