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Sunday, December 18, 2011

[Slashdot] Stories for 2011-12-18

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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast

* Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity?

* Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children

* Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot

* DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options

* YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video

* Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... To Texas

* How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?

* No SOPA Vote Until 2012

* PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi

* Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay

* Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output

* Google Rolls Out Official Android 4.0 ICS Update

* Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored

* Smallest Known Black Hole Found

* Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking


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| GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast
| from the taking-great-liberties dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @13:38 (GNU is Not Unix)
| with 524 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1735253/gpl-copyleft-use-declining-fast?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Use of the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL set of licenses is
[1]declining at an accelerating rate, according to new [2]analysis by the
451 Group's Matthew Aslett. In fact, the 451 Group projects that GPL
usage will hit 50% by September 2012. Instead, developers are licensing
projects under permissive licenses such as the MIT, Apache (ASL), BSD,
and Ms-PL. The shift started in 2007 and has been gathering momentum ever
since. Blogger Brian Proffitt posits that 'the creation of the GPLv3 and
the sometimes contentious discussion that led up to it' may be partly
responsible for the move away from the GPL."

Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1735253/gpl-copyleft-use-declining-fast?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/233753/gpl-copyleft-use-declining-faster-ever
2. http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2011/12/15/on-the-continuing-decline-of-the-gpl/

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| Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity?
| from the cato-institute-of-course dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @12:35 (Christmas Cheer)
| with 403 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1719204/ask-slashdot-most-efficient-worthwhile-charity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter [0]yanom writes "I'm thinking about making a holiday
donation to a charity, but I'm not sure where to give it. I've looked at
organizations such as the Red Cross and Village Reach that promote
disaster relief and health in the developing world. I want my money to
have the biggest possible impact, so where should I send it?"

Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1719204/ask-slashdot-most-efficient-worthwhile-charity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:yanom@rocketmail.com

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| Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children
| from the being-alive-considered-harmful dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @08:27 (Security)
| with 246 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/0018234/rare-earth-magnets-pose-threat-to-children?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "Many of today's toys contain rare-earth
magnets which are much more powerful than the magnets of yesteryear and
the magnets pose a serious threat to children when more than one is
ingested because as the magnets attract one another they can cause a
[1]range of serious injuries, including holes through internal organs,
blood poisoning and death (PDF). Braden Eberle, 4, swallowed two tiny
magnets from his older brother's construction kit on two successive days
last spring and his mother's first reaction was that the magnet would
pass through her son's system without a problem. "People swallow pennies
of the same size every day," said Jill Eberle. "They're smaller than an
eraser." But next morning, with Braden still in pain, the family's doctor
told them to go straight to the emergency room where an X-ray revealed
two magnets were stuck together. "They were attracted to each other with
the wall of each segment they were in stuck together," said Dr. Sanjeev
Dutta, the pediatric surgeon at Good Samaritan Hospital who would operate
on Braden later that day. "[2]Because they were so powerful, the wall of
the intestine was getting squeezed, squeezed, squeezed, and then it just
necrosed, or kind of rotted away, and created a hole between the two."
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says at least [3]33
children have been injured from ingesting magnets (PDF) with a 20
month-old dying, and at least 19 other children requiring surgery."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/0018234/rare-earth-magnets-pose-threat-to-children?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2011/12/01/SF15800
2. http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1&id=612352
3. http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/magnet.pdf

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| Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot
| from the ooh-shiny dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @18:52 (Chrome)
| with 237 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/2351233/chrome-15-overtakes-ie-8-for-top-browser-spot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "If you're reading this on Chrome, you're part
of a [0]wave that has ditched Internet Explorer or Firefox and helped
vault Google's browser to the top Web browser spot worldwide." Are you
reading this on Chrome? (I'm using Chromium right now, but that's pretty
close.)

