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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager
* SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights
* Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide'
* Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars
* The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream'
* Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling
* When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane?
* The Quest For an EV Fast-Charge Standard
* Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars
* Ask Kevin Mitnick
* The Latest Web Browser Grand Prix
* Like a Redstone Cowboy
* Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control
* Mandriva 2011 Out
* Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken
* There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks
* 'Superpoke' To Be No More, Thanks To Google
* AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Bet Big On Mobile Payments
* Delivering Medicine By UAV
* Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence
* CyanogenMod Shows Off Android On the HP TouchPad
* Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges
* Joining Blood Vessels Without Sutures
* CloudStack Goes Open Source
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| Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager
| from the statistically-driven-interface dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @17:22 (Windows)
| with 558 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2037223/Microsoft-Ribbonizes-Windows-8-File-Manager?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Microsoft said today [1]it will 'ribbonize' the file
manager in next year's Windows 8, adding Explorer to the short list of
integrated applications that already sport the interface in Windows 7.
Microsoft's Alex Simons, director of program management, [2]released
screenshots of the new ribbon interface planned for Explorer (scroll way
down). 'We evaluated several different UI command affordances including
expanded versions of the Vista/Windows 7 command bar, Windows 95/Windows
XP style toolbars and menus, several entirely new UI approaches, and the
Office style ribbon,' explained Simons. 'Of these, the ribbon approach
offered benefits in line with our goals.' Plans by Microsoft and others
to ribbonize applications have often met resistance. 'We knew that using
a ribbon for Explorer would likely be met with skepticism by a set of
power users, but there are clear benefits,' Simons said."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2037223/Microsoft-Ribbonizes-Windows-8-File-Manager?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219563/Microsoft_ribbonizes_Windows_8_file_manager
2. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx
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| SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights
| from the green-is-so-much-more-beautiful dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 29, @05:12 (Cellphones)
| with 397 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/0744243/SignalGuru-Helps-Drivers-Avoid-Red-Lights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "Researchers at MIT and Princeton have now [0]devised a
system, dubbed [1]SignalGuru (PDF), that gathers visual data from the
cameras of a network of dashboard-mounted smartphones and tells drivers
the optimal speed to drive at to avoid waiting at the next set of
lights." In their testing, the system saved drivers about 20 percent in
fuel.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/0744243/SignalGuru-Helps-Drivers-Avoid-Red-Lights?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/signalguru/19643/
1. http://projects.csail.mit.edu/wiki/pub/LSPgroup/PublicationList/Koukoumidis_SignalGuru_MobiSys_2011.pdf
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| Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide'
| from the suicide-by-1000-cuts dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 29, @08:09 (HP)
| with 366 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/0052207/Ex-Board-Member-Says-HP-Is-Committing-Corporate-Suicide?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "If Apple's looking for a seamless transition, advises the
NYT's James B. Stewart, [0]it definitely shouldn't look to Hewlett
Packard. In the year after HP CEO Mark Hurd was told to
[1]hit-the-road-Jack, HP ��� led by new CEO Leo Apotheker ��� has embarked on
a [2]stunning shift in strategy that has left many baffled and resulted
in HP's fall from Wall Street grace (its stock declined 49%). The
apparent new focus on going head-to-head with SAP ([3]Apotheker's former
employer) and Oracle ([4]Hurd's new employer) in enterprise software
while ignoring the company's traditional strengths, said a software exec,
is 'as if Alan Mulally left Boeing to join Ford as CEO, and announced six
months later that Ford would be making airplanes.' Former HP Director Tom
Perkins said, 'I didn't know there was such a thing as corporate suicide,
