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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US
* 3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox
* Blizzard Suing Creators of <em>StarCraft II</em> Hacks
* UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water
* Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers
* Degraded Electrodes Observed In Aging Batteries
* NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program
* ACLU Says Net Neutrality Necessary For Free Speech
* Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook
* A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego
* Black Silicon Used For Surveillance?
* Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence
* US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again.
* Google Rolls Out Chrome 7
* Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant
* Apple Announces iLife '11, FaceTime Mac, Lion, Mac App Store, MacBook Air
* Drupal 7
* Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
* Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers
* US, China Working On Intellectual Property Rights
* UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls
* Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken
* Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data
* Microsoft Unbundles Software For NY City
* Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter
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| China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US
| from the not-the-band-rare-earth dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 19, @22:44 (Earth)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/19/2347234/China-Now-Halting-Shipments-of-Rare-Earth-Minerals-To-US?from=newsletter
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blackraven14250 writes with news that China, after putting at least a
temporary [0]stop to rare earth exports to Japan, is [1]now doing the
same with exports to the US; according to the linked article, this is in
response to recent US [2]promises to investigate certain Chinese trade
practices.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/19/2347234&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/23/2035200/China-Embargos-Rare-Earth-Exports-To-Japan
1. http://www.livescience.com/technology/etc/101019-china-halts-shipments-tech-crucial-minerals.html
2. http://washingtonindependent.com/100834/obama-administration-says-it-will-investigate-chinas-green-tech-trade-policies
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| 3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox
| from the but-1996-feels-like-yesterday dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday October 20, @01:53 (Emulation (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/0026214/3dfx-Voodoo-Graphic-Card-Emulation-Coming-To-DOSBox?from=newsletter
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KingofGnG writes with this excerpt from King Arthur's Den: "One of the
forthcoming versions of the best [0]PC-with-DOS emulator out there should
include a very important architectural novelty, ie the software
implementation of the historical Voodoo Graphics chipset created by
[1]3dfx Interactive in the Nineties. "Kekko", the programmer working on
the project with the aid of the [2]DOSBox crew and the coding-capable
[3]VOGONS users, says that his aim is the [4]complete and faithful
emulation of SST-1, the first Voodoo chipset marketed in 1996 inside the
first 3D graphics accelerated cards on the PC."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/0026214&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosbox
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Dfx_Voodoo
2. http://www.dosbox.com/
3. http://vogons.zetafleet.com/
4. http://kingofgng.com/eng/2010/10/20/3dfx-voodoo-graphic-cards-emulation-coming-to-dosbox/
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| Blizzard Suing Creators of <em>StarCraft II</em> Hacks
| from the hold-your-counsel dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 20, @03:55 (Real Time Strategy (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/044219/Blizzard-Suing-Creators-of-StarCraft-II-Hacks?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
"Blizzard have taken the extremely peculiar decision to ban players from
playing StarCraft II [0]for using cheats in the single-player game. This
meant that, despite cheating no one but themselves, they were locked out
of playing the single-player game. Which is clearly bonkers. But it's not
enough for the developer. Blizzard's lawyers are now [1]setting out to
sue those who create cheats. Gamespot reports that the megolithic company
is [2]chasing after three developers of hacks for 'destroying' their
online game. It definitely will be in violation of the end user
agreement, so there's a case. However, it's a certain element of their
claim that stands out for attention. They're claiming using the hacks
causes people to infringe copyright: 'When users of the Hacks download,
install, and use the Hacks, they copy StarCraft II copyrighted content
into their computer's RAM in excess of the scope of their limited
license, as set forth in the EULA and ToU, and create derivative works of
StarCraft II.'" Blizzard used similar reasoning in their [3]successful
lawsuit against the creators of a World of Warcraft bot.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/044219&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.cheathappens.com/article_blizzardbans.asp
1. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/10/18/blizzard-suing-creators-of-starcraft-ii-hacks/
2. http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6282171.html
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/07/14/2313247/Blizzard-Wins-Major-Lawsuit-Against-Bot-Developers
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| UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water
| from the prepare-for-the-post-riot-shower dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday October 20, @05:00 (Biotech)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/0014211/UK-Developed-DNA-Spray-Marks-Dutch-Thieves-With-Trackable-Water?from=newsletter
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eldavojohn writes "In Rotterdam, there's a new technology in place that
[0]dispenses a barely visible mist over those around it and alerts the
police. The purpose? To tag robbers and link them back to the scene of
the crime. From the article, 'The mist ��� visible only under ultraviolet
light ��� carries DNA markers particular to the location, enabling the
police to match the burglar with the place burgled. Now, a sign on the
front door of the McDonald's prominently warns potential thieves of the
spray's presence: "You Steal, You're Marked."' Developed in Britain, it's
yet to nab a criminal but it will be interesting to see whether or not
synthesized DNA will hold up as sufficient evidence in an actual court of