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/2351233/chrome-15-overtakes-ie-8-for-top-browser-spot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/16/9493722-chrome-15-overtakes-ie-8-for-top-browser-spot

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| DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options
| from the yes-we-have-fewer-bananas-today dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 16, @22:03 (Networking)
| with 199 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/0141213/dyndns-cuts-back-free-dns-options?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter LazyBoyWrangler writes "Just noticed the
'free' non-commercial service from DynDNS [0]has been deprecated. Not my
place to argue with their business model changes, but the home router
infrastructure out there has been built around the promise of free
dynamic DNS service. Most manufacturers offer DynDNS as their only
option. Removing the free service for non-commercial folks seems
disingenuous when they are the only option for many users." According to
the linked page, the free service is being drastically cut back for new
users (one free hostname, rather than five, and from a shorter list of
branded domains), but not ended entirely. Existing users, it says, will
see no changes "as long as you keep your hostnames active and up-to-date.
If you allow your account or hostnames to expire, you will have to select
from the new domains instead and will be limited to the one free
hostname."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/0141213/dyndns-cuts-back-free-dns-options?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.dyndns.com/services/upgrades/freevspro.html

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| YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video
| from the layered-agreements dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @11:36 (Google)
| with 183 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1613205/youtube-says-umg-had-no-right-to-take-down-megaupload-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Contrary to a [0]previous story, Google
played no part in the Megaupload takedown. From Wired: 'YouTube said
Friday that [1]Universal Music abused the video-sharing site's piracy
filters when it employed them to take down a controversial video of
celebrities and pop superstars singing and praising the notorious
file-sharing service Megaupload.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1613205/youtube-says-umg-had-no-right-to-take-down-megaupload-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1610229/google-deal-allegedly-lets-umg-wipe-youtube-videos-it-doesnt-own
1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/youtube-universal-megaupload/

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| Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... To Texas
| from the texas-visitor's-guide-free-on-request dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @16:33 (Businesses)
| with 183 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/2130248/apple-outsources-a5-chip-manufacture--to-texas?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lindan9 writes "In a 9 billion dollar investment, Apple's [0]A5 chips
will now be produced in Austin, TX, in a new Samsung factory that is
apparently 'the largest-ever foreign investment in Texas.'" According to
the article, the factory's been churning out chips since the beginning of
this month.

Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/2130248/apple-outsources-a5-chip-manufacture--to-texas?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/12/17/amazing-apple-actually-buys-something-made-in-america/

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| How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?
| from the vogonic-control dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @14:34 (Government)
| with 176 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1746218/how-does-the-cia-keep-its-it-staff-honest?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Tootech points out this story for anyone who's been curious about getting
that top-secret clearance and the promise of a cushy pension from the
CIA, as a reward for decades of blood-curdling, heart-pounding,
knuckle-whitening IT service: "[0]Be prepared to go through a lot of
scrutiny if you want to work in the Central Intelligence Agency's IT
department, says chief information officer Al Tarasiuk. And it doesn't
stop after you get your top secret clearance. 'Once you're in, there are
frequent reinvestigations, but it's just part of process here,' says
Tarasiuk, who also gets polygraphed regularly, though he won't be more
specific. For those senior IT managers who are the 'privileged users,'
meaning system administrators, 'there is certainly more scrutiny on you,'
Tarasiuk says. 'It's interesting: there's so much scrutiny that a normal
person might not want to put up with that. But it's part of the
mission.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1746218/how-does-the-cia-keep-its-it-staff-honest?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/260158/how_does_cia_keep_its_it_staff_honest_/?fp=4&fpid=16

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| No SOPA Vote Until 2012
| from the just-when-you-least-expect-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 16, @19:11 (Government)
| with 170 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/006235/no-sopa-vote-until-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "A victory, or a just a breather? The U.S. House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee has [1]postponed further debate on
the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) until after Congress'
holiday break. At the urging of some SOPA opponents, Representative Lamar
Smith, a Texas Republican and committee chairman, said Friday he will
consider a hearing or a classified briefing on the bill's impact on
cybersecurity." Update: 12/17 04:28 GMT by [2]T : "Or not," as an
anonymous reader comments below. "Despite the fact that Congress was
supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary
Committee has just [3]announced plans to come back to continue the markup
this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary.
But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly
as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further."

Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/006235/no-sopa-vote-until-2012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://jfruh.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/government/233859/house-committee-postpones-action-sopa
2. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
3. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111216/11102617108/sopa-markup-runs-out-time-likely-delayed-until-2012.shtml

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| PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi
| from the concept-that-can-be-turned-into-an-idea dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @09:32 (Linux)
| with 133 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1429221/pcmcia-computer-project-aims-even-higher-and-cheaper-than-raspberry-pi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]lkcl writes "An initiative by a [1]Community Interest Company
[0]Rhombus Tech aims to provide Software (Libre) Developers with a
[2]PCMCIA-sized modular computer that could end up in mass-volume
products. The reference design mass-volume pricing guide from the SoC
manufacturer, for a device with similar capability to the [3]Raspberry Pi,
is around $15: 40% less than the $25 Raspberry Pi but for a device with
an [4]ARM Cortex A8 CPU 3x times faster than the 700mhz ARM11 used in the
Raspberry Pi. GPL Kernel source code is [5]available. A page for
[6]community ideas for motherboard designs has also been created. The
overall goal is to bring more mass-volume products to market which
Software (Libre) Developers have actually been involved in, reversing the
trend of endemic [7]GPL violations surrounding ARM-based mass-produced
hardware. The [8]Preorder pledge registration is now open (account
creation required)." Of course, the Raspberry Pi is not only only much
further along, but has recently announced an expansion module (the
[9]Gertboard).

Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1429221/pcmcia-computer-project-aims-even-higher-and-cheaper-than-raspberry-pi?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://rhombus-tech.net/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_interest_company
2. http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/PCMCIA
3. http://www.raspberrypi.org/
4. http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/
5. http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/kernel_compile/
6. http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/
7. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=38335908&sid=2568310&tid=3807
8. http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/orders/
9. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411

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| Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay
| from the new-links-will-sprout-in-brussels dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @03:54 (Censorship)
| with 129 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/000227/belgium-anti-piracy-group-expands-attack-on-access-to-the-pirate-bay?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bs0d3 writes "The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF), has been
threatening ISPs into [0]expanding their blockade of thepiratebay.
Recently they have been sending threatening letters to various other ISPs
which were not involved with the original judgment to block thepiratebay.
The letter 'kindly requests' that all ISPs voluntarily block
thepiratebay, or BAF will bring legal action against them. The ISP
[1]BASE has succumbed to these legal threats. Also, many of the same
Belgian ISPs have taken it one step further and also blocked the DNS for
[2]depiraatbaai.be. depiraatbaai.be was setup by thepiratebay as an
alternative domain which directs users to the piratebay's servers to
circumvent DNS censorship. For those who can't wait for The Pirate Bay to
set up new alternative domains, a full working mirror of the site still
exists at [3]malaysiabay.org, which was originally set up to circumvent
the [4]piratebay block in Malaysia."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/000227/belgium-anti-piracy-group-expands-attack-on-access-to-the-pirate-bay?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-12-16d/Belgium_Blocks_The_Pirate_Bay.html
1. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://nurpa.be/files/BASE-freedom-of-censorship_fr&usg=ALkJrhhHsCiQ96vf7mPC5yNFlBjb15af8w#base-dns
2. http://depiraatbaai.be/
3. http://malaysiabay.org/
4. http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-10-13c/The_Pirate_Bay_Gets_Pirated.html

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| Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output
| from the hot-photon-on-plastic-action dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @15:30 (Science)
| with 95 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/189225/innovative-use-of-plastics-could-cheaply-double-solar-cell-output?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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doug141 writes "In standard solar cells, much energy is lost (as heat)
from photons mismatched to the capability of silicon to capture them. A
new technique [0]uses a pentacene layer to down-convert each hot
(un-captureable) electron to two electrons that can be captured by
standard silicon cells." You can read more at the University of Texas
[1]research group's web page.

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/189225/innovative-use-of-plastics-could-cheaply-double-solar-cell-output?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-breakthrough-double-solar-energy-output-20111216,0,3897047.story
1. http://zhu.cm.utexas.edu/

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| Google Rolls Out Official Android 4.0 ICS Update
| from the it's-melting-everywhere dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @00:57 (Android)
| with 80 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/0435209/google-rolls-out-official-android-40-ics-update?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dell623 writes "Google is [0]rolling out an OTA upgrade to Ice Cream
Sandwich for the Nexus S. GSM versions can already be [1]updated
manually. An [2]early review is largely positive and comments on the
significant visual and performance improvements. The Nexus S upgrade
allows for a direct comparison against Gingerbread on the same hardware,
and the likely improvement in current phones that will receive the
upgrade."

Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/0435209/google-rolls-out-official-android-40-ics-update?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. https://twitter.com/#!/googlenexus/statuses/147783081426817024
1. http://www.androidcentral.com/how-manually-update-your-gsm-nexus-s-ice-cream-sandwich
2. http://colourmeamused.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/nexus-s-ice-cream-sandwich-review/

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| Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored
| from the very-small-submarines dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @06:50 (Intel)
| with 76 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/015247/self-contained-pc-liquid-coolers-explored?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]MojoKid writes "Over the last few years an increasing number of liquid
coolers have been positioned as high-end alternatives to traditional
heatsink and fan combinations. This has been particularly true in the
boutique and high-end PC market, where a number of manufacturers now
offer liquid coolers in one form or another. These kits are a far cry
from the water coolers enthusiasts have been building for years. DIY
water coolers typically involve separate reservoirs and external pumps.
The [1]systems tested here, including Intel's OEM cooler that was
released with their [2]Sandy Bridge-E CPU, contain significantly less
fluid and use small pumps directly integrated into the cooling block as a
self-contained solution. Integrated all-in-one kits may not offer the
theoretical performance of a high-end home-built system, but they're
vastly easier to install and require virtually no maintenance. The
tradeoffs are more than fair, provided that the coolers perform as
advertised."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/015247/self-contained-pc-liquid-coolers-explored?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Liquid-Cooler-Lineup-Corsairs-H80-H100-Reviewed/
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/14/1210238/intel-launches-sandy-bridge-e-series-processors

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| Smallest Known Black Hole Found
| from the minor-suckage dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @10:40 (NASA)
| with 61 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1540201/smallest-known-black-hole-found?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "Adding to the recent black hole discoveries of [0]gas
clouds and [1]a quasar accretion disc, Forbes is reporting on a recent
discovery by NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) on the [2]smallest
known black hole. From the article: 'If the astronomers' calculations are
correct, this black hole is located about 16,000 to 56,000 light years
away from Earth (a more precise distance hasn't yet been determined). The
black hole itself is only about three times the mass of the Sun, which
means that the original star was just barely big enough to form a black
hole.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/1540201/smallest-known-black-hole-found?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/15/0051210/astronomers-find-gas-cloud-about-to-fall-into-black-hole
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/04/2021228/hubble-directly-images-disc-around-a-black-hole
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/12/17/nasa-satellite-may-have-found-the-smallest-known-black-hole/

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| Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking
| from the why-not-just-include-a-decoder-ring dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday December 17, @17:40 (Cellphones)
| with 57 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/2238229/spectrum-fragmentation-means-pricier-mobile-networking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "The plethora of spectrum bands used for LTE [0]will
result in more expensive devices, and also make the ability to roam
globally using the technology less likely, according to industry
organization GSM Association's research arm. Wireless Intelligence
predicts there will be 38 different spectrum frequency combinations used
in LTE deployments by 2015, thanks to ongoing spectrum auctions, license
renewals and reallocation initiatives across a wide range of frequency
bands. The number of combinations means economies of scale won't be as
good and prices won't come down as much as they could if fewer spectrum
bands were used as volumes increase, Joss Gillet, a senior analyst for
Wireless Intelligence."

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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/17/2238229/spectrum-fragmentation-means-pricier-mobile-networking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/121611-report-spectrum-fragmentation-will-result-254162.html


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EUR/USD Breached 1.3, Dollar Index Broke 80 as European Debt Crisis Weighed on Sentiments

Euro weakened broadly last week on delayed reaction to the the EU summit. Successful bond auctions in Spain and Italy halted the decline after EUR/USD breached 1.3 level briefly. But the common currency remained weak on fear of sovereign rating downgrades. Towards the end of the week, Moody's lowered Belgium's credit rating by two notches from Aa1 to Aa3, with a negative outlook. Fitch lowered the outlook of France's AAA rating to negative and put Spain, Italy, Belgium, Slovenia, Ireland and Cyprus on review. S&P is yet to act despite issuing a warning before the EU summit. SNB's lack of action on rating the EUR/CHF floor sent the cross back from 1.24 to 1.22 and exerted some pressure on Euro too. Euro will likely remain pressured in thin holiday trading this week.

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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."

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Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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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?"

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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."

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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."

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Links:
0. http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/news/society/czech-census-shows-jump-%E2%80%98moravians%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-and-jedi-knights

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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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| 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."

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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."

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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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Links:
0. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/methane-discovery-stokes-new-global-warming-fears-shock-as-retreat-of-arctic-releases-greenhouse-gas-6276278.html

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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?"

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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.

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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.?"

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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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