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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* <em>MythBusters</em> Bust House
* Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012?
* Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions
* US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life
* Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability
* Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options?
* Upcoming Changes To 'Ask Slashdot'
* EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices
* AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier
* Earth's Core Made In Miniature
* Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware
* Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web
* Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System
* Webhosting For A Large Art Project?
* Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip
* Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast
* Vaccine Developed Against Ebola
* Quantum Coherence Found Fueling Photosynthesis
* Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures
* Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive
* RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark
* The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary
* Researchers Build First Molybdenite Microchip
* Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000
* 'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan
* Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group
* New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way
* Video Gamers Advancing Genetic Research
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| <em>MythBusters</em> Bust House
| from the home-busters dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @09:11 (Television)
| with 545 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1316206/mythbusters-bust-house?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ewhac writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the
[1]MythBusters accidentally sent a cannon ball hurtling through Dublin
this afternoon, punching through a home, bouncing across a six-lane road,
and ultimately coming to a rest inside a now-demolished Toyota minivan.
Amazingly, there were no injuries. The ball was fired from a home-made
cannon at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb range, and was
intended to strike a water target. Instead the ball missed the water,
punched through a cinder-block wall, and skipped off the hill behind.
Prior to today, the MythBusters had been shooting episodes at the bomb
range for over seven years without major incident. It is not clear
whether Savage/Hyneman or Belleci/Imahara/Byron were conducting the
experiment."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1316206/mythbusters-bust-house?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ewhac.org/
1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/06/BA1D1M99V5.DTL
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| Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012?
| from the too-little-too-late dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @13:04 (Microsoft)
| with 441 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1733222/will-windows-8-be-ready-for-release-in-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with an excerpt from an Extreme Tech article on the
Windows 8 release timeline: "...A Microsoft vice president announced that
the Windows 8 beta would begin in late February 2012. The beta will be
feature-complete and will allow developers to begin [1]listing their apps
in the Store. The timing of the beta is curious, and ultimately quite
telling. ... The [2]first public build of Windows 8 ... emerged in
mid-September 2011; by the time the beta rolls around, it will have been
ruminating for more than five months. If we follow the timeline forward ���
it took 10 months for Windows 7 to go from beta to public release ��� then
it's [3]possible that Windows 8 might arrive just in time for Black
Friday 2012, or perhaps not in 2012 at all. Will its late arrival affect
its chances of cutting out a swath of the tablet market from Apple and
Android? Or will Windows 8 be different enough that it will do well, no
matter when it arrives?" In related news, an anonymous reader notes that
IDC predicts Windows 8 [4]will be irrelevant to the traditional PC market.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1733222/will-windows-8-be-ready-for-release-in-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2011/12/06/announcing-the-new-windows-store.aspx
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/14/0141239/microsoft-releases-windows-8-developer-preview
3. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/108153-windows-8-beta-coming-in-february-too-late-for-a-final-release-in-2012
4. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-8-will-be-largely-irrelevant-to-traditional-pc-users-idc/11336
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| Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions
| from the everyone's-a-critic dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @08:51 (Businesses)
| with 328 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1325226/netflix-ceo-comments-on-recent-decisions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ExE122 writes "Netflix CEO Reed Hastings makes several comments about
[0]mistakes that were made over the past year. Hastings claimed, 'We
moved too fast with it', [trying to exit the DVD-by-mail business] and
explains that he still thinks [1]Internet video will dominate in the
coming years. From the article: 'Hastings also faced tough questions
about last month's double-bomb disclosure: Netflix now [2]expects to lose
money for all of 2012, and it is looking to raise cash in a secondary
offering of its stock.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1325226/netflix-ceo-comments-on-recent-decisions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/netflix/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2
1. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/netflix-ceo-hastings-fears-hbo-go.html
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1430219/netflix-expects-to-be-unprofitable-in-2012
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| US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life
| from the best-defense-is-a-strong-offense dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 07, @02:20 (Space)
| with 286 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0349259/us-air-force-pays-seti-to-check-kepler-22b-for-alien-life?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter [0]iComp writes with this quote from El Reg: "The Search
for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has announced that it is back
in business [1]checking out the new [potentially] habitable exoplanets
recently [2]discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope to see if they
might be home to alien civilizations. The cash needed to restart SETI's
efforts has [3]come in part from the U.S. Air Force Space Command, who
are interested in using the organization's detection instruments for
'space situational awareness'."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0349259/us-air-force-pays-seti-to-check-kepler-22b-for-alien-life?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.impact-computers.co.uk/
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/06/seti_checks_out_kepler_habitable_exoplanets/
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1754248/kepler-confirms-exoplanet-inside-stars-habitable-zone
3. http://www.seti.org/node/905
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| Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability
| from the might-want-to-just-trademark-that-term dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @20:18 (Security)
| with 230 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0057227/adobe-warns-of-critical-zero-day-vulnerability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "Adobe issued an advisory today on a [0]zero-day
vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) that has come under attack in the wild.
