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In this issue:
* Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood
* Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?
* Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code
* Study Analyzes Recent Grads' Unemployment By Major
* Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike
* Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank?
* Project Bifrost: (Fission) Rockets of the Future?
* 'Electric Earth' Could Explain Planet's Rotation
* Endoscopic Exam of Fukushima Reactor
* Dreamhost FTP/Shell Password Database Breached
* Google Kills More Services, Open Sources Sky Map
* Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID
* 'Blind' Quantum Computing Proposed For the Cloud
* News Corp. Pays Out For Voicemail Hacking Victims
* Coming Soon: An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver
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| Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood
| from the bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @11:42 (Businesses)
| with 350 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1550229/y-combinator-wants-to-kill-hollywood?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Y Combinator, a firm that invests in
startups, has [0]put out a call to kill Hollywood. In a post on their
site, the firm said attempts at legislation similar to SOPA wouldn't stop
until there is no industry left to protect. They now want to incubate
ideas for new types of entertainment, so we can evolve the movie and
television industries. Quoting: 'There will be several answers, ranging
from new ways to produce and distribute shows, through new media (e.g.
games) that look a lot like shows but are more interactive, to things
(e.g. social sites and apps) that have little in common with movies and
TV except competing with them for finite audience attention. Some of the
best ideas may initially look like they're serving the movie and TV
industries. Microsoft seemed like a technology supplier to IBM before
eating their lunch, and Google did the same thing to Yahoo.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1550229/y-combinator-wants-to-kill-hollywood?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html
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| Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry?
| from the chain-reaction dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @14:51 (Data Storage)
| with 323 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1741207/megaupload-shutdown-should-rapidshare-and-dropbox-worry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends in an article discussing [0]whether other
commonly used file storage sites are in danger of being shut down now
that [1]Megaupload has been closed. Quoting: "In the wake of the
crackdown on the file-sharing website Megaupload, sites offering free
content-sharing, file linking and digital locker services, such as
RapidShare, SoundCloud and Dropbox, could be next in the crosshair of
anti-piracy authorities. ... RapidShare and MediaFire are two of the
biggest services left after Megaupload's exit. However, these sites have
undergone a revamp, and now ... no longer host pirated content that could
lead to a permanent ban. Others in the line of fire are DropBox, iCloud
and Amazon S3, which support hosting any file a user uploads. Though
their intention of supporting open file-sharing is legitimate, there is
really no control over the type of content being uploaded."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1741207/megaupload-shutdown-should-rapidshare-and-dropbox-worry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/285423/20120121/megaupload-shutdown-who-s-next-rapidshare-soundcloud.htm
1. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/01/19/210201/megauploadcom-shut-down-founder-charged-with-piracy
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| Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code
| from the write-your-own-plugins dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @09:33 (Biotech)
| with 285 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1345247/lawyer-demands-pacemaker-vendor-supply-source-code?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oztiks writes "Lawyer Karen Sandler's heart condition means she needs a
pacemaker to ward off sudden death. Instead of trusting that the vendor
will create a flawless platform for the device to operate, Sandler has
[0]demanded to see the device's source code. Sandler's reasoning brings
into question the device's reliably, stability, and oddly enough,
security."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1345247/lawyer-demands-pacemaker-vendor-supply-source-code?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com.au/cyborg-lawyer-demands-software-source-339330089.htm
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| Study Analyzes Recent Grads' Unemployment By Major
| from the underwater-basket-weaving-still-going-strong dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @10:38 (Education)
| with 264 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/154239/study-analyzes-recent-grads-unemployment-by-major?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "A new report from the Georgetown Center on
Education and the Workforce called 'Hard Times: College Majors,
Unemployment and Earnings: Not All College Degrees Are Created Equal'
[1]analyzes unemployment by major. It shows that not enough students ���
and their families who are also taking on student loans ��� are asking
[2]what their college major is worth in the workforce. 'Too many students
aren't sure what job they could get after four, five or even six years of
studying a certain major and racking up education loans,' writes
Singletary. 'Many aren't getting on-the-job training while they are in
school or during their semester or summer breaks. As a result, questions
about employment opportunities or what type of job they have the skills
to attain are met with blank stares or the typical, "I don't know."' The
reports found that the unemployment rate for recent graduates is highest
in architecture (13.9 percent) because of the collapse of the
construction and home-building industry and not surprisingly,
[3]unemployment rates are generally higher in non-technical majors (PDF),
such as the arts (11.1 percent), humanities and liberal arts (9.4
percent), social science (8.9 percent) and law and public policy (8.1
percent)."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/154239/study-analyzes-recent-grads-unemployment-by-major?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/not-all-college-majors-are-created-equal/2012/01/12/gIQAfz4XzP_story.html
2. http://cew.georgetown.edu/unemployment/
3. http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Unemployment.Final.update1.pdf
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| Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike
| from the should-come-on-by-default dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday January 20, @21:41 (Music)
| with 251 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0236212/downloads-of-dos-attack-tool-loic-spike?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "As Anonymous initiated what it said will be the '[0]largest
attack ever on government and music industry sites' in response to
actions taken by the Justice Department against operators of file sharing
site Megaupload.com, downloads of a popular DoS attack tool have spiked.
