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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model
* Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least
* Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps
* TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts
* Why We Need More Programming Languages
* Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps
* 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle
* Why Android Upgrades Take So Long
* Rats Feel Each Other's Pain
* Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate
* Draft Alternative To SOPA Released
* Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia
* HP Making webOS Open Source
* EU Moves To End Surveillance Tech Sales To Repressive Regimes
* Amazon Is Recruiting Authors For Its eBook Library
* NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks
* You Really Are What You Know
* Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet?
* Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet
* Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa
* Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare
* IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls
* Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With <em>Bastion</em>
* Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft
* LHC To Narrow Search For Higgs Boson
* Silverlight 5 Released
* Geodesic Gingerbread House Template For the Holidays
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| Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model
| from the it-was-only-a-matter-of-time dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @08:51 (Businesses)
| with 416 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1247224/clothier-slammed-for-using-perfect-virtual-model?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Swedish Clothing Giant H&M recently disclosed
that the images from the company's website, showing models wearing the
latest swimsuit and lingerie in generic, stock-form, are [1]not just
photoshopped but entirely computer-generated. 'We take pictures of the
clothes on a doll that stands in the shop, and then create the human
appearance with a program on [a] computer,' H&M press officer Hacan
Andersson said when questioned about the company's picture-perfect online
models. Advertising watchdogs elevated the controversy by criticizing the
chain of lower-cost clothing stores for their generic approach to models,
[2]accusing the chain of creating unrealistic physical ideals. 'This
illustrates very well the sky-high aesthetic demands placed on the female
body,' says a spokesman for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, one
of the groups most critical of H&M. 'The demands are so great that H&M,
among the poor photo models, cannot find someone with both body and face
that can sell their bikinis.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1247224/clothier-slammed-for-using-perfect-virtual-model?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/12/clothing-giant-hm-defends-use-of-virtual-models/
2. http://www.thestar.com/living/fashion/article/1099318--h-m-slammed-for-using-ads-with-models-heads-on-virtual-bodies
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| Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least
| from the pretend-to-be-surprised dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @11:40 (Bug)
| with 394 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1533252/java-apps-have-the-most-flaws-cobol-the-least?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dcblogs writes "An analysis of 745 applications for violations of good
architectural and coding practices found that [0]Java applications had
the most problems and Cobol-built systems, the least. Some 365 million
lines of code were analyzed by Cast Software to assess 'technical debt,'
or the cost to fix the violations. Java was calculated at $5.42 per line
of code, while Cobol did best at $1.26. Cobol code had the least number
of violations because programmers 'have been beating on it for 30 years,'
said Cast. As far as Java goes, 'there are many people going into Java
now that really don't have strong computer science backgrounds,' said its
chief scientist, Bill Curtis."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1533252/java-apps-have-the-most-flaws-cobol-the-least?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps
| from the killing-distance dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @21:54 (Microsoft)
| with 368 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0046230/microsoft-can-remotely-kill-purchased-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Meshach writes "The terms of service for Microsoft's newly launched
Windows Store allows the seller to [0]remotely kill or remove access to a
user's apps for security or legal reasons. The story also notes that MS
states purchasers are responsible for backing up the data that you store
in apps that you acquire via the Windows Store, including content you
upload using those apps. If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is
changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be
able to retrieve data you have stored."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0046230/microsoft-can-remotely-kill-purchased-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397414,00.asp
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| TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts
| from the don't-bleed-more-than-3.5-ounces dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @16:37 (Crime)
| with 325 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2127231/tsa-facing-death-by-a-thousand-cuts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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OverTheGeicoE writes "The Transportation Security Administration is
getting a lot of negative attention, much of it from the U.S. government
itself. A recent congressional report blasted the TSA for [0]being
incompetent and ineffective (PDF). A bill to force the TSA to reduce its
screening of active duty U.S. military members and their families [1]was
approved unanimously by the House of Representatives. After a TSA
employee was arrested for [2]sexually assaulting a woman while in uniform,
a bill has been introduced to [3]prevent TSA agents from wearing
police-style uniforms and badges or using the title 'officer.' The bill's
sponsor calls these practices 'an insult to real cops.' The FBI is
getting involved by changing its definition of rape in a way that might
[4]expose the TSA's 'enhanced pat-down' screeners to prosecution. Lastly,
[5]public support for the TSA's use of X-ray body scanners drops
dramatically when people realize there is a cancer risk."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2127231/tsa-facing-death-by-a-thousand-cuts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://republicans.transportation.house.gov/Media/file/112th/Aviation/2011-11-16-TSA_Reform_Report.pdf
