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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies
* Apple Claims Samsung and Motorola Patent Monopoly
* Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'?
* Kernel.org Compromised
* Is Tablet Success Bound To Their Crackability?
* NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect
* WikiLeaks Sues the Guardian Over Leak
* Steve Jobs, Before the iPad, On Why Tablets Suck
* Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon
* Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack
* Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV?
* Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution
* Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK
* Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display
* Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers
* EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners'
* Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers
* Warrantless Wiretapping Cases At the 9th Circuit
* European Firms Assisted Gaddafi's Internet Monitoring Regime
* First Complete Lizard Genome Sequenced
* Generating Text From Functional Brain Images
* Lawsuit Claims Windows Phone 7 Spies On Users
* Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission"
* First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer
* Judge Nixes, Lowers Oracle's $1.3B Award Against SAP
* New Prices For Google Apps Engine
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| Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies
| from the all-these-lovely-broken-windows dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @14:40 (Businesses)
| with 555 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1829257/Solar-Company-Folds-After-05B-In-Subsidies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter dusanv writes "Solyndra, a Silicon Valley
solar energy firm, subsidized to the tune of $500 million and held as a
'gleaming example of green technology,' [0]announced bankruptcy yesterday.
1,100 employees fired."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1829257/Solar-Company-Folds-After-05B-In-Subsidies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Apple Claims Samsung and Motorola Patent Monopoly
| from the patent-vs-patent dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @11:42 (Google)
| with 335 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1524232/Apple-Claims-Samsung-and-Motorola-Patent-Monopoly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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esocid writes with a bit in Daily Tech about the ongoing spat between
Apple and the rest of the mobile world. From the article: "Apple lawyers
are crying foul about Samsung, and ... Motorola's allegedly
'anticompetitive,' use of patents. ... Apparently [0]Apple is irate about
these companies' countersuits, which rely largely on patents covering
wireless communications, many of which are governed by the 'fair,
reasonable and non-discriminatory' (F/RAND) principle, as they were
developed as part of industry standards. ... Apple takes issue with the
fact that Motorola in its countersuit [1]declines to differentiate the 7
F/RAND patents in its 18 patent collection. ... Regardless of what
Florian Mueller says, it's hard to dispute that the 'rules' of F/RAND are
largely community dictated and ambiguous."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1524232/Apple-Claims-Samsung-and-Motorola-Patent-Monopoly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Cries+About+Samsung+and+Motorolas+Patent+Monopoly/article22586.htm
1. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/apple-reinforces-its-frand.html
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| Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'?
| from the let's-talk-now-about-bundling dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @13:53 (GUI)
| with 310 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/179245/Windows-8-Desktop-Just-Another-App?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and
Windows Live division, said this week that [1]Windows 8 will let users
treat the traditional desktop as 'just another app' that loads only on
command. When it [2]unveiled Windows 8's UI in June, Microsoft said it
would feature a 'touch-first' interface to compete in the fast-growing
tablet market. Underneath that, however, would be a traditional
Windows-style desktop. 'Having both of [the] user interfaces [work]
together harmoniously is an important part of Windows 8,' [3]Sinofsky
said in a blog post on Wednesday. The Metro-style UI ��� the one inspired
by Windows Phone 7's tile-based design ��� will be the first to show up
when a user boots a device. At that point, users reach a crossroads. 'If
you want to stay permanently immersed in that Metro world, you will never
see the desktop ��� we won't even load it (literally the code will not be
loaded) unless you explicitly choose to go there,' Sinofsky said. 'If you
don't want to do ... 'PC' things, then you don't have to and you're not
paying for them in memory, battery life or hardware requirements.' If
using a conventional PC with keyboard and mouse, Windows 8 users will run
an 'app' to load the desktop, he said. 'Essentially, you can think of the
Windows desktop as just another app.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/179245/Windows-8-Desktop-Just-Another-App?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219680/Windows_8_desktop_to_be_just_another_app_says_Microsoft_exec
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/02/0437233/Windows-8-Previewed-At-D9
3. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/31/designing-for-metro-style-and-the-desktop.aspx
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| Kernel.org Compromised
| from the everyone-is-doing-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @20:01 (Security)
| with 295 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter JoeF writes "There is a note posted on the
main kernel.org page indicating that [0]kernel.org was compromised
earlier this month: 'Earlier this month, a number of servers in the
kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August
28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were
unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to
enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure.' The note goes on
to say that it is [1]unlikely to have affected the source code
repositories, due to the nature of git."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.kernel.org/
1. http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/09/kernelorg-server-rooted-and-448-users.html
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| Is Tablet Success Bound To Their Crackability?
