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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted
* IE6 Almost Dead In the US
* Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund
* Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone
* Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden
* FreeDOS 1.1 Released
* Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software?
* Holo Theme Is Now Mandatory For Android Devices
* Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming
* Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future
* Google Punishing Chrome Results For 60 Days
* Securing Android For the Enterprise
* Diebold Marries VMs with ATMs to Secure Banking Data
* Genetically Modifying Silk Worms For Super Silk
* Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers
* Cleaning Up the Mess After a Major Hack Attack
* Tivo Gets $215 Million Patent Settlement From AT&T
* One Million Web Pages Attacked By Lilupophilupop
* Google Acquires 222 More IBM Patents
* Filtering By License Should Be Possible in App Markets
* Medical Imaging With a Hacked LCD Projector
* Latest From Second Life Creator: Crowdsourcing Small Jobs
* Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data
* Yahoo Names PayPal Executive New CEO
* First Four Exoplanets of 2012 Discovered
* Hadoop 1.0 Released
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| US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted
| from the socially-and-morally-irrelevent dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 04, @00:12 (Piracy)
| with 464 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0240206/us-survey-shows-piracy-common-and-accepted?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "A new U.S. survey sponsored by the American Assembly has
revealed that [0]piracy is both common and accepted. The surveys findings
show that 46% of adults and 75% of young people have bought, copied, or
downloaded some copyright infringing material. [1]70% of those surveyed
said it's reasonable to share music files (PDF) with friends and family.
Support for internet blocking schemes was at 16%."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0240206/us-survey-shows-piracy-common-and-accepted?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-01-03c/Survey_Shows_Piracy_Common_and_Widely_Accepted.html
1. http://piracy.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AA-Research-Note-Infringement-and-Enforcement-November-2011.pdf
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| IE6 Almost Dead In the US
| from the premature-graying-in-programmers-reduced dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @09:35 (Internet Explorer)
| with 324 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1416242/ie6-almost-dead-in-the-us?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SharkLaser writes "Microsoft, and the whole tech world, is celebrating
the fact that [0]use of Internet Explorer 6 has dropped below one percent
in the US. 'Time to pop open the champagne because, based on the latest
data from Net Applications, [1]IE6 usage in the US has now officially
dropped below 1 per cent!,' said Roger Capriotti, director of Internet
Explorer marketing. 'IE6 has been the punch line of browser jokes for a
while, and we've been as eager as anyone to see it go away.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1416242/ie6-almost-dead-in-the-us?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2135079/ie6-nearly-dead-buried
1. http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/01/03/the-us-says-goodbye-to-ie6.aspx
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| Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund
| from the we-had-to-destroy-the-village-in-order-to-save-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 04, @11:28 (Idle)
| with 321 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1512247/paypal-orders-buyer-of-violin-to-destroy-it-for-a-refund?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Erica was once the owner of an old violin
that had survived through WWII, and decided to sell it on Ebay for $2500.
The person who bought it decided it was a counterfeit and wanted his
money back. Paypal decided to honor the request for a refund on the
condition that the buyer [0]destroy the violin and provided photographic
evidence of the destruction. Couldn't he have just returned it?" Sounds
like a hoax to me, but I guess it's possible.
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1512247/paypal-orders-buyer-of-violin-to-destroy-it-for-a-refund?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone
| from the well-what-am-i-going-to-do-with-this-93M-mile-cord dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 03, @20:02 (Cellphones)
| with 278 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/2316208/nokia-the-sun-cant-charge-your-phone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Nokia's research into solar-powered cell phones
[1]ended with a (barely audible) thud. Under the best of conditions
researchers were able 'to [2]harvest enough energy to keep the phone on
standby mode but with a very restricted amount of talk time,' Nokia wrote
in a blog post on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, the prototype phone, which
had a solar panel on the back cover, performed better in Kenya than in
other testing locations, like southern Sweden and the Arctic Circle."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/2316208/nokia-the-sun-cant-charge-your-phone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/networking/237289/nokia-phone-charging-using-solar-power-comes-many-challenges
2. http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/01/03/solar-charging-panel-generates-call-time-for-test-team/
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| Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden
| from the but-do-they-have-snacks-and-coffee? dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @13:43 (Piracy)
| with 272 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1817255/filesharing-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "[0]Kopimism is now an [1]official religion in Sweden.
