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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades
* What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?
* Apple's iCloud Runs On Microsoft Azure
* Tapping Subway Trains For Energy
* Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet
* The Register Hacked
* Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office
* The UK Government's Struggle With Digital Rights
* Facebook Testing Translate Feature For Comments?
* NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project
* 18-Year-Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up
* Google Patents Glove For "Seeing With Your Hand"
* Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes
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| Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades
| from the work-easier-not-smarter dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @13:55 (Education)
| with 352 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1547243/Laptops-In-the-Classroom-Dont-Increase-Grades?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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blitzkrieg3 writes "Classrooms all around the country are being fitted
with one to one laptop programs, networking hardware, digital projectors,
and other technology in order to stay competitive in the 21st century.
Kyrene school district spent $3 million modernizing their classrooms. The
problem? [0]The increase in spending doesn't lead to an increase in test
scores. Policy makers calling for high tech classrooms, including former
execs from HP, Apple, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, want to
increase technology investment despite the results. Others are not so
sure, or think it is an outright waste of money."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1547243/Laptops-In-the-Classroom-Dont-Increase-Grades?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?
| from the best-of-class dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @19:45 (Books)
| with 281 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/2044204/What-Is-the-Most-Influential-Programming-Book?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter AlexDomo writes "If you could go back in
time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your
career as a developer, [0]which book would it be? Since it was first
posed back in 2008, this question has now become the second most popular
question of all time on StackOverflow. The top 5 results are: Code
Complete (2nd Edition), The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to
Master, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The C
Programming Language, and Introduction to Algorithms."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/2044204/What-Is-the-Most-Influential-Programming-Book?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.internetsecuritydb.com/2011/09/top-ten-most-influential-programming.html
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| Apple's iCloud Runs On Microsoft Azure
| from the we-put-a-cloud-in-your-cloud dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 04, @02:04 (Cloud)
| with 211 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/Apples-iCloud-Runs-On-Microsoft-Azure?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Front page first-timer ge7 writes "Apple's recently announced cloud
storage and cloud service platform, iCloud, [0]runs on their main
competitor Microsoft's Azure platform and Amazon services. According to
The Reg's sources, 'Microsoft insiders see the iCloud deal as a
validation of Azure. iCloud puts Azure into a different league, given the
brand love for Apple and the Apple management's fanatical attitude to
perfection. It is a "huge consumer brand, a great opportunity to get
Azure under a very visible workload." ... Apple has had a recent
unpleasant experience in providing online services: in a famous memo,
Steve Jobs admitted his company had "more to learn about internet
services" following the outages and failures of his precursor to iCloud
for email, contacts, calendar, photos and other files on MobileMe.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/Apples-iCloud-Runs-On-Microsoft-Azure?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/icloud_runs_on_microsoft_azure_and_amazon/
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| Tapping Subway Trains For Energy
| from the make-them-pedal dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 03, @22:55 (Power)
| with 209 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/229215/Tapping-Subway-Trains-For-Energy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Industrial flywheel manufacturer [0]Vycon
Energy believes that they can [1]tap the immense amount of kinetic energy
carried by moving subway trains to subsidize city power systems. Not only
would this reduce emissions, but it would also help to avoid peak power
emergencies. This energy could the be used to start the trains up again ���
a 10-car subway train in New York's system requires a jolt of three to
four megawatts of power for 30 seconds to get up to cruising speed ���
that's enough energy to power 1,300 average U.S. homes."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/229215/Tapping-Subway-Trains-For-Energy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.vyconenergy.com/
1. http://inhabitat.com/vycon-plans-to-tap-speeding-subway-trains-for-immense-amounts-of-kinetic-energy/
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| Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet
| from the discount-computing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @11:27 (Handhelds)
| with 146 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1439221/Lenovo-To-Offer-200-Budget-Tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter khellendros1984 writes "Amazon's not the
only big-name company planning on a budget-level tablet release; Lenovo
recently announced their [0]Ideapad A1 tablet as competition. It includes
a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, along with other features more commonly seen on
higher-priced tablets, such as dual cameras, bluetooth, GPS, wifi, and a
MicroSD slot. Is this the start of the Android tablet price avalanche?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1439221/Lenovo-To-Offer-200-Budget-Tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/lenovo-announces-ideapad-a1-the-199-android-tablet-we-go-hand/
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| The Register Hacked
| from the down-time dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @16:20 (Security)
| with 144 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/2012220/The-Register-Hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter rjmx writes "Looks like [0]The Register has
been hacked. It's front page has been [1]replaced with a page in tasteful
red and black, apparently by a Turkish hacker."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/2012220/The-Register-Hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
1. http://itigloo.com/2011/09/04/the-register-hacked/
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| Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office
| from the breaks-over-jawa dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @12:43 (Businesses)
| with 131 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1511229/Lucasfilm-Unveils-Sandcrawler-Singapore-Office?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The massive, slow moving Sandcrawlers from
George Lucas' Star Wars films inspired the form of [0]Lucasfilm's new
regional headquarters in Singapore. Designed by Aedas, the Sandcrawler
Building will house a 100 seat theater, Lucasfilm Singapore offices, a
public podium and other employee spaces. Neither rusty nor slow moving in
this case, the glassy and streamlined building will combine a high
performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over
terraces, resulting in a highly efficient commercial space. With
