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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime
* Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day'
* VMware, a Falling Giant?
* Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows
* Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware
* Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development?
* Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard
* Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days
* Mathematically Pattern-Free Music
* Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies
* DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying
* Spanish Firm Wins Tablet Case Against Apple
* Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5
* Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations?
* The CIA's Social Mining Department
* Apache Harmony Moves To Apache Attic
* AMD Layoffs Maul Marketing, PR Departments
* Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It
* AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV
* Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA
* Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel
* Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole
* AT&T Pushes 'Connected' Clothing For Healthcare
* Australia Approves Final R18+ Gaming Guidelines
* Book Review: Securing the Clicks
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| EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime
| from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 03, @21:50 (Science)
| with 543 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/03/239204/eu-scientists-working-on-laser-to-rip-a-hole-in-spacetime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Those pesky physicists are at it again; they want
to build a laser so powerful that [1]it will literally rip spacetime
apart. Why? To prove the existence of virtual particles in the quantum
vacuum, potentially unravel extra dimensions and possibly find the root
of dark matter. The $1.6 billion [2]Extreme Light Infrastructure
Ultra-High Field Facility (known as ELI) will be built somewhere in
Europe by the end of the decade and physicists are hoping the ten
high-powered lasers ��� delivering 200 petawatts of power at a target for
less than a trillionth of a second ��� will turn up some surprises about
the very fabric of the Universe."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/03/239204/eu-scientists-working-on-laser-to-rip-a-hole-in-spacetime?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/a-laser-to-rip-apart-spacetime-create-ghosts-111102.html
2. http://www.extreme-light-infrastructure.eu/index.php?PHPSESSID=4566c148b112d4ff63cc3f7a4f34a696
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| Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day'
| from the good-to-switch-once-in-a-while-anyhow dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 04, @19:52 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 374 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2337208/fee-increase-attempt-inspires-dump-your-bank-day?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from CNN Money: "[0]Customers are
dumping their banks in droves ahead of the nationwide 'Move Your Money'
and 'Bank Transfer Day' movements this Saturday. Given the recent
spotlight on attempts ��� and ultimate failures ��� by some of the nation's
biggest banks to tack on new debit card fees, thousands of disgruntled
consumers have already either left or pledged to leave their current bank
for a community bank or credit union, which are known for having fewer
and/or lower bank account fees. ... At least 650,000 consumers have
already joined credit unions since Sept. 29, the day Bank of America
announced plans to impose its controversial $5 debit card fee, according
to a nationwide survey of credit unions by the Credit Union National
Association."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2337208/fee-increase-attempt-inspires-dump-your-bank-day?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/03/pf/move_your_money_day/index.htm
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| VMware, a Falling Giant?
| from the netcraft-yet-silent dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @13:15 (Cloud)
| with 369 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1712205/vmware-a-falling-giant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Lashat writes "According to Ars Technica, 'A new survey
seems to show that [0]VMware's iron grip on the enterprise virtualization
market is loosening, with 38 percent of businesses planning to switch
vendors within the next year due to licensing models and the robustness
of competing hypervisors.' What do IT-savvy Slashdotters have to say
about moving away from one of the more stable and feature rich VM
architectures available?"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1712205/vmware-a-falling-giant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows
| from the we-have-the-technology-we-can-make-it-better dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday November 04, @08:11 (Google)
| with 367 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0326243/google-tweaks-algorithm-as-concern-over-bing-grows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SharkLaser writes "As Bing gets closer to capturing almost 33% of the
market share in the U.S., Google has again [0]made a large tweak to its
algorithms to provide more up-to-the-minute search results. The change
affects around 35% of queries and is intended to give users more recent
news and stories. For breaking news stories the search engine will now
weight more heavily the most recent coverage, and not just those sites
that are linked the most, and for general terms the search engine values
fresh content more than old. Google is hoping that these recent new
changes will provide better search experience and stops users from
switching over to Bing, which just recently launched its own GroupOn like
site."
