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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones?
* Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC
* Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA
* Adrenaline May Damage DNA
* Apple Puts $383 Million Handcuffs On CEO Tim Cook
* X.Org Server 1.11 Released
* Celebrities Flock To Reserve<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.xxx Domains
* Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans
* Tesla CEO Wrong About Model S Timeline? $1,000,000 Says Yes
* Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent
* Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon
* Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall
* Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo
* Notch Shows <em>Minecraft</em> Adventure Update
* Emergent Gravity Disproved
* Open Source Simulator FlightGear Releases v2.4
* Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes
* Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products
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| Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones?
| from the gedankenexperiment dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @15:19 (Earth)
| with 675 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1819203/Ask-Slashdot-Could-We-Deal-With-the-End-of-Time-Zones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter hairyfish writes "Do we still need time
zones? Time zones are a relic of the past, when different parts of the
world were isolated, and 12 p.m. was whenever the sun was directly above
your specific location. Now, in the Internet age, time is just an
arbitrary number, and time zones are just unnecessary complexity. Why
can't we scrap time zones altogether, and all just use UTC across the
board? So here on the eastern seaboard of Australia, lunchtime will now
be at 2 a.m., In New York it will be 4 p.m., and in Moscow it will be 8
a.m. There'll be some pain with the initial changeover, but from then on
it's all good. Got a meeting with colleagues on the other side of the
world? 4 a.m. means 4 a.m. for everyone. Got a flight landing at 3 p.m.?
3 p.m. now means 3 p.m. for everyone. For DST, you simply change your
schedule rather than the clock (i.e. work and school starts an hour
earlier during DST months). No confusion ever again. For someone whose
work involves travel or communication across time zones, this is the best
idea I've ever heard. So why aren't we doing it?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1819203/Ask-Slashdot-Could-We-Deal-With-the-End-of-Time-Zones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC
| from the this-sounds-exciting dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday August 26, @22:37 (Earth)
| with 374 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0024206/Hurricane-Irene-Prompts-Unprecedented-Evacuation-of-NYC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oxide7 links this bit of sobering news, as reported by the International
Business Times: "For the first time, New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has ordered [0]a mandatory evacuation of 300,000 residents of
the cities coastal areas as Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast.
Buses and subways prepared to shut on Saturday as Hurricane Irene
approaches as well. All New Jersey rail service will be suspended from
noon Saturday, while the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will
institute a shutdown of trains and buses starting at the same time. The
suspension will include subways, buses, the Long Island Rail Road,
Metro-North Railroad and Access-A-Ride. The Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey will suspend PATH train service at noon as well. 'This is
a mandatory evacuation,' Bloomberg said. 'By five o'clock tomorrow you
have to be out. Waiting for the last minute is not a smart thing to do.
This is life threatening.'" Good luck to everyone in the storm's path:
[1]Irene is big. (Hat tip to Matt Lord.) What, if anything, are you doing
to prepare? Having spent more than an hour in worse-than-usual D.C.
traffic after [2]Tuesday's earthquake, I shudder to think of leaving New
York in a rush. Update: 08/27 06:43 GMT by [3]T : An anonymous reader
points out the [4]official evacuation map (PDF), on the swamped NYC
server, and suggests "Lets mirror this file anywhere we can ... put it on
all social media. Make these systems do what they were supposed to ��� help
us. I'm in Long Island City ~100 yards from the East River in the orange
(highest risk) area."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0024206/Hurricane-Irene-Prompts-Unprecedented-Evacuation-of-NYC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/204678/20110826/nyc-evacuation-subway-rail-to-shutdown-as-new-york-braces-for-hurricane-irene.htm
1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2011/h2011_Irene.html
2. https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/23/188255/58-Earthquake-Hits-East-Coast-of-the-US
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/downloads/pdf/hurricane_map_english.pdf
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| Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA
| from the this-way-to-the-ice-floe-folks dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @11:34 (Graphics)
| with 265 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1349233/Linux-Support-Fades-For-3Dfx-Voodoo-Rage-128-VIA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The developers behind the [0]Mesa 3D graphics
library, which provides the default graphics driver support for most
hardware on Linux (and BSD/Solaris), has [1]ended their support for older
hardware. Being removed from Mesa (and therefore versions of Linux
distributions) is support for hardware like the 3Dfx Voodoo, Intel i810,
ATI Rage, and S3 Savage graphics processors. Also drivers being dropped
were for Matrox and VIA graphics. Mesa developers also decided it's time
to end support for the BeOS operating system. Dropping this code lowered
the developers' responsibility by some 100k L.O.C., so maybe we will see
GL3 support and OpenCL in Linux a bit sooner."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1349233/Linux-Support-Fades-For-3Dfx-Voodoo-Rage-128-VIA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mesa3d.org/
