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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle
* Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes?
* A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day
* Feds Call Full-Tilt Poker a 'Global Ponzi Scheme'
* British Govt Debates Swapping Printers For iPads
* Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android
* MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results
* Microsoft Has Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing Since 2009
* Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux
* Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions
* Google+ Enters Open Beta
* Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse
* Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching
* When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?'
* Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS
* How Bug Bounties Are Like Rat Farming
* DigiNotar Goes Bankrupt After Hack
* SMK Toughens Up Those Tiny Micro-USB Connections
* AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared
* Ask Jennifer Granick About Computer Crime Defense
* <em>DC Universe Online</em> Goes F2P
* Hackers Break Browser SSL/TLS Encryption
* Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra Will Have Fifth "Companion Core"
* 28-Way Radeon GPU Comparison Under Linux
* New Transistor Could Let Chips Interface With Living Systems
* 30,000-Core Cluster On Amazon EC2
* Spectrophotometer Analysis of Crayons
* Client-side Web REPL For 15+ Languages
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| Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle
| from the faster-faster-faster dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @17:15 (Firefox)
| with 352 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2044254/Mozilla-Contemplating-Five-Week-Release-Cycle?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes with an article in Extreme Tech about the ever quickening
pace of Firefox development. Quoting the article: "Mozilla, not content
with its monumental [1]shift from four major builds in five years down to
a new stable build every six weeks, is looking at [2]outputting a new
release every five weeks, or perhaps even less. Christian Legnitto, a
project manager at Mozilla (and currently the 'release manager' of
Firefox), announced the intention to shift to a shorter release cycle on
Mozilla's planning mailing list. In response to one developer citing the
success of the six-week release cycle, and [3]asking whether it would be
feasible to speed it up even further, Legnitto said: 'Yes, I absolutely
think in the future we will shorten the cycle.' There are still some
pains to overcome, though, such as add-on maintenance, testing, and
localization ��� and ultimately, as browsers become more like operating
systems, do we really want something as important as Firefox receiving a
new major version every 5 weeks?" In other news, it looks like [4]Firefox
is losing users faster than ever despite (because of?) the new rapid
release cycle.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2044254/Mozilla-Contemplating-Five-Week-Release-Cycle?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/28/1656258/Firefox-4-the-Last-Big-Release-From-Mozilla
2. http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/96737-mozilla-wants-to-shorten-firefoxs-six-week-release-schedule-to-five-weeks-or-less
3. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/mvVweF8xQRw
4. http://www.conceivablytech.com/9419/business/browser-market-share-forecast-update-firefox-losses-accelerate
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| Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes?
| from the all-your-priceless-ascii-art dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @13:12 (Data Storage)
| with 323 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1639232/Ask-Slashdot-Recovering-Data-From-20-Year-Old-Diskettes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]Zilog writes "The [1]end of the 3.5-inch
floppy and the disappearance of associated drives showed to me the need
to backup the tens of diskettes that accompanied my youth. Carefully
preserved, these diskettes have proved readable for the most part ��� while
some are approaching 20 years old. However, some diskettes have shown
surface defects in areas with compressed archives (zip). Any ideas on how
to recover (as much as possible) these bad sectors?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1639232/Ask-Slashdot-Recovering-Data-From-20-Year-Old-Diskettes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:cea@9online.fr
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/25/0635218/The-End-of-the-35-Inch-Floppy-Continues
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| A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day
| from the don't-tell-my-other-boss dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @15:38 (Idle)
| with 266 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1842205/A-Fifth-of-Telecommuters-Work-Less-Than-An-Hour-Per-Day?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrCrassic writes "Working at home isn't vacation...or is it?" Quoting
an article in The Register: "Almost one in five Americans who work from
home [1]only clock in for an hour or less a day, according to a survey,
while a third stay in their pyjamas. Forty per cent of telecommuters say
they work between four and seven hours, 17 per cent are doing the bare
minimum and just 35 per cent are working eight or more hours, the
CareerBuilder survey of 5,299 people revealed. ... Stay-at-home workers
also said getting dressed for the day was far too strenuous: 41 per cent
of women and 22 per cent of men ��� a third in total ��� stayed in their
PJs."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1842205/A-Fifth-of-Telecommuters-Work-Less-Than-An-Hour-Per-Day?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://moc.liamgtacissarcrm/
