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In this issue:
* A Video Guide To Akihabara
* UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details
* NASA Creates an Alien's Eye View of Solar System
* You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
* Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book
* Competition Produces Vandalism Detection For Wikis
* Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage
* PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released
* Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran
* Arduino Project Upgrades With 2 New Boards
* Bloomberg Reports Facebook Building Android Smartphones
* Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie
* US Banks That Offer Transaction History?
* Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark
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| A Video Guide To Akihabara |
| from the you-mean-it's-not-an-app? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @22:51 (Technology) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/0141255/A-Video-Guide-To-Akihabara |
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freaklabs writes "Tokyo Hackerspace just put up a [0]video guide to
Akihabara in Tokyo, an area that's densely populated with electronics
components shops. We get a lot of questions about where to go over there
and also requests for guided tours so we figured it's probably best just
to up videos, descriptions, and Google map markers. It was always
difficult to tell people where to go since the places are hard to find so
we're hoping this makes it easier for visitors to Tokyo that want to get
their geek on."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/0141255
Links:
0. http://www.tokyohackerspace.org/akihabara/
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| UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details |
| from the state-vs.-man dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @01:57 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/0145215/UK-Pursues-Tax-Evaders-Using-Stolen-Bank-De|
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[0]Andrew Smith writes "The UK taxman (HM Revenue & Customs) is
reportedly [1]using a stolen list of bank details to pursue wealthy
individuals with off-shore accounts. The list was stolen by an employee
of HSBC, and gave details of the bank's customers with money in Swiss
accounts. The bank employee fled to France, and the authorities there
passed the details on to the UK tax collection agency."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/0145215
Links:
0. http://www.meejahor.com/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11411840
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| NASA Creates an Alien's Eye View of Solar System |
| from the buncha-showoffs dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @05:03 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/027231/NASA-Creates-an-Aliens-Eye-View-of-Solar|
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Flash Modin writes "Using the Discover supercomputer ��� which is capable
of 67 trillion calculations per second ��� astronomers at NASA Goddard have
created a series of images of [0]what our solar system would look like to
an alien astronomer at various points in time. Their simulations track
the interactions of 75,000 dust grains in the Kuiper Belt, and show that
while the planets would be too dim to detect directly, aliens could
deduce the presence of Neptune from its effects on the icy region.
Strikingly, the images resemble one taken by Hubble of the star
Fomalhaut. NASA has put out a cute video to go with the announcement as
well."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/027231
Links:
0. http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2010/09/aliens-eye-view-of-solar-system.html
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| You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School |
| from the sure-beats-death dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @08:13 (Education) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/0227231/You-Are-Not-Mark-Zuckerberg-So-Stay-In-Sch|
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theodp writes "Over at TechCrunch, Vivek Wadhwa offers some
[0]don't-be-a-fool-stay-in-school advice to students that sounds a bit
like an old-school [1]Mr. T PSA. TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington's
questioning of whether students need to get any degree or go to college
at all may sound appealing ��� dropouts [2]Mark Zuckerberg and [3]Bill
Gates did do alright for themselves ��� but Wadhwa gives some good reasons
why you should probably take the school-is-for-chumps argument with a
grain of salt. 'The harsh reality,' warns Wadhwa, is that for every
Zuckerberg, there are a thousand who drop out of college and fail,' and
many big companies won't even consider hiring you for that fallback job
without a degree. And, believe it or not, you can still become a tech
billionaire later in life even if you're [4]cursed with a PhD." Tech
entrepreneur Michael Robertson approaches this question slightly
differently; here's an analysis he made a few years ago, with the
conclusion that the [5]college investment pays off only about half the
time.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/0227231
Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/25/students-stay-in-school/
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQT830mo8Mc
2. http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg
3. http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates
4. http://www.forbes.com/profile/james-goodnight
5. http://michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=226
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| Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book |
| from the in-soviet-union-books-burn-you dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @09:18 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1311243/Pentagon-Makes-Good-On-Plan-To-Destroy-Crit|
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mykos writes "Remember when the Pentagon said they were [0]arranging a
taxpayer-funded, government-sponsored book burning a couple weeks ago?
Well, [1]they made good on that threat, purchasing 9,500 copies of the
book to be destroyed. The publisher, St. Martin's Press, has redacted
anything the Pentagon told them to redact in the upcoming second run of
the book. They Department of Defense has not yet paid for the burned
books, but says they are 'in the process.' Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col.
