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In this issue:
* Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50%
* Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor
* Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends
* Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software?
* Apple Blocks Sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 In Australia
* Mysterious Object Found In Seabed
* Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better?
* Use Your Car To Power Your House
* How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port
* Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev
* Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil?
* Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?
* Escaping Infinite Loops
* 800Mbps Wireless Network Made With LED Light Bulbs
* US Patent Regime Is Absurd
* Zediva Shut Down By Federal Judge, MPAA Parties!
* Measuring Broadband America Report Released
* Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect
* What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means For IT
* Email In Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public
* NSA Hiring At Black Hat
* Telex Would Work, But Is It Overkill?
* Middleboxes vs. the Internet's End-to-End Principle
* Microsoft Curbs Wi-Fi Location Database
* DARPA Developing Video Parser
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| Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50%
| from the why-it-seems-only-yesterday dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 01, @20:04 (Microsoft)
| with 407 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/000244/Windows-XP-Market-Share-Finally-Falls-Below-50?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say
that [0]Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other
words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than
half of all Internet users."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/000244/Windows-XP-Market-Share-Finally-Falls-Below-50?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techspot.com/news/44902-windows-xp-usage-finally-falls-below-50-mark.html
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| Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor
| from the now-you're-playing-with-power dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 02, @08:51 (Power)
| with 393 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1242234/Swede-Arrested-For-Building-Nuclear-Reactor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A 31 year old Swedish male was arrested for
[0]trying to build a nuclear reactor in his apartment. He got hold of
radioactive material thru mail-order purchases and from smoke detectors.
Police raided his apartment after he had contacted the Swedish Radiation
Authority (Str��ls��kerhetsmyndigheten) to inquire if it was legal to
construct a nuclear reactor at home."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1242234/Swede-Arrested-For-Building-Nuclear-Reactor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.thelocal.se/35306/20110802/
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| Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends
| from the behind-the-times dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 02, @11:57 (Cloud)
| with 392 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1458218/Missouri-Law-Says-Students-Teachers-Cant-Be-Facebook-Friends?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Teachers can be friendly with their students,
but they can't be their friends, at least when it comes to social
networks such as Facebook. State Governor Jay Nixon has signed Senate
Bill 54, which goes into effect on August 28, 2011 in the state of
Missouri. In other words, later this month [0]it will be illegal for
students and teachers to be friends online."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1458218/Missouri-Law-Says-Students-Teachers-Cant-Be-Facebook-Friends?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software?
| from the how-many-gnus-for-a-soda dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @14:08 (Linux)
| with 317 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1736215/Are-Bad-Economic-Times-Good-for-Free-Software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Dog's_Breakfast writes "In a declining economy, software licenses
become a luxury. Linux and the BSDs offer free alternatives. As the USA
toys with the possibility of [1]defaulting on its national debt (and thus
risking economic collapse), the author wonders if this might not, at
last, [2]lead to 'The Year of the Linux Desktop.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1736215/Are-Bad-Economic-Times-Good-for-Free-Software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:chiu_miaoling@yahoo.com
1. https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/048246/Debt-Deal-Reached
2. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110801#feature
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| Apple Blocks Sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 In Australia
| from the about-that-rent-we're-seeking dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 02, @01:09 (Australia)
| with 299 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/2345249/Apple-Blocks-Sale-of-Galaxy-Tab-101-In-Australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]lukehopewell1 writes "Apple [1]has obtained an injunction from an
Australian court effectively blocking the sale of the new Android
Honeycomb-powered [2]Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v. Apple Australia claims
that the unit infringes on 10 of the Cupertino, California-based
company's patents including the slide to unlock functionality as well as
the edge-bounce feature. Samsung will provide Apple Australia with three
units for study in coming weeks to ascertain whether or not the Korean
gadget maker did in fact infringe on Apple's patented intellectual
property."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/2345249/Apple-Blocks-Sale-of-Galaxy-Tab-101-In-Australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:luke.hopewell@zdnet.com.au
1. http://www.zdnet.com.au/apple-blocks-samsung-galaxy-101v-in-aus-339319626.htm
2. http://www.zdnet.com.au/samsung-galaxy-tab-101v-339309234.htm
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| Mysterious Object Found In Seabed
| from the so-that's-where-i-left-my-spaceship dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @15:28 (Idle)
| with 281 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/197239/Mysterious-Object-Found-In-Seabed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]iONiUM writes "Scientists have found a strange object in the seabed
between Sweden and Finland. While claims are flying around that its a
[1]UFO that strangely resembles the Millennium Falcon, it is probably
something more benign."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/197239/Mysterious-Object-Found-In-Seabed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://upup-downdown.com/
1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2021174/Have-scientists-crashed-flying-saucer-seabed.html
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| Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better?
