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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month
* Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow?
* Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source
* Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera
* Google Backs Out of JavaOne
* Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic
* Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration
* Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution?
* Scientists Unveil Structure of Adenovirus
* Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
* MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype
* Machining a TI-89 Out of Aluminum
* Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable
* Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money?
* What Pinball Looks Like When the Stakes Are High
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| Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month |
| from the is-it-as-magical-as-advertised? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 27, @20:26 (Oracle) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/2259253/Native-ZFS-Is-Coming-To-Linux-Next-Month |
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An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that an Indian
technology company has been [0]porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and
will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a
dependence on FUSE. 'In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being
handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code
under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be
attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will
just be releasing their CDDL source-code as a build-able kernel module
for users and ensuring it does not use any GPL-only symbols where there
would be license conflicts. KQ Infotech also seems confident that Oracle
will not attempt to take any legal action against them for this work.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/27/2259253
Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_linux_coming&num=1
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| Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? |
| from the those-naughty-republicans dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 27, @23:28 (Google) |
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/0242220/Just-Where-Is-The-Lincoln-Memorial-Any|
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[0]John3 writes "Searching Google Maps for the [1]Lincoln Memorial is
returning the location of the FDR Memorial instead. [2]Conservative
bloggers [3]smell a conspiracy since Glenn Beck is holding his 'Restoring
Honor' gathering at the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow (August 28). Notes for
the map listing on Google state 'This place has unverified edits'; so,
did someone claim the listing and edit the location?"
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/0242220
Links:
0. mailto:john3@@@cornells...com
1. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=lincoln+memorial&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=Z2B4TNDdNMT38AaO0bj0Bg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CBEQ_AU
2. http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2010/08/27/a-funny-thing-happens-on-the-way-to-the-lincoln-memorial/
3. http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/08/how-you-can-tel.html
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| Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source |
| from the by-which-they-mean-the-source dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @02:17 (Programming) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/0319257/Skipping-Traditional-Recruitment-Goi|
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theodp writes "Out of necessity, reports Slate, [0]tech startups are
changing the way workers are screened and hired. Take database technology
startup RethinkDB, whose old-school recruiting effort ��� job boards,
external recruiters ��� yielded hundreds of resumes, dozens of phone
screens, and numerous four-hour meetings with viable candidates, but no
one who fit their criteria. 'They [recruiters] can't tell the difference
between the competent ones and the stars,' complained Y Combinator's Paul
Graham. Instead, the RethinkDB founders turned to sites like Github.com
and stackoverflow.com to pick up six people (they're [1]still looking), a
mix of full-timers and interns, both senior and junior. 'You can see the
code being written and how technically accurate they are,' explained
RethinkDB's Michael Glukhovsky."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/0319257
Links:
0. http://www.slate.com/id/2265202/
1. http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/
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| Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera |
| from the hardly-any-megapixels-a'tall dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @05:20 (Input Devices) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/0357241/Kodaks-1975-Digital-Camera |
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pickens writes "The NY Times reports on a digital camera put together at
Kodak's Elmgrove Plant labs in Rochester, NY during the winter of 1975
from a [0]mishmash of lenses and computer parts and an old Super 8 movie
camera that took 23 seconds to record a single digital image to its
cassette deck and using a customized reader could display the image on an
old black and white television. Called 'Film-less Photography,' it took a
'year of piecing together a bunch of new technology' to create the camera
which ran off 'sixteen nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental
new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation
stolen from a digital voltmeter.' When the team of technicians presented
the camera to Kodak audiences they heard a barrage of curious questions
including ��� 'Why would anyone ever want to view his or her pictures on a
TV?'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/0357241
Links:
0. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/bits-pics-kodaks-1975-model-digital-camera/
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| Google Backs Out of JavaOne |
| from the but-java-is-delicious dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @08:27 (Google) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/0119257/Google-Backs-Out-of-JavaOne |
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[0]snydeq writes "Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it,
[1]Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's
recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for
us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source
generally,' Google's [2]Joshua Bloch said in a blog post. The move may
signal eventually fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably
[3]splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/0119257
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/google-backs-out-javaone-conference-591
2. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-javaone.html
3. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/08/22/1534205/The-Case-For-Oracle
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| Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic |
| from the oopsie-daisy dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @09:37 (Bug) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1319211/Duke-Research-Experiment-Disrupts-Internet|
