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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves
* House Kills SOPA
* Predicting Life 100 Years From Now
* Is E85 Dead Now?
* Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release
* The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man
* Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction
* Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands
* BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US
* Ubuntu TV: Coming Soon To a Living Room Near You (Video)
* Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico
* Automated Machines To Recycle Phones For Money
* Oracle and the Java Ecosystem
* Zappos Hacked: Internal Systems Breached
* Google Patents Caching MLK Day Search Results
* MRI Powered Pill-Sized Robot Swims Through Intestines
* Google TV 2.0 Review, Tweaks, and Screenshots
* Drone Guides Fuel Shipment to Alaskan Town
* China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion
* Pixel Qi Screens are for Laptops and Tablets, Not Just OLPC (Video)
* RSA Chief: Last Year's Breach Has Silver Lining
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| New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves
| from the nothing-in-it-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 15, @22:31 (Security)
| with 613 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/0147218/new-cable-designed-to-deter-copper-thieves?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Pervasive thefts of copper wire from under the
streets of Fresno, California have prompted the city to seal thousands of
its manhole covers with concrete. In Picher, Oklahoma, someone felled the
town's utility poles with chain saws, allowing thieves to abscond with
3,000 feet of wire while causing a blackout. The theft of copper cables
costs U.S. companies $60 million a year and the [1]FBI says it considers
theft of copper wire to be a threat to the nation's baseline ability to
function. But now PC World reports that a U.S. company has developed a
[2]new cable design that removes almost all the copper from cables in a
bid to deter metal thieves. Unlike conventional cables made from solid
copper, the GroundSmart Copper Clad Steel Cable consists of a steel core
bonded to a copper outer casing, forming an equally effective but far
less valuable cable by exploiting the corrosion-resistance of copper with
the conductive properties of steel. 'Companies trying to protect their
copper infrastructure have been going to extreme measures to deter theft,
many of which are neither successful nor cost effective,' says CommScope
vice president, Doug Wells. 'Despite efforts like these, thieves continue
to steal copper because of its rising value. The result is costly damage
to networks and growing service disruptions.' The GroundSmart Copper Clad
Steel cable is the latest technical solution to the problem of copper
theft, which has included alternatives like [3]cable etching to aid
tracing of stolen metal and using chemicals that leave [4]stains
detectable under ultra-violet light. However the Copper Clad Steel
strikes at the root of the problem by making the cable less susceptible
to theft by both increasing the resistance to cutting and [5]drastically
decreasing the scrap value."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/0147218/new-cable-designed-to-deter-copper-thieves?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/08theft.html
2. http://www.pcworld.com/article/248211/copper_thieves_battled_with_new_antitheft_telecoms_cable.html
3. http://www.endcoppertheft.com/utilities.htm
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-12722885
5. http://commscope.newshq.businesswire.com/press-release/enterprise-market/commscope-now-offering-copper-alternative-grounding-wire-telecommuni
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| House Kills SOPA
| from the on-second-thought dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @10:00 (The Internet)
| with 453 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1457237/house-kills-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In a surprise move, Representative Eric
Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will [0]stop all action on SOPA,
effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to the huge
online protest and the White House threatening to veto the bill if it had
passed. But don't celebrate yet. PIPA (the Senate's version of SOPA) is
still up for consideration."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1457237/house-kills-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa
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| Predicting Life 100 Years From Now
| from the still-no-flying-cars-i-bet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @14:24 (News)
| with 417 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1758218/predicting-life-100-years-from-now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Simon321 writes "BBC News has an interesting article about
[0]the top predictions for life 100 years from now. The highlights
include extensive farming of the ocean, wiring all sorts of computers to
our brains, space elevators, and the break-up of the United States.
'There are some indications already that California wants to split off
and such pressures tend to build over time. It is hard to see this
waiting until the end of the century. Maybe an East Coast cluster will
want to break off too. Pressures come from the enormous differences in
wealth generation capability, and people not wanting to fund others if
they can avoid it.'"
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1758218/predicting-life-100-years-from-now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16536598
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| Is E85 Dead Now?
| from the somebody-call-netcraft dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @15:10 (Government)
| with 386 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1924219/is-e85-dead-now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twdorris writes "With a [1]stoichiometric ratio far lower than that of
gasoline (much lower than the price difference), buying the [2]E85
ethanol fuel blend instead of gasoline was already hard to justify.