| from the don't-you-dare-unlock-that-bootloader dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @13:10 (Android)
| with 289 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/179241/Is-Tablet-Success-Bound-To-Their-Crackability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Hitting the front page for the first time, rippeltippel writes "The
Economist recently published an article about HP quitting the tablet
market. Nothing new I said, until I read 'the announcement showed that
the firm had finally seen the light about the tablet market ��� [0]namely,
that there is no such thing.' But are the games closed with the iPad as a
clear winner? Possibly not: 'hackers have embraced the Nook, "rooting"
its underlying Linux software ... so it can run many more applications
from Google's online app store and elsewhere.' A review on Amazon's
Kindle tablet page reads: 'They've cracked it ��� this is the future.' Can
it possibly be read as 'Crackable tablets are the future of tablets?'"
Smartphone vendors seem to have gotten the message: users want to control
the software on their phones. It is a shame that Palm/HP, who were one of
the only vendors open from the start, more or less lost the game.
Unfortunately it seems that tablet and ebook reader vendors have yet to
get the message.
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/179241/Is-Tablet-Success-Bound-To-Their-Crackability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/08/tablet-computers
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| NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect
| from the heat-is-on dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @02:54 (Crime)
| with 278 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0156246/NZ-Illegal-Downloading-Crackdown-Law-In-Effect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]sfranklin writes "As of Sept 1 at
midnight, 'anyone caught downloading copyrighted content illegally
[1]could face fines of up to $15,000 and have their internet cut off' in
New Zealand. You don't even have to do the deed yourself. The 'account
holder needs to know what's going on even if they themselves don't do
anything online ...' Scary stuff, although I wonder how much actual
enforcement is likely to happen."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0156246/NZ-Illegal-Downloading-Crackdown-Law-In-Effect?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ineffablebob.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyid=203738
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| WikiLeaks Sues the Guardian Over Leak
| from the leaking-the-leakers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @00:41 (The Courts)
| with 247 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0153200/WikiLeaks-Sues-the-Guardian-Over-Leak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "WikiLeaks [0]complaining of a leak is hard to
get one's head around. That it's suing The Guardian ��� its great ally ��� is
even harder. That The Guardian did such a [1]ridiculous thing to warrant
litigation in the first place almost defies belief." Update: 09/01 04:59
GMT by [2]S : Changed the first link to point to the statement on
WikiLeaks' website. The Guardian has [3]denied the allegations, saying,
"Our book about WikiLeaks was published last February. It contained a
password, but no details of the location of the files, and we were told
it was a temporary password which would expire and be deleted in a matter
of hours."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0153200/WikiLeaks-Sues-the-Guardian-Over-Leak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html
1. http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/09/01/3307488.htm
2. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/01/unredacted-us-embassy-cables-online
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| Steve Jobs, Before the iPad, On Why Tablets Suck
| from the that-was-ithen-this-is-inow dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @15:22 (Handhelds)
| with 206 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1917257/Steve-Jobs-Before-the-iPad-On-Why-Tablets-Suck?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Edible Apple: "Apple
didn't release the first tablet computer or even come up with the idea
for tablet computing itself. If anything, Microsoft, and Bill Gates in
particular, were championing tablet computers years before the iPad was
released. In this video clip from the first All Things D conference in
2003, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains to Walt Mossberg [0]why Apple,
at the time, wasn't keen on tablets and more specifically, why Jobs felt
that stylus computing and handwriting recognition were inherent
failures."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1917257/Steve-Jobs-Before-the-iPad-On-Why-Tablets-Suck?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon
| from the extra-cheese dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @12:31 (Moon)
| with 199 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1554215/Dominos-Plans-Pizza-On-the-Moon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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It may be more PR stunt than a viable expansion plan, but the Japanese
arm of Domino's Pizza is [0]making plans for a lunar store. Construction
firm Maeda Corp has drawn-up the plans for the dome shaped restaurant and
figures it will take 70 tons of materials and pizza-making equipment.
