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In this issue:
* Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface
* Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced
* Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool
* Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains
* US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates
* Exabit Transmission Speeds May Be Possible
* Sony Could Face Developer Exodus On PSN
* Is Process Killing the Software Industry?
* NASA Banned From Working With China
* Zeus Crimeware Kit Source Code Leaked
* Google Storage Is Now Available To All Developers
* Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business
* Do Geeks Make Better Adults?
* NASA Satellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid
* Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month
* Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You?
* Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip
* Book Review: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
* America's First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fueling Station
* Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication
* Mainstream Media Looks At Anonymous
* App To Keep ISPs Honest About Bandwidth Caps
* Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice
* Sailing the Titan Seas
* FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist
* How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff
* AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos
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| Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface
| from the put-your-hand-on-my-sensor dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 10, @20:10 (Canada)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/009245/Creating-a-Force-Field-Invisible-Touch-Interface?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Using infrared sensors like the ones on television
remote controls, Texas A&M University students presented an
[1]inexpensive multitouch system at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI)
conference in Vancouver. 'I like to consider it an optical force field;
it's like a picture frame where we shoot thousands of light beams across
and we can detect anything that intersects that frame,' said Jonathan
Moeller, a research assistant in the Interface Ecology Lab at Texas A&M
University. The frame is lined with 256 IR sensors, which are connected
to a computer. When ZeroTouch is mounted over a traditional computer
screen it turns the display into a multitouch surface. Taken one step
further, if the screen is suspended then a user could paint a virtual
canvas."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/009245/Creating-a-Force-Field-Invisible-Touch-Interface?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/386015/invisible_touch_interface_creates_multitouch_force_field_/
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| Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced
| from the hard-to-see-the-harm-really dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 10, @23:00 (Android)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0041250/Android-Honeycomb-Will-Not-Be-Open-Sourced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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At the ongoing [0]Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google today
officially announced the [1]next version of Android, named Ice Cream
Sandwich, as well as [2]Android 3.1, an "incremental platform release" of
Honeycomb. An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to understand the
landscape for developers, Andy Rubin was asked if, since Ice Cream
Sandwich would be open, Android 3.0 and/or 3.1 will be granted the same
courtesy. Rubin [3]answered definitively in the negative. [4]Honeycomb on
its own would not be open, because its phone functionality is very
broken. Ice Cream Sandwich will take all of the Honeycomb functionality
and open source it alongside code that is much more universally
friendly."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0041250/Android-Honeycomb-Will-Not-Be-Open-Sourced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/
1. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/05/google-announces-android-ice-cream-sandwich-will-merge-phone-and-tablet-oses.ars
2. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
3. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385161,00.asp
4. http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/from-io-2011-confirmed-honeycomb-source-will-never-exist-on-its-own-20110510/
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| Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool
| from the ok-now-conquer-the-world dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @00:08 (Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0324246/Unarchiver-Provides-LGPL-RARv3-Extraction-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Free software to support the RARv3 archive
format has been listed on the [0]FSF's High Priority Projects list for
some time now. We've always had ways to create and extract free archive
formats, using tools like GNU tar and Info-ZIP. The RARv3 format is
proprietary, so we don't want it to replace these tools, but it's not
uncommon to see it used for distributing multimedia files over the
Internet. That means the lack of free software to extract RARv3 files has
been sorely felt. We're happy to share the news that there's now a
[1]free software project to fill this gap, and we can mark this item as
done. [2]The Unarchiver is a small collection of software written by Dag
Ågren."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0324246/Unarchiver-Provides-LGPL-RARv3-Extraction-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
1. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction
2. http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/
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| Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains
| from the mind-the-gap dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @02:04 (Japan)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/10/239241/Japanese-Researchers-Test-Flying-Trains?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "As an alternative to maglev trains, Japanese
researchers are working on ground-effect vehicles. A ground-effect
vehicle takes advantage of fast-moving air and uses some stubby little
wings to fly just above the ground, like a maglev without the mag. This
is a tricky thing to do, since you have to control the vehicle more like
an airplane than a train: you have to deal with pitch, roll, and yaw and
not just the throttle. A Japanese research group has built a [0]robotic
prototype of a free flying ground-effect vehicle that they're using to
test an autonomous three axis stabilization system."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/10/239241/Japanese-Researchers-Test-Flying-Trains?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/ground-effect-robot-could-be-key-to-future-high-speed-trains
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| US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates
| from the your-tax-dollars-at-play dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 11, @03:28 (The Military)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0442258/US-Navy-Creates-MMO-To-Fight-Somali-Pirates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dotarray writes "Ever wanted to fight Somali pirates without leaving the
safety of your computer? Well, believe it or not, [0]the United States
Navy could use your help. [1]MMOWGLI is a new video game project (that's
Massive Multiplayer Online WarGame Leveraging the Internet, by the way)
that is being used to [2]crowdsource ideas on how to fight off maritime
terrorists and hopefully secure the Horn of Africa."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/05/10/u-s-navy-creates-mmo-to-fight-somali-pirates/
1. http://mmowgli.nps.edu/mmowgli
2. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:zi0_kMmbiJgJ:https://www.neco.navy.mil/upload/N66604/N6660410R0092GFI_MMOWGLI_TBAA_100092.pdf+MMOWGLI&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjXEfJEQ74l5nV4RadARhwe3VtZepSHPsIZwchuOC64x3Z99Axv-ssBTGwCAtPn298Z8OfVjM-M78zKlrcq4GmI1TREvPyqVzfIx2fHtIF7-Q1MVnbz04b8gfTpPrFh7cQH6ye8&sig=AHIEtbT4EW-ErUweRfzm6cHkbwd1YMKO2Q&pli=1
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| Exabit Transmission Speeds May Be Possible
| from the increasing-oscillations dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @05:05 (Network)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0227227/Exabit-Transmission-Speeds-May-Be-Possible?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "Scientists at UC Berkeley were able to shrink a
graphene optical modulator down to 25 square microns in size (small
enough to include in silicon circuitry) and were able to modulate it at a
speed of 1GHz. The researchers say that [0]modulation speeds of up to
500GHz are theoretically possible. According to the research, due to the
high modulation speeds, a graphene modulator can transmit a huge amount
of data using spectral bandwidth that conventional modulators can only
dream of. Professor Xiang Zhang, in an attempt to boil his group's new
findings into consumer-speak, puts it this way: 'If graphene modulators
can actually operate at 500GHz, we could soon see networks that are
capable of petabit or exabit transmission speeds, rather than megabits
and gigabits.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0227227/Exabit-Transmission-Speeds-May-Be-Possible?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385134,00.asp
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| Sony Could Face Developer Exodus On PSN
| from the or-at-least-some-whining dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 11, @06:23 (Sony)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0423222/Sony-Could-Face-Developer-Exodus-On-PSN?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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donniebaseball23 writes "As the PlayStation Network outage continues,
developers are feeling the economic pinch. There's been no word from Sony
on whether they'll compensate companies who produce games for PSN, but
Capcom has already said it's [0]losing potentially 'millions' from the
downtime. Worse yet, developers who rely on PSN revenues may jump ship if
they aren't compensated, warns Dylan Cuthbert, creator of popular PSN
game PixelJunk. 'I have a feeling they [Sony] are thinking about doing
something [1]or they will lose developers, which of course is pretty bad
for them,' he said." While a major shift away from the PS3 is unlikely —
downtime or not, developers don't want to lock themselves out of such a
big piece of the market — it does have undeniable negative effects on
some companies. For example, Bethesda's FPS Brink, which focuses heavily
on multiplayer, launched without that capability for PS3 users. You can
bet Microsoft will use this outage as a selling point for exclusivity or
Xbox-first arrangements.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0423222/Sony-Could-Face-Developer-Exodus-On-PSN?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/playstation-network-outage-costing-capcom-hundreds-of-thousands/
1. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/playstation-network-pixeljunk-dev-warns-of-psn-developer-exodus-expects-update-in-a-week-or-two/
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| Is Process Killing the Software Industry?
