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Photo Shows Giffords a Minute Before Shooting

(Newser) - Gabrielle Giffords' hands are clasped, and she's listening to two of her constituents at a "Congress on Your Corner" event, just moments before a gunman walked up and opened fire. Giffords' office released the image—the only one it's released of that day—yesterday via Facebook, reports the AP,... More  »

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Obama Joins Forces With... Bush?

(Newser) - Barack Obama got a little help from an unlikely ally today in Florida, when Jeb Bush appeared with him at a speech promoting the administration's education agenda at Miami Central High School, the AP reports. Bush introduced Obama, saying that education shouldn't be a partisan issue. Obama shook his hand,... More  »

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Boehner: We'll Defend the Defense of Marriage Act

(Newser) - If Barack Obama won't fight for the Defense of Marriage Act , Congressional Republicans will do it for him, John Boehner announced today. House leaders will appoint a lawyer to argue for the 1996 law, which prevents the federal government from recognizing gay marriages, the LA Times reports. "It is... More  »

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Arab Uprising Vindicates Bush

(Newser) - A lot of people are calling for a US military intervention in Libya, which strikes Charles Krauthammer as odd, since the world so condemned the US for taking out Saddam Hussein. “Hussein’s evil was an order of magnitude beyond Gadhafi’s,” Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post... More  »

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Ron Paul: Education, Medical Care Aren't Rights

(Newser) - Neither education nor medical care are rights, Rep. Ron Paul told MSNBC—they’re "things that you have to earn." Host Cenk Uygur asked Paul whether the government should give "a helping hand" to a hypothetical poor child in his district who couldn't afford tuition, to which... More  »

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Public Broadcasting Can Afford to Go Private

(Newser) - Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has one simple reason why public broadcasting should go private: Because the presidents of such broadcasting companies "are making more than the president of the United States"—and if PBS can afford to pay its president $632,233 per year, "surely it can... More  »

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GOP Cuts Would Destroy Recovery

(Newser) - We’re finally clawing our way up from the bottom of the very deep hole that is the recession: Unemployment has dipped amid a "virtuous circle of rising incomes and improving finances." Yet House Republicans are pushing spending cuts that would send us right back down again, writes... More  »

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Fleeing Dems Join Long Tradition

(Newser) - As Wisconsin and Indiana Democrats take refuge outside state lines, Maryland legislators have followed their lead: a pair of delegates played hooky this week as their fellow committee members met to discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage. Democrats were left in the lurch as they battled to keep... More  »

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Obama Cranks Up the 2012 Money Machine

(Newser) - Some of Barack Obama’s top operatives have embarked on a cross-country “listening tour,” pumping top donors for big 2012 donations, Politico reports. They’re asking donors who maxed out on donations to Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2008 to join a new “National Finance Council,”... More  »

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I Told the Enquirer About Edwards' Affair With Rielle

(Newser) - In the 1980s, Pigeon O'Brien was friends with a girl named Lisa Druck, and "Lisa Druck was trouble," writes O'Brien on the Huffington Post . She told seedy stories about "strip poker and non-monogamy," but O'Brien and other pals liked her nonetheless. Then Lisa Druck vanished for... More  »

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White House Offers Another $6.5B in Cuts

(Newser) - The White House has proposed another $6.5 billion in spending cuts, its latest offer in an effort to avoid a government shutdown as another deadline looms. Vice President Biden brought the proposal to talks with congressional leaders yesterday. While it’s far less than the House’s proposed $61... More  »

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Boehner Blocks Capitol Ceremony for Last WWI Vet

(Newser) - A campaign to allow the body of Frank Buckles, the last US veteran of World War, I to lie with honor in the Capitol Rotunda—a rare privilege usually reserved for presidents and high-ranking politicians, but sometimes extended to extraordinary citizens—has reportedly been derailed by House Majority Leader John... More  »

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Boehner: We Will Cut Social Security, Medicare

(Newser) - John Boehner wants cuts to Social Security and Medicare in next year's fiscal budget, even if voters may not like it, he tells the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “Most Americans don't have a clue” about “how big the problem is,” and it’s time for... More  »