Even with the cost cutting measure or using mineral deposits on the moon
to make the concrete, Domino's estimates the costs at Y1.67 trillion
($21.7 billion). In 2001 rival chain Pizza Hut made a delivery to the
International Space Station, but Domino's hopes to become the preferred
pizza of space with the moon store plan.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1554215/Dominos-Plans-Pizza-On-the-Moon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8734456/Dominos-plans-pizza-on-the-Moon.html
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| Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack
| from the bored-teenagers-being-idiots dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @09:32 (Security)
| with 180 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1258251/Anonymous-Claims-Responsibility-For-WikiLeaks-Attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mask.of.sanity writes "Anonymous members have [0]taken responsibility for
launching a denial of service attack against WikiLeaks this week using a
custom-built tool that exploits an SQL server flaw. Field tests of the
tool dubbed [1]RefRef were launched against several websites including
WikiLeaks, Pastebin and 4Chan. In a [2]Twitter account linked to the
Anonymous blog, the users were described as hacktivists with 'a personal
vendetta against WikiLeaks,' adding that 'we are sorry we took you down.
We are even.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1258251/Anonymous-Claims-Responsibility-For-WikiLeaks-Attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/268898,anonymous-attacked-wikileaks.aspx
1. http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-hacking-tools-by-anonymous-new.html
2. https://twitter.com/#!/AnonCMD
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| Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV?
| from the it's-from-the-fuuuuuture dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @18:22 (Robotics)
| with 162 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2136229/Ask-Slashdot-Can-You-Identify-This-UAV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]garymortimer writes "It's not as sexy as the Beast of Kandahar RQ 170
Sentinel, or as well known as a Predator. But we think the [1]bird-shaped
drone that crashed in Pakistan last week might be a U.S. special forces
tool. At first it was thought to be a homemade job, but packs with FMC
(which means 'Fully Mission Capable') written on them, and an American
date style as well, really points to something else. sUAS News is not
AvWeek or Flight International so getting scoops is tricky whilst holding
down a day job. Our exclusive pictures of the damaged C130 that struck an
RQ170 was pretty good for us. We would love to identify this drone. Maybe
it is just a homebrew job, maybe it's not. It's not a [2]Festo Smartbird,
though, the most popular choice of pundits."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2136229/Ask-Slashdot-Can-You-Identify-This-UAV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.suasnews.com/
1. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/08/7869/that-mystery-bird-shaped-drone/
2. http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369.htm
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| Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution
| from the let's-see-if-microsoft-pulls-a-sony dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @23:16 (XBox (Games))
| with 156 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2028245/Xbox-360-Reset-Hack-Yields-Unsigned-Code-Execution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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walshy007 writes "A new exploit has been shown which [0]allows unsigned
code execution on the Xbox 360 for all current models. It functions by
pulsing the reset pin at a critical time during the checksumming/crypto
boot process. The exploit enables the running of [1]Xell, a boot loader
which facilitates the running of Linux, amongst other programs."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2028245/Xbox-360-Reset-Hack-Yields-Unsigned-Code-Execution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.free60.org/Reset_Glitch_Hack
1. http://www.free60.org/XeLL
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| Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK
| from the vps-just-wanna-have-fun-man dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @11:00 (Microsoft)
| with 149 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/148223/Drunkeness-and-Sexual-Harassment-Alleged-At-Microsoft-UK?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rtfa-troll writes "A picture of vodka fountains, indefinite amounts of
Jaegermeister, and sexual harassment is emerging from Microsoft. The