Kopimi beliefs originated with the Swedish group called Piratbyran who
believed that everything should be shared freely online without
restrictions from copyright. Leader [2]Isak Gerson, has recently [3]had
some disagreements with the Swedish Pirate Party where many people
disagree with all religions." Here's the official website for the "[4]Missionary
Church of Kopimism."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1817255/filesharing-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyran#Kopimi
1. http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-recognized-as-official-religion-in-sweden-120104/
2. http://twitter.com/#!/IsakGerson
3. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-01-04a/Kopimism_Recognized_as_Official_Religion_in_Sweden.html
4. http://kopimistsamfundet.se/
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| FreeDOS 1.1 Released
| from the we-don't-need-no-memory-protection dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @12:42 (Open Source)
| with 229 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/177236/freedos-11-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with this excerpt from an Extreme Tech article about the
latest FreeDOS release and a bit of project history: "Some 17 years after
its first release in 1994, and more than five years since 1.0, [1]FreeDOS
1.1 is now available to download. The history of FreeDOS stems back to
the summer of 1994 when Microsoft announced that MS-DOS as a separate
product would no longer be supported. It would live on as part of Windows
95, 98, and (ugh!) Me, but for Jim Hall that wasn't enough, and so public
domain (PD) DOS was born. ... Despite what you might think, FreeDOS isn't
an 'old' OS; it's actually quite usable. FreeDOS supports FAT32, UDMA for
hard drives and DVD drives, and it even has antivirus and BitTorrent
clients." The [2]official release announcement has more details on the
improvements, and the FreeDOS website has [3]the release for download.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/177236/freedos-11-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/111755-freedos-1-1-released-after-17-years
2. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/announce.txt
3. http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
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| Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software?
| from the the-dept-dept-the-from-dept-from-from dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @15:54 (Data Storage)
| with 224 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1955248/ask-slashdot-freeopen-deduplication-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]ltjohhed writes "We've been using
deduplication products, for backup purposes, at my company for a couple
of years now (DataDomain, NetApp etc). Although they've fully satisfied
the customer needs in terms of functionality, they don't come across
cheap ��� whatever the brand. So we went looking for some free dedup
software. OpenSolaris, using ZFS dedup, was there first that came to
mind, but OpenSolaris' future doesn't look all that bright. Another
possibility might be utilizing LessFS, if it's fully ready. What are the
slashdotters favourite dedup flavour? Is there any free dedup software
out there that is ready for customer deployment?" Possibly helpful is
[1]this article about [2]SDFS, which seems to be along the right lines;
the [3]changelog appears stagnant, though, although there's [4]some
active discussion.