Unless you raced your car on a track where E85 provided a great
alternative to race fuel, it really didn't make financial sense. And
there are other reasons not to buy E85, too. Like the impact corn-based
ethanol is having on food prices or the [3]questionable emissions results
(PDF). So, now that the ethanol subsidies provided by the U.S. federal
government are [4]scheduled to end this summer, it's going to be even
harder to justify E85 (at least in the U.S.). This change will basically
make a gallon of E85 [5]cost the same or slightly more than gasoline.
With so many things working against it, are the days numbered for readily
available E85 at your local gas station? And should it have ever even
been made available to begin with? How much did all that
government-backed R&D and tax credits cost us for something that was
pretty clearly questionable to begin with?"
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1924219/is-e85-dead-now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:twdorris@ecmtuning.com
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%E2%80%93fuel_ratio#Stoichiometric_mixture_fraction
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85
3. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10057/04-08-Ethanol.pdf
4. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/01/end-of-ethanol-subsidy-could-raise-gas-prices-for-2012/1
5. http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2012/01/end-of-ethanol-subsidies-could-increase-gas-prices-marginally.html
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| Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release
| from the you-don't-have-to-browse-at-home-but-you-can't-surf-here dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @04:52 (Networking)
| with 315 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/0426225/ask-slashdot-setting-up-a-wireless-catch-and-release?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]SSG Booraem writes "I'm on the IT
committee at my church. We've recently added wireless access points to
our Family Life Center, but the committee chair isn't comfortable with
allowing unrestricted access to our network. We host a lot of guests
during the week for Upwards basketball practices and on Saturdays for
games, so we want to restrict internet access to the Sunday school
classes held in that building. Unfortunately, neither he, nor I, know
anything about setting up a wireless catch-and-release like in hotels. If
anyone could point me at good documentation, I would be very grateful."
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Links:
0. mailto:hendrik.booraem@gmail.com
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| The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man
| from the make-the-robots-do-it dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @15:54 (The Military)
| with 253 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1931207/the-iraq-war-the-next-war-and-the-future-of-the-fat-man?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Stanford Law Review Online has just
published an Essay by Yale's Stephen L. Carter entitled '[0]The Iraq War,
the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man.' He provides a retrospective
on the War in Iraq and discusses the ethical and legal implications of
the War on Terror and 'anticipatory self-defense' in the form of drones
and targeted killings going forward. He writes: 'Iraq was war under the
beta version of the Bush Doctrine. The newer model is represented by the
slaying of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen deemed a terror threat.
The Obama Administration has ratcheted the use of remote drone attacks to
unprecedented levels ��� the Bush Doctrine honed to rapier sharpness. The
interesting question about the new model is one of ethics more than
legality. Let us assume the principal ethical argument pressed in favor
of drone warfare ��� to wit, that the reduction in civilian casualties and
destruction of property means that the drone attack comports better than
most other methods with the principle of discrimination. If this is so,
then we might conclude that a just cause alone is sufficient to justify
the attacks. ... But is what we are doing truly self-defense?'"
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Links:
0. http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/iraq-war-next-war
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| Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction
| from the when-recycling-goes-bad dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @11:24 (Earth)
| with 212 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1513226/radioactive-concrete-from-fukushima-found-in-new-construction?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes "The Japanese government is investigating how
[1]radioactive concrete ended up in a new apartment complex in the
Fukushima Prefecture, housing evacuees from a town near the crippled
nuclear plant. The contamination was first discovered when dosimeter
readings of children in the city of Nihonmatsu, roughly 40 miles from the
reactors at Fuksuhima Dai-ichi, revealed a high school student had been
exposed to 1.62 millisieverts in a span of three months, well above the
annual 1 millisievert limit the government has established for safety
reasons."
