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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash
* Sound-Based System Promises Chipless Phone Payment
* PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo
* 18 Months In Prison For Making iPad 2 Cases
* Google To Digitize, Make Available British Library's Historical Holdings
* Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours
* Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care)
* LulzSec Suspect Arrested By UK Police
* ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing
* More Users Are Shunning Facebook
* Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks
* Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail
* EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin, Regifts All Donations
* LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack
* Give <em>The Onion</em> a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam
* Amazon's Cloud Is Full of Holes
* Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan
* Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks
* Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot?
* Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight
* Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications
* Paying Hacker Extortion
* AMD Rejects SYSmark Benchmark
* Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon
* Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029
* Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money
* Nokia Introduces MeeGo-Powered N9 Phone
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| Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash
| from the condolences-to-the-pease-family dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 20, @20:26 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/0020245/Analog-Designer-Bob-Pease-Dies-In-Car-Crash?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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EdwinFreed writes "It's being widely reported that [0]Bob Pease, well
known analog circuit designer and author of Pease Porridge, has [1]died
in a car accident. He reportedly was driving alone in his 1969 Beetle and
failed to negotiate a turn."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/0020245/Analog-Designer-Bob-Pease-Dies-In-Car-Crash?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Pease
1. http://electronicdesign.com/article/analog-and-mixed-signal/Bob-Pease-Remembered-For-Pease-Porridge-And-A-Whole-Lot-More.aspx?cid=ed_powernewsletter&NL=1&YM_RID='email'
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| Sound-Based System Promises Chipless Phone Payment
| from the how-many-baud-on-that-thing? dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 20, @21:03 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/003220/Sound-Based-System-Promises-Chipless-Phone-Payment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "While near-field communication gradually emerges to
turn mobile phones into payment devices, startup Naratte is introducing a
system it claims can do [1]roughly the same thing without adding a chip
to the handset. On Monday, Naratte introduced Zoosh, a technology that
lets phones exchange transaction information via inaudible sound waves.
As with NFC, the phone user would just put the phone near to a
point-of-sale terminal to redeem a coupon or make a purchase. NFC
provides short-range radio communication between phones and point-of-sale
devices so users can just tap or point their phones at the device to make
a purchase. NFC uses specialized chips, which are already built into a
few phones such as the Google Nexus S sold by Sprint Nextel, and are
expected in more handsets in the future. Zoosh involves software that
utilizes the speaker and microphone in a handset to send and receive
audio signals with another device, similar to the way early modems
exchange data by sending tones through the handsets of desk phones
cradled in coupler devices. The company has [2]posted a video that shows
how it works. Between this and barcodes (which Starbucks says is working
well already, thank you very much), [3]is NFC already irrelevant?"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/003220/Sound-Based-System-Promises-Chipless-Phone-Payment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217790/Sound_based_system_promises_chipless_NFC_now
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJDi7Ik_X6w
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217650/Mobile_payments_Who_needs_NFC_anyway_
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| PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo
| from the world-will-beat-a-path-to-your-door dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 20, @23:56 (Networking)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/0224214/PlanetLab-Creates-a-More-Advanced-Sudo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Researchers at the PlanetLab global research
network have developed a [1]potential replacement for the widely used
Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer administrators far greater
control over what end users can and can't access. Vsys is similar to
sudo, except it offers finer-grained access to system resources.