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/pjs_every_day/
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| Feds Call Full-Tilt Poker a 'Global Ponzi Scheme'
| from the and-let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, @19:19 (The Almighty Buck)
| with 245 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2238257/Feds-Call-Full-Tilt-Poker-a-Global-Ponzi-Scheme?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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blair1q writes "Popular (and heavily advertised) poker website Full-Tilt
Poker was sued today by the US government, following [0]an investigation
that [1]revealed it to be a massive Ponzi Scheme. The principals in the
company set up a complicated system to direct funds from subscribers'
poker accounts into their own bank accounts. This was in contravention of
their own claim that users' money was untouched. Players' accounts
amounted to $390 million, but the company only has $60 million in the
bank, having over time distributed $440 million to its own directors and
executives."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2238257/Feds-Call-Full-Tilt-Poker-a-Global-Ponzi-Scheme?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/15/1956243/DOJ-Seizes-Online-Poker-Site-Domains
1. http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/09/20/feds-full-tilt-poker-giant-ponzi-scheme/
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| British Govt Debates Swapping Printers For iPads
| from the coff-new-toys-for-the-servants-coff dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @10:17 (Government)
| with 228 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/143254/British-Govt-Debates-Swapping-Printers-For-iPads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The British government is examining whether
it could save money by getting rid of its printers and giving civil
servants free iPads instead. The head of the UK government skunkworks
told silicon.com that if he got rid of all of a major government
department's printers and gave staff iPads, the savings on printing costs
[0]would pay for the tablets in less than 18 months. The UK parliament
has [1]already let tablets into the debating chamber, with politicians
already starting to choose to use tablets rather than bundles of papers
in debates."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/143254/British-Govt-Debates-Swapping-Printers-For-iPads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.silicon.com/management/public-sector/2011/09/19/let-them-have-ipads-why-giving-tablets-to-civil-servants-could-actually-save-taxpayers-cash-39747956/
1. http://www.silicon.com/technology/mobile/2011/03/25/apple-ipads-backed-for-house-of-commons-39747202/
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| Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android
| from the ways-in-which-operating-systems-are-like-sweatpants dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, @08:16 (Google)
| with 208 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/049227/Google-Preps-Devs-For-One-Size-Fits-All-Android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "Google is preparing Android developers for the latest
edition of its Android mobile operating platform that will [0]work the
same on both tablets and smartphones. Scott Main, the lead tech writer
for Google's Android Developers Blog, reminded developers on Monday that
the newest edition of Android ��� dubbed 'Ice Cream Sandwich' ��� will '[1]support
big screens, small screens and everything in between.' Main also
emphasized that Android would maintain 'the same version ... on all
screen sizes' going forward."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/049227/Google-Preps-Devs-For-One-Size-Fits-All-Android?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/091911-google-android-update-251030.html
1. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/preparing-for-handsets.html
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| MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results
| from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, @02:12 (Earth)
| with 180 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/0246221/MITs-1000-House-Challenge-Yields-Results?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]MIT's $1k House Project is an
extraordinary challenge to provide safe and healthy homes for the world's
burgeoning population. The [1]Pinwheel House (PDF), a student project
which helped serve as a catalyst for the challenge, [2]has been completed
in China by architect Ying chee Chui. Students have come up with a dozen
or so designs to [3]meet the challenge and improve living conditions for
not just emerging economies but larger nations as well."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/0246221/MITs-1000-House-Challenge-Yields-Results?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://web.mit.edu/cre/research/1k-house-project.html
1. http://web.mit.edu/1khouse/website%20info/images/1p_PINWHEEL.pdf
2. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/1k-house-prototype-0915.html
3. http://inhabitat.com/mits-1000-house-challenge-inspires-groundbreaking-designs/
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| Microsoft Has Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing Since 2009
| from the feed-the-cash-fired-stove dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @16:01 (Google)
| with 179 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1855251/Microsoft-Has-Lost-55-Billion-On-Bing-Since-2009?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Landing on slashdot for the first time, MightyMartian writes "According
to CNN Money, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since its launch in
2009. But it gets even better. If you include Microsoft's other online
offerings, all the way back to 2007, the [0]losses are somewhere in the
neighborhood of $9 billion. But not to worry, analysts expect Bing to
