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In this issue:
* UT Student-Built Spacecraft Separate and Communicate
* DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life
* RIM Confirms Android Apps Will Run On Playbook, Through Intermediate Players
* Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels
* SSL Cert Weaknesses Exposed By Comodo Breach
* Federal Prosecutors Tempt the Streisand Effect
* MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates
* Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership
* Brain-Computer Interface Still Going After 1,000 Days
* Superconductor Research Points To New Phase of Matter
* Google Mobile-Payment Patent Raises Privacy Flags
* The First Plastic Computer Processor
* US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax
* Inside a Verizon Wireless Superswitch
* Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App
* Mozilla Says It Erred On SSL Attack Disclosure
* Internet Abbreviations Added To Oxford Dictionary
* Univ. of Illinois Goes War-of-the-Worlds On Students
* Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released
* Breaking Into the Super Collider
* Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites?
* Zynga Aiming To Conquer Mobile Next
* India To Ban<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.xxx Domain
* Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating
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| UT Student-Built Spacecraft Separate and Communicate
| from the hook-'em-and-unhook-'em-afterwards dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 24, @20:08 (Communications)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/233245/UT-Student-Built-Spacecraft-Separate-and-Communicate?from=newsletter
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[0]BJ_Covert_Action writes "Some students from the Cockrell School of
Engineering in Austin, Texas have built, developed, launched, and
operated two historic satellites. The [1]FASTRAC satellites make up the
first small-scale satellite system which is composed of two separate
spacecraft that can communicate to each other. On March 22, the single
FASTRAC satellite [2]successfully separated into two smaller spacecraft
that are currently operating and communicating with each other. While
separation and communication has occurred between paired satellites
before, this is the first time it has been done with such a small
platform (the FASTRAC spacecraft weigh approximately 60 lbs.).
Furthermore, this is the first time a student-designed and built space
system has been composed of two separate spacecraft that can interact
with each other. One of the most impressive things about this mission is
that it was done incredibly cheap, at $250,000, which is far below the
costs associated with traditional spacecraft."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/233245/UT-Student-Built-Spacecraft-Separate-and-Communicate?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://bjcovertaciton.weebly.com/
1. http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/
2. http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=33090
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| DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life
| from the not-even-counting-the-hereafter dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday March 24, @22:25 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/2312250/DNA-Analysis-Hints-At-a-Fourth-Domain-of-Life?from=newsletter
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ecesar writes "The Economist is reporting on a recent paper published in
the Public Library of Science, which suggests there might be at least one
other, [0]previously hidden, domain of life (besides eukaryotes, bacteria
and archaea). Using DNA sequence data generated directly from
environmental samples, the authors [1]found sequences not yet seen in any
cultured organism."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/2312250/DNA-Analysis-Hints-At-a-Fourth-Domain-of-Life?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.economist.com/node/18437900?story_id=18437900
1. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018011
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| RIM Confirms Android Apps Will Run On Playbook, Through Intermediate Players
| from the when-fruit-meets-robot-companion dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 25, @00:38 (Blackberry)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/2347241/RIM-Confirms-Android-Apps-Will-Run-On-Playbook-Through-Intermediate-Players?from=newsletter
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[0]angry tapir writes "Research In Motion has announced that users of its
PlayBook tablet will be [1]able to run Android and Java applications. The
PlayBook, which becomes available on April 19, will have two optional
