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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* 15-Year-Old Sells Startup To ActiveState
* Phishers Hone Skills, Craft More Impressive Attacks
* C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests
* Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games
* Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers'
* PC Gaming's 10 Commandments
* Reason Seen More As a Weapon Than a Path To Truth
* Music Pirates Won't Rush To iCloud For Forgiveness
* McAfee CSO Issues Warning On the 'New Cold War'
* Is This the Golden Age of Hacking?
* EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools
* Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys
* Righthaven Loses
* Google and Slooh To Broadcast Lunar Eclipse
* Senator Releases First Senate Mobile App
* Book Review: Drupal Web Services
* More Malware-Infected Apps Found In Android Market
* Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos
* Franken Bill Would Protect Consumers Location Data
* US Pays $2B To Develop Concentrating Solar Power Projects
* FTC Okays Social Media Background Check Company
* LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard
* Organized Crime Cleaning Up With Nuclear Waste
* Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage
* China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia
* Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days
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| 15-Year-Old Sells Startup To ActiveState
| from the flipping-perlburgers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 14, @22:01 (Cloud)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/14/2354224/15-Year-Old-Sells-Startup-To-ActiveState?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jcasman writes "Some entrepreneurs wait a lifetime to experience the
thrill of selling their startup companies. Daniil Kulchenko, a Seattle
area high school student, [1]accomplished that milestone at the age of 15.
Kulchenko today announced that he's sold his startup, a cloud-based
computing company [2]known as Phenona, to Vancouver, B.C.-based
ActiveState in a deal of undisclosed size."
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Links:
0. mailto:jcasman@yahoo.com
1. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/seattle-area-15yearold-sells-startup-company-activestate
2. http://www.phenona.com/blog/what-is-phenona/
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| Phishers Hone Skills, Craft More Impressive Attacks
| from the practice-makes-perfect dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @00:11 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/0123258/Phishers-Hone-Skills-Craft-More-Impressive-Attacks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Recent break-ins at [1]high-profile targets like the
International Monetary Fund [2]demonstrate just how proficient hackers
have become at so-called spear phishing, researchers said on Tuesday.
'Today's spear phishing is not only more prevalent but also much more
technically proficient,' said Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing
Working Group. 'They're not going for a password, anymore; they're
getting people to install crimeware on their computers.' The trend
highlights the need for defenses against such targeted threats, requiring
companies to [3]look beyond security strategies focused purely on dealing
with traditional network threats, analysts said. Increasingly, companies
also need to focus on approaches such as continuous monitoring of
networks, databases, applications and users, outbound traffic filtering
and whitelisting."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/0123258/Phishers-Hone-Skills-Craft-More-Impressive-Attacks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/12/0527201/International-Monetary-Fund-Hit-By-Cyber-Attack
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217601/Spear_phishers_sharpen_skills_craft_incredible_attacks_say_experts
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217590/High_profile_attacks_highlight_need_for_defenses_against_targeted_threats
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| C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests
| from the meep-meep dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @02:02 (Google)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/0242237/C-the-Clear-Winner-In-Googles-Language-Performance-Tests?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Paul Dubuc writes "Google has released [0]a research paper (PDF) that
suggests [1]C++ is the best-performing language on the market. It's not
for everyone, though. They write, '...it also required the most extensive
tuning efforts, many of which were done at a level of sophistication that
would not be available to the average programmer.'"
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Links:
0. https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf
1. http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2076322/-winner-google-language-tests
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| Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games
| from the price-is-right dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @03:33 (Businesses)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/0257207/Steam-Now-Offering-Free-To-Play-Games?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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donniebaseball23 writes "Valve's digital Steam service is going strong
with 30 million active accounts, and now the developer has [0]further
boosted its offerings by adding free-to-play titles. Steam is kicking off
[1]its support of the free-to-play model with five titles (which will
include in-game Steam exclusives): Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds,
Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance
of Valliant Arms. Valve's support of free-to-play shows just how widely
accepted it's become."
