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In this issue:
* UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi
* Google Extends SSL To Developer-Facing APIs
* Tesla CEO Says Model S Will Support Third-Party Apps
* Android Game Devs Worry Over Ease of Copying
* Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash
* Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating
* Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011
* US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program
* Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action
* MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury
* Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job
* Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia
* Visa To Offer Person-To-Person Payments
* AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering
* CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act'
* Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark
* US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors
* Groupon Could Challenge Google's Record IPO
* The 'Adventure' In Self-Publishing an IT Book
* WikiLeaks Cash-For-Votes Exposé Rocks Indian Government
* Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students?
* Who's Behind the Google-Linux License Ruckus?
* ICANN Approves<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.XXX
* How Is Obama Doing On Open Government?
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| UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi
| from the ronald-assange-julian-reagan dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 17, @20:49 (The Military)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0014230/UN-Backs-Action-Against-Colonel-Gaddafi?from=newsletter
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chielk writes "The UN Security Council has backed a no-fly zone over
Libya and [0]'all necessary measures' short of an invasion 'to protect
civilians and civilian-populated areas.' The UK, France and Lebanon
proposed the council resolution, with US support."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0014230/UN-Backs-Action-Against-Colonel-Gaddafi?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12781009
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| Google Extends SSL To Developer-Facing APIs
| from the scramble-your-bits-please dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 17, @22:05 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0143259/Google-Extends-SSL-To-Developer-Facing-APIs?from=newsletter
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Orome1 writes "[0]Firesheep's authors can be the satisfied with the
gradual [1]migration towards SSL that most of the biggest social
networks, search engines, online shops and others have embarked upon
since its advent. Google, which has already taken care of its users and
encrypted its Web Search, Gmail and Google Docs, has [2]now turned its
attention to the APIs used by developers."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0143259/Google-Extends-SSL-To-Developer-Facing-APIs?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10042
1. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10749
2. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10760
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| Tesla CEO Says Model S Will Support Third-Party Apps
| from the don't-leave-the-updating-to-at&t-please dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 17, @23:50 (Software)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0055228/Tesla-CEO-Says-Model-S-Will-Support-Third-Party-Apps?from=newsletter
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thecarchik writes "The electric-car maker's CEO said at a conference
today in San Francisco that the much-hyped Model S electric sedan will
support [0]third-party apps and text-to-voice capabilities. With its
large 17-inch touchscreen console, car fans and investors have long
suspected that third-party apps might be part of the [1]Model S plan, but
Wednesday's announcement was the first acknowledgement from Musk that the
company is courting a developer community."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0055228/Tesla-CEO-Says-Model-S-Will-Support-Third-Party-Apps?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1056934_tesla-ceo-model-s-will-support-third-party-apps
1. http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1056260_objects-may-not-be-as-advertised-tesla-model-s-prototype-tour
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| Android Game Devs Worry Over Ease of Copying
| from the it's-a-droid-eat-droid-world dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @01:27 (Android)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0146233/Android-Game-Devs-Worry-Over-Ease-of-Copying?from=newsletter
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The Guardian reports on [0]problems faced by game makers on Android
Market. Some independent developers are finding that their games are too
easily copied and sold by competitors, and they say Google isn't reacting
quickly enough to reports of infringement. Quoting: "One of my customers
emailed me three weeks ago, and informed me that another company was
selling a version of my app ��� pirated and uploaded as their own. Of
course I contacted Google right away. It took Google two days to take the
app down. This publisher was also selling other versions of pirated
games. I contacted the original developers of those games but they were
still being sold a week later. You'd think [Google] might have a hotline
for things like that! I would also note that the publisher selling the
pirated games is still trading on the Android Market. They didn't even
get their account suspended. ... Why are these accounts still allowed to
be trading? It's negligent as far as I'm concerned."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0146233/Android-Game-Devs-Worry-Over-Ease-of-Copying?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/mar/17/android-market-pirated-games-concerns
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| Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash
| from the so-don't-design-anything-with-risks dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 18, @02:53 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/005256/Airbus-Faces-Charges-Over-2009-Rio-Paris-Crash?from=newsletter
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mayberry42 writes "A French judge [0]filed preliminary manslaughter
charges Thursday against Airbus over the 2009 crash of an Air France jet
��� opening a rare criminal investigation against a corporate powerhouse.