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1955248/ask-slashdot-freeopen-deduplication-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:johan@joh.se
1. http://ostatic.com/blog/sdfs-a-robust-deduplication-file-system-for-linux
2. http://www.opendedup.org/
3. http://www.opendedup.org/clog
4. http://groups.google.com/group/dedupfilesystem-sdfs-user-discuss?pli=1
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| Holo Theme Is Now Mandatory For Android Devices
| from the a-breath-of-fresh-tron dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @13:03 (Android)
| with 185 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1741255/holo-theme-is-now-mandatory-for-android-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tripleevenfall writes in about the new theme changes in Android 4.0. From
the article: "Starting with Android 4.0, [0]support for the 'Holo' theme
will be mandatory for phones and tablets that have the Android Market
installed. Holo is the stock Android theme, known for its sharp angles,
thin lines and blue hue. Third-party developers can now create apps and
widgets using the default Android aesthetic, knowing that's how it'll
look on every major Ice Cream Sandwich device that has the Android
Market. " This is not banning custom themes; instead it is merely giving
developers a [1]consistent theme that is guaranteed to be installed if
they want a consistent look across all devices. There are even a few
improvements to the [2]style protocol to help developers deal with dark
and light themes.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1741255/holo-theme-is-now-mandatory-for-android-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article/247256/google_takes_a_step_toward_fighting_android_fragmentation.html#tk.hp_new
1. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/holo-everywhere.html
2. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html
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| Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming
| from the more-than-meets-the-eye dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 03, @22:05 (Android)
| with 163 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/2331244/transformer-prime-to-get-ics-on-january-12-boot-unlocker-coming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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symbolset writes "ASUS, maker of the popular Transformer Prime Tegra 3
tablet, announced via their Facebook page that [0]Android 4.0 (Ice Cream
Sandwich) will be available January 12th. In addition they are developing
a boot unlocker which will void the warranty and break Google movie
rentals, but will allow modding. They said, 'based on our experience,
users who choose to root their devices risk breaking the system
completely. However, we know there is demand in the modding community to
have an unlocked bootloader. Therefore, ASUS is developing an unlock tool
for that community. Please do note that if you choose to unlock your
device, the ASUS warranty will be void, and Google video rental will also
be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by security
mechanism.' They also announced an intermediate software update to
improve the camera and touch experience, and they're dropping GPS from
the feature list for poor performance." Another article argues that the
Transformer Prime is [1]an example of ASUS struggling while breaking into
a new market.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/2331244/transformer-prime-to-get-ics-on-january-12-boot-unlocker-coming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.facebook.com/ASUS/posts/300815559961849
1. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/the-swift-rise-and-sad-fall-of-the-asus-transformer-prime-android-tablet/
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| Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future
| from the like-in-paul-theroux's-o-zone dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @16:36 (Privacy)
| with 162 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2017215/avoiding-facial-recognition-of-the-future?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes "A New York-based designer has created a [0]camouflage
technique that makes it much harder for computer based facial recognition.
Along with the growth of closed circuit television (CCTV) , this has
become quite a concern for many around the world, especially in the UK
where being on camera is simply a part of city life. Being recognized
automatically by computer is something that hearkens back to 1984 or A
Scanner Darkly. As we move further into the 21st century, this futuristic
techno-horror fiction is seeming more and more accurate. Never fear
though people, [1]CV Dazzle has some styling and makeup ideas that will
make you invisible to facial recognition cameras. Why the 'fabulous'
name? It comes from [2]World War I warship paint that used stark
geometric patterning to help break up the obvious outline of the vessel.
Apparently it all began as a thesis at the Interactive Telecommunications
Program at New York University. It addressed the problems with
traditional techniques of hiding the face, like masks and sunglasses and
looked into more socially and legally acceptable ways of styling that
could prevent a computer from recognizing your face. Fans of Assassin's
Creed might feel a bit at home with this, as it's all about hiding in
plain sight."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2017215/avoiding-facial-recognition-of-the-future?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/04/avoiding-facial-recognition/#ixzz1iWJIK7uj
1. http://www.cvdazzle.com/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
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| Google Punishing Chrome Results For 60 Days
| from the sounds-about-right dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @11:00 (Google)
| with 161 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1552246/google-punishing-chrome-results-for-60-days?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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djl4570 writes "'Google is pushing its own Chrome browser down in search
rankings for 60 days following reports that the company was [0]involved
in an ad campaign that paid for links to bolster search traffic. ...
According to Sullivan, it appears that Google contracted its Web ads out
to a firm called Essence Digital, which in turn asked a company called
Unruly Media to implement the campaign.' I see this as an astute move on
Google's part. Rather than circle the wagons they say 'oops' and
[1]correct the problem. Google understands that such link pimping is a
cancer that undermines the integrity of their search engine. That's why
it isn't allowed and now Google is saying we [2]don't support a double
standard either."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1552246/google-punishing-chrome-results-for-60-days?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-chromes-sponsored-posts-explained/2012/01/03/gIQAascfYP_story.html
1. https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/NAWunDzJSHC
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-punishing-chrome-for-60-days/2012/01/04/gIQADMPGaP_story.html
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| Securing Android For the Enterprise
| from the lcars-cream-sandwich dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 04, @02:12 (Android)
| with 133 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0331227/securing-android-for-the-enterprise?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "While many companies use IPsec for secure remote access to
their networks, no integrated IPsec VPN client is available on Android.
