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Understand how the proper IT security policies can actually drive more sales. It also discusses how Extended Validation (EV) works, why phishing is such a problem, and how to get better results using EV SSL.
http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51427554/
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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US
* When Schools Are the Police
* Download.com Now Wraps Downloads In Bloatware
* Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends
* After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm?
* FSF Uses Android FUD To Push GPLv3
* Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist
* Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones
* Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor
* Motorola's Identity Crisis
* No Higgs Just Yet
* Early Earthquake Warning System In iOS 5
* Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity
* Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa
* Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots
* Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind
* Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For the First Time
* Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7
* World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach
* Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces
* GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due
* EU Central Court Could Validate Software Patents
* Google's Amazon River Street View Project
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| Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US
| from the american-line-workers-try-to-eat-them dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @08:44 (Handhelds)
| with 556 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1143216/Why-Amazon-Cant-Manufacture-a-Kindle-In-the-US?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Ever wonder why all those [0]job listings for [1]Amazon
subsidiary Lab126 ��� the internal group behind the Kindle and, by all
accounts, an upcoming Android tablet ��� have travel requirements? Over at
Forbes, Steve Denning explains [2]why Amazon can't make a Kindle in the
U.S., and [3]why that really does matter. 'The idea that there is a lot
of outsourcing going on is hardly news', writes Denning. 'The idea that
it is irreversible and destructive of the economy's ability to grow is
less well known. Even so, it's not exactly new news: the [4]HBR article
that I cite is two years old. What is really new news is that (1) these
fairly obvious truths haven't yet dawned on economists at the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco, CEOs, accountants, politicians, among
others and (2) the way to manage in a radically different way to deal
with these issues is now more fully articulated than it has been before.'
Denning concludes his trilogy-of-management-terror by noting that [5]the
decline is also occurring in software."
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Links:
0. http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-company%3A(lab126)
1. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazon-seeks-lab126-trademarks-advance-expected-tablet-launch
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
3. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/20/does-it-really-matter-that-amazon-cant-manufacture-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
4. http://hbr.org/hbr-main/resources/pdfs/comm/fmglobal/restoring-american-competitiveness.pdf
5. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/21/amazon-kindle-part-3-its-not-just-manufacturing/
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| When Schools Are the Police
| from the but-daily-metal-detectors-are-perfectly-nice dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @14:54 (Education)
| with 480 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1830252/When-Schools-Are-the-Police?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]Is Any Nickname Left writes "The
Washington Post has an article on [1]school systems with their own police
forces. It focuses on Texas, which has the highest number of 'School
Police Departments,' of which there are so many they have their own trade
association. Highlights: 1) Houston fourth-grader stood on a stool so he
could see the judge. He pleaded guilty. To a scuffle on a school bus. 2)
275,000 juvenile tickets in fiscal 2009, to students as young as 5. 3)
Austin middle school student ticketed after she sprayed herself with
perfume when classmates said she smelled. 4) a 17-year-old was in court
after he and his girlfriend poured milk on each other. 'She was mad at me
because I broke up with her,' he said. I waiting for the Alamo Heights
Special Airborne Brigade and SEAL TEAM CROCKETT."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1830252/When-Schools-Are-the-Police?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:chris@roughdraft.com
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-texas-schools-a-criminal-response-to-misbehavior/2011/08/04/gIQA5EG9UJ_story.html
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| Download.com Now Wraps Downloads In Bloatware
| from the do-not-want dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @14:12 (Software)
| with 324 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1740238/Downloadcom-Now-Wraps-Downloads-In-Bloatware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "At Download.com, page designs have been repeatedly
tweaked over the years to push its updater software (now called
TechTracker), TrialPay offers, and the site's mailing list. Bothersome,
perhaps, but certainly not inexcusable. They've got to make money off the
site somehow, after all, and banner ads don't always do the job. Now,
things have taken a turn for the worse: Cnet has begun [1]wrapping
downloads in its own proprietary installer. Not only will this cause the