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Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/radioactive-concrete-is-latest-scare-for-fukushima-survivors/
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| Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands
| from the taking-your-life-in-your-hands dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @12:08 (Medicine)
| with 201 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/161224/putting-medical-records-into-patients-hands?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Roni Caryn Rabin says patients have a legal right
to their medical records, though access can prove difficult. But what
would happen if patients were encouraged not just to see their medical
records but to take them home, study them and really own them? A research
collaboration called OpenNotes set out to answer this question,
publishing the first results of a study on physician and patient
attitudes toward shared medical records and demonstrating that for
patients, at least, [1]shared medical records seems to be an idea whose
time has come. 'That's the great challenge in medicine: getting patients
to be more active in their own care,' says Dr. Tom Delbanco, a principal
investigator of the study. 'What we're doing is opening the black box and
letting you look inside.' Dr. Delbanco and his colleagues recruited more
than 100 primary care doctors who were already using electronic health
records to volunteer to share their medical notes with patients. Patients
were enthusiastic: [2]90 percent thought they would be more in control of
their care if they saw the notes. They weren't worried about being
confused and most said seeing the record would help them take better care
of themselves helping them better remember their treatment plan,
understand it and take their medication. The goal is to engage patients
more fully in their own health. 'Knowledge is power,' says Jan Walker,
the study's senior author. '[3]A patient goes to the doctor only once in
a while, but in between visits, you're making all kinds of decisions that
affect your health every single day.'"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/161224/putting-medical-records-into-patients-hands?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/health/policy/project-puts-records-in-the-patients-hands.html
2. http://www.annals.org/content/155/12/811.abstract
3. http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/09/13/who-needs-doctors-anyway/read/nexus/
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| BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US
| from the just-trying-to-blend-in dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @16:41 (Biotech)
| with 181 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/219202/basf-moves-gm-plant-research-from-europe-to-us?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ananyo writes "The German chemical giant BASF is [0]moving its transgenic
plant operations from Europe to the U.S., it says, because of widespread
opposition to the technology. The company on 16 January announced that it
would move its plant science headquarters from Limburgerhof, Germany to
Raleigh, North Carolina and no longer develop plants solely for
cultivation in Europe. The division employs 157 people in Limburgerhof,
plus another 63 at facilities elsewhere in Europe. BASF said it would
relocate 123 of those jobs to the North Carolina facility. In statement,
Stefan Marcinowski, a member of BASF's Board of Executive Directors,
cited 'a lack of acceptance for this technology in many parts of Europe ���
from the majority of consumers, farmers and politicians.' The company
instead plans to focus on plant biotechnology markets in the Americas and
Asia."
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Links:
0. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/01/basf-abandons-gm-crop-market-in-europe.html
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| Ubuntu TV: Coming Soon To a Living Room Near You (Video)
| from the forget-the-world-we'll-dominate-your-TV-instead dept.
| posted by Roblimo on Monday January 16, @08:47 (Television)
| with 159 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/01/13/1841220/ubuntu-tv-coming-soon-to-a-living-room-near-you-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Apple TV is a little device you hook to your television. [1]Ubuntu TV
(motto: "TV for human beings") is going to be inside your TV, says Peter
Goodall, [2]Canonical's Product Manage for Ubuntu TV. At CES, he
described Ubuntu TV to Timothy Lord in detail. Join them via Slashdot
Video to see what's up with this Ubuntu venture, which has lots of
competition; "[3]Smart TV" was a major CES catchphrase this year.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.apple.com/appletv/
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/tv
2. http://www.canonical.com/
3. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/12/1418233/the-coming-tech-battle-over-smart-tvs
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| Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico
| from the sharing-is-caring dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @13:39 (Facebook)
| with 138 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1751241/facebook-to-share-private-data-with-politico?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]tomhudson writes "AllThingsDd is reporting that [1]Facebook has agreed
to share users' private data with Politico. Quoting: 'Most notably, the
Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users' private status
messages and comments. Every post and comment ��� both public and private ���
[2]by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate's name will be
fed through a sentiment analysis tool.' Yes, they claim it will be
anonymized, but we've seen [3]that doesn't [4]really work in real life."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1751241/facebook-to-share-private-data-with-politico?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://barbaradothudsonatbarbara-hudsondotcom/
1. http://allthingsd.com/20120112/facebook-gives-politico-deep-access-to-users-political-sentiments/
2. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71345.html
3. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin.ars
4. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/anonymize-data-limits.html
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| Automated Machines To Recycle Phones For Money
| from the cash-for-calls dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @09:29 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 129 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1333257/automated-machines-to-recycle-phones-for-money?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "EcoATM is going to install [1]machines which give
money for old phones across the U.S. The system, shown at CES, takes a
photo of any phone or other gadget put in its tray, and provides a data
cable (for every kind of phone?) to check it is working. The machine
offers a quote based on the current used price, and pays up on the spot."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1333257/automated-machines-to-recycle-phones-for-money?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ecoatm-to-roll-out-automated-phone-recycling-machines-across-us-54379
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| Oracle and the Java Ecosystem
| from the a-different-approach dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @12:53 (Java)
| with 113 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1651240/oracle-and-the-java-ecosystem?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter twofishy writes "After an undeniably rocky
start, which saw high profile resignations from the JCP, including Doug
Lea (who remains active in the OpenJDK), and the Apache Software
Foundation, Oracle is making significant efforts to [0]re-engage with the
wider Java ecosystem, a theme which it talked up at the most recent
JavaOne conference. The company is working hard to engage with the Java
User Group leaders and Java Champions, membership of the OpenJDK project
is growing, and the company is making efforts to reform the Java
Community Process to improve transparency. The firm has also published a
clear, well-defined Java roadmap toward Java 8 and Java 9."
