Omss Politics: May 1, 2011

Oil Drill Ban Costs Govt Billions; al-Qaida Targeted Brooklyn Bridge

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1. Oil Drilling Moratorium Costing Government Billions
2. Chinese Firm Aiding Iran's Chemical Weapons Program
3. RIP: Last Typewriter Factory Closes
4. WikiLeaks: Al-Qaida Targeted Brooklyn Bridge
5. Calling Animals 'Pets' Termed 'Derogatory'

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1. Oil Drilling Moratorium Costing Government Billions

The Obama administration's moratorium on offshore drilling is depriving governments of billions of dollars in royalties, lease bids, and taxes — and the lost revenue will grow significantly if no new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sold this year.

In the wake of the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, the administration issued the moratorium on May 6. It suspended work on 33 wells in various stages of construction, halted new lease sales, and suspended permitting for leases already offered.

As a result, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects a decline of 240,000 barrels a day in oil production in the Gulf this year. "That represents billions of dollars in potential revenue that could help close the federal deficit," according to Rob Bluey, director of the Center for Media and Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation.

The moratorium was lifted on Oct. 12, but since then oil companies have complained of a "permitorium" — a deliberate slowing of the permitting process.

This year could be the first since 1965 in which the federal government did not sell leases in the Gulf.

Oil companies pay the federal government an 18.75 percent royalty on the oil produced. In 2008, the offshore industry paid $8.3 billion in royalties, and another $9.4 billion for bids on new leases. Last year those bids brought in just $979 million.

In 2009, royalties, lease bids and rent payments totaled more than $6 billion, according to the forecasting firm IHS Global Insight.

"Federal, state and local taxes related to the offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf totaled $13 billion," Bluey notes. "That $19 billion pot of money could go a long way toward deficit reduction."

In addition, opening areas now closed to exploration and production, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, would bring in an estimated $150 billion by 2025.

"At a time when voters are calling on the federal government to balance its budget, revenue from oil companies would be one way of helping out [and] the oil produced would reduce the price of gas at the pump," Bluey concludes.

"The Obama administration should immediately begin to issue new permits for the Gulf of Mexico and explore other untapped domestic resources."

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2. Chinese Firm Aiding Iran's Chemical Weapons Program

A newly disclosed cable sent by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reveals that a Chinese company is transferring equipment and technology to a secret plant in Iran that is part of the Islamic Republic's chemical weapons program.

The cable, dated July 24, 2009, is a WikiLeaks document obtained by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. It shows that Clinton instructed the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to take action against the Chinese firm, Zibo Chemet.

China is party to an agreement forbidding sales of vital equipment for chemical weapons programs.

The cable reads in part: "We have new information indicating that Zibo Chemet transferred technology for the production of glass-lined reactor equipment to Iranian customers, significantly enhancing Iran's ability to produce indigenously chemical equipment suitable for a chemical warfare program."

Glass-lined reactor vessels are resistant to the chemicals they contain. The glass lining prevents raw materials used to produce weapons such as nerve gas from eating away at the container's inner surface and evaporating, Haaretz explained.

Clinton's cable asked the embassy to pass information about the transfer to the Chinese government and demand that it take action to halt the sales.

It also disclosed that the United States blacklisted Zibo Chemet in April 2007 over suspicions that it supplied similar equipment to North Korea and Syria as well as Iran.

"Clinton's cable shows that as the international community anxiously follows the progress of Iran's nuclear program," Haaretz observes, "Iran continues to develop conventional and unconventional weapons, including chemical ones."

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3. RIP: Last Typewriter Factory Closes

The first practical typewriter was invented in 1867, and Mark Twain was the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript to a publisher. But now, reports of the typewriter's death are anything but greatly exaggerated.

The last factory manufacturing mechanical typewriters closed this past week, the venerable device driven into obsolescence by the computer and word processor.

The factory operated by Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, stopped production in 2009, and its inventory has dwindled to just a few hundred machines, most of them Arabic-language models. No more will be made.

