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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold
* EMC Co-Founder Commits Suicide
* Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy
* Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping
* Swarms of Solar-Powered Microbots On the Way
* Opera 10.0 Released
* EBay Sells Skype To Marc Andreessen
* Tetris Improves Your Brain
* Sony To Put Chrome On Laptops
* IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control
* Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control
* Augmented Reality In a Contact Lens
* Tour Companies Battle Over Trademarked Duck Noises
* Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant
* Collaborative Filtering and the Rise of Ensembles
* iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest
* How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You?
* GMail Experiences Serious Outage
* Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin
* Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply
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| Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold |
| from the not-a-growth-industry dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 31, @21:21 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/2233246/Internets-First-Registered-Domain-Name-Sol|
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[0]MojoKid writes "Believe it or not, it wasn't internet.com or dot.com
that was acquired when the Internet was young. Instead, it was the
somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was
the first [1]to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to
its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to
run the Lisp programming language. XF.com Investments, which is a
Missouri-based Internet investments firm, has managed to secure the
domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO
was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to
say why this domain name was the first registered back on March 15, 1985,
but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has
been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen
the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and
thousands more are being added each and every day."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/31/2233246
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Internets-First-Registered-URL-Is-Finally-Sold-But-For-How-Much/
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| EMC Co-Founder Commits Suicide |
| from the going-out-on-my-terms dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 31, @23:33 (News) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/0025245/EMC-Co-Founder-Commits-Suicide |
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The Register is reporting that EMC co-founder Richard Egan has
[0]committed suicide. The article has an interesting look back at some of
his accomplishments. "Egan had an amazing life, encompassing involvement
in the Apollo space program, the US Marines, starting and building the
most successful storage company on the planet, and becoming the US
ambassador to Ireland. Finally, aged 73 and facing a lingering death, he
ended the battle decisively and on his terms. He was never a shrinking
violet."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/0025245
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/30/richard_egan_obituary/
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| Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy |
| from the just-try-harder dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 01, @00:40 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/0140218/Making-Babies-In-Space-May-Not-Be-Easy |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Studies of reproduction in space have previously
been carried out with sea urchins, fish, amphibians and birds, but
Brandon Keim writes in Wired that Japanese biologists have discovered
that although mammalian fertilization may take place normally in space,
as mouse embryos develop in microgravity their [1]cells have trouble
dividing and maturing. The researchers artificially fertilized mouse eggs
with sperm that had been stored inside a [2]three-dimensional clinostat,
a machine that mimics weightlessness by rotating objects in such a way
that the effects of gravity are spread in every direction. Some embryos
were ultimately implanted in female mice and survived to a healthy birth,
but at lower numbers than a regular-gravity control group. Part of the
difference could be the result of performing tricky procedures on
sensitive cells, but the researchers suspect they also reflect the effect
of a low-gravity environment on cellular processes that evolved for
Earth-specific physics. '"These results suggest for the first time that
fertilization can occur normally under G environment in a mammal, but
normal preimplantation embryo development might require 1G," concludes
the report. "Sustaining life beyond Earth either on space stations or on
other planets will require a clear understanding of [3]how the space
environment affects key phases of mammalian reproduction."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/0140218
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/spacebabies/
2. http://www.plosone.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006753&imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006753.g001
3. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006753
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| Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping |
| from the or-just-sneakier-options dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 01, @03:27 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/0223225/Drop-in-P2P-Traffic-Attributed-To-Traffic-|
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An anonymous reader writes "A new report based on data from 100 US and
European ISPs claims P2P traffic has [0]dropped to around 20% of all
Internet traffic. This is down from the 40% [1]two years ago (also
reported by the same company which sells subscriber traffic management
equipment to ISPs). The report goes on to say the drop is likely due to
continued, widespread ISP P2P shaping: 'In fact, the P2P daily trend is
pretty much completely inverted from daily traffic. In other words, P2P
reaches its low at 4pm when web and overall Internet traffic approaches
its peak ... trend is highly suggestive of either persistent congestion
or, more likely, evidence of widespread provider manipulation of P2P
traffic rates.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/0223225
Links:
0. http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/08/the-internet-after-dark/
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/0446240&tid=94
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| Swarms of Solar-Powered Microbots On the Way |
| from the time-to-upgrade-the-fly-swatter dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 01, @07:14 (Robotics) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/0228203/Swarms-of-Solar-Powered-Microbots-On-t|
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[0]Mike writes to tell us that Inhabitat has an interesting article,
