Omss Politics: Jul 3, 2011

Quakers Targeting Israel; Obamacare Impacting Emergency Rooms

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Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Quakers Now Targeting Israel Via Investments
2. Obamacare to Boost, Not Reduce ER Visits
3. Author: 163 Million Female Babies Aborted
4. In North Korea, Even Army Is Starving
5. Prosecutor: Inmates Prefer Gitmo to Freedom
6. We Heard: Jeb Bush, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann

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1. Quakers Now Targeting Israel Via Investments

A prominent national Quaker organization has joined a campaign urging a large retirement fund to divest its holding in companies it says profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Quaker group, announced its support of the "We Divest from Israel's Occupation" campaign, which has significant Jewish support.

The campaign asks TIAA-CREF, one of the world's largest retirement funds and manager of AFSC's employee accounts, to divest from companies including Caterpillar, Motorola, Elbit, Veolia, and Northrop Grumman.

Jewish Voice for Peace, which supports the campaign, said in a statement:

"This is the first time a client of the fund has joined the divestment campaign, standing with campaign leaders Jewish Voice for Peace and the more than 40 organizations who have already signed on, including Jewish, Christian, and secular organizations from across the country and Israel/Palestine."

The AFSC board said they were joining the campaign "as a matter of conscience and an expression of our unwillingness to remain complicit with violence and oppression occurring daily in Palestine and Israel, which is contrary to all that we know to be true and right."

In a letter to TIAA-CREF, Arlene Kelly, chair of the AFSC's board of directors, said the board "urges you to refrain from investing in any company that contributes to perpetuating the Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East Jerusalem, provides products or services to Israeli settlements, or provides products or services that enable violent acts that target civilians."

John K.S. Wilson, TIAA-CREF's director of corporate governance, wrote back that the fund is "unable to alter our investment policy" in response to the AFSC's concerns.

"We are unable to create custom-made funds, which in essence would require all CREF participants to subsidize the cost of a fund that only a small percentage of clients might access."

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2. Obamacare to Boost, Not Reduce ER Visits

Supporters of the healthcare reform legislation passed by Congress claim it will reduce emergency room visits by providing nearly all Americans with the insurance they can use to see a primary care physician.

A new poll says otherwise.

The survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) found that 97 percent of doctors every day treat Medicaid patients in their emergency departments because the patients could not find a doctor willing to treat them for the fee Medicaid would pay.

If Obamacare provides insurance that reimburses physicians at Medicaid rates, visits to the ER will likely increase, according to ACEP.

In fact, 89 percent of doctors polled said they believe ER visits will increase under Obamacare.

"This poll confirms what we are witnessing in Massachusetts — that visits to emergency rooms are going to increase across the country, despite healthcare reform, and that health insurance coverage does not guarantee access to medical care," said ACEP President Sandra Schneider.

Hundreds of emergency rooms across the country have been forced to shut down due to financial concerns, increasing the workload at those remaining open, and the healthcare reform law fails to address this issue, Dr. Schneider said.

Nearly half of the physicians surveyed in ACEP's poll said fear of lawsuits is the biggest challenge to cutting costs in emergency rooms, and 53 percent said their fear of lawsuits was the main reason for ordering many of the tests they perform.

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3. Author: 163 Million Female Babies Aborted

Parental preference for producing sons rather than daughters in a number of societies has led to the aborting of more than 160 million female babies since the late 1970s, an author contends.

Writing about the book "Unnatural Selection" by Mara Hvistendahl, Jonathan V. Last, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, notes that the natural ratio of 105 boys for every 100 girls is "biologically ironclad."

But in India today there are 112 boys born for every girl. In China, there are 121 boys for every girl, and in many towns the male figure is over 150. In Armenia, the figure is 120.

What is causing the skewed ratio is abortion.

"If the male number in the sex ratio is above 106, it means that couples are having abortions when they find out the mother is carrying a girl," Last writes in an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

"By Ms. Hvistendahl's counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world."