"Although typewriters became obsolete years ago in the West, they were still common in India, until recently," according to the Daily Mail.

Milind Duckle, general manager of Godrej and Boyce, told the Mail: "From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. Until 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year. But this might be the last chance for typewriter lovers."

As recently as the 1990s, the company produced some 50,000 typewriters a year, according to India's Business Standard.

Godrej and Boyce began manufacturing typewriters about 60 years ago. The company is part of the Godrej Group, which makes a wide range of products in India including appliances, furniture, and electronic equipment.

While the mechanical typewriter is history, several companies still make electronic versions, the Telegraph reports, including Swintec in New Jersey.

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4. WikiLeaks: Al-Qaida Targeted Brooklyn Bridge

Members of al-Qaida plotted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge by cutting its suspension cables, according to a file released by WikiLeaks.

The plot came to light in 2003, when Iyman Faris, a naturalized American citizen from Kashmir, was arrested and interrogated at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, according to the file released on Wednesday.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told The New York Times that he "climbed down and looked at the room where the cables came together, after the Faris plot," and found it was possible to "cut or physically weaken the center cables of the bridge."

But Kelly said Faris observed increased security on the bridge after 9/11, and sent a message to al-Qaida that read: "The weather is too hot."

Other high-ranking al-Qaida operatives also mentioned bridges as potential targets, the Jerusalem Post pointed out.

Abu Zubaydah, considered a senior lieutenant to Osama bin Laden, told Guantanamo interrogators that the terror group planned to attack American "symbols," such as the Statue of Liberty and "major hanging bridges."

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5. Calling Animals 'Pets' Termed 'Derogatory'

Just when you think you've heard everything: A group of academics insists people should stop referring to their dogs, cats, hamsters, and other domesticated animals as "pets."

Instead, they should be called "companion animals" — and their owners are "human carers."

The call comes from the editors of the Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication edited by Prof. Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in Britain.

Its first editorial argues that "derogatory" language about animals can affect the way they are treated.

The eggheads also have a pet peeve over the use of the word "wildlife." Instead, they favor the term "free-living."

"Despite its prevalence, 'pets' is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers," the editorial states.

"Again, the word 'owners, whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint."

Other vocabulary no-nos: "critters" and "beasts."

Linzey and his co-editor, Prof. Priscilla Cohn of Penn State University, hope to stamp out the use of such phrases as "sly as a fox," "drunk as a skunk," and "eat like a pig," the Telegraph reported.

No mention of "eager beaver," "silly goose," "gentle as a lamb" — or for that matter, "chicken."

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| Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets
| from the apple-a-day-vs-swallowing-tablets dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday April 29, @20:43 (Android)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2338211/Figuring-Out-Why-Android-Wins-On-Phones-But-Not-Tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]GMGruman writes "Android smartphones have overpowered the iPhone in
market share, yet Android tablets barely register in sales versus the
iPad. Android tablets are as competitive in most respects against the
iPad as Android smartphones are against the iPhone. So why the difference
in success? Galen Gruman [1]examines five theories for the gap, and
concludes the reason is that Android tablets' real competitor is in fact
not the iPad."

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2338211/Figuring-Out-Why-Android-Wins-On-Phones-But-Not-Tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/the-android-conundrum-why-tablets-tank-smartphones-surge-165

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| Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x
| from the catching-up-with-the-jobses dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday April 29, @21:26 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0046216/Adobe-Ships-Flash-Player-102-For-Android-3x?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Adobe last night announced the [1]release of Flash
Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets and it is available for
download in the Android Market. Eventually, this could prove to be a big
deal, but it looks as though a Honeycomb update is needed to take full
advantage of the Flash Player 10.2's new features. It's not certain if it
was intentional or not, but Adobe's statement points to an updated
Honeycomb release, Android 3.1. According to reports, the new Android
build is coming out soon for currently shipping Honeycomb tablets like
the Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer."

