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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
* Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement
* Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much
* Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games
* Tax Loopholes No Longer Patentable
* Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO
* What You Eat Affects Your Genes
* Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation?
* SUA Deprecated In Windows 8?
* Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart
* Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History
* Sprint Customers Face 5GB Hotspot Data Cap, As of Oct. 2
* FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers
* An FPS Minus the Shooting
* Brain Power Boosted With Electrical Stimulation
* Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger
* Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Copper Broadband To 100Mbps
* Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law
* Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets
* Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars
* Google Prepares Fix To Stop SSL/TLS Attacks
* New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt
* UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project
* First Billion Dollar Open Source Software Vendor
* Facebook Unveils Timeline, Updated Open Graph
* Physicists Devise Magnetic Shield
* Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques
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| CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
| from the they're-ahead-of-their-time dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @15:22 (Science)
| with 662 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1841217/CERN-Experiment-Indicates-Faster-Than-Light-Neutrinos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]intellitech writes "Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have
confounded physicists ��� because it appears subatomic particles [1]have
exceeded the speed of light. Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern
toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a few
billionths of a second early. The results will soon be online to draw
closer scrutiny to a result that, if true, would upend a century of
physics. The lab's research director called it 'an apparently
unbelievable result.'" Also [2]on the AP wire, as carried by ABC, which
similarly emphasizes that the data are preliminary. Update: 09/22 20:43
GMT by [3]T : Reader [4]Curunir_wolf adds a link to the experiment
itself, the [5]Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus, or
OPERA, which "was developed to study the phenomenon of neutrino
transmutation (neutrinos changing from one type to another. The speed of
the neutrinos, of course, was an entirely unexpected observation."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1841217/CERN-Experiment-Indicates-Faster-Than-Light-Neutrinos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1501
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
2. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/cern-claims-faster-light-particle-measured-14582841
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. mailto:harryholt@gmail.com
5. http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/
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| Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement
| from the first-how-do-you-pronounce-your-name dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @10:13 (Intel)
| with 352 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1347201/Demystifying-UEFI-the-Overdue-BIOS-Replacement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "After more than 30 years of unerring and yet
surprising supremacy, BIOS is taking its final bows. Taking its place is
UEFI, a specification that begun its life as the Intel Boot Initiative
way back in 1998 when BIOS's antiquated limitations were hampering
systems built with Intel's Itanium processors. UEFI, as the article
explains, is [0]a complete re-imagining of a computer boot environment,
and as such it has almost no similarities to the PC BIOS that it
replaces."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1347201/Demystifying-UEFI-the-Overdue-BIOS-Replacement?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/96985-demystifying-uefi-the-long-overdue-bios-replacement
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| Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much
| from the piling-on dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 21, @22:47 (Google)
| with 275 comments
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/004213/Google-Accused-of-Cooking-Search-Results-and-Charging-MSFT-Too-Much?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cozzbp writes "Google is being [0]scrutinized by the Senate Antitrust
Subcommittee for supposedly [1]'cooking' their search results. In an
independent study comparing search results for products, Google Shopping
consistently ranked 3rd. Eric Scmidt [2]denied these accusations at a
Senate hearing Wednesday." On top of all that, Microsoft is [3]alleging
that Google overcharges them as much as fifty-fold for advertising prices
as compared to other buyers.