While the Denial of Service tool known as the 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon'
(LOIC) was developed by the 'good guys' to stress test websites, it has
been a favorite tool of Anonymous to take its targets offline via denial
of service attacks. Interactions seen on Twitter and IRC, made it clear
that the action against MegaUpload has [1]sparked many more individuals
to get involved in the online protests and download the LOIC to take part
in the attacks and has resulted in a massive spike in downloads according
Slashdot sister site Sourceforge."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0236212/downloads-of-dos-attack-tool-loic-spike?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/anonymous-launches-largest-attack-ever-government-and-music-industry-sites
1. http://www.securityweek.com/downloads-loic-dos-attack-tool-spike-anonymous-inspires-online-protests
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| Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank?
| from the while-everyone-was-worrying-about-bitcoin dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday January 20, @19:30 (Facebook)
| with 195 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/20/237239/is-facebook-becoming-a-central-bank?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wasimkadak sends this quote from an article at Forbes: "Facebook's
27-year-old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, isn't usually mentioned in the same
breath as Ben Bernanke, the 58-year-old head of the Federal Reserve. But
Facebook's early adventures in the money-creating business are [0]going
well enough that the central-bank comparison gets tempting. ...
Initially, the Credits-based economy was confined to the virtual world���s
trifles. Credits could be spent to buy imaginary gold bars for
aficionados of Mafia Wars, or bouquets of virtual flowers for birthday
postings on friends��� Facebook accounts. This new form of digital money
was cute but essentially useless for mainstream activities. Lately
Credits have become more intriguing. Warner Brothers this summer offered
movie-goers a chance to watch Harry Potter and The Dark Knight for 30
Credits apiece. Miramax and Paramount countered with film-viewing offers,
too. In a provocative post this week on Inside Facebook, guest blogger
Peter Vogel argues that [1]Credits in the next few years will become more
of a true currency. Facebook's 800 million worldwide users represent a
lot of buying power. He figures Credits could evolve into commercial
mainstays for digital movies and music."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/20/237239/is-facebook-becoming-a-central-bank?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2012/01/20/is-facebook-a-central-bank-too/
1. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/01/18/predictions-for-facebook-credits-in-2012/
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| Project Bifrost: (Fission) Rockets of the Future?
| from the ok-but-you-kids-be-careful dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 21, @04:32 (Space)
| with 123 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0927258/project-bifrost-fission-rockets-of-the-future?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Researchers from Icarus Interstellar Inc. and
General Propulsion Science have announced their intention to [1]pursue
the development of Nuclear Thermal Rockets and other fission-based space
technologies. The aim? To revolutionize space travel, ultimately paving
the way to the goal of sending a probe to another star."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0927258/project-bifrost-fission-rockets-of-the-future?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/project-bifrost-interstellar-space-fission-120120.html
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| 'Electric Earth' Could Explain Planet's Rotation
| from the thought-it-was-gas-powered dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @15:53 (Earth)
| with 107 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1824236/electric-earth-could-explain-planets-rotation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "When it comes to Earth's rotation, you might think
geophysicists have pretty much everything figured out. Not quite. In
order to explain some variations in the way our planet spins, Earth's
mantle ��� the layer of hot, softened rock that lies between the crust and
core ��� must conduct electricity, an ability that the mantle as we know it
shouldn't have. Now, a new study ([0]academic paper) finds that iron
monoxide, which makes up 9% of the mantle, [1]actually does conduct
electricity just like a metal, but only at temperatures and pressures
found far beneath the surface."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1824236/electric-earth-could-explain-planets-rotation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5068
1. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/electric-material-in-mantle-coul.html?ref=hp
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| Endoscopic Exam of Fukushima Reactor
| from the you'll-want-this-large-glove dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 21, @00:36 (Japan)
| with 104 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0354238/endoscopic-exam-of-fukushima-reactor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes with this excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald: "[1]Radiation-blurred
images taken inside one of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors show
steam, unidentified parts and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months
of exposure to heat and humidity. The photos ��� the first inside-look
since the disaster ��� showed none of the reactor's melted fuel or its
cooling water but confirmed stable temperatures and showed no major
ruptures caused by the earthquake last March, said Junichi Matsumoto,
spokesman for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company." [2]Here's a
video.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0354238/endoscopic-exam-of-fukushima-reactor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.smh.com.au/world/first-glimpse-inside-fukushima-reactor-20120120-1qaap.html
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Vdiwg6c5o
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| Dreamhost FTP/Shell Password Database Breached
| from the another-day-another-intrusion dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @16:59 (Security)
| with 94 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1840215/dreamhost-ftpshell-password-database-breached?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Ccmods writes "Below is a snippet from an email Dreamhost
sent to subscribers early Saturday morning, [0]describing an intrusion
into the database storing FTP and SSH usernames and passwords: 'We are
writing to let you know that there may have been illegal and unauthorized