Apple has already fixed this shortcoming in iOS, in part, because it
wanted make the iPhone attractive for businesses. The Android operating
system doesn't just lack an integrated IPsec VPN client, it also [0]makes
installing and configuring third-party VPN software quite complicated.
IPsec VPN clients have to be integrated into the kernel of each device,
and the client software has to be installed specifically for a memory
area. This means that the firmware of each Android smartphone or tablet
has to be modified accordingly. Until a 'real' IPsec VPN client is
available, Android users can use their devices' integrated VPN clients
based on PPTP or L2TP, which is deployed over IPsec. A 'real' IPsec VPN
connection, however, is more secure because it encrypts data prior to
authentication."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0331227/securing-android-for-the-enterprise?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1662
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| Diebold Marries VMs with ATMs to Secure Banking Data
| from the do-you-machine-take-this-data dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @17:19 (Security)
| with 121 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2110202/diebold-marries-vms-with-atms-to-secure-banking-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "Automatic teller machine maker Diebold has taken a
novel approach to protecting bank customer data: virtualization.
Virtualized ATMs store all customer data on central servers, rather than
the ATM itself, [1]making it difficult for criminals to steal data from
the machines. In places including Brazil, customer data has been at risk
when thieves pulled or dynamited ATMs out of their settings and drove off
with them. With threats increasing worldwide at many retail points of
sale, such as supermarket checkout counters and service station gas
pumps, Diebold needed to guarantee the security of customer data entered
at the 50,000 ATMs that it manages. Diebold last year partnered with
VMware to produce a zero-client ATM. No customer data is captured and
stored on the ATM itself." Perhaps Diebold should take the same approach
to [2]vote-tabulating machines.
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2110202/diebold-marries-vms-with-atms-to-secure-banking-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/232301228
2. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/03/18/2217252/diebold-admits-flaw-in-voting-software
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| Genetically Modifying Silk Worms For Super Silk
| from the does-whatever-a-spider-can dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 04, @05:11 (Biotech)
| with 119 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0616228/genetically-modifying-silk-worms-for-super-silk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter davidshenba sends this quote from the BBC: "U.S.
researchers have created [0]silkworms that are genetically modified to
spin much stronger silk ([1]abstract). In weight-for-weight terms, spider
silk is stronger than steel. ... Researchers have been trying to
reproduce such silk for decades. But it is unfeasible to 'farm' spiders
for the commercial production of their silk because the arachnids don't
produce enough of it ��� coupled with their proclivity for eating each
other. Silk worms, however, are easy to farm and produce vast amounts of
silk ��� but the material is fragile. Researchers have tried for years to
get the best of both worlds ��� super-strong silk in industrial quantities
��� by transplanting genes from spiders into worms. But the resulting
genetically modified worms have not produced enough spider silk until
now. GM worms produced by a team led by Professor Don Jarvis of Wyoming
University seem to be producing a composite of worm and spider silk in
large amounts ��� which the researchers say is just as tough as spider
silk."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0616228/genetically-modifying-silk-worms-for-super-silk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16399257
1. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/02/1109420109.abstract
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| Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers
| from the hand-the-keys-to-carl-malamud dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @18:42 (Government)
| with 99 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2251228/feds-now-plans-to-close-1200-data-centers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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1sockchuck writes "The U.S. government now expects to shutter at least