What made the skewed ratio possible is the availability of amniocentesis in the mid-1970s, and later ultrasound, to determine the gender of a child before birth.

Last cites an ad put out by an Indian clinic that states, "Better 500 rupees now than 5,000 later," referring to the price of a sex-determination test versus the cost of a dowry for a daughter.

Skewed sex ratios have had some unpleasant and often violent repercussions through history, Hvistendahl points out, citing the dearth of women along the frontier in the "wild" American West. In 1870, the sex ratio west of the Mississippi was 120 to 100, and in California it was 166 to 100.

"Today in India," Last observes, "the best predictor of violence and crime for any given area is not income but sex ratio."

Last also cites the danger that with prenatal sex determination reducing the number of females, "a small but still significant group of the world's women will end up being stolen or sold from their homes and forced into prostitution or marriage."

And he goes on to say that "if 'choice' is the moral imperative guiding abortion, then there is no way to take a stand against 'gendercide.' Choice is choice."

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4. In North Korea, Even Army Is Starving

Food shortages in North Korea have become so acute that even the traditionally well-fed military is starving, according to hidden camera footage from inside the impoverished communist state.

Based on the footage, shot by an undercover North Korean journalist, ABC News reports: "It is clear that the all-powerful army, once quarantined from food shortages and famine, is starting to go hungry."

One soldier told the journalist: "Everybody is weak. Within my troop of 100 comrades, half of them are malnourished."

The regime "used to put the military first, but now it can't even supply food to its soldiers," said Jiro Ishimaru, who trained the undercover reporter. "Rice is being sold in markets but they are starving. This is the most significant thing in this video."

The footage also shows young children caked with filth begging in the streets for handouts. Many are orphans, their parents victims of starvation or a concentration camp.

Dictator Kim Jong-il depends on the military for his grip on power, and the food shortages afflicting the soldiers could threaten his hopes for a transition to his successor, son Kim Jong-un, ABC News observes, noting: "Opposition to a third generation of the Kim family taking over is growing."

Kim's recent move to shut down the nation's universities is seen as an attempt to keep that opposition in check.

According to reports in South Korea, the government on June 27 ordered all universities to cancel classes until April of next year, ostensibly to aid the economy by putting the students to work on construction projects in cities or in agricultural areas.

But Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor in Tokyo and author of several books on North Korea, told The Telegraph the shutdown could have come in response to "a possibility of demonstrations at university campuses.

"The leadership has seen the 'Jasmine Revolution' in Africa and it is very frightened that the same thing could happen in North Korea. They fear it could start in the universities."

He added that North Korea recently purchased anti-riot equipment from China and has increased police presence in the capital, Pyongyang.

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5. Prosecutor: Inmates Prefer Gitmo to Freedom

Some prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba would rather remain in American custody there than be released to return to their home countries, a former Gitmo prosecutor said.

"Interestingly, some detainees were offered release, and asked to stay in Gitmo," Kyndra Rotunda, who served in the Army Judge Advocate General's office, told CNS News.

"They prefer captivity in Gitmo to freedom in their own countries."

Just last week, black-hooded activists with the group Witness Against Torture protested outside the White House, claiming in a news release that the Obama administration was responsible for the "ongoing torture, mistreatment and indefinite detention of troops at Guantanamo Bay."

But far from being tortured, Rotunda said prisoners at Gitmo are given a wide range of freedoms.

"They are outside of their housing bays for up to 12 hours a day. During that time, they can take classes, visit the library — which has over 5,000 titles, including the Harry Potter series translated into Arabic — exercise, check out movies or games, play sports — detainees can chose from a selection of athletic shoes — or even visit the computer lab."

Rotunda is now a civilian teaching military and international law at Chapman University Law School in Southern California, and she lectures at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of "Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials," about her experiences at Gitmo.

All detainees are allowed to freely practice their religion at Gitmo, she told CNS News.

