In this issue:
* Court Rules Passwords+Secret Questions=Secure eBanking
* Why the US Govt Should Be Happy About Wikileaks
* Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8
* European Pirates Arrested in Massive Police Operation
* Google Tags Content Creators
* Google Releases Chrome 12
* GUI Revolutions: From Flashing Bulbs To Windows 8
* Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women
* Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default
* Citi Bank Reveals Attack... One Month Late
* Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP
* Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps
* Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft In i4i Case
* Homeland Security Running NBC-Owned PSAs
* Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics
* The Ongoing Case of Rakofsky vs. Internet
* Stack Exchange Website Profiler Now Open Source
* Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space
* What Cybercrime Stats Have In Common With Sexual Braggadocio
* Making a Real Batcopter, With Parts From the Hardware Store
* Tennessee Bans Posting 'Offensive' Images Online
* Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology
* Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally
* German Police Train Vultures To Find Bodies
* Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid
* Ask Slashdot: Reducing Software Patent Life-Spans?
* Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?'
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| Court Rules Passwords+Secret Questions=Secure eBanking
| from the nobody-knows-your-mother's-maiden-name dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @20:42 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2234210/Court-Rules-PasswordsSecret-QuestionsSecure-eBanking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A closely-watched court battle over how far
commercial banks need to go to protect their customers from cyber theft
is nearing an end. Experts said the decision recommended by a magistrate
last week ��� if adopted by a US district court in Maine ��� will make it
more difficult for other victim businesses to challenge the
[0]effectiveness of security measures employed by their banks. This case
would be the first to add legal precedent to banking industry guidelines
about what constitutes 'reasonable' security. The tentative decision is
that a series of passwords + some device fingerprinting is enough to meet
the definition of 'something you know' + 'something you have.' The case
has generated enormous discussion over whether the industry's
'recommended' practices are anywhere near relevant to today's attacks, in
which crooks usually have complete control over the victim's PC."
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Links:
0. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/06/court-passwords-secret-questions-reasonable-ebanking-security/
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| Why the US Govt Should Be Happy About Wikileaks
| from the how-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-leaks dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @22:52 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0044251/Why-the-US-Govt-Should-Be-Happy-About-Wikileaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "WikiLeaks' leaking of classified information
[1]should be considered a blessing for the US government, and other
governments should take heed of the lessons when it comes to information
sharing, according to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) research
associate, Professor Mike Nelson, who spent four years as Senator Al
Gore's science adviser and served as the White House director for
technology policy on IT, and was also a member of Barack Obama
presidential campaign."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/389459/wikileaks_boon_us_government_former_obama_campaign_adviser/
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| Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8
| from the we're-not-gonna-take-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 09, @01:27 (Microsoft)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0137246/Silverlight-Developers-Rally-Against-Windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]aesoteric writes "A legion of [1] Silverlight developers have
threatened revolt after Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net
in the vendor's brief video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating
system. Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment
in skills 'die on the vine' as Redmond finally embraces open standards.
Microsoft, for their part, have told developers they can't say more until
September."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0137246/Silverlight-Developers-Rally-Against-Windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/
1. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/259910,silverlight-developers-rally-against-windows-8-plans.aspx
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| European Pirates Arrested in Massive Police Operation
| from the problem-solved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 09, @04:24 (EU)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0318207/European-Pirates-Arrested-in-Massive-Police-Operation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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freedumb2000 writes "Europe just witnessed [0]one of the largest
piracy-related busts in history with the raid of the popular movie
streaming portal Kino.to. More than a dozen people connected to the site
were arrested after police officers in Germany, Spain, France and the
Netherlands raided several residential addresses and data centers.
