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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android
* Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study
* Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines
* $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars
* US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year
* The Case For Piracy
* A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age
* Early Speed Tests For Windows 8
* Blizzard Announces New <em>WoW</em> Expansion: <em>Mists of Pandaria</em>
* Proposed UK Online Libel Rules Would Restrict Anonymous Posting
* Android 4.0 Source Code Coming "Soon"
* How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks
* Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It
* Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices
* Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident?
* Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users
* Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again)
* Senator Introduces Bill To Stop Warrantless GPS Tracking
* Google Reader's Social Features Merging With Google+
* Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name
* Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul
* How Open Source Hardware Is Kick-Starting Kickstarter
* Nasdaq Intrusion Spreads To Listed Companies
* Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tomorrow Morning
* <em>Portal 2</em> Getting Map Editor
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| Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android
| from the blunt-and-honest dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @08:49 (Android)
| with 869 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1233225/jobs-wanted-to-destroy-android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hype7 writes "It's clear Steve Jobs didn't pull any punches from the
interviews for his forthcoming biography. In the latest release from the
book, hosted over at AP, 'Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January
2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the
popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an
expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft." ...
"[1]I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm
willing to go thermonuclear war on this." ... In a subsequent meeting
with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he
wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says. "I don't want
your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty
of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I
want." The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1233225/jobs-wanted-to-destroy-android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:u3295110@NoSpam.anu.edu.au
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izacIaKf2hT_w5hDjmST8YtIM4Hw
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| Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study
| from the time-to-crank-the-AC dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @09:32 (Earth)
| with 845 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1239258/global-warming-confirmed-by-independent-study?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "The [0]Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project ��� an
independent study of Earth's historical temperature record partly funded
by climate skeptics, including the Koch brothers ��� has released
[1]preliminary results that show [2]the same warming trend as previous
research. Project leader and physics professor Richard Muller, of the
University of California, has stated that he was 'surprised' at the close
agreement, and it 'confirms that these studies were done carefully.' The
study also found that warming in the temperature record was not caused by
poor quality weather monitoring stations ��� thus rejecting a frequent
claim of skeptics. Climate skeptic Stephen McIntyre has previously said '[3]anything
that [Muller] does will be well done.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1239258/global-warming-confirmed-by-independent-study?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://berkeleyearth.org/
1. http://berkeleyearth.org/Resources/Berkeley_Earth_Decadal_Variations
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15373071
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/27/can-these-scientists-end-climate-change-war
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| Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines
| from the ban-venus-too dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @10:55 (Medicine)
| with 324 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1431233/proposed-mercury-ban-threatens-vaccines?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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T Murphy writes "Although in the draft stages, a [0]treaty being pushed
by the United Nations Environment Programme has a blanket ban on mercury.
While the ban would stop the use of mercury in paints or pesticides, it
currently has no exemptions to allow for other small uses, such as in
thermisol, which is used as a preservative in vaccines. The next meeting
to discuss this treaty will be at the end of October."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1431233/proposed-mercury-ban-threatens-vaccines?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-med-mercury-ban,0,6884065.story
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| $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars
| from the mission-accomplished dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @13:01 (Earth)
| with 315 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1555210/529m-doe-loan-spawns-97k-made-in-finland-cars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "With PR successes like the Fisker Karma, does the
Department of Energy need to worry about [0]PR failures like Solyndra?