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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Adobe-Ships-Flash-Player-102-for-Android-30-Tablets/

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| YouTube, Gaming and Social Networking Busting TV's Chops
| from the what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-watch-what's-on dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday April 29, @23:04 (Australia)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2057216/YouTube-Gaming-and-Social-Networking-Busting-TVs-Chops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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splitenz writes "A TV executive told a major Australian broadband
conference that television audiences are slipping away into social media,
gaming and other online subscription spaces. YouTube and online gaming is
[0]taking the traditional TV audience online and TV is struggling to
fight back."

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Links:
0. http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/384782/youtube_gaming_social_networking_busting_tv_chops_/

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| The Fight Against Dark Silicon
| from the can't-we-all-just-get-along? dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday April 29, @23:33 (Android)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0051219/The-Fight-Against-Dark-Silicon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "What do you do when chips get too hot to take
advantage of all of those transistors that Moore's Law provides? You turn
them off, and end up with a lot of dark silicon �� transistors that lie
unused because of power limitations. As detailed in MIT Technology
Review, [0]Researchers at UC San Diego are fighting dark silicon with a
[1]new kind of processor for mobile phones that employs a hundred or so
specialized cores. They achieve 11x improvement in energy efficiency by
doing so."

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0. http://greendroid.ucsd.edu/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37478/?a=f

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| Oracle, Google Move To Streamline Java Suit
| from the brass-tacks-and-billable-hours dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @02:24 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0148225/Oracle-Google-Move-To-Streamline-Java-Suit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Google and Oracle each submitted proposals on
Friday to [1]reduce the number of claims in their Java patent
infringement lawsuit, which could help bring the case to a speedier
conclusion. Earlier this month, lawyers for the two companies gave Judge
William Alsup of the US District Court in San Francisco [2]a crash course
in Java to prepare him for a claim construction conference."

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0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/160867/oracle-google-move-streamline-java-lawsuit
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/0324236/Judge-In-Oracle-Google-Case-Given-Crash-Course-in-Java

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| Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier
| from the other-people's-not-so-much dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @05:23 (The Military)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0156256/Robo-Gunsight-System-Makes-Snipers-Life-Easier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Military and police marksmen could see their
rifle sights catch up with the 21st century with a fiber-optic
laser-based sensor system that [0]automatically corrects for even tiny
barrel disruptions. Factors such as heat generated by previously fired
shots, to a simple bump against the ground can affect the trueness a
rifle barrel. The new system precisely measures the deflection of the
barrel relative to the sight and then electronically makes the necessary
corrections. With modern high-caliber rifles boasting ranges of up to two
miles, even very small barrel disruptions can cause a shooter to miss by
a wide margin."

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Links:
0. http://scienceblog.com/44869/robot-gun-sighting-system-uses-sensors-to-score-bulls-eye/

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| More Windows Phone Update Problems
| from the both-of-them dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @08:21 (Bug)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0617216/More-Windows-Phone-Update-Problems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Yet another problem has cropped up preventing some
[1]Windows Phone 7 users from getting two software updates, adding a new
chapter to the update saga that started in February."

Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/384852/microsoft_admits_more_windows_phone_update_problems/

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| NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space
| from the path-of-destruction dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @08:42 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1236202/NASA-Satellite-Shows-Southern-Tornadoes-From-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gabbo529 writes "Like it has done previously with earthquakes,
hurricanes and tsunamis, a NASA satellite has captured a devastating
natural disaster from a space satellite. An image acquired by the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from NASA's Aqua
satellite on April 28, distinctly shows [1]three tornado tracks in
Tuscaloosa, Ala." For those not following the news, a cluster of
tornadoes and close-enough storms earlier this week [2]caused the death
of hundreds across several US states.

Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:g.perna@ibtimes.com
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/139829/20110429/nasa-tornado-southern-tornado-alabama-tornado-satellite-images.htm
2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42834400/ns/weather/

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| German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls
| from the zwei-kugeln dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @09:22 (Robotics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1251211/German-Aerospace-Robot-Plays-Catch-With-Two-Balls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]HizookRobotics writes "German Aerospace Center (DLR) designed "Rollin'
Justin" to [1]fix satellites in space. But robotics work isn't all work
and no play ... In the past, DLR engineers had Justin '[2]dancing like in
Pulp Fiction.' More recently, in work to be presented at the
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in two weeks,
DLR engineers demonstrated whole-body real-time control, allowing Justin
[3]to catch two balls at once, or prepare you a cup of coffee."

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Links:
0. http://www.hizook.com/
1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/humanoid-robot-justin-learning-to-fix-satellites
2. http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/03/04/rollin-justin-coins-new-robot-command-dance-pulp-fiction
3. http://www.hizook.com/blog/2011/04/27/highly-anticipated-icra-2011-talks-low-cost-arms-helicopter-manipulation-and-ball-ca#DLR

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| On-Screen Keyboard Maliit Demoed With Gnome 3
| from the several-layers-of-the-latest dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @10:25 (GNOME)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/137205/On-Screen-Keyboard-Maliit-Demoed-With-Gnome-3?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Developer Jon Nordby has posted a video demo of the on-screen keyboard
Maliit �� intended "to be the input method project for MeeGo and other
GNU/Linux-based embedded/mobile platforms" �� [0]working on a tablet
running Gnome 3 under Fedora. Nordby mentions that Fedora packages are in
the works for those who'd like to try it out. The keyboard looks
impressively smooth and flexible (including language-specific character
sets); I only wish it had the smooth-swiping predictive ability of
keyboards like [1]Swype.

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Links:
0. http://www.jonnor.com/2011/04/introducing-maliit-on-screen-keyboard-in-gnome-3/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype

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| On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps
| from the wake-me-when-the-world-ends dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @11:27 (Businesses)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1324255/On-Monday-ATampT-Customers-Enter-Era-of-Broadband-Caps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "[0]The Age of Broadband Caps begins Monday, with AT&T
imposing a 150 GB cap on DSL subscribers and 250 GB for UVerse users, and
keeping the meter running after that. The move comes as AT&T's 16+
million customers are increasingly turning to online video such as Hulu
and Netflix on-demand streaming service instead of paying for cable. With
[1]AT&T's Man in the White House, some fear there's a 'digital dirt road'
in America's future. Already, the enforcement of data caps in Canada has
prompted Netflix to [2]default to lower-quality streaming video to shield
its users from overage fees."

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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/att-broadband-caps/
1. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/01/08/atts-man-white-house
2. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-policy%2Fnews%2F2011%2F03%2Fdata-caps-claim-a-victim-netflix-streaming-video.ars&ei=nKK7TbPJDMGEtgeus6jBBQ&usg=AFQjCNHp_LUCxHnR2jTvtWh84l2pxKKglQ

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| Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool
| from the hey-fellas-psssst-over-here dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @12:22 (IOS)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1356210/Developers-MS-Hopes-To-Lure-iOS-Apps-With-API-Mapping-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Microsoft isn't standing idly by while Appple's app store fills with
software; [0]fysdt writes "A newly-announced service called the [1]iOS to
Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool acts as an interchange for developers to
take applications they've already written for Apple's platform, and
figure out ways to get the code work with Microsoft's standards."

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Links:
0. http://thunderfeeds.com/
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20058635-248.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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| Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC
| from the dude-hook-us-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @13:26 (Open Source)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/172214/Help-Build-the-Worlds-First-Community-Funded-CPU-ASIC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The 32-bit OpenRISC CPU has been available
for many FPGAs and was [0]turned into a commercial ASIC in 2003. Now, the
OpenCores community is asking for [1]donations to create a new ASIC with
the OpenRISC CPU, ethernet, PCI, UART, USB and other peripherals. The
goal is to be able to sell these ASICs at a low price to anyone who wants
to build a cheap embedded system built completely on open source. The
OpenRISC currently runs on Linux 2.6.37 and has ports of gcc 4.5.1 among
other things."

