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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen
* Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked
* Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+?
* Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
* PS3 "Strong Contender" To Overtake Xbox 360
* Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java's Use In Android
* Microsoft Suggests Heating Homes With "Data Furnaces"
* Microsoft Betting on Bing for Mobile Search
* The Rise of Polymorphic Malware
* Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS
* Chief NSA Lawyer Hints That NSA May Be Tracking US Citizens
* The Electric Airplane Is Coming
* Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly
* Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything
* Boot To Gecko – Mozilla's Web-Based OS
* 8GB of Data Stolen From Italian Cybercrime Unit
* Wal-Mart Jumps Into Video Streaming
* HTC Ready For Apple Patent War
* Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls
* Cornell Software Fingers Fake Online Reviews
* China Mandates Wi-Fi Hotspot Traffic Monitoring
* Trade of Google+1 "Likes" as a Business
* Sharing Electronic Schematics
* Mozilla Building Android Based Mobile OS
* The Rain On Saturn Falls Mainly From Space
* X-rays For Stargazing Turn Into Cancer Treatment
* Kepler to Investigate Newly Discovered Nebula
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| 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen
| from the it's-one-bigger dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 26, @11:00 (Apple)
| with 520 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1440246/35-Consumers-Want-iPhone-5-Sight-Unseen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "Apple's iPhone 5 is not announced yet, but [1]35
percent of consumers say they will buy it, when it comes out, even though
they know nothing about it. The figure comes from an online survey of
3,000 US consumers by Experian's PriceGrabber shopping website."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1440246/35-Consumers-Want-iPhone-5-Sight-Unseen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/survey-consumers-want-iphone-5-sight-unseen-35119
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| Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked
| from the still-not-over-this-yet-eh dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 26, @08:47 (Security)
| with 462 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1238211/Court-Filing-On-How-2004-Ohio-Election-Hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]chimpo13 writes "A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v.
Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election
production system configuration that was in use in Ohio's 2004
presidential election when there was a sudden and [1]unexpected shift in
votes for George W. Bush."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1238211/Court-Filing-On-How-2004-Ohio-Election-Hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:slashdot@nokilli.com
1. http://www.truth-out.org/new-court-filing-reveals-how-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked/1311603015
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| Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+?
| from the imitation-adoption-adaption-repeat dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 25, @21:42 (Communications)
| with 434 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/000216/Is-Twitter-Rendered-Obsolete-By-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun writes with a ComputerWorld piece predicting the end of
Twitter, at least in its current form. From the article: "It's only a
matter of time before [0]Twitter becomes a ghost town. While Google+ will
soon do all the things Twitter does, Twitter can't support a long list of
the things Google+ supports. Also on Google+, you can post pictures and
videos directly in posts, launch immediately into a video chat, send your
posts to nonmembers and even present all your posts marked 'Public' as a
blog available to anyone with an Internet."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/000216/Is-Twitter-Rendered-Obsolete-By-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218605/Elgan_Why_Twitter_is_obsolete
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| Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
| from the I-heard-that-too dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 26, @10:20 (Idle)
| with 259 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1333256/Scientists-Discover-Tipping-Point-for-the-Spread-of-Ideas?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute have found that [0]when just 10 percent of the population holds
an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority
of the society. 'When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10
percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would
literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe
for this size group to reach the majority,' said SCNARC Director Boleslaw
Szymanski. 'Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads
like flame.' [1]The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, early
online edition of the journal Physical Review E."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1333256/Scientists-Discover-Tipping-Point-for-the-Spread-of-Ideas?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://scienceblog.com/46622/minority-rules-scientists-discover-tipping-point-for-the-spread-of-ideas/
1. http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v84/i1/e011130
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| PS3 "Strong Contender" To Overtake Xbox 360
| from the atari-jaguar-will-rise-again dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @17:50 (Sony)
| with 205 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2122259/PS3-Strong-Contender-To-Overtake-Xbox-360?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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donniebaseball23 writes "Xbox 360 has been having an incredible year so
far in 2011, but on a global scale Sony's PS3 is still gaining ground. In
fact, this year [0]PS3 has outpaced Xbox 360 by 10% worldwide, analysts
have pointed out. While the Wii has clearly won the race for this console
generation, the battle for second place is neck and neck, and PS3 has a
good shot of overtaking Xbox 360. 'As for second place, as far as the
hardcore market is concerned, I'd say PS3 is a strong contender for that
position,' commented M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2122259/PS3-Strong-Contender-To-Overtake-Xbox-360?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java's Use In Android
| from the maybe-he-was-in-on-the-plot dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, @06:36 (Android)
| with 198 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0537252/Sun-CEO-Explicitly-Endorsed-Javas-Use-In-Android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet writes: 'If you believe Oracle's patent
lawsuits against Google for its use of Java in Android, Google has stolen
not just patented ideas but directly copied Java code. In short, Google
is a red-handed thief and should pay Oracle over a billion in damages.