reputation of free, legitimate software to be [2]tarred by Cnet's
bloatware toolbars, homepage changes, and new default search engines ���
but Cnet is even claiming that their installer wrapping is '[3]for the
users.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1740238/Downloadcom-Now-Wraps-Downloads-In-Bloatware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/93504-download-com-wraps-downloads-in-bloatware-lies-about-motivations
2. http://www.ghacks.net/2011/08/17/the-cnet-download-com-installer/
3. http://cnet-upload.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2064
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| Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends
| from the teachers-pet-has-a-friend-request dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 22, @05:03 (Cloud)
| with 271 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/0357247/Teachers-Students-Fight-To-Be-Facebook-Friends?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "State Governor Jay Nixon [0]recently signed
Senate Bill 54, making it illegal for students and teachers to be friends
online as of later this month. Now, a Missouri teachers group is fighting
the state's new law that prohibits them from being Facebook friends with
their students [1]by filing a lawsuit. From the article: 'The Missouri
State Teachers Association (MSTA) filed a lawsuit on Friday, challenging
a new law. MSTA is specifically asking the Circuit Court of Cole County
to determine the constitutionality of the law���s social media portion.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/0357247/Teachers-Students-Fight-To-Be-Facebook-Friends?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/02/1458218/Missouri-Law-Says-Students-Teachers-Cant-Be-Facebook-Friends
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/missouri-teachers-fight-to-be-facebook-friends-with-students/2875
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| After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm?
| from the plug-and-play-delicious-genes dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @16:46 (Medicine)
| with 206 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/2045251/After-Rick-Perrys-Stem-Cell-Treatment-Misplaced-Enthusiasm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oxide7 writes "Presidential candidate Rick Perry underwent a
controversial stem-cell treatment this past month, prompting some doctors
to fear the high-profile event would [0]send the wrong signal to
desperate patients. "As a highly influential person of power, Perry's
actions have the unfortunate potential to push desperate patients into
the clinics of quacks,"Dr. George Q. Daley said."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/2045251/After-Rick-Perrys-Stem-Cell-Treatment-Misplaced-Enthusiasm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| FSF Uses Android FUD To Push GPLv3
| from the some-people-say dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @13:29 (Android)
| with 197 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1653214/FSF-Uses-Android-FUD-To-Push-GPLv3?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "We've already seen claims from Edward Naughton and
Florian Mueller that [1]most Android distributors are in violation of the
GPL ��� claims that the open source community has, for the most part,
rejected. Therefore it's disheartening to see that [2]the FSF is using
this line of reasoning to push the GPL v3 over the supposedly more
troublesome GPL v2. The FSF's [3]press release on the subject emphasizes
'worries' without bringing up a specific concrete case of infringement ���
a classic FUD technique."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1653214/FSF-Uses-Android-FUD-To-Push-GPLv3?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1959226/Does-Android-Violate-the-GPL-Not-So-Fast
2. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/196001/fsf-uses-unproven-compliance-issue-promote-gplv3
3. http://www.fsf.org/news/android-termination-upgrade-gplv3
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| Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist
| from the make-friends-influence-people dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @16:03 (The Courts)
| with 183 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1959255/Atari-Targets-Retro-Community-With-Cease-amp-Desist?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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svenski writes "Atari User reports that Atari Inc. have begun to target
the retro community and have now turned their attentions to
atari2600.org, a website first registered in 2000, [0]demanding the
domain name be handed over."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://atariuser.blogspot.com/2011/08/atari-continues-efforts-to-alienate-and.html
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| Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones
| from the worth-it-at-twice-the-price dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @15:40 (Cellphones)
| with 163 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1842202/Microsoft-Pursues-WebOS-Devs-Offers-Free-Phones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Taking advantage of Hewlett-Packard's departure from
the tablet and smartphone market, Microsoft has offered webOS developers
[1]free phones, tools and training to create apps for Windows Phone 7.
Brandon Watson, Microsoft's senior director of Windows Phone 7
development, [2]made the offer on Twitter on Friday, and has been
fielding queries ever since. 'To Any Published WebOS Devs: We'll give you
what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl. free phones, dev
tools, and training, etc.,' Watson said a day after [3]HP's announcement.
Before Friday was out, Watson said he had received more than 500 emails
from interested developers, and later, that the count was closing in on
600."
