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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law
* Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone
* Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy
* Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor
* Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules
* Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? - Sponsored by SourceForge
* Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised
* GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales
* Big Brother In the Home Office
* Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents?
* Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools
* Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain
* DARPA Seeks App Developers For War App Store
* DoJ Investigates eBook Price Fixing
* Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess
* NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars
* HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th
* Miyamoto Steps Down As Nintendo Game Design Head
* Another Dutch CA Hacked
* OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool
* Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets
* Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions
* Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium Sequenced
* IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools
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| Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law
| from the waking-up-in-crazy-town dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @05:36 (The Courts)
| with 489 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0425240/red-cross-debates-if-virtual-killing-violates-international-humanitarian-law?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Ron2K writes in with a story about a Red Cross committee that is debating
if people playing war video games should be subject to the same
humanitarian laws as people in a real war. Seriously. "With 62 billion
kills in Call of Duty: Black Ops alone, a committee of the Red Cross is
[0]debating whether the International Humanitarian Law is applicable to
online gamers, and if they are violating it. From the committee's site:
'While the Movement works vigorously to promote international
humanitarian law worldwide, there is also an audience of approximately
600 million gamers who may be virtually violating International
Humanitarian Law. Exactly how video games influence individuals is a
hotly debated topic, but for the first time, Movement partners discussed
our role and responsibility to take action against violations of this law
in video games.' While it's questionable if gamers themselves can be
prosecuted for not obeying the Geneva convention, the Red Cross
committee's actions seem to be aimed more at game developers ��� as first
person shooters become more realistic, do game developers have an
obligation to include humanitarian elements?"
Discuss this story at:
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| Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone
| from the you-mean-ben-afleck-can-you-fly dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @14:27 (The Military)
| with 477 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1844209/iranian-tv-shows-downed-us-drone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]loic_2003 writes "Iranian TV has
[1]broadcast footage of an advanced U.S. drone aircraft that Tehran says
it brought down using electronic methods to override its controls. The
BBC's James Reynolds watched the footage and said the fact that the drone
appeared undamaged provided some evidence to support Tehran's version of
events. The film was captioned 'RQ170 ��� advanced U.S. spy plane' and
carried on the Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 1 channel."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1844209/iranian-tv-shows-downed-us-drone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.frenchgeek.com/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098250
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| Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy
| from the close-it-down dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @22:04 (Censorship)
| with 439 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/010250/iran-shuts-down-us-virtual-embassy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bonch writes "Less than 12 hours after [0]the U.S. launched a virtual
embassy for Iran, the Iranian government [1]blocked access to the website,
directing visitors to a government page proclaiming the site illegal. The
White House condemned the move, calling Iran's internet policies 'an
electronic curtain of surveillance and censorship around its people.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/010250/iran-shuts-down-us-virtual-embassy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2057244/us-launches-virtual-embassy-for-iran
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/iran-is-quick-to-shut-us-virtual-embassy/2011/12/07/gIQAI0UGdO_blog.html
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| Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor
| from the power-to-a-billion-people dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @00:43 (China)
| with 438 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0259238/bill-gates-to-help-china-build-traveling-wave-nuclear-reactor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter BabaChazz writes "Microsoft Corp.
co-founder Bill Gates says he is in [0]discussions with China to jointly
develop [1]a new kind of nuclear reactor. During a talk at China's
Ministry of Science & Technology Wednesday, the billionaire said: 'The
idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste.'
Gates backs Washington-based TerraPower, which is developing [2]a nuclear
reactor that can run on depleted uranium."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0259238/bill-gates-to-help-china-build-traveling-wave-nuclear-reactor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-developing-nuclear-reactor-china-104529282.html
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/21/2312211/a-new-class-of-nuclear-reactors
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/23/1323204/bill-gates-may-build-small-nuclear-reactor
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| Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules
| from the occupation-foole dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @11:40 (The Courts)
| with 313 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1558233/bloggers-not-journalists-federal-judge-rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter squideatingdough writes "On InfoWorld, Robert X. Cringely
covers a recent case of a blogger accused of libel and defamation. The
federal judge ruled that [0]journalists warrant more protection from
libel suits than bloggers, but it is obvious from the article that
bloggers' rights can vary by state, depending on the 'shield laws' in
force." Reader [1]blindseer adds a link to this [2]AP article on the case,
and asks "If the government can define who is part of the press, and
therefore gets First Amendment protections, then where does that place
the freedom of the press?" The slippery slope is a steep one; even some
relatively open societies require [3]licensure for journalists ([4]visiting
ones included) with [5]predictable results. (And the Labour Party would
like to see a [6]similar system in the UK.)