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The 15 Things you Must Know to Survive the Fall of America

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[GV Daily] Cote d'Ivoire: Facebook and Twitter, Messengers of Death

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Global Voices authors  call attention to the most important and interesting stories in blogs and online citizen media worldwide.   About Global Voices Get Involved Subscribe Contact Us Our Projects Thursday and Friday, March 3-4, 2011 Côte d'Ivoire: Facebook and Twitter, Messengers of Death  Seven women supporting elected President Alassane Ouatara were shot dead during a protest on March 3, 2011, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire by security forces loyal to incumbent President Gbagbo. As violence escalates in the country, Anna Guèye examines the role played by Facebook and Twitter.  read>>  More from Côte d'Ivoire: Cote d'Ivoire: Who Killed the Seven Women Protestors? Cote d'Ivoire: Can The Calls for Peace be Heard? Morocco: Fadoua Laroui, our own Mohamed Bouazizi  When young Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid, he couldn't have imagined the chain of events his act would set off. Self-immolation as an act of protest and despair quickly spread across the region, with at least ten cases reported from Mauritania to Egypt in the weeks following.  read>>   Uganda: Save The Uganda Museum  The Uganda Museum founded in 1908 in Kampala, Uganda, displays and exhibits historical and traditional collections of the country's cultural heritage. With its site recently earmarked by the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry for the construction of a 60-storey building, a group of Ugandan cyberactivists have decided to run a Facebook campaign to save the building.  read>>   South Korea: Dating App Developer Convicted of Privacy Violation  The web developer of a controversial mobile application which tracks down the current location of one's boy/girlfriend, has been indicted without detention by police in South Korea for violating the country's telecommunication law. South Korean net users have criticized the authorities and media of misunderstanding the application.  read>>   Libya: Death Toll Rises to 6,000, US Mulls Intervention  Human rights groups have put the latest death toll in the Libyan crisis to over 6000, as pro-Gaddafi forces continue to pound opposition-held cities with air strikes. Libyan bloggers and tweeps share their side of the story in this post by Antoun Issa.  read>>  More stories from Libya: What Happens Now to Zambia Telecom Owned by Libya? Serbia: Reactions to Gaddafi's Interview on Pink TV Libya: High Hopes for the Friday of Liberation More posts on Global Voices today... Macedonia: What About the Census? China: In Memory of Post-80s Trash Poet, Xiao Zhao Panama: Public Rejection of Mining Code Reforms Gathering to Celebrate Internet Access in Cambodia Egypt: A TV Show that Ended a Prime Minister's Career Panama: Law Modifying Mining Code to be Repealed Singapore: Netizens Discuss Election Issues Kazakhstan: Little Enthusiasm for No Choice Elections Russia: Online Ecosystem Case Study of Perm Region Jordan: Creative Signs for Change at Amman Protest Bahrain: Hamad Town Fight Sparks Rumours and Sectarianism Mozambique: Global Voices and @Verdade Newspaper Lebanon: Protests Against the Sectarian Regime Tunisia: A Reconciliation between the People and the Government? Yemen: More Protesters Killed as Political Plans Multiply Thank you very much for reading Global Voices!  Sincerely, Deborah Dilley, Digest Editor Global Voices Online

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In this issue:
* Firefox 4 Web Demos: Web O' Wonder
* Discovery's Last Go Round, As Seen From the Ground
* Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution
* Teenagers Jailed For Criminal Version of Facebook
* Researchers Turn To Silk For Flexible E-Devices
* Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker
* Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure
* DOJ Anti-trust Investigation of MPEG-LA
* HP Announces a Watch That Unifies WebOS Devices
* Apple: You Must Be 17+ To Use Opera
* Posting AC - a Thing of the Past?
* Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches
* Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid
* George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons
* Libyan Internet Flatlined
* AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot
* Russian Payment Processor Runs Massive Scareware Operation
* Aussie Brewery Creates Space Beer
* Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human
* Intel SSD 510 Series 6Gbps SATA Drives Tested
* One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life
* Episode I 3D Release Date Announced
* Even Microsoft Wants IE6 Dead
* Zimbabwe Makes Arrest Over Facebook Comment
* Most IPv6-certified Home Network Gear Buggy

