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In this issue:
* AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough
* Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server?
* Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation?
* HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI
* Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out
* Are Folding Containers the Future of Shipping?
* Low-Latency Network Shaves Milliseconds from UK-Asia Traffic
* Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge
* Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive
* Amazon To Launch Kindle Tablet?
* Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions
* Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed
* NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt
* Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users
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| AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough
| from the one-step-closer dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @09:26 (Medicine)
| with 312 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/123230/AIDS-Vaccine-Breakthrough?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Doc Ruby writes "Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in MD, USA
announced they've [0]disrupted the means by which HIV stops the immune
system from attacking it. From the article: 'Scientists say they have
found a way to disarm the AIDS virus in research that could lead to a
vaccine. Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol
membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among
disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal. [...] "By
stealing cholesterol from the envelope of the virus, we can neutralize
the subversion," said Graham. "We've broken the code; we can shut down
the type of interference that HIV is having on the immune system."'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/123230/AIDS-Vaccine-Breakthrough?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server?
| from the setting-the-bar-low dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @10:39 (Linux)
| with 292 comments
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1211203/Newb-Friendly-Linux-Flavor-For-LAMP-Server?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter bhcompy writes "I need to setup a system to
serve 2500 users and I've been looking at a LAMP setup. This is not
commercial, more of a personal side project for some friends. I've no
experience configuring or administering a Linux server having worked with
MS and PICK based solutions my whole life, so I'm looking for something
that will be relatively straightforward to implement and not a chore to
manage and preferably not completely CLI. I will be serving a forum(phpBB
3 suits my needs and seems adequate) and a variety of PHP driven content
with a MySQL backend. Requirements are PHP 5.3.0+ and MySQL 5+.
Suggestions?"
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1211203/Newb-Friendly-Linux-Flavor-For-LAMP-Server?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation?
| from the do-you-understand-the-words-that-are-coming-out-of-my-mouth? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @19:55 (Education)
| with 230 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/227228/Accent-Monitoring-Innovation-Or-Rights-Violation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "After almost a decade of sending monitors to classrooms
across the state to check on teachers' articulation, the NY Times' Marc
Lacey reports that [0]a federal investigation of possible civil rights
violations has prompted Arizona to call off its accent police. The
teachers who were found to have strong accents were not fired, but their
school districts were required to work with them to improve their speech.
Interestingly, one person's civil rights violation [1]is another's
'wonderful little phenomenon', which is how PBS described the accent
neutralization classes attended by Bangalore call center workers who
worked for the likes of IBM and Microsoft. On its website, IBM Daksh
notes that 'To make sure that customers all over the world can understand
the way our people speak, [2]every new hire is trained in what we call
voice and accent neutralization.'. So, is accent monitoring and
neutralization a civil right violation, [3]as the U.S. Depts. of Justice
and Education suggest, or is it an 'innovation', as IBM argues?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/227228/Accent-Monitoring-Innovation-Or-Rights-Violation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/24/MNOC1L943Q.DTL
1. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june04/friedman_03-09.html
2. http://www-935.ibm.com/services/in/gts/bus/html/daksh_innovations.html#foo2
3. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/09/12/20110912arizona-teacher-accent-scrutiny-halted.html
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| HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI
| from the technically-sir-you-were-being-a-donkey dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 25, @06:02 (Crime)
| with 216 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0415213/HideMyAsscom-Doesnt-Hide-Logs-From-the-FBI?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "People use VPN services to hide their
identities online, right? And a UK-based service called HideMyAss would
seem to fit that bill perfectly. Not so, unfortunately: they [0]have to
hand over the logs to the FBI when a UK judge tells them to." Reader
wiredmikey points to a [1]story at SecurityWeek, too.
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0415213/HideMyAsscom-Doesnt-Hide-Logs-From-the-FBI?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/
1. http://www.securityweek.com/vpn-service-snitched-alleged-lulzsec-member
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| Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out
| from the sticking-with-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @18:34 (Facebook)
| with 207 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/2131205/Facebook-Cookies-Track-Users-Even-After-Logging-Out?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]Core Condor writes "According to
Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic: '[1]Logging out of Facebook is
not enough.' He added, Even after you are logged out, Facebook is able to
track your browser's page every time you visit a website. He wrote in his
blog: 'With my browser logged out of Facebook, whenever I visit any page
with a Facebook like button, or share button, or any other widget, the
information, including my account ID, is still being sent to Facebook.'
