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1. Fuel Economy Standard 'Kills People'
2. China Attacks U.S. on Debt Debate
3. Environmentalists Blamed for Deadly Bedbug Plague
4. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander to Head OPEC
5. U.S. Customs: 500,000 Troops Needed to Seal Border

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1. Fuel Economy Standard 'Kills People'

The Obama administration on July 29 announced a new fuel economy standard that requires automakers to boost their fleets' miles per gallon by 5 percent a year until they reach 54.5 mpg by 2025.

The standard is designed to save thousands of dollars in fuel costs over the life of a vehicle, but critics say it will have another effect: a rise in motor vehicle deaths.

The president reportedly has secured agreements from General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda and Hyundai to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) to 35.6 in 2016 and to the higher figure nine years later, although the standard will be reviewed in 2018.

To increase their vehicles' fuel economy, automakers will have to reduce their weight.

"So prepare to say goodbye to sport utility vehicles, pickups and minivans, the very vehicles millions of American families and businesses must rely upon every day," the Washington Examiner observed in an editorial.

"By far the worst result, however, will be the fact that thousands will die because Obama, fanatical Big Green environmentalists, and their allies in the federal bureaucracy care more about removing micro-amounts of emissions than they do about the safety and convenience of people on the roads."

Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit think tank, called CAFE "a regulation that, plain and simple, kills people."

A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study in 2003 estimated that for every 100 pounds of weight removed from a car weighing under 3,000 pounds, the death rate rises more than 5 percent.

A study by the National Academy of Science found that lighter vehicles required to satisfy CAFE — which was first enacted in 1975 — were responsible for up to 2,600 highway deaths a year.

And data from the government's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, analyzed by USA Today, concluded that 7,700 people died for every one additional mpg attributed to CAFE regulation.

The Examiner concludes: "If CAFE standards were produced by a public corporation or small business instead of the federal government, the families of those killed by the regulations would have a prima facie case for a class-action lawsuit."

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2. China Attacks U.S. on Debt Debate

The Chinese government's official mouthpiece has published a commentary attacking the United States for its handling of the debt crisis.

The opinion piece published on Xinhua, the state-run news wire, chided the U.S. for its "debt addiction" and said it was "time for Washington to revisit the time-tested common sense that one should live within one's means."

The commentary went on to say that American politicians need to "conduct an in-depth self-examination" and decide how to "shake off electoral politics and get difficult jobs done more efficiently."

The article also called the battle between Democrats and Republicans over how to resolve the debt ceiling crisis "dangerously irresponsible."

The prospect of a U.S. debt default unnerved global investors because it would hobble the global economy and roil financial markets by raising bond yields and borrowing costs, a point stressed by Xinhua.

China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt, with an estimated 60 to 70 percent of its $3.2 trillion foreign exchange reserves in American assets.

The Financial Times observed: "China has little choice but to continue investing in U.S. assets because no other market is big enough to support its purchases."

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3. Environmentalists Blamed for Deadly Bedbug Plague

Government policies on the use of pesticides have led to a resurgent population of bedbugs — including some that carry a deadly antibiotic-resistant germ.

Bedbugs had been almost completely eradicated in the United States for half a century through the use of the now-banned pesticide DDT, but their population has grown rapidly during the past decade, overwhelming hotels, hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings, according to a report from the Heartland Institute.

Canadian researchers have recently discovered bedbugs carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some antibiotics and can be deadly if it reaches the bloodstream.

H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, blames the bedbug resurgence on "poor policy decisions."

He told Heartland Institute: "Most households have never seen a bedbug before now. But in the early 1970s, the government banned the pesticide DDT, and now we're seeing bedbug infestations in European and North American cities.

"This is another legacy of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring,' the 1962 book credited with starting the environmental movement, leading to the ban of DDT.

"By banning DDT, we've killed people in developing countries through the spread of malaria. Now we're subjecting the U.S. population to bedbugs and other pests and vermin.

"Government should lift the ban on DDT and other pesticides that are effective in treating pests like bedbugs."

Angela Logomasini, director of risk and environmental policy with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, agrees.

"We had eradicated bedbugs in the past, then we banned DDT for home use, and now they're back. I think this policy needs to be reevaluated."