1. http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/29/9092808-house-approves-new-tsa-rules-for-us-military
2. http://ourtaxdollarsatwork.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/tsa-agent-harold-glen-rodman-arrested-in-manassas-virginia-charged-after-raping-woman-while-wearing-uniform/
3. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70185.html
4. http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-rapists-definition-rape-389/
5. http://www.propublica.org/article/coffee-tea-or-cancer-americans-oppose-x-ray-body-scanners
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| Why We Need More Programming Languages
| from the use-once-then-discard dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @15:55 (Programming)
| with 283 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2023215/why-we-need-more-programming-languages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister writes in favor of
[1]new programming languages, given the difficulty of upgrading existing,
popular languages. 'Whenever a new programming language is announced, a
certain segment of the developer population always rolls its eyes and
groans that we have quite enough to choose from already,' McAllister
writes. 'But once a language reaches a certain tipping point of
popularity, overhauling it to include support for new features,
paradigms, and patterns is easier said than done.' PHP 6, Perl 6, Python
3, ECMAScript 4 ��� 'the lesson from all of these examples is clear:
Programming languages move slowly, and the more popular a language is,
the slower it moves. It is far, far easier to create a new language from
whole cloth than it is to convince the existing user base of a popular
language to accept radical changes.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2023215/why-we-need-more-programming-languages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/why-we-need-even-more-programming-languages-181189
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| Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps
| from the turnabout-is-highly-irritating dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @12:21 (The Internet)
| with 255 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1633257/google-facebook-upset-by-ad-injecting-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Emily Steel at the Wall Street Journal
[0]writes about an unexpected twist for Google and Facebook, two
companies that make their money selling ads next to content created by
others. New companies like Sambreel Holdings are writing slick browser
interfaces for popular sites like Facebook or Google and supporting
themselves by injecting their own ads into the mix. Naturally, the
original ad sellers aren't so happy about other ad sellers inserting
themselves farther down the chain. Are we in the middle of an ad war
where every company tries to inject their ads over the others? Will only
the last 'ad supported' software in the chain win?"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1633257/google-facebook-upset-by-ad-injecting-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577086463731021828.html
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| 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle
| from the does-this-count-as-extra-credit? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 09, @00:29 (Medicine)
| with 232 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0234247/17-year-old-wins-100k-for-creating-cancer-killing-nanoparticle?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "17-year-old Angeloa Zhang was recently
[0]awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the
Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was
entitled 'Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing
Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells.' The
creation is the so-called 'Swiss army knife of cancer treatment,' which
allows a nanoparticle to be delivered to a tumor where it proceeds to
kills cancer stem cells."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0234247/17-year-old-wins-100k-for-creating-cancer-killing-nanoparticle?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Why Android Upgrades Take So Long
| from the keep-getting-distracted-by-delicious-names dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @13:48 (Android)
| with 194 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1839223/why-android-upgrades-take-so-long?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "Last month Google released the Android 4.0 'Ice
Cream Sandwich' code base to the general public and manufacturers but it
may be a while yet before it's actually rolled out to existing phones. In
an attempt to explain why it takes so long, [0]Motorola and Sony Ericsson
shed some light on the process. Motorola [1]described the long testing
process involved in getting the new code out there, whereas Sony focused
on explaining [2]the time-consuming certification process."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1839223/why-android-upgrades-take-so-long?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397349,00.asp
1. http://www.motorola.com/blog/2011/12/07/motorola-update-on-ice-cream-sandwich/
2. http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wp/2011/12/07/ice-cream-sandwich-from-source-code-release-to-software-upgrade/
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| Rats Feel Each Other's Pain
| from the no-wonder-my-rat-gladiator-farm-never-took-off dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @10:15 (Science)
| with 181 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1354203/rats-feel-each-others-pain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Empathy lets us feel another person's pain and
drives us to help ease it. But is empathy a uniquely human trait? For
decades researchers have debated whether nonhuman animals possess this
attribute. Now [0]a new study shows that [1]rats will free a trapped
cagemate in distress. The results mean that these rodents can be used to
help determine the genetic and physiological underpinnings of empathy in
people."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1354203/rats-feel-each-others-pain?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427.full
1. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/rats-feel-each-others-pain.html?ref=hp
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| Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate
| from the bored-begets-big-numbers dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @09:34 (Android)
| with 164 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/131236/android-market-hits-10-billion-downloads-games-dominate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter sandeepabhat tips news that [0]Android Market recently saw
its 10 billionth app download, reaching the milestone less than a year
after the App Store [1]accomplished the same feat. New downloads through
Android Market are proceeding at a rate of roughly 1 billion per month.
