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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* AMD Gains In the TOP500 List
* Geohot Joins Facebook As Product Developer
* Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic
* Nailing the Cause of Recent Linux Power Issues
* DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs
* Announcing Ozma: Extending Scala With Oz Concurrency
* Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors
* New Technology Turns Windows Into Solar Panels
* TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening
* Apple Has Stopped iOS Downgrading
* Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses
* US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment
* Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype
* Hackers To School Next Generation At DEFCON Kids
* Acoustic Stealth Technology Finally Created
* Forty-Five Mile Wireless Tech For the Smart Grid
* Where Jules Verne Meets <em>Star Wars</em>: GE's Walking Truck
* New Top Tier Science Journal Announced
* Eight Major 3G & 4G Networks Tested Nationwide
* Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers
* Video Games Expected To Drive 3D Mobile Phone Sales
* Developers Defecting From BlackBerry
* Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones?
* First Photos of Asteroid 2011 MD
* Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps
* Linux-Based Gaming Handheld To Rely On Low Material Cost, Indie Apps
* One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard
* Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys
* Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen?
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| AMD Gains In the TOP500 List
| from the included-chart-awesome dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @20:56 (AMD)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0054239/AMD-Gains-In-the-TOP500-List?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "AMD recently announced its [1]share of the TOP500
supercomputer list has grown 15 percent in the past six months. The
company credits industry trends, upgrade paths, and competitive pricing
for the increase. Of the 68 Opteron-based systems on the list, more than
half of them use the Opteron 6100 series processors. The inflection point
was marked by AMD's launch of their Magny-Cours architecture more than a
year ago and includes the twelve-core Opteron 6180 SE at 2.5GHz at one
end and two low-power parts at the other. Magny-Cours adoption is
important. Companies typically don't upgrade HPC clusters with new CPUs,
but AMD is billing their next-gen Interlagos architecture as a drop-in
option for Magny-Cours. As such, it'll offer up to 2x the cores as well
as equal-to or faster clock speeds."
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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Gains-HPC-Market-Share-Interlagos-On-The-Way/
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| Geohot Joins Facebook As Product Developer
| from the bet-it's-a-fun-resume-to-read-through dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @23:49 (Facebook)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0316244/Geohot-Joins-Facebook-As-Product-Developer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Numerous sources are reporting that famed iPhone and PlayStation hacker
George Hotz, better known as Geohot, has [0]taken a job [1]at Facebook in
product development; Make Magazine and others report that [2]he'll be
working on iOS apps.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0316244/Geohot-Joins-Facebook-As-Product-Developer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://nexus404.com/Blog/2011/06/26/george-hotz-aka-geohot-now-works-for-facebook-you-don%E2%80%99t-get-to-750-million-friends-without-hiring-some-of-the-greatest-talents-available/
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/169717/20110626/hacker-george-hotz-joins-facebook-as-product-developer-chris-putnam-ios-hacker-peter-hajas-twitter-m.htm
2. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/former-sony-enemy-1-geohot-now-working-at-facebook-on-ipad-apps.html
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| Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic
| from the maybe-it-was-just-on-holiday dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @02:46 (Earth)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0332215/Gray-Whale-Southern-Hemisphere-Algae-Seen-In-N-Atlantic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oxide7 writes "The gray whale hasn't strayed to the Northern Atlantic
since the 18th century. The Neodenticula seminae, a species of algae,
hasn't been there in 800,000 years. Now, members of both species have
been [0]spotted in the Northern Atlantic."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/169740/20110626/gray-whale-algae-atlantic-northwest-passage.htm
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| Nailing the Cause of Recent Linux Power Issues
| from the building-a-better-eyeball dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @05:36 (Intel)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0459252/Nailing-the-Cause-of-Recent-Linux-Power-Issues?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "For the Linux kernel [0]power regressions
that were found a few months ago, and hit in Ubuntu 11.04, [1]Phoronix
has found the regression that's still present in the Linux 3.0 kernel.
