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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62
* Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny
* US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads
* Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own
* Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights
* Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team?
* Android Update Alliance Already Struggling
* The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011
* Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes
* Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers
* Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text
* Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown
* Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother
* Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission?
* Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones
* NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs
* The Future of Battle Tech
* Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House
* How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS
* Nightingale Media Player Preview Released
* Judge Dismisses Twitter Stalking Case
* New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates
* Challenges of Setting Up a Security Conference
* FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner
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| Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62
| from the in-memoriam dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @09:10 (The Media)
| with 836 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1356247/christopher-hitchens-dies-at-62?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends this quote from the NY Times: "Christopher
Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and
George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry
Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller
attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left
by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq, [0]died
Thursday at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62. He
took pains to emphasize that he had not revised his position on atheism,
articulated in his best-selling 2007 book, God Is Not Great: How Religion
Poisons Everything, although he did express amused appreciation at the
hope, among some concerned Christians, that he might undergo a late-life
conversion. Mr. Hitchens's latest collection of writings, Arguably:
Essays, published this year, has been a best-seller and ranked among the
top 10 books of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1356247/christopher-hitchens-dies-at-62?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny
| from the like-a-series-of-irritating-tubes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @14:49 (The Internet)
| with 388 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1943257/congresss-techno-ignorance-no-longer-funny?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pigrabbitbear writes "Since its introduction, the [1]Stop Online
Piracy Act (and its Senate twin PROTECT-IP) has been staunchly condemned
by countless engineers, technologists and lawyers intimately familiar
with the inner functioning of the internet. Completely beside the fact
that these bills, as they currently stand, would stifle free speech and
potentially cripple legitimate businesses by giving corporations
extrajudicial censorial powers, there's an even more insidious threat:
the method of DNS filtering proposed to block supposed infringing sites
opens up enormous security holes that threaten the stability of the
internet itself. The problem: [2]key members of the House Judiciary
Committee still don't understand how the internet works, and worse yet,
it's not clear whether they even want to."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1943257/congresss-techno-ignorance-no-longer-funny?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://motherboard.tv/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
2. http://motherboard.tv/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works
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| US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads
| from the or-as-some-people-call-it-lying dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @11:16 (Advertising)
| with 359 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1545235/us-watchdog-bans-photoshop-use-in-cosmetics-ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "In an interesting move that should finally bring the
United States' fast-and-loose advertising rules and regulations into line
with the UK and EU, the National Advertising Division (NAD) ��� the
advertising industry's self-regulating watchdog ��� has moved to [1]ban the
misleading use of photoshopping and enhanced post-production in cosmetics
adverts. The ban stems from a Procter & Gamble (P&G) CoverGirl ad that
photoshopped a model's eyelashes to exaggerate the effects of a mascara.
There was a footnote in the ad's spiel about the photo being manipulated,
but according to the director of the NAD, that simply isn't enough: 'You
can't use a photograph to demonstrate how a cosmetic will look after it
is applied to a woman's face and then ��� in the mice type ��� have a
disclosure that says "okay, not really."' The NAD ruled that the ad was
unacceptable, and P&G has since discontinued it. The ruling goes one step
further, though, and points out that 'professional styling, make-up,
photography and the product's inherent covering and smoothing nature'
should be enough, [2]without adding Photoshop to the mix. The cosmetics
industry is obviously a good starting point ��� but what if the ban leaks
over to product photography (I'm looking at you, Burger King), video
gameplay demos, or a photographer's own works?"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1545235/us-watchdog-bans-photoshop-use-in-cosmetics-ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/109375-us-bans-photoshop-use-in-cosmetics-ads
2. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-moves-toward-banning-use-of-photoshop-in-cosmetics-ads-2011-12
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| Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own
| from the sounds-about-right dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @11:59 (Google)
| with 359 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1610229/google-deal-allegedly-lets-umg-wipe-youtube-videos-it-doesnt-own?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sockatume writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Google has [0]given
music conglomerate UMG the right to arbitrarily eliminate YouTube videos.
