A Practical Guide to Successful Data Deduplication
Data explosion is a primary contributor to IT sprawl - which is
taking business performance to the breaking point. As you gear
up for your data deduplication implementation, here are some
pragmatic questions to ask your vendor and considerations
designed to minimize surprises along the way.
http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51434336/
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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer?
* Is the Creative Class Engine Sputtering?
* Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case
* DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project
* Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy
* US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus
* HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013
* FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband
* Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation
* Sprint Details Shift To LTE
* EU Parliament Group Opposes Long Copyrights and Oppressive DRM
* Graphene Creates Electricity When Struck By Light
* The Games Programmers Play
* Mars Rover Curiosity Sealed Up For Launch
* Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High
* Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection
* <em>Team Fortress 2</em> Running In a Web Browser Using WebGL
* Microsoft-Skype Deal Poised To Win EU Approval
* Sony In Talks To Buy Ericsson Out of Phone Venture
* Google Apps Engine Gets SQL
* Oldest Submerged City Visualized With CGI
* Patents Google Bought From IBM Are "Weak"
* LHC Gets Android App
* Australia's Iconic Parkes Telescope Turns 50
* The Importance — and Limits — of Very Large Data Sets
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| Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer?
| from the looking-out-for-numero-uno dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @10:56 (Businesses)
| with 659 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1438230/ask-slashdot-does-being-loyal-pay-as-a-developer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "As a senior developer for a small IT company
based in the UK that is about to release their flagship project, I know
that if I were to leave the company now, it would cause them some very
big problems. I'm currently training the other two 'junior' developers,
trying to bring them up to speed with our products. Unfortunately, they
are still a long way from grasping the technologies used ��� not to mention
the 'interesting' job the outsourced developers managed to make of the
code. Usually, I would never have considered leaving at such a crucial
time; I've been at the company for several years and consider many of my
colleagues, including higher management, to be friends. However, I have
been approached by another company that is much bigger, and they have
offered me a pay rise of ��7k to do the same job, plus their office is
practically outside my front door (as opposed to my current 45 minute
commute each way). This would make a massive difference to my life. That
said, I can't help but feel that to leave now would be betraying my
friends and colleagues. Some friends have told me that I'm just being
'soft' ��� however I think I'm being loyal. Any advice?"
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| Is the Creative Class Engine Sputtering?
| from the I-wish-a-buck-was-still-silver dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 07, @01:06 (Businesses)
| with 483 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/0148250/is-the-creative-class-engine-sputtering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Geoffrey.landis writes "The 'creative class' was supposed to be the
new engine of the United States economy, but according to Scott Timberg,
writing in Salon, that engine is sputtering. While a very few
technologists have become very wealthy, for most creative workers, the
rise of amateurs and enthusiasts means that [1]few are actually making a
living. The new economy is good for the elite who own the servers, but,
for most, 'the dream of a laptop-powered "knowledge class" is dead,' he
says."
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Links:
0. http://www.geoffreylandis.com/
1. http://entertainment.salon.com/2011/10/01/creative_class_is_a_lie/singleton/
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| Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case
| from the Just-when-I-thought-I-was-out-they-pull-me-back-in dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 06, @20:08 (The Courts)
| with 431 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/230250/ohio-supreme-court-drawn-into-magnetic-homes-case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The Ohio Supreme Court will decide if a builder will have to replace
magnetized parts of two couples' homes, even though they signed a limited
warranty which did not specifically cover replacing positively- or
negatively-charged building materials. After moving into the homes the
couples found that something was not quite right. Their TV screens were
distorted. Cordless phones ran into interference. Computer hard drives
were corrupted. Soon after, it was discovered that [0]steel joists in the
homes had become magnetized."