Google has now [2]created an infographic to break down the information
further. Games outpace any other type of app, accounting for more than a
quarter of all downloads. The top five countries in downloads-per-capita
are South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the U.S., and Singapore.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/131236/android-market-hits-10-billion-downloads-games-dominate?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/dec/09/android-games-downloads
1. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/01/23/1836228/apple-app-store-hits-10b-app-download-mark
2. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/12/closer-look-at-10-billion-downloads.html
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| Draft Alternative To SOPA Released
| from the try-this-flavor dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @19:52 (Piracy)
| with 162 comments
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2321227/draft-alternative-to-sopa-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and
Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, have released a
draft version of the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade
(OPEN) Act and posted a copy at [1]KeeptheWebOpen.com. The act is
[2]intended to be an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2321227/draft-alternative-to-sopa-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.keepthewebopen.com/
2. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/409754/lawmakers_release_draft_alternative_stop_online_piracy_act
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| Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia
| from the learn-to-play-nice dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 09, @05:32 (Android)
| with 146 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0319239/apple-loses-tablet-battle-in-australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter harmic writes "The Australian Federal High Court has
[0]denied Apple's appeal against the earlier decision that overturned the
ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab. The Samsung Android based tablets should
be in the shops in a matter of days. Apple had attempted to appeal an
earlier court ruling [1]overturning the ban."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0319239/apple-loses-tablet-battle-in-australia?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/tablets/samsung-slays-apple-in-tablet-war-20111209-1omep.html
1. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/0326254/australian-federal-court-ends-ban-on-samsung-galaxy-tab-sales
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| HP Making webOS Open Source
| from the had-it-in-the-palm-of-their-hand dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @14:30 (HP)
| with 136 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1857254/hp-making-webos-open-source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Several readers sent word of HP's announcement that the company will be
[0]contributing webOS to the open source community. According to [1]HP's
press release, they will continue to be active in webOS's development,
and one of their goals will be to avoid fragmentation. ENYO, the
application framework for webOS, will also go open source in the near
future.
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1857254/hp-making-webos-open-source?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://allthingsd.com/20111209/hp-is-keeping-webos-but-veer-sizing-it/
1. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news
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| EU Moves To End Surveillance Tech Sales To Repressive Regimes
| from the these-customers-are-never-right dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 09, @03:11 (Privacy)
| with 125 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0323222/eu-moves-to-end-surveillance-tech-sales-to-repressive-regimes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]superglaze writes "The European Union is asking companies that sell
surveillance and law enforcement tech to repressive regimes to [1]stop
doing so. The EU is not taking concrete action yet, but has warned that
sanctions may be applicable. All this comes little more than a week after
Wikileaks published the [2]Spy Files, a name-and-shame list of the
companies offering tools for mass surveillance and interception to
despotic regimes, but also to Western governments."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0323222/eu-moves-to-end-surveillance-tech-sales-to-repressive-regimes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:superglaze@hotmail.com
1. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2011/12/08/eu-moves-to-stop-surveillance-tech-sales-to-despots-40094614/
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/02/223209/how-tech-vendors-help-governments-spy-on-their-citizens
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| Amazon Is Recruiting Authors For Its eBook Library
| from the sign-on-the-virtual-line dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday December 09, @08:09 (Books)
| with 120 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0411249/amazon-is-recruiting-authors-for-its-ebook-library?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Nate the greatest writes "Amazon just announced a [0]$6 million pool of
money that it plans to pay authors. All you have to do to get a share of
the loot is commit to sell your ebook exclusively through the Kindle
Store and agree to let your ebook be lent to Kindle Prime members. Amazon
has already signed up a number of authors, including 31 of the top 50
self-published ones (J. Carson Black, Gemma Halliday, J.A. Konrath, B.V.
