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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous
* Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks?
* Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market
* New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air
* <em>Diablo 3</em> Coming To Consoles
* Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone
* Google Merges Google+ Into Search
* Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire
* Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA
* Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance"
* The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight
* Google Giving Google TV Another Shot
* Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes
* US Research Open Access In Peril
* IBM Snags Patent On Half-Day Off of Work Notifications
* London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network
* Glimpse of Stephen Hawking's Computer
* Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space
* Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live
* US Congressmen: Facebook Evading Privacy Questions
* FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again
* Newspaper Articles Not Copyrightable In Slovakia
* Tizen Source Code Released
* Cambridge Scientists Create Huge Quantum Particles
* Oracle, Cloudera Team Up On Hadoop Appliance
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| Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous
| from the we're-not-listening dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday January 09, @20:23 (Piracy)
| with 461 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0031227/pirate-party-leader-copyright-laws-ridiculous?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "Rick Falkvinge, better known as the leader for Sweden's
Pirate Party, recommends [0]doing away with copyright laws since no one
is following them anyway. FTA: '...he uses examples from the buttonmakers
guild in 1600s France to justify eliminating the five major parts of
copyright law today. The first two are cover duplication and public
performance, and piracy today has ruined those. The next two cover rights
of the creator to get credit and prevent other performances, satires,
remixes, etc they don't like. Falkvinge says [1]giving credit is
important, but not worthy of a law. Finally, "neighboring rights" are
used by the music industry to block duplication, which Falkvinge
rejects.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0031227/pirate-party-leader-copyright-laws-ridiculous?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/software/238387/rick-falkvinge-says-copyright-laws-are-ridiculous
1. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120102/16374417254/it-is-time-to-stop-pretending-to-endorse-copyright-monopoly.shtml
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| Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks?
| from the homer-car dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @08:45 (Books)
| with 438 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1229223/are-programmers-ruining-the-design-of-ebooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Toronto Review of Books claims that the
majority of digital books are awful because major publishers are
[0]handing over the design work to programmers, not artists and editors.
This results in the 'typographical horrors' typical of so many eBooks,
and hundreds of 'lackluster' iPad adaptations. 'Programmers are suddenly
being given free reign to design books,' the article laments. 'Most
publishers don't care about the iPad or eBooks very much... which may be
an aesthetic rejection based on the publisher's historical reverence for
the printed page.' Don't we deserve better eBooks?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1229223/are-programmers-ruining-the-design-of-ebooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2012/01/chris-stevens-on-alice/
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| Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market
| from the newton-shall-rise-again dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday January 09, @19:39 (Businesses)
| with 339 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/2359210/michael-dell-dismisses-tablet-threat-to-the-pc-market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes with an excerpt from a Network World article: "The PC is
not likely to be challenged by the tablet or the smartphone, and many
users of the Internet on these devices will turn to the PC for a better
experience, [0]Michael Dell said in Bangalore on Monday. If you were
going off to college and could only have one device, [1]you would choose
the PC over a smartphone or a tablet, said Dell, whose company also sells
smartphones. 'If you could have two devices, then you would probably
choose the phone before the tablet,' the Dell CEO added."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/2359210/michael-dell-dismisses-tablet-threat-to-the-pc-market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223273/Dell_PCs_not_under_threat_from_tablets_or_smartphones?taxonomyId=68
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/010912-dell-pcs-not-under-threat-254673.html
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| New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air
| from the plantlife-now-obsolete dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @15:45 (Earth)
| with 297 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2015232/new-co2-harvester-could-help-scrub-the-air?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit sends this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "Researchers in
California have produced a cheap plastic [0]capable of removing large
amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Down the road, the new
material could enable the development of large-scale batteries and even
form the basis of 'artificial trees' that lower atmospheric
concentrations of CO2 in an effort to stave off catastrophic climate
change."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2015232/new-co2-harvester-could-help-scrub-the-air?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/new-co2-sucker-could-help-clear-.html?ref=hp
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| <em>Diablo 3</em> Coming To Consoles
| from the when-it-releases-in-2016 dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @13:37 (PlayStation (Games))
| with 286 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1813201/diablo-3-coming-to-consoles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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RobinEggs writes "After long speculation and [0]a few affirmative hints,
Blizzard has [1]confirmed that Diablo 3 will have a console version.
