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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather
* Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack
* Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts?
* Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking
* Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System?
* Whither the Portable Optical Drive?
* How Ford Will Upgrade Owners' Display Screens
* 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix
* France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music
* 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software
* US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games'
* Are SOPA Sponsors Violating SOPA Rules? Not So Fast, Says Ars Technica
* Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack
* Higgs Range Narrowed; Hunt Enters Final Stage
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| Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather
| from the so-the-ostrich-mukluks-then dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @03:29 (Earth)
| with 361 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/0535230/climate-panel-says-to-prepare-for-weird-weather?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Layzej writes "Extreme weather, such as the 2010 Russian heat wave or the
drought in the horn of Africa, will become [0]more frequent and severe as
the planet warms, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
warns in a report released today. Some areas could become 'increasingly
marginal as places to live in,' the report concludes. Critics of the
report note that 'Governments have in the past [1]considerably weakened
the language of IPCC summaries for policymakers,' and that the IPCC
process tends to water down even the most obvious conclusions."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/0535230/climate-panel-says-to-prepare-for-weird-weather?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/climate-panel-says-prepare-for-weird-weather-1.9397
1. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/18/371924/ipcc-chart-dust-bowlification/
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| Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack
| from the you-say-problem-I-say-potato dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @15:10 (Encryption)
| with 353 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2011228/full-disk-encryption-hard-for-law-enforcement-to-crack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a
lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out
to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. [0]MrSeb
writes with word of a paper titled "The growing impact of full disk
encryption on digital forensics" [[1]abstract here to paywalled article]
that illustrates just how difficult it is. According to the paper,
co-authored by a member of US-CERT, "[T]here are [2]three main problems
with full disk encryption (FDE): First, evidence-gathering goons can turn
off the computer (for transportation) without realizing it's encrypted,
and thus can't get back at the data (unless the arrestee gives up his
password, which he doesn't have to do); second, if the analysis team
doesn't know that the disk is encrypted, it can waste hours trying to
read something that's ultimately unreadable; and finally, in the case of
hardware-level disk encryption, tampering with the device can trigger
self-destruction of the data. The paper does go on to suggest some ways
to ameliorate these issues, but ultimately the researchers aren't
hopeful: 'Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for
breaking or bypassing full disk encryption.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2011228/full-disk-encryption-hard-for-law-enforcement-to-crack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742287611000727
2. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105931-full-disk-encryption-is-too-good-says-us-intelligence-agency
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| Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts?
| from the lump-of-coal-doesn't-fit dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 18, @21:47 (Christmas Cheer)
| with 338 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/0128243/ask-slashdot-good-useful-free-software-for-gifts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Jeng writes "I'm planning on sending flash
drives to friends and family as stocking stuffers. Rather than just send
a blank drive, I'm looking for what good useful free software that I can
load on it ��� from system utilities and encryption software to fun little
games." We've asked similar questions before, but software keeps getting
better, and so do the prices on flash drives. So what would you give as a
gift this holiday season?
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/0128243/ask-slashdot-good-useful-free-software-for-gifts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking
| from the what's-he-hawking? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @17:27 (Canada)
| with 251 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2218213/human-survival-depends-on-space-exploration-says-hawking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thomst writes "The Winnipeg Free Press posts a story by Cassandra
Szklarski of the Canadian Press about an email interview with Stephen
Hawking in which the astrophysicist and geek hero opines, 'Our only
chance of long-term survival is [0]not to remain lurking on planet Earth,
but to spread out into space.' The story also covers the upcoming
Canadian debut of Hawking's new TV series 'Brave New World With Stephen
Hawking,' and his excitement about ongoing work at the Perimeter
Institute in Waterloo, Ont. investigating quantum theory and gravity."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2218213/human-survival-depends-on-space-exploration-says-hawking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System?
| from the pulley-to-the-roof-each-night dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @12:33 (Crime)
| with 226 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1731218/ask-slashdot-inexpensive-anti-theft-vehicle-tracking-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Chuckles08 writes "I'm about to complete the purchase of an
electric scooter that is worth over $5,000. Since I'll be parking it on a
college campus, it will be vulnerable to theft. I'd like to install some
kind of tracking device on it but the solutions I've seen so far seem
quite expensive. Are there any reasonably priced and effective solutions
out there? Ideally, I'd like to be informed by text message if my scooter
moves without my knowing. I'd like to then track the scooter's
movements." And anything small enough to work for a scooter might be very
useful for car owners, too.
