06-21-2009, 04:30 AM
lots has to do with how the government is fucking us into the ground
How may of YOU want to spend YOUR money to blow a hole in the Moon?
the 'government's' pretext is to search for water
what the fuck for? don't you see enough water on earth?
start cleaning what you've spoiled before you go spoiling what isn't ours!
all this is is exploitation of our hard earned bucks
what is it going to do for Me? not a mother fucking thing!
see the article below ..can't Cure Ocean Acidification
and the one about bulldozing cities .. as if it is going to help us?!
let people live there tax free, if they'll take care of it them selves
No more taxation! YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPEND IT
Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell
* 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered
* Getting Beyond the Helldesk
* English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates
* UK Tax Breaks For "Culturally British" Games
* Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society
* A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise
* Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns
* Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected
* Why Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than SSD
* Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010
* Opera Unite is a Hail Mary
* BenQ's GP1 LED Projector — Small Package, Good Thing
* Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US
* Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification
* Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts
* US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities
* Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks
* iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch
* Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches
* First Images of Memories Being Made
* Fighting For Downloaders' Hearts and Minds
* In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000
* Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix
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| FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell |
| from the make-sure-to-keep-that-poultice-wet dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, @21:53 (Medicine) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...17/2225246 |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The FDA has advised consumers to stop using
Matrixx Initiatives' Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel marketed
over-the-counter as a cold remedy because it is [1]associated with the
loss of sense of smell (anosmia) that may be long-lasting or permanent.
The FDA says about 130 consumers have reported a loss of smell after
using the homeopathic cure containing zinc, an ingredient scientists say
may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell and health officials say
they have asked Matrixx executives to turn over more than 800 consumer
complaints concerning lost smell that the company has on file. 'Loss of
the sense of smell is potentially life-threatening and may be permanent,'
said Dr. Charles Lee. 'People without the sense of smell may not be able
to detect life-dangerous situations, such as gas leaks or something
burning in the house.' The FDA said the [2]remedy was never formally
approved because it is part of a small group of remedies known as
homeopathic products that are not required to undergo federal review
before launching. The global market for homeopathic drugs is about $200
million per year, according to the American Association of Homeopathic
Pharmacists. Matrixx has settled hundreds of lawsuits connected with
Zicam in recent years, but says it 'will [3]seek a meeting with the FDA
to vigorously defend its scientific data, developed during more than 10
years of experience with the products, demonstrating their safety.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...17/2225246
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/P...167065.htm
2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31388177/ns/...d_and_flu/
3. http://www.zicam.com/messagetoconsumers
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| 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered |
| from the nobody-knows-who-they-were-or-what-they-were-doing dept.|
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, @23:46 (Science) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...17/2359217 |
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes "National Geographic reports that a [0]6000-year-old
tomb complex on 200 hectares (500 acres) has been discovered on the
Salisbury Plain just 24 km (15 miles) from Stonehenge. The site has come
as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had
been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude
remained. The site, fully 1000 years older than Stonehenge, has been
called 'Britain's oldest architecture.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...17/2359217
Links:
0. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...rcles.html
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| Getting Beyond the Helldesk |
| from the through-the-perly-gates dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @00:19 (Education) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/17/2231247 |
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An anonymous reader writes "I've been working as a helpdesk monkey for
over a year in a small-medium sized law firm of around 200 users and I
don't know if my patience and sanity can last much longer. I'd like to
remain in IT, but in less of a front-line role where I can actually get
some work done without being interrupted every five minutes by a jamming
printer or frozen instance of Outlook. There isn't really any room for
progression at my current employer, and with the weak job market it seems
I can only move sideways into another support role. I've been considering
a full-time Masters degree in a specialized Computer Science area such as
databases or Web development, but I don't know if the financial cost and
the loss of a year's income and experience can justify it. Do any
Slashdotters who have made it beyond the helpdesk have any knowledge or
wisdom to impart? Is formal education a good avenue, or would I better
off moving back home, getting a mindless but low-stress job, and teaching
myself technologies in my free time?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...17/2231247
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| English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates |
| from the parking-power dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @02:51 (Power) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/004237 |
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[0]Johnathan Martinez writes "Sainsbury's market in England has installed
[1]'kinetic energy' plates in the parking lot of its store in Gloucester.
The plates are an experiment with a newer energy producing technology.
The plates create as much as 30 kWh of energy as cars drive over them.