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1558233/bloggers-not-journalists-federal-judge-rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/bloggers-youre-second-class-citizens-now-181148
1. mailto:blindseer@earthlink.net
2. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BLOGGER_DEFAMATION_SUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-12-07-20-39-18
3. http://www.ejc.net/magazine/article/italian_freelance_journalists_protest_against_precarious_working_conditions/
4. http://www.esteri.it/MAE/EN/Sala_Stampa/AreaGiornalisti/Guida_per_stampa_estera.htm
5. http://www.economist.com/node/14560942
6. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/27/labour-party-journalism-licenses
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| Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? - Sponsored by SourceForge
| from the silverish-lining dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @10:15 (Cloud)
| with 303 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0327211/ask-slashdot-is-your-data-safe-in-the-cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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With so much personal data being kept on the cloud, [0]including
government and health records or your source code, do you have any
concerns about it falling into the wrong hands? Do you think the cloud's
benefits are outweighed by continuing security issues?
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0327211/ask-slashdot-is-your-data-safe-in-the-cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2024221/british-nhs-patient-records-go-to-the-cloud
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| Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised
| from the I'll-wait-for-11 dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @19:11 (Index)
| with 257 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2323202/bluetooth-keyboards-with-a-10-year-charge-promised?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Broadcom is working on a [1]Bluetooth chipset that
will give wireless keyboards a battery life of up to 10 years. If they
had a battery life of as long as 10 years, that Bluetooth-based
accessories could potentially never need new batteries, the chip maker
said. A set of two AA batteries would be enough to power a keyboard using
the BCM20730 Bluetooth chip to connect with a computer for its entire
lifetime, Broadcom said."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2323202/bluetooth-keyboards-with-a-10-year-charge-promised?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/409567/bluetooth_keyboards_will_get_10-year_battery_life_new_chip_broadcom_promises
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| GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales
| from the regulatory-capture-and-cronyism dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @15:10 (United States)
| with 257 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1914251/gm-nhtsa-delayed-volt-warnings-to-prop-up-sales?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lauren Weinstein excerpts [0]the most interesting part of a BBC story
about the [1]safety hazards associated with the Chevy Volt ���
specifically, the risk that its battery pack [2]could catch fire after
even a minor impact. While it might be unsurprising that GM was reluctant
to shout out safety warnings that would dampen early sales of its much
touted hybrid, according to the linked story the NHTSA was as well, and
for the same reason: "Part of the reason for delaying the disclosure was
the 'fragility of Volt sales' up until that point, according to Joan
Claybrook, a former administrator at NHTSA."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1914251/gm-nhtsa-delayed-volt-warnings-to-prop-up-sales?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://plus.google.com/u/0/114753028665775786510/posts/VvrCyMbtqT9
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16066855
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/12/1324253/chevy-volt-fire-prompts-safety-investigation-for-ev-batteries
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| Big Brother In the Home Office
| from the where-the-raspberry-pi-comes-in dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @13:03 (Privacy)
| with 248 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1645247/big-brother-in-the-home-office?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hessian writes with this excerpt from the New York Times' "Bits"
column: "Tens of thousands of programmers, writers, accountants and other
workers labor at home doing contract work for companies like Google,
Hewlett-Packard and NBC. The computers they use contain software that
[1]takes snapshots of what they are doing six times an hour. The snooping
occurs randomly, making it impossible for the computer user to game the
system. It is probably more invasive than what happens to those working
in offices, where scooting through Facebook entries, shopping on Cyber
Monday, and peeping at N.S.F.W. ('Not Safe for Work') Web sites on
corporate computers is both normal and rarely observed by managers."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1645247/big-brother-in-the-home-office?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.deathmetal.org/
1. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/big-brother-in-the-home-office/?pagewanted=all
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| Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents?
| from the prior-broken-arm-art dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @08:09 (Medicine)
| with 234 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/041253/supreme-court-legitimizing-medical-patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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RobinEggs writes "A case before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday
addressed [0]the legality of medical patents. From the article: 'The case
focuses on a patent that covers the concept of adjusting the dosage of a
drug, thiopurine, based on the concentration of a particular chemical
(called a metabolite) in the patient's blood. The patent does not cover
the drug itself���that patent expired years ago���nor does it cover any
specific machine or procedure for measuring the metabolite level. Rather,
it covers the idea that particular levels of the chemical "indicate a
need" to raise or lower the drug dosage. The patent holder, Prometheus
Labs, offers a thiopurine testing product. It sued the Mayo Clinic when
the latter announced it would offer its own, competing thiopurine test.