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0Mg
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| Adrenaline May Damage DNA
| from the why-I'm-younger-than-my-older-brother dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday August 26, @20:23 (Medicine)
| with 158 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/26/2339223/Adrenaline-May-Damage-DNA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Thelasko writes "Ever wonder why heads of state[0] tend to age twice as
fast as the rest of us? New research shows that [1]adrenaline may damage
DNA, potentially accelerating aging."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/26/2339223/Adrenaline-May-Damage-DNA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-04/politics/presidents.aging_1_presidents-debt-ceiling-roizen?_s=PM:POLITICS
1. http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/at-last-a-reason-why-stress-causes-dna-damage
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| Apple Puts $383 Million Handcuffs On CEO Tim Cook
| from the I'll-take-those-odds dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @08:32 (Businesses)
| with 155 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0836214/Apple-Puts-383-Million-Handcuffs-On-CEO-Tim-Cook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "There are bonuses. And then there are bonuses. Apple's
board, led by [0]sadly frail-looking chairman Steve Jobs, signaled its
long-term confidence in Tim Cook as the company's new leader, disclosing
in a regulatory filing that it's awarding the new CEO [1]one million
restricted stock units that will vest over the next decade. Apple shares
closed at $383.53 Friday. From the SEC filing: 'In connection with Mr.
Cook's appointment as Chief Executive Officer, the Board awarded Mr. Cook
1,000,000 restricted stock units. Fifty percent of the restricted stock
units are scheduled to vest on each of August 24, 2016 and August 24,
2021, subject to Mr. Cook's continued employment with Apple through each
such date.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0836214/Apple-Puts-383-Million-Handcuffs-On-CEO-Tim-Cook?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick/
1. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/apple-aims-tim-cook-2021-1m-shares-vesting-decade
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| X.Org Server 1.11 Released
| from the amazing-stuff-x-amazing dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @04:20 (Graphics)
| with 139 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0154245/XOrg-Server-111-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that [0]X.Org Server
1.11 has been officially released to users of Linux and other operating
systems. This time around their reporting is more detailed than [1]the
official release announcement."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0154245/XOrg-Server-111-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0MA
1. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-August/001729.html
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| Celebrities Flock To Reserve<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.xxx Domains
| from the always-leave-your-career-options-open dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @07:07 (The Internet)
| with 134 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0647235/Celebrities-Flock-To-Reserve-xxx-Domains?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes "Celebrities have moved swiftly to block their names from
the .xxx domain, which is meant for websites that offer pornographic
content. [0]Thousands of celebrities have contacted ICM Registry to put
their names on the permanently reserved list so that no one will be able
to start offering porn under their name. The domain registration company,
ICM Registry, failed to give out the list of domain names it had blocked
nor it is willing to tell how long the list is. On a lighter note,
OsamaBinLaden.xxx has been also blocked and we assume the Al Qaeda would
have demanded to reserve the domain."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0647235/Celebrities-Flock-To-Reserve-xxx-Domains?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/domains_with_celeb_names_banned/
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| Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans
| from the check-out-greg-bear's-darwin's-radio dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @16:21 (Science)
| with 133 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1847243/Neanderthal-Sex-Boosted-Immunity-In-Modern-Humans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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NotSanguine writes "[0]Sexual relations between ancient humans and their
evolutionary cousins were critical for our modern immune systems,
researchers report ([1]paper itself is subscription only) in the journal
Science. Mating with Neanderthals and another ancient group called
Denisovans introduced genes that help us cope with viruses to this day,
they conclude."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1847243/Neanderthal-Sex-Boosted-Immunity-In-Modern-Humans?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14673047
1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6046/1086.summary
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| Tesla CEO Wrong About Model S Timeline? $1,000,000 Says Yes
| from the $1,000,000-also-says-no dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @01:23 (Businesses)
| with 130 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0143213/Tesla-CEO-Wrong-About-Model-S-Timeline-1000000-Says-Yes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thecarchik writes with the snarky-sounding claim that Elon Musk, CEO of
electric-car startup Tesla Motors, sometimes says "things that later
[0]prove not to be quite true." thecarchik continues: In that, he's like
many entrepreneurs, who spend a portion of their time persuading the
unconvinced and painting pictures of the rosy future, despite
[1]inconvenient facts that may contradict that vision of the future. And
in the case of the 2012 Tesla Model S all-electric sports sedan, which
Tesla says it will launch before the end of next year, skeptics abound.
