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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood
* Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP
* Firefox Javascript Engine Becomes Single Threaded
* US Embassy Sanctioned Lawsuit Against Aussie ISP iiNet
* New EU Legal Privacy Framework: We're Not Kidding
* Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube
* Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services
* MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car
* The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video)
* XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi
* Federal Judges Wary of Facebook, Twitter Impact On Juries
* KDE 4.8 Released
* Piratbyran Co-Founder Says Stop DDoSing Polish Sites
* Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw
* States Using Cloud Based Voting System For Overseas Citizens
* Corporate Boardrooms Open To Eavesdropping
* The High-Radiation Lives and Risks of Nuclear-Nomad Subcontractors
* The Web's Worst Privacy Policy
* HP To Open Source WebOS
* Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2
* Turning the Hayden Planetarium Into a Giant Videogame
* Australia Likely To Get 18+ Game Rating
* Android Kinect Projector Interface
* Book Review: The Tangled Web
* 2012 Japan Prize Honors Magnet Creator and Cancer Researchers
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| Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood
| from the everything's-more-sanguinary-in-texas dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday January 24, @19:39 (Businesses)
| with 374 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0037226/amateur-uav-pilot-exposes-texas-river-of-blood?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Presto Vivace writes "Carlton Purvis of [1]Security Management News
reports that a tip from an amateur UAV enthusiast 'is what led Texas
authorities to open a major criminal investigation into the waste
practices of a Dallas meat packing plant.' The photo shows a river of
blood."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0037226/amateur-uav-pilot-exposes-texas-river-of-blood?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:marshall@prestovivace.biz
1. http://securitymanagement.com/news/texas-uav-enthusiast-uses-pilotless-aircraft-uncover-river-contamination-009456?page=0,0
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| Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP
| from the 10-4-gd-bdy dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday January 24, @23:41 (Google)
| with 260 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/027200/googles-spdy-could-be-incorporated-into-next-gen-http?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Google's efforts to improve Internet efficiency
through the development of [1]the SPDY (pronounced 'speedy') protocol got
a major boost today when the chairman of the HTTP Working Group
(HTTPbis), Mark Nottingham, called for it to be included in the HTTP 2.0
standard. SPDY is a protocol that's already used to a certain degree
online; formal incorporation into the next-generation standard would
improve its chances of being generally adopted. SPDY's goal is to reduce
web page load times through the use of header compression, packet
prioritization, and multiplexing (combining multiple requests into a
single connection). By default, a web browser opens an individual
connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous
inefficiencies."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/027200/googles-spdy-could-be-incorporated-into-next-gen-http?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Googles-SPDY-Incorporated-Into-NextGen-HTML-Company-Offers-TCP-Enhancements/
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| Firefox Javascript Engine Becomes Single Threaded
| from the software-engineers-hate-sharing dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @13:10 (Firefox)
| with 260 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1738231/firefox-javascript-engine-becomes-single-threaded?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with news about work on Mozilla's Javascript
engine. Quoting Mozilla engineer Luke Wagner's blog: "With [0]web workers
in separate runtimes, there were no significant multi-threaded runtime
uses remaining. Furthermore, to achieve [1]single-threaded compartments,
the platform features that allowed JS to easily ship a closure off to
another thread had been removed since closures fundamentally carry with
them a reference to their original enclosing scope. Even non-Mozilla
SpiderMonkey embeddings had reportedly experienced problems that pushed
them toward a similar shared-nothing design. Thus, there was little
reason to maintain the non-trivial complexity caused by multi-threading
support. There are a lot of things that 'would be nice' but what pushed
us over the edge is that a [2]single-threaded runtime allows us to hoist
a lot data currently stored per-compartment into the runtime. This
provides immediate memory savings."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1738231/firefox-javascript-engine-becomes-single-threaded?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/
1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SpiderMonkey/SpiderMonkey_compartments
2. http://blog.mozilla.com/luke/2012/01/24/jsruntime-is-now-officially-single-threaded/
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| US Embassy Sanctioned Lawsuit Against Aussie ISP iiNet
| from the conspiracy-against-the-laity-part-XVXIIIX dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday January 24, @20:45 (Australia)
| with 254 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/008243/us-embassy-sanctioned-lawsuit-against-aussie-isp-iinet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Elenor writes with this story (excerpted) from
TorrentFreak, another nugget gleaned from the cables made public by
WikiLeaks: "The Canberra Wikileaks cables have revealed that the U.S.