The order from Judge Sylvie Zimmerman targeting the European planemaker
centers on the June 2009 crash into the Atlantic of an Airbus A330 bound
for Paris from Rio de Janeiro, killing all 228 people on board."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/005256/Airbus-Faces-Charges-Over-2009-Rio-Paris-Crash?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating
| from the what-would-you-use-it-for? dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 18, @04:12 (Canada)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0133220/Canadian-Researchers-Develop-Permanent-Anti-Fog-Coating?from=newsletter
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cylonlover writes "Tired of your glasses fogging up on cold days, or of
having to spit in your dive mask before putting it on? Those hassles may
become a thing of the past, as researchers from Quebec City's Universit��
Laval have developed what they claim is the world's first [0]permanent
anti-fog coating. Just one application is said to work indefinitely on
eyeglasses, windshields, camera lenses, or any other transparent glass or
plastic surface."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0133220/Canadian-Researchers-Develop-Permanent-Anti-Fog-Coating?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/permanent-anti-fog-coating-developed/18163/
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| Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011
| from the in-my-day-we-had-integrated-graphics dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 18, @05:32 (Graphics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0032245/Graphics-Enabled-CPUs-To-Take-Off-In-2011?from=newsletter
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[0]angry tapir writes "Half the notebook computers and a growing number
of desktops shipped in 2011 will run on graphics-enabled microprocessors
as designers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) increase competition
for the units that raise multimedia speeds without add-ons. The
[1]processors with built-in graphics capabilities will be installed this
year on 115 million notebooks, half of total shipments, and 63 million
desktop PCs, or 45 percent of the total, according to analysts."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/0032245/Graphics-Enabled-CPUs-To-Take-Off-In-2011?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/380121/analyst_nearly_half_all_pcs_use_graphics_processors/
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| US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program
| from the and-I'm-learning-chinese-says-werner-von-braun dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 18, @08:13 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/023239/US-Military-Commissions-Sock-Puppet-Program?from=newsletter
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chrb writes "The Guardian and The Telegraph are reporting that US based
[0]Ntrepid Corporation has been [1]awarded a $2.76 million contract to
develop [2]software aimed at manipulating social media. The project aims
to enable military personnel to control multiple 'sock puppets' located
at a range of geographically diverse IP addresses, with the aim of
spreading pro-US propaganda. The project will not target English speaking
web sites (yet) but will be limited to foreign languages, including
Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto. The project will be funded as part of the
$200 million Operation Earnest Voice program run by US Central Command."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/023239/US-Military-Commissions-Sock-Puppet-Program?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ntrepidcorp.com/
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8388603/US-military-creates-fake-online-personas.html
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| Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action
| from the practice-for-fighting-skynet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @08:55 (Botnet)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1228227/Microsoft-Conducts-Massive-Botnet-Takedown-Action?from=newsletter
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[0]h4rm0ny writes "Microsoft, in cooperation with Federal agents,
conducted what the Wall Street Journal described as 'sweeping legal
attacks' as they entered facilities in Kansas City, Scranton, Pa, Denver,
Dallas, Chicago, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio to [1]seize alleged 'command
and control' machines for the Rustock botnet ��� described as the largest
source of spam in the world. The operation is intended to 'decapitate'
the botnet, preventing the seized machines from sending orders to
suborned PCs around the world."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1228227/Microsoft-Conducts-Massive-Botnet-Takedown-Action?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://h4rm0nyattarddelldotnet/
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703328404576207173861008758.html
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| MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury
| from the threading-a-distant-needle dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @09:38 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1256206/MESSENGER-Enters-Orbit-Around-Mercury?from=newsletter
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krswan writes "From the NASA press release: 'At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers
in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., received the
anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and
successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe [0]into orbit around the
planet Mercury.' If you don't know much about this little spacecraft,
[1]check out its website. Designed with a completely passive cooling
system, it will stay at 600C on the sun side, but room temperature behind
the sunshade. During its 6-year journey it used solar panels as sails,
relying on the solar wind instead of thrusters to adjust its trajectory.