law." So it's not just [1]for copper thieves.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/0014211&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/world/europe/19rotterdam.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/15/1225208/Putting-the-Squeeze-On-Broadband-Copper-Robbers
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| Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers
| from the give-it-a-rest dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 20, @06:38 (Piracy)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/0354214/Sony-Gets-Nasty-With-PSBreak-Buyers?from=newsletter
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YokimaSun writes "The [0]war between hackers and Sony over the
PlayStation 3 has now taken an even more sinister turn, with Sony going
after not just shops but actual [1]buyers of the PSBreak dongle,
threatening them with fines of many thousands of Euros and forcing them
to sign cease-and-desist letters. It seems Sony will use any means
necessary to thwart both homebrew and piracy on the PS3."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/0354214&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/202201/Sony-Has-Lost-the-PS3-Hacking-War?from=rss
1. http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=336389
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| Degraded Electrodes Observed In Aging Batteries
| from the taking-away-all-the-mystery dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday October 20, @08:02 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/0056227/Degraded-Electrodes-Observed-In-Aging-Batteries?from=newsletter
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schliz writes "Scientists have identified [0]nanoscale changes in aging
lithium-ion batteries that could be responsible for their degradation
over time. By dissecting and examining dead batteries, they found that
some lithium was irreversibly lost from the positive to negative
electrode of dead batteries, and no longer participated in charging and
discharging. They discovered that finely-structured nanomaterials on dead
batteries' electrodes had coarsened in size, and theorise that the
coarsening of the cathode may be responsible for the loss of lithium."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/0056227&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://itnews.com.au/News/235783,battery-degradation-could-start-at-the-nanoscale.aspx
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| NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program
| from the lost-in-space dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @08:50 (Government)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1248223/NASA-Reveals-Hundred-Year-Starship-Program?from=newsletter
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cmansley writes "NASA Ames Director Simon Worden revealed that NASA Ames
has 'just started a project with DARPA called [0]the Hundred Year
Starship,' with $1 million funding from DARPA and $100K from NASA. Worden
said 'Larry [Page] asked me a couple weeks ago how much it would cost to
send people one way to Mars and I told him $10 billion, and his response
was, "Can you get it down to 1 or 2 billion?"'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1248223&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program
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| ACLU Says Net Neutrality Necessary For Free Speech
| from the thanks-for-listening dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @09:30 (Businesses)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/131201/ACLU-Says-Net-Neutrality-Necessary-For-Free-Speech?from=newsletter
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eldavojohn writes "The ACLU has [0]recently identified Network Neutrality
a key free speech issue and said in a [1]lengthy PDF report: 'Freedom of
expression isn't worth much if the forums where people actually make use
of it are not themselves free. And the Internet is without doubt the
primary place where Americans exercise their right to free expression.
It's a newspaper, an entertainment medium, a reference work, a
therapist's office, a soapbox, a debating stand. It is the closest thing
ever invented to a true "free market" of ideas.' The report then goes on
to argue that ISPs have incentive and capability of interfering with
internet traffic. And not only that but the argument that it is only
'theoretical' are bogus given they list ten high profile cases of it
actually happening. If the ACLU can successfully argue that Net
Neutrality is a First Amendment Issue then it might not matter what
businesses (who fall on either side of the issue) want the government to
do."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/131201&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty/new-aclu-report-calls-fcc-take-action-protect-openness-internet
1. http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/NetNeutrality_report_20101019.pdf
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| Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook
| from the worst-friend-request-ever dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @10:10 (Australia)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1222210/Man-Served-Restraining-Order-Via-Facebook?from=newsletter
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schliz writes "An Australian man has been [0]served a restraining order
via Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts by police to reach him by phone
and in person. The man was a 'prolific Facebook user' who had allegedly
threatened, bullied and harassed a former partner online. He was served
both interim and final intervention orders by Facebook, after a local
magistrate upheld the interim order indefinitely."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1222210&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://itnews.com.au/News/235848,victoria-police-serve-intervention-on-facebook.aspx
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| A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego
| from the just-press-print dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @10:17 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1348206/A-3D-Lego-Fabricator-Made-of-Lego?from=newsletter
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eldavojohn writes "Making [0]a Lego printer is pretty cool if you've
never seen [1]The LegoMakerBot. The creator has [2]instructions on his
site on how to make (out of Lego bricks) a machine that 'prints' Lego
models ��� much like a 3D fabrication machine ��� after you model them in
MLCad. The sped up video is nothing short of impressive."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1348206&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/06/02/1819230/The-Genius-of-the-Lego-Printer
1. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/legobot/
2. http://www.battlebricks.com/makerlegobot/
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| Black Silicon Used For Surveillance?