The power regression is caused by a change in ASPM, the Active-State
Power Management, for PCI Express support."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0459252/Nailing-the-Cause-of-Recent-Linux-Power-Issues?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/22/2132251/Linux-Kernel-Suffering-Power-Management-Regression
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=1
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| DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs
| from the devil-will-find-work-for-idle-volts dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @08:18 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/044231/DVRs-Cable-Boxes-Top-List-of-Home-Energy-Hogs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Elisabeth Rosenthal writes that cable setup boxes
and DVRs have [1]become the single largest electricity drain in many
American homes, causing an increase of over $10/month for a home with
many devices, with some typical home entertainment configurations
[2]eating more power than a new refrigerator. The set-top boxes are
energy hogs mostly because their drives, tuners and other components are
running full tilt, 24 hours a day, even when not in active use. 'People
in the energy efficiency community worry a lot about these boxes, since
they will make it more difficult to lower home energy use,' says John
Wilson, a former member of the California Energy Commission. 'Companies
say it can't be done or it's too expensive. But in my experience, neither
one is true. It can be done, and it often doesn't cost much, if
anything.' The perpetually 'powered on' state is largely a function of
design and programming choices made by electronics companies and cable
and Internet providers, which are related to the way cable networks
function in the United States. Similar devices in some European countries
can automatically go into standby mode when not in use, cutting power
drawn by half and go into an optional 'deep sleep,' which [3]can reduce
energy consumption by about 95 percent (PDF) compared with when the
machine is active. Although the EPA has established Energy Star standards
for set-top boxes and has plans to tighten them significantly by 2013,
cable providers and box manufacturers like Cisco Systems, Samsung and
Motorola currently do not feel consumer pressure to improve box
efficiency."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/044231/DVRs-Cable-Boxes-Top-List-of-Home-Energy-Hogs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/us/26cable.html&OQ=_rQ3D4&OP=6197bb6fQ2FQ248Q60Q3AQ24R6_pQ7B66iCQ24CQ22Q26Q26Q24Q22Q2FQ24CQ2FQ24BpQ24CQ2F_NQ3AcQ60JQ7Cifc
2. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/06/26/us/26CABLE-graphic.html?ref=us
3. http://www.nrdc.org/energy/files/settopboxes.pdf
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| Announcing Ozma: Extending Scala With Oz Concurrency
| from the whirlwind-tour-of-the-programming-world dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @08:40 (Cloud)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0536220/Announcing-Ozma-Extending-Scala-With-Oz-Concurrency?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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setori88 writes "Programming for concurrency makes sense in developing
for both large scales (cloud computing) and small (multicore CPUs). Some
languages were designed for concurrency and distribution; One of those
languages is Oz, which provides advanced primitives regarding concurrency
and distribution. Oz is mostly declarative, a paradigm that encompasses
functional and logic programming. Despite its innovative features and
expressiveness, Oz never made it into the wide developer community; one
reason is its [0]unusual syntax." Read on to learn about an effort to
bring Oz's concurrency features to more programmers.
