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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Physical Pain and Emotional Pain Use Same Brain Networks
* Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors
* Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster
* Average Gamer Is 37 Years Old
* Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights
* CSS 2.1 Becomes W3C Recommendation
* Sony's Solution To Split-Screen Multiplayer
* Officials Agree On Global Nuclear Stress Tests
* Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms
* World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K
* Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns
* Man Tries to Patent His "Godly Powers"
* Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus
* Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now
* Cloud-Based, Ray-Traced Games On Intel Tablets
* Most Vulns Exploited By Stuxnet Worm Remain Unpatched
* Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email?
* Will Microsoft Release Its Own Windows 8 Tablet?
* Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power?
* Federal Courts To Begin First Digital Video Pilot
* Dutch To Introduce Net Neutrality By Law
* Cybersecurity and the Internet Economy
* Microsoft Pursues Botnet Herders Via Newspaper Ads
* School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit
* Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size?
* Google Redirects Traffic To Avoid Kazakh Demands
* Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova
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| Physical Pain and Emotional Pain Use Same Brain Networks
| from the morphine-cures-broken-hearts dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 07, @20:34 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/07/2346255/Physical-Pain-and-Emotional-Pain-Use-Same-Brain-Networks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Antipater writes "To the brain, heartbreak and emotional torment are
[1]no different from having hot coffee spilled on your hand, reports CNN.
They cite a recent study from Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences in which 40 recently-dumped men and women underwent fMRI scans
while having their arm burned or being shown a picture of their ex. The
stimuli [2]produced nearly identical brain reactions."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/07/2346255/Physical-Pain-and-Emotional-Pain-Use-Same-Brain-Networks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:bjzall1@gmail.com
1. http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/28/burn.heartbreak.same.to.brain/index.html
2. http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/6270.full?sid=758b38cc-b399-4d22-9c37-3c074cf321be
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| Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors
| from the do-no-harm-while-killing-all-humans dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 07, @22:28 (AI)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0030233/Just-Months-After-Jeopardy-Watson-Wows-Doctors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kkleiner writes "Following its resounding victory on Jeopardy!,
[1]IBM's Watson has been working hard to learn as much about medicine as
it can with a steady diet of medical textbooks and healthcare journals.
In a recent demonstration to the Associated Press, Watson showed a
promising ability to diagnose patients. The demonstration was a success,
and it is the hope of IBM and many medical professionals that in the
coming years Watson will lend doctors a helping hand as they perform
their daily rounds."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0030233/Just-Months-After-Jeopardy-Watson-Wows-Doctors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://singularityhub.com/
1. http://singularityhub.com/2011/06/06/just-months-after-jeopardy-watson-wows-doctors-with-medical-knowledge/
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| Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster
| from the missing-the-punchline dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 08, @00:25 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0130219/Security-Service-Accidentally-Makes-Websites-60-Faster?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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EastDakota writes "[0]CloudFlare was originally conceived by the team
behind the open source community [1]Project Honey Pot as an easy way to
protect any website from hackers and spammers. The concern from the
beginning was that it would add latency. It was quite a surprise when the
free service launched 8 months ago and ended up [2]speeding up websites
by 60%."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0130219/Security-Service-Accidentally-Makes-Websites-60-Faster?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cloudflare.com/
1. http://www.projecthoneypot.org/
2. http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/07/cloudflare-a-website-security-product-accidentally-makes-sites-60-faster/
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| Average Gamer Is 37 Years Old
| from the get-off-my-sim-lawn dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 08, @01:19 (Stats)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/032249/Average-Gamer-Is-37-Years-Old?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kolbe writes "A new study from the Entertainment Software Association
suggests that the average age of today's gamers is between the 37 and 41
years old. If true, does this mean that game studios should be adjusting
their demographics accordingly? Is Generation X the next 'baby boomer'
market for the gaming industry?"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/032249/Average-Gamer-Is-37-Years-Old?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:kolbe11@yahoo.com
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| Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights
| from the freedom-of-teach dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 08, @02:22 (Education)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0238228/Supreme-Court-Takes-Up-Scholars-Rights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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schwit1 writes with this quote from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
"For 10 years, Lawrence Golan has been quietly waging a legal campaign to
overturn a statute which makes it impossibly expensive for smaller
orchestras to play certain pieces of music. Now the case is heading to
the US Supreme Court. The high-stakes copyright showdown affects far more
than sheet music. The outcome [0]will touch a broad swath of academe for
years to come, dictating what materials scholars can use in books and
courses without jumping through legal hoops. The law Mr. Golan is trying
to overturn has also hobbled libraries' efforts to digitize and share
books, films, and music. The conductor's fight centers on the concept of
the public domain, which scholars depend on for teaching and research.