There's just one little problem with this portrayal of Google as an
intellectual property (IP) bandit. When Android first came out, Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz, then Java's owner, greeted the news with '[0]heartfelt
congratulations.' Whoops.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0537252/Sun-CEO-Explicitly-Endorsed-Javas-Use-In-Android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Microsoft Suggests Heating Homes With "Data Furnaces"
| from the better-than-methane dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 26, @09:33 (Microsoft)
| with 194 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1324212/Microsoft-Suggests-Heating-Homes-With-Data-Furnaces?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Some anonymous masochist submitted a story that makes me cringe from
inside a heatwave. "With a temperature of around 40-50C (104-122F), the
exhaust from a rack of cloud servers could be a very [0]cost-effective
way of heating your house, according to researchers from Microsoft and
the University of Virginia. Dubbed the 'Data Furnace,' these racks would
be hot enough to completely replace the heating and hot water system in a
house or office. Instead of building mega data centers, Data Furnaces
would be micro data furnaces in residential areas, providing free heating
and ultra-low-latency cloud services to nearby web surfers. Microsoft
Research thinks that with remote sensor networks, encryption, and other
safety measures, lack of physical security won't be an issue."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1324212/Microsoft-Suggests-Heating-Homes-With-Data-Furnaces?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90992-microsoft-suggests-heating-your-home-with-data-furnaces
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| Microsoft Betting on Bing for Mobile Search
| from the htdig-is-enough-for-anyone dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @14:31 (Microsoft)
| with 183 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1815222/Microsoft-Betting-on-Bing-for-Mobile-Search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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msmoriarty writes "Bing is a [0]still a money loser for Microsoft, and
the [1]calls for the company to sell it off are growing. But according to
long-time Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley, dumping Bing is just [2]not
going to happen. 'While the world sees Bing as a distant No. 2 search
engine, Microsoft brass and bean counters see Bing as a reusable
component and asset that will be built into more and more products. Those
who think Microsoft will discard Bing or sell it to the highest bidder
are dead wrong ��� that won't happen now or any time soon.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1815222/Microsoft-Betting-on-Bing-for-Mobile-Search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/27/0120246/Bing-Loses-More-Money-As-Microsoft-Chases-Google
1. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/26/microsoft-sell-bing/
2. http://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/08/01/microsoft-backing-bing.aspx
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| The Rise of Polymorphic Malware
| from the dot-zip-dot-pdf-dot-virtual-exception dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @13:10 (Security)
| with 179 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/175201/The-Rise-of-Polymorphic-Malware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twoheadedboy writes "The level of aggressive, polymorphic [1]malware
intercepted by Symantec doubled in July, when compared to figures from
six months ago. This kind of malware has been typically found inside an
executable within an attached ZIP file disguised as a PDF file, and is
pretty darn good at getting around traditional anti-virus products.
'There are powerful Darwinian forces acting on the development of malware
by criminals,' said Martin Lee, senior software engineer at Symantec.
