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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market
* Robots Make the Coins Go 'Round, Down Under
* Taiwan University Students Build Tour-Guide Robot
* Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves
* ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
* Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm
* Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution
* Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net
* Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase
* Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays
* New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs"
* Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk
* BlizzCon Keynote — New <em>WoW</em> Expansion, <Em>Diablo 3</em> Details
* Scientists Find Way To Combat Forged DNA
* Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice
* Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers
* China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy
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| Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market |
| from the horses-for-courses dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday August 20, @22:37 (Input Devices) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/0116243/Windows-7-Igniting-Touchscreen-PC-Mark|
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[0]ericatcw writes "Apple Inc. may still be coy about whether it plans to
launch a touch-screen tablet computer this year, but Windows PC makers
are forging right ahead. In the past three weeks, [1]five leading PC
makers have announced or been reported to confirm plans to release
touch-screen PCs in time for the multi-touch-enabled Windows 7, reports
Computerworld. Many appear to be using technology from New Zealand
optical touch vendor, [2]NextWindow, which already supplies HP's
market-leading TouchSmart line, and Dell's Studio One. NextWindow's CEO
says the company is working with partners on 8-10 products set for launch
within two months, in time for Windows 7's October 22nd release."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/0116243
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136910/Windows_7_The_OS_that_launches_a_thousand_touch_screen_PCs_
2. http://www.nextwindow.com/
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| Robots Make the Coins Go 'Round, Down Under |
| from the can-haz-coin-collections dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 21, @01:47 (Robotics) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/0034203/Robots-Make-the-Coins-Go-Round-Down-Un|
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[0]inkslinger77 writes "Computerworld has a cool slideshow of a Kuka
Titan robot and a bunch of [1]AGVs [2]managing the circulation of coins
at the Australian Mint. There's also a [3]lengthier article where the
head of the project talks about the main reason robots were employed. One
of the reasons being that they radically reduce OH&S risk: 'We are
finding that the AGVs are much safer and more reliable. Robots are never
affected by having a bad night with the baby and falling asleep at the
wheel. They are extremely accurate and they always do the same task in
the same way.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/0034203
Links:
0. mailto:inkslinger77@gmail.com
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Guided_Vehicle
2. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/315597/slideshow_robots_pay_off_royal_australian_mint
3. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/315600/robots_make_coins_go_round_downunder
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| Taiwan University Students Build Tour-Guide Robot |
| from the to-your-right-to-your-left dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 21, @04:50 (Robotics) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/0220204/Taiwan-University-Students-Build-Tour-|
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BobB-nw writes "A group of engineering students and their professor at
[0]National Taiwan University have built a robot that [1]can map out the
area it's operating in and offer guided tours. The robot, named 'Hsiao
Mei,' uses laser mapping and GPS technology to navigate on its own,
including around corners and obstacles such as tables and chairs. In the
first public demonstration on Thursday, an engineering student with a
wireless remote control first took the robot through the floor of a small
museum on the university's campus so it could create a map for itself.
After the initial run-through, the robot was able to make an unaided
journey around the floor."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/0220204
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taiwan_University
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/082009-taiwan-university-students-build-tour.html
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| Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves |
| from the check-my-belly dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday August 21, @07:57 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/0223259/Initial-Tests-Fail-To-Find-Gravitationa|
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eldavojohn writes that though gravitational waves are "[0]predicted to
exist by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the initial tests run
by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific
Collaboration (LIGO) [1]failed to find anything. It doesn't disprove
their existence although it does rule out a subset of string theory. From
the article, 'For example, some models predict the existence of cosmic
strings, which are loops in space-time that may have formed in the early
universe and gotten stretched to large scales along with the expansion of
the universe. These objects are thought to produce bursts of
gravitational waves as they oscillate. Since no large-amplitude
gravitational waves were found, cosmic strings, if they exist at all,
must be smaller than some models predict.' The scientists working in
Washington and Louisiana (in tandem to rule out flukes) will now move on
to Advanced LIGO which will analyze a volume of space 1,000 times larger.