| from the about-those-tps-reports dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @08:10 (Programming)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0358233/Is-Process-Killing-the-Software-Industry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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blackbearnh writes "We all know by now that Test Driven Development is a
best practice. And so is having 100% of your code reviewed. And 70% unit
test coverage. And keeping your CCN complexity numbers below 20. And
doing pre-sprint grooming of stories. And a hundred other industry 'best
practices' that in isolation seem like a great idea. But at the end of
the day, how much time does it leave for developers to be innovative and
creative? A piece on O'Reilly Radar argues that [0]excessive process in
software development is sucking the life out of passionate developers,
all in the name of making sure that 'good code' gets written. 'The
underlying feedback loop making this progressively worse is that
passionate programmers write great code, but process kills passion.
Disaffected programmers write poor code, and poor code makes management
add more process in an attempt to "make" their programmers write good
code. That just makes morale worse, and so on.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0358233/Is-Process-Killing-the-Software-Industry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/process-kills-developer-passion.html
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| NASA Banned From Working With China
| from the who-will-build-the-firewall dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @08:52 (China)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1249237/NASA-Banned-From-Working-With-China?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "In the wake of the Chinese cyber-threat and claims
of espionage, a clause included in the US spending bill approved by
Congress to avert a government shutdown a few weeks ago has prohibited
NASA from [1]coordinating any joint scientific activity with China. The
clause also extends to the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1249237/NASA-Banned-From-Working-With-China?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/denied-nasa-banned-from-working-with-china-110510.html
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| Zeus Crimeware Kit Source Code Leaked
| from the yeah-sorry-bout-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @09:35 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1326257/Zeus-Crimeware-Kit-Source-Code-Leaked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The [0]source code to the infamous Zeus crimeware
kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked
and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look.
Security researchers over the weekend noticed that files appearing to
contain the source code for the Zeus crimeware kit were [1]starting to
pop up on various forums frequented by attackers and cyber-criminals. The
Zeus exploit kit is perhaps the most well-known kit of its kind right
now, and has been used by a variety of attackers for numerous malware
campaigns and targeted attacks."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1326257/Zeus-Crimeware-Kit-Source-Code-Leaked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/zeus-source-code-leaked-051011
1. http://www.csis.dk/en/csis/blog/3229/
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| Google Storage Is Now Available To All Developers
| from the you-put-yer-bits-in-there dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @10:16 (Cloud)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/147226/Google-Storage-Is-Now-Available-To-All-Developers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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aabelro writes "Google has announced at I/O 2011 the [0]availability of
their Storage service to all developers without the need for an
invitation. [1]The service has been enhanced with OAuth 2.0 support,
simplified account management through the API Console, a new EU storage
region, and a new API version."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/147226/Google-Storage-Is-Now-Available-To-All-Developers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/Google-Storage-for-Developers
1. http://code.google.com/apis/storage/
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| Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business
| from the start-pointing-fingers dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @11:00 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1450208/Developer-Blames-Apple-For-Ruining-eBook-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A bookseller and app developer has blamed
Apple for writing its final chapter, claiming the [0]iPad maker had
pushed it out of business. 'Apple has made it [1]completely impossible
for anyone but Apple to make a profit selling contemporary ebooks on any
iOS device,' BeamItDown said. 'We bet everything on Apple and iOS and
then Apple killed us by changing the rules in the middle of the game.'
The company blamed Apple's decision to impose a 30% commission on books
sold through apps for the unhappy ending."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1450208/Developer-Blames-Apple-For-Ruining-eBook-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/367270/developer-blames-apple-for-ruining-ebook-business
1. https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx
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| Do Geeks Make Better Adults?
| from the well-not-you-exactly dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @11:42 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/153228/Do-Geeks-Make-Better-Adults?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mcgrew writes "What makes people unpopular in the hallways of high
school, mainly an unwillingness to conform, tends to [1]translate into
success as an adult. Robbins lists several companies—including
Yahoo!—that prioritize hiring quirky individuals who shun conventional
thinking. She also name-checks historical and current celebrities,
including director Steven Spielberg (who was taunted for being Jewish in
high school) and Lady Gaga (a self-described former theater 'freak'),
whose weirdness led to later fame. (Other now-validated former outsiders
she touts: Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Angelina
Jolie.)"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=92797
1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110510/us_yblog_thelookout/why-geeks-make-better-adults-than-the-in-crowd;_ylt=Apc6jiN2FWlLaGGaO2vcUV2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNwNWpzY2NiBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTA1MTAvd2h5LWdlZWtzLW1ha2UtYmV0dGVyLWFkdWx0cy10aGFuLXRoZS1pbi1jcm93ZARwb3MDMwRzZWMDeW5fbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHNsawN3aHlnZWVrc21ha2U-
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| NASA Satellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid
| from the shake-it-like-a-polaroid-picture dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @12:21 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1523214/NASA-Satellite-Snaps-First-Image-of-Target-Asteroid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "NASA today said that its Dawn spacecraft snapped
[1]the first image of the giant asteroid Vesta it [2]hopes to rendezvous
with in July. The asteroid is 530 kilometers in diameter, and appears as
a small, bright pearl against a background of stars. Vesta is known as a
protoplanet, because it is a large body that almost formed into a planet.
