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Monday, December 5, 2011

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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer?
* Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone
* Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling
* An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia
* First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed
* Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals
* Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive?
* Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail
* Toxic Montana Lake's Extremophiles Might Be a Medical Treasure Trove
* Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack
* GCHQ Challenge Solution Explained
* Browser History Sniffing Is Back
* Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's
* What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like
* AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million
* Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App
* World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish

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| Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer?
| from the not-the-one-I'm-using dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @10:33 (Censorship)
| with 645 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1450244/have-walled-gardens-killed-the-personal-computer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Harvard Law School Prof Jonathan Zittrain explains in
[0]The Personal Computer is Dead why you should be afraid ��� very afraid ���
of the snowballing replicability of the App Store Model. 'If we allow
ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens,' warns
Zittrain, 'we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object,
and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was
previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.' Searchblog's John
Battelle, who's also solidly [1]in the tear-down-this-walled-garden camp,
adds: 'I'm not a nerd, quite, but I'm sure angry.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1450244/have-walled-gardens-killed-the-personal-computer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2011/11/30_zittrain-the-personal-computer-is-dead.html
1. http://battellemedia.com/archives/2011/11/we-need-some-angry-nerds.php

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| Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone
| from the is-turnabout-fair-play? dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @11:36 (The Military)
| with 427 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1612228/irans-military-claims-to-have-downed-us-surveillance-drone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mrquagmire submits a link to the Jerusalem Post's report that an American
reconnaissance UAV has been captured by the Iranian military. "'Iran's
military has [0]downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern
Iran,' Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the
unnamed source as saying. 'The spy drone, which has been downed with
little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces.' ... 'The Iranian
military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace
will not be limited to Iran's borders any more,' Iran's Arabic language
Al Alam television quoted the military source as saying, without giving
details."

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https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1612228/irans-military-claims-to-have-downed-us-surveillance-drone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=248067

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| Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling
| from the you-never-forget-your-first-flunitrazepam dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @13:36 (Businesses)
| with 256 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1742211/institutional-memory-and-reverse-smuggling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who's worked in a large engineering
firm is familiar with institutional amnesia. Things get built, and then
forgotten. Documentation is supposed to help, but rots, is lost, or uses
obsolete methods and notation nobody understands anymore. I recently
found myself in a strange position, rehired as a consultant with the
unofficial job of reminding the company how an old plant works. I even
have some personal copies of documents they seem to have lost, which I
[0]have to awkwardly smuggle back in. I don't find these kinds of
experience written about often, but I'm convinced they're more common
than you'd think."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1742211/institutional-memory-and-reverse-smuggling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://wrttn.in/04af1a

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| An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia
| from the thanks-a-lot-jerks-at-att dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 03, @21:48 (Android)
| with 216 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2152210/an-easy-way-to-curb-smart-phone-thieves-in-australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter xx_chris writes "Cell carriers can and do
brick jail broken cell phones but they won't brick stolen cell phones.
[0]Except in Australia. The Australians apparently have been doing this
for 10 years and it reduces violent crime since the thieves know they
won't be able to sell the stolen phone. The article points out that cell
carriers have a financial disincentive to do this since a stolen phone
means another sale."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2152210/an-easy-way-to-curb-smart-phone-thieves-in-australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/03/BAHO1M7J9U.DTL

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| First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed
| from the must-eliminate-desire dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @04:08 (Android)
| with 196 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0344258/first-quad-core-android-tablet-reviewed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime happens to the
[0]first Quad-Core Android Tablet, which also makes it the fastest and
most powerful tablet. The secret ingredient is Nvidia's five-core Tegra 3
chipset, including four cores which work together at up to 1.4GHz each
and a 'companion core' which runs alone. When tested on the Antutu system
benchmark, the Prime scored a breathtaking 10,619, which is roughly
double the score of even fast devices like the HTC Jetstream. Benchmark
results for Sunspider and Browsermark browsing scored at 17ms and 98324,
respectively, which also happened to be amongst the best. The tablet
weighs 1.3 pounds and measures 10.4 by 7.1 inches, but it's very slim at
0.3 inches."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0344258/first-quad-core-android-tablet-reviewed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397083,00.asp

