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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals
* A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation
* Chinese Clinic Uses DNA Tests To Predict Kids' Talents
* Building an Apple-1 From Scratch — Just Like Woz
* Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks
* Mac, Linux Support For <em>Quake Live</em>, Preview of <em>Rage</em>
* Burning Man Responds To EFF's Criticism of Policy
* Mystery of Sun's Outer Atmosphere Solved
* Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format
* Airborne Laser Successfully Tracks, Hits Missile
* 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest
* DoJ Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict
* Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter
* C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends?
* Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea
* Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt"
* "Easy Work-Around" For Microsoft Word's Legal Woes
* Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th
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| Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals |
| from the now-adding-wikify-to-the-spellchecker-and-sighing dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday August 14, @20:06 (The Military) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/14/2258244 |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the Army began
encouraging its personnel ��� from the privates to the generals ��� to go
online and [1]collaboratively rewrite seven of the field manuals that
give instructions on all aspects of Army life, using the same software
behind Wikipedia. The goal, say the officers behind the effort, is to tap
more experience and advice from battle-tested soldiers rather than
relying on the specialists within the Army's array of colleges and
research centers, who have traditionally written the manuals. 'For a
couple hundred years, the Army has been writing doctrine in a particular
way, and for a couple months, we have been doing it online in this wiki,'
said Col. Charles J. Burnett, the director of the Army's Battle Command
Knowledge System. 'The only ones who could write doctrine were the select
few. Now, imagine the challenge in accepting that anybody can go on the
wiki and make a change ��� that is a big challenge, culturally.' Under the
three-month pilot program, the current version of each guide can be
edited by anyone around the world who has been issued [2]an ID card that
allows access to the Army Internet system. Reaction so far from the rank
and file has been tepid, but the brass is optimistic; even in an
open-source world, soldiers still know how to take an order."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/14/2258244
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/business/14army.html
2. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/06/army_manuals_062909w/
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| A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation |
| from the integrating-by-parts dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday August 14, @22:04 (Math) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/0019258 |
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cloude-pottier writes "What do you do when zombies attack? Turn to a
mathematician to [0]come up with a model for the spread of a zombie
infestation, of course! Students at Carleton University and the
University of Ottawa have published a paper in a book titled Infectious
Disease Modelling Research Progress detailing how to model the spread of
a zombie population and various complications in managing the spread of
the infestation. They even give humans a fighting chance in some cases!
The [1]original paper (PDF) can be found at their professor's website."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/0019258
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/
1. http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
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| Chinese Clinic Uses DNA Tests To Predict Kids' Talents |
| from the this-one-will-be-a-level-80-death-knight dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @00:01 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/0037226 |
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[0]Death Metal writes with this excerpt from CNN: "About 30 children aged
3 to 12 years old and their parents are participating in a new program
that uses DNA testing to identify genetic gifts and predict the future.
... The test is conducted by the Shanghai Biochip Corporation. Scientists
claim a simple saliva swab collects as many as 10,000 cells that enable
them to isolate eleven different genes. By taking a closer look at the
genetic codes, they say they can extract information about a child's IQ,
emotional control, focus, memory, athletic ability and more. For about
$880, Chinese parents can sign their kids up for the test and five days
of summer camp in Chongqing, where the children will be evaluated in
various settings from sports to art. The scientific results, combined
with observations by experts throughout the week, will be used to [1]make
recommendations to parents about what their child should pursue."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/0037226
Links:
0. http://www.anus.com/metal
1. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/03/china.dna.children.ability/index.html
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| Building an Apple-1 From Scratch — Just Like Woz |
| from the is-that-the-one-the-president-flies-on dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @00:18 (Desktops (Appl|
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/0324227 |
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[0]Lucas123 writes "This year at KansasFest, computer fans from around
the world gathered to celebrate the Apple II ��� the computer that put
Apple on the map. But the Apple-1 (a.k.a. the Apple I), the machine Steve
Wozniak invented and first demonstrated at the Palo Alto Homebrew
Computer Club in 1976, has always been near to my heart. In attendance at
KansasFest was Vince Briel, who created an authorized reproduction the
Apple-1 and showed others how to build their own. 'As a regular
KansasFest attendee (and the conference's marketing director), I was one
of his students. Follow along as I [1]assemble a fully functional Apple-1
clone.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/0324227
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9136257/Image_gallery_Building_an_Apple_1_replica_from_scratch?taxonomyName=Hardware&taxonomyId=12
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| Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks |
| from the you-and-what-arm-eee dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @02:12 (Portables) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/0450240 |
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wonkavader sends us this quote from an article in PCWorld: "In an effort
to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type
devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official
said on Wednesday. The company is researching the possibility of offering
new Linux-based mobile devices called smartbooks, said Todd Finch, senior
product marketing manager for Linux clients, at the OpenSourceWorld
conference in San Francisco. The company will also upgrade its Ubuntu
Linux OS for netbooks to the latest version in the next few weeks ...
