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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money?
* Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess?
* The Rise and Fall of Kodak
* Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon
* Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years
* Google To Seek Dismissal of Suit Against Google Books
* Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software
* Dell Kills Streak 7, Bails On Android Tablets
* The Rise of Developeronomics
* Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering
* Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians
* Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos
* US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran
* Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support
* Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT
* Research Data: Share Early, Share Often
* Graphene Spun Into Meter-Long Fibers
* India Moves To Censor Social Media
* Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety
* EU Targets Apple In Ebook Investigation
* An iPad Keyboard You Can Type On and Swipe Through
* Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online
* Proteins Build "Cages" Around Bacteria
* Physical Models In an Age of Computers
* PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released
* Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable
* Hybrid Storage Solutions Compared
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| Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money?
| from the by-jingo dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @09:32 (Businesses)
| with 573 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1425250/does-outsourcing-programming-really-save-money?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "In a blog post titled '[1]Why I Will Never Feel
Threatened by Cheap Overseas Programming', John Larson tells the story of
a startup that shipped its initial programming to India, paying $14 per
hour, with predictably disastrous results. Larson concludes: 'I have yet
to see a project done overseas at that sort of hourly rate that has
actually gone well.' But in this not-uncommon tale of outsourcing woe, is
the problem really with the programming or with [2]unrealistic
expectations?" The comments on Larson's blog post (originally titled "Why
I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India") seem to me more
valuable than the post itself.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1425250/does-outsourcing-programming-really-save-money?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2011/12/why-i-will-never-feel-threatened-by-programmers-in-india/
2. http://www.itworld.com/software/230423/does-outsourcing-programming-india-really-save-money
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| Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess?
| from the can-is-open-worms-are-everywhere dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @11:42 (Networking)
| with 391 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1627235/ask-slashdot-getting-a-grip-on-an-inherited-it-mess?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter bushx writes "A little over a month ago, I
assumed the position of programmer and sole IT personnel at a thriving
e-commerce company. All the documentation I have is of my own creation,
as I've spent most of my time reverse-engineering the systems in place
just so I can understand how everything works together. Since I've
started, I've done everything from network and phone upgrades to database
maintenance with Perl, and thus far it's been immensely rewarding. But as
I dig deeper, I notice the alarming number of band-aids applied by my
predecessor, and it seems like the entire company's infrastructure is
just a few problems away from a total meltdown. The big question now is,
how do I, as a single person, effectively audit the network, servers,
databases, backups, and formulate a long-term plan that can be
implemented by one person? Is it possible? Where do I begin?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1627235/ask-slashdot-getting-a-grip-on-an-inherited-it-mess?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| The Rise and Fall of Kodak
| from the what's-a-film-reel-grandpa dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday December 05, @20:02 (Businesses)
| with 337 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0025247/the-rise-and-fall-of-kodak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]H_Fisher writes "Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times writes with a
[1]frank look at the decisions and changes that have led to Kodak's
decline from top U.S. photography company to a company whose [2]product
is almost irrelevant. He writes: '[Kodak] executives couldn't foresee a
future in which film had no role in image capture at all, nor come to
grips with the lower profit margins or faster competitive pace of
high-tech industries.' He also notes that Kodak's story comes as a
[3]cautionary tale to giants like Google and Facebook."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0025247/the-rise-and-fall-of-kodak?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://moc.liamtohtarehsifvh/
1. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20111204,0,507980.column
2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204083204577080844194674790.html
3. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57336641/kodak-yahoo-and-rim-death-comes-for-us-all/
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| Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon
| from the mips-shall-rise-again dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday December 06, @08:07 (Android)
| with 258 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0359235/sub-100-android-40-tablet-coming-soon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "One of the reasons the iPad has stayed at the top
of the tablet heap for so long is that ��� in contrast with the story of
the Mac and PC 25 years ago ��� the iPad has remained competitive with its
rivals on price. That may be starting to change, with cheaper tablets
like the Amazon Fire coming to market. And now, the [1]sub-$100 Novo7 is
on sale in China, sporting [2]Android 4.0. It promises to arrive in the
U.S. for a similar price point soon." The [3]official press release from
