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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking
* Finalists Chosen In Apps For America 2 Contest
* Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One
* Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline
* Red Hat Spins Off JBoss 2.x As HornetQ
* Global Warming To Be Put On Trial?
* Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers
* Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently
* Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out
* Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist?
* Proposed UK File-Sharing Laws May Be Illegal, ISPs Upset
* Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network
* Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade
* Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC
* Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging
* US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft
* Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image
* Steam-Powered Car Breaks Century-Old Speed Record
* Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code
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| Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking |
| from the no-social-no-engineering dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @20:14 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/2033206/Banks-Urge-Businesses-To-Lock-Down-Online-Ba|
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tsu doh nimh writes "Organized cyber-gangs in Eastern Europe are
increasingly [0]preying on small and mid-size companies in the US,
setting off a multimillion-dollar online crime wave that has begun to
worry the nation's largest financial institutions, The Washington Post's
Security Fix blog reports: '"In the past six months, financial
institutions, security companies, the media and law enforcement agencies
are all reporting a significant increase in funds transfer fraud
involving the exploitation of valid banking credentials belonging to
small and medium sized businesses," reads a confidential alert issued by
the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an
industry group created to share data about critical threats to the
financial sector.' The banking group is urging that commercial bank
customers 'carry out all online banking activity from a standalone,
hardened, and locked-down computer from which e-mail and Web browsing is
not possible.' The story includes interviews with several victim
businesses, and explains that in each case, the fraudsters ��� thought to
reside in Eastern Europe ��� are using "'money mules,' unwitting or willing
accomplices in the US hired via Internet job boards. The blog has [1]more
stories and details about these crimes."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/2033206
Links:
0. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/08/tighter_security_measures_urge.html
1. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/08/businesses_reluctant_to_report.html
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| Finalists Chosen In Apps For America 2 Contest |
| from the you-paid-for-the-data-might-as-well-mash-it-up dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @22:03 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1924233/Finalists-Chosen-In-Apps-For-America-2-Con|
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[0]Andurin writes "Sunlight Labs has announced three finalists for its
$25,000 [1]Apps for America 2 competition. Forty-seven apps were
submitted, each relying on Data.gov and providing a useful spin on
government data. [2]This We Know compiles federal information on a local
level; [3]govpulse is a searchable version of the Federal Register; and
[4]DataMasher allows simple mashups of government data sets. [5]Voting is
now open to determine the winner in the contest."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1924233
Links:
0. mailto:andurin@gmail.com
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/05/22/1943244/
2. http://www.thisweknow.org/
3. http://govpulse.us/
4. http://www.datamasher.org/
5. http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/08/24/apps-america-finalists/
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| Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One |
| from the extreme-localization dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @23:51 (Microsoft) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/2015205/Microsoft-Poland-Photoshops-Black-Guy-To-W|
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[0]wanted writes "If you look at Microsoft's Poland business solutions
Web site, you will probably not notice anything odd about the main
picture. However, when you compare it with the [1]original English
version, you can see that someone decided that showing black people in
Poland is probably not going to be convincing to business. They just
Photoshopped the head of a white guy in for the black one, in an
amateurish way, leaving his hand unchanged. ([2]Here's a mirror in case
something should happen to the original.)" We noted a few months back
that the city of Toronto had [3]done something similar.
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/2015205
Links:
0. http://wanted.eu.org/
1. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/18264/mspoland.jpg
2. http://pokazywarka.pl/msmurzyn/
3. http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/15/1650214&tid=21105
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| Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline |
| from the it-ain't-pretty-but-it-ain't-crashing dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @02:39 (Programming) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/021253/Dirty-Coding-Tricks-To-Make-a-Deadline |
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Gamasutra is running an article with a collection of anecdotes from game
developers who had to employ some [0]quick and dirty fixes to get their
products to ship on time. Here's a brief excerpt: "Back at [company X] ���
I think it was near the end of [the project] ��� we had an object in one of
the levels that needed to be hidden. We didn't want to re-export the
level and we did not use checksum names. So right smack in the middle of
the engine code we had something like the following. The game shipped
with this in: if( level == 10 && object == 56 ) {HideObject();} Maybe a
year later, an artist using our engine came to us very frustrated about
why an object in their level was not showing up after exporting to what
resolved to level 10. I wonder why?" Have you ever needed to insert
terrible code to make something work at the last minute?
