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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses
* Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials
* Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image
* All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England
* Japan's Latest Rockstar Is a 3D Hologram
* India To Build Neutrino Observatory
* Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory
* Apple Deprecates Their JVM
* AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News
* Linux 2.6.36 Released
* Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit
* Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy
* Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule
* Early Review of 11" Macbook Air
* How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes
* Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption
* RDS Protocol Bug Creates a Linux Kernel Hole, Now Fixed
* Cheap Software Tools Give New Life To Stop-Motion Animation
* Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?
* Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit
* Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls
* In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License
* On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy
* NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon
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| Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses
| from the share-the-wealth dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @20:33 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/2255217/Interop-Returns-16-Million-IPv4-Addresses?from=newsletter
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klapaucjusz writes "Every discussion about IPv4 address exhaustion
prompts comments about whether Apple (or MIT, or UCB, or whoever) needs
all of those addresses. Interop has set the example by [0]returning 16
million IPv4 addresses to the ARIN pool, extending the IPv4 address
exhaustion deadline by a whole month."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/2255217&from=newsletter
Links:
0. https://www.arin.net/announcements/2010/20101020.html
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| Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials
| from the from-scratch dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @20:56 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/231208/Building-a-Telegraph-Using-Only-Stone-Age-Materials?from=newsletter
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MMBK writes "It's the ultimate salvagepunk experiment, [0]building a
telegraph out of things found in the woods. From the article: 'During the
summer of 2009, artist Jamie O���Shea of the organization Substitute
Materials set out to test whether or not electronic communication could
have been built at any time in history with the proper knowledge, and
with only tools and materials found in the wilderness of New Jersey.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/231208&from=newsletter
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| Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image
| from the old-neighborhood dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, @22:36 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/20/237217/Record-Breaking-Galaxy-Found-In-Deep-Hubble-Image?from=newsletter
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[0]The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope
[1] have found a galaxy at the very edge of the Universe: the light from
this far-flung object has been traveling a whopping 13.1 billion years to
get here! The galaxy appears as a non-descript dot in the infrared Hubble
Ultra Deep Field taken using the Wide Field Camera 3, but a spectrum
taken using a ground-based telescope confirms that we're seeing this
object as it was a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang itself."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/20/237217&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://thebadastronomeratgmail.com/
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/10/20/record-breaking-galaxy-found-at-the-edge-of-the-universe/
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| All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England
| from the we'll-take-that dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 21, @00:32 (United Kingdom)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/0019257/All-Your-Stonehenge-Photos-Are-Belong-To-England?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "English Heritage, the organization that runs
and manages various historical sites in the UK, such as Stonehenge, has
apparently [0]sent letters to various photo sharing and stock photo sites
claiming that any photo of Stonehenge that is being sold violates its
rights, and only English Heritage can get commercial benefit from such
photos. In fact, they're asking for all money made from such photos,
stating: 'all commercial interest to sell images must be directed to
English Heritage.' As one recipient noted, this seems odd, given that
English Heritage has only managed Stonehenge 'for 27 of the monument's
4,500 year old history.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/0019257&from=newsletter
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| Japan's Latest Rockstar Is a 3D Hologram
| from the as-real-as-it-gets dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 21, @02:37 (Music)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/0321231/Japans-Latest-Rockstar-Is-a-3D-Hologram?from=newsletter
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kkleiner writes "Hatsune Miku is a Japanese pop diva who's just started
to play massive stadium concerts to sold out crowds. Her hair is blue,
she dresses like Sailor Moon, and she'll only appear in concerts via a 3D
'hologram.' Oh, and did I forget to mention that [0]she's completely
fictional? Created by Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku and her virtual
colleagues have gone on limited tours in Japan."
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/0321231&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/20/this-rocking-lead-singer-is-a-3d-hologram-video/
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| India To Build Neutrino Observatory
| from the look-closely dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 21, @05:18 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/0332207/India-To-Build-Neutrino-Observatory?from=newsletter
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TeriMaKiChooth writes "Only the fifth in the world, the facility is being
called one of the biggest and most ambitious scientific projects ever
undertaken by India. About 90 scientists from 26 organizations will be
involved in the [0]Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO), organizers say.
Neutrinos are elusive, nearly mass-less elementary particles, sometimes
called 'ghost particles.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/0332207&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11586298
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| Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory
| from the getting-some-answers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 21, @07:57 (Math)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/0326216/Fermilab-To-Test-Holographic-Universe-Theory?from=newsletter
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eldavojohn writes "Scientists at Fermilab have decided that it's high
time [0]they build a 'holometer' to test the smoothness of space-time.