Embassy sanctioned a [0]conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target
Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system,
with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which would
make ISPs responsible for the unauthorised file-sharing of their
customers. Both the location, Australia, and the target, iiNet, were
carefully selected. A precedent set in Australia would be influential in
countries with comparable legal systems such as Canada, India, New
Zealand and Great Britain. Australian telecommunications giant Telstra
was judged too large for the purposes of the attack. Owing to its smaller
size and more limited resources, iiNet was gauged the perfect candidate."
The cable describes no overt action on the part of the American embassy,
but the wording is telling: "Mike Ellis, the Singapore-based President
for Asia Pacific of the Motion Picture Association ... said MPAA did not
see any role for Embassy at this time, but wanted to keep us informed."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/008243/us-embassy-sanctioned-lawsuit-against-aussie-isp-iinet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/australia-us-copyright-colony-or-just-a-good-friend-120121/
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| New EU Legal Privacy Framework: We're Not Kidding
| from the yes-you-can-have-a-pony dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @10:48 (Privacy)
| with 214 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1430258/new-eu-legal-privacy-framework-were-not-kidding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the
European Commission [0]announced today a new [1]regulation for data
privacy in Europe (PDF) in replacement of a [2]1995 Directive. Recently,
privacy laws have been under a lot of criticism for their practical
inability to ensure a high level of protection to EU citizens. The [3]new
data privacy framework will bring a lot of changes: 24 hours security
breach notifications, mandatory security assessments, end of
notifications to local data privacy agencies, mandatory data protection
officers and huge administrative fines: up to 2% of the annual worldwide
turnover (that would have meant $1.2 Billion for Microsoft in 2008).
Indeed that's 'the necessary "teeth" so the rules can be enforced.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1430258/new-eu-legal-privacy-framework-were-not-kidding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/data-protection/news/120125_en.htm
1. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_11_en.pdf
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
3. http://www.donneespersonnelles.fr/6-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-eu-privacy-framework
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| Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube
| from the sopa-of-the-north dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @14:58 (Canada)
| with 208 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1835249/canadian-sopa-could-target-youtube?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "The music industry is seeking over a dozen changes to
Canadian anti-piracy bill [0]C-11, including website blocking, Internet
termination for alleged repeat infringers, and an expansion of the
"enabler" provision that is supposedly designed to target pirate sites.