Responding to a fan who asked him to 'confirm or deny' a console version
of D3, Blizzard community manager Bashiok said, '[2]Yup. Josh Mosqueira
is lead designer for the Diablo console project.' Here's hoping Blizzard
remains one of the few companies to fully develop both the console and PC
version of their titles, rather than simply porting the Xbox version to
PC. I think we've all had enough of bizarre scrolling, menus that can't
be used with a mouse, and 'Controls' menus that don't even bother
replacing the 360 controller image with an actual keyboard layout."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1813201/diablo-3-coming-to-consoles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/16/0545226/blizzard-seeking-console-devs-for-diablo-related-concept
1. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/01/diablo-3-is-coming-to-consoles.ars
2. https://twitter.com/#!/Bashiok/status/156215812473098240
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| Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone
| from the skynet-approved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @09:28 (The Military)
| with 279 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/132246/almost-1-in-3-us-warplanes-is-a-drone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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parallel_prankster writes "A recent Congressional Research Service
report, titled U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems, looks at the
[0]more-prominent role being played by drones. In 2005, drones made up
just 5 percent of the military's aircraft. [1]Today one in three American
military aircraft is a drone. The upsides of drones are that they are
cheaper and safer ��� the military spent 92% of the aircraft procurement
money on manned aircraft. The downside ��� they're bandwidth hogs: a single
Global Hawk drone requires 500 megabytes per second worth of bandwidth,
the report finds, which is 500 percent of the total bandwidth of the
entire U.S. military used during the 1991 Gulf War."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/132246/almost-1-in-3-us-warplanes-is-a-drone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/drone-report/
1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/01/09/drones_make_up_one_third_of_u_s_military_aircraft_.html
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| Google Merges Google+ Into Search
| from the relating-to-related-links dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @12:12 (Google)
| with 260 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1627213/google-merges-google-into-search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SharkLaser writes "Google is today launching an update to their search
engine. This update is intended to bring you personalized search results
based on your Google+ friends, sharing, pictures and likes. They're
calling it 'Search plus Your World,' and the update is going to
[0]automatically personalize all search results to a greater degree than
before. These personalized matches will appear along your normal search
results. For example, if you are searching for images of babies, Google
will now personalize your search results and give high preference to baby
photos from your Google+ circles. TechCrunch is speculating that over
time they will also start adding search results from all the other Google
services, including Google Docs, Gmail, Contacts, Music, Voice, wallet
and so on. Today's launch also uses Google+ data for another purpose:
helping you search for information about people on Google+. For example,
if you are searching Google for 'music,' Google will now display relevant
people and pages from Google+, like Britney Spears, Alicia Keys and Snoop
Dogg." Update: 01/10 18:40 GMT by [1]S : Changed the summary to reflect
that the idea of adding search results from other services was
speculation from TechCrunch, and not something Google said.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1627213/google-merges-google-into-search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/google-fuses-google-into-search-and-there-are-bigger-changes-afoot/
1. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
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| Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire
| from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @15:03 (Java)
| with 260 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1940239/oracles-latest-java-moves-draw-industry-ire?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Two years later, Oracle's stewardship of Java
[1]continues to raise user and vendor ire, this time due to
modularization, licensing, and security concerns. 'Plans for version 8 of
Java Platform Standard Edition, which is due next year, call for
inclusion of Project Jigsaw to add modular capabilities to Java. But some
organizations are concerned with how Oracle's plans might conflict with
the OSGi module system already geared to Java. In the licensing arena,
Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, says Oracle is no longer letting
Linux distributors redistribute Oracle's own commercial Java, causing
difficulties for the company. Meanwhile, security vendor F-Secure views
Java as security hindrance.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1940239/oracles-latest-java-moves-draw-industry-ire?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracles-latest-java-moves-frustrate-users-and-vendors-183452
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| Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA
| from the in-today's-sopa-news dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @11:29 (The Internet)
| with 252 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1543232/tech-industry-reps-to-speak-before-congress-about-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Nemesisghost writes "Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), a major opponent
of the Stop Online Piracy Act has announced he plans to call a hearing
where Tech industry representatives will get to [0]speak out about how
legislation like SOPA will negatively affect the internet. From the
article 'Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has called a hearing that
will bring more voices from the technology industry to Washington, D.C.
