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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* The Real Job Threat
* HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys
* John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away
* Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault
* 10 Years of Windows XP
* Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System
* US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled
* Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks?
* How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma
* Why Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant Survived March
* Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n?
* Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads
* Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power
* DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood
* Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders?
* Concerns Over Google Modifying SSL Behavior
* Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More
* Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM
* Strange Video of Dancing Cloud Explained By Electric Discharge
* Copiale Cipher Decoded
* Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts
* Netflix Expanding Streaming Service to The UK and Ireland
* Mystery of an Ancient Super Nova Solved
* The Register Email Address Blunder
* Rosette Wins Loebner Prize 2011
* FTC To Monitor Google's Privacy Practices For 20 Years
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| The Real Job Threat
| from the semi-intelligent-potatoes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @14:40 (AI)
| with 792 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/180258/the-real-job-threat?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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NicknamesAreStupid writes "The NYTimes reports on a book by Erik
Brynjolfsson and Andrew P. McAfee (MIT director-level staffers), Race
Against the Machine, which suggests that [0]the true threat to jobs is
not outsourcing ��� it's the machine! Imagine the Terminator flipping
burgers, cleaning your house, approving your loan, handling your IT
questions, and doing your job faster, better, and more cheaply. Now
that's an apocalypse with a twist ��� The Job Terminator." Reader wjousts
points out another of the authors' arguments: that [1]IT advances have
cost more jobs than they've created.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/180258/the-real-job-threat?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/technology/economists-see-more-jobs-for-machines-not-people.html
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38971/
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| HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys
| from the pushed-by-big-pharma-and-not-a-cure-all dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @13:16 (Medicine)
| with 480 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1647241/hpv-vaccine-recommended-for-boys?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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necro81 writes "An advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention will soon issue new recommendations that
[0]pre-adolescent boys be vaccinated against [1]Human Papilloma Virus
(HPV). The disease is sexually transmitted, endemic in the sexually
active, can cause genital warts in both men and women, and is the primary
cause of [2]cervical cancer, which kills hundreds of thousands of women
globally each year. The three-dose vaccination has been available for
several years and is already recommended for pre-adolescent girls.
Vaccinating boys should further reduce transmission."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1647241/hpv-vaccine-recommended-for-boys?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/health/policy/26vaccine.html?pagewanted=all
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_papillomavirus&oldid=456155241
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cervical_cancer&oldid=456853779
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| John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away
| from the lisp-proven-not-to-be-key-of-eternal-life dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday October 25, @08:07 (AI)
| with 330 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2227204/john-mccarthy-discoverer-of-lisp-has-passed-away?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The first of a few submitters, szo sent in an [0]early report that John
McCarthy [1]passed early yesterday. [2]Paul Graham (among others)
confirmed: the [3]news was true. And so, shortly after a [4]fellow
founder of countless language [5]descendants, goes the [6]founder of the
Lisp tree at the age of 84.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-84/
1. http://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128554733714669568
2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151705
3. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/john-mccarthy-father-of-ai-and-lisp-dies-at-84/
4. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0328230/dennis-ritchie-creator-of-c-programming-language-passed-away
5. http://www.levenez.com/lang/
6. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4387
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| Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault
| from the get-your-tatas-in-working-order dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @10:17 (Businesses)
| with 315 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1321246/jaguar-recalls-18000-cars-over-major-software-fault?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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DMandPenfold writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld UK "Jaguar has
[0]recalled nearly 18,000 X-type cars after it discovered a major
software fault, which meant drivers might not be able to turn off cruise
control. The problem lies with engine management control software
developed in-house by Jaguar. The problematic software is only installed
on diesel engine X-Types, which were all produced between 2006 and 2010.
Some 17,678 vehicles have been recalled, as a result of the potentially
dangerous problem. If the fault occurs, cruise control can only be
disabled by turning of the ignition while driving ��� which would mean a
loss of some control and in many cars also disables power steering.
Braking or pressing the cancel button will not work. 'Jaguar has
identified that should an error with certain interfacing systems be
detected the cruise control system will be disabled and an error message
displayed to the driver on the instrument cluster,' the company said in a
statement."
