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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* The Condescending UI
* Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires
* Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform'
* Was Russia Behind Stuxnet?
* Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution?
* LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test
* Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up
* Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network
* Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling
* Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case
* Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials
* World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip
* The Ups and Downs of Being a Twitter Fraudster
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| The Condescending UI
| from the all-i-ask-is-some-text-and-a-blinking-cursor dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 11, @08:15 (GUI)
| with 729 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/0314240/the-condescending-ui?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Paul Miller has some advice for user interface designers:
[0]Don't be condescending. 'The Ribbon in Microsoft Office products,'
complains Miller, 'is constantly talking down to me, assuming I don't
know how to use a menu, a key command, or an honest-to-goodness toolbar.'
Miller's got some harsh words for Apple, too: 'And of course, there is
the transgression of the century: Apple's downward spiral into overt 1:1
metaphors. The physical bookshelf, the leather desk calendar (complete
with a torn page), the false-paginated address book...these new tricks
are horrible and offensive [and likened to [1]Microsoft Bob]. They're not
only condescending and overwrought, they're actually counter-functional.'
So, how does Miller cope while waiting for his UI knight in shining
armor? 'I recently switched my Windows 7 install over to the [2]Classic
Theme', Miller explains, 'which is basically Windows 95 incarnate, just
with all the under-the-hood improvements I've come to rely on. I really
like it. It feels right, and if it isn't beautiful, at least it's honest.
I wish there was a similar OS 9 mode for OS X.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2616204/the-condescending-ui
1. http://technologizer.com/2010/03/29/a-guided-tour-of-microsoft-bob/4/
2. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081029/windows-7-themes-glass-basic-and-classic/
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| Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires
| from the show-me-the-money dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @11:00 (Businesses)
| with 355 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/143240/facebook-could-spawn-thousands-of-milionaires?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Retuers reports that the world's No. 1 online
social network is preparing for a blockbuster initial public offering
that [1]could create thousands of millionaires as Facebook employees past
and present begin hatching plans on how to spend their anticipated new
wealth. 'There's been discussions of sort of bucket list ideas that
people are putting together of things they always wanted to do and now
we'll be able to do it,' says one former employee who expects his shares
to be worth $50 million and is [2]planning to book a trip to space with
Virgin Galactic that would cost $200,000 or more. 'It's been a childhood
dream.' Another group of Facebook workers has begun laying the groundwork
for its own jungle expedition to excavate a relatively untouched site of
Mayan ruins in Mexico that sounds like Raiders of the Lost Ark. But for
many of Facebook's staffers, the IPO will provide the means to pay off
school loans and buy a house or new car and many homeowners and
real-estate agents are eagerly anticipating a [3]surge of new buyers that
could push prime real estate to new heights. 'If a Facebook guy buys a
house and wants to remodel it, maybe the contractor will buy another
car,' says Buff Giurlani. 'Maybe the realtor will put a car in.
[4]There's a trickle-down effect.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/143240/facebook-could-spawn-thousands-of-milionaires?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/09/us-facebook-millionaires-idUSTRE7B72NK20111209
2. http://www.virgingalactic.com/
3. http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/08/new-wave-tech-workers-san-francisco-becomes-landlord-s-market
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
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| Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform'
| from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 10, @19:13 (Android)
| with 260 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/10/2312232/renault-opens-up-the-car-as-a-platform?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pbahra writes "Renault has launched what it describes as a 'tablet,'
[1]an integrated Android device built into its next range of cars,
effectively opening the way to the car-as-a-platform. At the Le Web
conference last year, Renault's chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, announced
the company's intention to open up the car to developers, safety
considerations not withstanding. 'The car is becoming a new platform,'
said Mr. Hoffstetter. He said the seven-inch device can be controlled by
voice recognition or by buttons on the steering wheel. 'We need help
now,' he said. 'We need developers to work on apps.' When it launches,
there will be about 50 apps bundled with the device, mostly written by
Renault. 'We will open a Renault app store for people to download their
own apps,' he said." While I like the idea of such apps for certain
purposes ��� a maintenance interface, less-inconvenient navigation and
stereo controls, interesting driving stats ��� I'm skeptical of the average
driver's ability to use one of these without turning his car into a
3,000-lb angry bird.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:parminder.bahra@wsj.com
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/12/08/renault-opens-up-car-as-platform/
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| Was Russia Behind Stuxnet?