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| DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project
| from the somebody-warn-tom-cruise dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @11:40 (Crime)
| with 389 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/151258/dhs-goes-ahead-with-pre-crime-detection-project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun tips news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has
[0]begun testing its project to predict future crimes on members of the
public. The [1]Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) project is
"designed to track and monitor, among other inputs, body movements, voice
pitch changes, prosody changes (alterations in the rhythm and intonation
of speech), eye movements, body heat changes, and breathing patterns." A
field test was [2]performed at a large venue earlier this year, and
documents recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request
indicate that testing is proceeding on other members of the public as
well. "It's not clear whether these people were informed that they're
participating in a FAST study."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20117058-281/homeland-security-moves-forward-with-pre-crime-detection/
1. http://epic.org/privacy/fastproject/
2. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.323.html
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| Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy
| from the lesser-of-two-evils dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 06, @22:19 (Piracy)
| with 341 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/0032233/movie-industry-loss-of-control-worse-than-piracy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tlhIngan writes "Miramax CEO Mike Lang has admitted to what we all
suspected. [0]The biggest worry is a distribution monopoly, not piracy.
They saw what happened to the music industry with iTunes, and vowed to
not lose control and be at the mercy of Apple or whoever becomes the
dominant distributor. From the article: 'Lang, whose company today debuts
the Blu-Ray version of the cult classic Pulp Fiction, emphasized that
people don���t necessarily want to pirate, as long as they get what they
want. ���Innovate or die,��� should be the motive of entertainment industry
companies, where it���s key to listen to customers.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. https://torrentfreak.com/digital-monopolies-a-bigger-threat-than-piracy-says-miramax-ceo-111004/
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| US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus
| from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @15:08 (Security)
| with 292 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1828220/us-drone-fleet-hit-by-computer-virus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Golgafrinchan passes along this quote from an article at
Wired: "A computer virus has [0]infected the cockpits of America's
Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they
remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus,
first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security
System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from
flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed
incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside
source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from
Creech's computers, network security specialists say. And the infection
underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S.
military's most important weapons system.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/
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| HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013
| from the move-it-on-over dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 07, @08:09 (HP)
| with 231 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/0344214/hp-to-introduce-flash-memory-replacement-in-2013?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Spy Hunter writes "[0]Memristors are the basis of a new memory technology
being developed by HP and Hynix. At the International Electronics Forum,
Stan Williams, senior fellow at HP Labs, said, 'We're planning to put
[1]a replacement chip on the market to go up against flash within a year
and a half. We're running hundreds of wafers through the fab, and we're
way ahead of where we thought we would be at this moment in time.'
They're not stopping at a flash replacement either, with Williams saying,
'In 2014 possibly, or certainly by 2015, we will have a competitor for
DRAM and then we'll replace SRAM.' With a non-volatile replacement for
DRAM and SRAM, will we soon see the end of the reboot entirely?"
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Links:
0. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor.html
1. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/06/10/2011/51988/ief2011-hp-to-replace-flash-and-ssd-in-2013.htm
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| FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband
| from the i-know-just-the-place dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @10:15 (The Internet)
| with 193 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1320251/fcc-wants-to-shift-phone-subsidy-funds-to-broadband?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "FCC chairman Julius Genachowski revealed
plans yesterday to overhaul the U.S. phone subsidy program and [0]shift
its focus to providing broadband access. He said, '[1]Broadband has gone
from being a luxury to a necessity for full participation in our economy
and society. If we want the United States to be the world's leading
market, we need to embrace the essential goal of universal broadband, and
reform outdated programs.' According to BusinessWeek, the program
currently 'supports phone service to schools, libraries, the poor and
high-cost areas.' Last year it spent $4.3 billion to provide support to
over 1,700 carriers in high-cost areas. Genachowski hopes the change will
put the U.S. 'on the path to universal broadband service by the end of
the decade.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-06/fcc-to-revamp-phone-subsidy-to-spur-expanded-internet-access.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/business/fcc-plans-an-overhaul-of-the-universal-service-fund.html
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| Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation
| from the but-it's-such-a-nice-town dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @17:19 (Transportation)
| with 186 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2053232/looking-beyond-detroit-for-engine-innovation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]waderoush writes "Opposed-piston engines (with two pistons in the same
cylinder) have been around since the 1920s, but have been used mainly in
submarines and airplanes. Now, several startups are working to make these
high-efficiency engines practical for cars, trucks, and light vehicles ���
but [1]they're under no illusions that Detroit will adopt the idea.
