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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating
* The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia
* Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future?
* Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7
* Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia?
* Should College Go Online?
* Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement
* Apple Says Samsung 3G Patents Violate RAND Requirements
* Returning Power From Electric Cars To the Grid
* Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch'
* Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science
* The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone
* Social Media Bubble Pops Before It Fully Inflates
* Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI?
* Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits
* Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves
* Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor
* Will Google TV Owe Royalties For Universal Search?
* MRI Magnets Cause Nystagmus
* Drunken Parrot Season Starts in Australia
* NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare
* OnStar Reverses ToS Changes
* Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior
* Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet
* Canadian Government Says DRM Circumvention Not Related To Copyright
* Developer Seeks FDA Approval For Therapeutic Game
* Purdue Researchers Demonstrate Low-Power, Fast FeTRAM Memory
* Scientists Restore Lost Brain Function In Rat With Synthetic Device
* Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters
* Detailed Analysis of the SK Communications Hack
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| Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating
| from the criminals-in-uniform dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @15:13 (United States)
| with 765 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1836203/Conflict-Between-Occupy-Wall-Street-Protestors-and-NYPD-Escalating?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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phx_zs writes "Today marks the tenth consecutive day that thousands of
protesters have flooded the streets of Manhattan, specifically the
financial district. ... Sunday marked a change of events as high-ranking
NYPD officers exhibited brutal, unprovoked aggression on the peaceful
group, reportedly arresting at least 80 people. Many [0]photos and videos
have surfaced of NYPD officers slamming protesters on the ground or into
parked cars, and in one [1]well-covered incident a NYPD officer (with
pending police brutality charges from 2004) [2]maced innocent female
protesters point blank for no apparent reason. Many eyewitnesses and
several news articles report that the NYPD [3]specifically targeted
photographers and media teams streaming the event live on the internet."
Do any Slashdotters have eyewitness reports to share? There seems to be a
lot of misinformation originating from all parties involved making it
difficult to know how large the protest actually is at this point and
whether or not the police are being quite as universally violent as the
protestors imply.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1836203/Conflict-Between-Occupy-Wall-Street-Protestors-and-NYPD-Escalating?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/26/7978720-rewrite-police-vs-protesters
1. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110927/09480916110/can-nypd-back-up-its-claim-confrontation-that-required-pepper-spray-despite-more-video-evidence.shtml
2. http://bostonreview.net/BR36.5/jeanne_mansfield_occupy_wall_street.php
3. http://gothamist.com/2011/09/26/nypd_reportedly_targeting_photograp.php
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| The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia
| from the can't-wait-to-scroll-through-them dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 26, @20:16 (Google)
| with 544 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2342211/The-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-and-Information-Paranoia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Today Google and the Israel Museum have [1]made
the famed Dead Sea Scrolls available for online viewing. This is a great
step forward for scholars and those curious about [2]the oldest known
copies of many biblical texts. But why has it taken nearly 50 years for
the contents of this material to be made fully public? Blogger Kevin
Fogarty thinks the saga of the scrolls since their discovery ��� along with
the history of religious texts in general ��� is a good example of [3]how
people seek to gain power by hoarding information. In that regard, it
holds some important lessons for the many modern debates about
information security and control."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2342211/The-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-and-Information-Paranoia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
2. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html
3. http://www.itworld.com/security/207109/suppression-dead-sea-scrolls-anti-hacker-mentality-have-more-common-you-think
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| Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future?
