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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation?
* Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies
* Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps
* Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply
* IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent
* Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel
* Justifications For Creating an IT Department?
* Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms
* Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S
* Did Microsoft Make Google Pay Triple Rate To Mozilla?
* Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak
* Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday?
* Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation"
* Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed
* Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration
* New York Times Hacked?
* Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University
* PandaBoard ES Benchmarked
* Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway
* Summary of the M-Edge Vs. Amazon Lawsuit
* Experimenting With Robotic Movement
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| Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation?
| from the donating-to-the-not-so-needy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 27, @20:16 (Programming)
| with 783 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0058250/ask-slashdot-handing-over-personal-work-without-compensation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rsmith84 writes "I'm the Senior Systems administrator for a small trade
college. When I was hired on, it was strictly for L3 related tasks such
as advanced server administration, Exchange design and implementation,
etc. They have no in-house programmers, no help desk software, and no
budget to purchase one. I'm a moderate PHP and MySQL programmer on the
side and am easily capable of writing something to meet their needs, but
do not believe I should be A) asked to or B) required to, as my job
description and employment terms are not based upon this skill set. I
like a challenge, and since all of my goals outlined since my hire date
have been met and exceeded, I have a lot of down time. So I wrote the
application. It streamlines several critical processes, allows for a
central repository of FAQ, and provides end users with access to multiple
systems all in one place. I've kept a detailed time log of my work and
feel I should be remunerated for the work before just handing over the
code. The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company
hours. My question is: what should I do? If they are willing to
compensate me, I will gladly hand it over. However, it's been mentioned
that, if I do the project, it is all but guaranteed that I will see no
compensation. The application would streamline a lot of processes and
take a lot of the burden off my team, freeing them up to handle what I
deem to be more challenging items on their respective punch lists and a
better utilization of their time and respective skills. I'm a firm
believer in not getting 'something for nothing,' especially when the
skills are above my pay grade."
Discuss this story at:
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| Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies
| from the no-blood-for-photons dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 28, @08:10 (Businesses)
| with 389 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0236205/prospects-darken-for-solar-energy-companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Although global demand for solar power is still
growing ��� about 8% more solar panels will be installed this year compared
with 2010 ��� bankruptcies, plummeting stock prices and crushing debt loads
are [1]calling into question the viability of the solar energy industry
that since the 1970s has been counted on to advance the world into a new
energy age. Only a handful of manufacturers are now profitable in the
face of too much capacity, which has contributed to a plunge in prices as
government subsidies have been curbed. Prices for solar panels started
2011 near $1.60 per watt, but a buildup of inventory forced manufacturers
into a fire sale toward the end of the second quarter that has pushed
prices to near $1 per watt now. 'The prices that we're seeing today are
likely not covering manufacturing costs in many cases,' says Ralph
Romero. With at least seven solar-panel manufacturers [2]filing for
bankruptcy or insolvency in the last several months and six of the 10
largest publicly traded companies making solar components reporting
losses in the third quarter, public-market investors are punishing the
solar sector, [3]sending shares down nearly 57% this year. Although
winners are expected to emerge eventually, the question is how much more
carnage there will be before that happens. 'The fact of the matter is,
nobody really knows which solar companies will be pushed out of business
or be forced to merge,' writes industry analyst Rodolfo Avalos. '[4]Nobody
also knows how long it will take for the solar industry to improve even
when the forecasted solar global demand for the next 5-10 years is quite
promising.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0236205/prospects-darken-for-solar-energy-companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/23/us-solar-shakeout-idUSTRE7BM0AG20111223
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2011/12/21/solar-millennium-files-for-bankruptcy-as-solar-shakeout-continues/
3. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204552304577117140511996840.html?
