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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS
* Microsoft To Release Emergency Fix For ASP.NET Bug
* Rewiring a Damaged Brain
* UK ISPs Profit From Coughing Up Customer Data
* Aussie Gov't Won't Help Fight Cyber Attacks
* Building the LEGO MMO
* Wikimedia Trying P2P Video Distribution
* WikiLeaks Insiders Resign
* Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap
* ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America
* Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans
* OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice
* Largest Simulated Cyber Attack To Date
* Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag
* AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken
* Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats
* Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue
* Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098
* UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality
* 1K JavaScript Madness
* US Gov't Assisted Iranian Gov't Mobile Wiretaps
* <em>Minecraft</em> Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU
* Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads
* Sony Lawsuits Target PS3 Jailbreak Authors
* Almost-Satnav For Cycling
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| Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS |
| from the striding-toward-peak-apps dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 27, @20:03 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/27/2254259/Devs-Bet-Big-On-Android-Over-Apples-iOS |
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CWmike writes "A majority of mobile app developers see [0]Android as the
smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the
short term, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and
IDC. The survey polled more than 2,300 developers who use Appcelerator's
Titanium cross-platform compiler to produce iOS and Android native apps.
Of the 2,300 polled, 59% said that Android had the 'best long-term
outlook,' compared with just 35% who pegged Apple's iOS with that label.
But three out of four said that iOS offers the best 'near-term' outlook,
with 76% tagging Apple's operating system as the best revenue
opportunity."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/27/2254259
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188198/Devs_bet_big_on_Android_over_Apple_s_iOS
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| Microsoft To Release Emergency Fix For ASP.NET Bug |
| from the don't-make-us-do-stuff dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 27, @22:12 (Microsoft) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/27/2326231/Microsoft-To-Release-Emergency-Fix-For-ASPNE|
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Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft on Tuesday will [0]release an emergency
out-of-band patch for the ASP.NET padding oracle attack that was
disclosed earlier this month. The patch will only be available on the
company's Download Center for the time being, however. The company is
taking the step of [1]releasing an emergency fix for the bug because of
the seriousness of the vulnerability ��� which potentially affects millions
of Web applications ��� and the fact that there are attacks ongoing against
it already. The patch will fix the flaw in all versions of the .NET
framework. Although Microsoft issued guidance about workarounds to defend
against attacks on the ASP.NET bug shortly after it was publicly
disclosed, the researchers, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong, said that
[2]the workarounds did not fully protect users against their attack."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/27/2326231
Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-release-emergency-patch-aspnet-bug-092710
1. http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/09/27/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2416728.aspx
2. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/workarounds-not-enough-protect-against-aspnet-attacks-092710
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| Rewiring a Damaged Brain |
| from the resistance-is-futile dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @00:09 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0148213/Rewiring-a-Damaged-Brain |
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers in the Midwest are developing
microelectronic circuitry to guide the growth of axons in a brain damaged
by trauma. The goal is to [0]rewire the brain connectivity and bypass the
damaged region in order to restore normal behavior and movement. 'The
device, which [professor Pedram Mohseni] calls a brain-machine-brain
interface, includes a microchip on a circuit board smaller than a
quarter. The microchip amplifies signals, called neural action
potentials, produced by the neurons in one part of the brain and uses an
algorithm to separate these signals ��� brain spike activity ��� from noise
and other artifacts. Upon spike discrimination, the microchip sends a
current pulse to stimulate neurons in another part of the brain,
artificially connecting the two brain regions.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/0148213
Links:
0. http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20100927/2237/rewiring-a-damaged-brain.htm
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| UK ISPs Profit From Coughing Up Customer Data |
| from the they-call-it-monetization-of-assets dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @01:22 (Piracy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0336213/UK-ISPs-Profit-From-Coughing-Up-Customer-Da|
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nk497 writes "ISPs in the UK are charging as much as [0]��120 to hand
customer data over to rightsholders looking for proof of piracy,
according to the Federation Against Software Theft. While ISPs have to
hand over log details for free in criminal cases, they are free to charge
in civil cases ��� and can set the price. 'In 2006, we ran Operation
Tracker in which we identified about 130 users who were sharing copies of
a security program over the web,' said John Lovelock, chief executive of
FAST. 'In the end we got about 100 names out of them, but that cost us
��12,000, and that was on top of the investigative costs and the legal
fees.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/0336213
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361465/isps-profit-from-coughing-up-customer-data
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| Aussie Gov't Won't Help Fight Cyber Attacks |
| from the they'd-probably-screw-it-up-anyway dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @02:07 (Australia) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0322204/Aussie-Govt-Wont-Help-Fight-Cyber-Attacks |
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mask.of.sanity writes "Days after the Pentagon's #2 [0]called for a NATO
cyber-shield, the Australian government has announced [1]it won't lift a
finger to help the country's businesses to defend themselves against
cyber attacks unless it presents a high risk to national security.