to discuss how legislation such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
would affect the Internet. On Jan. 18, industry representatives that
include Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures; Lanham Napier, the CEO
of Rackspace Hosting; and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.com, will
testify before Congress.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1543232/tech-industry-reps-to-speak-before-congress-about-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gigaom.com/2012/01/09/tech-gets-its-day-in-congress-as-sopa-fight-continues/
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| Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance"
| from the look-ma-i'm-breaking-the-law dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday January 09, @22:01 (Privacy)
| with 230 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0231205/eben-moglen-social-networking-creating-systems-of-comprehensive-surveillance?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Eben Moglen, founder of the Freedombox
project, [0]has taken to yelling at journalists reporting about social
networks. One wonders if this messaging will work to end proprietary,
centralized social networks or not."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0231205/eben-moglen-social-networking-creating-systems-of-comprehensive-surveillance?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight
| from the making-up-for-gained-time dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @17:09 (Power)
| with 213 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/224246/the-doomsday-clock-is-moved-closer-to-midnight?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Harperdog writes "The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock [1]from 6
minutes to midnight to 5 minutes to midnight. The Board deliberated on
the decision and came to the conclusion based on a variety of events:
failure on climate policy, Fukushima, nuclear proliferation, etc. This
article is a good explanation of the policy decision. Lawrence Krauss
said, 'As we see it, the major challenge at the heart of humanity's
survival in the 21st century is how to meet energy needs for economic
growth in developing and industrial countries without further damaging
the climate, exposing people to loss of health and community, and without
risking further spread of nuclear weapons, and in fact setting the stage
for global reductions.'"
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Links:
0. mailto:jsinclaire@thebulletin.org
1. http://www.thebulletin.org/content/media-center/announcements/2012/01/10/doomsday-clock-moves-1-minute-closer-to-midnight
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| Google Giving Google TV Another Shot
| from the this-dream-sponsored-by-google dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday January 10, @08:04 (Google)
| with 188 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/042241/google-giving-google-tv-another-shot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with a piece on Google's renewed push for Google TV
adoption. From the article: "In spite of a [1]mediocre launch caused by
an overpriced device and low consumer adoption, Mountain View is
attempting to breathe life into Google TV in the way of a [2]major
marketing push at CES 2012. By announcing partnerships with companies
like Marvell and LG, and an effort to cut costs by switching to ARM
architecture, Google is hoping to [3]finally achieve the mass adoption it
has been hoping for with the service. Is this a case of too little, too
late?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/042241/google-giving-google-tv-another-shot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/30/0528205/No-Set-Top-TV-Device-Market-Domination-For-Google
2. http://googletv.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-las-vegas-strip-to-your-living.html
3. http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/112709-mountain-view-not-ready-to-give-up-on-google-tv-just-yet
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| Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes
| from the with-a-little-help-from-my-little-friends dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @12:55 (Biotech)
| with 183 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1649204/gut-bacteria-can-control-diabetes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Shipud writes "Insulin resistance is the harbinger of metabolic syndrome.
Insulin resistance is when the body cannot use insulin effectively. As a
result, blood sugar and fat levels rise. Therein lies the path to morbid
obesity, diabetes, stroke, and heart problems. A group of Brazilian
researchers have taken a strain of mice normally known to be immune to
insulin resistance, [0]and made them insulin resistant (pre-diabetic) by
changing their gut bacteria. They then gave the mice antibiotics, and by
changing their gut bacteria again, reversed the process, curing them of
the disease. [1]Their research shows just how influential the bacteria
living in our gut can be on our health."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1649204/gut-bacteria-can-control-diabetes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2012/01/08/gut-microbes-and-diabetes/
1. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001212
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| US Research Open Access In Peril
| from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @18:37 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 161 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/233216/us-research-open-access-in-peril?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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luceth writes "Several years ago, the U.S. National Institutes of Health
instituted a policy whereby publications whose research was supported by
federal funds were to be made freely accessible a year after publication.
The rationale was that the public paid for the research in the first
place. [0]This policy is now threatened by legislation introduced by, you
guessed it, a Congresswoman who is the [1]largest recipient of campaign
contributions from the scientific publishing industry. The full text of
the bill, [2]H.R. 3699, is available online."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/233216/us-research-open-access-in-peril?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/congress-considers-paywalling-science-you-already-paid-for/
1. http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=807
2. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699:
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| IBM Snags Patent On Half-Day Off of Work Notifications
| from the looks-like-you've-been-missing-a-lot-of-work-lately dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @10:48 (IBM)
| with 147 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1450255/ibm-snags-patent-on-half-day-off-of-work-notifications?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "The USPTO appears to have lowered the bar on obviousness,
awarding a patent to IBM Tuesday for its [0]System for Portion of a Day
Out of Office Notification. 'Out of office features in existing
applications such as Lotus Notes, IBM Workplace, and Microsoft Outlook
all implement a way to take a number of days off from one day to many
days,' acknowledges [1]purported patent reformer Big Blue. 'Yet, none of
these applications contain the feature of letting a person take a
half-day or in more general terms, x days and x hours off.' Eureka! And
yes, the invention is [2]every bit as obvious as you can imagine."
