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In this issue:
* Open Source Hardware Hits 1.0
* Why Debian Matters More Than Ever
* Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes
* <em>Duke Nukem Forever</em> Not Edited For Australia
* Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark
* Will the Apple TV Become a Gaming Platform?
* Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance
* Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now
* Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago
* Professor Rejects Camera Implanted In His Head
* Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G
* Google Brings Design-By-Contract To Java
* MPEG LA Attempts To Start VP8 Patent Pool
* Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill
* OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks
* Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info
* Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire
* BitTorrent and Khan Academy To Distribute Education
* Dead People Scientists Won't Let Rest
* Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay
* Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget
* Subtle Cyber Attacks Could Tilt Global Economies
* Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation
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| Open Source Hardware Hits 1.0
| from the ok-now-where's-the-pilot-light? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 10, @19:39 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/009206/Open-Source-Hardware-Hits-10?from=newsletter
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ptorrone writes "The Open Source Hardware Statement of Principles and
Open Source Hardware Definition [0]have hit 1.0. Open Source Hardware is
a term for tangible artifacts ��� machines, devices, or other physical
things ��� whose design has been released to the public in such a way that
anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things. This
definition is intended to help provide guidelines for the development and
evaluation of licenses for Open Source Hardware. The top open hardware
electronics pioneers and companies have endorsed the 1.0 definition, and
[1]next up will be logo selection."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/009206/Open-Source-Hardware-Hits-10?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW
1. http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/oshw-logo-v1-0/
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| Why Debian Matters More Than Ever
| from the secretly-replaced-these-folgers-crystals-with-debian dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 10, @20:31 (Debian)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0114235/Why-Debian-Matters-More-Than-Ever?from=newsletter
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Julie188 writes "If you look at the feature list for Debian 6, released
on February 6, it's easy to be underwhelmed. This is especially true when
measuring Debian against its offspring, like Ubuntu. Debian doesn't get
much credit, and its become trendy for industry pundits to claim it's
become irrelevant. But [0]it's more relevant than ever. If you're using
Ubuntu (or Linux Mint, or Mepis...), you're really using Debian with some
enhancements. According to a presentation given recently by Debian
Project Leader (DPL) Stefano Zacchiroli, only 7% of Ubuntu is directly
derived from upstream projects, Canonical's projects, or other non-Debian
sources. Of the rest, 74% of Ubuntu is rebuilt Debian packages, and 18%
are patched and rebuilt Debian packages."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0114235/Why-Debian-Matters-More-Than-Ever?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71256
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| Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes
| from the mine-was-just-a-bunch-of-sixes-anyhow dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 10, @23:24 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0351245/Court-Says-California-Stores-Cant-Ask-Customers-For-ZIP-Codes?from=newsletter
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "CNN reports that the California Supreme Court
has ruled that [0]retailers in California don't have the right to ask
customers for their ZIP code while completing credit card transactions,
saying that doing so violates a cardholders' right to protect his or her
personal information, pointing to a 1971 state law that prohibits
businesses from asking credit cardholders for 'personal identification
information' that could be used to track them down. 'The legislature
intended to provide robust consumer protections by prohibiting retailers
from soliciting and recording information about the cardholder that is
unnecessary to the credit card transaction,' the decision states. 'We
hold that personal identification information ... includes the
cardholder's ZIP code.' In her lawsuit, Jessica Pineda claimed that a
cashier at Williams-Sonoma had asked for her ZIP code during a purchase ���
information that was recorded and later used, along with her name, to
figure out her home address by tapping a database that the company uses
to market products to customers and sell its compiled consumer
information to other businesses."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0351245/Court-Says-California-Stores-Cant-Ask-Customers-For-ZIP-Codes?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/10/california.credit.zip.code/
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| <em>Duke Nukem Forever</em> Not Edited For Australia
| from the so-you'll-need-subtitles dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday February 11, @02:22 (Australia)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0122243/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Not-Edited-For-Australia?from=newsletter
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dotarray writes "In case you still somehow didn't believe yesterday's
news that Duke Nukem Forever [0]had been given an MA15+ rating in
Australia ��� effectively evading the notoriously strict censors, GamePron
now has confirmation that the Duke has not been edited in any way for an