complete with some pretty pictures, about a new [1]solar-powered swarm
robot that could be used to collect data and aid in surveillance. "These
mini-robots are quite revolutionary, considering that they contain all
that's necessary to collect data and relay it back using one single
circuit board. In the past single-chip robots have presented significant
design and manufacturing challenges due in part to the use of solder as
an adhesive. These new microbots use conductive adhesive to attach the
components to a double-sided flexible printed circuit board using surface
mount technology. The circuit is then folded into thirds and wrapped
around the ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit). On top, a
solar cell generates power for the robot and delivers 3.6 V to the unit,
which is enough for it to walk. Locomotion is achieved via three
vibrating legs, while a fourth horizontal vibrating leg is used as a
touch sensor."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/0228203
Links:
0. http://www.inhabitat.com/
1. http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/31/swarms-of-solar-powered-microbots-may-revolutionize-data-gathering/
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| Opera 10.0 Released |
| from the making-a-grab-for-two-percent dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @08:19 (Software) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1210239/Opera-100-Released |
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neonsignal writes "[0]Opera 10 has been released. It now supports rich
text email, the 'turbo' Opera proxy server feature, some HTML 5 support,
XML 'pretty printing,' extra skinning features, and a 100/100 score in
the Acid3 test. There has been no official announcement as yet."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1210239
Links:
0. http://deb.opera.com/opera/pool/non-free/o/opera/
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| EBay Sells Skype To Marc Andreessen |
| from the must-be-nice-to-have-that-bankroll dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @09:05 (Netscape) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1216226/EBay-Sells-Skype-To-Marc-Andreessen |
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[0]Julefrokost writes "Computerworld has a story about [1]eBay selling
Skype. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, along with a group of
investors, are reported to have paid $2 billion for Skype. According to
the New York Times, [2]Google was also a potential buyer. Also, the
original founders of Skype are said to have placed a bid, but Marc
Andreessen & Co was the highest bidder."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1216226
Links:
0. http://www.julefrokost.info/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137339/Report_eBay_to_sell_Skype_to_group_of_private_investors
2. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/ebay-is-said-to-have-deal-to-sell-skype/?scp=2&sq=skype&st=cse
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| Tetris Improves Your Brain |
| from the sing-the-music-honey dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @09:52 (Nintendo) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1243259/Tetris-Improves-Your-Brain |
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An anonymous reader writes "Playing Tetris [0]increases the density of
the cortex and improves the efficiency of some parts of the brain,
according to researchers investigating video games and other complex
spatial tasks." Unfortunately, storing a half million copies of the song
negates any practical functional gains beyond loading your trunk very
efficiently.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1243259
Links:
0. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-09/01/tetris-can-alter-the-structure-of-your-brain.aspx
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| Sony To Put Chrome On Laptops |
| from the what-happened-to-firefox dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @10:36 (Google) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1427225/Sony-To-Put-Chrome-On-Laptops |
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[0]consonant writes "FT is reporting that Google has [1]reached a deal
with Sony to ship Chrome on the Vaio line of PCs. Google confirmed that
Sony PCs carrying Chrome had started to go on sale and said it was in
talks for similar deals with other computer makers. It said the
arrangement was 'experimental' and part of wider efforts to boost
distribution, including a deal to make Chrome available to internet users
who download the RealPlayer software and the company's first use of
television advertising. While [2]mainstream media coverage and financial
details were very sparse, El Reg terms it a '[3]Microsoft-snubbing deal.'
Google also mentioned it was pushing for similar deals with other
vendors. Could this spell the beginning of the end for IE?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1427225
Links:
0. mailto:shrikant.n@gmail.com
1. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/89f80508-9663-11de-84d1-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=9a36c1aa-3016-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8231184.stm
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/sony_google_chrome_deal/
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| IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control |
| from the just-put-a-clock-in-something dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @11:18 (IBM) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1431215/IBM-Patents-Tweeting-Remote-Control |
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[0]Fluffeh writes "IBM has applied for a [1]patent on a network-enabled
smart remote control that [2]sends out a message to Twitter, Facebook or
a blog when you start watching a TV show." Hopefully this launches an
exciting patent landgrab of devices that are socially enabled. Your car
can tweet when you leave your garage. Your dishwasher can tweet when the
load is done. Your skillet can tweet when your eggs are burnt. And they
say innovation is dead.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1431215
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~Fluffeh
1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=5&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Facebook&OS=Facebook&RS=Facebook
2. http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/08/31/daily3.html?ana=from_rss
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| Military To Spend $42M To Build Advanced Network Control |
| from the thats-a-lot-of-green dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @12:00 (Networking) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1553243/Military-To-Spend-42M-To-Build-Advanced-Ne|
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[0]coondoggie writes "BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon
today, [1]got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network
technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure
prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or
classes of users, and automatically make quality-of-service decisions.