Meanwhile, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada also wants an
expansion of the enabler provision along with further tightening of the
already-restrictive digital lock rules. It's concerning that some of
these expansions will create a risky situation for legitimate websites,
as SOPA did in the US. Michael Geist outlines the [1]legal history and
complications here."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1835249/canadian-sopa-could-target-youtube?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=5144516&File=9
1. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-01-25c/Would_a_SOPA_Version_of_the_Canadian_Copyright_Bill_Target_Youtube.html
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| Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services
| from the targetted-advertising-is-awesome dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @09:28 (Google)
| with 202 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1333246/google-consolidates-privacy-policies-across-services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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parallel_prankster writes "The Washington Post reported Tuesday that
Google will [0]require users to allow the company to follow their
activities across e-mail, search, YouTube, and other services; a radical
shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its
privacy and competitive practices. The information will enable Google to
develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web
sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes. The
[1]policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile
phone users. 'If you're signed in, we may [2]combine information you've
provided from one service with information from other services,' Alma
Whitten, Google's director of privacy, product, and engineering, wrote in
a blog post." The angle of the Washington Post article is a bit negative;
Google sees this as consolidating an absurd number of privacy policies
for its various services into a single, unified document. Reader
[3]McGruber adds: "Donald E. Graham, the Washington Post's chairman and
CEO, [4]joined Facebook's Board of Directors in January 2009. Curiously,
the Washington Post article neglects to disclose that."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1333246/google-consolidates-privacy-policies-across-services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-tracks-consumers-across-products-users-cant-opt-out/2012/01/24/gIQArgJHOQ_story.html
1. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/
2. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-terms.html
3. http://slashdot.org/~McGruber
4. http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=70550
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| MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car
| from the sub-sub-compact dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @13:33 (Transportation)
| with 194 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/188202/mit-media-lab-rolls-out-folding-car?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kkleiner writes "You think European cars are small now, wait till the
Hiriko takes to the roads in Spain's northern Basque country. The
two-seater is about the size of a SmartCar, but [1]when parked, the car
can actually fold. After folding the car takes up about a third of a
normal parking space. The Hiriko, Basque for 'urban car,' folds as the
rear of the car slides underneath its chassis. Every square foot counts."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/188202/mit-media-lab-rolls-out-folding-car?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://singularityhub.com/
1. http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/24/mit-media-lab-rolls-out-folding-car/
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| The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video)
| from the as-if-regular-Segways-weren't-dorky-enough dept.
| posted by Roblimo on Wednesday January 25, @08:49 (Technology)
| with 192 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/2026249/the-chevy-segway-keeps-on-rolling-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Back in 2009 G.M. and Segway talked about [0]the P.U.M.A., or Personal
Urban Mobility and Accessibility vehicle. Now it's the [1]EN-V, which
stands for Electric Network Vehicle. G.M. (along with partner Shanghai
Automotive Industry Corporation) debuted the thing in Shanghai in 2010,
then displayed it at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in 2011, and
now they're showing it off at auto shows, no doubt hoping to get a lot of
buzz going for this two-wheeled wonder, which is supposed to be so loaded
with navigation and collision avoidance electronics that you can sleep in
it on your way to work. (Please wake us up when we get there, okay?)
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/2026249/the-chevy-segway-keeps-on-rolling-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/04/07/1833247/segway-gm-partner-on-two-wheeled-electric-car
1. http://jalopnik.com/5849015/gm-en+v-concept-an-electric-pod-car-for-pod-people
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| XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi
| from the i'll-take-ten dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @11:51 (Media)
| with 167 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1543239/xbmc-running-on-raspberry-pi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jones_supa writes "The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a news release about
[0]Raspberry Pi running XBMC smoothly, turning the board into a media
center the size of deck of cards. Looking at Pi's low price, small size
and hardware 1080p support, this could make an interesting HTPC project.
Included is a video demonstration of the setup. For this to be possible,
the XBMC team created a customized version that targets the beefier
Raspberry Pi model."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1543239/xbmc-running-on-raspberry-pi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571
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| Federal Judges Wary of Facebook, Twitter Impact On Juries
| from the no-farmville-in-the-jury-box dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @14:15 (Facebook)
| with 136 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1818201/federal-judges-wary-of-facebook-twitter-impact-on-juries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "The impact of social media such as Twitter,
Facebook and Google+ and others on federal juries is a concern that
judges are frequently taking steps to curb. According to a study 94% of
the 508 federal judges who responded said they have specifically
[1]barred jurors from any case-connected use of social media."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/federal-judges-wary-facebook-twitter-google-impact-juries
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| KDE 4.8 Released
| from the never-ending-progress dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @12:30 (KDE)
| with 135 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1712252/kde-48-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jrepin writes "The [1]KDE community has released version 4.8 of their
Free and open source software bundle. The new version provides many new
features, improved stability, and increased performance. Highlights for
[2]Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, the redesign
of power management, and integration with [3]Activities. The first [4]Qt
Quick-based Plasma widgets have entered the default installation of
Plasma Desktop, with more to follow in future releases. [5]KDE
applications released today include Dolphin file manager with its [6]new
display engine, ..., and KDE Telepathy reaching its first beta milestone.