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Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219353/Microsoft_pursues_webOS_devs_offers_free_phones
2. http://twitter.com/#!/BrandonWatson/statuses/104681012000337920
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219311/HP_s_webOS_crashes_under_Apple_Android_pressure
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| Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor
| from the diminishing-expectations dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @10:07 (Security)
| with 142 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1348245/Anonymous-Breaches-Another-US-Defense-Contractor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]JohnBert sends this excerpt from and IDG report: "The politically
oriented hacking group Anonymous has released 1GB of what it says are
[1]private e-mails and documents from an executive of a U.S. defense
company that sells unmanned aerial vehicles to police and the U.S.
military. The documents were [2]publicized in a post on Pastebin, with
links leading to the actual material on another website. The material
purportedly belongs to Richard Garcia, a senior vice president at
Vanguard who was a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent for
25 years. Anonymous took special delight in the breach, as Garcia is
director of InfraGard, an organization that liaises between private
sector companies and the FBI. A group affiliated with Anonymous called
LulzSecurity, or LulzSec, breached and [3]defaced one of InfraGard's
websites belonging to its Atlanta chapter in June."
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Links:
0. mailto:jbertoli@batblue.com
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219319/Anonymous_breaches_another_US_defense_contractor?taxonomyId=17
2. http://pastebin.com/PjiXmwNk
3. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/1149206/Hacker-Group-LulzSec-Challenges-FBI
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| Motorola's Identity Crisis
| from the coulda-just-bought-a-ferrari dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @10:50 (Businesses)
| with 129 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1430215/Motorolas-Identity-Crisis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "An article at the NY Times discusses [0]the
awkwardness of Google's recent purchase of Motorola Mobility, an
acquisition widely thought to be motivated by Android patent concerns
rather than a more straightforward business plan. From the article:
'While industry analysts and insiders say the rationale makes sense, they
also say it leaves Motorola in an unusual position. ... Heightening the
uncertainty is that the companies involved, both of which declined to
comment, are in some ways as different as two technology companies can
be. Google makes Internet services and software, thrives on high profit
margins and distributes its product using giant data centers. Motorola
makes hardware, has modest margins on a good day and moves its products
on trucks and airplanes and through brick-and-mortar stores. ... "It's
like, thanks for everything you did in the 20th century, but you're being
bought by a search engine," said Roger Entner, a telecommunications
industry analyst and founder of Recon Analytics, a market research firm.
He added, "Nobody ever buys a company and leaves it alone."'"
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| No Higgs Just Yet
| from the explain-how-finding-it-would-help-me dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @16:25 (Science)
| with 124 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/204217/No-Higgs-Just-Yet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gbrumfiel writes "Last month, scientists reported a number of 'excess
events' that [1]could be caused by the appearance of the long-sought
[2]Higgs boson inside the LHC. But it looks like they'll have to put the
champagne back on ice. New data presented at a conference in India shows
no new signs of the Higgs. The signal was [3]probably just a statistical
fluctuation."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1926205/Has-LHC-Seen-a-Hint-of-the-Higgs
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
3. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110822/full/news.2011.495.html
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| Early Earthquake Warning System In iOS 5
| from the escape-the-quake dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 22, @08:04 (IOS)
| with 122 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/0349241/Early-Earthquake-Warning-System-In-iOS-5?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]tekgoblin writes "A very important and functional feature has been
added to Apple's iOS 5 for Japanese users: [1]an earthquake warning
system. This new feature may allow the people of Japan to be warned early
enough to get out of harm's way and ultimately save lives. Most phones
sold in Japan have some way to warn the user of Earthquakes."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/0349241/Early-Earthquake-Warning-System-In-iOS-5?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.twitter.com/tekgoblin
1. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/08/21/earthquake-warning-system-in-ios-5-for-japanese-users/
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| Web Surfing At Work Can Boost Productivity
| from the you're-welcome dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @12:10 (The Internet)
| with 122 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1529249/Web-Surfing-At-Work-Can-Boost-Productivity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Wall Street Journal reports on a study
into productivity and efficiency in the workplace, which found that
people who are given a break to surf the web [0]return to their work with
'lower levels of mental exhaustion, boredom and higher levels of
engagement.' Researchers tested against two other groups; one continued
working, and one was given a break that did not involve web browsing.