Kino.to hosted no illicit content itself, but indexed material stored on
file-hosters and other streaming services."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0318207/European-Pirates-Arrested-in-Massive-Police-Operation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/kino-to-raided-in-massive-police-operation-admins-arrested-110608/
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| Google Tags Content Creators
| from the all-due-credit dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 09, @08:05 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0148208/Google-Tags-Content-Creators?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bizwriter writes "Google announced that it will [0]support authorship
HTML tags, a way to associate Web content with the individuals who create
it. Suddenly, search engines know [1]when one person was responsible for
a body of work, no matter where content appears on the Web. If Google
incorporates this into page relevance and ranking, as it is considering,
the result could change the balance of power between those who create and
those who publish."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/0148208/Google-Tags-Content-Creators?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/06/authorship-markup-and-web-search.html
1. http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/google-tags-content-creators-are-publishers-now-it/11121
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| Google Releases Chrome 12
| from the shiny-and-new dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 09, @08:46 (Chrome)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1238214/Google-Releases-Chrome-12?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader noted something that will be of interest to the 26%
of Slashdot readers who have switched to Chrome: "[0]Google has released
Chrome 12, adding plenty of new features to its minimalist web browser
and fixing a number of security vulnerabilities. Google software engineer
Adrienne Walker said of the safe browsing mode, 'We've carefully designed
this feature so that malicious content can be detected without Chrome or
Google ever having to know about the URLs you visit or the files you
download.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1238214/Google-Releases-Chrome-12?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2077521/chrome-adds-raft-features
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| GUI Revolutions: From Flashing Bulbs To Windows 8
| from the parc-your-mouse-right-here dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 09, @09:27 (GUI)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1319210/GUI-Revolutions-From-Flashing-Bulbs-To-Windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]StormDriver writes "GUI has been with us for years and it went a long,
long way since the early days. There were some fairly interesting
developments along the way, so we took the time to [1]line them up for
you."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1319210/GUI-Revolutions-From-Flashing-Bulbs-To-Windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/
1. http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/ui-revolutions-from-flashing-bulbs-to-windows-8/
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| Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women
| from the I-always-feel-like-somebody's-watching-me dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 09, @09:28 (Crime)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1234240/Police-Say-Mac-Tech-Installed-Spyware-To-Photo-Women?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "He was hired to fix their computers, but police say
that Trevor Harwell instead [1]installed spyware software that took
candid photos of his clients in various states of undress. Harwell had
been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer
[2]repair company called Rezitech. That's how he allegedly had the
opportunity to install the spy software, called Camcapture, on computers.
While working on repair assignments, the 20-year-old technician secretly
set up a complex system that could notify him whenever it was ready to
snap a shot using the computer's webcam, according to Sergeant Andrew
Goodrich, a spokesman with the Fullerton Police Department in California.
'It would let his server know that the victim's machine was on. The
server would then notify his smartphone... and then the images were
recorded on his home computer,' he said. Police say they've found
thousands of images on Harwell's computers and have identified dozens of
victims, all of them women in Los Angeles and Orange County. Harwell was
arrested Wednesday by Fullerton police." But was he a good repairman?
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217461/Police_Mac_technician_installed_spyware_to_photograph_women
2. http://www.rezitech.com/joomla/
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| Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default
| from the taking-a-bold-line dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @10:06 (Data Storage)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1338230/Fedora-16-To-Use-Btrfs-Filesystem-By-Default?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dkd903 writes "According to proposals for Fedora 16, [0]Btrfs will be the
default filesystem used in that release. The proposal has been approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. In Fedora 16, the switch
from EXT4 to Btrfs will be a 'simple switch' ��� it means that major Btrfs
features such as RAID and LVM capabilities will not be forced onto
users."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1338230/Fedora-16-To-Use-Btrfs-Filesystem-By-Default?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2011/06/09/fedora-16-btrfs/
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| Citi Bank Reveals Attack... One Month Late
| from the yeah-sorry-about-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 09, @10:43 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1338240/Citi-Bank-Reveals-Attack-One-Month-Late?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Is account security a thing of the past?
Quote: 'We're talking a fairly serious hack, too. The personal and
account information of some [0]200,000 Citibank card holders in North
America was breached, reports Reuters, including contact specifics like
names and email addresses. The solitary bit of good news? Citibank claims
far more sensitive info like social security numbers, birth dates, card
expiry dates and CVV card security codes was not compromised.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1338240/Citi-Bank-Reveals-Attack-One-Month-Late?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techland.time.com/2011/06/09/now-citibank-hacked-though-admits-breach-one-month-late/
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| Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP
| from the what-about-linux dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @11:06 (Cloud)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/152242/Want-iCloud-With-Windows-Ditch-the-XP?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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halfEvilTech writes "Microsoft isn't the only company denying equal
online footing to Windows XP users. Apple will not give PC users access
to iCloud ��� its great digital locker in the sky ��� if their machines are
running Microsoft's aging but still popular Windows XP. Tucked at the
bottom of the iCloud announcement, Apple says [0]you'll need a PC running
Windows Vista or Windows 7 to jump into Steve Jobs' version of the
interwebs."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/152242/Want-iCloud-With-Windows-Ditch-the-XP?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/09/windows_xp_apple_icloud/
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| Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps
| from the knuckling-under-to-the-man dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @11:24 (Crime)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1438242/Apple-Bans-DUI-Checkpoint-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In late March, four US senators banded
together and wrote a letter to Apple asking that they remove apps that
alert users as to the whereabouts of DUI checkpoints. Now, Apple has
[0]revised its app store guidelines to ban those type of 'illegal' apps."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1438242/Apple-Bans-DUI-Checkpoint-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.edibleapple.com/new-app-store-guidelines-ban-dui-checkpoint-apps/
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| Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft In i4i Case
| from the done-and-done dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 09, @12:17 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1616217/Supreme-Court-Rules-Against-Microsoft-In-i4i-Case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "The US Supreme Court has [1]let stand a $300 million
patent infringement ruling against Microsoft, [2]granting a victory
Thursday to i4i (PDF), which filed the lawsuit back in 2007. The legal
battle already forced Microsoft to modify certain functionality in its
Word application in 2009, when the US District Court for the Eastern
District of Texas ruled in favor of Toronto-based i4i and told Microsoft
to [3]stop selling Word in the US. At issue was an i4i patent that covers
technology that lets users manipulate the architecture and content of a
document, which i4i alleged Microsoft infringed upon by letting Word
users create custom XML documents. [4]Microsoft removed the feature.
