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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think)
* Amazon To Collect Indiana Sales Tax In 2014
* Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing
* Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say
* Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay
* British Schoolchildren To Get Programming Lessons
* Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox
* Doctor Warns of the Hidden Danger of Touchscreens
* Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market
* Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In"
* Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search
* Kodak Sues HTC and Apple
* Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon
* Kinect For Windows Releasing On February 1
* Should Science Rethink the Definition of "Life"?
* Facebook Adds Ads To News Feed
* Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife
* Tracking Down the First Oxygen Users
* Microsoft Readying Massive Real Time Threat Intelligence Feed
* Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again
* Nanosensors Could Help Reduce Laboratory Animal Testing
* IBM Tops "Most Patents List" For 19th Straight Year
* Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development
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| The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think)
| from the make-a-button-that-does-everything dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 11, @05:20 (Programming)
| with 433 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0535255/the-bosses-do-everything-better-or-so-they-think?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Some people, writes Dave Winer, [0]make the mistake of
thinking that if the result of someone's work is easy to use, the work
itself must be easy. Like the boss ��� or boss's boss's boss ��� who asks for
your code so he can show you how to implement the features he wants
instead of having to bother to explain things. Give the code to him,
advises Winer. If he pulls it off, even poorly, at least you'll know what
he was asking for. And if he fails, well, he might be more patient about
explaining what exactly he wants, and perhaps even appreciate how hard
your work is. Or ��� more likely ��� you may simply never hear from him
again. Win-win-win. So, how do you handle an
anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better boss?"
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Links:
0. http://scripting.com/stories/2012/01/09/theBossesDoEverythingBette.html
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| Amazon To Collect Indiana Sales Tax In 2014
| from the slowly-losing-the-war dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @19:19 (Businesses)
| with 394 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/10/2338244/amazon-to-collect-indiana-sales-tax-in-2014?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this quote from an Associated Press
report: "Amazon.com will [0]begin collecting Indiana's 7 percent sales
tax from customers in the state in 2014, under an agreement announced
Monday. ... Gov. Mitch Daniels' office said Indiana will become the
fourth state with such a tax collection agreement with Seattle-based
Amazon. It follows a lawsuit by Indianapolis-based shopping mall owner
Simon Property Group against the state over the issue and a lobbying push
on state legislators by traditional retailers to end what they call an
unfair price advantage for online retailers. The deal doesn���t include any
other companies, but Daniels said the state is asking Congress to require
all online businesses to collect state sales taxes."
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| Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing
| from the bake-until-golden-brown dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @20:07 (Education)
| with 364 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0040254/raspberry-pi-has-gone-to-manufacturing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]alecclews writes "After weeks of waiting, the Raspberry Pi foundation,
who are creating a $25 computer to bootstrap computing education, [1]has
flipped the switch on manufacturing. They had wanted to build the board
in the UK but it turns out to be uneconomic."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. https://github.com/alecthegeek
1. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509
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| Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say
| from the speed-monitored-by-aircraft dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @13:03 (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
| with 347 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1736218/whos-flying-those-drones-faa-wont-say?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]netbuzz writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation nine months ago
filed a Freedom of Information Act request to prompt the FAA to release
the names of government agencies and private entities that have received
permission to fly unmanned aircraft over our heads. Nine months later,
the FAA has [1]neither released the information nor explained why it
hasn't. On Tuesday the [2]EFF filed suit (PDF) to force the agency to do
so. Says EFF staff attorney Jennifer Lynch: 'Drones give the government
and other unmanned aircraft operators a [3]powerful new surveillance tool
to gather extensive and intrusive data on Americans' movements and
activities. As the government begins to make policy decisions about the
use of these aircraft, the public needs to know more about how and why
these drones are being used to surveil United States citizens.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/227
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/whos-flying-those-drones-eff-sues-government-find-out
2. https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/EFFDroneComplaint.pdf
3. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/who-flying-unmanned-aircraft-us
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| Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay
| from the censorship-is-hip dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @11:39 (Piracy)
| with 261 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1549255/dutch-court-forces-isps-to-block-the-pirate-bay?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter swinferno writes "After [0]recent successes in Finland,