Australian release. Hooray!"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0122243/Duke-Nukem-Forever-Not-Edited-For-Australia?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/02/10/duke-nukem-forever-not-edited-for-australia/
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| Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark
| from the slurp-and-emit dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday February 11, @05:13 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0142233/Thrifty-Anonymous-Benefactor-Backs-Up-BBC-Websites-Before-They-Go-Dark?from=newsletter
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revealingheart writes "The BBC is set to close down 200 of its websites
in the near future as part of cost-cutting measures. Hearing that 172 of
these sites would be deleted from the Web entirely, an [0]anonymous
individual has taken matters into his or her own hands. The result is a
[1]BitTorrent file that anyone can download to store a backup of these
'lost' websites forever. The cost of the project? Apparently no more than
$3.99 for a VPS server to crawl and retrieve all the sites."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0142233/Thrifty-Anonymous-Benefactor-Backs-Up-BBC-Websites-Before-They-Go-Dark?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/02/10/172-doomed-bbc-websites-saved-by-one-geek-for-3-99/
1. http://178.63.252.42/
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| Will the Apple TV Become a Gaming Platform?
| from the yeah-it'll-hold-up-my-xbox dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @06:31 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0546248/Will-the-Apple-TV-Become-a-Gaming-Platform?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "New data strings uncovered in the recently
released iOS 4.3 beta 3 suggest that Apple may have grand ambitions for
its little hobby known as the Apple TV: [0]the device may soon transform
into a gaming platform."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/0546248/Will-the-Apple-TV-Become-a-Gaming-Platform?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71346
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| Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance
| from the enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @08:08 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1243232/Nokia-and-Microsoft-Make-Smartphone-Alliance?from=newsletter
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pbahra writes "The smart money was right. [0]Nokia has jumped into bed
with Microsoft and will [1]produce phones running Windows Phone 7. The
cynics would say that, here, we have two lumbering dinosaurs of the
technology world clinging to each other [2]hoping that the other gives
them a future. Optimists would point to [3]two companies that need each
other, both bringing vital components to the alliance. The big winner is
Microsoft. Windows Phone 7, while reasonably well received by
commentators, has not set the world on fire. An alliance with Nokia gives
it access to the world's largest phone maker and its huge mindshare ��� in
many developing nations a mobile phone is known as a Nokia. The biggest
loser is MeeGo, the ugly, unloved step-child of operating systems." Nokia
wrote to developers, "Qt will continue to be the development framework
for Symbian and [4]Nokia will use Symbian for further devices; continuing
to develop strategic applications in Qt for Symbian platform and
encouraging application developers to do the same."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1243232/Nokia-and-Microsoft-Make-Smartphone-Alliance?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/02/11/nokia-and-microsoft/
1. http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1488007
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-11/nokia-joins-forces-with-microsoft-to-challenge-dominance-of-apple-google.html
3. http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/02/11/open-letter-from-ceo-stephen-elop-nokia-and-ceo-steve-ballmer-microsoft/?mobile
4. http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/2011/02/11/letter-to-developers?sf1066337=1
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| Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now
| from the dumbbells-are-everywhere dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday February 11, @08:51 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/027213/Why-Dumbphones-Still-Dominate-For-Now?from=newsletter
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Velcroman1 writes "Androids are awesome, iPhones impressive ... but
dumbphones still dominate. Of the 234 million cell phone users in America
last year, a dominating [0]73 percent own traditional (aka non-smart)
devices, according to market researcher comScore. Despite their more
popular mindshare, intelligent devices like the Apple iPhone and phones
based on Google's Android operating system own barely a quarter of the
market."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/027213/Why-Dumbphones-Still-Dominate-For-Now?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/10/dumb-phones-dominate-smart-phones/
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| Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago
| from the not-so-safe-mode dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @09:33 (Biotech)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1329243/Cancer-Resembles-Life-1-Billion-Years-Ago?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "What is cancer? It's not an invader; it's
spawned from our own bodies. And [0]it bears striking resemblance to
early multicellular life from 1 billion years ago. This has led
astrobiologists and cosmologists Paul Davies and Charlie Lineweaver to
suggest that cancer is driven by primitive genes that govern cellular
cooperation ([1]abstract), and which kick in when our more recently
evolved genes that keep them in check break down. So, far from being
rogue cells that mutate out of control, cancers are actually cells that
revert to a more ancient level of programming, like booting in Safe Mode.
