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In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads?
* Is ARM Ever Coming To the Desktop?
* EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits
* Ask Slashdot: Best Copyright Terms For a Thesis?
* Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System
* Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History
* PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills
* Steam Translation Community Slaving Away
* TOSAmend Automates Counteroffer Terms For Service Agreements
* New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs
* Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices
* High School Student Launches a Trash Bag Aircraft
* <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic</em> Launch Date Announced
* Facebook Timeline Shows Who Has Unfriended You
* IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes
* Work Underway To Finally Build Babbage's Analytical Engine
* Wi-Fi Cards Can Now Detect Microwave Ovens
* NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada
* Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime
* Crowdsourcing Speeds Evolution of 3D Printable Objects
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| Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads?
| from the count-backwards-divide-by-zero dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @13:28 (Hardware Hacking)
| with 323 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1640208/Ask-Slashdot-Calculators-With-1-2-3-Number-Pads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]dotancohen writes "Although the telephone has the 1-2-3 key on the top
row, most calculators and keyboards have 7-8-9 on the top row. Switching
between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory. Do any slashdotters
use a scientific calculator with 1-2-3 on the top row? I've already
scraped and resoldered my Casio fx-82 calculator to have 1-2-3 on the
top, and remapped the numpad in Kubuntu, but if there exist any
calculators like this already on the market, I'd buy two."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1640208/Ask-Slashdot-Calculators-With-1-2-3-Number-Pads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://dotancohen.com/
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| Is ARM Ever Coming To the Desktop?
| from the my-arms-are-there-now dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @10:01 (Hardware)
| with 261 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1358256/Is-ARM-Ever-Coming-To-the-Desktop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter bingbangboom writes "Where are the ARM
powered desktops? I finally see some desktop models however they are
relegated to "developer" models with USD200+ price tags (trimslice, etc).
Raspberry Pi seems to be the only thing that will be priced correctly,
have the right amount of features, and may actually be released. Is the
software side holding ARM desktops back? Everyone seems to be foaming at
the mouth about anything with a touch interface, even on the Linux side.
Or are manufacturers not wanting to bring the 'netbook effect' to their
desktop sales? Are ARM powered desktops destined to join the mythical
smartbook?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1358256/Is-ARM-Ever-Coming-To-the-Desktop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits
| from the what's-the-eula-equivalent-to-jury-nullification dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @08:28 (The Courts)
| with 249 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0113250/EAs-New-User-Agreement-Bans-Lawsuits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this snippet: "Electronic Arts has
updated its Terms of Service Agreement for the Origin platform. Following
Sony's steps, and taking it even further, EA has added a new clause that
[0]prevents users from suing them in both class action and jury trial
forms."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0113250/EAs-New-User-Agreement-Bans-Lawsuits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ngohq.com/news/20584-eas-new-user-agreement-bans-lawsuits.html
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| Ask Slashdot: Best Copyright Terms For a Thesis?
| from the try-the-must-pay-my-loan-license dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday September 23, @20:01 (Education)
| with 196 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/23/2344224/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Copyright-Terms-For-a-Thesis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]plopez gets in his first Slashdot submission with this question,
writing: "I am wrapping up an MS. In the past I have had problems getting
copies of others' work, due to lack of copyright notices on their thesis
or dissertation. I don't want that happen to me. I know the joke is 'No
one will ever read your thesis,' but in the slim chance it is useful to
others I don't want them to be required to hunt me down for a release.
Basically I want to say: 'Copyright is released as long as this work or
excerpts is properly attributed. Also, any published excerpts cannot be
copyrighted by other parties, nor can the original work in its entirety.'