'app players' that will provide run-time environments for BlackBerry Java
apps and Android 2.3 apps. The players will let users download BlackBerry
Java Apps and Android Apps from BlackBerry App World."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/2347241/RIM-Confirms-Android-Apps-Will-Run-On-Playbook-Through-Intermediate-Players?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/380969/rim_allow_android_apps_playbook/
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| Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels
| from the yeah-but-what's-the-actual-danger? dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 25, @03:29 (Japan)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/0025219/Fukushima-Radioactive-Fallout-Nears-Chernobyl-Levels?from=newsletter
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0WaitState writes "The cumulative releases from Fukushima of iodine-131
and cesium-137 have reached [0]73% and 60% respectively of the amounts
released from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. These numbers were reached
independently from a monitoring station in Sacramento, CA, and Takasaki,
Japan. The iodine and cesium releases are due to the cooking off of the
more volatile elements in damaged fuel rods."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/0025219/Fukushima-Radioactive-Fallout-Nears-Chernobyl-Levels?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| SSL Cert Weaknesses Exposed By Comodo Breach
| from the well-he-showed-me-his-badge dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 25, @06:18 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/0412228/SSL-Cert-Weaknesses-Exposed-By-Comodo-Breach?from=newsletter
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[0]snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard delves deeper into the
[1]Comodo SSL scandal and finds the breach calls into question the
[2]integrity of the SSL certification process itself. 'While the press
has focused on the sensational fact that Comodo's site was hacked from an
Iranian IP address, we really should be asking three questions: How did
somebody working with an Iranian IP address get a username and password
from Comodo with enough clearance to create SSL certificates? Why did
Comodo issue SSL certificates for google.com, live.com, yahoo.com,
mozilla.org, and skype.com? Why are browser updates used to revoke SSL
certificates?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/0412228/SSL-Cert-Weaknesses-Exposed-By-Comodo-Breach?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1957200/Phony-Web-Certs-Issued-For-Google-Yahoo-Skype
2. http://www.infoworld.com/t/authentication/weaknesses-in-ssl-certification-exposed-comodo-security-breach-593
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| Federal Prosecutors Tempt the Streisand Effect
| from the don't-think-of-a-classified-pink-elephant dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 25, @08:09 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/0434255/Federal-Prosecutors-Tempt-the-Streisand-Effect?from=newsletter
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[0]decora writes "As the case of NSA IT guru [1]Thomas Andrews Drake
nears trial, the fur has been flying between the defense and prosecution
lawyers. Earlier this week the judge [2]ordered the sealing of a defense
motion because the government claimed it contained classified
information. The problem? The document had been sitting on the
[3]Federation of American Scientists [4]website for several days. Another
problem: the document is [5]marked 'Unclassified' in big bold letters at
the top of the page."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/0434255/Federal-Prosecutors-Tempt-the-Streisand-Effect?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:decorat@mail.com
1. http://www.ridenhour.org/recipients_03i.shtml
2. http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/03/docs_sealed.html
3. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/einstein-albert_interviewed-by-ashley-montagu.html
4. http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/drake/
5. http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/drake/031111-defresponse71exh.pdf
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| MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates
| from the grasping-at-imported-straws dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @08:53 (Microsoft)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1212258/MS-Wants-Laws-To-Block-Products-Made-By-Software-Pirates?from=newsletter
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kaptink writes with this quote from Groklaw: "Microsoft seems to be
trying to get its own personal unfair competition laws passed state by
state, so it can sue US companies who [0]get parts from overseas
companies who used pirated Microsoft software anywhere in their business.