New features for [7]Marble virtual globe keep arriving, among these are:
Elevation Profile, satellite tracking, and Krunner integration. The
[8]KDE Platform provides the foundation for KDE software. KDE software is
more stable than ever before. In addition to stability improvements and
bugfixes, Platform 4.8 provides better tools for building fluid and
touch-friendly user interfaces, integrates with other systems' password
saving mechanisms and lays the base for more powerful interaction with
other people using the new KDE Telepathy framework."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1712252/kde-48-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~jrepin
1. http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/
2. http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/plasma.php
3. http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-mystery-of-kde-activities-1.html
4. http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/GrandMasterPlan
5. http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/applications.php
6. http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html
7. http://edu.kde.org/marble/
8. http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/platform.php
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| Piratbyran Co-Founder Says Stop DDoSing Polish Sites
| from the keeping-sysadmins-in-suspense dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 25, @02:38 (Censorship)
| with 126 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0211219/piratbyran-co-founder-says-stop-ddosing-polish-sites?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "Since the news was released that [0]Poland will sign ACTA
later this month, activists have taken to the streets in protest. Also,
Anonymous has [1]aimed their DDoS cannons at Polish websites. A
government minister admitted the government had [2]failed to fully
consult the public on the issue. [3]Piratbyran Co-Founder [4]Marcin de
Kaminski has been following the issue on ACTA in Poland, and agrees with
activists that Anonymous' DDoS is [5]hurting the situation. Now the
Polish government is trying to speed up the signatory process, making a
statement of not giving in to 'cyber terrorists.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0211219/piratbyran-co-founder-says-stop-ddosing-polish-sites?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/20/0259218/eu-to-sign-acta-later-this-month
1. https://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews/status/161926640170049537
2. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-01-24e/Polish_Government_Reconsiders_ACTA.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyr%C3%A5n
4. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcin_de_Kaminski
5. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-01-24f/Piratbyran_CoFounder_Says_Stop_DDosing_Polish_Government_Sites.html
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| Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw
| from the protect-ya-neck dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @17:46 (Security)
| with 118 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/2137243/exploits-emerge-for-linux-privilege-escalation-flaw?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Linux vendors are rushing to [1]patch a privilege
escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by
local attackers to gain root access on the system. The vulnerability,
which is identified as CVE-2012-0056, was discovered by J��ri Aedla and is
caused by a failure of the Linux kernel to properly restrict access to
the '/proc//mem' file."
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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/413300/linux_vendors_rush_patch_privilege_escalation_flaw_after_root_exploits_emerge
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| States Using Cloud Based Voting System For Overseas Citizens
| from the making-diebold-machines-seem-like-a-good-idea dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @12:49 (Cloud)
| with 116 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1657209/states-using-cloud-based-voting-system-for-overseas-citizens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "If a ballot was lost in the cloud, would anyone know?
Several states are using an online balloting website [1]based on
Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing platform to [2]allow U.S. voters living
overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primary elections. In
addition to a now complete Florida primary, Virginia and California will
use the system for their primaries, and Washington state will use it for
its caucus. To ensure the ballots are from legitimate voters, people use
unique identifying information to access their ballots online, according
to Microsoft. Once received, the signature on the ballot is matched with
registration records to further verify identity."