4. http://seekingalpha.com/article/316056-investing-in-solar-etfs-vs-individual-solar-companies
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| Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps
| from the little-things-add-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @16:22 (Software)
| with 383 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1833206/why-we-agonize-over-buying-1-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "When it comes to explaining decision making and behavioral
economics, [0]Dan Ariely is the man. In his latest blog post, [1]Ariely
tackles the irrationality of app buying, explaining why the thought of
paying even $1 for an app turns into an agonizing decision for those
perfectly willing to spend $4 on coffee, or $500 on devices that they
arguably don't really need. Had Apple created a really low minimum price
for apps ��� say $0.15 ��� instead of offering free apps on day one, Ariely
suggests, we would be anchored to the idea that apps should cost
something. 'Then paying more (maybe even $2) for an app would be a
simpler step,' he concludes, 'maybe one that we could take as easily as
paying $4 for a latte.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1833206/why-we-agonize-over-buying-1-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://danariely.com/about-dan/
1. http://danariely.com/2011/12/25/the-oatmeal-this-is-how-i-feel-about-buying-apps/
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| Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply
| from the just-buy-some-new-glaciers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 28, @00:20 (Earth)
| with 378 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0226220/melting-glaciers-cutting-peru-water-supply?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a story that may repeat itself in all
mountainous areas dependent on glaciers for their water supply, the
glaciers in Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range are [1]melting so
quickly (PDF) that the water they supply to the arid region is being
[2]threatened 20-30 years earlier than expected. Of the time needed for
the region to adapt to the coming water shortages, previously thought to
be decades, researchers now believe, 'those years don't exist.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0226220/melting-glaciers-cutting-peru-water-supply?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://beckermanlegal.com/
1. http://www.igsoc.org/journal/current/207/j11J186.pdf
2. http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/peru-glaciers-melting-20-years-earlier-expected.html
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| IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent
| from the pizza-is-bad-for-your-paycheck dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @08:51 (IBM)
| with 378 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1313224/ibm-granted-your-paychecks-are-what-you-eat-patent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "On IBM's Smarter Planet, at least as envisioned in Big
Blue's recently-granted patent for '[0]providing consumers with
incentives for healthy eating habits', the FDA will [1]team up with
employers and insurers to determine your final paycheck based upon what
you eat. IBM explains that whether a given food item is considered
healthy may vary based on a number of factors, including 'individual
health histories, family health histories, food intake, exercise
routines, medications, and other health related factors', and may even be
time dependent ('incentives are greater for consumption of a particular
food item during a designated lunch time and less for consumption of the
particular food item during other periods of time'). Before being issued,
IBM's patent request languished for ten years and was only granted after
a Patent Examiner's rejection was overturned on appeal. IBM CEO Sam
Palmisano has been a cheerleader for [2]pay-for-monitored-healthy-eating
on a national level, which seems to be neatly aligned with the [3]goals
of his fellow CEOs on the Business Rountable, who told President Obama in
2009, 'It's very important that we don't have a government [healthcare]
plan competing with a private plan and finding out that our employees or
the citizens in general could go to a plan that doesn't have the same
incentives and requirements and behavioral characteristics to make sure
that they do the right things long term'."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1313224/ibm-granted-your-paychecks-are-what-you-eat-patent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=8,078,492
1. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6582834755_7e0940a607_b.jpg
2. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html
3. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-Business-Roundtable
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| Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel
| from the tower-built-by-java-developer dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @12:36 (Science)
| with 259 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1634247/recent-discovery-contains-oldest-depiction-of-the-tower-of-babel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "The recent discovery of the [0]Tower of Babel stele by
a team of scholars shows what [1]might be the earliest depiction of the
ancient Tower of Babel. The stele belongs to Martin Sch��yen, who also
owns a large number of pictographic and cuneiform tablets, some of the
earliest known written documents. The [2]tablet ([3]reconstruction)
depicts King Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom Babylon was a [4]cultural
leader in astronomy, mathematics, literature and medicine. It's also
interesting to note the somewhat recent [5]Slashdot article linking the
common ancestry of languages to this area."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1634247/recent-discovery-contains-oldest-depiction-of-the-tower-of-babel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.schoyencollection.com/historyBabylonian.html#2063
1. http://news.discovery.com/history/tower-of-babel-111227.html
2. http://www.schoyencollection.com/babylonian_files/ms2063.jpg
3. http://www.schoyencollection.com/babylonian_files/ms2063b.jpg
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia
5. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/15/1423233/all-languages-linked-to-common-source
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| Justifications For Creating an IT Department?
| from the dual-purpose-departments dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @10:22 (Television)
| with 198 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1450246/justifications-for-creating-an-it-department?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jjoelc writes "This may sound like an odd request, so first some
background. I work at a broadcast television station, and I have found it
to be very common for IT to be lumped in with the engineering department
at many stations. I believe this is mainly because the engineers were the
first people in the business to have and use computers in any real
capacity, and as the industry moved to file-based workflows it has simply
stayed that way. I believe there is a need for IT to be its own
department with its own goals, budgets, etc. But I am having a bit of a
rough time putting together the official proposal to justify this change,
likely because it seems so obviously the way it should be and is done
everywhere else. So I am asking for some pointers on the best ways to
present this idea to a general manager. What are the business
justifications for having a standalone IT department in a small business?