Over the next year it will build a high-res map of Mercury, and maybe
determine if there is really ice [2]hiding within polar craters (PDF)."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1256206/MESSENGER-Enters-Orbit-Around-Mercury?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=162
1. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
2. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/Mercury_PK_TST_Rev7_Web.pdf
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| Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job
| from the especially-when-they-get-super-powers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @10:20 (Japan)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1356216/Heroism-Is-Part-of-a-Nuclear-Workers-Job?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "In 1988, Michael Friedlander was a newly minted
shift technical adviser at a nuclear power plant near the Gulf Coast when
Hurricane Gilbert, a Category 5 storm, was bearing down on the plant.
They received word that all workers should leave except for critical
plant personnel, and there was never a question: '[1]my team and I would
stay, regardless of what happened.' 'The situation facing the 50 workers
left at Fukushima is a nuclear operator's worst nightmare,' writes
Friedlander. 'But the knowledge that a nuclear crisis could occur, and
that we might be the only people standing in the way of a meltdown,
defines every aspect of an operator's life.' The field attracts a very
particular kind of person, says Friedlander, and the typical employee is
more like a cross between a jet pilot and a firefighter: highly trained
to keep a technically complex system running, but also [2]prepared to be
the first and usually only line of defense in an emergency. 'We will
likely hear numerous stories of heroism over the next several days, of
plant operators struggling to keep water flowing into the reactors,
breathing hard against their respirators under the dim rays of a handheld
flashlight in the cold, dark recesses of a critically damaged nuclear
plant, knowing that at any moment another hydrogen explosion could
occur.'" The [3]severity rating of the crisis has now been raised from 4
to 5 on the [4]International Nuclear Event Scale, and Japan's Prime
Minister called the situation "very grave."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1356216/Heroism-Is-Part-of-a-Nuclear-Workers-Job?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/opinion/18Friedlander.html
2. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11075/1132302-82.stm
3. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Japan-Raises-Severity-Rating-of-Nuclear-Disaster-118228669.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale
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| Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia
| from the descent-of-man dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @11:04 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1428251/Texas-Bill-Outlaws-Discrimination-Against-Creationists-In-Academia?from=newsletter
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[0]ndogg writes "There is a Texas bill, HB 2454, proposed by Republican
State Rep. Bill Zedler, that will [1]outlaw discrimination against
creationists in colleges and universities. More specifically, it says,
'An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or
penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic
support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member's or
student's conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent
design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of
organisms.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1428251/Texas-Bill-Outlaws-Discrimination-Against-Creationists-In-Academia?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:the.rhorn@COBOLgmail.comminuslanguage
1. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/it_is_true_biology_programs_di.php
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| Visa To Offer Person-To-Person Payments
| from the time-for-paypal-to-invest-in-some-accountability dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @11:44 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/153243/Visa-To-Offer-Person-To-Person-Payments?from=newsletter
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[0]angry tapir writes "Visa has announced it is planning a new service
that will let US customers [1]send money directly to one another,
presenting new competition to PayPal. Visa already lets people send money
to Visa accounts in many other countries, but this will be the first time
it will offer the service in the US."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/153243/Visa-To-Offer-Person-To-Person-Payments?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/380073/visa_offer_person-to-person_payments/
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| AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering
| from the convenience-charge-for-different-bits dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @12:28 (Iphone)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1548235/ATampT-Cracking-Down-On-Unofficial-iPhone-Tethering?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "AT&T is [0]sending warning notifications to
jailbroken iPhone users who use unofficial tethering methods like MyWi
and PDANet. 'Customers are being notified that their service plans need
updating to subscribe to a tethering plan, and that they will be
automatically subscribed to a DataPro 4GB package that costs an
additional $45 per month if they continue to tether.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1548235/ATampT-Cracking-Down-On-Unofficial-iPhone-Tethering?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/17/att-cracking-down-on-unofficial-iphone-tethering-mywi-users/
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| CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act'
| from the otherwise-the-terrists-win dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @13:09 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1632257/CCIA-Calls-Copyright-Wiretaps-Hollywoods-PATRIOT-Act?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Ars is reporting that the CCIA, a trade group
representing companies like AMD, Facebook, Oracle, Yahoo, Google and