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Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/12/08/2326236/Open-Source-Finally-Hits-Real-Silicon
1. http://opencores.org/donation

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| Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser?
| from the treading-lightly-on-the-silicon dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @14:29 (Software)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1720251/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Small-Footprint-Modern-Browser?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Annirak writes "I've recently started a paid internship at a company
which is expanding faster than their IT department can supply new
hardware. As a consequence, I've been issued a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of
RAM. Currently, I am using Firefox 4, but I find that it eats up far too
much of my limited RAM. I'd rather not give up some of the more modern UI
features that are offered by the current versions of Firefox and Chrome,
but I need a smaller footprint. What other browsers are out there which
could help me conserve resources?"

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| Using Googlemaps To Simulate Tsunamis
| from the you're-all-wet dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @15:40 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1938206/Using-Googlemaps-To-Simulate-Tsunamis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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flemster writes "[0]Tsunami mapper is a new site which uses the
googlemaps elevation service and the flood fill algorithm to predict
which areas near a coast are likely to be affected by a tsunami. You can
search for your local beach, set a wave heading and height and then
double click the tsunami starting point off the coast, after which the
tsunami range will be drawn. Naturally, predicting a tsunami is far more
complicated than this and this application is a general guide and not a
true predictor. However the simulations of the recent Japanese simulation
are interesting. Compare the [1]tsunami mapper simulation with [2]this
aerial photo of Ishinomaki after the March tsunami."

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Links:
0. http://tsunami-maps.com/
1. http://tsunami-maps.com/index.html?lng=141.22801813183594&lat=38.375751997095186&dir=0&hgt=20
2. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49648

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| The Future of SiLo's Language Library
| from the ich-weiss-nada dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @16:47 (Education)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/2044214/The-Future-of-SiLos-Language-Library?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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i4u writes "Early this morning I had a chance to speak with Ase
(pronounced 'Ace') Deliri, curator of SiLo, the [0]world's first digital
language library. At its core, SiLo is a mash of Wikipedia and Babelfish,
an open database focused on facilitating real conversations with real
people. 'If you have 800-1200 words in your vocabulary, you can carry on
a daily conversation. That is what we are looking at. How do you get a
conversation going?'"

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Links:
0. http://www.i4u.com/46355/future-silos-language-library-my-interview-ase-deliri

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| Developing Android Apps Visually, In 3 parts
| from the build-it-and-they-might-pay dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @18:04 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/224233/Developing-Android-Apps-Visually-In-3-parts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Dobb's has a three-part blog (all three
parts are up; [0]this is part 1) about using App Inventor. The focus
isn't so much on the technology but rather the discussion of 'can visual
development let anyone program?' If so, is App Inventor really visual
development? And should we be teaching real programmers about visual
development. Most of the [1]conclusions are in part 3. As a byproduct,
they show you how to put App Inventor output on the Market and there are
two games on the market (free) that resulted from the articles." Here's
[2]part two, to round out the trilogy.

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Links:
0. http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/229401706
1. http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/229402516
2. http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/229402209

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| Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows
| from the gotta-have-a-benchmark dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @19:07 (Firefox)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/230259/Firefox-On-Linux-Gets-Faster-Builds-mdash-To-Be-Fast-As-Windows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dkd903 writes "Mozilla's Mike Hommey has announced on his blog that his
team at Mozilla has finally managed to get the Linux builds of Firefox to
use GCC 4.5 with [0]aggressive optimization and profile guided
optimization enabled. All this simply means that we can now expect a
faster and less sluggish Firefox browser on Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit
systems)."

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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/230259/Firefox-On-Linux-Gets-Faster-Builds-mdash-To-Be-Fast-As-Windows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2011/04/30/ff6-fast-less-sluggish/

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