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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years
* Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced
* Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System
* Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality
* Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange?
* Solaris 11 Released
* The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory
* With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets
* ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU
* Upcoming EU Data Law Will Make Europe Tricky For Social Networks
* China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market
* Lawyer Continues Android v. GPL Crusade
* NASA Successfully Test Fires J-2X Engine.
* Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature
* Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing
* Shanghai Government Proposes 100 Community Hackerspaces
* Google Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Gmail App
* Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation
* Programming Cells, With CellOS
* How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works
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| IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years
| from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 10, @00:34 (Earth)
| with 947 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/037228/iea-warns-of-irreversible-climate-change-in-5-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]iONiUM writes "As a follow up to the [1]previous slashdot story, there
has been a new release by the [2]International Energy Agency indicating
that [3]within 5 years we will have irreversible climate change.
According to the IEA, 'There are few signs that the urgently needed
change in direction in global energy trends is under way. Although the
recovery in the world economy since 2009 has been uneven, and future
economic prospects remain uncertain, global primary energy demand
rebounded by a remarkable 5% in 2010, pushing CO2 emissions to a new
high. Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels
jumped to over $400bn (��250.7bn).'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://upup-downdown.com/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/08/0027209/world-emissions-of-carbon-dioxide-outpace-worst-case-scenario
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Energy_Agency
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change?newsfeed=true
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| Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced
| from the just-in-time-for-the-holidays dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 09, @19:06 (Businesses)
| with 523 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/2236224/bipartisan-internet-sales-tax-bill-introduced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Four senators, including both Democrats and
Republicans, have introduced a bill that would allow (but not require)
states to [1]collect sales tax on items purchased by residents online,
even the seller has no physical presence in that state. Sellers would be
able to pay through either the existing Streamlined Sales and Use Tax
Agreement or a new alternative tax simplification plan. Battle lines are
being drawn predictably: brick-and-mortar retailers love the idea,
Internet-only sellers hate it."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/2236224/bipartisan-internet-sales-tax-bill-introduced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/networking/222693/senators-introduce-internet-sales-tax-bill
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| Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System
| from the did-not-interrupt-youtube-either dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @14:23 (Communications)
| with 381 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/196239/failures-mark-first-national-test-of-emergency-alert-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The first full-scale test of the National
Emergency Alert System failed on Tuesday at 2 PM. [0]Some radio and
television networks did not air any alert, while the performance of
others was inconsistent. 'Some DirectTV customers reported hearing Lady
Gaga's "Paparazzi" play during the test. Some Comcast subscribers saw
their cable boxes turn to QVC before the alert, while Time Warner Cable
customers in New York did not see any alert at all.'" If you were tuned
to any American broadcaster at the time, did the alert system reach you?
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/196239/failures-mark-first-national-test-of-emergency-alert-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality
| from the on-second-thought dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 10, @08:09 (The Internet)
| with 321 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0428206/senate-set-to-vote-on-the-repeal-of-net-neutrality?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The United States Senate will vote sometime
today on [0]the bill that would repeal the net neutrality laws that the
FCC has put into place. The bill passed the US House back in April, so it
only has to be approved by the Senate before it is sent to the
President's desk. President Obama says that he will veto the bill. The
debate over net neutrality has largely been split on party lines, with
the Democratic party mostly being for keeping net neutrality laws in
place, and the GOP looking to avoid them."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0428206/senate-set-to-vote-on-the-repeal-of-net-neutrality?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange?