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Links:
0. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=8,095,941
1. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35373.wss
2. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6673043265_e4092b0423_z.jpg
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| London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network
| from the o2-hates-bees dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday January 10, @00:16 (The Internet)
| with 139 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/021222/london-installing-largest-free-wifi-network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]aesoteric writes "London's Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea
districts will be delivered [1] the largest free wi-fi zone in Europe.
The plan is to [2]provide the service in time for the 2012 London
Olympics, which start in late July, to allow visitors and residents to
get more out of their stay."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/021222/london-installing-largest-free-wifi-network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/
1. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/286368,london-gets-massive-free-wi-fi-zone.aspx
2. http://news.o2.co.uk/Press-Releases/Landmark-deal-creates-Europe-s-largest-free-wifi-zone-354.aspx
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| Glimpse of Stephen Hawking's Computer
| from the long-live-dectalk dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday January 10, @05:20 (Digital)
| with 138 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0210213/glimpse-of-stephen-hawkings-computer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kenekaplan writes "Intel application engineer Travis Bonifield has
been working closely with Hawking to communicate with the world for a
decade. He's traveled from the United States to England every few years
to [1]hand-deliver Hawking a customized PC. Bonifield talks about the
technology that powers the customized system." Hawking's latest machine
is a Thinkpad x220. Lately he's been [2]trouble speaking due to weakened
cheek muscles (down to one word per minute). New Scientist has a brief
[3]interview with Hawking's outgoing technician on the challenges he
faced. It turns out Hawking is still using a [4]DECtalk (despite [5]some
reports suggesting otherwise).
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://freepress.intel.com/
1. http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2012/01/09/stephen-hawkings-new-pc
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/stephen-hawking/8994788/Prof-Stephen-Hawkings-voice-slows-down-as-his-face-muscles-weaken.html
3. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21323-the-man-who-saves-stephen-hawkings-voice.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtalk
5. http://www.gizmag.com/go/2708/
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| Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space
| from the nobody-can-hear-your-ipad-fall dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @13:22 (Apple)
| with 113 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1619247/protecting-your-tablet-from-a-fall-from-space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter xwwt writes "G-Form has a nice video of an
iPad launched into the stratosphere via weather balloon and protected
using its new protective gear 'Extreme Edge' to see how well the gear
worked in the [0]iPad free fall to Earth. The gear is being introduced at
this year's [1]CES where our own [2]timothy will be attending and
reviewing new products. The cool part of this whole video is really that
the iPad survives the free fall from space, remaining fully functional."
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Links:
0. http://www.space.com/14172-ipad-survives-fall-edge-space-video.html
1. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ces&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cesweb.org%2F&ei=QrULT9qOC8KusQLRjZncBQ&usg=AFQjCNGV5RybAmwbhojenBJ01wXkEkszgQ&cad=rja
2. http://slashdot.org/~timothy
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| Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live
| from the ahead-of-expectations dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @17:53 (Networking)
| with 103 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2234248/comcast-dnssec-goes-live?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post, Comcast's Jason Livingood has
announced that Comcast has signed all of its (5000+) domains in addition
to [0]having all of its customers using DNSSEC-validating resolvers. He
adds, 'Now that nearly 20 million households in the U.S. are able to use
DNSSEC, we feel it is an important time to urge major domain owners,
especially commerce and banking-related sites, to begin signing their
domain names.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2234248/comcast-dnssec-goes-live?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.comcast.com/2012/01/comcast-completes-dnssec-deployment.html
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| US Congressmen: Facebook Evading Privacy Questions
| from the you-can't-handle-the-truth dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @14:19 (Facebook)
| with 97 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1914200/us-congressmen-facebook-evading-privacy-questions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Two U.S. congressmen have accused Facebook of
[0]evading questions about whether it tracks users in order to deliver
targeted ads. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, and Edward Markey, a
Massachusetts Democrat, said the social networking giant failed to
adequately answer questions raised by [1]a patent application that
suggests Facebook could be tracking users on other websites. The duo
previously asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate accusations
that Facebook tracks its users [2]even after they log out of the social
network, an issue the company says [3]it has since fixed."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1914200/us-congressmen-facebook-evading-privacy-questions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/us-congressmen-facebook-evading-privacy-questions/7068
1. http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20110231240.PGNR.