PlanetLab created Vsys as a way to allow its researchers to access
low-level network functionality so they could develop new network
technologies ��� overlay networks, user-level file systems, virtual
switches ��� while their experimental work remained safely isolated from
other users."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/0224214/PlanetLab-Creates-a-More-Advanced-Sudo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/390871/planetlab_creates_more_advanced_sudo/
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| 18 Months In Prison For Making iPad 2 Cases
| from the force-multiplier dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 21, @02:50 (China)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/0037203/18-Months-In-Prison-For-Making-iPad-2-Cases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]decora writes "Loretta Chao of the The Wall Street Journal reports on
three people in China who were sentenced to between [1]12 and 18 months
in prison for a plot to make [2]iPad 2 protective cases before the
tablet's official release. The plan allegedly involved R&D man Lin
Kecheng of Hon Hai Precision Industry Company ([3]FoxConn) selling image
data to Hou Pengna, who then passed it to Xiao Chengsong, a manager at
[4]MacTop. The charges? One 'violated the privacy policy of the company,'
two got information through 'illegal means' causing 'huge losses,' and
they all 'infringed trade secrets.' The decision was handed down by the
[5]Shenzen Baoan People's Court on June 16."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/0037203/18-Months-In-Prison-For-Making-iPad-2-Cases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:decorat@mail.com
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303499204576387290137752856.html#ixzz1PRdM0N2M
2. http://www.apple.com/ipad/
3. http://www.foxconn.com/
4. http://www.mactop.com.cn/
5. http://www.bafy.gov.cn/article_show.php?artid=2583
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| Google To Digitize, Make Available British Library's Historical Holdings
| from the to-be-young-was-very-heaven dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 21, @05:43 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/2319220/Google-To-Digitize-Make-Available-British-Librarys-Historical-Holdings?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pbahra writes with part of an excellent story at the WSJ: "The British
Library today announced its first partnership with Google, under which
Google will [1]digitize 250,000 items from the library's vast collection
of work produced between 1700-1870. The Library, the only British
institution that automatically receives a copy of every book and
periodical to go on sale in the United Kingdom and Ireland, joins around
40 libraries worldwide in allowing Google to digitize part of its
collection and make it freely available and searchable online, at
books.google.co.uk and the British Library website, www.bl.uk. ... As
well as published books, the 1700-1870 collection will also contain
pamphlets and periodicals from across Europe. This was a period of
political and technological turmoil, covering much of the Industrial
Revolution, the French Revolution, the introduction of UK income tax and
the invention of the telegraph and railway. All of these topics are
covered, as are the quirkier matters of the day, such as the account,
from 1775, of a stuffed hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/2319220/Google-To-Digitize-Make-Available-British-Librarys-Historical-Holdings?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:parminder.bahra@wsj.com
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/20/google-to-make-british-library-archive-available-online/
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| Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours
| from the you'll-find-we're-very-open-minded. dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 21, @08:02 (Cloud)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/045228/Dropbox-Password-Goof-Let-Any-Password-Work-For-4-Hours?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]tekgoblin writes "Dropbox confirmed today that for some time
yesterday, any user's account was [1]accessible without a password. The
glitch was a programming error related to a code update and accounts were
only vulnerable from around 1:54 pm PST to 5:46pm PST." "Only" is
relative; as reader zonky puts it, "It took around 4 hours from
deployment for Dropbox to notice they'd entirely broken their
authentication scheme."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/045228/Dropbox-Password-Goof-Let-Any-Password-Work-For-4-Hours?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.twitter.com/tekgoblin
1. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-was-accessible-with-no-password-oops/
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| Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care)
| from the it-serves-as-its-own-emoticon dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 21, @08:22 (Programming)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/036215/Biggest-Changes-In-C11-and-Why-You-Should-Care?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Esther Schindler writes "It's been 13 years since the first iteration
of the C++ language. Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards
committee, explains [1]how the programming language has been improved and
how it can help you write better code."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/036215/Biggest-Changes-In-C11-and-Why-You-Should-Care?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:esther@bitranch.com
1. http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/06/the-biggest-changes-in-c11-and-why-you-should-care/
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| LulzSec Suspect Arrested By UK Police
| from the lulz-till-it-isn't dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @08:43 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1225250/LulzSec-Suspect-Arrested-By-UK-Police?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The UK's Police Computer e-Crime Unit (PCeU)
has arrested a 19-year-old man in Wickford, Essex, in [0]connection with
the series of LulzSec attacks against organizations including the CIA,
PBS and Sony. The man, who has been arrested under the Computer Misuse