April Cunningham gave this statement: 'DoD decided to purchase copies of
the first printing because they contained information which could cause
damage to national security.' Whew, looks like we're safe now."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/1311243
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/11/1944227/Pentagon-Aims-To-Buy-Up-Book
1. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/25/books.destroyed/
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| Competition Produces Vandalism Detection For Wikis |
| from the citation-needed dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @10:40 (Wikipedia) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1443206/Competition-Produces-Vandalism-Detec|
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marpot writes "Recently, the [0]1st International Competition on
Wikipedia Vandalism Detection (PDF) finished: 9 groups (5 from the USA, 1
affiliated with Google) tried their best in detecting all vandalism cases
from a [1]large-scale evaluation corpus. The [2]winning approach (PDF)
detects 20% of all vandalism cases without misclassifying regular edits;
moreover, it can be adjusted to detect 95% of the vandalism edits while
misclassifying only 30% of all regular edits. Thus, by applying both
settings, manual double-checking would only be required on 34% of all
edits. Nothing is known, yet, whether the rule-based bots on Wikipedia
can compete with this machine learning-based strategy. Anyway, there is
still a lot potential for improvements since the top 2 detectors use
entirely different detection paradigms: the first analyzes an edit's
content, whereas [3]the second (PDF) analyzes an edit's context using
[4]WikiTrust."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/1443206
Links:
0. http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/downloads/papers/stein_2010t.pdf
1. http://www.webis.de/research/corpora/pan-wvc-10
2. http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/research/workshopseries/pan-10/downloads/vandalism-molavelasco-report.pdf
3. http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/research/workshopseries/pan-10/downloads/vandalism-adler-report.pdf
4. http://www.wikitrust.net/
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| Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage |
| from the three-letters-bad dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @11:44 (Bug) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1528200/Why-Browsers-Blamed-DNS-For-Facebook-Outag|
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Julie188 writes "That was probably the only time "DNS" will ever be a
trending term on Twitter . The cause was Facebook's 2.5 hour outage on
Thursday, which incorrectly told users trying to access the site that a
DNS error was to blame. In truth, experts [0]who've read Facebook's
explanation say that the site went down because Facebook gave itself a
distributed denial-of-service attack when a system admin misconfigured a
database. So [1]why was DNS blamed? The 27-year-old communications
protocol has been known to cause other, somewhat similar outages."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/1528200
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1526234/Facebook-Unveils-Details-of-Downtime
1. http://networkworld.com/news/2010/092510-dns-not-to-blame-for-facebook-outage.html
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| PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released |
| from the they'll-need-a-lot-of-dogs dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @12:42 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1544231/PS3-Jailbreaks-Galore-Released |
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YokimaSun writes "Following up on yesterday's story about the PS3
[0]being hacked by one of its own official controllers, there's now a
guide in English that details how to [1]mod a Sixaxxis controller. But
thanks to the very latest releases, if you don't like soldering you can
now use an [2]iPod, a [3]Pandora console or even a [4]Dingoo console.
Finally, Jaicrab has released a [5]USB firmware loader which will come in
handy once the first [6]custom firmware for the PS3 is released. Maybe
then we will get region-free Blu-ray, PS1 and PS2 games."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/1544231
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1922244/PS3-Hacked-Using-Official-Controller
1. http://www.dcemu.co.uk/-guide-pic18f2550-psgroopic-ps3-sixaxis-controller-mod-329787.html
2. http://hackaday.com/2010/09/25/ps3-jailbreak-now-in-apple-flavor/
3. http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56752-psfreedom-for-pandora/page__p__918804&#entry918804
4. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/202201/Sony-Has-Lost-the-PS3-Hacking-War
5. http://ps3-evolution.dcemu.co.uk/usb-firmware-loader-v0-3-328968.html
6. http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/07/0356234/Custom-Firmware-For-the-PSP-3000-Released
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| Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran |
| from the we-all-run-from-i-ran dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @13:50 (Bug) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1736224/Stuxnet-Infects-30000-Industrial-Computers-I|
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eldavojohn writes "The BBC and AFP [0]are releasing [1]more juicy details
about the now infamous [2]Stuxnet worm that Iranian officials have
confirmed [3]infected 30,000 industrial computers inside Iran following
[4]those exact fears. The targeted systems that the worm is designed to
infect are Siemens SCADA systems. Talking heads are speculating that the
worm is too complex for an individual or group, [5]causing blame to be
placed on Israel or [6]even the United States ��� although the US official
claims they do not know the origin of the virus. Iran claims it did not
infect or place any risk to the new [7]nuclear reactor in Bushehr, which
experts are suspecting was the ultimate target of the worm."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/1736224
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11414483
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h4PIBLHvZzzlyUTBOP7U_evSK2wQ
2. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/14/1851224/Stuxnet-Attacks-Used-4-Windows-Zero-Day-Exploits
3. http://blogs.computerworld.com/17028/iran_nuke_scadas_saturated_with_stuxnet_infection
4. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/21/1543259/Stuxnet-Worm-May-Have-Targeted-Iranian-Reactor
5. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/143868.html
6. http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=22454
7. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/08/22/0329213/Iran-Opens-Its-First-Nuclear-Power-Plant
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| Arduino Project Upgrades With 2 New Boards |
| from the now-with-less-italian dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @14:47 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1831213/Arduino-Project-Upgrades-With-2-New-Bo|
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EqualSlash writes "The [0]Arduino Project is [1]releasing two new boards
��� Arduino Uno to replace Duemilanove and Arduino Mega 2560 to replace the
existing Arduino Mega board. With Uno, the board is not just getting a
new pronunciation-friendly name but also has a custom-made USB-serial
converter to replace the older FTDI chipset, thereby removing the need to
install drivers (they now have their own USB Vendor ID). It now has a
logo and stylish packaging, and soon will have its own branded web store.