Is this good enough? I don't want to encumber legitimate uses of the work
but I also don't want some pirate coming along and stealing it out of
public domain. Is public domain good enough? Or does it allow the work to
be restricted by commercial interests? I know of copyleft, but copyleft
is a family of copyright notices and I am unsure which one is right for
my intent. Please help."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/23/2344224/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Copyright-Terms-For-a-Thesis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:reverandpdawg@gmail.com
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| Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System
| from the at-least-it-won't-get-exploited-by-malware dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday September 23, @22:50 (Windows)
| with 196 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0144238/Windows-8-Introduces-a-New-Cross-App-Data-Sharing-System?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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There's been a lot of attention to the way Windows 8 looks; reader
aabelro writes with an interesting look at one way it behaves. The
article begins thus: "Microsoft has created a [0]new mechanism for
sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows
Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of
data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. For example, the app
receiving the information can post it to Tweeter or Facebook[, making] it
easy to post information to a social network without actually visiting
it." Here's a short [1](video) explanation at MSDN, too.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0144238/Windows-8-Introduces-a-New-Cross-App-Data-Sharing-System?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Windows-Share
1. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/APP-405T
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| Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History
| from the what-a-timeline dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @01:42 (Australia)
| with 183 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/038247/Australian-Aboriginal-DNA-Suggests-70000-Year-History?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]brindafella writes with a link to an abstract at the journal Science
that says "Scientists have obtained a DNA genomic sequence from a
100-year-old, voluntarily donated hair sample from a full-blood
Australian Aboriginal man. [Analysis of the hair] shows 'Aboriginal
Australians are [1]descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern
Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago. This dispersal is separate
from the one that gave rise to modern Asians 25,000 to 38,000 years ago.
... [Their] findings support the hypothesis that present-day Aboriginal
Australians descend from the earliest humans to occupy Australia, likely
representing one of the oldest continuous populations outside Africa.' A
[2]news story gives more detail."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/038247/Australian-Aboriginal-DNA-Suggests-70000-Year-History?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://moc.liamgtaallefadnirb/
1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/09/21/science.1211177
2. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-23/aboriginal-dna-dates-australian-arrival/2913010
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| PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills
| from the if-they-say-the-word-paduan-run-away-fast dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @04:35 (Education)
| with 144 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0338244/PLAYterm-a-New-Way-To-Improve-Command-Line-Skills?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "Linux Journal points out [0]PLAYterm, an interesting project
that offers up [1]recordings of Linux command line sessions, with the aim
of helping viewers to improve their skills by watching gurus at work."
And there's no bad excuse to link to Neal Stephenson's excellent (and
free-to-download in delicious zipped-text form) [2] In the Beginning was
the Command Line.
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0338244/PLAYterm-a-New-Way-To-Improve-Command-Line-Skills?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.playterm.org/
1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/playterm-platform-gurus
2. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
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| Steam Translation Community Slaving Away
| from the in-their-air-conditioned-galleys dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @17:38 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 126 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2137229/Steam-Translation-Community-Slaving-Away?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Steam has decided to build a community effort
to get its Steam platform and game files translated by the community, but
here is the catch: Translators do not get paid. Millions could be saved
by Steam by making the community work for free. The article describes
basic estimates on [0]how much is saved by Steam in translation costs."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2137229/Steam-Translation-Community-Slaving-Away?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://zanfr.fr/?p=112
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| TOSAmend Automates Counteroffer Terms For Service Agreements
| from the cross-out-with-a-broad-brush dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @11:33 (Software)
| with 118 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1532258/TOSAmend-Automates-Counteroffer-Terms-For-Service-Agreements?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter BigSlowTarget writes "Are we simply subject
to whatever a software provider demands of us in their clickthrough TOS
agreement or are they real contracts where we can counteroffer our
preferred terms and expect a refund if they are rejected? One blogger has
come up with an applet to change TOS agreements and [0]automatically
submit the changes for approval (or rejection). Even he is not sure of
the legal standing for the offer, but with these contracts so common they
have been featured on South Park the issue certainly could be coming to
the courts soon."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1532258/TOSAmend-Automates-Counteroffer-Terms-For-Service-Agreements?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs
| from the see-enclosed-nude-document dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @15:35 (OS X)
| with 114 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1930210/New-Mac-OS-X-Trojan-Hides-Inside-PDFs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 contributes this snippet from ThreatPost: "Malware that
targets Mac OS X isn't anywhere near catching up to Windows-based malware
in terms of volume and variety, but it seems that OS X malware may be
adopting some of the more successful tactics that Windows viruses have
been using to trick users. Researchers have come across a sample of an
[0]OS X-based Trojan that disguises itself as a PDF file, a technique
that's been in favor among Windows malware authors for several years
now."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1930210/New-Mac-OS-X-Trojan-Hides-Inside-PDFs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-mac-os-x-trojan-imuler-hides-inside-malicious-pdf-092311