The good news is this means cancers have only finite variation. Once we
figure out the ancient genes, we'll know how it works. It's unlikely to
evolve any new defense mechanisms, meaning curing cancer might be not
quite as mammoth a task as commonly thought."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1329243/Cancer-Resembles-Life-1-Billion-Years-Ago?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article/375886/cancer_resembles_life_1_billion_years_ago_say_astrobiologists/
1. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1088/1478-3975/8/1/015001
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| Professor Rejects Camera Implanted In His Head
| from the bad-ideas dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday February 11, @09:34 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1252231/Professor-Rejects-Camera-Implanted-In-His-Head?from=newsletter
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Stenchwarrior writes "A New York University professor temporarily
[0]removed the camera he had surgically installed in the back of his head
to get rid of one of the apparatus' parts after his body rejected it,
myFOXny.com reported Wednesday. Photography professor Wafaa Bilal was in
near constant pain after part of a thumb-nail-size [1]camera, implanted
in December as part of an art project commissioned by a new museum in
Qatar, was rejected by his body."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1252231/Professor-Rejects-Camera-Implanted-In-His-Head?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/10/nyu-professor-removes-camera-head-wafaa-bilal/#ixzz1DaDRJwnM
1. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/11/16/1418241/Professor-Has-Camera-Surgically-Implanted-In-the-Back-of-His-Head
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| Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G
| from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @10:17 (Wireless Networking)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1411241/Obamas-Goal-98-of-US-Covered-By-4G?from=newsletter
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alphadogg writes "Ninety-eight percent of US residents [0]would have
access to high-speed mobile broadband service within five years under a
plan that President Barack Obama detailed Thursday. Obama's proposal,
which he alluded to in his State of the Union speech last month, would
free up 500MHz of wireless spectrum over a decade by offering to share
spectrum auction proceeds with current spectrum holders, including
television stations, that have unused airwaves. The cost of the proposal
is likely to raise questions from lawmakers, and some backers of
government broadband spending have already raised concerns that the plan
would give money and spectrum to large mobile carriers."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1411241/Obamas-Goal-98-of-US-Covered-By-4G?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/021011-obama-goal-98-percent-of.html
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| Google Brings Design-By-Contract To Java
| from the putting-a-hit-out-on-bugs dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @10:59 (Google)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1446242/Google-Brings-Design-By-Contract-To-Java?from=newsletter
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angry tapir writes "Google is [0]developing a set of extensions for Java
that should aid in better securing Java programs against buffer overflow
attacks. Google has [1]announced that it open sourced a project that its
engineers were working on to add a new functionality into Java called
Contracts, or Design-By-Contract. 'Contracts exist to check for
programmer error, not for user error or environment failures. Any
difference between execution with and without runtime contract checking
(apart from performance) is by definition a bug. Contracts must never
have side effects.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1446242/Google-Brings-Design-By-Contract-To-Java?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/376303/google_extensions_could_aid_java_security/
1. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/contracts-for-java.html
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| MPEG LA Attempts To Start VP8 Patent Pool
| from the motives-as-pure-as-the-driven-snow dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @11:43 (Patents)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1536257/MPEG-LA-Attempts-To-Start-VP8-Patent-Pool?from=newsletter
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Confirming speculation from [0]last year, an anonymous reader tips news
that MPEG LA has posted a request for information about [1]establishing a
patent pool for the VP8 video codec. "In order to participate in the
creation of, and determine licensing terms for, a joint VP8 patent
license, any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the
VP8 video codec specification is invited to submit them for a
determination of their essentiality by MPEG LA���s patent evaluators. At
least one essential patent is necessary to participate in the process,
and initial submissions should be made by March 18, 2011. Although only
issued patents will be included in the license, in order to participate
in the license development process, patent applications with claims that
their owners believe are essential to the specification and likely to