and Fraud Act, has had his house searched and a significant amount of
material taken away by police for forensic examination. The PCeU worked
with local Essex police and the FBI on the investigation."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1225250/LulzSec-Suspect-Arrested-By-UK-Police?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/21/lulzsec-suspect-arrested-scotland-yard/
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| ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing
| from the salmon-is-yummy dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @09:25 (Businesses)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1316248/ICANN-Domain-Expansion-Could-Increase-Phishing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "The ICANN board gave final approval to what some are
calling 'the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades,'
allowing the [0]expansion of new TLDs. Some argue this ICANN initiative
could force a land grab of domains by businesses to protect their company
reputation. However, they aren't the only ones who are likely to try to
snag these new top level domains. There's a very legitimate concern that
[1]cybercriminals could also seek these new domains to create legitimate
looking websites using well-known brand names. These can then be used for
phishing attacks or delivery of Trojan malware to unsuspecting visitors."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1316248/ICANN-Domain-Expansion-Could-Increase-Phishing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ICANN-To-Allow-brandname-Top-Level-Domains
1. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11198
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| More Users Are Shunning Facebook
| from the we-hates-it dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @10:05 (Facebook)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1331212/More-Users-Are-Shunning-Facebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Blake Snow writes that evidence suggests that a
small but increasing number of users ��� at least in North America, where
Facebook use is especially saturated ��� [1]may be shunning the site with
Facebook losing nearly 6 million users, falling from 155.2 million at the
start of May to 149.4 million at the end of the month, the [2]first time
the US has lost users in the past year. Some users complain they're
spending so much time on Facebook that they're short-changing the rest of
their lives. 'I figured out that I wouldn't look back as an old man and
wish I had spent more time on Facebook,' says David Cole, an IT manager
from Boston, adding that he believes the popular social-networking site
is a useful tool, but not a replacement for what he calls 'realbook'
experiences. Kip Krieger, a college student from Virginia, says Facebook
has become predictable. 'It's really gotten to a point where I know
pretty much what my friends are going to post. They usually just write
the same thing over and over again, and I am getting sick of that.' Still
there are a lot more satisfied customers of Facebook than disgruntled
ones, so are Facebook shunners a tiny minority or part of a growing
trend? 'Having that connection with others is a very powerful thing,'
says Toby Bushman who felt so much pressure that she decided to rejoin
Facebook, and is glad she did. 'It makes me feel like I'm a [3]part of
something bigger and more grand than just my life as a stay-at-home
mother.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1331212/More-Users-Are-Shunning-Facebook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/20/people.shunning.facebook/
2. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-traffic-drops-in-us-and-canada-as-it-nears-700-million-users-worldwide/
3. http://www.mamawithms.blogspot.com/
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| Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks
| from the end-of-an-era dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @10:41 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1341248/Verizon-To-Drop-Unlimited-Data-Plans-In-Two-Weeks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The rumors have converged and now it appears that
Verizon will be [1]dropping its unlimited data plans on July 7, says
blogger Peter Smith. [2]Droid-Life lists pricing, starting at 2 GB for
$30/month and going up to 10 GB for $80/month. 'The one ever-so-slightly
bright side,' says Smith, 'is that 4G LTE will cost the same as 3G. Of
course, you'll be able to burn through your data even faster.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1341248/Verizon-To-Drop-Unlimited-Data-Plans-In-Two-Weeks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/176075/verizon-wireless-dropping-unlimited-data-plans-two-weeks
2. http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/20/exclusive-tiered-data-plans-headed-to-verizon-july-7-packages-start-at-30-for-2gb/
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| Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail
| from the three-squares-a-cot-and-a-physical dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 21, @11:16 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1430259/Man-Robs-Bank-of-1-To-Get-Health-Care-In-Jail?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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f1vlad writes "A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on
charges of larceny after allegedly [0]robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he
could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female
teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun,
according to the police report."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1430259/Man-Robs-Bank-of-1-To-Get-Health-Care-In-Jail?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/nc-man-allegedly-robs-bank-health-care-jail/story?id=13887040
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| EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin, Regifts All Donations
| from the all-money-is-pretend dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @11:20 (Bitcoin)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1433207/EFF-Stops-Accepting-Bitcoin-Regifts-All-Donations?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Gendou writes "The EFF issued a statement that it will [0]no longer
