Congress May End Palestinian Aid; Bachmann Reveals Life-Changing Miscarriage

Click here to view this email as a web page Insider Report from Newsmax.com Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. Bachmann: 'Devastating' Miscarriage Changed My Life 2. New Jersey Democrat Curses Gov. Christie 3. Americans Ready for Natural Gas Vehicles 4. Congress Threatens to Suspend Palestinian Aid 5. Stimulus Scam: $7 Million per Home for Broadband The Ultimate Act of Patriotism! Join one million of your friends, family, and neighbors online July 14 for the Aftershock Survival Summit. Attendance is 100% FREE. Get Details 1. Bachmann: 'Devastating' Miscarriage Changed My Life Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann declared that a previously undisclosed miscarriage she suffered more than two decades ago shaped her pro-life views and her outlook on the world. The Minnesota congresswoman spoke of the miscarriage at a recent campaign stop in South Carolina. "After our second child was born, we became pregnant with a third baby," Bachmann said. "And it was an unexpected baby, but of course we were delighted to have this child. And the child was coming along, and we ended up losing that child. And it was devastating for both of us, as you can imagine if any of you have lost a child." She told the gathering that the miscarriage led to her and her husband Marcus' decision to take in foster children, Politico reported. The couple has helped raise 23 foster children, in addition to five children of their own. "At that moment we didn't think of ourselves as overly career minded or overly materialistic," she added. "When we lost that child, it changed us. And it changed us forever." According to CNN, "even some of Bachmann's staffers were caught by surprise when she talked about the miscarriage" because they had not heard the story before. Bachmann and several other GOP presidential candidates — Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum — recently signed a pledge put forward by the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group, LifeNews.com reported. Signers agree to support efforts to defund abortion and the Planned Parenthood abortion business, back a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, and nominate judges who won't legislate from the bench Editor's Note: ALARMING: Is a Second Great Depression Bearing Down on Us? 2. New Jersey Democrat Curses Gov. Christie The Democratic leader of the New Jersey Senate used profanity in describing Republican Gov. Chris Christie and said he wanted to "punch him" in a dispute over spending. Senate President Stephen Sweeney's outburst came after Christie vetoed $900 million in spending added to the budget by Democrats, the New York Post reported. "This is all about him being a bully and a punk," Sweeney told the Newark Star-Ledger. "I wanted to punch him in the head. "He is a cruel man. He's mean-spirited. He's angry. If you don't do what he says, I liken it to being spoiled." Sweeney also called Christie a "rotten p****," using a word that often refers to a part of the male anatomy. Christie's spokeswoman Maria Comella issued a statement regarding Sweeney's tirade: "The governor believes the language used was inappropriate and disrespectful to the office. But he continues to stand ready to work with Senator Sweeney and the legislature in a bipartisan manner to get things done for the people of New Jersey." Editor's Note: Sleep Through the Night Again. Try Prostate Revive for Free 3. Americans Ready for Natural Gas Vehicles Electric cars and hybrids have been capturing the headlines regarding the future of America's motor vehicles, but the next big thing could well be natural gas cars and trucks. A recent poll by TechnoMetrica found that 70 percent of Americans are familiar with natural gas as a fuel for motor vehicles, and nearly half of those say they would consider buying a vehicle that runs on natural gas. One compelling reason: Natural gas costs about $2 a gallon these days, compared to around $4 for gasoline. Some 150,000 natural gas vehicles are already on the road in the U.S., mostly fleet autos and buses, and worldwide the number of those vehicles is expected to reach nearly 29 million by 2015, according to an editorial by Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, in Investor's Business Daily. Mayur observes: "In the past, the industry slighted natural gas vehicles because the U.S. had a low supply of this fuel. Now, with the discovery of vast fields of natural gas deposits, which are estimated to last for the next 100 years, interest has ticked up. The automobile industry is starting to take notice of the merits of natural gas." Not only is natural gas abundant in the U.S., but a natural gas vehicle has fewer emissions than a gasoline-powered car, with lower levels of harmful byproducts — an important consideration due to new federal and state regulations that will compel vehicle manufacturers to lower emissions levels. Natural gas vehicles will also reduce American dependence on foreign