Instead, Australia's security agencies will forge a response based on the
'pathology of the problem,' incorporating the risk the attack poses to
government and the community. A senior security official said the
government 'struggles to defend its own systems from the current
threats,' let alone that of other industries. He went on to rubbish
claims that existing military force strategies can be applied to cyber
warfare, noting that the demarcation between civil attacks, such as
domestic hacking, and those against nation-states, such as espionage, is
blurry. Former US counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke [2]said the US
government has taken a similar line."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/0322204
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5icuj7DWWR3UD3_H-xy9j4cAg4i5A
1. http://www.zdnet.com.au/no-govt-defence-against-cyber-attacks-339306238.htm
2. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/cyber-war-richard-clarke/story?id=10414617
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| Building the LEGO MMO |
| from the brick-by-brick dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @03:28 (Toys) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0429207/Building-the-LEGO-MMO |
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Gamasutra has a lengthy interview with NetDevil's Ryan Seabury, creative
director for LEGO Universe, which is due to launch next month. He talks
about some of [0]the difficulties in graphically optimizing a game with
so many discrete, interactive objects, and mentions that they'll be
keeping an eye out for inappropriate contructs to avoid problems similar
to those that [1]cropped up with Spore. "One thing we can say is when you
build models you have your own property, and you can share that if you
want to. If you share something publicly, it will be monitored by a human
before it's seen by other people." Seabury also explains their desire to
keep the game simple, using players' creativity as a driving force, as
well as NetDevil's decision to stay away from a micro-transaction
business model.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/0429207
Links:
0. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6148/the_realities_of_a_lego_mmo.php
1. http://games.slashdot.org/story/08/07/31/1714241/Spore-Almost-Ready-for-Production-Complete-With-Sporn
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| Wikimedia Trying P2P Video Distribution |
| from the spin-this-one,-mpaa dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @05:11 (Media) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0137258/Wikimedia-Trying-P2P-Video-Distribution |
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bigmammoth writes "One potential problem with [0]campaigns and programs
to increase video on Wikimedia sites is that [1]video is many times more
costly to distribute than text and images. The [2]P2P-Next consortium has
created an HTML5 streaming BitTorrent browser add-on to try and help
experiment with ways to reduce the costs of video distribution. As
described in a Wikimedia tech blog post, once the [3]SwarmPlayer add-on
is installed, and when using the multimedia beta, video on the site will
be streamed via the hybrid HTTP / BitTorrent SwarmPlayer. For smooth
playback the Swarmplayer downloads high priority pieces over HTTP while
getting low priority bits from the BitTorrent swarm. The same technology
is available for experimentation with [4]any site via the standalone
version of the [5]Kaltura HTML5 Media library."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/0137258
Links:
0. http://videoonwikipedia.org/
1. http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/video-labs-p2p-next-community-cdn-for-video-distribution/
2. http://www.p2pnext.org/
3. http://swarmplayer.p2p-next.org/
4. http://www.kaltura.org/apis/html5lib/kplayer-examples/Player_SwarmTransport.html
5. http://www.kaltura.org/project/HTML5_Video_Media_JavaScript_Library
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| WikiLeaks Insiders Resign |
| from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @08:13 (Communications) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0328250/WikiLeaks-Insiders-Resign |
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Americano writes "Wired reports that at least six WikiLeaks insiders,
including Daniel Domscheit-Berg, WikiLeaks' spokesman in Germany, [0]have
resigned in the past few weeks. Those who have spoken with Wired cite
differences and disputes with Julian Assange, and his autocratic
leadership style, as the motivation for their departure. From the
article: 'Key members of WikiLeaks were angered to learn last month that
Assange had secretly provided media outlets with embargoed access to the
vast database, under an arrangement similar to the one WikiLeaks made
with three newspapers that released documents from the Afghanistan war in
July. WikiLeaks is set to release the Iraq trove on Oct. 18, according to
ex-staffers ��� far too early, in the view of some of them, to properly
redact the names of US collaborators and informants in Iraq.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/0328250
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/
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| Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap |
| from the wipe-away-a-single-tear dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @09:00 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1246200/Soviet-Shuttle-Buran-Found-In-a-Junk-He|
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gruenz noted the somewhat [0]sad photo slideshow showing what appears to
be the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran, lying in a Moscow suburb junk heap. Of
course I don't read russian, so it might also be a carnival ride rusting.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1246200
Links:
0. http://www.mk.ru/photo/social/1090-buran-prinesennyiy-v-zhertvu.html
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| ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America |
| from the leprechaun-industries dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 28, @09:48 (The Almighty Buck) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/126253/ATMs-That-Dispense-Gold-Bars-Coming-To-Amer|
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tetrahedrassface writes "As the US economic woes continue unabated, a
German company is bringing [0]gold-bearing ATMs to Mainstreet America.
