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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval
* Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket
* Open Source Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Tube Clock
* Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex
* Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision
* Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online
* Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly
* IE Should Use Google's Malware List
* British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid
* Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor?
* NASA To Team Up With Russia For Future Mars Flight
* FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test
* Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits
* Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows
* Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus
* South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit
* FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality
* Gaming the App Store
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| Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval |
| from the knock-knock-who's-there-anonymous dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday August 24, @22:00 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/224259/Wikipedia-To-Require-Editing-Approval |
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The NY Times reports on an epochal move by Wikipedia ��� within weeks, the
formerly freewheeling encyclopedia will begin [0]requiring editor
approval for all edits to articles about living people. "The new feature,
called 'flagged revisions,' will require that an experienced volunteer
editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it
can go live. Until the change is approved ��� or in Wikispeak, flagged ��� it
will sit invisibly on Wikipedia's servers, and visitors will be directed
to the earlier version. ... The new editing procedures... have been
applied to the entire German-language version of Wikipedia during the
last year... Although Wikipedia has prevented anonymous users from
creating new articles for several years now, the new flagging system
crosses a psychological Rubicon. It will divide Wikipedia's contributors
into two classes ��� experienced, trusted editors, and everyone else ���
altering Wikipedia's implicit notion that everyone has an equal right to
edit entries."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/24/224259
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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| Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket |
| from the one-of-these-days-alice dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday August 24, @23:57 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/0113247/Air-Force-amp-NASA-Fire-Off-Green-Rocke|
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[0]coondoggie writes "NASA and the Air Force said today they had
successfully launched a 9-ft. rocket 1,300 feet into the sky, [1]powered
by aluminum powder and water ice. This combination of fuel elements,
referred to as ALICE, has the potential to replace some liquid or solid
propellants. The technology is being developed at Purdue University and
Pennsylvania State University. Aside from its environmental benefiits,
ALICE has the advantage that it could be manufactured in far-away places,
such as the moon or Mars, instead of being transported to distant
horizons at great cost, researchers said."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/0113247
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44690
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| Open Source Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Tube Clock |
| from the ice-blue dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @02:39 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/2132230/Open-Source-Russian-Vacuum-Fluorescent|
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[0]ptorrone writes "Hacker extraordinaire [1]Ladyada (whose open source
hardware projects we have [2]discussed [3]before) has just published a
complete how-to, with design document, on making your own [4]open source
Russian vacuum fluorescent clock. The vacuum fluorescent tubes aren't as
dangerous as (high-voltage) Nixie tubes, and there seem to be more of
them available in the world. If you're not interested in building a clock
from scratch, you can also pick up a [5]kit version. All the
[6]schematics, source code, and files are available on the project's
page."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/24/2132230
Links:
0. mailto:pt@@@adafruit...com
1. http://www.ladyada.net/
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/26/2015229&tid=154
3. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/27/156237&tid=480
4. http://www.ladyada.net/make/icetube/
5. http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=39&products_id=194
6. http://www.ladyada.net/make/icetube/download.html
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| Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex |
| from the redundancy-and-repetition dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @05:25 (Data Storage) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/2218223/Thanks-For-the--Eight-Track-Uncle-Alex|
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[0]Uncle Alex writes "My niece just turned one year old and her parents
have asked that, instead of the usual gifts, we each contribute something
to a time capsule to be opened on her 17th birthday. Multiple members of
my family want to contribute digital data ��� text, video, music files.
They came to me (the closest thing to a geek our family has) wondering:
what's the best way to save the data to ensure she'll actually be able to
see it in 16 years? Software might be out of date, hardware may no longer
be used... any suggestions?"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/24/2218223
Links:
0. mailto:khostal@yahoo.com
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| Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision |
| from the long-dark-teatime dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @08:09 (The Courts) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/0021246/Appeals-Court-Overturns-2007-Unix-Copyright|
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[0]snydeq writes "A federal appeals court has [1]overturned a 2007
decision that Novell owns the Unix code, clearing the way for SCO to
pursue a $1 billion copyright infringement case against IBM. In a
[2]54-page decision (PDF), the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said it was
reversing the 2007 summary judgment decision by Judge Dale Kimball of the
US District Court for the District of Utah, which found that Novell was
the owner of Unix and UnixWare copyrights. SCO CEO Darl McBride called
the decision a '[3]huge validation for SCO.'" The case over who owns Unix
will now go to trial in Utah.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/0021246
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/082409-sco-unix-copyright-decision-overturned.html?hpg1=bn
2. http://www.ck10.uscourts.gov/opinions/08/08-4217.pdf
3. http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_13193725
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| Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online |
| from the action-reaction-counterreaction dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, @08:54 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1224214/Pirate-Bay-Archive-Goes-Online |
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[0]I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With the main Pirate Bay
website experiencing DNS issues, downtime and uncertainty about both the
lawsuits and potential sale to GGF, a [1]Pirate Bay clone has already
gone online. True to their principles, someone at TPB put up a torrent
with a 21.3 GB copy of the site as it exists today. And now that archive
is alive, at BTArena.net. Linus' old adage about backing up everything by
putting it on FTP and letting the world mirror it may need to be updated.