The laws allow Microsoft to [1]block the US company from selling the
finished product in the state and compel them to pay damages for what the
overseas supplier did. So if a company overseas uses a pirated version of
Excel, let's say, keeping track of how many parts it has shipped or
whatever, and then sends some parts to General Motors or any large
company to incorporate into the finished product, Microsoft can sue not
the overseas supplier but General Motors, for unfair competition. So can
the state's Attorney General. I kid you not. For piracy that was done by
someone else, overseas. The product could be T shirts. It doesn't matter
what it is, so long as it's manufactured with contributions from an
overseas supplier, like in China, who didn't pay Microsoft for software
that it uses somewhere in the business. It's the US company that has to
pay damages, not the overseas supplier."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1212258/MS-Wants-Laws-To-Block-Products-Made-By-Software-Pirates?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011032316585825
1. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014472018_btpiracy14.html
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| Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership
| from the early-unadopters dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @09:36 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/137220/Motorola-May-Ditch-Android-Revive-ARM-Partnership?from=newsletter
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siliconbits writes "It looks as if Motorola Mobility could be mulling
plans to [0]build an alternative to Google's mobile platform. Several
independent sources have confirmed that the mobile phone company is
[1]working on a web-based mobile operating system to, as one observer put
it, have more control on its own destiny. There's another piece in that
puzzle; Motorola Mobility could take even more ownership of its destiny
by reviving its ARM license as it depends at the moment on TI and Nvidia
to provide the SoCs that power its products; Motorola did produce ARM
systems-on-chips in the past."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/137220/Motorola-May-Ditch-Android-Revive-ARM-Partnership?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/25/motorola-ditch-android-os-revive-arm-partnership/
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097
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| Brain-Computer Interface Still Going After 1,000 Days
| from the has-not-assimilated-anyone-else-yet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @10:17 (Biotech)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1352218/Brain-Computer-Interface-Still-Going-After-1000-Days?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Remember [0]BrainGate? The implanted system
lets people with paralysis control computer cursors and other devices
just by thinking about moving them with their hand. A [1]new report shows
that [2]it is still going strong in a patient 1,000 days past her implant."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1352218/Brain-Computer-Interface-Still-Going-After-1000-Days?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.braingate2.org/
1. http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/8/2/025027
2. http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2011/03/braingate
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| Superconductor Research Points To New Phase of Matter
| from the older-phases-are-now-passe dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @11:01 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1439212/Superconductor-Research-Points-To-New-Phase-of-Matter?from=newsletter
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unil_1005 writes "Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a
puzzling gap in the electronic structures of some high-temperature
superconductors [0]could indicate a new phase of matter. Understanding
this '[1]pseudogap' has been [2]a 20-year quest for researchers who are
trying to control and improve these breakthrough materials, with the
ultimate goal of finding superconductors that operate at room
temperature. 'Our findings point to management and control of this other
phase as the correct path toward optimizing these novel superconductors
for energy applications, as well as searching for new superconductors,'
said Zhi-Xun Shen of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy
Science."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1439212/Superconductor-Research-Points-To-New-Phase-of-Matter?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://home.slac.stanford.edu/pressreleases/2011/20110324.htm
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudogap
2. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/24/pseudogap/
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| Google Mobile-Payment Patent Raises Privacy Flags
| from the can't-open-a-lemonade-stand-without-privacy-concerns dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @11:43 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1510239/Google-Mobile-Payment-Patent-Raises-Privacy-Flags?from=newsletter
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bizwriter writes "Google has been [0]interested in the mobile payment
business, with [1]rumored service tests coming soon. Now the rumors have
some more tangible back-up in the form of a patent application that not
only describes a versatile payment system, but one in which Google would
[2]obtain details of purchasing that are normally unavailable." Reader
Batblue points out a related article about how the temptation of 'big
data' is leading businesses to [3]draw us closer to a surveillance
society.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1510239/Google-Mobile-Payment-Patent-Raises-Privacy-Flags?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2010/tc20101231_087039.htm
1. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-15/google-is-said-to-test-mobile-payment-system-with-verifone.html
2. http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/google-patent-shows-its-mobile-payment-ambitions-but-raises-privacy-flags/9475
