Boost Your Immunity with New DefensePro!
New models of DefensePro offer on demand IPS scalability and behavioral
protection up to more than 12Gbps for unmatched Data Center security
performance and lowest TCO.
Your Best Defense for a Healthy Network Just Got Better.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/radwarecom
======================================================================
Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers?
* GPL Case Against Danish Satellite Provider
* UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link
* How To Send Email When You're Dead
* Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested
* BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering
* The Biochemistry of Searching the Internet
* Are Game Consoles Ruining DLC?
* Simple, Portable Physics Simulations
* Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content?
* COLLADA Contest Winners From Siggraph 2009
* 88% of Electronics Exports Reused, Not Dumped
* Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers? |
| from the little-pots-of-red-ink dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 15, @23:05 (Books) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/0051240 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
An anonymous reader writes "I am an author working on a technical book
about an open-source software package. I am looking for a publisher, and
I would like to hear experiences from any Slashdot authors. Who are the
best publishers to work with and why are they great? Who are the worst
publishers in the tech book business, and what nightmare/horror stories
can you tell us about them? Any publishing company in particular you
recommend avoiding? Any gems of advice (rights reversion, etc.) you can
provide for first-time tech book authors?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/0051240
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GPL Case Against Danish Satellite Provider |
| from the hey-bub-that's-a-license-you're-sittin'-on dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @02:06 (Linux Business) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/001254 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Rohde writes "The number of satellite and cable boxes on the Danish
market using Linux has significantly increased during the last couple of
years. The providers [1]Viasat, [2]Yousee and [3]Stofa all provide HD
receivers based on Linux, and all of them fail to provide the source code
or make customers aware of the fact that the units are based on GPL
licensed software. I decided it was time to fix this situation and
luckily the Danish legal company [4]BvHD has decided to take the case. We
are starting with Viasat, which distributes a Samsung box including
middleware and security from NDS, and you can [5]follow the case here."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/001254
Links:
0. mailto:rohde@duff.dk
1. http://www.viasat.dk/
2. http://www.yousee.dk/
3. http://www.stofa.dk/
4. http://www.bvhd.dk/
5. http://duff.dk/viasat
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link |
| from the yes-they-can dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @05:13 (Networking) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/15/2352248 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]MJackson writes "The [1]Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in
Humber, a large tidal estuary situated on the east coast of Northern
England, has just become one of the [2]UK's most remote-rural locations
to have a next generation 100Mbps Fibre Optic FTTH broadband link
installed. The deployment is being sponsored by [3]FibreStream and
amazingly the groundworks were completed by the lifeboat crew literally
digging their own fibre. We'd do the same on our road, but the government
would probably object."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/15/2352248
Links:
0. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/
1. http://www.rnli.org.uk/
2. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/08/15/uk-rnli-humber-life-guards-dig-own-100mbps-ftth-fibre-optic-broadband.html
3. http://www.fibrestream.co.uk/
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| How To Send Email When You're Dead |
| from the use-your-dead-hand dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @08:11 (Communications) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/0710254 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]The Narrative Fallacy writes "'The Last Messages Club' is a new
service that [1]sends personal emails written prior to one's death to
loved ones in the future. The messages can range from a final love
letter, guidance for someone left behind, a list of instructions, details
on life insurance and other financial information. 'No one likes to think
about their impending "demise," but it is much better to be
fully-prepared, so that there is less stress on your loved ones after you
pass away,' says founder Geoff Reiss. The system works by [2]giving each
member a secure and private vault where they are able to create messages
to be sent specifically to their chosen recipient. A secure process
ensures that messages are only sent after at least two people appointed
by the user have confirmed that you have died and other safety criteria
are met. 'I thought at first that maybe it was a bit ghoulish but on
consideration I think it's a great idea as it would be nice for loved
ones to receive messages from me when I'm no longer here,' says a
technical adviser to the company. 'It's strange really as it makes you
confront your own mortality in a sense.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/0710254
Links:
0. http://narrativefallacy.com/
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5975597/Emails-sent-by-dead.html
2. http://www.lastmessagesclub.co.uk/lmc/Main/Home.asp
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested |
| from the there-are-better-hobbies dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 16, @09:29 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/1146242 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Kris Thalamus writes "The Washington Post reports that a Virginia
woman is [1]being held in custody by police who allege that information
she posted on [2]her blog puts members of the [3]Jefferson area drug
enforcement task force at risk. 'In a nearly year-long barrage of blog
posts, she published snapshots she took in public of many or most of the
task force's officers; detailed their comings and goings by following
them in her car; mused about their habits and looks; hinted that she may
have had a personal relationship with one of them; and, in one instance,
reported that she had tipped off a local newspaper about their movements.
