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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop
* When Software Offends
* Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5
* Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock
* 25% of Car Accidents Linked to Gadget Use
* Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square?
* Technology and Moral Panic
* Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript
* Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts
* How Google+ Measures Up On Privacy
* Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown?
* Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain
* <em>News of the World</em> Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims
* Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction
* CmdrTaco Watches Atlantis Liftoff
* Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data
* JPMorgan Rolls Out FPGA Supercomputer
* New SMS Trojan Found In Android Markets
* Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD
* UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee
* Why Yahoo Should Abandon Email Scanning
* Why SOE Decided To Cancel <em>Star Wars Galaxies</em>
* Apple Ordered To Pay $8M For Playlist Patents
* Harvard's Privacy Meltdown
* How Investigators Deciphered Stuxnet
* Red Wine Counters Some Negative Health Effects of Microgravity
* 30th Anniversary of <em>Donkey Kong</em>
* Microsoft Yanks Security Site Poisoned With Porn
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| DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop
| from the show-us-everything dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @11:49 (Security)
| with 793 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1531259/DOJ-We-Can-Force-You-To-Decrypt-That-Laptop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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betterunixthanunix writes "A mortgage-fraud case may have widespread
implications for criminals who use cryptography to hide evidence. The US
Department of Justice is pushing for the defendant to be [0]forced to
decrypt her hard drive, claiming that if they cannot force such
decryptions, law enforcement will be unable to gather important evidence.
The defendant's lawyer and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have made
the claim that forcing such a decryption would be [1]a violation of the
defendant's fifth amendment right not to self-incriminate. The prosecutor
in the case has insisted that the defendant would not be forced to
disclose her passphrase, but only to enter the passphrase into a computer
to decrypt the drive."
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Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078312-281/doj-we-can-force-you-to-decrypt-that-laptop/
1. https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/07/08
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| When Software Offends
| from the ruffling-feathers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @12:00 (Censorship)
| with 423 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1315217/When-Software-Offends?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]ndogg writes "The open source Python [1]projects Pantyshot and Upskirt
have caused quite a stir within the Python community, and catalyzed the
leaving of one of their developers (a woman whose native language is not
English.) The original developer, Frank Smit, has renamed Pantyshot to
Misaka, but that too has suspect etymology, as Violet Blue points out."
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Links:
0. mailto:the.rhornNO@SPAMgmail.com
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/when-software-offends-the-pantyshot-package-controversy/509
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| Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5
| from the pedal-on-the-right dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 11, @08:59 (Firefox)
| with 410 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1240250/Firefox-8-20-Faster-Than-Firefox-5?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Thanks to continued improvements to start-up
and first paint performance, tweaks to memory footprint and garbage
collection, and the addition of a new 2D graphics backend called Azure,
Firefox 8 is some [0]20% faster than Firefox 5 across all major metrics ���
and actually about equal with Chrome 14 on JavaScript and 2D rendering
performance. Azure (which is new with Firefox 7) replaces Cairo, and
instead of dealing with Direct2D and Quartz, it allows Firefox to deal
directly with the Direct3D and OpenGL subsystems ��� resulting in a 20%
speed boost under Windows, and probably even more under OS X."
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Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/internet/89570-firefox-8-is-20-faster-than-firefox-5-matches-chrome-14
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| Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock
| from the dark-side-of-the-moon-rocks dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @13:34 (NASA)
| with 342 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/165217/Court-to-Decide-If-Man-Can-Keep-His-Moon-Rock?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Joe Gutheinz, a former senior investigator for NASA's Office of Inspector
General, has made it his goal to collect all 230 moon rocks presented by
the US to governments around the world, and put them in a museum.
Deadliest Catch Captain Coleman Anderson wants to [0]keep his little
piece of the moon. Anderson says he found the rock in the trash mixed
with debris following a fire at an Anchorage museum in 1973. He's kept it
as a good luck charm ever since. "Our astronauts and their descendants
are not permitted to have an Apollo 11-era moon rock to sell for their
own enrichment and neither should a private citizen who acquired one in a
less-noble manner," Gutheinz said. An Alaskan judge will now decide who
legally owns the rock.