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215033/Big_data_to_drive_a_surveillance_society?taxonomyId=17
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| The First Plastic Computer Processor
| from the won't-somebody-think-of-the-seagulls dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @12:26 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/168256/The-First-Plastic-Computer-Processor?from=newsletter
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jcombel writes "There's been a lot of talk lately about developing
replacements for silicon; how about a nearly-transparent film of plastic,
woven into clothing or affixed directly to equipment? From the article,
'Researchers in Europe used 4,000 plastic, or organic, transistors [0]to
create the plastic microprocessor, which measures roughly two centimeters
square and is built on top of flexible plastic foil. ... The processor
can so far run only one simple program of 16 instructions. The commands
are hardcoded into a second foil etched with plastic circuits that can be
connected to the processor to "load" the program. This allows the
processor to calculate a running average of an incoming signal, something
that a chip involved in processing the signal from a sensor might do.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/168256/The-First-Plastic-Computer-Processor?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37126/?p1=A2
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| US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax
| from the take-that-california dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @13:07 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1614241/US-Contemplating-Vehicle-Miles-Traveled-Tax?from=newsletter
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dawgs72 writes "This week the Congressional Budget Office released a
report saying that [0]taxing people based on how many miles they drive is
a possible option for raising new revenues, and that these taxes could be
used to offset the costs of highway maintenance. The proposed tax would
be enforced through the use of electronic metering devices installed on
all vehicles. The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase
in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles
equally."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1614241/US-Contemplating-Vehicle-Miles-Traveled-Tax?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Inside a Verizon Wireless Superswitch
| from the before-the-iphone-ruins-it dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @13:50 (Cellphones)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1734226/Inside-a-Verizon-Wireless-Superswitch?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Geek.com has posted a walkthrough of a
[0]Verizon Wireless Superswitch, a 45,000 square foot, $50 million
facility. From the article: 'The Superswitch we visited, located in
Orlando, Fl., is one of about 25 across the US. These control centers are
designed to handle mobile calls, SMS, MMS, and mobile broadband for their
respective regions. This particular Superswitch faces a somewhat unique
problem given its unfortunate proximity to extreme weather conditions,
and as such is re-enforced to survive a Category 5 hurricane and still
provide service to its area. While definite numbers were unavailable,
this center handles millions of calls and texts, as well as tens of
thousands of gigabytes of mobile data on an average day, and is designed
to scale up rapidly for large events or emergencies.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1734226/Inside-a-Verizon-Wireless-Superswitch?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/inside-a-verizon-wireless-superswitch-20110324/
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| Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App
| from the ice-delivery-men-have-no-sympathy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @14:32 (DRM)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1758250/Cable-Channels-Panic-Over-iPad-Streaming-App?from=newsletter
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Time Warner Cable this month [1]released an iPad
app that would allow its subscribers to stream (some of) the channels
they already pay for to their iPad, so long as they're connected to home
Internet service provided by Time Warner Cable. The app probably seems
like a baby step to most Slashdotters, and was extremely popular among
subscribers ��� but it's [2]thrown the owners of those channels into a
panic, and they're threatening lawsuits. Time Warner says the contracts
they've signed with the channels allow broadcast to any device in the
home ��� 'I don't know what a TV is anymore,' says one company exec ��� but
the channel owners fear that this will disrupt current and future revenue
streams and that they need to stop it now. '[3]If we allow this without
litigation, everyone will do it tomorrow,' says an anonymous source. 'If
we litigate, we have a chance to win.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1758250/Cable-Channels-Panic-Over-iPad-Streaming-App?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/15/2053254/Time-Warner-Cable-Launches-iPad-App-With-Live-TV
2. http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/141493/time-warner-ipad-tv-app-drawing-users-and-litigation
3. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118034373
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| Mozilla Says It Erred On SSL Attack Disclosure
| from the comodo-draggin-their-feet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @15:17 (Mozilla)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/197208/Mozilla-Says-It-Erred-On-SSL-Attack-Disclosure?from=newsletter
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Trailrunner7 writes "Just days after news emerged of the [0]attack on a
registration authority in Europe tied to Comodo that caused the
revocation of a number of fraudulent certificates from the major
browsers, [1]Mozilla officials have admitted they made a mistake by
[2]not disclosing the details of the incident to its users earlier. 'In
hindsight, while it was made in good faith, this was the wrong decision.