Torrents are much more efficient." "Downtime" may be a nice word for it;
reader [2]Underholdning writes "The Register has a story about a
[3]Swedish court ordering ISPs to disconnect The Pirate Bay or face a
massive daily fine. The reason for the shutdown was an upcoming civil
lawsuit by copyright holders. As usual, [4]Torrentfreak has an updated
story. It seems like the takedown until now has been successful." Believe
what you will; the site itself says they'll be back up "in a few hours."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1224214
Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/support
1. http://torrentfreak.com/torrented-pirate-bay-copy-comes-to-life-090820/
2. http://www.underholdning.info/
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/24/swedish_court_orders_black_internet_shut_down_tpb/
4. http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-taken-offline-by-swedish-authorities-090824/
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| Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly |
| from the please-pass-the-toast-and-jelly-and-scalpel dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, @09:42 (Education) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1245221/Habitual-Multitaskers-Do-It-Badly |
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iandoh writes "According to a group of Stanford researchers, people who
frequently multitask don't pay attention, control their memory or switch
from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task
at a time. In other words, [0]multitaskers are bad at multitasking. The
[1]research team is also studying how to design [2]computer voices for
cars that result in safer driving." Reader AliasMarlowe adds "The
comparison involved multitasking with a number of attention or context
related tests. For the study, multitasking was defined as consuming
multiple media sources at once ��� gaming, TV, IM, email, etc.
Interestingly, the habitual multitaskers were much [3]worse at
multitasking than the single taskers in these relatively straightforward
tests. In self-assessment the multitaskers considered themselves good at
it and the single taskers considered themselves bad at it. An extreme
case of the [4]Dunning-Kruger effect, perhaps, with consequences for
business and society."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1245221
Links:
0. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html
1. http://chime.stanford.edu/index.html
2. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/may7/cars-050708.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8219212.stm
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger
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| IE Should Use Google's Malware List |
| from the hey-it's-a-good-pr-opportunity-at-least dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, @10:30 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1418210/IE-Should-Use-Googles-Malware-List |
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Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton writes with an idea that he thinks
could help keep browsing on Microsoft's browser more secure for users ���
and benefit Microsoft as a result. "Tests show that IE's malware filter
performs well against other browsers that use the Safe Browsing blacklist
from Google. But wouldn't IE's filter be even more effective if it used
both filter lists at the same time? And are the political obstacles to
that really so insurmountable?" Read on for the rest of a plan that seems
a lot more than half-baked.