The weight of the cars puts pressure on the plates creating kinetic
energy to run a generator. The current is used to power the store and
will lower the energy consumption of the market."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid.../18/004237
Links:
0. mailtoupertree0822@gmail.com
1. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14013...tic-plates
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| UK Tax Breaks For "Culturally British" Games |
| from the spot-o'-tea-with-your-rocket-launcher dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 18, @03:58 (Government) |
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...18/0437234 |
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An anonymous reader writes with news of a proposal in the recent Digital
Britain report to [0]set up tax breaks for developing video games that
are "culturally British." Quoting [1]the report (PDF): "In film a system
of cultural tax credits has long helped to sustain a wide range of films
that speak to a British narrative, rather than the cultural perspectives
of Hollywood or multinational collaborations. Other countries such as
Canada, for similar reasons, extend the model of cultural tax relief
beyond the film industry to the interactive and online worlds. CGI,
electronic games and simulation also have a significant role in Britain's
digital content ecology and in our international competitiveness. Each of
these has the same capability as the more traditional sectors, such as
film, to engage us and reflect our cultural particularism. They may in
future have a cultural relevance to rival that of film." Conservative
Shadow Arts and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said the government has
[2]ignored the games industry, and he seeks to set up a government
council to promote it. The report also outlined [3]a number of changes to
how games are rated.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...18/0437234
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gam...for-gamers
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pd...ritain.pdf
2. http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/ar...p?id=18140
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gam...videogames
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| Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society |
| from the free-is-good dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @04:56 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/0311216 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist [0]summarizes an important new
study on file sharing from economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman
Strumpf. The Harvard Business School [1]working paper finds that given
the increase in artistic production along with the greater public access
conclude that 'weaker copyright protection, it seems, has benefited
society.' The authors point out that file sharing may not result in
reduced incentives to create if the willingness to pay for 'complements'
such as concerts or author speaking tours increases."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/0311216
Links:
0. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/
1. http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-132.pdf
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| A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise |
| from the eight-cylinders-of-awesome dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 18, @06:33 (The Almighty Buc|
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...18/0518237 |
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Eurogamer sat down with Richard Parr and Alex Fry of Criterion Games
about [0]the evolution of the technology behind Burnout Paradise , and
how they engineered a complex, open world across multiple platforms.
"Criterion's method of exacting the most performance from the new
architecture isn't so much about threading as such, it's all about
parallelization. Rather than lump different game aspects onto different
threads (where massive latencies can build as each processor waits for
the other to finish its work), game code is highly optimized to make use
of what processors are available at any given moment on whatever target
hardware, and by choosing the all-important balance points, the
experience is like-for-like on all platforms. High-level management code
that is unique to each platform then processes the game code according to
the hardware that is available." The [1]first part of their Q&A session
has also been posted.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...18/0518237
Links:
0. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/tech-r...se-article
1. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-cr...-interview
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| Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns |
| from the close-enough dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @07:57 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s.../18/034230 |
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[0]coondoggie writes "News today that the Air Force is investigating
signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite is
likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that
said the current [1]GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future.
The Air Force stated that routine early orbit checkout procedures
determined that the signals from the Lockheed-built GPS IIR-2 (M), which
was launched in March, were inconsistent with the performance of other
GPS IIR-M satellites. The Air Force said it has identified several
parameters in the GPS IIR-20 (M)'s navigation message that can be
corrected to bring the satellite into compliance with current GPS
Performance Standards."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?.../18/034230
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/42767
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| Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected |
| from the then-how-can-i-ping-you dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @08:49 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/1230258 |
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[0]oh2 writes "The highest applicable Swedish court, Regeringsrätten, has
ruled that [1]IP numbers are protected (in Swedish) since they can be
traced to individuals. This means that only government agencies are
allowed to track and store IP addresses, leaving 'anti-piracy' advocates
with no legal way to find possible copyright infringers." Update: 06/18
14:42 GMT by [2]KD : The original linked article had been pulled due to
factual errors and a [1]new article has been posted (link replaced
above). Here is a [3]Google translation. The new article makes clear that
the ruling does not affect the anti-piracy efforts of rights-holders.
Update: 06/18 15:08 GMT by [2]KD : Behind the link below is a summary in
English of the article sent in by the submitter, [0]oh2.
