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In this issue:
* How To Hire a Hacker
* Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target
* UK Royal Society Claims Geo-Engineering Feasible
* iPhone Straining AT&T Network
* Google Patents Its Home Page
* UK's Oldest Computer To Be "Rebooted"
* Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010
* NASA Robots and Rovers At Play In the Desert
* IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software
* Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights
* Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders
* Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC
* Ubuntu 9.04 On Kindle 2
* How To Survive a Patent Challenge?
* Privacy, Mobile Phones, Ubiquitous Data Collection
* ES&S To Buy Diebold, Blackbox Voting To Sue
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| How To Hire a Hacker |
| from the kid-have-you-rehabilitated-yourself dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 02, @22:16 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/09/02/2231208/How-To-Hire-a-Hacker |
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[0]itwbennett writes "If you want to [1]hire a hacker, you need to take a
more psychology-based approach to the entire interview process to
determine whether he or she has changed their ways enough to be a
trustworthy employee, says Mich Kabay in a recent Network World blog
post. But this approach is also '[2]germane for highly skilled staffers,
even those that don't come with arrest records or who have done something
questionable in their pasts,' says David Strom. For example, in your next
interview, ask a question that will suss out how much of a sense of
entitlement a candidate has ��� or how much you or your company has. 'One
time when I interviewed with Microsoft in Redmond I couldn't get over
this sense of corporate entitlement ��� it was one of the biggest turn-offs
that I had during my interviewing day there,' says Strom. 'I got the
feeling that I wasn't going to fit in, no matter how smart I thought (or
they thought) I was.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/02/2231208
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2009/081709sec1.html
2. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/76318/hacker-recruitment-when-it-safe-have-a-hacker-your-it-staff
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| Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target |
| from the lazlo-approved dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 03, @00:34 (The Military) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/0227210/Airborne-Boeing-Laser-Blasts-Ground-Target|
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[0]coondoggie writes "The airborne military laser which promises to
destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage
has for the first time actually blown something up. Boeing and the US Air
Force today said that on Aug. 30, a C-130H aircraft armed with Boeing's
Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) [1]blasted a target test vehicle on the
ground for the first time. Boeing has been developing the ATL since 2008
under an Air Force contract worth up to $30 million."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/0227210
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44894
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| UK Royal Society Claims Geo-Engineering Feasible |
| from the jury-rigging-the-planet dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 03, @03:26 (Earth) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/0240251/UK-Royal-Society-Claims-Geo-Engineering|
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krou writes "The BBC is reporting that a UK Royal Society report claims
that [0]geo-engineering proposals to combat the effects of climate change
are 'technically possible.' Three of the plans considered showed the most
promise: 'CO2 capture from ambient air'; enhancing 'natural reactions of
CO2 from the air with rocks and minerals'; and 'Land use and
afforestation'. They also noted that solar radiation management, while
some climate models showed them to be ineffective, should not be ignored.
Possible suggestions included: 'a giant mirror on the Moon; a space
parasol made of superfine aluminum mesh; and a swarm of 10 trillion small
mirrors launched into space one million at a time every minute for the
next 30 years.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/0240251
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8231387.stm
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| iPhone Straining AT&T Network |
| from the got-an-app-for-that dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 03, @07:57 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/0258243/iPhone-Straining-ATampT-Network |
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dangle writes "More than 20 million other smartphone users are on the
AT&T network, but other phones do not drain the network the way the
[0]nine million iPhone users do. Because the average iPhone owner can use
10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user,
dropped calls, spotty service, delayed text and voice messages and
glacial download speeds are the result as AT&T's cellular network strains
to meet the demand. AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion
it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades
and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/0258243
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html?hp
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| Google Patents Its Home Page |
| from the to-advance-useful-arts-and-sciences dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @08:50 (Google) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1223207/Google-Patents-Its-Home-Page |
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[0]theodp writes "A week after new USPTO Director David Kappos
[1]pooh-poohed the idea that a lower patent allowance rate equals higher
quality, [2]Google was granted a patent on its Home Page. Subject to how
the design patent is enforced, Google now owns the idea of having a giant
search box in the middle of the page, with two big buttons underneath and
several small links nearby. And you doubted [3]Google's commitment to
patent reform, didn't you?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1223207
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/director-kappos-patent-quality-equals-granting-those-claims-the-applicant-is-entitled-to-under-our-laws.html
2. http://valleywag.gawker.com/5350982/google-patents-worlds-simplest-home-page
3. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/03/patent-reform-needed-more-than-ever.html
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| UK's Oldest Computer To Be "Rebooted" |