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Links:
0. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015561879_moonrock10m.html
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| 25% of Car Accidents Linked to Gadget Use
| from the turn-your-movie-off dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @09:42 (Handhelds)
| with 292 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1340258/25-of-Car-Accidents-Linked-to-Gadget-Use?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]BogenDorpher writes "In a recent [1]study by the Governors Highway
Safety Association (PDF), driving distractions such as cell phones and
other electronic devices [2]cause as much as 25% of all US car accidents.
It is common knowledge that driving while distracted is not a safe thing
to do, but now we have some scientific data that goes in-depth on the
topic. From the article: '"Despite all that has been written about driver
distraction, there is still a lot that we do not know. Much of the
research is incomplete or contradictory. Clearly, more studies need to be
done addressing both the scope of the problem and how to effectively
address it," said GHSA Executive Director Barbara Harsha.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.winbeta.org/
1. http://www.ghsa.org/html/publications/pdf/sfdist11.pdf
2. http://www.winbeta.org/?q=content/25-car-accidents-are-because-gadgets
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| Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square?
| from the squares-must-be-different-over-there dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @05:04 (Hardware Hacking)
| with 247 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0442245/Ask-Slashdot-Large-Scale-DIY-Outdoor-Cooling-of-Cairos-Tahrir-Square?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ClimateHacker writes "The struggle for freedom is still ongoing in Egypt
and one of the many challenges that face the demonstrators in [0]Tahrir
Square is the [1]sweltering heat. Skies are mostly clear and temperatures
can reach up to 44 degrees Celsius (111 F) with hardly any shade. The
risk of life-threatening heat stroke is quite real. I ask clever
Slashdotters out there for novel DIY passive and active ambient cooling
techniques. Perhaps some ideas could be a model for saving energy on
cooling elsewhere."
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Links:
0. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tahrir,+Egypt&hl=en&ll=30.044435,31.235668&spn=0.001128,0.002527&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.847644,82.792969&t=h&z=19
1. http://www.accuweather.com/en-us/eg/al-qahirah/cairo/quick-look.aspx
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| Technology and Moral Panic
| from the women-and-children-first dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @10:25 (Intel)
| with 245 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1359235/Technology-and-Moral-Panic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]pbahra writes "[1]Why do some technologies cause moral panic and
others don't? Why was the introduction of electricity seen as a terrible
thing, while nobody cared much about the fountain pen? According to
Genevieve Bell, the director of Intel Corporation's Interaction and
Experience Research, we have had moral panic over new technology for
pretty well as long as we have had technology. It is one of the constants
in our culture. '... moral panic is remarkably stable and it is always
played out in the bodies of children and women,' she said. There was, she
says, an initial pushback about electrifying homes in the U.S.: 'If you
electrify homes you will make women and children vulnerable. Predators
will be able to tell if they are home because the light will be on, and
you will be able to see them. So electricity is going to make women
vulnerable. Oh and children will be visible too and it will be predators,
who seem to be lurking everywhere, who will attack.' 'There was some
wonderful stuff about [railway trains] too in the U.S., that women's
bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour. Our uteruses would
fly out of our bodies as they were accelerated to that speed,' she says."
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Links:
0. mailto:parminder.bahra@wsj.com
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/11/women-and-children-first-technology-and-moral-panic/
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| Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript
| from the think-of-the-children dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @14:40 (Education)
| with 223 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/183246/Stanford-CS101-Adopts-JavaScript?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "In case further proof were needed that JavaScript shall
indeed inherit the earth, we have the news that [0]Stanford has adopted
JavaScript to teach CS101 ��� Introduction to Computing Principles: 'The
essential ideas of computing via little phrases of JavaScript code.' You
can even try it out for yourself at [1]Stanford's course page."
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Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/2723-stanford-cs-adopts-javascript.html
1. http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs101/
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| Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts
| from the and-another-one-gone-and-another-one-gone dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @18:13 (Security)
| with 177 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2129225/Anonymous-Releases-90000-Military-E-Mail-Accounts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jjp9999 writes "Anonymous Operations [0]posted 90,000 military email
addresses and passwords to [1]the Pirate Bay on July 11, in what they're
calling 'Military Meltdown Monday.' They obtained the emails while
hacking government contracting and consulting firm [2]Booz Allen Hamilton.