When a work enters the public domain, anyone can quote from it, copy it,
share it, or republish it without seeking permission or paying royalties.
The dispute that led to Golan v. Holder dates to 1994, when Congress
passed a law that moved vast amounts of material from the public domain
back behind the firewall of copyright protection. The Supreme Court is
expected to decide the case during the term that begins in October."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0238228/Supreme-Court-Takes-Up-Scholars-Rights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://chronicle.com/article/A-Professors-Fight-Over/127700/
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| CSS 2.1 Becomes W3C Recommendation
| from the making-haste-slowly dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 08, @05:19 (The Internet)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0325251/CSS-21-Becomes-W3C-Recommendation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]yuhong writes "After about a decade of development, [1]CSS 2.1 has
become a W3C recommendation. From the announcement: 'The current
interoperability makes it easier than ever for developers and designers
to enrich the toolkit. W3C expects future additions to CSS to be
organized as independent modules, allowing smaller, more focused feature
sets to progress and stabilize at their own pace. Some of these new
features are already supported in browsers and other software in draft
form (using the built-in CSS prefix mechanism designed for
experimentation). As interoperability improves for each one, developers
can transition to the standard to simplify their code. The CSS Working
Group also publishes snapshots of which CSS features are supported
interoperably in browsers; see, for instance, [2]the most recent CSS
Snapshot.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0325251/CSS-21-Becomes-W3C-Recommendation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:yuhongbao_386@NospAM.hotmail.com
1. http://www.w3.org/2011/05/css-pr.html.en
2. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/
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| Sony's Solution To Split-Screen Multiplayer
| from the no-peeking dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 08, @06:27 (E3)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0315222/Sonys-Solution-To-Split-Screen-Multiplayer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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We discussed Sony's E3 announcement of the [0]pricing and details of the
Vita portable console ([1]hands-on report), but they also made a stronger
push into the 3D space, revealing a 24" display specifically designed for
3D gaming. Most notable about this display is that two players wearing 3D
glasses can use it to view separate images on screen. This means that
when playing with a friend, [2]you need not sacrifice 50% of screen real
estate to accommodate the other player. The Guardian has a good run-down
of [3]Sony's other E3 announcements.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0315222/Sonys-Solution-To-Split-Screen-Multiplayer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/07/1855229/Nintendo-Announces-New-Console-Wii-U
1. http://geek.pikimal.com/2011/06/07/hands-on-ps-vita-impressions-josh/
2. http://gizmodo.com/5809707/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-for-everybody
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/07/e3-2011-sony-3d-move-vita
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| Officials Agree On Global Nuclear Stress Tests
| from the is-your-power-plant-meteorproof dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 08, @08:13 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0250237/Officials-Agree-On-Global-Nuclear-Stress-Tests?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Government ministers and officials from the
European Union countries who met to discuss atomic energy safety have
agreed to [1]carry out stress tests on nuclear reactors to test their
capacity to withstand major incidents like the earthquake and tsunami
that rocked the Fukushima plant in March. 'The accident at Fukushima in
Japan has affected us all,' says French Environment Minister Nathalie
Kosciusko-Morizet. 'It quickly became apparent there is a need to learn
lessons from the accident and to improve and raise our standards and ways
of cooperating on nuclear safety.' The stress tests will be performed on
Europe's 143 working reactors and other atomic installations. 'You have
to move the safety envelope,' says Roger Mattson, former leader of the US
task force that investigated the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in
1979, and an organizer of the group issuing the letter. 'You have to take
these severe accidents into account and do [2]more to prevent the very
low-probability events.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/0250237/Officials-Agree-On-Global-Nuclear-Stress-Tests?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-07/nuclear-stress-tests-first-step-on-safety-ministers-say.html
2. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/06/02/02climatewire-multinational-panel-calls-for-tougher-stress-33984.html
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| Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms
| from the but-really-what-isn't dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 08, @08:52 (Software)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1232244/Stallman-eBooks-Are-Attacking-Our-Freedoms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence submitted note of a paper written by RMS called [1]The Danger
of eBooks saying "Free software guru Richard Stallman claims consumers
should reject [2]eBooks until they 'respect our freedoms.' He highlights
the DRM embedded in eBooks sold by Amazon as an example of such
restrictions, citing the infamous case of Amazon wiping copies of George
Orwell's 1984 from users' Kindles without permission. He also rails
against Amazon for forcing people to identify themselves before buying
eBooks. His suggested remedy? Distributing tax funds to authors based on
their popularity, or 'designing players so users can send authors
anonymous voluntary payments.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1232244/Stallman-eBooks-Are-Attacking-Our-Freedoms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf
2. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/367894/ebooks-are-attacking-our-freedom
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| World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K
| from the omg-so-huge-huge-huge dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 08, @09:30 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1251231/World-IPv6-Day-Most-watched-Tech-Event-Since-Y2K?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg wrote in with a fairly extreme bit of hyperbole saying "The
nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers
and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats today for
[0]World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech
industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in
1999. More than 400 organizations are participating in World IPv6 Day, a
large-scale experiment aimed at identifying problems associated with
IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, IPv4.