A new Ethernet integrated board and a tinkering toolkit will be made
available shortly."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/1831213
Links:
0. http://www.arduino.cc/
1. http://arduino.cc/blog/2010/09/24/dinner-is-ready/
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| Bloomberg Reports Facebook Building Android Smartphones |
| from the much-of-a-muchness dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @15:50 (Cellphones) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/192258/Bloomberg-Reports-Facebook-Building-And|
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destinyland writes "Reports are surfacing of a [0]Facebook-backed
smartphone running Google's Android system, built by INQ (who also
manufactures a phone for Skype). GigaOm's Om Malik says [1]he's been
aware of the project 'for quite some time,' and Bloomberg News (linked
above) reported that Facebook will release two AT&T smartphones in 2011,
first in Europe and then in America. (Adding that 25% of Facebook users
access the social networking site with their wireless devices.) " Whether
it's pure semantics or pure misdirection, as of yesterday, Facebook
acknowledges work with INQ, but describes the collaboration as
[2]customization, rather than a phone of their own.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/192258
Links:
0. http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aO0eQ1nq8FJQ
1. http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/facebook-phone/
2. http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=17064&news=Facebook+phone+smartphone+social+networking
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| Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie |
| from the mordor-is-more-of-a-union-shop dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @17:01 (Lord of the Rings) |
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/2042237/Unions-Urging-Actors-Not-To-Work-|
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lbalbalba writes "Last we heard about The Hobbit, Guillermo Del Toro
dropped out, Peter Jackson was unofficially directing and secretly
auditioning actors, the movie had yet to be green-lit, and Ian McKellen
was getting super-antsy about the whole thing and threatening not to play
Gandalf. This shouldn't help the long-gestating movie happen any quicker:
Actors guilds including SAG issued actual alerts yesterday against
working on any of the Hobbit films, [0]advising their members not to take
parts in the non-union production, should they be offered them."
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/2042237
Links:
0. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i59a76af7935531181435e1fff1c95630
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| US Banks That Offer Transaction History? |
| from the cron-job-perhaps? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @18:04 (The Almighty Buck) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/222201/US-Banks-That-Offer-Transaction-History |
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wirelessdreamer writes "I use a bank in the US that will only allow me to
download transaction history in CSV for the previous three months. I have
a hard time remembering to pull my transaction history down every three
months, and would gladly jump ship to another bank if there is one that
lets me download, say three years' worth of transaction history as one of
the standard services. Then I can import my data into MySQL and run some
reports on it, which is all I'm looking for." What banks out there do the
best job at providing users with simple, downloadable data?
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/222201
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| Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark |
| from the put-your-flesh-pod-on-hold dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @19:11 (The Courts) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/2253228/Apple-Startup-Go-To-Trial-Over-Pod-Tradem|
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suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Apple is scheduled
to go to trial with a startup to [0]fight over a three-letter word: Pod.
The trademark battle centers on independent entrepreneur Daniel Kokin,
founder of startup Sector Labs, and his video projector in development
called Video Pod. Apple had previously filed oppositions against Kokin's
usage of 'Pod,' alleging that it would cause customers to confuse it with
Apple's iPod products. ... Names that have come under fire include
MyPodder, TightPod, PodShow, and even Podium. Sector Labs is the only
company to go to trial with Apple over using the 'Pod' branding. Ana
Christian, Kokin's lawyer, says the fight is about more than allowing
small businesses to use 'Pod' in their product names. She noted a trend
in the tech industry, in which large corporations have been attempting to
assume ownership of ordinary words."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/26/2253228
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/apple-startup-go-to-trial-over-pod-trademark.ars
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