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In this issue:
* Facebook Bans Google+ Ads
* Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code
* Court Approves TSA Body Scans, But Calls For Public Comment
* Understanding the Payoffs From Investing In Space Flight
* <em>Anonymous</em> Creates Its Own Social Network
* Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging
* Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates
* Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300%
* NASA Probe Orbiting Asteroid Vesta
* NCAA to Tighten Twitter Rules
* EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules
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| Facebook Bans Google+ Ads
| from the a-friends-list-too-far dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @11:55 (Advertising)
| with 420 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/149231/Facebook-Bans-Google-Ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barbara, not Barbie writes "Not content with making it hard for people
to export their Facebook contacts to Google+, Facebook has now [1]banned
all ads from app developer Michael Lee Johnson, who ran an ad saying 'Add
Michael to Google+.' Facebook sent him the following message: 'Your
account has been disabled. All of your adverts have been stopped and
should not be run again on the site under any circumstances. Generally,
we disable an account if too many of its adverts violate our Terms of Use
or Advertising guidelines. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with the
specific violations that have been deemed abusive. Please review our
Terms of Use and Advertising guidelines if you have any further
questions.'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/149231/Facebook-Bans-Google-Ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:barbara.hudson@gmail.com
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20080054-71/facebook-bans-google-ad/
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| Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code
| from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 16, @20:23 (Microsoft)
| with 315 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/2316251/Microsoft-Developer-Made-the-Most-Changes-To-Linux-30-Code?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sfcrazy sends this quote from the H: "The 343 changes made by Microsoft
developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by
LWN.net, of [0]developers who made the most changes in the current
development cycle for Linux 3.0. Along with a number of other 'change
sets,' Microsoft [1]provided a total of 361 changes, putting it in
seventh place on the list of companies and groups that contributed code
to the Linux kernel. By comparison, independent developers provided 1,085
change sets to Linux 3.0, while Red Hat provided 1,000 and Intel 839."
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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/2316251/Microsoft-Developer-Made-the-Most-Changes-To-Linux-30-Code?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-contributes-a-lot-of-changes-to-Linux-kernel-3-0-1280528.html
1. http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2011/07/14/#microsoft-linux-author
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| Court Approves TSA Body Scans, But Calls For Public Comment
| from the in-the-case-of-the-people-vs-the-peepers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 17, @08:15 (Transportation)
| with 230 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0143233/Court-Approves-TSA-Body-Scans-But-Calls-For-Public-Comment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
has finally [0]issued a ruling (PDF) on [1]EPIC v. DHS, a lawsuit seeking
suspension of the use of body scanners for primary screening pending an
independent review that would include a public comment period. According
to the summary, the court 'grant[s] the petition for review' but 'due to
the obvious need for the TSA to continue its airport security operations
without interruption, we remand the rule to the TSA but do not vacate
it.' In short, the TSA is [2]required to open up their policy for public
comment, but they can [3]continue to use the scanners in the meantime and
most likely afterward. This doesn't sound like much of a victory for EPIC
or the U.S. public."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0143233/Court-Approves-TSA-Body-Scans-But-Calls-For-Public-Comment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/EPIC_v_DHS_Decision_07_15_11.pdf
1. http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/epic_v_dhs_suspension_of_body.html
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-15/airport-body-scanners-were-improperly-adopted-by-u-s-appeals-court-rules.html
3. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-tsa-scanners-20110716,0,1546464.story
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| Understanding the Payoffs From Investing In Space Flight
| from the still-waiting-on-that-holodeck dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 17, @02:20 (NASA)
| with 221 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0410223/Understanding-the-Payoffs-From-Investing-In-Space-Flight?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A story at MSNBC.com explains how [0]the technological benefits reaped
from investing in the US space program are numerous, but often indirect
or difficult to explain. Quoting: "NASA has recorded about 1,600 new
technologies or inventions each year for the past several decades, but
far fewer become commercial products, said Daniel Lockney, technology
transfer program executive at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. ...
'We didn't know that by building the space shuttle main engines we'd also
get a new implantable heart device,' Lockney said. 'There's also a bunch
of stuff we don't know we're going to learn, which leads to serendipitous
spinoffs.' ... But some innovations do not appear as a straight line
drawn from NASA to commercial products. The U.S. space agency may not
claim credit for computers and the digital revolution that followed, but
it did create a pool of talent that perhaps contributed to that
transformation of modern life. NASA brought together hundreds of the
brightest scientists and engineers in the 1970s to work on the guidance
computers that helped the Apollo missions land humans on the moon. When
the Apollo era ended, many of those people dispersed to private companies
and to Silicon Valley."
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Links:
0. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43772079/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
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| <em>Anonymous</em> Creates Its Own Social Network
| from the geeting-in-on-the-game dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @10:08 (Social Networks)
| with 219 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/1150256/Anonymous-Creates-Its-Own-Social-Network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Google has reportedly banned a handful of
Anonymous members from Google+ (it's not exactly clear how many accounts
were shut down). The hacktivist group likened Google's actions to the
stories of activists being banned from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, as
well as governments blocking various websites using Internet censorship
tools. As a result, Anonymous [0]has decided to create its own social
network: Anonplus."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/1150256/Anonymous-Creates-Its-Own-Social-Network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techspot.com/news/44721-anonymous-gets-banned-from-google-creates-anonplus.html
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| Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging
| from the first-of-the-first! dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @19:02 (The Courts)
| with 210 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/216220/Company-Claims-Ownership-of-Digital-Messaging?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Kootol, yet another patent troll, is going
after everyone who makes messaging software for violating their
soon-to-be-granted patent, which [0]claims they invented one- and two-way
messaging in 2005. From the article: 'Kootol, founded in 2010, says it
has a patent license agreement with Yogesh Rathod for control of U.S.