Larson, C.J. Lyons, Scott Nicholson, Julie Ortolon, Theresa Ragan, J.R.
Rain, Patricia Ryan, and more). It looks like Amazon launched this to
support the [1]Kindle Owners' Lending Library that Amazon launched just
over a month ago. When it launched it had around 5 thousand titles as
well as some [2]less than voluntary participants. But there's a catch.
Authors are required to give Amazon an exclusive on any title in the
program. That means they're giving up the rest of the ebook market. Would
any authors care to weigh in on the deal?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0411249/amazon-is-recruiting-authors-for-its-ebook-library?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1637803&highlight
1. http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/11/03/amazon-prime-ebooks-now-live-borrow-1-free-ebook-a-month/
2. http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/11/04/i-wouldnt-get-too-attached-to-those-amazon-prime-ebooks/
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| NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks
| from the maybe-you-should-go-get-more dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @15:12 (Moon)
| with 116 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1958218/nasa-missing-hundreds-of-moon-rocks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter Minion of Eris writes "It seems NASA can't keep track of
its goodies. A recent audit discovered that [0]moon rocks have been
missing for 30 years, loaned displays have gone unreturned, and
book-keeping has been generally poor. From the article: 'In a report
issued by the agency's inspector general on Thursday, NASA concedes that
more than 500 pieces of moon rocks, meteorites, comet chunks and other
space material were stolen or have been missing since 1970. That includes
218 moon samples that were stolen and later returned and about two dozen
moon rocks and chunks of lunar soil that were reported lost last year.
NASA, which has lent more than 26,000 samples, needs to keep better track
of what is sent to researchers and museums, the report said. The lack of
sufficient controls "increases the risk that these unique resources may
be lost," the report concluded.'"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1958218/nasa-missing-hundreds-of-moon-rocks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/09/science-missing-space-samples-nasa.html
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| You Really Are What You Know
| from the i-am-a-kung-fu dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @17:22 (Science)
| with 113 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/221233/you-really-are-what-you-know?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jd writes "There has been research for some time showing that
[1]London cab driver brains differ from other people's, with considerable
enlargement of those areas dealing with spacial relationships and
navigation. Follow-up work showed [2]it wasn't simply a product of
driving a lot (PDF). However, up until now it has been disputed as to
whether the brain structure led people to become London cabbies or
whether the brain structure changed as a result of their intensive
training (which requires rote memorization of essentially the entire
street map of one of the largest and least-organized cities in the
world). Well, this latest study answers that. [3]MRI scans before and
after the training show that the regions of the brain substantially grow
as a result of the training, and they're quite normal beforehand. The
practical upshot of this research is that ��� even for adult brains, which
aren't supposed to change much ��� what you learn structurally changes your
brain. Significantly."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/221233/you-really-are-what-you-know?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:imipak@yahoo.com
1. http://www.pnas.org/content/97/8/4398.full
2. http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/Maguire2006.pdf
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16086233
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| Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet?
| from the print-an-emailed-scan-of-a-polaroid dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 09, @18:50 (Android)
| with 106 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2328227/ask-slashdot-best-way-to-print-from-an-android-tablet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]KowboyKrash writes "Does any Slashdotter know how to print from an
Android tablet? I have read about [1]Google Cloud Print, but will it work
from all (or at least most) apps? Is there a better solution? A little
background: With my laptop being four years old, and the battery failing,
I want to replace it with a device with 10 hours of battery. I am
purchasing an Asus Transformer Prime after Christmas as a gift to myself;
my plan is to replace my laptop completely for portable computing. I've
already selected several apps that should meet my needs, including
Polaris Office, and TeamViewer to remotely access my desktop. So are
there any printing solutions for Android? Printing to my network printer
at home is good enough."