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| Firefox 4 Web Demos: Web O' Wonder
| from the glad-the-browser-wars-continue dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 03, @19:01 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/2353220/Firefox-4-Web-Demos-Web-O-Wonder?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Similarly to Google with [0]Chrome
Experiments and Microsoft with [1]Internet Explorer Test Drive, Mozilla
has developed an HTML5 demo site to [2]showcase the latest features
supported by Firefox 4. Mozilla's Paul Roget writes, 'Firefox 4 is almost
here, and comes with a [3]huge list of awesome features for web
developers. In order to illustrate all these new technical features, we
put together several Web demos. You'll see a couple of demos released
every week until the final version of Firefox 4. You can see the first 3
demos online now on our brand new demo web site: [4]Web O' Wonder. Unlike
[5]certain other HTML5 demo sites, Mozilla's site works in any browser
that supports the features used in the demo."

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/2353220/Firefox-4-Web-Demos-Web-O-Wonder?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
1. http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
2. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/webowonder/
3. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/01/firefox-4-beta-9-a-huge-pile-of-awesome/
4. https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US/
5. http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/06/apples-html5-showcase-less-about-web-standards-more-about-apple/

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| Discovery's Last Go Round, As Seen From the Ground
| from the talk-about-amateur dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 03, @19:58 (ISS)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0039200/Discoverys-Last-Go-Round-As-Seen-From-the-Ground?from=newsletter
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[0]SoyQueSoy writes to point out this "incredible footage of the
[1]passage of the International Space Station and Discovery, taken on
February 28th 2011 at 17:58UT from the area of Weimar, Germany. A
stereoscopic 3D version is also included for your viewing pleasure, as
well as footage from February 26." Perhaps as interesting is the hardcore
home telescope set-up used to get the images, a [2]motorized,
satellite-tracking Takahashi EM400.

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Links:
0. http://soypablo64atlivedotcom/
1. http://astrosurf.com/legault/STS-133.html
2. http://astrosurf.com/legault/EM400.html

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| Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution
| from the race-to-the-bottom-yowza dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 03, @23:03 (Businesses)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0048244/Contemplating-Financial-Trading-At-Picosecond-Resolution?from=newsletter
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[0]pbahra writes "One complaint made of the modern stock market is that
it is concerned too much on the short term. A second is a long time in
cash-equities trading. Four or five years ago, trading firms started to
talk of trading speeds in terms of milliseconds. But in recent weeks
trading geeks have [1]started to talk about picoseconds, in what is a
truly mind-boggling concept: a picosecond is one trillionth of a second.
Put another way, a picosecond is to one second what one second is to
31,700 years."

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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0048244/Contemplating-Financial-Trading-At-Picosecond-Resolution?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:parminder.bahra@wsj.com
1. http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-03-03/rise-of-the-picosecond

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| Teenagers Jailed For Criminal Version of Facebook
| from the now-this-sounds-bright dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 04, @02:05 (Social Networks)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/2240253/Teenagers-Jailed-For-Criminal-Version-of-Facebook?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Three teenagers in the UK have been sentenced
for up to five years in jail for creating and operating Gh0stMarket.net,
one of the world's largest English-language internet crime forums. The
Gh0stMarket website, which had about 8,000 members, was dubbed by the
court as the '[0]criminal equivalent of Facebook,' or 'Crimebook.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/2240253/Teenagers-Jailed-For-Criminal-Version-of-Facebook?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/teenagers-jailed-for-running-8220criminal-equivalent-of-facebook-8221/472

