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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit
* British Tax System Uses Web Robots To Find Cheats
* New Technique To Help Develop MMORPG Content?
* Iceland Taps Facebook To Rewrite Its Constitution
* Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support
* HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support
* ADP Experiences Security Breach
* $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen
* Linus' Other Gift to the World
* IBM Turns 100
* Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV
* Facebook Taking On Apple?
* China Building World's Biggest Radio Telescope
* Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues
* Open Source Alternative To Dropbox?
* Following the Money In Cybercrime
* 11 Pathogens Pose Big Security Risk For Research
* Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK For Windows
* Sunlight Foundation Announces 'Sarah's Inbox'
* What LulzSec Logins Reveal About Bookworms, and Passwords
* Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity?
* British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright
* New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs
* Vivek Kundra Quits As Federal CIO
* Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows
* Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters
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| Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit
| from the take-a-look-at-this dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, @22:06 (AMD)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2338258/Microsoft-Demos-C-AMP-At-AMD-Developers-Summit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "The second day of the AMD Fusion Developer Summit
began with a keynote from Microsoft's Herb Sutter, Principal Architect,
Native Languages and resident C++ guru. The gist of Herb's talk centered
around heterogeneous computing and the changes coming with future
versions of Visual Studio and C++. One of the main [1]highlights of the
talk was a demo of a C++ AMP application that seamlessly took advantage
of all of the compute resources within a few of the various demo systems,
from workstations to netbooks. The physics demo seamlessly switched from
using CPU, integrated GPU, and discrete GPU resources, showcasing the
performance capabilities of each. As additional bodies are added,
workload increases with a ramp-up to over 600 of GFLops in compute
performance."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/2338258/Microsoft-Demos-C-AMP-At-AMD-Developers-Summit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Microsoft-Demos-C-AMP-Heterogeneous-Computing-at-AFDS/
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| British Tax System Uses Web Robots To Find Cheats
| from the no-bit-left-unturned dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 16, @00:42 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/028204/British-Tax-System-Uses-Web-Robots-To-Find-Cheats?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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judgecorp writes "HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is extending its campaign
against tax cheats with the news that it will [0]use web robots to trawl
cyberspace. The system will check eBay and Google to identify traders who
aren't declaring all their earnings. From the article: 'The decision to
target cyberspace to hunt down those evading tax comes as HMRC continues
its campaign to recover around ��7 billion lost to the Treasury each year.
It is thought that this latest development, the use of ���web robots���, will
help HMRC track down rogue eBay and Gumtree businesses, as well as people
earning second incomes by acting as private tutors. It will also help it
hunt down so called cash-in-hand handymen and traders.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/028204/British-Tax-System-Uses-Web-Robots-To-Find-Cheats?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/hmrc-to-use-web-robots-to-hunt-down-tax-cheats-31739
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| New Technique To Help Develop MMORPG Content?
| from the disguising-the-treadmill dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 16, @02:03 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0420230/New-Technique-To-Help-Develop-MMORPG-Content?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ShipLives writes "Researchers have developed a new method that can
[0]predict MMORPG player behavior. The tool could be used by the game
industry to develop new game content, or to help steer players to the
parts of a game they will enjoy most. I don't think it should replace
user feedback, but it's a pretty cool data-driven approach. Ideally, it
could help developers make good decisions about new games/expansions."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0420230/New-Technique-To-Help-Develop-MMORPG-Content?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wmsrobertspredict/
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| Iceland Taps Facebook To Rewrite Its Constitution
| from the you-have-a-pending-rights-request dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 16, @03:19 (Facebook)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0211247/Iceland-Taps-Facebook-To-Rewrite-Its-Constitution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Iceland is finally overhauling its
constitution, and it has turned to the Internet to get input from
citizens. More specifically, the 25-member council drafting the new
constitution [0]is reaching out to its citizens through Facebook. Two
thirds of Iceland's population (approximately 320,000) is on Facebook, so
the constitutional council's weekly meetings are broadcast live not only
on the council's website, but on the social network as well. 'It is
possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion
takes place via Facebook,' said Berghildur Bernhardsdottir, spokeswoman
for the constitutional review project."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0211247/Iceland-Taps-Facebook-To-Rewrite-Its-Constitution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/iceland-taps-facebook-to-rewrite-its-constitution/1600
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| Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support
| from the hamsters-on-steroids dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 16, @04:33 (Nintendo)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/041234/Wii-U-Faster-Than-360-Or-PS3-No-Blu-ray-Or-DVD-Support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jdkramar was one of several readers to write with news of the Wii U