but now we know that there is.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/0052207/Ex-Board-Member-Says-HP-Is-Committing-Corporate-Suicide?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/business/for-seamless-transitions-at-the-top-dont-consult-hewlett-packard.html&OQ=_rQ3D4Q26partnerQ3DrssQ26ampQ3BemcQ3Drss&OP=200fcbfeQ2FQ259Q3DmQ25LlhnfllrTQ25T6qqQ256eQ25T4Q25mNn8Q27Q3DnnQ25Flf1nQ3Dja5Q3Dnn1rfjQ27n8r8lQ27n1jr1rXQ3D1rlA1LlQ27r1hlQ27nN5r1XQ3D95Q3Drr1AjhijfL)Xra5
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/06/213242/HP-CEO-Resigns-During-Sexual-Harassment-Investigation
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/1948232/HP-Spinning-Off-WebOS-and-Exiting-Hardware-Business
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/04/1355242/HP-CEO-Goes-On-the-Lam-As-Oracle-Hunts-Him-Down
4. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/07/012240/Former-HP-CEO-Selected-As-Oracle-Co-President
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| Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars
| from the first-they-came-for-the-mandolins-and-I-said-nothing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 29, @12:46 (Music)
| with 318 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/148239/Environmental-Enforcement-Agents-Targeting-Guitars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tetrahedrassface writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal
agents again raided guitar maker Gibson this past week, seizing several
pallets of wood and computer documents. At the heart of the issue is
[0]the wood that is being used in guitars and whether or not it comes
from sustainable sources. The company insists it is being harassed and
made to 'cry uncle' to the government's enforcement laws. The article
notes that exotic fret and tone woods are protected in order to prevent
the equivalent of 'blood diamond like trade,' but the ramifications now
extend to guitar owners. If you play a vintage guitar, or a hand-built
guitar made of old stock woods that were legally obtained years ago, you
better not fly with it. John Thomas, a law professor at Quinnipiac
University and a blues and ragtime guitarist, says, 'there's a lot of
anxiety, and it's well justified.' Once upon a time, he would have taken
one of his vintage guitars on his travels. Now, 'I don't go out of the
country with a wooden guitar.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/148239/Environmental-Enforcement-Agents-Targeting-Guitars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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| The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream'
| from the private-history dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @13:45 (Communications)
| with 308 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1728259/The-Copyright-Nightmare-of-I-Have-a-Dream?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CoveredTrax writes "If you weren't alive to witness Martin Luther
King's 'I Have a Dream' speech on the Washington Mall 48 years ago this
week, you might try to switch on the old YouTube and dial it up. But
[1]you won't find it there or anywhere else; rights to its usage remain
with King and his family. Typically, a speech broadcast to a large
audience on radio and television (and considered instrumental in historic
political changes and ranked as the most important speech in 20th century
American history) would seem to be a prime candidate for the public
domain. But the copyright dilemma began in December 1963, when King sued
Mister Maestro, Inc., and Twentieth Century Fox Records Company to stop
the unauthorized sale of records of the 17-minute oration."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1728259/The-Copyright-Nightmare-of-I-Have-a-Dream?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://motherboard.tv/
1. http://motherboard.tv/2011/8/29/the-copyright-nightmare-of-i-have-a-dream--2
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| Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling
| from the ways-in-which-mozilla-is-like-a-new-york-apartment dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @11:40 (Firefox)
| with 287 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1454224/Updated-Mozilla-Community-Contributor-Departs-Over-Bug-Handling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A blog post published by Mozilla community
contributor Tyler Downer claims [0]the Mozilla Triage QA process is
broken, and he believes that the rapid release implementation does not
work with their current method of handling bugs. Quoting: 'I understand
that change takes time, and there is always a delay between planning a
change, and the implementation. But with Triage, time is our enemy. We
currently have 2,598 UNCO bugs in Firefox that haven���t been touched in
150 days. That is almost 2600 bugs that have not been touched since
Firefox 4 was released. ... In Spring 2010, we hit roughly 13,000 UNCO
bugs in the Firefox product on [1]BMO. 13,000!!! We currently have 5,934.