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| Researchers Turn To Silk For Flexible E-Devices
| from the driving-up-lingerie-prices-worldwide dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 04, @05:05 (Biotech)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0341204/Researchers-Turn-To-Silk-For-Flexible-E-Devices?from=newsletter
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[0]angry tapir writes "Researchers at a Taiwan university say they have
found a way to use silk membranes in flexible electronic devices and
started talks with manufacturers about adopting the unusual but cheap
material. After less than two years of study motivated by news that silk
had untapped properties, an engineering professor and two post-graduate
students at Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University figured out how to use
the soft, low-cost material for [1]flexible e-book readers, LED displays
and radio-frequency identification tools."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0341204/Researchers-Turn-To-Silk-For-Flexible-E-Devices?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/378741/taiwan_researchers_turn_silk_flexible_e-devices/

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| Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker
| from the jiffy-lube-should-check-for-these-things-by-default dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 04, @08:00 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0451228/Student-Sues-FBI-For-Planting-GPS-Tracker?from=newsletter
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GabriellaKat submits this snippet from Yahoo! news, writing "'Yasir
Afifi, 20, says a mechanic doing an oil change on his car in October
discovered the device stuck with magnets between his right rear wheel and
exhaust. They weren't sure what it was, but Afifi had the mechanic remove
it and a friend posted photos of it online to see whether anyone could
identify it. Two days later, Afifi says, agents wearing bullet-proof
vests pulled him over as he drove away from his apartment in San Jose,
Calif., and demanded their property back.' [0]Now he has decided to sue
the FBI. This story was also covered last year [1]when he found the
tracking device."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/0451228/Student-Sues-FBI-For-Planting-GPS-Tracker?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_tracking_warrants
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/08/1413240/College-Student-Finds-GPS-On-Car-FBI-Retrieves-It

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| Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure
| from the glorious-ball-of-fire dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @08:44 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1259210/Glory-Satellite-Lost-To-Taurus-XL-Failure?from=newsletter
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[0]FullBandwidth writes "The protective nose cone of an Orbital Sciences
Corporation Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's [1]Glory environmental
research satellite apparently [2]failed to separate after launch Friday,
preventing the spacecraft from achieving orbit in a $424 million failure.
It was the [3]second nose cone failure in a row for a Taurus XL rocket
following the 2009 loss of another environmental satellite."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1259210/Glory-Satellite-Lost-To-Taurus-XL-Failure?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:fullbandwidth@comcast.net
1. http://glory.gsfc.nasa.gov/
2. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/taurus/glory/failure.html
3. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/02/orbitals-taurus-xl-launch-orbiting-carbon-observatory/

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| DOJ Anti-trust Investigation of MPEG-LA
| from the pay-the-fees-or-else dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @09:30 (Patents)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1358236/DOJ-Anti-trust-Investigation-of-MPEG-LA?from=newsletter
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[0]thomst writes "The Wall Street Journal's Thomas Catan reports that the
Department of Justice has launched [1]an anti-trust investigation of
MPEG-LA's purported efforts to prevent Google's VP8 codec from widespread
adoption. According to the article, the California Stare Attorney
General's office is also investigating MPEG-LA for possible restraint of
trade practices."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1358236/DOJ-Anti-trust-Investigation-of-MPEG-LA?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.starkrealities.com/
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703752404576178833590548792.html

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| HP Announces a Watch That Unifies WebOS Devices
| from the but-it-doesn't-tell-time dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @10:20 (HP)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1445245/HP-Announces-a-Watch-That-Unifies-WebOS-Devices?from=newsletter
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Norsefire writes "After teasing it last year, HP's Phil McKinney has
announced the 'Metal Watch', the [0]device that will act as the
aggregation point of your HP/WebOS devices. McKinney claims that it will
unify your Pre, Touchpad, Notebook, Desktop, and, bizarrely, your
printer."

Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1445245/HP-Announces-a-Watch-That-Unifies-WebOS-Devices?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/04/hp-shows-off-metal-watch-concept-video/

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| Apple: You Must Be 17+ To Use Opera
| from the internet-is-a-big-responsibilty dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday March 04, @10:38 (Opera)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1453241/Apple-You-Must-Be-17-To-Use-Opera?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "From the techspot article: 'This week, the
Opera web browser became the first non-native browser made available in
Apple's Mac App Store. While Apple approved the browser, it still managed
to hurt its competitor by putting this ridiculous label on it: "[0]You
must be at least 17 years old to download this app." Opera has reacted in
good humor. "I'm very concerned," Jan Standal, VP of Desktop Products for
Opera Software, said in a statement. "Seventeen is very young, and I am
not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application.
It's very fast, you know, and it has a lot of features. I think the
download requirement should be at least 18."'"