hardware information that's been trickling out since E3. The new console
will run [0]a multicore IBM processor based on 45nm architecture
(technology currently [1]underpinning Watson), and will have an AMD R700
GPU chipset found in the Radeon 4000 line of video cards. Apparently
[2]it will, in fact, run Crysis. Nintendo has confirmed that [3]the Wii U
will use a proprietary 25GB disc format, and won't support DVD or Blu-ray
playback. A spokesman said, "The reason for that is that we feel that
enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and
Blu-ray, such that it didn't warrant the cost involved to build that
functionality into the Wii U console because of the patents related to
those technologies."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/041234/Wii-U-Faster-Than-360-Or-PS3-No-Blu-ray-Or-DVD-Support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techland.time.com/2011/06/09/wii-u-specs-disclosed-including-25gb-optical-discs/
1. http://geek.pikimal.com/2011/06/10/a-good-long-hard-look-at-the-wii-u/
2. http://www.develop-online.net/news/38014/Crytek-Were-bringing-our-tech-to-Wii-U
3. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6319615/wii-u-passing-on-dvd-blu-ray
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| HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support
| from the unplanned-obsolescence dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 16, @05:49 (HP)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0336219/HP-Sues-Oracle-For-Dropping-Itanium-Support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Fudge Factor 3000 writes "[0]HP is suing Oracle for a breach of contract,
claiming that Oracle was contractually obliged to continue supporting the
Itanium architecture, which they recently [1]nixed support for. Oracle
has fired back that Itanium is essentially a dead architecture and will
soon be discontinued by Intel. And so the blood feud continues between
Oracle and HP."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0336219/HP-Sues-Oracle-For-Dropping-Itanium-Support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/hp-sues-oracle-over-itanium-support-oracle-still-claims-that-itanium-is-toast.ars
1. http://www.zdnetasia.com/oracle-ends-itanium-support-62207994.htm
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| ADP Experiences Security Breach
| from the check-out-the-stubs dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 16, @08:08 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0343221/ADP-Experiences-Security-Breach?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "HR and Payroll outsourcing giant Automatic Data
Processing, Inc. (ADP) experienced a system intrusion, the company
announced Wednesday. ADP said it was investigating and taking measures to
address [0]the impact of a system intrusion that occurred with a client
at Workscape, a benefits administration provider that ADP acquired in
August 2010. ADP has also been actively cooperating with law enforcement
to determine the cause of this incident and to assist authorities in
identifying and apprehending those responsible. ADP added the following
in a statement: 'Because this incident is the subject of an ongoing law
enforcement investigation, ADP cannot disclose any additional details at
this time. ADP will provide further updates once information that can be
made public becomes available, and we will continue to communicate with
all affected parties as appropriate.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/0343221/ADP-Experiences-Security-Breach?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/adp-experiences-security-breach
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| $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen
| from the good-luck-with-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, @08:53 (Bitcoin)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1244205/500000-Worth-of-Bitcoins-Stolen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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olsmeister writes "A [0]Bitcoin user allegedly has had [1]$500,000 worth
of Bitcoins stolen from him. A hacker supposedly gained access to the
user's home computer and managed to get the user's wallet.dat file, which
contained the cryptographic keys that allowed him to drain the user's
balance."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1244205/500000-Worth-of-Bitcoins-Stolen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bitcoin.org/
1. http://www.pcworld.com/article/230377/worlds_first_virtual_heist_bitcoin_user_loses_500000.html
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| Linus' Other Gift to the World
| from the i'm-sure-his-kids-are-great-too dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, @09:31 (Open Source)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1322220/Linus-Other-Gift-to-the-World?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Glyn Moody writes "Linus is widely recognised for initiating two major
developments: Linux and Git (it's an interesting discussion which of the
two in the long term will be regarded as more important). But there's a
third, which people tend to overlook: he also pioneered the key ideas
behind what later [1]came to be called open innovation. As more and more
[2]companies open up to embrace customer-generated ideas, and the idea
spreads to other areas like open government, perhaps it's time to add
open innovation to the list of Linus' achievements."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1322220/Linus-Other-Gift-to-the-World?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/
1. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/06/from-open-source-to-open-innovation/index.htm
2. http://www.openinnovation.net/
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| IBM Turns 100
| from the ai-can't-blow-out-candles dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, @10:07 (IBM)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1357222/IBM-Turns-100?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "On this day in 1911, IBM started as the
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). It wasn't until 1924 that
the company changed their name to IBM. Needless to say that a 100-year
milestone is quite the feat. While some of us might know IBM for its
recent "Jeopardy"-playing Watson computer, [0]a look back shows that IBM
has a long history of innovation, from cheese slicers (yes, really) and
the tech behind Social Security to the UPC bar code and the floppy disk.