It's the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, NASA says."
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawn20110511.html
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-satellite-captures-first-image-target-as
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| Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month
| from the would-you-like-some-google-with-your-google? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @13:06 (Chrome)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/171218/Google-To-Offer-Chrome-OS-Notebooks-For-20month?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Hot on the heels of the [0]$25 ARM computer,
Google is to offer [1]a $20 per month package for students, which
includes a Chrome OS laptop (like the Cr-48) and an online component,
which will likely include a storage bump for a user's Google Docs, Gmail,
Picasa Web, and Google Music files. This would serve two purposes for
Google: first, Google will be able to expand its existing user base for
Chrome OS. For half the price of a typical cell phone contract, students
will be able to pick up a netbook with 3G connectivity. Second, Google
will be able to test the package offering publicly prior to eventually
adding an enterprise version for Google Apps users."
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Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/06/122233/A-25-PC-On-a-USB-Stick
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385181,00.asp
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| Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You?
| from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @13:44 (Privacy)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1735236/Is-Your-Electricity-Meter-Spying-On-You?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]lee1 writes "If you have a 'smart meter,' it is collecting data that
can reveal when you wake up, when you leave for work and come home, when
you go on vacation and when you take a shower. This data is commercially
valuable and, if sold to third parties, can lead to privacy invasion on a
massive scale. The California Public Utility Commission is reacting to
the gas and electric company's mass installation of these meters with
[1]new proposals for strong privacy protections."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. mailto:lee.lee-phillips@org
1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/california-proposes-strong-privacy-protections
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| Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip
| from the let's-get-small dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @14:23 (Communications)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1745213/Government-Funded-Atomic-Clock-On-a-Chip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Today most applications that require accurate
atomic clock readings — from sorting separately routed telecommunications
packets to timing simultaneous demolition charges — usually refer to
signals from global positioning systems (GPS). For applications where GPS
is unavailable, such as indoors, underground, undersea or on the
battlefield where electronic jamming is present, large, heavy, power
hungry hardware atomic clocks were needed. Now an [0]atomic
clock-on-a-chip is available that is the result of 10 years of
government-funded research and development. The chip is not cheap —
$1,500 — but it costs less than conventional atomic clocks and the price
is sure to go down as manufacturing gears up to meet demand from military
applications."
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Links:
0. http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Technology-For-Change/Smarter-Atomic-Clock-on-a-Chip-Debuts/
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| Book Review: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @15:03 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1249235/Book-Review-BackTrack-4-Assuring-Security-by-Penetration-Testing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]RickJWagner writes "Watch out, System Admins. The floodgates to
BlackHat Hackerdom are now open. Packt Publishing has just released
BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing, a how-to book
based on the freely available BackTrack 4 Linux distribution. The intent
of the book is to educate security consultants on the use of this
devastatingly complete Hacker's toolkit, and to provide sage words of
advice on how to conduct yourself as a penetration testing consultant. On
both counts, the authors do well." Keep reading for the rest of Rick's
review.
This story continues at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1249235/Book-Review-BackTrack-4-Assuring-Security-by-Penetration-Testing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Links:
0. http://www.rickwagner.blogspot.com/
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| America's First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fueling Station
| from the piping-in-the-gas dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @15:42 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1847245/Americas-First-Pipeline-Fed-Hydrogen-Fueling-Station?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hasanabbas1987 writes "Shell has opened [1]America's first pipe-lined
hydrogen fueling station in the town of Torrence in Southern California.
Shell wasn't alone in this project as Toyota also helped them in this
green deed, all of which was funded by the government. At the moment
other hydrogen stations around the US still depend upon trucks to supply
them with fuel. This marks a new era of green fueling and hopefully this
pipeline spreads to other stations. Many of the big car makers like
Toyota, Honda and Mercedes have indicated a mass market for hydrogen
powered cars by 2015."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1847245/Americas-First-Pipeline-Fed-Hydrogen-Fueling-Station?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:h.abbas1987@gmail.com
1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/us-first-hydrogen-fueling-station/
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| Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication
| from the dolittle-communications dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @15:52 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1525225/Translator-Puts-Us-Closer-To-Dolphin-Communication?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LordStormes sent in a link to an article about a new device that may
allow dolphins to finally thank us for all the fish. Denise Herzing,
founder of the Wild Dolphin Project and Thad Starner, an artificial
intelligence researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, have been working on a project called Cetacean Hearing and
Telemetry or CHAT. The pair hope that CHAT will allow them to "co-create"
a language with wild dolphins, [0]allowing the two species to communicate.
From the article: "Herzing and Starner will start testing the system on
wild Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the middle of this
year. At first, divers will play back one of eight 'words' coined by the
team to mean 'seaweed' or 'bow wave ride,' for example. The software will
listen to see if the dolphins mimic them. Once the system can recognize
these mimicked words, the idea is to use it to crack a much harder
problem: listening to natural dolphin sounds and pulling out salient
features that may be the 'fundamental units' of dolphin communication."