According to Adobe, the issue is a U3D memory corruption vulnerability
that can be [1]exploited to cause a crash and permit an attacker to
hijack a system. So far, there are reports the vulnerability is being
exploited in limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader 9.x on
Windows. However, the bug also affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.4.6 and
earlier 9.x versions for UNIX and Macintosh computers, as well as Adobe
Reader X (10.1.1) and Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier 10.x versions on
Windows and Mac. Patches for Windows and Mac users of Adobe Reader X and
Acrobat X will come on the next quarterly update, scheduled for Jan. 10,
2012."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0057227/adobe-warns-of-critical-zero-day-vulnerability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/adobe-warns-critical-zero-day-vulnerability-reader-and-acrobat-products
1. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-04.html
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| Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options?
| from the no-internet-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @18:24 (Java)
| with 230 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2229246/ask-slashdot-ubuntu-lockdown-options?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter clava writes "We have a desktop Java
testing application that is going to be administering tests to students
on lab computers running Ubuntu 10.x. These computers are used by the
students for other purposes and we're not allowed to create special users
or change the OS configuration. When the testing app is launched, we need
to restrict users from exiting the app so they can't do things like
search the internet for answers or use other applications. Is there a
good way to put an Ubuntu machine in kiosk mode or something via our
application and have exiting kiosk mode be password protected? Any ideas
are appreciated."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2229246/ask-slashdot-ubuntu-lockdown-options?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Upcoming Changes To 'Ask Slashdot'
| from the step-the-first dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 07, @08:12 (Slashdot.org)
| with 219 comments
| https://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0537225/upcoming-changes-to-ask-slashdot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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We're pleased to announce that changes are coming to the Ask Slashdot
section. Ask Slashdot is a place to get your technical questions
answered, show off your big brain by helping others, debate products and
practices, and occasionally talk directly to companies about their
offerings. Over the years, we've posted more than 7700 questions, on
everything from [0]workplace relations to [1]home networking to
[2]evading censorship from unfriendly regimes. Starting tomorrow, you'll
see that some Ask Slashdot questions have their own sponsors; the
sponsors don't pick the questions, but experts from each sponsor will
stick around for the discussion. Next up: we're making it easier for you
to submit questions. Our goal is to make Ask Slashdot your "go-to" place
for answers to your pressing nerd questions. So please post your
questions, put on your answering hats, and come along for the ride.
Discuss this story at:
https://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0537225/upcoming-changes-to-ask-slashdot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ask.slashdot.org/story/05/11/16/2223222/what-workplace-coding-practices-do-you-use
1. http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/19/0315258/ask-slashdot-good-gigabit-80211n-home-router
2. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/03/05/2251244/ask-slashdot-could-we-reconnect-eastern-libya
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| EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices
| from the making-it-free dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @16:07 (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
| with 195 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2015224/eff-asks-to-make-jailbreaking-legal-for-all-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Diggester writes "Jailbreaking is a way to break off from the
limitations imposed by the mobile vendor to download additional
applications and themes etc. which aren't available otherwise. It
provides root access to the device by use of custom kernels. It is common
with the iDevices and has been rendered legal by the efforts of EFF
(Electronic Frontier Foundation) in July 2010. The Electronic Frontier
Foundation is now [1]determined to make Jailbreaking legal for all the
consumer electric goods. They have asked the US copyright office to
declare it legal to jailbreak all the devices like smartphones, tablets,
gaming consoles etc. no matter who the vendor is. The aim behind this
plead is to [2]change the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which
prohibits such an access to the user."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2015224/eff-asks-to-make-jailbreaking-legal-for-all-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/
1. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/12/06/eff-asks-to-make-jailbreaking-legal/
2. http://www.gizmocrazed.com/2011/12/jailbreaking-for-all-devices-should-be-made-legal-says-eff/
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| AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier
| from the defending-the-title dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 07, @00:26 (Cellphones)
| with 190 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0316257/att-repeats-as-lowest-rated-wireless-carrier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]redletterdave writes "Consumer Reports' latest ratings survey of cell
phone carriers revealed that Verizon Wireless scored the highest
satisfaction score out of the four major U.S. service providers, earning
particularly high grades for texting and data service. Verizon was