"The Muslim call to prayer is broadcast over loudspeakers five times a day. During this time, the prison guards are instructed to give each detainee 20 minutes of uninterrupted time, even if the detainee is not praying.

"When I was in Gitmo, the camp commander hosted a celebration for detainees to mark the end of Ramadan and flew in seasonal nuts and dates for the celebration," she added.

"The detainees asked the commander to fly in a goat that they could sacrifice. The commander declined that request because he did not want to upset PETA."

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6. We Heard…

THAT former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't yet decided who he will back for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, but it's hard to discount the fact that he has already toured the Sunshine State with newly announced candidate Jon Huntsman.

Huntsman, former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China, is focusing his campaign heavily on Florida and has set up a campaign headquarters there, the Washington Post reported.

Bush said: "I'm learning more about the governor-slash-ambassador — not sure exactly what we should call him — but I'm impressed because he is very substantive, he talks about the issues, he knows them well. And that's what we need in a general election."

THAT Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul has hired GOP pollster Fritz Wenzel and his polling firm Wenzel Strategies to run polling operations for his campaign.

Wenzel Strategies has served Rand Paul's successful 2010 campaign for the Senate, Jim DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund and various congressional races.

Ron Paul "has long stood strong for the core principles that have made our country great," Wenzel said.

"At a time when our country is in great peril, voters are looking for a candidate who will turn to and rely on the wisdom of the Constitution, and there is no better student of that document than Ron Paul."

THAT Paul's fellow GOP presidential candidate, Herman Cain, has a deal with Threshold Editions to publish his memoir in October.

"With the 2012 election season fully underway, we are thrilled to provide the untold story of one of the campaign's most compelling candidates," said Louise Burke, executive vice president and publisher of Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

"'Who Is Herman Cain?' will highlight Cain's lifetime accomplishments that include working as a mathematician for the Department of Navy, hosting an eponymous radio show, and most notably, becoming the turnaround CEO of the Godfather's Pizza chain."

Cain said: "Win-win relationships are what you look for in business and that is what I look forward to having with Threshold Editions."

THAT rocker Tom Petty has sent a cease-and-desist order to Michele Bachmann demanding that she no longer play the song "American Girl" after she closed out the launch of her presidential campaign on Monday to the tune of Petty's hit single.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, Petty demanded that George W. Bush not use his song "I Won't Back Down" to promote his White House run.

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In this issue:
* Linaro 11.06 Release Brings Unity 3D Port To ARM
* Telstra Starts Implementing Australian Censorship Scheme
* VoIP Data and Google Maps Mashup Shows Live Calls
* Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide
* Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License
* Researchers Track Cell Phones Indoors By Listening In
* WikiLeaks To Sue Visa/MasterCard
* Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents
* Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering
* BitTorrent Turns 10
* GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group
* Calling BS On Unpaid Internships
* FBI Wiretapped Hemingway
* Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect
* Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding

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| Linaro 11.06 Release Brings Unity 3D Port To ARM
| from the arm-yourself-with-eye-candy dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @21:56 (Graphics)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/018249/Linaro-1106-Release-Brings-Unity-3D-Port-To-ARM?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "For a long time what x86 users took for
granted was just 'the future' for ARM devices. Now that time is over.
Linaro �� a non-profit engineering organization funded by ARM, Freescale,
IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments �� released a [0]first
port of Ubuntu Unity 3D experience and Compiz. If you have a pandaboard,
go ahead, download, install the Linaro 11.06 LEB/Ubuntu images and try it
out! It's just a few minutes away."

Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/018249/Linaro-1106-Release-Brings-Unity-3D-Port-To-ARM?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-announce/2011-June/000062.html

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| Telstra Starts Implementing Australian Censorship Scheme
| from the demonization-has-its-downsides dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday July 01, @22:46 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0053220/Telstra-Starts-Implementing-Australian-Censorship-Scheme?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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daria42 writes "After four long years of debate about whether Australia
will receive a mandatory Internet filter, finally some action has been
taken. Yesterday the country's largest ISP, Telstra, [0]started filtering
all customers' connections for child pornography. The filter is
DNS-based, meaning it's easy to circumvent, but you can't opt out of it ��
if you sign up to a plan with Telstra, your connection will be filtered
for certain web addresses whether you like it or not. "

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Links:
0. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/01/telstras-interpol-filter-goes-live/

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| VoIP Data and Google Maps Mashup Shows Live Calls
| from the visualization-is-cool dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 02, @01:39 (Businesses)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0042203/VoIP-Data-and-Google-Maps-Mashup-Shows-Live-Calls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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damianwayne writes "OnSIP, a provider of hosted Voice over IP business
communications, announced today the latest addition to their website: a
[0]visualization of live calls made using the OnSIP service, made
possible by an integration of real time OnSIP data and Google Maps API.
Each time an OnSIP customer makes or receives a call, a pin is dropped on
the live call map, openly displaying call volume peak and trend
information." This is all from one company's VoIP network, though �� would
be interesting to see an overlay of heatmaps from various providers.

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Links:
0. http://www.onsip.com/extras/live-call-map

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| Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide
| from the teeter-tottering-away dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 02, @04:30 (Chrome)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0017237/Chrome-Hits-20-Share-As-IE-Continues-Slide?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jbrodkin writes "Google Chrome's rise in popularity has been
remarkably fast and it's just hit a new milestone: [1]more than 20% of
all browser usage, according to StatCounter. Chrome rose from only 2.8%
in June 2009 to 20.7% worldwide in June 2011, while Microsoft's Internet
Explorer fell from 59% to 44% in the same time frame. Firefox dropped
only slightly in the past two years, from 30% to 28%. While other browser
trackers show Chrome with a lower percentage, there's a reason:
StatCounter tracks total surfing, not the number of users. It's the Web's
power users who are pushing Chrome to new heights."

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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070111-chrome-usage.html

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| Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License
| from the want-it-both-ways dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 02, @07:20 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0515218/Dropbox-TOS-Includes-Broad-Copyright-License?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mrtwice99 writes "Dropbox recently [0]updated their TOS, Privacy Policy,
and Security Overview. Included in the [1]TOS is the following statement:
'By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we
work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare
derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) of,
perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent we think it
necessary for the Service.' I think Dropbox is a great service, but what
is the significance of granting them such broad usage rights?" Elsewhere
in the same Terms of Service, which are a few notches above the norm in
both brevity and readability, Dropbox says both "Dropbox respects others��
intellectual property and asks that you do too," and "You retain
ownership to your stuff."

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Links:
0. http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846
1. https://www.dropbox.com/terms

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| Researchers Track Cell Phones Indoors By Listening In
| from the audio-daily-double dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday July 02, @08:28 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0539240/Researchers-Track-Cell-Phones-Indoors-By-Listening-In?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]starzia writes "[1]Researchers at Northwestern University and the
University of Michigan have developed a technique which [2]aims to extend
the reach of mobile phone location tracking. Their free iPhone app,
[3]Batphone, extracts a location 'fingerprint' from a short recording of
ambient sound. This software-only approach allows the device to determine
its location with high accuracy using its built-in microphone. Unlike
prior indoor tracking techniques, Batphone does not rely on the presence
of Wi-Fi access points to serve as landmarks, although these can be used
to assist the system when available. They also posted a [4]web game which
allows you to test your own ability to recognize rooms by listening.
Technical details are in a paper which was presented at the [5]MobiSys
conference on Thursday. This is from the same people who brought you
[6]laptop sonar."