They concluded that 'browsing the Internet serves an important
restorative function.' In contrast, dealing with personal email was
'particularly distracting.' In the end, the researchers recommended that
employers loosen restrictions on employee web access." This backs up [1]a
similar study out of Australia from a couple years ago.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1529249/Web-Surfing-At-Work-Can-Boost-Productivity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904070604576518261775512294.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/04/02/1937229/Australian-Study-Says-Web-Surfing-Boosts-Office-Productivity
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| Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa
| from the i-now-fear-the-europaraptor dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @09:26 (Earth)
| with 109 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1256246/Earth-Ejecta-Could-Seed-Life-On-Europa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]KentuckyFC writes "Various astronomers have studied [1]how far rocks
can travel through space after being ejected from Earth. Their conclusion
is that it's relatively easy for bits of Earth to end up on the Moon or
Venus, but very little would get to Mars because it would have to
overcome gravity from both the Sun and the Earth. Now, the biggest ever
simulation of Earth ejecta confirms this result ��� with a twist. The
simulation shows that Jupiter is a much more likely destination than
Mars. So [2]bits of Earth could have ended up on Jovian satellites such
as Europa. Astrobiologists estimate that Earth's hardiest organisms can
survive up to 30,000 years in space, which means that if conditions are
just right, [3]Earth ejecta could seed life there."
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Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/
1. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27092/
3. http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3375
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| Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots
| from the paper-and-whistle-makers-too-I-hope dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @18:49 (Twitter)
| with 101 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/217206/Twitter-To-Meet-With-UK-Government-About-Riots?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]conner_bw writes "Twitter has confirmed that it [1]will meet with the
UK Home Secretary on Thursday, after being called in for discussions over
the role it played in the recent UK riots. Twitter will send a
representative to the meeting scheduled for August 25. Both Facebook and
RIM will also send representatives to the meeting in regards to their
effects on the riots."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.renoise.com/
1. http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/22/confirmed-twitter-will-meet-with-the-uk-government-for-riot-talks/
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| Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind
| from the daredevil-approved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 21, @23:11 (Technology)
| with 95 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/0156201/Hand-Mounted-Sonar-For-the-Blind?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]GeekTech.in writes "The Tacit, [1]a wrist-mounted sonar device with
haptic feedback, is like strapping a bat to your wrist to help you see.
It makes use of two sonar ping sensors to measure the distance to the
nearest obstacle. The relative distance to an object is then fed back to
the user using two servos which apply pressure to the back of the wrist."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://geektech.in/
1. http://grathio.com/2011/08/meet-the-tacit-project-its-sonar-for-the-blind/
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| Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For the First Time
| from the check-out-all-that-ice dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 22, @02:16 (Earth)
| with 87 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/0340240/Antarcticas-Ice-Flow-Fully-Mapped-For-the-First-Time?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tvlinux writes "Antarctica is a big continent, so mapping all of its ice
flow isn't exactly a piece of cake. But for the first time scientists
have been able to get the [0]complete picture of the southernmost
continent's ice flow, from the South Pole to the shoreline. From the
article: '"This is like seeing a map of all the oceans' currents for the
first time. It's a game changer for glaciology," said Eric Rignot of
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the University
of California (UC), Irvine. Rignot is lead author of a paper about the
ice flow published online Thursday in Science Express. "We are seeing
amazing flows from the heart of the continent that had never been
described before."'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/antarctica20110818.html
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| Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7
| from the pronounced-pfffffpp dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @19:33 (PHP)
| with 83 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/2332217/Serious-Crypto-Bug-Found-In-PHP-537?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The maintainers of the PHP scripting language are
warning users about [0]a serious crypto problem in the latest release and
advising them not to upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 until the bug is resolved. PHP
5.3.7 was just released last week and that version contained fixes for a
slew of security vulnerabilities. But now a serious flaw has been found
in that new release that is related to the way that one of the
cryptographic functions handles inputs. In some cases, when the crypt()
function is called using MD5 salts, the function will return only the
salt value."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/serious-crypto-bug-found-php-537-082211