Predictably, this annoyed law enforcement officials, who, it's fair to
guess, comprised much of her readership before her arrest. But what seems
to have sent them over the edge ��� and skewed their judgment ��� is Ms.
Strom's decision to post the name and address of one of the officers with
a street-view photo of his house. All this information was publicly
available, including the photograph, which Ms. Strom gleaned from
municipal records.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/1146242
Links:
0. http://moc.liamgtaerusserpevitceles/
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/09/AR2009080902126.html
2. http://iheartejade.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.charlottesville.org/index.aspx?page=189
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering |
| from the ten-bucks-says-he-gets-the-maximum-sentence dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 16, @10:48 (The Courts) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/1338248 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The founder of Internet- and telephone-based
gambling operation BetOnSports has [1]entered guilty pleas to three US
charges, including a racketeering charge, and will forfeit $43.7 million
to the US government as part of a plea agreement. Beginning in the mid-
to late-1990s, Gary Kaplan set up businesses in Antigua and later Costa
Rica to [2]provide sports betting services to US residents through web
sites and toll-free telephone numbers. Those numbers terminated in
Houston or Miami, and were then forwarded to Costa Rica by satellite
transmitter or fiber-optic cable. Some of Kaplan's web servers were
located in Miami and were remotely controlled from Costa Rica. People
became customers by depositing money in a BetOnSports account. By 2004,
the BetOnSports organization's principal base of operations in Costa Rica
employed about 1,700 people, had nearly one million registered customers
and accepted more than 10 million sports bets. Now bankrupt,
[3]BetOnSports took in $1.25 billion in 2004, with 98 percent of that
revenue coming from bets made through its web site by clients in the
United States. 'Gary Kaplan made millions of dollars by making it too
easy for people to gamble away their hard-earned money without having to
leave their homes,' said FBI agent John Gillies. 'Today's guilty plea
should have a lasting effect because Kaplan was not only the founder of
BetOnSports, he was also one of the pioneers of illegal online
gambling.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/1338248
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170239/betonsports_founder_pleads_guilty_to_racketeering.html
2. http://web.archive.org/web/19980419014752/http://www.betonsports.com/
3. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=al4rT7H3MNvg
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| The Biochemistry of Searching the Internet |
| from the how-much-of-your-life-has-wikipedia-claimed dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 16, @12:05 (The Internet) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/1549211 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Slate is running a story about how searching the internet and keeping up
with events through instant communication can [0]fulfill biochemical
needs within our brains. Research has shown that anticipation and simply
"wanting" can stimulate dopamine production in the brain, and an internet
full of answers plays right into that. Quoting: "For humans, this desire
to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs. Panksepp says
that humans can get just as excited about abstract rewards as tangible
ones. He says that when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about
making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the
seeking circuits that are firing. ... The dopamine circuits 'promote
states of eagerness and directed purpose,' Panksepp writes. It's a state
humans love to be in. So good does it feel that we seek out activities,
or substances, that keep this system aroused ��� cocaine and amphetamines,
drugs of stimulation, are particularly effective at stirring it."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/1549211
Links:
0. http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/pagenum/all/#p2
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Are Game Consoles Ruining DLC? |
| from the download-the-rest-of-this-summary-for-five-bucks dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 16, @13:21 (PlayStation (Gam|
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/1630252 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
A round-table discussion at Gametopius looks into the state of
downloadable content for games as it has evolved over the past several
years, going from an occasional, welcome supplement to being a common
marketing strategy for most of the industry, frequently [0]causing
irritation over pricing and availability. "All of the map packs so far
released for the Call of Duty games have been $10 each to download on
consoles through closed networks, while PC gamers could download those
same packs for free off of FileShack or somewhere else. Valve's own Team
Fortress 2 has received a significant amount of DLC that's been
completely free on the PC. Xbox owners of the same game, however, have
only received perhaps half of that content, and they have had to pay for
it in $5 packs. Why is this? The idea of this kind of content delivery
was scarcely heard of on consoles, so console gamers see no reason not to
pay for it. But on the PC, these amounts of content are usually just
considered parts of patches. Furthermore, why pay for a few extra maps
and costumes when modders are making and offering new ones for free all
the time?"
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/1630252
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Simple, Portable Physics Simulations |
| from the for-kids-and-other-humans dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @14:26 (Education) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/189257 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]ttsiod writes "I want to 'lure' my nephews/nieces towards Science and
Engineering (to whatever extent that's possible, in the age of consoles).