| from the future-of-gaming-or-complete-bunk dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 02, @03:26 (Graphics)
| with 276 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0443250/Making-Graphics-In-Games-100000-Times-Better?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]trawg writes "A small Australian software company ��� backed by almost
AUD$2 million in government assistance ��� is claiming they've developed
[1]a new technology which is '100,000 times better' for computer game
graphics. It's not clear what exactly is getting multiplied, but they
apparently 'make everything out of tiny little atoms instead of flat
panels.' They've posted a [2]video to YouTube which shows their new tech,
which is apparently running at 20 FPS in software. It's (very) light on
the technical details, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary
evidence, but they say an SDK is due in a few months ��� so stay tuned for
more." John Carmack had this to say about the company's claims: "No
chance of a game on current gen systems, but [3]maybe several years from
now. Production issues will be challenging."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0443250/Making-Graphics-In-Games-100000-Times-Better?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ausgamers.com/
1. http://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3093969
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUuUvDSXk4
3. https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/98127398683422720
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| Use Your Car To Power Your House
| from the because-you-can dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 02, @10:25 (Power)
| with 251 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/146201/Use-Your-Car-To-Power-Your-House?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Nissan has developed a system that allows a vehicle
to [1]supply electricity to power a house during a power outage or
shortage. A prototype of the charging system running on a Nissan Leaf
electric car was unveiled in Japan on Tuesday. A two-way charging device
that would typically convert the household electricity supply to a
voltage suitable for charging the car's battery can be reversed to feed
power back into the household circuit."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/146201/Use-Your-Car-To-Power-Your-House?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/188801/nissan-eyes-powering-your-house-your-car
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| How To Ruin Your Game's PC Port
| from the all-the-myriad-ways dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 02, @06:11 (PC Games (Games))
| with 232 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0533248/How-To-Ruin-Your-Games-PC-Port?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "An article at Ars goes through some of [0]the
biggest sins game publishers commit when porting a console game to the PC.
At the top of the list, predictably, are annoying DRM and inconvenient
game settings. From the article: 'PC gamers like to play with their mouse
settings, adjust the amount of detail in the characters or environment,
and change the audio mix between the music and the sound effects. We want
to adjust the resolution, the aspect ratio, and even the field of view
settings. The more options given to PC gamers, the better. While some
engines support more options than others, there is a minimum amount of
tweaking that should be available when we jump into the game. For an
example of how badly PC gamers can get screwed on this issue, we can take
a look at Bulletstorm when it was launched. Not only was mouse smoothing
turned on as a default, but there was no way to turn it off. You had to
find the configuration files, which were encrypted for some insane
reason, and then install a third-party program to be able to turn off
mouse smoothing and get the game feeling like it should on the PC."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0533248/How-To-Ruin-Your-Games-PC-Port?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/ars-guide-how-to-ruin-your-pc-port-in-five-easy-steps.ars
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| Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev
| from the peer-pressure dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 02, @18:33 (Android)
| with 222 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2229215/Amazon-App-Store-Rotten-To-the-Core-Says-Dev?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun sends an excerpt from this post made by a developer who decided
to try out Amazon's App Store, only to be disappointed with the
experience: "Amazon's biggest feature by far, has been their Free App Of
The Day promotion. Publicly their terms say that they pay developers 20%
of the asking price of an app, even when they give it away free. To both
consumers and naive developers alike, this seems like a big chance to
make something rare in the Android world: real money. But here's the
dirty secret Amazon don't want you to know, they don't pay developers a
single cent. ... Amazon is being predatory here, and asking developers
(who are often desperate for exposure) to give away their app, in order
to promote Amazon. In the end we agreed that we had entered the world of
Android development as an experiment, and it would seem silly not to add
more data to the experiment we were conducting. The day of our promotion
came: ... Amazon gave away 101,491 copies of our app! At this point, we
had a few seconds of excitement as well; had we mis-read the email and
really earned $54,800 in one day? We would have done if our public
agreement was in place, but we can now confirm that thanks to Amazon's
secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day. That's right, [0]over
100,000 apps given away, $0 made."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2229215/Amazon-App-Store-Rotten-To-the-Core-Says-Dev?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/
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| Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil?
| from the just-wait-for-the-worldwide-famine-of-the-'70s dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 02, @08:12 (Businesses)
| with 218 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0355242/Are-We-Seeing-the-End-of-Big-Oil?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Cyrus Sanati writes in Fortune Magazine that up
until now, it has been widely accepted that being bigger was better for
oil companies, but the announcement that [1]ConocoPhillips plans to break
up into two separately traded companies, separating its exploration and
production unit from its refining and marketing units, took Wall Street
by surprise, raising uncomfortable questions about the future of Big Oil.