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Links:
0. http://www.infoq.com/articles/oracle-java-ecosystem
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| Zappos Hacked: Internal Systems Breached
| from the under-the-wire dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @01:26 (Security)
| with 112 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/040230/zappos-hacked-internal-systems-breached?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "Zappos appears to be the latest victim of a cyber
attack resulting in a data breach. In an [0]email to Zappos employees on
Sunday, CEO Tony Hsieh asked employees to set aside 20 minutes of their
time to read about the breach and what communications would be sent to
its over 24 million customers. While Hsieh said that credit card data was
not compromised, he did say that 'one or more' of the following pieces of
personal information has been accessed by the attacker(s): customer
names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers,
the last four digits of credit card numbers. User passwords were
'cryptographically scrambled,' he said."
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Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/zappos-hacked-says-internal-systems-breached-cyber-attack
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| Google Patents Caching MLK Day Search Results
| from the collecting-the-dreams dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @10:43 (Google)
| with 100 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/147231/google-patents-caching-mlk-day-search-results?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Google remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [0]not only
with its Doodles, but also with its patents. 'Right around the Martin
Luther King Holiday,' explained Google in its application for a
recently-granted patent on [1]Discovery of Short-Term and Emerging Trends
in Computer Network Traffic, 'there may be many searches about "Martin
Luther King"...Thus, it would be useful to have better methods of
detecting short term trends for the purposes of caching search results to
making them more readily available to users.' You may call the invention
of detecting and caching 'MLK Day Sale' search results patently obvious,
but the USPTO calls it U.S. Patent No. 8,082,342. Hey, at least it's
arguably better than the patents issued to Microsoft and Google for
avoiding [2]walking or [3]driving down [4]Martin Luther King Boulevard!"
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Links:
0. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2137612/Google-Doodle-Honors-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-Day
1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=8,082,342
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/1625208/microsoft-patents-bad-neighborhood-detection
3. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080313/221036.shtml
4. http://www.sptimes.com/2003/01/19/Columns/A_disgrace_to_King_s_.shtml
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| MRI Powered Pill-Sized Robot Swims Through Intestines
| from the fantastic-voyage dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 15, @19:45 (Medicine)
| with 97 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/15/2317219/mri-powered-pill-sized-robot-swims-through-intestines?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kkleiner writes "Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel and
Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston have collaborated to create a
[1]robot that can swim through the intestines. The size of a large pill,
the 'microswimmer' is powered by the strong magnetic fields generated by
an MRI machine. A tail measuring 20mm x 5mm made of copper and flexible
polymer vibrates due to the magnets and propels the little microrobot
through the gut."
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Links:
0. http://singularity.com/
1. http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/10/mri-powered-pill-sized-robot-uses-tail-to-swim-through-your-intestines/
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| Google TV 2.0 Review, Tweaks, and Screenshots
| from the check-it-out dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday January 16, @08:04 (Android)
| with 96 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/0459233/google-tv-20-review-tweaks-and-screenshots?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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DeviceGuru writes "Google and its Google TV 2.0 partners [0]made quite a
splash at CES this week. As a followup, [1]this detailed blog post at
DeviceGuru reviews Google TV 2.0's features, specs, apps, and flexible
new user interface, and shows how you can add customized folders and
shortcuts to the home screen for accessing hundreds of favorite apps and
websites within a couple of mouse clicks."