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Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028115.400-talk-with-a-dolphin-via-underwater-translation-machine.html
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| Mainstream Media Looks At Anonymous
| from the pay-no-attention-the-nerds-behind-the-curtain dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @16:20 (Security)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1942209/Mainstream-Media-Looks-At-Anonymous?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]ScuttleMonkey writes "In an uncharacteristically accurate writeup of
Anonymous, the Guardian has published a look at the assembled mob behind
the mask. A great place to send those unfamiliar with [1]who or what
Anonymous really is. From the article: 'This collective identity belongs
to no one in particular, but is at the disposal of anyone who knows its
rules and knows how to apply them. Anonymous, the collective identity, is
older than Anonymous, the hacktivist group – more to the point, I propose
that the hacktivist group can be understood as an application of
Anonymous, the collective identity.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1942209/Mainstream-Media-Looks-At-Anonymous?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:pmcgarry@perforce.com
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/11/anonymous-behind-the-mask
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| App To Keep ISPs Honest About Bandwidth Caps
| from the keeping-track-of-the-trackers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @17:00 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1959244/App-To-Keep-ISPs-Honest-About-Bandwidth-Caps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
alphadogg writes "A browser-based app developed by Georgia Tech
researchers is designed to help Internet users make better use of their
bandwidth – and to make sure ISPs are [0]holding up their end of the
bandwidth bargain. The Kermit app, which is being [1]shown off Wednesday
(PDF) at the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing in
Vancouver, emerges at a time when service providers are starting to place
bandwidth caps not just on wireless services, but on wireline services,
too. AT&T, for example, is putting such caps in place this month for its
DSL and U-verse customers. At least initially, such caps aren't expected
to affect all but the very heaviest bandwidth users."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1959244/App-To-Keep-ISPs-Honest-About-Bandwidth-Caps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051111-kermit-isps-gatech-bandwidth.html
1. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~marshini/files/kermit.pdf
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| Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice
| from the not-quite-yet dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @17:41 (Android)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2112245/Googles-Honeycomb-Source-Code-Release-Is-On-Ice?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "'Ice Cream Sandwich', that is. Apparently it's
source code delay week, as Google joins Apple in [1]delaying the release
of source code for open source licensed software. Except, unlike Apple,
which promptly [2]released the LGPL WebKit code in question Monday
afternoon, Google stated yesterday that it will not release the source
code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) until after the release of the next
version of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich). This is not necessarily news,
since Google said last month that source code would be [3]held for an
indeterminate time and released when it was ready. It's just that now
'indeterminate' has an actual date: post-launch of Ice Cream Sandwich.
The question, says blogger Brian Proffitt, is: 'How the heck can they do
this, given that Honeycomb is licensed under the Apache Software License
v2?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2112245/Googles-Honeycomb-Source-Code-Release-Is-On-Ice?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/164153/how-google-can-delay-android-source-code-releases
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/1552213/Apple-Delays-Release-of-LGPL-WebKit-Code
3. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/219221/Google-Delays-General-Release-of-Honeycomb-Source
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| Sailing the Titan Seas
| from the we're-gonna-need-a-better-boat dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @18:04 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2118226/Sailing-the-Titan-Seas?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gpronger writes "The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
(APL) has been awarded the opportunity to [0]explore the methane ocean on
Titan. Next year APL will be submitting a project plan to NASA, which
will be one of three submittals. If chosen, launch would be in 2016, with
arrival at Titan in 2023. The 'Titan Mare Explorer' or TiME would be the
first exploration of an extraterrestrial ocean with the craft landing and
floating on the ocean. The mission would be led by principal investigator
Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Lockheed
Martin in Denver would build the TiME capsule, with scientific
instruments provided by APL, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., and Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. This is part of NASA's
[1]Discovery Program and would be the next mission, funded and supported
by NASA."
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Links:
0. http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/110506.asp
1. http://discovery.nasa.gov/index.cfml
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| FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist
| from the passing-the-smell-test dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @18:24 (United States)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2156237/FCC-Commissioner-Leaves-To-Become-Lobbyist?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader writes "Meredith Attwell Baker, one of the FCC
Commissioners, is [0]leaving the FCC to become a lobbyist for Comcast-NBC,
just four months after approving their merger deal. She refused to put
any significant conditions on the merger, saying that the deal would
'bring exciting benefits to consumers that outweigh potential harms.'
Comcast has released an [1]official statement saying that, 'Meredith's
executive branch and business experience along with her exceptional
relationships in Washington bring Comcast and NBCUniversal the perfect
combination of skills.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2156237/FCC-Commissioner-Leaves-To-Become-Lobbyist?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-approving-comcastnbc-deal-fcc-commish-becomes-comcast-lobbyist.ars
1. http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=1082
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| How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff
| from the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @18:56 (Businesses)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2126242/How-WikiLeaks-Gags-Its-Own-Staff?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]robbyyy writes "The New Statesman has just revealed the extent of the
[1]legal eccentricity and paranoia that exists at the WikiLeaks
organization. The magazine published a leaked copy of the draconian and
extraordinary legal gag which WikiLeaks imposes on its own staff. Clause
5 of the [2]Confidentiality Agreement (PDF) imposes a penalty of
£12,000,000 (approximately $20,000,000) on anyone who breaches this legal
gag. Sounds like they don't trust their own staff."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2126242/How-WikiLeaks-Gags-Its-Own-Staff?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infogrok.com/
1. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/05/wikileaks-information-legal
2. http://images.newstatesman.com/wikileaks.pdf
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| AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos
| from the gory-details dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @19:35 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2258207/AP-Files-FOIA-Request-For-Bin-Laden-Photos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Atlantic reports that President Obama's
decision to withhold the visual evidence of Osama bin Laden's death has
created a fundamental disagreement between the White House and the
Associated Press, one of the largest journalism organizations in the
world, prompting the news organization to [1]file a Freedom of
Information Act request for the bin Laden photos. 'This information is
important for the historical record,' says Michael Oreskes, senior
managing editor at The Associated Press. 'That's our view.' AP's FOIA
request includes a reminder of the president's campaign pledge and a plea
to be more transparent than his predecessor. 'The Obama White House
pledged to be the most transparent government in US history,' writes the
AP, 'and to comply much more closely with the Freedom of Information Act
than the Bush administration did.' The AP isn't alone in wanting more
insight on the specifics of the raid. When it eventually surfaced that
bin Laden was not killed in a firefight, his wife wasn't used as a human
shield, there was no live footage of the event and the 'mansion' where he
lived was only worth between $250,000 and $480,000, many [2]became
skeptical of the White House's narrative. Other organizations that have
filed FOIAs include [3]Politico, Fox News, Judicial Watch and Citizens
United. Oreskes sympathizes with the president. 'This is obviously one of
his most difficult decisions and we understand that.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2258207/AP-Files-FOIA-Request-For-Bin-Laden-Photos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/associated-press-case-releasing-bin-laden-photo/37510/
2. http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/06/major-garrett-condemns-ham-handed-way-white-house-told-obl-mission-story/
3. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/look-whos-foiaing-bin-laden-death-photo/37493/
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* Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface
* Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced
* Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool
* Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains
* US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates
* Exabit Transmission Speeds May Be Possible
* Sony Could Face Developer Exodus On PSN
* Is Process Killing the Software Industry?
