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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server?

* Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI

* Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers

* Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option?

* i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China

* What If Babbage Had Succeeded?

* Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident

* Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark

* A Right To Bear Virtual Arms?

* Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof

* New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End

* Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran

* The Chinese Town Where Old Christmas Lights Go

* China's Parallel Online Universe

* LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused

* Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection

* Samsung Buys Sony's Stake In LCD Joint Venture


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| Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server?
| from the serving-your-collection dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 25, @23:06 (Debian)
| with 319 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/0030241/ask-slashdot-best-kit-for-a-home-media-server?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter parkejr writes "I started off building a
media library a few years ago with an old PC running Ubuntu. Folders for
photos, ogg vorbis music from my CD collection, and x264 encoded mkv
movies. I have a high spec machine for encoding, but over the years I've
moved the server to a bigger case, with 8 TB of disk capacity, and
reverted back to Debian, but still running with the same AMD Sempron
processor and 2GB RAM. It's working well, it's also the family mail
server, and the kids are starting to use it for network storage, and it
runs both link and twonkyserver, but my disks are almost full, and there
are no more internal slots. The obvious option to me is to add in a
couple of SATA PCI cards, to give me 4 more drives, and buy an externally
powered enclosure, but that doesn't feel very elegant. I'm a bit of an
amateur, so I'd like some advice. Should I start looking at a rack
system? Something that can accommodate, say, 10 3.5" drives (I'm thinking
long term, and some redundancy)? Also, what about location ��� I could run
some cat6 to the garage and move it out of the house, in case noise is an
issue. Finally, what about file format, file system, and OS/software? I'm
currently running with ext3 and Debian Squeeze. Happy with my audio
encoding choice, but not sure about x264 and mkv. I'd also consider
different media server software, too. Any comments appreciated."

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| Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI
| from the king-of-cables dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @09:34 (Businesses)
| with 314 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1248252/customers-gleefully-mock-best-buys-109599-hdmi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Forthan Red writes "It may be a pricing bot
run amok, or a ridiculously over-inflated sense of worth, but Best Buy
has been [0]offering an HDMI cable for a whopping $1,095.99 (currently
sold out!). While Best Buy seems to be oblivious to the absurdity of this
price for a digital cable, those posting customer reviews are not. Enjoy
the mockery!" One of my favorites is: "saved a ton of money on a new TV
on black Friday and decided to use the extra cash to get the best cable
available. At a whopping 3.3 feet in length, this cable is no joke. When
all my friends come over to watch football, they always say 'WOW what
kind of HDMI cable do you have?' I proudly tell them about my audioquest
diamond and its advanced features such as its Dark Gray/Black finish. It
is a great conversation piece! Not to mention it fits into my dvd player
and tv perfectly."

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Links:
0. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/AudioQuest+-+Diamond+3.3'+High-Speed+HDMI+Cable+-+Dark+Gray/Black/2383276.p;jsessionid=310CCC6FDFA4F4B48027114FF363F3FC.bbolsp-app04-32?id=1218324437192&skuId=2383276#BVRRWidgetID

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| Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers
| from the watching-the-yushin dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @05:06 (Earth)
| with 313 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/0252236/anti-whaling-group-using-drones-to-find-whalers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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FatLittleMonkey writes "Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd is using
[0]aerial drones to find and track factory ships used by Japanese whalers.
The group claims the tactic shortened the Japanese whaling season last
year by a month, saving 200 whales, and this year they've spotted the
factory ship even earlier."

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Links:
0. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-25/sea-shepherd-uses-drone-to-hunt-whalers/3746982

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| Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option?
| from the no-more-teachers-no-more-books dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @12:07 (Education)
| with 289 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/156244/ask-slashdot-is-e-learning-a-viable-option?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "My spouse, who is an elementary school
science teacher, has had some experience in e-learning, since her school
gave iPads to all the students. She found that students used these
devices, not for school purposes like note taking, but for gaming, etc.
It got to the point that she banned them from her classroom. Do
technology aids help, or hinder, education? Is the idea that students can
be home-schooled electronically realistic, or absurd?"