The advanced network technology is being developed by Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will include support for features
like 32 levels of network traffic prioritization that will let data with
a higher priority will be handled more expeditiously than traffic with a
lower priority."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1553243
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44878
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| Augmented Reality In a Contact Lens |
| from the lookit-them-wires-in-there dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @12:49 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1619248/Augmented-Reality-In-a-Contact-Lens |
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[0]Toe, The writes "Bionanotechnology researcher Babak A Parviz writes
about his research toward producing a computer [1]interface in a contact
lens. At the moment, they have only embedded a single LED, but they
foresee a much more complex interface such as detailed in Vernor Vinge's
[2]Rainbows End. Such lenses potentially could also read human
bio-information from the eye, providing medical information on the order
of what is now taken from blood tests, but on a continuous basis. An
example would be monitoring glucose levels for diabetics. The author
states that, 'All the basic technologies needed to build functional
contact lenses are in place,' and details what refinements and advances
will be necessary to bring this technology to reality."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1619248
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~Toe%2C+The/
1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
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| Tour Companies Battle Over Trademarked Duck Noises |
| from the totally-quackers dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 01, @13:15 (The Courts) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1654216/Tour-Companies-Battle-Over-Trademarked-Duc|
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Tour company Ride the Ducks is suing rival tour company Bay Quackers,
alleging that it holds [0]trademark rights to the sound made by tourists
using duck call devices, while on amphibious vehicle tours. San
Francisco-based Ride the Ducks holds a '[1]sound mark' on the noise. Very
few companies hold sound marks, but some of the more famous include: the
NBC chimes and the MGM lion. The company holds US Trademark No.
2,484,276, which protects a mark consisting of 'a quacking noise made by
tour guides and tour participants by use of duck call devices throughout
various portions of [guided amphibious vehicle] tours.' Reading this
makes my think that there is a room full of litigious monks somewhere,
just waiting for someone to try clapping with one hand.
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1654216
Links:
0. http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/08/tour-companies-battle-over-trademarked-duck-noises.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/us/03quack.html?_r=1
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| Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant |
| from the but-can-it-pop-popcorn dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 01, @14:03 (Power) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1656246/Japan-Plans-21B-Space-Power-Plant |
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[0]Mike writes "Japan has announced plans to send [1]a $21 billion solar
power generator into space that will be capable of producing one gigawatt
of energy, or enough to power 294,000 homes. The project recently
received support from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp, who are now
teaming up in the race to develop new technology within four years that
can beam electricity back to Earth without the use of cables. Japan hopes
to test a small solar satellite decked out with solar panels by the year
2015."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1656246
Links:
0. http://www.inhabitat.com/
1. http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/01/japan-plans-21-billion-solar-space-post-to-power-294000-homes/
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| Collaborative Filtering and the Rise of Ensembles |
| from the soon-there-will-be-symphonies dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 01, @14:49 (Programming) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1840211/Collaborative-Filtering-and-the-Rise|
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[0]igrigorik writes "First the Netflix challenge was won with the help of
ensemble techniques, and now the [1]GitHub challenge is over, and more
than half of the top entries are also based on [2]ensembles. Good
knowledge of statistics, psychology and algorithms is still crucial, but
the ensemble technique alone has the potential to make the collaborative
filtering space a lot more, well, collaborative! Here's a look at the
[3]basic theory behind ensembles, how they shaped the results of the
GitHub challenge, and how this pattern can be used in the future."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1840211
Links:
0. mailto:ilya@igvita.com
1. http://contest.github.com/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning_ensemble
3. http://www.igvita.com/2009/09/01/collaborative-filtering-with-ensembles/
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| iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest |
| from the cross-platform dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 01, @15:43 (Microsoft) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/1941202/iPhone-App-Wins-Microsoft-Campus-Program|
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imamac writes "[0]Startup Weekend was a 54-hour coding marathon held on
Microsoft's campus last weekend. It was designed to encourage the use of
MS programming technologies. However, the [1] winner of the contest was
an iPhone app: '"Awkward," whispered Startup Weekend organizer Clint
Nelsen into the microphone upon announcing the top vote getter.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/1941202
Links:
0. http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/Blogs/Microspark-BizSpark-Startup-of-the-Day/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=7764cd7b-cd2b-4b11-9e28-e6caea1181ff&ID=74
1. http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/08/iPhone_app_wins_top_honors_at_Microsoft_sponsored_event56282747.html
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| How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? |
| from the two-bits-buys-a-razor-blade dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 01, @16:36 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/2020255/How-Many-Bits-Does-It-Take-To-Kill-You |
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pegr writes "Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Reverse Engineer, XBox hacker, and
generally smart guy, [0]muses over the H1N1/swine flu virus as only a
reverse engineer can: 'I now know how to modify the virus sequence to
probably make it more deadly.' Not that he would, of course. bunnie has
consistently made the esoteric available to us mere mortals, and his
overview of the H1N1 virus is a fascinating read from a unique
perspective." (Seen today also at the top of [1]Schneier on Security.)