If they don't find any gravitational waves in that experiment, the
results will be more than unsettling to many theorists."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/0223259
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity#Gravitational_waves
1. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090819-gravitational-waves.html
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| ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps |
| from the before-there-was-github dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, @08:48 (Software) |
| https://slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1121202/ACP-One-of-the-Oldest-Open-Source-Apps |
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[0]Esther Schindler writes "The Airline Control Program (ACP), introduced
by IBM around 1967, predated the term 'open source' by decades. But you
may be surprised by how much of its development resembles the FOSS
movement today. The ITWorld.com article [1]An Abbreviated History of ACP,
One of the Oldest Open Source Applications describes what made it
special."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1121202
Links:
0. mailto:esther@bitranch.com
1. http://www.itworld.com/print/75218
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| Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm |
| from the hands-off-or-at-least-palms-off dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, @09:38 (The Almighty Buck) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1134207/Apple-Allegedly-Sought-Non-Poaching-Deal-W|
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[0]theodp writes "A Bloomberg report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs
[1]proposed a possibly illegal truce with Palm against poaching their
respective employees is sure to pique the interest of the US Department
of Justice, which already is [2]investigating whether Google, Yahoo,
Apple, Genentech and other tech companies conspired to keep others from
stealing their top talent. 'Your proposal that we agree that neither
company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's
desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal,' former Palm CEO Ed
Colligan reportedly told Jobs in August 2007." The article notes that
Apple was probably reacting to Palm's hiring of Jon Rubenstein, who had
been instrumental in developing the iPod and went on to spearhead the Pre
for Palm (and has now become Palm's chairman and CEO). "It's the story
about the importance of charismatic engineers," said veteran Silicon
Valley forecaster Paul Saffo. "People don't work for Palm. They work for
Jon Rubinstein. One has to wonder how Steve Jobs ever let Jon Rubinstein
leave."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1134207
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_13171912
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/technology/companies/03trust.html?_r=1&ref=technology
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| Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution |
| from the rocket-in-your-pocket dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, @10:30 (Cellphones) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1155217/Nokia-Leaks-Phone-With-Full-GNULinux-Dist|
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An anonymous reader writes "It is now clear why Nokia has been so slow
with S60 updates: [0]the upcoming N900 just left everything else in the
dust. Unlike Google's Linux platform, Nokia is not intentionally breaking
compatibility with real distros, choosing instead to bring you the
unmatchable power of [1]GNU/Linux on your phone. This is the most awesome
device I have ever seen: MAP3 CPU/GPU, 3,5" 800x480 touchscreen,
keyboard, Wi-Fi, HSPA, GPS; 5-MP camera, CZ lens, 32 GB storage, SD slot;
X11, VT100 terminal emulator, APT package manager. Estimated price
without credit: $780 (N.5800: $390, iPhone 3GS: $750). Developers should
note that even though the current desktop is still GTK+, Qt will be
standard across all Nokia platforms in the near future (less powerful
phones will use Qt on the Symbian kernel). Users can download flashing
software [2]from Nokia, and patches can be submitted [3]at the Maemo site."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1155217
Links:
0. http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-rx51-n900-en.shtml
1. http://maemo.org/intro/platform/
2. http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/
3. https://bugs.maemo.org/
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| Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net |
| from the have-you-fixed-the-controls-for-diablo-yet dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 21, @11:23 (Games) |
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1432226/Ask-Blizzard-About-Starcraft2-Diablo|
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Well, Blizzcon 2009 is about to get underway (look for the big news from
the keynote in a few hours) and given how fast it sold out I'm sure there
are still many rabid fans interested in what Blizzard might have to say
that don't want to shell out the $40 for Pay-Per-View access. So, to that
end we have interviews scheduled tomorrow with the teams from Starcraft2,
Diablo III, World of Warcraft, and Battle.net. If there is anything you
wish to know about the progress or juicy details from any of these teams
please leave it in the comments below. We'll try to parse through for the
best questions and get you answers during our interview slots tomorrow.
The usual Slashdot [0]interview rules apply.
Discuss this story at:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1432226
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase |
| from the taking-out-the-trash dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, @12:15 (Data Storage) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1252251/Why-Size-Matters-For-Your-SSD-Purchase|
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Vigile writes "Performance analysis on solid state drives is still coming
into clarity as more manufacturers enter the fold and more of the drives
find their way into users' hands. While Intel's dominance in the SSD
market was once undoubted, [0]newer garbage collection methods from
Indilinx and Samsung are now balancing performance across the the major
players. What hasn't been discussed in great detail yet is the effect
that drive capacity can have on overall performance. Some smaller drives
(64GB versus 128GB) will actually use fewer data channels from the
controller chip and thus will have lower transfer speeds. The article
[1]compares drives using controllers from Indilinx, Samsung and Intel."
Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages. Next time maybe
they can keep it down to something more reasonable.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1252251
Links:
0. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=766&type=expert&pid=11
1. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=766
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| Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays |
| from the fully-buzzword-compliant dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, @13:09 (Programming) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/140246/Clojure-and-Heroku-Predict-Flight-Delays |
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murphee writes "Flight delayed again? Should have asked [0]FlightCaster,
a new site using statistical analysis to predict the delay of your flight
in real-time. What's even better, the services is fully buzzword
compliant: it's built with [1]Clojure, distributed with Hadoop, served
with Rails, and hosted on [2]Heroku. This [3]interview with one of the
FlightCaster developers gives the gory details on architecture, Clojure
tips, and your boss a reason to let you have all the multimethods and
macros you can eat. Seems like now that [4]O'Reilly's publishing a LISP
book, the Age of Parenthesus has come..."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/140246
Links:
0. http://flightcaster.com/
1. http://clojure.org/
2. http://heroku.com/
3. http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails
4. http://lisp-book.org/
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| New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs" |
| from the take-that-and-that dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, @13:58 (Education) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/123236/New-Species-of-Worms-Found-To-Release-Bombs|
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[0]caffiend666 writes "A [1]newly found deep ocean worm 'can cast off
green glowing body parts, a move scientists think may be a defensive
effort to confuse attackers. Researchers have dubbed the newly discovered
critters "green bombers." ... The first of the new species has been given
the scientific name Swima bombiviridis. ... [T]he worms are able to
regenerate the body parts.' So, it's a naturally occurring animal that
rips off its arms and throws them, and we're not talking about [2]a game
from ID Software?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/123236
Links:
0. http://www.geocities.com/critter_75075/
1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/ap_on_sc/us_sci_green_bombers
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake
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| Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk |
| from the ten-is-better-than-one dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Friday August 21, @14:18 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1233204/Ten-Ways-To-Destroy-a-Hard-Disk |
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[0]Barence writes "Following his blog [1]last week about the home-made
hard disk destroyer, Bustadrive, Mike Jennings was deluged with comments
from readers, both on the blog and [2]here on Slashdot. Most seemed to
like the product, but also offered up far more innovative and madcap
methods of hard disk destruction, with a wide range of implements used ���
household and otherwise. In this follow-up post, he rounds up the best of
an imaginative bunch of [3]hard disk destruction methods."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1233204
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/08/14/meet-bustadrive-a-home-made-hard-disk-destroyer
2. http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/17/1221253/The-Homemade-Hard-Disk-Destroyer
3. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/08/20/pc-pros-top-10-hard-disk-destruction-methods/
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| BlizzCon Keynote — New <em>WoW</em> Expansion, <Em>Diablo 3</em> Details |
| from the here-it-is dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday August 21, @15:48 (Role Playing (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1945216/BlizzCon-Keynote-mdash-New-WoW-Expansion-|
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BlizzCon kicked off this morning with a keynote address that brought some
major announcements for some of their games. First, World of Warcraft's
third expansion, Cataclysm, was officially revealed. It differs from the
previous expansions in that they will not be creating an entirely new
continent for players to explore. Instead, the two huge continents from
the original game will be going through a literal cataclysm, causing some
zones to be destroyed, new ones to become available, and existing ones to
be entirely revamped. Big news came for Diablo III as well, with the
announcement of the Monk class and a trailer showing how it plays. More
details for both games as well as StarCraft II will undoubtedly become
available over the next few days, but read on for more about what we
already know. If you have any questions, don't forget to [0]post them
here.
This story continues at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1945216/BlizzCon-Keynote-mdash-New-WoW-Expansion-Diablo-3-Details
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/1945216
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| Scientists Find Way To Combat Forged DNA |
| from the i'll-see-your-dna-evidence-and-raise-you-an-authenticator dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 21, @17:11 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/2056257/Scientists-Find-Way-To-Combat-Forged-DNA |
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An anonymous reader writes to tell us that while scientists may have
learned how to [0]forge DNA, it appears that a group of Israeli
scientists has created a [1]DNA authentication method that is able to
distinguish between real and faked DNA samples. "The new process was
tested on natural and artificial samples of blood, saliva and touched
surfaces, with complete success, Nucleix said. It also identifies
"contaminated" DNA that has been mixed with two or more samples."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/2056257
Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/18/0043212/Scientists-Learn-To-Fabricate-DNA-Evidence?from=rss
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hV3t-W6SygGjYB2v3zoiwc35Bm1w
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| Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice |
| from the doesn't-take-a-genius dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 21, @17:54 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/2115245/Why-ATampT-Killed-iPhone-Google-Voice |
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ZuchinniOne writes "The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting
article about the likely [0]reasons that AT&T and Apple killed the Google
Voice application." 'With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number
that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone--office,
home or cellular--rings. You can screen calls, listen in before
answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free
conference calls. Domestic calls and texting are free, and international
calls to Europe are two cents a minute. In other words, a unified voice
system, something a real phone company should have offered years ago.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/2115245
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204683204574358552882901262.html
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| Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers |
| from the choosy-criminals-choose-chimera dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 21, @18:37 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/2119253/Criminals-Prefer-Firefox-Opera-Web-Browsers |
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An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at Purewire have
leveraged vulnerabilities in malware infrastructure to track the
criminals behind it. In a three-month long project, they used security
flaws in exploit kits to get [0]operators to expose themselves (Obnoxious
interstitial ad between link and content) when they access the kits'
admin control panels. Data collected shows that 50% of those tracked use
Firefox, while 25% use Opera."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/2119253
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/exploit_operator_browsers/
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| China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy |
| from the imagine-what-they-do-if-you-make-a-silly-face dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 21, @19:21 (Windows) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/2122248/China-Jails-Four-For-Microsoft-XP-Piracy |
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adeelarshad82 writes "Chinese court has [0]jailed four people for
spreading their bootleg "Tomato Garden" version of Microsoft's Windows XP
program, in what the Xinhua news agency called the nation's biggest
software piracy case. Off the four men Hong Lei, the creator of the
downloadable "Tomato Garden Windows XP" software, was jailed for three
and a half years by a court in Suzhou in eastern China, Xinhua."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/21/2122248
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351867,00.asp
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