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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Ask.com To Shut Down Bloglines
* Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012
* Security Guards, Alarm Companies Object to Australia's National Fiber Network
* Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit For Worm
* YouTube Begins Live Streaming Trials
* HP To Acquire ArcSight For 1.5 Billion
* How Good Software Makes Us Stupid
* FCC To Open Up Vacant TV Airwaves For Broadband
* Frustrated Reporter Quits After Slow News Day
* Why Twitter's T.co Is a Game Changer
* Android OS #1 by 2014
* Boxee Box Pre-Orders Start at $229
* New Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps
* Lawyer Smokes Pages From the Koran and Bible
* Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin'
* Australian Politician Caught Viewing Porn
* Copying Trumps Creating For <em>FarmVille</em> Creator Zynga
* Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists
* Microsoft Helps Adobe Block PDF Zero-Day Exploit
* 25 Years of Super Mario Bros.
* Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US
* Dept. of Homeland Security To Test Iris Scanners
* Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs
* Wal-Mart To Launch Unlimited Wireless Family Plan

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| Ask.com To Shut Down Bloglines |
| from the you-have-reached-the-end dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 12, @22:49 (The Internet) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/12/2352244/Askcom-To-Shut-Down-Bloglines |
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[0]angry tapir writes "Bloglines, the venerable RSS reader, [1]will cease
to exist in a few weeks, according to its owner, Ask.com. Users should
export their syndicated feeds to another RSS reader, as Bloglines will be
shut down on Oct. 1, Ask.com said Friday in a blog post. Ask.com has
posted instructions on the Bloglines home page for exporting feeds to
another RSS management service."

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/12/2352244

Links:
0. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/
1. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/360306/ask_com_shut_down_bloglines/

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| Fujitsu Eyes Wireless Gadget Charging For 2012 |
| from the don't-cross-the-streams dept. |
| posted by timothy on Monday September 13, @02:03 (Power) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/0358258/Fujitsu-Eyes-Wireless-Gadget-Charging-|
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[0]angry tapir writes "Researchers at Fujitsu Laboratories [1]have
developed a wireless charging system that they say can simultaneously
charge a variety of portable gadgets over a distance of several
centimeters without the need for cables. The system, which will be
detailed at a technical conference in Japan this week, could begin
appearing in mobile phones and other products as soon as 2012, the
company said. Fujitsu's system is based on magnetic resonance in which
power can be wirelessly sent between two coils that are tuned to resonate
at the same frequency."

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/0358258

Links:
0. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/
1. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/360396/fujitsu_eyes_wireless_gadget_charging_2012/

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| Security Guards, Alarm Companies Object to Australia's National Fiber Network |
| from the you-mean-you-love-unemployment? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Monday September 13, @05:11 (Australia) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/0446226/Security-Guards-Alarm-Companies-Object-to-Au|
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natecochrane writes "Australia's proposed high-speed National Broadband
Network has put the fate of more than a million security alarm systems
that alert Australians to fire, home invasion, break-in and medical
emergency in limbo pending the building of a simulated test bed next
year. A group that represents security guards and those that supply
monitored alarms has concerns that ranged from the inconvenient ('angry
customers woken by their alarm systems beeping' during a nightly NBN
upgrade) to life-threatening in the case of medical alarms, its CEO said.
'Under the fibre-optic system there [0]won't be that redundancy and
backup [from the copper phone system]. So if it goes down no one will
know,' ASIAL CEO Bryan de Caires said."

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/0446226

Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/231568,nbn-obsoletes-a-million-security-systems-asial.aspx

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| Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit For Worm |
| from the sociopath-with-a-heart-of-gold dept. |
| posted by timothy on Monday September 13, @08:09 (Worms) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/0459201/Anti-US-Hacker-Takes-Credit-For-Worm |
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angry tapir writes "Credit for the "Here You Have" worm ([0]recently
discussed on Slashdot), has been taken [1]by a hacker known as 'Iraq
Resistance' who says the worm was designed, in part, as a propaganda
tool. He said he had not expected the worm to spread as broadly as it
had, and noted that he could have done much more damage to victims. 'I
could smash all those infected but I wouldn't,' said the hacker. 'I hope
all people understand that I am not negative person!' In other parts of
the message, he was critical of the US war in Iraq. For a brief period
early the worm accounted for about 10 percent of the spam on the
Internet."