accept Bitcoin donations, has not used any of the donations, and will
transfer all past donations to [1]The Bitcoin Faucet. See also
[2]additional and [3]forum threads."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1433207/EFF-Stops-Accepting-Bitcoin-Regifts-All-Donations?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin
1. http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/
2. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20488.0
3. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20185.0
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| LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack
| from the we-swear-we-didn't-do-this-one dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @12:02 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1559258/LulzSec-Debunks-UK-Census-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Earlier this morning we reported that [0]an arrest had been made relating
to the hacker group LulzSec. [1]mask.of.sanity notes "Hacking group
LulzSec has [2]poured cloud water on claims that it had [3]stolen UK
Census data and was preparing to release the records. 'Just saw the
pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us ��� don't believe fake
LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first,' the group said from
its [4]official Twitter account."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1559258/LulzSec-Debunks-UK-Census-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1225250/LulzSec-Suspect-Arrested-By-UK-Police
1. mailto:pauli.darren@g%5B%5Dl.com%5B'mai'ingap%5D
2. http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/261305,lulzsec-debunks-uk-census-hack.aspx
3. http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/lulzsec-steal-millions-of-records-from.html
4. https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
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| Give <em>The Onion</em> a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam
| from the world's-best-newspaper-demands-ironic-credit-it-deserves dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 21, @12:45 (The Media)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1421251/Give-The-Onion-a-Pulitzer-Campaign-Gaining-Steam?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Long before Stewart or Colbert were on TV you could count on [0] The
Onion to bring you your daily dose of fake or funny news. After the
recent publication of their 1000th issue, a small but growing movement
has started [1]pushing for the Pulitzer Prize to be awarded to the
satirical site. The [2] Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism
Prizes website encourages readers to submit videos on why they think The
Onion deserves the honor. The movement has grown so large that you can
find videos from Tom Hanks and Arianna Huffington among the user
submissions.
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1421251/Give-The-Onion-a-Pulitzer-Campaign-Gaining-Steam?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theonion.com/
1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/onion-pulitzer-why-not_b_880924.html
2. http://afajp.tumblr.com/
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| Amazon's Cloud Is Full of Holes
| from the so-are-donuts-and-they-are-delicious dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @13:22 (Cloud)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1652226/Amazons-Cloud-Is-Full-of-Holes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Amazon's Web Services is so easy to use that
customers create virtual machines without following Amazon's [1]'very
detailed' security guidelines, says Thomas Schneider, a postdoctoral
researcher in the System Security Lab of Technische Universit��t
Darmstadt. Most notably, Schneider and his fellow researchers found that
the private keys used to authenticate with services such as the Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2) or the Simple Storage Service (S3) were publicly
published in Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), which are pre-configured
operating systems and application software used to create virtual
machines. '[Customers] just forgot to remove their API keys from machines
before publishing,' Schneider said."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1652226/Amazons-Cloud-Is-Full-of-Holes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/175927/researchers-aws-users-are-leaving-security-holes
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| Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan
| from the stay-on-target dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @14:04 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1756243/Mozilla-Ships-Firefox-5-Meets-Rapid-Release-Plan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Mozilla [1]delivered on Tuesday the final version of
Firefox 5, the first edition under the new faster-release regime it
kicked off earlier this year. The company also patched 10 bugs in Firefox
5, including one in the browser's handling of the WebGL 3-D rendering
standard that rival Microsoft has called unsafe. Firefox 5 looks
identical to its predecessor, Firefox 4, but Mozilla's made changes under
the hood. Mozilla [2]has denied copying Google Chrome's upbeat schedule
but analysts have noted the similarities and pointed out the need of all
browser makers to step up the pace. Because of the shorter development
cycle, Mozilla called out relatively few new features in Firefox 5."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1756243/Mozilla-Ships-Firefox-5-Meets-Rapid-Release-Plan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217813/Mozilla_ships_Firefox_5_holds_to_new_rapid_release_plan
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214786/Firefox_follows_Chrome_lead_eyes_faster_releases
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| Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks
| from the they-got-cars-big-as-bars dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 21, @14:37 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/150216/Man-Mines-Midtown-New-York-Sidewalks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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43-year-old Raffi Stepanian makes money searching New York City streets,
but it's not loose change or soda cans he's looking for, it's gold.