They hinted at other information obtained during the breach, which they
describe as 'maps and keys for various other treasure chests buried on
the islands of government agencies, federal contractors and shady
whitehat companies.' The breach comes just days after Anonymous [3]hacked
government contractor IRC Federal. Both breaches are linked to the new
AntiSec movement, which LulzSec joined forces with shortly before
disbanding."
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Links:
0. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/technology/anonymous-hackers-release-90000-military-e-mail-accounts-58945.html
1. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6533009
2. http://twitter.com/#!/BoozAllen/status/90499027480748032
3. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/231001326
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| How Google+ Measures Up On Privacy
| from the circling-the-wagons dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @08:09 (Google)
| with 155 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0510237/How-Google-Measures-Up-On-Privacy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The slow rollout of Google+ has led some to wonder
whether Google was trying to create demand through scarcity, but it might
just be that the company [1]learned its lesson from the privacy fiasco
that was the launch of Google Buzz. 'I think it is very smart of Google
to restrict Plus to a "limited field trial" ��� they aren't even calling it
a beta. Google made a misstep with the roll out of Buzz. They've already
avoided that mistake with Plus with this limited release. And because
it's so exclusive, tech savvy individuals are fighting to get in ��� just
the type of folks that you want as beta testers,' said Sean Sullivan, an
F-Secure security adviser. Of course, fixing bugs doesn't necessarily
mean that Google will have privacy issues buttoned up. 'Google Plus is
clearly designed to give people better control over their privacy with
respect to their family, co-workers and friends, [but] there are other
types of privacy that it simply can't provide,' says Peter Eckersley, a
senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 'Nobody
has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of
privacy protections yet.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/saas/181373/privacy-experts-praise-google-rollout-so-far
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| Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown?
| from the cry-havoc-and-let-slip-the-patent-attorneys dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @15:24 (Android)
| with 140 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/188229/Why-No-War-Over-MSs-Android-Patent-Shakedown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "When challenged directly by Oracle over Android
intellectual property, Google has proven itself a [1]feisty opponent. So
why is it sitting back and letting Microsoft shake down OEMs over its
claims to own patents that Android infringes? A disheartened Tom
Henderson thinks it's because Microsoft has been smart to go after the
vendors rather than poke at Google directly. Still, he wonders [2]when
Google will get into the fight." Glyn Moody thinks [3]Google should join
the fight as well.
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Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0148225/Oracle-Google-Move-To-Streamline-Java-Suit
2. http://www.itworld.com/software/181887/google-avoids-call-arms
3. http://www.h-online.com/open/features/To-defend-Android-Google-must-attack-software-patents-1276948.html
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| Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain
| from the for-all-your-one-stop-mutant-making-needs dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @16:05 (Earth)
| with 125 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1858234/Congressmen-Pushing-To-Reopen-Yucca-Mountain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Bob the Super Hamste writes "CNN is reporting that a group of congressmen
backed by the nuclear industry are [0]pushing to reopen the Yucca
Mountain nuclear waste site. The site has sat closed and uncompleted
since the Obama administration scrapped the project. The article goes
into the pros and cons of the Yucca Mountain site for storage and also
brings up some interesting political issues involved in continuing
development. It's also worth noting that there's been a fee on electric
bills since 1983 for the building of the site."
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Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/06/news/economy/nuclear_waste/index.htm?iid=HP_LN
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| <em>News of the World</em> Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims
| from the got-to-tap-them-all dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @11:07 (Media)
| with 122 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1421213/News-of-the-World-Investigation-Expanded-to-911-Victims?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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DMandPenfold writes "Police are questioning whether [0]a change in News
International's email retention policy was part of an effort to conceal
[1]widespread phone hacking by the News of the World, a scandal which is
threatening Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of BSkyB. The trawl for
emails and the questioning of changes in News International's email
retention policy has important implications for IT security and corporate
governance professionals, and is likely to see organizations examining
their own policies and reminding their staff on acceptable usage and best
practice for email."