To that end, I have coded simple physics simulations, like falling snow,
exploding fireworks, and 1D/2D wave simulations. My efforts are here, in
the form of [1]portable SDL mini-programs (GPL code, compilable under
Windows, Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, Mac OS/X and basically every OS with
GCC and [2]SDL). Try them out, and do offer any suggestions on other
programs that can trigger scientific interest in young minds. Myself, I
am teaching them Python, so that they can code 'fireworks' on their own."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/189257
Links:
0. http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/
1. http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/games.html
2. http://www.libsdl.org/
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? |
| from the some-of-each-perhaps dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @15:32 (The Media) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/1915219 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
techmuse writes "Reuters reports that Comcast may be attempting to [0]use
its huge cash reserves to purchase a large media content provider, such
as Disney, Viacom, or Time Warner. This would result in Comcast
controlling both the delivery mechanism for content, and the content
itself. Potentially, it could limit access to content it owns to
subscribers to its own services, thus shutting out competing services
(where they still exist at all)."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/1915219
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57F1O920090816
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| COLLADA Contest Winners From Siggraph 2009 |
| from the what's-in-there? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @16:40 (Handhelds) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/2032211 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
An anonymous reader writes "COLLADA ��� the group creating open 3D data
standards ��� announced their [0]latest contest winners at Siggraph 2009.
Ordinarily this wouldn't interest me, but the grand prize winner,
[1]NaviCAD, really did submit something rather interesting ��� an iPhone
app that lets you explore [2]Google 3D Warehouse models. Of course
there's the pinching for zooming in/out, but it also uses the motion
sensor to control the view. If you are walking around the inside or
outside of a building, as you look around in the real world the view on
the iPhone displays the corresponding view."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/2032211
Links:
0. http://colladacontest.com/winners
1. http://www.navicad.com/
2. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 88% of Electronics Exports Reused, Not Dumped |
| from the well-at-first-anyhow dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @17:50 (Earth) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/2151223 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]retroworks writes "Greenercomputing.com staff covered a study which
[1]sheds more light on the controversial practice of exporting used
computer equipment overseas. University of Arizona professors Ramzy
Kahhat and Eric Williams newly published research, [2]Product or Waste?
Importation and End-of-Life Processing of Computers in Peru apparently
confirms what WR3A.org says [3]in the Video 'Fair Trade Recycling'.
Namely, that most of the exports of used computers imported by buyers
overseas (88%) are really for reuse and repair. Otherwise, people would
not pay to import them. This bolsters pro-export arguments made in a
scholarly article [4]by Charles Schmidt of NIH in 2006. Perhaps what is
needed to stem e-waste pollution is not a ban on exports, but for more
people to export, so that buyers have more choice of (ethical) suppliers.
Put another way: If used computer exports are outlawed, only outlaws will
export used computers."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/2151223
Links:
0. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2009/08/07/developing-nations-may-reuse-more-electronics-thought
2. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es8035835
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_0YVL-nkdQ&feature=PlayList&p=B6905911EEE59456&index=0&playnext=1
4. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1440802
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again |
| from the was-just-a-dream dept. |
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, @19:05 (Transportation) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/16/2259254 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Boeing has discovered microscopic wrinkles in the
skin of the 787's fuselage and has ordered Italian supplier Alenia
Aeronautica to [1]halt production of fuselage sections at a factory in
Italy. 'In two areas on the fuselage, the structure doesn't have the
long-term strength that we want,' says Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter. To
repair the wrinkles, additional layers of carbon composite material are
being added to a 787 at the South Carolina factory and twenty-two other
planes must also be patched. Production of the 787 has been fraught with
problems with ill-fitting parts, casting doubt on Boeing's strategy of
relying on overseas suppliers to build big sections of the aircraft
before assembling them at its facilities near Seattle. The 787, built for
fuel efficiency from lightweight carbon composite parts, is a priority
for Boeing as it struggles with dwindling orders amid the global
recession. Customers had been expecting the first of the new jets in the
first quarter of 2010 ��� [2]nearly two years earlier than they will be
delivered. The delays have cost Boeing credibility and billions of
dollars in anticipated expenses and penalties. Orders for 72 planes have
been canceled already this year, although Boeing still has confirmed
orders for over 800 aircraft."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/16/2259254
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_13087753
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8163038.stm
Copyright 1997-2008 SourceForge, Inc.. All rights reserved.
======================================================================
You have received this message because you subscribed to it
on Slashdot. To stop receiving this and other
messages from Slashdot, or to add more messages
or change your preferences, please go to your user page.
http://slashdot.org/my/messages
You can log in and change your preferences from there.
No comments:
Post a Comment