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| Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals
| from the aju-massi-sumnidad dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @17:35 (Piracy)
| with 144 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2121236/feds-seize-korean-movie-download-portals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SharkLaser writes "Homeland Security's ICE unit has just started another
phase of Operation In Our Sites. Last week the seized sites were selling
counterfeit goods, but this time the list consists solely of movie
download sites. ICE has now [0]seized the domains of 11 Korean movie
download portals. This is first time Operation In Our Sites has been
expanded to include sites targeting non-U.S. nationals and non-English
sites. ICE has since added a message in Korean to the seized sites.
Interestingly, while the sites were in Korean, the domain names are all
connected to a Seattle-based company World Multimedia Group, Inc."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2121236/feds-seize-korean-movie-download-portals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-domains-of-korean-movie-portals-111204/

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| Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive?
| from the would-settle-for-placeholder-images dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @14:33 (Communications)
| with 129 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1754257/ask-slashdot-handling-and-cleaning-up-a-large-personal-email-archive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]txoof writes "I have a personal email
archive that goes back to 2003. The early archives are around 2
megabytes. Every year the archives have grown significantly in size from
a few tens of megs to nearly 500 megs from 2010. The archive is for
storage only. It is a mirror of my Gmail account. The archives are both
sent and received mail compressed in a hierarchy of weekly, monthly and
yearly mbox files. I've chosen mbox for a variety of reasons, but mostly
because it is the simplest to implement with fetchmail. After inspecting
some of the archives, I've noticed that the larger files are a result of
attachments sent by well-meaning family members. Things like baby
pictures, wedding pictures, etc. What I would like to do is from this
point forward is strip out all of the attachments and only save the texts
of the emails. What would be a sane way to do that using simple tools
like fetchmail?"

Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1754257/ask-slashdot-handling-and-cleaning-up-a-large-personal-email-archive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://txoof.com/

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| Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail
| from the snowballs-happen dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @16:33 (Communications)
| with 129 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1949241/email-offline-at-the-home-of-sendmail?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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BobJacobsen writes "The UC Berkeley email system has been either offline,
or only providing limited access, for [0]more than a week. How can the
place [1]where sendmail originated fall so far? The campus CIO gave an
internal seminar ([2]video, [3]slides) where he discussed the incident,
the response, and some of the history. Briefly, the growth of email
clients was going to overwhelm the system eventually, but the crisis was
advanced when a disk failure required a restart after some time offline.
Not discussed is the long series of failures to identify and implement
the replacement system ([4]1, [5]2, [6]3, [7]4). Like the [8]New York
City Dept. of Education problem discussed yesterday, this is a failure of
planning and management being discussed as a problem with (inflexible)
technology. How can IT people solve things like this?"

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1949241/email-offline-at-the-home-of-sendmail?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://ist.berkeley.edu/ciocalmailupdates
1. http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking/sendmail/prf1_02.htm
2. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18866518/highlight/222267#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=222267&utm_medium=social
3. http://inews.berkeley.edu/files/Productivity_Suite_BPAWG_FINAL.pdf
4. https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry.jspa?externalID=2872&categoryID=91
5. http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Aug-Sep2011/Bedework
6. http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Apr-May2010/calagenda-bedework
7. http://inews.berkeley.edu/bcc/Spring2004/calmail.html
8. http://it.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/03/141203