'Those who look to innovate and improve their malware tend to infect more
computers and acquire the resources to reinvest in further development
and innovation.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/175201/The-Rise-of-Polymorphic-Malware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.itpro.co.uk/635194/aggressive-polymorphic-malware-spikes-in-july
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| Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS
| from the inflection-point dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, @08:03 (ISS)
| with 172 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0124253/Dragon-Capsule-Could-Be-1st-Private-Craft-To-Dock-With-ISS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thomst writes "Space News reports that NASA has given tentative approval
for SpaceX to combine the two remaining flights designed to prove the
Hawthorne, Calif., company can deliver cargo to the international space
station, according to William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate
administrator for space operations, although formal approval for the
mission is still pending. If NASA does approve the plan, SpaceX's Dragon
capsule would be the [0]first civilian spacecraft actually to dock with
the International Space Station. According to NASA spokesman Joshua Buck,
the current plan calls for SpaceX to launch a Dragon capsule aboard a
Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 30, which would then rendezvous and dock with the
space station on Dec. 7 ��� a day that would live in spaceflight history."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0124253/Dragon-Capsule-Could-Be-1st-Private-Craft-To-Dock-With-ISS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://spacenews.com/civil/110722-nasa-combining-spacex-flights.html
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| Chief NSA Lawyer Hints That NSA May Be Tracking US Citizens
| from the this-story-may-exist dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @16:33 (Government)
| with 163 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Responding to questions from the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence yesterday, Matthew Olsen, the NSA's general
counsel, said that the NSA 'may', under 'certain circumstances' have the
authority to [1]track U.S. citizens by intercepting location data from
cell phones, but it's 'very complicated.' 'There's no need to panic, or
start shopping for aluminum-foil headwear,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty,
but clearly the NSA has been thinking about it enough 'that the agency's
chief lawyer was able to speak intelligently about it off the cuff while
interviewing for a different job.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/201214/Chief-NSA-Lawyer-Hints-That-NSA-May-Be-Tracking-US-Citizens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/186733/can-nsa-and-cia-use-your-phone-track-your-location
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| The Electric Airplane Is Coming
| from the but-what-about-flying-electric-cars dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @15:50 (Science)
| with 139 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1922252/The-Electric-Airplane-Is-Coming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The electric car is so yesterday; electric
airplanes are coming. A battery electric-powered ultralight aircraft has
been flying for the last year. A series-hybrid motor glider and a concept
for an all-electric, 50-seat passenger plane [0]were introduced at the
Paris Air Show."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1922252/The-Electric-Airplane-Is-Coming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.txchnologist.com/volumes/aviation/move-over-electric-car-the-electric-airplane-is-coming
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| Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly
| from the that-dog's-not-so-shaggy-after-all dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, @00:47 (Bug)
| with 125 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0135234/Heat-Most-Likely-Cause-of-Pioneer-Anomaly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Everything from clouds of dark matter, weird
gravitational effects, alien tampering and exotic new physics have all
been blamed for the 'Pioneer Anomaly' ��� the tiny, inexplicable sun-ward
acceleration acting on the veteran Pioneer deep space probes. However,
[1]evidence is mounting for a more mundane explanation. Yes, it's the
emission of heat from the spacecrafts' onboard radioisotope
thermoelectric generators (RTGs), slowly nudging the Pioneers off course,
that looks like the most likely culprit. It's unlikely that this new
finding will completely silence advocates of more exotic explanations,
however."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0135234/Heat-Most-Likely-Cause-of-Pioneer-Anomaly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/new-evidence-fingers-heat-as-culprit-for-pioneer-anomaly-110725.html
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| Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything
| from the if-forrest-gump-were-smart-and-ambitious dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, @16:18 (Earth)
| with 123 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/25/2324214/Interviews-Ask-Technologist-Kevin-Kelly-About-Everything?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Kevin Kelly has for decades been involved in some of the most
interesting projects I know about, and in his roles as founding editor
(and now editor at large) of Wired Magazine and editor of The Whole Earth
Catalog has helped spread the word about many others. Kelly is probably
as close to a Rennaisance man as it's possible to be in the 21st century,
having more-than-passing interest and knowledge in a range of topics from
[1]genetic sequencing and other ways that we can use measurement in
pursuit of improved health to [2]how technology is used and reused in
real life. Among other projects, he's also the founder of [3]CoolTools,
which I consider to be (unsurprisingly) the closest current equivalent to
the old Whole Earth Catalogs. (Disclaimer: I've had a few reviews
published there, too.) (He's also one of the founders of [4]The WELL, now
part of Salon.) Kelly is also Secretary of the Board of Directors of the
[5]Long Now Foundation, the group which for years has been designing a
[6]clock to ring on 10,000 years in the future. Below, ask questions of
Kelly, bearing in mind please the [7]Slashdot interview guidelines: ask
as many questions as you want, but please keep them to one per comment.