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1321246/jaguar-recalls-18000-cars-over-major-software-fault?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| 10 Years of Windows XP
| from the time-to-defenestrate-it dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @18:14 (Microsoft)
| with 283 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2119217/10-years-of-windows-xp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Julie188 writes "Windows XP ��� the XP stood for 'Experience' ��� was
released October 25, 2001. With [1]Windows XP, Microsoft hoped to have
one codebase that would span everything from consumers to corporate
desktops. Microsoft was fairly ambitious with XP. There was an embedded
version that went everywhere, from phones to information kiosks. Banks in
particular embraced it as a way to migrate off IBM's
dead-end-but-once-great OS/2. Consumers have been quicker to ditch XP for
Windows 7 while businesses hem and haw and [2]slowly test a
decade's-worth of custom apps on Windows 7. Some estimates show that XP
still has a hold on 48% of the Windows market."
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Links:
0. mailto:jbort@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/79019
2. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/ten-years-of-windows-xp-how-longevity-became-a-curse.ars
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| Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System
| from the my-tin-foil-hat-is-already-melting dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @09:31 (Communications)
| with 253 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1248228/nationwide-test-of-the-emergency-broadcast-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter PattonPending writes "Mark your calendars!
On November 9th national communications will be disrupted for around 3
minutes during the [0]first nationwide test of the emergency broadcast
system. From the article: 'On November 9, at 2 PM EST, FEMA will transmit
the EAS code for national level emergencies to Primary Entry Point (PEP)
stations in the national level of the EAS. The PEP stations will then
rebroadcast the alert to the general public in their broadcast vicinity,
as well as to the next level of EAS Participants monitoring them. This
should continue through all levels of the system, until the national
alert has been distributed throughout the entire country.'"
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1248228/nationwide-test-of-the-emergency-broadcast-system?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/emergency-alert-system-nationwide-test
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| US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled
| from the swords-to-nuclear-plowshares dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @13:58 (The Military)
| with 242 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1726250/uss-most-powerful-nuclear-bomb-being-dismantled?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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SpuriousLogic sends this excerpt from an AP report: "The last of the
nation's most powerful [0]nuclear bombs ��� a weapon hundreds of times
stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima ��� is being disassembled
nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the
Cold War. [1]The final components of the B53 bomb will be broken down
Tuesday at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, the nation's only nuclear
weapons assembly and disassembly facility. ... The weapon is considered
dismantled when the roughly 300 pounds of high explosives inside are
separated from the special nuclear material, known as the pit. The
uranium pits from bombs dismantled at Pantex will be stored on an interim
basis at the plant, Cunningham said. The material and components are then
processed, which includes sanitizing, recycling and disposal, the
National Nuclear Security Administration said last fall when it announced
the Texas plant's role in the B53 dismantling."
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_bomb
1. http://news.yahoo.com/uss-most-powerful-nuclear-bomb-being-dismantled-071325260.html
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| Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks?
| from the bees-are-good-people dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday October 25, @05:02 (Biotech)
| with 239 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/0417250/why-so-many-crashes-of-bee-carrying-trucks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Interstate 15 in southern Utah has been reopened
and officials say [1]25 million bees that closed the road have been
accounted for after a flatbed truck heading for California carrying 460
beehives overturned near a construction zone. The bees were on their way
to Bakersfield, California for almond pollination next spring. 'The
driver lost control, hit the concrete barrier and rolled over,' says
Corporal Todd Johnson with the Utah Highway Patrol. 'Of course we then
had bees everywhere.' But a similar incident happened in July, when 14
million bees, as well as a river of honey, flowed out of a wrecked semi
in Idaho; and 17 million bees escaped a fatal truck crash in Minnesota
last year. [2]Why so many highway accidents involving bees? The uptick
results from more and more honey bee colonies being transported around
the country via highways in recent years. Local bee populations are
rapidly dying off from a [3]little-understood disease called 'colony
collapse disorder': 'The number of managed honey bee colonies [in the
U.S.] has dropped from 5 million in the 1940s to only 2.5 million today,'
says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Unfortunately, some honey bee
scientists suspect that the [4]rise of migratory beekeeping may be
contributing to the species' decline as transporting hives from farm to
farm spreads pathogens to local bee populations."