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| i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China
| from the spinning-your-wheels dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @11:01 (China)
| with 257 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1431248/i-device-manufacturing-unprofitable-to-china?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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N!NJA writes "One of my favorite facts of this past year was the proof
that [0]China makes almost nothing out of assembling Apple's iPads and
iPhones. From the article: 'If you want lots of jobs and lots of high
paying jobs then you���re not going to find them in manufacturing. They���re
where the money is, in the design, the software and the retailing of the
products, not the physical making of them. Manufacturing is just so, you
know, 20th century.'"

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Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/12/24/china-makes-almost-nothing-out-of-apples-ipads-and-i/

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| What If Babbage Had Succeeded?
| from the steampunk-personal-computing dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, @16:11 (Programming)
| with 155 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1921200/what-if-babbage-had-succeeded?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "It was on this day 220 years ago (December 26 1791) that
Charles Babbage was born. The calculating machines he invented in the
19th century, although never fully realized in his lifetime, are rightly
seen as the forerunners of modern programmable computers. [0]What if he
had succeeded? Babbage already had plans for game arcades, chess playing
machines, sound generators and desktop publishing. A Victorian computer
revolution was entirely possible."

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Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/304-what-if-babbage.html

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| Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident
| from the how-about-condemning-the-earthquake dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, @17:11 (Japan)
| with 152 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/2054258/report-condemns-japans-response-to-nuclear-accident?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar sends this quote from an article at the NY Times: "From
inspectors who abandoned the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as it
succumbed to disaster to a delay in disclosing radiation leaks,
[1]Japan's response to the nuclear accident caused by the March tsunami
fell tragically short, a government-appointed investigative panel said on
Monday. ... In particular, an erroneous assumption that an emergency
cooling system was working led to an hours-long delay in finding
alternative ways to draw cooling water to the plant, the report said. All
the while, the system was not working, and the uranium fuel rods at the
cores were starting to melt."

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Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/world/asia/report-condemns-japans-response-to-nuclear-accident.html

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| Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark
| from the snake-eating-its-own-tail dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, @15:10 (Piracy)
| with 148 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1829238/warner-bros-sued-for-pirating-louis-vuitton-trademark?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You have to love a case where Warner
Brothers, copyright maximalist extraordinaire, gets [1]sued for 'piracy,'
in this case for using a knock-off Louis Vuitton bag in a recent movie.
This lawsuit has been [2]described as 'awkward' for Warner; I have to
agree with that characterization. Louis Vuitton's [3]22-page complaint
(PDF) alleges that Warner Bros. had knowledge that the bag was a
knock-off, but went ahead and used it anyway. Apparently Warner Bros.
takes IP rights seriously only when its own IP rights are involved."

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Links:
0. mailto:ray@beckermanlegal.com
1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2011/12/warner-brothers-sued-for-trademark.html
2. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-louis-vuitton-sues-warner-bros-for-using-fake-bag-in-hangover-ii/
3. http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/louisvuitton_warner_111222Complaint.pdf

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| A Right To Bear Virtual Arms?
| from the preserving-xbox-live's-pristine-reputation dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, @16:36 (XBox (Games))
| with 131 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/2114229/a-right-to-bear-virtual-arms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "In the world of virtual goods, reports GeekWire's Todd
Bishop, it looks like there's no such thing as a Second Amendment.
According to a [0]forum post by an Epic Games community manager, a new
policy will [1]remove 'gun-like' items from Microsoft's Xbox Live Avatar
Marketplace on January 1. The policy reportedly applies to accessories
for the avatars that represent Xbox Live users, not to games themselves,
and owners of virtual weaponry like the [2] Gears of War 3 Avatar Lancer
purchased before the policy goes into effect will be permitted to
continue to wield them."