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3290437/news-of-the-world-email-investigation-under-new-police-spotlight/
1. http://www.smh.com.au/world/911-victims-targeted-by-tabloid-phone-hackers-20110711-1ha90.html
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| Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction
| from the now-how-much-would-you-pay dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @02:00 (Moon)
| with 119 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0418214/Apollo-11-Flag-Swatch-Goes-Unsold-At-LA-Auction?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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According to an Associated Press report, a "strip of fabric shorn from
the flag planted on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts pulled in a top
bid of $60000 at a Los Angeles auction, but [0]didn't meet a minimum
price so it won't be sold." Another $35,000 would have nabbed it, but ���
caveat emptor ��� the strip of fabric under discussion is one that [1]never
went to the moon itself, but rather was snipped off before the rest of
the flag was stuffed into a tube for the mission.
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Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/swatch-moon-bound-flag-unsold-la-auction-032542272.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/science/space/10moon.html
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| CmdrTaco Watches Atlantis Liftoff
| from the here-we-go-again dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 11, @13:15 (NASA)
| with 117 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1559219/CmdrTaco-Watches-Atlantis-Liftoff?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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When someone offers you the once in a lifetime chance to see something as
historic as the final Space Shuttle Flight: You go. As a child I
assembled a puzzle of the Challenger illuminated by those bright xenon
lights, and dreamt of space flight. And last week I went to see the last
launch the world will ever see of a Space Shuttle. Atlantis. STS-135.
What follows is the story of my brief stay at the Kennedy Space Center.
This story continues at:
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| Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data
| from the milo-minderbinder-comes-to-mind dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @19:46 (Advertising)
| with 115 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/233227/Banks-Find-Way-To-Sell-Consumers-Shopping-Data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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nonprofiteer writes "Banks plan to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial
by targeting coupons and deals at credit card holders based on their
shopping habits. They found a way to do it without violating financial
privacy laws: 'They're "selling" shopping habits the same way Facebook
"sells" personal data about its users: in-network. It's a clever privacy
work-around. Just as Facebook allows advertisers to specifically target
certain kinds of users based on their profile information (without
actually providing that profile information to the advertisers), banks
plan to allow advertisers to send deals and coupons to their customers
based on what they've bought before. That way, [0]no user data actually
leaves the network ��� instead, deals just enter the network. Each time a
customer cashes in on one of those deals, the bank gets a commission.'"
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Links:
0. http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/07/11/how-banks-plan-to-compete-with-groupon/
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| JPMorgan Rolls Out FPGA Supercomputer
| from the rejected-rejected-rejected dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @18:58 (Supercomputing)
| with 107 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2232253/JPMorgan-Rolls-Out-FPGA-Supercomputer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "As heterogeneous computing starts to take
off, JP Morgan have revealed they are [0]using an FPGA based
supercomputer to process risk on their credit portfolio. 'Prior to the
implementation, JP Morgan would take eight hours to do a complete risk
run, and an hour to run a present value, on its entire book. If anything
went wrong with the analysis, there was no time to re-run it. It has now
reduced that to about 238 seconds, with an FPGA time of 12 seconds.' Also
mentioned is a [1]Stanford talk given in May."
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Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3290494/jp-morgan-supercomputer-offers-risk-analysis-in-near-real-time/
1. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/110511.html
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| New SMS Trojan Found In Android Markets
| from the popping-up-like-weeds dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @12:30 (Android)
| with 106 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1620222/New-SMS-Trojan-Found-In-Android-Markets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "The Android platform seems to have become the
playground of choice for attackers and malware authors looking to make a
quick buck. The latest example is a [0]premium-rate SMS Trojan that not
only automatically sends costly SMS messages, but also prevents users'
carriers from notifying them of the new charges. The new piece of
malware, [1]which is known as HippoSMS, has been found in unofficial
Android app markets in China. This is just the latest in [2]a series of
similar incidents in which attackers and scammers have inserted either
outright malicious apps or seemingly benign apps containing malware into
app markets. Most of the attacks have targeted Android users, and several
times Google has had to [3]remove malicious apps from the official
Android market."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-sms-trojan-targeting-android-users-071111
1. http://www.cs.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/HippoSMS/
2. http://slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1856242/Android-Trojan-Found-Spreading-From-Chinese-App-Stores
3. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1429221/Google-Pulls-21-Malware-Apps-From-Android-Market
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| Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD
| from the assimilate-this! dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, @15:46 (Handhelds)
| with 106 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/174204/Turn-Your-iPad-Into-a-Star-Trek-PADD?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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A new app from CBS interactive can help you figure out the trouble with
tribbles once and for all. [0]Star Trek PADD for iPad includes all the
official data on ships, aliens, technologies, an episode guide, and uses
a Starfleet-like interface. Live long and prosper.