| from the agility-required dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @13:09 (Businesses)
| with 503 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1618245/Can-Newegg-Survive-the-Post-PC-Future?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Upgrading your desktop PC's video card was once a
rite of passage for many Slashdot readers ��� and could also be a gateway
to building your own computer from the motherboard up. And more often
than not, you bought the components from Newegg. But the tablets and
ultrathin laptops that are today's hot sellers don't let you so much as
swap in more RAM. What's a component retailer to do in [1]world without
user-serviceable components?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1618245/Can-Newegg-Survive-the-Post-PC-Future?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/207177/can-newegg-survive-post-pc-future
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| Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7
| from the hep-cats-already-have-firefox-57 dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @17:01 (Mozilla)
| with 278 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2025254/Mozilla-Foundation-Releases-Firefox-7?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]Mozilla has released Firefox 7.0. It
hasn't actually [1]reduced my memory footprint at first glance, but let's
hope that the memory usage doesn't keep growing like it used to. We'll
also see if it crashes less often than once every three days or so." The
initial memory use of Firefox should remain similar to previous releases,
but at least the heap shouldn't grow infinitely as it does in previous
releases.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2025254/Mozilla-Foundation-Releases-Firefox-7?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/09/27/mozilla-firefox-significantly-reduces-memory-use-to-make-web-browsing-faster/
1. http://www.techspot.com/news/45638-mozilla-releases-firefox-70-improves-memory-usage.html
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| Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia?
| from the how-about-ncsa-mosaic dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @11:41 (Education)
| with 274 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/140212/Ask-Slashdot-Successful-Software-From-Academia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A lot of masters and PhD theses are about
development of software targeting the solution or the automation of a
specific problem. Bioinformatics, for example, has a lot of journals
about software tools that are coded in academic environments; some of
this software is the final result of a four-year PhD. But my question is,
how much of this software will see the light outside the universities? I
know of some examples, like BSD, but they are an exception, right? Is
there any list of successful software created entirely inside
universities' labs that became widely used?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/140212/Ask-Slashdot-Successful-Software-From-Academia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Should College Go Online?
| from the time-to-level-up-my-calculus dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 26, @22:20 (Education)
| with 256 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0031227/Should-College-Go-Online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The Atlantic has a story about the slow pace
of technological innovation in higher education, highlighting [0]the
reluctance of many universities to take parts of their curriculum online.
'[L]ack of funding isn't the only reason that the traditional
universities and colleges aren't responding with their own strategic
acquisitions. In all industries it's hard to convince successful
incumbents that innovations at the low end of the market really matter.
That was true even for Sony's Akio Morita, whose top executives didn't
like his Walkman, which had no recording capability; it seemed smarter to
focus on more-sophisticated products for the high end of the consumer
electronics market. Regard for tradition and academic freedom make it
particularly hard to undertake apparently low-quality innovations in
higher education. But that's true to varying degrees in all industries.
Whether the business is computers chips or steel, successful incumbents
have difficulty responding to disruptive technologies, often until it's
too late.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0031227/Should-College-Go-Online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement
| from the not-yet-integrated-into-slashcode dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @12:24 (Facebook)
| with 256 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1421257/Spotify-Defends-Facebook-Sign-Up-Requirement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Music service Spotify has got music lovers'
tutus in a twist by [0]insisting that new users have a Facebook account
in order to sign up. The [1]company has now defended the policy, stating,
oddly, that the Facebook obligation would make sign-up easier."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1421257/Spotify-Defends-Facebook-Sign-Up-Requirement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20111974-93/spotify-users-steamed-over-facebook-requirement/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/370168/spotify-defends-facebook-sign-up-requirement
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| Apple Says Samsung 3G Patents Violate RAND Requirements
| from the patents-are-only-ok-when-my-side-uses-them dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @14:32 (Patents)
| with 240 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1748236/Apple-Says-Samsung-3G-Patents-Violate-RAND-Requirements?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "The patent dispute between Samsung and Apple has
finally [1]boiled down to clear understandable terms. Samsung says Apple
has not been paying it royalties for [2]use of patented 3G technology.
Apple says Samsung smuggled that technology into the 3G standards,
disclosing its IP demands later. The Dutch court will rule on 14
October." The issue at hand now seems to be whether Apple already has a
license to the patents under the 3G "[3]Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory"
requirements for patented technology used in the standard. If Samsung
really believes Apple needs a separate license, when can we expect them
to sue everyone else?
