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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Despite Controversy, Federal Wiretaps On the Rise
* Police Vulture Training Not a Success
* First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market
* Source Engine SDK To Be Free
* 40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House
* Current Social Games Aren't Fun, Says MUD Co-Creator
* It's Not a New Ballmer Microsoft Needs; It's a New Gates
* Chinese Censorship Gets Blasted By NTD TV
* Is There a Formula For a Hit Song?
* The Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes
* Nortel Patents Go To Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Others
* Time To Close the Security Theater
* Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper
* RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter
* Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage
* Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing
* How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake
* Book Review: Moodle 2.0 First Look
* 17% Smaller DES S-box Circuits Found
* Copyright Common Sense From Telecom Ericsson
* Zynga Seeks $1 Billion In IPO
* How To Get Websites To Ban Sign-ups From Gmail.com Accounts
* Controlling Wi-Fi Radio 'Nap-Time' Saves Power
* Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest
* Facebook To Launch In-Browser Video Chat With Skype
* Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors
* Games for Windows Marketplace Merging With Xbox.com
* Does Creative Commons Work With Pseudonymity?
* RightHaven Lawyer Says Browser Ate His Homework
* Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding
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| Despite Controversy, Federal Wiretaps On the Rise
| from the most-transparent-administration-ever dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @22:22 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/016246/Despite-Controversy-Federal-Wiretaps-On-the-Rise?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes with a report that "Federal and state requests for
court permission to intercept or wiretap electronic communications
increased [1]34% in 2010 over 2009 with California, New York, and New
Jersey accounting for 68% of all wire taps approved by state judges.
According to the 2010 Wiretap Report, released today by the
Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) the most
frequently noted location in wiretap requests was 'portable device,' a
category that includes cellular telephones and digital pagers."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/016246/Despite-Controversy-Federal-Wiretaps-On-the-Rise?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/063011-wiretaps.html?hpg1=bn
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| Police Vulture Training Not a Success
| from the didn't-have-the-stomach-for-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @23:37 (Crime)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1554215/Police-Vulture-Training-Not-a-Success?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rbrausse writes "Some time ago Slashdot covered the [0]German police
vulture training scheme; now it is time for a follow-up. BBC reports that
the project has failed to take off. The trained [1]vulture hasn't shown
interest in working as a detective and confuses human with animal
remains. Additionally the bird is shy and prefers to travel by foot."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1554215/Police-Vulture-Training-Not-a-Success?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/1226255/German-Police-Train-Vultures-To-Find-Bodies
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13956581
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| First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market
| from the powered-by-thor dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @01:40 (Data Storage)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0244229/First-Thunderbolt-Peripherals-Arrive-To-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Promise Technology recently launched the first
Thunderbolt-compatible devices; the company's Pegasus RAID R4 and R6
storage solutions can now be ordered from the Apple Store. There's a
catch, however. In order to use either storage array, [1]one must first
purchase a cable directly from Apple. The company has priced the
two-meter cable at $50. As it turns out, Thunderbolt uses what's called
an active cable. Inside the cable there's a pair of Gunnum GN2033
transceivers. The GN2033 is a tiny, low power transceiver chip designed
to be placed inside the connectors at either end of a Thunderbolt cable,
enabling dual bidirectional 10Gb/s concurrent links over narrow-gauge
copper wires. The cable's $50 price may be justified, but it's also a
further reminder of why Thunderbolt may follow FireWire's path into
obsolescence. Apple is the only company currently selling Thunderbolt
cables."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0244229/First-Thunderbolt-Peripherals-Arrive-To-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/First-Thunderbolt-Peripherals-Arrive-Standards-Future-Uncertain/
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| Source Engine SDK To Be Free
| from the and-you-don't-have-to-buy-hats dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @03:05 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0521215/Source-Engine-SDK-To-Be-Free?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Following up on news from earlier this week that Valve [0]made Team
Fortress 2 free-to-play, we now get word that [1]the Source engine SDK
will be free to all as well. Quoting Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "The Source
Software Development Kit, for those of you who've never clicked the Tools
