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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar
* Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist
* DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service
* Scientists Confirm Nuclear Decay Rate Constancy
* UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats
* Long Island Town Enacts Tough Cell Tower Limits
* In Court? Be Careful What You Post On Facebook
* Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC?
* Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime
* Google, Apple Settle Justice Dept. Hiring Probe
* Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts
* PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller
* Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices?
* Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China
* Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe)
* JPL Scientists Take NASA To the Supreme Court
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| CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar |
| from the warm-crackly-fidelity dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday September 24, @20:19 (Music) |
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/2322232/CD-Sales-Continue-To-Plummet-Viny|
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Lucas123 writes "Over the past four years, [0]vinyl record sales have
been soaring, jumping almost 300% from 858,000 in 2006 to 2.5 million in
2009, and sales this year are on track to reach new peaks, according to
Nielsen Entertainment. Meanwhile, as digital music sales are also
continuing a steady rise, CD sales have been on a fast downward slope
over the same period of time. In the first half of this year alone, CD
album sales were down about 18% over the same period last year. David
Bakula, senior vice president of analytics at Nielsen Entertainment, said
it's not just audiophiles expanding their collections that is driving
vinyl record sales but a whole new generation of young music aficionados
who are digging the album art, liner notes and other features that
records bring to the table. 'The trend sure does seem sustainable. And
the record industry is really doing a lot of cool things to not only make
the format come alive but to make it more exciting for consumers,' Bakula
said."
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/24/2322232
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187001/Forget_digital_tunes_analog_music_on_the_upswing
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| Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist |
| from the way-before-tivo dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday September 24, @23:08 (Media) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/0049236/Bing-Crosby-Television-Sports-Preservation|
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[0]Hugh Pickens submits news first gleaned from a now-paywalled article
at the New York Times (and, happily, widely reported) that "The hunt for
a copy of the seventh and deciding game of the 1960 World Series,
considered one of the greatest games ever played and long believed to be
lost forever, has [1]come to an end in the home of Bing Crosby, a canny
preservationist of his own legacy, who kept a half-century's worth of
records, tapes and films in the wine cellar turned vault in his
Hillsborough, California home. Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner
of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against
the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by
radio. Crosby knew he would want to watch the game later ��� if his Pirates
won ��� so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early
relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set,
found in December in Crosby's home, is the only known complete copy of
the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a
game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/0049236
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/baseball/8023524/Lost-World-Series-classic-found-in-Bing-Crosbys-wine-cellar.html
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| DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service |
| from the what-does-anonymous-want-to-see dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @02:00 (Privacy) |
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/0242244/DuckDuckGo-Search-Engine-Erects-Tor-Hidd|
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An anonymous reader writes "Viewable with [0]Tor installed, search engine
[1]DuckDuckGo has erected a hidden service for secure, encrypted searches
through the Tor network. While past attempts at hidden service search
engines failed due to uptime or quality issues, DuckDuckGo marks the
first time a real company operating a public search engine has offered a
solid search engine [2]as a hidden service for Tor users."
Discuss this story at:
http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/0242244
Links:
0. https://www.torproject.org/index.html.en
1. http://duckduckgo.com/
2. http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
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| Scientists Confirm Nuclear Decay Rate Constancy |
| from the was-just-the-one-time-I-swear dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @05:02 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/0254219/Scientists-Confirm-Nuclear-Decay-Rate-C|
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As_I_Please writes "Scientists at the US National Institute of Standards
and Technology and Purdue University have [0]ruled out neutrino flux as a
cause of previously observed fluctuations in nuclear decay rates. From
the article: 'Researchers ... tested this by comparing radioactive
gold-198 in two shapes, spheres and thin foils, with the same mass and
activity. Gold-198 releases neutrinos as it decays. The team reasoned
that if neutrinos are affecting the decay rate, the atoms in the spheres
should decay more slowly than the atoms in the foil because the neutrinos
emitted by the atoms in the spheres would have a greater chance of
interacting with their neighboring atoms. The maximum neutrino flux in
the sample in their experiments was several times greater than the flux
of neutrinos from the sun. The researchers followed the gamma-ray
emission rate of each source for several weeks and found no difference
between the decay rate of the spheres and the corresponding foils.' The
[1]paper can be found here on arXiv. Slashdot has previously covered the
[2]original announcement and followed up with the [3]skepticism of other
scientists."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/0254219
Links:
0. http://www.nist.gov/cstl/analytical/14c_091410.cfm
1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5071
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/24/0155229/The-Strange-Case-of-Solar-Flares-and-Radioactive-Decay-Rates
3. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/26/1749232/Follow-Up-On-Solar-Neutrinos-and-Radioactive-Decay
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| UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats |
| from the who-would-have-thought dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @08:17 (The Almighty Buck) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/0413236/UK-Anti-Piracy-Firm-E-mails-Reveal-Cavalier|
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[0]Khyber writes "A recent DDoS attack against a UK-based anti-pirating
firm, ACS:Law, has resulted in a large backup archive of the [1]server
contents being made available for download, [and this archive] is [2]now
being hosted by the Pirate Bay. Within this archive are e-mails from
Andrew Crossley basically admitting that he is running a scam job,
sending out thousands of frivolous legal threats on the premise that a
percentage pay up immediately to avoid legal hassles."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/0413236
Links:
0. mailto:khyberkitsune@gmail.com
1. http://torrentfreak.com/acslaw-anti-piracy-law-firm-torn-apart-by-leaked-emails-100925/
2. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5850493/ACS-Law_leaked_emails
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| Long Island Town Enacts Tough Cell Tower Limits |
| from the radio-silence-is-golden dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @09:20 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1255231/Long-Island-Town-Enacts-Tough-Cell-Tower|
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crimeandpunishment writes "They're getting tougher on towers on Long
Island. The town of Hempstead, NY has imposed [0]some of the toughest
cell phone tower restrictions in the country. The ordinance prohibits
wireless equipment within 1,500 feet of homes, schools, day care centers,
and houses of worship, unless the company can prove absolute need. A
spokesman for Verizon says 'It's not unheard of for towns to have issues,
but this is extreme,' and says this makes 95 percent of the town off
limits to future antenna construction." With internet access by 3G, 4G
and WiMax getting ever more common, I suspect that not everyone in the
town will appreciate blocking out the companies that provide it.
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/1255231
Links:
0. http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=3256
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| In Court? Be Careful What You Post On Facebook |
| from the post-only-pics-of-your-favorite-caskets dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @10:18 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1354255/In-Court-Be-Careful-What-You-Post-On-Facebo|
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mbone writes "Going to court? Seeking damages for injuries? Be careful
what you post on Facebook (and, presumably, elsewhere). In the first case
of its kind (analyzed in the Courtroom Strategy blog), a Suffolk County,
NY Judge allowed a defendant in a personal injury lawsuit to obtain
[0]access to the Facebook profile of the plaintiff suing them, saying
'Plaintiff has no legitimate reasonable expectation of privacy.' You have
been warned. I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but I would
expect this to become common." Readers might be reminded of the Canadian
case reported last year of a woman whose cheerful Facebook pictures
[1]led an insurance company to yank coverage.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/1354255
Links:
0. http://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2010/09/in-court-be-careful-what-you-post/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/0125253/Facebook-Photos-Lead-To-Cancellation-of-Quebec-Womans-Insurance?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot
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| Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC? |
| from the why-do-you-hate-freedom dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @11:21 (Communications) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1421220/Digital-Radio-Mondiale-a-Better-Standard-T|
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Gsparky2004 writes "Over at Engineering Radio, Paul suggests that
[0]Digital Radio Mondiale (or 'Digital Radio Worldwide') [1]may be a
better alternative than the US-adopted, proprietary [2]IBOC system. But
he's concerned that the FCC is too far down the 'IBOC is the way!' road
and won't accept an open source alternative, even one that may work
better." For a slightly more pointed take on the matter, check out this
[3]anti-IBOC site, which paints IBOC as something akin to the devil
himself.
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/1421220
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale
1. http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2010/09/digital-radio-mondiale-an-alternative-to-hd-radio/
2. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/digital.html
3. http://www.stopiboc.com/
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| Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime |
| from the you-like-this dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @12:15 (Bug) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1526234/Facebook-Unveils-Details-of-Downtime |
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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more
[0]technical details on the [1]endless loop in a database control
mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the
resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check
back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/1526234
Links:
0. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=431441338919&id=9445547199&ref=mf
1. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/206114/facebook_outage_caused_by_database_glitch.html?tk=hp_new
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| Google, Apple Settle Justice Dept. Hiring Probe |
| from the now-they-won't-hire-from-doj-either dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @13:20 (Crime) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/162207/Google-Apple-Settle-Justice-Dept-Hiring-Prob|
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[0]Ponca City, We Love You writes "The LA Times reports that under a
proposed settlement with the Justice Department, six major Silicon Valley
firms ��� Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe, Intuit and Pixar ��� [1]would be
barred from pledging not to 'cold call' one another's employees. Federal
officials have been scrutinizing such agreements for more than a year,
concerned that they restrained competition for skilled workers and kept
an artificial cap on wages by avoiding expensive bidding wars. If the
court fight had proceeded, it could have helped decide the legality of
such accords, not just in the high-tech sector but across all industries.