issue in a patent also may be submitted."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1536257/MPEG-LA-Attempts-To-Start-VP8-Patent-Pool?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/133249/MPEG-LA-Considering-Patent-Pool-For-VP8WebM
1. http://www.mpegla.com/main/pid/vp8/default.aspx
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| Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill
| from the not-a-reliable-method dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @12:26 (Businesses)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1653252/Amazon-Pulling-Out-of-Texas-Over-269-Million-Tax-Bill?from=newsletter
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ralphart writes with this excerpt from the Dallas Morning News: "As a
result of an ongoing tax dispute with Texas, Amazon.com has decided to
take its ball and go home. The online retailer said Thursday that it
would shutter its Irving distribution facility April 12 and cancel plans
to hire as many as 1,000 additional workers rather than pay Texas what
the state says is owed in uncollected sales tax. [0]Texas wants $269
million from Seattle-based Amazon in past-due sales tax. It sent the bill
to the company last October." We've discussed the online retailer's
[1]tax battles with [2]other states in the past.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1653252/Amazon-Pulling-Out-of-Texas-Over-269-Million-Tax-Bill?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20110210-amazon.com-shutting-irving-office-over-tax-dispute.ece
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/27/0316233/Amazon-Prevails-In-State-Sales-Tax-Dispute-Thus-Far
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/04/12/0415223/New-York-to-Implement-an-Amazon-Tax
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| OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks
| from the cutthroat-competition dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @13:08 (The Internet)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1741209/OpenLeaks-Founder-Crippled-WikiLeaks?from=newsletter
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SETIGuy writes "Former WikiLeaks programmer Daniel Domscheit-Berg
[0]sabotaged WikiLeaks in a manner that threatens the anonymity of
leakers, according to a WikiLeaks spokesperson. Since leaving WikiLeaks,
Domschiet-Berg has become one of the cofounders of OpenLeaks. This raises
the question: if you had material to leak, would you trust it to someone
who has already jeopardized the anonymity of leakers at a site where he
worked?" Domscheit-Berg [1]denies claims by WikiLeaks that he damaged the
organization or 'stole' material, but did say he took roughly 300,000
documents with him when he left. An anonymous reader notes related news
that WikiLeaks is attempting to get around donation blocks by [2]selling
a line of T-shirts.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1741209/OpenLeaks-Founder-Crippled-WikiLeaks?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/10/wikileaks-assange-idUSLDE7191L520110210
1. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/10/germany.openleaks.wikileaks/index.html
2. http://wikileaks.spreadshirt.com/
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| Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info
| from the win-some-lose-some dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @13:53 (PlayStation (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1753256/Sony-Gets-Geohots-Hardware-But-Not-YouTubeTwitter-User-Info?from=newsletter
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RedEaredSlider writes "A Federal court in California has [0]denied Sony's
motion to pull the personal information of Twitter and YouTube users who
might have downloaded code that allows PlayStation 3s to run with
alternative operating systems. The company had filed a motion for
discovery, asking for the personal information of users of Twitter and
YouTube who might have a connection with George Hotz, who had published a
piece of code on his Web site that allowed a PlayStation 3 to run other
operating systems as well as pirated games. Sony was, in essence, asking
for the contact information of people who had commented on the video Hotz
posted showing how he used the code, as well as people he may have
corresponded with via Twitter. The judge in the case, Susan Illston,
denied the motion. Hotz is still under a restraining order that forbids
him from offering any methods or software that allow people to modify
their Sony PlayStation 3s. Nor is he allowed to provide links to sites
that offer such methods or software. He is also [1]ordered to turn over
his computers to Sony."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1753256/Sony-Gets-Geohots-Hardware-But-Not-YouTubeTwitter-User-Info?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/111216/20110210/sony-loses-bid-to-pull-twitter-youtube-user-info.htm
1. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/11/sony-gets-geohots-hardware-judge-rules/
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| Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire
| from the made-your-bed dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @14:36 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1920258/Out-of-Egypt-Censorship-US-Tech-Export-Under-Fire?from=newsletter
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AndyAndyAndyAndy writes "After it was exposed that American firm [0]Narus