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Links:
0. http://stevetarzia.com/
1. http://empathicsystems.org/
2. http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/article_935.html
3. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/batphone/id405396715?mt=8
4. http://stevetarzia.com/listen/
5. http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2011/program.html
6. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/15/2121214/Sonar-Software-Detects-Laptop-User-Presence

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| WikiLeaks To Sue Visa/MasterCard
| from the ongoing-bad-pr:-priceless dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @09:37 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/1156247/WikiLeaks-To-Sue-VisaMasterCard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "After six months of [0]financial blockade by
Visa and MasterCard, during which they claim to have lost over
$15,000,000 in donations, [1]WikiLeaks and Datacell are filing a
complaint against the two financial giants, with plans to litigate should
the block not be lifted. [2]WikiLeaks stated, 'On June 9th the law firms
Bender von Haller Dragested in Denmark and Reykjavik Law Firm in Iceland
acting on behalf of DataCell and WikiLeaks told the companies that if the
blockade is not removed they will be litigated in Denmark and a request
for prosecution will be filed with the EU Commission.'"

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Links:
0. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/07/1249210/Wikileaks-Founder-Arrested-In-London
1. http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/01/heres-the-legal-complaint-wikileaks-is-threatening-to-file-against-visa-mastercard/
2. http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfp1qh

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| Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents
| from the lighter-side-of-patent-news dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @10:50 (Math)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/1335202/Google-Bid-Pi-Billion-Dollars-For-Nortel-Patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Google [0]mystified other participants in an auction for
patents last week by their choice of bids. They weren't the round regular
numbers that are normally expected. After first bidding $1,902,160,540 ��
a reference to [1]Brun's constant �� and later bidding $2,614,972,128 for
the [2]Meissel-Mertens constant, they ended up [3]submitting a bid for
$3.14159 billion. Google [4]ended up losing the auction �� but was that a
deliberate ploy?"

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Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/2684-google-bid-what-for-nortel-patents.html
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brun's_constant#Brun.27s_constant
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissel%E2%80%93Mertens_constant
3. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel-google-idUSTRE76104L20110702
4. http://slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1344205/Nortel-Patents-Go-To-Apple-Microsoft-Sony-and-Others

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| Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering
| from the dino-size-bacon-please dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @12:02 (Biotech)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/158235/Evolution-Machine-Accelerates-Genetic-Engineering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "New Scientist has an article about the [0]Evolution Machine
�� a device which can accelerate directed artificial evolution to discover
desirable DNA changes in days rather than years. One of the aims of these
researchers is to create an organism that is genetically immune to all
viruses."

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Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028181.700-evolution-machine-genetic-engineering-on-fast-forward.html?full=true

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| BitTorrent Turns 10
| from the many-happy-seeds-of-the-day dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @13:15 (The Internet)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/1557237/BitTorrent-Turns-10?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ktetch-pirate writes "On this day, 10 years ago, Bram Cohen
[1]released the first bittorrent client to the public. Most P2P protocols
have had a rapid rise and then a drop-off as the subsequent 'best thing'
has come out, but [2]after 10 years, nothing has bested bittorrent, and
it still remains king of the P2P castle. Just when will it be replaced?"

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Links:
0. http://ktetch.blogspot.com/
1. http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-turns-10-110702/
2. http://ktetch.blogspot.com/2011/07/bittorrent-turns-10.html

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| GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group
| from the find-out-more-at-skeezy-ads-dot-com dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @14:29 (The Internet)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/1612224/GoDaddy-Sells-To-Investor-Group?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "Domain name registrar and Web hosting provider
GoDaddy, announced it has [0]agreed to receive a strategic investment
from private equity firms KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover
Ventures. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the
[1]Wall Street Journal reported people familiar with the deal saying it
could be [2]worth approximately $2.25 billion. The Scottsdale, Arizona
based company which has built its marketing around scantly-clad women,
manages more than 48 million domain names."

