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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001
* North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land
* Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs?
* Critic Pans Apple's New Campus As a Retrograde Cocoon
* Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet)
* Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates
* Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test?
* HD Transfer of <em>Star Trek: TNG</em> To Arrive This Year
* How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks
* Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach
* Type Safety Coming To DB Queries
* Coming Soon to EA's Origin Store: Third-Party Titles
* <em>Code Hero</em>: Play and Learn
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| Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001
| from the keep-calm-and-carry-on dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @09:25 (United States)
| with 639 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/136207/Marking-10-Years-Since-9112001?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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10 years ago today, coordinated terrorist attacks on New York City and
Washington, D.C. killed nearly 3,000 people. It wasn't the first
terrorist attack directed against the U.S., or even on U.S. soil, but it
was the deadliest, and came at a time of relative peace. Probably most
people reading this remember where and how they heard the news. We've
often discussed the consequences of the attack: security cordons, ID
checks and metal detectors where none existed before, a reexamination of
how U.S. policy affects international perception and attitudes, and the
encroachment of surveillance policies and technology, to name a few.
Today, we don���t want to inundate you with links to tributes and
retrospectives, so we���ll offer the only thing we can: a look back at
[0]how the day unfolded here. Our thoughts are with everyone who lost
friends and family members.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/136207/Marking-10-Years-Since-9112001?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?startdate=20010911
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| North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land
| from the plus-they're-near-deal-extreme-for-lasers dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @02:10 (The Military)
| with 350 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/0343252/North-Korea-Forced-US-Reconnaissance-Plane-To-Land?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter ToBeDecided writes "A U.S. military
reconnaissance plane was reportedly forced to perform an [0]emergency
landing during a major military exercise near the North Korean border in
March. As revealed by the South Korean defense ministry, a strong signal
transmitted from the north disrupted GPS in the area surrounding the
position of the RC-7B aircraft. Without information about their position,
the pilots were forced to abort their mission and return to South Korea.
This raises the question whether the U.S. military would be able to
perform operations in North Korea given how fragile their equipment seems
to be."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/0343252/North-Korea-Forced-US-Reconnaissance-Plane-To-Land?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs?
| from the oh-you-might-be-surprised dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @12:30 (Piracy)
| with 273 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1617205/Ask-Slashdot-Where-Can-I-Buy-Legal-Game-ROMs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]PktLoss writes "I'm interested in building an arcade machine,
[1]following the footsteps of Cmdr Taco among many others. Not being all
that interested in piracy, I need to find somewhere to buy games.
[2]StarROMs used to be the kind of thing I was looking for, though with
an incredibly short catalog. The [3]MAME people have a [4]few available
for free (non-commercial), but this isn't going to sate my needs. There's
an entire cottage industry supporting this goal. People are ready to sell
me plans, kits, buttons, joy sticks, glass marquees, and entire machines.
That's fantastic, but where can I get the games? I refuse to believe that
this entire industry is built on piracy."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1617205/Ask-Slashdot-Where-Can-I-Buy-Legal-Game-ROMs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:paul@preinheimer.com
1. http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/
2. http://slashdot.org/story/06/02/27/1645242/StarROMs-Closes-Doors
3. http://mamedev.org/
4. http://mamedev.org/roms/
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| Critic Pans Apple's New Campus As a Retrograde Cocoon
| from the you-need-more-grit-and-dirt-and-crime dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @08:26 (Apple)
| with 255 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/033228/Critic-Pans-Apples-New-Campus-As-a-Retrograde-Cocoon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne
[0]isn't exactly bullish on Apple's proposed new headquarters, which will
hold 12,000 Apple employees in its 2.8 million sq ft. Described by Apple
as 'a serene and secure environment' for its employees, Hawthorne says
the new campus 'keeps itself aloof from the world around it to a degree
that is unusual even in a part of California dominated by office parks.
The proposed building is essentially one very long hallway connecting
endlessly with itself.' Corporate architecture of this kind, adds
Hawthorne, seems to promote a mindset decried by Berkeley prof Louise A.