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| Toxic Montana Lake's Extremophiles Might Be a Medical Treasure Trove
| from the toxic-waste-pit-is-half-full dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @09:29 (Medicine)
| with 112 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1419213/toxic-montana-lakes-extremophiles-might-be-a-medical-treasure-trove?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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EagleHasLanded writes "The [0]Berkeley Pit, an abandoned open pit copper
mine in Butte, Montana ��� part of the largest Superfund site in the U.S. ���
is filled with 40 billion gallons of acidic, metal-contaminated water.
For years the water was believed to be too toxic to support life, until
[1]Andrea and [2]Donald Stierle, a pair of organic chemists at the
University of Montana, discovered that the Pit is a [3]rich source of
unusual extremophiles, 'many of which have shown great promise as
producers of potential anti-cancer agents and anti-inflammatories.' In
the course of their ongoing investigation, the two self-described
'bioprospectors' have also discovered an uncommon yeast, which might play
a significant role in cleaning up the site. In the meantime, the Pit has
become a [4]tourist attraction in Butte, which charges $2 for the
opportunity to take in the [5]view from the Viewing Stand."

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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1419213/toxic-montana-lakes-extremophiles-might-be-a-medical-treasure-trove?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://failuremag.com/images/uploads/articles/berkeley_pit.jpg
1. http://www.health.umt.edu/schools/biomed/faculty/AndreaStierle.htm
2. http://www.health.umt.edu/schools/biomed/faculty/DonaldStierle.htm
3. http://failuremag.com/index.php/site/print/the_berkeley_pit/
4. http://slashdot.org/
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlrdCUJdDXc

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| Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack
| from the hate-to-borscht-your-bubble dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @15:31 (Government)
| with 109 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/181241/russian-websites-critical-of-elections-targeted-in-ddos-attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theshowmecanuck submits this news from Russia, where "Websites which
exposed violations in Russia's parliamentary elections were
[0]inaccessible Sunday in a hacking attack they said was aimed at
preventing them revealing the extent of election day fraud." Further,
says the linked article, "Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose United
Russia party is expected to win Sunday's polls but with a reduced
majority, has denounced non-governmental organisations like Golos,
comparing them to the disciple Judas who betrayed Jesus. Russia has seen
an upsurge in Internet penetration since the last elections in 2007, and
analysts have said the explosion of critical material on the web poses
one of the biggest challenges to United Russia's grip on power."

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/181241/russian-websites-critical-of-elections-targeted-in-ddos-attack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hAnXDOHgstjNt-eH4tBzon2B96Aw?docId=CNG.5b3137d37ca033f82d1946db0c21911c.151

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| GCHQ Challenge Solution Explained
| from the oh-well-now-that's-just-obvious dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @12:38 (Encryption)
| with 88 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1725253/gchq-challenge-solution-explained?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]DrDevil writes "The British spy agency
GCHQ recently published a puzzle at [1]canyoucrackit.co.uk ([2]as
featured on Slashdot), now just a few days later an academic at the
University of Greenwich in England has [0]posted a full video explanation
of the puzzle. The puzzle has three stages and is not at all simple ���
likely to challenge even the best computer science graduates."

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/1725253/gchq-challenge-solution-explained?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://gchqchallenge.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/02/0257206/uk-recruiting-codebreakers-via-social-networks

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| Browser History Sniffing Is Back
| from the this-time-it's-interstitial dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @18:33 (Privacy)
| with 88 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2231234/browser-history-sniffing-is-back?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Remember [0]CSS history sniffing? The leak is
plugged in all major browsers today, but there is some bad news: in a
[1]post to the Full Disclosure mailing list, security researchers have
showcased a [2]brand new tool to quickly extract your history by probing
the cache, instead. The [3]theory isn't new, but a convincing
implementation is."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2231234/browser-history-sniffing-is-back?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2010/11/30/history-sniffing-how-youporn-checks-what-other-porn-sites-youve-visited-and-ad-networks-test-the-quality-of-their-data/
1. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Dec/65
2. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cachetime/
3. http://sip.cs.princeton.edu/pub/webtiming.pdf

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| Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's
| from the consult-the-oregoonians dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @00:56 (Cloud)
| with 76 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0129236/apple-may-build-oregon-data-center-next-to-facebooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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1sockchuck writes "Apple may build a huge [0]new data center next door to
the Facebook server farm in rural Prineville, Oregon. Slashdot has
previously noted the potential that Prineville could become a [1]data
center mecca due to its climate, which is ideal for using fresh air to
cool servers. The scenario could mirror the trend in rural North
Carolina, where [2]both Apple [3]and Facebook have built data centers.
it's always been likely that Apple will need at least one other large
data center complex to provide backup capabilities for the facility in
North Carolina."