become profitable in 'three to four years.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1855251/Microsoft-Has-Lost-55-Billion-On-Bing-Since-2009?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technology/microsoft_bing/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
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| Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux
| from the you-never-get-rid-of-the-dane dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, @18:36 (Businesses)
| with 172 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2224218/Casio-Paying-Microsoft-To-Use-Linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Will Tux be a rainmaker for Microsoft? GeekWire reports
that Microsoft has [0]struck a deal with Casio to [1]provide Casio's
customers with coverage for their use of Linux in Casio devices. The
agreement, which calls for Microsoft to receive payments of an
undisclosed amount, is an implicit acknowledgment of Microsoft's
longstanding claims that Linux violates its patents, an assertion that
members of the open-source community have long disputed."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2224218/Casio-Paying-Microsoft-To-Use-Linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/sep11/09-20CasioPR.mspx
1. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/casio-paying-microsoft-linux-patent-deal
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| Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions
| from the time-will-tell dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, @05:14 (Databases)
| with 168 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/045215/Why-You-Shouldnt-Panic-About-Closed-Source-MySQL-Extensions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "Oracle has [1]released proprietary extensions to
the open source MySQL database, seeming to reinforce the worst fears of
those in the open source community who opposed Oracle's acquisition of
MySQL in the first place. But open source observer Brian Proffitt urges
you [2]not to panic: This dual source strategy really isn't unusual in
the commercial open source world, Oracle has already released a bevy of
open source improvements to the database, and anyway the EU extracted a
commitment to keep MySQL open for another four years when it approved the
Sun-Oracle merger."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/045215/Why-You-Shouldnt-Panic-About-Closed-Source-MySQL-Extensions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/new_commercial_extensions_for_mysql
2. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/204579/trouble-high-seas-mysql
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| Google+ Enters Open Beta
| from the google-hangouts-replace-real-hangouts dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @13:55 (Google)
| with 159 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1727253/Google-Enters-Open-Beta?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter morgosmaci sends us a Google Blog post
about the [0]transitioning of Google+ from a closed "field trial" to an
open beta. As part of the update, Google threw in a number of
enhancements to the Hangouts feature: an [1]Android client, named
hangouts, integration with Google Docs, and a [2]preliminary web service
API. And you can finally search for users, posts, and other content.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1727253/Google-Enters-Open-Beta?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html
1. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus
2. http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2011/09/introducing-google-hangouts-api.html
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| Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse
| from the wish-those-games-didn't-bore-me-so-quickly dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @12:30 (Books)
| with 148 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1536244/Neal-Stephenson-Says-Video-Games-Are-the-Metaverse?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In an interview with Forbes Magazine, Neal
Stephenson says the 'Metaverse' he created in his seminal novel Snow
Crash missed the point ��� and that [0]video games like World of Warcraft
are the true future of cyberspace." Forbes writer David Ewalt seems taken
with Stephenson's new book, REAMDE, which I'm looking forward to getting
my hands on.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1536244/Neal-Stephenson-Says-Video-Games-Are-the-Metaverse?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-stephenson-reamde-video-games/
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| Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching
| from the we're-always-watching dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @16:17 (Privacy)
| with 146 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1942248/Smart-Meters-Reveal-What-Youre-Watching?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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xororand writes "H-Online reports that 'researchers at the M��nster
University of Applied Sciences have discovered that it is possible to use
electricity usage data from smart electricity meters to [0]determine
which programmes consumers are watching on a standard TV set. By
analysing electricity consumption patterns, it is, in principle, also
possible to identify films played from a DVD or other source.' It's time
for some clever EEs to come up with a countermeasure. Unfortunately
alumfoil hats [1]have already been dismissed."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1942248/Smart-Meters-Reveal-What-Youre-Watching?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Smart-meters-reveal-TV-viewing-habits-1346385.html
1. http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/
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| When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?'