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/2020255
Links:
0. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353
1. http://www.schneier.com/blog/
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| GMail Experiences Serious Outage |
| from the works-here-never-mind dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 01, @17:22 (Communications) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/218209/GMail-Experiences-Serious-Outage |
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[0]JacobSteelsmith was one of many readers to note an ongoing problem
with Gmail: "As I type this, GMail is experiencing a major outage. The
[1]application status page says there is a problem with GMail affecting a
majority of its users. It states a resolution is expected within the next
1.2 hours (no, not a typo on my part). However, email can still be
accessed via POP or IMAP, but not, it appears, through an Android device
such as the G1." It's also affecting corporate users: Reader [2]David
Lechnyr writes "We run a hosted [3]Google Apps system and have been
receiving 502 Server Error responses for the past hour. The unusual thing
about this is that our Google phone support rep (which paid accounts get)
indicated that this outage is also affecting Google employees as well,
making it difficult to coordinate."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/218209
Links:
0. http://jacob.steelsmith.org/
1. http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&hl=en
2. mailto:david@lechnyr.com
3. http://www.google.com/a
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| Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin |
| from the wait-for-asperger's-defense dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 01, @18:17 (The Courts) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/2213255/Judge-Wont-Lower-5M-Bail-For-Jailed-SF-IT-A|
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[0]snydeq writes "San Francisco County Judge Charles Haines has [1]denied
Terry Childs' motion to reduce his $5 million bail, alluding to 'public
security concerns,' according to Richard Shikman, who is representing
Childs in court. The ruling comes in the wake of a recent decision to
[2]drop three of the four changes that have been levied against Childs,
who has spent the past 14 months in jail. The fourth charge ��� that Childs
violated a California statute regarding illegal denial of service for the
San Francisco FiberWAN ��� [3]has been called into question by those
[4]closely monitoring the case. As a point of comparison, the [5]San
Francisco Felony Bail Schedule lists a $1 million bail for the most
serious crimes, such as sexual assault of a child, aggravated arson, or
kidnapping for ransom. Prosecutors have argued that the bail is
appropriate because, if released, Childs could cause damage to San
Francisco's network."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/2213255
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/judge-wont-lower-5m-bail-sf-it-administrator-919
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/2249221/3-of-4-Charges-Against-Terry-Childs-Dropped?art_pos=1
3. http://www.infoworld.com/t/insider-threat/terry-childs-still-faces-one-charge-one-he-shouldnt-face-746?source=fssr
4. http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/terry-childs-admin-gone-rogue-708
5. http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/courts/bail_schedule.pdf
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| Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply |
| from the how-to-squelch-space-mercantilism? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 01, @19:12 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/235205/Space-Shuttle-To-Be-Replaced-By-SpaceX-F|
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[0]destinyland writes "Next year SpaceX [1]will perform resupply missions
for the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle is grounded,
as part of a $3.5 billion NASA resupply contract. 'The fledgling space
industry is reminiscent of the early days of the personal computer,'
notes one technology reporter, 'when a number of established vendors and
startups reversed-engineered Microsoft's DOS and manufactured PCs using
the Intel 8080 chip set. We're likely to see a similar industry shakeout
in the private space vehicle market segment in the coming decades.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/01/235205
Links:
0. http://www.destinyland.org/
1. http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/miscellaneous/are-spacex-and-tesla-motors-future-21st-century-transportation
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