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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/us-utah-bees-idUSTRE79N6WN20111024
2. http://www.livescience.com/16698-bee-carrying-trucks-crashing.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
4. http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeeswasps/tp/CausesofCCD.htm
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| How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma
| from the i-bet-it-just-had-one-button dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @19:45 (Businesses)
| with 216 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2246209/how-steve-jobs-solved-the-innovators-dilemma?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hype7 writes "With yesterday's release of the Steve Jobs biography, a
raft of interesting information has come to light ��� [0]including Jobs'
favorite books. There's one book there listed as 'profoundly moving' to
Jobs ��� The Innovator's Dilemma by innovation professor Clayton
Christensen. The book explains how in the pursuit of profit, good
managers leave their companies open to disruption. There's an interesting
article over at the Harvard Business Review that explains how disruption
works, and [1]how Jobs managed to solve the dilemma by focusing Apple on
products rather than profit."
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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2246209/how-steve-jobs-solved-the-innovators-dilemma?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/the-steve-jobs-reading-list-the-books_n_1024021.html
1. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/steve_jobs_solved_the_innovato.html
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| Why Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant Survived March
| from the but-that-would-have-cost-money dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @23:01 (Japan)
| with 179 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/0113249/why-tokai-no-2-nuclear-power-plant-survived-march?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Kyusaku Natsume writes "In a potentially damning report, the Japanese
government panel probing the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown has learned that
the nuclear power plant Tokai No.2 [0]avoided station blackout thanks to
making a 6.1 m high seawall, but TEPCO failed to do the same in
Fukushima. From the article: 'The tsunami that hit the Tokai plant on
March 11 were 5.3 to 5.4 meters in height, exceeding the company's
earlier estimate but coming in around 30 to 40 cm lower than its revised
projection. After the tsunami hit, the Tokai plant lost external power
just like Fukushima No. 1 did, because the sea wall was overrun, knocking
out one of its three seawater pumps. But its reactors succeeded in
achieving cold shutdown because the plant's emergency diesel generator
was being cooled by the two seawater pumps that survived intact.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111024x1.html
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| Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n?
| from the bending-over-backwards-for-flexibility dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @10:38 (Networking)
| with 178 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1429235/ask-slashdot-dd-wrt-upgrade-to-80211n?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]krinderlin writes "My home network
consists of a Linksys WRT54GL for WAN access and a WRT54G version 8 for a
wireless bridge for my Blu-Ray and old XBox 360*. Due to a recent move
and coaxial jack placements, I can't run Ethernet to the office, so I'm
now looking at about 8 wireless clients at any given time. I'd like to
start piecing together a network upgrade to 802.11n, but want to keep the
flexibility and power of [1]DD-WRT. So what 802.11n routers do you have
with DD-WRT? What would you recommend for PCIe x1 and USB adapters?
*Because $100 for a 802.11g adapter is pure insanity."
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Links:
0. mailto:kolb.david@gmail.com
1. http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
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| Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads
| from the you-are-the-product-being-sold dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @16:47 (Advertising)
| with 176 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/203213/mastercard-visa-to-help-target-ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter ThatsMyNick writes "The two largest credit-card networks,
Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new business: using
what they know about people's credit-card purchases for [0]targeting them
with ads online. 'A [1]MasterCard document obtained by the Journal
outlines some of the company's plans, which included linking Web users
with purchases. According to document, the credit card provider said it
believes "you are what you buy." ... [2]Visa is planning a similar
service, which would aggregate its customers' purchase history into
segments, including location, to make ads more effective at appealing to
people in a respective area.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/203213/mastercard-visa-to-help-target-ads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20125179-17/visa-mastercard-to-use-buying-history-for-ad-targeting/
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/24/excerpts-from-the-mastercard-documents/
2. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/24/visas-blueprint-for-targeted-advertising/
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| Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power
| from the it-will-chase-you-in-your-nightmares dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @16:04 (Robotics)
| with 160 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1923233/robot-walks-like-a-human-requires-no-power?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "Today's groundbreaking entry into the Uncanny Valley is
a pair of mechanical, robot legs that are propelled entirely by their own
weight: they can [1]walk with a human-like gait without motors or
external control. Produced by some researchers at Nagoya Institute of
Technology in Japan, all the legs require for sustained motion (they
walked 100,000 steps, 15km, over 13 hours last year) is a gentle push and
a slight downwards slope. They then use same 'principle of falling' that
governs human walking, with the transfer of weight (and the slight pull
of gravity), pulling the robot into consecutive steps."