[0]1,200 data centers by the end of 2015 in its data center consolidation
project. That's about 40 percent of the IT facilities identified in the
latest update from federal CIO Steven VanRoekel. The number of government
data centers has grown steadily ��� jumping from [1]1,100 to [2]2,094 and
now to 3,133 ��� as the Obama administration has identified more facilities
than expected, and expanded the initiative to target telecom closets. The
CIO's office says it is on track to close 525 facilities by the end of
this year, and has [3]published a list of data centers targeted for
closure."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2251228/feds-now-plans-to-close-1200-data-centers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/01/04/feds-now-plan-to-close-1200-data-centers/
1. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/1557234/US-Government-Begins-Largest-IT-Consolidation-in-History
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/13/144246/feds-discover-1000-more-government-data-centers
3. http://explore.data.gov/Federal-Government-Finances-and-Employment/Federal-Data-Center-Consolidation-Initiative-FDCCI/zig4-44xx#
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| Cleaning Up the Mess After a Major Hack Attack
| from the cut-the-lines dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 04, @08:13 (Security)
| with 90 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0630203/cleaning-up-the-mess-after-a-major-hack-attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Mandia has spent his entire career cleaning
up problems much like the [1]recent breach at Stratfor where Anonymous
defaced Stratfor's Web site, published over 50,000 of its customers'
credit card numbers online and have threatened to release a trove of 3.3
million e-mails, putting Stratfor is in the position of trying to
[2]recover from a potentially devastating attack without knowing whether
the worst is over. [3]Mandia, who has responded to breaches, extortion
attacks and economic espionage campaigns at 22 companies in the Fortune
100 in the last two years and has told Congress that if an advanced
attacker targets your company then [4]a breach is inevitable (PDF), calls
the first hour he spends with companies 'upchuck hour' as he asks for
firewall logs, web logs, and emails to quickly determine the
'fingerprint' of the intrusion and its scope. The first thing a forensics
team will do is try to get the hackers off the company's network, which
entails simultaneously plugging any security holes, removing any back
doors into the company's network that the intruders might have installed,
and changing all the company's passwords. 'This is something most people
fail at. It's like removing cancer. You have to remove it all at once. If
you only remove the cancer in your leg, but you have it in your arm, you
might as well have not had the operation on your leg.' In the case of
Stratfor, hackers have taken to Twitter to announce that they plan to
release more Stratfor data over the next several days, offering a ray of
hope ��� experts say [5]the most dangerous breaches are the quiet ones that
leave no trace."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/0630203/cleaning-up-the-mess-after-a-major-hack-attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/25/1438243/anonymous-hacks-us-think-tank-stratfor
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/technology/hacker-attacks-like-stratfors-require-fast-response.html?_r=4
3. http://www.mandiant.com/about/our_people/kevin_mandia/
4. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2011_hr/100411mandia.pdf
5. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/28/stratfor_part_b/
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| Tivo Gets $215 Million Patent Settlement From AT&T
| from the can't-beat-em-sue-em-instead dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @10:18 (AT&T)
| with 90 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1434256/tivo-gets-215-million-patent-settlement-from-att?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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symbolset writes "Slashgear is reporting that [0]Tivo has achieved a
settlement in their patent lawsuit with AT&T. Tivo will receive the
minimum sum of $215 million over six years ��� more if AT&T DVR subscribers
go above a certain level. This settles a patent [1]dispute going back to
2009 and has been covered here with some [2]side issues. Confirmed by
[3]Tivo press release."