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Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/states-choose-cloud-based-ballots-for-voters-around-the-globe-137911513.html
2. http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/232500419
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| Corporate Boardrooms Open To Eavesdropping
| from the it's-a-feature-i-tell-ya dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @10:10 (Security)
| with 113 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1415246/corporate-boardrooms-open-to-eavesdropping?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cweditor writes "One afternoon this month, a hacker toured a dozen
corporate conference rooms via equipment that most every company has in
those rooms: videoconferencing. Rapid7 says they could '[0]easily read a
six-digit password from a sticky note over 20 feet away from the camera'
and 'clearly hear conversations down the hallway from the video
conferencing system.' With some systems, they [1]could even capture
keystrokes being typed in the room. [2]Teleconferencing vendors defended
their security, saying the auto-answer feature that left those system
vulnerable was an effort to strike the right balance between security and
usability."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1415246/corporate-boardrooms-open-to-eavesdropping?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://community.rapid7.com/community/solutions/metasploit/blog/2012/01/23/video-conferencing-and-self-selecting-targets
1. http://nytimes.com/2012/01/23/technology/flaws-in-videoconferencing-systems-put-boardrooms-at-risk.html
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223698/Teleconferencing_vendors_defend_security
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| The High-Radiation Lives and Risks of Nuclear-Nomad Subcontractors
| from the stop-that-incessant-ticking dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 25, @08:08 (Japan)
| with 85 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0215204/the-high-radiation-lives-and-risks-of-nuclear-nomad-subcontractors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Harperdog writes "Gabrielle Hecht has an interesting piece on the
[0]subcontracted workers of the nuclear energy industry, in Japan and
elsewhere. These workers face far more exposure to radiation than
salaried workers; in Japan, 90% of the nuclear workforce is contracted.
This is an eye-opening look at a practice that 'carries exceptional risks
and implications. And until these are recognized and documented, complex
social and physiological realities will continue to be hidden.' A good
read, but I would like to know how the [1]Fukushima 50 are doing."
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Links:
0. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/nuclear-nomads-look-the-subcontracted-heroes
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50
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| The Web's Worst Privacy Policy
| from the bottom-of-the-barrel dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @17:05 (Privacy)
| with 85 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/211258/the-webs-worst-privacy-policy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sparrowvsrevolution writes "With much of the web upset over about
[0]Google's latest privacy policy changes, it's helpful to remember it
could be much worse: A search engine called Skipity offers [1]the world's
worst privacy policy, (undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek) filled with lines
like this: 'You may think of using any of our programs or services as the
privacy equivalent of living in a webcam fitted glass house under the
unblinking eye of Big Brother: you have no privacy with us. If we can use
any of your details to legally make a profit, we probably will.' The
policy gives the company the right to sell any of your data that it wants
to any and all corporate customers, send you limitless spam, track your
movements via GPS if possible, watch you through your webcam, and implant
a chip in your body that is subject to reinstallation whenever the
company chooses."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/211258/the-webs-worst-privacy-policy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1333246/google-consolidates-privacy-policies-across-services
1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/25/the-worlds-worst-privacy-policy/
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| HP To Open Source WebOS
| from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @18:32 (HP)
| with 83 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/2234254/hp-to-open-source-webos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter pscottdv writes "This year the artists
formerly known as Palm had quite a rough few months with HP dumping the
hardware side of their own webOS mobile computing platform ��� their most
recent move, having been announced just last month, is live today: open
sourced webOS for all. While the actual main product which will be known
as [0]Open webOS 1.0 will not be released until September, they've
already got the Enyo piece of the pie available today."
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Links:
0. http://www.slashgear.com/open-webos-announced-as-hps-open-source-mobile-os-power-move-25210755/
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| Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2
| from the making-gnome3-usable dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @11:29 (GNOME)
| with 75 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1459225/cinnamon-gnome-shell-fork-releases-version-12?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter [0]Novin writes with exciting news from the [1]Cinnamon
project. Quoting the release announcements: "[2]Cinnamon 1.2 is out! All
APIs and the desktop itself are now fully stable! I hope you'll enjoy the
many new features, the desktop effect, desktop layouts, the new
configuration tool, the applets, changes, bug fixes, and improvements
that went into this release. This is a [3]huge step forward for Cinnamon."
The release reintroduces desktop effects, fixes a slew of bugs, and
introduces a new applet API (fixing a number of issues intrinsic to
[4]shell extensions).