One of the most notable leaps of faith IBM took was in 1964 with the
introduction of System/360, a family of computers that started the era of
computer compatibility. To date the company has invested nearly $30
billion in technology."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1357222/IBM-Turns-100?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387099,00.asp
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| Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV
| from the davey-jones'-money-locker dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 16, @10:31 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/122207/Treasure-Hunter-Wants-To-Find-Bin-Ladens-Body-With-ROV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Kittenman writes "Slate is carrying some details of how eccentric
treasure hunter Bill Warren is proposing [0]looking for the body of Osama
Bin Laden in the Arabian sea. He plans on using sonar, and a remotely
operated submersible. If he finds the remains, he'll photograph them to
confirm Bin Laden's death to the world. Warren says, 'There is still a
[1]$25 million reward that no one has collected, and the reward says dead
or alive, well, if -- in fact -- he is dead, then I could collect the $25
million reward. Why not?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/122207/Treasure-Hunter-Wants-To-Find-Bin-Ladens-Body-With-ROV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.slate.com/id/2296922/
1. http://abcnews.go.com/International/searching-bin-laden-body-treasure-hunt/story?id=13826193
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| Facebook Taking On Apple?
| from the there-can-be-only-five-or-six dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, @10:47 (Facebook)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1444223/Facebook-Taking-On-Apple?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oDDmON oUT writes "Techcrunch has a piece about [0]Facebook's Project
Spartan, which aims to deliver app store functionality through the use of
HTML5 in the iOS Safari browser. Given Facebook's shifting sands privacy
stances, as well as their track record with their "trusted partners", I
don't think I'd be alone in wondering if this wouldn't put a great big
stake in the heart of the assertion that [1]iOS is the most secure
operating system in existence today."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1444223/Facebook-Taking-On-Apple?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-project-spartan/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/apple-ios-why-its-the-most-secure-os-period-792-0
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| China Building World's Biggest Radio Telescope
| from the bigger-and-better dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 16, @11:30 (China)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1447209/China-Building-Worlds-Biggest-Radio-Telescope?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Zothecula writes "Since its completion in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory
in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 305 m (1,000 ft) and a collecting area
of 73,000 square meters (790,000 sq ft), has been the largest
single-aperture radio telescope ever constructed. But Arecibo is set to
lose its title with construction now underway in Guizhou Province in
southern China of the [0]Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio
Telescope (FAST). Upon its expected completion in 2016, FAST will be able
to see more than three times further into space and survey the skies ten
times faster than Arecibo."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1447209/China-Building-Worlds-Biggest-Radio-Telescope?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/five-hundred-meter-aperture-spherical-radio-telescope/18930/
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| Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues
| from the no-cameras-please dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, @12:08 (Handhelds)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1510229/Apple-Patents-Tech-to-Stop-iPhones-Filming-in-Venues?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A patent application filed by Apple, and
obtained by the Times, reveals how the software would work. If a person
were to hold up their iPhone, the device would [0]trigger the attention
of infra-red sensors installed at the venue. These sensors would then
instruct the iPhone to disable its camera."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1510229/Apple-Patents-Tech-to-Stop-iPhones-Filming-in-Venues?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Open Source Alternative To Dropbox?