Silicon Valley startup Pinnacle Engines, which is backed by the world's
largest venture fund, is looking to a scooter manufacturer in India as
its first partner. 'This ought to be music to Detroit's ears, but to them
I'm just some whacko in California,' says Monty Cleeves, Pinnacle's
founder and CTO. 'This is Silicon Valley, and what does Silicon Valley
know about making engines? Folks in Asia have almost zero
"not-invented-here" issues, whereas it's pretty prevalent all over the
U.S.'"
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Links:
0. mailto:wroush@xconomy.com
1. http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/10/04/pinnacle-looks-beyond-detroit-as-the-market-for-its-opposed-piston-engine/?single_page=true
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| Sprint Details Shift To LTE
| from the anticipating-iphone-data-hogs dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @12:22 (Wireless Networking)
| with 171 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1554255/sprint-details-shift-to-lte?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter jmeboi writes "Engadget reports that Sprint has announced a
[0]rollover from WiMAX to LTE for its 4G needs. The company is
'converting its 1900MHz holdings and LightSquared's 1600MHz spectrum
("pending FCC approval") to LTE,' and also re-purposing the section of
800MHz spectrum that was set aside for the defunct iDEN push-to-talk
network. 'The company plans for a rapid deployment of this new 4G, with
the first LTE markets and handsets to hit in mid-2012 with the full
rollout mostly completed by 2013. Current subscribers signed up for WiMAX
plans won't have to worry, as their devices will continue to be supported
throughout 2012.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/07/sprint-converts-its-cdma-network-to-lte/
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| EU Parliament Group Opposes Long Copyrights and Oppressive DRM
| from the it's-not-easy-being-green dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @16:35 (EU)
| with 123 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2017214/eu-parliament-group-opposes-long-copyrights-and-oppressive-drm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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the_arrow writes "Apparently there are some politicians who 'get it.' At
least it seems that way after [0]reading an entry on the blog of Rick
Falkvinge (founder of the Swedish Pirate Party). He says the Green party
group, fifth largest in the European Parliament, has officially adopted
several of the Pirate Party's stances in [1]a new position paper (PDF).
The Greens say, 'the copyright monopoly does not extend to what an
ordinary person can do with ordinary equipment in their home and spare
time,' adding that a 20-year protection term is more reasonable than 70
years. They go on to say, 'Net Neutrality must be guaranteed,' and also
mention DRM: 'It must always be legal to circumvent DRM restrictions, and
we should consider introducing a ban in the consumer rights legislation
on DRM technologies that restrict legal uses of a work.'"
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Links:
0. http://falkvinge.net/2011/10/07/huge-pirate-victory-as-eu-party-group-adopts-perspective-on-copyright-monopoly/
1. http://www.greens-efa.eu/fileadmin/dam/Documents/Policy_papers/Common%20position%20on%20copyright%2028sept11_EN.pdf
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| Graphene Creates Electricity When Struck By Light
| from the it-slices-it-dices dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @13:46 (Power)
| with 120 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1746201/graphene-creates-electricity-when-struck-by-light?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with news out of MIT about another interesting and
potentially useful property of [1]graphene. Researchers have known for
several years that graphene generates electricity when exposed to
sunlight, but incorrectly attributed it to the photovoltaic effect. [2]A
new paper shows that [3]the current is actually generated from the much
more unusual 'hot-carrier' response. Quoting: "The material���s electrons,
which carry current, are heated by the light, but the lattice of carbon
nuclei that forms graphene���s backbone remains cool. It���s this difference
in temperature within the material that produces the flow of electricity.
... Such differential heating has been observed before, but only under
very special circumstances: either at ultralow temperatures (measured in
thousandths of a degree above absolute zero), or when materials are
blasted with intense energy from a high-power laser. This response in
graphene, by contrast, occurs across a broad range of temperatures all
the way up to room temperature, and with light no more intense than
ordinary sunlight." It will take more work to determine what new
applications are reasonable from an efficiency perspective, but it does
broaden graphene's already-impressive capabilities.
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3826
3. http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/graphene-thermoelectric-1007.html
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| The Games Programmers Play
| from the nibbles-the-worm-doesn't-count dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @18:29 (Programming)
| with 91 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2141256/the-games-programmers-play?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Cort Stratton, a developer who has worked on
graphics code for many first-party PS3 games, wrote an article about
[0]the kinds of games that appeal to programmers. He covers
coding-friendly games of varying depth, mentioning basics like RoboRally,
RoboSport and Frozen Synapse before moving on to more complex options.