Mozingo. 'If all you see in your workday are your co-workers and all you
see out your window is the green perimeter of your carefully tended
property,' Mozingo writes, and you drive to and from work in the cocoon
of your private car, 'the notion of a shared responsibility in the
collective metropolitan realm is predictably distant."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/033228/Critic-Pans-Apples-New-Campus-As-a-Retrograde-Cocoon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-applehq-20110911,0,4563449.story
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| Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet)
| from the more-suspense-this-way dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @15:53 (Network)
| with 250 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1949200/Why-We-Dont-Need-Gigabit-Networks-Yet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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AmyVernon writes "Most computers today can't support gigabit connections
and current Wi-Fi networks can't offer those speeds either. The first
trial of Sonic.Net's gigabit network was a speed test on a generic laptop
that showed off 420 Mbps down; the laptop couldn't handle a full gig.
Plus, few applications need those speeds. It's hard to justify such a
huge investment in a network that will have few subscribers and few
applications that need it. Of course, that can change, and then these
networks will be vital. This story has a good analysis of [0]where things
stand and what has to change."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1949200/Why-We-Dont-Need-Gigabit-Networks-Yet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gigaom.com/broadband/the-elephant-in-the-gigabit-network-room/
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| Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates
| from the well-aren't-you-lucky? dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, @23:11 (Australia)
| with 249 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/0038242/Global-Mall-Operator-Starts-Reading-License-Plates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter skegg writes "Westfield Group, one of the
largest shopping centre (mall) operators in the world, has launched a
[0]find-my-car iPhone app. The system uses a series of license plate
reading cameras dotted throughout their multi-level car parks. Westfield
said police could also use it to find stolen or unregistered vehicles.
(Hello, slippery slope.) Initially launched in just one Sydney centre, it
will be rolled-out to others if the trial is successful."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/0038242/Global-Mall-Operator-Starts-Reading-License-Plates?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test?
| from the more-convincing-than-some-tech-support-scripts dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @16:52 (AI)
| with 226 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/2051222/Has-Cleverbot-Passed-the-Turing-Test?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]kruhft writes "It seems that Cleverbot, the chatbot so ready to
[1]admit that it was a unicorn during a discussion with itself, has
passed the [2]Turing test. This past Sunday, the 1334 votes from a Turing
test held at the [3]Techniche festival in Guwahati, India were released.
They revealed that Cleverbot was [4]voted to be human 59.3% of the time.
Real humans did only slightly better and were assumed to be humans 63.3%
of the time." As the Wikipedia link above points out, though, there's no
single, simple "Turing Test," per se ��� [5]many systems have successfully
convinced humans over the years. Perhaps Cleverbot would consent to
taking part in a Slashdot interview, to be extra-convincing.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/2051222/Has-Cleverbot-Passed-the-Turing-Test?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:burton.samograd@gmail.com
1. http://www.geekosystem.com/chatbot-on-chatbot/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
3. http://www.techniche.org/techniche11/
4. http://www.geekosystem.com/cleverbot-passes-turing-test/
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Naivete_of_interrogators_and_the_anthropomorphic_fallacy
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| HD Transfer of <em>Star Trek: TNG</em> To Arrive This Year
| from the watch-for-the-strings-holding-things-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @05:15 (Sci-Fi)
| with 218 comments
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/0138226/HD-Transfer-of-Star-Trek-TNG-To-Arrive-This-Year?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]psychonaut writes "Digital Bits have confirmed through sources at CBS
Paramount that CBS are working on a [1]high-definition transfer of Star
Trek: The Next Generation. A four-episode Blu-Ray sampler disc is to be
released later this year; the episodes featured will be the two-part
pilot 'Encounter at Farpoint,' 'Sins of the Father,' and fan favourite
'The Inner Light.' On 2 September, [2]LeVar Burton tweeted that he had
stopped by CBS Paramount Television City to check the progress and was
'mindblown' by the conversion. TrekCore has an article with [3]further
details and an analysis of some of the technical hurdles involved in
remastering these episodes."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/0138226/HD-Transfer-of-Star-Trek-TNG-To-Arrive-This-Year?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nothingisreal.com/
1. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa193.html#050911
2. https://twitter.com/#!/levarburton/status/109432086326284289
3. http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/
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| How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks
| from the gold-farming-in-real-life dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @11:28 (Businesses)
| with 100 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1430219/How-Game-Makers-Like-EA-Mine-for-Tax-Breaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Sometimes it seems like the U.S. government's relationship to commercial
video games is mostly adversarial, as when public officials vilify or
move to censor games (even when the [0]results are mixed). An anonymous