He'll get back soon with his answers.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)
1. http://quantifiedself.com/2007/11/access-to-personal-genomics/
2. http://www.kk.org/streetuse/
3. http://www.kk.org/cooltools
4. http://www.well.com/
5. http://longnow.org/
6. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/25/1528216/Long-Now-Clock-Advances-With-Bezos-Cash
7. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| Boot To Gecko – Mozilla's Web-Based OS
| from the browser-incomplete-'til-it-has-operating-system dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 25, @21:08 (Mozilla)
| with 117 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0022222/Boot-To-Gecko-ndash-Mozillas-Web-Based-OS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kai_hiwatari writes "Mozilla has launched a new project called '[1]Boot
to Gecko.' The aim of this project is to develop a complete operating
system for the open web. Unlike Google's version of a web-based OS ��� the
Chrome OS ��� Mozilla's version is not aimed at netbooks. With Boot to
Gecko, Mozilla is aiming for smartphones ��� and Android forms a part of
their plan."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0022222/Boot-To-Gecko-ndash-Mozillas-Web-Based-OS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/
1. http://digitizor.com/2011/07/26/boot-to-gecko-mozillas/
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| 8GB of Data Stolen From Italian Cybercrime Unit
| from the what's-itallian-for-engrish? dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, @03:49 (Crime)
| with 116 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0232220/8GB-of-Data-Stolen-From-Italian-Cybercrime-Unit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "Evidence servers of the Italian National Anti-Cybercrime
Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (CNAIPIC) [0]have
been breached and some of their contents published by a group of hackers
calling themselves 'Legion of Anonymous Doom,' who apparently got on
board the AntiSec campaign. The group has made clear that its sitting on
around eight GB of stolen data and that it plans to release it all."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/0232220/8GB-of-Data-Stolen-From-Italian-Cybercrime-Unit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11336
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| Wal-Mart Jumps Into Video Streaming
| from the timing-is-everything dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 26, @18:32 (Media)
| with 116 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2219250/Wal-Mart-Jumps-Into-Video-Streaming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Endoflow2010 writes "Today [0]Wal-Mart has added streaming video to their
website. What better time to compete with Netflix, now that they have
raised their prices? On Wal-Mart's website, the movies will be available
the same day the DVDs go on sale in stores. Walmart.com general manager
Steve Nave said the retailer is following its customers as they
increasingly embrace digital movie rentals and purchases. 'We know
customers are starting to shift their behavior, in terms of how they
consume their media,' Nave said, adding, 'As as customers make that
change, we don't want to lose that customer as they shift to digital.'
Wal-Mart, long the nation's leading seller of DVDs, signaled its intent
to double down on digital movie distribution in February 2010, when it
spent a reported $100 million to acquire Vudu, a Silicon Valley start-up
that was gradually being added to home entertainment devices."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2219250/Wal-Mart-Jumps-Into-Video-Streaming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| HTC Ready For Apple Patent War
| from the one-bad-apple dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 26, @10:14 (Patents)
| with 95 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/145255/HTC-Ready-For-Apple-Patent-War?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "The BBC have an [0]interview with HTC CEO Peter Chou. Last
week, a judge at the International Trade Commission found that HTC had
violated two of Apple's patents. HTC shares fell 7% on the news. Chou
predicts that HTC will win an appeal against the ITC finding in December.