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1731218/ask-slashdot-inexpensive-anti-theft-vehicle-tracking-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Whither the Portable Optical Drive?
| from the do-you-stream-or-spin dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @18:36 (Media)
| with 220 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2337216/whither-the-portable-optical-drive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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"The MacBook Air and the Ultrabook come without a piece of hardware
that's been a mainstay in laptops for a long time ��� the optical drive,"
says a piece at CNET. "Maybe because they [0]really aren't that necessary
anymore." I would have thought otherwise a few years ago, but traveling
in the meantime with a small netbook was certainly handy. Since that
machine died, I think I've used the optical drive in its low-end laptop
successor a grand total of once, which was to test its wireless
compatibility with a Live CD Linux distro.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2337216/whither-the-portable-optical-drive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57328194-64/macbook-air-ultrabook-spell-doom-for-optical-drive
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| How Ford Will Upgrade Owners' Display Screens
| from the changing-focus dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @08:28 (Software)
| with 186 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/049229/how-ford-will-upgrade-owners-display-screens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "'Sometime early next year, Ford will mail USB sticks
to about 250,000 owners of vehicles with its advanced touchscreen control
panel. The stick will contain a major upgrade to the software for that
screen. With it, Ford breaks the model in which the technology in a car
essentially stayed unchanged from assembly line to junk yard' ��� and
[1]Ford becomes a software company. This shift created a hot new tech job
at Ford: human-machine interface engineers ��� people who come from a range
of backgrounds, from software development to mechanical engineers, and
who can live in the worlds of art and science at once."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/049229/how-ford-will-upgrade-owners-display-screens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/231902920
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| 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix
| from the on-probation dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @11:32 (Media)
| with 164 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1628223/arrested-development-comes-exclusively-to-netflix?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Xondak writes "The cult series 'Arrested
Development' is being resurrected and [0]brought exclusively to Netflix
streaming subscribers. This marks the first time a major studio has
produced first-run content for the streaming service and perhaps this
will afford other opportunities for cancelled Fox series. Firefly,
anyone?"
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1628223/arrested-development-comes-exclusively-to-netflix?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/arrested-development-be-resurrected-by-263790
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| France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music
| from the but-accordians-are-cheap dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @16:24 (The Internet)
| with 133 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2124236/france-to-tax-the-internet-to-pay-for-music?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "A new tax in France is aimed at ISPs. The new government
tax on ISPs is to help pay for the CNM (Centre National de la Musique).
Already in France there is a tax on TV, to pay for public access
channels. It's similar to the tax in the United kingdom which pays for
the BBC. This ISP tax will be the musical equivalent to that. President
Sarkozy comments, 'Globalization is now, and the giants of the internet
earn lot of money on the French market. Good for them, but [0]they do not
pay a penny in tax to France.' This all began after the music industry
accused French ISPs of making billions of dollars on their backs. Now the
music industry must also get their hands in their pockets."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2124236/france-to-tax-the-internet-to-pay-for-music?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-11-19b/France_to_tax_the_internet_to_pay_for_music.html
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| 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software
| from the wait-what-kind-of-lies? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @13:50 (Stats)
| with 132 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1851241/2-year-study-shows-mac-users-downloading-more-open-source-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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AmyVernon writes "We combed through about two years' worth of data on
SourceForge, looking at the platforms of the users who downloaded
projects, and [0]millions more Mac users are downloading open source
projects now than were in February 2010. In the same time, Windows
downloads have increased by a much smaller percentage and Linux downloads
have actually declined." I wonder how much of this last part can be
chalked up to the ever-better download infrastructure that the various
Linux distros have. (Note: SourceForge and Slashdot are both part of
Geeknet.)
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1851241/2-year-study-shows-mac-users-downloading-more-open-source-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://sourceforge.net/blog/os-wars/
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| US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games'
| from the recruit-from-wow-raids dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 19, @00:35 (Government)
| with 101 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/11/18/2248200/us-gives-raytheon-105m-for-serious-games?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "These aren't your basic video gaming systems here.