Smartbooks with [0]Arm chips have inherent advantages over x86 chips like
Atom, such as lower power consumption and longer battery life, according
to Finch. The chips are also becoming more powerful, as indicated by the
growing number of applications on smartphones, he said. 'I think it's
natural and reasonable for us to begin looking at them as they begin
scaling their processors up.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/0450240
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| Mac, Linux Support For <em>Quake Live</em>, Preview of <em>Rage</em|
| from the no-more-excuses dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @05:11 (Quake) |
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/026251 |
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[0]AlexMax2742 writes "Great news for those anxious gamers who have been
waiting for a Linux and Mac version of Quake Live. [1]Support for both is
being implemented with next Tuesday's update, according to project lead
Marty Stratton, who gave the release date during a press conference held
at QuakeCon 2009. A [2]video of the press conference is up at
QuakeUnity." John Carmack revealed that they're working on a "premium"
subscription service for Quake Live, which will allow players to
[3]configure and run their own private servers. Also at QuakeCon, [4]a
new trailer was released for id's upcoming shooter, Rage. Kotaku posted
[5]an extensive preview of Rage, saying, "I've seen no game that, in this
realistic style, looks so good and has a landscape so rich with visual
splendor." A [6]detailed presentation on id Tech 5, the new game engine
behind Rage, was given at SIGGRAPH 2009 last week.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/026251
Links:
0. mailto:alexmax2742@gmail.com
1. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175567
2. http://www.quakeunity.com/file=2920
3. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59998
4. http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/08/14/rage-trailer-debuts-at-quakecon-2009/
5. http://kotaku.com/5337826/they-came-they-fragged-quakecons-staggering-byoc-galaxy
6. http://s09.idav.ucdavis.edu/talks/05-JP_id_Tech_5_Challenges.pdf
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| Burning Man Responds To EFF's Criticism of Policy |
| from the headlines-that-would-be-cooler-if-taken-literally dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @08:16 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/0328219 |
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Briden writes "Earlier this week, we [0]discussed the EFF's criticism of
the Burning Man Photo Policy. Burning Man has now [1]responded at length
on their own blog. Here's an excerpt: 'In fact, there are but two
essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our
community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their
privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning
Man to sell products. We don't remove images from pages just because they
criticize us (I've never been involved in taking down an image from an
editorial blog criticizing Burning Man, and it's certainly not because
there haven't been any!). We're also not at all interested [in]
preventing participants from sharing their personal imagery or
impressions of the event on third party sharing sites in a noncommercial
manner, so long as they observe the concerns about privacy and
commercialism. We're delighted to see people sharing videos, stories, and
pictures on our official Facebook page, and we know that it, along with
Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. are representative of the way many of us
share personal imagery in the digital age.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/0328219
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/13/1214244/EFF-Says-Burning-Man-Usurps-Digital-Rights
1. http://blog.burningman.com/?p=4599
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| Mystery of Sun's Outer Atmosphere Solved |
| from the professor-plum-in-the-corona-with-the-nanoflare dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @09:17 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/1126231 |
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[0]xp65 writes "For decades, scientists have puzzled over the mystery of
why temperatures in the solar corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, soar to
several million Kelvin (K) ��� much hotter than temperatures nearer the
sun's surface. New observations made with instruments aboard Japan's
Hinode satellite [1]reveal the culprit to be nanoflares. Nanoflares are
small, sudden bursts of heat and energy. 'They occur within tiny strands
that are bundled together to form a magnetic tube called a coronal loop,'
says astrophysicist James Klimchuk. Coronal loops are the fundamental
building blocks of the thin, translucent gas known as the sun's corona.
The discovery that nanoflares play an important and perhaps dominant role
in coronal heating paves the way to understanding how the sun affects
Earth and its atmosphere."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/1126231
Links:
0. http://spacefellowship.com/
1. http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/14/tiny-flares-responsible-for-outsized-heat-of-suns-atmosphere/
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| Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format |
| from the who-are-you-and-what-have-you-done-with-sony dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @10:19 (Sony) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/1316250 |
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Dr_Barnowl writes "The BBC reports that [0]Sony is to convert its online
bookstore to the [1]EPUB format. While this format still allows DRM, it's
supported on a much wider variety of readers. Is this a challenge to the
Kindle? It's nice to see Sony [2]opening up to the idea of open standards.