While this is an improvement, that is 6,000 bugs in Firefox that could be
shipping today, and enhancements that could be making the web better (of
course it isn���t that high, but the potential is there). This is several
thousand contributors that we have told "Thank you for filing a bug
report with us. We don���t really care about it, and we are going to let it
sit for 6 months and just ask you to retest when you know it isn���t fixed,
but thank you anyway."'" Update: 08/29 19:46 GMT by [2]S : Downer has
made another blog post [3]clarifying the bug issue. Updated title and
summary to reflect that he was a volunteer, not a Mozilla employee.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1454224/Updated-Mozilla-Community-Contributor-Departs-Over-Bug-Handling?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tylerdowner.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/some-clarification-and-musings/
1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO
2. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
3. http://tylerdowner.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/even-more-clarifications/
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| When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane?
| from the anything-with-cliff-mass-is-interesting dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 29, @18:55 (Earth)
| with 255 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2222252/When-Did-Irene-Stop-Being-a-Hurricane?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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jamesl writes "Cliff Mass, a climate researcher at the University of
Washington and popular Seattle blogger, asks, '[0]When did Irene stop
being a hurricane? ... there is really no reliable evidence of
hurricane-force winds at any time the storm was approaching North
Carolina or moving up the East Coast. ... I took a look at all the
observations over Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York.
Not one National Weather Service or FAA observation location, not one
buoy observations, none reach the requisite wind speed. Most were not
even close. ... Surely, one of the observations upwind of landfall, over
Cape Hatteras or one of the other barrier island locations, indicated
hurricane-force sustained winds? Amazingly, the answer is still no.'
Cliff supports his statement with data from NOAA/NWS/NDBC presented in
easy to understand charts."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2222252/When-Did-Irene-Stop-Being-a-Hurricane?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-did-irene-stop-being-hurricane.html
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| The Quest For an EV Fast-Charge Standard
| from the everyone's-plugging-their-own-plug dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @09:35 (Transportation)
| with 241 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1235219/The-Quest-For-an-EV-Fast-Charge-Standard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "This article explores one of the stumbling
blocks currently facing EV adoption: 'Sure, there are already public
charging stations in service, and new ones are coming online daily. But
those typically take several hours to fully replenish a battery. As a
result, the ability for quick battery boosts ��� using a compatible direct
current fast charger, the Leaf can refill to 80 percent capacity in 30
minutes ��� could potentially become an important point of differentiation
among electric models. But the availability of fast charging points has
in part been held up by [0]the lack of an agreement among automakers on a
universal method for fast charging ��� or even on a single electrical
connector.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1235219/The-Quest-For-an-EV-Fast-Charge-Standard?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars
| from the green-cheese-fission dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @10:16 (Mars)
| with 241 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1337258/Developing-Nuclear-Power-Plant-Tech-For-the-Moon-and-Mars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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With his first accepted Slashdot submission, Zandamesh sends this excerpt
from ZDNet: "On earth, nuclear reactors are under attack because of
concerns over damage caused by natural disasters. In space, however,
nuclear technology may get a new lease on life. Plans for the first
nuclear power plant for [0]the production of electricity to be used by
manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets [1]have been
unveiled at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American
Chemical Society. 'The reactor itself may be about 1 �� feet wide by 2 ��
feet high, about the size of a carry-on suitcase. There are no cooling
towers. ... The team is scheduled to build a technology demonstration
unit in 2012."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1337258/Developing-Nuclear-Power-Plant-Tech-For-the-Moon-and-Mars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/nuclear-power-plants-for-settlements-on-the-moon-and-mars/2779
1. http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_028086&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=23768271-7d12-40ee-90db-f3217ae2a959
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| Ask Kevin Mitnick
| from the do-you-still-hear-the-screaming dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 29, @14:30 (Security)
| with 217 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1737257/Ask-Kevin-Mitnick?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The hacker with perhaps the most [0]famous first name around, [1]Kevin
Mitnick, has gone from computer hacking of the sort that gets one on the
[2]FBI's Most Wanted list (and into years of solitary confinement) to
respected [3]security consultant and author, helping people minimize the
sort of security holes he once exploited for fun. His new book is called
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker; it's
his first since the expiration of an [4]agreement that he could not
profit from books written about his criminal activity. Kevin's agreed to
answer your questions; we'll pass the best ones on to him, and print his
answers when they're ready. Note: [5]Kevin also answered Slashdot
questions [6]most of a decade ago; that's a good place to start. Please
observe the [7]Slashdot interview guidelines: ask as many questions as
you want, but please keep them to one per comment.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.2600.com/demo/nycpics.html
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
2. http://www.takedown.com/coverage/most-wanted.html
3. http://mitnicksecurity.com/
4. http://www.cybercrime.gov/mitnick.htm
5. http://slashdot.org/story/03/02/04/2233250/Kevin-Mitnick-Answers
6. http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/03/01/20/1254218/Ask-Kevin-Mitnick
7. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| The Latest Web Browser Grand Prix
| from the render-fast-turn-left dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @08:53 (Chrome)
| with 189 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1229214/The-Latest-Web-Browser-Grand-Prix?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The latest browser benchmarks are in...