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/021253
Links:
0. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tricks.php
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| Red Hat Spins Off JBoss 2.x As HornetQ |
| from the strip-mine-rename-and-release dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 26, @05:31 (Software) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/0124243/Red-Hat-Spins-Off-JBoss-2x-As-HornetQ |
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Several sources are reporting that Red Hat has spun off the [0]2.x
release of the JBoss messaging protocol as [1]HornetQ. The 1.x version of
JBoss is still being supported in maintenance mode and will continue to
be known by its original name. "HornetQ is an open source project to
build a multi-protocol, embeddable, high performance, clustered,
asynchronous messaging system. HornetQ is an example of Message Oriented
Middleware. [...] HornetQ is designed with flexibility in mind: It's
elegant POJO based design has minimal third party dependencies: Run
HornetQ as a stand-alone messaging broker, run it in integrated in your
favorite JEE application server, or run it embedded inside your own
application. It's up to you."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/0124243
Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2461&blogid=14
1. http://jboss.org/hornetq.html
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| Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? |
| from the break-out-the-popcorn dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 26, @08:23 (Businesses) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/0117230/Global-Warming-To-Be-Put-On-Trial |
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Mr_Blank writes to mention that the United States' largest business lobby
is pushing for a public trial to examine the [0]evidence of global
warming and have a judge make a ruling on whether human beings are
warming the planet to dangerous effect. "The goal of the chamber, which
represents 3 million large and small businesses, is to fend off potential
emissions regulations by undercutting the scientific consensus over
climate change. If the EPA denies the request, as expected, the chamber
plans to take the fight to federal court. The EPA is having none of it,
calling a hearing a 'waste of time' and saying that a threatened lawsuit
by the chamber would be 'frivolous.' [...] Environmentalists say the
chamber's strategy is an attempt to sow political discord by challenging
settled science ��� and note that in the famed 1925 Scopes trial, which
pitted lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in a courtroom
battle over a Tennessee science teacher accused of teaching evolution
illegally, the scientists won in the end."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/0117230
Links:
0. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-trial25-2009aug25,0,901567.story
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| Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers |
| from the what-do-you-mean-software-needs-to-be-updated dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @09:08 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1214206/Offshore-Drilling-Rigs-Vulnerable-To-Hackers|
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Foreign Policy magazine reports that a research
team from the SINTEF Group, an independent Norwegian think tank, has
warned oil companies worldwide that [1]offshore oil rigs are highly
vulnerable to hacking as they shift to unmanned robot platforms where
vital operations ��� everything from data transmission to drilling to
sophisticated navigation systems that maintain the platform's position
over the wellhead ��� are controlled via wireless links to onshore
facilities. 'The worst-case scenario, of course, is that a hacker will
break in and take over control of the whole platform,' says Martin Gilje
Jaatun, adding that it hasn't happened yet, but computer viruses have
caused personnel injuries and production losses on North Sea platforms.
The list of potential cyberattackers includes ecowarriors aiming to jack
up an oil firms' production costs, extortionists drawn to oil firms' deep
pockets, and foreign governments engaging in a strategic contest for
ever-more-scarce global oil reserves, says Jeff Vail, a former
counterterrorism and intelligence analyst with the US Interior
Department. 'It's underappreciated how vulnerable some of these systems
are,' says Vail. 'It is possible, if you really understood them, to cause
catastrophic damage by causing safety systems to fail.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1214206
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/25/the_new_threat_to_oil_supplies_hackers
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| Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently |
| from the internet's-over-folks-pack-your-things dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @09:55 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1235227/Who-Will-Fix-the-Internet-No-One-Apparentl|
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[0]blackbearnh writes "It seems like everyone focuses on the latest and
greatest killer Internet applications, but the underlying infrastructure
that all of them run on is showing its age. That's the claim made by a
recent article in the Christian Science Monitor. IPv4 is relatively
ancient, and even stalled improvements like IPv6 aren't significant
enough to matter, according to some researchers. With no one 'in charge'
of the Internet, it's almost [1]impossible to get any sweeping technical
improvements made, especially since there's [2]no financial incentive on
the part of the ISPs and telecoms to invest in basic infrastructure.