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Links:
0. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/steam-makes-free-to-play-games-available/
1. http://store.steampowered.com/news/5657/?snr=1_550_552
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| Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers'
| from the can-we-invade-world-of-warcraft dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @05:08 (Government)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/0234208/Obama-We-Dont-Have-Enough-Engineers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dcblogs writes "President Obama wants to boost engineering graduation
rates by 10,000 a year. In 2009, the US produced 126,194 engineering
graduates for bachelor's and master's degrees and for Ph.D.s. The US had
just over 1.9 million engineers in 2010. The unemployment rate in 2010
for all engineers was 4.5%. 'We've made incredible progress on education,
helping students to finance their college educations, but [0]we still
don't have enough engineers,' said Obama. He's counting on the private
sector to help expand the number of graduates."
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217624/Obama_We_don_t_have_enough_engineers_
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| PC Gaming's 10 Commandments
| from the thou-shalt-not-use-a-trackball dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @06:28 (PC Games (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/033257/PC-Gamings-10-Commandments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader tips a Tech Report article laying out [0]ten sacred
conventions of PC gaming. Quoting: "VI. Keep thine configurations options
exposed. PC gamers are used to being able to configure things. That comes
from both necessity and whim, and while one doesn't necessarily need to
cater to the latter, the former is a must. Games don't have to expose a
1000-line menu for every conceivable detail level on the torches of King
Whatever's castle entrance, but we'd like at least some amount of
granularity. ... X. Honor thine modders and mod communities. Not every
game benefits from mod support, mind you. When they do and the tools
exist, however, the result is almost invariably a much bigger and more
pervasive community (especially on the multiplayer front). That, in turn,
leads to a constant stream of sales. It truly is a win-win situation."
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Links:
0. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21105
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| Reason Seen More As a Weapon Than a Path To Truth
| from the welcome-to-the-internet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @08:14 (News)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/0134213/Reason-Seen-More-As-a-Weapon-Than-a-Path-To-Truth?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes with this excerpt from the NY Times: "For centuries
thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has
existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the
search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path
to philosophical, moral and scientific enlightenment. Now some
researchers are suggesting that [1]reason evolved for a completely
different purpose: to win arguments. Rationality, by this yardstick (and
irrationality too, but we'll get to that) is nothing more or less than a
servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena."
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Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to-win-scholars-assert.html?pagewanted=all
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| Music Pirates Won't Rush To iCloud For Forgiveness
| from the forgive-me-steve-for-i-have-sinned dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 15, @08:52 (Music)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1213249/Music-Pirates-Wont-Rush-To-iCloud-For-Forgiveness?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Lots of people have suggested there's a
loophole in Apple's new iCloud that will allow people who illegally
download music to somehow [0]'launder' their dirty music files, getting a
nice clean, and legal, license to the music stored on iCloud. This
argument is flawed for two main reasons. The first has to do with how the
laws of copyright work and the second is to do with why people share or
download music (and movies) in the first place."
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Links:
0. http://theconversation.edu.au/music-pirates-wont-rush-to-icloud-for-forgiveness-1771
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| McAfee CSO Issues Warning On the 'New Cold War'
| from the i-thought-global-warming-fixed-that dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 15, @09:32 (China)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1321225/McAfee-CSO-Issues-Warning-On-the-New-Cold-War?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "The Cold War between the USA and the USSR may have
ended in 1991, but [1]a new conflict involving the same enemies has
emerged on the digital frontier, according to McAfee's US chief security
officer. Brett Wahlin, a former North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
counter intelligence agent, told Computerworld Australia that the [2]RSA
token hack in March this year ��� where the token information was used to
infiltrate US defense contractor Lockheed Martin ��� used the same
espionage tactics he encountered while serving as an agent from 1987 to
1991 with the US army for NATO."