Quoting: 'On the surface, SpaceChem has nothing to do with programming;
it's merely a futuristic puzzle game in which you build factories that
convert one or more input molecules into one or more output molecules.
Each factory contains a pair of independent molecule manipulators (the
game calls them "waldos") which follow a fixed path through the work
area. Waldos can grab, drop, and rotate molecules, make and break
chemical bonds between atoms, request new input molecules and submit
output molecules. ... Don't be fooled! This isn't a game about chemistry;
it's actually the closest thing I've ever seen to a low-level [1]SPU
programming simulator! Each factory is an SPU running a single task. The
two waldos are the SPU's dual execution pipelines. Moving and editing
molecules is analogous to reading, writing and operating on data in local
store.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37734/Opinion_The_Games_Programmers_Play.php
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Synergistic_Processing_Elements_.28SPE.29
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| Mars Rover Curiosity Sealed Up For Launch
| from the no-cats-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-rover dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @15:50 (Mars)
| with 76 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/195242/mars-rover-curiosity-sealed-up-for-launch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "On Oct. 5, less than two months before it will be
launched, [1]Mars Science Laboratory 'Curiosity' [2]was sealed between
its heat shield and back shell at Kennedy Space Center's Payload
Hazardous Servicing Facility. The next time the one-ton rover sees
daylight will be on Aug. 6, 2012, as the heat shield separates after
successful entry through the Martian atmosphere, shortly before Curiosity
touches down [3]inside Gale Crater."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
2. http://news.discovery.com/space/curiosity-gets-sealed-up-111007.html
3. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/04/2259247/nasas-next-mars-rover
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| Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High
| from the wrong-kind-of-power-user dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 07, @19:46 (Intel)
| with 76 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/237222/kernel-bug-means-linux-power-usage-remains-high?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The [0]significant Linux kernel power
regression reported back in April, which ended up [1]being attributed to
PCI-E Active State Power Management, is still not resolved even as Ubuntu
11.10 and Fedora 16 approach. Until Linux is able to handle ASPM in a
manner more like Windows or the device drivers explicitly set the ASPM
flag, users of many modern laptops need to use the "pcie_aspm=force"
option to regain much of their battery life. At least a power bug
affecting newer Intel hardware with the "energy performance bias" feature
has been fixed. There's more information in [2]this LaunchPad bug report
and in [3]the latest power consumption testing."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/22/2132251/Linux-Kernel-Suffering-Power-Management-Regression
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0459252/nailing-the-cause-of-recent-linux-power-issues
2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131
3. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_linux_epb&num=1
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| Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection
| from the wasting-good-corners-on-bad-hot-dog-stands dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @13:05 (Botnet)
| with 70 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1652203/hackers-buying-ipv4-blocks-to-evade-detection?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The number of IP addresses required for large scale
botnets to operate effectively can be considerable, and finding large IP
blocks to use for them can be difficult. If the botnet operators do find
them, the IP addresses often are blacklisted quickly by reputation
systems and are then useless for the attackers. Now, in one effort to get
around these systems, some attackers are taking advantage of the lack of
IPv4 space by either [0]purchasing or renting blocks of IP space with
good reputations that have been built up over the course of several
years. A number of legitimate trading and auction sites appeared as the
IPv4 space became scarcer, and the attackers have gotten involved as
well, getting their hands on known good IP blocks and using them for C&C
or hosting malware."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/attackers-adjusting-tactics-evade-reputation-systems-100711
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| <em>Team Fortress 2</em> Running In a Web Browser Using WebGL
| from the hats-off-to-you dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @16:07 (Games)
| with 64 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/191229/team-fortress-2-running-in-a-web-browser-using-webgl?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Unreal Engine now [0]runs in Flash and Crytek
is considering porting CryEngine to Flash, but perhaps the Source Engine
could go a different route. A software developer who works for Motorola
Mobility has managed to get the engine and a level from Team Fortress 2
[1]running in a browser using WebGL. There are still a few features and
effects missing, but he claims it achieves [2]a solid 60fps and has a
video to prove it. Hopefully this gives Valve ideas; it'd be cool if
older Source games became playable in your favorite browser, or even
directly in Steam."