This story continues at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/1230258
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/1230258
Links:
0. mailto:peter.svedman@gmail.com
1. http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/ny-...n-1.894500
2. http://slashdot.org/~kdawson/
3. http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fkultur-noje%2Fnyheter%2Fny-dom-paverkar-inte-ipredlagen-1.894500&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=
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| Why Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than SSD |
| from the did-this-really-need-saying dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @09:43 (Data Storage) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?...18/1333230 |
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[0]Lucas123 writes "While solid state disk may be all the rage, what's
often being overlooked in the current consumer market hype is that fact
that hard disk drive prices are at an all-time low â offering users good
performance and massive amounts of capacity for 10 to 30 cents a
gigabyte. And in a [1]side by side comparison of overall performance of
consumer SSDs and HDDs, it's hard to justify spending 10 times as much
for a little more speed."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl...18/1333230
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9111089
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| Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010 |
| from the more-ips-to-rate-limit dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @10:35 (The Internet) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1417201 |
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darthcamaro writes "We all know that [0]IPv4 address space is almost gone
â but we also know that no major US carrier has yet migrated its consumer
base, either. Comcast is now upping the ante a bit and has now said that
they are seriously [1]gearing up for IPv6 residential broadband
deployment soon. 'Comcast plans to enter into broadband IPv6 technical
trials later this year and into 2010,' Barry Tishgart, VP of Internet
Services for Comcast said. 'Planning for general deployment is
underway.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1417201
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/24/2225218&tid=95
1. http://www.internetnews.com/infra/articl...s+IPv6.htm
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| Opera Unite is a Hail Mary |
| from the go-long-opera dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @11:18 (The Internet) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1419227 |
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[0]snydeq writes "Rather than view it as a game-changer, Fatal
Exception's Neil McAllister sees Opera Unite as a [1]Hail Mary bid for
Opera to stay in the game. After all, in an era when even [2]vending
machines have Web servers on them, a [3]Web server on the Web browser
isn't really that groundbreaking. What Opera is attempting is to
'reintermediate' the Internet â 'directly linking people's personal
computers together' by making them sign up for an account on Opera's
servers and ensuring all of their exchanges pass through Opera's servers
first. 'That's an effective way to get around technical difficulties like
NAT firewalls, but more important, it makes Opera the intermediary in
your social interactions â not Facebook, not MySpace, but Opera,'
McAllister writes. In other words, Opera hopes to use social networking
as a Trojan horse to put traditional apps back in charge."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1419227
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/o...-again-902
2. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries...8/08/14742
3. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/...?art_pos=1
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| BenQ's GP1 LED Projector — Small Package, Good Thing |
| from the add-a-toilet-and-dilberitos dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @12:00 (Displays) |
| http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...18/0951259 |
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The first projector I remember seeing in person had three great big glass
eyes (for red, green, and blue lamps) and BNC connectors. It probably
weighed more than 100 pounds, and had to be carefully calibrated to align
the lenses. Now, I've got a projector above my head that weighs less than
a Neal Stephenson novel and has a sharper, brighter image than that
monster. I've been [0]looking into LED projectors for a few years now; in
that time, I've been waiting for them to come down in price and bump up
in lumens. So I was very curious about [1]BenQ's GP1 LED projector (also
known, somewhat oddly, as "Joybee"), and was happy to get a sample for
review. It may seem retrograde to bother with an 800x600, 100 lumen (no
missing zero there: one-hundred lumen) projector in 2009 A.D., but for
the past four weeks, I've used it as my primary display, and come out
happy. It has some drawbacks, but it's an impressive little device for
its $499 pricetag, and I hope a harbinger of even better things to come.
Read on for my take on what BenQ got right, and what rough spots stick
out.
This story continues at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...18/0951259
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s...18/0951259
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?...09/2116258&tid=196
1. http://www.benq.us/page/?pageId=309&click=showcases%7Cscid%7C391
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| Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US |
| from the yeah-that'll-happen dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @12:40 (The Internet) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1521237 |
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xclr8r writes "Eric Massa, a congressman representing a district in
western New York, [0]has a bill ready that would start [1]treating
Internet providers like a utility and stop the use of caps. Nearby
locales have been used as test beds for the new caps, so this may have
made the constituents raise the issue with their representative."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1521237
Links:
0. http://massa.house.gov/uploads/Broadband...essAct.pdf
1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/...e-caps.ars
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| Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification |
| from the take-it-with-a-ton-of-salt dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @13:34 (Earth) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1728218 |
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[0]CarnegieScience writes "Plans to stop global warming by
'geoengineering' the planet by putting aerosols in the atmosphere to
block sunlight are controversial, to say the least. Scientists are now
pointing out that even if it keeps the planet cool, it will do [1]almost
nothing to stop another major problem â ocean acidification. The ocean
will keep on absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (making
carbonic acid) and the water's pH will get too low for corals and other
marine life to secrete skeletons. So this is another strike against a
quick fix of our climate problems."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1728218
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/carnegiescience
1. http://www.ciw.edu/news/global_sunscreen...ave_corals
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| Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts |
| from the are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @14:17 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/1736257 |
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justinlindh writes "Bozeman, Montana is now [0]requiring all applicants
for city jobs to furnish Internet account information for 'background
checking.' A portion of the application reads, "Please list any and all,
current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any
Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not
limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.' The
article goes on to mention, 'There are then three lines where applicants
can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their
passwords.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/1736257
Links:
0. http://montanasnewsstation.com/Global/st...S=10551414
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| US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities |
| from the out-of-the-rubble-and-into-the-future dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @14:45 (United States) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/130212 |
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chrb writes "Two days ago Slashdot discussed [0]broke counties grinding
their tarmac roads into gravel. Now the Telegraph reveals plans to
[1]raze huge sections of at least 50 US cities to the ground. The
resulting smaller cities will be more economical to run, and the
recovered land will be returned to nature."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid.../18/130212
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/...-To-Gravel
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/finan...rvive.html
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| Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks |
| from the this-is-2009-ce-after-all dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @15:06 (Handhelds) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?...18/1848234 |
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ericatcw writes "Google's Android may enjoy the hype, but an increasing
number of key industry players say the mobile OS isn't ready for ARM
netbooks, aka smartbooks. Nvidia is the most recent to [0]declare Android
unfit for duty, stating its preference for Microsoft's Windows CE, which
an Nvidia exec praised for having a "low footprint" and being "rock
solid." Nvidia is busy optimizing its multimedia-savvy Tegra
system-on-chip for Windows CE. Such improvements won't arrive for at
least a year to Android, which has an inflexible UI and poor graphics
support for devices larger than a smartphone, says Nvidia. Other [1]firms
echoing [2]similar criticism include ARM and Asustek."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl...18/1848234
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9134522
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9133989
2. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9133813
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| iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch |
| from the switched-housemate's-iphone-to-danish dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @16:00 (Portables (Apple))|
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...18/1948230 |
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[0]CWmike writes "Apple [1]patched 46 security vulnerabilities in the
iPhone and iPod Touch, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit
rendering engine, as it [2]released iPhone OS 3.0 on Wednesday. One of
the patched WebKit vulnerabilities stands out because of the attention it
received in March, when a German college student, Nils, [3]walked away
with a $5,000 cash prize for hacking Safari at the Pwn2Own challenge.