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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/174204/Turn-Your-iPad-Into-a-Star-Trek-PADD?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.businessinsider.com/star-trek-padd-app-2011-7
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| UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee
| from the team-america-world-police-was-a-documentary dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @19:20 (The Military)
| with 95 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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LibRT writes "The irony-challenged folks at the UN have [0]named North
Korea chair of the Conference on Disarmament, which is heavily focused on
the prevention of a nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament. The
Canadian government has boycotted the convention, calling it an 'absurd'
turn of events: 'North Korea is simply not a credible chair of a
disarmament body. The fact that it gets a turn chairing a United Nations
committee focused on disarmament is unacceptable, given the North Korean
regime's efforts in the exact opposite direction.'" Note that Libya was
once president of the UN's Human Rights Commission, and only recently
[1]removed from its successor in interest, the Human Rights Council.
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Links:
0. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/11/pol-baird-un-north-korea.html?ref=rss
1. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/01/general-assembly-suspends-libya-human-rights-council/
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| Why Yahoo Should Abandon Email Scanning
| from the you-can-trust-us dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @13:58 (Privacy)
| with 94 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1725251/Why-Yahoo-Should-Abandon-Email-Scanning?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twoheadedboy writes "Yahoo has come under fire for updating its terms
and conditions [1]so it can scan user emails. The move has attracted the
attention of notable privacy group Big Brother Watch, which has [2]called
on the email provider to scrap the feature altogether. Yahoo says it is
only doing the scanning to identify spam and better target ads, but that
still hasn't put people off from criticizing the firm."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1725251/Why-Yahoo-Should-Abandon-Email-Scanning?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14077856
2. http://www.itpro.co.uk/634831/yahoo-should-abandon-email-scanning-feature
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| Why SOE Decided To Cancel <em>Star Wars Galaxies</em>
| from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @18:32 (Sony)
| with 91 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/219257/Why-SOE-Decided-To-Cancel-Star-Wars-Galaxies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Last month we discussed news that Sony Online Entertainment will be
[0]shutting down Star Wars Galaxies, which has been running since 2003.
Sony officials recently spoke at Fan Faire to [1]explain the business
decisions behind the closure. Unsurprisingly, licensing and upcoming
competition from BioWare's Star Wars MMO played a big part. CEO John
Smedley said, "We have a contractual relationship that's ending in 2012,
The Old Republic launching, a bunch of other business things with
LucasArts. And then you look at the odds of a pretty large portion of the
audience moving to TOR, which looks like a terrific game. ... That's the
problem with licenses: they end. We're going to continue to do some
licensed work, but we're largely going to stick to original IP [going
forward] because then we won't have this issue. We'll never have this
problem with EverQuest. Back in 2001, not '03 when we launched, but back
in 2001 when we [first] negotiated it, a five year license seemed like a
really long g****** time. EverQuest was only a year or so old at that
point. Could we have renegotiated? Maybe, but I don't think that would be
the right thing for the company."
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Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/2154212/Sony-Shutting-Down-emStar-Wars-Galaxiesem-MMO-and-TCG
1. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111549-SOE-Bids-Fond-Farewell-to-Star-Wars-Galaxies
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| Apple Ordered To Pay $8M For Playlist Patents
| from the it's-the-east-texas-heat-that-addles dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday July 11, @08:30 (Patents)
| with 87 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0527230/Apple-Ordered-To-Pay-8M-For-Playlist-Patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A federal jury in Texas has decided against
Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit and [0]ordered it to pay $8
million to Personal Audio LLC, a patent licensing company (aka troll).