Stepanian says [0]he can make almost $1000 a week scouring the diamond
district's streets for bits of gold, platinum, and precious gems.
"Material falls off clothes, on the bottom of shoes, it drops off
jewelry, and it falls in the dirt and sticks to the gum on the street.
The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount
of gold you would find in a mine . . . It comes close to a mother lode
because in the street, you're picking up gold left by the industry," he
says.
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Links:
0. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/prospector_scours_sidewalks_for_ReKRNWajHnjJhKSoW5Il6L
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| Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot?
| from the well-of-course-it-is dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @14:42 (Cloud)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1832259/Might-iCloud-Be-a-Musical-Honeypot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Between watermarked MP3 files and matching
identical files, [0]iCloud Music Match might wind up being a giant trap
for finding owners of illegally copied files should the RIAA subpoena the
evidence."
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Links:
0. http://betweenthenumbers.net/2011/06/is-apples-icloud-music-match-a-possible-honeypot/
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| Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight
| from the well-thats-not-good dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @15:19 (Microsoft)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1840250/Microsofts-SkyDrive-Drops-Silverlight?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Microsoft's SkyDrive, a web service that provides cloud
storage for end user files, has just acquired [0]a revamped user
interface ��� and it is HTML5 based. Yes, another Microsoft website has
dropped Silverlight. How can Microsoft expect independent developers to
base their future on Silverlight when Microsoft itself is abandoning it
like a sinking ship? Whatever happened to 'eating your own dog food'? It
seems that now Microsoft would rather eat dog food made elsewhere..."
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Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/2640-skydrive-drops-silverlight.html
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| Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications
| from the i-prefer-fake-time dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @16:00 (Chrome)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1930248/Google-Chrome-To-Have-Real-Time-Communications?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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kai_hiwatari writes "Last month, Google released an open-source project
called WebRTC which aims to enables Real-Time Communications capabilities
in the web browsers through simple JavaScript APIs. Now, they have taken
the first step towards having [0]WebRTC built into Chrome. With WebRTC,
developers will be able to build voice and video applications using
nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology
which can challenge services like Skype."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1930248/Google-Chrome-To-Have-Real-Time-Communications?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2011/06/21/google-chrome-webrtc/
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| Paying Hacker Extortion
| from the bad-place-to-be dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @16:38 (Security)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1950254/Paying-Hacker-Extortion?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A friend works as CIO at a medium sized
publicly traded company. The company was contacted by a hacking group and
told to pay $100,000 to prevent their company from being hacked/attacked.
They actually paid the extortion (told authorities after). The
authorities said the company could be charged with supporting Terrorists.
Seeing that most publicly known hacks are costing companies this size
nearly a million dollars, Is this supporting terrorists or supporting
stockholders?"
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| AMD Rejects SYSmark Benchmark
| from the if-you-can't-win-quit dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @17:17 (AMD)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1958226/AMD-Rejects-SYSmark-Benchmark?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Deathspawner writes "In an unusual move, Advanced Micro Devices has
issued a press release [1]rejecting its endorsement for the industry
recognized benchmark SYSmark 2012. Developed by BAPCo and backed by
industry heavyweights such as Dell, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, [2]AMD has
stated that BAPCo both has tuned SYSmark to create bias in favor of its
competitor, and that its benchmarks are not relevant for the audience it
targets. Also noted is a complete lack of heterogeneous CPU+GPU testing.