oil. Vehicles running on natural gas cost more than gasoline-powered vehicles, and there are currently few refueling stations. But natural gas vehicles for personal use are already being sold in New York, California, Utah and Oklahoma. Honda plans to sell its Civic GX natural gas vehicle nationwide by the end of next year, and Chrysler has announced that it will make natural gas vehicles in 2017, according to Mayur, who adds: "The automotive industry needs to embark on a major educational effort to further educate the public to the advantages of natural gas and natural gas cars." Editor's Note: The Wealthy Never Make This Mistake 4. Congress Threatens to Suspend Palestinian Aid The Anti-Defamation League is hailing a vote by the U.S. Congress urging President Barack Obama to suspend financial aid to the Palestinian Authority if its leaders push for United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state. The resolution in the House, approved by 407 of the 435 representatives on Thursday, was introduced by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer. The Senate had already approved the resolution. It calls for the renewal of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and states that "Palestinian efforts to gain recognition of a state outside direct negotiations demonstrates absence of a good faith commitment to peace negotiations, and will have implications for continued United States aid." Members of Congress were commended "for mobilizing a resounding message that the Palestinians cannot reject direct negotiations with Israel and embrace Hamas," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, and Robert Sugarman, the ADL's chairman. "Instead of reconciling with Israel, the Palestinian Authority has reconciled with Hamas, a terrorist, anti-Semitic organization sworn to Israel's destruction. The Palestinians need to take seriously the president's warning that 'symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won't create an independent state.'" Editor's Note: Get the U.S. Border Patrol Cap Free, Just Pay Shipping 5. Stimulus Scam: $7 Million per Home for Broadband First came the report that President Obama's stimulus package had cost taxpayers $278,000 for each job it created. Now comes the disclosure that the stimulus shelled out $7 million per home to bring broadband access to rural areas. "President Obama campaigned on expanding access to broadband Internet, and the stimulus afforded him an occasion for doling out federal dollars to that end," Forbes.com columnist Nick Schulz observes. He cites a report by Jeffrey Eisenach and Kevin Caves of Navigant Economics, a consulting firm, which examined the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's subsidizing of rural broadband, designed to bring broadband access to homes without it. The two authors looked at three areas that received direct grants or loans from the stimulus package: southwestern Montana, northwestern Kansas, and northeastern Minnesota. They calculated that it cost $349,234 to bring broadband to each previously unserved household! But "it's actually much worse than that," according to Schulz, DeWitt Wallace fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The Montana area included in the stimulus funding has as many as seven broadband providers, including wireless, and "there were only seven households in the Montana region that could be considered without access," Schulz writes. "So the cost of extending access in the Montana case comes to about $7 million for each additional household served." Note: Newsmax magazine is now available on the iPad. Find us in the App Store.   Small Group of Doctors Quietly Curing Cancer Editor's Notes: ALARMING: Is a Second Great Depression Bearing Down on Us? Sleep Through the Night Again. Try Prostate Revive for Free Get the U.S. Border Patrol Cap Free, Just Pay Shipping Small Group of Doctors Quietly Curing Cancer The Wealthy Never Make This Mistake This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. You have received this Newsmax e-mail because you subscribed to it or someone forwarded it to you. To opt out, see the links below. 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In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards?
* Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere
* Why UK FM Needn't Be Killed For Broadband
* Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service
* Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'
* UCLA Hospital Hit With HIPAA Fine On Celeb Records
* Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death'
* Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman
* Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet
* Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access?
* Google Chairman To Testify At Antitrust Hearing
* <em>Space Invaders</em>: The Movie
* Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+
* Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government
* Playdough For Fun and Profit
* 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter

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| Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards?
| from the letters-we-get-letters dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 08, @22:36 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0051204/Ask-Slashdot-How-To-Safely-Saw-Up-Motherboards?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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James-NSC writes "I like to do arts and crafts. I've been saving up
motherboards for a while as a new medium and I started working on it last
night. I wore the same gear I wear while painting ��� fine particulate
respirator and safety goggles. I just cut some templates out of some
motherboards and when I was done I used the shop-vac to clean myself &
workspace up before removing my mask. Even after 5+ minutes, in a well
ventilated area (not as well as it should have been apparently) my first
breath was pins and needles. I'm looking into containment and exhaust
solutions ��� ala baby's first iron lung, but seriously, am I nuts? Are
these materials just too toxic to work with?"

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0051204/Ask-Slashdot-How-To-Safely-Saw-Up-Motherboards?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

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| Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere
| from the spin-do-not-sit dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @01:42 (Robotics)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0236254/Novel-Drive-Wheel-System-Based-On-Spinning-Sphere?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A Bradley University student has built a
mobile robot that uses a hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled, or HOG,
drive wheel. It consists of a [0]black rubber hemisphere that rotates
like a spinning top, with servos that can tilt it left and right and
forwards and backwards. The HOG system delivers an amount of torque
directly proportional to the tilt of the hemisphere, allowing the robot
to move incredibly fast nearly instantaneously."

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0236254/Novel-Drive-Wheel-System-Based-On-Spinning-Sphere?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/youve-never-seen-a-drive-system-like-this-before

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| Why UK FM Needn't Be Killed For Broadband
| from the next-we'll-cure-all-known-diseases dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @04:40 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/08/2349259/Why-UK-FM-Neednt-Be-Killed-For-Broadband?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]superglaze writes "Alarmed by rumours of the UK telecoms regulator
Ofcom considering a shut-down of FM radio in order to give more spectrum
over to broadband, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins has proposed another idea:
the [1]reuse of the mostly disused 'Band I' and the creation of a new,
national open mesh network ��� a plan that could bring internet
connectivity to everyone at very low cost."

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/08/2349259/Why-UK-FM-Neednt-Be-Killed-For-Broadband?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:superglaze@hotmail.com
1. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2011/07/07/dont-kill-fm-for-broadband-build-a-new-internet-40093344/

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| Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service
| from the innocent-whistling-at-very-high-pitch dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @07:51 (Privacy)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0250237/Apple-Store-Artist-Raided-By-Secret-Service?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Artist Kyle McDonald wanted to create
something that captured people's expressions as they stared at computers.
So the 25-year-old artist installed a program on computers in two New
York Apple Store locations that would automatically take a photo every
minute of whoever was standing in front of the computer. McDonald then
uploaded the photos to his Tumblr blog, 'People Staring at Computers,'
[0]made a video with the photographs, and set up 'an exhibition' at the
Apple stores to show what he had found. Within days, the Secret Service,
which investigates computer crimes, had raided McDonald's house, seizing
his two laptops, two flash drives and iPod."

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Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/apple-store-artist-raided-by-secret-service/2011/07/08/gIQAJDAW3H_blog.html

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| Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'
| from the new-old-meaning-for-spend-a-penny dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @08:29 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0412258/Armys-Huge-SAP-Project-At-High-Risk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The Army's [1]$2.4 billion SAP project is delayed,
over budget, and, once implemented may not even meet its original
objectives, according to a recent auditors' report. For its part, the
Army is less concerned with the auditors' findings about the project that
will manage a $140 billion annual budget and serve nearly 80,000 users
once it is complete: 'The Army believes the risks identified in this
report are manageable and do not materially impact the [project's] cost
and schedule,' said an official with the Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology)."

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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/181379/auditors-armys-huge-sap-project-high-risk

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| UCLA Hospital Hit With HIPAA Fine On Celeb Records
| from the easier-than-getting-madonna's-pap-smear dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @09:27 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1245205/UCLA-Hospital-Hit-With-HIPAA-Fine-On-Celeb-Records?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The University of California at Los Angeles Health
Services has agreed to [0]pay a $865,000 fine and pledged to tweak their
infrastructure after potentially violating the HIPAA regulation when
several employees apparently accessed the health records of various
celebrity patients at the hospital without valid justification. This is
the third major HIPAA fine issued by the Department of Health and Human
Services in 2011, following a fine of $4.3 million for Cignet and a
penalty of $1 million for Massachusetts General Hospital."