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Links:
0. http://googletv.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-las-vegas-strip-to-your-living.html
1. http://deviceguru.com/google-tv-2-0-review/
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| Drone Guides Fuel Shipment to Alaskan Town
| from the tracking-terrorist-polar-bear-cell dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday January 16, @18:53 (News)
| with 79 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/2325226/drone-guides-fuel-shipment-to-alaskan-town?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pigrabbitbear writes with an excerpt from an article at Motherboard.tv
about a non-evil use for unmanned aircraft: "Ask anyone in Nome, Alaska
right now how they feel about surveillance drones and you'll likely get
unequivocally high praise. Had a remotely-piloted [1]surveillance
aircraft not been monitoring Bering Sea ice flows over the past week an
emergency shipment of 1.3 million gallons of oil may not have [2]reached
the iced-in, snow-drifted town as soon as it did. ... The drone, which
was launched from Nome's shores by University of Alaska ��� Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute researchers, isn't the sort of eye-in-the-sky most
often associated with the U.S.'s various hulking, 40-foot wing-spanning
reconnaissance planes ... The Aeryon Scout micro unmanned aerial vehicle
resembles a '[3]smoke detector with wings and legs,' according to the
Anchorage Daily News, and is part and parcel of a rapidly expanding fleet
of mid- to micro-sized sky robots being flown domestically for all manner
of tedious or risky intelligence gathering gigs."
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Links:
0. http://motherboard.tv/
1. http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/16/drones-over-alaska-why-good-use-is-always-on-thin-ice
2. http://dec.alaska.gov/Spar/renda/index.htm
3. http://www.adn.com/2012/01/11/2258084/bering-sea-currents-thick-ice.html
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| China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion
| from the but-they-can-only-browse-eight-sites dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @18:10 (China)
| with 66 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/2210216/china-internet-users-hit-half-a-billion?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "China's Internet population [1]passed the half
billion mark at the end of 2011 after the country added 28 million new
users during the second half of the year. At the end of December, the
country had 513 million Internet users, according to a report issued
Monday by the China Internet Network Information Center. The number of
users accessing the Internet from their mobile phones has also grown,
reaching 355 million ��� more than the entire population of the U.S."
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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/412496/china_internet_users_cross_500_million
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| Pixel Qi Screens are for Laptops and Tablets, Not Just OLPC (Video)
| from the tablet-screens-that-won't-make-you-squint-in-sunlight dept.
| posted by Roblimo on Monday January 16, @15:18 (Displays)
| with 61 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/15/2230234/pixel-qi-screens-are-for-laptops-and-tablets-not-just-olpc-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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While at [0]CES, Timothy Lord talked with [1]Pixel Qi Chief Operating
Officer John Ryan about how the company, which was originally founded to
make screens for the [2]One Laptop Per Child project, is now moving into
the commercial market for laptop and tablet screens. Pixel Qi screens are
not only inexpensive to make, but are easier to read in sunlight than
standard LCDs -- and use less power, too. What they're doing now, says
Timothy in the video, is "pretty cool," so check it out.
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Links:
0. http://www.cesweb.org/
1. http://www.pixelqi.com/
2. http://one.laptop.org/
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| RSA Chief: Last Year's Breach Has Silver Lining
| from the learn-the-lesson-in-advance-next-time dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday January 16, @17:26 (Security)
| with 35 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/2148200/rsa-chief-last-years-breach-has-silver-lining?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Last year's industry-shaking [0]RSA Security breach has
resulted in customers' [1]CEOs and CIOs engaging much more closely with
the vendor to improve their organizations' security, according to the
head of RSA. Discussing the details of the attack that compromised its
SecurID tokens has made RSA sought after by companies that want to
prevent something similar from happening to them, Executive Chairman Art
Coviello said in an interview with Network World. 'If there's a silver
lining to the cloud that was over us from April through over the summer
it is the fact that we've been engaged with customers at a strategic
level as never before,' Coviello says, 'and they want to know in detail
what happened to us, how we responded, what tools we used, what was
effective and what was not.'"
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/2148200/rsa-chief-last-years-breach-has-silver-lining?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/2321226/rsas-servers-hacked
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/011612-rsa-coviello-story-254932.html?hpg1=bn
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