'This case raised an important issue of law which the Supreme Court
itself had questioned in an earlier decision and which we believed needed
resolution. While the outcome is not what we had hoped for, we will
continue to advocate for changes to the law that will prevent abuse of
the patent system and protect inventors who hold patents representing
true innovation,' Microsoft said in a statement."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1616217/Supreme-Court-Rules-Against-Microsoft-In-i4i-Case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217491/Supreme_Court_rules_against_Microsoft_in_i4i_case
2. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-290.pdf
3. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/12/1129230/US-Court-Tells-Microsoft-To-Stop-Selling-Word
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/0011258/MS-Issues-Word-Patch-To-Comply-With-Court-Order
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| Homeland Security Running NBC-Owned PSAs
| from the help-us-help-you dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 09, @12:57 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1649238/Homeland-Security-Running-NBC-Owned-PSAs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A few months ago, Homeland Security's ICE
(Immigration & Customs Enforcement) group started placing [0]an
anti-piracy video PSA on various domains that it had seized. What it
didn't say was who created the PSA. A [1]Freedom of Information Act
request by Techdirt has revealed that the [2]videos are actually created
& owned by NBC Universal, but nowhere does Homeland Security publicly
admit this. As Techdirt writes: 'Could you imagine how the press would
react if, say, the FDA ran PSAs that were created and owned by McDonald's
without making that clear to the public? How about if the Treasury
Department ran a PSA created and owned by Goldman Sachs? So, shouldn't we
be asking serious questions about why Homeland Security and ICE are
running a one-sided, misleading corporate propaganda video, created and
owned by a private company, without mentioning the rather pertinent
information of who made it?'"
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1649238/Homeland-Security-Running-NBC-Owned-PSAs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx8obpx4844
1. http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/new-york-city-ny/licensing-info-concerning-stoppiracyinnyc-videos/589/
2. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110603/02385514537/why-is-federal-government-running-ads-secretly-created-owned-nbc-universal.shtml
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| Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics
| from the so-we'll-sell-you-wifi-service dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @13:38 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1729238/Personal-Electronics-May-Indeed-Disrupt-Avionics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mattrwilliams writes "There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence that
points to personal electronics being a real issue on board planes. Dave
Carson of Boeing, the co-chair of a federal advisory committee that
investigated the problem of electronic interference from portable
devices, says that PEDs radiate [0]signals that can hit and disrupt
highly sensitive electronic sensors hidden in the plane's passenger area,
including those for an instrument landing system used in bad weather."
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Links:
0. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/safe-cellphone-plane/story?id=13791569&page=2
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| The Ongoing Case of Rakofsky vs. Internet
| from the oj-simpson-was-a-duffer dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @14:20 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1756208/The-Ongoing-Case-of-Rakofsky-vs-Internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Chmcginn writes "Joseph Rakofsky, a New Jersey lawyer whose claim to
internet fame is filing a lawsuit against the Washington Post and the
American Bar Association [0]for criticizing his performance at a
Washington, DC murder trial, has [1]amended his suit to include a number
of bloggers and internet forum members ��� for criticizing the lawsuit.