MIPS has a bit more detail. Of interest is the use of a MIPS [4]SoC
designed by Ingenic.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0359235/sub-100-android-40-tablet-coming-soon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://jfruh.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/230459/tablet-priced-under-100-android-40-surfaces
2. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html
3. http://mips.com/news-events/newsroom/newsindex/index.dot?id=53265
4. http://en.ingenic.cn/product.aspx?ID=78
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| Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years
| from the pleistocene-park dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 06, @14:11 (Science)
| with 245 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1628251/russian-scientists-say-theyll-clone-a-mammoth-within-5-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Many scientists (mainly Japanese and Russian) have dreamed of [0]cloning
a mammoth over the years. When the mammoth genome was [1]partially
reconstructed in 2008, that dream seemed a bit closer. Besides the
millions of dollars needed for such a project, the biggest hurdle was the
lack of a good sample of mammoth DNA. That hurdle has now been cleared,
thanks to the discovery of [2]well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth
thigh bone. Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the
Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, and colleagues from Japan's Kinki
University say that within 5 years they'll likely have a clone. From the
article: "What's been missing is woolly mammoth nuclei with undamaged
genes. Scientists have been on a Holy Grail-type search for such pristine
nuclei since the late 1990s. Now it sounds like the missing genes may
have been found."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1628251/russian-scientists-say-theyll-clone-a-mammoth-within-5-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/16/001243/extinct-mammoth-coming-to-a-zoo-near-you
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/11/20/2257231/resurrecting-the-mighty-mammoth-cheaply
2. http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html
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| Google To Seek Dismissal of Suit Against Google Books
| from the can't-let-the-children-read dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday December 05, @19:19 (Google)
| with 223 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/2329201/google-to-seek-dismissal-of-suit-against-google-books?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes with an update on the drawn out legal battle
between Google and everyone else over their [1]Books service. From the
article: "After a so-far [2]fruitless three-year effort to settle the
case, Google and the plaintiffs suing it for alleged book-related
copyright infringement apparently [3]are moving away from seeking a
friendly solution. Google has notified the court that it intends to file
a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by authors and
publishers in 2005, in which they allege copyright infringement stemming
from Google's wholesale scanning of millions of library books without the
permission of copyright owners. Google Books has been at the center of
copyright-related controversy since 2005 when the Authors Guild of
America and Association of American [4]Publishers sued the search giant.
This has been followed by other legal wrangles, including a [5]2010 suit
by the American Society of Media Photographers, [6]lawsuits in France and
Germany and conflict with [7]Chinese authors over the book-scanning
project."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/2329201/google-to-seek-dismissal-of-suit-against-google-books?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://books.google.com/
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/2212211/frustrated-judge-pushes-for-solution-in-google-books-case
3. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/409347/google_plans_seek_books_lawsuit_dismissal
4. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/09/21/044228/authors-guild-sues-google-over-print-program
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/214208/photographers-want-their-cut-from-googles-ebooks
6. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/400348/french_publishers_drop_lawsuits_against_google_book_scanning/
7. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/182559/chinese_authors_turn_up_heat_on_google_over_book_scanning.html
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| Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software
| from the install-our-useful-toolbar dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday December 06, @05:15 (Open Source)
| with 211 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/014244/downloadcom-bundling-adware-with-free-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Zocalo writes "In a post to the Nmap Hackers list Nmap author Fyodor
accuses Download.com of [0]wrapping a trojan installer (as detected by
[1]various AV applications when submitted to VirusTotal) around software
including Nmap and VLC Media Player. The C|Net installer bundles a
toolbar, changes browser settings, and, potentially, performs other
shenanigans ��� all under the logo of the application the user thought they
might have been downloading. Apparently, [2]this isn't the first time
they have done this, either."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/014244/downloadcom-bundling-adware-with-free-software?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/5
1. http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=5bd70802c051fd95d0d78ac168385cd504705c00526ded2fd5edebdcc32d48f6-1323123804
2. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/93504-download-com-wraps-downloads-in-bloatware-lies-about-motivations
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| Dell Kills Streak 7, Bails On Android Tablets
| from the why-it-seems-like-only-yesterday dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @11:21 (Android)
| with 203 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1617246/dell-kills-streak-7-bails-on-android-tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this news from Network World: "Dell has
[0]yanked the Dell Streak 7 tablet computer from its online stores,
quietly acknowledging the failure of the Android device to catch on with