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1748236/Apple-Says-Samsung-3G-Patents-Violate-RAND-Requirements?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/apple-says-samsung-rigged-the-3g-standards-40758
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/1229235/samsung-may-try-to-block-next-iphone-in-europe-too
3. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#RAND
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| Returning Power From Electric Cars To the Grid
| from the electrifying-news dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @10:04 (Power)
| with 217 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/142246/Returning-Power-From-Electric-Cars-To-the-Grid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter icensnow writes "NRG is patenting a means
of [0]returning electric power from charged but inactive electric cars to
the grid, essentially turning parked electric cars into an energy storage
system for the grid. I'm having a hard time deciding if this is genius or
silly."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/142246/Returning-Power-From-Electric-Cars-To-the-Grid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch'
| from the have-to-settle-for-imultitouch dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @00:24 (United States)
| with 202 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0236259/Apple-Denied-Trademark-For-Multi-Touch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun sends this excerpt from MacRumors: "In [0]a decision handed
down by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has been [1]denied an application for
a trademark on Multi-Touch. ... For trademarks, 'the greater the degree
of descriptiveness the term has, the heavier the burden to prove it has
attained secondary meaning.' The trademark attorney pointed out that the
term 'multitouch' has taken on generic meaning, being used by a wide
variety of publications to describe the touchscreen technology on Android
phones, tablets, and notebooks."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0236259/Apple-Denied-Trademark-For-Multi-Touch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.scribd.com/doc/66447722/Multi-Touch-Trademark
1. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/26/apple-denied-trademark-for-multi-touch/
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| Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science
| from the c-is-for-cookie dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @19:26 (Math)
| with 174 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2242214/Sesame-Street-Begins-Teaching-Math-and-Science?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from ABC News: "This season of
'Sesame Street,' which premiered today, has added a few new things to its
usual mix of song, dance and educational lessons. In its 42nd season, the
preschool educational series is [0]tackling math, science, technology and
engineering ��� all problem areas for America's students ��� in hopes of
helping kids measure up. ... This season, 'Sesame Street' will include
age-appropriate experimentation ��� even the orange monster Murray will
conduct science experiments in a recurring feature."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2242214/Sesame-Street-Begins-Teaching-Math-and-Science?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone
| from the not-content-with-monitoring-yours dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @09:32 (Communications)
| with 162 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1314241/The-NSA-Wants-Its-Own-Smartphone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Art Vanderlay writes "Troy Lange might work for one of the more secretive
spy agencies in the United States, but he is happy to talk about his
work. He is the NSA's mobility mission manager and he has been tasked
with [0]creating a smartphone that is secure enough to allow government
personnel who deal with highly sensitive information to take their work
on the road. At present, the U.S. Government has secure cellphones; they
use the government's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network. The problem
is that they can only communicate with other devices that are plugged
into the network and their use is restricted to top-secret level
communications. Lange wants a smartphone that is inter-operable and
presumably trusted to deal with even more sensitive information. Lange
said that he wanted to see his secure smartphone reach beyond the NSA ���
ultimately to reach every 'every employee in the Defense Department,
intelligence community, and across government.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1314241/The-NSA-Wants-Its-Own-Smartphone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.uberreview.com/2011/09/the-nsa-wants-its-own-smartphone.htm
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| Social Media Bubble Pops Before It Fully Inflates
| from the pop-pop-pop dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @17:21 (Facebook)
| with 155 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2048235/Social-Media-Bubble-Pops-Before-It-Fully-Inflates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bdking writes "Groupon's IPO plans are melting down. Facebook has pushed
back its IPO to next September. And now Zynga reports a 95% reduction in
sequential quarterly profits. [0]So much for the social media IPO bubble."