| from the give-an-inch-and-they-take-a-mile dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 19, @22:02 (Spam)
| with 145 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/19/2316206/When-Does-Signing-Up-Become-Opting-In?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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AmyVernon writes "This piece from RWW got me thinking about whether, when
you sign up for access to a site, you're actually [0]signing up to get a
slew of email spam from them. The single opt-in is still really popular,
which I've noticed because I often check the box indicating I don't want
further emails from a company or publisher. I always assume that giving
my actual email address means I'm going to get spam-type emails from
whomever. It still surprises me that most people don't. But it does raise
a good question: Shouldn't you be able to sign up for something without
automatically being signed up for a never-ending stream of 'updates?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/19/2316206/When-Does-Signing-Up-Become-Opting-In?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cartoon_a_clear-cut_case_of_ambiguity.php
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| Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS
| from the no-not-that-other-idf dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @12:12 (Intel)
| with 142 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/165250/Intel-Shows-RealVNC-Embedded-In-the-BIOS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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LWATCDR writes "At [0]Intel Developer Forum, Intel and RealVNC [1]demoed
RealVNC integrated at the BIOS level. Using VNC, one can now power down,
power up, reboot, go into the BIOS, and even mount disk images on the
network. All of this has been available for a while using [2]IPMI but now
it can be done using the open standard VNC. It is available now on Q57
and Q67 motherboards. One can just imagine how useful this could be in a
data center, school, or any other system with a large number of
computers. Let's hope AMD joins in."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/165250/Intel-Shows-RealVNC-Embedded-In-the-BIOS?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.intel.com/IDF/?cid=cim:ggl%7Cidf2011_us_brand%7Cti1ED42%7Cs
1. http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/19/realvnc-demos-bios-based-server-at-idf-2011-video/
2. http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
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| How Bug Bounties Are Like Rat Farming
| from the first-we-hypothesize-a-problem dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @11:00 (Security)
| with 136 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1448208/How-Bug-Bounties-Are-Like-Rat-Farming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Gunkerty Jeb writes "In a keynote speech at the United Security Summit,
Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, drew parallels between the
increasingly popular (and successful) practice of software vendors
offering bug bounties and a new industry springing up in Johannesburg,
South Africa, where the population has recently found itself beset with a
growing rat problem. In order to help mitigate their rodent problem,
officials in Johannesburg began offering a small monetary rewards for
each dead rat turned in. It was wildly successful, and it didn't take
long for fresh batch of entrepreneurs to pop up and exploit the
situation. Of course, I'm talking about rat farming. Evidently, business
minded individuals have taken to breeding rats, only to kill them and
turn them in for rewards. Obviously, rat farming is somewhat
unscrupulous, but security researchers are doing the same thing:
[0]breeding bugs in the lab, then leading them to the slaughter for a
nice payday. And it's a good thing."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1448208/How-Bug-Bounties-Are-Like-Rat-Farming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/how-bug-bounties-are-rat-farming-092011
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| DigiNotar Goes Bankrupt After Hack
| from the it's-the-little-things dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @08:59 (Businesses)
| with 130 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1237207/DigiNotar-Goes-Bankrupt-After-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]twoheadedboy writes "DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority which
was recently at the centre of a significant hacking case, [1]has been
declared bankrupt. The CA discovered it was compromised on 19 July,
leading to 531 rogue certificates being issued. It was only in August
that the attacks became public knowledge. Now the company has gone
bankrupt, parent firm VASCO said today. VASCO admitted the financial
losses associated with the demise of DigiNotar would be 'significant.' It
all goes to show how quickly a data breach can bring down a company."
Adds reader Orome1: "This is unsurprising, since a report issued by
security audit firm Fox-IT, who has been hired to investigate the now
notorious DigiNotar breach, revealed that things were [2]far worse than
we were led to believe."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1237207/DigiNotar-Goes-Bankrupt-After-Hack?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.itpro.co.uk/636244/diginotar-goes-bankrupt-after-hack
2. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11570
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| SMK Toughens Up Those Tiny Micro-USB Connections
| from the which-are-a-bit-pain-in-the-tuchus dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @09:42 (Cellphones)
| with 126 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1249246/SMK-Toughens-Up-Those-Tiny-Micro-USB-Connections?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "If a gadget ships with a micro-USB port, I
see it as a plus because it isn't proprietary ��� meaning I can easily and
cheaply buy replacement cables. But the micro-USB ports aren't the
strongest connectors in the world, so if the gadget is expensive (a
smartphone) and you accidentally bust the port, you're in trouble. And
that's easily done. Japanese manufacturer SMK may have fixed the problem,
though, with a [0]new double-strong connector design. They started
producing them on Friday, and at an output of 500,000 a month, hopefully
they'll be shipping with most new gadgets before long."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1249246/SMK-Toughens-Up-Those-Tiny-Micro-USB-Connections?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.smk.co.jp/news/press_release/2011/934cs/
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| AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared
| from the competition-is-good dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, @00:05 (The Internet)
| with 115 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/0020255/ATampT-and-Verizon-LTE-Networks-Compared?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "AT&T launched a speedy 4G LTE network in five
cities on Sunday, and the question that comes to mind is [0] how it
compares to Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE system. Well, according to the eight
rounds of testing conducted in Houston, Texas, Verizon may have something
to worry about. Downloads over the AT&T network averaged about 24Mbps and
peaked at 42.85Mbps, the fastest cellular connection seen to date. Just
as interesting as the sheer download speeds were the connection quality
results: Pingtest.net generally rated the network an A or a B, good
enough for video chat or gaming."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/0020255/ATampT-and-Verizon-LTE-Networks-Compared?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393182,00.asp
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| Ask Jennifer Granick About Computer Crime Defense
| from the now-that-you've-heard-from-mitnick dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @11:44 (Crime)
| with 103 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1415246/Ask-Jennifer-Granick-About-Computer-Crime-Defense?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Attorney [0]Jennifer Granick has defended many high profile hackers,
including researcher Christopher Soghoian, creator of a [1]fake boarding
pass generator (2006); [2]Michael Lynn versus Cisco/ISS (2005); Jerome
Heckenkamp; and Luke Smith and Nelson Pavlosky in [3]Online Policy Group
v. Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions), a copyright
misuse case related to electronic voting. Granick also won an exemption
from the U.S. Copyright Office in 2006 allowing phone unlocking despite
the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, which set the stage for renewal of the exemption and for the
[4]jailbreaking exemption in 2009. At Stanford, Granick worked with
Lawrence Lessig on constitutional copyright cases and taught six years
worth of law students about computers, technology and civil liberties.