This story continues at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0536220/Announcing-Ozma-Extending-Scala-With-Oz-Concurrency?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Distributed_programming#Oz
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| Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors
| from the communal-hug dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday June 27, @08:53 (Wikipedia)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1231259/Wikipedia-Adds-WikiLove-For-Newbie-Editors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Wikipedia has a cunning [0]plan to make wikipedians nicer
to each other ��� its all about WikiLove. They can click on the Love button
to make each other feel good about contributing anything from an article
to an edit. The idea is that this will [1]encourage newbie editors to
stay and contribute rather than slink away into the rest of the web
because their contributions get deleted and derided. Perhaps all we need
for world peace is a big enough love button."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1231259/Wikipedia-Adds-WikiLove-For-Newbie-Editors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/155-social-media/2661-wikilove-to-encourage-newbie-editors.html
1. http://mashable.com/2011/06/25/wikipedia-love-button/
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| New Technology Turns Windows Into Solar Panels
| from the i'm-sure-that'll-work-fine dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 27, @09:42 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1339208/New-Technology-Turns-Windows-Into-Solar-Panels?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A start-up in Northern California is working
on [0]creating 'solar windows' that could act as solar panels at the same
time as blocking sunlight from entering office buildings to reduce their
energy needs."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1339208/New-Technology-Turns-Windows-Into-Solar-Panels?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/post-5.php?ref=fpblg
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| TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening
| from the security-theater dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday June 27, @10:02 (Government)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1219232/TSA-Has-95-Year-Old-Remove-Her-Diaper-For-Screening?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wjcofkc writes "The Transportation Security Administration stood by its
security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her
cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and [0]forced to
remove her adult diaper while going through security. 'While every person
and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA
works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and
sensitive manner,' the federal agency said. 'We have reviewed the
circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers
acted professionally and according to proper procedure.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/index.html?hpt=hp_p1&iref=NS1
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| Apple Has Stopped iOS Downgrading
| from the fun-while-it-lasted dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 27, @10:20 (IOS)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/144228/Apple-Has-Stopped-iOS-Downgrading?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader noted a forum post seems to confirmApple will be
[0]fighting downgrading in iOS 5. Quoting: "This will only affect
restores starting at iOS5 and onward, and Apple will be able to flip that
switch off and on at will (by opening or closing the APTicket signing
window for that firmware, like they do for the BBTicket)."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/6952986620/blob-monster
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| Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses
| from the how-nice-of-them dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 27, @11:01 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1442205/Firefox-Is-For-Regular-Users-Not-Businesses?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]nk497 writes "Some have argued that Mozilla's switch to a faster
release cycle has made it more difficult for companies to use Firefox,
but the [1]open-source browser maker isn't too bothered, according to one
employee. Asa Dotzler, community coordinator for Firefox marketing and
founder of Mozilla's quality assurance scheme, said Firefox is for
'regular users' ��� not businesses. 'Enterprise has never been (and I'll
argue, shouldn't be) a focus of ours,' he said. 'A minute spent making a
corporate user happy can better be spent making many regular users happy.
I'd much rather Mozilla was spending its limited resources looking out
for the billions of users that don't have enterprise support systems
already taking care of them.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/368290/mozilla-forget-businesses-we-re-here-for-regular-users
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| US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment
| from the somebody-thought-of-the-children dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 27, @11:50 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1547202/US-Supreme-Court-Video-Games-Qualify-For-First-Amendment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Wrath0fb0b writes "The [0]United States Supreme Court threw out a
California law [1]prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors.
Notable in the opinion is a historical review of the condemnation of
"unworthy" material that would tend to corrupt children, starting with
penny-novels and up through comic books and music lyrics. The opinion is
also notable for the odd lineup of Justices that defies normal
ideological lines, with one conservative and one liberal jurist
dissenting on entirely different grounds. In the process, they continue
the broad rule that the First Amendment does not vary with the
technological means used: 'Video games qualify for First Amendment
protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate
ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the
medium. And the basic principles of freedom of speech... do not vary with
a new and different communication medium.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf
1. http://law.justia.com/codes/california/2009/civ/1746-1746.5.html
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| Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype
| from the i-heard-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 27, @12:21 (Microsoft)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1553216/Microsoft-May-Add-Eavesdropping-To-Skype?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
published a Microsoft patent application that reaches back to December
2009 and describes 'recording agents' to legally intercept VoIP phone
calls. The '[0]Legal Intercept' patent application is one of Microsoft's
more elaborate and detailed patent papers, which is comprehensive enough
to make you think twice about the use of VoIP audio and video
communications. The document provides [1]Microsoft's idea about the
nature, positioning and feature set of recording agents that silently
record the communication between two or more parties."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1553216/Microsoft-May-Add-Eavesdropping-To-Skype?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20110153809.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110153809RS=DN/20110153809
1. http://www.conceivablytech.com/8108/products/microsoft-may-add-eavesdropping-to-skype
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| Hackers To School Next Generation At DEFCON Kids
| from the first-sploit-is-free dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @13:01 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1650223/Hackers-To-School-Next-Generation-At-DEFCON-Kids?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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fangmcgee writes "DEFCON hackers will [0]share their skills with the next
generation at a first-ever children's version of the infamous gathering
of software renegades, lock pickers and social engineers. A hacker
conference for children is controversial even in the DEFCON community.
