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In this issue:
* In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators
* Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
* Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA
* Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well
* Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites
* NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals
* Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed
* Google Testing Completely Revamped Look
* Windows Phone Homebrew Hits a Snag
* Google Leaves App Inventor In Limbo
* The Second Moons of Earth
* Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet
* Slow Start For Mobile In 2012 Presidential Campaign
* Could Ancient Pottery Improve Spacecraft Tiles?
* China's Green Data Center Plans
* Brief But Intense Meteor Shower On January 4th
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| In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators
| from the allocation-problems dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 01, @22:12 (Transportation)
| with 504 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0224249/in-new-zealand-a-system-to-watch-for-disabled-parking-violators?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "What does it mean when a parking spot is marked with a
wheelchair symbol? If you answered, 'It means I can park there as long as
I'm going to be quick,' you're wrong ��� yet you're also far from alone.
Every day in parking lots all over the world, non-disabled drivers
regularly use spaces clearly reserved for the handicapped. They often get
away with it, too, unless an attendant happens to check while their
vehicle is parked there. Thanks to technology recently developed by New
Zealand's Car Parking Technologies (CPT), however, those attendants
[0]could soon be notified the instant that a handicapped spot is
improperly occupied."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0224249/in-new-zealand-a-system-to-watch-for-disabled-parking-violators?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/disabled-parking-spot-sensor/20966/
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| Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
| from the legislation-tends-toward-gibberish dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 02, @18:21 (Politics)
| with 449 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/2236255/why-richard-stallman-was-right-all-along?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jrepin sends this excerpt from an opinion piece at OSNews: "Late last
year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely
detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process.
Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been
labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote
diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when
Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades
that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were
ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia ��� but here we are, 2012, and [1]his
once paranoid what-ifs have become reality."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/2236255/why-richard-stallman-was-right-all-along?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~jrepin
1. http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along
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| Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA
| from the in-today's-sopa-news dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 02, @10:44 (Businesses)
| with 446 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/157217/net-companies-consider-the-nuclear-option-to-combat-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Atypical Geek writes "Alec Liu of Fox News reports that Amazon, Facebook
and Google are considering [0] a coordinated blackout of the internet to
protest SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act being debated in Congress. From
the article: 'Such a move is drastic. And though the details of exactly
how it would work are unclear, it's already under consideration,
according to Markham Erickson, the executive director of [1]NetCoalition,
a trade association that includes the likes of Google, PayPal, Yahoo, and
Twitter. With the Senate debating the SOPA legislation at the end of
January, it looks as if the tech industry's top dogs are finally adding
bite to their bark, something CNET called "[2]the nuclear option." "When
the home pages of Google.com, Amazon.com, Facebook.com, and their
Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings
that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress
the next day on SOPA," Declan McCullagh wrote, "you'll know they're
finally serious."'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/157217/net-companies-consider-the-nuclear-option-to-combat-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/30/will-google-amazon-and-facebook-blackout-net/
1. http://www.netcoalition.com/
2. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349540-281/sopa-opponents-may-go-nuclear-and-other-2012-predictions/
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| Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well
| from the shake-it-up-and-shut-it-down dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 02, @09:52 (Earth)
| with 254 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1359232/earthquakes-that-may-be-related-to-fracking-close-ohio-oil-well?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Frosty P writes "State leaders have ordered that four fluid-injection
wells ('fracking') in eastern Ohio will be [0]indefinitely prohibited
from opening in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area,
an official said. A 4.0-magnitude quake struck Saturday afternoon near
several wells that use 'fracking' to release oil deposits. It was the
11th in a series of minor earthquakes in the area."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1359232/earthquakes-that-may-be-related-to-fracking-close-ohio-oil-well?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/01/us/ohio-earthquake/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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| Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites
| from the technological-island-nation dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 02, @15:01 (Censorship)
| with 238 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/199218/belarus-bans-use-of-foreign-websites?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]bs0d3 writes "A new law in Belarus [1]prohibits people from using
'foreign' websites. The law requires that all companies and individuals
who are registered as entrepreneurs in Belarus use only domestic Internet
domains for providing online services, conducting sales, or exchanging
email messages. The tax authorities and the secret police are authorized
to investigate violations."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/199218/belarus-bans-use-of-foreign-websites?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-01-02d/Its_Now_Illegal_to_use_International_Internet_in_Belarus.html
1. http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402929_text
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| NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals
| from the long-term-strategy dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday January 02, @04:52 (IBM)
| with 182 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0127236/nyt-ibm-pc-division-sold-to-advance-chinas-goals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Back in 2005, Wharton's Michael Useem speculated that
IBM's sale of its PC Division to Lenovo was more about [0]ingratiating
Big Blue with the Chinese government than getting top dollar for the
assets. 'Government relationships are key in China,' Useem explained.