While Civil Liberties Director at the EFF, Granick started the [5]Coders'
Rights Project and participated in litigation against ATT and the federal
government for violation of surveillance regulations. Now an attorney at
ZwillGen PLLC, Granick assists individuals and companies creating new
products and services. And now, she's graciously agreed to answer your
questions. Please, as usual, [6]ask as many questions as you'd like, but
confine each question to a separate post.
Discuss this story at:
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1415246/Ask-Jennifer-Granick-About-Computer-Crime-Defense?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.granick.com/
1. http://www.dubfire.net/boarding_pass/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lynn#Cisco_controversy
3. http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/
4. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/26/1552249/Jailbreaking-iPhone-Now-Legal
5. https://www.eff.org/issues/coders
6. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| <em>DC Universe Online</em> Goes F2P
| from the i-think-we-can-safely-call-this-a-trend dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday September 19, @23:03 (Businesses)
| with 99 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/0237205/DC-Universe-Online-Goes-F2P?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mlauzon writes "It seems a lot of companies are seeing the light and
turning their subscription based games into the F2P model, or 'freemium,'
as it's now being called. Quoting Massively: "For those of us who lack
Batman's financial resources, maintaining several monthly MMO
subscriptions [1]can be a challenge. Sony Online Entertainment recognizes
this, and as a result, the company has just announced that [2] DC
Universe Online will be officially joining the freemium revolution toward
the end of October."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/0237205/DC-Universe-Online-Goes-F2P?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:mlauzonNO@SPAMgmail.com
1. http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/19/massively-exclusive-soes-john-smedley-reveals-f2p-model-for-dc/
2. http://www.dcuniverseonline.com/en/news/archive.vm?id=63&month=current
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| Hackers Break Browser SSL/TLS Encryption
| from the only-thoughtcriminals-use-encryption dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @15:17 (Security)
| with 81 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1833232/Hackers-Break-Browser-SSLTLS-Encryption?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter CaVp writes with an article in The Register
about an exploit that appears to affect all browsers and can decrypt an
active TLS session. From the article: "Researchers have discovered a
[0]serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure
sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data
that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser." A full
disclosure is scheduled for Friday September 23rd at the [1]Ekoparty
conference. Note that this only affects SSL 2.0 and TLS 1.0;
unfortunately most web servers are misconfigured to still accept SSL 2.0,
and TLS 1.1 and 1.2 have seen limited deployment. The [2]practicality of
the attack remains to be determined (for one it isn't very fast, but if
the intent is just to decrypt the data for later use that isn't an
impediment).