| from the that-sounds-naughty dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @11:00 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1424209/Black-Silicon-Used-For-Surveillance?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "For the past decade, 'black silicon' has been
touted as a way to make super-sensitive image sensors and ultra-efficient
solar cells. That's because the material ��� silicon wafers treated with
sulfur gases and femtosecond laser pulses ��� is much better at absorbing
photons and releasing electrons than conventional silicon, at least over
certain wavelengths. In 2008, Harvard spinoff SiOnyx went public with its
plans to commercialize black silicon. But [0]what happened to those
plans? Today SiOnyx [1]revealed in another exclusive that it has raised
new venture financing from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other big
investors. It also has formed a key strategic partnership to scale up
manufacturing of black silicon ��� and go after markets in security,
surveillance, automotive, consumer devices, and medical imaging."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1424209&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/10/12/sionyx-brings-black-silicon-into-the-light-material-could-upend-solar-imaging-industries/
1. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/10/20/turning-%E2%80%9Cblack-silicon%E2%80%9D-into-gold-sionyx-closes-12-5m-from-bay-area-and-seattle-firms-goes-after-camera-phone-market/?single_page=true
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| Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence
| from the would-you-like-to-see-my-cockpit dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @11:45 (Earth)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1510235/Boeing-747-Recycled-Into-a-Private-Residence?from=newsletter
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[0]Ponca City writes "Nicholas Jackson writes in the Atlantic about a
woman who requested only curvilinear/feminine shapes for her new home and
has [1]purchased an an entire Boeing 747-200, transported it by
helicopter to her 55-acre property in the remote hills of Malibu and
after deconstructing it, is having all 4,500,000 pieces put back together
to form a main house and six ancillary structures including a meditation
pavilion, an animal barn, and an art studio building. "The scale of a 747
aircraft is enormous ��� over 230 feet long, 195 feet wide and 63 feet tall
with over 17,000 cubic feet of cargo area alone and represents a
tremendous amount of material for a very economical price of less than
$50,000 dollars," writes Architect David Hertz. "In researching airplane
wings and superimposing different airplane wing types on the site to
scale, the wing of a 747, at over 2,500 sq. ft., became an ideal
configuration to maximize the views and provide a self supporting roof
with minimal additional structural support needed." Called the "Wing
House," as a structure and engineering achievement, the [2]aircraft
encloses an enormous amount of space using the least amount of materials
in a very resourceful and efficient manner and the recycling of the 4.5
million parts of this "big aluminum can" is seen as an extreme example of
sustainable reuse and appropriation. Interestingly enough the architects
had to register the roof of the house with the FAA so pilots flying
overhead would not mistake it as a downed aircraft."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1510235&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/turning-a-boeing-747-into-a-private-residence/64790/
2. http://www.studioea.com/projects/residential/wing_house/index.php
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| US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again.
| from the pay-no-attention-to-the-bot-behind-the-curtain dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @12:28 (Open Source)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1549227/US-Elections-Dominated-By-Closed-Source-Again?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Another American election is almost here, and
while electronic voting is commonplace, it is still overwhelmingly run by
closed source, proprietary systems. It [0]has [1]been [2]shown [3]that
many of these systems can be compromised (and because they are closed,
there may be holes we simply cannot know about). Plus they are vulnerable
to software bugs and are often based on unstable, closed-source operating
systems. By the inherent nature of closed software, when systems are ([4]optionally!)