When UMG had Megaupload's 'Mega Song' [1]removed from the site, it was
assumed that they had made a DMCA claim, and that YouTube was responding
under its 'safe harbor' obligations. Megaupload's legal response argues
that UMG has no grounds to request a DMCA takedown. However [2]in court
filings (PDF), UMG claims that its licensing agreement with Google gives
it the power and authority to unilaterally wipe videos from the site,
bypassing the DMCA entirely. If true, that means that your activities on
YouTube are not just curtailed by the law, but by the terms of their
secret agreements with media conglomerates."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1610229/google-deal-allegedly-lets-umg-wipe-youtube-videos-it-doesnt-own?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars
1. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/12/10/1320249/pop-artists-support-megaupload-universal-censors
2. http://ia700808.us.archive.org/26/items/gov.uscourts.cand.248875/gov.uscourts.cand.248875.14.0.pdf
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| Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights
| from the the-force-is-strong-in-these-ones dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @23:02 (Star Wars Prequels)
| with 309 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/0344218/czech-nationwide-census-shows-jump-in-jedi-knights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter il_genio writes "The Czech Statistical
Office (S��) unveiled the first results of its regular 10-year census on
Thursday. While almost half the population, 4.8 million, shied away from
answering the voluntary religious question, a surprising strong showing
was given by those Czechs who described themselves as [0]Knights of the
Jedi and believers in 'the Force' as depicted in the Star Wars films.
Overall, 15,070 Czechs identified themselves as Knights of the Jedi with
the biggest proportion of adherents in the capital, Prague, with 3,977
followers or 0.31 percent of the population."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/0344218/czech-nationwide-census-shows-jump-in-jedi-knights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team?
| from the measuring-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @20:25 (Businesses)
| with 308 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2347205/ask-slashdot-good-metrics-for-a-small-it-team?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter shibbyj writes "I'm a member of a small 3
person IT team for a medium sized business (approximately 300-350
employees) that has multiple locations internationally. I have been
tasked with logging our performance using the statistics from our ticket
management system. I've also been tasked with comparing these stats and
determining if we are performing above or below what is considered
optimal. I'm wondering what people opinions are on what good metrics
should be in regards to mttr mtbf etc. I have had trouble finding
information on this."
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https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2347205/ask-slashdot-good-metrics-for-a-small-it-team?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Android Update Alliance Already Struggling
| from the actions-speak-louder-than-words dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @14:07 (Android)
| with 308 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/190210/android-update-alliance-already-struggling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "Earlier this year many Android phone vendors and
U.S. wireless carriers made [0]a long-awaited promise, which was to push
timely OS updates to all new Android phones. Seven months in and
especially with the release of Google Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich),
PCMag decided to reach out to all those vendors and wireless carriers to
see how things were coming along. Brace yourselves Android fans,
[1]you're not going to like the responses."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/190210/android-update-alliance-already-struggling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/05/10/io-2011-android-alliance-promises-timely-android-os-updates-for-18-months-after-device-launch/
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397729,00.asp
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| The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011
| from the general-tron's-secret-police-confession-kit dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @19:53 (Christmas Cheer)
| with 286 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2340200/the-most-dangerous-toys-of-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "If you've procrastinated on your Xmas shopping this year,
fear not: Gawker's just published its tongue-in-cheek [0]2011 Top Picks
for Gifts That Maim or Poison Children. Until President Nixon enacted the
first national safety standard for playthings with the Toy Safety Act in
1969, the toy industry [1]was pretty much anything-goes. As a result of
the legislation, children may live longer, but they'll never know the
joys of many beloved-but-dangerous classics, including Zulu Guns,
[2]Jarts, and [3]Clackers."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/2340200/the-most-dangerous-toys-of-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gawker.com/5867868/gifts-that-maim-or-poison-children
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119664662089911293.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers
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| Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes
| from the warm-it-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 16, @05:48 (Earth)
| with 223 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/041220/russian-scientist-discovers-giant-arctic-methane-plumes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thomst writes "Russian scientist Igor Semiletov of the International
Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks revealed in
an interview with The Independent that his team discovered '[0]powerful
and impressive seeping structures (of Methane gas) more than 1,000 metres
in diameter' during their survey of the Arctic Ocean earlier this year.