Theoretical physicists like Stephen Hawking have proposed that space-time
is not smooth but it's been a lot of math and no actual data. The
Fermilab team plans to build two relatively small devices that act as
'holographic interferometers' to measure the shaking or vibration in
split beams of light traveling through a vacuum. If the team finds the
shaking in their measurements and records them, the theory of a
[1]holographic universe will have some evidence of non-smoothness in
space-time and perhaps a foothold in bringing light to the [2]heavily
debated theoretical physics."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/0326216&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2010/10/20/fermilab-scientists-to-test-hypothesis-of-holographic-universe/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/01/16/1446238/The-Universe-As-Hologram
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| Apple Deprecates Their JVM
| from the zomg-i'm-posting-a-java-story dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, @08:45 (Java)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/125222/Apple-Deprecates-Their-JVM?from=newsletter
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Mortimer.CA writes "In some [0]recent release notes Apple has deprecated
their JVM: 'As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the
version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is
deprecated.' In the past Sun (now Oracle) has always [1]let Apple do this:
'Apple Computer supplies their own version of Java. Use the Software
Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the
most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac.' I wonder how much heads-up
Oracle was given for this change, and if the Java team has any code ready
to go, or whether they'll have to ramp up porting for Mac OS 10.7 (aka
'Lion')."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/125222&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010380-CH4-SW1
1. http://java.com/en/download/apple_manual.jsp
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| AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News
| from the words-words-words dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, @09:27 (Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1257252/AP-Proposes-ASCAP-Like-Fees-For-the-News?from=newsletter
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eldavojohn writes "Techdirt [0]directed my attention to an article where
the AP discussed pressure from new devices and mediums today giving them
cause to create a clearinghouse for news ��� much like the music industry's
ASCAP ��� to '[1]establish an enforcement and payment system.' You'll
notice that the story I am linking to and quoting is an AP story ...
would Slashdot then be required to pay these fees? We have seen [2]DMCA
take down notices and [3]fee discussions before from the AP."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1257252&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/11561911506/ap-wants-to-become-the-ascap-of-news.shtml
1. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/oct/19/digital-overhaul-hatched/
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/06/13/2228232/AP-Targets-Blog-Excerpts-With-DMCA-Notices
3. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/02/23/1657242/AP-Considers-Making-Content-Require-Payment
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| Linux 2.6.36 Released
| from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, @10:15 (Open Source)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/135255/Linux-2636-Released?from=newsletter
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diegocg writes "Version 2.6.36 of the Linux kernel [0]has been released.
This version includes support for the [1]Tilera architecture, a new
filesystem notification interface called fanotify, CIFS local caching,
support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing in i3/5 systems, integration
of the kernel debugger and KMS, inclusion of the AppArmor security
system, a redesign of workqueues optimized for concurrency, and several
new drivers and small improvements. See the [2]full changelog here for
more details."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/135255&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/20/409
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/0711218/Tilera-To-Release-100-Core-Processor
2. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_36
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| Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit
| from the in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-torrent dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 21, @10:56 (Piracy)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/133247/Pirate-Parties-Plan-To-Shoot-Site-Into-Orbit?from=newsletter
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palmerj3 writes "It is almost four years ago that The Pirate Bay
announced they wanted to buy the micronation of Sealand, so they could
host their site without having to bother about copyright law ��� an
ambitious plan that turned out to be unaffordable. This week, Pirate
Parties worldwide started brainstorming about a similarly ambitious plan.
Instead of founding their own nation, they want to [0]shoot a torrent
site into orbit."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/133247&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-parties-plan-to-shoot-torrent-site-into-orbit-101020/
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| Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy
| from the up-and-to-the-right dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, @11:35 (Facebook)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1445230/Why-Facebook-Wont-Stop-Invading-Your-Privacy?from=newsletter
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GMGruman writes "Every few weeks, it seems, Facebook is caught again
violating users' privacy. A code error there, rogue business partners
there. The truth, as InfoWorld's Bill Snyder explains, is that
[0]Facebook will keep on violating your privacy, no matter what its
policies say, what promises it makes, or how shocked it claims to be at
the latest incident. The reason is simple: Selling personal information
on its users is how it makes money, and Facebook is above all a
business."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1445230&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/why-facebook-selling-you-out-and-wont-stop-322
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| Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule
| from the thank-you-science dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 21, @12:05 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1313216/Physicists-Discover-Universal-Wet-Dog-Shake-Rule?from=newsletter
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Dog owners can sleep easy tonight because physicists have discovered
[0]how rapidly a wet dog should oscillate its body to dry its fur.