| from the from-russia-with-root dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 11, @02:14 (Security)
| with 238 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/0310249/was-russia-behind-stuxnet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Despite the U.S. and Israel being widely
assumed to be responsible for Stuxnet, [0]Russia is the more likely
culprit, says U.S. Air Force cyber analyst. The nuclear gangsterism of
the past 20 years gives it plenty of motive. Quoting: 'So what better way
to maintain Russian interests, and innocence, than to plant a worm with
digital U.S.-Israeli fingerprints? After all, Russian scientists and
engineers are familiar with the cascading centrifuges whose numbers and
configuration ��� and Siemen���s SCADA PLC controller schematics ��� they have
full access to by virtue of designing the plants. ... the observers of
the virus could alert the Iranians before full nuclear catastrophe
struck. The Belarusian computer security experts who 'discovered' the
code seemingly played that role well. They didn't seem too preoccupied
with reverse engineering the malicious code to see what it was designed
to do.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://the-diplomat.com/2011/12/10/was-russia-behind-stuxnet/?all=true
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| Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution?
| from the bring-out-the-tuxpad dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 11, @05:21 (Debian)
| with 214 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/0352217/ask-slashdot-best-tablet-for-running-a-real-gnulinux-distribution?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bmsleight writes "Android is nice, but I do not want to [0]pay to print
or be beholden to the cloud to do everything or chroot. I just want a
tablet that can run a [1]MythTv-client, OpenOffice.org and good old
apt-get instead of an app market. I have a [2]Joggler ��� which costs ��60 ���
I'd like something similar but with a battery, a bigger screen, and other
modern tablet features. So, what's the best tablet for running a real
GNU/Linux distribution (ideally Debian)? Bonus points for the best
apt-get-able distribution that works with a tablet."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2328227/ask-slashdot-best-way-to-print-from-an-android-tablet
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH5ie0DI1nE&feature=youtu.be
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_Joggler
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| LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test
| from the back-to-the-drawksssh-sstthhhhkkk-zzzttt dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 10, @23:22 (Government)
| with 182 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/030241/lightsquared-disrupts-75-of-gps-connections-in-government-test?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Freddybear writes with this quote from BusinessWeek: "Philip Falcone's
proposed LightSquared Inc. wireless service [0]caused interference to 75
percent of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S.
government test, according to a draft summary of results. ... The tests
worked off an 'extraordinarily conservative' threshold and didn't show
the devices' performance was affected, [LightSquared exec Martin Harriman
said]. 'If we're affecting the performance of the device ��� my goodness,
we'd like to be sure that doesn't happen,' Harriman said. The laboratory
testing was performed for the National Space-Based Positioning,
Navigation, and Timing Systems Engineering Forum, an executive branch
body that helps advise policy makers on issues around GPS. It found that
69 of 92, or 75 percent, of receivers tested 'experienced harmful
interference' at the equivalent of 100 meters (109 yards) from a
LightSquared base station."
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| Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up
| from the better-like-this-or-better-like-this dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @18:57 (Businesses)
| with 177 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/2211229/ask-slashdot-open-vs-closed-source-for-a-start-up?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]atamagabakkaomae writes "Together with a friend, I am starting up a
company in Japan that develops sensors used in motion capture. For these
sensors we develop hardware and software. Part of the software
development is an open-source toolkit called openMAT. We have some
special purpose algorithms that we developed ourselves and that are
better than our competitor's technology. I first wanted to publish
everything open-source to spark interest in our company and to do
development in collaboration with the community. My company partner
disagreed and said that we will lose our technological advantage if we
open-source it. So I eventually published only a part of the toolkit
open-source and closed the most interesting code. How do you guys think
that open-sourcing your code-base affects a company's business? Is it
wrong for a small company to give away precious intellectual property
like that or will it on the contrary help the development of the
company?"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.lp-research.com/
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| Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network
| from the time-to-upgrade dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @09:39 (Google)
| with 174 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/1240258/google-deploys-ipv6-for-internal-network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Google is four years into a project to [1]roll out
IPv6 to its entire internal employee network. At the Usenix Large
Installation System Administration (LISA) conference in Boston last week,
Google network engineer Irena Nikolova shared some lessons others can
learn from Google's experience. For example: It requires a lot of work
with vendors to get them to fix buggy and still-unfinished code. 'We
should not expect something to work just because it is declared
supported,' the paper accompanying the presentation concluded."
