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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
* Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress
* Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years
* Europe Accuses Google of Monopoly Abuse
* Carrier IQ Drama Continues
* Ask Slashdot: Parallel Cluster In a Box?
* Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server
* Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network
* After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More
* Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others
* Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet
* Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices
* Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era
* Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree
* Yeti Crab Cultivates Bacteria On Claw, Then Eats Them
* Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV
* ESA Ends Attempts To Pick Up Phobos-Grunt Signals
* On December 10, the Last Lunar Eclipse Until 2014
* 3D Video of Asteroid Vesta
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| Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
| from the wish-that-sanity-was-contagious dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 02, @23:50 (Piracy)
| with 424 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0116233/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wasimkadak writes "One in three people in Switzerland download
unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet, and ��� since last
year ��� the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week
their response was published, and it was crystal clear. Not only will
downloading for personal use [0]stay completely legal, but the copyright
holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the
money saved on entertainment products."
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Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/
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| Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress
| from the please-don't-blame-this-on-a-free-market dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @13:34 (Government)
| with 412 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1830212/fed-gave-banks-eye-popping-emergency-loans-without-telling-congress?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "The Fed didn't tell anyone
which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2
trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn't
mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at
the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And
no one calculated until now that banks [0]reaped an estimated $13 billion
of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg
Markets magazine reports in its January issue."
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| Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years
| from the logan's-runtime dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @11:29 (Businesses)
| with 352 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1435217/half-life-of-a-tech-worker-15-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Matt Heusser writes that when he went to work for
Google all the people he met had a sort of early-twenties look to them.
'Like the characters in [1] Microserfs, these were "firstees," young
adults in the middle of the first things like life: First job out of
college, first house, first child, first mini-van,' writes Heusser. 'This
is what struck me: Where were the old dudes?' and then he realized
something very important ��� you get fifteen years. 'That is to say, your
[2]half-life as a worker in corporate America is about age thirty-five.
Around that time, interviews get tougher. Your obligations make you less
open to relocation, the technologies on your resume seem less-current,
and your ability find that next gig begins to decrease.' By thirty-five,
half the folks who started in technology have gone on to something else ���
perhaps management, consulting, on to roles in 'the business' or in
operations. 'Yet a few stick it out. Half of the half-life is fifty, and,
sure, perhaps 25% of the folks who started as line technologists will
still be doing that when they turn fifty,' adds Heusser. 'But [3]by the
time you turn thirty-five, you'd better have a plan.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1435217/half-life-of-a-tech-worker-15-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs
2. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/unchartered-waters/what-i-learned-from-google-you-get-fifteen-years/
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/354683/Downturn_Hits_Older_Tech_Workers_Hardest
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| Europe Accuses Google of Monopoly Abuse
| from the funny-there's-sort-of-a-government-monopoly dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @05:49 (Google)
| with 194 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0359228/europe-accuses-google-of-monopoly-abuse?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bonch writes "European antitrust regulators are set to issue a 400-page
statement of objections [0]accusing Google of 'abuse of dominance' next
month, the result of an investigation launched last year after complaints
from rivals that Google manipulated ad pricing and barred advertisers
from running ads on rival sites. If found guilty, Google could be fined
up to 10% of its annual turnover, which is about $3 billion. Microsoft
avoided a similar fine when it settled its European antitrust case and
[1]included a 'browser ballot' in Windows."
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Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57335280-93/ec-reportedly-prepping-400-page-finding-against-google/?tag=content;siu-container
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-set-to-begin-browser-ballot-rollout-in-europe/5327?tag=content;siu-container
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| Carrier IQ Drama Continues
| from the hey-it-was-free-why-are-you-griping dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @16:40 (Privacy)
| with 169 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2112220/carrier-iq-drama-continues?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "A Cornell University professor is calling the
controversial Carrier IQ smartphone software revelations a [0]privacy
disaster. 'This is my worst nightmare,' says Stephen Wicker, a professor
of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell. 'As a professor who
studies electronic security, this is everything that I have been working
against for the last 10 years. It is an utterly appalling invasion of
privacy with immense potential for manipulation and privacy theft that
requires immediate federal intervention.'" Read on for a grab-bag of
other news about the ongoing story of Carrier IQ's spyware.