tab in Steam, contains everything you'd need to make a mod, except for
personal ambition. It has everything from the infamous Valve Hammer
Editor to Face Posers and Model Viewers. At the moment, to gain access to
[2]the Source SDK you have to purchase a Source based game such as Half
Life 2, or as the official website states, Team Fortress 2. Which is of
course now free. [Valve's Robin Walker said], 'We are in the process of
getting it all done. It���s a bit messy because we have multiple versions
of the SDK, and there���s some dependencies we need to shake out. But yes,
the gist of it is that we���re just going to go ahead and make the Source
SDK freely available.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/1217222/Valves-emTeam-Fortress-2em-Goes-Free-To-Play
1. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/30/not-only-but-also-source-sdk-to-be-free/
2. http://source.valvesoftware.com/sourcesdk.php
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| 40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House
| from the it's-where-and-when-that-costs dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @04:56 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0031205/40GB-of-Data-That-Costs-the-Same-As-a-House?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "PC Pro has an [1]infographic that reveals the
extortionate cost of roaming data. They compared the cost of data
typically bundled with a fixed-line broadband package (40GB) costing ��15,
with the cost of buying that data on various mobile tariffs. Buying 40GB
of data on a domestic mobile internet tariff from Orange would cost the
same as an iMac; buying the same quantity of data on O2's non-Europe
roaming tariff would cost ��240,000 ��� or the same as a three-bedroom
house."
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Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368383/40gb-of-data-that-costs-the-same-as-a-house
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| Current Social Games Aren't Fun, Says MUD Co-Creator
| from the gain-eight-experience-points-for-each-comment-to-this-post dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @06:42 (Social Networks)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0533250/Current-Social-Games-Arent-Fun-Says-MUD-Co-Creator?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Speaking at Gamerlab 2011 in Barcelona, [0]MUD1 developer Richard Bartle
had [1]harsh words for the current state of social gaming: "The big thing
about social games that they don't like to tell you, is they're not
actually social. Games played on social network sites is what we mean by
social games ... These games are categorized more by the platform than
that they are social themselves. The way they engage their players is not
through interesting gameplay, it's done through extrinsic rewards ���
basically bribes. ... The difference is, social games rely on the
extrinsic rewards so as to be compelling. People keep playing the game
because it keeps giving them things ��� rewards. This has led to
gamification. In the hands of designers, this has a great deal of
potential, but unfortunately it's not in the hands of designers, it's in
the hands of marketers."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1
1. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35551/Gamelab_2011_MUD_Creator_Bartle_Current_Social_Games_Are_Not_Fun.php
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| It's Not a New Ballmer Microsoft Needs; It's a New Gates
| from the round-table-needs-arthur dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @08:11 (Microsoft)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0447221/Its-Not-a-New-Ballmer-Microsoft-Needs-Its-a-New-Gates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Over at GeekWire, Todd Bishop posits that Microsoft
doesn't need to replace Steve Ballmer as much as it [0]needs to replace
Bill Gates. 'The perennial push to oust Ballmer is back,' Bishop says.
'But as long as we're all going down this path again, there's actually a
larger issue to address: Microsoft no longer has an overarching
technology leader next to the CEO at the top of the company ��� someone
with a strong engineering background and technical vision, surveying the
field and calling the plays. There will never be another Bill Gates. But
there should be someone in his former role as chief software architect,
if not in title, then at least in effect.' Ray Ozzie was [1]supposed to
be The One, but for some reason that [2]never really worked out (Dave
Winer warns [3]BigCo politics can crush even the most innovative). Any
thoughts on who might 'fill the bill'?"
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0447221/Its-Not-a-New-Ballmer-Microsoft-Needs-Its-a-New-Gates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/microsoft-replace-steve-ballmer-replace-bill-gates
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/business/yourmoney/11micro.html
2. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/chief-software-architect-ray-ozzie-leaving-microsoft.ars
3. http://scripting.com/stories/2011/06/29/pagesMistake.html
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| Chinese Censorship Gets Blasted By NTD TV
| from the good-news-from-on-high dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @08:35 (China)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0510227/Chinese-Censorship-Gets-Blasted-By-NTD-TV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jjp9999 writes "Despite years of pressure from the Chinese regime,
independent television station NTD TV [1]will resume its broadcast
throughout China with a Taiwanese satellite. Chinese residents throughout
the mainland can receive the broadcast using satellite dishes (which are
illegal) and get a glimpse of the world beyond the Great Firewall.
Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) satellite provider fought the ruling
tooth and nail, yet folded under pressure from the Taiwanese premier, the
vice president of European Parliament, human rights groups, and other
international bodies. A similar case took place when French satellite
company Eutelsat cut NTD TV's broadcast into China just short of the 2008
Beijing Olympics. Although they said the outage was due to technical
problems, an investigation by Reporters Without Borders caught Eutelsat
employees red handed, recording admissions they cut the service due to
pressure from the Chinese communist regime."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/0510227/Chinese-Censorship-Gets-Blasted-By-NTD-TV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techzwn.com/
1. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china/little-ears-will-continue-informing-audiences-in-mainland-china-58521.html
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| Is There a Formula For a Hit Song?
| from the i-like-big-datasets-and-i-cannot-lie dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @08:50 (Music)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1210225/Is-There-a-Formula-For-a-Hit-Song?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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moveoverrover writes "What happens when two Rutgers grad students analyze
50 years of Billboard Top 10 hits with MIT offshoot Echo Nest's API and
turn the data into visualizations for an assignment? Great looking
visualizations for one, and a fascinating look at [0]50 years of Pop
music at the data level. Posing the question, 'Is there a formula for a
hit song?' the students write, 'What if we knew, for example, that 80% of
the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles from 1960-2010 are sung in a
major key with an average of 135 beats per minute, that they all follow a
I-III-IV chord progression in 4/4 time signature, and that they all
follow a "verse-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus" sequence
structure?' Using data extracted by Echo Nest on tempo, duration, time
signature, musical key, as well as subjective criteria like "energy" and
"danceability," the pair generated [1]a number of visualizations with
Google Motion Charts (warning: slow) and '(some) Tableau Results' for
everyone to see and investigate. Curious about tempo and song duration
trends in Pop music over 50 years? Correlation between record label and
song tempo? Download the core data, the Tableau reader and look at it any
way you want."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1210225/Is-There-a-Formula-For-a-Hit-Song?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://sites.google.com/site/visualizingahit/home
1. https://sites.google.com/site/visualizingahit/results
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| The Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes
| from the it's-probably-fine,-we'll-test-it-live dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @09:31 (Programming)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1258227/The-Most-Dangerous-Programming-Mistakes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister discusses the [1]most
dangerous programming mistakes, and what can be done to avoid them. 'Even
more than input validation errors, this year's list is rife with
application security blunders of all kinds. Some of them sound fairly
esoteric, such as "inclusion of functionality from untrusted control
sphere." But of all such errors, the highest-ranking one on the list is
"missing authentication for critical function" ��� in other words, the
attacker was able to gain access because there was no lock on the door to
begin with,' McAllister writes. 'With the pace of Internet attacks
accelerating, now is not the time to [2]cut QA staff or skimp on testing
and code review.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1258227/The-Most-Dangerous-Programming-Mistakes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/developer-error-the-most-dangerous-programming-mistakes-706
2. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/stupid-qa-tricks-colossal-testing-oversights-587
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| Nortel Patents Go To Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Others
| from the sold-to-the-gentlemen-with-the-predatory-smiles dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @10:13 (Patents)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1344205/Nortel-Patents-Go-To-Apple-Microsoft-Sony-and-Others?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tcr writes "A consortium that includes Apple, Microsoft, RIM and Sony has
been [0]successful in its bid for the Nortel patent portfolio. The
winning bid was $4.5 billion. TechCrunch [1]predicts this could result in
a slew of lawsuits directed at Android, but also suggests that the deal
will likely receive scrutiny from the U.S. courts."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1344205/Nortel-Patents-Go-To-Apple-Microsoft-Sony-and-Others?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070111-apple-microsoft-consortium-beats-google.html
1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/01/apple-microsoft-rim-google-nortel-patents/
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| Time To Close the Security Theater
| from the homeland-security-should-stay-out-of-my-pants dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @10:53 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1432224/Time-To-Close-the-Security-Theater?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "An editorial at Forbes [0]calls for the
dismantling of the TSA, pointing to [1]recent headlines as the latest
examples of 'security theater' at its worst. From the article: 'The
problem isn't that the TSA is harassing the wrong people. The problem is
that the TSA is harassing anyone. The TSA is encroaching on fundamental
liberties and providing no discernable benefit. ... Naturally, the TSA
responds to incidents like these by saying that the agents are highly
trained and that they have followed proper procedure. This indicates a
signal failing for the agency: if "doing it by the book" involves
touching people in ways that would be considered sexual assault in
virtually any other context or telling a 90-year old breast cancer
survivor to remove her bra lest it contain explosives (as happened to a
friend's grandmother), then the book needs to be shredded and rewritten.