Sponsored by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day runs from 8 p.m. EST
Tuesday until 7:59 p.m. EST Wednesday. The IT departments in the
participating organizations have spent the last five months preparing
their websites for an anticipated rise in IPv6-based traffic, more tech
support calls and possible hacking attacks prompted by this largest-ever
trial of IPv6."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1251231/World-IPv6-Day-Most-watched-Tech-Event-Since-Y2K?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060711-ipv6-expect.html
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| Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns
| from the but-i-have-a-pimple dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 08, @10:09 (Facebook)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1341222/Facebook-Facial-Recognition-Raises-New-Privacy-Concerns?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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c0lo writes "Now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy
settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has
[0]enabled the face recognition in the last few days without giving users
any notice. Once again, Facebook seems to be sharing personal information
by default, instead on users having to 'opt-in'. Some other comments and
an interesting [1]reaction from Google and [2]how to get around/disable
it."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1341222/Facebook-Facial-Recognition-Raises-New-Privacy-Concerns?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386555,00.asp
1. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/07/facebook.facial.recognition/
2. http://www.news.com.au/technology/how-to-get-around-facebooks-new-face-recognition/story-e6frfro0-1226071893284
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| Man Tries to Patent His "Godly Powers"
| from the this-patent-brought-to-you-by-shampoo dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @10:17 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1231254/Man-Tries-to-Patent-His-Godly-Powers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]KWInt1601 writes "A man who believes he is Christ files a patent
application ��� and the formal dance of responding to office actions from
the USPTO begins. Invoking the 1998 State Street decision, the applicant
argues, 'like software, godly powers is a method, and affects a machine.
[1]Like business methods, godly powers produces a useful, concrete, and
tangible result, and that should be all that's needed for statutory
material.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1231254/Man-Tries-to-Patent-His-Godly-Powers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.intellogist.com/wiki/Main_Page
1. http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/godly-powers-a-mystical-us-patent-application/
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| Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus
| from the spend-spend-spend dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 08, @10:46 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1428256/Apple-Plans-New-Spaceship-like-Campus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett has a story that might answer the question of what Apple is
doing with the billions they have in the bank. "Apple CEO Steve Jobs on
Tuesday [1]presented plans for a new Apple campus to the Cupertino City
Council. The office building will look 'a little like a spaceship
landed,' said Jobs. It will also be just 4 stories tall, is big enough to
house all 12,000 Apple employees (with room for growth), and will
generate its own energy." Keep reading to see the riveting town council
meeting.