This story continues at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2112220/carrier-iq-drama-continues?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120211-cornell-carrieriq-253696.html
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| Ask Slashdot: Parallel Cluster In a Box?
| from the must-fit-in-a-briefcase-too dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @12:31 (Supercomputing)
| with 164 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1659226/ask-slashdot-parallel-cluster-in-a-box?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]QuantumMist writes "I'm helping someone with accelerating an
embarrassingly parallel application. What's the best way to spend $10K to
$15K to receive the maximum number of simultaneous threads of execution?
The focus is on threads of execution as memory requirements are decently
low e.g. ~512MB in memory at any given time (maybe up to 2 to 3X that at
the very high end). I've looked at the latest Tesla card, as well as the
four Teslas in a box solutions, and am having trouble justifying the
markup for what's essentially 'double precision FP being enabled, some
heat improvements, and ECC which actually decreases available memory (I
recognize ECC's advantages though).' Spending close to $11K for the four
Teslas in a 1U setup seems to be the only solution at this time. I was
thinking that GTX cards can be replaced for a fraction of the cost, so
should I just stuff four or more of them in a box? Note, they don't have
to pay the power/cooling bill. Amazon is too expensive for this level of
performance, so can't go cloud via EC2. Any parallel architectures out
there at this price point, even for $5K more? Any good manycore offerings
that I've missed? e.g. somebody who can stuff a ton of ARM or other
CPUs/GPUs in a server (cluster in a box)? It would be great if this could
be easily addressed via a PCI or other standard interface. Should I just
stuff four GTX cards in a server and replace them as they die from heat?
Any creative solutions out there? Thanks for any thoughts!"
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Links:
0. http://www.sinabahram.com/
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| Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server
| from the wait-this-seems-like-a-word-problem dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @09:30 (Android)
| with 162 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/141203/apple-android-devices-swamp-nyc-schools-activesync-server?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]longacre writes "Just a few months after the New York City Dept. of
Education shelled out over $1 million on iPads for teachers, the agency
has stopped accepting new users on its Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
server as it is '[1]operating near its resource limits' due to an influx
of iOS and Android devices. A memo from the deputy CTO warned, 'Our
Exchange system is currently operating near its resource limits and in
order to prevent Exchange from exceeding these limits, we need to take
action to prevent any more of these devices from being configured to
receive email. As of Thursday, November 10th no additional users will be
allowed to receive email via NYCDOE's Exchange ActiveSync.' Existing
setups will continue to operate, and students will not be affected."
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Links:
0. http://nycaviation.com/
1. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/02/no-more-ipads-for-new-york-city-teachers/?iid=T_Blogs
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| Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network
| from the misallocation-writ-very-very-large dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @17:42 (Communications)
| with 158 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2240238/mexican-govt-shuts-down-zetas-secret-cell-network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Miniaturized [0]stealth submarines purpose-built for smuggling are an
impressive example of how much technological ingenuity is poured into
evading the edicts of contemporary drug prohibition. Even more impressive
to me, though, is news of the [1]communications network that was just
shut down by Mexican authorities, which covered much of northern Mexico.
The system is attributed to the Zetas drug cartel, and consisted of
equipment in four Mexican border states. "The military confiscated more
than 1,400 radios, 2,600 cell phones and computer equipment during the
operation, as well as power supplies including solar panels, according
the Defense Department," says the article. Too bad ��� a solar-powered,
visually unobtrusive, encrypted cell network sounds like something I'd
like to sign up for. [2]NPR also has a story.
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Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/190235/drug-runners-perfect-long-range-subs
1. http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1925-mexico-seizes-zetas-communications-system
2. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=143034026
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| After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More
| from the market's-a-harsh-mistress dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @08:29 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 138 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0149223/after-6-years-aptera-motors-is-no-more?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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After years of [0]beautiful concept cars, [1]envy-inspiring demos, and
[2]missed production targets starting in 2008, high-efficiency car
startup [3]Aptera is [4]liquidating its assets. A pointed excerpt from
Wired's account: "The truth is, Aptera always faced long odds and has
been in trouble for at least two years. The audience for a sperm-shaped,
three-wheeled, electric two-seater was never anything but small. It
didn���t help that production of the 2e ��� at one point promised for October
2009 ��� was continually delayed as Wilbur ordered redesigns to make it
more appealing to the mainstream. Aptera had a small window in which to
be a first mover in the affordable EV space, and that window closed the
moment the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt hit the market. At that point,
Aptera teetered on the brink of irrelevance." As a compulsive driver, I
had been hoping to one day drive one of these to save gas money.