* NASA Banned From Working With China
* Zeus Crimeware Kit Source Code Leaked
* Google Storage Is Now Available To All Developers
* Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business
* Do Geeks Make Better Adults?
* NASA Satellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid
* Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month
* Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You?
* Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip
* Book Review: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
* America's First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fueling Station
* Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication
* Mainstream Media Looks At Anonymous
* App To Keep ISPs Honest About Bandwidth Caps
* Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice
* Sailing the Titan Seas
* FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist
* How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff
* AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos
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| Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface
| from the put-your-hand-on-my-sensor dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 10, @20:10 (Canada)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/009245/Creating-a-Force-Field-Invisible-Touch-Interface?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]angry tapir writes "Using infrared sensors like the ones on television
remote controls, Texas A&M University students presented an
[1]inexpensive multitouch system at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI)
conference in Vancouver. 'I like to consider it an optical force field;
it's like a picture frame where we shoot thousands of light beams across
and we can detect anything that intersects that frame,' said Jonathan
Moeller, a research assistant in the Interface Ecology Lab at Texas A&M
University. The frame is lined with 256 IR sensors, which are connected
to a computer. When ZeroTouch is mounted over a traditional computer
screen it turns the display into a multitouch surface. Taken one step
further, if the screen is suspended then a user could paint a virtual
canvas."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/009245/Creating-a-Force-Field-Invisible-Touch-Interface?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/386015/invisible_touch_interface_creates_multitouch_force_field_/
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| Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced
| from the hard-to-see-the-harm-really dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 10, @23:00 (Android)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0041250/Android-Honeycomb-Will-Not-Be-Open-Sourced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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At the ongoing [0]Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google today
officially announced the [1]next version of Android, named Ice Cream
Sandwich, as well as [2]Android 3.1, an "incremental platform release" of
Honeycomb. An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to understand the
landscape for developers, Andy Rubin was asked if, since Ice Cream
Sandwich would be open, Android 3.0 and/or 3.1 will be granted the same
courtesy. Rubin [3]answered definitively in the negative. [4]Honeycomb on
its own would not be open, because its phone functionality is very
broken. Ice Cream Sandwich will take all of the Honeycomb functionality
and open source it alongside code that is much more universally
friendly."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0041250/Android-Honeycomb-Will-Not-Be-Open-Sourced?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/
1. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/05/google-announces-android-ice-cream-sandwich-will-merge-phone-and-tablet-oses.ars
2. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
3. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385161,00.asp
4. http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/from-io-2011-confirmed-honeycomb-source-will-never-exist-on-its-own-20110510/
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| Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool
| from the ok-now-conquer-the-world dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @00:08 (Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0324246/Unarchiver-Provides-LGPL-RARv3-Extraction-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Free software to support the RARv3 archive
format has been listed on the [0]FSF's High Priority Projects list for
some time now. We've always had ways to create and extract free archive
formats, using tools like GNU tar and Info-ZIP. The RARv3 format is
proprietary, so we don't want it to replace these tools, but it's not
uncommon to see it used for distributing multimedia files over the
Internet. That means the lack of free software to extract RARv3 files has
been sorely felt. We're happy to share the news that there's now a
[1]free software project to fill this gap, and we can mark this item as
done. [2]The Unarchiver is a small collection of software written by Dag
Ågren."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0324246/Unarchiver-Provides-LGPL-RARv3-Extraction-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
1. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction
2. http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/
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| Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains
| from the mind-the-gap dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @02:04 (Japan)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/10/239241/Japanese-Researchers-Test-Flying-Trains?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader writes "As an alternative to maglev trains, Japanese
researchers are working on ground-effect vehicles. A ground-effect
vehicle takes advantage of fast-moving air and uses some stubby little
wings to fly just above the ground, like a maglev without the mag. This
is a tricky thing to do, since you have to control the vehicle more like
an airplane than a train: you have to deal with pitch, roll, and yaw and
not just the throttle. A Japanese research group has built a [0]robotic
prototype of a free flying ground-effect vehicle that they're using to
test an autonomous three axis stabilization system."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/10/239241/Japanese-Researchers-Test-Flying-Trains?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/ground-effect-robot-could-be-key-to-future-high-speed-trains
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| US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates
| from the your-tax-dollars-at-play dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 11, @03:28 (The Military)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0442258/US-Navy-Creates-MMO-To-Fight-Somali-Pirates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dotarray writes "Ever wanted to fight Somali pirates without leaving the
safety of your computer? Well, believe it or not, [0]the United States
Navy could use your help. [1]MMOWGLI is a new video game project (that's
Massive Multiplayer Online WarGame Leveraging the Internet, by the way)
that is being used to [2]crowdsource ideas on how to fight off maritime
terrorists and hopefully secure the Horn of Africa."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/05/10/u-s-navy-creates-mmo-to-fight-somali-pirates/
1. http://mmowgli.nps.edu/mmowgli
2. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:zi0_kMmbiJgJ:https://www.neco.navy.mil/upload/N66604/N6660410R0092GFI_MMOWGLI_TBAA_100092.pdf+MMOWGLI&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjXEfJEQ74l5nV4RadARhwe3VtZepSHPsIZwchuOC64x3Z99Axv-ssBTGwCAtPn298Z8OfVjM-M78zKlrcq4GmI1TREvPyqVzfIx2fHtIF7-Q1MVnbz04b8gfTpPrFh7cQH6ye8&sig=AHIEtbT4EW-ErUweRfzm6cHkbwd1YMKO2Q&pli=1
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| Exabit Transmission Speeds May Be Possible
| from the increasing-oscillations dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @05:05 (Network)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0227227/Exabit-Transmission-Speeds-May-Be-Possible?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
adeelarshad82 writes "Scientists at UC Berkeley were able to shrink a
graphene optical modulator down to 25 square microns in size (small
enough to include in silicon circuitry) and were able to modulate it at a
speed of 1GHz. The researchers say that [0]modulation speeds of up to
500GHz are theoretically possible. According to the research, due to the