The machines accept credit cards, and will dispense 1 gram, 5 gram, 10
gram and 1 ounce units, as well as various gold coins. The company hopes
to install 35 bullion machines in the United States this year, and will
hopefully have several hundred up and running by next year. The machines
will be decorated like giant gold ingots and be over two meters tall.
Physical gold has both pros and cons, but from a safety standpoint would
it be fine to have a couple of ounces in your pocket while walking around
the mall? The giant, gold-dispensing ATMs will monitor the market
conditions for gold every 10 minutes in order to reflect spot price
changes as they occur." We already covered [1]similar machines installed
in travel hubs across Germany.
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/126253
Links:
0. http://www.cnbc.com/id/39381947
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/1657231/Gold-Sold-From-Vending-Machines-In-Germany
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| Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans |
| from the we-loves-us-an-ipod dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @10:00 (The Media) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1355232/Media-Loves-Apple-and-Its-Army-of-Fans |
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cgriffin21 writes "[0]Apple is getting more media attention right now
than any other technology company, including Google. Microsoft,
meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of
the ball. That's the upshot of [1]a study released Monday (PDF) by the
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, which found
that Apple was the focus of 15.1 percent of media coverage between June
1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Google received 11.4 percent of media coverage
during the period, while Microsoft garnered just 3 percent."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1355232
Links:
0. http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/227500830/report-media-loves-apple-and-its-army-of-fans.htm;jsessionid=jem06JvIbsLhqzKaBgURLA**.ecappj02
1. http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/When%20Technology%20Makes%20HeadlinesFINAL.pdf
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| OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice |
| from the because-they-can dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @10:42 (Oracle) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/143204/OpenOfficeorg-Declares-Independence-F|
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Google85 writes "The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major
restructuring that [0]separates itself from Oracle and that takes
responsibility for OpenOffice away from a single company. From now on,
OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering
committee of developers and national language project managers. Driving
home the changes, the OpenOffice.org project is now [1]The Document
Foundation, while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary
name of [2]LibreOffice."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/143204
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/
1. http://www.documentfoundation.org/
2. http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
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| Largest Simulated Cyber Attack To Date |
| from the they-know-how-to-party dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @11:23 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1429205/Largest-Simulated-Cyber-Attack-To-Date |
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Orome1 noted that the government will be running [0]simulated cyber
attacks as part of the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Storm III
exercise. It says "The exercise will be controlled from the Secret
Service headquarters, where organizers from various agencies will be
sending out 'exercise injects,' information that a player will receive
that indicates that a certain event has taken place as part of the
narrative set up by the organizers. This goes a bit beyond a paper
narrative, including fake log data, drives that may contain fake malware,
and fake event history, and is dynamic, meaning that it can change
dependent on the actions the players take." ...which makes me wonder how
effective this test would actually be.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1429205
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=227500797
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| Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag |
| from the keeping-baby-fresh dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 28, @12:00 (Medicine) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1424202/Doctors-Save-Premature-Baby-Using-Sandwich|
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Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired
doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the
tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but [0]she fit into a plastic
sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby
born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they
had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the
hospital canteen - it's incredible to think that saved her life," says
her mom.