former second in command at Microsoft UK was [0]accused of sexual
misconduct involving at least five separate women. A Microsoft internal
investigation was unable to prove the allegations but decided to fire
Simon Negus for having '[1]behaved dishonestly, and thereby acted in a
manner calculated or likely to destroy trust and confidence between him
and Microsoft' and sue him ��75k. Now Negus, who already has a new job as
COO at [2]Upstream Systems has struck back with a ��10 million false
dismissal suit alleging a culture of drunken parties and claiming that
other (Male) management at Microsoft were so drunk they followed a female
Microsoft UK manager into the ladies' lavatories. I guess we can now
guess why senior managers go away to Microsoft vowing never to buy
anything and come back with signed contracts; presumably it was just
lying there next to them in the morning and they were too afraid to ask
what happened."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/148223/Drunkeness-and-Sexual-Harassment-Alleged-At-Microsoft-UK?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/8734144/Sex-claims-and-the-wild-ways-of-Microsoft-bosses.html
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/09/negus_and_microsoft/
2. http://corp.upstreamsystems.com/
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| Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display
| from the personal-theater dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @08:06 (Displays)
| with 145 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0259212/Sony-To-Sell-3D-Head-Mounted-Display?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Sony says it will start [1]selling a head mounted
display that provides a 3D theater for music videos, movies and games,
targeting people who prefer solitary entertainment rather than sitting in
front of a TV with family or friends. Sony Corp said on Wednesday that
the 60,000 yen ($A730) 'HMZ personal 3D viewer' is set to go on sale on
November 11 in Japan, and is planned for the US and Europe, perhaps in
time for Christmas, although dates have not yet been set. HMZ uses Sony's
own OLED screen."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0259212/Sony-To-Sell-3D-Head-Mounted-Display?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/399365/sony_sell_3d_head-mounted_display/
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| Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers
| from the rain-makers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @05:47 (News)
| with 135 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0217259/Swiss-Researchers-Try-to-Make-it-Rain-With-Lasers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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formaggio writes "Last year a team of researchers at Switzerland's
University of Geneva had come up with an interesting way of making it
rain��� by shooting lasers high up into the sky. At the time it seemed like
science fiction, but now they are one step closer after the team
successfully [0]finished tests around Lake Geneva. From the article: '[1]Records
from 133 hours of firings revealed that intense pulses of laser light
created nitric acid particles in the air that behaved like atmospheric
glue, binding water molecules together into droplets and preventing them
from re-evaporating. Within seconds, these grew into stable drops a few
thousandths of a millimeter in diameter: too small to fall as rain, but
large enough to encourage the scientists to press on with the work.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0217259/Swiss-Researchers-Try-to-Make-it-Rain-With-Lasers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/30/firing-laser-beams-atmosphere-rain
1. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n8/full/ncomms1462.html
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| EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners'
| from the move-along-citizens-oh-wait dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @16:02 (Government)
| with 124 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1958204/EPIC-Uncovers-Mobile-Scanners-Not-Certified-People-Scanners?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "The [0]Electronic Privacy Information Center
received [1]more FOIA documents from the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security regarding mobile x-ray scanners (a.k.a. Z Backscatter Vans).
We've [2]discussed these devices before. Perhaps the most interesting
part is slide #11 ('Disclaimer About Scanning People') on [3]page 6 of
this PDF explaining that the radiation output of these devices is too
high to comply with ANSI N43.17. In other words, they output too much
radiation even by TSA's questionable standards for airport body scanners.