He also reveals that HTC is preparing to fight back; it will soon acquire
an extra 235 patents from its takeover of S3 Graphics ��� including two
that Apple has already been found guilty of infringing."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/145255/HTC-Ready-For-Apple-Patent-War?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14238741
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| Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls
| from the ancient-group-work dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 26, @12:33 (Idle)
| with 87 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1346205/Crowdsourcing-Ancient-Egyptian-Scrolls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Dons at Oxford University were on the BBC
Radio 4 'Today' program this morning [0]asking for help from listeners to
transcribe unearthed ancient Egyptian texts and scrolls via their
website. Visitors to the site are asked to [1]match-up letters on scanned
fragments of papyrus with an on-screen Greek alphabet. By doing so, they
can help reveal some of the amazing documents that the ancient Egyptians
last read. You too can become a papyrologist!"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1346205/Crowdsourcing-Ancient-Egyptian-Scrolls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9548000/9548465.stm
1. https://login.zooniverse.org/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancientlives.org%2F&gateway=true
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| Cornell Software Fingers Fake Online Reviews
| from the pulling-back-the-curtain dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 26, @19:13 (Advertising)
| with 79 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2245245/Cornell-Software-Fingers-Fake-Online-Reviews?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Eric Smalley writes "If you're like most people, you give yourself
high ratings when it comes to figuring out when someone's trying to con
you. Problem is, most people aren't actually good at it ��� at least as far
as detecting fake positive consumer reviews. Fortunately, [1]technology
is poised to make up for this all-too-human failing. Cornell University
researchers have developed software that they say [2]can detect fake
reviews (PDF)."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2245245/Cornell-Software-Fingers-Fake-Online-Reviews?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:esmalley@ernmag.com
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20083200-1/cornell-software-fingers-fake-online-reviews/?tag=mncol;title
2. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~myleott/op_spamACL2011_slides.pdf
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| China Mandates Wi-Fi Hotspot Traffic Monitoring
| from the you-have-nothing-to-hide dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @13:50 (China)
| with 77 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1743204/China-Mandates-Wi-Fi-Hotspot-Traffic-Monitoring?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes with an article on tightening censorship in China. From
the article: "Officials in China warned businesses in the capital city to
[0]install web surveillance technology to monitor their traffic or they
may have to face hefty fine or closure. ... It seems that the step to
intensify web censorship in the country has left businesses with no other
choice but to [1]stop providing WiFi services.."