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| World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach
| from the who-knew-larry-king-liked-to-vacation-these dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 22, @12:49 (Earth)
| with 76 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1624254/Worlds-Oldest-Fossils-Found-On-Australian-Beach?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Researchers say they have discovered the fossils of
3.4-billion-year-old cells in between the cemented sand grains of an
ancient beach in Western Australia, [0]possibly the oldest fossils ever
found ([1]abstract). Chemical analyses of the minerals near the cells
suggest the microorganisms [2]depended on sulfur for fuel. Such a beach
might have been life's first breeding ground, one author says."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/worlds-oldest-fossils-found-in-a.html?ref=hp
1. http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1238.html
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/science/earth/22fossil.html
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| Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces
| from the next-version-needs-harmless-electrodes dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @17:13 (Programming)
| with 72 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/2031229/Symbolic-Violence-Beats-Lava-Lamps-All-To-Pieces?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]cdance writes "Traditional [1]Lava Lamps, and of course email, are the
tools of choice to notify your dev team that the build in your continuous
integration system is broken. However, lava lamps, just like pink
curtains and shag pile, don't really fit into the culture of many modern
development teams. There is now a solution. [2]Retaliation is a new
[3]Jenkins CI build monitor that automatically coordinates a [4]foam
missile counter-attack against the developer who breaks the build. It
does this by playing a pre-programmed control sequence to a USB Foam
Missile Launcher to target the offending code monkey."
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Links:
0. mailto:chris.dance@papercut.com
1. http://slashdot.org/story/04/08/26/1550255/Getting-Your-Boss-To-Buy-Lava-Lamps
2. https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation
3. http://jenkins-ci.org/
4. http://www.papercut.com/blog/chris/2011/08/19/who-broke-the-build/
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| GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due
| from the iron-upgrade-now-available dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 21, @20:13 (The Military)
| with 60 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/21/2237242/GEs-World-War-II-Era-Copper-Man-Gets-His-Due?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "GE's 'Copper Man' is a quarter-inch-thick,
electroplated copper mannequin from the early '40s that the Army used to
evaluate the thermal-insulating quality of protective clothing issued to
B-17 and B-24 airmen. At the request of the National Museum of Health and
Medicine in Washington, DC, the U.S. Army Research Institute of
Environmental Medicine recently agreed to [0]donate its oldest Copper Man
for permanent display."
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Links:
0. http://www.gereports.com/ges-world-war-ii-era-copper-man-gets-his-due/
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| EU Central Court Could Validate Software Patents
| from the we-have-come-seeking-rent dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 22, @18:00 (EU)
| with 47 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/2115224/EU-Central-Court-Could-Validate-Software-Patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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protoshell writes "'Software patents in Europe [0]could be validated with
a central patent court,' warns Richard Stallman in an article published
in the Guardian. After the rejection of the software patent directive in
2005, large companies [1]have shifted their lobbying towards the
validation of software patents in Europe through a central patent court,
which is foreseen with the Unitary Patent project. Even if the European
Patent Convention literally excludes software from patents, the European
Patent Office and the [2]German courts interpret the exclusion narrowly,
which makes software patents valid in the end."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/2115224/EU-Central-Court-Could-Validate-Software-Patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/22/european-unitary-patent-software-warning
1. http://epla.ffii.org/quotes
2. http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2011/07/23/bgh-confirms-new-approach-to-software-patents/
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| Google's Amazon River Street View Project
| from the turn-right-at-the-capybara dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 22, @11:28 (Google)
| with 40 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1428205/Googles-Amazon-River-Street-View-Project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Thanks to Google and the Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon (FAS), your
days of paddling up and down the Amazon basin looking for a fishing camp
are over. Google is [0]expanding its Street View service to cover [1]a
30-mile section of the Rio Negro River tributary from Manaus to Terra
Preta. FAS project leader Gabriel Ribenboim said, "It is very important
to show the world not only the environment and the way of life of the
traditional population, but to sensitize the world to the challenges of
climate change, deforestation and combating poverty."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1428205/Googles-Amazon-River-Street-View-Project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/street-view-goes-to-amazon.html
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14592184
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