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/390234/cyberwarfare_unfreezing_new_cold_war_warns_mcafee_cso/?fp=4&fpid=5
2. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/2321226/RSAs-Servers-Hacked
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| Is This the Golden Age of Hacking?
| from the timing-is-everything dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @10:12 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1323218/Is-This-the-Golden-Age-of-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "With a seemingly continuous wave of attacks hitting
the public and commercial sectors, [1]there has never been a more
prodigious period for hackers, argues PC Pro. What has led to the sudden
hacking boom? Ease of access to tools has also led to an explosion in the
numbers of people actively looking for companies with weakened defenses,
according to security experts. Meanwhile, the recession has left
thousands of highly skilled IT staff out of work and desperate for money,
while simultaneously crimping companies' IT security budgets. The
pressure to get systems up and running as quickly as possible also means
that networks aren't locked down as tightly as they should be, which can
leave back doors open for hackers."
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Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/368041/is-this-the-golden-age-of-hacking
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| EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools
| from the oh-yeah-that'll-work dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 15, @10:54 (EU)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1354258/EU-Ministers-Seek-To-Ban-Creation-of-Hacking-Tools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Justice Ministers across Europe want to [0]make the
creation of 'hacking tools' a criminal offense, but critics have hit back
at the plans, saying that they are unworkable. Ministers from all 27
countries of the European Union met on June 9 to discuss European
Commission proposals for a directive on attacks against information
systems. But in addition to approving the Commission's text, the
ministers extended the draft to include 'the production and making
available of tools for committing offenses.' This is problematic, as much
legal and legitimate software could be put to criminal use by hackers.
The draft mentions 'malicious software designed to create botnets or
unrightfully obtained computer passwords,' but goes no further in
attempting to clarify what 'tools' might be subject to criminal
sanctions."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061511-eu-ministers-seek-to-ban.html
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| Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys
| from the play-time-is-over dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @11:37 (The Military)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/151205/Libyan-Rebels-Weaponize-Power-Wheels-Toys?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Danny Rathjens pointed out a story about the DIY weapons created by
Libyan rebels. One of the more interesting is [1]a machine gun drone
created from a Power Wheels-style ATV. Rebels outfit the toys with a
small cannon and attach controls via long wire. A solider can hide while
he uses a small television and simple controls to move the vehicle and
fire the gun. A similar system is also outfitted to a toy truck with a
machine gun on top.
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Links:
0. mailto:slashdot2@rathjens.BOYSENorgminusberry
1. http://jalopnik.com/5811839/libyan-rebels-turn-power-wheels-toy-into-tiny-killer-robot-tank
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| Righthaven Loses
| from the if-only-this-was-the-end dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 15, @12:15 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1537253/Righthaven-Loses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A month ago we noted that the legal system had [0]put Righthaven on hold,
but now [1]redwolfe7707 noted that "A federal judge in Nevada says a Las
Vegas law firm targeting unauthorized content on the Internet cannot sue
others over a news company's copyrights. The Las Vegas Sun reported
Tuesday the [2]dismissal of a lawsuit by copyright enforcer Righthaven
LLC against the website Democratic Underground. U.S. District Court Chief
Judge Roger Hunt says copyright plaintiffs must control the rights to
material in order to sue for copyright infringement."
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/0141259/Judge-Puts-Righthaven-Cases-In-Colorado-On-Hold
1. mailto:redwolfe@gmail.com
2. http://www.wral.com/news/story/9729018/
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| Google and Slooh To Broadcast Lunar Eclipse
| from the dark-side-of-the-moon dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @12:55 (Google)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/169206/Google-and-Slooh-To-Broadcast-Lunar-Eclipse?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Today Google and Slooh, the online Space
Camera, are broadcasting [0]a live online feed of the total lunar eclipse
starting at 2:00 PM EDT. The live feed can be accessed at [1]Slooh's
Mission Interface and also as a featured video stream on [2]Google's
channel on YouTube. Live audio narration by astronomy experts will
accompany the live feed. This online astronomy collaboration will allow
people all over the world to watch this rare celestial event."