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0326243/google-tweaks-algorithm-as-concern-over-bing-grows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/google_fresh_search_algorithm_tweak/
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| Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware
| from the almost-as-if-they-weren't-all-made-by-the-same-company dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @15:31 (Android)
| with 305 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1929256/hardware-running-android-fails-more-than-iphone-blackberry-hardware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hazytodd writes "Repairs to Android smartphones cost wireless carriers $2
billion per year according to a new year-long WDS study that tracked
600,000 support calls around the globe. Android's popularity and the
introduction of a number of low-cost smartphones has put a strain on the
wireless business model, WDS noted in its report. 'Deployment by more
than 25 OEMs and lower-cost product coming to market is [0]leading to
higher than average rates of hardware failures and, in turn, return and
repair costs.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1929256/hardware-running-android-fails-more-than-iphone-blackberry-hardware?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development?
| from the won't-somebody-think-of-the-penguins dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @11:06 (Cloud)
| with 289 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1436256/is-saas-killing-native-linux-app-development?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "In a world where 'app' is the new buzzword, the
development of native Linux apps is lagging. Some of this can be
attributed to the usual community infighting (the latest version of which
is [1]argument about Ubuntu's Unity interface), but there may be
something deeper at play: Linux advocates have for so long advocated
browser-accessed software as a service as a way to break out of
Microsoft's proprietary desktop. Now that this world has arrived,
[2]there's less incentive to work on native Linux apps. But of course,
entrusting your functionality and data to a cloud provider like Google
has [3]its own set of concerns for free software fans."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1436256/is-saas-killing-native-linux-app-development?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/A-Disturbing-Dialog-About-Ubuntu-and-Unity
2. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/220185/where-native-linux-app-development-stands
3. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/219409/why-google-starting-give-me-willies
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| Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard
| from the sorting-a-large-stack dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday November 04, @10:43 (Math)
| with 245 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1228221/pancake-flipping-is-hard-np-hard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "French computer scientists have finally proved that
[0]sorting pancakes is hard ��� NP hard. No really ��� this isn't a joke.
Well, it is slightly amusing but that's just because it is being
presented as pancake flipping. The algorithm in question is sorting a
permutation using prefix reversal ��� which is much easier to understand in
terms of pancakes. Basically you have to sort a pancake stack by simply
inserting your spatula and flipping the top part of the stack. We now
know that if you can do the this in polynomial time then you have proved
that P=NP."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1228221/pancake-flipping-is-hard-np-hard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/112-theory/3280-pancake-flipping-is-hard-np-hard.html
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| Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days
| from the you-guys-may-want-to-stay-a-bit-longer dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @09:38 (Mars)
| with 189 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1229248/simulated-mars-mission-returns-after-520-days?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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On June 3, 2010, a team of six volunteers began the Mars500 experiment:
they were locked into a cluster of hermetically sealed habitat modules
for the duration of a simulated mission to Mars lasting 520 days. "During
the ���flight,' the crew performed more than 100 experiments, all linked to
the problems of long-duration missions in deep space. To add to their
isolation, communications with mission control were artificially delayed
to mimic the natural delays over the great distances on a real Mars
flight." [0]The simulated mission has now come to an end. The crew
[1]managed to stay healthy and sane, and they've emerged from isolation
to be reunited with their families. The ESA's [2]Mars500 page has further
details on the experiment, and they've posted [3]a video summarizing the
'trip.'
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1229248/simulated-mars-mission-returns-after-520-days?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMB9ALUBUG_index_0.html
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hymQElbxula7uuQH83aQWywlO25A?docId=f22b39bbf8c2470ebb9cb927a96f1ac9
2. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars500/index.html
3. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars500/SEMCHALUBUG_0.html
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| Mathematically Pattern-Free Music
| from the why-i-hate-the-radio dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @16:36 (Math)
| with 182 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2027250/mathematically-pattern-free-music?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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gary.flake writes "'Scott Rickard set out to do what no musician has ever
tried ��� to [0]make the world's ugliest piece of music [video]. At
TEDxMIA, he discusses the math and science behind creating a piece of
music devoid of any pattern.' He used mathematics of ��variste Galois (who
was born 200 years ago) to create pattern-free sonar pings which he
mapped to notes on a piano, and then played them using the non-rhythm of
a [1]Golomb Ruler. Now, why didn't I think of that..."