Presumably, dogs already know. From the article: "Today we have an answer
thanks to the pioneering work of Andrew Dickerson at the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta and a few buddies. But more than that,
their work generates an interesting new conundrum about the nature of
shaken fur dynamics. Dickerson and co filmed a number of dogs shaking
their fur and used the images to measure the period of oscillation of the
dogs' skin. For a labrador retriever, this turns out to be 4.3 Hz."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1313216&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25910/
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| Early Review of 11" Macbook Air
| from the must-resist-urges dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, @12:14 (Portables)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1546231/Early-Review-of-11-Macbook-Air?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "Apple's latest entry into the ultraportable space
is no netbook, even though it's the closest the company has come to
making one. Its chassis is, amazingly, even thinner than the original
MacBook Air, with a screen two sizes smaller. Moreover, the MacBook Air's
11.6-inch widescreen is not the only first for Apple; so is its
1,366-by-768 resolution. Although Apple found a way to squeeze in two USB
ports and a speedy solid-state drive (SSD), the [0]MacBook Air (11-inch)
is not nearly as feature-packed or as fast as the rest of the MacBook
family, primarily because its 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 Ultra-Low
Voltage (ULV) processor is running on previous-generation Intel
technology. Still, it will give the latest batch of Consumer Ultra Low
Voltage (CULV) laptops a run for their money."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1546231&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371199,00.asp
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| How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes
| from the just-not-good dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, @12:56 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1627220/How-Google-Avoided-Paying-60-Billion-In-Taxes?from=newsletter
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bonch writes "Google [0]only pays a 2.4% tax rate using money-funneling
techniques known as the 'Double Irish' and the 'Dutch Sandwich,' even
though the US corporate income tax is 35%. By using Irish loopholes,
money is transferred legally between subsidiaries and ends up in island
sanctuaries that have no income tax, giving Google the lowest tax rate
amongst its technology peers. Facebook is planning to use the same
strategy."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1627220&from=newsletter
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| Bicycle Thief Barred From Using Encryption
| from the ssl-is-encryption dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @13:40 (Encryption)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1724202/Bicycle-Thief-Barred-From-Using-Encryption?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "A teenager found in possession of a stolen
bicycle was given probation, with a whole bunch of computer-related
restrictions. He wasn't allowed to use social networks or instant
messaging. He wasn't allowed to use a computer that had 'encryption,
hacking, cracking, scanning, keystroke monitoring, security testing,
steganography, Trojan or virus software.' The kid appealed, noting that
the restrictions on social networking seemed overly broad, and
restricting him from using a computer with a virus was difficult since
viruses and trojans and the like tend to try to stay hidden, so he might
not know. While the court [0]overturned the restrictions on social
networking, and changed the terms of computer restrictions to include the
word 'knowingly,' it did keep the restriction on against using any
computer with encryption software. Remember, this isn't someone convicted
of malicious computer crimes, but of receiving a stolen bicycle. So why
is perfectly reasonable encryption software not allowed? And what
computer these days doesn't have encryption software?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1724202&from=newsletter
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| RDS Protocol Bug Creates a Linux Kernel Hole, Now Fixed
| from the what-does-the-sky-think-as-it-falls dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @14:23 (Security)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/181234/RDS-Protocol-Bug-Creates-a-Linux-Kernel-Hole-Now-Fixed?from=newsletter
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Trailrunner7 writes "The open-source Linux operating system contains [0]a
serious security flaw that can be exploited to gain superuser rights on a
target system. The vulnerability, in the Linux implementation of the
Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol, affects unpatched versions of
the Linux kernel, starting from 2.6.30, where the RDS protocol was first
included." The article goes on to say, though, that "Linux installations
are only vulnerable if the CONFIG_RDS kernel configuration option is set,
and if there are no restrictions on unprivileged users loading packet
family modules, as is the case on most stock distributions," and that
Linus Torvalds has committed a fix.
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/181234&from=newsletter
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/linux-kernel-flaw-coughs-root-rights-102110
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| Cheap Software Tools Give New Life To Stop-Motion Animation
| from the long-way-from-10th-grade-projects dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @15:06 (Graphics)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1816224/Cheap-Software-Tools-Give-New-Life-To-Stop-Motion-Animation?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times reports that a wide variety of
new stop motion animation tools are [0]making it simpler to create
stop-motion movies. The new tools are helping animators run more than
three times faster than they did just a few years ago. Some even say that
stop motion is cheaper than computer generated animation. Tools like
[1]Dragon Stop Motion, [2]Stop Motion Pro and [3]iKitMovie are just a few
of the tools that are reinvigorating the space."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1816224&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/technology/personaltech/21basics.html?src=busln
1. http://www.dragonstopmotion.com/
2. http://www.stopmotionpro.com/
3. http://www.ikitmovie.com/
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| Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?
| from the ethics-schmethics dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @15:49 (Businesses)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1830212/Open-Source-Friendly-Smartphones-For-the-Small-Office?from=newsletter
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Thunderstruck writes "I work in a small office with just two computers.