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Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/05/0912225/unreal-engine-3-running-in-flash
1. http://blog.tojicode.com/2011/10/source-engine-levels-in-webgl-video.html
2. http://www.geek.com/articles/games/watch-team-fortress-2-running-in-a-web-browser-2011107/
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| Microsoft-Skype Deal Poised To Win EU Approval
| from the it's-a-done-deal dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 07, @05:41 (Microsoft)
| with 60 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/022225/microsoft-skype-deal-poised-to-win-eu-approval?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Pigskin-Referee wrote in with a story about [0]the EU's approval of
Microsoft acquiring Skype. The article reads: "Microsoft's proposed $8.5
billion acquisition of Skype has earned the approval of the European
Union, the Financial Times reported Thursday. The European Commissioner
for Competition, Joaquin Almunia, is expected to rule that the
acquisition won't harm competition or turn Skype into a
Microsoft-exclusive platform. The decision ignores accusations that
Microsoft is simply bundling services on Windows to drown out smaller
competitors, as argued by Italian Skype rival Messagenet last week.
Messagenet also urged the Commission to require Microsoft to unbundle
Skype from its Windows Office Suite. The FT reports that Microsoft
'promised' the Commission it would keep Skype interoperable and supported
on rival operating systems."
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https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/022225/microsoft-skype-deal-poised-to-win-eu-approval?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Sony In Talks To Buy Ericsson Out of Phone Venture
| from the shrinking-slice-of-the-pie dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @08:50 (Sony)
| with 56 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1230236/sony-in-talks-to-buy-ericsson-out-of-phone-venture?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid sends in this excerpt from a Reuters report: "Sony
Corp is in talks to [0]buy out Ericsson's stake in their mobile phone
joint venture, a source said, in a bid to catch up with rivals. The move
could help Sony recoup ground in the battle against Apple Inc and Samsung
Electronics, where it has been hampered by its disparate offerings of
mobile gadgets and online content. The joint venture, formed in 2001,
thrived after its breakthroughs with Walkman music phones and Cybershot
cameraphones, both of which leveraged Sony's brands. But it lost out to
bigger rivals Nokia and Samsung at the cheaper end of the market, and was
late to react to Apple's entry into the high-end of the market. It has
refocused its business to make smartphones using Google's Android
platform, but has dropped to No. 9 in global cellphone rankings from No.
4 just a few years ago."
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Links:
0. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/us-sony-ericsson-idUKTRE79553720111007
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| Google Apps Engine Gets SQL
| from the rows-and-columns dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @14:28 (Cloud)
| with 56 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1759213/google-apps-engine-gets-sql?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oker writes "Google has finally [0]added SQL to its cloud platform
offering, Apps Engine. Until now, developers had to use the Datastore
service, which provides a vendor lock-in threat and isn't supported by
most existing software and libraries. The SQL service should definitely
improve Apps Engine adoption. It is currently in [1]limited preview mode."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1759213/google-apps-engine-gets-sql?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-cloud-sql-your-database-in-cloud.html
1. http://code.google.com/apis/sql/
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| Oldest Submerged City Visualized With CGI
| from the what's-old-is-new dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @18:04 (Science)
| with 53 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/213245/oldest-submerged-city-visualized-with-cgi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Stirling Newberry writes "Nottingham University's [1]Pavlopetri
project spent months [2]measuring a city that sank beneath the waves
3,000 years ago, perhaps in a tsunami. The result is a [3]BBC documentary
that features a detailed CGI reconstruction. 'The entire city ��� covering
20 acres ��� has been surveyed in ultra-high definition, with error margins
of less than three centimeters. ... [T]he survey team has so far located
scores of buildings, half a dozen major streets and even religious
shrines and tombs.' eScience News chimes in about [4]the oldest known
submerged city, first inhabited 5,000 years ago and rediscovered in 1967.