'That's because the exploration side and the refining side of the oil
business have little to do with one another,' writes Sanati. 'Contrary to
popular belief, Big Oil has almost no control over the price of oil these
days. That power squarely rests with oil-rich nations that hold most of
the world's oil reserves and the Wall Street banks and hedge funds that
speculate and make markets in the oil trading game. So even though
ExxonMobil pumps oil, it can't guarantee that its refining unit will be
able to profitably process a barrel into gasoline or heating oil.' ...
'If the [2]ConocoPhillips story is a success for shareholders, there will
be calls to break up Big Oil just in time for the annual meetings in the
spring. So by this time next year, it is possible that [3]Big Oil will go
the way of Rockefeller's once gargantuan Standard Oil ��� with the markets,
not the government, forcing a break up this time.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0355242/Are-We-Seeing-the-End-of-Big-Oil?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/01/the-end-of-big-oil/
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-15/conocophillips-s-mulva-halts-oil-refining-binge-10-years-later.html
3. http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/energy/big-oil-break-up-signals-rockefeller-legacy-could-unravel
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| Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?
| from the either-way-the-garden-is-walled dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @13:23 (Google)
| with 181 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1659229/Is-Google-a-Cathedral-Or-a-Bazaar?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "With its recent [0]mass suspension of
accounts, Google has highlighted its desire to create a social network
that is very different to the way many (including those whose accounts
were suspended) would want to see it. The metaphor of the [1]Cathedral
and the Bazaar used for software development can be applied to the [2]two
types of social networks being proposed by Google on the one hand and the
pseudonym supporters on the other. Google's Cathedral model emphasizes
order and control whilst the bazaar model supports users who can be
anonymous, have multiple identities, interact with anyone they please,
and remain unobserved."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1659229/Is-Google-a-Cathedral-Or-a-Bazaar?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/24/0441238/Google-Account-Suspensions-Over-ToS-Drawing-Fire
1. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/
2. http://theconversation.edu.au/the-name-game-is-google-building-a-cathedral-or-a-bazaar-2606
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| Escaping Infinite Loops
| from the pc-losering dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @17:05 (Programming)
| with 176 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2031215/Escaping-Infinite-Loops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twocentplain writes in with an MIT news release about [1]Jolt, a
research project designed to [2]unfreeze software stuck in an infinite
loop (for a subset of infinite loops). It uses a combination of static
instrumentation (using [3]LLVM) and a run time watchdog that checks the
program state during loop iteration; when a duplicate state is detected
it permits the user to take one a few actions to escape the loop. The
authors claim it works well enough that the program can often continue
operating properly. The [4]original paper contains detailed case studies.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2031215/Escaping-Infinite-Loops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:wayne@theseltzers.com
1. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/pac/jolt/
2. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/infinite-loops-interrupt-0802.html
3. http://llvm.org/
4. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/pac/jolt/paper.pdf
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| 800Mbps Wireless Network Made With LED Light Bulbs
| from the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 02, @09:40 (Network)
| with 162 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1322201/800Mbps-Wireless-Network-Made-With-LED-Light-Bulbs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Mark.JUK writes "German scientists working at Berlin's [1]Fraunhofer
Institute for Telecommunications have set a new world record for Visible
Light Communication technology after they succeeded in using regular red,
blue, green and white LED light bulbs as the basis for building a new
800Mbps capable [2]ultrafast Wireless Local Area Network. Dr. Anagnostis
Paraskevopoulos explained: 'With the aid of a special component, the
modulator, we turn the LEDs off and on in very rapid succession and
transfer the information as ones and zeros. The modulation of the light
is imperceptible to the human eye. A simple photo diode on the laptop
acts as a receiver. The diode catches the light, electronics decode the
information and translate it into electrical impulses, meaning the
language of the computer.' The solution, which could be installed on
ceilings and would cover approximately 10 square meters, would be ideal
for HD video streaming and inside Hospitals or Aircraft where traditional
Wi-Fi is often banned. However visible light signals can easily be
blocked, such as when a hand is passed in front of the transmitter."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1322201/800Mbps-Wireless-Network-Made-With-LED-Light-Bulbs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/
1. http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/
2. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/08/02/scientists-use-led-light-bulbs-to-make-800mbps-capable-wireless-network.html
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| US Patent Regime Is Absurd
| from the self-inflicted-wound dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @16:25 (Patents)
| with 161 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/207228/US-Patent-Regime-Is-Absurd?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes in with an opinion piece in the Economist
about the the [0]effects of patent trolling on the US economy. The author
argues that the US patent regime is causing the US essentially to harm
itself. Things have gotten so bad that [1]paying for protection is par
for the course.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/207228/US-Patent-Regime-Is-Absurd?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/intellectual-property
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
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| Zediva Shut Down By Federal Judge, MPAA Parties!