Nils used a bug in WebKit's handling of SVGList objects to crack Safari."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...18/1948230
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9134548
2. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9134494
3. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9130074
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| Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches |
| from the rifling-through-america's-storage-unit dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @16:58 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/2043242 |
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An anonymous reader writes "A bill introduced by Canada's Minister of
Public Safety [0]will allow police to (warrantlessly) force ISPs to
provide access to any requested digital traffic records, reports News
1130. Police lobbied for the bill as means of 'combatting gangsters,
pedophiles, or terrorists,' but apparently they find the legal principles
of judicial review and probable cause, as well as a [1]constitutional
provision against 'unreasonable search or seizure', to be too much of a
hassle, and would rather be able to search anyone's web or e-mail traffic
at their own discretion and without any oversight. All in the name of
public safety, of course."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/2043242
Links:
0. http://www.news1130.com/more.jsp?content...13536_8084
1. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/1.html#codese:8
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| First Images of Memories Being Made |
| from the from-the-brain-side-that-is dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @17:20 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...18/2053216 |
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[0]TheSync writes Eurekalert reports that researchers at the Montreal
Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill and UCLA have [1]captured the
first image of protein translation that underlies long-term memory
formation. A fluorescent protein showed the increased local protein
synthesis during memory formation, which requires cooperation between the
pre and post-synaptic compartments of the two neurons that meet at the
synapse."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...18/2053216
Links:
0. http://www.t11s.com/
1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...061809.php
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| Fighting For Downloaders' Hearts and Minds |
| from the dude-pirate-is-not-the-prefered-nomenclature dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @17:50 (The Almighty Buck)|
| http://entertainment.slashdot.org/articl...18/2111209|
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iateyourcookies writes "As opposed to enforcement which usually makes the
headlines, The BBC is running an article called [0]Inside A Downloader's
Head which looks at the film and music industries' attempts to prevent
copyright infringement. It details some of the campaigns, their
rationale, controversy surrounding them and notes that 'there are plenty,
even among the young, who can be eloquent about why they believe illegal
downloading is not wrong. These can include everything from what they see
as the unacceptable "control freakery" of DRM and regional coding, to
overcharging and exploitation of the very artists the music industry
claims to protect.' However, PR company for the industry Blue Rubicon
attests that 'campaigns can change hearts and minds... If you do them
right you can make a material impact on people's behaviour.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/commen...18/2111209
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8106805.stm
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| In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 |
| from the there-go-some-hearts-and-minds dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @18:35 (The Courts) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/227219 |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Well the price went up from $9250 per
song file to $80,000 per song file, as the jury [1]awarded the RIAA
statutory damages of $1,920,000.00 for infringement of 24 MP3s, in
[2]Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset. In this trial, although the
defendant had an expert witness of her own, she never called him to
testify, and her attorneys never challenged the technical evidence
offered by the RIAA's MediaSentry and Doug Jacobson. Also, neither the
[3]special verdict form nor the [4]jury instructions spelled out what the
elements of a 'distribution' are, or what needed to be established by the
plaintiffs in order to recover statutory â as opposed to actual â
damages. No doubt there will now have to be a third trial, and no doubt
the unreasonableness of the verdict will lend support to those arguing
that the RIAA's statutory damages theory is unconstitutional." Update:
06/19 01:39 GMT by [5]T : Lots [6]more detail at Ars Technica, too.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid.../18/227219
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspo...2128294747
2. http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Documents.htm&s=Virgin_v_Thomas
3. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspo...8574176340
4. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspo...0954533061
5. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/...erdict.ars
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| Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million|
| from the too-big-to-not-fail dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @19:28 (Bug) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/2310211 |
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jaroslav writes "The University of Wisconsin is attempting to update a
payroll system they have had in place since 1975, but spent $28.4 million
in a 2004 attempt with no results, and now is experiencing new overruns
in cost and time after 'not hav[ing] the full picture of how complex this
project would be.' The current estimate of the redesign is [0]$12 million
and years of further work on top of the money already spent."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/18/2310211
Links:
0. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-a...7575.story
How may of YOU want to spend YOUR money to blow a hole in the Moon?