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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ucla-health-services-pays-865k-settles-hipaa-violations-070811

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| Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death'
| from the cake-or-death-or-trapped-in-mysql dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @10:26 (Databases)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1256241/Facebook-Trapped-In-MySQL-a-Fate-Worse-Than-Death?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wasimkadak writes with this excerpt from GigaOM: "According to database
pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL
implementation equivalent to 'a fate worse than death,' and the only way
out is '[0]bite the bullet and rewrite everything.' Not that it's
necessarily Facebook's fault, though. Stonebraker says the social
network's predicament is all too common among web startups that start
small and grow to epic proportions."

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Links:
0. http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/

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| Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman
| from the bloom-is-off-the-rose dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @11:30 (Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/150211/Sony-Announces-End-For-MiniDisc-Walkman?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Beloved of concert tapers for their small size, shock resistance, and
long battery life, MiniDisc recorders never much caught on with the
general public. I remember playing with one in the early '90s ��� before
high-quality solid state stereo recorders were affordable ��� and looking
forward to the day that I would have one of my own. Playback-only decks
were available, but understandably (in retrospect) never became big
sellers; when [0]MiniDisc was introduced, CDs were still a recent comer,
and 8-track was fresh in the mind. Music fans were probably tired of
replacing their vinyl and cassettes with the Next Big Thing. Still, with
its cheap media and decent portable recorders, MiniDisc struck a chord
for some uses, and stuck around better than the [1]Digital Compact
Cassette. Now, 19 years after the introduction of the MiniDisc format,
Sony has announced that it [2]will stop shipping its MiniDisc Walkman
products in September, though it will continue to produce blank media.

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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc
1. http://jacg.home.xs4all.nl/philips/dcc.html
2. http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110707D07JFN01.htm

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| Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet
| from the barbed-wire-garden dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @12:32 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1541229/Ex-NSA-Chief-Supports-Separate-Secure-Internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Nextgove reports that Michael Hayden, former
director of both the NSA and the CIA, says the United States may
seriously want to consider creating a [1]new Internet infrastructure to
reduce the threat of cyberattacks and several current federal officials,
including U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander, also have
floated the concept of a '.secure' network for critical services such as
financial institutions, sensitive infrastructure, government contractors,
and the government itself that would be walled off from the public web.
Unlike .com, .xxx and other new domains now proliferating the Internet,
.secure would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and
would do away with users' Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. 'I think
what Keith is trying to suggest is that we need a more hardened
enterprise structure for some activities and we need to go build it,'
says Hayden. 'All those people who want to violate their privacy on
Facebook ��� let them continue to play.' Clay Dillow writes that on the
existing internet everyone does everything online anonymously, and while
that's great for liberties, it's also dangerous when cyber
criminals/foreign hackers are roaming the cyber countryside. Under the
proposed .secure internet 'you may not be able to go to certain
neighborhoods of the Web without [2]showing your papers at a checkpoint ���
and perhaps subjecting yourself to one of those humiliating electronic
pat-downs as well,' writes Dillow. 'Those who want to remain anonymous on
the Web can still frolic about in the world of dot-com, but in the
dot-secure realm you would have to prove you are you.'"

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Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110706_1137.php?oref=topnews
2. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-07/former-cia-chief-dot-secure-domain-could-curb-cyber-threats

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| Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access?
| from the you-thought-your-uncle-was-weird dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @13:36 (The Internet)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/164253/Ask-Slashdot-Living-Without-Internet-At-Home-Access?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I've decided that the internet is no longer a
positive influence on my life, and am interested in canceling my service.
In the interest of not forgoing all digital conveniences, I plan to set
up a small intranet, hosting a few resources that I think I'd like to
have access to on a regular basis (e.g. a text dump of Wikipedia). I'll
also still have access to the internet at my office, and have easy access
to public Wi-Fi at libraries and coffee shops. My questions are thus:
Does anybody have any experience living without the internet? What major
nuisances did you encounter? What resources should I put on my intranet?
Is there anything I'm overlooking?"