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https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1453241/Apple-You-Must-Be-17-To-Use-Opera?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.techspot.com/news/42668-apple-you-must-be-at-least-17-years-old-to-use-opera.html

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| Posting AC - a Thing of the Past?
| from the but-my-name-is-anonymous dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @11:00 (Media)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1530258/Posting-AC---a-Thing-of-the-Past?from=newsletter
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c0lo writes to point out an article from the Indystar. From the article:
"A Marion County judge has ruled, for the first time in Indiana, that
news media outlets can be ordered by the court to [0]reveal identifying
information about posters to their online forums."

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1530258/Posting-AC---a-Thing-of-the-Past?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.indystar.com/article/20110302/LOCAL18/103020335/Judge-Star-IBJ-must-identify-anonymous-poster

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| Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches
| from the clearly-the-best-solution dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @11:40 (Red Hat Software)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1550231/Red-Hat-Stops-Shipping-Kernel-Changes-as-Patches?from=newsletter
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mvar writes to point out a report from h-online about the Red Hat kernel
source controversy. From the article: "Red Hat has changed the way it
ships the source code for the Linux kernel. Previously, it was released
as a standard kernel with a collection of patches which could be applied
to create the source code of the kernel Red Hat used. Now though, the
company [0]ships a tarball of the source code with the patches already
applied. This change, [1]noted by Maxillian Attems and LWN.net, appears
to be aimed at Oracle, who like others, repackage Red Hat's source as the
basis for its Unbreakable Linux. Although targeted at Oracle, the changes
will make work harder for distributions such as CentOS."

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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1550231/Red-Hat-Stops-Shipping-Kernel-Changes-as-Patches?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html
1. http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/

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| Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid
| from the making-calls-creepier dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @12:20 (Robotics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1655250/Japanese-Build-Pocket-Robot-Cellphone-Hybrid?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Japanese researchers unveiled yesterday a
[0]pocket-size telepresence robot called Elfoid. The device, which looks
like a little ghost, transmits voice and motion over a 3G network to
convey a person's 'presence' to a remote location. It's a creation of
Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University who is known for his
lifelike teleoperated androids. The Elfoid has a limited range of motion,
but its creators are planning to equip it with mini-actuators so it can
imitate the movements of the person on the other end of the line. With
vaguely formed features, the device is designed to be a surrogate of
people of any age or gender."

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1655250/Japanese-Build-Pocket-Robot-Cellphone-Hybrid?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/elfoid-portable-telepresence-android

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| George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons
| from the blind-guardian-seems-to-like-it dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @12:40 (Books)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/179210/George-RR-Martin-Finishes-A-Dance-With-Dragons?from=newsletter
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Lil'wombat writes "George RR Martin has [0]completed his long awaited
conclusion to the A Song of Ice and Fire series. A Dance with Dragons
will be published on July 12, 2011. Let the celebrations begin! And
everyone was worried that he was going to pull a Jordan."

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/179210/George-RR-Martin-Finishes-A-Dance-With-Dragons?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://georgerrmartin.com/if-update.html

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| Libyan Internet Flatlined
| from the dude-you-blew-up-the-edge-router dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @13:00 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1732232/Libyan-Internet-Flatlined?from=newsletter
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[0]dnsdude told us about the latest developments regarding rumored Libyan
Internet censorship. It appears that massive censorship is occuring with
[1]two of the five .ly root name servers being unreachable. It's
difficult to tell if this is because of [2]intentionally bad routes, or
the result of [3]actual infrastructure damage.