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Links:
0. http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxMIAMI-Scott-Rickard-The-Wor
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler
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| Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies
| from the serving-the-almighty-buck dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @12:31 (Government)
| with 151 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1626247/iranian-police-tracking-dissidents-using-tech-from-western-companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "A recent article at Bloomberg discusses [0]Western companies
supplying monitoring equipment to Iran. There are few regulations
restricting the sale of intelligence monitoring systems to the Iranian
government, and large corporations like Ericsson and Nokia have supplied
the equipment used to identify dissidents and suppress anti-government
protests. '[One such system from Creativity Software] can record a
person���s location every 15 seconds ��� eight times more frequently than a
similar system the company sold in Yemen, according to company documents.
A tool called "geofences" triggers an alarm when two targets come in
close proximity to each other. The system also stores the data and can
generate reports of a person's movements. A former Creativity Software
manager said the Iran system was far more sophisticated than any other
systems the company had sold in the Middle East.'"
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1626247/iranian-police-tracking-dissidents-using-tech-from-western-companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying
| from the I-cannot-tell-a-lie dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday November 04, @00:22 (Government)
| with 148 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0116209/doj-drops-foia-rule-to-permit-lying?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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schwit1 writes "The Department of Justice has canceled a controversial
revision to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules that opponents said
[0]would have allowed federal agencies to lie about the existence of
records. In a letter to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Thursday, the
DOJ wrote that the proposed rule 'falls short' of its commitment to
transparency, and it 'will not include that provision when the Department
issues final regulations.' The concern now is that the DOJ has been lying
for some time and this rule was an attempt to provide cover for past
denials concerning the existence of documents."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0116209/doj-drops-foia-rule-to-permit-lying?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/03/justice-department-drops-controversial-foia-rule/
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| Spanish Firm Wins Tablet Case Against Apple
| from the and-the-sue-goes-on dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday November 04, @03:07 (Android)
| with 139 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0118229/spanish-firm-wins-tablet-case-against-apple?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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pmontra writes "A Spanish company [0]has won a legal case against Apple
and will be able to [1]sell an Android tablet that Apple had claimed
infringes on the iPad patent. It is now [2]seeking damages from Apple for
a temporary seizure of its products by Spanish customs. Furthermore they
are pursuing an antitrust complaint against Apple, alleging abusive
anticompetitive behavior."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0118229/spanish-firm-wins-tablet-case-against-apple?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577013852223036764.html
1. http://www.nt-k.com/productos/tableta
2. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/11/apple-loses-ipad-design-lawsuit-against.html
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| Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5
| from the strange-bedfellows dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday November 04, @05:38 (Communications)
| with 110 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0320246/hotmail-mobile-usage-spikes-thanks-to-apple-ios-5?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is proud to announce that mobile
usage of its Hotmail service has exploded in the past few weeks, and
guess who is to thank? Apple! [0]More than 2 million Apple users linked
their Hotmail accounts to their iPhones and iPads since the launch of iOS
5."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/0320246/hotmail-mobile-usage-spikes-thanks-to-apple-ios-5?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.winbeta.org/news/hotmail-mobile-usage-spikes-thanks-apple-ios-5
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| Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations?
| from the stop-or-i'll-say-stop-again dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @17:38 (Open Source)
| with 103 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2115235/ask-slashdot-when-and-how-to-deal-with-gpl-violations?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jd writes "There are many pieces of software out there, [1]such as
seL4 (kindly brought to my attention by another reader), where the vendor
has indeed engineered something that they're entitled to Close Source,
but where their closed-source license includes the modifications to GPLed
software such as the Linux kernel. Then there's a second type of
behavior. Code Sourcery produced two versions of their VSIPL++ image
processing library ��� one closed-source, one GPLed. It was extremely
decent of them. When Mentor Graphics bought Code Sourcery, they
[2]continued developing the closed-course one and discontinued, then
deleted, the GPL variant. It's unclear to me if that's kosher, as the
closed variant must contain code that had been GPLed at one point. Here's
the problem: complaining too much will mean we get code now that maybe
four or five people, tops, will actually care about. It will also make
corporations leery of any other such work in future, where that work will
be of greater value to a greater number of people. So, the question I
want to ask is this: When is it a good time to complain? By what
rule-of-thumb might you decide that one violation is worth cracking down
on, and another should be let go to help encourage work we're never going
to do ourselves?"