Better yet, it needs to be replaced with a competitive market for air
travel in which the airports, the airways, and the airliners are in
private hands. Some might object that private firms will have incentives
to cut corners on safety. It is a legitimate concern, but competitive
mechanisms tend to weed this out.'"
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1432224/Time-To-Close-the-Security-Theater?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/06/30/time-to-close-the-security-theater/
1. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1219232/TSA-Has-95-Year-Old-Remove-Her-Diaper-For-Screening
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| Chinese Officials Need a Better Photoshopper
| from the a-little-more-effort-please dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday July 01, @11:09 (China)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1428218/Chinese-Officials-Need-a-Better-Photoshopper?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A clearly [0]photoshopped picture of three Chinese officials inspecting a
newly laid road is becoming an internet sensation. The picture posted on
a local council's website, shows the men hovering a few inches off the
ground with the edges of their bodies blurred. Government officials offer
the following explanation: "...a professional photographer had been
employed to photograph the three men inspecting the road surface. But
after taking a set of real shots of the officials, the unnamed
photographer decided that the pictures were just not good enough. With
true artistic temperament he set about 'Photoshopping' the three men onto
the empty road to create something better." Plenty of parody pictures
have popped up already, and I look forward to seeing where the trio end
up over the weekend.
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| RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter
| from the don't-ignore-red-flags dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @11:34 (Blackberry)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/156208/RIM-Responds-To-an-Employees-Open-Letter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "An executive at Research In Motion has
[0]written an open letter to the company's leadership, begging them to
focus more on user experience, developers, and accountability. 'We
urgently need to invest like we never have before in becoming developer
friendly. The return will be worth every cent. There is no polite way to
say this, but it���s true ��� BlackBerry smartphone apps suck. Even PlayBook,
with all its glorious power, looks like a Fisher Price toy with its Adobe
AIR/Flash apps.' RIM decided to address the letter, but their response
completely [1]skates over the issues. Unfortunately for them, the
original letter [2]triggered many more from current and former employees,
who largely agreed with the need for better decisions at the top."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/156208/RIM-Responds-To-an-Employees-Open-Letter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/open-letter-to-blackberry-bosses-senior-rim-exec-tells-all-as-company-crumbles-around-him/
1. http://blogs.blackberry.com/2011/06/rims-response-to-open-letter/
2. http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/01/more-letters-to-rim-employees-rally-alongside-anonymous-exec/
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| Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage
| from the mario-never-had-a-wardrobe-malfunction dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @12:15 (Censorship)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1536255/Court-on-Video-Games-Less-Cleavage-More-Carnage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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On Monday [0]we discussed news of a Supreme Court ruling which held that
violent video games deserved free speech protection under the First
Amendment. Now, frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes
with this followup that questions the Court's consistency in such
matters. "I'm glad the Supreme Court struck down the California law
against selling violent video games to minors, but reading over the
decision, I had the odd feeling that the arguments by the dissenters made
more sense than the majority ��� mainly because of the hypocrisy of
continuing to ban sexuality while giving violence a pass." Read on for
the rest of Bennett's thoughts.