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/2131205/facebook-cookies-track-users-even-after-logging-out
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/173213/facebook-fixes-post-log-out-cookie-behavior
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| FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again
| from the project-delays-cost-american-lives dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday January 09, @19:15 (United States)
| with 89 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/1656256/fbis-troubled-sentinel-project-delayed-again?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "The FBI's Sentinel project, a digital case-management
system meant to replace outdated, paper-based processes, [1]has been
delayed again. The FBI's CIO and CTO bet big on using agile development
to hasten the project's completion. But now performance issues have
arisen in testing and deployment has been pushed out to May. It's the
latest in a [2]series of delays to build a replacement for the FBI's
17-year-old Automated Case Support system. In 2006, the FBI awarded
Lockheed Martin a $305 million contract to lead development of Sentinel,
but it took back control of the project in September 2010 amid delays and
cost overruns. At the time, the FBI said it would finish Sentinel within
12 months, using agile development strategies."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/1656256/fbis-troubled-sentinel-project-delayed-again?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/232301261
2. http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/18/132233/the-fbi-software-upgrade-that-wasnt
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| Newspaper Articles Not Copyrightable In Slovakia
| from the us-to-issue-trade-sanctions dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday January 10, @03:05 (The Courts)
| with 78 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0218225/newspaper-articles-not-copyrightable-in-slovakia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Yenya writes "In Slovakia, newspaper articles can be freely aggregated
and archived, and are [1]not worth copyright protection. The district
court in Bratislava, Slovakia, stated in the case between news publishing
house [2]Ecopress and a news monitoring company Storin, that while the
news articles manifests traces of creativity, it is [3]not enough to be
considered worth protecting the authors rights ([4]English translation)."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0218225/newspaper-articles-not-copyrightable-in-slovakia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/
1. http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/news-in-slovakia-no-copyright-in.html
2. http://ecopress.hnonline.sk/
3. http://ekonomika.sme.sk/c/6208331/sud-novinari-pri-pisani-netvoria.html
4. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fekonomika.sme.sk%2Fc%2F6208331%2Fsud-novinari-pri-pisani-netvoria.html
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| Tizen Source Code Released
| from the early-look dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @16:26 (Operating Systems)
| with 57 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2031238/tizen-source-code-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sfcrazy writes with news that developers for the [0]Tizen project, an
open source mobile OS [1]based on MeeGo (itself a child of Moblin and
Maemo), have [2]posted a preview of their source code and SDK. They warn,
"Please keep in mind that this is a very early preview and is not yet
designed for use to create production applications. Further enhancements
and improvements to Tizen and its development environment will continue
as we work towards a formal release over the coming months." The source
code is [3]available here.
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2031238/tizen-source-code-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.tizen.org/about
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/28/1223250/intel-drops-meego
2. https://www.tizen.org/blogs/tsg/2012/early-look-tizen
3. http://source.tizen.org/
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| Cambridge Scientists Create Huge Quantum Particles
| from the quantum-mechanics-never-looked-so-good dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday January 09, @22:30 (Science)
| with 51 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0119208/cambridge-scientists-create-huge-quantum-particles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "Researchers at Cambridge University have [1]produced
a quantum fluid thousands of times larger than previously, leading to the
possibility of [2]polaritons produced at lower power and at a broader
temperature range. This [3]could lead to quantum circuits, as well as
applications such as more sensitive gyroscopes." The paper was published
in Nature Physics on January 8th, but a pre-press version is [4]available
through arXiv.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/0119208/cambridge-scientists-create-huge-quantum-particles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/cambridge-scientists-reveal-quantum-computing-breakthrough-53103
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polariton
3. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/seeing-quantum-mechanics-with-the-naked-eye/
4. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7133
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| Oracle, Cloudera Team Up On Hadoop Appliance
| from the check-it-out dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, @10:08 (Oracle)
| with 43 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1412209/oracle-cloudera-team-up-on-hadoop-appliance?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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LinuxScribe writes "Oracle has announced a new [0]Big Data Appliance,
which will feature Cloudera's Hadoop, shiny hardware, and a price tag
that could be more affordable than commodity servers. But Oracle's new
Cloudera partner [1]should heed the lessons of Red Hat and what it means
to partner with Oracle."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/1412209/oracle-cloudera-team-up-on-hadoop-appliance?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/feature-obda-498724.html
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/239851/big-data-oracle-cloudera-about-make-it-rain
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