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/0459201

Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/227254/New-Email-Worm-Squirming-Through-Windows-Users-Inboxes
1. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/360380/anti-us_hacker_takes_credit_here_worm/

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| YouTube Begins Live Streaming Trials |
| from the nbc-is-running-scared dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @08:55 (Google) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1215253/YouTube-Begins-Live-Streaming-Trials |
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An anonymous reader writes "YouTube is running a (very) brief trial of
their new live streaming platform: 'This [0]new platform integrates live
streaming directly into YouTube channels; all broadcasters need is a
webcam or external USB/FireWire camera. Included in the test is a "Live
Comments" module which lets you engage with the broadcaster and the
broader YouTube community. For the purpose of the trial, this offering
will only be available today and tomorrow. Based on the results of this
initial test, we'll evaluate rolling out the platform more broadly to our
partners worldwide.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1215253

Links:
0. http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/09/testing-testingyoutube-begins-trial-of.html

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| HP To Acquire ArcSight For 1.5 Billion |
| from the who-are-they-again dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @09:34 (HP) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1314243/HP-To-Acquire-ArcSight-For-15-Billion |
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An anonymous reader writes "HP and ArcSight have signed a definitive
agreement for [0]HP to acquire ArcSight, a security and compliance
management company, for $43.50 per share, or an enterprise value of $1.5
billion. The acquisition will be conducted by means of a cash tender
offer for all of ArcSight's outstanding shares of common stock. The
closing of the acquisition, which is subject to customary closing
conditions, is expected to occur by the end of the calendar year."

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1314243

Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9860

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| How Good Software Makes Us Stupid |
| from the i-are-not-dum dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @10:11 (Google) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1342209/How-Good-Software-Makes-Us-Stupid |
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siliconbits writes "The BBC has an interesting article about how ever
improving [0]software damages our ability to think innovatively. 'Search
engines' function of providing us with information almost instantly means
people are losing their intellectual capacity to store information,
Nicolas Carr said.' This sadly convinced some journos to come up with
wildfire titles such as 'Google damages users' brains, author claims.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1342209

Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11263559

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| FCC To Open Up Vacant TV Airwaves For Broadband |
| from the why-the-heck-not dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @10:56 (Wireless Networking) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1417208/FCC-To-Open-Up-Vacant-TV-Airwaves-For-Br|
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crimeandpunishment writes "Get ready for 'super Wi-Fi.' If the FCC works
out the last details of new spectrum rules, they'll [0]open up the
so-called 'white spaces'... the vacant airwaves between broadcast TV
channels ... for wireless broadband connections. If the plan goes
through, it will lead to Wi-Fi with longer range and stronger power. The
stumbling blocks have included concerns about interference with TV
signals and wireless microphones, but the FCC plans to vote next week on
rules meant to resolve those issues."

Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1417208

Links:
0. http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=3171

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| Frustrated Reporter Quits After Slow News Day |
| from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Monday September 13, @11:01 (News) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1417220/Frustrated-Reporter-Quits-After-Slow-News-|
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Norwegian radio journalist Pia Beathe Pedersen quit on the air
complaining that her bosses were making her read news on a day when "[0]nothing
important has happened." Pedersen claimed that broadcaster NRK put too
much pressure on the staff and that she "wanted to be able to eat
properly again and be able to breathe," during her nearly two-minute
on-air resignation.

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1417220

Links:
0. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9I5Q3700&show_article=1

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| Why Twitter's T.co Is a Game Changer |
| from the everyone-wants-a-piece-of-that dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @11:34 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/155228/Why-Twitters-Tco-Is-a-Game-Changer |
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macslocum writes "If Twitter is so inclined, the company could turn the
new t.co shortening service into a [0]powerful analytics tool that solves
the marketing and tracking issues of off-site engagement."

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/155228

Links:
0. http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/why-twitters-recent-announceme.html

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| Android OS #1 by 2014 |
| from the thanks-creskin dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @12:09 (Cellphones) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/160235/Android-OS-1-by-2014 |
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Singer4096 writes "Gartner research projects that the [0]Android OS will
outpace all others by 2014 to become the leading Smartphone OS.
Projections are that by the end of 2010, it will be in second place
behind Symbian, the Nokia-backed OS. This is bad news for Apple and RIM
who are projected to fight for third place in the Smartphone market."

Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/160235

Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/09/13/cnet.symbian.android/index.html

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| Boxee Box Pre-Orders Start at $229 |
| from the a-little-late-i-think dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @12:12 (Media) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/166211/Boxee-Box-Pre-Orders-Start-at-229 |
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Engadget is reporting that [0]Boxee is taking pre-orders at $229 for
their set top box that is utterly guaranteed to not fit into any stereo
component rack you might have. They also have switched chipsets from the
Tegra 2 to the CE4100. I'm not sure about this thing, but I'd sure like
to play with one as I lust for the day when every piece of media I have
can be played from a single device. I suspect it'll never happen.