ABC News and others are reporting that electric car company Fisker, which
received a [1]$529M federal loan guarantee with the approval of the Obama
administration, [2]is assembling its first line of $96,985 base-priced
hybrid cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United
States capable of doing the work. According to Green Car Reports, Fisker
said the EPA had [3]rated the Karma at 54 MPGe (MPG-equivalent) when
running on electricity from its battery pack, and that the EPA-rated
electric range would be 32 miles. Omitted from the press release was the
20-mpg rating for a Karma running on power from its range-extending
gasoline engine."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1555210/529m-doe-loan-spawns-97k-made-in-finland-cars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1829257/solar-company-folds-after-05b-in-subsidies
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/26/1323214/529m-govt-loan-to-develop-89000-hybrid-sports-car
2. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/car-company-us-loan-builds-cars-finland/story?id=14770875
3. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1067530_could-fisker-karmas-low-mpgs-hurt-doe-car-tech-loan-program
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| US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year
| from the pack-your-things dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @15:10 (The Military)
| with 294 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1852247/us-troops-to-leave-iraq-by-end-of-year?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mayberry42 writes with news that President Obama has announced an end to
the U.S. military engagement in Iraq. All [0]U.S. soldiers will leave
Iraq by the end of the year. "Mr. Obama said that as of Jan. 1, 2012, the
United States and Iraq would begin 'a normal relationship between two
sovereign nations, and equal partnership based on mutual interest and
mutual respect.' In a videoconference on Friday morning with Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Obama told him of the administration���s
decision, which grows out of an inability of the United States and Iraq
to come to an agreement on leaving a few thousand military trainers in
the country. The United States had earlier agreed to exit Iraq by the end
of the year and leave 3,000 to 5,000 troops in Iraq as trainers, with
some members of Congress advocating the retention of a reduced fighting
force as well. But Pentagon lawyers insisted that the Iraqi Parliament
grant immunity from legal prosecution to the troops if they were to
remain."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1852247/us-troops-to-leave-iraq-by-end-of-year?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/world/middleeast/president-obama-announces-end-of-war-in-iraq.html
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| The Case For Piracy
| from the arrr-me-hearties dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @10:13 (Piracy)
| with 281 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1258226/the-case-for-piracy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A mainstream media outlet has published an
article called '[0]The Case for Piracy. The writer shows how copyright
has been hijacked by corporations and that publishers are their own worst
enemies. 'One of the main reasons we all have anti-piracy slogans
embedded in our brains is because the music industry chose to try and
protect its existing market and revenue streams at all costs and
marginalise and vilify those who didn't want to conform to the harsh new
rules being set.' There's a lot in the article that Slashdot readers can
relate to, and it's interesting that so many replies seem to agree with
the author."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1258226/the-case-for-piracy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/10/20/3344351.htm
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| A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age
| from the straight-from-the-digital-horse's-mouth dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @14:27 (Government)
| with 257 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1727257/a-digital-direct-democracy-for-the-modern-age?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter lordofthechia writes "Last month the White House [0]created
an online petition system through which constituents can directly voice
any grievances and concerns to the US government. Any petition that
reaches 25,000 signatures (5,000 originally) is [1]promised an official
reply. This weekend the first petitions will be closing, and already many
have far exceeded the required number of signatures. Is this the way for
the voice of the electorate to gain more weight in modern politics, or is
it the web version of a [2]placebo button? Will the President's office
really consider the [3]top pleas, which include petitions to [4]Legalize
and Regulate Marijuana, [5]Forgive Student Loan Debt, and [6]Abolish the
TSA?"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1727257/a-digital-direct-democracy-for-the-modern-age?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/02/white-houses-we-the-people-e-petition-website-provides-a-more/
1. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/responses
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
3. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions/popular/0/2/0/
4. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/legalize-and-regulate-marijuana-manner-similar-alcohol/y8l45gb1
5. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/forgive-student-loan-debt-stimulate-economy-and-usher-new-era-innovation-entrepreneurship-and/jHfPW9c9
6. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/abolish-tsa-and-use-its-monstrous-budget-fund-more-sophisticated-less-intrusive-counter-terrorism/c7L94bFB
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| Early Speed Tests For Windows 8
| from the greased-lightning dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 21, @03:07 (Operating Systems)
| with 226 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0358223/early-speed-tests-for-windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "You often hear in the software industry that
performance optimization is one of the last steps in the software
development process. That bodes well for Windows 8, considering at the
early stage of Developer Preview���even before we've seen an actual
beta���the nascent operating system is getting widespread praise for its
performance, particularly in startup times. Anecdotal evidence is always
encouraging, but PCMag decided to [0]run some very early tests on the OS
to see if the reports were wishful thinking or if there was a real,
measurable boost in speed. Along with startup and shutdown times, they
used several standard industry benchmarks to compare Windows 8
performance with that of Windows 7 running on the same machine."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0358223/early-speed-tests-for-windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394979,00.asp#fbid=eGNKoSY3C70
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| Blizzard Announces New <em>WoW</em> Expansion: <em>Mists of Pandaria</em>
| from the april-fools-becomes-a-reality dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @15:50 (Role Playing (Games))
| with 214 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/199250/blizzard-announces-new-wow-expansion-mists-of-pandaria?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Blizzcon 2011 kicked off today, and the biggest announcement from the
opening ceremonies was the development of [0]a new expansion for World of
Warcraft. Titled [1]Mists of Pandaria, the expansion will focus on the
battle between the Horde and the Alliance instead of a traditional Big
Bad Enemy. There will be both a new race ��� Pandaren ��� and a new class ���
Monk. The level cap will be raised to 90, there will be "challenge mode"
dungeons, and they're introducing a pet battle system. Blizzard also
mentioned that people who buy a 12-month subscription to WoW will get a
copy of Diablo 3 for free.
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Links:
0. http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2515-Mists-of-Pandaria-is-the-next-WoW-Expansion
1. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mists-of-pandaria/
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| Proposed UK Online Libel Rules Would Restrict Anonymous Posting
| from the name-your-name dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 21, @00:56 (Government)
| with 207 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0247230/proposed-uk-online-libel-rules-would-restrict-anonymous-posting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "A Parliamentary Committee in the UK has suggested
that [1]sites should be protected against libel claims against
contributors ��� as long as those contributors are identified. Anonymous
postings should be taken down if someone complains of libel in them, in a
set of proposals which online community groups have described as
'chilling.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0247230/proposed-uk-online-libel-rules-would-restrict-anonymous-posting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/parliamentary-committee-says-websites-need-libel-protection-43069
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| Android 4.0 Source Code Coming "Soon"
| from the on-second-thought dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 21, @05:02 (Android)
| with 189 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0252256/android-40-source-code-coming-soon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Good news today for those of you who have been
waiting for news about whether Google would be opening up the ICS source
and for those of you who thought it was [1]gone for good. Android
engineer Dan Morrill revealed new information in the Android Building
Google group yesterday evening, saying that Google plans 'to [2]release
the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once it's
available on devices.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0252256/android-40-source-code-coming-soon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/012227/android-source-code-gone-for-good
2. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/215143/android-40-developers-will-get-their-source-code-dessert
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| How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks
| from the plugging-the-holes dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 21, @08:07 (Security)
| with 186 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0250215/how-to-stop-the-next-wikileaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Eli Lake reports that the U.S.'s 16 intelligence
agencies are using a program called SureView that [1]makes it easier to
spy on the spies and catch whistleblowers early in the act. SureView is a
type of auditing software that specializes in 'behavior-based internal
monitoring' that monitors the intelligence officer's computer activity.