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/101525-bluebiped-a-human-like-walking-robot-that-requires-no-power-source
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| DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood
| from the your-past-is-part-of-you dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @17:29 (Biotech)
| with 157 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2113233/dna-may-carry-a-memory-of-your-living-conditions-from-childhood?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Canadian and British scientists have found
that how rich your family was when you were a kid ��� as judged by wealth,
housing conditions and occupation of parents ��� [0]has a huge impact on
your current DNA. 'This is the first time we've been able to make the
link between the economics of early life and the biochemistry of DNA,'
says Moshe Szyf, professor of pharmacology at McGill University. The
study did not show whether the DNA changes identified are passed on to
offspring, but if so, repeat cycles of poverty could be putting poor
children at a serious disadvantage for heart disease, diabetes and lung
disorders."
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| Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders?
| from the but-they-might-uninstall-nsa.apk dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @21:00 (Verizon)
| with 137 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/0023232/is-verizon-breaking-fcc-regulations-with-locked-bootloaders?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter PcItalian writes with an excerpt from an
interesting editorial on XDA Developers: "The open access provision
requires Verizon to 'not deny, limit, or restrict the ability of their
customers to use the devices and applications of their choice on the
licensee's C Block network.' It goes on to say, 'The potential for
excessive bandwidth demand alone shall not constitute grounds for
denying, limiting or restricting access to the network.' [0]Verizon
bought Block C and [1]tried to have the provisions removed. [2]They
failed. ... That means if a device uses the Block C frequencies, Verizon
cannot insist what apps or firmware it runs. ... So the question is, do
any devices use Block C frequencies? Yes. Some are called Hotspots.
Others are called the HTC Thunderbolt... [Hotspots] comply with FCC
regulations as far as I'm aware. [3]The HTC Thunderbolt, on the other
hand, does not. In the list of rules and exceptions for the Block C
license, it says this: 'Handset locking prohibited. No licensee may
disable features on handsets it provides to customers, to the extent such
features are compliant with the licensee's standards pursuant to
paragraph (b) of this section'...'"
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Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/03/20/209206/google-a-happy-loser-in-spectrum-auction
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/09/13/222224/verizon-sues-fcc-over-700mhz-open-access-rules
2. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/153687-court-chucks-verizons-net-neutrality-appeal-company-will-refile
3. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/it-is-illegal-for-verizon-to-lock-some-bootloaders/
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| Concerns Over Google Modifying SSL Behavior
| from the hey-fellas-this-just-looks-bad dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @12:33 (Google)
| with 115 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1547219/concerns-over-google-modifying-ssl-behavior?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Lauren Weinstein writes "Google is handling SSL search queries on
[1]https://www.google.com/ in a manner [2]significantly different than
the standard, expected SSL end-to-end behavior ��� specifically relating to
referer query data. These changes give the potential appearance of
favoring sites that buy ads from Google. Regardless of the actual
intentions, I do not believe that this appearance is in the best
interests of Google in the long run."
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Links:
0. mailto:lauren@vortex.com
1. https://www.google.com/
2. http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000906.html
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| Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More
| from the tell-us-more-about-your-beard dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @11:45 (The Internet)
| with 99 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1532213/vint-cerf-answers-your-questions-about-ipv6-and-more?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Last week, [0]you asked questions of "father of the Internet" Vint Cerf;
read on below for Cerf's thoughts on the present and future of IPv6,
standards and nomenclature, the origin of his beard, and more. Thanks,
Vint!
This story continues at:
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1532213/vint-cerf-answers-your-questions-about-ipv6-and-more?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Links:
0. http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/1530226/ask-internet-visionary-and-pioneer-vint-cerf
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| Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM
| from the driving-big-blue dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @18:58 (IBM)
| with 87 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2242206/virginia-rometty-selected-as-next-ceo-of-ibm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "IBM will start the [1]new year with a new CEO.