'I was most impressed by the sheer scale and the high density of the
plumes. Over a relatively small area we found more than 100, but over a
wider area there should be thousands of them,' Semiletov told The
Independent's Steve Connor. This finding is important because methane is
estimated to be 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas,
and it could indicate that global warming is about to accelerate
dramatically."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/041220/russian-scientist-discovers-giant-arctic-methane-plumes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers
| from the everybody-needs-a-second-job-these-days dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @16:22 (Media)
| with 210 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2057258/aging-consoles-find-new-life-as-video-streamers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is six years old. The
Nintendo Wii is five years old, and so is the Sony PlayStation 3. All
three are due for an overhaul (can you imagine gaming on a PC that's half
a decade old, or more?), and while they're still popular gaming
platforms, consoles are really [1]starting to shine as streaming media
centers. According to market research firm Nielsen, streaming video on
game consoles is up over last year. Xbox 360 owners now use their
consoles to stream video 14 percent of the time, which is almost as much
as PS3 users (15 percent). But it's the Wii that sees the most time as a
streaming device, with Wii owners using their consoles to stream video a
third of the time."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2057258/aging-consoles-find-new-life-as-video-streamers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Aging-Consoles-Find-New-Life-as-Video-Streaming-Devices/
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| Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text
| from the read-it-and-weep dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 16, @01:36 (Android)
| with 201 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/0349234/google-wallet-stores-card-data-in-plain-text?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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nut writes "The much-hyped [0]payment application from Google on Android
has been [1]examined by viaForensics and appears to [2]store some
cardholder data in plaintext. Google wallet is the first real payment
system to use [3]NFC on Android. Version 2 of the [4]PCI DSS (the current
standard) mandates the encryption of transmitted cardholder data
encourages strong encryption for its storage. viaForensics suggest that
the data stored in plain text might be sufficient to allow social
engineering to obtain a credit card number."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/0349234/google-wallet-stores-card-data-in-plain-text?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/launching-google-wallet-on-sprint-and.html
1. http://viaforensics.com/mobile-security/forensics-security-analysis-google-wallet.html
2. http://www.darkreading.com/mobile-security/167901113/security/news/232300390/google-wallet-stores-some-payment-card-data-in-plain-text.html?esid=1083&rid=2127719&source=Email&cid=nl_DR_daily_2011-12-13_html&elq=5a4c7955ff8142e1940395f83e13b7d9
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
4. https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_dss_v2.pdf
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| Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown
| from the super-powers-no-longer-for-sale dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @09:52 (Japan)
| with 175 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1414211/fukushima-finally-reaches-cold-shutdown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mvdwege writes "The BBC reports that [1]the reactors at Fukushima have
reached cold shutdown, meaning they no longer need active cooling to stay
at safe temperatures. Plans can now be made to start the cleanup of the
site. Unfortunately, TEPCO has also admitted not all problems were out in
the open until now; an estimated 45 cubic meters of contaminated water
have leaked out of cracks in the foundation of a treatment plant."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1414211/fukushima-finally-reaches-cold-shutdown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mvdwege@mail.com
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16212057
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| Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother
| from the tinfoil-sales-skyrocket dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @12:41 (Data Storage)
| with 173 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1638211/coming-soon-ubiquitous-long-term-surveillance-from-big-brother?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "As the price of digital storage drops and the
technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian
governments will soon be able to [0]perform retroactive surveillance on
anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report.
These regimes will store every phone call, instant message, email, social
media interaction, text message, movements of people and vehicles and
public surveillance video and mine it at their leisure, according to '[1]Recording
Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Government,'
written by John Villaseno, a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor
of electrical engineering at UCLA."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1638211/coming-soon-ubiquitous-long-term-surveillance-from-big-brother?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/121511-government-surveillance-254137.html?hpg1=bn
1. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/1214_digital_storage_villasenor/1214_digital_storage_villasenor.pdf
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| Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission?
| from the cheese-miners-revolt-over-thermostat-control dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 16, @18:50 (Mars)
| with 132 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2343234/ask-slashdot-technical-advice-for-a-fictional-space-mission?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I'm just starting to put together the pieces
for a fictional story about a space mission. To put it briefly, I would
like to give believability to the story: probably set a few years ahead,
just enough for the launching of the first colony in the solar system,
but with the known challenges posed by the current technology. Is anyone
up for a little technical advice on space travel? A few quick questions:
As for the destination, the moon and Mars are the obvious choices, but
what else would make sense? How long would it take to get there? What
could be the goals of the mission? Any events or tasks that could
punctuate an otherwise predictably boring long trip? Any possible
sightseeing for beautiful VFX shots? What would be the crew?"