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Links:
0. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/slooh-in-collaboration-with-google-to-broadcast-live-feed-of-total-lunar-eclipse-123907449.html
1. http://eclipse.slooh.com/
2. http://www.youtube.com/google
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| Senator Releases First Senate Mobile App
| from the i-the-people dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @13:37 (Iphone)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/170245/Senator-Releases-First-Senate-Mobile-App?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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GovTechGuy writes "Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) released an official
application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, making him the first
Senator to offer an official mobile application. [0]The Chambliss app
allows the public to call Chambliss' offices directly from the app and
find in real-time information on the Senator's positions on current
political topics."
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| Book Review: Drupal Web Services
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @14:18 (Book Reviews)
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1547258/Book-Review-Drupal-Web-Services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Michael J. Ross writes "In the evolution of the Web, one of the most
significant improvements was the general transition from static websites
based only upon HTML, to dynamic websites based upon scripting languages.
But even then, each website was much like a silo, with no publication of
content beyond the pages provided on the site itself. That all began to
change with content syndication through RSS, and the development of web
application APIs. Nowadays, a growing number of organizations are
publishing online content through web services, as well as consuming
content published by others. These sites can be built using Drupal, an
open-source content management system (CMS). Drupal Web Services, a book
authored by Trevor James, aims to help web programmers do that sort of
development." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://www.ross.ws/
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| More Malware-Infected Apps Found In Android Market
| from the one-bad-app-spoiling-the-barrel dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @14:55 (Android)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/183209/More-Malware-Infected-Apps-Found-In-Android-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "For the third time in the last few months, [0]Google
has had to remove a slew of malware-infected apps from the Android Market
and suspend some publishers. Ten Android apps in the Official Android
Market are known to be infected, but many more could be victims of the
Plankton Trojan. Researcher Xuxian Jiang claims that early variants of
the Trojan have evaded detection for as long as two months."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/uniquely-stealthy-spyware-found-and-removed-android-market-061311
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| Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos
| from the numa-numa-no-more dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @15:22 (Government)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1651209/Senate-Bill-Could-Make-It-Illegal-To-Upload-Lip-Synced-Videos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "According to Copyright lawyer Ben Sidbury,
Senate bill 978 could [0]make it a criminal act for someone to lip sync
to a song and post the said video on Youtube, even if credits are given.
'The way the statute is written... It would now criminalize anybody that
performs a copyrighted work, which is essentially nowadays any song under
the sun. In theory at least, the record companies or the Department of
Justice could go after a 9-year old or a 12 year old or a 30 year old for
publicly performing a song.' said Sidbury."
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Links:
0. http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/top-stories/Copyright-CrackdownYoutube-Lipsyncing--123788699.html
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| Franken Bill Would Protect Consumers Location Data
| from the covering-your-tracks dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @15:36 (Android)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1847256/Franken-Bill-Would-Protect-Consumers-Location-Data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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GovTechGuy writes "Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) unveiled a new bill on
Wednesday that would require firms like Apple and Google to [0]obtain
consent from consumers before collecting or sharing their smartphone
location data with third parties. The bill would cover all mobile devices
including tablets and require firms to inform consumers when they collect
their data and allow them to delete it when requested."
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Links:
0. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/166637-senators-introduce-location-privacy-bill
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| US Pays $2B To Develop Concentrating Solar Power Projects
| from the everything-collecting-the-sun dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @16:17 (Power)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/1833206/US-Pays-2B-To-Develop-Concentrating-Solar-Power-Projects?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "The US Department of Energy today said it was
conditionally committing [1]$2 billion to develop two concentrating solar
power projects that it says will offer 500 megawatts of power combined,
effectively doubling the nation's currently installed capacity of that
type of power. Concentrated solar systems typically use parabolic mirrors
to collect solar energy."
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Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/energy-dept-spends-2b-double-us-concentrated-
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| FTC Okays Social Media Background Check Company
| from the coming-back-to-haunt-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @16:59 (Facebook)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2015220/FTC-Okays-Social-Media-Background-Check-Company?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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nonprofiteer writes "The FTC has dropped its investigation of a new
company that runs [0]social media background checks and ongoing
Internet/social media monitoring of employees, determining its compliant
with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. So make sure your gun photos are
private and that you're not part of any 'Legalize marijuana' Facebook
groups."