This story continues at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1418210/IE-Should-Use-Googles-Malware-List
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1418210
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| British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid |
| from the slight-reprieve dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, @11:18 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1453213/British-Video-Recordings-Act-1984-Invalid |
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chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that the British [0]Video Recordings
Act 1984 is [1]invalid due to a 25 year old legal blunder. The
[2]Thatcher government of the day failed to officially "notify" the
European Commission about the law, and hence it no longer stands as a
legal Act. There will now be a period of around three months before the
Act can be passed again, during which time it will be entirely legal to
sell any video content without age-rated certifications."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1453213
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Recordings_Act_1984
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8219438.stm
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_government
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| Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? |
| from the have-seen-the-same dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, @12:00 (Power) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/157209/Why-Is-Linux-Notebook-Battery-Life-Stil|
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[0]Ganty writes "I recently purchased a Lenovo W500 notebook, and after
'downgrading' to XP and creating a dual partition, I found that I had a
battery life of nearly three hours using the long-life battery, at this
point I was a happy camper because it means that I can watch a DVD during
a flight. I then tried various Linux distributions and found the battery
life under FOS to be very disappointing, with an average of 45 minutes
before a warning message. After settling on Ubuntu I then spent three
days trying various hardware tweaks but I only managed to increase the
battery life to one and a half hours. Unwanted services have been
disabled, laptop mode has been enabled, the dual core CPU reduces speed
when idle and the hard drive spins down when not needed. Obviously Apple
with their X86 hardware and BSD based OS have got it right because the
MacBooks last for hours, and a stock install of MS Windows XP gives me
three hours of life. Why is battery life on notebooks so poor when using
Linux? Some have suggested disabling various hardware items such as
bluetooth and running the screen at half brightness but XP doesn't
require me to do this and still gives a reasonable battery life."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/157209
Links:
0. mailto:pmgant@gmail.com
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| NASA To Team Up With Russia For Future Mars Flight |
| from the you-bring-the-caviar-we'll-bring-the-twinkies dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, @12:47 (Mars) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1614246/NASA-To-Team-Up-With-Russia-For-Future-|
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[0]xp65 writes "NASA has [1]invited Russia to carry out a joint manned
flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday. Russia
is currently planning to send its own expedition to Mars some time in the
future. Marc Bowman told an international aviation and space conference
in Moscow that the Mars mission should take advantage of the achievements
made by the International Space Station and use a multinational crew."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1614246
Links:
0. http://spacefellowship.com/
1. http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/25/nasa-suggests-teaming-up-with-russia-for-mars-flight/
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| FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test |
| from the sufficiently-rigged-demo-is-indistinguishable-from-magic dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @13:35 (Communications) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1627259/FairPort-Accused-of-Faking-Network-Readine|
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wytcld writes "When [0]Verizon spun off its Northern New England lines to
FairPoint, FairPoint leased Verizon's computer network to manage them.
This was costly, so FairPoint readied its own network. To prove its own
network was ready for the switchover [1]a demonstration was prepared for
an outside auditor, Liberty. Now [2]a whistleblower claims: '...when
Liberty was watching what they thought was "flow thru" within a system
and from one system to another, they were really only seeing a small
program that was created to assimilate what they wanted the systems to
do. They were not actually in the systems at the time nor were they in
the test systems. They were in a newly created small program that used
screen shots from the real system to deceive the audience into believing
that they were watching a real demonstration.' How easy is it to find
auditors who can be fooled by such a simple trick? Whether or not the
test was faked, the network has proved so unready that [3]FairPoint is
close to bankruptcy, and may have its licenses to operate revoked in
[4]Maine, New Hampshire and [5]Vermont."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1627259
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/07/01/16/1918248/Verizon-Sells-Off-Rural-Lines
1. http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=278890
2. http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_13196920
3. http://www.vermontbiz.com/article/august/fairpoint-flux-bankruptcy-possible
4. http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=275981
5. http://updates.mainetoday.com/updates/vt-orders-fairpoint-to-respond-to-complaints
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| Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits |
| from the watching-the-watchers dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @14:25 (Television) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1719210/Nielsen-Struggles-To-Track-Modern-Viewing-|
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RobotRunAmok writes "The Nielsen Company has been the principal entity
tracking TV shows' popularity, and, by extension, their potential
profitability. But as our media consumption practices change, some
believe that [0]Nielsen's methods have not kept pace. A new consortium
including networks owned by NBC Universal, Time Warner, News Corp,
Viacom, CBS, Discovery, and Walt Disney ��� along with major advertisers ���
is calling for the creation of a new audience measurement service, and
planning to solicit bids from outside firms by the fourth quarter of this
year. Nielsen says [1]they're not worried about so many of their
customers ganging up on them, having just invested more than a billion
dollars in research to stay modern. Except that [2]today Nielsen
announced they would pointedly not be adding weights to DVR households,
and that adding weights for the presence of a personal computer or
Internet access in under-represented households would provide 'no
significant change or enhancement' to its national TV ratings sample. The
pundits deride Nielsen's [3]'archaic' methodology and '[4]disco-era
tactics,' but others scoff that such a consortium will only '[5]put the
foxes in charge of the henhouse.' Stay tuned..."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1719210
Links:
0. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fc04615a-8858-11de-82e4-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
1. http://www.marketingvox.com/traditionaldigital-media-consortium-formed-to-challenge-nielsen-044882/
2. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=112183
3. http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1365
4. http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/05/adalian_column_nielsen_failure.php
5. http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/big-media-to-compete-with-nielsen-tv-ratings/
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| Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows |
| from the we-can-remember-it-for-you-wholesale dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @15:15 (Windows) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1818215/Behind-the-4GB-Memory-Limit-In-32-Bit-Wind|
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An anonymous reader points us to a very detailed post by Geoff Chappell,
first put up early this year, explaining how the 4GB memory limit
commonly bandied about for 32-bit Windows (he is writing mainly about
Vista) is [0]more of a licensing preference than an architectural limit.