But Prometheus claims much more than its specific testing process. It
claims a physician administering thiopurine to a patient can infringe its
patent merely by being aware of the scientific correlation disclosed in
the patent���even if the doctor doesn't act on the patent's
recommendations.'"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/041253/supreme-court-legitimizing-medical-patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools
| from the now-with-raisins dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @13:44 (Google)
| with 204 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/185217/researchers-expanding-diff-grep-unix-tools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "At the Usenix Large Installation System
Administration (LISA) conference being held this week in Boston, two
Dartmouth computer scientists presented [1]variants of the grep and diff
Unix command line utilities that can handle more complex types of data.
The new programs, called Context-Free Grep and Hierarchical Diff, will
provide the ability to parse blocks of data rather than single lines. The
research has been funded in part by Google and the U.S. Energy
Department."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/185217/researchers-expanding-diff-grep-unix-tools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/231515/usenix-dartmouth-expanding-diff-grep-unix-tools
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| Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain
| from the right-courteous-of-them dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @15:55 (Censorship)
| with 183 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2045228/feds-return-mistakenly-seized-domain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "Just over a year ago, Homeland Security's Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) [0]seized dozens of domain names as part of
Operation in Our Sites. Among them was DaJaz1.com, a site from which
Special Agent Andrew Reynolds said he'd downloaded pirated music. But
there was a problem. Persistent reports suggested that the songs had been
legally provided to the site by record labels for the specific purposes
of distribution to fans, a point later raised by Senator Ron Wyden. One
'leak' even came from a boss at a major music label. Today, a year later,
[1]their domain was returned. The reason was because there was no
probable cause and the site had never actually broken any laws or
warranted a seizure. They are back in business and are displaying an
anti-censorship, [2]anti-PROTECT IP, and anti-SOPA banner on their
website."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2045228/feds-return-mistakenly-seized-domain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/blog/2010-11-26/The_US_Takes_Down_More_Sites.html
1. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-12-08a/Feds_Return_Mistakenly_Seized_Domain_After_a_Year_of_Smoke_and_Mirrors.html
2. http://www.dajaz1.com/
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| DARPA Seeks App Developers For War App Store
| from the check-out-the-free-section dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 07, @20:06 (Software)
| with 172 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2330218/darpa-seeks-app-developers-for-war-app-store?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "DARPA has a problem on its hands: Satellites, unmanned
drones (UAVs), and myriad other worldwide sensors are now so ubiquitous
and omnipotent that the Department of Defense (DOD) doesn't actually know
how to make the best use of them. In other words, the hardware is there,
but the software isn't. To tackle this particularly tricky issue, DARPA
is looking for smartphone app developers to help build '[1]sophisticated,
adaptive applications.' Yes, DARPA wants to give smartphone developers
access to the DOD's fleet of Hellfire missile-equipped UAVs. Instead of
using a single, remote pilot to fly just one UAV, DARPA imagines 'an app
[...] that allows a swarm of small deployed UAVs to be controlled as a
single unit (a hive [mind] so to speak).' DARPA also wants app developers
to help out with easy-to-use app interfaces, novel uses of
smartphone-like sensors (accelerometers, cameras, gyros) ��� and
ultimately, it wants to make a War Market where a soldier can simply log
in with his DOD-issued smartphone or tablet and download Angry UAVs, Nuke
Ninja, and other battlefield apps."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/07/2330218/darpa-seeks-app-developers-for-war-app-store?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/108175-department-of-defense-seeks-developers-for-war-app-store
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| DoJ Investigates eBook Price Fixing
| from the pillaging-publisher dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @03:13 (Books)
| with 155 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0315216/doj-investigates-ebook-price-fixing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dave562 writes "The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust arm said it was
[0]looking into potentially unfair pricing practices by electronic
booksellers, joining European regulators and state attorneys general in a
widening probe of large U.S. and international e-book publishers. A
Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed that the probe involved the
possibility of 'anti-competitive practices involving e-book sales.'