Regardless, the slide ends with the author stating that the ANSI standard
'is not applicable to covert operations.' What might that assertion have
meant to the presentation's intended audience?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1958204/EPIC-Uncovers-Mobile-Scanners-Not-Certified-People-Scanners?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://epic.org/
1. http://epic.org/2011/08/documents-reveal-new-details-a.html
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/215259/DHS-Tries-To-Hide-Mobile-Scanner-Details
3. http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/Mobile_Body_Scanner_FOIA_Aug_2011_Highlights.pdf
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| Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers
| from the more-like-a-skirmish dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @15:43 (AMD)
| with 116 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1934234/Battle-of-the-SATA-30-Controllers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Deathspawner writes "Think that all SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) controllers are
alike? As Techgage explores, that's not the case. While most SATA 3.0
controllers do deliver the performance promised, the most popular
offering on the market does not ��� at least where bandwidth-busting SSDs
are concerned. The controller comes from Marvell, and was bundled on all
motherboards prior to AMD and Intel launching their own SATA 3.0
solutions. In some cases, Marvell's controller is half as fast as the
others, making it [0]no better than a SATA 2.0 controller. For those with
motherboards using a Marvell controller, the solutions are few; build a
new PC, or invest in a super-expensive add-in card."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1934234/Battle-of-the-SATA-30-Controllers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techgage.com/article/battle_of_the_sata_30_controllers/
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| Warrantless Wiretapping Cases At the 9th Circuit
| from the no-good-peaceniks-causing-trouble dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @12:21 (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
| with 111 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1543215/Warrantless-Wiretapping-Cases-At-the-9th-Circuit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sunbird writes "The EFF argued several [0]critical cases yesterday before
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both [1]Hepting v. AT&T and [2]Jewel
v. National Security Agency raise important questions regarding whether
the NSA's [3]warrantless wiretapping program (pdf summary of evidence),
disclosed by whistleblower Mark Klein and implemented by AT&T and other
telecoms, violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The
full text of the Klein declaration and redacted exhibits are [4]publicly
available (pdf). ... The Klein evidence establishes that AT&T cut into
the fiber optic cables in San Francisco to route a complete copy of
internet and phone traffic to the 'SG3' secure room operated by the NSA.
The trial court [5]dismissed the Hepting lawsuit (pdf order) based on the
2008 Congressional grant of immunity to telecoms. Similarly, the trial
court in Jewel [6]dismissed (pdf order) the lawsuit against the
government agencies and officials based on the [7]state secrets privilege.
Both cases were argued together before the same panel of judges. The
audio of the oral argument will be [8]available after noon PDT [17:00
GMT] today."
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Links:
0. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/eff-s-warrantless-wiretapping-cases-back-court
1. https://www.eff.org/nsa/hepting
2. https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel
3. https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager.pdf
4. https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/Mark%20Klein%20Unredacted%20Decl-Including%20Exhibits.PDF
5. https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/orderhepting6309_0.pdf
6. https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/jewel/jeweldismissal12110.pdf
7. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/State_secrets_privilege
8. http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/
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| European Firms Assisted Gaddafi's Internet Monitoring Regime
| from the we-love-freedom-here dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @10:16 (Censorship)
| with 102 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1352211/European-Firms-Assisted-Gaddafis-Internet-Monitoring-Regime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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riverat1 writes "The Next Web has a story on Muammar Gaddafi's monitoring
of the internet and other telecommunications. As you might expect, the
[0]monitoring was intense. The story names [1]companies that supplied the
monitoring software, most notably Amesys, a unit of the French company
Bull SA. There is a more [2]detailed story behind the paywall at the Wall
Street Journal." Boeing's [3]Narus division may also have been involved
(collecting very important Analytics and nothing suspicious of course).
Update: 09/01 16:08 GMT by [4]UL :[5]Axure pointed out that VASTech
(South Africa), ZTE (China), and the aforementioned Narus (US) also
provided assistance, making the title of the article a bit inaccurate. It
seems the Libyan Internet monitoring was an international affair (my
apologies to Europe).
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Links:
0. http://thenextweb.com/me/2011/08/30/how-far-gadhafi-went-to-monitor-libyas-internet-activity/
1. http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/08/firms-aided-libyan-spies/
2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904199404576538721260166388.html
3. http://www.narus.com/
4. http://unknownlamer.org/
5. https://slashdot.org/~Axure
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| First Complete Lizard Genome Sequenced
| from the reptiles-are-from-space dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday September 01, @08:50 (Science)
| with 100 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/1221222/First-Complete-Lizard-Genome-Sequenced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]iamrmani writes with an article in the International Business Times
about the recent gene sequencing of a lizard. From the article:
"Researchers have managed to [1]sequence the genes of the green anole
lizard, which is the [2]first non-bird species of reptile to have its
genome sequenced and [3]assembled. The findings, which researchers have
obtained after assembling and analyzing more than 20 mammalian genomes,
may go a long way in understanding the evolution of animals and humans."