consumers as the company redirects its tablet focus to combination
work/play products. Word of the Streak 7's disappearance follows by a few
months the death of the Streak 5, which debuted in summer 2010. The
dual-core processor-powered Dell Streak 7 became available in January,
marketed as a 4G wireless tablet via T-Mobile's network. Now Dell is
directing would-be Streak buyers to Android and Windows Phone
smartphones, and pushing a line of Windows Phone tablets for business."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120511-dell-streak-253760.html?hpg1=bn
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| The Rise of Developeronomics
| from the supply-that-demands dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @14:31 (Businesses)
| with 177 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/192259/the-rise-of-developeronomics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Geist3 writes "Forbes has an article by Venkatesh Rao
asserting that [0]the safest investment for both corporations and
individuals is in software developers. Throwing money at talented coders
now ��� even on random projects ��� will build relationships that are likely
to pay off big in the future. 'In what follows, I am deliberately going
to talk about the developers like they are products in a meat market. For
practical purposes, they are, since the vast majority of them haven't
found a way to use their own scarcity to their advantage.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/192259/the-rise-of-developeronomics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise-of-developeronomics/
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| Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering
| from the duh-you-need-three-factors dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday December 06, @00:07 (Australia)
| with 174 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0321250/scammers-work-around-two-factor-authentication-with-social-engineering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mask.of.sanity writes "Thieves have [0]made off with $45k after they
intercepted a victim's [1]two factor online banking codes used to verify
large transactions. The scammers got the Australian executive's mobile
number from his daughter, and work place details from his willing
secretary. Armed with this data, they bluffed Vodafone which [2]ported
his phone number, meaning the criminals could verify the bank's two
factor verification codes generated during their spending spree and the
victim never knew a thing."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0321250/scammers-work-around-two-factor-authentication-with-social-engineering?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/282310,45k-stolen-in-phone-porting-scam.aspx/0
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication
2. http://vodafone.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1343/~/how-do-i-port-my-vodafone-number-to-another-network%3F
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| Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians
| from the who-spams-the-spammers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @17:22 (Communications)
| with 157 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2211224/reverse-robocall-turns-tables-on-politicians?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "One of the great banes of election season is that
any politician can shell out a few pennies per voter and phone-spam
thousands of people who'd rather not hear a recorded pitch. But
turnabout's fair play, and now a service called reverse robocall will
[1]deliver your recorded message to elected officials as often as you'd
like for a nominal fee. If there's a representative you'd like to call
repeatedly, [2]check them out."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2211224/reverse-robocall-turns-tables-on-politicians?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://jfruh.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/230929/how-kill-political-robocalls
2. http://reverserobocall.com/
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| Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos
| from the somebody's-having-a-bad-day-at-the-office dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @15:14 (Facebook)
| with 156 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/203249/facebook-flaw-exposed-private-photos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Velcroman1 writes "A security hole in Facebook [0]allowed almost anyone
to see pictures marked as private, an online forum revealed late Monday.
Even pictures supposedly kept hidden from uninvited eyes by Facebook's
privacy controls aren't safe, reported one user of a popular bodybuilding
forum in a post entitled 'I teach you how to view private Facebook
photos.' Facebook appears to have acted quickly [1]to eliminate the
end-run around privacy controls, after word of the exploit spread across
the Internet. It wasn't long before one online miscreant uploaded private
pictures of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself ��� evidence that the
hack worked, he said."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/203249/facebook-flaw-exposed-private-photos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/06/facebook-flaw-means-anyone-can-see-your-photos/
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-acknowledges-photo-privacy-bug-issues-immediate-fix/64819
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| US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran
| from the administered-by-the-undersecretary-of-tweets dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @15:59 (Government)
| with 135 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2057244/us-launches-virtual-embassy-for-iran?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from a report at Al Jazeera "The
administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has [0]launched a virtual
embassy for Iran in what it said was a bid to promote dialogue with the
Iranian people in the absence of formal diplomatic ties. [1]The web-based
embassy went online on Tuesday in English and Farsi, offering visitors
what it described as 'another perspective' for Iranians who 'remain
hungry for information about the United States.' 'This website is not a
formal diplomatic mission, nor does it represent or describe a real U.S.