| from the post-it-notes-on-telephone-polls dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, @12:44 (Cloud)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1618206/Open-Source-Alternative-To-Dropbox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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garry_g writes "While 'the cloud' may be one of the major buzzwords of
the Internet industry, anybody [0]concerned with security and privacy
will most likely [1]not touch it with a 10-foot pole. While I am guilty
of using Dropbox for occasional data storage or quick picture snaps with
my Android phone, I do watch out [2]not to store anything important on
there (or incriminating), no matter what the "privacy policy" may be. I
was wondering: what useful alternative is there to Dropbox on the FOSS
market, which will allow access by both windows/linux boxes, but also
mobile devices (specifically Android). I know there are front-end add ons
for Windows (and Linux tools of course) e.g. for SVN, but most likely no
implementations for mobile use as far as I can tell... And, of course,
the backend should run on a Linux box ;)"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1618206/Open-Source-Alternative-To-Dropbox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/20/0434205/Dropbox-Cant-See-Your-Datndash-Er-Never-Mind
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/15/2157202/Dropbox-Accused-of-Lying-About-Security
2. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/1838220/Dropbox-Authentication-Insecure-By-Design
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| Following the Money In Cybercrime
| from the prevailing-wages dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @13:26 (Crime)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1729204/Following-the-Money-In-Cybercrime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jbrodkin writes "Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email
accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that
takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000
captchas. Those are the [1]going rates of cybercrime, the amounts
criminals pay other criminals for the technical services necessary to
launch attacks. This criminal underground was detailed Wednesday in a
highly entertaining talk given by researcher Stefan Savage at the annual
Usenix technical conference in Portland, Ore. Savage's research into the
economics of cybercrime began as lip service to satisfy the terms of a
government grant, but it turned out to be the key to stopping computer
attacks. Targeted methods ��� such as using CAPTCHAs ��� don't stop
criminals, but they add to the cost burden and put the inefficient
criminal organizations out of business, letting security researchers
focus only on the ones that survive."
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1729204/Following-the-Money-In-Cybercrime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/4855
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061511-cybercrime.html
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| 11 Pathogens Pose Big Security Risk For Research
| from the in-the-glovebox-please dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @14:07 (Government)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1733244/11-Pathogens-Pose-Big-Security-Risk-For-Research?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "A United States federal panel of scientists and
security experts has identified [0]11 microorganisms that it wants
designated as Tier 1 select agents, a new category of biological agents
that would be subject to higher security standards than other pathogens
and toxins used in biomedical research. The category would include
anthrax, Ebola, Variola major and Variola minor (the two viruses that
cause small pox), the Marburg virus, the virus that causes foot and mouth
disease, and bacterial strains that produce the botulinum neurotoxin. At
the same time, the panel has recommended dropping 19 pathogens and six
toxins from the broader list of 82 agents that are currently governed by
the select agent program."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1733244/11-Pathogens-Pose-Big-Security-Risk-For-Research?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/06/the-dirty-11-panel-names-pathogens.html?ref=hp
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| Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK For Windows
| from the go-forth-and-wiggle dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @14:46 (Input Devices)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1751243/Microsoft-Releases-Kinect-SDK-For-Windows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]soricon writes "Microsoft made good on [1]its promise to release an
official Kinect SDK for Windows, opening the door for multiple
educational, research and enthusiasts groups to create new and innovative
uses for the popular full body movement sensor. [2]Currently in beta, the
SDK requires Windows 7 and at a minimum, a dual core machine with a
DirectX 9.0c capable graphic card and it is free to download."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1751243/Microsoft-Releases-Kinect-SDK-For-Windows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:soricon@hotmail.com
1. http://slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/1536229/Official-MS-Kinect-SDK-Coming-to-Windows
2. http://reviewhorizon.com/2011/06/windows-sdk-beta-for-kinect-is-here-start-your-imagination/
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| Sunlight Foundation Announces 'Sarah's Inbox'