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Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/206908/20110901/carolina-anole-evolution-reptile-human-genome-mammal-biology-green-anole-lizard-genome-sequencing.htm
2. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10390.html
3. http://www.broadinstitute.org/models/anole
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| Generating Text From Functional Brain Images
| from the mind-reader dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @22:01 (Science)
| with 77 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2232238/Generating-Text-From-Functional-Brain-Images?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Med-trump writes "Can you get a text output of your thoughts? Princeton
scientists show that [0]it is possible to generate text about the mental
content reflected in brain images. The paper published in the journal [1]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience describe the functional magnetic
resonance imaging method used to identify areas of the brain activated
when study participants thought about physical objects such as a carrot,
a horse or a house."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2232238/Generating-Text-From-Functional-Brain-Images?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedebate.com/science-blog/matching-images-brain-activity-complex-thought
1. http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00072/abstract
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| Lawsuit Claims Windows Phone 7 Spies On Users
| from the stop-looking-at-me dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @19:59 (Cellphones)
| with 68 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2242241/Lawsuit-Claims-Windows-Phone-7-Spies-On-Users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Microsoft wants to emulate the success of the
iPhone, but they probably didn't want to follow in Apple's footsteps this
way: a class action lawsuit claims that Windows Phone 7 is [1]collecting
location data on users, even when they request that it stop. But a look
at the internals shows that Microsoft might not be acting as Big
Brother-ish as it appears."
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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2242241/Lawsuit-Claims-Windows-Phone-7-Spies-On-Users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/199325/lawsuit-charges-microsoft-location-spying-windows-phone-7
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| Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission"
| from the back-to-the-beginning dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 01, @19:10 (Mars)
| with 61 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2217232/Mars-Rover-Begins-Whole-New-Mission?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]sighted writes "NASA reports that the seemingly-unstoppable robotic
geologist Opportunity is finding things at [1]Endeavour crater that it
has never seen before, [2]adding new life to a mission that has already
been epic. Observations 'suggest that rock exposures on Endeavour's rim
date from early in Martian history and include clay minerals that form in
less-acidic wet conditions, possibly more favorable for life.' In a
teleconference today, one mission scientist compared this new phase of
exploration to a 'whole new mission.'"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2217232/Mars-Rover-Begins-Whole-New-Mission?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots.org/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/1837254/Mars-Rover-Opportunity-Set-To-Roll-Into-Its-Ultimate-Crater
2. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20110901a.html
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| First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer
| from the my-kids-better-be-smarter-than-I-am dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @17:33 (Hardware)
| with 58 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2040248/First-Von-Neumann-Architecture-Quantum-Computer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "The first computers with a [1]von Neumann
architecture, where a processor has access to RAM, appeared in the 1940s.
Now the first [2]quantum computing system with a von Neumann design has
been made, at University of California Santa Barbara. Their quantum
processor made up of two superconducting quantum bits can use a 2-bit
"quantum RAM" to save entangled bit values into."
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Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38495/?p1=A1
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| Judge Nixes, Lowers Oracle's $1.3B Award Against SAP
| from the larry-will-still-be-ok dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @16:48 (Oracle)
| with 40 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/206242/Judge-Nixes-Lowers-Oracles-13B-Award-Against-SAP?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Federal judge Phyllis Hamilton has [1]overturned
the $1.3 billion judgment Oracle won against SAP and has approved SAP's
request that Oracle accept a lower award, which would negate the need for
a new trial." Oracle is in the habit of [2]asking for awards in the
billions; with that model, they really can make it up on volume.
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/199445/bulletin-judge-overturns-oracles-13b-award-against-sap
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/176222/Oracle-Thinks-Google-Owes-61-Billion-In-Damages
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| New Prices For Google Apps Engine
| from the not-the-good-kind-of-new-prices dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 01, @17:54 (Cloud)
| with 26 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2120247/New-Prices-For-Google-Apps-Engine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter oker writes "Yesterday Google announced
Apps Engine would soon become a fully supported product. Unfortunately it
also means [0]a new pricing model, which is less appealing since [1]free
quotas have been lowered and you need to [2]pay at least $9 per month if
you go for the paid version."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/2120247/New-Prices-For-Google-Apps-Engine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/pricing.html
1. http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/08/50-credit-for-new-billing-signups-and.html
2. http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/postpreviewpricing.html#nine_dollar_month_fee_minimum_spend
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