CalTech Professor John Doyle puts it this way: 'To the extent I've been
working in this field for the last 10 years, I've been mostly working on
band-aids. I'm really trying to get out of that business and try to help
the people, the few people, who are really trying to think more
fundamentally about what needs to be done.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1235227
Links:
0. http://www.blackbear.biz/
1. http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/08/25/when-the-internet-breaks-who-ya-gonna-call/
2. http://slashdot.org/story/09/08/14/2233221/Major-Carriers-Shun-Broadband-Stimulus
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| Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out |
| from the is-swiss-software-full-of-security-holes dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @10:41 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/144249/Coder-of-Swiss-Wiretapping-Trojan-Speaks-Out |
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[0]Lars Sobiraj writes "Ruben Unteregger has worked for a long time as a
software-engineer for the Swiss company ERA IT Solutions. His job there
was to [1]code malware that would invade PCs of private users, and allow
the wiretapping of VoIP calls ��� in particular, calls made through Skype.
In the German-speaking areas of the country, the Trojans were called
'Bundestrojaner' because the Swiss government was [2]involved with their
development and use. Unfortunately, Unteregger has to remain silent about
the customers of the company. Last night, he [3]published the source code
of his Skype-Trojan under the GPL."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/144249
Links:
0. mailto:lars.sobiraj@gmx.net
1. http://www.gulli.com/news/bundestrojaner-a-programmer-2009-08-24/
2. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/09/2255234&tid=76
3. http://www.megapanzer.com/2009/08/25/skype-trojan-sourcecode-available-for-download/
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| Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? |
| from the only-with-a-chore-schedule dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @11:25 (Privacy) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1427240/Company-Laptop-My-Data-mdash-Can-They-Co-ex|
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An anonymous reader writes "I recently replaced my old laptop. The owner
of my company heard about this and offered to reimburse me for it, since
he knows I have and will continue to do company work on my own hardware.
I'd like the extra $1,250, but I think if I accept his offer that legally
he has the right to any data on it (personal emails, files, blog posts,
etc.). Even if I decide to put my personal stuff on a second drive, I'm
worried that using company property to save and write to separate storage
still gives them the right to it. The apps (Office, etc.) are my own
licenses. We do not have a policy that intellectual property developed
using company assets belongs to the company. But, if I figured out the
One Great Internet Business Idea or write the Great American Novel and
used the company laptop to do it, it's an avenue they could use to claim
they own it. Unlikely, but scary. How many Slashdotters have been in this
situation, and what agreement did you and your management come up with?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1427240
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| Proposed UK File-Sharing Laws May Be Illegal, ISPs Upset |
| from the don't-tread-on-them dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @12:13 (Government) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1537237/Proposed-UK-File-Sharing-Laws-May-Be-Illeg|
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mindbrane writes "Once in a while, a sidebar will throw a lot of light on
a difficult problem. The BBC has a short piece on [0]British ISPs' anger
over proposed new laws governing file sharing in the UK. The new laws
would include [1]cutting repeat offenders off from the Internet. Early
response suggests such tactics would fail: 'UK ISP Talk Talk said the
recommendations were [2]likely to "breach fundamental rights" and would
not work. ... Virgin said that "persuasion not coercion" was key in the
fight to crack down on the estimated six million file-sharers in the UK.