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| LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard
| from the poking-the-bear dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @17:42 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2044248/LulzSec-Phone-Bombs-FBI-and-Blizzard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Revotron writes "Anonymous hacker group LulzSec has begun to harness the
power of the crowd in their latest griefing attempts. After a day of
numerous DDoS attacks on a handful of famous MMOs, [0]LulzSec's phone
lines lit up with an estimated 20 calls per second. Using a fairly simple
phone redirect, they sent all of their incoming calls to various offices,
among them the FBI office in Detroit, Blizzard Customer Support, online
retailer Magnets.com, and most recently, the corporate offices of
HBGary." Update: It looks like they also [1]brought down the CIA website
tonight, but it is up now.
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Links:
0. http://www.dustytech.net/?p=32
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/16/us-cia-hackers-idUSTRE75E6JC20110616
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| Organized Crime Cleaning Up With Nuclear Waste
| from the sleep-with-the-three-eyed-fishes dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @18:25 (EU)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2054219/Organized-Crime-Cleaning-Up-With-Nuclear-Waste?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes "The Mafia has been involved with waste disposal for
forever but they seem to be getting very interested in nuclear waste
disposal these days. In Europe they [1]scuttle ships containing nuclear
waste in the sea. Now in Japan, their Asian counterparts are [2]angling
for disposal contracts resulting from the Fukushima nuclear disaster."
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Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8257912.stm
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/15/yakuza-swaps-charity-for-reconstruction
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| Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage
| from the I'm-going-to-need-another-slice-of-cheese dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @18:49 (Biotech)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/219200/Japanese-Scientist-Creates-Meat-Substitute-From-Sewage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Hold on to your hamburgers ��� Japanese
scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda at the Environmental Assessment Center in
Okayama has invented an [0]artificial meat substitute made from human
feces. The unseemly meal is made by extracting protein and lipids from
'sewage mud.' The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer and
whipped into 'meat' in an exploder. Ikeda makes the 'meat' more palatable
by adding things like soy protein."
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Links:
0. http://inhabitat.com/poop-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces/
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| China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia
| from the spreading-out dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @19:07 (China)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2217209/China-Begins-To-Extend-High-Speed-Rail-Across-Asia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MikeChino writes "Last year we learned that China planned to expand
its high-speed rail network [1]all the way to Europe and now the nation
has launched the first step of the project with [2]plans to extend tracks
into northern Laos. The nation has also set goals of expanding the
high-speed rail line into Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia
and Singapore."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.inhabitat.com/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/15/2252202/-China-To-Connect-Its-High-Speed-Rail-To-Europe?from=rss
2. http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2011/jun/14/full-steam-ahead-for-chinas-rail-links-abroad/
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| Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days
| from the protect-ya-neck dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @19:58 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2220209/Adobe-Patches-Second-Flash-Zero-Day-In-9-Days?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "For the second time in nine days, Adobe [1]has patched
a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already
exploiting, Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports. Adobe also updated
Reader to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had not
gotten around to fixing. The memory corruption vulnerability in Flash
Player could 'potentially allow an attacker to take control of the
affected system,' Adobe said in [2]an accompanying advisory. 'There are
reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in
targeted attacks via malicious Web pages.' Adobe last issued an
'out-of-band' emergency update on June 5, when it [3]fixed a critical
flaw that attackers were exploiting to steal Gmail login credentials.
Those attacks were different from the ones Google disclosed the week
before, when it [4]accused Chinese hackers of targeting specific
individuals, including senior U.S. and South Korean government officials,
anti-Chinese government activists and journalists. Google, which bundles
Flash Player with Chrome, also updated its browser Tuesday to include the
just-patched version of Flash."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2220209/Adobe-Patches-Second-Flash-Zero-Day-In-9-Days?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217629/Adobe_patches_second_Flash_zero_day_in_9_days
2. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-18.html
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217346/Hackers_exploit_Flash_bug_in_new_attacks_against_Gmail_users
4. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217220/Google_Phishers_stole_e_mail_from_U.S._officials_others
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