She also said, "We need a better regulatory environment. Rather than removing products from the shelves, which is where we are today because of the precautionary principle, more evaluation and experimentation is needed."

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4. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander to Head OPEC

In what Iran is touting as a "blow to the West," a senior official with the nation's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is taking over as the new head of the OPEC oil cartel.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad named as his oil minister Brig. Gen. Rostam Ghasemi, who heads Khatam al-Anbia (KAA), an industrial giant owned by the Revolutionary Guards, and he was approved by Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday.

Ghasemi's position as oil minister means he will preside over OPEC meetings this year, because Iran holds the rotating presidency of the 12-country cartel.

KAA has been targeted for international sanctions for activities relating to Iran's nuclear program, the Guardian reported.

Ghasemi himself was added to the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals whose assets are frozen. Ghasemi cannot do business with Americans.

A Revolutionary Guards spokesman called the approval of Ghasemi as oil minister "a meaningful and crucial response to the attacks against the Guards from the West's media empire."

And an Iranian lawmaker was quoted as saying a vote for Ghasemi would be a vote for Iran's "history of resistance."

Britain's Telegraph observed that "the fate of world oil prices could rest in the hands of a man who has devoted his whole life to opposing the West. Oil prices are high enough as it is, and the prospect of Iran using oil prices to hold the world to ransom is something that should give all of us sleepless nights."

OPEC's 12 nations, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, account for about 79 percent of the world's crude oil reserves and 44 percent of world production.

In 1973, Arab members of OPEC placed an embargo on oil exports to the United States and Western Europe in response to the West's resupply of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

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5. U.S. Customs: 500,000 Troops Needed to Seal Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin has essentially thrown in the towel on efforts to completely seal the U.S.-Mexican border, saying that would require up to half a million troops.

Speaking at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Thursday, Bersin said: "We would need on the order of about 400,000 or 500,000 border patrol agents to seal the border."

Those agents would have to be stationed "25 yards" apart along the entire length of the border, he said, adding that Americans would not want to pay "the costs that would be involved."

CAP immigration policy director Marshall Fitz said for "the average American, who doesn't think a lot about this and considers the United States the most powerful country in the history of the world," it might not seem "unrealistic to think that we could actually seal the border," CNS News reported.

He said Congress' passing of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 "suggests that that is viable," but called that aim unrealistic.

Bersin said he favored "satisfactory" control of the border.

But he insisted that the border is safer than it ever has been, and a CAP report authored by Fitz was cited to back that assertion.

In the Tucson, Ariz., sector, which has the highest number of illegal crossings, 616,346 people were taken into custody in 2000, the report noted.

In 2010, "only" 212,202 were taken into custody.

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DO ANTACIDS HELP LESSEN SYMPTOMS OF GASTRITIS OR COLITIS?

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Do antacids help lessen symptoms of gastritis or colitis?

I was diagnosed with haemorrhagic gastritis and I occasionally wonder if it was induced by too much acid in the stomach. Does taking antacid solve the issue?


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Since you are acquiring bleeding, it seems like you might have a bacteria referred to as H. Pylori that can cause bleeding ulcers.

If you have mild gastritis, antacids might provide swift pain relief.
If your gastritis is a lot more severe, you might possibly require an acid inhibitor like Pepcid, Zantac, Axid.
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In this issue:
* United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating
* The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing
* Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement
* FOX To Host New Cosmos
* ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops
* Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter?
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* Black Hat Talk Demonstrates New Document Exploits

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| United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating
| from the don't-worry-the-next-19-generations-won't-mind dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @02:42 (Government)
| with 1109 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/0428246/United-States-Loses-SampP-AAA-Credit-Rating?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oxide7 writes with this excerpt from the International Business Times:
"The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard &
Poor's on Friday in [0]an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the
world's largest economy. S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one
notch to AA-plus on concerns about the government's budget deficits and
rising debt burden. The move is likely to raise borrowing costs
eventually for the American government, companies and consumers."