Prime targets for criticism include lock picking and social engineering,
the art of manipulating people into revealing sensitive information.
'Everyone is up in arms that we are going to teach kids to be evil, but
that is not the case,' said Chris Hadnagy, who trains companies to guard
against slick-talking hackers and runs the website social-engineer.org.
'Think critically, think objectively ��� that is what this industry teaches
people,' continued Hadnagy, a [1]DEFCON Kids mentor. "
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Links:
0. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-hackers-school-defcon-kids.html
1. http://www.defconkids.org/
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| Acoustic Stealth Technology Finally Created
| from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @13:40 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1730239/Acoustic-Stealth-Technology-Finally-Created?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "An idea for acoustic stealth technology [0]proposed in
2008 was [1]finally put into practice. The [2]abstract describes taking
advantage of the 'transformation acoustics and linear coordinate
transformations that result in shells which are homogeneous, broadband,
and compact. The required material parameters are highly anisotropic;
however, we show that they are easily achievable in practice in
metamaterials made of perforated plastic plates.' It is thought this
technology might be useful for shielding ships from sonar or creating
soundproof rooms."
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Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/01/12/0532217/Cone-of-Silence-Possible-Say-Scientists
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13905573
2. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i25/e253901
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| Forty-Five Mile Wireless Tech For the Smart Grid
| from the enough-bandwidth-for-tradewars dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @14:18 (Wireless Networking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1742259/Forty-Five-Mile-Wireless-Tech-For-the-Smart-Grid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "San Diego startup On-Ramp Wireless has put
together a proprietary protocol that [1]sends data over 2.4GHz (like
WiFi) but over distances of up to forty-five miles. Links using the
technology are slow, 50bps at most, but could reduce the cost of
smartgrid deployments. Connecting up home energy meters today requires
using cell networks or unlicensed spectrum with much shorter reach."
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Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37881/
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| Where Jules Verne Meets <em>Star Wars</em>: GE's Walking Truck
| from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @14:59 (Star Wars Prequels)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1851216/Where-Jules-Verne-Meets-Star-Wars-GEs-Walking-Truck?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "This July 4th weekend, millions of Americans
will head to the air-conditioned confines of their local multiplex to
take in Harry Potter, Captain America and other summer blockbusters. A
military relic that foreshadowed a sci-fi vehicle featured in perhaps the
most popular summer movie of all time ��� Star Wars ��� is on exhibit at the
U.S. Army Transportation Musem at Fort Eustis: [0]GE's Pedipulator, or
'Walking Truck,' developed for the U.S. Army in the mid-'60s. GE's
quadroped was first imagined and lumbered through its testing paces in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, starting in 1962, 15 years before George
Lucas's AT-AT walkers debuted on the big screen."
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Links:
0. http://www.gereports.com/where-jules-verne-meets-star-wars-ges-walking-truck-of-the-1960s/
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| New Top Tier Science Journal Announced
| from the peerless-review dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @15:20 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1857203/New-Top-Tier-Science-Journal-Announced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Shipud writes "The [0]Max Planck society, [1]Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and [2]Wellcome Trust have announced their plans for [3]a new
journal for biomedical and life science research to be launched summer
2012. From the [4]joint press release: 'The journal will employ an open
and transparent peer review process in which papers will be accepted or
rejected as rapidly as possible, generally with only one round of
revisions, and with limited need for modifications or additional
experiments. For transparency, reviewers' comments will be published
anonymously.' The journal will be online-only and open access too, and
they promise 'an opportunity to create a journal and article format that
will exploit the potential of new technologies to allow for improved data
presentation.' Especially valuable is the 'limited need for modifications
or additional experiments,' especially since even Nature has recently
published a [5]scathing opinion piece about reviewers' almost reflexive
demands for additional experiments from manuscript authors."