Attorneys general in Connecticut and, reportedly, Texas, have also begun
inquiries into the way electronic booksellers price their wares, and
whether companies such as Apple and Amazon have set up pricing practices
that are ultimately harmful to consumers."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/0315216/doj-investigates-ebook-price-fixing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess
| from the careful-how-you-click dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @18:19 (Privacy)
| with 133 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/233229/cnet-apologizes-for-nmap-adware-mess?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "Officials at Cnet's Download.com site have issued a
statement [0]apologizing for bundling the popular open source Nmap
security audit application with adware that installed a toolbar and
changed users' search engine to Microsoft properties. Fyodor, the author
of Nmap, raised the issue earlier this week, saying that his app was
being wrapped in malware on Download.com. It's not unusual for download
sites to bundle free applications with some kind of adware or toolbar,
but the creators of open-source applications take a dim view of this
practice, given the nature and ethic of open source projects. Nmap is a
venerable and widely used tool for mapping networks and performing
security audits and Fyodor wrote in a message to an Nmap mailing list
earlier this week that Download.com, which is part of Cnet, a subsidiary
of CBS Interactive, was bundling the application with its installer,
which, if a user agreed, would install a search toolbar and change the
user's search engine to Bing."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/233229/cnet-apologizes-for-nmap-adware-mess?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cnet-apologizes-nmap-adware-bundling-120811
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| NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars
| from the plaster-of-mars-would-be-really-expensive dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @17:34 (Mars)
| with 119 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2223234/nasas-gypsum-find-clear-evidence-there-was-water-on-mars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter RCC42 writes "The Opportunity rover has
found evidence that liquid water once flowed on Mars, through the
discovery of gypsum ��� a mineral that [0]can only be formed in the
presence of water. Though other evidence in the past has suggested highly
acidic water on Mars, this is the first evidence for water with a pH
suitable for life as we know it."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2223234/nasas-gypsum-find-clear-evidence-there-was-water-on-mars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/evidence-water-mars/
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| HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th
| from the this-too-shall-pass dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @11:20 (HP)
| with 110 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1545236/hp-reviving-the-99-touch-pad-on-december-11th?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Frankie70 writes "Starting Sunday, December 11th at 6:00 p.m. Central
time, [0]16GB and 32GB Touchpads will be available on HP's [1]ebay store.
A $79 accessory bundle will also be available, which includes a case,
charging dock and wireless keyboard. The caveat with this deal is that
these are refurbished TouchPads rather than the brand new models sold
during the first firesale."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1545236/hp-reviving-the-99-touch-pad-on-december-11th?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/hp-touchpad-ebay/
1. http://stores.ebay.com/hewlettpackard
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| Miyamoto Steps Down As Nintendo Game Design Head
| from the truly-an-american-icon dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @12:21 (Japan)
| with 99 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/153253/miyamoto-steps-down-as-nintendo-game-design-head?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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RobinEggs writes "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator and producer
of the Zelda and Mario franchises among other works, is [0]stepping down
at Nintendo. After personally managing Nintendo's blockbuster franchises
for ~20 years, Miyamoto said today: 'What I really want to do is be in
the forefront of game development once again myself. Probably working on
a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested
in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really
small.'" Update: 12/08 21:35 GMT by [1]T : Note that Nintendo is careful
to say that this is [2]not retirement, even if Miyamoto's role at
Nintendo changes.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/153253/miyamoto-steps-down-as-nintendo-game-design-head?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/12/nintendos-miyamoto-stepping-down-working-on-smaller-games.ars
1. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
2. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57339320-501465/shigeru-miyamoto-rumors-of-retirement-not-true-says-nintendo-updated/
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| Another Dutch CA Hacked
| from the need-more-fingers-in-these-holes dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @09:13 (Security)
| with 91 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1341224/another-dutch-ca-hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "After the fiasco involving DigiNotar, another
Dutch CA (Gemnet, a daughter of KPN-Telecom) [0]has been hacked and
databases were accessed, webwereld.nl reports ([1]Dutch original). The
hack was possible because the website was managed using PHP-MyAdmin, and
this application allowed database access without a password. The site has
been shut down and security checks were ordered."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1341224/another-dutch-ca-hacked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwebwereld.nl%2Fnieuws%2F108815%2Fweer-certificatenleverancier-overheid-gehackt.html&act=url
1. http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/108815/weer-certificatenleverancier-overheid-gehackt.html
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| OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool
| from the do-nothing-secret dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @09:34 (Encryption)