Microsoft, is calling the copyright wiretaps requested by the IP Czar '[0]Hollywood's
PATRIOT Act.' For those who don't remember, IP Czar Victoria Espinel
recently wrote a report calling for more charges of felony copyright
infringement under the NET Act, as well as [1]felony charges for illegal
web streaming, authorization for the use of wiretaps in going after
copyright infringement cases, and several other measures. In short, this
means that the copyright cops are coming online."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1632257/CCIA-Calls-Copyright-Wiretaps-Hollywoods-PATRIOT-Act?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/ccia-copyright-wiretaps-are-hollywoods-patriot-act.ars
1. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/16/1441221/White-House-Wants-New-Copyright-Law-Crackdown
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| Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark
| from the can-we-pin-this-on-lincoln dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @13:52 (Japan)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1716212/Legacy-From-the-1800s-Leaves-Tokyo-In-the-Dark?from=newsletter
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[0]itwbennett writes "East Japan entered its fifth day of power rationing
on Friday, with no end to the planned blackouts in sight. The local
electrical utility can't make up the shortfall by importing power from
another region, though, because Japan lacks a national power grid, a
consequence of a [1]decision made in the late 1800s."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1716212/Legacy-From-the-1800s-Leaves-Tokyo-In-the-Dark?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/business/140626/legacy-1800s-leaves-tokyo-facing-blackouts
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| US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors
| from the shooter-games-just-got-less-unrealistic dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @14:35 (The Military)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1747218/US-Military-Deploys-Personal-Gunshot-Detectors?from=newsletter
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RedEaredSlider writes "A new warfighting technology will soon be making
its way to Afghanistan. US Army forces will be getting gunshot detection
systems, which can tell where a shot was fired from. Approximately
[0]13,000 gunshot detection systems will be given to individual
footsoldiers later this month, according to the US Army. The system,
called Individual Gunshot Detector, has four small acoustic sensors and a
small display screen attached to the soldier's body armor that shows the
distance and direction of incoming bullets. The sensors are each about
the size of a deck of cards and can detect the supersonic sound waves
generated by enemy gunfire. It alerts the soldier of the shot's direction
in less than one second."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1747218/US-Military-Deploys-Personal-Gunshot-Detectors?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Groupon Could Challenge Google's Record IPO
| from the until-the-coupon-bubble-collapses dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @15:17 (Businesses)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1851252/Groupon-Could-Challenge-Googles-Record-IPO?from=newsletter
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[0]jbrodkin writes "Months after spurning Google's $6 billion takeover
bid, [1]Groupon may topple Google's IPO record with an [2]initial public
offering worth $25 billion. Google went public in 2004 with a $24.6
billion valuation and Groupon seems to be on the verge of an IPO worth
even more, Dow Jones VentureSource says. Even if Groupon doesn't break
Google's record, it seems likely to become only the fifth venture-backed
company to achieve a $10 billion valuation at the time of its IPO."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1851252/Groupon-Could-Challenge-Googles-Record-IPO?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/index.html
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031811-groupon-google-ipo.html?hpg1=bn
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-17/groupon-is-said-to-discuss-ipo-valuation-of-up-to-25-billion.html
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| The 'Adventure' In Self-Publishing an IT Book
| from the it's-dangerous-to-go-alone-take-this dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @16:02 (Books)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1932216/The-Adventure-In-Self-Publishing-an-IT-Book?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Author Keir Thomas has blogged about [0]his
experiences self-publishing a computing book. Quoting: 'I knew that
publicizing the book would be difficult so I hit upon an idea: Why not
give away the eBook (PDF) version? I could use Amazon S3 for hosting the
file, so it would cost me just a few dollars per month. Sure enough,
giving the eBook away generated a lot of publicity. ... Since going on
sale at the start of 2009, the book has made me $9,000. ... I���ve had
worse salaries in my life, and I���m very grateful, but I know total
royalties would probably have been higher had I gone through the
traditional route of working with a mainstream publisher. I estimate I
have to give away 446 copies of the eBook for every sale of the print
edition.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1932216/The-Adventure-In-Self-Publishing-an-IT-Book?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| WikiLeaks Cash-For-Votes Exposé Rocks Indian Government
| from the never-a-dull-moment dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @16:46 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2030228/WikiLeaks-Cash-For-Votes-Expos233-Rocks-Indian-Government?from=newsletter
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mage7 writes "While the world's attention seems to be focused on the
events unfolding in Japan and the Middle-east, Indian headlines are being
dominated by the latest [0]WikiLeaks' revelations. The [1]newly leaked
cable (dated 17 July 2008) suggests that India's ruling Congress party
[2]bribed MPs in order to secure their votes for a controversial nuclear
deal between India and the US. Among other details, it describes how a
senior Congress aide showed a US embassy official 'chests of cash'
allegedly containing about $25 million to pay off MPs ahead of the vote.