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/004213/Google-Accused-of-Cooking-Search-Results-and-Charging-MSFT-Too-Much?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51152.html
1. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7381863nn
2. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/google-antitrust-eric-schmidt-senate-hearing-herb-kohl-mike-lee.html
3. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-21/google-ad-rate-for-microsoft-said-to-be-investigated-by-u-s-.html
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| Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games
| from the remember-when-browsers-just-browsed dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 22, @07:06 (PC Games (Games))
| with 273 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/085251/Game-Devs-Predict-Death-of-Flash-Installed-Games?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter rescendent writes "In an interview with Massively,
[0]Illyriad Games developers Ben Adams and James Niesewand [1]predict the
death of Flash, the rise of HTML5, and a long-term shift away from
installed games. Quoting: 'The major advantages that boxed set or
download games have had over browser-based games are local storage and
direct access to the graphics and audio engines. Those barriers are being
smashed apart by HTML5. ... Especially for MMO game developers, I
personally don't believe that developers have any real long-term choice
about embarking on this path or not. Ultimately, I believe it's either
browser-based or obsolescence. If you don't do it, your competitors will,
and they'll be making games that work identically on more device
platforms, on more browsers, on more operating systems. It's going to
take a very long time to get there, though, but this change has begun
now, and we firmly believe that HTML5 is the future.' With Microsoft
joining the ranks of Apple and [2]not supporting Flash in Windows 8,
there's definitely a risk to Flash. But will browser-based games really
replace installed games?"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/085251/Game-Devs-Predict-Death-of-Flash-Installed-Games?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.illyriad.co.uk/
1. http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/20/mmobility-illyriad-devs-shine-light-on-html5/
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/15/1257249/Windows-8-Wont-Support-Plug-Ins-the-End-of-Flash
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| Tax Loopholes No Longer Patentable
| from the getting-rid-of-stupid dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @03:30 (Patents)
| with 262 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/0249203/Tax-Loopholes-No-Longer-Patentable?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Knowzy writes "A section of the [1]America Invents Act disallows
issuing a [2]patent 'on a strategy for reducing, avoiding or postponing
taxes,' according to Forbes. The article describes one such strategy in
some detail. The USTPO has already issued 161 of these 'business method
type' patents. 167 more were pending. The law only applies to future
patent applications, leaving enforcement of existing patents an issue for
the courts to decide."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/0249203/Tax-Loopholes-No-Longer-Patentable?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.knowzy.com/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/16/1437218/Obama-To-Sign-America-Invents-Act-of-2011-Today
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2011/09/20/no-more-patents-for-cute-tax-tricks-2/
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| Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO
| from the gossips-you-mean dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @12:31 (HP)
| with 251 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1620217/Sources-Say-Meg-Whitman-To-Become-HP-CEO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrCrassic writes "Looks like HP needed yet another remodeling, as they
are tapping Meg Whitman to take Leo Apothaker's chair by this afternoon.
From the All Things D article: 'Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is [1]poised
to be named CEO of Hewlett-Packard later today after the markets are
closed, said multiple sources close to the situation. The full board of
HP, which is meeting today in Silicon Valley, has not officially voted on
move and the situation could certainly change, sources said it is nearly
a done deal.' [2]Cringely got this one right."
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Links:
0. http://.mrcrassic..at..gmail.com./
1. http://allthingsd.com/20110922/exclusive-whitman-expected-to-get-ceo-nod-after-markets-close-and-not-for-the-interim-either
2. http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fired-from-hewlett-packard/
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| What You Eat Affects Your Genes
| from the you-are-what-you-eat dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 21, @20:18 (Biotech)
| with 237 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/2251238/What-You-Eat-Affects-Your-Genes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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purkinje writes "Tiny bits of genetic material, called microRNAs, can
make their way from the food you eat into your blood stream, and
[0]change how your genes are expressed, according to a new study. A team
of Chinese scientists found tiny bits of white rice microRNA floating
around in people's blood after a meal. When they looked at what was
happening on a cellular level, they found that the microRNAs were
changing gene expression, decreasing levels of a receptor that filters
out LDL (bad) cholesterol. When the scientists gave mice both rice and a
chemical to block the microRNAs, their levels of that receptor returned
to normal---showing that the microRNAs weren't just swimming through the
blood stream, but acting on genes in the animals' cells."