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_2e
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwHm6aefGLQ
2. http://slashdot.org/story/07/12/21/1425234/high-efficiency-hybrid-car-planned-for-2009
3. http://aptera.com/
4. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/12/aptera-motors-closes/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))
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| Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others
| from the low-down-dirty-rotten dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 02, @19:41 (Australia)
| with 128 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0020202/domain-theft-for-ransom-hits-css-trickscom-and-others?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Chris Coyer at css-tricks.com has [0]had his
domain transferred from GoDaddy.com to a registrar in Australia where
it's being held for ransom. Several other domains have experienced the
same theft by what seems to be the same person, and the registrars seem
helpless to do anything about it."
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Links:
0. http://css-tricks.com/15377-this-sites-domain-is-stolen/
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| Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet
| from the perfect-for-dark-fiber dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 02, @21:25 (The Internet)
| with 114 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0218257/bufferbloat-dark-buffers-in-the-internet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Expanding on [0]earlier work from Jim Gettys of Bell Labs with a new
article in the ACM Queue, [1]CowboyRobot writes that Gettys "makes the
case that the Internet is in danger of collapse due to 'bufferbloat,'
'the existence of excessively large and frequently full buffers inside
the network.' Part of the blame is due to overbuffering; in an effort to
protect ourselves we make things worse. But the problem runs deeper than
that. [2]Gettys' solution is AQM (active queue management) which is not
deployed as widely as it should be. 'We are flying on an Internet
airplane in which we are constantly swapping the wings, the engines, and
the fuselage, with most of the cockpit instruments removed but only a few
new instruments reinstalled. It crashed before; will it crash again?'"
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Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/07/0533226/bufferbloat-the-submarine-thats-sinking-the-net
1. http://acetio.com/
2. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2071893
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| Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices
| from the magic-not-strong-enough-roll-again dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @18:50 (Android)
| with 114 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2350212/apple-cant-block-us-sales-of-samsung-devices?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader snips this good news (for Samsung fans) from Edible
Apple "In April of 2011, Apple kicked off what would soon become a global
and complex series of litigation disputes when it sued Samsung in the US
claiming that its line of Galaxy smartphones and tablets infringed upon
Apple's intellectual property and were nothing more than 'slavish'
copies. As part of its suit, Apple requested a preliminary injunction
that would bar Samsung from selling said products in the U.S. This past
Friday, Judge Lucy Koh [0]denied Apple's motion for a preliminary
injunction."
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| Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era
| from the you'll-notice-it-never-says-floppy-disks dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @10:27 (Government)
| with 101 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/149259/interpreting-the-constitution-in-the-digital-era?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oik writes "NPR's Fresh Air this week had an interesting [0]interview
with Jeffrey Rosen, one of the authors of [1]Constitution 3.0 , which
addresses a number of issues to do with interpreting the US Constitution
in the face of new technologies (both present and future). Many of the
topics which he touches on come up on Slashdot a lot (including the
[2]GPS tracking cases). It's well worth listening to the program (link in
the main page), of which the linked article is just a summary."
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Links:
0. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/30/142714568/interpreting-the-constitution-in-the-digital-era
1. http://www.npr.org/books/titles/142714650/constitution-3-0-freedom-and-technological-change
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/08/199221/two-new-fed-gps-trackers-found-on-suv
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| Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree
| from the full-employment-by-tuesday dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @15:44 (Facebook)
| with 84 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2042203/facebook-prepping-for-massive-hiring-spree?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook plans to nearly [0]double in size in
the next year. The social network announced plans on Friday to
dramatically expand its NYC operations, adding a wealth of new engineers
to enhance features and write fresh code for the website that links more
than 800 million users worldwide. 'We'll be adding thousands of employees
in the next year,' Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg announced from the
company's New York City offices on Friday. Facebook currently has about
3,000 employees in California, Sandberg said, but just 100 in its Big
Apple facility ��� mainly marketing staff. The company plans to expand that
Madison Avenue office by opening its first East Coast engineering
office."