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Links:
0. http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/870773-Lancer-and-Hammerburst-avatar-items-no-longer-available-on-Marketplace-on-1-1-2012
1. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/xbox-live-removing-guns-from-avatar-marketplace
2. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Lancer/00001000-95ce-e253-cea4-b7824d5308ab

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| Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof
| from the return-to-sender dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 25, @20:06 (Space)
| with 117 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/25/2150210/satellite-piece-crashes-through-mans-roof?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "A Siberian resident miraculously escaped
serious injury or even death when [0]a fragment of a Russian
communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian
satellite that was launched Friday from the Plesetsk space center in
northern Russia on board a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket crashed near the
Siberian city of Tobolsk minutes after lift-off. A titanium ball of about
five kg fell on to the roof of a house in Ordyn district."

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Links:
0. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/russian-meridian-satellite-crashes-into-street-named-after-cosmonauts/story-e6frf7k6-1226230038319

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| New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End
| from the top-to-bottom dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @08:06 (Security)
| with 116 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/0226226/new-car-anti-theft-device-profiles-your-rear-end?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "A car-seat identifier developed at Japan's
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology by Associate Professor
Shigeomi Koshimizu can [1]recognize a person by his or her rear end with
98 percent accuracy when the person takes a seat in his car. The bucket
seat's lower section is lined with 360 pressure sensors that measure
pressure on a scale from 0 to 256, sending information to a laptop, which
aggregates the information, generates the key data and produces a precise
map of the seated person's rear profile. Researchers say traditional
biometric techniques such as iris scanners and fingerprint readers cause
stress to people undergoing identity checks, while the simple act of
getting seated carries less psychological baggage. Koshimizu wants to see
his work [2]available commercially as an anti-theft product in two to
three years if automakers agree to collaborate. He sees possibilities of
this device being used beyond auto-theft identity protection to a device
for security identification in office settings, where users log on to
their PCs as they sit down."

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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-unleash-car-seat-rear.html
2. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/21/car-seat-japan/

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| Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran
| from the dollars-trump-diplomacy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, @14:06 (Businesses)
| with 113 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/182232/israeli-spyware-sold-to-iran?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Bloomberg reports that Israeli trade, customs and
defense officials say they didn't know that systems for performing 'deep-
packet inspection' into Internet traffic, sold under the brand name
NetEnforcer, had [1]gone to a country whose leaders have called for the
destruction of the Jewish state. Allot Communications Ltd., an
Israel-based firm which reported $57 million in sales last year, sold its
systems to a Randers, a Denmark-based technology distributor where
workers at that company, RanTek A/S, repackaged the gear and shipped it
to Iran. The sales skirted a strict Israeli ban that prohibits 'trading
with the enemy,' including any shipments that reach Iran, Syria and
Lebanon. Although Allot officials say they had no knowledge of their
equipment going to Iran and are looking into RanTek's sales, three former
sales employees for Allot say [2]it was well known inside the Israeli
company that the equipment was headed for Iran. 'Israel considers Iran
quite possibly its greatest threat, and so the Israeli government would
come down very strong against any company that exported to Iran,' says
Ira Hoffman. 'Iran is also considered by the U.S. as one of its most
strategic threats.' [3]Israeli lawmaker Nachman Shai has called for a
parliamentary investigation, and the country's Defense Ministry has begun
to examine the report."

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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-26/allot-declines-to-lowest-in-more-than-three-weeks-on-iran-report.html
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-23/israel-didn-t-know-high-tech-gear-was-sent-to-iran-via-denmark.html
3. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-23/israeli-lawmaker-calls-for-investigation-of-iran-equipment-sales.html

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| The Chinese Town Where Old Christmas Lights Go
| from the end-of-the-line dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @02:08 (China)
| with 107 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/0234248/the-chinese-town-where-old-christmas-lights-go?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]retroworks writes "Shanghai based reporter Adam Minter visits [1]where
recycled Christmas Tree lighting goes in China. Visiting Shijao, the town
known as the Mecca for Christmas tree light recycling, he finds good
news. The recycling practices in China have really cleaned up. Plastic
casings, which were once burned, are now recycled into shoe soles in a
wet process. Minter concludes that even if you try to recycle your wire
in the U.S., the special equipment and processes for Christmas light
recycling have been perfected in China 'to the benefit of the
environment, and pocketbooks, in both countries.'"