Italy and Belgium, the Dutch Copyright protection organization BREIN
[1]has obtained a verdict that forces two major ISP to [2]block access to
The Pirate Bay domains and gives them the [3]right to submit future
domains/IP addresses to be blocked in the future without court order."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/1436203/finnish-isp-forced-to-block-the-pirate-bay
1. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fzoeken.rechtspraak.nl%2Fdetailpage.aspx%3Fljn%3DBV0549%26u_ljn%3DBV0549
2. http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-isps-ordered-to-block-the-pirate-bay-120111/
3. http://www.google.com/translate_c?langpair=en&u=http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/79266/ziggo-en-xs4all-moeten-the-pirate-bay-blokkeren.html
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| British Schoolchildren To Get Programming Lessons
| from the cool-kids-code dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @09:35 (Education)
| with 233 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1332222/british-schoolchildren-to-get-programming-lessons?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "The British Education Secretary Michael Gove has
said that [1]the school ICT curriculum will be scrapped and [2]replaced
with programming and real computer science. Britain's schoolchildren have
had compulsory ICT (information and communications technology) lessons
for some time, but they are hated by staff and pupils alike, [3]amounting
to little more than Power Point training, using the products rather than
understanding the code. There is room for improvement ��� and the
British-designed [4]Raspberry Pi could be part of this, but can the new
system break away from the old product-centric regime when it will
apparently be sponsored by companies including Google and Microsoft?"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/education-secretary-to-overhaul-ict-curriculum-53598
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/11/digital-literacy-michael-gove-speech
3. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/16/147238/british-schoolkids-to-be-taught-computer-coding
4. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0040254/raspberry-pi-has-gone-to-manufacturing
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| Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox
| from the can't-stop-until-version-73 dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @08:54 (Firefox)
| with 225 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1313247/mozilla-announces-long-term-support-version-of-firefox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mvar writes "After a [0]meeting held last Monday regarding [1]Mozilla
Firefox Extended Support Release, the new version was announced yesterday
in a post on Mozilla's official blog: 'We are pleased to announce that
the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a
plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises,
public institutions, universities, and other organizations that centrally
manage their Firefox deployments. [2]Releases of the ESR will occur once
a year, providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that
receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox
Add-ons platform.'"
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Links:
0. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Meetings/2012_Jan
1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal
2. http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-extended-support-release/
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| Doctor Warns of the Hidden Danger of Touchscreens
| from the touch-too-much dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @14:27 (Medicine)
| with 217 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1827251/doctor-warns-of-the-hidden-danger-of-touchscreens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Dr. Franklin Tessler discusses the [1]hidden
stress-related injuries of touchscreen use, and how best to use
smartphones, tablets, and touch PCs to avoid them. 'Touchscreen-oriented
health hazards are even more insidious because most people aren't even
aware that they exist. The potential for injury from using touchscreens
will only go up ... as the rise of the touchscreen means both new kinds
of health hazards and more usage in risky scenarios,' Tessler writes,
providing tips for properly positioning touchscreens and ways to avoid
repetitive stress injuries and eyestrain."
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/t/laptops/the-hidden-danger-touchscreens-181774
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| Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market
| from the taking-the-battle-to-the-enemy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, @22:11 (Hardware)
| with 206 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0046233/qualcomm-wants-a-piece-of-the-pc-market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Much of Intel's story of the past few years has
involved its so far fruitless attempts to break into the smartphone and
tablet market. But as it keeps trying, it may find competition on its
home turf: Qualcomm, which makes many of the ARM-based chips in those
smartphones and tablets, [1]wants to make PCs, too. The advent of Windows
8 for ARM and Android will make this possible."
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Links:
0. http://jfruh.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/240039/qualcomm-targets-pcs-takes-aim-intels-ultrabooks
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| Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In"
| from the in-today's-sopa-news dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @15:51 (Piracy)
| with 188 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1933252/reddit-turning-sopa-blackout-into-a-learn-in?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bdking writes "Reddit's planned 12-hour 'blackout' on January 18 sounds
like an ineffectual, if not self-defeating, strategy for opposing the
Stop Online Piracy Act. But the social news site actually will use that
time not to 'go dark,' but [0]to educate visitors about the ramifications
of the House legislation that many fear will lead to widespread shutdowns
of Internet sites."