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alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World about an experiment
gone wrong which affected a big chunk of internet traffic yesterday
morning: "It was kicked off when RIPE NCC (Reseaux IP Europeens Network
Coordination Centre) and Duke ran an experiment that involved the Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP) ��� used by routers to know where to send their
traffic on the Internet. RIPE started announcing [0]BGP routes that were
configured a little differently from normal because they used an
experimental data format. RIPE's data was soon passed from router to
router on the Internet, and within minutes it became clear that this was
causing problems. ... [f]or a brief period Friday morning, about 1
percent of all the Internet's traffic was affected by the snafu, as
routers could not properly process the BGP routes they were being sent."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1319211
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/082710-research-experiment-disrupts-internet-for.html
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| Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration |
| from the browser-as-taskmaster dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @10:40 (Google) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1326254/Google-Confirms-Chrome-GPU-Acceleratio|
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An anonymous reader writes "Google is already [0]experimenting with GPU
acceleration in its latest Chrome developer builds. Chrome 7 can separate
different layers of a webpage into CPU and GPU processes and combine
those layers using the GPU as long as the browser is now launched with
certain switches. Chromium 7 has also a new Labs feature that reveals
that Google is thinking about moving tabs from the top of the browser to
the left side. It seems that Chrome will be catching up with Firefox 4
and IE9 in terms of hardware acceleration soon."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1326254
Links:
0. http://www.conceivablytech.com/2463/products/google-confirms-chrome-7-gpu-acceleration/
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| Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution? |
| from the needs-big-red-off-button-too dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @11:44 (Communications) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1510219/Persistent-Home-Videoconferencing-Solution |
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An anonymous reader writes "I'm moving very soon for work, and will be
several hundred miles away from my young family for six to nine months.
Obviously I'll travel back as often as possible, and there's always Skype
and XBLA video, but the whole 'now it's time to talk to dad' thing seems
... a little weak. I was wondering the Slashdot community could help me
come up with a more persistent solution. Ideally what I want is an
always-on connection between a pc/monitor/camera/speakers in my old
kitchen and my new kitchen, so if we're in the kitchens, we can see each
other and interact semi-normally. (We're a kitchen-focused family.) Most
solutions I can find time out pretty quick, or require some knowledge on
the part of the users, and the tech-savvy people are only going to be in
one kitchen, to put it politely!" (Read on for a few more details.)
This story continues at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1510219/Persistent-Home-Videoconferencing-Solution
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1510219
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| Scientists Unveil Structure of Adenovirus |
| from the after-the-unveiling-is-the-fun-part dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @12:50 (Medicine) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1559223/Scientists-Unveil-Structure-of-Adenovir|
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An anonymous reader contributes this snippet from Medical News Daily,
which begins a story of some interesting medical detective work: "After
more than a decade of research, Scripps Research Institute scientists
have [0]pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus���the largest
complex ever determined at atomic resolution. The new findings about the
virus, which causes respiratory, eye, and gastrointestinal infections,
may lead to more effective gene therapy and to new anti-viral drugs."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1559223
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| Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans |
| from the this-slope-sure-feels-slippery dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @13:58 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1615208/Full-Body-Scanners-Deployed-In-Street-Rovin|
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pickens writes "Forbes reports that the same technology used at airport
check points, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, [0]has also
been rolling out on US streets where law enforcement agencies have
deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs. 'It's no surprise
that governments and vendors are very enthusiastic about [the vans],'
says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center. 'But from a privacy perspective, it's one of the most
intrusive technologies conceivable.' Rotenberg adds that the scans, like
those in the airport, potentially violate the fourth amendment. 'Without
a warrant, the government doesn't have a right to peer beneath your
clothes without probable cause,' Rotenberg says. 'If the scans can only
be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used
routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1615208
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| MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype |
| from the so-burning-harmless-eh dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @15:06 (Earth) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1846243/MIT-Unveils-Oil-Skimming-Robot-Swarm-P|
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destinyland writes "Today MIT reveals [0]a swarm of autonomous floating
robots that can digest an oil spill. The 16-foot robots drag a nanowire
mesh that acts like a conveyor belt to soak up surface oil 'like paper
towels soak up water,' absorbing 20 times its weight and then harmlessly
'digesting' the oil by burning it off. Powered by 21.5 square feet of
solar panels, the 'Seaswarm' robots run on the power of a lightbulb, and
with just 100 watts 'could potentially clean continuously for weeks'
without human intervention, MIT announced. The swarm uses GPS data and
communicates wirelessly to move as a coordinated group to 'corral, absorb
and process' oil spills, and MIT researchers estimate that a fleet of
5,000 could clean up a gulf-sized spill within one month."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1846243
Links:
0. http://web.mit.edu/press/2010/seaswarm.html
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| Machining a TI-89 Out of Aluminum |
| from the fully-weaponized dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @16:13 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/1951242/Machining-a-TI-89-Out-of-Aluminum |
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TangoMargarine writes "Sometimes, expensive calculators hit the floor.
