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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones
* Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft?
* US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing
* Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE
* Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android
* Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier
* A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web
* Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University
* Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness?
* At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet
* The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics
* Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA
* How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit
* Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker
* Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House
* JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer
* Astronomers Find Gas Cloud About To Fall Into Black Hole
* Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation
* Qt 4.8.0 Released
* Taking a Look At Kindle Format 8
* Hubble Captures the Violent Birth of a Star
* Running Tor On Your TV
* E-Crime Police Raid Melbourne Newspaper
* Hotel ISP iBahn Denies Breach By Chinese Hackers
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| Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones
| from the illusion-of-perfect-safety dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @15:02 (Cellphones)
| with 806 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1927208/why-the-ntsb-is-wrong-about-cellphones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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YIAAL writes "After a multi-car pileup involving two school buses, the
NTSB is urging states to ban all cellphones and personal electronic
devices in cars, even hands-free phones. But on looking at the [0]NTSB
report, it appears that the big problem was a [1]school bus driver who
was following too closely, and another school bus driver who wasn't
watching the road. Why is the NTSB targeting gadgets instead of bad
drivers?"
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Links:
0. http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2011/gray_summit_mo/index.html
1. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/distracted-driving-or-distracted-policymaking-why-the-proposed-car-cellphone-ban-is-wrong-6617334?click=pm_latest
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| Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft?
| from the disguise-as-a-tape-deck dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @12:13 (Crime)
| with 459 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1630240/ask-slashdot-protecting-tech-gear-from-smash-and-grab-theft?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rstory writes "I seem to be hearing about more smash and grab thefts
lately, from low-tech purse snatching to thieves after laptops and
cameras. Bold thieves are even snatching stuff in church/day-care parking
lots in the 5 minute window while a parent goes in to pick up their
child. I often drive around with my laptop, and want to find the best way
to protect against theft. Besides the obvious 'don't leave equipment in
the car' solution, what else are people doing? Right now I just use a
regular backpack instead of a fancy laptop case. I don't have a trunk, so
when I leave the car I put the backpack on the floor of the back seat,
sometimes throwing other junk on top. The only interesting thing I've
found while googling is a couple of 'anti-theft' backpacks which have
wire mesh to prevent cutting them open and a (thin looking) cable for
securing to a stationary object. What do you do to protect your gear?"
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| US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing
| from the here-droney-droney-droney-droney dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @16:43 (The Military)
| with 435 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2013249/us-sentinel-drone-fooled-into-landing-with-gps-spoofing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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McGruber writes "Following up on the earlier Slashdot story, the
Christian Science Monitor now reports that [0]GPS spoofing was used [1]to
get the RQ-170 Sentinel Drone to land in Iran. According to an Iranian
engineer quoted in the article, 'By putting noise [jamming] on the
communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird
loses its brain.' Apparently, once it loses its brain, the bird relies on
GPS signals to get home. By spoofing GPS, Iranian engineers were able to
get the drone to 'land on its own where we wanted it to, without having
to crack the remote-control signals and communications.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/13/1837229/iran-wants-to-clone-downed-us-drone
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| Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE
| from the great-and-powerful-oz dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @13:40 (Internet Explorer)
| with 395 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/189226/microsoft-upgrading-windows-users-to-latest-version-of-msie?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]helix2301 writes "Microsoft will be [1]upgrading all Windows XP, Vista
and 7 users to the latest IE silently. They are doing this because they
have found a large number of non-patched systems. Microsoft pointed out
that Chrome and Firefox do this regularly. They will start with Australia
and Brazil in January, then go world-wide after they have assured there
are no issues."
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Links:
0. http://www.helixzone.net/
1. http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-automatic-upgrades-across-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7.aspx
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| Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android
| from the addictive-chemicals-are-my-theory dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @17:02 (Android)
| with 379 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2034241/why-developers-still-prefer-ios-to-android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Google Chariman Eric Schmidt recently
addressed an Android user lamenting the fact that that mobile apps are
often released on Apple's iOS platform well before they finally reach
Android. Schmidt cooly and curiously explained that this dynamic will
change in just 6 months. [0]Here's why he's wrong. Though Google brags
about the total number of Android users, developers care about certain
kinds of users (those that pay for apps). A similar dynamic can be found
in television advertising, where advertisers will more money for ad spots
on less popular shows in order to reach desirable demographics, even
though other programs may have many millions of more viewers."