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1732232/Libyan-Internet-Flatlined?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:eric@gus.to
1. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=LY&l=WEBSEARCH&csd=1299014407973&ced=1299241800000
2. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/118969/20110304/libya-cuts-off-internet-engages-kill-switch.htm
3. http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/03/201134161217430734.html

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| AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot
| from the rms-will-be-pleased dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @13:20 (AMD)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1736241/AMD-Provides-Fusion-Support-For-Coreboot?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "AMD has done [0]a big code drop providing
Fusion support for [1]Coreboot, the project that once was called
LinuxBIOS for providing an open source BIOS implementation." A lack of
vendor support has long made the task of the coreboot developers
difficult. Support for what is slated to be a common chipset is pretty
encouraging, and will hopefully make it easier to run an entirely Free
Software system for diehards like RMS.

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1736241/AMD-Provides-Fusion-Support-For-Coreboot?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTE2Nw
1. http://coreboot.org/

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| Russian Payment Processor Runs Massive Scareware Operation
| from the legit-business-is-boring dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @13:40 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1819238/Russian-Payment-Processor-Runs-Massive-Scareware-Operation?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Brian Krebs has posted a deep dive through
more than a year worth of emails leaked from ChronoPay, Russia's largest
online credit card processor. The ... evidence indicates that
[0]ChronoPay executives created scareware companies from the ground up,
paying for everything from their domain name registration to virtual
hosting, to setting up the front companies and associated bank accounts
and the 1-800 support lines for entire scareware operations that
typically netted the company millions in revenue for each scam."

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https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1819238/Russian-Payment-Processor-Runs-Massive-Scareware-Operation?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/03/chronopays-scareware-diaries/

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| Aussie Brewery Creates Space Beer
| from the drunk-in-spaaaaaace dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 04, @14:24 (Beer)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1854243/Aussie-Brewery-Creates-Space-Beer?from=newsletter
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[0]astroengine writes "An Australian brewing company has created the
[1]world's first beer that can be consumed in space. 4-Pines Brewing
Company teamed up with Saber Astronautics Australia, tirelessly testing
[2]different brews on zero-G flights last year. They have now finalized
the winning formula, calling the beer "Vostok" ��� after the spacecraft
flown by Yuri Gagarin in 1961. The beverage is a strong-tasting stout
with reduced carbonation to avoid the dreaded microgravity "wet burp.""

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1854243/Aussie-Brewery-Creates-Space-Beer?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/space-beer-reaches-final-frontier-110303.html
2. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/29/2242245/Researchers-Test-Space-Beer

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| Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human
| from the robot-gorillas-to-hunt-the-robot-cats dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday March 04, @14:40 (Robotics)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/150235/Quadruped-CHEETAH-Robot-To-Outrun-Any-Human?from=newsletter
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[0]cylonlover writes "Robots are faster than humans at a lot of things,
but up until now running hasn't been one of them. That is set to change
with robotics company Boston Dynamics recently awarded a contract by
DARPA to design and build [1]a quadraped CHEETAH robot that is faster
than any human. The contract also includes the creation of an agile,
bipedal humanoid robot. It's hard to say which one might ultimately be
creepier."

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https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/150235/Quadruped-CHEETAH-Robot-To-Outrun-Any-Human?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:quickieau@gmail.com
1. http://www.gizmag.com/cheetah-robot-to-outrun-any-human/18048/

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| Intel SSD 510 Series 6Gbps SATA Drives Tested
| from the sign-over-your-first-born-child dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @15:00 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1930252/Intel-SSD-510-Series-6Gbps-SATA-Drives-Tested?from=newsletter
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[0]MojoKid writes "Intel [1] recently announced its 510 series Solid
State Drive products. The new 510 series SSDs build upon Intel's
successful X-25M series of drives by offering native support for SATA
6Gbs interface speeds, with maximum reads in the 500MB/s range and write
speeds of approximately 315MB/s���huge improvements over the previous
generation. The numbers are in and the new Marvell-infused Intel SSD [2]
offers impressive performance rivaling other 6Gbps SATA SSDs on the
market but not as fast as the recently announced [3] SandForce 2500-based
SSDs like the OCZ Vertex 3."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1930252/Intel-SSD-510-Series-6Gbps-SATA-Drives-Tested?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/035233/Intel-Unveils-SSDs-With-6GbitSec-Throughput
2. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Intel-SSD-510-Series-SATA-6Gbps-Solid-State-Drive-Review/
3. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/OCZ-Vertex-3-SandForce-SF2000-Based-SSD-Preview/