Another Congress insider told a US official about how the Minister of
Commerce and Industry formerly 'could only offer small planes as bribes
... now he can pay for votes with jets.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2030228/WikiLeaks-Cash-For-Votes-Expos233-Rocks-Indian-Government?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.thehindu.com/news/the-india-cables/
1. http://www.thehindu.com/news/the-india-cables/article1544916.ece
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12768908
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| Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students?
| from the maybe-trebek-can-hook-you-up dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @17:31 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2036258/Ask-Slashdot-Setting-Up-Wireless-Voting-For-Students?from=newsletter
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RabidRabbit23 writes "I volunteer for a non-profit that organizes Model
UN conferences for high school students. We need a quick and low cost way
to record votes done by the students in large committees. There will be
two or three committees with about 200 students in each. We need to be
able to record yes, no or abstention votes and must be able to identify
each student's vote. We looked into radio response clickers, but it is
very expensive to buy 400-600 of them. They cost about $40 at university
bookstores, which is way out of our budget, but we don't know what kind
of discount we could get by buying directly from the manufacturer. We do
have wireless internet but we do not have enough bandwidth to support
everyone using a laptop. Does the Slashdot community have any suggestions
for a better way to record the students' votes?"
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2036258/Ask-Slashdot-Setting-Up-Wireless-Voting-For-Students?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Who's Behind the Google-Linux License Ruckus?
| from the my-money's-on-the-joker dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 18, @18:12 (Android)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2122247/Whos-Behind-the-Google-Linux-License-Ruckus?from=newsletter
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Yesterday, news broke that Android might have [1]a
Linux copyright problem, which would be big trouble for Google, already
locked in an IP struggle with Oracle over the mobile platform. Blogger
Brian Proffitt [2]looks deeper into the alleged violations. He notes
that, while it's possible that Google's on shaky ground, the motivations
behind the news release are murky: the lawyer who outlined the violation
is an ex-Microsoft hand, and the news was widely propagated by gadfly
Florian Mueller, who's tangled with Google over patent issues in the
past. Moreover, the alleged violations are in header files, and it's not
clear that those are copyrightable; if they are, no actual copyright
holders have come forward to complain."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2122247/Whos-Behind-the-Google-Linux-License-Ruckus?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/1719248/Does-Android-Have-a-Linux-Copyright-Problem
2. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/140667/helpful-lawyers-think-google-stole-linux-code
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| ICANN Approves<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.XXX
| from the not-to-say-they-approve-of-xxx dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 18, @18:57 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2232253/ICANN-Approves-XXX?from=newsletter
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[0]lothos writes "Pornography will have [1]its own top-level domain,
dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers decided today." Ars Technica has a short but thoroughly-linked
article tracing some of the [2]long history (in Internet time) behind the
push for .xxx. See also [3]ICANN's announcement of the approval, and ���
for all the juicy details ��� the [4]rationale behind the decision (PDF).
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/2232253/ICANN-Approves-XXX?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.webmastercoupons.net/
1. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/199851/icann_board_approves_dotxxx_toplevel_domain_for_porn.html
2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/icann-approves-xxx-red-light-district-for-the-internet.ars
3. http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm#5
4. http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/draft-icm-rationale-18mar11-en.pdf
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| How Is Obama Doing On Open Government?
| from the answer-redacted-because-mmmppphfhf dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 18, @19:43 (Government)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/235221/How-Is-Obama-Doing-On-Open-Government?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "OMB Watch today published an in-depth
analysis of the Obama administration's [0]progress on a wide-ranging set
of open government recommendations. Key findings of the report include
strong and consistent leadership from the White House on government
openness and meaningful utilization of e-government and Web 2.0
technologies. But there has been no high-level effort to improve
electronic records management and preservation, and the implementation of
improved Freedom of Information Act policies has lagged."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/235221/How-Is-Obama-Doing-On-Open-Government?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ombwatch.org/21strtkrecsassessment
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