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Links:
0. mailto:imipak@yahoo.com
1. http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/seL4/
2. http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-vsipl/
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| The CIA's Social Mining Department
| from the digesting-aggregated-opinions dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @10:23 (Communications)
| with 102 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1346253/the-cias-social-mining-department?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bsquizzato writes "The Associated Press is running a story about the
CIA's Open Source Center: 'a team known affectionately as the "vengeful
librarians,"' who work out of 'an anonymous industrial park in Virginia,
in an unassuming brick building' [0]scouring social networks and other
online media to keep up with the world's current events and opinions on
American actions. This should come as no surprise, but it's quite
interesting that President Obama is briefed daily on the latest hot topic
tweets and Facebook posts."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1346253/the-cias-social-mining-department?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html
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| Apache Harmony Moves To Apache Attic
| from the giving-up-the-ghost dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @14:43 (Java)
| with 87 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1841227/apache-harmony-moves-to-apache-attic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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think_nix writes "After the [0]resignation of Apache from the Java SE/EE
Executive Committee, the time has now come [1]for Harmony to be added to
the Apache Attic. Harmony was 'the project to produce an open source
cleanroom implementation of Java.' An [2]open vote was taken within the
Project Management Committee, which resulted in a [3]20-2 majority to
discontinue development."
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https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1841227/apache-harmony-moves-to-apache-attic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/12/09/197208/Apache-Resigns-From-the-JCP-Executive-Committee
1. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-end-of-Apache-Harmony-1371819.html
2. http://markmail.org/message/zmd22hkyukfbibh5
3. http://markmail.org/message/sxjtefpayanbqfe5
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| AMD Layoffs Maul Marketing, PR Departments
| from the big-ship-turns-slowly dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 04, @19:10 (AMD)
| with 86 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2310212/amd-layoffs-maul-marketing-pr-departments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "AMD's initial [1]layoff announcement yesterday implied
that the dismissals would occur across the company's global sales force.
While that may still be true, it has become clear that AMD has [2]slashed
its PR and Marketing departments in particular. The New Product Review
Program* (NPRP) has lost most of its staff and a Graphics Product
Manager, who played an integral role in rescuing AMD's GPU division after
the disaster of R600, also got the axe. Key members of the FirePro
product team are also gone. None of the staff had any idea that the cuts
were coming, or that they'd focus so particularly in certain areas. These
two departments may not design products, but they create and maintain
vital lines of communication between the company, its customers, and the
press."
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Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://slashdot.org/story/11/11/03/2140213/amd-to-lay-off-10-of-global-workforce
2. http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Layoffs-Maul-Marketing-PR-Departments/
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| Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It
| from the optimization-battling-objectivity dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @13:57 (Cellphones)
| with 78 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1751234/mobile-app-search-so-broken-altavista-could-do-it?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]waderoush writes "First-generation search engines such as AltaVista ���
built when the Web had only a few hundred thousand sites ��� produced
notoriously goofy and spam-prone results. Well, when you search the
Android Market for 'restaurant guide' and the top result is the U.S. Army
Survival Guide, it begins to seem like we haven't come very far. San
Francisco-based Chomp is [1]one of the companies trying to fix mobile app
search and discovery by leapfrogging Apple, Google, and the other app
store providers. Founder and CEO Ben Keighran, creator of the
once-hugely-popular Bluepulse text messaging system for Java phones, says
the company plumbs the app stores, the Web, Twitter, and other sources to
distill accurate keywords ('appwords') for each app. The top apps at
Chomp for the search terms 'restaurant guide': Yelp, Urbanspoon, and
Zagat, just as you'd expect."
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Links:
0. mailto:wroush@xconomy.com
1. http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/11/04/mobile-app-search-is-so-bad-altavista-could-have-done-it-chomp-is-biting-off-the-problem/?single_page=true
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| AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV
| from the yes-aol-still-exists dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @08:55 (America Online)
| with 72 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/127203/aol-to-discontinue-listserv?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "On December 1, AOL will [0]shut down its free
LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company has told
mailing list administrators. 'If your list is still actively used, please
make arrangements to find another service prior to the shutdown date and
notify your list members of the transition details,' an email notice sent
out by AOL stated. At the peak of the service's popularity in the late
1990s, AOL was the third-largest provider of mailing lists, serving more
than a million users."