embassy accredited to the Iranian government,' the U.S. state department
said in an introductory note. 'But, in the absence of direct contact, it
can work as a bridge between the American and Iranian people.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/2011126185647788952.html
1. http://iran.usembassy.gov/
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| Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support
| from the don't-copy-that-intertube dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday December 06, @03:05 (The Internet)
| with 134 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/038246/kaspersky-quits-bsa-over-sopa-support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter Cmdrm writes with an article about
Kaspersky Lab quitting the BSA over their ([0]now lukewarm) support of
[1]SOPA. From the press release: "Kaspersky Lab would like to clarify
that the company did not participate in the elaboration or discussion of
the SOPA initiative and does not support it. Moreover, the company
believes that the [2]SOPA initiative might actually be counter-productive
for the public interest, and decided to [3]discontinue its membership in
the BSA as of January 1, 2012.'"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/038246/kaspersky-quits-bsa-over-sopa-support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/22/147224/viacoms-sopapipa-pitch-video-annotated
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0436200/stop-online-piracy-act-supports-blacklisting-says-eff
2. http://torrentfreak.com/kaspersky-dumps-anti-piracy-group-in-sopa-protest-111205/
3. http://betanews.com/2011/12/05/kaspersky-lab-is-against-sopa-quits-business-software-alliance-for-supporting-it/
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| Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT
| from the always-the-quiet-ones dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @09:51 (Opera)
| with 119 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1433241/opera-1160-tunny-released-with-ragnark-ht?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter [0]iZarKe writes "Version 11.60 of Opera
Browser for Desktop was [1]released today. Significant changes: the
inclusion of their new HTML5 rendering engine [2]"Ragnar��k", a revamped
address bar, full [3]ECMAScript 5.1 support, support for [4]CSS3 Radial
Gradients (finally), and a very [5]revamped Mail panel. Originally, these
features were set to be released with their next major version, 12.00.
However, due to more work needed for the hardware acceleration feature
also to be included in Opera 12, [6]the 11.60 intermediary release came
to be, as they didn't want to hold back the other new features for that
long a time."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1433241/opera-1160-tunny-released-with-ragnark-ht?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tja.lv/e
1. http://www.opera.com/browser/new/
2. http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/26453141
3. http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2011/09/13/ecmascript-5-for-opera
4. http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/css3-radial-gradients/
5. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2011/11/07/mail-goes-two-lined-and-grouped
6. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2011/11/04/opera-11-60
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| Research Data: Share Early, Share Often
| from the coin-toss-1-coin-toss-2-coin-toss-3 dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @12:24 (Science)
| with 117 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1644211/research-data-share-early-share-often?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Shipud writes "Holland was recently in the news when a psychology
professor in Tilburg University was found to have committed
[0]large-scale fraud over several years. Now, another Dutch psychologist
is suggesting a way to avert these sort of problems, namely by 'sharing
early and sharing often,' since fraud may [1]start with small
indiscretions due to career-related pressure to publish. In Wilchert's
study, he requested raw data from the authors of some 49 papers. He found
that the authors' reluctance to share data was associated with '[2]more
errors in the reporting of statistical results and with relatively weaker
evidence (against the null hypothesis). The documented errors are
arguably the tip of the iceberg of potential errors and biases in
statistical analyses and the reporting of statistical results. It is
rather disconcerting that roughly 50% of published papers in psychology
contain reporting errors and that the unwillingness to share data was
most pronounced when the errors concerned statistical significance.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.forbes.com/sites/freekvermeulen/2011/12/05/fraud-in-the-ivory-tower-and-a-big-one-too/
1. http://www.nature.com/news/psychology-must-learn-a-lesson-from-fraud-case-1.9513
2. http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2011/12/04/circumcision-preventing-fraud-and-icky-toilets-you-know-youre-going-to-read-this/
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| Graphene Spun Into Meter-Long Fibers
| from the incremental-progress dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @16:42 (Science)
| with 114 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2140226/graphene-spun-into-meter-long-fibers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ananyo writes "Nano-sized flakes of graphene oxide can be [0]spun into
graphene fibers several meters long, researchers in China have shown. The
strong, flexible fibers, which can be tied in knots or woven into
conductive mats, could be the key to deploying graphene in real-world
devices such as flexible batteries."
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Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/news/graphene-spun-into-metre-long-fibres-1.9549
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| India Moves To Censor Social Media
| from the one-point-two-billion-people-dislike-this dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @18:51 (Censorship)
| with 111 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/231228/india-moves-to-censor-social-media?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "India's Telecoms minister has prompted an
uproar after it was revealed he met with executives from Google and
Facebook to [0]pressure them into screening 'objectionable' content.
Critics argue [1]it is a dangerous step down China's censorship path. 'He
denied such a demand was censorship. There is some content on the
Internet that "[2]any normal human being would be offended by," he said.
The government has asked social media companies to develop a way to
eliminate offensive content as soon as it is created, no matter what
country it is created in, he said.'