Patent Application 11/995,343. Rathod, in fact, is a co-founder of Kootol
with his brother Vijay Rathod. According to Kootol, the patent
application ���covers core messaging, publication and real time searching
technology.��� Interestingly, the patent in question hasn���t actually been
awarded to Kootol or Rathod yet. Rather, The U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office has issued ���A Notice of Allowance.��� That���s the term for when the
USPTO says that an applicant is entitled to a patent under the law, but
must pay an issue fee (and potentially publication fee) first, within
three months.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/216220/Company-Claims-Ownership-of-Digital-Messaging?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.macworld.com/article/161154/2011/07/kootol_sues_apple.html
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| Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates
| from the government-ninjas dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @17:19 (Australia)
| with 184 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/1943241/Climate-Scientists-Ask-For-Help-Fighting-Somali-Pirates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thebchuckster writes "Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian
and US navies to repel Somali [0]pirates who are threatening one of the
world's key climate monitoring programs. They hope to deploy about 20
robotic instruments in a no-go area north of Mauritius. The instruments,
which record ocean heat and salinity patterns, are programmed to submerge
and eventually resurface to upload their data to satellites"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/1943241/Climate-Scientists-Ask-For-Help-Fighting-Somali-Pirates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300%
| from the it's-like-a-helmet-but-with-celery dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 16, @23:20 (Transportation)
| with 157 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0210211/Aluminum-Celmet-Could-Increase-EV-Range-By-300?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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LesterMoore writes "Japanese company [0]Sumitomo Electric Industries have
[1]developed a new material that they believe can significantly improve
the capacity of EV batteries. The material is a form of porous aluminum
called 'Aluminum-Celmet.' 'The positive electrode current collector in a
conventional lithium-ion secondary battery is made from aluminum foil,
while the negative electrode current collector is made from copper foil.
Replacing the aluminum foil with Aluminum-Celmet increases the amount of
positive active material per unit area. Sumitomo Electric���s trial
calculations indicate that in the case of automotive onboard battery
packs, such replacement will increase battery capacity 1.5 to 3 times.
Alternatively, with no change in capacity, battery volume can be reduced
to one-third to two-thirds. These changes afford such benefits as reduced
footprint of home-use storage batteries for power generated by solar and
other natural sources, as well as by fuel cells."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0210211/Aluminum-Celmet-Could-Increase-EV-Range-By-300?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://global-sei.com/news/press/11/11_19.html
1. http://inhabitat.com/aluminum-celmet-could-increase-electric-vehicle-range-by-300/
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| NASA Probe Orbiting Asteroid Vesta
| from the checking-things-out dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @13:41 (NASA)
| with 102 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/163208/NASA-Probe-Orbiting-Asteroid-Vesta?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Mission managers of NASA's Dawn asteroid probe had
a long Saturday, waiting for news from the asteroid belt. Eventually they
got the news they were hoping for: [1]Dawn had entered Vesta orbit. This
is the first time in history that an object in the asteroid belt has been
orbited by an artificial satellite. It's taken four years for the ion
thruster-propelled spacecraft to reach the asteroid and there was some
uncertainty as to whether the probe had been captured by the asteroid's
gravity at all. But after a long period of waiting, mission managers
received the signal after Dawn was able to orientate its antenna toward
Earth."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/dawn-enters-asteroid-vesta-orbit-110716.html
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| NCAA to Tighten Twitter Rules
| from the not-until-you-turn-pro-kid dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 17, @15:32 (Education)
| with 87 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/1756216/NCAA-to-Tighten-Twitter-Rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Facebook and Twitter have made student athletes more
accessible than ever, but [0]Tweets that catch the watchful eye of the
NCAA could be all that's needed to bring down a successful college
athletic program. Among the allegations leveled against the Univ. of
North Carolina by the NCAA is a failure to 'adequately and consistently
monitor social networking activity,' which the NCAA argues would have
caused the school to detect other violations sooner than they did. To
cope with the daunting task of monitoring hundreds of accounts on a daily
basis, some sports programs are turning to software like [1]UDiligence,
while others are opting for a simpler approach, such as having a coach
frequently check on posts from the team's players."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/1756216/NCAA-to-Tighten-Twitter-Rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2011/07/16/ncaa-social-networking-regulations-provide-challenge-mu-compliance-department/
1. http://www.udiligence.com/
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| EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules
| from the wrist-slap-doctrine dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 17, @05:25 (Security)
| with 33 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0429228/EU-Considers-Strict-Data-Breach-Notification-Rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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JohnBert writes "The European Commission is examining [0]whether
additional rules are needed on personal data breach notification in the
European Union. Telecoms operators and Internet service providers hold a
huge amount of data about their customers, including names, addresses and
bank account details. The current ePrivacy Directive requires them to
keep this data secure and notify individuals if such sensitive
information is lost or stolen. Data breaches must also be reported to the
relevant national authority. 'The duty to notify data breaches is an
important part of the new E.U. telecoms rules,' said Commissioner Neelie
Kroes. 'But we need consistency across the E.U. so businesses don't have
to deal with a complicated range of different national schemes. I want to
provide a level playing field, with certainty for consumers and practical
solutions for businesses.'"
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/17/0429228/EU-Considers-Strict-Data-Breach-Notification-Rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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