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| Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier
| from the making-more-real-estate dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @14:21 (China)
| with 372 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1723255/satellite-spots-chinas-first-aircraft-carrier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Commercial satellite company DigitalGlobe Inc.
has announced that it has an image of the People's Republic of China's
[1]first functional aircraft carrier, taken during the carrier's first
sea trials in the Yellow Sea. The carrier was originally meant for the
Soviet navy, but its construction was halted as the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991 and engineers in the Ukraine disarmed it and [2]removed
its engines before selling it to China in 1998 for $20 million. The
vessel, an Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier [3]measuring 304.5
meters long, and having a displacement of 58,500 tons, has been refitted
for research and training in China. The Ministry of National Defense says
the steam-powered aircraft carrier has completed all refitting and
testing work as scheduled after its first sea trial in mid-August, and
was heading back out to sea for additional scientific research and
experiments. According to Andrew S. Erickson at the US Naval War College,
China's long term strategic dilemma is [4]whether to focus on large-deck
aviation or on submarines (PDF)."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1723255/satellite-spots-chinas-first-aircraft-carrier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.inquisitr.com/168310/secret-chinese-warship-photographed-by-denver-satelite-company/
2. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-11/30/content_14184840.htm
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Varyag
4. http://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/095c6b68-6707-4030-a142-8f07e9aeb524/China-s-Aircraft-Carrier-Dilemma---Erickson,-Andre
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| A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web
| from the what's-all-this-then? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @03:07 (The Internet)
| with 362 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/0343242/a-quarter-of-the-eu-has-never-used-the-web?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "Reuters reports that [0]a quarter of the EU has yet to
use the internet. Further, half of those in some of the southern and
western states do not even have internet access at home. From the
article: 'As well as highlighting geographic disparities across one of
the world's most-developed regions, the figures underline the lack of
opportunity people in poorer communities have to take part in advances
such as the Internet that have delivered lower cost goods and service to
millions of people.' The [1]full report created by Eurostat can be found
here."
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Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/14/us-eu-internet-idUSTRE7BD1BM20111214
1. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=STAT/11/188&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en%3C/p%3E
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| Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University
| from the their-reputation-precedes-them dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @08:50 (Oracle)
| with 331 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1344249/oracle-sued-for-extortion-lies-by-montclair-state-university?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Montclair State University is suing Oracle in
connection with a troubled ERP (enterprise resource planning) project.
Montclair's complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the
District of New Jersey, states that Oracle made [1]an array of
'intentionally false statements' regarding the functionality of its base
ERP system, the amount of customization that would be required, and the
amount of 'time, resources, and personnel that the University would have
to devote.' 'Ultimately, after missing a critical go-live deadline for
the University's finance system, Oracle sought to extort millions of
dollars from the University by advising the University that it would not
complete the implementation of the ... project unless the University
agreed to pay millions of dollars more than the fixed fee the University
and Oracle had previously agreed to,' it adds."
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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/410298/university_accuses_oracle_extortion_lies_rigged_demo_lawsuit
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| Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness?
| from the circle-of-credit-worthy-friends dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @08:07 (Businesses)
| with 310 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/038233/should-social-media-affect-your-creditworthiness?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Betabeat's Adrianne Jeffries takes a look at the
questionable young science of [0]using social media to evaluate
creditworthiness. As banks start nosing around Facebook and Twitter,
Jeffries explains, the wrong friends might just sink your credit. 'Let's
take a trip with the Ghost of Christmas Future,' she suggests. 'The year
is 2016, and George Bailey, a former banker, now a part-time consultant,
is looking for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for a co-op in the super-hot
neighborhood of Bedford Falls (BeFa). He has never missed a loan payment
and has zero credit card debt. He submits his information to the
online-only PotterBank.com, but halfway through the application process,
the website asks for his Facebook login. Then his Twitter. Then LinkedIn.