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| Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation?
| from the go-sealand dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @11:43 (Censorship)
| with 193 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1529249/Ask-Slashdot-Best-ccTLD-To-Avoid-Confiscation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]Pete McCann writes "Given the recent
spate of domain seizures by the U.S. government, it seems that
registrations in any U.S.-hosted registry (like the gTLDs .com, .net, and
.org) aren't stable places to put content that the U.S. government might
find objectionable. I am wondering, are there any ccTLD registries out
there that have an open registration policy and are willing to stand up
to censorship demands from the USG? There is this [1]list of ccTLDs with
open registration policies, and the [2]current MAFIAAFIRE redirection
list looks very Tuvalu-heavy. Where would you register a site for maximum
resistance to confiscation?"
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https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1529249/Ask-Slashdot-Best-ccTLD-To-Avoid-Confiscation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://freeovernetfoundation.org/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domains_with_commercial_licenses
2. http://mafiaafire.com/xml-update/mf_xml_list.xml
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| SUA Deprecated In Windows 8?
| from the how-does-being-assimilated-feel dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @10:30 (Unix)
| with 191 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1354258/SUA-Deprecated-In-Windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "I just tried to install Subsystem for
UNIX-based Applications (SUA) on Windows 8 Preview and found that it's
marked as DEPRECATED: 'Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is a
source-compatibility subsystem for compiling and running custom
UNIX-based applications and scripts on a computer running Windows
operating system. WARNING: SUA is deprecated starting with this release
and will be completely removed in the next release. You should begin
planning now to employ alternate methods for any applications, code, or
usage that depend on this feature.'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1354258/SUA-Deprecated-In-Windows-8?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart
| from the is-this-your-homework-larry dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @08:22 (Java)
| with 186 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1217253/Oracle-Removes-Java-Signatures-Breaking-Webstart?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]sproketboy writes "It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite
wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put
into the open source community. Of course this [1]breaks any application
out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D
and JAI are currently affected ��� probably other APIs are as well. Oh
Oracle! What are we supposed to do with you?"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1217253/Oracle-Removes-Java-Signatures-Breaking-Webstart?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://goldchest.sourceforge.net/
1. http://www.java.net/forum/topic/javadesktop/java-desktop-technologies/java-3d/unsigned-entry-j3dcorejar
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| Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History
| from the you-probably-should-have-anticipated-this dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @13:14 (Privacy)
| with 182 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1628243/Borders-Bust-Means-BampN-May-Get-Your-Shopping-History?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]coondoggie writes "To perhaps no one's surprise, Borders bookstore
collected a ton of consumer information ��� such as personal data,
including records of particular book and video sales ��� during its normal
course of business. Such personal information Borders promised never to
share without consumer consent. But now that the company is being sold
off as part of its bankruptcy filing, [1]all privacy promises are off.
Reuters wrote this week that Barnes & Noble, which paid almost $14
million for Borders' intellectual assets (including customer information)
at auction last week, said it should not have to comply with certain
customer-privacy standards recommended by a third-party ombudsman."
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Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/privacy-stink-erupts-over-borders-bankruptcy-
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| Sprint Customers Face 5GB Hotspot Data Cap, As of Oct. 2
| from the that's-enough-for-the-likes-of-you dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @17:03 (Wireless Networking)
| with 174 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/2113218/Sprint-Customers-Face-5GB-Hotspot-Data-Cap-As-of-Oct-2?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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zacharye writes "Sprint on Thursday confirmed that it will soon introduce
a data cap tied to its mobile hotspot add-on for smartphone users.
Currently, Sprint subscribers with compatible smartphones can pay an
extra $29.99 per month for unlimited Wi-Fi tethering, which allows other
devices to connect via Wi-Fi in order to utilize a Sprint phone's 3G or
4G data connection. Beginning October 2nd, the mobile hotspot add-on will
be [0]capped at 5GB of data per month."