Now, a [1]NY Times article on outgoing IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano seems
to confirm that Useem's analysis was spot-on. From the NYT article: 'In
2004, I.B.M. sold its PC business to Lenovo of China. Mr. Palmisano says
he deflected overtures from Dell and private equity firms, preferring the
sale to a company in China for strategic reasons: the Chinese government
wants its corporations to expand globally, and by aiding that national
goal, I.B.M. enhanced its stature in the lucrative Chinese market, where
the government still steers business.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0127236/nyt-ibm-pc-division-sold-to-advance-chinas-goals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1106
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/business/how-samuel-palmisano-of-ibm-stayed-a-step-ahead-unboxed.html
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| Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed
| from the some-terms-here-seem-non-parallel dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday January 02, @07:54 (Businesses)
| with 175 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0213204/insiders-call-hps-webos-software-fatally-flawed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Some of the people involved in creating WebOS,
the HP TouchPad's core software, now say the product [1]never had a
fighting chance because it relied on WebKit, an open-source software
engine used by browsers to display Web pages, that just didn't have the
horsepower to run fast enough to be on par with the iPhone. 'Palm was
ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web
technology, and we just weren't able to execute such an ambitious and
breakthrough design,' says Paul Mercer, who oversaw the interface design
of WebOS and recruited crucial members of the team. 'Perhaps it never
could have been executed because the technology wasn't there yet.'
Another problem was the difficulty in finding programmers who had a keen
understanding of WebKit as Apple and Google snatched up most of the top
talent including Matias Duarte, vice president of human interface and
user experience for WebOS, who [2]left for Google a month after HP's
acquisition of Palm. 'When he left, the vacuum was just palpable. What
you're seeing is frankly a bunch of fourth- and fifth-stringers jumping
onto WebOS in the wake of Duarte's leaving.' CEO Meg Whitman has
announced that [3]HP will release the WebOS code for anyone to use,
similar to Google's open-source strategy with Android, but some say
WebKit will still leave WebOS underpowered relative to Apple's software."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0213204/insiders-call-hps-webos-software-fatally-flawed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/technology/hewlett-packards-touchpad-was-built-on-flawed-software-some-say.html?pagewanted=all
2. http://allthingsd.com/20100527/exclusive-palm-loses-mobile-design-guru-matias-duarte/
3. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/open-source-webos-is-dead-on-arrival/10003
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| Google Testing Completely Revamped Look
| from the makeover-time dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 02, @13:20 (Google)
| with 158 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1720240/google-testing-completely-revamped-look?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SharkLaser writes "Google's search engine has always looked pretty much
the same since it was introduced in 1998. However, Google is [0]now
testing a revamped look that is the largest change the search engine has
ever done to its website. The new look strips the black bar running
horizontally at top and places it as an openable menu on the left side.
The move is said to promote Google's other services without making the
search engine too cluttered. The new side menu is also more similar to
Chrome OS and allows Chromebook and Google's website to have the same
look and feel. Another consequence of the move is that it now takes users
two clicks to enter other services such as Images and News, which is said
to improve the amount of ad clicks and visitors advertisers get.