If the officer acts like a potential leaker, sending an encrypted email
or using an unregistered thumb drive, the analyst might push a button and
watch a screen video of the officer's last hour of work. Once a case is
made that a leak might be imminent, it is checkmate: the agent is
thwarted. 'Had SureView been on Bradley Manning's machine, no one would
know who Bradley Manning is today,' says Ryan Szedelo, manager for
Raytheon's SureView software. The intelligence community has had auditing
software for years. SureView came on the market in 2002. But the programs
were buggy and often prone to false positives, alerting a network
administrator too often to routine behavior. 'The technology has gotten
substantially better in the last year,' says Jeffrey Harris, a former
head of the National Reconnaissance Office. 'The problem with audit files
was it took an army of people to understand them. Now we have
[2]rule-driven systems and expert systems that help us reason through the
data.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0250215/how-to-stop-the-next-wikileaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/20/intelligence-community-tries-big-brother-software-to-catch-next-leaker.html
2. http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/cybersecurity/insiderthreat/products/surview/index.html
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| Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It
| from the now-with-3d dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @11:36 (Programming)
| with 170 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1456213/microsoft-roslyn-reinventing-the-compiler-as-we-know-it?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister sees Microsoft's
[1]Project Roslyn potentially reinventing how we view compilers and
compiled languages. 'Roslyn is a complete reengineering of Microsoft's
.NET compiler toolchain in a new way, such that each phase of the code
compilation process is exposed as a service that can be consumed by other
applications,' McAllister writes. 'The most obvious advantage of this
kind of "deconstructed" compiler is that it allows the entire
compile-execute process to be invoked from within .NET applications. With
[2]the Roslyn technology, C# may still be a compiled language, but it
effectively gains all the flexibility and expressiveness that dynamic
languages such as Python and Ruby have to offer.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/microsofts-roslyn-reinventing-the-compiler-we-know-it-176671
2. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/10/19/roslyn-ctp-available-now.aspx
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| Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices
| from the now-you're-ready-for-econ-102 dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 21, @18:50 (Data Storage)
| with 167 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2224201/retailers-respond-to-hdd-squeeze-by-limiting-purchases-raising-prices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SKYMTL writes "With Thailand experiencing its worst flooding in
generations, component manufacturers have been especially hard hit. The
trickle down effect is having a huge impact upon hard drive manufacturers
in particular. Retailers have responded by drastic price increases and
[0]even limiting hard drive purchases to 1-2 drives per person."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2224201/retailers-respond-to-hdd-squeeze-by-limiting-purchases-raising-prices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident?
| from the if-you're-warm-you're-too-close dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 21, @19:36 (Japan)
| with 159 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2323218/ask-slashdot-radiation-detection-for-tokyo-resident?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I'm an American who is living in Tokyo.
Stories have started popping up about 'radiation hot spots' in Tokyo and
surrounding prefectures so I have begun to worry. I live on the first
floor of my apartment building and right by our washing machine there is
a gutter out there that is clogged with rain water and mud, which has me
especially worried because my wife and I are planning to have kids soon.
Obviously no one from the government is going to come by to check our
gutter so I feel the need to take matters into my own hands. I have
absolutely no idea so I'm asking you guys. What kind of radiation
detector should I get? A Geiger Counter? If it measures Gamma rays is
that enough? Are alpha and beta dangerous too? I know no one has all the
answers regarding radiation but any advice you guys could give me would
be great."
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| Researchers ID Skype, BitTorrent Users
| from the cross-contamination dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @13:45 (Privacy)
| with 146 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1721233/researchers-id-skype-bittorrent-users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Researchers have figured out a way to [1]link
online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks like
BitTorrent. The team was able to sift out the nodes through which Skype
calls are routed and determine the user's real IP address by sniffing the
packets. To correlate the identified Skype users with files shared on
BitTorrent, the researchers built tools to collect BitTorrent file
identifiers, a BitTorrent crawler to collect IP addresses on the network
and a verifier to [2]match an online Skype user with an online BitTorrent
user (PDF). 'As soon as the BitTorrent crawler detects a matching IP
address, it signals the verifier, which immediately calls the
corresponding Skype user and, at the same time, initiates a handshake
with the BitTorrent client,' they wrote."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1721233/researchers-id-skype-bittorrent-users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/215469/researchers-id-skype-users-who-also-use-bittorrent
2. http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/skypeIMC2011.pdf
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| Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again)
| from the discard-the-tinfoil-hat dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @12:39 (Cellphones)
| with 136 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1549209/study-finds-no-link-between-mobile-phones-and-cancer-again?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "A [1]Danish study of more than 350,000 people found
[2]no correlation between using a mobile phone and getting cancer. The
results backs up previous work, but researchers say more work is needed
to be completely sure."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1549209/study-finds-no-link-between-mobile-phones-and-cancer-again?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6387.full
2. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/mobile-phones-pose-no-cancer-risk-survey-finds-43211
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| Senator Introduces Bill To Stop Warrantless GPS Tracking
| from the location-location-location dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @17:19 (Privacy)
| with 104 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2049230/senator-introduces-bill-to-stop-warrantless-gps-tracking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "Right now the police and FBI are able to use GPS tracking
devices, [0]stingrays, and other tracking technologies without a warrant.