This story continues at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1536255/Court-on-Video-Games-Less-Cleavage-More-Carnage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1547202/US-Supreme-Court-Video-Games-Qualify-For-First-Amendment
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| Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing
| from the sending-a-message dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @12:57 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1637211/Judge-OKs-Wiretap-Lawsuit-Over-Google-Wi-Fi-Sniffing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Last year Google found itself in hot water
after admitting to accidentally [0]collecting payload data from unsecured
Wi-Fi networks. Their admission led to a number of [1]investigations and
[2]complaints around the globe, and a U.S. District Court Judge has now
[3]denied Google's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit which alleges
the search giant violated federal wiretapping laws. 'Judge James Ware
drew a distinction in yesterday's ruling between merely accessing an open
WiFi network and [4]actually sniffing the individual packets on that
network. In the first case, one is only jumping onto a network to send
and receives one own communications; in the second case, one is looking
into someone else's communications, and doing so in a way that requires
nontrivial technical ability or software.'"
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/14/2259204/Google-Says-It-Mistakenly-Collected-Wi-Fi-Data-While-Mapping
1. http://slashdot.org/story/10/11/11/1556243/FCC-Investigating-Google-Street-View-Wi-Fi-Data-Collection
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/18/180245/Germany-Demands-Google-Forfeit-Citizens-Wi-Fi-Data
3. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387932,00.asp
4. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/judge-tells-google-sniffing-even-open-wifi-networks-may-be-wiretapping.ars
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| How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake
| from the godzillaproofing-comes-in-handy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @13:37 (Japan)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1722253/How-Japans-Data-Centers-Survived-the-Earthquake?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "A lot of Japan's infrastructure was knocked
offline by this year's massive earthquake and tsunami, but its data
centers by and large stayed running. How'd they pull it off? [1]Good
architecture and good planning, for the most part. But the data centers
still face challenges in post-quake Japan, not least a new law mandating
reductions in power use."
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Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/data-centerservers/179271/how-japans-data-centers-survived-earthquake
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| Book Review: Moodle 2.0 First Look
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday July 01, @14:18 (Book Reviews)
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1257210/Book-Review-Moodle-20-First-Look?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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melbenson writes "The open-source software Moodle has become one of the
most popular Learning Management Systems around the world. The release of
Moodle 2.0 came with hundreds of changes, new features and even
completely rewritten features. Because of these major changes and
potential issues when upgrading from Moodle 1.9, there has been a lot of
fear and uncertainty among Moodle admins in the Moodle Community when it
comes to Moodle 2.0. I am one of those admins and that is why I chose to
read Mary Cooch's book, Moodle 2.0 First Look. Keep reading for the rest
of Melissa's review.
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| 17% Smaller DES S-box Circuits Found
| from the still-bigger-than-a-breadbox dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @14:35 (Encryption)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1734213/17-Smaller-DES-S-box-Circuits-Found?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]solardiz writes "DES is still in use, brute-force key search remains
the most effective attack on it, and it is an attractive building block
for certain applications (the key size may be increased e.g. with 3DES).
[1]Openwall researchers, with funding from Rapid7, [2]came up with 17%
shorter Boolean expressions representing the DES [3]S-boxes. Openwall's
John the Ripper 1.7.8 [4]tests over 20 million combinations against
DES-based crypt(3) per second on a Core i7-2600K 3.4 GHz, which roughly
corresponds to a DES encryption speed of 33 Gbps."
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Links:
0. http://www.openwall.com/
1. http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/06/24/4
2. http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/06/22/1
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-box
4. http://www.openwall.com/press/20110622
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| Copyright Common Sense From Telecom Ericsson
| from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @15:00 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1843221/Copyright-Common-Sense-From-Telecom-Ericsson?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from a story at Torrentfreak:
"Entertainment industry lobby groups often describe file-sharers as
thieves who refuse to pay for any type of digital content. But not
everyone agrees with this view. Swedish telecom giant Ericsson [0]sees
copyright abuse as the underlying cause of the piracy problem. In a
brilliant article, Rene Summer, Director of Government and Industry
Relations at Ericsson, explains how copyright holders themselves actually
[1]breed pirates by clinging to outdated business methods. The most vocal
rightsholder groups would ideally turn the Internet into a virtual police
state, and at the other end of the spectrum there are groups that want to
abolish copyright entirely.'"