The cartoon loan officer avatar begins to frown as the algorithm
discovers Mr. Bailey's taxi-driving buddy Ernie was once turned down by
PotterBank for a loan; then it starts browsing his daughter Zuzu's photo
album, 'Saturday Nite!' And what was this tweet from a few years back:
"FML, about to jump off a goddamn bridge"?' So, could George [1]piggyback
his way to a better credit score by adding Larry and Sergey to his
Google+ Circles?"
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Links:
0. http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/13/as-banks-start-nosing-around-facebook-and-twitter-the-wrong-friends-might-just-sink-your-credit/?show=all
1. http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/piggybacking-fico-credit-score-authorized-user-1265.php
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| At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet
| from the and-stop-humming dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @10:11 (Music)
| with 266 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1424250/at-universals-request-youtube-yanks-news-podcast-over-music-snippet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Snaller writes "[0]Tech News Today does what the name says ��� it's a
podcast reporting on Tech news, Monday to Friday. They, like Slashdot,
reported on the [1]Megaupload vs. Universal copyright dispute. But during
their coverage, they played a snippet of the music video and immediately
[2]Universal Music Group had the news podcast yanked from YouTube. Tech
News Today has outlets other than YouTube, but should a music company
have the right to have a news podcast removed on copyright grounds, when
it's not even clear that said company has had any copyrights violated?"
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Links:
0. http://twit.tv/tnt
1. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/12/10/1320249/pop-artists-support-megaupload-universal-censors
2. https://plus.google.com/103207773865797007066/posts/M2yVb5ND3Su
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| The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics
| from the more-or-less-than-the-sum-of-the-numbers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 14, @20:03 (IT)
| with 215 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/225204/the-four-fallacies-of-it-metrics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Advice Line's Bob Lewis discusses an all-too-familiar
IT mistake: [1]the use of incidents resolved per analyst per week as a
metric for assessing help-desk performance. 'If you managed the help desk
in question or worked on it as an analyst, would you resist the
temptation to ask every friend you had in the business to call in on a
regular basis with easy-to-fix problems? Maybe you would. I'm guessing
that if you resisted the temptation, not only would you be the exception,
but you'd be the exception most likely to be included in the next round
of layoffs,' Lewis writes. 'The fact of the matter is it's a lot easier
to get metrics wrong than right, and the damage done from getting them
wrong usually exceeds the potential benefit from getting them right.' In
other words, when it comes to IT metrics, [2]you get what you measure ���
that's the risk you take."
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-strategy/the-four-fallacies-it-metrics-181517
2. http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-strategy/stupid-consultant-tricks-180912
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| Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA
| from the oh-for-enough-mortar-and-enough-bricks dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @11:31 (Democrats)
| with 198 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1517234/meet-the-strange-bedfellows-who-could-stop-sopa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "In a political environment that's become very
strongly defined by partisan lines, the SOPA debate has offered an
unexpected ray of hope: the [1]two main Congressional opponents of the
bill are Ron Wyden, an Oregon Senator deemed a 'hardcore liberal' and
Darrell Issa, a California Representative who is one of the Obama
Administration's fiercest critics. (There are both Ds and Rs in favor of
the bill, too.)" (Read more below.)
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://jfruh.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/government/233187/meet-strange-bedfellows-who-could-stop-sopa
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| How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit
| from the extension-by-extrusion dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @12:58 (ISS)
| with 178 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1649258/how-3d-printing-could-help-keep-the-iss-in-orbit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Despite all the best intentions and meticulous overengineering, some of
the equipment on spacecraft like the ISS inevitably breaks. An anonymous
reader poses the question "Why carry out a very expensive launch into
space to resupply the ISS, when astronauts could just manufacture
replacement parts themselves?" Startup [0]Made in Space is working on a
[1]space-oriented 3D printing system to make it easy to transmit the
information needed to pop out complex shapes (as might be in delicate
mechanical systems), but the founders are also talking about using 3D
printers to jump-start construction if humans extend their presence from
the Earth to other planets (or revisit the moon).