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Links:
0. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/the-chinese-town-that-turns-your-old-christmas-tree-lights-into-slippers/250190/

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| China's Parallel Online Universe
| from the why-fight-the-media-when-you-can-fight-the-social dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 26, @18:14 (China)
| with 99 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/2217215/chinas-parallel-online-universe?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "China is [0]increasingly operating an online
parallel universe where social media clones 'mimic the functions of the
most popular, internationally recognized social media applications, such
as Facebook and Twitter. The replicas, however, come with a major catch:
they systematically comply with the Chinese Communist Party���s strict
censorship requirements.' They are satisfying the growing demand of
hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens for social media tools, reducing
incentives for them to circumvent the 'Great Firewall,' Freedom House
warns. Testing by researchers found that a search for the names of seven
prominent Chinese lawyers, activists, and journalists on Sina Weibo
returned no results, only an Orwellian notice that 'According to related
laws and policy, some of the results are not shown here.'"

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Links:
0. http://the-diplomat.com/2011/12/27/china%E2%80%99s-parallel-online-universe/?all=true

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| LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused
| from the unopened-mechanized-eye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @10:06 (Crime)
| with 89 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1339248/lapd-surveillance-cameras-go-unused?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]Ethanol-fueled writes "Most of the
surveillance cameras installed downtown and operated by the LAPD [1]have
not been working for two years, according to interviews and records
reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Many of those broke and were never
repaired, and six cameras allocated to the Little Tokyo section weren't
even plugged into the LAPD's monitoring bank. In one case, a 53-year-old
man died after being stabbed and beaten in Skid Row ��� right below one of
the malfunctioned cameras. It probably also didn't help that the cameras
themselves were prone to being coated with pigeon droppings and the
system backend being stored in a room so small that overheating was
frequent. One LAPD Deputy Chief compared the situation to buying a used
car without an extended warranty ��� 'We know the reasons it doesn't work.
Now we're trying to make it work.'"

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Links:
0. mailto:cannulus@gmail.com
1. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-police-camera-20111224,0,6492627.story

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| Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection
| from the beans-without-spam dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @13:04 (Security)
| with 62 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1625222/researchers-build-tcp-based-spam-detection?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "In a presentation at the Usenix LISA conference in
Boston, researchers from the Naval Academy showed that signal analysis of
factors such as timing, packet reordering, congestion and flow control
[1]can reveal the work of a spam-spewing botnet. The work 'advanced both
the science of spam fighting and ... worked through all the engineering
challenges of getting these techniques built into the most popular
open-source spam filter,' said MIT computer science research affiliate
Steve Bauer, who was not involved with the work. 'So this is both a
clever bit of research and genuinely practical contribution to the
persistent problem of fighting spam.'"

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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/networking/235527/naval-researchers-pioneer-tcp-based-spam-detection

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| Samsung Buys Sony's Stake In LCD Joint Venture
| from the all-your-lcds-are-belong-to-us dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, @09:03 (Businesses)
| with 33 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1238225/samsung-buys-sonys-stake-in-lcd-joint-venture?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]rtoz writes "Samsung Electronics has
decided to [1]buy out Sony's entire stake in their Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD) joint venture. S-LCD Samsung will pay Sony 1.08 trillion won
($939m; ��600m) in cash for Sony's entire stake (50% ��� 1 shares) in S-LCD
Corp., a venture formed in 2004 to make TV panels. After acquisition,
Samsung Electronics' stake in S-LCD will be 100%. The move comes as Sony
has been [2]restructuring its TV business, which has been making a loss
for the past seven years."

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Links:
0. http://rtoz.org/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16330877
2. http://rtoz.org/2011/12/26/samsung-buys-sonys-stake-from-lcd-joint-venture/


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