| from the tin-can-no-string dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @12:49 (Communications)
| with 218 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1748242/ask-slashdot-post-quantum-asymmetric-key-exchange?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]LeDopore writes "[1]Quantum computers
might be coming. I'd estimate that there's a 10% chance RSA will be
useless within 20 years. Whatever the odds, some of the data we send over
ssh and ssl today should remain private for a century, and we simply
can't guarantee secrecy anymore using the algorithms with which we have
become complacent. Are there any alternatives to RSA and ECC that are
trustworthy and properly implemented? Why is everyone still happy with
SSH and RSA with the specter of a quantum menace lurking just around the
corner?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1748242/ask-slashdot-post-quantum-asymmetric-key-exchange?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:prg56@cornell.edu
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
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| Solaris 11 Released
| from the new-and-improved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 09, @19:55 (Cloud)
| with 216 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/2343258/solaris-11-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Oracle has [1]updated its Unix-based operating
system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable
for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly
with other Oracle products. While not as widely known for its cloud
software, Oracle has been marketing Solaris as a cloud-friendly OS. In
Oracle's architecture, users can set up different partitions, called
Zones, inside a Solaris implementation, which would allow different
workloads to run simultaneously, each within their own environment, on a
single machine."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/2343258/solaris-11-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/406990/oracle_solaris_goes_11
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| The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory
| from the toe-the-line dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 10, @05:30 (Government)
| with 198 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0329206/the-political-assault-on-los-alamos-national-laboratory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Harperdog writes "Hugh Gusterson has a great article on [0]the troubles
at Los Alamos over the last decade. Since the late 1990s, nuclear weapons
scientists at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National
Laboratory have faced an unanticipated threat to their work, from
politicians and administrators whose reforms and management
policies���enacted in the name of national security and efficiency���have
substantially undermined the lab's ability to function as an institution
and to superintend the nuclear stockpile."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0329206/the-political-assault-on-los-alamos-national-laboratory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/6/9.full
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| With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets
| from the but-what-about-the-animals? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @11:55 (The Military)
| with 187 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1653224/with-troop-drawdown-it-looks-to-hire-more-vets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lucas123 writes "The military's a great place to learn how to kill people
and break things, but many also consider [0]it one of the best training
grounds for high-tech skills. 'If you're working on a ship or a plane or
tank, you've got responsibility for large, complex, extremely expensive
equipment run by highly sophisticated IT platforms and software,' said
Mike Brown, senior director of talent acquisition at Siemens. But, just
how well do military tech skills translate to private-sector IT?
Computerworld spoke to veterans to find out just what they learned during
their tours of duty and how hard it was to transition to the civilian
workforce."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1653224/with-troop-drawdown-it-looks-to-hire-more-vets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221584/Hire_a_vet_IT_says_yes?taxonomyId=10&pageNumber=4
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| ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU
| from the vapor-tastes-like-raspberry-foam dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @10:28 (Graphics)
| with 185 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1513247/arm-claims-ps3-like-graphics-on-upcoming-mobile-gpu?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]l_bratch writes, quoting from the BBC, "'British computer chip
designer ARM has unveiled its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) for
mobile devices. The Mali-T658 [1]offers up to ten times the performance
of its predecessor." ARM claims that its latest GPU, which will be ready
in around two years, will have graphics performance akin to the
PlayStation 3. If this has acceptable power consumption for a mobile
device, could we be seeing ultra-low power hardware in high-end PCs and
consoles soon?"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1513247/arm-claims-ps3-like-graphics-on-upcoming-mobile-gpu?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:l_bratch@yahoo.co.uk
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15668347
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| Upcoming EU Data Law Will Make Europe Tricky For Social Networks
| from the no-information dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 10, @03:01 (Facebook)
| with 160 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0319212/upcoming-eu-data-law-will-make-europe-tricky-for-social-networks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Thorfinn.au writes "EU politicians are [0]mulling new data protection
laws that could make Europe a hostile place for social networks. The EU
Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding and the German Federal Minister for
Consumer Protection, Ilse Aigner drew up proposals for the new data
protection law which reads: 'EU law should require that consumers give
their explicit consent before their data are used. And consumers
generally should have the right to delete their data at any time,
especially the data they post on the internet themselves. We both believe
that companies who direct their services to European consumers should be
subject to EU data protection laws. Otherwise, they should not be able to
do business on our internal market. This also applies to social networks
with users in the EU.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0319212/upcoming-eu-data-law-will-make-europe-tricky-for-social-networks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/08/eu_new_data_protection_proposals/
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| China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market
| from the let-me-introduce-you-to-the-guys dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @15:04 (China)
| with 147 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1932237/china-telecom-mulls-entry-into-us-telecoms-market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hackingbear excerpts from a story at Engadget: "Instead of resting on its
laurels as China's third-largest wireless provider, China Telecom is now
looking to branch out into relatively uncharted waters ��� namely, [0]the
U.S. consumer market. ... The proposed service would provide customers
with handsets that could be used in both China and the U.S.,
theoretically appealing to Chinese-Americans, students or businessmen who
travel frequently between the two countries ... and would even consider
purchasing or constructing its own network in the States,' with the
'capacity to spend 'hundreds of millions or billions' on stateside
acquisitions.' At its home turf, despite being a state-owned company,
China Telecom, along with China Unicom, is being [1]investigated over
alleged monopolistic practices by the Chinese government. The two
companies would face penalties of up to 10 percent of their annual
business revenues if they were found guilty of monopolistic practices.