Pulitzer Prize wining Journalist Dan Neil said the schedule promised by
Musk was 'an audacious timeline that makes many in the car industry roll
their eyes.' And, he added, 'Even people inside Tesla are leery.' The
implication was clear: Neil didn't believe Tesla would be able to deliver
on Musk's promises. A week later, Musk e-mailed Neil and told him in no
uncertain terms that he was wrong. After several lively rounds of e-mail,
he challenged Musk to a $1 million bet on the outcome based on the
[2]Tesla Model S hitting 4 targets. If the Tesla Model S misses any of
the targets, Neil wins the bet." I'd like to see many more media
statements backed by explicit wagers, and not just the indirect gamble of
the stock market.
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Links:
0. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1018501_no-damnit-tesla-has-not-been-approved-for-loans-yet
1. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1047040_tesla-motors-ceo-elon-musk-cant-handle-the-truth
2. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1064697_betting-teslas-elon-musk-1-million-dan-neil-hopes-to-lose
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| Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent
| from the opalong-nothing-to-see-here dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @18:32 (Cloud)
| with 103 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/2115210/Announcing-Opa-Making-Web-Programming-Transparent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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phy_si_kal writes "Opa, a new open source programming language aiming to
make web development transparent, has been [0]publicly launched. Opa
automatically generates client-side JavaScript, and handles communication
and session control. The ultimate goal of this project is to allow
writing distributed web applications using a single programming language
to code application logic, database queries and user interfaces. Among
existing [1]applications already developed in Opa, some are worth a look.
Best place to start is the [2]project homepage which contains extensive
[3]documentation, while the code of the technology is on [4]GitHub. A
[5]programming challenge ends October 17th."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/2115210/Announcing-Opa-Making-Web-Programming-Transparent?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4336
1. http://opalang.org/see.xmlt
2. http://opalang.org/
3. http://opalang.org/learn.xmlt
4. https://github.com/MLstate/opalang
5. http://opalang.org/challenge/home.xmlt
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| Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon
| from the how-they-do-the-prime-shipping dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @08:50 (Earth)
| with 102 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/0726248/Evidence-Points-To-Huge-Underground-River-Beneath-Amazon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chill writes "Researchers at the department of geophysics of the Brazil
National Observatory have showed evidence of the existence of an
underground river that [0]flows 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon. The width
of the newly-named Hamza is said to be 3,700 miles long, flowing 13,000
feet below the Amazon. Both rivers flow from west to east, but the Hamza
flows at only a fraction of the speed of Amazon."
Discuss this story at:
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| Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall
| from the all-the-cool-bookstores-have-their-own dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @10:31 (Portables)
| with 94 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1336249/Amazons-Android-Tablet-Expected-This-Fall?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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According to the New York Post ��� [0]among many others ��� Amazon is
[1]expected to launch its long-anticipated color tablet in late September
or October, and the device is slated to sell for 'hundreds less' than the
iPad, which implies a price of $300 or less. MSNBC says much the same,
but adds some (their words) "[2]generic looking mockups" to illustrate. I
expect millions of Kindle owners will happily skip the added weight and
shorter battery life of a full-fledged tablet, but it's good to have
options.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1336249/Amazons-Android-Tablet-Expected-This-Fall?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&topic=t&ncl=dSsgM28vHUhjfTMzxje0vR8NCfREM
1. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/tablets_price_is_right_p9yGIOGH9cl8amKOPBSDII
2. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/26/7485225-is-this-what-amazons-tablet-will-look-like
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| Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo
| from the sweat-and-tears dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @14:38 (Japan)
| with 83 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1814243/Tribute-To-Steve-Jobs-a-21km-Apple-Logo-in-Tokyo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "To pay his tribute to Steve Jobs, Joseph
Tame, a media producer and a marathon runner from Tokyo, ran 21 kms in 2
hours ��� starting from the western side of the Imperial Palace, across to
Roppongi, through Omotesando, then up to Shinjuku. The leaf is in
Kagurazaka, and the start/finish point just by the entrance to Yasukuni
Shrine. The route, when mapped, [0]shows the famous Apple logo in the
center of Tokyo."