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Links:
0. mailto:kowboykrash@nOSpAM.gmail.com
1. http://www.google.com/landing/cloudprint/
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| Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet
| from the a-picture's-only-worth-140-characters-now dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @10:58 (Education)
| with 98 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/151204/forget-an-essay-earn-a-scholarship-with-a-tweet?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PolygamousRanchKid writes with this quote from a CNN article: "The
Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation is asking eligible high school seniors
to tweet a photo that illustrates their commitment to education and
enriching their communities. The KFC Colonel's Scholars winner, announced
December 15, will receive up to $5,000 per year to pursue a bachelor's
degree at a public university in his or her home state. ... Other
organizations, perhaps weary of wading through applicants' lengthy
essays, also are offering eager students ways to turn a 140-character
message into money for college. ... Why a tweet? Jodi Schafer, the
University of Iowa's director of MBA admissions and financial aid, told
USA Today that [0]application essays were 'becoming unoriginal.' She said
'we're hoping that incorporating social media in the process will help
bring back some of that creativity.'"
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Links:
0. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/08/tech/social-media/tweets-scholarships/index.html
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| Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa
| from the earliest-to-bed dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @19:31 (Science)
| with 96 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2312249/earliest-human-beds-found-in-south-africa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "A team working in South Africa claims to have found
[0]the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up
to 77,000 years ago���50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human
bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared
to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects."
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Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/earliest-human-beds-found-in-sou.html?ref=hp
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| Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare
| from the blue-screen-of-actual-death dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @18:06 (Medicine)
| with 95 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2223259/microsoft-and-ge-partner-on-healthcare?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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theodp writes "Microsoft and General Electric are [0]forming an
as-yet-unnamed new health-care technology company. Based near Microsoft's
Redmond headquarters, the company will be established next year with
about 750 employees drawn from GE, Microsoft and elsewhere.
'High-quality, affordable healthcare is one of the biggest challenges
facing every nation, but it's also an area where technology can make a
huge difference,' said Steve Ballmer. 'Combining Microsoft's open,
interoperable health platforms and software expertise with GE's
experience and healthcare solutions will create exciting opportunities
for patients and healthcare providers alike. Working together, GE and
Microsoft can help make healthcare systems more intelligent and cost
efficient while improving patient care.' Has someone been watching those
[1]iPad Healthcare case study videos?"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2223259/microsoft-and-ge-partner-on-healthcare?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/breaking-microsoft-ge-creating-health-care-company-seattle-region
1. http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/st-louis-urgent-cares/
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| IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls
| from the battle-of-the-ages dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @19:07 (IBM)
| with 90 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2310230/ibm-watson-to-battle-patent-trolls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MrSeb writes "IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition,
natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining. All of
these factors were perfectly combined to [1]beat Ken Jennings in Jeopardy,
and now each of these components are slowly finding their way into other
applications. Health plan company WellPoint, for example, is using Watson
to investigate patient records to improve diagnosis, and in a
self-referential, possibly universe-destroying twist, IBM itself is
[2]using Watson to help sell Watson (and other IBM products) to other
companies. Now, using Watson's data mining and natural language talents,
IBM has created the Strategic IP Insight Platform, or SIIP, a tool that
has already scanned millions of medical patents and journals for the sake
of improving drug discovery ��� and in the future, it's easy to see how the
same tool could be used to [3]battle patent trolling, too."
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Links:
0. http://mrseb.co.uk/
1. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0045231/watson-wins-jeopardy-contest
2. http://slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/2116221/ibm-watson-to-replace-salespeople-and-cold-callers
3. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108281-ibm-watson-to-battle-patent-trolls
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| Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With <em>Bastion</em>
| from the smashing-crates-in-the-browser dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @17:45 (Chrome)
| with 84 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2235223/google-demonstrates-chrome-native-client-with-bastion?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Multiple readers sent word that Bastion, an action RPG from indie
developer Supergiant Games originally made for Xbox Live Arcade, has
[0]shown up in the Chrome Web Store. The purpose of the move is to
[1]showcase the browser's Native Client technology. From the article:
"Ian Ellison-Taylor, Google's director of product management for the open
Web platform, said that Native Client, also called NaCl, can currently
improve browser performance by 1 to 10 times. 'What would it be like if
we could run native code inside the browser,' he asked the crowd, and he
enumerated two goals for the Native Client project. He said Google wants
to bring native applications to the Web for performance and security
reasons, and it wants to enrich the Web ecosystem by bringing popular,
long-in-use programming languages to the Web."