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| Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices
| from the girl-who-kicked-the-reflective-vest dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @10:57 (Idle)
| with 100 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1419219/Swedish-Daycare-Tracks-Kids-With-GPS-Devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A daycare center in Sweden is testing a new
system for that will prevent missing children by [0]placing GPS tracking
devices on kids while they are outside of the confines of the nursery
walls. The transmitters will report to a synced mobile phone, alarming
teachers if a child moves out of a certain distance. The tracking devices
clip easily to reflective vests that the children of the Malmoe daycare
wear when outside of the school."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1419219/Swedish-Daycare-Tracks-Kids-With-GPS-Devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.inhabitots.com/swedish-daycare-tests-gps-tracking-devices-for-kids/
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| High School Student Launches a Trash Bag Aircraft
| from the only-terrorists-want-that-much-helium dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @12:30 (Transportation)
| with 87 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1549221/High-School-Student-Launches-a-Trash-Bag-Aircraft?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with a great write-up of a project completed
last month by Manuja Gunaratne: "A high school student at Advanced
Technologies Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada [0]managed to launch an
aircraft using trash bags. The trash bag aircraft traveled for hundreds
of miles and rose to thousands of feet while capturing thousands of
images of the Earth. The trash bag craft consisted of household equipment
and only cost $50."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1549221/High-School-Student-Launches-a-Trash-Bag-Aircraft?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.projecttbac.org/
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| <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic</em> Launch Date Announced
| from the fully-operational dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 24, @13:01 (Role Playing (Games))
| with 86 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1620233/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-Launch-Date-Announced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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BioWare announced today that their upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old
Republic, [0]will launch on December 20 in North America, and December 22
in Europe. They've released [1]a new trailer for the game, and reiterated
that they'll be [2]throttling logins early on to prevent server
instability. Gamasutra recently spoke with SW:TOR project lead James
Ohlen about [3]finishing up the game and preparing it for launch. He
said, "We're also focused on game balance for combat, for itemization,
for the social systems. We've been running a lot of tests, we're getting
a lot of feedback on the game. And when we get that feedback, we use it
to make tweaks and changes. We're not making major changes now, we're
just making changes that we can."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1620233/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-Launch-Date-Announced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20110924
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G6N4TsgdOKU
2. http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/24/swtor-launch-day-questions-answered/
3. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37273/Interview_BioWare_On_Wrapping_Up_The_Old_Republic.php
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| Facebook Timeline Shows Who Has Unfriended You
| from the but-aunt-lucy-it-was-just-a-figure-of-speech dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @16:34 (Facebook)
| with 82 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2013209/Facebook-Timeline-Shows-Who-Has-Unfriended-You?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Currently, Facebook does not notify you when
someone unfriends you on the social network. That may soon change with
the upcoming [0]Facebook Timeline feature, which will soon replace your
current Facebook profile. Unless Facebook changes this, [1]you can
actually see who has unfriended you during any point in time while you've
been on the social network."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2013209/Facebook-Timeline-Shows-Who-Has-Unfriended-You?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/2021204/facebook-unveils-timeline-updated-open-graph
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-timeline-lets-you-see-who-has-unfriended-you/4017
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| IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes
| from the go-here-you'll-like-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @19:46 (Earth)
| with 78 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2346222/IBM-Seeks-Patent-On-Retailer-Rigged-Driving-Routes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "On [0]IBM's Smarter Planet, you may drive further than
need be to get to your destination. Big Blue's pending patent for
[1]Determining Travel Routes by Using Fee-Based Location Preferences
calls for the likes of Walmart, Starbucks, and Best Buy pay a fee in
return for having your route calculation service de-optimize driving
instructions to make you do a drive-by of their stores, and an additional
fee if GPS tracking of your car indicates you actually took the
suboptimal route. The same IBM inventors also have a patent pending for
[2]Environmental Stewardship Based on Driving Behavior, which calls for
yet another fee to be assessed when a retailer-friendly-but-suboptimal
route causes your vehicle to enter a congested area and produce more
pollution."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2346222/IBM-Seeks-Patent-On-Retailer-Rigged-Driving-Routes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/traffic_congestion/ideas/index.html
1. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110087524%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110087524&RS=DN/20110087524
2. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110087525%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110087525&RS=DN/20110087525
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| Work Underway To Finally Build Babbage's Analytical Engine
| from the steve-jobs-of-cabbage-computer dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @10:32 (United Kingdom)
| with 72 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1415254/Work-Underway-To-Finally-Build-Babbages-Analytical-Engine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Last year John Graham-Cumming launched a project to
create a fully-functional implementation of Babbage's original design for
a computer ��� the Analytical Engine. Now it looks as if the [0]project is
going ahead. The first phase is to digitize all of Babbage's papers and
designs. These will be available to the general public in 2012. The
machine to be built is no simple calculator: it is a full computer with a
store for between 100 and 1000 values, each of 40 digits, and it was
programmed using punched cards in a modern 'operator/address' format.