followed closely by Sprint and T-Mobile USA, but all three companies
[1]earned scores lower overall than their figures from last year. AT&T
was at the very bottom of the list for the [2]second year in a row. While
AT&T's satisfaction score in 2011 wasn't as bad as its score from 2010,
the Dallas-based cell phone provider, which recently discontinued its bid
to acquire its better rival T-Mobile, still ranked at the bottom of the
pack. Last year, AT&T was the only carrier for the Apple iPhone, but
still managed to receive the lowest scores."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0316257/att-repeats-as-lowest-rated-wireless-carrier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:davesmith229@gmail.com
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/262338/20111206/verizon-wireless-consumer-reports-survey-att-tmobile.htm
2. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/06/232239/consumer-reports-gives-att-lowest-us-carrier-rank
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| Earth's Core Made In Miniature
| from the evil-geniuses-for-a-molten-tomorrow dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @10:16 (Science)
| with 163 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1445256/earths-core-made-in-miniature?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ananyo writes "A 3-meter-tall metal [0]sphere full of molten sodium is
about to start work modeling the Earth's core. The gigantic dynamo, which
has taken researchers [1]ten years to build, 'will generate a
self-sustaining electromagnetic field that can be poked, prodded and
coaxed for clues about Earth's dynamo, which is generated by the movement
of liquid iron in the outer core.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1445256/earths-core-made-in-miniature?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/dynamo-maker-ready-to-roll-1.9582
1. http://complex.umd.edu/MHD_nonlinear_lab.html.html
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| Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware
| from the bugs-everywhere dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @16:53 (Australia)
| with 159 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2037223/two-thirds-of-lost-usb-drives-carry-malware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Antivirus firm Sophos acquired a passel of USB
sticks lost by commuters on trains in the Greater Sydney metro area at an
auction organized by the Rail Corporation New South Wales. The company
analyzed 50 USB sticks and found that not a single one was encrypted and
[1]33 of them were infected with at least one type of malware."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2037223/two-thirds-of-lost-usb-drives-carry-malware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/231251/usb-sticks-lost-railway-commuters-are-unencrypted-and-often-infected
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| Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web
| from the censor-it-yourself dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @14:35 (Censorship)
| with 156 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1826220/facebook-tells-india-it-wont-help-censor-the-web?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Indian Communications and IT minister Kapil
Sibal yesterday announced a proposal to have technology companies like
Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Twitter [0]pre-screen user generated
content so that community sentiments are not hurt. Social media platforms
are being asked to censor whatever politicians deem objectionable and too
offensive for the Internet. Sibal called a news conference when the story
broke, and following it, [1]Facebook responded to say that it can't help
in the effort."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1826220/facebook-tells-india-it-wont-help-censor-the-web?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/231228/india-moves-to-censor-social-media
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-tells-india-it-wont-help-censor-the-web/5848
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| Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System
| from the so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-goodbye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @17:41 (NASA)
| with 155 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2127247/voyager-1-exits-our-solar-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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eldavojohn writes "The first man-made craft to do so is [0]now entering a
'cosmic purgatory' between solar systems and entering an interstellar
space of the Milky Way Galaxy. With [1]much anticipation, Voyager 1 is
now 'in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around
our solar system. Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing
back.' After three decades the spacecraft is still operating and
apparently has enough power and fuel to continue to do so until 2020. The
first big piece of news? 'We've been using the flow of energetic charged
particles at Voyager 1 as a kind of wind sock to estimate the solar wind
velocity. We've found that the wind speeds are low in this region and
gust erratically. For the first time, the wind even blows back at us. We
are evidently [2]traveling in completely new territory. Scientists had
suggested previously that there might be a stagnation layer, but we
weren't sure it existed until now.' This process could take months to
years to completely leave the outer shell but already scientists are
receiving valuable information."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2127247/voyager-1-exits-our-solar-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8940350/Nasas-Voyager-1-in-cosmic-purgatory-on-verge-of-entering-Milky-Way.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/28/2314203/voyager-set-to-enter-interstellar-space
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/02/0243246/voyager-probes-give-us-ets-view
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| Webhosting For A Large Art Project?