This is the first such investigation into China's large enterprises since
the Anti-Monopoly Law came into effect in 2008."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1932237/china-telecom-mulls-entry-into-us-telecoms-market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/10/china-telecom-looking-to-expand-into-us-consumer-market-eyes-20/
1. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-11/10/c_131239134.htm
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| Lawyer Continues Android v. GPL Crusade
| from the pound-on-the-table dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @13:38 (Android)
| with 133 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1834232/lawyer-continues-android-v-gpl-crusade?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Edward Naughton has been [1]insisting for months
that Android violates the GPL because Google created a new set of Linux
kernel headers that it hasn't released the source code for, despite the
fact that it incorporates open source code. While numerous commentators,
including those who helped write the kernel headers, claimed this code
isn't copyrightable, Naughton in persisting in his crusade, saying that
[2]the questions need to be resolved in court for the good of the open
source movement."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1834232/lawyer-continues-android-v-gpl-crusade?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1959226/does-android-violate-the-gpl-not-so-fast
2. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/222975/gpl-violations-android-same-arguments-different-day
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| NASA Successfully Test Fires J-2X Engine.
| from the fire-it-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 09, @21:55 (NASA)
| with 113 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0050236/nasa-successfully-test-fires-j-2x-engine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]tetrahedrassface writes "NASA successfully [1]test fired the J-2X
engine Wednesday for 500 seconds at Stennis Space Center. The J2-X is
derived from the J2 engine from the Apollo Era, and will power the upper
stage of the SLS. From the article: 'We have 500 seconds of good data,
and the first look is that everything went great. The J-2X engine team
and the SLS program as a whole are extremely happy that we accomplished a
good, safe and successful test today,' said Mike Kynard, Space Launch
System Engines Element Manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala. 'This engine test firing gives us critical data to move
forward in the engine's development.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/0050236/nasa-successfully-test-fires-j-2x-engine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://plus.google.com/106692480878651994202/post
1. http://www.universetoday.com/90827/nasa-test-fires-key-engine-for-new-launch-system/
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| Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature
| from the kennen-wer-uns? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @17:30 (Cloud)
| with 112 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/2152243/hamburg-to-fine-facebook-over-facial-recognition-feature?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Johannes Caspar, data protection commissioner
for the German state of Hamburg, today declared he will soon fine
Facebook [0]over its use of biometric facial recognition technology. He
said 'further negotiations are pointless' because the company had ignored
a deadline he set for it to remove the feature. German authorities
[1]could fine Facebook up to ���300,000 ($420,000)."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/2152243/hamburg-to-fine-facebook-over-facial-recognition-feature?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/03/2352200/germany-says-facebooks-facial-recognition-is-illegal
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/german-state-to-sue-facebook-over-facial-recognition-feature/5187
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| Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing
| from the did-you-bring-enough-for-everyone-to-steal? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @11:11 (Education)
| with 106 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1525208/teaching-programming-now-emphasizes-sharing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times explores some of the best ways
to teach kids and finds that some of the new tools are encouraging the
kids to share their work with each other. One teacher first tried to keep
the kids quiet and staring at their own monitors but found it was
[0]better to let them copy each other. He calls [1]MIT's Scratch a
'gateway' tool. Then the article points out that programming Blender with
Python is not as hard to pick up as your grandparent's programming
languages ��� and kids today are learning them in a few months." The
[2]Wikipedia entry on Scratch is worth reading, too.
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Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/technology/personaltech/computer-programming-for-children-minus-cryptic-syntax.html
1. http://scratch.mit.edu/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)
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| Shanghai Government Proposes 100 Community Hackerspaces
| from the let-100-flowers-bloom dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @08:58 (China)
| with 71 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1353240/shanghai-government-proposes-100-community-hackerspaces?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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taweili writes "According to [0]a tweet from Shanghai Morning Newspaper's
Weibo account, the Shanghai Government Technology committee has issued a
call for [1]a proposal to build 100 community hackerspaces with
government funding for equipment and a community managing the spaces.