Discuss this story at:
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| Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones
| from the don't-want-the-bad-pr dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @15:41 (Privacy)
| with 131 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2039237/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-phones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with a report that Sprint, in an attempt to
extricate itself from the Carrier IQ drama, has "ordered that all of
their hardware partners [0]remove the Carrier IQ software from Sprint
devices as soon as possible." Sprint confirmed that they've disabled the
use of Carrier IQ on their end, saying, "diagnostic information and data
is no longer being collected." The software is currently installed on
roughly 26 million Sprint phones, though the company has only been
[1]collecting data from 1.3 million of them.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2039237/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-phones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-hardware-20111216/
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397732,00.asp
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| NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs
| from the no-more-monkey-business dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @08:48 (Medicine)
| with 111 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1333224/nih-restricts-use-of-chimpanzees-in-labs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]vikingpower writes "The U.S. National Institutes of Health on Thursday
[1]suspended all new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on
chimpanzees and accepted the first uniform criteria for assessing the
necessity of such research ([2]full report here). Those guidelines
require that the research be necessary for human health, and that there
be no other way to accomplish it. A San Francisco Chronicle article
points out [3]why chimpanzees are so often used for medical research, as
they are evolutionarily the [4]closest to human beings. One may wonder if
Europe and Asia are to follow the U.S.?"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1333224/nih-restricts-use-of-chimpanzees-in-labs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://magnaliberatioatgmail.com/
1. http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2011/od-15.htm
2. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13257&page=R1
3. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/15/MNRC1MD6HJ.DTL
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee#Animal_research
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| The Future of Battle Tech
| from the i-wouldn't-bet-the-farm-on-lightsabers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @13:25 (The Military)
| with 111 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1820202/the-future-of-battle-tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid tips a story about [0]research into futuristic
military technology currently being funded by DARPA. The Disc-Rotor
Compound Helicopter 'is propelled by rotor blades that extend from a
central disc, letting it take off and land like a helicopter. But those
blades can also retract into the disc, minimizing drag and letting the
Disc-Rotor fly like a plane, powered by engines beneath each wing.' The
Vulture program aims to keep a plane in the sky for five years or more,
and 'LANdroids' are pocket-sized robots which soldiers can scatter around
urban areas to seed a communications network. FastRunner is a 'two-legged
robot that can cover a moderately rough terrain as fast as the best human
sprinters.' The article mentions the [1]flying humvees we've discussed in
the past, as well as projects for 'smart' binoculars and a method for
recycling space junk.
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Links:
0. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/15/tech/innovation/darpa-future-war/index.html
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/1947211/pentagon-selects-companies-to-build-flying-humvees
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| Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House
| from the do-you-take-requests dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @17:48 (Network)
| with 86 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2211244/technical-details-behind-the-lan-party-optimized-house?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter [0]Temporal writes "Yesterday, Slashdot [1]reported on my
LAN-party optimized house. But, lacking from the internet at that time
were key technical details: How do I boot 12 machines off a single shared
disk? What software do I use? What does my network infrastructure look
like? Why do I have such terrible furniture? Is that Gabe Newell on the
couch? The answer is [2]a combination of Linux, PXE boot, gPXE,
NBD/iSCSI, and LVM snapshots running on generic hardware over generic
gigabit ethernet. I have even had several successful LAN parties with a
pure-Linux setup, using WINE."
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Links:
0. https://plus.google.com/118187272963262049674
1. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/1442200/google-engineer-builds-ultimate-lan-party-house
2. http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-house-technical-design-and.html
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| How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS
| from the save-the-day dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 16, @08:05 (HP)
| with 75 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/047226/how-hp-and-open-source-can-save-webos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "If HP wants a future for struggling WebOS, [1]it must
invest in the platform, not abandon it, writes Fatal Exception's Neil
McAllister. 'It seems HP may only be truly committed to the platform if
it can offload the cost of developing and maintaining it. Yet if that's
what HP hopes to achieve by opening the WebOS source, it's bound to be
disappointed.' Instead, HP should dedicate its own developer resources
and 'release as much code as possible under an Apache, BSD, or similarly
permissive license. Dual licensing under the GPL might leave HP with more
opportunities to monetize the platform, but it won't garner as much
interest from hardware makers, who are what WebOS needs most.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/how-hp-and-open-source-can-save-webos-181782
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| Nightingale Media Player Preview Released
| from the free-video dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 15, @19:31 (Media)
| with 72 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/234255/nightingale-media-player-preview-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]ilikenwf writes "You may or may not
remember the Mozilla-based [1]Songbird media player, which [2]dropped
official Linux support in April, 2010. Since then, the [3]Nightingale
community fork has waxed and waned in terms of membership and progress,
but thanks to having a completely new dev team has today produced [4]a
preview build based on Songbird 1.8.1. The team promises a release of a
Songbird trunk based build later this year, with fixes and an upgrade to
Gecko 6. Plans to support Linux, Windows, and Mac are in the works, with
the preview builds being available only for Linux and Windows at the
moment. Aside from trying to pull in refugees from the Songbird
community, Nightingale wants more developers to aid in fixing dropped and
broken features from Songbird ��� and to add new ones."