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Links:
0. http://www.slashgear.com/tivo-collects-215-million-patent-settlement-from-att-04205815/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/27/1654231/tivo-relaunching-as-a-patent-troll
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/228235/microsoft-sues-tivo-to-help-att
3. http://pr.tivo.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=CA934452BA6418EF&version=live&prid=837115&releasejsp=custom_150
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| One Million Web Pages Attacked By Lilupophilupop
| from the lilliputian-record-label-marketing-gone-wrong dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @11:41 (Security)
| with 90 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/167248/one-million-web-pages-attacked-by-lilupophilupop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hankwang writes "The Internet Storm Center reported that [0]one million
web pages have been attacked by the Lilupophilupop SQL injection and
contain a malicious Javascript link. Affected sites can be found using a
[1]Google search query. See also the [2]technical details of the SQL
injection. The attack is directed to sites running ASP or ColdFusion with
an MSSQL backend. The payload of the Javascript leads, via redirects and
obfuscated Javascript, to a fake download page for Adobe Flash and
antivirus software."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/167248/one-million-web-pages-attacked-by-lilupophilupop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://isc.sans.org/diary/Lilupophilupop+tops+1million+infected+pages/12304
1. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22script+src=%22http://lilupophilupop.com/sl.php%22
2. http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12127
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| Google Acquires 222 More IBM Patents
| from the litigation-makes-the-world-go-round dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @08:53 (Google)
| with 69 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1327223/google-acquires-222-more-ibm-patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The [1]newly acquired patents include email
management, server backup, tuning and recovery, e-commerce, advertising,
mobile web page display, instant messaging, online calendaring, and
database tuning. Google hasn't said why they wanted the patents, but it's
a good bet they had fighting lawsuits in mind."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1327223/google-acquires-222-more-ibm-patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/237551/google-acquires-more-ibm-patents
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| Filtering By License Should Be Possible in App Markets
| from the virtual-rms-is-watching-you dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @10:41 (Software)
| with 56 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/151200/filtering-by-license-should-be-possible-in-app-markets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]tonymercmobily writes "With the latest news from Microsoft, which will
[1]allow open source apps in their store, we will see more and more an
abundance of per-pay applications mixed with license-free ones. What if
you [2]can't tell between free and non-free anymore? Even now, a quick
search on the Android market is just [3]not telling enough. But what do
you do then when [4]Ubuntu has the same problem?" For Android there's
always the [5]F-Droid market that exclusively lists Free Software (it's
small, but I've found it pretty useful).
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/151200/filtering-by-license-should-be-possible-in-app-markets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/1841259/windows-8-store-will-allow-open-source-apps
2. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/abusing_word_free_software_whats_really_free_google_market_and_ubuntus_market
3. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/files/posts/sc.png
4. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/files/posts/list.png
5. http://f-droid.org/
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| Medical Imaging With a Hacked LCD Projector
| from the convergent-technology dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 03, @19:20 (Medicine)
| with 53 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/239251/medical-imaging-with-a-hacked-lcd-projector?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Grad students at UC Irvine have built a
spatial frequency domain imaging system [0]using parts from a cheap LCD
projector and a digital camera. The system can be used to check the level
of bruising or oxygenation in layers of tissue that aren't visible to the
naked eye, according to an article in Chemical and Engineering News. An
accompanying video shows the series of patterned pulses that the
improvised imaging system makes in order to read hemoglobin and fat
levels below the surface of the skin. A more sophisticated version of the
imaging system is being commercialized by a startup within UC Irvine,
called Modulated Imaging. The article and video also describe infrared
brain scanners that can non-invasively check for brain bleeds, and
multiphoton microscopes that produce stunning images of live skin cells."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/239251/medical-imaging-with-a-hacked-lcd-projector?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i1/Lights-Lasers-Invade-Clinic.html
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| Latest From Second Life Creator: Crowdsourcing Small Jobs
| from the 3d-through-6th-life dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @18:00 (Businesses)
| with 53 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2153216/latest-from-second-life-creator-crowdsourcing-small-jobs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]waderoush writes "At Linden Lab, Philip Rosedale led the creation of
Second Life, a virtual world with a complex internal economy. Now he's
applying some of the same ideas to the real world at Coffee & Power, a
[1]hybrid workclub and crowdsourcing marketplace for small jobs. The C&P
site (which was itself crowdsourced via another Rosedale project called
Worklist) matches sellers and buyers of services from personal shopping
to software tutoring. Payments are handled using a virtual currency, and
members can meet up to collaborate or deliver services at the C&P offices
in San Francisco and Santa Monica. 'Coffee & Power is a tool that asks
the question, 'If you had an extra three hours today, how many things
could you do?'' Rosedale says. 'We all have a lot of skills that we don't
use in our day jobs.'"