At least everyone is getting let down before a lot of people lose a lot
of money this time around.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2048235/Social-Media-Bubble-Pops-Before-It-Fully-Inflates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/software/207411/air-coming-out-social-media-ipo-bubble
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| Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI?
| from the watch-scifi-movies-from-the-eighties dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @01:45 (AI)
| with 149 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0535249/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Way-To-Learn-About-Game-Theory-and-AI?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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xmojox writes "I would like to learn more about Artificial Intelligence
and Game Theory. I know these are both large areas of study; however, my
main interest is in how these affect decisions in the world. This would
include politicians, business people, and general society. I'm not
looking for a career or anything; this is just a personal interest of
mine. Where are good places to start in these areas for somebody new to
them? I'm aware of the Stanford on-line classes, but those don't work
with my current schedule."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0535249/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Way-To-Learn-About-Game-Theory-and-AI?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits
| from the please-state-the-nature-of-the-medical-emergency dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @02:46 (Communications)
| with 129 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0541231/Rite-Aid-Drug-Stores-Offer-Virtual-Doc-Visits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lucas123 writes "Rite Aid today announced it is [0]offering virtual
face-to-face physician consultations through an in-store kiosk. The
virtual consultation services are currently being tested in the Detroit
area, but the company expects they will do well and the virtual consults
will expand to other regions. The service costs $45 for a 10-minute
physician consultation. Consultations with nurses are free."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0541231/Rite-Aid-Drug-Stores-Offer-Virtual-Doc-Visits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220300/Rite_Aid_rolls_out_in_store_virtual_doctor_visits
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| Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves
| from the slowly-and-surly dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @08:11 (Databases)
| with 127 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0555213/Oracle-May-Fork-Itself-With-MySQL-Moves?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter packetrat writes "Ars Technica [0]analyzes the recent
commercial additions by Oracle to MySQL Enterprise and [1]the additional
unrest it's added to the community. Oracle may be throwing itself out of
the community as it pushes more customers to look at fully open-source
alternatives."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0555213/Oracle-May-Fork-Itself-With-MySQL-Moves?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/oracle-may-fork-itself-with-recent-mysql-moves.ars
1. http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2011/09/oracle-adding-close-source-extensions.html
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| Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor
| from the store-away-from-volatile-gases dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @08:50 (Oracle)
| with 111 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1222233/Oracle-Demos-New-SPARC-T4-Processor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Oracle is publicly demonstrating its new T4 processor
today and is shipping beta test systems to selected partners. The new
[1]T4 chip is a major departure from previous designs. The T4 offers a
maximum of eight cores per physical chip and keeps the T3's
eight-threads-per-core limitation. The T4 compensates for its lower
maximum theoretical throughput in several ways. First, the T4 is an
out-of-order processor with an enhanced branch predictor. Its maximum
speed is said to be at least 3GHz, nearly double that of the 1.67GHz T3.
Oracle claims the chip's single-threaded performance has been
significantly boosted, and expects T4 to deliver a 2x-7x speed increase
in single-threaded workloads compared to T3."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1222233/Oracle-Demos-New-SPARC-T4-Processor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Oracle-Demos-New-SPARC-T4-New-Chip-Significant-Departure-From-Predecessors/
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| Will Google TV Owe Royalties For Universal Search?
| from the advancement-of-the-useful-arts-and-sciences dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @09:11 (Cloud)
| with 90 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/130214/Will-Google-TV-Owe-Royalties-For-Universal-Search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Google TV, TiVo, iTunes and virtually every
big consumer electronics maker have promised 'universal search' engines
that enable users to quickly find and play movies, music and other
content, no matter where it is stored. But Crestron Electronics, a
developer of home automation systems, just filed a patent for '[0]Searching
Two or More Media Sources for Media.' In other words, universal search,
specifically for both local and cloud-based content."