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1428256/Apple-Plans-New-Spaceship-like-Campus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/business/172227/apple-plans-new-spaceship-campus
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| Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now
| from the bucks-better-be-on-warning dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 08, @11:27 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1514209/Judge-Prevents-23322-Filesharing-Does-From-Being-Sued-For-Now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Judge overseeing the US Copyright Group's
[0]lawsuit against 23,000 individuals sharing 'The Expendables' has shut
the door on progress. In a ruling made yesterday, the judge has
[1]ordered the US Copyright Group to show cause as to how all 23,322 fall
under his Court's jurisdiction. Considering the US Copyright Group's
failure in the past to show cause on jurisdiction, this could be the
beginning of the end."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1514209/Judge-Prevents-23322-Filesharing-Does-From-Being-Sued-For-Now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dailytech.com/US+Copyright+Group+is+Now+Suing+Nearly+50000+US+Citizens+for+Piracy/article21713.htm
1. http://www.slyck.com/story2202_23322_Does_for_The_Expendables_case_Not_so_fast_says_Judge_to_US_Copyright_Group
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| Cloud-Based, Ray-Traced Games On Intel Tablets
| from the heavy-lifting-done-elsewhere dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 08, @12:06 (Cloud)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1545233/Cloud-Based-Ray-Traced-Games-On-Intel-Tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "After Intel showed a [0]ray traced version of
Wolfenstein last year running cloud-based streamed to a laptop the
company that has just recently announced its [1]shift to the mobile
market shows now their research project [2]Lalso running on various
x86-tablets with 5 to 10 inch screens. The heavy calculations are
performed by a cloud consisting of a machine with a [3]Knights Ferry card
(32 cores) inside. The achieved frame rates are around 20-30 fps."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1545233/Cloud-Based-Ray-Traced-Games-On-Intel-Tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/14/0250250/Wolfenstein-Gets-Ray-Traced
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/18/2031216/Intel-Shifts-Might-To-Mobile
2. http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/06/wolfenstein_gets_ray_traced_-_1.php#more
3. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100531comp.htm
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| Most Vulns Exploited By Stuxnet Worm Remain Unpatched
| from the leaping-into-the-mortar-crater dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 08, @12:29 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1626254/Most-Vulns-Exploited-By-Stuxnet-Worm-Remain-Unpatched?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chicksdaddy writes with this excerpt from ThreatPost: "The media storm
over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software [0]holes
that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers
open to a wide range of potentially damaging cyber attacks, according to
industrial control system expert Ralph Langner. Writing on his personal
blog, Langner said that critical vulnerabilities remain in Windows-based
management applications and software used to directly manage industrial
controllers by Siemens Inc., whose products were targeted by the Stuxnet
worm, Threatpost reports."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1626254/Most-Vulns-Exploited-By-Stuxnet-Worm-Remain-Unpatched?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/many-stuxnet-vulnerabilities-still-unpatched-060811
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| Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email?
| from the care-of-general-delivery dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 08, @12:47 (Communications)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1553243/Ask-Slashdot-What-To-Do-With-Other-Peoples-Email?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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vrimj writes "I have a common enough first name / last name combination
that I sometimes get other people's email at my
firstname.lastname@gmail.com account. It isn't a big deal if it is a
person; I let them know, they fix it. The big problem I am having is with
companies and websites. These emails are often no-reply, which means I
can't send back a quick note. I got someone's credit card bills for three
months before I realized there was nothing for it but calling the company
(I tried a couple of emails first). Recently I got a notice about
someone's kid signing up for a website. I don't have any option but to
hit the response button, and tell them that I first have to say I am that
kid's parent or guardian. I didn't know where to go from there. Today I
get an invoice from a cable company; it is for a different state. I can't
reply. I go to the online support, they tell me my only choice is to call
the sales office. I gave in for the bank, but I am not talking to someone
else's cable company. Is there any way to make emails to an improperly
formatted gmail address bounce or do something else obvious? Is there a
technical solution I am overlooking. I doesn't happen that often but it
is an increasing PITA with no-reply email addresses. I hate just setting
up a filter because that cuts off these other people who made a typo or
had someone not enter something correctly, but it is looking like the
best choice. It isn't spam, but it isn't my meat."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1553243/Ask-Slashdot-What-To-Do-With-Other-Peoples-Email?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Will Microsoft Release Its Own Windows 8 Tablet?
| from the If-you-like-theirs-try-ours dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @13:27 (Microsoft)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1655210/Will-Microsoft-Release-Its-Own-Windows-8-Tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft isn't exactly known for its
hardware prowess. Sure, it's churned out plenty of nice mice, keyboards,
and game controllers over the years, but success with actual devices has
been mixed. The Xbox 360 has exceeded all expectations, while the Zune
and Kin hardware have been monumental failures. According to industry
sources in Taiwan, however, [0]Microsoft is working on a Windows 8 tablet
that will be powered by Texas Instrument's next-generation 1.8GHz dual
core processor."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1655210/Will-Microsoft-Release-Its-Own-Windows-8-Tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2386588,00.asp
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| Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power?