certified by registrars, there is no proof that they will behave the same
on election day as in tests. The opportunities for fraud, tampering and
malfunction are rampant. But nonetheless, there is very little political
will for [5]open [6]source [7]voting, let alone simple measures like
[8]end-to-end auditable voting systems or more radical approaches like
[9]open [10]source [11]governance. Why do we remain in the virtual dark
ages, when clearly we have better alternatives readily available?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1549227&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy
1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2006/10/evoting.ars
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZws98jw67g&mode=related&search=
3. http://www.notablesoftware.com/Papers/BtF.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certification_of_voting_machines
5. http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
6. http://www.osdv.org/
7. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/11/61045
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_governance
10. http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page
11. http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Related_projects
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| Google Rolls Out Chrome 7
| from the bright-and-shiny dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @13:15 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1616230/Google-Rolls-Out-Chrome-7?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released [0]a new stable
version of its internet browser, Chrome 7. The latest update is part of
Google's promise in July to release a new stable version of Chrome about
every six weeks. Chrome 7 comes with hundreds of bug fixes, an updated
HTML5 parser, the File API, and directory upload via input tag. It is
available in the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
'The main focus was the hundreds of bug fixes,' Jeff Chang, a Google
product manager, wrote in a blog post."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1616230&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/73948/20101020/google-chrome-7.htm
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| Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant
| from the no-extra-charge dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @13:15 (Medicine)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1229227/Woman-Develops-Peanut-Allergy-After-Lung-Transplant?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "A woman in need of a lung transplant got her
new lungs from someone with a peanut allergy who died of anaphylactic
shock. Seven months after the surgery, the woman was at an organ
transplant support group when she ate a peanut butter cookie and [0]had a
violent allergic reaction. So how had the woman's new lungs brought along
a peanut allergy? A blog post [1]dives into the medical details and
explains that immune cells in the donated lungs couldn't have lived in
the new body for long enough to cause the reaction... however, if they
encountered an allergen (i.e. something peanuty) shortly after being
transplanted, they could have trained the woman's native immune cells to
respond."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1229227&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/09/30/ncbi-rofl-oh-the-irony/
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/19/from-the-case-files-the-peanut-butter-cookie-and-the-lungs-of-doom/
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| Apple Announces iLife '11, FaceTime Mac, Lion, Mac App Store, MacBook Air
| from the get-an-ilife dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, @14:05 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1745257/Apple-Announces-iLife-11-FaceTime-Mac-Lion-Mac-App-Store-MacBook-Air?from=newsletter
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Apple once again streamed their latest keynote where they unveiled iLife
'11 (more fullscreen and Facebook in iPhoto, Audio editing and automatic
trailers in iMovie, Rhythm correction and lessons in Garage Band).
FaceTime for the Mac will connect video chat to phones with a Beta
starting today. Next we get a preview of OS X Lion which will have an App
Store and new UI bits shipping this summer. The Mac App Store will launch
on Snow Leopard in 90 days. The New MacBook Air is under 3lbs, 13.3"
screen, Core 2 Duo, solid state only storage. There's also an 11.6"
version starting at $999 with 64gb of storage shipping today.
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1745257&from=newsletter
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| Drupal 7
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @14:41 (Book Reviews)
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1311253/Drupal-7?from=newsletter
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Trevor James writes "Drupal 7 is currently at beta 1 stage with 11
critical issues remaining to be fixed before an official release version.
The question arises whether we should all be writing about Drupal 7 now
and so soon, when it's still in its beta phase. I argue we should be
writing about it. It can only help introduce new users to the Drupal
application and the Drupal community and get new people involved to help
test Drupal 7. This will ultimately help improve the software for its
official release and on. This helps to build the Drupal community of
users and developers. It helps spread the word to everyone about this
flexible and robust content management system. We want Drupal to be used.
So this is one way of getting it out there and in the public sphere."
Read on for the rest of Trevor's review.
This story continues at:
https://books.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1311253/Drupal-7?from=newsletter
Discuss this story at:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1311253&from=newsletter
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| Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
| from the packs-a-punch dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @15:30 (Power)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/193200/Batteries-Smaller-Than-a-Grain-of-Salt?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous
in today's consumer electronics ��� powering our laptops, phones, and
iPods. Research funded by DARPA is pushing the limits of this technology
and trying to create some of the [0]tiniest batteries on Earth, the
largest of which would be no bigger than a grain of sand. These tiny
energy storage devices could one day be used to power the electronics and
mechanical components of tiny micro- to nano-scale devices."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/193200&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20101020/2777/batteries-smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt.htm
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| Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers
| from the don't-blunder-down-under dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @15:57 (Australia)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1410215/Australian-Visitors-Must-Declare-Illegal-Porn-To-Customs-Officers?from=newsletter
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Australian Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has advised visitors to take
a better safe than sorry policy when it comes to their porn stashes, and
[0]declare all porn that they think might be illegal with customs
officers. From the article: "The government said it changed the wording
on passenger arrival cards after becoming aware of confusion among
travellers about what pornography to declare. 'People have a right to
privacy and while some pornography is legal and does not need to be
disclosed, all travellers should be aware that certain types of
pornography are illegal and must be declared to customs,' Mr O'Connor
said."