Even if you still have reservations about buying a Sony device, you might
be able to patronize their bookstore sometime soon."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/1316250
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8201093.stm
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
2. http://www.macworld.com/article/142293/2009/08/sony_ebookreader.html?lsrc=rss_main
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| Airborne Laser Successfully Tracks, Hits Missile |
| from the sweet-zombie-reagan dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @11:21 (The Military) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/1410232 |
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[0]fructose writes "The [1]Airborne Laser managed to [2]acquire, track,
and illuminate a test missile a few days ago. According to the press
release, the Boeing plane 'used its infrared sensors to find a target
missile launched from San Nicolas Island, Calif ... issued engagement and
target location instructions to the beam control/fire control system ...
fired its two solid-state illuminator lasers to track the target and ...
fired a surrogate high-energy laser at the target, simulating a missile
intercept.' The sensors on board the missile confirmed the 'hit.' Michael
Rinn, ABL's program director, said, 'Pointing and focusing a laser beam
on a target that is rocketing skyward at thousands of miles per hour is
no easy task, but the Airborne Laser is uniquely able to do the job.' The
next steps will be to test the high-power laser at full strength in
flight and do a complete system test later this year. Its success or
failure will [3]determine whether the project gets canceled. Looks like
the [4]Real Genius fans out there are finally living the dream."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/1410232
Links:
0. http://www.ericksmodels.com/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
2. http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=796
3. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574348822530004230.html
4. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
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| 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest |
| from the still-working-on-a-beard dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @12:21 (Education) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/1523255 |
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[0]marcog123 writes "The [1]International Olympiad in Informatics was
held [2]earlier this week in Bulgaria. The IOI is a programming
competition for high school learners up to 20 years of age that has a
focus on problem solving and algorithms. It was won by [3]14-year-old
Henadzi Karatkevich of Belarus (PDF, [4]list of gold medalists), beating
the world's top high school programmers, including 18- and 19-year-olds,
to become the youngest winner in the IOI's 21-year history. Competition
is really tough, with some countries taking months off school to
concentrate only on IOI training. Henadzi first entered the IOI in 2006
when he was only 11 years old and won silver (missing gold by only six
points). He won gold in 2007 and 2008. He has the opportunity to enter
for the next three years; that is, unless he follows the path of
[5]Terence Tao, who won IMO gold at 12 and then went to university the
following year. If he continues his current streak, he will easily
surpass the current record of [6]six IOI medals by South Africa's Bruce
Merry."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/1523255
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/marcog
1. http://ioinformatics.org/about.shtml
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/08/09/2338220/21st-International-Olympiad-of-Informatics-Opens-In-Bulgaria-and-Online
3. http://ioi2009.org/downloads/br8-3str-en.pdf
4. http://www.ioi2009.org/index.jsp?id=414&ln=2
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Informatics#Multiple_IOI_winners
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| DoJ Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict |
| from the yes-it's-totally-reasonable dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 15, @13:23 (Government) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/171238 |
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[0]Death Metal points out a CNet report saying that the Justice
Department has [1]come out in favor of the $1.92 million verdict awarded
to the RIAA in [2]the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case. Their support came in
the form of a [3]legal brief filed on Friday, which notes, "Congress took
into account the need to deter the millions of users of new media from
infringing copyrights in an environment where many violators believe that
they will go unnoticed." It also says, "The Copyright Act's statutory
damages provision serves both to compensate and deter. Congress
established a scheme to allow copyright holders to elect to receive
statutory damages for copyright infringement instead of actual damages
and profits because of the difficulty of calculating and proving actual
damages."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/171238
Links:
0. http://www.anus.com/metal
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10310181-38.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0
2. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/227219&tid=332
3. http://www.scribd.com/doc/18593475/DOJ-Brief-in-defense-of-ThomasRasset-Award
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| Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter |
| from the bloop-bleep-treacle-tweet-thurp-twaddle dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @14:19 (Social Networks)|
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/1751246 |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that statisticians from the
University of Vermont are hoping to [1]harness the stream of messages
flowing through Twitter to read public opinion and sentiment in real time.
'"Twitter is a reflection of what people are interested in right now,"
says Peter Dodds, adding that the goal is to establish an index, akin to
the Dow Jones industrial average, that can "give an overall sense of how
a collective body of people are feeling at any given point in time.'
Dodds says he and his colleagues are analyzing about 1,000 tweets each
minute, or about a million a day, looking for trends in descriptive words
and phrases that indicate moods and emotions. In addition, the two can
monitor the public reaction to news or policy announcement and track it
over time. The tool is still in its early stages, but eventually Dodds
hopes that it could work similarly to Google Flu Trends, a Web tool that
doubles as an [2]early-warning system for flu outbreaks by detecting
spikes in certain search terms. Since relationships and conversations are
so intrinsic to how people communicate on Twitter, the researchers hope
that observing how one user's mood is affected by another might shed some
light on crowd behavior and emotional contagion. 'All of this data serves
as a remote sensor of well-being,' Dodds says."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/1751246
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/using-twitter-as-a-collective-mood-ring/
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/technology/internet/12flu.html
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| C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? |
| from the like-a-commercial-for-light-beer dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @15:22 (Programming) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/1849217 |
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[0]Dan Lorenc writes "Using the [1]StackOverflow.com data dump, I
measured the activity of various programming languages throughout the
week. The results: [2]Ruby and Python saw a rise in questions asked on
the weekend while C# and Java saw a dropoff in activity on the weekend.