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| FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers
| from the long-cyber-arm-of-the-law dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @18:36 (Security)
| with 171 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/221207/FBI-Arrests-LulzSec-and-Anonymous-Hackers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Velcroman1 writes "The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking
collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco
and Phoenix. Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey,
Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com. A document
purported to come from the FBI leaked online earlier this month called
these hacker groups [0]a national security threat. One individual was
described as part of the LulzSec group, the other belongs to the group
that calls itself Anonymous, the official said. [1]The suspected hacker
arrested in California is homeless and alleged to have been involved in
the hacking of Santa Cruz County government websites."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/221207/FBI-Arrests-LulzSec-and-Anonymous-Hackers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/security/202439/leaked-fbi-document-calls-anonymous-national-security-threat
1. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/22/fbi-arrests-suspected-lulzsec-and-anonymous-hackers/
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| An FPS Minus the Shooting
| from the are-you-a-cooper-or-a-geraldo dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 22, @04:19 (First Person Shooters (Games))
| with 166 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/0748202/An-FPS-Minus-the-Shooting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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phaedrus5001 writes "Ars has a story about a first person shooter under
development that [0]involves no shooting on the part of the player; at
least, no shooting bullets. The game, Warco, has the player in the role
of a war correspondent. The object is to immerse yourself in missions and
firefights in order to document what happens. From the article: 'Players
will experience the process of filming conflicts, going into dangerous
situations armed with nothing but a camera. They will then edit the
footage into a compelling news story.' While it's an interesting and
different concept, it should be even more interesting to see if the
developers can actually convince a publisher to release the project."
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Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/09/warco-an-fps-where-you-hold-a-camera-instead-of-a-gun.ars
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| Brain Power Boosted With Electrical Stimulation
| from the power-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @01:19 (Medicine)
| with 125 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/0111246/Brain-Power-Boosted-With-Electrical-Stimulation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Zothecula writes "With the possible exception of those affected by
hyperthylmesia ��� a rare condition where a person has an extraordinary
capability to recall events from their past ��� most of us wouldn't mind
having our memory enhanced. That's just what appears to have happened to
a group of mice when [0]targeted areas of their brains were electrically
stimulated. The treatment triggered an increase in the creation of new
cells in the hippocampus, with experiment results suggesting the mice's
spatial learning improved. The researchers responsible say the results
could have implications for the treatment of memory disorders in humans."
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Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/electrical-brain-stimulation/19899/
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| Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger
| from the there-is-some-very-faint-praise-in-there dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @10:57 (Government)
| with 125 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1434242/Verizon-Chief-Defends-ATampT-T-Mobile-Merger?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The proposed merger of AT&T with T-Mobile doesn't impress everyone as a
good idea; in particular, [0]Sprint has filed suit to stop the merger,
and while hardly a disinterested party, they're not alone in claiming
that the resulting megacompany [1]would harm customers. Verizon is taking
a different tack; [2]tekgoblin passes along this excerpt: "Verizon
Communications chief executive Lowell McAdam has announced that he is
[3]supporting the AT&T T-Mobile merger. He warned that the Government has
no choice but to let the deal go though unless they want to fix the
current spectrum problems. He went on to say 'We need to be very
thoughtful on what the impacts would be to the overall industry if this
is a way to regulate the industry without actually passing regulation.'
The current telcos need more wireless spectrum to continue expanding and
operating efficiently so they have resorted to acquiring other
companies."
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Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/11/09/06/177241/Sprint-Files-Suit-Against-ATampT-T-Mobile-Merger
1. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/21/1928240/Why-the-ATampT-and-T-Mobile-Merger-Is-Bad-For-Consumers
2. http://www.tekgoblin.com/
3. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/09/22/verizon-defends-att-t-mobile-merger/
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| Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Copper Broadband To 100Mbps
| from the faster-better dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @08:46 (Networking)
| with 121 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1234225/Alcatel-Lucent-Boosts-Copper-Broadband-To-100Mbps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Mark.JUK writes "Telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent has today
become the first-to-market with VDSL2 Vectoring technology which, it
claims, will push the top broadband internet [1]access speeds of existing
copper telephone lines over 100Mbps and without needing to bond multiple
lines together. Vectoring is essentially a 'noise cancellation' method
(similar, in principal, to the technology found in some headphones) that
works to cancel out background noise / interference (i.e. crosstalk) and
can thus boost performance and reach (coverage) by between 25% and 100%."