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Links:
0. http://the-diplomat.com/china-power/2011/12/07/india-treads-china-censor-path/
1. http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Online+uproar+India+seeks+social+media+screening/5818791/story.html
2. http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/any-normal-human-being-would-be-offended/
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| Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety
| from the so-can-prozac dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @18:08 (Transportation)
| with 98 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2257209/gas-powered-fuel-cell-could-help-ev-range-anxiety?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thecarchik writes "While electric-car advocates may avoid the issue, some
buyers simply won't choose a plug-in car that can't travel [0]unlimited
distances. That's where the Chevy Volt-style range extender comes in,
though the Volt adds unlimited range by burning gasoline in a
conventional engine to generate electric power. Now, a new type of fuel
cell offers the potential for a different kind of range extender, one
that removes the enormous practical problem facing hydrogen fuel cells:
the lack of a distribution infrastructure to fuel vehicles that require
pure hydrogen to feed their fuel cells. Researchers at the University of
Maryland have managed to [1]shrink the size and lower the operating
temperature of a [2]solid-oxide fuel cell by a factor of 10, meaning it
could conceivably produce as much power as a car engine but occupy less
space. The advances come from new materials for the solid electrolyte, as
well as design changes, and the researchers feel they have further
avenues for improvement left to explore."
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Links:
0. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1058864_range-anxiety-or-stupidity-pushing-an-electric-car-to-its-limits
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39203/
2. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1070251_gasoline-powered-fuel-cell-to-fix-electric-car-range-anxiety
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| EU Targets Apple In Ebook Investigation
| from the how-many-eu-commissions-are-there? dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @10:13 (Books)
| with 90 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1348253/eu-targets-apple-in-ebook-investigation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]nk497 writes "The European Commission is [1]investigating Apple and
five publishers regarding ebook pricing, after raiding ebook firms
earlier this year. 'The Commission will in particular investigate whether
these publishing groups and Apple have engaged in illegal agreements or
practices that would have the object or the effect of restricting
competition,' the watchdog said."
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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1348253/eu-targets-apple-in-ebook-investigation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/371602/ec-targets-apple-in-ebooks-probe
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| An iPad Keyboard You Can Type On and Swipe Through
| from the better-mousetrap-of-silicone dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @11:00 (Input Devices)
| with 84 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1514239/an-ipad-keyboard-you-can-type-on-and-swipe-through?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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TechCrunch features an article (the first of three, actually) outlining
the [0]development of a clever hardware keyboard for the iPad. It's hard
to write about Kickstarter projects, because there are so many cool ideas
that seem to deserve funding it's simply overwhelming. The [1]TouchFire
keyboard is one of those cool ideas, too, but it's far surpassed the
founders' original funding goals and is nearing production. The TouchFire
isn't wired, but it isn't wireless, either, in the conventional sense,
because it provides no signal of its own: it's a transparent overlay that
provides a tactile interface to the iPad's on-screen keyboard, and ��� the
tricky part ��� is thin enough to actually swipe through when you're not
using it for text-entry. The keyboard takes advantage of the iPad 2's
built-in magnets for stability, though it works with the original iPad,
too. (Hopefully an Android version will come soon, but the variety of
screen resolutions and on-screen keyboard shapes makes that harder.) I
talked with co-creator Steve Isaac (it's his account at TechCrunch, too)
a few weeks back, and he said that the hardest part of the development
work has been producing the complex mold shapes that form each
collapsible key. The resulting tablet-with-keyboard reminds me
superficially, and pleasantly, of the [2]TRS-80 Model 100. (The Tandy
actually had much better battery life than an iPad, but could do far
less. It also weighed 3.1 pounds and cost more than a thousand dollars in
1983, which means nearly $2400 today; such is progress.) Prototypes are
tight (and I don't have an iPad), but I hope to give an in-person report
on the TouchFire soon.