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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0129236/apple-may-build-oregon-data-center-next-to-facebooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/12/apple_eyes_prineville_site_for.html
1. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/29/2231221/facebook-may-make-tiny-town-a-data-center-mecca
2. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/02/22/first-look-apples-massive-idatacenter/
3. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/20/facebook-readies-its-next-huge-data-center/

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| What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like
| from the would-want-totally-different-cable-channels dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @07:02 (NASA)
| with 71 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0733256/what-silicon-based-life-might-be-like?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Nancy_A writes "While the world as we know it runs on carbon, science
fiction's long flirtation with silicon-based life has spawned a familiar
catchphrase: 'It's life, but not as we know it.' Although non-carbon
based life is a very long shot, this Q&A with one of the U.S.'s top
astrochemists ��� Max Bernstein, the Research Lead of the Science Mission
Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington,D.C. ��� discusses [1]what
silicon life might be like."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0733256/what-silicon-based-life-might-be-like?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.universetoday.com/
1. http://www.universetoday.com/91449/why-silicon-based-aliens-would-rather-eat-our-cities-than-us-thoughts-on-non-carbon-astrobiology/

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| AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million
| from the but-who's-counting-is-the-actual-question dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @18:02 (AMD)
| with 70 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/227244/amd-downgrades-bulldozer-transistor-count-by-800-million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Robadob writes "It has come to light that AMD PR had originally reported
that the new Bulldozer processor's transistor count was 2 billion. AMD PR
are now [0]asking reviewers to correct this count to 1.2 billion from the
original amount they provided ~3 months ago."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/227244/amd-downgrades-bulldozer-transistor-count-by-800-million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.techpowerup.com/156123/AMD-Realizes-That-Bulldozer-Has-800-Million-LESS-Transistors-Than-It-Thought-.html

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| Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App
| from the state-vs-man dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @08:27 (Censorship)
| with 66 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0025243/syria-bans-iphone-protest-app?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that with 4,000 people killed in
Syria since March, the government has [1]banned the iPhone and threatened
confiscation and prosecution for anyone found with an iPhone as the
government tries to control information getting out of the country. Most
international media have been banned from Syria since the uprising began,
so footage of the violent crackdown has primarily come from activists
filming material themselves and posting it on the internet. A mobile app
for the iPhone called Souria Wa Bas (which roughly translates as 'Syria
and That's All') covers the actions of opposition groups, including the
Local Coordination Committees which claim to have members across the
country and [2]includes links for news, videos, and a map of opposition
hot spots. The app's creators say they produced Souria Wa Bas to counter
regime accounts of the opposition's activities. 'Under the fast-moving
events in Syria and the deliberate attempts to distort the facts by some.
We have [3]compiled the most important Syrian news sources available,'
say creators of the app at the Apple store."

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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/0025243/syria-bans-iphone-protest-app?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16009975
2. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/17/177689.html
3. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id455117843?mt=8

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| World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish
| from the stick-timekeeping-duties-to-the-intern dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday December 04, @17:01 (Biotech)
| with 39 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2138245/worlds-fastest-cells-raced-on-petri-dish?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ananyo writes "In a tongue-in-cheek contest of microscopic mobility, a
line of bone marrow stem cells from Singapore beat out dozens of
competitors to claim the title of the [0]world's fastest cells. They
whizzed across a petri dish at the breakneck speed of 5.2 microns per
minute ��� or 0.000000312 kilometers per hour."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2138245/worlds-fastest-cells-raced-on-petri-dish?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/worlds_first_cell_race_no_smal.html


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