It's happened to almost anyone with a graphing calculator from TI or HP.
Sadly, they don't always bounce. After this happened to [Howard C.], an
Industrial Engineering student from U. of Iowa, he decided to spend $50
on [0]milling his own replacement case out of aluminum rather than
trashing the device over a broken battery compartment."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/1951242
Links:
0. http://hackaday.com/2010/08/23/indestructible-ti-89/
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| Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable |
| from the windows-is-to-boot-out-not-up dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @17:21 (Bug) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/2112208/Some-Windows-Apps-Make-GRUB-2-Unbootable |
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KwahAG writes "Colin Watson, one of the Ubuntu developers, published in
his blog information about [0]Windows applications making GRUB 2
unbootable. Users of dual-boot Windows/Linux installations may face the
problem, which boils down to particular Windows applications (Colin does
not name them, but users point at least to HP ProtectTools, PC Angel,
Adobe Flexnet) blindly overwriting hard disk content between the MBR and
the first partition destroying information already stored there, in this
particular case ��� the 'core image' of GRUB 2 (GRand Unified Bootloader)
making the system unbootable."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/2112208
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| Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money? |
| from the one-of-the-coolest-projects-ever dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @18:30 (GNU is Not Unix) |
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/2157232/Can-an-Open-Source-Map-Project-Make-Mone|
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Roblimo writes "Bing and Mapquest both use output from
[0]OpenStreetMap.org. Mapquest supports the project with money for
equipment and access to the code they've written to integrate OSM's work
with their display. Bing? They just [1]take from the project and do
nothing for it in return. This may be okay in a legal sense, but it is a
seriously [2]nekulturny way to behave. Even so, having Microsoft's Bing
as a reference might help the project's founder make money. They've put a
lot of work into this project, and it's doing a lot of people a lot of
good, so they certainly deserve some sort of payback, either direct or
indirect. They have a few ideas about how they might legitimately earn a
few bucks from their project while remaining free software purists. Do
you have any ideas, yourself, about how they might turn a few bucks from
OSM?"
Discuss this story at:
http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/2157232
Links:
0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/
1. http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/45506
2. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nekulturny
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| What Pinball Looks Like When the Stakes Are High |
| from the more-fun-to-watch-than-poker dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, @19:33 (Classic Games (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/2256241/What-Pinball-Looks-Like-When-the-Stakes-A|
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siobHan writes "The [0]PAPA World Pinball Championships recently
concluded in Scott, PA (near Pittsburgh), as [1]covered on Slashdot
already. The organizers recorded full 1080p/60 HD video of the playfield
during the final games, and have uploaded the entirety of the [2]crucial
deciding game, with commentary ([3]direct link to just the video). The
winner of this game received $10,000 for his skillful play."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/28/2256241
Links:
0. http://www.papa.org/papa13/index.php
1. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/16/0521231/Keith-Elwin-Wins-Pinball-World-Championship
2. http://tiltwarning.com/blog/2010/08/world-pinball-championships-final-and-deciding-game/
3. http://vimeo.com/14449080
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