had [1]sold Egypt the Deep Packet Inspection equipment used to spy on and
censor its citizens, the US House Committee on Foreign Relations [2]held
a hearing where Reps. Chris Smith and Bill Keating 'grilled Deputy
Secretary of State James Steinberg on the sale of this Internet spying
technology to an Egyptian Internet provider controlled by the Mubarak
regime.' It seems there is now [3]a push for stronger controls and
monitoring for technology exports 'that would provide a national strategy
to prevent the use of American technology from being used by human rights
abusers.'" Several readers have noted that Hosni Mubarak has now
[4]stepped down as president of Egypt. Control of the country's affairs
has been passed to the high council of its armed forces, which [5]has
some journalists and bloggers worried.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1920258/Out-of-Egypt-Censorship-US-Tech-Export-Under-Fire?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.narus.com/
1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html
2. http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1208
3. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/02/11/congressmen-urge-state-department-investigate-internet-spying-company
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045
5. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/security/a-conversation-with-egyptian-blogger-hossam-el-hamalawy/7190/
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| BitTorrent and Khan Academy To Distribute Education
| from the racing-to-zero-cost-education dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @15:18 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1924237/BitTorrent-and-Khan-Academy-To-Distribute-Education?from=newsletter
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drDugan writes "BitTorrent, Inc. announced this morning that [0]they have
launched a partnership with the [1]Khan Academy to distribute open
education videos. They launched with more than 2,000 videos, covering
high school and college level curriculum, across science, math, history,
finance and test prep. All of the videos are free to download and open
licensed with Creative Commons."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1924237/BitTorrent-and-Khan-Academy-To-Distribute-Education?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.bittorrent.com/2011/02/10/khan-academy-education-videos-arrive-in-the-app-studio/
1. http://www.khanacademy.org/
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| Dead People Scientists Won't Let Rest
| from the test-and-re-test dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday February 11, @15:46 (Medicine)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1258230/Dead-People-Scientists-Wont-Let-Rest?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Some historical figures are just too
interesting to leave alone, even when they're supposed to be moldering in
the grave. That's why medical researchers dug up Tycho Brahe, bombarded
Napoleon's hair with neutrons in a nuclear reactor, and did everything
they could think of to King Tut. Discover Magazine has [0]8 stories of
delayed diagnoses and extreme postmortems."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1258230/Dead-People-Scientists-Wont-Let-Rest?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://discovermagazine.com/photos/08-dead-people-science-wont-let-r-i-p/
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| Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay
| from the gotta-be-the-shoes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @16:00 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1942203/Why-the-Arduino-Won-and-Why-Its-Here-To-Stay?from=newsletter
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ptorrone writes "For years, students, journalists, makers and old-school
engineers have asked why [0]the Arduino open source microcontroller
platform has taken off, with over 100k units 'in the wild' ��� it's the
platform of choice for many. MAKE's new column discusses [1]why the
Arduino has become so popular and why it's here to stay. And for anyone
wanting to build an 'Arduino killer' (there are many) ��� MAKE outlines
what they'll need to do."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/1942203/Why-the-Arduino-Won-and-Why-Its-Here-To-Stay?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arduino.cc/
1. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-here-to-stay.html
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| Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget
| from the somebody-invent-a-science-gun dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @16:45 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/2138207/Science-Programs-Hit-Hard-By-Proposed-Budget?from=newsletter
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BJ_Covert_Action writes "The House of Representatives Committee on
Appropriations has released [0]a list of proposed spending cuts for the
US Federal Government. The proposed cuts include reductions in spending
on many science organizations and funds such as NASA, NOAA, nuclear
energy research, fossil fuel energy research, clean coal research, the
CDC, the NIH, and numerous EPA programs. There are also quite a few cuts
proposed on domestic services, such as Americorps and high speed rail
research. The House Appropriations Chairman, Hal Rogers, acknowledges
that the cuts go deep, and would hurt every district across the country.