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Links:
0. http://www.mpg.de/de
1. http://www.hhmi.org/
2. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
3. http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2011/06/27/suggest-a-name-for-the-next-big-journal/
4. http://www.mpg.de/4354325/New_Journal
5. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472391a.html
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| Eight Major 3G & 4G Networks Tested Nationwide
| from the who-coddles-their-packets dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @15:38 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/198221/Eight-Major-3G-amp-4G-Networks-Tested-Nationwide?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "Building [0]on last year's efforts, PCMag once
again hit the road on a 6,000 mile trip to test out eight 3G and 4G
networks to determine which ones were the fastest (and slowest) in 21
different cities. With 10 stops in each city for at least 15 minutes
each, the team used custom speed test software on 16 different handsets
which ran HTTP upload and download tests every 25 seconds to 3 minutes.
The [1]test results were broken down by city as well as region. As
expected, Verizon's 4G led the pack. It performed the best in Dallas,
where it averaged 15.75 Mbsp and also hit the highest download speed of
37.66 Mbsp. On the other hand, Sprint's 4G results were disappointing; in
some cities even AT&T provided better download speeds. Beyond the 4G,
T-Mobile's HSPA+ offered blazing fast speeds as well, going as high up as
15.93 Mbsp in Detroit while averaging the best in Dallas at 6.44 Mbps.
Amongst the 3G networks, AT&T mostly outperformed all others."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/198221/Eight-Major-3G-amp-4G-Networks-Tested-Nationwide?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/03/1836232/Six-Major-3G-and-4G-Networks-Tested-Nationwide
1. http://www.pcmag.com/Fastest-Mobile-Networks-2011
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| Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers
| from the hope-they-offer-good-health-care dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @16:18 (Government)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2012226/Cancer-Cluster-Possibly-Found-Among-TSA-Workers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "TSA employees at Logan International Airport
believe they have identified a cancer cluster in their ranks, according
to [0]documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and
released by [1]the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They have
requested dosimetry to counter [2]'TSA's improperly non-monitored
radiation threat.' So far, at least, they have not received it. The
documents also reveal [3]a paper from Johns Hopkins that essentially
questions whether it is even safe to stand near an operating scanner, let
alone inside one. Also, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology says that the Dept. of Homeland Security [4]'mischaracterized'
their work by telling USA Today that NIST [5]affirmed the safety of the
scanners when in fact NIST does not do product safety testing and never
tested a scanner for safety."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2012226/Cancer-Cluster-Possibly-Found-Among-TSA-Workers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://epic.org/2011/06/epic-v-dhs-lawsuit----foiad-do.html
1. http://epic.org/
2. http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter/radiation_cluster_dosimeter.pdf
3. http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter/radiation_hopkins.pdf
4. http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter/radiation_NIST_USAToday.pdf
5. http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter/USAToday.pdf
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| Video Games Expected To Drive 3D Mobile Phone Sales
| from the angry-birds-3d-will-probably-do-it-too dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @16:41 (Cellphones)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2027236/Video-Games-Expected-To-Drive-3D-Mobile-Phone-Sales?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Forbes: "Nintendo
started the mainstream push into glasses free (autostereoscopic) 3D
gaming with its Nintendo 3DS system earlier this year. While sales were
decent for the device, the price point, hardcore focus and lack of killer
app games have failed to replicate the mainstream success of Nintendo
DSi. But a strong E3 with top-tier 3D games ... should help attract a
broader audience to the device, especially once Nintendo offers a price
cut. While some have called 3D phones gimmicky, these devices are already
commonplace in Asia. And with an influx of new 3D phones entering the
market this year, coupled with the Nintendo 3DS, Jim Cameron recently
[said] he sees these glasses-free devices as being key for the adoption
of 3D TVs in the homes. He said autostereoscopic 3D games will be the
entry level for most people to 3D. While the technology for big screen
glasses free 3D is still further away, [0]small devices like 3D phones
and Nintendo 3DS will show off the technology."