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/networking/231929/usenix-google-deploys-ipv6-internal-network
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| Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling
| from the crunch-the-numbers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @15:44 (Math)
| with 137 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/1829256/researchers-create-a-statistical-guide-to-gambling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter yukiloo writes "An early Christmas treat for the ordinary
Joe who is stuck with a Christmas list that he cannot afford and is
running out of time comes from two mathematicians (Evangelos Georgiadis,
MIT, and Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers) and a computer scientist (Shalosh B.
Ekhad). In their paper '[0]How to gamble if you're in a hurry,' they
present algorithmic strategies and reclaim the world of gambling, which
they say has up till recently flourished on the continuous Kolmogorov
paradigm by some sugary discrete code that could make us hopefully
richer, if not wiser. It's interesting since their work applies an
advanced version of what seems to be the [1]Kelly criterion."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1645
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
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| Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case
| from the should've-outsourced dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 10, @20:18 (Software)
| with 117 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/0025249/aerospace-corp-pays-25m-to-settle-rogue-software-dev-case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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chrb writes "U.S. company Aerospace Corp. has paid $2.5 million to settle
a case that they defrauded the U.S. Air Force by knowingly billing for
the services of a [0]rogue software developer. The rogue developer,
William Grayson Hunter, was being paid for two full time jobs at two
different aerospace companies, but spent most of his time in bars,
amusement parks and movie theaters. On some days, he billed his employers
for over 24 hours work."
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Links:
0. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aerospace-fraud-20111207,0,6213284.story
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| Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials
| from the back-to-the-stars dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @12:33 (Space)
| with 112 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/1615239/virginia-may-help-people-pay-for-space-burials?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "[0]Want to be buried in space? Virginia would
help pay for it under proposed legislation that aims to boost the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. The bill, which the General Assembly
will debate next year, would provide a Virginia income tax deduction up
to $2,500 a year for such burials. Proponents hope the measure will
provide revenue for the spaceport, which is expanding because NASA
decided to cancel the space shuttle program. The facility, which
describes itself as a 'full-service, FAA-licensed spaceport,' is located
at Wallops Island on Virginia's coast."
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Links:
0. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-space-burial-20111209,0,993488.story
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| World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip
| from the future-chip dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @17:15 (Hardware)
| with 111 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/2029235/worlds-first-programmable-quantum-photonic-chip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "A team of engineering geniuses from the University of
Bristol, England has developed the world's first [1]re-programmable,
multi-purpose quantum photonic computer chip that relies on quantum
entanglement to perform calculations. With multiple waveguide channels
(made from standard silicon dioxide), and eight electrodes, [2]the
silicon chip is capable of repeatedly entangling photons. Depending on
how the electrodes are programmed, different quantum states can be
produced. The end result is two qubits that can be used to perform
quantum computing. Most importantly, though, unlike existing quantum
photonic setups which require apparatus the size of a 'large dining
table,' this new chip is tiny: just 70mm (2.7 inches) by 3mm."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108573-worlds-first-programmable-quantum-photonic-chip
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3309
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| The Ups and Downs of Being a Twitter Fraudster
| from the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 11, @14:11 (Social Networks)
| with 82 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/1717259/the-ups-and-downs-of-being-a-twitter-fraudster?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Barence writes "PC Pro has a feature examining the psychology and
motivation of people who create [1]fake or parody Twitter accounts. The
feature reveals how people behind some of the most popular parodies ���
such as [2]@MrsStephenFry ��� have gone on to earn commercial success,
while others are altogether more sinister. The man behind @Lord_Credo
managed to convince many that he was a personal adviser to British Prime
Minister, David Cameron, and wormed his way into political circles. He
allegedly conned some out of money, took advantage of the hospitality of
others, and left the professional reputation of at least one 'in
tatters.' He even fabricated a malignant brain tumor, leaving one young
member of the group 'utterly distraught.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/371674/the-twitter-fraudsters
2. https://twitter.com/#!/MrsStephenFry
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