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Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-symptom-not-problem-110629/
1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/59009277/Ericsson-on-Piracy
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| Zynga Seeks $1 Billion In IPO
| from the that's-a-lot-of-farmville dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @15:42 (Businesses)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1859213/Zynga-Seeks-1-Billion-In-IPO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bizwriter writes "Zynga finally [0]filed its IPO paperwork today, as it
[1]wants to raise $1 billion. And while the reports of how well it did
were significantly overstated, this is a company that [2]still makes
significant revenue and profit. If you thought that [3]LinkedIn's IPO was
hyped and hyper, Zynga's going to put that all to shame."
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Links:
0. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1439404/000119312511180285/ds1.htm
1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-01/zynga-will-raise-1-billion-in-ipo-letting-investors-bet-on-virtual-goods.html
2. http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/zynga-ipo-real-profit-puts-zing-in-its-public-offering/11579
3. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/179212/Massive-LinkedIn-IPO-Raises-Dotcom-Bubble-Concerns
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| How To Get Websites To Ban Sign-ups From Gmail.com Accounts
| from the battle-of-the-scripts dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @16:21 (Communications)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1917220/How-To-Get-Websites-To-Ban-Sign-ups-From-Gmailcom-Accounts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Paul Tyma describes a simple, elegant, and
hilarious method that Mailinator (hypothetically, of course) used to
[0]mess around with people who scraped its webpages in order to block its
alternate domains. Quoting: 'Remember all that script-detecting code from
the anti-abuse system? Well, what if I put that in here too, I thought.
Let's "detect" when a script is hitting our weensy alternate-domain page.
... And what if after about 30 page hits from the same script (or so),
stop displaying actual alternate domains and start sprinkling in some
other things. Hmm... but what other things? I know ��� how about
"gmail.com". Or, um, "hotmail.com". Or maybe, "yahoo.com."'"
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Links:
0. http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-banned-not-that-i.html
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| Controlling Wi-Fi Radio 'Nap-Time' Saves Power
| from the excessive-nap-times-do-cause-problems dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @17:02 (Power)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/2024217/Controlling-Wi-Fi-Radio-Nap-Time-Saves-Power?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "A Duke University grad student has come up with [0]a
way to double (or more) battery life in Wi-Fi devices, without any
changes needed on the device itself. Essentially, the technique
[1]regulates how long and when client radios sleep (PDF), so that data
transfers can be scheduled more efficiently. In a test using eight
laptops and nine Nexus One Android-based smartphones on an 802.11n
network, the researchers found that the scheduling technique, dubbed
SleepWell, resulted in energy reductions of 38% to 51% across a variety
of online applications, including YouTube, Pandora and Last.fm Internet
radio, and TCP bulk data transfers. What's more, they found that as the
quality of radio links degrades, the relative energy gains are even
higher."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070111-duke-wifi.html?hpg1=bn
1. http://synrg.ee.duke.edu/papers/manweiler11sleepwell.pdf
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| Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest
| from the animal-idol dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday July 01, @17:02 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1522234/Bug-With-Singing-Penis-Is-Worlds-Loudest?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "The world's loudest animal relative to its size has
been revealed to be a tiny bug with a big organ. The water boatman,
Micronecta scholtzi, [0]rattles its penis along grooves in its abdomen to
produce a chattering song���that registers at 99.2 decibels���about the
volume of a loud orchestra heard from the front row. Even though the
water boatman does its 'singing' from the bottom of rivers to attract
mates, humans walking along the riverbank can clearly hear it. The area
along its abdomen that the bug uses to make the noise is only about the
width of a human hair, and researchers aren't sure exactly how it
produces so loud a song."