There was even a plan to send the output to a printer. When this device
is built it will make it clear that the computer age nearly began in the
18th century."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1415254/Work-Underway-To-Finally-Build-Babbages-Analytical-Engine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/3101-babbage-archive-digitized.html
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| Wi-Fi Cards Can Now Detect Microwave Ovens
| from the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @18:42 (Wireless Networking)
| with 66 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2243213/Wi-Fi-Cards-Can-Now-Detect-Microwave-Ovens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at UW Madison have [0]used
regular WiFi cards to detect non-WiFi interference sources like microwave
ovens, Bluetooth devices, cordless phones, Xbox controllers and video
cameras. They call their software Airshark. Current products like Wispy,
Spectrum Expert are expensive and need extra hardware, whereas Airshark
is a software-only solution that can directly work on the Wi-Fi cards on
your laptops and APs. This also paves way several interesting
applications. For example, your WiFi network will not be affected anymore
just because your neighbor switched on a microwave oven or a cordless
phone ��� the newer WiFi APs will be able to switch the channels and adapt
to the interference accordingly."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/2243213/Wi-Fi-Cards-Can-Now-Detect-Microwave-Ovens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/092311-wifi-airshark-251193.html
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| NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada
| from the you're-welcome dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @09:31 (Space)
| with 58 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1329240/NASA-Satellite-Falls-Back-To-Earth-Landfall-in-Canada?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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CNET, among many other sources, reports that the declining orbit of the
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite has declined all the way; the
satellite [0]reentered and broke up in Earth's atmosphere last night,
though the exact time, and thus location, of the reentry was unknown at
the time. CNET quotes NASA's release, which says the satellite "fell back
to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23, and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept.
24." The Christian Science Monitor has a newer story, which reports that
at least some [1]debris from the satellite hit land in Okotoks, Canada,
with no injuries. [2]NASA's Science Office page on the satellite (not yet
updated to account for the deorbit) says the satellite was launched in
1991, with a planned operational life of three years.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-20111100-239/derelict-nasa-satellite-falls-back-to-earth/
1. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0924/NASA-satellite-falls-on-Canada-as-space-junk.-No-one-hurt
2. http://uars.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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| Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime
| from the only-partway-to-bill-becomes-a-law dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @14:33 (Crime)
| with 50 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1828249/Amendment-Violation-of-ToS-Should-Not-Be-a-Crime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Khyber writes "[1]Three data and security breach notification bills
have been [2]approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of which
includes an amendment that adds clarity with regards to the [3]Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act. These three bills would require businesses to
develop data privacy and security plans, and it would set a federal
standard for notifying individuals of breaches of very sensitive
personally identifiable information, such as credit card information or
medical records. This clarification is welcomed, making the statute more
focused towards hackers and identity thieves, instead of consumers that
run afoul of ToS or AUPs of websites and service providers."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1828249/Amendment-Violation-of-ToS-Should-Not-Be-a-Crime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ecogroled.com/
1. https://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/239senate-judiciary-committee-passes-three-data-security-bills
2. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/senate-committee-agrees-violating-terms-service-shouldnt
3. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html
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| Crowdsourcing Speeds Evolution of 3D Printable Objects
| from the ok-print-me-a-glock dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @07:27 (Open Source)
| with 33 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/0513236/Crowdsourcing-Speeds-Evolution-of-3D-Printable-Objects?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]JimmyQS writes "The Cornell Creative
Machines Lab, which brought us [1]chatbots debating God and unicorns, has
developed [2]Endlessforms.com, a site using evolutionary algorithms and
crowdsourcing to design objects that can be 3D printed in materials such
as silver, steel or silicone. MIT's Technology Review says 'The rules
EndlessForms uses to generate objects and their variants [3]resemble
those of developmental biology ��� the study of how DNA instructions unfold
to create an entire living organism. [The Media Lab's Mediated Matter
research group director Neri Oxman notes] that this could ultimately have
an impact on design similar to the impact that blogs and social media
have had on journalism, opening the field to the general public.' The New
Scientist has a [4]quick video tour."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.djimmy.com/
1. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/30/1410211/Cornells-Creative-Machines-Lab-Lets-Chatbots-Interact
2. http://endlessforms.com/
3. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38433/page1/
4. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/08/evolve-your-own-objects-for-3d.html
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