The lawsuit started in 2009. Last year Apple's three fellow defendants
(Sirius XM Radio, Coby Electronics and Archos) settled. Apple said the
patents were invalid and not infringed. The patent holder demanded $84M
and will now get about 10% of that amount. Juries in East Texas
frequently rule in favor of patent holders. In the same district court
Lodsys has already filed four lawsuits. In one of them it targets seven
app developers and Apple has moved to intervene. The first two developers
were already [1]given a deadline: they must answer Lodsys's complaint by
July 21, unless they request an extension."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0527230/Apple-Ordered-To-Pay-8M-For-Playlist-Patents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/09/apple_to_pay_8m_in_damages_over_ipod_playlist_patent_suit.html
1. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/first-two-app-developers-must-file.html
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| Harvard's Privacy Meltdown
| from the that-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-and-has-a-degree dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday July 10, @22:59 (Privacy)
| with 80 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0211254/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A team of Harvard researchers has been
[0]accused of breaching students' privacy in a project that involved
downloading information from some 1,700 Facebook profiles. The case
shines a light on emerging ethical challenges faced by academics
researching social networks and other online environments."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/0211254/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/
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| How Investigators Deciphered Stuxnet
| from the introductory-cyberwarfare dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @17:31 (Security)
| with 72 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1958249/How-Investigators-Deciphered-Stuxnet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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suraj.sun tips a story at Wired that takes an in-depth look into how
security researchers [0]tracked down and worked to understand the
infamous Stuxnet worm. The article begins: "It was January 2010, and
investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just
completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in
central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the
cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium. But
when the IAEA later reviewed footage from surveillance cameras installed
outside the cascade rooms to monitor Iran's enrichment program, they were
stunned as they counted the numbers. The workers had been replacing the
units at an incredible rate ��� later estimates would indicate between
1,000 and 2,000 centrifuges were swapped out over a few months. The
question was, why?"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/1
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| Red Wine Counters Some Negative Health Effects of Microgravity
| from the one-sshmall-shhtep-for-man dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @17:06 (Space)
| with 52 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2057248/Red-Wine-Counters-Some-Negative-Health-Effects-of-Microgravity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "Great news for astronaut red wine aficionados: the
alcoholic beverage [1]can counteract some of the most troublesome
physiological effects of microgravity. Unfortunately (or fortunately,
depending on whether or not you have to pilot a spaceship), you have to
drink a lot of wine to reap any benefit. These findings are fresh from
the labs of French researchers ([2]abstract) who found that by dosing
unfortunate rats ��� hung by their tails to simulate microgravity ��� with
resveratrol (a compound found in red wine), they could help stave off
bone density loss and muscle atrophy. Does this mean resveratrol is an
astronaut's best friend? Possibly, but judging by the quantities that are
needed, it would most likely come in supplement form, rather than 750 ml
bottles."
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Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/red-red-wine-drinking-it-counters-effects-of-low-gravity-110711.html
2. http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2011/06/29/fj.10-177295.abstract
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| 30th Anniversary of <em>Donkey Kong</em>
| from the you-are-old dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @16:25 (Classic Games (Games))
| with 38 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2018208/30th-Anniversary-of-Donkey-Kong?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "30 years ago this month, Nintendo released
Donkey Kong ��� an iconic arcade machine that put the company on the video
game map and introduced Mario. Technologizer's Benj Edwards celebrated
the anniversary by [0]rounding up some of the game's odder sidelights.
For instance, it was originally going to be a game about Popeye, Bluto,
and Olive Oyl ��� and among its stranger offshoots was a pocket-sized game
in which Donkey Kong and Mario faced off in hockey." Gamasutra has [1]a
more detailed article about the game's development.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2018208/30th-Anniversary-of-Donkey-Kong?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://technologizer.com/2011/07/10/donkey-kong/
1. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6422/the_secret_history_of_donkey_kong.php
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| Microsoft Yanks Security Site Poisoned With Porn
| from the internet-is-for-porn dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, @16:47 (Microsoft)
| with 27 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1948208/Microsoft-Yanks-Security-Site-Poisoned-With-Porn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Microsoft disabled the search tool on its Safety &
Security Center on Saturday [1]after attackers poisoned results with
links to pornographic URLs. The company restored the website's search
field early Monday afternoon ET. Alex Eckelberry, the general manager of
GFI Software's security group and CEO of Sunbelt Software, said search
poisoning is not unusual ��� [2]but this is different. 'This is crafty,'
Eckelberry said. 'This isn't normal search poisoning. It's poisoning the
results with actual searches. Users were getting back a prior search as a
search result.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1948208/Microsoft-Yanks-Security-Site-Poisoned-With-Porn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218310/Microsoft_yanks_security_site_search_after_scammers_poison_results_with_porn
2. http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/interested-in-getting-porn-and-malware.html
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