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Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/26/china-intensifies-internet-censorship-drive-sets-up-web-monitoring/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/world/asia/26china.html?_r=2
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| Trade of Google+1 "Likes" as a Business
| from the ruining-it-for-everyone dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 26, @12:34 (Google)
| with 74 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1555217/Trade-of-Google1-Likes-as-a-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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siliconbits writes "Selling Google+1 "likes" is gradually [0]becoming a
rather lucrative business, helped by cheap labour and ever-falling
internet access worldwide; the trend is not unlike what we saw previously
with Twitter & Digg during the days except that this has a more
widespread implication for SEO and could turn the nascent social
networking service into a massive headache for Google as many try to game
the system. Google+1 selling sites like Googleplus1supply, buygoogleplus1
or Blackcatseo have cropped up during the last few months ��� amongst so
many other websites ��� with the sole aim of selling Google+1 "likes" to
publishers and businesses."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1555217/Trade-of-Google1-Likes-as-a-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/26/trade-google1-likes-growing-lucrative-business/
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| Sharing Electronic Schematics
| from the schematics-2.0 dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @14:50 (Hardware Hacking)
| with 63 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/183257/Sharing-Electronic-Schematics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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derGoldstein writes with a blurb in Make about [0]Circuit Bee. From the
article: "CircuitBee is like YouTube for your circuit schematics. You
upload your Eagle or [1]Kicad schematics, we crunch the numbers and
[2]create an online embeddable version of your schematic."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/183257/Sharing-Electronic-Schematics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.circuitbee.com/
1. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/
2. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/circuitbee-sharing-electronic-schematics-on-your-blog.html
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| Mozilla Building Android Based Mobile OS
| from the works-for-me dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 26, @11:51 (Android)
| with 59 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1542251/Mozilla-Building-Android-Based-Mobile-OS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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karthikmns writes "The Firefox Mozilla has taken a step to develop an all
new OS for mobile platforms. This internet browser giant has launched a
[0]Boot 2 Gecko(B2G) project. Similar to Firefox B2G is also an open
source project which aims to clean up mobile fragmentation."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1542251/Mozilla-Building-Android-Based-Mobile-OS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hoowstuffworks.blogspot.com/2011/07/mozilla-making-mobile-os-using-android.html
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| The Rain On Saturn Falls Mainly From Space
| from the bring-an-umbrella dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 26, @19:55 (Space)
| with 59 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2259230/The-Rain-On-Saturn-Falls-Mainly-From-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers have discovered that [1]the
source of water in Saturn's upper atmosphere is none other than the
geysers [2]erupting from its moon Enceladus. The geysers spew water into
space, most of which is lost. A small amount, though, falls to Saturn...
equivalent to only about [3]7.5 kilos/second over the entire planet
(PDF). A typical rainfall on Earth is 42 trillion times heavier."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2259230/The-Rain-On-Saturn-Falls-Mainly-From-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:thebadastronomer@@@gmail...com
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/26/saturn-weather-forecast-rings-with-light-rain-from-enceladus/
2. http://ciclops.org/view_media/29976/Peaceful_Portrait
3. http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2011/08/aa17377-11.pdf
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| X-rays For Stargazing Turn Into Cancer Treatment
| from the as-above-so-below dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @15:10 (Medicine)
| with 55 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1832215/X-rays-For-Stargazing-Turn-Into-Cancer-Treatment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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derGoldstein writes "Discovery posted an interesting story of how X-rays
that are used by astronomers for determining the various chemical
abundances inside stars could also [0]potentially be used for more
effective radiation therapy: 'Radiation treatment is a coarse instrument
at best, since it destroys surrounding healthy cells as well as cancerous
tumors. Much research is underway for targeted methods to reduce the
collateral damage and attack just the cancer cells, including embedding
nanoparticles inside tumors ... Nahar and Pradham envision a prototype
[1]device capable of generating x-rays (gzipped PDF) at the key
frequencies to trigger a flood of low-energy electrons in platinum and
gold, based on their computer simulations. Gold or platinum nanoparticles
would amass naturally in cancerous tumors in the body, and could then be
zapped with the focused x-ray beam.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/1832215/X-rays-For-Stargazing-Turn-Into-Cancer-Treatment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.discovery.com/space/for-new-cancer-therapies-look-to-the-stars-110726.html
1. http://molspect.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/molspect_conf_public/archive_2011/p030-ppt.tar.gz
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| Kepler to Investigate Newly Discovered Nebula
| from the sentient-gas-cloud dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 26, @17:11 (NASA)
| with 34 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2047217/Kepler-to-Investigate-Newly-Discovered-Nebula?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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derGoldstein writes with an article in DigitalTrends: "An amateur
astronomer recently discovered what has been confirmed to be one of the
[0]best looks yet at a planetary nebula, the last, gassy breath of a
dying star. The nebula, named Kronenberger 61 after the enthusiast who
discovered it, will offer insights into the future and death of our own
sun."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/26/2047217/Kepler-to-Investigate-Newly-Discovered-Nebula?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/astronomers-near-capturing-stars-moment-of-death/
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