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Links:
0. mailto:parwok@gmail.com
1. http://getsongbird.com/
2. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/04/1244244/songbird-drops-linux-support
3. http://getnightingale.com/
4. http://blog.getnightingale.com/2011/12/15/nightingale-1-8-preview-release/
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| Judge Dismisses Twitter Stalking Case
| from the avert-thine-eyes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @10:35 (Twitter)
| with 50 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1432223/judge-dismisses-twitter-stalking-case?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Saying that Twitter and blogs are today's
equivalent of a bulletin board that one is free to disregard (as compared
to e-mails or phone calls directed to a victim), Maryland Judge Roger
Titus on Thursday dismissed a criminal case against a person who was
[1]charged with stalking a religious leader on Twitter."
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/233671/twitter-stalking-case-dismissed-maryland-judge
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| New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates
| from the new-model-new-flaws dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @17:08 (Network)
| with 48 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/227225/new-standard-for-issuance-of-ssltls-certificates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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wiredmikey writes "In light of the many security breaches and
[0]incidents that have undermined the faith the IT industry has in
Certificate Authorities (CAs) and their wares, the CA/Browser Forum, an
organization of leading CAs and other software vendors, has released the
'Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of
Publicly-Trusted Certificates,' [1]an industry-wide baseline standard for
the operation of CAs issuing SSL/TLS digital certificates natively
trusted by the browser. The CA/Browser Forum is requesting Web browser
and operating system vendors adopt [2]the requirements (PDF) as part of
their conditions to distribute CA root certificates in their software.
According to the forum, the Baseline Requirements are based on best
practices from across the SSL/TLS sector and touch on a number of
subjects, such as the verification of identity, certificate content and
profiles, CA security and revocation mechanisms. The requirements become
effective July 1, 2012, and will continue to evolve to address new risks
and threats."
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Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/0720218/dutch-government-revokes-diginotar-certificates
1. http://www.securityweek.com/ca-industry-group-creates-new-standard-issuance-ssltls-certificates
2. http://cabforum.org/Baseline_Requirements_V1.pdf
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| Challenges of Setting Up a Security Conference
| from the herding-cats dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 16, @04:14 (Businesses)
| with 29 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/0355235/challenges-of-setting-up-a-security-conference?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "The founder of the SecurityByte conference [0]talks about
his motivations for organizing such an event in his native country and
what he hopes it will achieve. He shares knowledge regarding the
differences between the organization processes involved when setting up
this type of event in India as opposed to North America, which he says
have a lot to do with the fact that there is lack of awareness about
security in India, and that the majority of such events held there are
mostly vendor-driven and free for visitors."
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Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1660
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| FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner
| from the uncle-sam-wants-his-own-app-store dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, @18:29 (Government)
| with 10 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2242224/fcc-pays-100k-to-open-source-apps-challenge-winner?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "The challenge: develop useful, localized [1]open
source apps that make local public information more personalized and
usable. With that idea as the backdrop, the Federal Communications
Commission and the Knight Foundation today awarded Code for America
developer Ryan Resella the [2]$30,000 Apps for Communities Challenge
grand prize. [3]Resella won for his YAKB.us app, a real time bus
notification system for bus riders without a smartphone. Rasella
developed an app that uses voice and SMS to deliver arrival times in
English and Spanish."
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fcc-doles-out-100k-open-source-community-apps-challenge-winners
2. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/15/opening-local-data-prize-inspired-apps
3. http://appsforcommunities.challenge.gov/
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