| from the so-very-much-unveiling dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @15:28 (Government)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1820237/Sunlight-Foundation-Announces-Sarahs-Inbox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Eponymous Hero writes "In a sequel to elenasinbox.com, the publicly
released emails of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, [0]Sunlight
Foundation has unveiled [1]sarahsinbox.com to offer you easy access and
search to Sarah Palin's recently released emails. If that doesn't flip
your bits, have a gander at some of the tools Sunlight Foundation offers
relating to government watchdogging, like [2]Poligraft, or [3]Inbox
Influencer."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1820237/Sunlight-Foundation-Announces-Sarahs-Inbox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/06/15/announcing-sarahs-inbox/
1. http://sarahsinbox.com/
2. http://poligraft.com/
3. https://inbox.influenceexplorer.com/
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| What LulzSec Logins Reveal About Bookworms, and Passwords
| from the keeping-them-straight-does-get-tricky dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @16:09 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1914222/What-LulzSec-Logins-Reveal-About-Bookworms-and-Passwords?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "Today the hacking group LulzSec posted 62,000 hacked
email usernames and passwords online. [1]PC Pro's Darien Graham-Smith has
analysed the passwords stolen ��� which are believed to have come from a
website for writers ��� and found some interesting patterns. Aside from
'password' and obvious numerical patterns (i.e. '12345') the most common
passwords share a literary theme: 'romance,' 'mystery,' 'shadow' and
'bookworm' are all commonly used passwords. 'Clearly, this is a
back-of-an-envelope breakdown of a mixed mass of unverified data,' said
Graham-Smith. 'But it gives an interesting insight into the way people
choose their passwords: in this case, apparently, on a theme that
reflects the nature of the site they're visiting.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1914222/What-LulzSec-Logins-Reveal-About-Bookworms-and-Passwords?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/06/16/what-lulzsec-logins-reveal-about-bookworms/
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| Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity?
| from the guaranteed-wrongness dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @16:50 (Encryption)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1921206/Ask-Slashdot-Tools-For-Linux-Disk-Encryption-and-Integrity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I have been using Gentoo Linux for a long
time now and have always been satisfied with one of its many disk
encryption tools: cryptsetup (dm-crypt and LUKS). However, I recently
gave FreeBSD a try and, although I concluded BSD is not for me, I was
amazed at [0]geli(8), FreeBSD's disk encryption tool. It happens this
tool also provides what it calls an 'authentication mode.' Besides
encrypting the disk sector-by-sector, it also stores checksums (sha256 in
my case) in it on every write. On reads, if the checksum mismatchs, it
propagates the error up, resulting in, say, a read() error. Thus I do not
have to trust my disk (except of course for the boot partition) any
longer: any data inconsistency will be detected before the data is used.
Having searched for a long time without answers, I want to ask: is there
something similar to this in Linux? Note: Using Btrfs is a valid
solution, but is far from stable (got a few oopses during my tests)."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1921206/Ask-Slashdot-Tools-For-Linux-Disk-Encryption-and-Integrity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8
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| British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright
| from the hey-free-trip dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @17:12 (United States)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2059204/British-Student-Faces-Extradition-To-US-Over-Copyright?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A 23-year-old British computer student
[0]faces possible extradition to the U.S. for linking to copyrighted
content on his website. The student, Richard O'Dwyer, was accused of
copyright infringement after setting up the website TV Shack, which had
links to thousands of films and tv shows, but did not directly host
them."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2059204/British-Student-Faces-Extradition-To-US-Over-Copyright?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2079590/british-student-extradition-copyright-infringement
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| New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs
| from the now-that's-offsides-innit dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @17:32 (Android)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2127255/New-Android-Malware-Attacks-Custom-ROMs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]drmacinyasha writes "Today [1]Lookout disclosed a new form of Android
malware found in Chinese markets which attacks third-party firmwares
(ROMs). By using permissions granted to apps which are signed with the
same private keys as the ROM itself, an app can update itself or install
and uninstall other apps without user interaction. Most third-party ROMs
use the private keys included in the Android Open Source Project, making