How would you go about convincing upper management of those needs? There
are approximately 100 employees at the station I am currently at, but we
do own another 4 stations in two states (each of these other stations are
in the 75-100 employee range). The long term goal would be to have a
unified IT department across all 5 stations."
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| Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms
| from the legal-obligations-are-for-other-people dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @11:08 (Apple)
| with 189 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/145201/apple-fined-by-italy-for-misleading-customers-about-warranty-terms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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beaverdownunder writes "An Italian watchdog has fined Apple 900,000 euros
($1.2m, ��750,000) for [0]failing to inform Italian shoppers of their
legal right to two years of technical support, recognizing instead only a
one-year standard warranty. This had [1]led people to pay extra for
Apple's own support service, AppleCare, which overlapped with the
government-mandated guarantee."
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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/145201/apple-fined-by-italy-for-misleading-customers-about-warranty-terms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16339651
1. http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/27/apple-italy-fine/
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| Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S
| from the seeing-is-believing dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @11:50 (Android)
| with 158 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1536257/samsung-reconsidering-android-40-on-the-galaxy-s?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ghostoftiber writes "The original [1]Galaxy S was the redheaded step
child of the Samsung device line. ... Samsung announced over Christmas
that the original [2]Galaxy S was done, leaving its faithful fans in a
position of having another year on their contracts with no upgrade path.
Users were predictably incensed, and it looks like [3]Samsung changed
their minds. There's also the [4]Samsung Vibrant development forum if you
want Ice Cream Sandwich [5]running on your Vibrant right now." The
original source is bit iffy and implies that the release will not be
fully featured (probably due to hardware constraints). Business Insider
[6]contacted Samsung directly and an official response is expected today.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:josh.knarr+1@gmail.com
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Vibrant
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/2156205/galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-wont-get-android-40
3. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/27/2663320/samsung-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-ics-upgrade-review
4. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=711
5. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362961
6. http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-galaxy-s-android-value-pack-for-ice-cream-sandwich-2011-12
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| Did Microsoft Make Google Pay Triple Rate To Mozilla?
| from the jacking-up-the-price dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @17:59 (Google)
| with 155 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/2120254/did-microsoft-make-google-pay-triple-rate-to-mozilla?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SharkLaser writes "Last week it was announced that Google has [0]renewed
their search deal with Mozilla. The amount Google paid to Mozilla was
surprising: $300 million per year, despite the slightly falling market
share of Firefox. Many took this as charity, and for the purpose of
advancing the web. Now sources in the bidding process have revealed that
[1]Google's main rival in the bid was Microsoft's Bing, along with Yahoo.
This bidding war was costly to Google, which is now paying 300% of what
they used to, just to be Firefox's default search provider. Mozilla
veteran Asa Dotzler is also [2]giving insight into the deal between
Google and Mozilla. 'Google started out as a search company. But that's
not what they are today. Google's primary business is advertising. Google
brought in $9.7B in revenues in Q3'11. 96% of that revenue was from ad
sales. Not all traffic to Google ads is 'organic' though. To help drive
ad sales, Google pays for traffic to their ads. They paid out $2.21
billion, or 24% of their ad revenues in 'Traffic Acquisition Costs.' That
money goes to revenue shares with their AdSense partners and to
'distribution partners' ��� presumably browser makers, PC OEMs, and mobile
OEMs and operators.' Google also pays shareware and freeware distributors
to bundle Chrome and Google toolbar with their programs and games."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/206208/mozilla-and-google-sign-new-agreement-for-default-search
1. http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almost-300m-per-year-in-search-deal-besting-microsoft-and-yahoo/
2. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2011/12/firefox_and_google_-.html
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| Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak
| from the just-over-the-horizon dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 27, @22:05 (Cellphones)
| with 154 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0220238/intel-medfield-soc-specs-leak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "[1]Specifications and benchmarks of Intel's 32nm
Medfield platform ��� Chipzilla's latest iteration of Atom and first real
system-on-a-chip oriented for smartphones and tablets ��� have leaked. The
tablet reference platform is [2]reported to be a 1.6GHz x86 CPU coupled
with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM radios, and an
as-yet-unknown GPU. The smartphone version will probably be clocked a bit
slower, but otherwise the same. Benchmark-wise, Medfield seems to beat
the ARM competition from Samsung, Qualcomm, and Nvidia ��� and, perhaps
most importantly, it's also in line with ARM power consumption, with an
idle TDP of around 2 watts and load around 3W."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0220238/intel-medfield-soc-specs-leak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/110563-intel-medfield-32nm-atom-soc-power-consumption-specs-and-benchmarks-leak
2. http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-s-32nm-medfield-mobile-chip-surprising-performance-power-consumption-leaked/14355.html
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| Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday?