| from the disk-ain't-cheap dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @11:20 (Data Storage)
| with 125 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1543256/webhosting-for-a-large-art-project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter heleneleh writes "I'm in a class at school
on Electronic Writing and for my final project I'm trying to upload the
entire contents of my computer to a webserver that will preserve the
directory structure (I plan on using rsync so that it is continually
updated as my files change). I need about 500 GB of space, and I'm
willing to spend some money, so I was hoping Slashdot could suggest a
reliable hosting service for that type of project. Traffic shouldn't be
too high, but the storage space and ssh access are key. If there's
another way to do this, I'd love to know about it." I've noticed a lot of
VPS providers charge almost nothing for processor time and RAM, but disk
is still pretty expensive.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1543256/webhosting-for-a-large-art-project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip
| from the rotating-disks-are-so-90s dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @12:20 (Data Storage)
| with 119 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1656222/intel-and-micron-unveil-128gb-nand-chip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ScuttleMonkey writes "A joint venture between Intel and Micron [1]has
given rise to a new 128 Gigabit die. While production wont start until
next year, this little beauty sets new bars for capacity, speed, and
endurance. 'Die shrinks also tend to reduce endurance, with old 65nm
[2]MLC flash being rated at 5,000-10,000 erase cycles, but that number
dropping to 3,000-5,000 for 25nm MLC flash. However, IMFT is claiming
that the shrink to 20nm has not caused any corresponding reduction in
endurance. Its 20nm flash uses a Hi-K/metal gate design which allows it
to make transistors that are smaller but no less robust. IMFT is claiming
that this [3]use of Hi-K/metal gate is a first for NAND flash production.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1656222/intel-and-micron-unveil-128gb-nand-chip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:scuttlemonkey@@@slashdot...org
1. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/worlds-first-128gb-20nm-nand-flash-could-pack-25tb-into-a-25-ssd.ars
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell
3. http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/12/06/intel-micron-extend-nand-flash-technology-leadership-with-introduction-of-worlds-first-128gb-nand-device-and-mass-production-of-64gb-20nm-nand?cid=rss-258152-c1-271962
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| Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast
| from the wave-of-the-future dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @22:21 (Power)
| with 101 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/016214/ocean-energy-tech-to-be-tested-off-australian-coast?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "The researchers at Australia's BioPower Systems
evidently looked at kelp, and thought, '[0]what if we could use that
swaying action to generate power?' The result was their envisioned
bioWAVE system: 'At the base of each bioWAVE system would be a triangular
foundation, keeping it anchored to the sea floor. Extending up from the
middle of that foundation would be a central column, topped with multiple
blades ��� these would actually be more like a combination of the kelp's
blades and floats, as they would be cylindrical, buoyant structures that
just reach to the surface. The column would join the foundation via a
hinged pivot, allowing it to bend or swivel in any direction. Wave action
(both at the surface and below) would catch the blades and push them back
and forth, in turn causing the column to move back and forth relative to
the foundation. This movement would pressurize fluid within an integrated
hydraulic power conversion module, known as an O-Drive. The movement of
that fluid would spin a generator, converting the kinetic energy of the
waves into electricity, which would then be delivered to shore via subsea
cables.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/biopower-biowave-kelp-wave-power/20733/
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| Vaccine Developed Against Ebola
| from the thwarting-incredibly-implausible-doomsday-scenarios dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 07, @01:28 (Medicine)
| with 93 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0321239/vaccine-developed-against-ebola?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Lurching writes "Scientists have developed [0]a vaccine
that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus. First
identified in 1976, Ebola fever kills more than 90% of the people it
infects. The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to
remain viable long-term and can therefore be successfully stockpiled. The
results are reported in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of
Sciences ([1]abstract)."
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16011748
1. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/29/1117715108
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| Quantum Coherence Found Fueling Photosynthesis
| from the spooky-energy dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @15:22 (Science)
| with 93 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1856235/quantum-coherence-found-fueling-photosynthesis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Gaygirlie writes "Ars Technica has posted an interesting article about
[1]new findings regarding quantum physics and photosynthesis. Their
excerpt for the article: 'Physicists have found the strongest evidence
yet of quantum effects fueling photosynthesis. Multiple experiments in
recent years have suggested as much, but it has been hard to be sure.
Quantum effects were clearly present in the light-harvesting antenna
proteins of plant cells, but their precise role in processing incoming
photons remained unclear.' Here's a little background info for those
unaware of what [2]coherence and [3]quantum coherence are."