Discuss this story at:
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| Developers Defecting From BlackBerry
| from the developers-in-motion dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @17:00 (Blackberry)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2018225/Developers-Defecting-From-BlackBerry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Mobile app developers who build for multiple
platforms need to figure out how to conserve their resources somehow, and
many are choosing to do so by [1]not bothering to build apps for
BlackBerry phones. It's a combination of declining market share and the
general difficulty of building apps for the BlackBerry platform, [2]one
developer told Bloomberg: 'RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with
a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult
and expensive to develop across devices.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2018225/Developers-Defecting-From-BlackBerry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/177915/more-developers-defecting-rim
2. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-27/rim-loses-miami-dolphins-fans-as-software-developers-defect.html
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| Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones?
| from the nerds-and-dorks-still-secure dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @17:38 (Editorial)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2117220/Are-Fake-Geeks-Dooming-Real-Ones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mattnyc99 writes "In the wake of the Best Buy [0]'geek' trademarking and
Miss USA calling herself 'a huge history geek,' writer (and
self-proclaimed geek) Eryn Green has an interesting piece for Esquire on
how so-called 'geek chic' is pervading the culture so much that [1]no one
appreciates an actual geek anymore. From the article: 'The difference
between brains and beauty is that you're more or less born into good
looks ��� entitled, if you will. Intelligence? That takes work. If the
hallmark of real geekiness ��� of America ��� is determination, then we seem
too determined to have an entitlement problem.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2117220/Are-Fake-Geeks-Dooming-Real-Ones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/1454207/Best-Buy-Flexes-Legal-Muscles-Over-Geek
1. http://www.esquire.com/the-side/opinion/geek-news-5995941
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| First Photos of Asteroid 2011 MD
| from the bruce-willis-alert-level-reduced-to-green dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @18:02 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2120247/First-Photos-of-Asteroid-2011-MD?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "At around 1 p.m. EDT on Monday, [1]asteroid 2011
MD narrowly missed Earth's atmosphere, passing [2]well within the orbits
of our GPS satellites. Scientists worked hard to track the space rock,
and astronomers using the 2-meter Faulkes Telescope in Siding Spring,
Australia, [3]managed to image the asteroid. Also, Planetary Science
Institute research scientist Pasquale Tricarico put together [4]some
pretty cool asteroid-eye-view animations of the event."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2120247/First-Photos-of-Asteroid-2011-MD?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/25/2254257/Asteroid-To-Pass-Near-Earth-On-Monday
2. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/26/rv-sized-asteroid-will-buzz-the-earth-on-monday/
3. http://news.discovery.com/space/first-photos-of-incoming-asteroid-2011-md-110627.html
4. http://news.discovery.com/space/visualizing-asteroid-2011-md-zip-past-earth-animation-110624.html
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| Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps
| from the netcraft-confirms-it-then-denies-it dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @18:17 (Android)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2131216/Native-Apps-Are-Dead-Long-Live-Native-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]cardoni writes "Dan Yoder, CTO at Border Stylo, offers insights on the
current state of simultaneous iPhone / Android development using PhoneGap
and his thoughts on [1]the debate over native apps versus Web apps.
Quoting: 'One problem with the debate is that it���s a false dichotomy,
since you can embed a Web browser within a native application. And,
conversely, you can extend an embedded Web browser to provide access to
native APIs. The two alternatives have not been mutually exclusive for
years now. And, focusing on the strengths of native applications ignores
the benefits of Web applications. For example, there���s the appeal of
writing code that will run on a variety of different devices, ranging
from mobile phones, to tablets, to laptops, even to gaming consoles.
Virtually every major device platform now sports a Web browser, and it
can often be discreetly embedded within a native application. To boot,
much of this code can be tested using a Web browser, which enables more
easily automated testing. It���s also easier to find Web developers than it
is to find native developers.'"