Considering that [1]European Commission is examining claims of Google
downgrading rival websites and [2]U.S. senators are calling FTC to
inspect Google for unfair practices, the move comes at a surprising
time."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1720240/google-testing-completely-revamped-look?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16383783
1. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/eea73490-1ea3-11e1-a75f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1iJVbMOHM
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/1356246/senators-recommend-ftc-perform-antitrust-investigation-of-google
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| Windows Phone Homebrew Hits a Snag
| from the freedom-for-some dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 02, @14:12 (Microsoft)
| with 146 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1852237/windows-phone-homebrew-hits-a-snag?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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symbolset writes "TheNextWeb is reporting that the first official
jailbreak for Windows Phone 7, ChevronWP7, [0]has 'sold out' of tokens to
enable homebrew application support. Only 10,000 tokens to jailbreak
Windows Phones were ever granted. According to an announcement through
ChevronWP7's Twitter feed, they're [1]discussing whether they will ask
Microsoft to make more available. With [2]Lumia falling flat in Europe
Microsoft needs all the enthusiastic modding fans they can get."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1852237/windows-phone-homebrew-hits-a-snag?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/01/02/microsoft-set-to-quietly-quash-homebrew-on-windows-phone/
1. https://twitter.com/#!/ChevronWP7/status/153411217019510787
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/12/31/nokia-still-a-7-stock-even-though-lumia-falls-flat-in-europe/
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| Google Leaves App Inventor In Limbo
| from the fare-thee-well dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 02, @11:39 (Education)
| with 108 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1550242/google-leaves-app-inventor-in-limbo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Google took some heat for [0]pulling the plug on App
Inventor for Android, but all was good with the announcement that App
Inventor [1]would live on at MIT. But try to run the App Inventor Java
test today and you'll be told that [2]'as of December 31, 2011, Google
ended support of App Inventor', even though the Google-funded Center for
Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab won't be able to provide a large
scale App Inventor service for general public access until 'sometime in
the first quarter of 2012.' Until then, schools offering App Inventor
classes and others who desire continued access to the easy-to-use mobile
development environment are advised to try to [3]run their own App
Inventor Services on Google App Engine using MIT's test JAR files, a
seemingly [4]daunting task, especially considering App Inventor's target
audience. Any thoughts on why Google would unplug the old system before
the new one was ready?"
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https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1550242/google-leaves-app-inventor-in-limbo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/1615234/google-pulls-plug-on-programming-for-the-masses
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/16/2048207/app-inventor-continues-life-at-mit
2. http://info.appinventor.mit.edu/
3. http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/developers-blogs/andrew/2011/nov/running-your-own-app-inventor-service
4. https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=wise&passive=1209600&continue=https://docs.google.com/document/d/124V0q-Jzs8n9LqAlFKnSWxGLei_KZAUQGJUZwlALVws/edit?pli%3D1%26pref%3D2%26pli%3D1&followup=https://docs.google.com/document/d/124V0q-Jzs8n9LqAlFKnSWxGLei_KZAUQGJUZwlALVws/edit?pli%3D1%26pref%3D2%26pli%3D1
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| The Second Moons of Earth
| from the that's-no-moon dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 02, @12:31 (Space)
| with 78 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1613225/the-second-moons-of-earth?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Despite a large body of work on satellite capture
by the gas giants, mainly Jupiter and Saturn, there has been little
published about the Earth's natural satellites other than the moon. Now
Scientific American reports that although the moon has been with us for
billions of years, Earth has also [1]had countless other satellite
companions and probably has one right now. These 'second moons' are
boulders from the large population of near-Earth asteroids that get
snagged by our gravity, orbit the Earth for a few months, then escape and
move on. Known as 'Temporarily-Captured Orbiters' (TCOs), the irregular
natural satellites are hard to see but astronomers spotted one such
transient satellite in 2006. Dubbed 2006 RH120, the asteroid was a few
meters in diameter, [2]was captured by Earth for about a year and made
four Earth orbits before being ejected after its June 2007 perigee back
to interplanetary space. But TCOs are not just of academic interest.
'Once TCOs can be reliably and frequently identified early enough in a
capture event they create an opportunity for a low-cost low-delta-v
meteoroid return mission. The scientific potential of being able to first
remotely characterize a meteoroid and then [3]visit and bring it back to
Earth would be unprecedented (PDF).'"