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Links:
0. http://supergiantgames.com/?p=1231
1. http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57340015-12/native-client-turns-chrome-into-high-end-gaming-platform/
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| Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft
| from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @13:05 (Space)
| with 78 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1715228/tycho-deep-space-a-diy-open-source-manned-spacecraft?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]misterbarnacles writes "Can space travel be democratized? Kristian von
Bengtson and Copenhagen Suborbitals think so, and they're [1]building a
DIY manned suborbital spacecraft to prove it. 'Bengtson describes the
craft as "a half sized Apollo-shaped space capsule with a diameter of 2
meters capable of serving one (or two) persons." When complete, Bengtson
hopes the suborbital craft will [2]convey a human passenger higher than
62 miles above sea level, allowing him the rare opportunity to escape
Earth���s bonds and view the heavens from the ionosphere.'"
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1715228/tycho-deep-space-a-diy-open-source-manned-spacecraft?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://12ptplan.com/
1. http://www.shareable.net/blog/to-the-stars-a-diy-open-source-manned-spacecraft
2. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/just-another-day-at-the-office/
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| LHC To Narrow Search For Higgs Boson
| from the maybe-it's-with-all-those-moon-rocks dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @16:14 (Science)
| with 78 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2037226/lhc-to-narrow-search-for-higgs-boson?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter [0]mraudigy sends this quote from Physorg: "CERN scientists
say their data from two main experiments using CERN's $10-billion Large
Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border will be made public next
Tuesday, but any firm discovery will have to wait until next year. They
say the data [1]helps narrow the region of the search because it excludes
some of the higher energy ranges where the Higgs boson might be found,
and shows some intriguing possibilities involving a small number of
'events' at the lower energy ranges."
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Links:
0. mailto:chris.seedyk@gmail.com
1. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-lhc-narrow-higgs-boson.html
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| Silverlight 5 Released
| from the hp-totally-stole-their-thunder dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 09, @16:58 (Microsoft)
| with 76 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/2148249/silverlight-5-released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter CaptSlaq sends word that [0] [1]Silverlight 5 has been
released. Microsoft [0]has not revealed whether it will be the last
version. "New features in Silverlight 5 include Hardware Decode of H.264
media, which provides a significant performance improvement with decoding
of unprotected content using the GPU; Postscript Vector Printing to
improve output quality and file size; and an improved graphics stack with
3D support that uses the XNA API on the Windows platform to gain
low-level access to the GPU for drawing vertex shaders and low-level 3D
primitives. In addition, Silverlight 5 extends the ���Trusted Application���
model to the browser for the first time. These features, when enabled via
a group policy registry key and an application certificate, mean users
won���t need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks such as multiple
window support, full trust support in browser including COM and file
system access, in browser HTML hosting within Silverlight, and P/Invoke
support for existing native code to be run directly from Silverlight."
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Links:
0. http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/12/silverlight-5-goes-live-no-wor.php
1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlight/archive/2011/12/09/silverlight-5-available-for-download-today.aspx
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| Geodesic Gingerbread House Template For the Holidays
| from the geometry-geek-gift dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @20:14 (Christmas Cheer)
| with 57 comments
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/2327226/geodesic-gingerbread-house-template-for-the-holidays?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Buckminster Fuller eat your heart out ���
LA-based design firm Scout Regalia has created a [0]mail-order template
for a geodesic gingerbread house that you can make at home. When you
order a [1]Gingerbread Geodesic Dome, you will receive a cardboard
template that is very simple to put together. You then bake the
gingerbread and cut it into little hexagons that are then 'glued' to the
dome shell with icing."
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Links:
0. http://scoutregalia.com/SR_store_GEODESIC-01.htm
1. http://inhabitat.com/diy-make-your-own-gingerbread-geodesic-dome-house/
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