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Links:
0. https://xyz.pp.se/~thnov/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/2223251/linux-mint-developer-forks-gnome-3
2. http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=119
3. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Cinnamon-fork-of-GNOME-Shell-gets-stable-release-1420266.html
4. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/02/229251/gnome-shell-extensions-are-live
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| Turning the Hayden Planetarium Into a Giant Videogame
| from the biggest-screen dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @15:40 (Space)
| with 68 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1926201/turning-the-hayden-planetarium-into-a-giant-videogame?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pigrabbitbear writes "Remember your first visit to the planetarium?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson does ��� it was what inspired him to become an
astrophysicist in the first place. That same planetarium, now under
Tyson's direction, is currently undergoing a transformation the likes of
which Neil's young self couldn't have possibly imagined: [1]It's becoming
a giant videogame."
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Links:
0. http://motherboard.vice.com/
1. http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/24/babycastles-is-turning-the-hayden-planetarium-into-a-giant-videogame
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| Australia Likely To Get 18+ Game Rating
| from the thank-you-uncle-government dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday January 25, @05:40 (Australia)
| with 49 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0524209/australia-likely-to-get-18-game-rating?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes "Australia is set to update the age rating system for
video games, [0]adding a new 18+ category which should allow for the more
violent games to be sold in the country. The current maximum age rating
for a console or PC game is 15+. If a title didn't meet the
specifications for this age it was denied a rating and was therefore not
allowed to go on sale. This didn't necessarily mean the game never hit
the shelves, but it could only do if tweaks were made to remove some of
the most violent or questionable content. The first parliamentary session
in the new year is set for the 7th February ��� giving the poor fellas a
nice long break ��� where the bill to introduce the new age rating will be
[1]voted on by the lower house. If it passes there, it will go on to the
senate, which has the ability to pass it into law."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/0524209/australia-likely-to-get-18-game-rating?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/24/australia-get-18-game-rating/#ixzz1kNfkGqVV
1. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-01-24-r18-classification-bill-to-go-before-australian-senate
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| Android Kinect Projector Interface
| from the because-you-can dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @14:36 (Android)
| with 41 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1844226/android-kinect-projector-interface?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A guy who goes by the online handle DDRBoxman
decided it would be fun to blow up his Samsung Galaxy Nexus display onto
the wall by connecting his phone to a projector. He then connected the
whole thing to a PC and, thanks to Microsoft's open-source Kinect
platform for Windows, he was able to create a [0]custom ROM that mapped
out the phone interface to the Kinect sensors. Pretty neat!"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1844226/android-kinect-projector-interface?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-brief/61010-android-kinect-mashup-is-pretty-cool
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| Book Review: The Tangled Web
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, @16:22 (Book Reviews)
| with 30 comments
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/2047203/book-review-the-tangled-web?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]brothke writes "In the classic poem Inferno, Dante passes through the
gates of Hell, which has the inscription abandon all hope, ye who enter
here above the entrance. After reading The Tangled Web: A Guide to
Securing Modern Web Applications, one gets the feeling the writing secure
web code is akin to Dante's experience." Read below for Ben's review.
This story continues at:
https://books.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/2047203/book-review-the-tangled-web?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:brothke@hotmail.com
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| 2012 Japan Prize Honors Magnet Creator and Cancer Researchers
| from the turns-out-magnets-work-using-science dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 25, @12:11 (Japan)
| with 27 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1646209/2012-japan-prize-honors-magnet-creator-and-cancer-researchers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes with an excerpt from a Network World article: "The 2012
[0]Japan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious science and
technology honors, has been [1]awarded to three American medical experts
who are fighting cancer as well as to a Japanese inventor whose magnet
technology has implications for energy conservation. In years past, the
prize (which comes with a $650K purse) has honored computing
accomplishments, including last year, when Unix inventors [2]Dennis
Ritchie and Ken Thompson were honored."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/1646209/2012-japan-prize-honors-magnet-creator-and-cancer-researchers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.japanprize.jp/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/012512-japan-prize-255289.html?hpg1=bn
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/2213210/inventors-of-unix-win-japan-prize
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