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/internet/240741/reddit-shut-itself-down-12-hours-protest-sopa-pipa
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| Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search
| from the social-networking-drama dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 11, @00:14 (Google)
| with 179 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0423253/twitter-comes-out-swinging-against-googles-personalized-search?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Meshach writes "Google's release of the new 'Search Plus Your World'
feature has elicited harsh words from Twitter's general counsel (who used
to work with Google). He claims that the changes will [0]make information
harder to find for users and be bad news for news publishers. Some
analysts are [1]wondering if this is a prelude to a legal battle similar
to Microsoft's bundling of IE."
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Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57356476-93/twitter-to-google-you-broke-the-internet/
1. http://parislemon.com/post/15627530949/antitrust
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| Kodak Sues HTC and Apple
| from the new-business-strategy dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @10:57 (Patents)
| with 171 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1526226/kodak-sues-htc-and-apple?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Here we go again with mobile industry patent lawsuits:
'Struggling Eastman Kodak is alleging that [0]Apple's and HTC's
smartphones and tablets infringe on its digital imaging technology, and
has filed a complaint and lawsuits with the U.S. International Trade
Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New
York. The complaint to the ITC claims that some of Apple's iPhones,
iPads, and iPods, and HTC's smartphones and tablets, infringe Kodak
patents related to technology for transmitting images. Kodak also alleges
that HTC's smartphones infringe on a [1]patent related to a method for
previewing images, which is already the subject of pending actions
against Apple.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/011112-kodak-sues-htc-apple-over-254778.html
1. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-11/kodak-s-latest-apple-htc-lawsuits-may-goose-value-of-patents.html
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| Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon
| from the pocket-heating-device dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @12:20 (Cellphones)
| with 167 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1640224/intel-powered-smartphones-arriving-soon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "After [0]years of promises to enter the smartphone
market, Intel has finally done so. During his keynote at CES, Intel's
Chief executive Paul Otellini said that Intel has signed Lenovo and
Motorola to contracts to [1]use its Atom processors in smartphones.
Unlike past launches, Intel has held Medfield back until its partners
were ready to go to press as well. [2]According to an early preview,
Medfield pairs a [3]1.6GHz Atom CPU with an SGX540 GPU designed by
PowerVR. This is the same GPU we've seen tip up in the Samsung Galaxy
Nexus and Droid Razr, though Intel is clocking it higher, at 400MHz.
Intel's new SoC encodes video at 720p at 30 fps, can playback 1080p at 30
fps, and supports 1920��1080 output via HDMI. The first smartphone to
carry an Intel chip will debut on China Unicom during the second
quarter."
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Links:
0. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/01/10/164241/intel-and-lg-team-up-for-x86-smartphone
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398747,00.asp
2. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/112851-intel-medfield-x86-smartphones
3. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/x86-Everywhere-Intel-Announces-Medfield-Phones/
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| Kinect For Windows Releasing On February 1
| from the press-any-key-or-flail-spastically-to-continue dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 11, @02:10 (Input Devices)
| with 149 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0612212/kinect-for-windows-releasing-on-february-1?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]clinko writes "Microsoft has announced that the new Kinect for Windows
hardware and accompanying software [1]will be available on February 1st,
2012 in 12 countries, at a suggested retail price of US $249 ($149 for
edu). Microsoft has chosen a hardware-only business model for Kinect for
Windows; they will not be charging for the SDK or the runtime. These will
be available free to developers and end-users respectively."