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13958630
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| Facebook To Launch In-Browser Video Chat With Skype
| from the let's-call-it-facetime dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @17:42 (Facebook)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/2135223/Facebook-To-Launch-In-Browser-Video-Chat-With-Skype?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]tekgoblin writes "Facebook will be [1]launching a new in-browser video
chat application. 'The product has been built on Skype and will include a
desktop component. It���s not clear to me whether that means it will just
work if a user has Skype already installed on the computer, or if
additional software will need to be downloaded even if the user already
uses Skype. But it���s clear that there���s very deep integration between the
products, and from the user���s perspective, the product will be an
in-browser experience.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.twitter.com/tekgoblin
1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/01/facebook-will-launch-in-browser-video-chat-next-week-in-partnership-with-skype/
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| Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors
| from the fried-tumors-are-a-delicacy-in-the-south dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @18:23 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/2145207/Magnetic-Nanoparticles-Fry-Tumors?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "In a new study, a team found that injecting mice
with tiny magnets and cranking up the heat [0]eliminated tumors from the
animals' bodies with no apparent side effects. The nanoparticles heat up
when a magnetic field is applied, and because they are only injected into
tumors, [1]only cancerous cells get fried. Researchers hope the
technique, known as magnetic hyperthermia, could be used in cancer
patients, obviating the need for chemotherapy and radiation."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/magnetic-nanoparticles-fry-tumor.html?ref=hp
1. http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano.2011.95.html
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| Games for Windows Marketplace Merging With Xbox.com
| from the uniting-against-the-steam-juggernaut dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday July 01, @18:43 (Microsoft)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/220207/Games-for-Windows-Marketplace-Merging-With-Xboxcom?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Microsoft announced today that on July 11th, their [0]Games for Windows
marketplace will be [1]merging with its console equivalent. According to
a spokesman, "All of the same content from GamesForWindows.com will be
available on Xbox.com so members of communities across Xbox 360 and Games
for Windows can purchase and get details on their favorite games, all in
one place. All account information will remain the same and community
members can still take advantage of their Xbox Live profile in their
Windows games and stay connected to friends who are playing on the PC."
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Links:
0. http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/press/june-2011/sitemerge/
1. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-01-microsoft-to-merge-gfw-and-xbox-com
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| Does Creative Commons Work With Pseudonymity?
| from the no-fair-that's-a-bunch-of-questions dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @19:06 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/2246234/Does-Creative-Commons-Work-With-Pseudonymity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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kale77in writes "I was going to direct this question to the Australian
Arts Law Centre, and probably still will, but I'm sure they're very busy
and I'm sure that someone here must have bumped up against this issue
already. I have not found it addressed in the [0]CC FAQ. I have a website
which is oriented around the study of Ancient Greek. Much material
relevant to this study (texts, lexica, etc) was published in the 1800s;
it is now out of copyright and readily available from [1]archive.org and
similar sources; but much of this material could use an upgrade and users
will have up-to-date contributions of their own to make. I'm writing a
system that allows user entry, correcting, searching, commentary,
tagging, redistribution and so on, of such material." Read on for the
questions this raises about licensing, attribution, and copyright.
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0. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions
1. http://www.archive.org/details/copiousphraseol00fradgoog
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| RightHaven Lawyer Says Browser Ate His Homework
| from the wanna-see-you-in-chambers dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @19:40 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/2340251/RightHaven-Lawyer-Says-Browser-Ate-His-Homework?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]J053 writes "Wired Magazine reports that Righthaven attorney Shawn
Mangano's excuse for being a day late with his explanation as to why the
litigation factory made 'dishonest statements to the court' was that
[1]his web browser upgraded and he could no longer attach PDF files to
his submissions. Yeah, right ..."
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0. mailto:J053@sh%5B%5Dri-la.cx%5B'ang'ingap%5D
1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/righthaven_browser/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
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| Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding
| from the you-think-boeing-and-seattle-is-a-coincidence? dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @19:51 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/238240/Airplanes-Cause-Accidental-Cloud-Seeding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A new study by a team of U.S. researchers
found that commercial and private jetliners may be [0]contributing to a
form of accidental cloud seeding. When an airplane flies through a cloud,
its propellers cause the expansion and cooling of the air behind them
which can cause water droplets to spontaneously cool and crystals to
form. The aircraft sets off a chain reaction in the cloud that can
continue on for hours after the plane has passed by. The researchers also
discovered that this phenomenon is more common near the poles, where many
of Earth's weather monitoring systems are, and it could be skewing data
that research teams are gathering in those areas."
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0. http://inhabitat.com/new-study-says-aircraft-can-increase-precipitation-around-major-airports/
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