Which is a bigger threat to free speech ��� direct government action, or
fear of lawsuits for frivolous defamation charges?"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1756208/The-Ongoing-Case-of-Rakofsky-vs-Internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com/2011/05/joseph-rakofsky-i-have-an-answer-for-you.html
1. http://www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com/2011/06/rakofsky-v-internet-first-motion.html
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| Stack Exchange Website Profiler Now Open Source
| from the go-forth-and-profile dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @14:37 (Software)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/181208/Stack-Exchange-Website-Profiler-Now-Open-Source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ScuttleMonkey writes "Joel Spolsky sent out smoke signals this morning
about the recent release of the Stack Exchange Website Profiler as open
source. Sam Saffron expounds on why this profiler is perhaps '[1]best and
most comprehensive production web page profiler out there for any web
platform.' The project is available via [2]Google Code or [3]NuGet."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/181208/Stack-Exchange-Website-Profiler-Now-Open-Source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://.scuttlemonkey..at..slashdot.org./
1. http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/06/09/+Profiling+your+website+like+a+true+Ninja
2. http://code.google.com/p/mvc-mini-profiler/
3. http://nuget.org/List/Packages/MiniProfiler
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| Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space
| from the been-there-done-that dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @15:01 (China)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1810212/Chinese-Moon-Probe-Ventures-Into-Deep-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hackingbear writes "After completing its 6-month moon survey mission,
China's second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, was found to be in excellent
condition and has abundant fuel left, and so it [0]set off from its moon
orbit into deep space, heading toward [1]Lagrangian point L2 about 1.5
million kilometers away from the earth, or about 4 times farther out than
the moon. The orbiter left its moon orbit at 5:10 p.m., according to the
State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National
Defence. The probe is expected to perform exploration at L2. It is the
first Chinese spacecraft to venture beyond the moon and establish the
country's capability in deep space exploration."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1810212/Chinese-Moon-Probe-Ventures-Into-Deep-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-06/09/c_13920425.htm
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#L2
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| What Cybercrime Stats Have In Common With Sexual Braggadocio
| from the that's-what-it-said dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @15:41 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1819214/What-Cybercrime-Stats-Have-In-Common-With-Sexual-Braggadocio?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers have rubbished figures
from cybercrime surveys, deeming them subject to [0]the types of
distortions that have long bedeviled sex surveys. All it takes is a few
self-styled Don Juans to hopelessly distort the sex-survey figures.
Similarly, cybercrime surveys tend to get dominated by a minority of
responses, normally those who have or think they have lost a great deal
as a result of hacking or malware attack, and are vocal about it.
'Cybercrime surveys are so compromised and biased that no faith whatever
can be placed in their findings,' the researchers write."
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Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/09/cybercrime_surveys_are_tosh_says_ms/
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| Making a Real Batcopter, With Parts From the Hardware Store
| from the get-your-mesh-on-and-move-out dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @16:22 (AI)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2011223/Making-a-Real-Batcopter-With-Parts-From-the-Hardware-Store?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]garymortimer writes with an excerpt from a story loaded with
eye-popping pictures and video on how to create ��� with some bamboo and
mesh lashed on ��� a [1]UAV to fly through and learn from swarms of bats in
rural Texas. "Brazilian Free-tailed bats (also called Tadarida) come
together in the millions in caves all over Texas, leaving every night in
swarms so big they can be detected by doppler radar. Somehow, they manage
to fly through this dense self-clutter without major collisions, and so
our goal is to better understand this behavior. For the AIRFOILS project,
the IML team created the previously mentioned Batcopter. The goal was to
fly a UAV through the dense clutter, and record the bats' response with
three ground-based high-speed FLIR cameras and an airborne 3D HD GoPro
camera. The hope is to extract fundamental control laws of flying
behavior in order to achieve better autonomous UAV flight."
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Links:
0. http://www.suasnews.com/
1. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/06/5786/the-real-batcopter/
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| Tennessee Bans Posting 'Offensive' Images Online
| from the I-find-this-offensive dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @17:03 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2053245/Tennessee-Bans-Posting-Offensive-Images-Online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Chaonici writes "Last Monday, Tennessee's Governer Bill Haslam signed a
law [0]prohibiting the transmission or display of an image that is likely
to 'frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to' anyone who sees
it. In Tennessee, it is already illegal to use other methods of
communication, such as telephones or e-mail, to offend someone; the new
law updates legislation to include images sent or posted online. However,
the scope of this law is broader, in that anyone who sees the image is a
potential victim. If a court finds that a violator should have known that
someone would be offended by the image in question, they face up to a
year in prison or up to $2,500 in fines."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2053245/Tennessee-Bans-Posting-Offensive-Images-Online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology
| from the or-is-it-just-sour-grapes dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @17:50 (Google)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2148237/Ex-Google-Engineer-Blasts-Googles-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]lee1 writes "Dhanji R. Prasanna, an engineer who recently resigned
from Google, describes Google's famous back-end infrastructure as a
[1]collection of obsolete technologies, designed 10 years ago for
building search engines and crawlers. He blasts MapReduce and its
closed-source friends as 'ancient, creaking dinosaurs', compared with
outside open source projects like MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. He also
criticizes Google's coding culture, which has become unfriendly to hacker
types due to the company's enormous size." I suspect that most people
would be happy to have company infrastructure problems as pressing as
Google's, though.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2148237/Ex-Google-Engineer-Blasts-Googles-Technology?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://lee-phillips.org/
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/google_software_infrastructure_dubbed_obsolete_by_ex_employee/
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| Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally
| from the we've-all-been-waiting-for-this dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @18:11 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/226215/Arduino-Music-Controllers-With-Horns-Finally?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Patrick Flanagan serves as the token human in
robot percussion group Jazari. In this video Flanagan controls his bots
with a Wiimote and a custom [0]Arduino controller made from arcade
buttons, zebra wood, and springbook horns. Due to production costs and
environmental concerns, we haven't seen many new musical instruments made
from dead animals in this century, but who knows? Maybe 2k11 is the year
music device makers go stone-age."