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Links:
0. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/
1. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/09/22/alcatel-lucent-boost-superfast-fttc-broadband-to-100mbps-via-vdsl2-vectoring.html
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| Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law
| from the finest-corinthian-leather dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @14:40 (Hardware Hacking)
| with 110 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1829235/Opportunities-From-the-Twilight-of-Moores-Law?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]saccade.com writes "Andrew 'bunnie' Huang just posted an excellent
essay, [1]Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come. He shows
how the gradually slowing pace of semiconductor density actually may
create many new opportunities for smaller scale innovators and
entrepreneurs. It's based on a talk presented at the [2]2011 Open
Hardware Summit. Are we entering an age of heirloom laptops and artisan
engineering?"
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Links:
0. http://www.saccade.com/
1. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1863
2. http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/
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| Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets
| from the master-control's-new-wheels dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @11:48 (Movies)
| with 100 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/144244/Electric-Tron-Lightcycle-Hits-the-Streets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cylonlover writes "Practicality tends to take a back seat when you
combine sci-fi cult status with custom chopper building ��� and there's no
room for a pillion passenger on the Lightcycle. We first spied [0]Parker
Brothers Choppers Lightcycle project last year when it surfaced in
gas-powered form, now the company has released video of a
[1]fully-electric version of the neon-packing two-wheeler in action. The
electric motor may be quieter, but this one's still guaranteed to turn
heads."
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Links:
0. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/145234/Buy-Your-Own-Tron-Lightcycle-For-35000
1. http://www.gizmag.com/electric-lightcycle-parker-brothers/19897/
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| Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars
| from the robotic-drones-in-addition-to-the-regular-ones dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @17:50 (Australia)
| with 93 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/2131221/Canberra-Police-Want-Drones-To-Track-Cars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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garymortimer tips this story at the Canberra Times, which starts: "Police
have suggested that Canberra's new point-to-point speed cameras be linked
to unmanned aerial surveillance drones and [0]used to track vehicles of
interest to authorities. The first of the cameras, which use automated
number plate recognition technology to calculate a car's average speed
and whether it is within the legal limit, are due to be switched on by
the end of the year." I wonder how much surveillance by drone is already
being done in the U.S., especially considering that even an (admittedly
high-end) [1]home-built drone is capable of hijinks that seem to parallel
the [2]cell-phone tracking activities the FBI has been shown to employ.
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Links:
0. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/aerial-surveillance-push/2300359.aspx
1. http://slashdot.org/submission/1740094/flying-drone-can-sniff-wifi-snoop-on-cell-ph
2. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/203208/surveillance-case-may-reveal-fbi-cellphone-tracking-techniques
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| Google Prepares Fix To Stop SSL/TLS Attacks
| from the raise-shields dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @05:40 (Chrome)
| with 91 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/038227/Google-Prepares-Fix-To-Stop-SSLTLS-Attacks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "It was reported Tuesday that researchers had found
a way to [0]break the most commonly used SSL/TLS encryption in browsers.
According to the Register, [1]Google is pushing out a patch to fix the
problem. The patch doesn't involve adding support for TLS 1.1 or 1.2.
FTFA: 'The change introduced into Chrome would counteract these attacks
by splitting a message into fragments to reduce the attacker's control
over the plaintext about to be encrypted. By adding unexpected randomness
to the process, the new behavior in Chrome is intended to throw BEAST off
the scent of the decryption process by feeding it confusing information.'
The fix is supposedly in the latest developer version of Chrome."