high modulation speeds, a graphene modulator can transmit a huge amount
of data using spectral bandwidth that conventional modulators can only
dream of. Professor Xiang Zhang, in an attempt to boil his group's new
findings into consumer-speak, puts it this way: 'If graphene modulators
can actually operate at 500GHz, we could soon see networks that are
capable of petabit or exabit transmission speeds, rather than megabits
and gigabits.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0227227/Exabit-Transmission-Speeds-May-Be-Possible?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385134,00.asp
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| Sony Could Face Developer Exodus On PSN
| from the or-at-least-some-whining dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 11, @06:23 (Sony)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0423222/Sony-Could-Face-Developer-Exodus-On-PSN?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
donniebaseball23 writes "As the PlayStation Network outage continues,
developers are feeling the economic pinch. There's been no word from Sony
on whether they'll compensate companies who produce games for PSN, but
Capcom has already said it's [0]losing potentially 'millions' from the
downtime. Worse yet, developers who rely on PSN revenues may jump ship if
they aren't compensated, warns Dylan Cuthbert, creator of popular PSN
game PixelJunk. 'I have a feeling they [Sony] are thinking about doing
something [1]or they will lose developers, which of course is pretty bad
for them,' he said." While a major shift away from the PS3 is unlikely —
downtime or not, developers don't want to lock themselves out of such a
big piece of the market — it does have undeniable negative effects on
some companies. For example, Bethesda's FPS Brink, which focuses heavily
on multiplayer, launched without that capability for PS3 users. You can
bet Microsoft will use this outage as a selling point for exclusivity or
Xbox-first arrangements.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0423222/Sony-Could-Face-Developer-Exodus-On-PSN?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/playstation-network-outage-costing-capcom-hundreds-of-thousands/
1. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/playstation-network-pixeljunk-dev-warns-of-psn-developer-exodus-expects-update-in-a-week-or-two/
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| Is Process Killing the Software Industry?
| from the about-those-tps-reports dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday May 11, @08:10 (Programming)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0358233/Is-Process-Killing-the-Software-Industry?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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blackbearnh writes "We all know by now that Test Driven Development is a
best practice. And so is having 100% of your code reviewed. And 70% unit
test coverage. And keeping your CCN complexity numbers below 20. And
doing pre-sprint grooming of stories. And a hundred other industry 'best
practices' that in isolation seem like a great idea. But at the end of
the day, how much time does it leave for developers to be innovative and
creative? A piece on O'Reilly Radar argues that [0]excessive process in
software development is sucking the life out of passionate developers,
all in the name of making sure that 'good code' gets written. 'The
underlying feedback loop making this progressively worse is that
passionate programmers write great code, but process kills passion.
Disaffected programmers write poor code, and poor code makes management
add more process in an attempt to "make" their programmers write good
code. That just makes morale worse, and so on.'"
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Links:
0. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/process-kills-developer-passion.html
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| NASA Banned From Working With China
| from the who-will-build-the-firewall dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @08:52 (China)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1249237/NASA-Banned-From-Working-With-China?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "In the wake of the Chinese cyber-threat and claims
of espionage, a clause included in the US spending bill approved by
Congress to avert a government shutdown a few weeks ago has prohibited
NASA from [1]coordinating any joint scientific activity with China. The
clause also extends to the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy."
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Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/denied-nasa-banned-from-working-with-china-110510.html
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| Zeus Crimeware Kit Source Code Leaked
| from the yeah-sorry-bout-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @09:35 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1326257/Zeus-Crimeware-Kit-Source-Code-Leaked?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The [0]source code to the infamous Zeus crimeware
kit, which has been sold on underground forums for years, has been leaked
and is now available for anyone to see if they know where to look.
Security researchers over the weekend noticed that files appearing to
contain the source code for the Zeus crimeware kit were [1]starting to
pop up on various forums frequented by attackers and cyber-criminals. The
Zeus exploit kit is perhaps the most well-known kit of its kind right
now, and has been used by a variety of attackers for numerous malware
campaigns and targeted attacks."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/zeus-source-code-leaked-051011
1. http://www.csis.dk/en/csis/blog/3229/
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| Google Storage Is Now Available To All Developers
| from the you-put-yer-bits-in-there dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @10:16 (Cloud)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/147226/Google-Storage-Is-Now-Available-To-All-Developers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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aabelro writes "Google has announced at I/O 2011 the [0]availability of
their Storage service to all developers without the need for an
invitation. [1]The service has been enhanced with OAuth 2.0 support,
simplified account management through the API Console, a new EU storage
region, and a new API version."
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Links:
0. http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/Google-Storage-for-Developers
1. http://code.google.com/apis/storage/
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| Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business
| from the start-pointing-fingers dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @11:00 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1450208/Developer-Blames-Apple-For-Ruining-eBook-Business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A bookseller and app developer has blamed
Apple for writing its final chapter, claiming the [0]iPad maker had
pushed it out of business. 'Apple has made it [1]completely impossible
for anyone but Apple to make a profit selling contemporary ebooks on any
iOS device,' BeamItDown said. 'We bet everything on Apple and iOS and
then Apple killed us by changing the rules in the middle of the game.'
The company blamed Apple's decision to impose a 30% commission on books
sold through apps for the unhappy ending."
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Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/367270/developer-blames-apple-for-ruining-ebook-business
1. https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx
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| Do Geeks Make Better Adults?
| from the well-not-you-exactly dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @11:42 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/153228/Do-Geeks-Make-Better-Adults?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mcgrew writes "What makes people unpopular in the hallways of high
school, mainly an unwillingness to conform, tends to [1]translate into
success as an adult. Robbins lists several companies—including
Yahoo!—that prioritize hiring quirky individuals who shun conventional
thinking. She also name-checks historical and current celebrities,
including director Steven Spielberg (who was taunted for being Jewish in
high school) and Lady Gaga (a self-described former theater 'freak'),
whose weirdness led to later fame. (Other now-validated former outsiders
she touts: Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Angelina
Jolie.)"