But the fight had risks for each side. To win, the Justice Department
would have had to convince a court that workers had suffered significant
harm. A loss for the companies would have opened the door to a rush of
lawsuits."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/162207
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tech-hiring-20100925,0,5185284.story
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| Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts |
| from the broad-brush-swung-broadly dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @14:26 (The Military) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/179251/Why-Warriors-Not-Geeks-Run-US-Cyber-Command-P|
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koterica writes "The Washington Post explains why the military prefers to
have [0]combat veterans rather than geeks running network security. '"It
was supposed to be a war fighter unit, not a geek unit," said task force
veteran Jason Healey, who had served as an Air Force signals intelligence
officer. A fighter would understand, for instance, if an enemy had
penetrated the networks and changed coordinates or target times, said
Dusty Rhoads, a retired Air Force colonel and former F-117 pilot who
recruited the original task force members. "A techie wouldn't have a
clue," he said.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/179251
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/23/AR2010092303000.html?hpid=topnews
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| PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller |
| from the next-stop-no-controllers dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @15:33 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1922244/PS3-Hacked-Using-Official-Controller |
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YokimaSun writes "The [0]PS3 Hacking War took on a new turn few days ago
with Sony releasing a new firmware that blocks [1]USB devices, supposedly
aimed at cloned PS3 Joypads, but more than likely to stop the efforts of
hackers. Today the PS3 is now hackable [2]using its own Sixaxis/DualShock
3 Controllers. How will Sony stop people now from playing [3]emulators on
the PS3?"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/1922244
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/202201/Sony-Has-Lost-the-PS3-Hacking-War
1. http://reviews.dcemu.co.uk/unofficial-ps3-controller-may-explode-amp-sony-blocks-usb-devices-in-3-50-328862.html
2. http://www.dcemu.co.uk/proof-of-concept-psgroove-ported-to-playstation-3-sixaxis-dualshock-3-329551.html
3. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/19/154205/Emulation-Arrives-On-the-PS3
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| Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices? |
| from the go-straight-for-neural-implants dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @16:28 (Handhelds) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/1948202/Should-I-Learn-To-Program-iOS-Or-Android-De|
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HW_Hack writes "In my early career in the '90s I had a hardware tech
degree, but also a strong interest in software. I completed software
courses in assembly, Pascal, HTML, and C as I prepped for a CS degree. I
then got my chance to do hardware design for a major US firm and went
that direction for a good 18-year career. I now work in a good sized
school district doing IT support work at a large high school. I plan to
revive my programming skills this winter so I can write apps for the
flood of mobile devices. I am very much platform / OS agnostic and I
support on any one day OS X, XP, Win 7, Linux servers, and now iOS as we
pilot iPads in our school. My question focuses on three topics: Which
programming environment (iOS or Android) is easier to jump into from a
technical perspective / number of languages needed to master? Which one
has a better SDK ecosystem of documentation, programmer support, and
developer community(s)? Where is the market and the money going? I do not
expect to get rich doing this, but with my insights into K12 needs I hope
I can write effective apps for that market."
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/1948202
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| Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China |
| from the should-that-be-by-or-from dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @17:35 (Google) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/2134232/Google-Warning-Gmail-Users-On-Spying-From-|
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Trailrunner7 writes "Google is using automated warnings to alert users of
its Gmail messaging service about [0]widespread attempts to access
personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may
indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the
Google Aurora attacks or simply random attacks. Victims include one
leading privacy activist. Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail,
encountering a red banner reading 'Your account was recently accessed
from China,' and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the
account. Users were then encouraged to change their password immediately.
Based on Twitter posts, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the
accounts that were accessed, though one target is a prominent privacy
rights activist in the UK who has spoken out against the Chinese
government's censorship of its citizens. A Google spokesman declined to
comment on the latest warnings specifically. The company has been issuing
similar warnings since March when it introduced features to identify
suspicious account activity."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/2134232
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| Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) |
| from the look-at-me-look-at-me dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @18:28 (It's funny. Laugh.) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/2150228/Dont-Cross-the-LHC-Stream-Maybe |
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[0]jamie points out this piece from always-entertaining Bad Astronomer
Phil Plait, who asks this week the simple question "What happens [1]if
you put your hand in the beam of the Large Hadron Collider?" The thrill
of discovery to me doesn't sound worth the worst-case scenario.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/2150228
Links:
0. mailto:jamie@slashdot.org
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/21/dont-cross-the-lhc-stream/
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| JPL Scientists Take NASA To the Supreme Court |
| from the ask-kozinksi dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @19:40 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/2310241/JPL-Scientists-Take-NASA-To-the-Supreme|
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CheshireCatCO writes "Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, concerned
about background checks now required of federal employees, sued NASA to
suspect the checks back in 2007. The case has now [0]worked its way up to
the Supreme Court. At stake: whether all federal employees can be forced
to undergo open-ended background checks whether or not the employee has
exposure to classified or sensitive information. The background checks,
which can include interviewing people from employees' pasts such as
landlords and teachers, may seek, among other things, sexual histories."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/25/2310241
Links:
0. http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/NASA-v-The-Scientists.html
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