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/130214/Will-Google-TV-Owe-Royalties-For-Universal-Search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cepro.com/article/crestron_files_patent_for_universal_search
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| MRI Magnets Cause Nystagmus
| from the twirling-twirling-toward-vomit dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @16:38 (Medicine)
| with 89 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2015228/MRI-Magnets-Cause-Nystagmus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Hitting the main page for the first time, [0]tibit writes "In an
interesting twist on 'it's so old it's new again,' Johns Hopkins
researchers led by Dale Roberts found what must have been causing much
confusion for doctors the world over: strong external magnetic fields can
stimulate the semicircular canals, causing vertigo and nystagmus
(pendular eye motion). It's a textbook case of the Lorentz force in
action: our angular rate gyros, the semicircular canals in the middle
ear, filled with [1]endolymph, have a ionic current flowing across. In a
magnetic field, the current produces a force that pushes the lymph along
the channel, causing stimulation of the cupula ��� a pressure sensor at the
end of the channel. This is [2]interpreted by the brain as rotation of
the head in space, and causes a nystagmus that's supposed to stabilize
the image on the retina. Of course, the subject is laying down and not
spinning in space, and the mismatch between inertial measurements coming
from the ear and the real situation causes vertigo."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2015228/MRI-Magnets-Cause-Nystagmus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:kuba@mareimbrium.org
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolymph
2. http://gazette.jhu.edu/2011/09/26/johns-hopkins-researchers-pinpoint-the-cause-of-mri-vertigo/
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| Drunken Parrot Season Starts in Australia
| from the fly-a-straight-line dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 27, @14:55 (Australia)
| with 83 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1410209/Drunken-Parrot-Season-Starts-in-Australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bazzalunatic writes "Each wet season in northern Australia dozens of
colorful lorikeets have to be rescued because [0]they appear drunk, fall
out of trees and even get a hangover-like sickness. No one knows quite
what's going on, but the best explanation is they get smashed from
fermented fruit. From the story: 'Experts say they are not sure if the
lorikeets are actually drunk, but they do have tell-tale symptoms. "They
exhibit odd behavior like falling over or difficulty flying [and] they
keep running into things," says Darwin vet Dr Stephen Cutter from The Ark
Animal Hospital.'"
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https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1410209/Drunken-Parrot-Season-Starts-in-Australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare
| from the nothing-wrong-with-a-little-glow-ball-warming dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @10:16 (NASA)
| with 80 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1338242/NASA-Warns-of-Magnetic-Storm-After-Huge-Solar-Flare?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "NASA today said a [1]strong-to-severe geomagnetic
storm is in progress following a massive solar flare and coronal mass
ejection (CME). CMEs are a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles
into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth.
Simulations indicate that solar wind plasma has penetrated close to
geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today. Geosynchronous satellites
could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic
fields. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras after
nightfall, NASA stated."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1338242/NASA-Warns-of-Magnetic-Storm-After-Huge-Solar-Flare?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-warns-geomagnetic-storm-after-behemoth-s
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| OnStar Reverses ToS Changes
| from the or-will-they dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @16:10 (Government)
| with 78 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1943235/OnStar-Reverses-ToS-Changes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter BlackWind writes "It seems that even
Government Motors is smart enough to figure out when they've gone too
far. GM announced that the [0]OnStar service will revert to their
previous Terms of Service in the wake of the firestorm of criticism that
their plan to sell GPS data created."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1943235/OnStar-Reverses-ToS-Changes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior
| from the crumble-less dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @13:48 (Cloud)
| with 74 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/173213/Facebook-Fixes-Post-Log-Out-Cookie-Behavior?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Over the weekend, self-proclaimed hacker Nik
Cubrilovic [0]accused Facebook of tracking its users even if they log out
of the social network. The company responded by [1]denying the claims and
offering an explanation as to why its cookies behave the way they do.