... Talk Talk's director of regulation Andrew Heaney told the BBC News
the ISP was as keen as anyone to clamp down on illegal file-sharers. ...
"This is best done by making sure there are legal alternatives and
educating people, writing letters to alleged file-sharers and, if
necessary, taking them to court."' The article also mentions a statement
issued by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which
'proposes that internet service providers are obliged to take action
against repeat infringers and suggests that the cost of tracking down
persistent pirates be shared 50:50 between ISPs and rights holders.'
Unsurprisingly, said rights holders are in favor of the idea."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1537237
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8219652.stm
1. http://slashdot.org/story/09/08/17/2349241/In-the-UK-a-Plan-To-Criminalize-Illegal-Downloaders
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/25/mandelson-web-cutoff-plan-attacked
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| Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network |
| from the e-front-affront dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 26, @13:01 (Networking) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1614206/Legitimate-ISP-a-Cover-up-For-a-Cybercrime|
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[0]ezabi writes "TrendWatch, the malware research arm of TrendMicro, has
posted a white paper titled '[1]A Cybercrime Hub' (PDF, [2]summary here)
describing the activities of an Estonian ISP acting as a cover-up for a
large cybercrime network. It's involved with malware distribution and DNS
hijacking, which leads to credit card fraud. The story's interesting, and
a typical internet user would be exposed in such a situation. What
security measures should be taken to prevent normal users from falling
victim to such malicious bodies? Note that they are represented
legitimately and are offering real services like any other internet
company."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1614206
Links:
0. mailto:elezabi@gmail.com
1. http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/content/us/trendwatch/researchandanalysis/a_cybercrime_hub.pdf
2. http://blog.trendmicro.com/investigations-on-a-cybercrime-hub-in-estonia/
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| Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade |
| from the porn-mode-incomplete-until-it's-a-separate-browser dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, @13:54 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1710216/Fear-of-Porn-URL-Exposure-Discourages-Firef|
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[0]Barence writes "Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very
interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to
Firefox 3 because they were [1]afraid the browser would expose their porn
collection. Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not
upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into
people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. 'When we
expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all
history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say
that they had certain bookmarks they didn't really want to have
displayed,' Firefox's principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully
explains. 'In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks
in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a
physical object.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1710216
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/08/26/porn-collection-put-people-off-upgrading-to-firefox-3/
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| Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC |
| from the thinking-deeper-than-built-in-cable-drops dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, @14:41 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1820215/Using-a-Houses-Concrete-Foundation-To-|
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[0]Agg writes "Well the slab gets poured on Wednesday so I thought I
would sink [1]6 meters of copper pipe in the slab so that I can run my
water loop through it when the house is finished. I hope to have water
year round at about 16deg [about 61F]. No need for radiators or fans with
chilled water coming straight out of the slab!"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1820215
Links:
0. http://www.overclockers.com.au/
1. http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=800958
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| Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging |
| from the to-be-aware-of dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, @15:36 (Medicine) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1845249/Obesity-May-Accelerate-Brain-Aging |
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natehoy writes "According to the US News and World Report, [0]a recent
study has shown a link between obesity and the loss of neurological
tissue. The brains of elderly patients who were obese had on average 8%
less tissue than their trimmer counterparts. Overweight patients had
brains lighter by about 4%. This could have implications for the onset of
dementia illnesses such as Alzheimer's. Just one more risk factor to add
to the growing body (no pun intended) of reasons to try and stay trim."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1845249
Links:
0. http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/08/25/as-waistlines-widen-brains-shrink.html
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| US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft |
| from the bit-of-a-broad-brush-there dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, @16:29 (The Internet) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/1956201/US-Fed-Gov-Says-All-Music-Downloads-Are-The|
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BenEnglishAtHome writes "Nearly all US government employees and
contractors are subject to [0]mandatory annual information security
briefings. This year the official briefing flatly states that [1]all
downloaded music is stolen. The occasionally breathless tone of the
briefing and the various minor errors contained therein are funny but the
real eye-opener is a 'secure the building' exercise where employees
stumble across security problems and resolve them. According to the
material, the correct response to an employee who is downloading music is
to shout 'That's stealing!' No mention is made of more-free licenses,
public domain works, or any other legitimate download. If this were a
single agency or department that had made a mistake in their training
material it might not be so shocking. But this is a government-wide
training package that's being absorbed by hundreds of thousands of
federal employees, both civilian and military. If you see a co-worker
downloading music, they're stealing. Period. Who woulda thunk it?