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Links:
0. mailto:gaygirlieNO@SPAMhotmail.com
1. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/more-evidence-found-for-quantum-physics-in-photosynthesis.ars
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(physics)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(physics)#Quantum_coherence
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| Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures
| from the remember-stack-smashing dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @11:38 (Security)
| with 92 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1551222/study-shows-many-sites-still-failing-basic-security-measures?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes with a summary of a large survey of web applications by
Veracode. From the article: "Considered 'low hanging fruit' because of
their prevalence in software applications, [0]XSS and [1]SQL Injection
are two of the most frequently exploited vulnerabilities, often providing
a gateway to customer data and intellectual property. When applying the
new analysis criteria, Veracode reports [2]eight out of 10 applications
fail to meet acceptable levels of security, marking a significant decline
from past reports. Specifically for web applications, the report showed a
high concentration of XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities, with [3]XSS
present in 68 percent of all web applications and SQL Injection present
in 32 percent of all web applications."
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
1. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection
2. http://net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12067
3. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/insecure-applications-we-are-84-percent-120611
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| Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive
| from the that's-a-lot-more-than-144-characters dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @16:27 (Twitter)
| with 88 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2034200/library-of-congress-to-receive-entire-twitter-archive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Library of Congress and Twitter have
signed an agreement that will see [0]an archive of every public Tweet
ever sent handed over to the library's repository of historical
documents. 'We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of
servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent
out and declared to be public,' said Bill Lefurgy, the digital
initiatives program manager at the library's national digital information
infrastructure and preservation program. Researchers will be able to look
at the Twitter archive as a complete set of data, which they could then
data-mine for interesting information."
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2034200/library-of-congress-to-receive-entire-twitter-archive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=239&sid=2658996
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| RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark
| from the it-turns-out-apple-owns-ten-too dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @10:57 (Blackberry)
| with 85 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1513250/rim-gives-up-after-losing-initial-battle-over-bbx-trademark?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Mastadex writes "RIM's brand [0]new
BlackBerry mobile OS, due in early 2012, was expected to be called BBX.
But due to a recent court ruling against it, RIM has [1]dropped BBX and
opted simply for 'BlackBerry 10.' Software company Basis International
said a U.S. federal court in Albuquerque has granted a temporary
restraining order against RIM, barring it from using [2]Basis's BBX
trademark. The court decision [3]bars RIM from using the trademark at its
Asian DevCon conference on Wednesday and Thursday in Singapore."
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Links:
0. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/2155219/rim-unveils-new-os-based-on-qnx
1. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/rim-forced-to-change-bbx-name/article2262719/
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/21/0053240/trademark-trouble-for-rim-over-new-bbx-name
3. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111206006786/en/Federal-Court-Bars-RIM-BlackBerry-BASIS%E2%80%99-BBX
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| The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary
| from the strange-bedfellows dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @18:47 (Idle)
| with 60 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2251213/the-unique-candidates-of-the-new-hampshire-primary?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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30 Republicans and 14 Democrats are running for president in the New
Hampshire primary this year, the largest number since 1992 when 62
candidates ran. Among other factors, the meager $1,000 fee to get one's
name on the ballot makes New Hampshire [0]an attractive place for unusual
candidates. This year we have home-builder John Davis who "has budgeted
$500,000 to visit all 3,143 counties in the U.S. in a 43-foot live-on bus
emblazoned with a photo of himself brandishing a femur-size wrench and
the slogan 'Let's Fix America.'" The oddly hatted Vermin Supreme of
Rockport, Mass. is a perennial candidate who plans to run on a platform
of mandatory tooth brushing and zombie preparedness. Vermin also promises
a pony for every American. From the article: "If ever there were a year
for has-beens, wannabes and neverwillbes pushing oddball solutions to
serious problems and serious palliatives for problems no one has yet
postulated, this may be it."
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| Researchers Build First Molybdenite Microchip
| from the long-live-silicon dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday December 07, @09:34 (Hardware)
| with 59 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1412246/researchers-build-first-molybdenite-microchip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A [0]Swiss team may have found [1]an
alternative to silicon microchips which could result in smaller, more
flexible and less energy hungry processors. The Swiss team's chip [2]does
not use silicon, but molybdenite ([3]MoS2) a dark-colored, naturally
occurring mineral that is able to be used in [4]much thinner layers
(paywall)."