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1833232/Hackers-Break-Browser-SSLTLS-Encryption?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/
1. http://www.ekoparty.org/
2. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-attack-breaks-confidentiality-model-ssl-allows-theft-encrypted-cookies-091911
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| Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra Will Have Fifth "Companion Core"
| from the phone-still-dies-before-five dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @16:37 (Hardware)
| with 80 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1935210/Nvidias-Kal-El-Tegra-Will-Have-Fifth-Companion-Core?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Blacklaw writes with an article in Thinq about the upcoming quad core
Tegra chipset. Quoting the article: "Nvidia has released a few technical
details of its upcoming 'Kal-El' Tegra processor, including a secret it's
done well to keep under its hat thus far: [0]it's a five-core, not
four-core, chip." The fifth core will be clocked lower and is intended to
let the system use little power without having to fully suspend. A few
years ago Openmoko had a vaguely similar idea to include a
microcontroller for low-resource idle tasks (e.g. gps logging), but this
design is superior since it should be more or less transparent to user
space programs.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/9/20/nvidias-kal-el-tegra-pack-five-cores/
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| 28-Way Radeon GPU Comparison Under Linux
| from the in-case-you're-a-bit-compulsive dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, @09:20 (AMD)
| with 73 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1240210/28-Way-Radeon-GPU-Comparison-Under-Linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has conducted a [0]28-way Radeon
graphics card comparison under Linux that illustrates the differences
among the open-source and closed-source graphics drivers."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1240210/28-Way-Radeon-GPU-Comparison-Under-Linux?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_comp_oktoberfest&num=1
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| New Transistor Could Let Chips Interface With Living Systems
| from the we-have-the-technology dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @17:55 (Science)
| with 62 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2127220/New-Transistor-Could-Let-Chips-Interface-With-Living-Systems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with a UW news item about a really neat new
transistor design. From the release: "Human [sic, probably meant
Electronic] devices, from light bulbs to iPods, send information using
electrons. Human bodies and all other living things, on the other hand,
send signals and perform work using ions or protons. Materials scientists
at the University of Washington have built [0]a novel transistor that
uses protons, creating a key piece for devices that can communicate
directly with living things. Among the many potential areas for
application is that of prosthetic limbs." The [1]paper's abstract is
available, but the full paper is unfortunately Paywalled. The [2]Rolandi
research group has a few other neat projects in related areas.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2127220/New-Transistor-Could-Let-Chips-Interface-With-Living-Systems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/proton-based-transistor-could-let-machines-communicate-with-living-things
1. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n9/full/ncomms1489.htm
2. http://faculty.washington.edu/rolandi/research.html
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| 30,000-Core Cluster On Amazon EC2
| from the still-needs-a-few-more-cores dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @14:36 (Cloud)
| with 53 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1812244/30000-Core-Cluster-On-Amazon-EC2?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Joining the ranks of accepted submitters, hooligun writes with an article
in Ars Technica about a rather large cluster built on EC2. From the
article: "The details are impressive: 3,809 compute instances, each with
eight cores and 7GB of RAM, for a total of 30,472 cores, 26.7TB of RAM
and 2PB (petabytes) of disk space. Security was ensured with HTTPS, SSH
and 256-bit AES encryption, and the [0]cluster ran across data centers in
three Amazon regions in the United States and Europe."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1812244/30000-Core-Cluster-On-Amazon-EC2?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars
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| Spectrophotometer Analysis of Crayons
| from the ooo-pretty-colors dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @16:56 (Idle)
| with 32 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/209206/Spectrophotometer-Analysis-of-Crayons?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Volhav writes "Like many as a child, the photographer Mark Meyer wondered
what the difference between Yellow-Green and Green-Yellow was in that
Crayola box of crayons. Using a monitor calibration tool and the Argyll
3rd party software he [0]evaluated a box of 24 Crayola crayons, and
plotted them out with sRGB values. He even included a nice [1]printable
poster size version of the chart in his blog post. For the geek or
curious this was a pretty interesting plot."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/209206/Spectrophotometer-Analysis-of-Crayons?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.photo-mark.com/notes/2011/sep/20/crayon-colors/
1. http://www.photo-mark.com/webpix/note_examples/crayons/Crayons_24.pdf
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| Client-side Web REPL For 15+ Languages
| from the symbolics-wants-your-brains dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday September 20, @18:18 (Programming)
| with 23 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2135256/Client-side-Web-REPL-For-15-Languages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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In his first accepted submission, [0]MaxShaw writes "repl.it is an
[1]online REPL that supports running code in 15+ languages, from Ruby to
Scheme to QBasic, in the browser. It is intended as a tool for learning
new languages and experimenting with code on the go. All the code is
[2]open sourced under the MIT license and available from GitHub." A few
of the languages are supported by reusing existing "Foolang in
Javascript" interpreters, but a number of them are built using
[3]Emscripten (previously used to [4]build Doom for the browser). All
evaluation occurs client side, but saved sessions are stored on their
server.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2135256/Client-side-Web-REPL-For-15-Languages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://github.com/replit/repl.it
1. http://repl.it/
2. https://github.com/replit
3. https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki
4. https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/31/1833239/Doom-Ported-To-the-Web
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