construction already underway, we can look forward to this real life Star
Wars manifestation sometime in 2012."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1511229/Lucasfilm-Unveils-Sandcrawler-Singapore-Office?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| The UK Government's Struggle With Digital Rights
| from the regulating-a-series-of-tubes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 04, @05:06 (United Kingdom)
| with 103 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0619219/The-UK-Governments-Struggle-With-Digital-Rights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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With his first accepted submission, [0]Ajehals sends this excerpt from a
post by the UK Pirate Party: "... at every turn, the coalition has been
[1]exposed as having no coherent policy on digital rights. Nothing
illustrates this better than its zig-zag course on Internet filtering and
website blocking. ... As if any further confirmation was needed that the
government's policy on digital rights, and freedom of speech is entirely
made up on the fly, along came the riots and a classic knee-jerk reaction
to the use of social media. ... one of the few concrete parts of David
Cameron���s statement to the recalled House of Commons was a full on attack
on social media. It was carefully worded, but the thrust was that the
Prime Minister thought further action is necessary to combat the 'ill'
done by status updates. At this point things took a turn for the
authoritarian, with MP Louise Mensch saying it was 'acceptable to shut
Twitter and Facebook off for an hour or two.' ... Worse still, it has
been recently revealed that the Government actually asked Ofcom to make
Digital Economy Act appeals harder. It also wants to rule out a public
consultation ��� once again trying to do deals away from the public eye. I
suspect it is actually this fear of the power technology can give us to
hold our representatives to account that drives alarm about the Internet
in the corridors of power."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0619219/The-UK-Governments-Struggle-With-Digital-Rights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:andyhalsall@COMMAictsc.comminuspunct
1. http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2011/sep/1/coalition-has-no-digital-rights-policy/
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| Facebook Testing Translate Feature For Comments?
| from the button-of-babel dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @10:11 (Cloud)
| with 82 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1214251/Facebook-Testing-Translate-Feature-For-Comments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook may be [0]testing a translation
feature that could overcome the language barrier many users experience on
the social network. If a comment posted on a Page is in a language that
is different than the one your Facebook account is set to, a Translate
button may show up just below it beside the existing Like button.
Clicking on the button will translate the comment to your account
language. After translation, an Original button appears instead, and if
you click that it will revert the comment to the original version (and
presumably offer the Translation button again)."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1214251/Facebook-Testing-Translate-Feature-For-Comments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-testing-a-translate-feature-for-comments-rumor/3235
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| NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project
| from the need-a-hand? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @15:13 (Cloud)
| with 65 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1730256/NSA-Makes-Contribution-To-Apache-Hadoop-Project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has [0]submitted
a new database, Accumulo, to the Apache Foundation for incubation.
Accumulo is based on the original BigTable paper with some extensions
such as the ability to provide cell-level security. It appears there are
some hurdles that must be cleared concerning copyright before the project
could be accepted."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1730256/NSA-Makes-Contribution-To-Apache-Hadoop-Project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AccumuloProposal
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| 18-Year-Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up
| from the patience-and-a-sweet-telescope dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 04, @08:18 (Space)
| with 61 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/068250/18-Year-Old-Student-Discovers-Comet-Break-Up?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "It's an event that any professional astronomer
would consider to be a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. But for one
18-year-old British student, witnessing the fragmentation of a comet she
was studying [1]became the highlight of a summer work experience program
using the Faulkes Telescope Project. However, that was just the icing on
the cake; Hannah Blyth of St. Johns College, Cardiff, also assisted in
[2]the discovery of over 20 previously unknown asteroids, two of which
she discovered herself. It is extremely rare to spot a fragmenting comet,
but for an amateur (let alone an 18-year-old student on work experience),
this is an incredible achievement."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/068250/18-Year-Old-Student-Discovers-Comet-Break-Up?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/comet-breakup-asteroid-discoveries-18-year-old-110903.html
2. http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/news/2406
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| Google Patents Glove For "Seeing With Your Hand"
| from the touching-is-believing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @09:03 (Google)
| with 50 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1210220/Google-Patents-Glove-For-Seeing-With-Your-Hand?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Is Google Couch Search about to go Beta? GeekWire reports
that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is among the inventors listed on a
patent issued to the search giant this week for [0]'Seeing With Your
Hand', using a glove with sensors for viewing a room or controlling a
computer with gestures. From the patent: 'When a small object is lost,
for example, underneath a couch, humans naturally put their hands under
the couch to locate the lost object by touch. While gathering information
by touch is in some cases an acceptable substitute for seeing, in many
situations it may be desirable to 'see' the inaccessible environment to
better gather information.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1210220/Google-Patents-Glove-For-Seeing-With-Your-Hand?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/google-patents-interactive-glove-seeing-hand
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| Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes
| from the telescope-repair-option dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 04, @18:00 (Transportation)
| with 23 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/1816253/Cryogenic-Truck-Services-Remote-Telescopes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "Moving a 115-ton telescope down a mountain and 40
miles on the back of a humongous truck to a servicing facility is no task
for the timid. It's a job the caretakers of the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy
facility , no longer have to worry about thanks to [1]a new custom
designed truck that can transport and service ALMA's
temperature-sensitive astronomical equipment without removing a telescope
from the working array at 16,500 feet in the Chilean mountains."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cryogenic-service-truck-climbs-mountain-so-te
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