After explaining the cookies behavior he also suggested a way to fix the
tracking problem: 'The only solution to Facebook not knowing who you are
is to delete all Facebook cookies.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/2131205/Facebook-Cookies-Track-Users-Even-After-Logging-Out?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:techgineering@gmail.com
1. http://nikcub-static.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough
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| Are Folding Containers the Future of Shipping?
| from the harder-to-turn-into-a-home-though dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 25, @00:12 (Transportation)
| with 167 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/048217/Are-Folding-Containers-the-Future-of-Shipping?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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swellconvivialguy writes "Earlier this year [0]Maersk ordered 20
super-size container ships���each to have '16 percent larger capacity than
today's largest container vessel, [1] Emma Maersk.' But instead of
embracing the bigger/more-is-better mentality, [2]Staxxon, a NJ-based
startup, has engineered a folding steel container (it folds like a
[3]toddler's playpen), which is designed to make shipping more efficient
by 'reducing the number of container ship movements.' No one has yet
succeeded in the marketplace with a collapsible container, but Staxxon
has made a point of [4]learning from the mistakes of others."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/048217/Are-Folding-Containers-the-Future-of-Shipping?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.maerskline.com/link/?page=news&path=/news/news20110627
1. http://www.vigneshwaran.net/img/emma/emma_4.jpg
2. http://staxxon.com/
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTdgZ2YuAM8
4. http://failuremag.com/index.php/feature/article/staxxons_space-saving_shipping_container/
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| Low-Latency Network Shaves Milliseconds from UK-Asia Traffic
| from the first-blade-just-surprises-the-milliseconds dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, @21:16 (Network)
| with 150 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0113245/Low-Latency-Network-Shaves-Milliseconds-from-UK-Asia-Traffic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]New York's had its turn; now, an anonymous reader writes with this
excerpt from eWeek Europe: "Financial traders and law firms are set to
benefit from a [1]new low-latency network between London and Hong Kong,
which can conduct data on a round trip from Europe to Asia in around 176
milliseconds. The cable network, run by UK-based trading technology
company BSO Network Solutions, has been in place for some time, but
previously had to route around large parts of Russia, due to difficulties
laying fibre in that country. However, a new lower latency and higher
availability 'Transit Mongolia' connection has helped to reduce the time
of a round trip by more than 20 milliseconds during the last 12 months."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0113245/Low-Latency-Network-Shaves-Milliseconds-from-UK-Asia-Traffic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/13/0258217/300m-to-save-6-milliseconds
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/low-latency-network-to-connect-london-and-hong-kong-40545
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| Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge
| from the soak-it-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @14:35 (Science)
| with 126 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1636235/Researchers-Create-Renewable-Carbon-Dioxide-Sponge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Babu V Bassa writes "Concerned about adding
too much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? Consider a roof top coating on
your car with this new material. A multinational team of researchers have
developed [0]a renewable sponge like material to capture and store
gaseous carbon dioxide. The organic material is made up of
gamma-cyclodextrin. Conventional metal-organic frameworks, which also are
effective at adsorbing carbon dioxide, are usually prepared from
materials derived from crude oil and often incorporate toxic heavy metals
and are also non-renewable. The [1]research paper published in the
Journal of the American Chemical Society claims that its synthesis is
essentially carbon-neutral and have the demonstrated ability to absorb
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere makes them promising materials for
carbon fixation."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1636235/Researchers-Create-Renewable-Carbon-Dioxide-Sponge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedebate.com/science-blog/renewable-carbon-dioxide-sponge-promising-material-carbon-fixation
1. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja206525x
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| Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive
| from the new-toys dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @13:17 (Data Storage)
| with 121 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1519220/Samsung-Launches-SSD-830-Drive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Although they haven't been big hits with enthusiasts,
Samsung's solid state drives have been successful due to strong
relationships with a number of OEMs, including Apple. With the release of
their new SSD 830 Series Solid State Drives, however, Samsung appears
ready to make inroads with enthusiasts as well. The [1]SSD 830 tested
here is 256GB model, with eight 32GB Samsung NAND flash memory chips,
256MB of Samsung DDR2 SDRAM cache memory, and a new Samsung SSD
Controller. The Samsung controller features a 3-ARM core design with
support for SATA III 6Gb/s interface speeds. Performance-wise, the
Samsung SSD 830 Series drive offered the [2]best Read performance of the
group that was tested, even versus the latest SandForce-based SSDs,
though the SSD 830 couldn't quite catch SandForce in writes."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1519220/Samsung-Launches-SSD-830-Drive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Samsung-SSD-830-Series-Preview/
2. http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Samsung-SSD-830-Series-Preview/?page=3
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| Amazon To Launch Kindle Tablet?