But they are still deemed necessary to rein in Congressional spending.
Notoriously absent from the proposed budget cuts are two of the largest
spending sinks in the federal budget: the Department of Defense and
Social Security."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/2138207/Science-Programs-Hit-Hard-By-Proposed-Budget?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=259
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| Subtle Cyber Attacks Could Tilt Global Economies
| from the rounding-fractions-of-cents dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @17:28 (Crime)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/229254/Subtle-Cyber-Attacks-Could-Tilt-Global-Economies?from=newsletter
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wiredmikey writes "A subtle, yet powerfully destructive force of
electronic attacks may be working slowly and silently to [0]disrupt
elements of the world's market-based economies. Recent cyber-attacks on
the European Emissions Trading Scheme [1]shut down that exchange's carbon
market just a few weeks ago. Along with the fear of lights-out DDoS
attacks that has traditionally stalked electronic markets, and logically
still does, new types of attacks by subtle manipulation could slowly turn
electronic markets on their heads by corrupting their very legitimacy.
What's worse? Attacking someone's borders, or slowly disrupting and
degrading confidence in their entire national economic well-being?"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/229254/Subtle-Cyber-Attacks-Could-Tilt-Global-Economies?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/attackers-subtle-markets-manipulation-could-tilt-global-economies
1. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/20/1817220/Carbon-Trading-Halted-After-EU-Exchange-Is-Hacked
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| Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation
| from the same-old-song-and-dance dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, @18:14 (Editorial)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/2247210/Why-IP-Laws-Are-Blocking-Innovation?from=newsletter
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DrJimbo passes along this quote from Groklaw: "The White House is asking
us to [0]give them ideas on what is blocking innovation in America. I
thought I'd give them an honest answer. Here it is: [1]Current
intellectual property laws are blocking innovation. President Obama just
set a goal of wireless access for everyone in the US, saying it will
spark innovation. But that's only true if people are allowed to actually
do innovative things once they are online. You have to choose. You can
prop up old business models with overbearing intellectual property laws
that hit innovators on the head whenever they stick their heads up from
the ground; or you can have innovation. You can't have both. And right
now, the balance is away from innovation."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/11/2247210/Why-IP-Laws-Are-Blocking-Innovation?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110209/12240913029/white-house-wants-advice-whats-blocking-american-innovation.shtml
1. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011021108493059
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[GV Daily] Egypt: The World Rejoices as Mubarak Resigns
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On day 18 of massive protests that have rocked Egypt, Hosni Mubarak resigns. Tweeps from around the world rejoice at the news.
President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia more than three weeks ago, but clashes with police and protests by people demanding jobs or better wages are still taking place in Tunisia. In this post we hear from Tunisian bloggers on the current situation, some voicing frustration at the lack of order, even as the overall tone is hopeful that everything will work out in the end.
Gabon's political crisis reached new heights on February 10, as students protested at Omar Bongo University in the capital city, Libreville. Whereas riots last week involved mainly the opposition, the confrontation appears to be developing into a wider social conflict.
At Ghana's Constitution Review Commission, social media strategist, Kobina Graham is taking debate on the new Constitution straight to the people - through their phones.
Facebook came to life on Denmark's streets in 2010 through events and groups organised via the social networking site. Whether motives were addressing the country's homeless or immigration policy, it was creativity that characterised Facebook in 'real life'.
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