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| One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life
| from the emacs-already-does-that dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @15:42 (AI)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1939247/One-Mans-Quest-To-Build-True-Artificial-Life?from=newsletter
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[0]Atriune writes "The creator of the renowned [1]Creatures artificial
life series is at it again. Fifteen years after the initial success of
the Creatures Trilogy, Steve Grand continues his quest to go beyond
simulation, and [2]create real artificial life." It's hard to tell if the
approach is realistic, but it is certainly novel. Perhaps this will
succeed in the areas the Lisp hackers of the 80s failed.

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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/1939247/One-Mans-Quest-To-Build-True-Artificial-Life?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:atriune113@live.co.uk
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(artificial_life_program)
2. http://mashable.com/2011/03/03/artificial-life-steve-grand

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| Episode I 3D Release Date Announced
| from the ruining-your-childhood-in-3d dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @16:21 (Star Wars Prequels)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2030205/Episode-I-3D-Release-Date-Announced?from=newsletter
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TheBrakShow writes 'Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox announced
today that the [0]3D theatrical launch of Star Wars: Episode I The
Phantom Menace now has an official release date ��� February 10, 2012!' Are
enough fans interested in watching the weakest films of the trilogy again
just to experience them in 3D?"
I for one am looking forward to a new and improved Jar Jar experience.

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Links:
0. http://www.starwars.com/movies/episode-i/3dannouncedate/index.html

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| Even Microsoft Wants IE6 Dead
| from the is-this-really-happening dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @17:03 (Internet Explorer)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2124203/Even-Microsoft-Wants-IE6-Dead?from=newsletter
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[0]Tarmas writes "Microsoft has launched a website intended to
[1]persuade people to upgrade their browsers from Internet Explorer 6. In
Microsoft's words: 'This website is dedicated to watching Internet
Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can
choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for
web developers.' About time?" Of course they want you to upgrade to a
newer Internet Explorer.

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2124203/Even-Microsoft-Wants-IE6-Dead?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://tarmas.com/
1. http://ie6countdown.com/

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| Zimbabwe Makes Arrest Over Facebook Comment
| from the voluntary-registration dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday March 04, @17:55 (Facebook)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2217226/Zimbabwe-Makes-Arrest-Over-Facebook-Comment?from=newsletter
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[0]inasity_rules writes "It seems using Facebook/Twitter to try
overthrowing a corrupt government [1]can backfire a bit, especially if
they are expecting it. In Zimbabwe [2]your Facebook posts can get you
arrested. Probably for anything up to and including treason."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2217226/Zimbabwe-Makes-Arrest-Over-Facebook-Comment?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:mastercylinder@gmail.com
1. http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-4599-Zim+makes+first+Facebook+arrest/news.aspx
2. http://www.swradioafrica.com/news040311/byoman040311.htm

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| Most IPv6-certified Home Network Gear Buggy
| from the dying-from-not-surprise dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 04, @18:54 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2224257/Most-IPv6-certified-Home-Network-Gear-Buggy?from=newsletter
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[0]Julie188 writes "The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab
held an IPv6 consumer electronics Plugfest on Feb. 14 and CableLabs has
scheduled two more for this year. UNH is tight-lipped about the results,
but the sad fact is that most home routers and DSL/cable modems certified
as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are [1]so full of implementation bugs
that they can't be used by ISPs for IPv6 field trials. And that's not
helping the Internet have a smooth, fast transition to IPv6. Though
OpenWRT and DD-WRT solve the problem, ISPs point out that requiring the
average consumer to upgrade their own firmware, because the manufacturer
can't do IPv6 right, isn't a practical solution."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/04/2224257/Most-IPv6-certified-Home-Network-Gear-Buggy?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030411-ipv6-home-routers.html

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