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0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/193427/20110805/united-states-loses-aaa-credit-rating-fromp.htm

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| The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing
| from the go-fast-turn-left dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @08:26 (Math)
| with 424 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/0127201/The-Mathematics-of-Lawn-Mowing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "I enjoy mowing my six-acre lawn with my John
Deere 757 zero-turn every week, and over the course of the last five
years of mowing I have come up with my own most efficient method of
getting the job done which takes me about three hours. While completing
my task this morning, I decided after I finished to research the subject
to discover if there is a method for determining the most efficient path
for mowing, and found that Australians Bunkard Polster and Marty Ross
wrote last summer about an elegant mathematical presentation of the
problem of [1]mowing an irregularly shaped area as efficiently as
possible. First we simplify our golf course mowing problem by covering
the course with an array of circles with each circle radius equal to the
width of the mower disc. Connecting the centers of the circles produces
an equilateral triangular grid, with vertices at the circle centers.
Following a path consisting of grid edges, there will necessarily be a
fair amount of overlap so the statement of the problem is to minimize the
overlap by minimizing the number of vertices that are visited more than
once which Polster and Ross say is easily achieved by well-known computer
search algorithms. Any other tips from Slashdot readers?"

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1. http://education.theage.com.au/cmspage.php?intid=147&intversion=76

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| Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement
| from the at-last-a-flash-mob-with-a-mob-mentality dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @12:27 (Communications)
| with 299 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/1420236/Philly-Answers-Youth-Flash-Mobs-With-Curfew-Enforcement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Not that it's the first city to enforce a youth curfew, and not that
kids on a crime-spree is the only variety of moral panic offered as a
rationale, but Philadelphia is cracking down through [1]increased
enforcement of a [2]youth curfew law after children and teenagers
attacked two people in the Center City district ��� attacks which,
according to police, were coordinated via text messaging.

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Links:
0. http://public.findlaw.com/civil-rights/curfew-laws/juvenile-curfew-laws-25-cities.html
1. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/06/Philly-cracks-down-on-teen-flash-mobs/UPI-76161312603804/
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/us/11curfew.html

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| FOX To Host New Cosmos
| from the with-nancy-cartwright-narration-please dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday August 05, @20:33 (Television)
| with 196 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/0029228/FOX-To-Host-New-Cosmos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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twocows writes "FOX is [0]set to make a new season of Carl Sagan's
'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,' hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson and written by
none other than Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan's widow). Let's hope they don't
screw it up like every other good show they've aired in the past decade."

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Links:
0. http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/fox-to-revamp-acclaimed-science-series-cosmos-with-neil-degrasse-tyson/

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| ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops
| from the best-of-europe-and-australia-coming-soon dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @19:07 (The Internet)
| with 195 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/235206/ISPs-Will-Now-Be-Copyright-Cops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Wendy Seltzer, Fellow at Princeton
University's Center for Information Technology Policy, talks about the
new plan by ISPs and content providers to '[0]crack down on what users
can do with their internet connections' using a 6-step warning system to
curb online copyright infringement."

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Links:
0. http://isp-services.com/videos/seltzer-says-internet-providers-will-now-be-copyright-cops/

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| Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter?
| from the your-boy-zoolander's-on-the-move dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @14:41 (Networking)
| with 162 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/1841210/Ask-Slashdot-Does-SSL-Validation-Matter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Right now, in an email list excluded from the
public eye, some bright people are discussing the future of SSL. Under
debate is (a) do they allow DV (domain only validation) certificates to
continue to exist (exist for e-commerce use? only encryption use?) or do
they require a higher degree of certificate validation? (b) Do they allow
certificates to be issued with non-unique common names (certificates used
on internal networks, think your exchange server) or do they ban the
practice? If this were 'hypothetically' a heated debate going on right
now and you could chime in, what would you say?"

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| World Wide Web Turns 20 Today
| from the why-it-can-barely-vote-yet dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @13:31 (The Internet)
| with 142 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/1456226/World-Wide-Web-Turns-20-Today?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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girlmad writes "On 6 August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, then a humble
scientist at CERN, [0]made the first page on the World Wide Web publicly
available in a move that, unbeknown to him at the time, would change the
world more quickly and profoundly than anything before or since."
[1]Wired also has a retrospective, noting that "[i]t can be hard now,
even for many of us who regularly used the Internet before there was a
World Wide Web, to remember that there was a time when the two terms
weren���t considered nearly synonymous by the general public." For those
who remember, what was your first experience with the Web per se? For me,
it was in 1993 or early 1994, with an excited demonstration of [2]Mosaic
on Sun workstations in the Geology department at the University of Texas.