| from the it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @18:49 (Idle)
| with 138 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/2250257/apocalypse-tourism-where-to-celebrate-doomsday?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "December 21, 2012 marks the end of the current
cycle of the Mayan 'Long Count' calendar. And while this has had some
fearful types preparing for the end of the world, others have been
preparing to travel. [0]The Mexican government is expecting 52 million
tourists as part of their "Mundo Maya 2012," campaign to visit the five
regions ��� Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Campeche, over the
next 12 months. So, if you're wondering where to spend the last tourist
dollars you'll have as a breathing human being or just want to see the
looks on those faces when December 21 comes and goes uneventfully,
President Felipe Calderon hopes you'll choose Mexico."
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| Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation"
| from the jumping-on-the-pile dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @17:10 (Piracy)
| with 136 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/2034253/rackspace-sopa-is-a-deeply-flawed-piece-of-legislation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes "Cloud based hosting service provider Rackspace has
joined the ever expanding list of companies that are [0]opposed to the US
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In a blog post, Rackspace CEO Lanham
Napier, said that the controversial bill, which will get its final vote
before the House Judiciary Committee, will do more harm than good,
[1]punishing innocent users in the process. 'The SOPA bill, as it stands,
is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is bad for anyone who uses
the Internet, including Rackspace, the more than 160,000 business
customers that we serve, and the tens of millions of retail customers
that they serve. It is bad for job creation and innovation,' Napier
wrote."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/2034253/rackspace-sopa-is-a-deeply-flawed-piece-of-legislation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/12/28/rackspace-sopa-deeply-flawed-piece-legislation/#ixzz1hporCAx7
1. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/12/24/why-rackspace-opposes-the-%E2%80%9Cstop-online-piracy-act%E2%80%9D/
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| Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed
| from the forecast-is-for-doom dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @13:19 (Privacy)
| with 120 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1743201/data-exposed-in-stratfor-compromise-analyzed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes with an excerpt from an article in Security Week:
"Following news that security and intelligence firm Stratfor is
[0]downplaying the recent hack of its systems, Identity Finder today
shared a detailed analysis of the data released so far by the attackers.
Based on the analysis, [1]50,277 Individual Credit Card Numbers were
exposed, but 40,626 are expired, leaving just 9,651 that are not expired.
In terms of emails, 86,594 Email addresses were claimed to be exposed by
the hackers, but only 47,680 were unique. The hackers have released
personal information for Stratfor subscribers whose first names begin
with A through M, with N through Z expected to be released soon. In
addition to the presently published data compromised during the attack,
the attackers [2]claim that 200GB of company email containing 2.7 million
emails was captured as well." As of posting, [3]Stratfor's website is
still down.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1743201/data-exposed-in-stratfor-compromise-analyzed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/stratfor-downplays-cyber-attack-credited-anonymous
1. http://www.securityweek.com/analysis-data-exposed-stratfor-cyber-attack
2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/antisec-hits-private-intel-firm-millions-of-docs-allegedly-lifted.ars
3. http://www.stratfor.com/
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| Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration
| from the trolling-through-the-ages dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @15:36 (Security)
| with 110 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/191202/progressive-era-hacker-griefed-marconi-demonstration?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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nbauman writes "In June 1903, Gugliemo Marconi and his partner Ambrose
Flemming were about to give the first demonstration of long-range
wireless communication at the Royal Institution in London, which, Marconi
said, could be sent in complete confidentiality with no fear of the
messages being hijacked. Suddenly, the silence was broken by a huge
mysterious wireless pulse strong enough to [0]take over the carbon-arc
projector and make it sputter messages in Morse Code. First, it repeated
the word 'Rats' over and over again (abusive at that time). Then it
tapped out, 'There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public
quite prettily.' Further rude epithets followed. It was Nevil Maskelyne,
a stage musician and inventor who was annoyed because Marconi's patents
prevented him from using wireless. It was the first hacking, to
demonstrate an insecure system."