The U.S. government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies $10.5 million today
[1]to develop what it called 'serious games' that feature an
international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive
psychologists and [2]experts in intelligence analysis."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/11/18/2248200/us-gives-raytheon-105m-for-serious-games?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/raytheon-gets-105m-develop-serious-games
2. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=1793ab48906acabaf923c76486c29c0f&_cview=0
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| Are SOPA Sponsors Violating SOPA Rules? Not So Fast, Says Ars Technica
| from the wash-your-mouth-out-with-sopa dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @09:35 (Crime)
| with 100 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1436236/are-sopa-sponsors-violating-sopa-rules-not-so-fast-says-ars-technica?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]TheNextCorner writes "Remember how the Stop Online Piracy Act would
make streaming of copyrighted material a felony? Many of these lawmakers
[1]actually stream copyrighted videos on their websites." However,
[2]that's not the whole story. according to a followup at Ars Technica to
the tweeted claims about streaming and SOPA. From which: "The Electronic
Frontier Foundation [3]tweeted the post, and it was re-tweeted more than
100 times. So are the sponsors of SOPA hypocrites? We're not fans of
SOPA, so we'd love to have this story check out. But we're also a news
site, so we contacted James Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at New York
Law School, (and judging from [4]his [5]tweets, not a SOPA supporter) to
get his expert opinion."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1436236/are-sopa-sponsors-violating-sopa-rules-not-so-fast-says-ars-technica?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://thenextcorner.net/
1. http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-sponsors-break-their-own-law-111117/
2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/on-wednesday-reddit-which-like.ars
3. https://twitter.com/#!/EFF/status/136844991048847362
4. https://twitter.com/#!/grimmelm/status/136801243657023488
5. https://twitter.com/#!/grimmelm/status/136673148501360640
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| Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack
| from the hypnotic-control dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @06:18 (Robotics)
| with 87 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/0857244/controlling-a-robot-from-a-smartphones-headphone-jack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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RedEaredSlider passes along this excerpt about what looks like a smart
advance in controlling hobbyist robots:"The concept is quite simple: put
a [0]wheeled chassis on a smart phone or iPod Touch that allows for using
the device as the 'brain.' But that simplicity is what makes the robot,
called Romo, powerful. Since the controls are contained entirely within
the phone, they can be downloaded as apps. One can add new physical
capabilities to Romo -��� a claw, or a scoop -��� but that doesn't require
any new additions to the phone. Also, the controls are through the
headphone jack. That simplifies the design and means that the robot
doesn't need to be linked with only one brand of smart phone."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/0857244/controlling-a-robot-from-a-smartphones-headphone-jack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.discovery.com/tech/the-robot-with-a-smart-phone-brain-111118.html
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| Higgs Range Narrowed; Hunt Enters Final Stage
| from the next-is-the-challenging-stage dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 19, @10:31 (Science)
| with 65 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1531212/higgs-range-narrowed-hunt-enters-final-stage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gbrumfiel writes "For forty years, the [1]Higgs boson has remained a
theoretical construct, but by Christmas, scientists may have a pretty
good idea of whether it's real or not. Nature News reports that [2]a new
analysis has further narrowed the Higgs range, and data gathered this
autumn at the [3]LHC [4]should be enough to show a faint signal from a
Higgs, if it's there. (Already [5]one signal has disappeared earlier in
the year.) Physicists hope to finish their analysis of the autumn data by
the year's end, but even if they come up empty-handed it won't be the end
of the story. The Higgs is commonly referred to as the particle that
endows others with mass, but its real appeal is the ability to unify the
[6]weak nuclear force with electromagnetism. If there is no Higgs, some
other mechanism for creating a unified 'electroweak' force should be
found inside the LHC."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/1531212/higgs-range-narrowed-hunt-enters-final-stage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://twitter.com/#!/gbrumfiel
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
2. http://atlas.ch/news/2011/ATLAS-CMS-combined-limits-higgs.html
3. http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
4. http://www.nature.com/news/higgs-hunt-enters-endgame-1.9399
5. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/204217/no-higgs-just-yet
6. http://www-project.slac.stanford.edu/e158/weakforce.html
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