Virginia (Ginni) Rometty, who built up IBM Global Services, will be
[2]the company's first female CEO."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/2242206/virginia-rometty-selected-as-next-ceo-of-ibm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/216625/ibm-names-rometty-replace-palmisano-ceo
2. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-25/ibm-names-rometty-to-succeed-palmisano-as-first-female-ceo.html
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| Strange Video of Dancing Cloud Explained By Electric Discharge
| from the because-clouds-do-not-have-hormones dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @12:54 (Science)
| with 81 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1612243/strange-video-of-dancing-cloud-explained-by-electric-discharge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]The Bad Astronomer writes "A few months ago I was sent [1]a really
weird video showing a cloud snapping around suddenly, far faster than
wind could explain. I asked a meteorologist about it, [2]who told me it
was due to ice crystals re-aligning when the cloud's electric field
discharged. It's pretty amazing to watch, and a great example of how many
cool things happen right in front of us that we never notice."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1612243/strange-video-of-dancing-cloud-explained-by-electric-discharge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:thebadastronomer.gmail@com
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4sY98zsBH0
2. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/25/amazing-video-of-a-bizarre-twisting-dancing-cloud/
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| Copiale Cipher Decoded
| from the impossible-things-before-breakfast dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @11:01 (AI)
| with 80 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1452245/copiale-cipher-decoded?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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eldavojohn writes "The 18th century [0]Copiale Cipher has [1]finally been
decoded after a few minor breakthroughs were made by linguists versed in
machine translation analyzing the document. From the article, 'Kevin
Knight, a computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the
University of Southern California, collaborated with Beata Megyesi and
Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden to decipher the first
16 pages. They turn out to be a detailed description of a ritual from a
secret society that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and
ophthalmology.' The Roman characters and abstract symbols turned out to
be a sort of encryption of the German language. The important clues they
discovered were that the Roman characters were nulls (misleading junk)
and the bogus looking symbols the actual text. Lastly, a colon would mean
a duplication of the last consonant. A cipher falls to word-frequency
analysis. Perhaps the researchers could start another 'weekend project'
and tackle [2]The Voynich Manuscript for us?" Update: 10/25 15:25 GMT by
[3]T : eldavojohn adds also a link to the [4]final translation.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1452245/copiale-cipher-decoded?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/copiale-11.pdf
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html?pagewanted=all
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/02/027236/the-voynich-manuscript-may-have-been-decoded
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/
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| Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts
| from the good-name-for-a-candy-bar dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @08:50 (Space)
| with 79 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1222200/epic-geomagnetic-storm-erupts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]astroengine writes "On Monday, at around 2 p.m. ET, [1]a coronal mass
ejection (CME) slammed into the Earth's magnetosphere. For a short time
(between 3:06 p.m and 3:11 p.m. ET), energetic solar wind particles
penetrated as deep as geosynchronous orbit ��� home to hundreds of
communication satellites. As a consequence, a geomagnetic storm is
underway, [2]generating bright aurorae across very low latitudes." Adds
reader dtmos, quoting from [3]Spaceweather, which also has a beautiful
[4]photo gallery: "'The impact strongly compressed Earth's magnetic
field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma,
and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North
America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous
United States.' Aurora were seen as far south as [5]Baileyton, Alabama."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1222200/epic-geomagnetic-storm-erupts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/epic-geomagnetic-storm-erupts-111025.html
2. http://news.discovery.com/earth/northern-lights-down-south-111025.html
3. http://spaceweather.com/
4. http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01oct11.htm?PHPSESSID=o7i2f3vlsffpf8g2vdsqobr6e2
5. http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Jonathon-Stone-IMG_2486_1319526395.jpg
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| Netflix Expanding Streaming Service to The UK and Ireland
| from the turns-out-the-uk-has-its-own-internet dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday October 25, @02:03 (The Internet)
| with 78 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/011235/netflix-expanding-streaming-service-to-the-uk-and-ireland?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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bdking writes "Netflix says it will begin offering [0]streaming video
services to customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland [1]early next
year. (No DVDs by mail, though. That's so 'Oughts.') The company launched