Now, [2]Cubrilovic says Facebook has made changes to the logout process,
and detailed what each cookie is responsible for."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/173213/Facebook-Fixes-Post-Log-Out-Cookie-Behavior?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/2131205/facebook-cookies-track-users-even-after-logging-out
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-denies-cookie-tracking-allegations/4044
2. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-fixes-cookie-behavior-after-logging-out/4120
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| Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet
| from the i'm-down-to-20k-viagra-offers-per-day dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @15:55 (Botnet)
| with 74 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1929236/Microsoft-Disables-Kelihos-Botnet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes with an excerpt from an article in Threatpost:
"Continuing its [0]legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting
companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has
announced [1]new actions against a group of people it contends are
responsible for the operation of the Kelihos botnet. The company has also
[2]helped to take down the botnet itself and says that Kelihos's
operators were using it not only to send out spam and steal personal
information but also for some more nefarious purposes."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1929236/Microsoft-Disables-Kelihos-Botnet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/18/1228227/microsoft-conducts-massive-botnet-takedown-action
1. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-takes-down-kelihos-botnet-092711
2. https://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/09/27/microsoft-neutralizes-kelihos-botnet-names-defendant-in-case.aspx
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| Canadian Government Says DRM Circumvention Not Related To Copyright
| from the you-don't-have-to-copy-to-violate-copyright dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 27, @18:03 (Canada)
| with 65 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2130245/Canadian-Government-Says-DRM-Circumvention-Not-Related-To-Copyright?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist has followed up a [0]recent
release of internal government talking points on copyright with the full,
[1]internal clause-by-clause analysis of Bill C-32. A new copyright bill
is expected as soon as this week and the government document confirms
there is no defense to violations of the digital lock rules, noting 'a
contravention of this prohibition is not an infringement of copyright and
the defenses to infringement of copyright are not defenses to these
prohibitions.' The government's own words on the digital lock provisions
confirm that they may be unconstitutional since they fall outside the
boundaries of copyright." Basically, if you break DRM even without
violating copyright in the process you can still be held liable, and from
this any defense based on copyright law (fair use, etc.) is not valid in
such cases. On the flipside, several legal experts think that makes those
provisions of the law less likely to stand up in court.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2130245/Canadian-Government-Says-DRM-Circumvention-Not-Related-To-Copyright?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/1325249/justification-for-canadian-copyright-reform-revealed
1. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6026/125/
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| Developer Seeks FDA Approval For Therapeutic Game
| from the not-approved-for-off-label-use dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @06:27 (Medicine)
| with 47 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/060223/Developer-Seeks-FDA-Approval-For-Therapeutic-Game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dotarray writes "In what's [0]believed to be an industry first, a
developer has begun talks with the American Food and Drug Administration
to [1]get its game recognized as a therapeutic drug. 'Brain Plasticity
has been fine-tuning a game to help people with schizophrenia improve the
deficits in attention and memory that are often associated with the
disorder. Early next year, they will conduct a study with 150
participants at 15 sites across the country. Participants will play the
game for one hour, five times a week over a period of six months. If
participants' quality of life improves at that "dosage," Brain Plasticity
will push ahead with the FDA approval process.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/060223/Developer-Seeks-FDA-Approval-For-Therapeutic-Game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/09/26/developer-seeks-fda-approval-for-brain-game/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20962-maker-of-cognitive-training-game-seeks-fda-approval.html
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| Purdue Researchers Demonstrate Low-Power, Fast FeTRAM Memory
| from the there-is-no-university-of-purdue dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, @11:00 (Data Storage)
| with 45 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1327235/Purdue-Researchers-Demonstrate-Low-Power-Fast-FeTRAM-Memory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]eldavojohn writes "Researchers at Purdue University's Birck
Nanotechnology Center have released news of a [1]proof of concept new
ferroelectric transistor random access memory or 'FeTRAM.' This new
technology is nonvolatile and the researchers claim it could use up to
99% less energy than current flash memory. Unlike most FeRAM technology
that uses a capacitor, FeTRAM provides nondestructive readout by storing
information using a ferroelectric transistor instead. From the article:
'The new technology also is compatible with industry manufacturing
processes for complementary metal oxide semiconductors, or CMOS, used to
produce computer chips. It has the potential to replace conventional
memory systems.' So if they get this into production, you might not have
to worry about [2]your laptop cooking your genitals. They've been
[3]published in ACS (paywalled) and the professor leading the research
[4]has many patents filed relating to transistor nanotechnology."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1327235/Purdue-Researchers-Demonstrate-Low-Power-Fast-FeTRAM-Memory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://patternizer.com/
1. http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/global/news/news.php?id=1086¢er=7
2. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/11/09/1338240/Is-Your-Laptop-Cooking-Your-Testicles
3. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl2023993
4. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Appenzeller&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=transistor&FIELD2=&d=PTXT
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| Scientists Restore Lost Brain Function In Rat With Synthetic Device
| from the but-will-he-ever-play-the-guitar-again dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @18:43 (Biotech)
| with 44 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2215208/Scientists-Restore-Lost-Brain-Function-In-Rat-With-Synthetic-Device?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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V!NCENT writes with news that researchers at Tel Aviv University have
[0]replaced a synaptic microcircuit inside a rat's cerebellum with a
fully synthetic version, while maintaining proper functioning. The
targeted area of the rat's brain involved its ability to blink its eyes
in response to particular stimuli. "To test the chip, they anesthetized a
rat and disabled its cerebellum before hooking up their synthetic
version. They then tried to teach the anesthetized animal a conditioned
motor reflex ��� a blink ��� by combining an auditory tone with a puff of air
on the eye, until the animal blinked on hearing the tone alone. They
first tried this without the chip connected, and found the rat was unable
to learn the motor reflex. But once the artificial cerebellum was
connected, [1]the rat behaved as a normal animal would, learning to
connect the sound with the need to blink." Study author Matti Mintz said
of the work, "It's proof of concept that we can record information from
the brain, analyze it in a way similar to the biological network, and
return it to the brain."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2215208/Scientists-Restore-Lost-Brain-Function-In-Rat-With-Synthetic-Device?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128315.700-rat-cyborg-gets-digital-cerebellum.html?full=true&print=true
1. http://www.sens.org/node/2210
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| Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters
| from the it's-not-you-it's-me dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @05:25 (IBM)
| with 35 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0745207/Behind-the-Parting-of-IBM-and-Blue-Waters?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The News-Gazette has an article about the
troubled Blue Waters supercomputer project, providing some new
information about [0]why IBM and the University of Illinois parted ways
back [1]in August. Quoting: 'More than three dozen changes, most
suggested by IBM, would have delayed the Blue Waters project by a year
... The requested changes caused friction as early as December 2010,
eight months before IBM pulled out, leaving the project to look for a new
vendor for the supercomputer. Documents released under the Freedom of
Information Act show Big Blue and the Big U asserting their rights in
lengthy and increasingly testy, but always polite, language. In the
documents, IBM suggested that if changes were not made, the project would
become overly expensive.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0745207/Behind-the-Parting-of-IBM-and-Blue-Waters?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/education/2011-09-25/behind-parting-ibm-and-blue-waters.html
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/2257259/NCSA-and-IBM-Part-Ways-Over-Blue-Waters
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| Detailed Analysis of the SK Communications Hack
| from the pulling-a-sony dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 27, @04:02 (Australia)
| with 21 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0543258/Detailed-Analysis-of-the-SK-Communications-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "An Australian IT security company, Command
Five Pty Ltd, [0]has just released a detailed analysis (PDF) of the
recent [1]SK Communications hack in which the personal details of up to
35 million users were stolen. This new analysis gives details of the
attackers' malicious infrastructure and contains as-yet unreported
technical details of the malware used in the attack (including the fact
that it has the capability to sniff raw network packets on infected
machines). The report also identifies links with other malware and
malicious infrastructure, demonstrating that the attack is likely to be
part of a broader concerted effort by well organized attackers."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0543258/Detailed-Analysis-of-the-SK-Communications-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.commandfive.com/papers/C5_APT_SKHack.pdf
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/28/1810222/35-million-sk-telecom-accounts-stolen-by-chinese-hackers
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