the 'government's' pretext is to search for water
what the fuck for? don't you see enough water on earth?
start cleaning what you've spoiled before you go spoiling what isn't ours!
all this is is exploitation of our hard earned bucks
what is it going to do for Me? not a mother fucking thing!
see the article below ..can't Cure Ocean Acidification
and the one about bulldozing cities .. as if it is going to help us?!
let people live there tax free, if they'll take care of it them selves
No more taxation! YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPEND IT
Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell
* 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered
* Getting Beyond the Helldesk
* English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates
* UK Tax Breaks For "Culturally British" Games
* Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society
* A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise
* Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns
* Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected
* Why Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than SSD
* Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010
* Opera Unite is a Hail Mary
* BenQ's GP1 LED Projector — Small Package, Good Thing
* Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US
* Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification
* Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts
* US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities
* Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks
* iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch
* Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches
* First Images of Memories Being Made
* Fighting For Downloaders' Hearts and Minds
* In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000
* Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix
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| FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell |
| from the make-sure-to-keep-that-poultice-wet dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, @21:53 (Medicine) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...17/2225246 |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The FDA has advised consumers to stop using
Matrixx Initiatives' Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel marketed
over-the-counter as a cold remedy because it is [1]associated with the
loss of sense of smell (anosmia) that may be long-lasting or permanent.
The FDA says about 130 consumers have reported a loss of smell after
using the homeopathic cure containing zinc, an ingredient scientists say
may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell and health officials say
they have asked Matrixx executives to turn over more than 800 consumer
complaints concerning lost smell that the company has on file. 'Loss of
the sense of smell is potentially life-threatening and may be permanent,'
said Dr. Charles Lee. 'People without the sense of smell may not be able
to detect life-dangerous situations, such as gas leaks or something
burning in the house.' The FDA said the [2]remedy was never formally
approved because it is part of a small group of remedies known as
homeopathic products that are not required to undergo federal review
before launching. The global market for homeopathic drugs is about $200
million per year, according to the American Association of Homeopathic
Pharmacists. Matrixx has settled hundreds of lawsuits connected with
Zicam in recent years, but says it 'will [3]seek a meeting with the FDA
to vigorously defend its scientific data, developed during more than 10
years of experience with the products, demonstrating their safety.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...17/2225246
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/P...167065.htm
2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31388177/ns/...d_and_flu/
3. http://www.zicam.com/messagetoconsumers
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| 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered |
| from the nobody-knows-who-they-were-or-what-they-were-doing dept.|
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, @23:46 (Science) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...17/2359217 |
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes "National Geographic reports that a [0]6000-year-old
tomb complex on 200 hectares (500 acres) has been discovered on the
Salisbury Plain just 24 km (15 miles) from Stonehenge. The site has come
as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had
been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude
remained. The site, fully 1000 years older than Stonehenge, has been
called 'Britain's oldest architecture.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...17/2359217
Links:
0. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...rcles.html
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| Getting Beyond the Helldesk |
| from the through-the-perly-gates dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @00:19 (Education) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/17/2231247 |
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An anonymous reader writes "I've been working as a helpdesk monkey for
over a year in a small-medium sized law firm of around 200 users and I
don't know if my patience and sanity can last much longer. I'd like to
remain in IT, but in less of a front-line role where I can actually get
some work done without being interrupted every five minutes by a jamming
printer or frozen instance of Outlook. There isn't really any room for
progression at my current employer, and with the weak job market it seems
I can only move sideways into another support role. I've been considering
a full-time Masters degree in a specialized Computer Science area such as
databases or Web development, but I don't know if the financial cost and
the loss of a year's income and experience can justify it. Do any
Slashdotters who have made it beyond the helpdesk have any knowledge or
wisdom to impart? Is formal education a good avenue, or would I better
off moving back home, getting a mindless but low-stress job, and teaching
myself technologies in my free time?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...17/2231247
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| English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates |
| from the parking-power dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @02:51 (Power) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/004237 |
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[0]Johnathan Martinez writes "Sainsbury's market in England has installed
[1]'kinetic energy' plates in the parking lot of its store in Gloucester.
The plates are an experiment with a newer energy producing technology.
The plates create as much as 30 kWh of energy as cars drive over them.