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Links:
0. http://borderstylo.com/
1. http://borderstylo.com/posts/280-native-applications-are-dead-long-live-native-applications
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| Linux-Based Gaming Handheld To Rely On Low Material Cost, Indie Apps
| from the race-to-zero dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday June 27, @18:34 (Handhelds)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2151243/Linux-Based-Gaming-Handheld-To-Rely-On-Low-Material-Cost-Indie-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]dartttt writes "Robert Pelloni and his team are working to develop an
indie handheld gaming console, the 'nD,' which will run a number of indie
games. The device will support 2D games only, and will [1]run a
custom-developed, embedded Linux firmware. It will have its own Game
Store, which will allow users to download games. The SDK will be released
soon, and is based on open source gaming standard [2]SDL. Developers are
being told that they can actually start making and compiling games on
Windows, Mac and Linux using a 320x240 resolution."
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2151243/Linux-Based-Gaming-Handheld-To-Rely-On-Low-Material-Cost-Indie-Apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:dart.v85@gmail.com
1. http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2011/06/nd-new-10-gaming-handheld-device.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer
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| One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard
| from the trackball-also-off-the-table dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @18:59 (Input Devices)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2223207/One-Week-No-Mouse-Just-Keyboard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Anyone in tech has heard from grousing old-timers
who believe the GUI was the beginning of the end of civilization and that
EMacs keyboard shortcuts are all the interface anyone should need. But
can someone use a modern consumer OS without laying hands on a mouse?
Kevin Purdy [1]gave it a week-long try."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2223207/One-Week-No-Mouse-Just-Keyboard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/177989/7-days-using-only-keyboard-shortcuts-no-mouse-no-trackpad-no-problem
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| Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys
| from the damned-fine-dirty-ape dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @19:21 (Advertising)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2235252/Finally-an-Ad-Campaign-Aimed-At-Monkeys?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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TaeKwonDood writes "Does sex sell for monkeys the way it does humans?
Apparently so. And researchers are now hoping sexy billboards can cause
monkeys [0]to prefer a flavor of Jell-O they otherwise do not."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2235252/Finally-an-Ad-Campaign-Aimed-At-Monkeys?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/revealed_first_ad_campaign_monkeys-80378
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| Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen?
| from the just-drill-into-a-powerline dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @19:40 (Canada)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2315249/Ask-Slashdot-Mobile-Data-In-Canada-For-a-US-Citizen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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macwhizkid writes "I'm traveling to Canada for a week in July with youth
group, and need a way to post blog updates on the trip and send back
photos. I'll be staying on an island accessible only by boat, so a
hard-wired connection is out of the question. I have a Verizon voice +
data plan, and I've heard all the horror stories of [0]multi-thousand
dollar international data roaming charges. What I'd like to do is get 1-2
GB of data (5 GB would be great) to use on a Canadian provider's network
for a reasonable fee (say, less than $100 total) as a wireless hotspot
set-up. I have both a CDMA iPhone and a GSM iPad, so I really just need a
micro-SIM or a way to register the IMIE. It appears that both [1]Rogers
and Bell offer 'pay as you go' data plans (Rogers has [2]a particularly
attractive iPad option), but there are conflicting reports as to whether
a [3]U.S. credit card can be used to buy service. I can't believe I'm the
first U.S. citizen to want mobile data in Canada. So, has anyone done
this successfully? Is there another option I'm not considering?"
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https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2315249/Ask-Slashdot-Mobile-Data-In-Canada-For-a-US-Citizen?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gigaom.com/mobile/international-data-roaming-charges-legal-theft/
1. http://www.rogers.com/web/resources/service/residentialRedirect.jsp?setLanguage=en&setProvince=ON&customer_type=Residential&targetUrl=%2Fweb%2FRogers.portal
2. http://www.rogers.com/web/resources/service/residentialRedirect.jsp?setLanguage=en&setProvince=ON&customer_type=Residential&targetUrl=%2Fweb%2Fcontent%2Fipad-dataplans
3. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=935105
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