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Links:
0. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/the-touchfire-chronicles-how-two-guys-raised-100k-to-make-a-magical-keyboard/
1. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the-screen-top-keyboard-for-ipad
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
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| Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online
| from the oh-that'll-be-a-doddle dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @08:50 (Censorship)
| with 77 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1328220/indian-minister-seeks-to-censor-user-generated-content-online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter punit_r writes "Indian minister for
Communications & Information Technology Kapil Sibal met officials from
Facebook, Google, YouTube and Yahoo on Monday, 5 December 2011, and told
them to screen what goes on the sites. He basically asked the websites to
[0]actively screen content. How do you screen such massive amount of
data? Well, the IT minister has the [1]perfect recipe: 'We'll use humans
to screen content and not technology,' said the IT minister. Meanwhile,
he [2]got it back from the social media."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1328220/indian-minister-seeks-to-censor-user-generated-content-online?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16044554
1. http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/india-asks-google-facebook-others-to-screen-user-content/?pagemode=print
2. http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Kapil-Sibal-gets-what-he-set-out-to-censor/Article1-778388.aspx
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| Proteins Build "Cages" Around Bacteria
| from the take-em-on-down-to-the-appendix dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday December 05, @22:05 (Medicine)
| with 70 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0110215/proteins-build-cages-around-bacteria?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ananyo writes "Research in human cells shows that proteins called
[0]septins are able to [1]build cages around pathogens to prevent them
from infecting other cells. According to the researchers, the [2]newly
discovered defense system could lead to new therapies for diseases. The
microbes trapped in the cage are later broken down by the cell."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0110215/proteins-build-cages-around-bacteria?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septin
1. http://www.nature.com/news/septin-proteins-take-bacterial-prisoners-1.9540
2. http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/autophagy/article/15593/
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| Physical Models In an Age of Computers
| from the bah-all-models-should-be-life-sized dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @13:49 (Earth)
| with 65 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1736231/physical-models-in-an-age-of-computers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Harperdog points out this article "about the Bay Model in Sausalito,
California, which was built in 1959 to study a (terrible) plan to dam up
San Francisco Bay. The model [0]was at the forefront of research and
testing on water issues that affected all of California; its research
contributions have been rendered obsolete by computer testing, but there
are many who think it could contribute still. Now used for education and
tourism, the model is over 1 1/2 acres and replicates a 24-hour tidal
cycle in just 14 minutes. Good stuff."
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Links:
0. http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/the-fitness-of-physical-models-38084/
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| PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released
| from the hacksaw-is-in-the-cake dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @13:08 (Blackberry)
| with 56 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1752244/playbook-jailbreak-tool-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 notes that some dedicated hackers who've been working on
jailbreaking RIM's PlayBook tablet have now "[0]posted a detailed
walkthrough of how users can accomplish the same task on their own. The
technique requires the use of a custom tool, but otherwise is fairly
straightforward. One of the researchers, known as Neuralic, [1]posted the
walkthrough to Pastie.org Tuesday morning. In order to begin the process,
a PlayBook user need to first install the beta 2.0 version of the
PlayBook software and then install the [2]Dingleberry tool, which
exploits a weakness in the PlayBook architecture which stems from the
fact that the backups the device takes aren't signed."
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Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/playbook-jailbreak-tool-released-120611
1. http://pastie.org/2974406
2. http://dingleberry.it/
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| Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable
| from the get-your-bones-to-mars dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 06, @09:11 (Japan)
| with 38 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/141233/osteoporosis-drug-makes-lengthy-space-trips-more-tolerable?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Japanese researchers have discovered that by
taking drugs normally targeted at osteoporosis sufferers they [0]can
mitigate the long term effects of weightlessness. This makes it more
possible that humans could reasonably fly to Mars land there and be fully
functional even after the lengthy journey." [1]JAXA provides much more
detail, including interviews with both lead investigator Toshio Matsumoto
and Koichi Wakata, the first subject of the experiment.
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Links:
0. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111205005649.htm
1. http://www.jaxa.jp/article/special/expedition/matsumoto01_e.html
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| Hybrid Storage Solutions Compared
| from the mules-go-in-the-barn dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 06, @17:45 (Data Storage)
| with 36 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/2219219/hybrid-storage-solutions-compared?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Vigile writes "While few would argue with the performance advantages of
solid state drives, the relative cost compared to spindle-based disks
still make them a luxury item. The promise of hybrid storage solutions is
to combine the benefits of both ��� large capacities with standard drive
technology and performance advantages of solid state. PC Perspective
published an article [0]comparing several different solutions that vary
in their approach to hybrid storage. The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid combines a
standard 2.5-in drive with a PCI Express-based SSD that offers the best
overall performance and largest cache size. Seagate's new Momentus XT
2.5-in solution embeds the cache on the PCB of the drive, allowing
notebook users to install this solution easily. Finally, the Intel
chipset-based caching option combines either a 2.5-in or mSATA SSD with a
standard hard drive on either desktop or mobile platforms, allowing the
most flexibility of any other hybrid solution. All three have advantages
for specific consumers, though, and varying performance levels to go
along with them."
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