They can read your personal emails without a warrant, they can recall
your phone call history, all without a warrant. These are clear
violations of the fourth amendment, but time and time again the courts
are ruling that the fourth amendment doesn't protect people who use
modern technology. This week Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Mark Kirk (R-IL),
and Jason Chaffetz (D-UT) [1]announced a bill with bipartisan support
called [2]the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act. It provides
sorely needed legal clarity for the use of electronically-obtained
location data that can be used to track and log the location and
movements of individual Americans. The G.P.S. Act is supported by the
American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform, Competitive
Enterprise Institute, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the
Constitution Project, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The full
text of the bill [3]can be read online."
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Links:
0. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/21/how-stingray-devices-work/
1. http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=0cf3c384-e034-4ee8-8c3f-c68ff039c43a
2. http://wyden.senate.gov/issues/legislation/details/?id=b29a3450-f722-4571-96f0-83c8ededc332
3. http://www.pastebay.com/142072?p=2&submit=unlock
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| Google Reader's Social Features Merging With Google+
| from the we-fear-change dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @20:27 (Google)
| with 96 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2250246/google-readers-social-features-merging-with-google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "Moments ago, Google announced that Reader, as soon as
next week, will be moving closer to Google+. Many of its social features
(friending, following, sharing) are being [1]buried in favor of Google+
equivalents. Fortunately, Reader has always had the ability to export
your RSS subscriptions and feed groups in the widely-accepted OPML
format, and over the next few days this will be expanded to include your
shared items, friends, likes, and starred items as well." Update: 10/21
01:15 GMT by [2]S : Updated headline and summary to reflect that Reader
will be sticking around as a standalone product. According to Google,
[3]only its social features are being merged.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2250246/google-readers-social-features-merging-with-google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/101011-6-google-reader-replacements
2. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
3. http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcoming-changes-to-reader-new-look-new.html
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| Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name
| from the hits-keep-coming dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @22:36 (Blackberry)
| with 95 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0053240/trademark-trouble-for-rim-over-new-bbx-name?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]AZA43 writes "As if its latest BlackBerry service outage--the worst in
company history--and the mass exodus of BlackBerry users to iOS and
Android weren't bad enough, RIM is now facing a potential [1]trademark
lawsuit over the name of its next generation BlackBerry OS: BBX. The BBX
announcement was the most significant news to come from RIM's BlackBerry
Developer Conference this week, and now it looks like RIM may have change
the upcoming platform's name to something else. RIM just can't seem to do
anything right these days."
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Links:
0. mailto:sacco.al@gmail.com
1. http://blogs.cio.com/blackberry/16569/trademark-trouble-rim-over-new-bbx-name
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| Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul
| from the evil-upgrades dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @16:35 (Botnet)
| with 75 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2026242/most-sophisticated-rootkit-getting-an-overhaul?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "TDL4, a rootkit that helps build a powerful
botnet, is pegged by security vendor ESET as [1]one of the most
sophisticated pieces of malware in the world. But its creators aren't
resting on their laurels; they're rewriting some of the code from the
ground up to make it difficult for antimalware to detect it, creating a
hidden boot partition that guarantees [2]malware code will be loaded even
before the operating system is. It's part of a plan to turn TDL4 into a
turnkey product that can be sold to other criminal operations."