services last month in 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/011235/netflix-expanding-streaming-service-to-the-uk-and-ireland?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/software/215983/netflix-streaming-europe
1. http://netflix.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=415
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| Mystery of an Ancient Super Nova Solved
| from the it-was-his-sled dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @15:43 (Space)
| with 70 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/190258/mystery-of-an-ancient-super-nova-solved?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Bob the Super Hamste writes "The BBC is reporting that [1]the mystery
of a supernova seen almost 2000 years ago has been solved. The supernova
[2]RCW 86 was observed in 185AD by Chinese astronomers and was visible
for eight months. Recently scientists have wondered how the supernova
grew so big. By combining data from the Chandra X-ray telescope and the
XMM-Newton Observatory with recent images from NASA's Spitzer and
Wide-field Infrared Survey telescopes, scientists have figured out that
the supernova expanded into a relatively empty bubble of space. These
empty bubbles of space are typically associated with a core collapse
supernova, but the core remnant is high in iron, which instead is
associated with a type 1A supernova. The findings are published in [3]
The Astrophysical Journal."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/190258/mystery-of-an-ancient-super-nova-solved?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ocdcc.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15445688
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCW_86
3. http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/741/2/96
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| The Register Email Address Blunder
| from the flog-thyself-in-penance dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday October 25, @04:13 (Security)
| with 62 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/0411213/the-register-email-address-blunder?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Tim99 writes "This morning I got an email
from The Register informing me that they have [0]sent 3,521 of their
readers the names and e-mail addresses of 46,000 other readers.
Considering their frequent rants about security this has got to be a
major FAIL." El Reg writes: "Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage
send process that is the norm for all of our mailers was over-looked
because someone was in a hurry."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/0411213/the-register-email-address-blunder?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/email_blunder/
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| Rosette Wins Loebner Prize 2011
| from the wait-till-the-credit-card-scammers-start-using-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday October 25, @12:06 (AI)
| with 49 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/165200/rosette-wins-loebner-prize-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Bruce Wilcox won the [0]First Prize of $4000 and the
Bronze Annual Medal in the 21st Loebner Prize Competition held in the UK
at the University of Exeter on October 19, 2011 with his new chatbot,
Rosette. If you would like to chat to Rosette you can at [1]TellTaleGames.
If you have been following the run up to this year's competition you may
be surprised at how poorly CleverBot performed given its track record.
This chatbot, which searches through earlier conversations for its
answers, had received a score of 59.3% in a test that took place in India
in September in which humans were rated 63.3%, only 4 percentage points
higher and was also featured in a video that went viral. However its
developer entered a cutdown version of CleverBot into the Loebner prize
selection round and it didn't get the chance to show off its prowess in
the final. So we will have to wait for another year to see if it really
is as good as it claims." Depending on your bent, you may agree with
Unknown Lamer that this sounds less impressive when phrased as "fooling a
person ~18 percent of the time." I think that's a pretty high number,
myself!
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/165200/rosette-wins-loebner-prize-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/3234-rosette-wins-loebner-prize-2011.html
1. http://labs.telltalegames.com/rosette/
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| FTC To Monitor Google's Privacy Practices For 20 Years
| from the settling-in-for-a-long-stakeout dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, @15:23 (Google)
| with 47 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1911207/ftc-to-monitor-googles-privacy-practices-for-20-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Rambo Tribble writes "As reported in TPM, the Federal Trade Commission
has [0]reached an agreement (PDF) with Google that will include the
agency [1]monitoring the company's privacy practices for the next 20
years. Whither, Facebook?" Oddly enough, another article details [2]a
surge in government requests for user information from Google. In a blog
post, the company explained that they wanted to provide [3]more
transparency with regard to government requests, and have updated their
[4]Government Requests tool to do so.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1911207/ftc-to-monitor-googles-privacy-practices-for-20-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/1023136/111024googlebuzzdo.pdf
1. http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/googles-privacy-practices-to-be-monitored-for-the-next-20-years.php
2. http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/us-government-demands-for-google-user-info-surges-in-past-six-months.php
3. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-data-more-transparency-around.html
4. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/
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