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1424202
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| AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken |
| from the pick-the-locks dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @12:09 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1431250/AppleTV-Runs-iOS-Already-Jailbroken |
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Wired has noted that "Soon, thanks to the tireless efforts of the iPhone
Dev Team, you will be able to install [0]apps on your AppleTV. An
upcoming Jailbreak tool, called SHAtter, has already been used to unlock
the new Apple TV's firmware." The units are supposedly now shipping. I
have a lot of questions about the device (like how will it handle the
photo screen saver if your local machines are offline) but hacking it
might make the thing more usable (divx please, and how about letting my
screen share my desktop to my TV?).
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1431250
Links:
0. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/LoFfgtjJf7o/
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| Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats |
| from the marked-for-death dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @12:47 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1548245/Bookmark-Synchronizer-Xmarks-Hangs-Up-Thei|
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krulgar writes "On January 10, 2011, [0]Xmarks will be closing their
doors. A free service being replaced by free software. It would still be
nice to have a single way to keep my bookmarks from my work machine in
sync with my home machines and my mobile devices without exerting much
effort. Xmarks seemed to be the only ones with that clear vision, maybe
the replacement tools can grow into this space, but it's still a little
sad to see a useful tool wave goodbye."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1548245
Links:
0. http://blog.xmarks.com/
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| Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue |
| from the has-strong-pro-vi-stance-too dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @13:33 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1655248/Obama-Highlights-IPv6-Issue |
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alphadogg writes "The Obama Administration bills itself as the most
tech-savvy political team ever, but [0]until now it has ignored one of
the biggest issues facing the Internet: the rapid depletion of IPv4
Internet addresses and the imminent need for carriers and content
providers to adopt IPv6. Today, the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) will host a workshop on IPv6 that
features high-profile executives from government, industry and Internet
policymaking organizations. Some observers are hoping the Obama
Administration will use the workshop to issue [1]a deadline for all
federal agencies to support IPv6 on their public-facing Web sites."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1655248
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092810-obama-ipv6.html
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092810-federal-ipv6-mandate.html
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| Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 |
| from the warn-your-grandkids dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @14:15 (Earth) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/176211/Fifty-Meter-Asteroid-Might-Hit-Earth-In-209|
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eldavojohn writes "The Bad Astronomer brings word of [0]an asteroid
discovered with a tiny chance of hitting Earth. While it's only 50 meters
wide, it could have the impact of a 20 megaton bomb. It's still twenty
million miles away so if it hits us, it won't happen until 2098. The real
story here is how a remarkable telescope, dubbed [1]Panoramic Survey
Telescope & Rapid Response System, that went operational in May found its
first potential target in our growing [2]impact alert system for Earth."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/176211
Links:
0. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/28/the-newest-tiny-threat-to-earth-2010-st3/
1. http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/project-status/PS1%20operational.html
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/08/137231/Asteroids-Flyby-2010-RF12-amp-2010-RX30
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| UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality |
| from the battling-the-inevitable dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @14:59 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1750209/UKs-Two-Biggest-ISPs-Rip-Up-Net-Neutrality|
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Barence writes "The UK's two biggest ISPs have [0]openly admitted they'd
give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them
to do so. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on net neutrality, senior
executives from BT and TalkTalk said they would be happy to put selected
apps into the fast lane, at the expense of their rivals. Asked
specifically if TalkTalk would afford more bandwidth to YouTube than the
BBC's iPlayer if Google was prepared to pay, the company's executive
director of strategy and regulation, Andrew Heaney, argued it would be
'perfectly normal business practice to discriminate between them.'
Meanwhile, BT's Simon Milner said: 'We absolutely could see a situation
when content or app providers may want to pay BT for quality of service
above best efforts,' although he added BT had never received such an
approach."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1750209
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361501/talktalk-bt-wed-put-iplayer-in-the-slow-lane
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| 1K JavaScript Madness |
| from the fits-on-a-postcard dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @15:43 (Programming) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1825209/1K-JavaScript-Madness |
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An anonymous reader writes "JS1k has a simple goal: to get programmers
producing [0]demos written in JavaScript that are 1k in size or less.
That's just 1024 bytes to play with. There's even additional bonus points
on offer if a demo's code can fit inside a single tweet. Now that the
contest is finished and there is a top-ten, I'm wondering what they can
do if given some extra bytes." I like the Tetris clone. The pulsing wires
demo is neat too but kinda stuttery on my machine.