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http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1410215&from=newsletter
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| US, China Working On Intellectual Property Rights
| from the come-together dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @16:10 (United States)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1912200/US-China-Working-On-Intellectual-Property-Rights?from=newsletter
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itwbennett writes "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is visiting Beijing
this week to discuss how China and the US can better coordinate
[0]efforts to stop intellectual property rights violations. 'One of the
things that has happened in recent years is that counterfeiting has
become a globalized industry,' said Christian Murck, the president of the
American Chamber of Commerce in China. To effectively shut down these
operations, cross-country efforts at strengthening global enforcement
like Holder's visit to China are crucial, he added. Coinciding with
Holder's visit, China announced it will launch a new national campaign to
crack down on intellectual property rights violations. The campaign will
take aim at the production and distribution of pirated goods such as DVDs
and software products. Violations relating to registered trademarks and
patents will also be targeted. The campaign will last for half a year.
The commercial value of pirated software in China, at $7.5 billion, is
second only to that in the U.S., where it is $8.3 billion, according to
the Business Software Alliance and IDC."
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http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1912200&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/legal/124630/us-working-china-intellectual-property-rights
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| UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls
| from the that-about-covers-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @16:54 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/1958209/UK-To-Track-All-Browsing-Email-and-Phone-Calls?from=newsletter
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Sara Chan writes "The UK government plans to introduce legislation that
will allow the police to [0]track every phone call, email, text message
and website visit made by the public. The information will include who is
contacting whom, when and where and which websites are visited, but not
the content of the conversations or messages. Every communications
provider will be required to store the information for at least a year."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/1958209&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-website-to-be-stored.html
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| Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken
| from the for-some-definition-of-broken dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @17:38 (Businesses)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/2013203/Red-Hat-CEO-Says-Software-Vendor-Model-Is-Broken?from=newsletter
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alphadogg writes "[0]The current model of selling commercial enterprise
software is broken, charged the CEO for Red Hat. It is too expensive,
doesn't address user needs and, worst of all, it leaves chief information
officers holding all the risk of implementing new systems. 'The business
models between customer and vendors are fundamentally broken,' said Jim
Whitehurst, speaking Wednesday at the Interop conference in New York.
'Vendors have to guess at what [customers] want, and there is a mismatch
of what customers want and what they get. Creating feature wars is not
what the customer is looking for.' Whitehurst estimated that the total
global IT market, not including telecommunications, is about $1.4
trillion a year. Factor in the rough estimates that half of all IT
projects fail or are significantly downgraded, and that only half of all
features in software packages are actually used, then it would follow
that 'easily $500 billion of that $1.4 trillion is fundamentally wasted
every year,' he said."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/2013203&from=newsletter
Links:
0. https://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102010-red-hat-ceo-software-vendor.html
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| Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data
| from the coming-late-to-the-party dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @18:19 (Canada)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/2021248/Canada-Says-Google-Wi-Fi-Sniffing-Collected-Personal-Data?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart,
has announced that [0]Google's recent Wi-Fi sniffing was a serious
violation of Canadians' privacy rights and included the collection of
personally identifiable information. Stoddart's team, who traveled to
Google's Mountain View headquarters to examine the data, found complete
e-mails, e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords, names and residential
telephone numbers and addresses. Google has been asked to do four things
before the Canadian Government would consider the matter resolved."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/2021248&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371121,00.asp
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| Microsoft Unbundles Software For NY City
| from the take-another-little-piece-of-my-software dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @19:02 (Microsoft)
| https://slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/2145244/Microsoft-Unbundles-Software-For-NY-City?from=newsletter
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doishmere writes "Microsoft has agreed to [0]sell individual pieces of
software to NY City workers, rather than forcing each seat to buy a full
suite of software. The city has created three classes of users based on
which pieces of software they need to perform their job, and Microsoft
will sell software packages tailored to each class at a reduced price."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/2145244&from=newsletter
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| Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter
| from the type-slower dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @19:36 (Idle)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/2147222/Meg-Whitman-Campaign-Shows-How-Not-To-Use-Twitter?from=newsletter
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tsamsoniw writes "California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's
campaign team [0]attempted to share with her Twitter followers an
endorsement from a police association. Unfortunately, the campaign press
secretary entered an incorrect or incomplete Bit.ly URL [1]in the Tweet,
which took clickers to [2]a YouTube video featuring a bespectacled,
long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass
guitar. And for whatever reason, the Tweet, which went out on the 18th,
has remained active through today."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/2147222&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/t/social-networking/meg-whitmans-campaign-shows-how-not-use-twitter-335
1. http://twitter.com/#!/sarahpompei/status/27781137692
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWUYMWlEyo&fmt=18
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