| from the getting-in-on-the-game dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @15:56 (Handhelds)
| with 111 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1818207/Amazon-To-Launch-Kindle-Tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Rumors abound that Amazon wants a taste of the tablet market and will
[0]unveil a Kindle Tablet later this week. The prevailing thought is
Amazon will offer a device that will cost under $300 and will tether
closely to its music, movie and digital book content. From the article:
"Amazon has brand recognition, a bevy of existing loyal Kindle e-reader
owners, and a Web-based e-commerce platform that includes one-click
access to buying e-books, movies, digital music downloads, its own
Android app store, and streaming media catalog. That adds up to Amazon
being uniquely suited to go head-to-head with Apple in the tablet market
and become a formidable competitor across the industry."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1818207/Amazon-To-Launch-Kindle-Tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article/240573/amazon_kindle_tablet_could_shake_up_tablet_wars_heres_how.html
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| Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions
| from the what-is-to-be dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @17:11 (AI)
| with 82 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1945256/Using-a-Supercomputer-To-Predict-Revolutions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bLanark writes "A fascinating article from Singularity Hub describes
software which, when fed news, [0]makes predictions about forthcoming
events. When given information on recent events, it spiked before the
Egyptian and Libyan uprisings. It uses various sources including the
[1]News Bank which is a database of global news."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1945256/Using-a-Supercomputer-To-Predict-Revolutions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/25/supercomputer-predicts-revolution/
1. http://www.newsbank.com/schools/product.cfm?product=24
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| Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed
| from the power-up dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, @11:43 (Power)
| with 64 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/144219/Superior-Anode-For-Lithium-Ion-Batteries-Developed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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RogerRoast writes "The anode is a critical component for storing energy
in lithium-ion batteries. The Berkeley Lab (D.O.E) has [0] designed a new
kind of anode that can absorb eight times the lithium of current designs,
and has maintained its greatly increased energy capacity after over a
year of testing and many hundreds of charge-discharge cycles. According
to the [1]research published in Advanced Materials they used a tailored
polymer that conducts electricity and binds closely to lithium-storing
silicon particles, even as they expand to more than three times their
volume during charging and then shrink again during discharge."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/144219/Superior-Anode-For-Lithium-Ion-Batteries-Developed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/23/better-li-ion-batteries/
1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201102421/abstract
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| NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt
| from the bring-your-finest-metal-detector dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 25, @03:07 (Space)
| with 53 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0437224/NASA-Satellite-Debris-Probably-Hit-Pacific-But-Room-For-Doubt?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An earlier report that debris from the recently deorbited UARS satellite
[0]had landed in Canada may have been premature. Apparently, the picture
of when (and therefore where) the satellite deorbited is [1]back to being
clear as mud. Most likely, says NASA, the debris will never be found, but
is thought to have landed in the Pacific Ocean. If you're an optimist
interested in finding your very own piece of space debris, though, you
might be interested in this [2]map based on various re-entry scenarios
(hat tip to Robert Woodcock); in the U.S., the Northwest is your best
bet.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/24/1329240/nasa-satellite-falls-back-to-earth-landfall-in-canada
1. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/24/3165012/satellite-likely-in-ocean-but.html
2. http://reentrynews.aero.org/1991063b.html
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| Why the BEAST Doesn't Threaten Tor Users
| from the shaken-and-stirred-and-scrambled dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday September 25, @08:22 (Security)
| with 43 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0143252/Why-the-BEAST-Doesnt-Threaten-Tor-Users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Earlier in the week, we posted news of a [0]vulnerability discovered in
virtually all websites secured with theoretically outdated (but
widespread) versions of SSL and TLS encryption. Luckily for all
non-nefarious users, this vulnerability (called BEAST, short for Browser
Exploit Against SSL/TLS) was discovered and disclosed by researchers Thai
Duong and Juliano Rizzo, and browser makers are pushing out changes to
nullify it. Many systems, though, will remain unpatched for a long time.
Nick Mathewson (nickm) of the Tor project has posted an explanation of
why [1]Tor traffic, as he understands the attack, remains safe. As a side
benefit for those of us who aren't security experts, his description
explains in plain language just what the danger is.
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0143252/Why-the-BEAST-Doesnt-Threaten-Tor-Users?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1833232/Hackers-Break-Browser-SSLTLS-Encryption
1. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-and-beast-ssl-attack
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