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/166211

Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/boxee-box-ditches-nvidias-tegra-2-for-intel-ce4100-pre-orders/

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| New Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps |
| from the duck-and-cover dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, @12:47 (Encryption) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/167239/New-Crypto-Attack-Affects-Millions-of-ASPNET-|
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Trailrunner7 writes "A pair of security researchers have implemented an
[0]attack that exploits the way that ASP.NET Web applications handle
encrypted session cookies, a weakness that could enable an attacker to
hijack users' online banking sessions and cause other severe problems in
vulnerable applications. Experts say that the bug, which will be
discussed in detail at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina this week,
affects millions of Web applications."

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/167239

Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-crypto-attack-affects-millions-aspnet-apps-091310

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| Lawyer Smokes Pages From the Koran and Bible |
| from the attention-whore-of-babylon dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Monday September 13, @12:53 (Australia) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/168226/Lawyer-Smokes-Pages-From-the-Koran-and-Bibl|
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Daehenoc writes "Thanks to a lawyer in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,
we now know that [0]the Bible makes a better smoke than the Koran. From
the article: 'In the clip, titled "Bible or Koran - which burns best?",
the professed atheist says burning religious books is no big deal and
people need to get over it. "It's just a f---ing book," he says. "Who
cares? It's your beliefs that matter. Quite frankly, if you are going to
get upset about a book, you're taking life way too seriously."'

Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/168226

Links:
0. http://www.news.com.au/national/lawyer-alex-stewart-smokes-pages-from-the-koran-and-bible-and-says-we-should-get-over-book-burning/story-e6frfkvr-1225919970728

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| Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin' |
| from the toasters-look-like-us-now dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @13:30 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/178259/Two-Research-Groups-Create-Electric-Skin|
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Flash Modin writes "Two separate teams, one from UC Berkeley and the
other from Stanford, have [0]created distinct types of artificial skin
that could find uses in prosthetics or artificial intelligence (Data in
First Contact, anyone?). The first team [1]coupled organic electronics
with an elastic polymer to make electric skin that could sense a
butterfly landing on it ([2]abstract). The second team put a flexible
material over a conductive rubber compound which had transistors
implanted in it. The device can sense touch when the rubber is
compressed, changing the electrical resistance ([3]abstract)."

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/178259

Links:
0. http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2010/09/stanford-and-berkeley-teams-create.html
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26256/?a=f
2. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat2834.html
3. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat2835.html

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| Australian Politician Caught Viewing Porn |
| from the stiff-opposition-party dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Monday September 13, @14:00 (Australia) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1615248/Australian-Politician-Caught-Viewing-Porn |
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destinyland writes "An Australian Parliament member has resigned after
[0]admitting he'd used government computers to access porn and gambling
sites. McLeay 'gave an uncomfortable press conference outside Parliament
House,' notes one technology site, 'during which he admitted he had
[1]acted in a standard not expected of cabinet ministers.' Paul McLeay
was also the Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources as well as the
Minister for Ports and Waterways. In resigning, he apologized to his
constituents and parliamentary colleagues, as well as to his wife and
family."

Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1615248

Links:
0. http://express-advocate-wyong.whereilive.com.au/news/story/mp-paul-mcleay-resigns-over-porn-and-gambling/
1. http://www.freeaccess.com.au/Structure:%20/2010/09/02/another-australian-politician-gets-caught-out-by-technology/

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| Copying Trumps Creating For <em>FarmVille</em> Creator Zynga |
| from the at-least-they're-honest dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @14:12 (Programming) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1752230/Copying-Trumps-Creating-For-FarmVille-Cre|
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theodp writes "The good news for Zynga is that it scored the cover of SF
Weekly. The bad news is that the FarmVillains cover story starts out by
[0]describing the secret to the toast-of-Silicon-Valley company's success
thusly: '[1]Steal someone else's game. Change its name. Make millions.
Repeat.' SF Weekly says [2]interviews conducted with several former Zynga
workers indicate that the practice of stealing other companies' game
ideas ��� and then using Zynga's market clout to crowd out the games'
originators ��� was business as usual. 'I don't ****ing want innovation,'
one ex-employee recalled Pincus saying. 'You're not smarter than your
competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their
numbers.' Another quipped that 'Zynga's motto is 'Do Evil.'' Valleywag
piles on with an item on the existence of [3]Zynga's underground
'Platinum Purchase Program,' reportedly geared towards making players
known as 'whales' part with a minimum of $500 at a time for imaginary
credits."

Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1752230

Links:
0. http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/
1. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-zynga-is-just-like-microsoft-2010-1#before-zynga-came-out-with-mafia-wars-1
2. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/zynga-draws-fire-from-its-ex-employees/
3. http://valleywag.gawker.com/5634379/the-secret-dealer-for-farmville-addicts

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| Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists |
| from the implausibly-impolite dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @14:54 (Censorship) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1832216/Canadian-Government-Muzzling-Scientists|
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IllogicalStudent writes with this excerpt from The Vancouver Sun: "The
Harper government has [0]tightened the muzzle on federal scientists,
going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the
end of the last ice age. Natural Resources Canada scientists were told
this spring they need 'pre-approval' from Minister Christian Paradis'
office to speak with journalists. Their 'media lines' also need
ministerial approval, say documents obtained by Postmedia News through
access-to-information legislation. The documents say the 'new' rules went
into force in March and reveal how they apply not only to contentious
issues, including the oilsands, but benign subjects such as floods that
occurred 13,000 years ago. They also give a glimpse of how Canadians are
being cut off from scientists whose work is financed by taxpayers,
critics say, and is often of significant public interest ��� be it about
fish stocks, genetically modified crops or mercury pollution in the
Athabasca River."

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1832216

Links:
0. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tightened+muzzle+scientists+Orwellian/3515345/story.html

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| Microsoft Helps Adobe Block PDF Zero-Day Exploit |
| from the damage-control dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @15:34 (Security) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1912219/Microsoft-Helps-Adobe-Block-PDF-Zero-Day-E|
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CWmike writes "Microsoft has urged Windows users to block ongoing attacks
against Adobe's popular PDF viewer [0]by deploying one of Microsoft's
enterprise tools. Adobe [1]echoed Microsoft's advice, saying the Enhanced
Migration Experience Toolkit (EMET) would stymie attacks targeting Reader
and Acrobat. Called 'scary' and 'clever,' the in-the-wild exploit [2]went
public last week when security researcher Mila Parkour reported it to
Adobe after analyzing a rogue PDF document attached to spam. Adobe first
warned users Wednesday of the threat, but at the time gave users no
advice on how to protect themselves until a patch was ready. Microsoft
stepped in on Friday. 'The good news is that if you have EMET enabled ...
it blocks this exploit,' said Fermin Serna and Andrew Roths, two
engineers with the Microsoft Security Response Center in an [3]entry on
the group's blog." A Symantec blog post suggests [4]the people exploiting
this vulnerability may be the 'Aurora' group responsible for the
[5]attacks on Google late last year.

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1912219

Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9184878/Microsoft_helps_Adobe_block_PDF_zero_day_exploit?taxonomyId=17
1. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html
2. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/09/157246/New-Adobe-PDF-Zero-Day-Under-Attack
3. http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/09/10/use-emet-2-0-to-block-the-adobe-0-day-exploit.aspx
4. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/hydraq-aurora-attackers-back
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/12/2329231/Google-Hacked-May-Pull-Out-of-China

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| 25 Years of Super Mario Bros. |
| from the don't-let-him-get-into-the-birthday-beer dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @16:16 (Classic Games (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/1935221/25-Years-of-Super-Mario-Bros |
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harrymcc writes "On September 13th 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario
Bros. for the Famicom (NES) in Japan. It went on to become the
best-selling video game of all time, a title it only recently lost. Over
at Technologizer, Benj Edwards is celebrating the anniversary with [0]a
look at some of the weirdest variations, spinoffs, and tributes the game
has inspired over the years, from edibles to art projects." The
Guardian's games blog adds [1]a bunch of Mario-related trivia, and CVG
attempts to [2]explain the history of Mario games. Nintendo is
capitalizing on the anniversary by announcing an [3]upcoming collection
of classic Mario games (Japanese site, [4]English explanation) that have
been ported to the Wii.

Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/1935221

Links:
0. http://technologizer.com/2010/09/12/super-mario/
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/sep/13/games-gameculture
2. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=264308
3. http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/svmj/index.html
4. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65542

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| Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US |
| from the for-the-low-low-cost-of-way-too-much dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @17:00 (Networking) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/2040211/Gigabit-Speeds-At-Home-In-the-US |
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An anonymous reader writes "The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga is
[0]preparing to offer 1 Gigabit speeds at home by the end of the year.
'The city-owned utility announced today it will boost its broadband
service to 1 Gigabit throughout its service territory by the end of 2010.
Such a connection will be 200 times faster than the average broadband
speed in America and the fastest of any US city.' The NY Times reports
that the service will cost $350 per month. 'Mr. DePriest of EPB [1]does
not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit service anytime soon. So why
offer it? "The simple answer is because we can," he said.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/2040211

Links:
0. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/sep/13/epb-offfer-nations-fastest-internet-year-end/?local
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13broadband.html?pagewanted=all

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| Dept. of Homeland Security To Test Iris Scanners |
| from the eye-for-an-eye dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @17:43 (Government) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/2112253/Dept-of-Homeland-Security-To-Test-Iris-Sca|
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SonicSpike writes "The Homeland Security Department plans to [0]test
futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people's
eyes in a database and is considered a quicker alternative to
fingerprints. The department will run a two-week test in October of
commercially sold iris scanners at a Border Patrol station in McAllen,
Texas, where they will be used on illegal immigrants, said Arun Vemury,
program manager at the department's Science and Technology branch. 'The
test will help us determine how viable this is for potential (department)
use in the future,' Vemury said."

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0. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2010-09-13-1Airis13_ST_N.htm

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| Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs |
| from the making-it-better dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @18:30 (Microsoft) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/221216/Microsoft-To-Issue-Blanket-License-To-NGOs |
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itwbennett writes "Following a [0]recent report that Russian police have
used software copyright raids to seize computers of activist groups,
Microsoft announced it will issue a [1]blanket software license to
nonprofit groups and journalist groups outside the US. The new blanket
license should [2]remove software piracy as an excuse for 'nefarious
actions' by enforcement authorities, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith
wrote. The new license 'cuts in one swoop the Gordian knot that otherwise
is getting in the way of our desired handling of these legal issues,' he
said. 'The law in Russia (and many other countries) requires that one
must provide truthful information about the facts in response to a
subpoena or other judicial process. With this new software license, we
effectively change the factual situation at hand. Now our information
will fully exonerate any qualifying [nonprofit], by showing that it has a
valid license to our software.'"

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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/221216

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0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/12/131247/Microsoft-Complaints-Help-Russian-Govt-Pursue-Political-Opposition-Groups
1. http://www.itworld.com/government/120477/microsoft-issue-blanket-license-ngos
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/world/europe/14raid.html

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| Wal-Mart To Launch Unlimited Wireless Family Plan |
| from the pick-up-some-trash-bags-and-some-internets-on-the-way-home dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 13, @19:14 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/13/224211/Wal-Mart-To-Launch-Unlimited-Wireless-Fam|
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adeelarshad82 writes "Wal-Mart has announced that it will [0]sell a
post-paid wireless service powered by T-Mobile, which will be targeted at
families. Users who sign up for Wal-Mart Family Mobile service will not
have to sign a contract. The first line will cost $45 per month, and each
additional line will cost $25 per month. Each line will have unlimited
talk and text, so overage charges will not be an issue. For data access,
each phone will come pre-loaded with a 100MB card known as a WebPak,
which is shared among all lines on an account. Data does not expire, and
refill cards can be purchased in Wal-Mart stores or online. The WebPak
can also be used to make international calls at 5 cents per minute to any
landline number in about a dozen countries."

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http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/13/224211

Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369081,00.asp


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Global: If there is no water, there is no life
The Twentieth gathering for the World Water Week (WWW) took place in Sweden's Capital Stockholm from the 5th to the 11th of September 2010 with the theme The Water Quality Challenge-Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement. According to the organisers, "urbanisation, agriculture, industry and climate change exert mounting pressure on both the quantity and quality of our water resources." >>Read more
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If you thought the the issue of burning the Qur'an would not have repercussions across the world then you may think again. Today's mayhem in Indian administered Kashmir was instigated by violent protests which ensued after the emergence of a report of a Qur'an desecration in Michigan, USA. The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet condemned the reported burning of the Qur'an and asked the people to stay calm. However, according to BBC, thousands of people defied curfews and took to the streets, chanting anti-India and anti-US slogans and burning effigies of US President Barack Obama. >>Read more
Iran: Jailed Blogger Shiva Nazar Ahari is Freed on $500,000 Bail
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a jailed human rights activist and blogger, was freed yesterday. According to several news websites, Shiva was released on $500,000 bail. She went to trial in handcuffs in early September and was accused of involvement with the organization, People's Mujahedin of Iran. >>Read more
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