them vulnerable to this attack. Last month's release of [2]CyanogenMod
7.0.3 (and all subsequent builds) included an "important security fix"
which a [3]team member confirmed protects users against this
vulnerability by preventing applications signed with the platform key to
be installed to user or app-controlled storage."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2127255/New-Android-Malware-Attacks-Custom-ROMs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:drmacinyasha@gmail.com
1. http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/06/security-alert-malware-found-targeting-custom-roms-jsmshider/
2. http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-7-0-3-released
3. https://twitter.com/#!/CM_arcee/status/81419190577278977
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| Vivek Kundra Quits As Federal CIO
| from the depart-for-cooler-climes dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @18:24 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2224240/Vivek-Kundra-Quits-As-Federal-CIO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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CWmike writes "The first person ever appointed as the CIO of the federal
government, Vivek Kundra, is [0]resigning after two and a half years on
the job, the White House said Thursday. There was no hint in the
announcement made by Jack Lew, director of the Office of Management and
Budget, that Kundra's exit was prompted by a shift in the White House's
view on IT. Lew, who praised the CIO's work, said Kundra was leaving to
take a fellowship at Harvard. Kundra was appointed CIO a few months after
President Barack Obama took office. He immediately [1]outlined an agenda
that [2]emphasized cloud adoption, use of consumer technologies, and
making data available to the public on new sites, such as data.gov. He
was critical of [3]big IT contracts that moved too slowly and were at
risk of failing."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2224240/Vivek-Kundra-Quits-As-Federal-CIO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217682/Obama_s_CIO_quits
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9129043/New_federal_CIO_Vivek_Kundra_wants_a_Web_2.0_government
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209862/Obama_banks_on_cloud_consolidation_to_hold_down_IT_costs
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9074818/Census_Bureau_scales_back_handheld_plans_while_project_costs_keep_rising
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| Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows
| from the emootional-distress dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @19:08 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2238244/Iowa-Rejects-Video-Privacy-Protection-For-Cows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that an
effort to [1]outlaw the undercover recording of animal abuse in livestock
operations appears to have stalled in Iowa after previously failing in
Minnesota, Florida and New York, with the pushback coming from citizens
and activists complaining that the proposals were aimed at protecting an
industry that doesn't exhibit enough concern for farm animal welfare. A
bill introduced earlier this year to criminalize the actions of activists
who make unauthorized hidden videos of animal abuse appeared to be headed
for approval in the Iowa Legislature, with proposed penalties including
fines of up to $7,500 and up to five years in prison. 'I feel it is wrong
to absolutely lie to get a job to try to defame the employer,' says Iowa
representative Annette Sweeney, a farmer and Republican legislator who
sponsored the bill. But District Attorney James R. Horton, who filed
animal cruelty charges against employees and the owner of a large-scale
calf-raising farm, says he probably [2]'wouldn't have a case' if not for
covert video provided by an animal protection group, and that 'we
wouldn't have anything' in terms of evidence against the suspects in the
beating deaths of dairy calves at E6 Cattle Co."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2238244/Iowa-Rejects-Video-Privacy-Protection-For-Cows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.dairyherd.com/dairy-news/latest/Commentary-Video-protection-rejection-123825704.html
2. http://www.examiner.com/animal-policy-in-national/district-attorney-says-he-needed-undercover-video-to-prosecute-calf-abuse-case
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| Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters
| from the hey-you-two-get-a-mask dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 16, @19:54 (Canada)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2327228/Using-Crowdsourcing-To-Identify-Vancouver-Rioters?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Fudge Factor 3000 writes "The Canucks' loss in the last game of the
Stanley Cup Finals resulted in complete mayhem in downtown Vancouver.
Everything from upturned cars set alight to looting was commonplace.
Unfortunately, most of the perpetrators were able to maintain their
anonymity by disappearing into the crowds. Fortunately, bystanders took
several pictures and videos of the carnage. Now, websites (including both
Facebook and Tumblr) have set up pages to [0]use crowdsourcing to
identify the hooligans."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2327228/Using-Crowdsourcing-To-Identify-Vancouver-Rioters?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.globaltvbc.com/Identify+Vancouver+rioters+Facebook+Tumblr+groups/4954697/story.html
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