| from the just-like-star-trek dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @09:40 (Hardware) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1331214/UKs-Oldest-Computer-To-Be-Rebooted |
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[0]Smivs writes with this interesting piece of computer history,
excerpted from the BBC: "Britain's oldest original computer, the Harwell,
is being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it
is to be [1]restored to working order. The computer, which was designed
in 1949 was built and used by staff at the Atomic Energy Research
Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire. It first ran in 1951 and was
designed to perform mathematical calculations. It lasted until 1973. When
first built the 2.4m x 5m computer was state-of-the-art, although it was
superseded by transistor-based systems. The restoration project is
expected to take a year. Although not the first computer built in the UK,
the Harwell had one of the longest service lives. Built by a team of
three people, the device was capable of doing the work of six to ten
people and ran for seven years until the establishment obtained their
first commercial computer. 'We didn't think we were doing anything
pioneering at the time,' said Dick Barnes, who helped build the original
Harwell computer."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1331214
Links:
0. http://www.smivsonline.co.uk/
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8234428.stm
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| Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010 |
| from the some-reclicking-may-be-necessary dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @10:29 (Displays) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1426257/Sony-To-Launch-3D-TVs-By-Late-2010 |
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eldavojohn writes "The Financial Times is reporting that Sony is
[0]announcing 3D TVs for late 2010 at the IFA technology trade show in
Berlin. It's another glasses-based technology with "active shutter" being
employed (the same stuff [1]teased at CES as well as employed on
[2]NVIDIA's glasses). Expect to see 3D Bravia television sets, Vaio
laptops, PS3s and Blu-ray disc players compatible with this technology."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1426257
Links:
0. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/093755da-9759-11de-83c5-00144feabdc0.html
1. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/09/087236&tid=394
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/08/1447241&tid=136
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| NASA Robots and Rovers At Play In the Desert |
| from the not-enslaving-robots-no-sirree dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @11:28 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1527225/NASA-Robots-and-Rovers-At-Play-In-the-D|
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[0]Geoffrey.landis writes "[1]Robots and rovers will be running around in
the desert in the NASA [2]Desert RATS ('Research and Technology Studies')
test in Arizona, including the heavy-lift rover 'All-Terrain Hex-Legged
Extra-Terrestrial Explorer,' or [3]ATHLETE. (See [4]videos from
newscientist.com). Some NASA [5]robots from an earlier field test of
robotic lunar excavators can be seen on [6]video from the NASA page."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1527225
Links:
0. http://www.geoffreylandis.com/
1. http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=29107
2. http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs/
3. http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/systems/system.cfm?System=11
4. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13590-giant-robots-could-carry-lunar-bases-on-their-backs.html
5. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OptInstr/VIDEOS/Right_Lunar_Excavator.mpg
6. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OptInstr/videos.html
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| IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software |
| from the corellation-is-not-causation dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @12:34 (IBM) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1616220/IBMs-Supreme-Court-Brief-Says-That-Patents-|
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[0]H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "For the Supreme Court's upcoming review of
the Bilski decision, IBM has submitted [1]an amicus brief claiming that
software patents 'fueled the explosive growth of open source software
development' (!) (p38 of linked PDF). EndSoftwarePatents, for its own
amicus brief, is looking for help building a [2]list of free software
harmed by software patents, and a [3]list of companies that distribute
free software and are taxed by patent royalties."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1616220
Links:
0. http://ciaran.compsoc.com/
1. http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907/ibm-says-software-patents-drive-oss-development
2. http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Free_software_projects_harmed_by_software_patents
3. http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Free_software_distributors_paying_patent_tax
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| Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights |
| from the problem-with-liberty dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @13:27 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1720233/Canadian-Hate-Speech-Law-Violates-Charter-o|
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MrKevvy writes "The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has found that federal
hate-speech legislation [0]violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms, the equivalent of the US Constitution's Bill of Rights. This
decision exonerates Marc Lemire, webmaster of [1]FreedomSite.org, but may
have farther-reaching consequences and serve as precedent for future
complaints of hate-speech."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1720233
Links:
0. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hate-speech-law-violates-charter-rights-tribunal-rules/article1273956/
1. http://www.freedomsite.org/
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| Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders |
| from the bang-but-whimper dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @14:28 (Sun Microsystems) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1826214/Slow-Oracle-Merger-Leads-To-Outflow-|
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An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems might have had a chance if
the Oracle merger had gone through quickly, but between the DoJ taking
its time and the European Commission, which seems to get off on abusing
American firms, just plain [0]dragging its feet, that won't happen now.