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Links:
0. http://lanes.epfl.ch/research
1. http://inhabitat.com/swiss-team-develops-silicon-free-low-energy-molybdenite-microchip/
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16034693
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenite
4. http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v6/n3/full/nnano.2010.279.html
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| Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000
| from the that's-a-lot-of-drallish-crowns dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @18:00 (Star Wars Prequels)
| with 51 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2136230/original-star-wars-camera-sells-for-625000?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A Panavision PSR 35 mm motion picture camera
used by George Lucas to film Star Wars: Episode IV ��� A New Hopewas [0]was
sold for $625,000 surpassing all expectations and setting new world
record. The camera package included a Panaspeed motor, matte box, follow
focus, a Moy geared head, Italian-made Elemack camera dolly and lens and
two 1000 ft. magazines. True Star Wars fans will be delighted to know the
camera is still functional and has been completely restored."
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| 'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan
| from the destructive-interference dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 07, @05:19 (Earth)
| with 47 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0427217/merging-tsunami-amplified-destruction-in-japan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The magnitude-9.0 Tohoku-Oki temblor, the
fifth-most powerful quake ever recorded, triggered a tsunami that doubled
in intensity over rugged ocean ridges, amplifying its destructive power
at landfall, as seen in data from NASA and European radar satellites that
captured at least two wave fronts that day, which [1]merged to form a
single, double-high wave far out at sea. This wave was capable of
traveling long distances without losing power. Ocean ridges and undersea
mountain chains pushed the waves together along certain directions from
the tsunami's origin. 'It was a one-in-10-million chance that we were
able to observe this double wave with satellites,' says study team member
Y. Tony Song. 'Researchers have suspected for decades that such 'merging
tsunamis' might have been responsible for the [2]1960 Chilean tsunami
that killed about 200 people in Japan and Hawaii, but nobody had
definitively observed a merging tsunami until now.' The study suggests
scientists may be able to create maps that take into account all undersea
topography, even sub-sea ridges and mountains far from shore to [3]help
scientists improve tsunami forecasts."
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45574867/ns/technology_and_science-science/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Chilean_tsunami#Tsunami
3. http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/1042-tsunami-model-prediction-japan-earthquake.html
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| Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group
| from the planned-uselessness dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @19:36 (Government)
| with 38 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0034206/lawmaker-proposes-cyberthreat-sharing-group?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "A proposal in the House of Representatives would set up
a new semi-independent organization allowing the U.S. government and
private companies to share information about cyberthreats, but some
critics questioned whether the group would be too removed from
congressional scrutiny. The [0]draft proposal (PDF), from Representative
Dan Lungren, a California Republican, would create a nonprofit National
Information Sharing Organization (NISO) that would serve as [1]the
collection and distribution point for cyberthreat information shared
among the federal government, state and local governments, private
companies and education institutions. NISO would also fund cybersecurity
research and development."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0034206/lawmaker-proposes-cyberthreat-sharing-group?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Draft%20Legislative%20Proposal%20on%20Cybersecurity.pdf
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120611-lawmaker-proposes-cyberthreat-sharing-253803.html
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| New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way
| from the discerning-eye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @13:49 (Space)
| with 38 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/1811216/new-all-sky-map-shows-the-magnetic-fields-of-the-milky-way?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at
MPA have made significant progress toward [0]measuring the magnetic field
structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map
is of a quantity known as Faraday depth, which among other things,
depends strongly on the magnetic fields along a particular line of sight.
To produce the map, data were combined from more than 41,000 individual
measurements using a novel image reconstruction technique. The work was a
collaboration between scientists at the Max Planck Institute for
Astrophysics (MPA), who are specialists in the new discipline of
information field theory, and a large international team of radio
astronomers. The new map not only reveals the structure of the galactic
magnetic field on large scales, but also small-scale features that
provide information about turbulence in the galactic gas."
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Links:
0. http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/institute/news_archives/news1112_fara/news1112_fara-en.html
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| Video Gamers Advancing Genetic Research
| from the just-slap-a-few-achievements-in-there dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 07, @06:39 (Games)
| with 20 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0413238/video-gamers-advancing-genetic-research?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "From McGill's news site: 'Thousands of video
game players have helped significantly advance our understanding of the
genetic basis of diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer over
the past year. They are the users of a web-based video game developed by
Dr. J��r��me Waldispuhl of the McGill School of Computer Science and
collaborator Mathieu Blanchette. Phylo is designed to [0]allow casual
game players to contribute to scientific research by arranging multiple
sequences of coloured blocks that represent human DNA. By looking at the
similarities and differences between these DNA sequences, scientists are
able to gain new insight into a variety of genetically-based diseases.'"
Hopefully Phylo will be [1]as successful as Foldit.
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/0413238/video-gamers-advancing-genetic-research?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=212750
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/18/2257205/gamers-piece-together-retrovirus-enzyme-structure
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