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=92797
1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110510/us_yblog_thelookout/why-geeks-make-better-adults-than-the-in-crowd;_ylt=Apc6jiN2FWlLaGGaO2vcUV2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNwNWpzY2NiBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTA1MTAvd2h5LWdlZWtzLW1ha2UtYmV0dGVyLWFkdWx0cy10aGFuLXRoZS1pbi1jcm93ZARwb3MDMwRzZWMDeW5fbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHNsawN3aHlnZWVrc21ha2U-
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| NASA Satellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid
| from the shake-it-like-a-polaroid-picture dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 11, @12:21 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1523214/NASA-Satellite-Snaps-First-Image-of-Target-Asteroid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "NASA today said that its Dawn spacecraft snapped
[1]the first image of the giant asteroid Vesta it [2]hopes to rendezvous
with in July. The asteroid is 530 kilometers in diameter, and appears as
a small, bright pearl against a background of stars. Vesta is known as a
protoplanet, because it is a large body that almost formed into a planet.
It's the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, NASA says."
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawn20110511.html
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-satellite-captures-first-image-target-as
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| Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month
| from the would-you-like-some-google-with-your-google? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @13:06 (Chrome)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/171218/Google-To-Offer-Chrome-OS-Notebooks-For-20month?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Hot on the heels of the [0]$25 ARM computer,
Google is to offer [1]a $20 per month package for students, which
includes a Chrome OS laptop (like the Cr-48) and an online component,
which will likely include a storage bump for a user's Google Docs, Gmail,
Picasa Web, and Google Music files. This would serve two purposes for
Google: first, Google will be able to expand its existing user base for
Chrome OS. For half the price of a typical cell phone contract, students
will be able to pick up a netbook with 3G connectivity. Second, Google
will be able to test the package offering publicly prior to eventually
adding an enterprise version for Google Apps users."
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Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/06/122233/A-25-PC-On-a-USB-Stick
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385181,00.asp
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| Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You?
| from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @13:44 (Privacy)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1735236/Is-Your-Electricity-Meter-Spying-On-You?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]lee1 writes "If you have a 'smart meter,' it is collecting data that
can reveal when you wake up, when you leave for work and come home, when
you go on vacation and when you take a shower. This data is commercially
valuable and, if sold to third parties, can lead to privacy invasion on a
massive scale. The California Public Utility Commission is reacting to
the gas and electric company's mass installation of these meters with
[1]new proposals for strong privacy protections."
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Links:
0. mailto:lee.lee-phillips@org
1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/california-proposes-strong-privacy-protections
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| Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip
| from the let's-get-small dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @14:23 (Communications)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1745213/Government-Funded-Atomic-Clock-On-a-Chip?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Today most applications that require accurate
atomic clock readings — from sorting separately routed telecommunications
packets to timing simultaneous demolition charges — usually refer to
signals from global positioning systems (GPS). For applications where GPS
is unavailable, such as indoors, underground, undersea or on the
battlefield where electronic jamming is present, large, heavy, power
hungry hardware atomic clocks were needed. Now an [0]atomic
clock-on-a-chip is available that is the result of 10 years of
government-funded research and development. The chip is not cheap —
$1,500 — but it costs less than conventional atomic clocks and the price
is sure to go down as manufacturing gears up to meet demand from military
applications."
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Links:
0. http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Technology-For-Change/Smarter-Atomic-Clock-on-a-Chip-Debuts/
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| Book Review: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @15:03 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1249235/Book-Review-BackTrack-4-Assuring-Security-by-Penetration-Testing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]RickJWagner writes "Watch out, System Admins. The floodgates to
BlackHat Hackerdom are now open. Packt Publishing has just released
BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing, a how-to book
based on the freely available BackTrack 4 Linux distribution. The intent
of the book is to educate security consultants on the use of this
devastatingly complete Hacker's toolkit, and to provide sage words of
advice on how to conduct yourself as a penetration testing consultant. On
both counts, the authors do well." Keep reading for the rest of Rick's
review.
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://www.rickwagner.blogspot.com/
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| America's First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fueling Station
| from the piping-in-the-gas dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @15:42 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1847245/Americas-First-Pipeline-Fed-Hydrogen-Fueling-Station?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]hasanabbas1987 writes "Shell has opened [1]America's first pipe-lined
hydrogen fueling station in the town of Torrence in Southern California.
Shell wasn't alone in this project as Toyota also helped them in this
green deed, all of which was funded by the government. At the moment
other hydrogen stations around the US still depend upon trucks to supply
them with fuel. This marks a new era of green fueling and hopefully this
pipeline spreads to other stations. Many of the big car makers like
Toyota, Honda and Mercedes have indicated a mass market for hydrogen
powered cars by 2015."
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Links:
0. mailto:h.abbas1987@gmail.com
1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/us-first-hydrogen-fueling-station/
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| Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication
| from the dolittle-communications dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @15:52 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1525225/Translator-Puts-Us-Closer-To-Dolphin-Communication?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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LordStormes sent in a link to an article about a new device that may
allow dolphins to finally thank us for all the fish. Denise Herzing,
founder of the Wild Dolphin Project and Thad Starner, an artificial
intelligence researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, have been working on a project called Cetacean Hearing and
Telemetry or CHAT. The pair hope that CHAT will allow them to "co-create"
a language with wild dolphins, [0]allowing the two species to communicate.
From the article: "Herzing and Starner will start testing the system on
wild Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the middle of this
year. At first, divers will play back one of eight 'words' coined by the
team to mean 'seaweed' or 'bow wave ride,' for example. The software will
listen to see if the dolphins mimic them. Once the system can recognize
these mimicked words, the idea is to use it to crack a much harder
problem: listening to natural dolphin sounds and pulling out salient
features that may be the 'fundamental units' of dolphin communication."
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Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028115.400-talk-with-a-dolphin-via-underwater-translation-machine.html
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| Mainstream Media Looks At Anonymous
| from the pay-no-attention-the-nerds-behind-the-curtain dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @16:20 (Security)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1942209/Mainstream-Media-Looks-At-Anonymous?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ScuttleMonkey writes "In an uncharacteristically accurate writeup of
Anonymous, the Guardian has published a look at the assembled mob behind
the mask. A great place to send those unfamiliar with [1]who or what
Anonymous really is. From the article: 'This collective identity belongs
to no one in particular, but is at the disposal of anyone who knows its
rules and knows how to apply them. Anonymous, the collective identity, is
older than Anonymous, the hacktivist group – more to the point, I propose
that the hacktivist group can be understood as an application of
Anonymous, the collective identity.'"