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=earth-usually-has-second-tiny-tempo-11-12-27
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_RH120
3. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1112/1112.3781v1.pdf
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| Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet
| from the cover-blown dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 02, @15:53 (Botnet)
| with 62 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/2052247/leaked-online-chats-expose-author-of-largest-spam-botnet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "New analysis of financial records and online
chat logs retrieved from the operators of Spamdot.biz ��� until recently
the most notorious spam affiliate program ��� provides tantalizing [0]clues
about the identity of the man behind Cutwail, currently the largest spam
botnet. Brian Krebs tells the story of 'Google,' the screen name used by
the now-27-year-old botmaster who was part of a team of programmers in
Moscow. Over the years, Cutwail has shifted from a spam cannon for male
enhancement pills to a major vector for distributing malicious software."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/01/pharma-wars-google-the-cutwail-botmaster/
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| Slow Start For Mobile In 2012 Presidential Campaign
| from the vote-now-for-five-electoralbucks dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 02, @17:30 (United States)
| with 53 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/2215212/slow-start-for-mobile-in-2012-presidential-campaign?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Social networks played an important role in
the last U.S. presidential election, but the explosive growth in
smartphone usage and the introduction of tablets since 2008 could make or
break the candidates for president in 2012. As the Republican primaries
heat up, the major contenders show on their official websites a strong
recognition of social networking and connecting in digital ways via
desktop computers. But the GOP and President Obama's campaigns are [0]not
yet making many mobile-specific connections to supporters via smartphones
or tablets, analysts noted. Some campaigns have special links on their
websites for getting updates via SMS to a phone, but they don't appear to
have candidate-specific downloadable mobile apps on Apple's App Store or
the Android Market so far."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/research/2012/010212-mobile-campaigns-to-be-hot-254453.html?hpg1=bn
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| Could Ancient Pottery Improve Spacecraft Tiles?
| from the blast-from-the-past dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 02, @08:49 (Space)
| with 49 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/1250221/could-ancient-pottery-improve-spacecraft-tiles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation
(NSF) awarded nearly $500,000 to scientists from the Getty Conservation
Institute, Stanford's National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) and the
Aerospace Corporation to study the chemical and physical properties of
ancient Attic pottery. Why? Well, [1]the project will improve our
understanding of iron-spinel chemistry, which is critical to the advanced
ceramics used for thermal protection in aerospace applications, such as
in the heat shield tiles used by spacecraft during atmospheric reentry."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/slac-analysis-of-attic-pottery-could-improve-space-shuttle-tiles-111230.html
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| China's Green Data Center Plans
| from the ho-ho-ho-green-giant dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday January 02, @01:36 (China)
| with 45 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0624259/chinas-green-data-center-plans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "It's no surprise that China's internet-using
population is growing fast. And so it's also no surprise that the country
is planning to [1]build new data centers by the dozen. What is
surprising, at least to those of us who expect to read stories about
widespread [2]pollution in China, is that China is working with both
[3]The Green Grid and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop
standards for energy performance."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/government/236617/china-racing-expand-data-center-capacity
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/07/1543234/one-tenth-of-chinas-farmland-polluted-with-heavy-metals
3. http://www.itworld.com/data-centerservers/237063/china-s-data-center-expansion-includes-eye-efficiencies
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| Brief But Intense Meteor Shower On January 4th
| from the obscuring-the-alien-invasion dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 02, @16:43 (NASA)
| with 34 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/2140257/brief-but-intense-meteor-shower-on-january-4th?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes with this quote: "Sky watchers are in for their
first treat of 2012, as the short but intense [0]Quadrantid meteor shower
will light up the northern sky in the early morning of Jan. 4. According
to a [1]NASA web page on the Quadrantids, there could be as many as 200
meteors per hour, though the average rate is about 60 to 100 per hour.
... [2]The Quadrantids have not been studied as extensively as some of
the better-known meteor showers like the Perseids and Geminids, possibly
because it's best visible in far northern latitudes, where its appearance
coincides with cold weather."
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Links:
0. http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/01/02/short-but-sweet-meteor-shower-arrives-jan-4/
1. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/watchtheskies/quadrantids_2012.html
2. http://meteorshowersonline.com/quadrantids.html
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