again. This is one of the better 'browser battle' articles, though.
Chrome 13, Firefox 6, IE9, Opera 11.50, and Safari 5.1 are [0]put through
40-some tests on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion. As a PC guy, I was
pretty impressed with the performance of Safari on OS X, and the reader
feature looks awesome too. The author also uncovered a nasty Catalyst bug
that makes IE9 render pages improperly and freeze up under heavy loads of
tabs. The tables at the end pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of each
browser, which is nicer than a 1-10 or star rating. The tests are more
thorough than most browser comparisons I've seen."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1229214/The-Latest-Web-Browser-Grand-Prix?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/web-browser-performance-standard-html5,3013.html#t70059
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| Like a Redstone Cowboy
| from the tinyurl-getrollin dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 29, @02:23 (Programming)
| with 161 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/0547238/Like-a-Redstone-Cowboy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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neonsignal writes "Machine creations in Minecraft are becoming
increasingly complex as people build on each other's ideas. Some notable
examples include a [0]Rubik's cube simulator, a [1]5-channel music
sequencer, a [2]3D color printer, a [3]16-bit processing unit, and
[4]Conway's Game of Life. My own recent contribution is the world's
slowest [5]Universal Turing Machine. I'm now waiting for someone to
implement [6] Tetris in [7]Redstone logic." [8]
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/0547238/Like-a-Redstone-Cowboy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFKwCel7xvk
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWkgiTvMZKQ
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjQ9JL5E9gc
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uWIS5m_Qzk
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoSzCfa9OM
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X21HQphy6I
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdMoL04tNzg
7. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_circuits
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJnQari9Po
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| Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control
| from the lactobacillus-colbertsus dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @16:37 (Science)
| with 161 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2026226/Gut-Bacteria-Exert-Mind-Control?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Hundreds of species of bacteria call the human gut
their home. This gut 'microbiome' influences our physiology and health in
ways that scientists are only beginning to understand. Now, a new study
suggests that [0]gut bacteria can even mess with the mind, altering brain
chemistry and changing mood and behavior ([1]abstract)."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2026226/Gut-Bacteria-Exert-Mind-Control?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/mind-altering-bugs.html?ref=hp
1. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/08/26/1102999108
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| Mandriva 2011 Out
| from the fond-memories-of-mandrake dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 28, @23:24 (Mandriva)
| with 150 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/019239/Mandriva-2011-Out?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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shibashaba writes "[0]Mandriva 2011 is out. Look around for ISOs or
[1]click here if you already have Mandriva installed. [Or use the
[2]32-bit torrent.] Mandriva may not be as popular as Ubuntu, but they
came long before and had an easy to use (and powerful) desktop back when
it was almost unheard of."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/019239/Mandriva-2011-Out?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/28/mandriva-2011-hydrogen-is-out/
1. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
2. http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=c53a38623e982bc82b8d2307f89b0465efdf5639&f=Mandriva+2011+i586.torrent
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| Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken
| from the hey-let's-try-this-thing dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @13:04 (Facebook)
| with 123 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1644259/Facebooks-New-Privacy-Controls-Still-Broken?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Blogger Dan Tynan was one of the recipients of the
new privacy controls that Facebook promised last week. The bad news: They
still don't work, and [1]may even be worse than before. 'Using Facebook's
new improved privacy controls, you can tag someone else in photo and then
keep them from seeing it,' says Tynan. 'It's pretty simple; just change
the sharing option so they don't see what you posted. So if you want to
tag a picture of some jerk with your friend's name on it and make it
Public, everyone on Facebook will be able to see it except one ��� the
person whose name is on it.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1644259/Facebooks-New-Privacy-Controls-Still-Broken?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/198069/facebooks-new-privacy-controls-still-broken
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| There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks
| from the who-leaks-the-leakers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @15:10 (Security)
| with 123 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1835222/Theres-Been-a-Leak-At-WikiLeaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "German paper Der Freitag claims it has [0]uncovered
a batch of online unredacted diplomatic cables that came from WikiLeaks.