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Links:
0. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/analysis/2099398/world-wide-web-changed-world-forever
1. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/world-wide-web-20-years/
2. http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Projects/mosaic.html

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| Defcon Hacks Defeat Card-And-Code Locks In Seconds
| from the hey-tsa-locks-are-awesome dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday August 05, @20:57 (Security)
| with 133 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/0011247/Defcon-Hacks-Defeat-Card-And-Code-Locks-In-Seconds?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sparrowvsrevolution writes "At the Defcon security conference in Las
Vegas, Marc Weber Tobias and Toby Bluzmanis plan to demonstrate simple
hardware hacks that expose [0]critical security problems in Swiss lock
firm Kaba's E-plex 5800 and its older 5000. Kaba markets the 5800 lock,
which Bluzmmanis says can cost as much as $1,300, as the first to
integrate code-based access controls with a new Department of Homeland
Security standard that goes into effect next year and requires
identifying credentials be used in secure facilities to control access.
One attack uses a mallet to 'rap' open the lock, another opens the lock
by putting a pin through the LED display light to ground a contact on the
circuit board, and a third uses a wire inserted in the lock's back panel
to hit a switch that resets its software."

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Links:
0. http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/05/defcon-lockpickers-open-card-and-code-government-locks-in-seconds/

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| In German Trials, Airport Body Scanners Easily Confused
| from the bitte-to-be-straightening-dein-pleats-maedchen dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @05:30 (Australia)
| with 84 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/0113259/In-German-Trials-Airport-Body-Scanners-Easily-Confused?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "The German government just finished a 10-month test
of millimeter-wave body scanners made by L3 Communications. It appears
[0]they are not happy with the results. The devices raise false alarms 7
times out of 10, and are confused by layered clothing, boots, zippers,
pleats, and even incorrect posture. Australia recently started a trial,
and the second person in at the Sydney airport set off the alarm
repeatedly due to [1]sweaty armpits."

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Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jGUyRTjF-WA40GLjIMEo6dFgSxlw?docId=CNG.d76d1890df3edca8dd08181cb6808c7f.881
1. http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/sweating-over-scan-new-airport-body-scanner-doesnt-like-perspiration/story-e6frfq80-1226106381522

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| After Complaints, VMware Revises VSphere 5 Licensing
| from the think-of-them-as-pretend-instances dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @09:59 (Virtualization)
| with 71 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/1320211/After-Complaints-VMware-Revises-VSphere-5-Licensing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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msmoriarty writes "Three weeks after IT shops [0]began complaining loudly
that the licensing changes with vSphere 5 would cost them significantly
more, VMware has [1]revised the requirements (although not as much as
[2]some users would like)."

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Links:
0. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/320877?start=0&tstart=0
1. http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/08/04/vmware-raises-vsphere-5-vram-entitlements.aspx
2. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/320877?start=1380&tstart=0

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| Autodesk + Instructables: For Makers?
| from the interesting-bedfellows dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday August 05, @23:49 (Hardware Hacking)
| with 69 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/0045259/Autodesk--Instructables-For-Makers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ptorrone writes "MAKE magazine has published an in-depth look at what
the recent [1]acquisition of Instructables by [2]Autodesk [3]means for
makers and the DIY movement. MAKE suggests it wasn't about getting the
millions of members or projects at Instructables or upselling Autodesk
tools. Instead, the acquisition was more about creating many
Instructable-like communities around Autodesk's new free and trial tools
including their 3D printing site and service, [4]Autodesk123D."

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Links:
0. http://.pt..at..adafruit.com./
1. http://www.instructables.com/community/Instructables-Joins-Autodesk/
2. http://usa.autodesk.com/
3. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/autodesk-acquires-instructables-what-it-means-for-makers.html
4. http://www.123dapp.com/

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| Eben Upton Talks About the Raspberry Pi USB Computer
| from the but-such-small-slices dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @10:31 (Portables)
| with 69 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/1324230/Eben-Upton-Talks-About-the-Raspberry-Pi-USB-Computer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I contacted the Director of the Raspberry Pi
Foundation, Eben Upton, and he graciously gave an interview pertaining to
[0]his foundation, the Raspberry Pi device, and how the device relates to
robotics. [1]The Raspberry Pi device is basically a $25 Linux PC on a
credit card sized board! This microcomputer looks perfectly suited as a
low cost, micro form factor, low power, PC performance robot brain."