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Links:
0. http://josephta.me/2011/08/art-of-running-tokyo-steve-jobs-apple-logo/
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| Notch Shows <em>Minecraft</em> Adventure Update
| from the everyone-has-a-hobby dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @17:28 (Games)
| with 78 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/2010258/Notch-Shows-Minecraft-Adventure-Update?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jjp9999 writes "Markus 'Notch' Persson, the creator of Minecraft,
[0]showed off some features of the upcoming v1.8 at PAX, which includes
the long-awaited adventure update. The video shows off villages, which
Notch says can usually be found near the player's spawn point, as well as
improved graphics and a few other gameplay tweaks. Notch says he and his
team play to release the update soon, but may release it in increments,
since 'there's so much we need to clean up,' Regardless, the next version
of Minecraft looks stunning, with some much-needed direction to the
gameplay that could rekindle interest."
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/2010258/Notch-Shows-Minecraft-Adventure-Update?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techzwn.com/2011/08/minecraft-v1-8-includes-adventure-update-better-graphics-villages-video/
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| Emergent Gravity Disproved
| from the what-does-this-guy-know? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @13:11 (Math)
| with 76 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1711253/Emergent-Gravity-Disproved?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kdawson writes "A paper up on the ArXiv claims to [1]disprove the
gravity-from-entropy theory of Erik Verlinde, which [2]we discussed soon
after he introduced the idea in a symposium late in 2009. [3]Archil
Kobakhidze says that experiments measuring the effect of gravity on
quantum particles (neutrons in this case) match results expected from
classical Newtonian gravity, not Verlindian entropic gravity. Here is
[4]Kobakhidze's paper (PDF)."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://keithdawson.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27102/?ref=rss
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/10/1936240/The-End-Of-Gravity-As-a-Fundamental-Force
3. http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4161
4. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.4161v1
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| Open Source Simulator FlightGear Releases v2.4
| from the punctuated-equilibrium dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @14:15 (Open Source)
| with 53 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1745235/Open-Source-Simulator-FlightGear-Releases-v24?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "The latest version of FlightGear, 2.4, [0]has just been
released ��� and it has some significant improvements. Now it simulates
weather so that you can ride the up draft from a range of hills and seek
out thermals ��� but watch out for the simulated fog! For the future the
implementation of an HLA interface means that you can build clusters of
interacting simulators and perhaps even work with commercial flight
simulators." The [1]FlightGear website has gotten a long-deserved
upgrade, too.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1745235/Open-Source-Simulator-FlightGear-Releases-v24?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/2943-open-source-flight-sim-flightgear-reaches-24-.html
1. http://www.flightgear.org/
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| Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes
| from the gurgling-through dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @09:29 (Bug)
| with 45 comments
| https://apache.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1259229/Fix-For-Apache-DoS-Bug-In-the-Pipes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes with the report that "The Apache Software Foundation
plans to [0]have a fix available in the next day or so [Note: that means
today, now. --Ed.] for the denial-of-service problem in Apache that was
[1]publicized late last week. The bug, which in some forms has been under
discussion for more than four years, involves the way that the Web server
handles certain overlapping range headers. The vulnerability is a
denial-of-service bug, but it is considered serious because a remote
attacker can essentially take a targeted server offline with little
effort and resources. The Apache Software Foundation, which maintains the
popular open-source Web server, updated its advisory on the
vulnerability, saying that it expects to have a full fix available for
the vulnerability within the next 24 hours."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apache-plans-range-header-bug-fix-next-day-082611
1. http://apache.slashdot.org/story/11/08/24/2213201/Apache-Warns-Web-Server-Admins-of-DoS-Attack-Tool
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| Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products
| from the there-can-be-only-groupon dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, @19:36 (Cloud)
| with 24 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/2121204/Facebook-Kills-Places-Deals-Products?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Following the announcement about its [0]major
privacy revamp this week, Facebook has announced it is killing two of its
products. The company [1]has axed Facebook Places, although it still
adding new location features at the same time. In addition, the social
network has [2]has axed Facebook Deals, although Check-in Deals will
still be available."
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/23/212221/Facebook-Makes-Privacy-Settings-More-Obvious
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-kills-places-but-emphasizes-location-sharing-more/2972
2. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-kills-daily-facebook-deals-keeps-check-in-deals-alive/3071
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