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Links:
0. http://egusta.com/
1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kinectforwindows/archive/2012/01/09/kinect-for-windows-commercial-program-announced.aspx
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| Should Science Rethink the Definition of "Life"?
| from the some-kind-of-high-powered-mutant-never-even-considered-for-mass-production dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @18:43 (NASA)
| with 145 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/2241232/should-science-rethink-the-definition-of-life?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ambermichelle pointed out a story about the search for life on other
planets, and the likelihood that it would be much different than what we
find on Earth. With the increase of [0]extremophile discovery in recent
years perhaps it's time to reassess what the definition of "life" should
be. "In November 2011, NASA launched its biggest, most ambitious mission
to Mars. The $2.5 billion Mars Science Lab spacecraft will arrive in
orbit around the Red Planet this August, releasing a lander that will use
rockets to control a slow descent into the atmosphere. Equipped with a
'sky crane,' the lander will gently lower [1]the one-ton Curiosity rover
on the surface of Mars. Curiosity, which weighs five times more than any
previous Martian rover, will perform an unprecedented battery of tests
for three months as it scoops up soil from the floor of the 96-mile-wide
Gale Crater. Its mission, NASA says, will be to 'assess whether Mars ever
was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life.'
For all the spectacular engineering that's gone into Curiosity, however,
its goal is actually quite modest. When NASA says it wants to find out if
Mars was ever suitable for life, they use a very circumscribed version of
the word. They are looking for signs of liquid water, which all living
things on Earth need. They are looking for organic carbon, which life on
Earth produces and, in some cases, can feed on to survive. In other
words, they're looking on Mars for the sorts of conditions that support
life on Earth. But [2]there's no good reason to assume that all life has
to be like the life we're familiar with. In 2007, a board of scientists
appointed by the National Academies of Science decided they couldn't rule
out the possibility that life might be able to exist without water or
carbon. If such weird life on Mars exists, Curiosity will probably miss
it."
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Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/27/1910221/war-over-arsenic-based-life
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1655255/11-amazing-things-nasas-huge-mars-rover-can-do
2. http://www.txchnologist.com/2012/can-a-scientist-define-life-by-carl-zimmer
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| Facebook Adds Ads To News Feed
| from the worse-than-mafia-wars dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday January 11, @10:15 (Advertising)
| with 124 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/145202/facebook-adds-ads-to-news-feed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article at ZDNet: "As
expected, [0]Facebook has started displaying ads in users' News Feeds.
You may not be seeing them yet as the company is rolling them out
gradually, like it does for all its changes. ... Last month, a Facebook
spokesperson said the company hoped to 'show people [1]no more than one
Sponsored Story in their News Feeds per day.' This is no longer the case,
as Facebook now says you may see more Featured stories 'if you visit your
News Feed a lot.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-starts-displaying-ads-in-the-news-feed/7143
1. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/sponsored-stories-news-feed/
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| Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife
| from the MacGyver-approved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @17:35 (Data Storage)
| with 99 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/2111241/victorinox-makes-1tb-swiss-army-knife?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "The Swiss Army knife has been available with storage
for some time ��� now there is a [1]1 terabyte version. It comes with two
bodies, so the storage can be swapped out into a flight-safe version with
no knife or scissors. The company left the price off its release, but
sources suggest it is $3000."
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Links:
0. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ces-2012-victorinox-launches-1tb-swiss-army-knife-ssd-53732
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| Tracking Down the First Oxygen Users
| from the primordial-home-health-care dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @13:45 (Science)
| with 84 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1812236/tracking-down-the-first-oxygen-users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "None of us would be here today if, billions of years
ago, a tiny, single-celled organism hadn't started using oxygen to make a
living. Researchers don't know exactly when this happened, or why, but a
team of scientists has come closer than ever before to finding out.
They've identified [0]the earliest known example of aerobic metabolism,
the process of using oxygen as fuel. The discovery may even provide clues
as to where the oxygen came from in the first place."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/the-first-oxygen-users.html?ref=hp
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| Microsoft Readying Massive Real Time Threat Intelligence Feed
| from the dangers-of-the-day dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @16:34 (Microsoft)
| with 74 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/2042238/microsoft-readying-massive-real-time-threat-intelligence-feed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]chicksdaddy wrote in with a link to a story about a Microsoft project
that will share security information in real time with customers and law
enforcement. The article reads "Microsoft has proven that it can take
down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the
company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts
available to governments, law enforcement and customers as [1]a real time
threat intelligence feed. Representatives from the Redmond, Washington
software maker told an audience at the International Conference on Cyber
Security (ICCS) here that it was testing a new service to distribute
threat data from captured botnets and other sources to partners,
including foreign governments, Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)
and private corporations."