| from the did-not-see-that-coming dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @15:38 (Media)
| with 144 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1852232/Zediva-Shut-Down-By-Federal-Judge-MPAA-Parties?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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AlienIntelligence writes "Looks like the [0]loophole that Zediva founded
their business model on evaporated. Zediva's [1]biggest problem was
getting over a 1991 [2]ruling against a similar method of transmitting
copyright works. Zediva has [3]vowed to appeal the ruling."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1852232/Zediva-Shut-Down-By-Federal-Judge-MPAA-Parties?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/16/AR2011031601439.html
1. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/zediva-preliminary-injunction/
2. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-912-introduction-to-copyright-law-january-iap-2006/readings/oncommand.pdf
3. http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2011/08/quoted-zediva-ordered-to-shut-down-vows-to-appeal.html
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| Measuring Broadband America Report Released
| from the cablevision-users-weeping dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @14:53 (The Internet)
| with 142 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1826203/Measuring-Broadband-America-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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AzTechGuy writes "Early this year I received one of the [0]'Whitebox'
routers to test the speed of my ISP and compare it to the advertised
speed. Today I received an email that they have [1]released the first
report with another report due at the end of the year. My results do not
correspond with the [2]results reflected in the report." It appears that
most ISPs are within 80% of their advertised speeds during peak hours
with Verizon leading the pack mostly exceeding their advertised rates.
Cablevision users, on the other hand, shouldn't expect more than half of
the promised bandwidth (youch!).
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1826203/Measuring-Broadband-America-Report-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/30/1625252/FCC-Giving-Away-Wi-fi-Routers-For-Broadband-Tests
1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/fios-dominates-as-fcc-measures-actual-internet-speeds.ars
2. http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america
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| Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect
| from the keep-to-the-left-for-8-inches dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 01, @21:58 (The Military)
| with 137 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0014223/Ground-Based-GPS-Mimic-Is-Inch-Perfect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "For several years the U.S. Air Force has used
WiFi-router-sized boxes on a New Mexico missile range to create a
GPS-like service to track munitions to the nearest inch. Now the
Australian company behind the technology is [1]rolling it out for
civilians. One gold mine is already using the tech and specifications are
being released so that GPS receiver manufacturers can adopt the
technology. Locata hopes that construction sites, factories and city
governments will all want to install their own high accuracy 'location
hotspots.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0014223/Ground-Based-GPS-Mimic-Is-Inch-Perfect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38163/?p1=A1
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| What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means For IT
| from the proliferation-of-supportable-things dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 02, @19:15 (Handhelds)
| with 133 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/237229/What-Consumerization-of-IT-Really-Means-For-IT?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Nathan Clevenger examines the impact that the
[1]'consumerization' of information technology will have on IT
organizations, a trend fueled in large part by employee interest in the
latest mobile devices, notably the iPhone and iPad. The growing practice
of introducing new technologies into consumer markets before industrial
markets stands to cause a sea change in the IT/user relationship,
Clevenger writes, adding that this will likely involve 'painful changes
in the status quo of corporate IT,' including the need to 'shed our
arrogance' to give the underlying technology a chance to succeed.
'Although the debate around the impact of consumerization will no doubt
continue for some time, the adoption of mobile technologies and
enterprise applications is moving forward, whether or not IT departments
are on board,' Clevenger writes, in large part because the trend provides
companies with a strong opportunity to improve efficiency, productivity,
and profit."
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-management/how-the-ipad-will-change-it-forever-166948
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| Email In Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public
| from the cannot-unring-that-bell dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 02, @06:53 (Google)
| with 103 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0757254/Email-In-Oracle-Google-Case-Will-Remain-Public?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "When last we left the Oracle/Google patent
infringement saga, Oracle had been ordered by Judge William Alsup to
[1]lower its claim for damages to $100 million, give or take. Today Judge
Alsup [2]denied Google's attempt to get a [3]potentially damaging e-mail
redacted. 'What we've actually been asked to do by Larry and Sergey is to
investigate what technology alternatives exist to Java for Android and
Chrome,' Google engineer Tim Lindholm wrote in the Aug. 2010 e-mail.