| from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-mutants dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @14:07 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/173241/Could-the-US-Phase-Out-Nuclear-Power?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes "In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in
Japan, [German Chancellor] Merkel announced that her country would
[1]close all of its 17 existing reactors by 2022. Other nations,
including Japan, Italy, and Switzerland, have announced plans to pare
back nuclear power, but none have gone as far as Germany, the world's
fourth-largest economy. Merkel vows to replace nuclear power with
alternatives that do not increase greenhouse gases or shackle the
economic growth. [2]Could the US do the same? An increasing number of
reports suggest it is not beyond the realm of possibility, and Germany
could provide a road map."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/173241/Could-the-US-Phase-Out-Nuclear-Power?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/1143239/Germany-To-End-Nuclear-Power-By-2022
2. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0607/Germany-to-phase-out-nuclear-power.-Could-the-US-do-the-same
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| Federal Courts To Begin First Digital Video Pilot
| from the trial-tube dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @14:45 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1821251/Federal-Courts-To-Begin-First-Digital-Video-Pilot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "Federal district courts have been prohibited from
allowing any sort of electronic dissemination of trials since 1946, but
that is about to change. Fourteen federal trial courts and 100 judges
have been selected to take part in the federal Judiciary's [1]three-year
digital video pilot, which will begin July 18 and will go a long way
towards determining the effect of cameras in courtrooms."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1821251/Federal-Courts-To-Begin-First-Digital-Video-Pilot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/federal-courts-begin-first-ever-digital-video
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| Dutch To Introduce Net Neutrality By Law
| from the levy-playing-field dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @15:26 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1840226/Dutch-To-Introduce-Net-Neutrality-By-Law?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Big news out of the Netherlands this week,
where a government minister announced [0]plans to guarantee network
neutrality by law. If Parliament approves the amendment to Dutch
telecommunications law, and it expected to do so, it would become one of
the first countries in the world to legislate against Internet providers
who want to charge more for using particular applications or services."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1840226/Dutch-To-Introduce-Net-Neutrality-By-Law?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Cybersecurity and the Internet Economy
| from the please-change-your-password dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @16:10 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1847203/Cybersecurity-and-the-Internet-Economy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "Global online transactions are currently estimated by
industry analysts at $10 trillion annually. As Internet business grows,
so has the threat of cybersecurity attacks. The U.S. Department of
Commerce today released a report that [0]proposes voluntary codes of
conduct to strengthen the cybersecurity of companies that increasingly
rely on the Internet to do business, but are not part of the critical
infrastructure sector. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said: 'By increasing
the adoption of standards and best practices, we are working with the
private sector to promote innovation and business growth, while at the
same time better protecting companies and consumers from hackers and
cyber theft.'"
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1847203/Cybersecurity-and-the-Internet-Economy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11138
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| Microsoft Pursues Botnet Herders Via Newspaper Ads
| from the trouble-makers-wanted dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @16:53 (Microsoft)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1944254/Microsoft-Pursues-Botnet-Herders-Via-Newspaper-Ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Although it is extremely unlikely that anyone
associated with Rustock will step forward, Microsoft has [1]taken out ads
in two Russian newspapers to notify unnamed defendants in the legal suit.
The move is a legal formality required as part of Microsoft's ongoing
lawsuit in the U.S. against operators of Rustock. The advertisements will
run for 30 days in the Delovoy Petersburg newspaper, located in St.
Petersburg, and in The Moscow News, a daily newspaper, wrote Richard
Boscovich, a senior attorney with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1944254/Microsoft-Pursues-Botnet-Herders-Via-Newspaper-Ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/legal/172229/microsoft-pursues-botnet-herders-russian-newspapers
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| School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit
| from the history-repeating dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @17:36 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2037215/School-District-Hit-With-New-Mac-Spying-Lawsuit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "A former student at a suburban Philadelphia high school
has [1]sued his school district for allegedly spying on him and his
family using a school-issued Mac laptop, according to court documents.
The Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa. was first sued in
February 2010 by another student using similar charges. That case, dubbed
'Spygate' in some reports, was settled last October when Lower Merion
agreed to pay Blake Robbins $175,000 and cover $425,000 in court costs.