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Links:
0. http://www.robots.net/article/3215.html
1. http://www.raspberrypi.org/

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| Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility
| from the is-this-the-embrace-or-the-extend? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @17:53 (Microsoft)
| with 69 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/2146245/Office-15-Development-To-Go-JavaScript-HTML5-For-Extensibility?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Programmers have had to put up with Microsoft dithering
over Office development for a long while. The macro language VBA has been
on its way out ever since .NET was introduced and yet it is still the
only macro language available. Now it looks as if Microsoft plan to put
JavaScript and HTML5 into Office 15. And how do we know this? [0]By
reading job ads to discover what projects Microsoft is hiring for."

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Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-focus-on-html5-and-javascript-for-office-15-extensions/10266?tag=mantle_skin;content

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| Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go
| from the don't-worry-yet dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @16:49 (Robotics)
| with 68 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/2048239/Army-Gives-Robo-Jeeps-a-Go?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jamesl writes with an excerpt from Defense Tech, which says the U.S. Army
is sending "four [of] Lockheed's [0]Squad Mission Support System (SMSS)
robot jeeps to Afghanistan where they'll haul supplies for troops. The
trucks are being sent there as part of a test program to see just how
useful robot cargo trucks can be. The 11-foot long trucks can carry a
half a ton of supplies for up to 125 miles after being delivered to the
field in a CH-47 or CH-53 helo."

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Links:
0. http://defensetech.org/2011/08/05/army-fielding-robo-jeeps-to-astan/

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| Boeing Employees To Man CST-100 Crew Capsule
| from the lockheed-employees-failed-to-volunteer dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @11:26 (Space)
| with 66 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/141222/Boeing-Employees-To-Man-CST-100-Crew-Capsule?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The BBC reports that Boeing has a source of human passengers to populate
its manned crew transport vehicle, the [0]CST-100: [1]Boeing employees.
The CST-100 is Boeing's bid to replace more expensive options, such as
the recently retired space shuttle family, for delivering astronauts to
space, including to the International Space Station. The lucky employees
(interns?) won't have a chance to visit space until the experimental
capsule first makes two unmanned trips, lifted by an [2]Atlas V rocket.
These first three trips are all slated for 2015.

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Links:
0. http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1323
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14417634
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V

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| McAfee Disclaims Claims of Chinese Involvement in 'Shady RAT'
| from the not-in-so-many-words dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @09:28 (China)
| with 51 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/130220/McAfee-Disclaims-Claims-of-Chinese-Involvement-in-Shady-RAT?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hackingbear writes "In an interview with Chinese official Xinhua news
agency, McAfee said [0]no direct evidence suggests a particular nation
such as China is behind Operation Shady RAT, a five-year cyber campaign
discovered by McAfee. Alperovitch told Xinhua that they 'don't have
direct evidence that conclusively points to a particular nation state'
behind the scheme. So the same online security industry that [1]has
propagated Chinese cyber threats in front of Western media denies they
made such suggestion of China, another of their major markets." Also on
the Shady RAT front, reader kermidge writes with a post from Hon Lau at
Symantec containing [2]details lacking in McAfee's Wednesday report;
included are examples of the vectors and commands used, along with cogent
commentary.

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Links:
0. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-08/05/c_131032071.htm
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/05/1422254/Chinas-5-Year-Cyberwar-Met-With-Western-Silence
2. http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/truth-behind-shady-rat

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| Black Hat Talk Demonstrates New Document Exploits
| from the send-you-this-file-in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 06, @15:38 (Security)
| with 45 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/06/195228/Black-Hat-Talk-Demonstrates-New-Document-Exploits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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darthcamaro writes "Remember the days of the viruses embedded in email
attachments? They're coming back, according to a pair of researcher
talking at Black Hat this week: '"If you have installed all Microsoft
Office patches and there are no 0 day vulnerabilities, will it be safe to
open a Word or Excel document?" TT asked the audience. "[0]The answer is
no."'"

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Links:
0. http://www.datamation.com/security/black-hat-document-exploits-continue-to-evolve.html


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