reader writes with a reminder that the business side of the games
business has a much cozier government link, as reflected in this excerpt
from the New York Times: "Because video game makers straddle the lines
between software development, the entertainment industry and online
retailing, they can [1]combine tax breaks in ways that companies like
Netflix and Adobe cannot. Video game developers receive such a rich
assortment of incentives that even oil companies have questioned why the
government should subsidize such a mature and profitable industry whose
main contribution is to create amusing and sometimes antisocial
entertainment." Since filling out even a simple return can be rather
game-like, maybe they're just doing what they do best.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1430219/How-Game-Makers-Like-EA-Mine-for-Tax-Breaks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/01/1536255/Court-on-Video-Games-Less-Cleavage-More-Carnage
1. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/technology/rich-tax-breaks-bolster-video-game-makers.html&OQ=_rQ3D4&OP=279a2006Q2FKtaQ7EKQ5BiQ5ComiiVQ51KQ51kYYKkQ2BKYYKVaQ5CqGiFi5wKmQ24Q5Cq1VQ3C(1Q7EmaQ3Cco1Q7EiFoVam1)Q24Q5Bai15Q3Cda1dQ3CcamoDqVdF
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| Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach
| from the bringing-back-spanking-might-help dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @10:31 (Open Source)
| with 83 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1325212/Linux-Foundation-Linuxcom-Sites-Down-To-Fix-Security-Breach?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "All [0]Linux Foundation sites seem to be down
due to a security breach, which occured on 8 sep. (according to a notice
displayed on the site)." From the email I received this morning, sent to
all Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org users: "On September 8, 2011, we
discovered a security breach that may have compromised your username,
password, email address and other information you have given to us. We
believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org. As with
any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the
passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. ...
We have taken all Linux Foundation servers offline to do complete
re-installs. Linux Foundation services will be put back up as they become
available. We are working around the clock to expedite this process and
are working with authorities in the United States and in Europe to assist
with the investigation."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1325212/Linux-Foundation-Linuxcom-Sites-Down-To-Fix-Security-Breach?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/
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| Type Safety Coming To DB Queries
| from the life-as-a-game dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @18:00 (Databases)
| with 69 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/2159206/Type-Safety-Coming-To-DB-Queries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A new type-safe query language for the
popular full-text search platform [0]Solr, called [1]Slashem (a [2]Rogue-like),
[3]has just been released. Slashem is implemented as a domain-specific
language in Scala, providing compile time [4]type-safety, allowing you do
things like date range queries against date fields but keeping you from
trying to do a date range query against a string field. Hopefully this
trend catches on, resulting in fewer invalid queries exploding at
runtime."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/2159206/Type-Safety-Coming-To-DB-Queries?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
1. https://github.com/foursquare/slashem
2. https://github.com/foursquare/rogue
3. http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/08/29/slashem-a-rogue-like-type-safe-scala-dsl-for-querying-solr/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety
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| Coming Soon to EA's Origin Store: Third-Party Titles
| from the merchants-of-other-people's-doom dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @13:40 (Games)
| with 65 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1740215/Coming-Soon-to-EAs-Origin-Store-Third-Party-Titles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter RGDfleet writes with news snipped from
Gamer Gaia, based on a [0]report in GameSpot UK: "For around three months
now EA's Origin store, previously known as the EA Store, has been
providing digital copies of just about any EA title post-2009. In fact,
Origin has been exclusively EA ever since its inception and has featured
no games from other publishers. On top of this the service has restricted
access of EA titles on competitor providers such as Steam, Battlefield 3
perhaps being the leading example. This week however, EA CFO Eric Brown
confirmed that they intend to start [1]bringing third party content to
Origin."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1740215/Coming-Soon-to-EAs-Origin-Store-Third-Party-Titles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6333640/ea-origin-installs-hit-39-million?tag=updates%253Blatest%253Bnews%253Btitle%253B2
1. http://gamergaia.com/pc/1871-eas-origin-will-soon-feature-third-party-titles.html
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| <em>Code Hero</em>: Play and Learn
| from the young-man's-or-lady's-illustrated-primer dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 11, @14:50 (Education)
| with 55 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1851252/Code-Hero-Play-and-Learn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes with a bit from I Programmer on what sounds like an
intriguing new game: "If you're bored with games where you run around
shooting soldiers or monsters, how about a game where you shoot enemies
to win computer code snippets that you can then use to [0]shape the
reality around you? It's good to play and good enough to win both the
Editor's Choice and Kid's Choice at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire."
The linked story has a video demo, too.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1851252/Code-Hero-Play-and-Learn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/3034-code-hero-play-and-learn.html
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