Somebody should mirror this. Who wants to bet that copies will become
hard to find if clued-in technogeeks take notice and start making noise?"
Warning: this site gives a whole new meaning to "Flash heavy."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/1956201
Links:
0. http://iase.disa.mil/eta/iaav7-3/iaa/index.html
1. http://www.pacom.mil/j65/cbt-ver7/iaa/index.html
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| Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image |
| from the just-like-the-beginning-of-the-dark-knight dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, @17:22 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/2113250/Time-Denies-Issuing-DMCA-Over-Obama-Joker-I|
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An anonymous reader writes "Last week Slashdot posted on the Flickr
censorship case where [0]Flickr removed the controversial Obama/Joker
image from their site. A representative from Flickr claimed that they
only removed the image because they [1]received a DMCA takedown notice
over the image and then accused the press and blogosphere of being 'makey
uppey,' subsequently locking the thread where Flickr users were
complaining about the takedown. But now it appears that Time, DC Comics,
and the photographer of the original photograph used to make the parody
image are all [2]denying having issued Flickr a takedown notice. Flickr
was asked who issued the notice by the Los Angeles Times and told the
Times that they were not able to provide that information. The original
artist says Flickr has not told him who filed it either, despite the fact
that Yahoo has in the past provided the information to people when DMCA
takedown requests are issued. So if Time didn't file the DMCA notice, and
DC Comics didn't file the DMCA notice, and the original photographer did
not file the DMCA notice, then [3]who exactly did?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/2113250
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/1836210/Flickr-Yanks-Image-of-Obama-as-Joker
1. http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/103784/
2. http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/08/mystery-who-asked-flickr-to-delete-the-obama-joker.html
3. http://thomashawk.com/2009/08/so-if-time-magazine-dc-comics-and-platon-didnt-send-flickr-a-dmca-takedown-notice-over-the-obama-joker-image-who-did.html
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| Steam-Powered Car Breaks Century-Old Speed Record |
| from the we-say-horsepower-but-not-buggywhip-power dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, @18:11 (Transportation) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/2126204/Steam-Powered-Car-Breaks-Century-Old-Speed|
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[0]mcgrew writes "New Scientist reports that a steam-powered car has
broken the 1906 record of 204 km/hr (127 mph) for the fastest
steam-powered automobile, the Stanley Steamer. The Inspiration [1]made a
top speed of 225 kilometres per hour (140 miles per hour) on August 26.
'The car's engine burns liquid petroleum gas to heat water in 12
suitcase-sized boilers, creating steam heated to 400C. The steam then
drives a two-stage turbine that spins at 13,000 revolutions per minute to
power its wheels.The FIA requires two 1.6-km-long runs to be performed in
opposite directions ��� to cancel out any effect from wind ��� within 60
minutes.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/2126204
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| Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code |
| from the show-me-yours-and-I'll-show-you-mine dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 26, @19:21 (Red Hat Software) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/2244255/Red-Hat-Releases-Windows-Virtualization-C|
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dan_johns writes "Only one month after [0]Microsoft released Linux code
to improve the performance of Linux guests on Windows, Red Hat has done
the reverse. Red Hat has quietly [1]released a set of drivers to improve
the performance of Windows guests hosted on Linux's Kernel-based Virtual
Machine (KVM) hypervisor. The netkvm driver is a network driver and
viostor is a Storport driver to improve the performance of high-end
storage. This release includes paravirtual block drivers for Windows.
Linux and Windows ��� virtually coming together at last."
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