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Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://blog.eset.com/2011/10/18/tdl4-rebooted
2. http://www.itworld.com/security/215495/worlds-most-sophisticated-rootkit-being-overhauled
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| How Open Source Hardware Is Kick-Starting Kickstarter
| from the somebody-out-there-needs-an-inboard-outboard-toaster dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @12:20 (Businesses)
| with 42 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1545217/how-open-source-hardware-is-kick-starting-kickstarter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ptorrone writes "Imagine waking up and seeing your design for a
circuit being used in a product by someone who never contacted you to ask
if it was okay. You will not get any payment for their usage of your
design, they've raised over $31,000, and they're selling something you
worked really hard on. You have no control over what someone does with
something you made. Is this a nightmare? Perhaps for some, but this is
actually a dream come true for others who do open-source hardware. MAKE
magazine profiles [1]a maker using open-source hardware for his
now-funded project and looks at others using open hardware for their
works."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/1545217/how-open-source-hardware-is-kick-starting-kickstarter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ptadafruitcom/
1. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/10/how-open-source-hardware-is-kick-starting-kickstarter.html
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| Nasdaq Intrusion Spreads To Listed Companies
| from the careful-they-might-tank-the-economy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @18:06 (Security)
| with 36 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2127253/nasdaq-intrusion-spreads-to-listed-companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter SpzToid writes "Nasdaq's Directors Desk is a program sold
to both listed and private companies, whose board members use it to share
documents and communicate with executives. Apparently Directors Desk was
infected during a breach widely publicized [0]earlier this year. It has
now become known that [1]hackers were able to access confidential
documents and communications of the corporate directors and board members
who received this infected application, said Tom Kellermann, chief
technology officer with security technology firm AirPatrol Corp. It is
unclear how long the Directors Desk application was infected before the
exchange identified the breach, according to Kellermann and another
source."
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Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/05/1723227/hackers-penetrate-nasdaq-computer-networks
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-nasdaq-hacking-idUSTRE79J84T20111020
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| Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tomorrow Morning
| from the lights-in-the-sky dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @17:40 (Space)
| with 17 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2112251/orionid-meteor-shower-peaks-early-tomorrow-morning?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter blastoff9 sends this excerpt from Space.com: "The annual
October meteor shower will [0]peak before sunrise on Saturday (Oct. 22)
as the Earth [1]passes through a stream of leftover dust from the famous
Halley's Comet. The [2]Orionid meteor shower promises to offer
skywatchers with a dark sky and good weather up to 15 meteors per hour at
its peak, according to a NASA forecast.... The Orionids are visible each
year, even though Halley's comet only swings by about every 75 years.
This is because comets leave a trail of volatile ices and dust along
their orbital path that hangs around long after the comets have come and
gone."
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Links:
0. http://www.space.com/13354-halleys-comet-meteor-shower-peaks-saturday.html
1. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/18/scitech/main20122007.shtml
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orionid_meteor_shower
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| <em>Portal 2</em> Getting Map Editor
| from the roll-your-own dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 21, @18:26 (Games)
| with 16 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2146223/portal-2-getting-map-editor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Valve Software is working on a second helping of downloadable content for
Portal 2, and they've revealed that [0]it will include an in-game map
editor. It's planned for early next year, and it will allow players to
create both single-player and co-op maps. The maps can be shared with
others, and there will be a system to view and vote on other people's
maps. In other Portal-related news, a reader sent in a video of his
efforts to [1]get GLaDOS running on his home computer. He writes, "I used
Microsoft's Kinect technology as the platform and sound files from my
copy of Portal 2 to create my own GLaDOS. My plan is to make the source
code (but not the audio files) open source once it gets farther along.
The technology has already been useful to my parents in helping them more
easily navigate a computer."
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/2146223/portal-2-getting-map-editor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6341601/portal-2-getting-in-game-editor
1. http://dcoreythomas.com/?p=191
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