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https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/226215/Arduino-Music-Controllers-With-Horns-Finally?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjndyUXLeGs&feature=youtu.be
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| German Police Train Vultures To Find Bodies
| from the go-find-him-boy dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 09, @18:13 (Crime)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1226255/German-Police-Train-Vultures-To-Find-Bodies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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abhatt writes "German authorities have found vultures as very valuable
creatures and as such have trained some of them to be detectives. The
work of the vultures is well defined ��� as you might have guessed they are
being [0]used to find hidden bodies. From the article: 'A police officer
in Hannover, Rainer Herrmann, told reporters that, "The vultures may work
much more effectively than sniffer dogs... There's a lot of interest in
this. We've had inquiries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1226255/German-Police-Train-Vultures-To-Find-Bodies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dbune.com/news/offbeat/6475-German-train-vultures-to-be-detectives.html
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| Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid
| from the tip-of-the-corporate-crony-iceberg dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @18:22 (Android)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2211241/Why-Apples-DUI-Checkpoint-App-Ban-Is-Stupid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hookskat writes "Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie [1]reacts to
Apple's decision to ban DUI Checkpoint Apps from the App Store, writing:
'Let me add something even more damning of this latest development in
corporate cave-ins to legally protected free speech and I'm gonna bold it
for emphasis: Some police departments actually supply the data used in
such apps because they reduce the number of drunk drivers on the roads!
Somehow, I'm thinking that Steve Jobs circa 1984...would have told U.S.
senators sending threatening letters about computer-based info sharing to
take a hike. Or at least to spend time on, I don't know, creating a
freaking budget for the country rather than worrying about regulating
something that helps reduce impaired driving.' Last month, after RIM
caved on the same question, Reason.tv released this [2]video on the
subject of banning DUI checkpoint apps."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2211241/Why-Apples-DUI-Checkpoint-App-Ban-Is-Stupid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:katie.hooks@reason.org
1. http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/09/apple-to-ban-apps-that-include
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuDz-Dm09pE&feature=youtu.be
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| Ask Slashdot: Reducing Software Patent Life-Spans?
| from the getting-rid-of-seems-the-obvious-answer dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @19:02 (Patents)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2238239/Ask-Slashdot-Reducing-Software-Patent-Life-Spans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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seattle_coder writes "Many have advocated for the elimination of software
patents. The arguments generally are that software patents are handed out
too easily, and that they're too difficult and expensive to fight. Some
say that patents just plain don't make sense for software, which is such
a dynamic technology. Given that the standard patent lifetime is 20
years, and software changes so rapidly, is the life-span the problem for
software patents? Would reducing the software patent lifetime to 5 years
or even less be the thing to do?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2238239/Ask-Slashdot-Reducing-Software-Patent-Life-Spans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?'
| from the dumbwaiter-for-bits dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, @19:39 (Cloud)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2234203/Google-Asks-Who-Cares-Where-Your-Data-Is?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mask.of.sanity writes "The chief security officer for Google Apps, Eran
Feigenbaum, said popular concerns over data sovereignty [0]in outsourced
environments are unwarranted. He said businesses should worry about
security and privacy of data, rather than where it is stored. The
comments clash with those made by IT pros including Gartner, who [1]said
cloud providers like Google can't be trusted with sensitive data."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/2234203/Google-Asks-Who-Cares-Where-Your-Data-Is?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/260041,google-who-cares-where-your-data-is.aspx
1. http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/238774,gartner-identifies-cloud-security-risks-opportunities.aspx
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