Hackerspaces have been growing rapidly in China since the first one,
[2]XinCheJian, was started in Shanghai last November as [3]reported here
by CNN Go. Currently there are three hackerspaces in China, with
[2]XinCheJian in Shanghai, [4]Maxpace in Beijing and [5]Chaihuo in
Shenzhen. It looks like the governments are paying attention to the trend
and are getting into supporting (or 'regulating') the movement."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1353240/shanghai-government-proposes-100-community-hackerspaces?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.weibo.com/1314608344/xwv9mkozz
1. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.stcsm.gov.cn/jsp/xxgk/zhtz/content.jsp%3Fid%3D2267
2. http://xinchejian.com/
3. http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/play/xinchejian-hackerspace-shanghai-795055
4. http://site.douban.com/124037/
5. http://www.chaihuo.org/
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| Google Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Gmail App
| from the to-ensure-your-satisfaction dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @18:13 (Blackberry)
| with 66 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/2241205/google-pulls-the-plug-on-blackberry-gmail-app?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes "From later this month, [0]Google has decided to stop
providing its popular Gmail app for BlackBerry. This can be viewed as a
shock for RIM as they are putting in strong efforts to prevent customer
defections to handsets that run on Android and iOS. Thus, from 22nd
November, BlackBerry owners will not be able to reach Gmail on their
devices; only those users who already have Gmail installed will be able
to access and use the Google app. On Tuesday, Google on its [1]official
apps update blog stated that the company will now be focusing on
'building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/2241205/google-pulls-the-plug-on-blackberry-gmail-app?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/11/10/google-decides-pull-plug-blackberry-gmail-app/
1. http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/11/deprecation-of-gmail-app-for-blackberry.html
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| Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation
| from the who-needs-anonymity-anyhow dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @15:54 (Communications)
| with 58 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/2021215/judge-rules-twitter-data-fair-game-in-wikileaks-investigation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Wired reports that "The Justice Department is [0]entitled to records of
the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks
associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to
prosecutors in a routine records demand that turned into a fierce court
battle over online privacy and free speech. ... The Justice Department
has been seeking the Twitter records under 18 USC 2703(d), a 1994
amendment to the Stored Communications Act that allows law enforcement
access to non-content internet records, such as transaction information,
without demonstrating the 'probable cause' needed for a full-blown search
warrant." Jacob Appelbaum, one of the three, was also [1]detained on his
re-entry to the U.S. last August (as well as on [2]numerous other
occasions) and had his [3]email records seized as well. The others are
Birgitta Jonsdottir (a member of Iceland's parliament) and Dutch
businessman Rop Gonggrijp.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/wikileaks-twitter-ruling/all/1
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/1751212/tor-developer-detained-at-us-border-pressed-on-wikileaks
2. http://boingboing.net/2011/10/31/air-space-a-trip-through-an-airport-detention-center.html
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/10/2220236/us-government-seizes-email-of-wikileaks-volunteer
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| Programming Cells, With CellOS
| from the undeclared-membrane-operations-are-fatal dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @09:41 (Biotech)
| with 55 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/1430221/programming-cells-with-cellos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter JoeMerchant writes "An international team
of synthetic biologists, led by professor of computer science Natalio
Krasnogor at the University of Nottingham, hopes to revolutionize
synthetic biology with what they call [0]CellOS, a 'bottom-up approach to
cellular computing, in which [1]computational chemical processes are
encapsulated within liposomes.' The bold project is aptly named
[2]AUdACiOuS."
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1. http://medgadget.com/2011/11/programming-in-cellos.html
2. http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/J004111/1
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| How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works
| from the insert-tab-a-into-phone-b dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 10, @16:42 (Cellphones)
| with 33 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/10/2131233/how-cell-phone-money-laundering-works?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "In Russia, most cell phone SIM cards are prepaid. One of
the major Russian operators offers a legal service that allows anyone to
transfer the prepaid amount of money from a SIM card to a bank account, a
credit card, another cell phone number (via a text message) or to express
money transfer service Unistream. This particular service is heavily
misused by cyber crooks who use it to launder money collected through
ransomware campaigns, mobile malware and SMS scam campaigns. Kaspersky
Lab's Denis Maslennikov [0]takes us though the steps of each of these
types of scams and shares insights into the shady economy that has sprung
up due to cyber criminals' need to get their hand on the collected money
without leaving a direct trail."
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0. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1648
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