Both machines run long-term-service releases of Ubuntu, with Gnome, and
Evolution for scheduling, contact management and electronic mail. We plan
to stick with Linux long-term. For telephone service, we're using
smartphones. In order to keep everything straight, we need phones that
can synchronize easily with the calendars and contact data on each
owner's desktop machine. We cannot use cloud based services for this
function due to ethics rules, and for security reasons. Right now, we do
all of this with older Palm phones, but these are a dying breed. What
options are out there right now for phones that will sync with Evolution
(or another good Linux PIM suite) which do not require data to go through
the cloud first?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1830212&from=newsletter
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| Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit
| from the 300-miles-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @16:34 (Transportation)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/199211/Why-Silicon-Valley-Wont-Be-the-Green-Car-Detroit?from=newsletter
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thecarchik writes "NPR boldly pronounced, 'The new automobile of the 21st
century is likely to benefit from the culture of Silicon Valley, where
people are used to taking a chip, a cell or an idea and working on it
until it becomes something big.' We've thought about it for a year, and
discussed it with many people. And we don't believe it. [0]Silicon Valley
is the wrong place to build an auto industry, for three main reasons."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/199211&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1047984_why-silicon-valley-wont-be-detroit-for-green-carmakers/
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| Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls
| from the should-be-cosponsored-by-seagate dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @17:18 (Networking)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/1931241/Google-Testing-High-Speed-Fiber-Network-At-Stanford-Res-Halls?from=newsletter
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GovTechGuy writes with this news from "Google has reached an [0]agreement
to build its first ultra-high speed broadband network near Stanford
University, the search giant announced on Thursday. The agreement with
Stanford means the university's residential subdivision will be the first
place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second, more than 100
times faster than the typical broadband connection in the US. The plan is
to break ground early next year." That might just be worth [1]$50,576 per
year to have.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/1931241&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/125205-google-testing-high-speed-fiber-network-at-stanford
1. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/february8/tuition-financial-aid-020910.html
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| In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License
| from the emergent-order-rocks dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @18:03 (Communications)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/2056201/In-Florida-a-Cell-Phone-Network-With-No-Need-For-a-Spectrum-License?from=newsletter
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holy_calamity writes "Technology Review reports on a cell phone network
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, like no other. Instead of paying to reserve
a section of wireless spectrum its owner, xG Technology, uses cognitive
radios that [0]steer signals through the unlicensed 900MHz band more
normally used by cordless phones and baby monitors. The radios in both
handset and base station scan for gaps left by other devices in that band
and make dynamic connections that constantly hop frequencies to ensure a
good link. The network is designed to show off the tech, which the
company says could be used in conventional cellphones to access extra
spectrum or white spaces devices."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/21/2056201&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26581/?p1=A4
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| On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy
| from the learn-from-the-experts dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @18:46 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/2143233/On-Several-Fronts-US-Govt-Prepares-To-Regulate-Online-Privacy?from=newsletter
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storagedude writes "There are at least [0]five US government efforts
underway to regulate data and online privacy, according to a new US
government internet policy official, who sees some kind of privacy
regulation as likely. Ari Schwartz, who left the Center for Democracy and
Technology two months ago to become senior internet policy advisor at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, says issues like
[1]Facebook's never-ending privacy concerns are making some kind of a
national law or regulation more and more likely. He thinks segregating
identity from data isn't enough; the data must then be aggregated after
identity is stripped out. He also called for objective measures of
privacy compliance."
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1. http://gawker.com/5669316/is-facebook-outing-gay-users-to-advertisers?
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| NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon
| from the moon-is-a-moist-mistress dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, @19:35 (Moon)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/234229/NASA-Strikes-Gold-and-Water-On-the-Moon?from=newsletter
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tcd004 writes "The PBS NewsHour reports: [0]there is water on the moon ���
along with a long list of other compounds, including mercury, gold and
silver. That's according to a more detailed analysis of the cold lunar
soil near the moon's South Pole. The results were [1]released as six
papers by a large team of scientists in the journal, Science Thursday.
[Note: Nature's papers are behind a paywall; for a few more details,
reader coondoggie points out a [2]a story at Network World.] The data
comes from the [3]October 2009 mission, when NASA slammed a booster
rocket traveling nearly 6,000 miles per hour into the moon and blasted
out a hole. Trailing close behind it was a second spacecraft, rigged with
a spectrometer to study the lunar plume released by the blast. The
mission is called LCROSS, for Lunar Crater Observer and Sensing
Satellite."
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0. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/10/its-confirmed-there-is-water.html
1. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/330/6003/434
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-moon-has-chemistry-be-human-space-outpos
3. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec09/moon_10-09.html
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