On Monday, Joshua Levin, a 2009 graduate of Herriton High, charged the
district with violating his civil rights and privacy by remotely
activating the notebook's built-in camera to take photographs and
screenshots. On Wednesday, Lower Merion spokesman Doug Young called
Levin's lawsuit 'solely motivated by monetary interests and a complete
waste of the taxpayer's dollars.' Levin begged to differ. According to
his lawsuit, Lower Merion used his laptop to take more than 8,000
photographs and screenshots between September 2008 and March 2009. A
district report uncovered more than 30,000 photographs and 27,000
screenshots taken. Last June, lawyers [2]made photos and screenshots
available for viewing by the 76 affected students. 'Plaintiff opted to
view the recovered images, and was shocked, humiliated and severely
emotionally distressed at what he saw,' Levin's lawsuit stated."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2037215/School-District-Hit-With-New-Mac-Spying-Lawsuit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217439/Penn._school_district_hit_with_new_Mac_spying_lawsuit
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176934/Students_to_see_photos_snapped_in_Pa._school_spying_case
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| Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size?
| from the a-little-elbow-room dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @18:18 (Earth)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/212237/Have-We-Reached-Maximum-Sustainable-Population-Size?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Pulitzer prize winning writer Thomas Friedman
writes that in few years we may be looking back at the first decade of
the 21st century ��� when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world
population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts
set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened
by the confluence of it all ��� and ask ourselves: [1]What were we
thinking? 'We're currently caught in two loops,' writes Friedman. 'One is
that more population growth and more global warming together are pushing
up food prices; rising food prices cause political instability in the
Middle East, which leads to higher oil prices, which leads to higher food
prices, which leads to more instability.' According to the Global
Footprint Network we are currently growing at a rate that is [2]using up
the Earth's resources far faster than they can be sustainably replenished,
so we are eating into the future. Right now, global growth is using about
1.5 Earths. 'Having only one planet makes this a rather significant
problem,' says Paul Gilding. 'We either allow collapse to overtake us or
develop a new sustainable economic model. We will choose the latter. We
may be slow, but we're not stupid.'"
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/212237/Have-We-Reached-Maximum-Sustainable-Population-Size?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html&OQ=_rQ3D4&OP=364a77a8Q2FmwXQ7DmI_2pQ3D__ZQ24mQ24WQ22Q22mWGmW9m_Q2FQ26Q3FQ26_Q3FmW9aQ3DQ26XIlQ3EQ3FQ3CQ23Zlk
2. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_for_nations/
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| Google Redirects Traffic To Avoid Kazakh Demands
| from the watch-how-you-talk-to-the-google dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @18:59 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2210248/Google-Redirects-Traffic-To-Avoid-Kazakh-Demands?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pbahra writes "Google has rejected attempts by the Kazakh government
'to create borders on the web' and has [1]refused a demand to house
servers in the country after an official decree that all Internet domains
ending with the domain suffix for Kazakhstan be domestically based. Bill
Coughran, Google senior vice president said in his blog that from now on,
Google will redirect users that visit google.kz to google.com in Kazakh:
'We find ourselves in a difficult situation: creating borders on the web
raises important questions for us not only about network efficiency but
also about user privacy and free expression. If we were to operate
google.kz only via servers located inside Kazakhstan, we would be helping
to create a fractured Internet.' Mr. Coughran said that unfortunately, it
would mean that Kazakh users would have a poorer experience as results
would no longer be customized for the former Soviet republic."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2210248/Google-Redirects-Traffic-To-Avoid-Kazakh-Demands?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:parminder.bahra@wsj.com
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/08/google-redirects-traffic-to-avoid-kazakh-demands/
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| Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova
| from the 140-rads-or-less dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @19:41 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2220248/Twitter-Helps-Astronomers-Zero-In-On-M51-Supernova?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "A tweet about last week's M51 (the 'Whirlpool
Galaxy') 14-magnitude bright stellar explosion was picked up by
University of California, Berkeley, astronomers... who just so happened
to be enjoying some observing time on one of Keck Observatory's monster
telescopes. Although the weather wasn't perfect, the Berkeley team were
able to quickly observe a spectrum from the M51 brightening to [1]quickly
confirm that it was a Type II supernova ��� the core collapse of a massive
star, some 8-times the mass of the sun. 'This is the first time that
we've been alerted via a tweet,' Alex Filippenko, lead astronomer of the
UC Berkeley team, told Discovery News."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2220248/Twitter-Helps-Astronomers-Zero-In-On-M51-Supernova?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/twitter-helps-astronomers-zero-in-on-m51-supernova-110606.html
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