[3]Techgage tears apart AMD's claims to see if they are valid, while also
evaluating the overall usefulness of SYSmark and the impact it can have
on consumers."
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Links:
0. mailto:deathspawner@gmail.com
1. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/AMD-Will-Not-Endorse-SYSmark-2012-Benchmark-NYSE-AMD-1529559.htm
2. http://blogs.amd.com/nigel-dessau/2011/06/21/1006/
3. http://techgage.com/article/amd_rejects_bapcos_sysmark_2012_-_should_we/
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| Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon
| from the pew-pew-pew dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @17:44 (The Military)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/2136203/Boeings-Enormous-Navy-Laser-Cannon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Boeing is working to build a [0]huge,
incredibly powerful, soon-to-be-seafaring laser for the US Navy. This
free electron laser can produce light of any wavelength (ie, color)
directly from an electron beam, and gets an energy boost from a
superconducting particle accelerator. Once it's onboard ships, the laser
could be used to shoot down cruise missiles and artillery shells."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/2136203/Boeings-Enormous-Navy-Laser-Cannon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://discovermagazine.com/photos/25-how-to-build-the-ultimate-laser-weapon
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| Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029
| from the still-no-klingon dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 21, @18:00 (AI)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/2126243/Kurzweil-Human-Level-Machine-Translation-By-2029?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In a video interview with the Huffington
Post, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that [0]machines will reach
human levels of translation quality by the year 2029. However, he was
quick to highlight that even major technological advances in translation
do not replace the need for language learning. 'Even the best translators
can't fully translate literature,' he pointed out. 'Some things just
can't be expressed in another language.'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/2126243/Kurzweil-Human-Level-Machine-Translation-By-2029?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nataly-kelly/ray-kurzweil-on-translati_b_875745.html
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| Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money
| from the made-from-flattened-hockey-pucks dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 21, @18:42 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/227251/Canada-Rolls-Out-Plastic-Money?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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markian writes "Canada is set to [0]switch to new banknotes that last 2.5
times longer than paper money. High-tech features include metallic
imagery in a transparent area, raised ink, transparent text, and hidden
numbers. 'If you look through the frosted maple leaf emblem at a
single-point light source and hold it close to your eye, you'll see a
hidden circle of numbers that match the face value of the note.' The Bank
of Canada has [1]more information on the subject. Now if we can just get
rid of the penny..."
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Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20072893-1/canada-launches-anti-fraud-plastic-banknotes/
1. http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/polymer/
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| Nokia Introduces MeeGo-Powered N9 Phone
| from the wherever-you-go,-meego-meego-meego dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 21, @19:24 (Cellphones)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/2320202/Nokia-Introduces-MeeGo-Powered-N9-Phone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with news that Nokia has unveiled [0]its first
MeeGo-powered smartphone, the N9. "[T]he smartphone [1]doesn't have any
buttons on the front, with only the volume controls and a lock button
located on the right side of the device. ... The performance of the
prototype device felt very snappy, and it looks almost ready for retail.
As a MeeGo device, the N9 will be running apps based on the Qt platform."
The Washington Post calls it "[2]the platform that could have been,"
referring to Nokia's decision to make the transition to Windows Phone for
future devices. Others are impressed with the device, but [3]see it as
either a dead end or [4]just another distraction to Nokia's long-term
plans.
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/2320202/Nokia-Introduces-MeeGo-Powered-N9-Phone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/21/introducing-the-nokia-n9-all-it-takes-is-a-swipe
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20073047-1/nokias-new-n9-meego-phone-hands-on/
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faster-forward/post/nokia-n9s-meego-is-the-platform-that-could-have-been/2011/06/21/AGV70keH_blog.html
3. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/nokia-n9-meego-device-looks-slick-but-does-anyone-even-care/6111
4. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/david-prosser-another-distracting-sideshow-at-nokia-2300754.html
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