Editor Steffen Kraft said he [1]found a 'password protected csv file'
that contained a 1.73GB cache of diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks. Its
pages contained 'named or otherwise identifiable "informers" and
"suspected intelligence agents" from Israel, Jordan, Iran, and
Afghanistan.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1835222/Theres-Been-a-Leak-At-WikiLeaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392009,00.asp
1. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freitag.de%2Fpolitik%2F1134-nerds-ohne-nerven
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| 'Superpoke' To Be No More, Thanks To Google
| from the ok-that-kind-of-makes-up-for-the-evil dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday August 28, @20:28 (Facebook)
| with 94 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/28/2351221/Superpoke-To-Be-No-More-Thanks-To-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Apparently the age of 'superpoking' social network
friends and throwing sheep at them is coming to a close. Google [1]plans
to shut down the social applications developed by Slide, a company it
acquired a year ago for US$182 million. Slide products include SuperPoke,
and photo management and decorating tools like Slideshow and FunPix.
Slide's applications like Slideshow were very popular on MySpace during
its heyday, and found success on other social networking sites, including
Facebook, where the sheep-throwing feature of SuperPoke caught on,
entertaining and annoying many."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/28/2351221/Superpoke-To-Be-No-More-Thanks-To-Google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398765/google_shut_down_slide_social_apps/
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| AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Bet Big On Mobile Payments
| from the happily-looking-for-ways-to-make-us-spend-money dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @10:59 (AT&T)
| with 85 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1441213/ATampT-Verizon-and-T-Mobile-Bet-Big-On-Mobile-Payments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Bloomberg reports that AT&T, Verizon, and
T-Mobile USA will be [0]dumping over $100 million into developing their
mobile payment system, Isis, in an effort to battle back against
[1]Google Wallet. 'Isis aims to get ahead of its rivals by relying on its
carrier partners' existing distribution network and customer
relationships. Phones set up for Isis service are expected to be
available at carrier stores in the trial cities. ... The carriers could
potentially preinstall Isis software onto their phones, making it easier
to use. They also may push handset manufacturers to adopt Isis
software.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1441213/ATampT-Verizon-and-T-Mobile-Bet-Big-On-Mobile-Payments?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-29/at-t-verizon-t-mobile-sets-100-million-for-google-fight-tech.html
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/26/2022208/Google-Wallet-the-End-of-Anonymous-Shopping
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| Delivering Medicine By UAV
| from the calling-dr.-drone dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday August 29, @10:35 (Medicine)
| with 83 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1351227/Delivering-Medicine-By-UAV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Buffaloaf writes "The brilliant minds at Singularity University are
developing an internet of things they dub the Matternet which plans to
[0]deliver drugs and other small necessities to people in extremely
remote locations by UAV. From the article: 'This particular class of S.U.
was focused on solving problems for "the next billion people," those
without access to modern technology. [1]Matternet tackled the problem of
getting drugs and diagnostic or test materials to people in rural areas
in developing countries that don't have access to passable roads during
rainy seasons. The company proposed building a network of robotic drones
to deliver medication quickly and very cost-effectively--even less than a
guy on a dirt bike costs.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1351227/Delivering-Medicine-By-UAV?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20098172-250/matternet-delivers-drugs-by-robocopter/
1. http://matternet.net/
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| Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence
| from the if-intelligence-were-common-we'd-all-have-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday August 29, @19:44 (AI)
| with 81 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2231258/Crowdsourcing-Makes-an-API-For-Human-Intelligence?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "A startup called MobileWorks claims to [1]offer
human-level intelligence to any piece of software, with APIs for image,
text or speech processing that crowdsource tasks to workers in India.