The weight of the cars puts pressure on the plates creating kinetic
energy to run a generator. The current is used to power the store and
will lower the energy consumption of the market."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid.../18/004237
Links:
0. mailtoupertree0822@gmail.com
1. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14013...tic-plates
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| UK Tax Breaks For "Culturally British" Games |
| from the spot-o'-tea-with-your-rocket-launcher dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 18, @03:58 (Government) |
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...18/0437234 |
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An anonymous reader writes with news of a proposal in the recent Digital
Britain report to [0]set up tax breaks for developing video games that
are "culturally British." Quoting [1]the report (PDF): "In film a system
of cultural tax credits has long helped to sustain a wide range of films
that speak to a British narrative, rather than the cultural perspectives
of Hollywood or multinational collaborations. Other countries such as
Canada, for similar reasons, extend the model of cultural tax relief
beyond the film industry to the interactive and online worlds. CGI,
electronic games and simulation also have a significant role in Britain's
digital content ecology and in our international competitiveness. Each of
these has the same capability as the more traditional sectors, such as
film, to engage us and reflect our cultural particularism. They may in
future have a cultural relevance to rival that of film." Conservative
Shadow Arts and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said the government has
[2]ignored the games industry, and he seeks to set up a government
council to promote it. The report also outlined [3]a number of changes to
how games are rated.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...18/0437234
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gam...for-gamers
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pd...ritain.pdf
2. http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/ar...p?id=18140
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gam...videogames
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| Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society |
| from the free-is-good dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @04:56 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/0311216 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist [0]summarizes an important new
study on file sharing from economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman
Strumpf. The Harvard Business School [1]working paper finds that given
the increase in artistic production along with the greater public access
conclude that 'weaker copyright protection, it seems, has benefited
society.' The authors point out that file sharing may not result in
reduced incentives to create if the willingness to pay for 'complements'
such as concerts or author speaking tours increases."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/0311216
Links:
0. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/
1. http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-132.pdf
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| A Look At the Tech Behind Burnout Paradise |
| from the eight-cylinders-of-awesome dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 18, @06:33 (The Almighty Buc|
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...18/0518237 |
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Eurogamer sat down with Richard Parr and Alex Fry of Criterion Games
about [0]the evolution of the technology behind Burnout Paradise , and
how they engineered a complex, open world across multiple platforms.
"Criterion's method of exacting the most performance from the new
architecture isn't so much about threading as such, it's all about
parallelization. Rather than lump different game aspects onto different
threads (where massive latencies can build as each processor waits for
the other to finish its work), game code is highly optimized to make use
of what processors are available at any given moment on whatever target
hardware, and by choosing the all-important balance points, the
experience is like-for-like on all platforms. High-level management code
that is unique to each platform then processes the game code according to
the hardware that is available." The [1]first part of their Q&A session
has also been posted.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...18/0518237
Links:
0. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/tech-r...se-article
1. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-cr...-interview
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| Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns |
| from the close-enough dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @07:57 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s.../18/034230 |
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[0]coondoggie writes "News today that the Air Force is investigating
signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite is
likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that
said the current [1]GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future.
The Air Force stated that routine early orbit checkout procedures
determined that the signals from the Lockheed-built GPS IIR-2 (M), which
was launched in March, were inconsistent with the performance of other
GPS IIR-M satellites. The Air Force said it has identified several
parameters in the GPS IIR-20 (M)'s navigation message that can be
corrected to bring the satellite into compliance with current GPS
Performance Standards."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?.../18/034230
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/42767
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| Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected |
| from the then-how-can-i-ping-you dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @08:49 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/1230258 |
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[0]oh2 writes "The highest applicable Swedish court, Regeringsrätten, has
ruled that [1]IP numbers are protected (in Swedish) since they can be
traced to individuals. This means that only government agencies are
allowed to track and store IP addresses, leaving 'anti-piracy' advocates
with no legal way to find possible copyright infringers." Update: 06/18
14:42 GMT by [2]KD : The original linked article had been pulled due to
factual errors and a [1]new article has been posted (link replaced
above). Here is a [3]Google translation. The new article makes clear that
the ruling does not affect the anti-piracy efforts of rights-holders.
Update: 06/18 15:08 GMT by [2]KD : Behind the link below is a summary in
English of the article sent in by the submitter, [0]oh2.