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Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/godaddy-sells-private-equity-group
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576420372308902058.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
2. http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/07/01/20110701scottsdale-go-daddy-private-equity-giants-invest.html

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| Calling BS On Unpaid Internships
| from the get-me-a-coffee dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @15:40 (Businesses)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/1925227/Calling-BS-On-Unpaid-Internships?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Getting an intern is so hot right now,' writes Stewart
Curry. '[0]It's also bull**** 99% of the time.' IrishStu also provides
his list of Interning's Big Lies: 1. 'You'll get training.' 2. 'We might
hire you after the internship.' 3. 'You get to work with an awesome
team.' 4. 'It will look great on your CV.' 5. 'You'll make great
contacts.' So, who does it really hurt, Stu? 'Here's who it hurts ��
interns. You have them working for nothing. Here's who it hurts �� people
who need a wage in order to survive. Here's who it hurts �� companies that
want to pay people a decent wage for work they do.' Inside Higher Ed also
checks in on [1]The Great Intern Debate."

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0. http://www.irishstu.com/stublog/2011/06/30/calling-bullshit-on-unpaid-interships/
1. http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/popup/news/2011/07/01/survey_gauges_effect_of_unpaid_internship_debate_on_college_and_university_career_centers

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| FBI Wiretapped Hemingway
| from the rights-and-writers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @16:55 (Books)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2049206/FBI-Wiretapped-Hemingway?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "On the fiftieth anniversary of the death by
suicide of author Ernest Hemingway, his friend and biographer A. E.
Hotchner writes in the NY Times that the man who 'had stood his ground
against charging water buffaloes, who had flown missions over Germany,
who had refused to accept the prevailing style of writing but, enduring
rejection and poverty, had insisted on writing in his own unique way,
this man, my deepest friend, was afraid �� [1]afraid that the FBI was
after him, that his body was disintegrating, that his friends had turned
on him, that living was no longer an option.' In the midst of depression
and under treatment at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota,
Hemingway was convinced that his room was bugged, his phone was tapped,
and suspected that one of the interns was a fed. Decades later, in
response to a Freedom of Information petition, [2]the FBI released its
Hemingway file. It revealed that beginning in the 1940s J. Edgar Hoover
had placed Hemingway under surveillance because he was suspicious of
Ernest's activities in Cuba. The surveillance continued all through his
confinement at St. Mary's Hospital, making it likely that the phone
outside his room was tapped after all. 'In the years since, I have tried
to reconcile Ernest's fear of the FBI, which I regretfully misjudged,
with the reality of the FBI file,' writes [3]Hotchner, author of Papa
Hemingway and Hemingway and His World. 'I now believe he truly sensed the
surveillance, and that it substantially contributed to his anguish and
his suicide.'"

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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all
2. http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view
3. http://simplycharly.com/hemingway/ae_hotchner_papa_hemingway_reviews.htm

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| Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect
| from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @18:15 (Robotics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2052241/Natural-Interaction-With-Flying-Robots-Via-Kinect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]garymortimer writes "Researchers at [1]The Flying Machine Arena in the
Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control ETH Zurich [2]control a
multicopter drone with gesture based commands. The designers say they are
'looking for ways to make interaction with our vehicles natural and
intuitive.'"

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Links:
0. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/07/6006/interaction-w
1. http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/FMA
2. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/07/6006/interaction-with-a-quadrotor-via-the-kinect/

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| Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding
| from the may-or-may-not-explode-upon-use dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 02, @19:28 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/2234221/Dangerous-Prototypes-Open-Source-Hardware-Seeding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Dangerous Prototypes is a two-year old organization
with the stated mission of [1]producing 'one new open source project
every month.' In its nearly two years of existence, DP has created about
30 projects, such as the Flash Destroyer, which tests the limits of solid
state storage by writing and verifying a common EEPROM chip, rated for 1
million writes, until it burns out. The projects themselves are being
sold by another interesting company, Seeed Studio. Seeed is a contract
manufacturing/sales channel for hire. It helps hardware designers get
their ideas manufactured in China and sold worldwide with a service
called Propagate for manufacturing small quantities (100+) of open source
hardware."

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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Dangerous-Prototypes-An-Open-Source-Hardware-Project-A-Month/

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