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Links:
0. mailto:pmcgarry@perforce.com
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/11/anonymous-behind-the-mask
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| App To Keep ISPs Honest About Bandwidth Caps
| from the keeping-track-of-the-trackers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @17:00 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/1959244/App-To-Keep-ISPs-Honest-About-Bandwidth-Caps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "A browser-based app developed by Georgia Tech
researchers is designed to help Internet users make better use of their
bandwidth – and to make sure ISPs are [0]holding up their end of the
bandwidth bargain. The Kermit app, which is being [1]shown off Wednesday
(PDF) at the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing in
Vancouver, emerges at a time when service providers are starting to place
bandwidth caps not just on wireless services, but on wireline services,
too. AT&T, for example, is putting such caps in place this month for its
DSL and U-verse customers. At least initially, such caps aren't expected
to affect all but the very heaviest bandwidth users."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051111-kermit-isps-gatech-bandwidth.html
1. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~marshini/files/kermit.pdf
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| Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice
| from the not-quite-yet dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @17:41 (Android)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2112245/Googles-Honeycomb-Source-Code-Release-Is-On-Ice?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "'Ice Cream Sandwich', that is. Apparently it's
source code delay week, as Google joins Apple in [1]delaying the release
of source code for open source licensed software. Except, unlike Apple,
which promptly [2]released the LGPL WebKit code in question Monday
afternoon, Google stated yesterday that it will not release the source
code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) until after the release of the next
version of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich). This is not necessarily news,
since Google said last month that source code would be [3]held for an
indeterminate time and released when it was ready. It's just that now
'indeterminate' has an actual date: post-launch of Ice Cream Sandwich.
The question, says blogger Brian Proffitt, is: 'How the heck can they do
this, given that Honeycomb is licensed under the Apache Software License
v2?'"
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/164153/how-google-can-delay-android-source-code-releases
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/1552213/Apple-Delays-Release-of-LGPL-WebKit-Code
3. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/03/24/219221/Google-Delays-General-Release-of-Honeycomb-Source
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| Sailing the Titan Seas
| from the we're-gonna-need-a-better-boat dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @18:04 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2118226/Sailing-the-Titan-Seas?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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gpronger writes "The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
(APL) has been awarded the opportunity to [0]explore the methane ocean on
Titan. Next year APL will be submitting a project plan to NASA, which
will be one of three submittals. If chosen, launch would be in 2016, with
arrival at Titan in 2023. The 'Titan Mare Explorer' or TiME would be the
first exploration of an extraterrestrial ocean with the craft landing and
floating on the ocean. The mission would be led by principal investigator
Ellen Stofan of Proxemy Research Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Lockheed
Martin in Denver would build the TiME capsule, with scientific
instruments provided by APL, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., and Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. This is part of NASA's
[1]Discovery Program and would be the next mission, funded and supported
by NASA."
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Links:
0. http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/110506.asp
1. http://discovery.nasa.gov/index.cfml
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| FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist
| from the passing-the-smell-test dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @18:24 (United States)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2156237/FCC-Commissioner-Leaves-To-Become-Lobbyist?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Meredith Attwell Baker, one of the FCC
Commissioners, is [0]leaving the FCC to become a lobbyist for Comcast-NBC,
just four months after approving their merger deal. She refused to put
any significant conditions on the merger, saying that the deal would
'bring exciting benefits to consumers that outweigh potential harms.'
Comcast has released an [1]official statement saying that, 'Meredith's
executive branch and business experience along with her exceptional
relationships in Washington bring Comcast and NBCUniversal the perfect
combination of skills.'"
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Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-approving-comcastnbc-deal-fcc-commish-becomes-comcast-lobbyist.ars
1. http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=1082
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| How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff
| from the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @18:56 (Businesses)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2126242/How-WikiLeaks-Gags-Its-Own-Staff?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]robbyyy writes "The New Statesman has just revealed the extent of the
[1]legal eccentricity and paranoia that exists at the WikiLeaks
organization. The magazine published a leaked copy of the draconian and
extraordinary legal gag which WikiLeaks imposes on its own staff. Clause
5 of the [2]Confidentiality Agreement (PDF) imposes a penalty of
£12,000,000 (approximately $20,000,000) on anyone who breaches this legal
gag. Sounds like they don't trust their own staff."
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Links:
0. http://www.infogrok.com/
1. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/05/wikileaks-information-legal
2. http://images.newstatesman.com/wikileaks.pdf
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| AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos
| from the gory-details dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, @19:35 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/2258207/AP-Files-FOIA-Request-For-Bin-Laden-Photos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Atlantic reports that President Obama's
decision to withhold the visual evidence of Osama bin Laden's death has
created a fundamental disagreement between the White House and the
Associated Press, one of the largest journalism organizations in the
world, prompting the news organization to [1]file a Freedom of
Information Act request for the bin Laden photos. 'This information is
important for the historical record,' says Michael Oreskes, senior
managing editor at The Associated Press. 'That's our view.' AP's FOIA
request includes a reminder of the president's campaign pledge and a plea
to be more transparent than his predecessor. 'The Obama White House
pledged to be the most transparent government in US history,' writes the
AP, 'and to comply much more closely with the Freedom of Information Act
than the Bush administration did.' The AP isn't alone in wanting more
insight on the specifics of the raid. When it eventually surfaced that
bin Laden was not killed in a firefight, his wife wasn't used as a human
shield, there was no live footage of the event and the 'mansion' where he
lived was only worth between $250,000 and $480,000, many [2]became
skeptical of the White House's narrative. Other organizations that have
filed FOIAs include [3]Politico, Fox News, Judicial Watch and Citizens
United. Oreskes sympathizes with the president. 'This is obviously one of
his most difficult decisions and we understand that.'"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/associated-press-case-releasing-bin-laden-photo/37510/
2. http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/06/major-garrett-condemns-ham-handed-way-white-house-told-obl-mission-story/
3. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/look-whos-foiaing-bin-laden-death-photo/37493/
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