We should have informed web users more quickly about the threat and the
potential mitigations as well as their side-effects.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/197208/Mozilla-Says-It-Erred-On-SSL-Attack-Disclosure?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1957200/Phony-Web-Certs-Issued-For-Google-Yahoo-Skype
1. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/mozilla-says-it-erred-not-disclosing-comodo-attack-earlier-032511
2. http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/03/25/comodo-certificate-issue-follow-up/
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| Internet Abbreviations Added To Oxford Dictionary
| from the stop-making-it-harder-for-me-to-criticize-my-mom's-emails dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @16:00 (Books)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1926244/Internet-Abbreviations-Added-To-Oxford-Dictionary?from=newsletter
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[0]f1vlad writes "Philologists have [1]added popular internet
abbreviations to the one hundred twenty-six year-old Oxford English
Dictionary. Among these are the popular OMG, LOL, and FYI. 'Dictionary
compilers said that although the terms are associated with modern
electronic communications, some are surprisingly old. The first confirmed
use of "OMG" was in a letter in 1917. "Things people think are new words
normally have a longer history," Graeme Diamond, the dictionary's
principal editor for new words, said Friday.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/1926244/Internet-Abbreviations-Added-To-Oxford-Dictionary?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/f1vlad
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icdk-t2peXs8wYiTo7vitJAsCcmA?docId=c145b5ce20f64bfabf0209bf0328dace
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| Univ. of Illinois Goes War-of-the-Worlds On Students
| from the confirmation-dialog-boxes-are-for-wimps dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @16:44 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/202235/Univ-of-Illinois-Goes-War-of-the-Worlds-On-Students?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "'Strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the
vanguard of an invading army from Mars.' ([0]Orson Welles, 1938). '[1]Active
shooter at BUILDING NAME/INTERSECTION. Escape area if safe to do so or
shield/secure your location.' (Univ. of Illinois, 2011). An alert message
sent out Thursday to 87,000 emails and cell phones warning recipients to
escape from an 'active shooter' at the University of Illinois was an
error, [2]the Office of the Chief of Police confirmed. 'The alert sent
today was caused by a person making a mistake,' explained an email.
'Rather than pushing the SAVE button to update the pre-scripted message,
the person pushed the SUBMIT button. We are working with the provider of
the Illini-Alert service to implement additional security features in the
program to prevent this type of error.'"
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/202235/Univ-of-Illinois-Goes-War-of-the-Worlds-On-Students?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_9XTnlJKM
1. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-24/news/ct-met-alert-mistake-20110324_1_emergency-alert-system-false-alarm-student-newspaper
2. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/technology/2011-03-24/ui-emergency-message-mistake.html
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| Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released
| from the onward-and-upward dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @17:03 (Cloud)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/206240/Xen-41-Hypervisor-Released?from=newsletter
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[0]LarsKurth writes "The Xen.org open source community just released a
new version of the Xen Hypervisor, [1]Xen 4.1. Feature highlights include
a new prototype scheduler for latency-sensitive workloads, better support
for very large systems (>255 CPUs, 1GB/2MB super page sizes), new
security features, and many others. During the development cycle of Xen
4.1, the Xen community worked closely with upstream Linux projects to
ensure that [2]Xen dom0 support and [3]Xen guest support are available
from unmodified Linux distributions. The [4]release announcement contains
a full list of changes."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/206240/Xen-41-Hypervisor-Released?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://talesfromthecommunity.wordpress.com/
1. http://xen.org/products/xen_source.html
2. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
3. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDomUSupport
4. http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/03/25/xen-4-1-releases/
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| Breaking Into the Super Collider
| from the checking-for-black-holes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @17:29 (Government)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2028234/Breaking-Into-the-Super-Collider?from=newsletter
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[0]BuzzSkyline writes "A group of physicists went AWOL from the American
Physical Society conference in Dallas this week to [1]explore the ruins
of the nearby Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC was to be the
world's [2]largest and most ambitious physics experiment. It would have
been bigger than the LHC and run at triple the energy. But the budget ran
out of control and the project was scrapped in 1993."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2028234/Breaking-Into-the-Super-Collider?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:buzzskyline@gmail.com
1. http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2011/03/high-water-mark-of-american-science.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
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| Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites?