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Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/
1. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-readying-real-time-hosted-threat-intelligence-feed-011112
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| Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again
| from the that's-our-word dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 11, @08:15 (Programming)
| with 49 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/0550200/facebook-helps-give-hacking-a-good-name-again?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Ira Winkler says whenever he sees another
'cyberchallenge' getting play in the press, [1]he think our priorities
are screwed up. 'People seem to think that organizing teams of people to
hack into systems is a way to bring together the best computer talent to
square off against each other,' writes Winkler. 'I look at it as a waste
of that talent.' That's why Winkler supports [2]Facebook's latest Hacker
Cup, which has become one of the few tests of creative computer talent.
Facebook is using the original definition of 'hacker,' referring not to
someone who breaks into computer systems, but rather to an individual who
'enjoys [3]exploring the details of programmable systems and how to
stretch their capabilities.' Facebook's contest consists of successive
sets of increasingly difficult algorithmic problems. Scoring will be
based on [4]how accurately and quickly the programmers complete the
puzzles. 'Meanwhile, the media effectively lionize groups like Anonymous
by breathlessly reporting on their latest hacks,' writes Winkler. 'What
we really should be doing is not to reward a handful of students to find
problems, but to train all students, and inevitably the profession, to
integrate security into their efforts from the start.'"
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223307/Ira_Winkler_Facebook_is_giving_hacking_a_good_name_again
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223153/Facebook_brings_back_the_hack
3. http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_23.html#SEC30
4. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/announcing-facebooks-2012-hacker-cup/10150468260528920
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| Nanosensors Could Help Reduce Laboratory Animal Testing
| from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-bunnies? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @15:10 (Technology)
| with 44 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/1854230/nanosensors-could-help-reduce-laboratory-animal-testing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "Animal testing is an area that elicits strong feelings
on both sides of the argument for and against the practice. Supporters
like the British Royal Society argue that virtually every medical
breakthrough of the 20th century involved the use of animals in some way,
while opponents say that it is not only cruel, but actually impedes
medical progress by using misleading animal models. Whatever side of the
argument researchers fall on, most would likely use an alternative to
animal testing if it existed. And [0]an alternative that reduces the need
for animal testing is just what Fraunhofer researchers hope their new
sensor nanoparticles will be."
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Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/nanosensor-reduce-animal-testing/21066/
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| IBM Tops "Most Patents List" For 19th Straight Year
| from the we're-number-one dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @18:01 (IBM)
| with 32 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/225212/ibm-tops-most-patents-list-for-19th-straight-year?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]bednarz writes "IBM [1]retained its patent crown for 2011, topping the
list of patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S.
company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth
place, according to [2]IFI Claims Patent Services' list of the top 50
U.S. patent assignees. HP and Intel fell out of the top 10 and landed
14th and 16th, respectively. Apple moved up to No. 39 after breaking into
the top 50 for the first time last year. Asian firms account for 25 of
the top 50, and U.S. firms hold 17 slots."
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Links:
0. mailto:abednarz.nww@com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/011112-ibm-patents-254787.html
2. http://www.ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_Top_50_2011
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| Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, @17:16 (Books)
| with 28 comments
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/12/01/11/2056220/book-review-sams-teach-yourself-html5-mobile-application-development?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Michael J. Ross writes "The last few years have seen the emergence of
several significant advances in web technologies, including HTML5 and
CSS3 ��� all impacting the development of traditional and mobile-centric
web sites. In turn, various technical book publishers have released
titles addressing one or more of these technologies. While one book may
focus on HTML5 and the new JavaScript APIs, another might include
extensive coverage of CSS3, with little mention of JavaScript. A recent
title, Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24
Hours, focuses on some of the more commonly employed elements introduced
with HTML5, and how they can be used for creating mobile sites and
applications." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.
This story continues at:
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Links:
0. http://www.ross.ws/
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