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Links:
0. http://madeinspace.us/
1. http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/3d-printer-space-station-factory-2414/
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| Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker
| from the you-wanted-the-best-you-hacked-the-best dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 14, @19:14 (Crime)
| with 177 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/2227227/feds-arrest-genesimmonscom-attacker?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]gManZboy writes "Federal authorities have arrested an alleged member
of Anonymous in connection with an "Operation Payback" attack [1]against
the website of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. The charges stem from a
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Simmons' website over
a five-day period in 2010. Simmons apparently drew the ire of the
Anonymous set after he lambasted their peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading
proclivities during a 2010 MIPCOM entertainment content media conference
panel discussion, where he lamented the failure of the music industry 'to
sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded
material.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232300516
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| Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House
| from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @10:30 (Google)
| with 163 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1442200/google-engineer-builds-ultimate-lan-party-house?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Zothecula writes "Anyone who has a attended a LAN party ��� where people
connect their computers on one network in one location to play
multiplayer games together ��� can tell you that they can be both very fun
but also kind of a hassle. Playing games with your friends all in the
same room: fun. Having to organize all your friends to each haul their
usually-oversized gaming rigs to one person's house, ensuring they all
have the same software, and inevitably dealing with one or more people
having trouble connecting: not fun. With that in mind, it makes sense
that one Google employee decided to bypass all that inconvenience and
just [0]build a house specifically for LAN parties, complete with
multiple networked computers and TVs connected to game consoles."
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Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/google-engineer-builds-ultimate-lan-party-house/20833/
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| JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer
| from the we-call-this-one-the-fleecer dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @18:51 (Supercomputing)
| with 135 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2232219/jpmorgan-rolls-out-another-fpga-supercomputer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "JP Morgan is [0]expanding its use of dataflow
supercomputers to speed up more of its fixed income trading operations.
Earlier this year, the bank revealed how it reduced the time it took to
run an end-of-day risk calculation from eight hours down to just 238
seconds. The new dataflow supercomputer, where the computer chips are
tailored to perform specific, bespoke tasks (as [1]explained in this Wall
Street Journal article) ��� will be equivalent to more than 12,000
conventional x86 cores, providing 128 Teraflops of performance."
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3325313/jp-morgan-expands-deployment-of-fpga-based-supercomputer/
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/12/13/maxeler-makes-waves-with-dataflow-design/
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| Astronomers Find Gas Cloud About To Fall Into Black Hole
| from the a-light-snack dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 14, @22:17 (Space)
| with 92 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/0051210/astronomers-find-gas-cloud-about-to-fall-into-black-hole?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]pigrabbitbear writes "Black holes are
basically celestial Cookie Monsters, gobbling anything and everything in
sight. But because that appetite includes light itself, it's incredibly
rare for us to actually see a black hole suck back an interstellar treat.
[1]Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large
Telescope have found just that: a mysterious, giant gas cloud that's
rapidly been pulled into the maw of a supermassive black hole. The
researchers, led by Reinhard Genzel of the [2]Max-Planck Institute for
Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, discovered the cloud as part of a
now 20-year [3]ESO program tasked with tracking stars as they whirl
around the supermassive black hole, known as Sgr A*, at the center of our
galaxy."
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Links:
0. http://motherboard.tv/
1. http://motherboard.tv/2011/12/14/astronomers-find-supermassive-black-hole-gobbling-down-a-gassy-meal--2
2. http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php
3. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0846/
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| Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation
| from the nuclear-plant-of-the-apes dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @00:47 (Science)
| with 85 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/030249/japanese-use-wild-monkeys-to-track-radiation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "Scientists in Japan are taking a novel
approach to measuring the impact of radiation in a forest affected by the
Fukushima nuclear crisis: [0]enlisting the help of local wild monkeys.
Takayuki Takahashi, a professor of robotic technology at Fukushima
University, told CNN Wednesday his team was working on a collar fitted
with a dosimeter to measure radiation levels that could be fitted to the
monkeys before they are released back into the wild. Takahashi said the
experiment would help researchers understand how radiation in the forest
can affect human beings, as well as wild animals. While human scientists
have been monitoring radiation levels from the air, the use of monkey
'assistants' will give them a clearer idea of conditions on the ground."
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Links:
0. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/14/world/asia/japan-nuclear-monkeys/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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| Qt 4.8.0 Released
| from the how-qt-it-looks dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @09:12 (GUI)
| with 80 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/141257/qt-480-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jrepin duly [1]notes the release of Qt 4.8.0, and extracts from the
announcement some of the key changes for developers: "Qt Platform
Abstraction (QPA) restructures the GUI stack to enable easier porting of
Qt to different windowing systems and devices. Threaded OpenGL enables us
to render OpenGL from more than one thread concurrently. HTTP requests
are now handled in a separate thread by default. The file system stack
received some heavy lifting under the hood. The result is better I/O
performance."