Unlike Amazon's Mechanical Turk, jobs can be sent in by software without
human help and can also be completed in "real time" with a turnaround of
a few seconds. The company claims that for problems like OCR and image
recognition it makes more sense to find ways to use human intelligence
than developing complex custom algorithms." Not a bad plan ��� sounds like
they've lifted a page from the business model of captcha-cracking
spammers.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2231258/Crowdsourcing-Makes-an-API-For-Human-Intelligence?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38447/
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| CyanogenMod Shows Off Android On the HP TouchPad
| from the that-was-fast dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @18:08 (Android)
| with 76 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2146201/CyanogenMod-Shows-Off-Android-On-the-HP-TouchPad?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "While a $99 TouchPad running webOS is a pretty good
deal on its own, most of us got it hoping developers would eventually
figure out how to run Android on it. And though we were [0]warned against
wandering off to the darker side, it seems the developers behind
CyanogenMod wanted the device to boldly go where no TouchPad has gone
before. In a video demonstration, they show off [1]a very early version
of its software running Android 2.3.5 on a TouchPad."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/2146201/CyanogenMod-Shows-Off-Android-On-the-HP-TouchPad?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391638,00.asp
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392026,00.asp
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| Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges
| from the mash-keyboard-for-access dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @15:52 (Bug)
| with 68 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1844222/Mac-OS-X-Lion-LDAP-Vulnerability-Emerges?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec tips a bit of Apple news from late last week that got
overshadowed by the headlines about Steve Jobs. According to El Reg,
"People logging in to Macs running OS X 10.7, aka Lion, can [0]access
restricted resources using any password they want when the machines use a
popular technology known as LDAP for authentication. Short for
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP servers frequently contain
repositories of highly sensitive enterprise data, making them a goldmine
to attackers trying to burrow their way into sensitive networks."
[1]Initial reports about this bug cropped up less than a week after
[2]Lion was released.
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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1844222/Mac-OS-X-Lion-LDAP-Vulnerability-Emerges?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/26/mac_osx_lion_security_hole/
1. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197379
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1330236/Apple-Releases-Mac-OS-X-Lion-Updates-Air
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| Joining Blood Vessels Without Sutures
| from the what-can't-duct-tape-do dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @12:22 (Medicine)
| with 46 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/165257/Joining-Blood-Vessels-Without-Sutures?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Med-trump writes "Stanford microsurgeons have [0]used a poloxamer gel and
bioadhesive, rather than a needle and thread, to join together blood
vessels. The technique, published in the recent issue of [1]Nature
Medicine, may replace the 100-year-old method of reconnecting severed
blood vessels with sutures. According to the authors of the study,
'ultimately, this has the potential to improve patient care by decreasing
amputations, strokes and heart attacks while reducing health-care
costs.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/165257/Joining-Blood-Vessels-Without-Sutures?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/august/gurtner.html
1. http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nm.2424.html
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| CloudStack Goes Open Source
| from the done-and-done dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 29, @13:27 (Cloud)
| with 13 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1653214/CloudStack-Goes-Open-Source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Hitting the front page for the first time, [0]ke4qqq writes "CloudStack
has dropped the open core model and [1]gone completely open source. The
latest merge of formerly-proprietary features [2]include VMware and
OracleVM support as well as support for dynamically managing hardware
network and storage devices. CloudStack is the same software used by
Edmunds.com, Zynga, Godaddy, and 60 other of the largest clouds."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/1653214/CloudStack-Goes-Open-Source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:david@gnsa.us
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/29/citrix_cloud_com_update/
2. http://cloudstack.org/blog/cloudstack-the-best-kept-secret-in-cloud-computing.html
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