As Sun twists in the wind, unable to defend itself, and Oracle is unable
to do anything until the deal closes, IBM is pretty much [1]tearing Sun
to shreds. By the time this deal closes, there won't be much left for
Oracle. This is not how a Silicon Valley legend should end."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1826214
Links:
0. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3837556/EU+May+Delay+OracleSun+Nuptials.htm
1. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3832666
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| Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC |
| from the seeping-in-there dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @15:19 (The Internet) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1845245/Educause-Announces-Plans-To-Sign-edu-TLD-W|
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[0]jhutkd writes "[1]Educause (who run the .edu gTLD) [2]announced today
that they will deploy DNSSEC and sign the .edu zone by the end of March
2010. This will enable all educational institutions to benefit from
deploying DNSSEC via the secure delegation hierarchy starting with
[3]IANA's ITAR (a temporary surrogate for the root zone signing), going
through .edu, down to schools, and potentially leading all the way down
to individual departments. Unlike larger gTLDs like .org, the churn of
adding new and deleting old zones in .edu is much lower (due to the fact
that there are tight controls on who may register for a delegation).
Thus, many of the hassles of adding new [4]DS records and maintenance
procedures might be more manageable and help speed DNSSEC's rollout in
this branch of the DNS hierarchy."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/1845245
Links:
0. http://secspider.cs.ucla.edu/
1. http://www.educause.edu/
2. http://www.educause.edu/About+EDUCAUSE/PressReleases/SecurityofeduInternetDomaintoI/178963
3. https://itar.iana.org/
4. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3658
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| Ubuntu 9.04 On Kindle 2 |
| from the general-insanity dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @16:13 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/2010208/Ubuntu-904-On-Kindle-2 |
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[0]JO_DIE_THE_STAR_F*** writes "Jesse Vincent managed to get [1]Ubuntu
9.04 Jaunty Jackalope running on the Kindle 2. The new functionality was
presented in a talk at OSCON 2009."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/2010208
Links:
0. mailto:jody29NO@SPAMgmail.com
1. http://hackaday.com/2009/09/03/ubuntu-9-04-on-kindle-2/
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| How To Survive a Patent Challenge? |
| from the realistic-steps dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @17:07 (Patents) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/2054249/How-To-Survive-a-Patent-Challenge |
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An anonymous reader writes "I have written a nifty application that helps
me run my own business, and could really help in running almost any
business. It has been abstracted well enough that it could very plausibly
be made a sale-able product. There are several very good, possibly
patentable ideas within it. However, they are overshadowed by virtually
an infinite number of possible bs challenges to its more mundane parts.
I'm rather fearful of bringing this to market for that reason, and so far
have only deployed it as a 'consulting' project with two other small
companies (who love it). Does anyone have suggestions about how to
proceed?" Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical
steps a software author can do here?
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/2054249
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| Privacy, Mobile Phones, Ubiquitous Data Collection |
| from the first-plan-your-safeguards dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 03, @18:03 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/2159234/Privacy-Mobile-Phones-Ubiquitous-Data-Colle|
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ChelleChelle writes "Participatory sensing technologies are greatly
expanding the possible uses of mobile phones in ways that could improve
our lives and our communities (for example, by helping us to understand
our exposure to air pollution or our daily carbon footprint). However,
with these potential gains comes great risk, particularly to our privacy.
With their built-in microphones, cameras and location awareness, mobile
phones could, at the extreme, become the most widespread embedded
surveillance tools in history. Whether phones engaged in sensing data are
tools for self and community research, coercion or surveillance depends
on who collects the data, how it is handled, and what privacy protections
users are given. This article gives a number of opinions about what
programmers might do to [0]make this sort of data collection work without
slipping into surveillance and control."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/2159234
Links:
0. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1597790
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| ES&S To Buy Diebold, Blackbox Voting To Sue |
| from the all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday September 03, @19:05 (Government) |
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/2253252/ESampS-To-Buy-Diebold-Blackbox-Voting-|
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Gottesser writes "Long-time election rights activist Bev Harris (she had
an HBO special a while back where she [0]hired Hari Hursti to hack an
optical scan voting machine) just sent this out: 'Diebold/Premier
Election Systems is being purchased by Election Systems & Software
(ES&S). According to a Black Box Voting source within the companies,
there will be a conference call among key people at the companies within
the next couple hours. An ES&S/Diebold-Premier acquisition would
consolidate most US voting under one privately held manufacturer. And
it's not just the concealed vote-counting; these companies now also
produce polling place check-in software (electronic pollbooks), voter
registration software, and vote-by-mail authentication software.' Our
voting system is heading toward a server-centric model with our vote
being delivered to us by computers under lock and key far away from
public oversight. Here's ES&S's [1]press release. Wikipedia's got
something on the [2]ongoing string of ES&S controversies as well."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/03/2253252
Links:
0. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=hari+hursti+hack&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#
1. http://www.essvote.com/HTML/news_room/ESS_Premier_Release.pdf
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Systems_&_Software
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