This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend
for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to
use. Show this experiment to your boss the next time you are selecting a
programming language for a project at work."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/1849217
Links:
0. mailto:lorenc.d@gmail.com
1. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/so-export-2009-06.7z.torrent
2. http://danlorenc.blogspot.com/2009/08/stackoverflow-experiment-results.html
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| Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea |
| from the way-beyond-lasik dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @16:26 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/2015220 |
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[0]Al writes "A woman with a rare, inherited form of blindness is now
able to read, thanks to a gene therapy that [1]caused a new fovea ��� the
part of the retina that is most densely populated with photoreceptors ���
to grow in her eye. The patient suffers from Leber congenital amaurosis,
meaning an abnormal protein makes her photoreceptors have a severely
impaired sensitivity to light. She received the experimental treatment
twelve months ago when physicians injected a gene encoding a functional
copy of the protein into a small part of one eye ��� about eight-to-nine
millimeters in diameter. Along with two other patients receiving the same
treatment, her eyesight improved after just a few weeks. Now the
physicians report that this patient seems to have developed a new fovea,
exactly where she received the injection. Because the woman has been
effectively blind since birth, the results suggest that the brain is able
to adapt to new visual stimuli remarkably quickly."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/2015220
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23239/
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| Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" |
| from the life-in-these-united-states dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @17:33 (The Courts) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/212254 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Four days ago, deputies from the Maricopa
County Sheriff's Office in Arizona conducted a [0]raid against the county
government building hosting computers for a law enforcement database.
After threatening to arrest county employees who would stop them, the
officers proceeded to secure the room and promptly changed passwords on
many of the servers. In a hearing on Friday, a Superior Court judge
threatened [1]to hold members of the Sheriff's Office in contempt if they
did not reveal the passwords by next Wednesday. Following this, the
Sheriff's Office claimed to be conducting an investigation against other
Superior Court judges. [2]Courts have asked for passwords before, but
never under conditions like this."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/212254
Links:
0. http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2009/08/13/20090813computer0813.html
1. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/08/14/20090814computers0815.html
2. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/2240241&tid=332
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| "Easy Work-Around" For Microsoft Word's Legal Woes |
| from the legal-hokey-pokey-is-what-it's-all-about dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @18:40 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/2217212 |
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[0]CWmike writes "Microsoft can likely use [1]an 'easy technical
work-around' to sidestep a recent injunction by a Texas federal judge
that [2]bars the company from selling Word, a patent attorney said today.
'The injunction doesn't apply to existing product that has already been
sold,' said Barry Negrin, a partner with the New York firm Pryor Cashman
LLP who has practiced patent and trademark law for 17 years. 'Headlines
that say Microsoft can't sell Word are not really true,' said Negrin,
pointing out that the injunction granted by US District Court Judge
Leonard Davis on Tuesday only prohibits Microsoft from selling Word as it
exists now after Oct. 10. 'All Microsoft has to do is disable the custom
XML feature, which should be pretty easy to do, then give that a
different SKU number from what's been sold so it's easy to distinguish
the two versions.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/2217212
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136660/_Easy_work_around_could_solve_Microsoft_Word_s_legal_woes_says_expert
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136539/Injunction_on_Microsoft_Word_unlikely_to_halt_sales
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| Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th |
| from the well-that-is-what-they'd-say-isn't-it? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @19:50 (Google) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/2347257 |
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[0]snitch writes with this snippet from InfoQ about the [1]current state
of Google Wave: "With the [2]Google Wave Preview scheduled for public
availability on September 30th, Wave API Tech Lead Douwe Osinga has
posted on the [3]Wave Google Group about what the team has been working
on along with some future directions.Up until now with the limited
availability of testing accounts there have been [4]complaints on the
Google Group from users that wanted to get their hands on this new
technology but didn't have access to [5]the sandbox. As Douwe explains
[6]the team has been busy all this time with stability issues and more."
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1. http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/wave-preview-opens
2. https://wave.google.com/
3. http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api
4. http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api/browse_thread/thread/6affa443d0d70359?hl=en
5. https://wave.google.com/a/wavesandbox.com/
6. http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api/browse_thread/thread/66cbc0a044da69cc/f14969c8ce3b1426?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=about+coming
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