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Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html
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| New York Times Hacked?
| from the fox-in-the-henhouse dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @14:50 (Security)
| with 97 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1929232/new-york-times-hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter porsche911 writes "It looks like the
NYTimes have been hacked and a large number of subscribers [0]spammed
with messages about cancellation of their service. The phone system is
overwhelmed as well. The Times is currently saying the email is a fake,
but that raises other worries. They were one of the only 3rd parties that
had the email in question so it appears either someone really screwed up
or they've suffered a data breach." Update: 12/28 21:59 GMT by [1]S :
Looks like it was [2]just a mistake by an employee.
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Links:
0. http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-hacked-spam-home-delivery-2011-12
1. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
2. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/times-readers-inundated-by-false-e-mail-on-subscriptions/?hp
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| Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University
| from the trading-hamsters-for-photons dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 28, @02:19 (Networking)
| with 87 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0249256/passive-optical-diode-created-at-purdue-university?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wbr1 writes "Researchers at Purdue University have [0]managed to create a
silicon device that acts as a passive diode for infrared optical signals.
From the [1]Purdue news release: 'The diode is capable of "nonreciprocal
transmission," meaning it transmits signals in only one direction, making
it capable of information processing, said Minghao Qi (pronounced Chee),
an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue
University. "This one-way transmission is the most fundamental part of a
logic circuit, so our diodes open the door to optical information
processing," said Qi.' One of the same researchers had already (using
similar technology) [2]created a way to convert laser pulses to RF."
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Links:
0. http://news.discovery.com/tech/optical-diodes-could-speed-up-computers-111227.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
1. http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2011/111222QiDiode.html
2. http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100303QiMicrorings.html
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| PandaBoard ES Benchmarked
| from the entering-calendar-entries-was-never-so-fast dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 28, @09:35 (Intel)
| with 64 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/1335214/pandaboard-es-benchmarked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has [0]benchmarked the Texas
Instruments PandaBoard ES and compared its performance against Intel Atom
N270, Atom Z530, Pentium M, and Core Duo T2400 processors. The OMAP4660
dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 [1]development board generally loses out
to Intel's older competition, but does manage to win in ray-tracing and
other tests, and is advantageous on a per-Watt basis."
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Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pandaboard_es&num=1
1. http://pandaboard.org/content/pandaboard-es
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| Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway
| from the waste-not-want-not dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 28, @05:12 (The Courts)
| with 59 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0329223/auction-of-copyright-troll-righthavens-website-underway?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Tootech sends this quote from Vegas Inc: "The online [0]auction of the
righthaven.com website domain name got underway Monday, with bidders
having until Jan. 6 to submit offers. A judge has authorized a receiver
to auction the intellectual property of Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC,
the newspaper [1]copyright infringement lawsuit filer. The auction is
aimed at raising money to cover part of Righthaven's $63,720 debt to a
man who [2]defeated Righthaven in court. The man, Wayne Hoehn, and his
attorneys defeated Righthaven when a judge threw out Righthaven's lawsuit
against him over Hoehn's unauthorized post on a sports betting website
message board of a Las Vegas Review-Journal column by columnist and
former publisher Sherman Frederick. Hoehn was a defendant in one of
Righthaven's 275 lawsuits filed since March 2010."
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Links:
0. http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/dec/26/auction-righthaven-website-domain-name-under-way/
1. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/04/1326241/the-rise-of-the-copyright-trolls
2. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/16/1750228/righthaven-loses-again
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| Summary of the M-Edge Vs. Amazon Lawsuit
| from the getting-the-scoop dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 28, @14:03 (The Courts)
| with 56 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/182250/summary-of-the-m-edge-vs-amazon-lawsuit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "According to a lawsuit filed by Kindle
accessory maker M-Edge, Amazon is a threatening, deceitful, and
interfering big brother figure. M-Edge accuses the Kindle maker of patent
infringement, contract interference, false advertising, unfair business
practices, and extortion. A [0]summary of the lawsuit and events over the
course of the last 3 years paints a very dark picture of Amazon's tactics
for crushing competition and stealing the best ideas from its partners.
It sounds as though M-Edge may have a very strong case against Amazon,
and if it wins we could see Amazon forced to remove its own Kindle
accessories from Amazon.com."
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Links:
0. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/kindle-case-maker-calls-amazoncom-corporate-bully-federal-suit
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| Experimenting With Robotic Movement
| from the just-avoid-scuttling-and-slithering dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 27, @19:34 (Robotics)
| with 23 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/2347236/experimenting-with-robotic-movement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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kodiaktau writes "Roboticists with EPFL are playing with [0]new methods
of locomotion for robots, modeled after grasshoppers, bats and other
non-traditional forms of movement, including leaping and gliding."
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