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https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/141257/qt-480-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://identi.ca/jrepin
1. http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/12/15/qt-4-8-0-released/
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| Taking a Look At Kindle Format 8
| from the early-looks-are-best-looks dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @09:30 (Books)
| with 72 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1418229/taking-a-look-at-kindle-format-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Nate the greatest writes "Got a Kindle Fire? Here's your chance to try
the new Kindle Format 8. The new format is in beta testing right now with
a limited number of publishers, and a few days ago one of those
publishers leaked the tools and the guidelines to me. It turns out KF8
isn't all that new. I've looked at the code, and I'd call it an attempt
to graft a number of Epub features onto the existing Kindle format. It
simply [0]adds a lot of new formatting and is only slightly more capable
than Epub. There's a number of screenshots at the link as well as a demo
file. You can probably also find more KF8 ebooks in the Kindle Store;
look for the Kindle Fire exclusive magazines and graphic novels."
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Links:
0. http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/12/13/kindle-format-8-demo-now-available/
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| Hubble Captures the Violent Birth of a Star
| from the in-space-no-one-gets-an-epidural dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @17:30 (Space)
| with 68 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2031216/hubble-captures-the-violent-birth-of-a-star?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]The Bad Astronomer writes "In what is [1]one of the most staggeringly
beautiful Hubble pictures ever taken, a newly-born massive star is
[2]blasting four separate jets of material into its surrounding cocoon,
carving out cavities in the material over two light years long. But only
three of the jets appear to have matter still inside them, and the
central star is off-center. This may be a gorgeous picture, but the
science behind it is equally as compelling."
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Links:
0. http://thebadastronomergmailcom/
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/15/epic-tantrum-thrown-by-30-octillion-ton-baby/
2. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/38
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| Running Tor On Your TV
| from the blender-seems-the-obvious-choice dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @18:12 (Encryption)
| with 53 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2122244/running-tor-on-your-tv?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jaromil writes "[1]TorTV is an early effort to embed Tor in household
computing: run it on your TV at home. So far only WDTV installed with the
homebrew WDLXTV firmware is supported. What other platforms do you think
are viable for it?"
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Links:
0. mailto:jaromil@dyn%5B%5Drg%5B'e.o'ingap%5D
1. http://dyne.org/software/tortv/
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| E-Crime Police Raid Melbourne Newspaper
| from the e-police-they're-coming-to-arrest-me dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @05:21 (Australia)
| with 52 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/0331222/e-crime-police-raid-melbourne-newspaper?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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beaverdownunder writes "Police from the 'E-Crime Squad' have [0]raided
The Age's offices in Melbourne today, executing a warrant in relation to
an investigation following allegations of illegal access to the ALP
(Australian Labor Party) database. 'Victoria Police E-Crime Squad is
investigating the allegation personal details of Victorians were
electronically accessed by a media outlet via a confidential political
party database without authorization,' a police spokeswoman said. Last
November, The Age revealed the Labor Party held the personal details of
thousands of Victorians ��� including sensitive health and financial
information ��� in a database that was accessed by campaign workers before
the Victoria state election."
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Links:
0. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/police-search-the-age-offices-20111215-1ovmu.html
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| Hotel ISP iBahn Denies Breach By Chinese Hackers
| from the just-hired-new-typographers dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, @10:52 (China)
| with 28 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/155226/hotel-isp-ibahn-denies-breach-by-chinese-hackers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "iBahn, a provider of internet services to some 3,000
hotels worldwide, [0]denied on Thursday a news report that its network
was breached by hackers. Bloomberg wrote that a highly skilled group of
hackers based in China, which U.S. investigators have called 'Byzantine
Foothold,' attacked iBahn, citing unnamed sources, including one U.S
intelligence official. In a written statement, iBahn said it was aware of
the allegations in the news report but it had 'not found proof of any
breach on the iBahn network.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/121511-ibahn-supplier-of-hotel-internet-254110.html
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