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Links:
0. mailto:wroush@xconomy.com
1. http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/01/04/coffee-power-puts-a-jolt-of-creativity-into-crowdsourcing/?single_page=true
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| Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data
| from the righteous-fight dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @14:30 (Government)
| with 52 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1922248/ask-carl-malamud-about-shedding-light-on-government-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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If you've ever tried to look up public records online, you may have run
into byzantine sign-up procedures, proprietary formats, charges just to
view what are ostensibly public documents, and generally the sense that
you're in a snooty library with closed stacks. [0]Carl Malamud of
[1]Public.Resource.Org has for years been forging a path through the grey
goo of U.S. government data, helping to publicize the need for accessible
digital archives ��� not just [2]awkward, fee-per-page access. (Mother
Jones [3]calls him a "badass.") Malamud has (with help) been making it
easier to get to the huge swathes of data in government sources like
[4]PACER, [5]EDGAR, and the [6]U.S. Patent Office. He's got a new
initiative now to establish a "[7]Federal Scanning Commission," the task
of which would be to assess the scope and outcomes of a large-scale
effort to actually digitize and make available online as much as
practical of the vast holdings of the U.S. government. ("If we were able
to put a man on the moon, why can't we launch the Library of Congress
into cyberspace?") Ask Malamud below questions about his plans and
challenges in disseminating public information. (But please, [8]post
unrelated questions separately, lest ye be modded down.)
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https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1922248/ask-carl-malamud-about-shedding-light-on-government-data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud
1. https://public.resource.org/
2. http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/12/open_pacer?currentPage=all
3. http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/president-obama-appoint-carl-malamud-0
4. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2009/02/malamud-linked.html
5. http://w2.eff.org/Activism/edgar_grant.announce
6. http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/patent-database-up-and-running.html
7. https://yeswescan.org/
8. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| Yahoo Names PayPal Executive New CEO
| from the closing-geocities-was-a-mistake dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 04, @12:21 (Yahoo!)
| with 43 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1651207/yahoo-names-paypal-executive-new-ceo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Diggester writes "Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday it has [1]appointed
Scott Thompson as its chief executive, effective from January 9,
replacing interim CEO Tim Morse who will resume his role as chief
financial officer. Thompson, who was previously president of PayPal, a
unit of eBay Inc, will [2]also join Yahoo's board. Yahoo Chairman Roy
Bostock said Thompson's primary [3]focus will be on the core business as
the company continues its strategic review process. Yahoo has been in
discussions about selling off its Asian assets for some weeks."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1651207/yahoo-names-paypal-executive-new-ceo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/04/us-yahoo-idUSTRE8030G820120104
2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577140271482613862.html
3. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57352114-264/new-ceo-yahoo-will-reclaim-its-tech-leadership/
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| First Four Exoplanets of 2012 Discovered
| from the mayans-predicted-them-of-course dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @15:12 (Space)
| with 31 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1825209/first-four-exoplanets-of-2012-discovered?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Only four days into the New Year and [1]the first
four exoplanets of 2012 have been spotted orbiting four distant stars.
All four alien worlds are known as 'hot Jupiters' ��� large gas giant
planets orbiting very close to their stars. Their orbits are aligned just
right with the Earth so that when they pass in front of their parent
stars, they slightly dim the starlight from view. The discovery was made
by the The Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network (HATNet) Project
(maintained by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) consisting of
six small (11cm diameter), wide-field automated telescopes based at the
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO), Cambridge, Mass. and The
Submillimeter Array atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/first-four-exoplanets-of-2012-discovered-120104.html
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| Hadoop 1.0 Released
| from the doowop-doobie-dee-do-hadoop-whaeeeee dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @16:53 (Software)
| with 28 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2143259/hadoop-10-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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darthcamaro writes "There has been a tonne of hype about Big Data and
specifically Hadoop in recent years. But until today, Hadoop was not a
1.0 release product. Does it matter? Not really, but [0]it's still a big
milestone. [1]The new release includes a new web interface for the Hadoop
filesystem, security, and Hbase database support. '"At this point we
figured that as a community we can support this release and be compatible
for the foreseeable future. That makes this release an ideal candidate to
be called 1.0," Arun C. Murthy, vice president of Apache Hadoop, said.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/2143259/hadoop-10-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/data-management/hadoop-1.0-release.html
1. http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r1.0.0/releasenotes.html
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