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0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/110311-aol-discontinues-listserv-mailing-list-252705.html
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| Microsoft, Mozilla and Google Ban Malaysian Intermediate CA
| from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @11:49 (Google)
| with 59 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/1539253/microsoft-mozilla-and-google-ban-malaysian-intermediate-ca?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "[0]Microsoft, [1]Mozilla and [2]Google have announced that
they are [3]revoking trust in Malaysia-based DigiCert, an intermediate
certificate authority authorized by well-known CA Entrust, following the
issuing of [4]22 certificates with weak keys, lacking in usage extensions
and revocation information. 'There is no indication that any certificates
were issued fraudulently, however, these weak keys have allowed some of
the certificates to be compromised,' wrote Jerry Bryant of Microsoft's
Trustworthy Computing."
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Links:
0. http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/11/03/untrusted-certificate-store-to-be-updated.aspx
1. http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/11/03/revoking-trust-in-digicert-sdn-bhd-intermediate-certificate-authority/
2. http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=108479
3. http://net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11893
4. http://www.entrust.net/advisories/malaysia.htm
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| Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel
| from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-acorn dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 03, @20:14 (Earth)
| with 56 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/11/03/2149216/meet-the-saber-toothed-squirrel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Researchers have discovered the [0]fossil remains of
a 94-million-year-old squirrel-like critter with a long, narrow snout and
a pair of curved saber-fangs that it would have likely used to pierce its
insect prey. The creature, pieced together from skull fragments unearthed
in Argentina and dubbed Cronopio dentiacutus, was not ancestral to us or
any living mammal. Instead, it belonged to an extinct group called
dryolestoids, a cadre of fuzzy mammals that scurried about in the shadow
of long-necked dinosaurs."
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0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/scienceshot-meet-the-saber-tooth.html?ref=hp
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| Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole
| from the pretty-pictures dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @16:56 (NASA)
| with 55 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2021228/hubble-directly-images-disc-around-a-black-hole?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the HST site: "A team of
scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a
quasar accretion disc ��� a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly
being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole. Their study makes use
of a novel technique that uses gravitational lensing to give an immense
boost to the power of the telescope. The incredible precision of the
method has [0]allowed astronomers to directly measure the disc's size and
plot the temperature across different parts of the disc."
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Links:
0. http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1116/
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| AT&T Pushes 'Connected' Clothing For Healthcare
| from the and-what-would-at&t-know-about-staying-connected dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @18:23 (AT&T)
| with 52 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2119205/att-pushes-connected-clothing-for-healthcare?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "Babies, athletes, first responders, the elderly ��� a
growing list of people could [1]benefit from connected clothing, says
AT&T, which claims 'the stars have aligned' for this technology. Prices
of clothing sensors have come down; Wi-Fi and wireless networks have
become ubiquitous; and mobile apps have become easier to design and
simpler to use. 'For example, parents of babies could cover them in
connected clothing to check on their children when they were out of the
house ... And relatives of elderly people who are "aging in place" in
their homes could check on their vital signs and make sure their loved
ones haven't fallen. This could help the elderly stay out of assisted
living facilities, as most prefer to do.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/mobile-wireless/231902320
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| Australia Approves Final R18+ Gaming Guidelines
| from the maybe-now-you-can-play-big-boy-games dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 04, @17:22 (Australia)
| with 46 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2034258/australia-approves-final-r18-gaming-guidelines?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dotarray writes "Despite stories suggesting that a change to the
Australian ratings system may be as far as two years away, the Federal
Minister for Home Affairs has announced that each Australian state and
territory has [0]signed off on the final guidelines required for [1]the
introduction of an adult R18+ classification Down Under."
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Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/11/03/australia-approves-final-r18-gaming-guidelines/
1. http://au.gamespot.com/news/6343829/australian-r18-final-guidelines-released
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| Book Review: Securing the Clicks
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday November 04, @16:14 (Security)
| with 12 comments
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/191231/book-review-securing-the-clicks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]brothke writes:"The book Digital Assassination: Protecting Your
Reputation, Brand, or Business Against Online Attacks says businesses
that take days to respond to social media issues are way behind the
curve. Social media operates in real-time, and responses need to be
almost as quick. In a valuable new book on the topic, Securing the Clicks
Network Security in the Age of Social Media, Gary Bahadur, Jason Inasi
and Alex de Carvalho provide the reader with a comprehensive overview on
how not to be a victim of social media based security problems." Read on
for the rest of Ben's review.
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https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/191231/book-review-securing-the-clicks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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0. mailto:brothke@hotmail.com
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