This story continues at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/1230258
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/1230258
Links:
0. mailto:peter.svedman@gmail.com
1. http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/ny-...n-1.894500
2. http://slashdot.org/~kdawson/
3. http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fkultur-noje%2Fnyheter%2Fny-dom-paverkar-inte-ipredlagen-1.894500&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=
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| Why Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than SSD |
| from the did-this-really-need-saying dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @09:43 (Data Storage) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?...18/1333230 |
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[0]Lucas123 writes "While solid state disk may be all the rage, what's
often being overlooked in the current consumer market hype is that fact
that hard disk drive prices are at an all-time low â offering users good
performance and massive amounts of capacity for 10 to 30 cents a
gigabyte. And in a [1]side by side comparison of overall performance of
consumer SSDs and HDDs, it's hard to justify spending 10 times as much
for a little more speed."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl...18/1333230
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9111089
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| Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010 |
| from the more-ips-to-rate-limit dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @10:35 (The Internet) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1417201 |
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darthcamaro writes "We all know that [0]IPv4 address space is almost gone
â but we also know that no major US carrier has yet migrated its consumer
base, either. Comcast is now upping the ante a bit and has now said that
they are seriously [1]gearing up for IPv6 residential broadband
deployment soon. 'Comcast plans to enter into broadband IPv6 technical
trials later this year and into 2010,' Barry Tishgart, VP of Internet
Services for Comcast said. 'Planning for general deployment is
underway.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1417201
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/24/2225218&tid=95
1. http://www.internetnews.com/infra/articl...s+IPv6.htm
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| Opera Unite is a Hail Mary |
| from the go-long-opera dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @11:18 (The Internet) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1419227 |
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[0]snydeq writes "Rather than view it as a game-changer, Fatal
Exception's Neil McAllister sees Opera Unite as a [1]Hail Mary bid for
Opera to stay in the game. After all, in an era when even [2]vending
machines have Web servers on them, a [3]Web server on the Web browser
isn't really that groundbreaking. What Opera is attempting is to
'reintermediate' the Internet â 'directly linking people's personal
computers together' by making them sign up for an account on Opera's
servers and ensuring all of their exchanges pass through Opera's servers
first. 'That's an effective way to get around technical difficulties like
NAT firewalls, but more important, it makes Opera the intermediary in
your social interactions â not Facebook, not MySpace, but Opera,'
McAllister writes. In other words, Opera hopes to use social networking
as a Trojan horse to put traditional apps back in charge."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1419227
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/o...-again-902
2. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries...8/08/14742
3. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/...?art_pos=1
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| BenQ's GP1 LED Projector — Small Package, Good Thing |
| from the add-a-toilet-and-dilberitos dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @12:00 (Displays) |
| http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...18/0951259 |
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The first projector I remember seeing in person had three great big glass
eyes (for red, green, and blue lamps) and BNC connectors. It probably
weighed more than 100 pounds, and had to be carefully calibrated to align
the lenses. Now, I've got a projector above my head that weighs less than
a Neal Stephenson novel and has a sharper, brighter image than that
monster. I've been [0]looking into LED projectors for a few years now; in
that time, I've been waiting for them to come down in price and bump up
in lumens. So I was very curious about [1]BenQ's GP1 LED projector (also
known, somewhat oddly, as "Joybee"), and was happy to get a sample for
review. It may seem retrograde to bother with an 800x600, 100 lumen (no
missing zero there: one-hundred lumen) projector in 2009 A.D., but for
the past four weeks, I've used it as my primary display, and come out
happy. It has some drawbacks, but it's an impressive little device for
its $499 pricetag, and I hope a harbinger of even better things to come.
Read on for my take on what BenQ got right, and what rough spots stick
out.
This story continues at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...18/0951259
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s...18/0951259
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?...09/2116258&tid=196
1. http://www.benq.us/page/?pageId=309&click=showcases%7Cscid%7C391
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| Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US |
| from the yeah-that'll-happen dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 18, @12:40 (The Internet) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1521237 |
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xclr8r writes "Eric Massa, a congressman representing a district in
western New York, [0]has a bill ready that would start [1]treating
Internet providers like a utility and stop the use of caps. Nearby
locales have been used as test beds for the new caps, so this may have
made the constituents raise the issue with their representative."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1521237
Links:
0. http://massa.house.gov/uploads/Broadband...essAct.pdf
1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/...e-caps.ars
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| Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification |
| from the take-it-with-a-ton-of-salt dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @13:34 (Earth) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...18/1728218 |
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[0]CarnegieScience writes "Plans to stop global warming by
'geoengineering' the planet by putting aerosols in the atmosphere to
block sunlight are controversial, to say the least. Scientists are now
pointing out that even if it keeps the planet cool, it will do [1]almost
nothing to stop another major problem â ocean acidification. The ocean
will keep on absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (making
carbonic acid) and the water's pH will get too low for corals and other
marine life to secrete skeletons. So this is another strike against a
quick fix of our climate problems."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid...18/1728218
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/carnegiescience
1. http://www.ciw.edu/news/global_sunscreen...ave_corals
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| Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts |
| from the are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @14:17 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/1736257 |
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justinlindh writes "Bozeman, Montana is now [0]requiring all applicants
for city jobs to furnish Internet account information for 'background
checking.' A portion of the application reads, "Please list any and all,
current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any
Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not
limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.' The
article goes on to mention, 'There are then three lines where applicants
can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their
passwords.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/1736257
Links:
0. http://montanasnewsstation.com/Global/st...S=10551414
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| US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities |
| from the out-of-the-rubble-and-into-the-future dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, @14:45 (United States) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/130212 |
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chrb writes "Two days ago Slashdot discussed [0]broke counties grinding
their tarmac roads into gravel. Now the Telegraph reveals plans to
[1]raze huge sections of at least 50 US cities to the ground. The
resulting smaller cities will be more economical to run, and the
recovered land will be returned to nature."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid.../18/130212
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/...-To-Gravel
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/finan...rvive.html
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| Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks |
| from the this-is-2009-ce-after-all dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @15:06 (Handhelds) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?...18/1848234 |
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ericatcw writes "Google's Android may enjoy the hype, but an increasing
number of key industry players say the mobile OS isn't ready for ARM
netbooks, aka smartbooks. Nvidia is the most recent to [0]declare Android
unfit for duty, stating its preference for Microsoft's Windows CE, which
an Nvidia exec praised for having a "low footprint" and being "rock
solid." Nvidia is busy optimizing its multimedia-savvy Tegra
system-on-chip for Windows CE. Such improvements won't arrive for at
least a year to Android, which has an inflexible UI and poor graphics
support for devices larger than a smartphone, says Nvidia. Other [1]firms
echoing [2]similar criticism include ARM and Asustek."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl...18/1848234
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9134522
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9133989
2. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9133813
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| iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch |
| from the switched-housemate's-iphone-to-danish dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @16:00 (Portables (Apple))|
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...18/1948230 |
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[0]CWmike writes "Apple [1]patched 46 security vulnerabilities in the
iPhone and iPod Touch, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit
rendering engine, as it [2]released iPhone OS 3.0 on Wednesday. One of
the patched WebKit vulnerabilities stands out because of the attention it
received in March, when a German college student, Nils, [3]walked away
with a $5,000 cash prize for hacking Safari at the Pwn2Own challenge.