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Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1833232/Hackers-Break-Browser-SSLTLS-Encryption
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/google_chrome_patch_for_beast/
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| New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt
| from the steady-hands dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @13:58 (NASA)
| with 82 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/1720230/New-Images-of-Tumbling-US-Satellite-From-Theirry-Legaullt?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The BBC reports that "An amateur astronomer has [0]recorded images of the
out-of-control US satellite as it tumbles back to Earth. Theirry Legault,
from Paris, captured the video as the satellite passed over northern
France on 15 September. The six-tonne, 20-year-old spacecraft has fallen
out of orbit and is expected to crash somewhere on Earth on or around 24
September. The US space agency says the risk to life from the Upper
Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is 1 in 3,200. Mr Legault, an
engineer, used a specially designed camera to record the tumbling
satellite through his 14-inch telescope, posting the footage on his
Astrophotography website." (Previous, equally impressive work from
Legault include his photos of [1]Atlantis's final re-entry and [2]the
ISS, sun and moon in one shot.)
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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15009337
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/180200/Atlantis-Final-Reentry-Over-Cancun-Mexico
2. http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/04/1924245/Double-Eclipse-Photographed-Sun-Moon-and-ISS
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| UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project
| from the sounds-like-the-denver-airport dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @09:27 (United Kingdom)
| with 73 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/136231/UKs-NHS-Will-Drop-Delayed-E-Records-Project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Centralized, electronic medical records are touted as a means of
increasing efficiency and patient safety. The "centralizing" and "turning
electronic" phases, though, have some very rough edges. An anonymous
reader writes with this excerpt from the Guardian about one such
digitization project in the UK: "An ambitious multibillion pound
programme to create a computerised patient record system across the
entire NHS is [0]being scrapped, ministers have decided. The ��12.7bn
National Programme for IT is being ended after years of delays, technical
difficulties, contractual disputes and rising costs."
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Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/22/nhs-it-project-abandoned
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| First Billion Dollar Open Source Software Vendor
| from the lots-of-zeros dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @08:03 (Red Hat Software)
| with 69 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/0315254/First-Billion-Dollar-Open-Source-Software-Vendor?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]head_dunce writes "Red Hat is doing very well in this economy. Total
revenue and subscription revenue for this quarter is up 28%
year-over-year. Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Red Hat said, 'Based on the strong first half results, we believe Red Hat
remains well positioned to finish fiscal 2012 as [1]the first billion
dollar open source software vendor.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.carguygarage.com/
1. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Red-Hat-Reports-Second-bw-474607315.html?x=0&.v=1
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| Facebook Unveils Timeline, Updated Open Graph
| from the user-trying-vs-user-testing dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @16:26 (Facebook)
| with 68 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/2021204/Facebook-Unveils-Timeline-Updated-Open-Graph?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook today announced a new Timeline
feature and a new type of social app under its Open Graph. They're not
available yet, but [0]almost all the details are finally official."
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Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/a-closer-look-at-the-facebook-timeline-and-the-open-graph/3927
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| Physicists Devise Magnetic Shield
| from the leave-your-emp-gun-at-home dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 22, @19:22 (Science)
| with 52 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/2216241/Physicists-Devise-Magnetic-Shield?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "The sneaky science of 'cloaking' just keeps getting
richer. Physicists and engineers had already demonstrated rudimentary
invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, and water
waves. Now, they've devised an 'antimagnet' cloak that can [0]shield an
object from a constant magnetic field without disturbing that field. If
realized, such a cloak could have medical applications, researchers say."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/physicists-devise-perfect-magnet.html?ref=hp
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| Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques
| from the public-records-act dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, @16:07 (Cellphones)
| with 46 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/22/203208/Surveillance-Case-May-Reveal-FBI-Cellphone-Tracking-Techniques?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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glittermage writes "The WSJ reports on an ongoing case about alleged
'Hacker' Daniel David Rigmaiden, regarding the government's tools [0]used
to track mobile devices with or without a warrant. The judge may allow
Daniel to defend himself against the government's claims by putting the
technology into the light. Sounds good to me."
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Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576583112723197574.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5
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