The article outlines how Chappell unlocked his system to use all the
memory that is present, but cautions that such hackery is ill-advised for
several reasons, including legal ones. "If you want [to be able to use
more than 4GB in Vista] without contrivance, then pester Microsoft for an
upgrade of the license data or at least for a credible, detailed
reasoning of its policy for licensing your use of your computer's memory.
... [C]onsider Windows Server 2008. For the loader and kernel in Windows
Vista SP1 (and, by the way, for the overwhelming majority of all
executables), the corresponding executable in Windows Server 2008 is
exactly the same, byte for byte. Yet Microsoft sells 32-bit Windows
Server 2008 for use with as much as 64GB of memory. Does Microsoft really
mean to say that when it re-badges these same executables as Windows
Vista SP1, they suddenly acquire an architectural limit of 4GB? Or is it
that a driver for Windows Server 2008 is safe for using with memory above
4GB as long as you don't let it interact with the identical executables
from Windows Vista SP1?"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1818215
Links:
0. http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm
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| Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus |
| from the pinch-salt-toss-over-shoulder dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @16:02 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1839246/Report-That-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-May-Include-An|
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File this firmly in the "rumor" category for now. [0]the JoshMeister
writes (in the third person) "Mac antivirus company Intego [1]broke the
story this morning that Apple is apparently including antivirus
functionality in its upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard. But which
antivirus engine is Apple using? Security researcher Joshua Long
[2]discusses the likely candidates."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1839246
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/theJoshMeister
1. http://blog.intego.com/2009/08/25/snow-leopard-contains-an-antivirus/
2. http://security.thejoshmeister.com/2009/08/breaking-news-mac-os-x-snow-leopard.html
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| South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit |
| from the ground-control-to-major-tom dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @16:49 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1859207/South-Koreas-First-Rocket-Fails-To-Reac|
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[0]Matt_dk writes "The first satellite launched by South Korea [1]failed
to reach its designated orbit pattern on Tuesday, the NY Times is
reporting. The two-staged KSLV-1 rocket, built in cooperation with
Russia, failed to deliver the 100-kilogram oceanic and atmospheric
research satellite into its target orbit. The rocket was launched from
the Naro Space Center, 300 miles south of the capital Seoul. 'The failure
to push the satellite into its intended orbit was announced by Ahn
Myong-man, the minister of education, science and technology, at a news
conference. Mr. Ahn gave no further details. But South Korean news
outlets, citing unidentified sources, said the satellite broke away from
the rocket about 22 miles farther from the Earth than had been
intended.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1859207
Links:
0. http://spacefellowship.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/world/asia/26rocket.html?hp
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| FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality |
| from the play-nice-now dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @17:38 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/2044233/FCC-Declares-Intention-To-Enforce-Net-Neut|
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[0]Unequivocal writes "The FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, told
Congress today that the 'Federal Communications Commission plans to
[1]keep the Internet free of increased user fees based on heavy Web
traffic and slow downloads. ...Genachowski... told The Hill that his
agency will support "net neutrality" and go after anyone who violates its
tenets. "One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is
that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation
of net neutrality principles," Genachowski said when asked what he could
do in his position to keep the Internet fair, free and open to all
Americans. The statement by Genachowski comes as the commission remains
locked in litigation with Comcast. The cable provider is appealing a
court decision by challenging the FCC's authority to penalize the company
for limiting Web traffic to its consumers.' It looks like the good guys
are winning, unless the appeals court rules against the FCC."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/2044233
Links:
0. http://www.misuse.org/science
1. http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85184&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=70
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| Gaming the App Store |
| from the burning-your-knees-on-astroturf dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @18:25 (Cellphones) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1946230/Gaming-the-App-Store |
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space_in_your_face writes "Want to boost the popularity of your latest
iPhone app? Ask Reverb Communications! 'When it comes to winning in the
App Store, this PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy: throw ethics
out the window. Reverb Communications, a PR firm that represents dozens
of game publishers and developers, has managed to find astounding success
on Apple's App Store for its clients. Among its various tactics? It hires
a team of interns to [0]trawl iTunes and other community forums posing as
real users, and has them write positive reviews for their client's
applications. ... Reverb claims that their clients have sold over $2
billion of product under their watch.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1946230
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