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| Google Chairman To Testify At Antitrust Hearing
| from the what-about-the-congressional-monopoly? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @14:40 (Google)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1831210/Google-Chairman-To-Testify-At-Antitrust-Hearing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bonch writes "Following a threat of subpoena, Google chairman [0]Eric
Schmidt will be testifying at a Senate antitrust subcommittee in
September. Google has denied acting anticompetitively and cites its
success as the cause of the increased scrutiny. The Federal Trade
Commission and European Commission have both launched antitrust
investigations into the company, and the Justice Department is also
conducting a criminal probe into their acceptance of ads from rogue web
pharmacies, an investigation Google has [1]set aside $500 million to
settle."

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Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576434242590555286.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/13/0439218/Google-Expected-to-Settle-Over-Drug-Ads-to-the-Tune-of-500M

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| <em>Space Invaders</em>: The Movie
| from the they-want-our-unobtanium dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @15:45 (Movies)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1941230/Space-Invaders-The-Movie?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rainmouse writes "Hollywood, clearly after witnessing the staggering
success and endless critical acclaim of other computer game adaptations
with their typically engrossing story line and deep, believable character
development, have now apparently picked up the rights to make [0]a film
based upon Space Invaders. 'The classic 1980s arcade game from Taito and
Midway, which is ranked as the top arcade game of all time by Guinness
World Records, is heading to the big screen courtesy of producers Lorenzo
di Bonaventura and Odd Lot Entertainment's Gigi Pritzker.'" Please help
out by providing appropriate plot-lines and character sketches below.

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Links:
0. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/space-invaders-video-game-headed-208968

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| Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+
| from the optimism-defined dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @16:43 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2032232/Google-Orkut-Will-Co-Exist-With-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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splitenz writes "Google's other social networking site, Orkut, which has
been around for about seven years and has tens of millions of users
worldwide, [0]will continue to operate alongside the new Google+ for now.
However, Google is leaving its options open regarding the possibility of
fusing the two through some sort of integration further down the road."

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Links:
0. http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/392970/google_orkut_will_co-exist_google

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| Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government
| from the more-of-an-ethos-or-perhaps-a-lifestyle dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @17:46 (Government)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2133212/Idle-File-Sharing-Is-Not-a-Religion-Says-Swedish-Government?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting on an attempt in Sweden to
[0]recognize filesharing as a religion. The religion's website [1]calls
this 'Kopimism' and says that sharing of knowledge is sacred. Apparently,
Swedish authorities were not convinced. A recent report shows that the
attempt [2]failed to convince the authorities to recognize Kopimism as a
religion."

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Links:
0. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/94257/swedish-authorities-disconnects-filesharing-as-a-religion/
1. http://kopimistsamfundet.se/english/
2. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/07/07/Sweden-File-sharing-not-act-of-worship/UPI-57381310055881/?spt=hs&or=on

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| Playdough For Fun and Profit
| from the not-the-trademarked-version dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @18:48 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2157229/Playdough-For-Fun-and-Profit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]morgan_greywolf writes with this snippet from Wired:"You're never too
young (or too old) to start learning the joys of electronics. You don't
need to know how to solder, or even how to plug circuit components into a
breadboard. As long as you're past the 'I'm going to stick this up my
nose' phase, this [1]homemade playdough circuit project is a great way to
introduce kiddos and adults alike to basic circuits and electricity."

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0. http://robsworldoftech.blogspot.com/
1. http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Homemade_Playdough_Circuits?oldid=77217

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| 5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter
| from the lovely-shade-of-black-don'tcha-think? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 09, @19:54 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/2351220/5-Concerns-About-Australias-New-Net-Filter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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daria42 writes "As you might have heard, this month [0]Australia gets a
new Internet filter, using Interpol's blacklist of 'worst of the worst'
child pornography sites. In general, it seems like most people don't
object to the idea in principle, but [1]concerns are being raised around
the transparency of the scheme, which so far has no civilian oversight,
unclear backing legislation and an appeals process which does not exactly
inspire confidence. Why is it those who want to implement this kind of
filtering never quite address these sort of concerns up-front?"

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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/052258/Australian-ISPs-To-Start-Filtering-the-Internet
1. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/09/five-disturbing-things-about-the-interpol-filter/

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