| with 86 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1353203/opendns-releases-dns-encryption-tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "It's not news that some of the underlying foundations
of the DNS protocol are inherently weak, especially what they call the
"last mile" ��� or the part of the internet connection between the client
and the ISP. To address this, OpenDNS has released a [0]preview of
DNSCrypt, a tool that enables encrypted DNS traffic, much in the same way
SSL enables encrypted HTTP traffic. [1]DNSCrypt will stop DNS replay,
observation, and timing attacks, as well as Man-in-the-Middle attacks and
resolver impersonation attacks. The tool, available already compiled for
OS X, will also run on OpenBSD, NetBSD, Dragonfly BSD, FreeBSD, and
Linux. There is no Windows client, which is odd considering a majority of
the 30 million OpenDNS users run Microsoft's operating system."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1353203/opendns-releases-dns-encryption-tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/
1. http://www.securityweek.com/opendns-releases-dns-encryption-tool
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| Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets
| from the more-of-the-same dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @16:50 (Twitter)
| with 84 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2147258/twitter-bots-drown-out-anti-kremlin-tweets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tsu doh nimh writes "It appears that thousands of Twitter accounts
created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown
out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting
the disputed presidential elections in Russia. Trend Micro [0]first
observed on Wednesday the bogus tweets flooding popular hashtags being
used by Russians protesting the election and the arrests of hundreds of
protesters, including prominent anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny.
Today, blogger Brian Krebs [1]posted evidence that thousands of accounts
apparently auto-created in mid-2011 were being used to flood more than a
dozen hashtags connected to the protests, and appear to be all following
each other and one master account, presumably the botnet controller."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2147258/twitter-bots-drown-out-anti-kremlin-tweets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.trendmicro.com/the-dark-side-of-social-media/
1. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/12/twitter-bots-drown-out-anti-kremlin-tweets/
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| Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions
| from the but-sir-this-research-could-explode dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @08:52 (Supercomputing)
| with 55 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1326248/wielding-supercomputers-to-make-high-stakes-predictions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]aarondubrow writes "The emergence of the uncertainty quantification
field was initially spurred in the mid-1990s by the federal government's
desire to use computer models to predict the reliability of nuclear
weapons. Since then, the toll of high-stake events that could potentially
have been better anticipated if improved predictive computer models had
been available ��� like the Columbia disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the
World Trade Center collapse after the 9/11 terrorist attacks ��� has
[1]catapulted research on uncertainty quantification to the scientific
and engineering forefronts." (Read this with your Texas propaganda filter
turned to High.)
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1326248/wielding-supercomputers-to-make-high-stakes-predictions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:aarondubrow@tacc.utexas.edu
1. http://www.utexas.edu/features/2011/12/05/computer_models/
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| Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium Sequenced
| from the there's-gotta-be-some-arsenic-somewhere dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @10:57 (NASA)
| with 50 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1432202/genome-of-controversial-arsenic-bacterium-sequenced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Med-trump writes "One year ago [0]a media controversy was ignited when
Felisa Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues held a press conference to announce
the [1]discovery of a bacterium that not only survived high levels of
arsenic in its environment but also seemed to use that element in its
DNA. Last week, the genome of the bacterium, known as GFAJ-1, which gets
its name from the acronym for '[2]Give Felisa a Job.' (No joke!), was
[3]posted in Genbank, the public repository of DNA sequences for all who
care to take a look. But it doesn't settle the debate over whether
arsenic is used in DNA."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/1432202/genome-of-controversial-arsenic-bacterium-sequenced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/asu-ada112910.php
1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/01/science.1197258.abstract
2. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/02/9168255-arsenic-life-debate-still-percolates
3. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/12/genome-of-controversial-arsenic.html
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| IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools
| from the egl-has-landed dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 08, @17:12 (IBM)
| with 28 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/228224/ibm-releases-open-source-egl-development-tools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter [0]dd1968 writes "Today [1]IBM announced the release of a
new set of Open Source [2]development tools based on their EGL
programming language. The announcement describes the tools as being built
from the ground up on an 'open, extensible compiler and generator
framework.' The one-language approach places an abstraction layer between
the developer and target languages, frameworks, and runtime platforms."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/228224/ibm-releases-open-source-egl-development-tools?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:danielpdarnell@sbcglobal.net
1. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/3e2b35ae-d3b1-4008-adee-2b31d4be5c92/entry/the_open_era_for_egl_begins_today?lang=en
2. http://www.eclipse.org/edt/
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