access to some of your passwords at DreamHost today. Our security systems
detected the potential breach this morning and we immediately took the
defensive precaution of expiring and resetting all FTP/shell access
passwords for all DreamHost customers and their users. ... Only the
FTP/shell access passwords appear to have been compromised by the illegal
access. Web panel passwords, email passwords and billing information for
DreamHost customers were not affected or accessed.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1840215/dreamhost-ftpshell-password-database-breached?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-passwords-due-to-security-issue/
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| Google Kills More Services, Open Sources Sky Map
| from the endings-and-beginnings dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @12:43 (Google)
| with 92 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1636243/google-kills-more-services-open-sources-sky-map?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Google is [0]continuing to weed out its services and on
Friday [1]announced it will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity
and Needlebase and make changes to some other services. Google acquired
Seattle-based Picnik in 2010, saying it would integrate the photo editing
service with its own Picasa. 'We're retiring the service on April 19,
2012, so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across
Google products,' Dave Girouard, vice president of product management for
Google, wrote in a blog post Friday." A positive change to come out of
this is that [2]Google is open-sourcing Sky Map, and will be
collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to continue development.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1636243/google-kills-more-services-open-sources-sky-map?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/012112-google-kills-more-255158.html
1. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/renewing-old-resolutions-for-new-year.html
2. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/open-sourcing-sky-map-and-collaborating.html
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| Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID
| from the none-shall-pass dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 21, @08:31 (Mozilla)
| with 82 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0516255/mozilla-offers-alternative-to-openid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Orome1 writes "Mozilla has been working for a while now on a new
browser-based system for identifying and authenticating users it calls
BrowserID, but it's only this month that all of its sites have finally
been outfitted with the technology. [1]Mozilla aims for BrowserID to
become a more secure alternative to OpenID, the decentralized
authentication system offered to users of popular sites such as Google,
Yahoo!, PayPal, MySpace and others."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0516255/mozilla-offers-alternative-to-openid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/
1. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12259
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| 'Blind' Quantum Computing Proposed For the Cloud
| from the no-relation-to-reality dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @18:08 (Cloud)
| with 52 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/226251/blind-quantum-computing-proposed-for-the-cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "Researchers at Vienna's Quantum Science and
Technology Center have proposed that [1]'blind' quantum computing could
be carried out securely in the cloud. When (if?) quantum computers are
developed, they will be very fast, but not everyone will have them. Blind
quantum computing will be useful, because it shows that [2]users can
encode 'qubits' and send them to a shared quantum computer to be worked
on ��� without the quantum computer having any knowledge of what the data
is ([3]abstract). The data also cannot be decoded form the qubit while it
is in transit. It's good to know that quantum computers will be secure
when they exist. At the moment, of course, they are even more secure, by
virtue of their non-existence."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/226251/blind-quantum-computing-proposed-for-the-cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/boffins-propose-secure-method-for-quantum-computing-in-the-cloud-55509
2. http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/quantum-physics-enables-perfectly-secure-cloud-computing/
3. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/303.abstract
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| News Corp. Pays Out For Voicemail Hacking Victims
| from the can't-unring-that-bell dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, @13:45 (The Media)
| with 50 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1646213/news-corp-pays-out-for-voicemail-hacking-victims?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter SandmanWAIX sends this excerpt from ABC.net.au: "Rupert
Murdoch's media empire has [0]made huge payouts to 37 phone-hacking
victims, including actor Jude Law, singer Danii Minogue, and former
British deputy prime minister John Prescott, their lawyers said. ... The
company has set up a multi-million-pound compensation scheme for victims
of phone hacking in a bid to avoid further costly civil lawsuits. ... It
has also made a payout of 2 million pounds to the family of murdered
British schoolgirl Milly Dowler, while Mr. Murdoch made a personal
donation of 1 million pounds to charities chosen by her family.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/1646213/news-corp-pays-out-for-voicemail-hacking-victims?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Coming Soon: An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver
| from the mali-pitchers dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 21, @07:01 (Graphics)
| with 41 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0935248/coming-soon-an-open-source-reverse-engineered-mali-gpu-driver?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Next month at [0]FOSDEM there will be an
announcement of [1]a fully open-source and reverse-engineered ARM Mali
graphics driver for Android / Linux. This driver, according to Phoronix,
is said to support OpenGL ES and other functionality from reverse
engineering the official ARM Linux driver. Will this mark a change for
open-source graphics drivers on ARM, just as [2]the Radeon did for x86
Linux?"
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/21/0935248/coming-soon-an-open-source-reverse-engineered-mali-gpu-driver?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.fosdem.org/2012/
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm_mali_reverse&num=1
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/18/141232/the-letter-that-started-amds-open-source-strategy
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