Of course, Slashdot readers will probably want to dig into the details of
[5]how stereo-vision mapping was used (PDF) to create the map in the
first place."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/213245/oldest-submerged-city-visualized-with-cgi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:stirling.newberry@xigenics.net
1. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pavlopetri/index.aspx
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greek-city-digitally-recreated-2367183.html
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015yh6f
4. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/10/16/worlds.oldest.submerged.town.dates.back.5000.years
5. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CFAQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.acfr.usyd.edu.au%2Fdownload.php%2FMahonICRA2011_pavlopetri.pdf%3Fid%3D2369&rct=j&q=%22Jon%20Henderson%22%20Nottingham&ei=FlePTpiRAYjJ0AHTxbUd&usg=AFQjCNGU3c93_WGHcsWYpCyu3wYJE4vEAQ&cad=rja
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| Patents Google Bought From IBM Are "Weak"
| from the how-patent-lawyers-taunt-each-other dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday October 07, @18:51 (Google)
| with 49 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2241221/patents-google-bought-from-ibm-are-weak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "Slashdot noted [1]in September that Google had
bought 1023 patents from IBM. Now IP analytics firms IPVision says
[2]they're a 'mixed bag' of mostly unrelated patents that won't be much
use in defending against competitors such as Microsoft or Apple. Patents
are most useful when they are tightly linked into clusters by references,
such that they cover every angle on an idea, something Google's new
collection lacks."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/2241221/patents-google-bought-from-ibm-are-weak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/14/2353207/google-enlarges-warchest-with-1023-ibm-patents
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38791/?p1=A2
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| LHC Gets Android App
| from the not-responsible-for-black-holes-in-your-smartphone dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @12:46 (Android)
| with 46 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/160252/lhc-gets-android-app?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "It appears scientists at the Large Hadron
Collider have [0]made an app to visualize proton collisions at the
largest of the four experiments, ATLAS. 'For the first time you can now
grab live collision events from the underground detectors in Geneva, and
beam them direct to your own device. As well as [1]a variety of
educational resources, the application allows you to interact with the
collision events in full 3D graphics. You can also find out how the
different parts of the detector work, learn how to identify different
types of collision, and even put your new skills to the test by playing
the "Hunt the Higgs" game.' It's [2]free to download from the Android
Market."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/160252/lhc-gets-android-app?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/News%20and%20Events/37666.aspx
1. http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/111007.html
2. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lhsee
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| Australia's Iconic Parkes Telescope Turns 50
| from the dish-down-under dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday October 07, @03:39 (Australia)
| with 24 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/0151212/australias-iconic-parkes-telescope-turns-50?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "It is rare for a piece of scientific equipment to
hold a place in a nation's heart. But 'The Dish' ��� the CSIRO's Parkes
radio telescope ��� has in its 50 years come to mean a lot more to
Australians that just a complex piece of technology. The telescope is a
64-meter diameter parabolic dish used for radio astronomy, located about
20 kilometers north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales ��� about 380
kilometers west of Sydney. It even has its place on the Big Screen,
immortalized in the 2000 movie, [1]The Dish. Opened on 31 October 1961,
[2]the telescope is perhaps best known to Australians for its role in the
1969 moon landing. On 8 and 9 October, the CSIRO will throw open its
doors to the Australian public in celebration of its 50th anniversary."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/0151212/australias-iconic-parkes-telescope-turns-50?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
2. http://www.cio.com.au/article/402613/australia_celebrates_50_years_dish_/?fp=16
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| The Importance — and Limits — of Very Large Data Sets
| from the libraries-of-congress-per-fortnight dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday October 07, @09:32 (Social Networks)
| with 17 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1316211/the-importance-and-limits-of-very-large-data-sets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter kodiaktau writes "A recently presented paper discusses how
large data sets can improve learning algorithms, but points out that
researchers [0]still need to account for bias and incompleteness before
drawing conclusions. The paper also goes into the need for responsible
business practices to manage these data sets. 'There's been the emergence
of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that,
actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.' The full paper is
[1]available through SSRN. Of particular importance is their assertion
that even huge data sets can and will be affected by filters or the
analyst who is interpreting it. '[Study co-author Kate Crawford] notes
that many big data sets ��� particularly social data ��� come from companies
that have no obligation to support scientific inquiry. Getting access to
the data might mean paying for it, or keeping the company happy by not
performing certain types of studies.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1316211/the-importance-and-limits-of-very-large-data-sets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38775/page1/
1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1926431
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