Nils used a bug in WebKit's handling of SVGList objects to crack Safari."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...18/1948230
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9134548
2. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9134494
3. http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...ticleBasic&articleId=9130074
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| Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches |
| from the rifling-through-america's-storage-unit dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @16:58 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/2043242 |
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An anonymous reader writes "A bill introduced by Canada's Minister of
Public Safety [0]will allow police to (warrantlessly) force ISPs to
provide access to any requested digital traffic records, reports News
1130. Police lobbied for the bill as means of 'combatting gangsters,
pedophiles, or terrorists,' but apparently they find the legal principles
of judicial review and probable cause, as well as a [1]constitutional
provision against 'unreasonable search or seizure', to be too much of a
hassle, and would rather be able to search anyone's web or e-mail traffic
at their own discretion and without any oversight. All in the name of
public safety, of course."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...18/2043242
Links:
0. http://www.news1130.com/more.jsp?content...13536_8084
1. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/1.html#codese:8
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| First Images of Memories Being Made |
| from the from-the-brain-side-that-is dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @17:20 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...18/2053216 |
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[0]TheSync writes Eurekalert reports that researchers at the Montreal
Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill and UCLA have [1]captured the
first image of protein translation that underlies long-term memory
formation. A fluorescent protein showed the increased local protein
synthesis during memory formation, which requires cooperation between the
pre and post-synaptic compartments of the two neurons that meet at the
synapse."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...18/2053216
Links:
0. http://www.t11s.com/
1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...061809.php
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| Fighting For Downloaders' Hearts and Minds |
| from the dude-pirate-is-not-the-prefered-nomenclature dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @17:50 (The Almighty Buck)|
| http://entertainment.slashdot.org/articl...18/2111209|
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iateyourcookies writes "As opposed to enforcement which usually makes the
headlines, The BBC is running an article called [0]Inside A Downloader's
Head which looks at the film and music industries' attempts to prevent
copyright infringement. It details some of the campaigns, their
rationale, controversy surrounding them and notes that 'there are plenty,
even among the young, who can be eloquent about why they believe illegal
downloading is not wrong. These can include everything from what they see
as the unacceptable "control freakery" of DRM and regional coding, to
overcharging and exploitation of the very artists the music industry
claims to protect.' However, PR company for the industry Blue Rubicon
attests that 'campaigns can change hearts and minds... If you do them
right you can make a material impact on people's behaviour.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/commen...18/2111209
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8106805.stm
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| In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 |
| from the there-go-some-hearts-and-minds dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @18:35 (The Courts) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/227219 |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Well the price went up from $9250 per
song file to $80,000 per song file, as the jury [1]awarded the RIAA
statutory damages of $1,920,000.00 for infringement of 24 MP3s, in
[2]Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset. In this trial, although the
defendant had an expert witness of her own, she never called him to
testify, and her attorneys never challenged the technical evidence
offered by the RIAA's MediaSentry and Doug Jacobson. Also, neither the
[3]special verdict form nor the [4]jury instructions spelled out what the
elements of a 'distribution' are, or what needed to be established by the
plaintiffs in order to recover statutory â as opposed to actual â
damages. No doubt there will now have to be a third trial, and no doubt
the unreasonableness of the verdict will lend support to those arguing
that the RIAA's statutory damages theory is unconstitutional." Update:
06/19 01:39 GMT by [5]T : Lots [6]more detail at Ars Technica, too.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid.../18/227219
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspo...2128294747
2. http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Documents.htm&s=Virgin_v_Thomas
3. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspo...8574176340
4. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspo...0954533061
5. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/...erdict.ars
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| Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million|
| from the too-big-to-not-fail dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, @19:28 (Bug) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/18/2310211 |
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jaroslav writes "The University of Wisconsin is attempting to update a
payroll system they have had in place since 1975, but spent $28.4 million
in a 2004 attempt with no results, and now is experiencing new overruns
in cost and time after 'not hav[ing] the full picture of how complex this
project would be.' The current estimate of the redesign is [0]$12 million
and years of further work on top of the money already spent."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/18/2310211
Links:
0. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-a...7575.story