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1825209
Links:
0. http://js1k.com/home
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| US Gov't Assisted Iranian Gov't Mobile Wiretaps |
| from the good-for-the-goose dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @16:27 (Encryption) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1858250/US-Govt-Assisted-Iranian-Govt-Mobile-Wireta|
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bdsesq sent in a story on Ars Technica highlighting how the US
government's drive for security back doors has [0]enabled the Iranian
government to spy on its citizens. "For instance, TKTK was lambasted last
year for selling telecom equipment to Iran that included the ability to
wiretap mobile phones at will. Lost in that uproar was the fact that
sophisticated wiretapping capabilities became standard issue for
technology thanks to the US government's CALEA rules that require all
phone systems, and now broadband systems, to include these capabilities."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1858250
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| <em>Minecraft</em> Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU |
| from the your-hobby-is-lame dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @17:14 (Programming) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1957243/Minecraft-Enterprise-and-16-Bit-ALU |
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tekgoblin writes "Joshua Walker spent the last few months creating a
masterpiece. He created [0]the Starship Enterprise 1701-D from Star Trek:
The Next Generation in Minecraft using just blocks. He recorded a short
video of him explaining how he did it and even gave us a sneak peek at
the partially completed ship." He also [1]posted on the Penny-Arcade
forums about how he did it. If you aren't impressed by that, perhaps you
should check out a [2]16-Bit ALU also implemented in Minecraft which
totally reminded me of [3]one of my favorite XKCD comics.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/1957243
Links:
0. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2010/09/28/minecraft-enterprise-d-pure-awesomeness/
1. http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=16736819&postcount=1342
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug
3. http://xkcd.com/505/
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| Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads |
| from the java-and-java dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 28, @18:00 (Google) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/2030226/Father-of-Java-James-Gosling-Unloads|
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javab0y writes "The folks over at basementcoders did a podcast with James
Gosling, The Father of Java, last week at a coffee shop in San Francisco
during the JavaOne conference. In a raw and no-holds-barred interview,
James let loose on Oracle, the Google Lawsuit, and his experience with
IBM. You know its going to be good when he starts out saying, 'I
eventually graduated in '83. Went to work for IBM which is, you know, is
within the top 10 of my stupidest career decisions I've made.' The
podcast [0]was fully transcribed."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/2030226
Links:
0. http://www.basementcoders.com/transcripts/James_Gosling_Transcript.html
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| Sony Lawsuits Target PS3 Jailbreak Authors |
| from the sounds-more-expensive-than-admitting-they-were-stupid dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @18:42 (Sony) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/210226/Sony-Lawsuits-Target-PS3-Jailbreak-Authors|
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StikyPad writes "PS3News is reporting that [0]Sony's latest legal salvo
is targeting the creators of PS JailBreak, PSFreedom and PSGroove-related
PS3 hacks, citing [1]numerous court documents for those interested. From
one of the documents: 'Having considered the Motion for Expedited
Discovery of Plaintiff Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (oeSCEA)
[...] the Court hereby grants SCEA's Motion. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that
[...] SCEA has leave to serve similarly targeted subpoenas or deposition
notices to any other third party who SCEA learns may be involved in the
distribution or sale of the oePS Jailbreak software, known as, for
example, "PSGroove," "OpenPSJailbreak," and "PSFreedom," or who may have
knowledge of the distribution or sale of this software.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/210226
Links:
0. http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Hacks/sony-targets-ps-jailbreak-psfreedom-and-psgroove-ps3-hacks/
1. http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67178
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| Almost-Satnav For Cycling |
| from the putting-you-in-the-saddle-since-2010 dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 28, @19:30 (Transportation) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/235223/Almost-Satnav-For-Cycling |
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An anonymous reader writes "A couple of guys (us) in Cambridge have
written a [0]cycle routing system, CycleStreets.net, based on open data,
and have now released it as a free iPhone app. [1]It's been done on a
shoestring, in spare time. There's an API and some disruptive tech in the
form of a photo submission screen where street problems can be submitted
directly. Because it's open data, you don't have to wait 6 months for the
routing to be fixed if there's a bug. Android and .mobi versions are in
the works, with the apps being done on GitHub."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/28/235223
Links:
0. http://www.cyclestreets.net/mobile/
1. http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2010/09/23/nearest-to-satnav-for-cycling/
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