'We've been over a hundred of these and think they all suck. We conclude
that we need to negotiate a license for Java.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/23/2134229/Oracle-Ordered-To-Lower-Damages-Claim-On-Google
2. http://www.itworld.com/software/188481/judge-email-oracle-google-case-will-remain-public
3. http://www.itworld.com/software/187975/google-wants-e-mail-android-suit-redacted
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| NSA Hiring At Black Hat
| from the basement-or-cell dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @17:20 (Government)
| with 96 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2044250/NSA-Hiring-At-Black-Hat?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "It may seem strange that the US government would
be recruiting tech talent at [1]Black Hat, a security conference whose
participants have a notorious ambivalence about keeping within the letter
of the law. But the NSA ��� a shadowy organization with its own reputation
for dodgy behavior ��� is there recruiting, and pitching itself as a
[2]haven for geeks."
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Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.blackhat.com/
2. http://www.itworld.com/security/189101/r-u-h4x0r-n33d-jo8-nsa-wants-you-locked-cubicle-not-cell
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| Telex Would Work, But Is It Overkill?
| from the kill-it-again dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 02, @12:44 (Censorship)
| with 87 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1557227/Telex-Would-Work-But-Is-It-Overkill?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Slashdot regular contributor [0]Bennett Haselton wrote in this week to
say that "The [1]proposed "Telex" anti-censorship system could
technically work, but unless I'm missing something, it would more
cost-effective to spend the same resources on fighting censorship using
existing technologies." His essay on the subject follows.
This story continues at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1557227/Telex-Would-Work-But-Is-It-Overkill?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Links:
0. mailto:bennett@peacefire.org
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/1522255/Researchers-Debut-Proxy-Less-Anonymity-Service
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| Middleboxes vs. the Internet's End-to-End Principle
| from the I-love-saying-middleboxes dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 02, @04:05 (Communications)
| with 79 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/0130231/Middleboxes-vs-the-Internets-End-to-End-Principle?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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arglebargle_xiv writes "The Internet was designed around the end-to-end
principle, which says that functionality should be provided by end hosts
rather than in the network itself. A new study of the effect of [0]vast
numbers of middleboxes on the Internet (PDF) indicates that this is no
longer the case, since far too many devices on the Internet interfere
with traffic in some way. This has serious implications for network
(protocol) neutrality (as well as future IPv6 deployment) since only the
particular variations of TCP that they know about will pass through
them."
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Links:
0. http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/tmp/mboxes.pdf
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| Microsoft Curbs Wi-Fi Location Database
| from the neither-here-nor-there dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 02, @11:10 (Microsoft)
| with 67 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1421254/Microsoft-Curbs-Wi-Fi-Location-Database?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun writes "Microsoft has [0]ceased publishing the estimated
locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other devices with
Wi-Fi connections around the world after a CNET article on Friday
[1]highlighted privacy concerns. The decision to rework Live.com's
geolocation service comes following scrutiny of the way Microsoft made
available its database assembled by both Windows Phone 7 phones and what
the company calls "managed driving" by Street View-like vehicles that
record Wi-Fi signals accessible from public roads. Every Wi-Fi device has
a unique ID, sometimes called a MAC address, that cannot normally be
changed."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1421254/Microsoft-Curbs-Wi-Fi-Location-Database?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20086489-281/microsoft-curbs-wi-fi-location-database/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/1658230/Microsoft-Exposes-Locations-of-PCs-and-Phones
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| DARPA Developing Video Parser
| from the better-spying-through-technology dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, @17:50 (Software)
| with 20 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2115241/DARPA-Developing-Video-Parser?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes with an article in Networkworld about a
disconcerting DARPA project. From the article: "If a picture is worth a
thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency would like to make that about a billion with a new software
intelligent program. DARPA this month said it will detail a new system it
would like to see built known as the [1]Visual Media Reasoning (PDF)
program. The main idea is to develop an advanced software program that
can [2]'turn 'dumb' unstructured, ad hoc photos and video into true
visual intelligence.'"
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/2115241/DARPA-Developing-Video-Parser?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. https://www.fbo.gov/download/45a/45a6510403e0d562dd4b7cb530ef4b90/VMR_Industry_Day_August_1.pdf
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/darpa-software-spin-dumb-photos-or-video-inte
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