| from the can't-beat-a-trusty-tricorder dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @18:13 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2148252/Ask-Slashdot-What-Gadgets-Would-You-Use-For-Hunting-Meteorites?from=newsletter
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DrPeper writes "I may have an opportunity to assist a pair of renowned
meteorite hunters (yes, the ones on the Science Channel). Being the
MacGyver-type everywhere I've worked and a consummate geek, I thought I
would pose a question to the Slashdot community. If you were to go
meteorite hunting, what gadgets would you use? I've already thought of
using a UAV with a radio gradiometer, or attaching a coil to a
quadrocopter, blimp, or terrestrial robot. (The point of which would be
to have it automatically produce a gradient map of the density of ferrous
metals in a given area.) Any other crazy ideas out there?"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2148252/Ask-Slashdot-What-Gadgets-Would-You-Use-For-Hunting-Meteorites?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Zynga Aiming To Conquer Mobile Next
| from the you-can-run-but-you-can't-hide dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 25, @18:32 (Portables (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2153247/Zynga-Aiming-To-Conquer-Mobile-Next?from=newsletter
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donniebaseball23 writes "Zynga's presence in mobile gaming is nowhere
near its dominance of social gaming on Facebook, but according to chief
designer Brian Reynolds, [0]Zynga's looking to change that. '[Mobile] is
something that we actively care about, think about. It's the major place
where we think the future is,' Reynolds said, adding, 'The reason that
Zynga isn't ginormous on mobile yet is because the friction of social
networking is still high on mobile.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2153247/Zynga-Aiming-To-Conquer-Mobile-Next?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/zynga-looking-to-conquer-mobile-next/
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| India To Ban<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.xxx Domain
| from the isn't-that-the-whole-point dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 25, @19:01 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2227214/India-To-Ban-xxx-Domain?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The Indian government have said they will
introduce [0]measures to block the newly approved .xxx domain from the
country. The Economic Times reportes that 'India along with many other
countries from the Middle East and Indonesia opposed the grant of the
domain in the first place, and we would proceed to block the whole
domain, as it goes against the IT Act and Indian laws.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2227214/India-To-Ban-xxx-Domain?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating
| from the neither-kosher-nor-cricket dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday March 25, @19:40 (AI)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2246235/Top-French-Chess-Players-Suspended-For-Cheating?from=newsletter
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cf18 writes "The French chess federation has [0]suspended three top
players for violating sporting ethics at a chess olympiad in Siberia last
September. The allegation claims while the first member was playing, a
second member would watch the game via internet, use software to find the
best move, and send it to the third member via SMS. The third member
would then sit himself at a particular table in the competition hall.
Each table represented an agreed square on the chess board."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2246235/Top-French-Chess-Players-Suspended-For-Cheating?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12853229
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[GV Daily] Palestine: Biggest Escalation of Violence in Gaza since Cast Lead
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The Gaza Strip is lately experiencing the largest escalation of violence since Cast Lead operation in 2008-2009 that claimed lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians, among them over 350 children. On the night of March 22, 2010, Israel started military operations that led to the bloodiest day in Gaza in two years. Palestinian bloggers and tweeps react to the clashes.
According to Ecuador's latest census, more than 14 million people live in the country, but there is still no consensus on the national infant mortality rate. Recent incidents have called attention to health care practices in neonatal units in Ecuadorian hospitals, triggering an investigation around newborn deaths in the country.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Change Square, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, to call on President Ali Abdulla Saleh to step down. The protests are going strong in what is being described as The Friday of Departure and the army has reportedly fired gunshots in the air to stop pro-regime protesters from clashing with pro-democracy demonstrators. Here are some reactions from Twitter.
Protesters around Bahrain defied a gatherings law and turned out in masses for rallies around the kingdom dubbed as The Friday of Rage. Protesters were attacked by tear gas - and some say rubber bullets. Here's a round up of reactions from social networking sites.
The crowdsourcing project of mapping radiation levels in Russia measured by private dosimeters not only became an interesting case of digital activism, but also showed some effects its creators didn't even think of.
An art curator who shocked South Korea with her fake Yale diploma and government connections released a memoir on March 22, 2011, rocking the nation once again with her revelations. Shin Jeong-ah, a Korean art history professor and chief curator at the Sungkok Art Museum was convicted of forging a Yale doctorate degree and embezzling funds from corporate sponsorship in an art gallery in 2007 and sentenced to an 18-month prison term.
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