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/02/facebook-prepping-for-massive-hiring-spree/
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| Yeti Crab Cultivates Bacteria On Claw, Then Eats Them
| from the like-wringing-out-a-beard dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @06:50 (Earth)
| with 48 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0337254/yeti-crab-cultivates-bacteria-on-claw-then-eats-them?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Pierre Bezukhov writes with some interesting news from the deep as
reported in Nature: "In the deep ocean off the coast of Costa Rica,
scientists have found a species of crab that [0]cultivates gardens of
bacteria on its claws, then eats them. ... The bristles that cover the
crab's claws and body are coated in gardens of symbiotic bacteria, which
derive energy from the inorganic gases of the seeps. The crab eats the
bacteria, using comb-like mouthparts to harvest them from its bristles.
... [Scientists believe] the crab waves its claws to actively farm its
bacterial gardens: movements stir up the water around the bacteria,
ensuring that fresh supplies of oxygen and sulphide wash over them and
helping them to grow."
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Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/yeti-crab-grows-its-own-food-1.9537
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| Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV
| from the metaphors-are-like-geese-in-a-cider-factor dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @14:37 (Microsoft)
| with 45 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1931247/repurposing-anti-spam-tools-for-detecting-mutations-in-hiv?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]chicksdaddy writes "Security researchers often use language and
metaphors from the natural world to describe problems in the virtual
world. (Consider 'virus,' and 'worm.') Now it turns out that the links
may be more than just rhetoric. Microsoft Researchers say that tools they
developed to detect spammers' efforts to avoid anti-spam filters were
also [1]great at spotting mutations in the HIV virus. A report from
Microsoft Research in honor of World AIDS Day yesterday described how
Microsoft Researchers David Heckerman and Jonathan Carlson were called
upon to help AIDS researchers analyze data about how the human immune
system attacks the HIV virus. To do so, they turned to tools and
algorithms developed at Microsoft to detect and block spam e-mail in the
company's Hotmail, Outlook and Exchange e-mail products."
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Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/
1. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-research-spammers-act-just-hiv-virus-avoiding-filters-120211
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| ESA Ends Attempts To Pick Up Phobos-Grunt Signals
| from the sticking-with-smoke-signals-for-now dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @02:52 (Space)
| with 38 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/0252209/esa-ends-attempts-to-pick-up-phobos-grunt-signals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Spaceflight Now reports that hope has faded in the attempts to hear from
the troubled [0]Phobos-Grunt probe, and the [1]listening project has been
shuttered. After the craft's launch, says the article, "ESA continued
trying to establish communications this week with tracking stations in
Australia and the Canary Islands, but the 29,000-pound Phobos-Grunt
spacecraft never responded. ... The agency's communications site in
Perth, Australia, contacted Phobos-Grunt at least twice Nov. 22 and Nov.
23, but the probe has remained mysteriously silent since then." (Similar
coverage [2]also at the BBC.) See RussianSpaceWeb.com for a [3]more
detailed timeline.
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fobos-Grunt
1. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1112/02phobosgrunt/
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16010332
3. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/phobos_grunt_launch.html#12_2
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| On December 10, the Last Lunar Eclipse Until 2014
| from the lucky-west-coasters dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @17:10 (Moon)
| with 37 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2124230/on-december-10-the-last-lunar-eclipse-until-2014?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter althanas has this entry, snipped from NASA's Science News,
for next weekend's social calendar (if you're lucky enough to live in the
viewing range): "The [0]action begins around 4:45 am Pacific Standard
Time [on December 10th] when the red shadow of Earth first falls across
the lunar disk. By 6:05 am Pacific Time, the Moon will be fully engulfed
in red light. This even t��� the last total lunar eclipse until 2014 ��� is
visible from the Pacific side of North America, across the entire Pacific
Ocean to Asia and Eastern Europe. For people in the western United States
the eclipse is deepest just before local dawn. Not only will the Moon be
beautifully red, it will also be inflated by the Moon illusion."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2124230/on-december-10-the-last-lunar-eclipse-until-2014?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/02dec_lunareclipse/
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| 3D Video of Asteroid Vesta
| from the why-there-is-the-internet dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @09:52 (NASA)
| with 21 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/145225/3d-video-of-asteroid-vesta?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]TheNextCorner writes "Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's
Dawn spacecraft in a [1]new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since
July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface
and making other scientific measurements." You'll need some red/green or
red/blue glasses for the 3D effect.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/145225/3d-video-of-asteroid-vesta?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://thenextcorner.net/
1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawn20111201.html
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