Minggu, 08 April 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-04-08

 
 
Improve Unified Communications
See how you can better deploy, manage and secure UC in your business. This resource discusses: Microsoft Exchange, Instant Messenger, integration of Windows & Skype, UC and smartphones, and much more.  
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Real-time Insights Improve User Experience
This Customer Success Story focuses on how WhitePages deployed Splunk to gain better visibility across their application infrastructure, to mitigate site abuse and to identify software bugs more quickly.  
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From the Department of eat-your-vegetables-honey
hondo77 writes "Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health '...have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid.' This follows...
 
From the Department of keep-quiet-about-the-reanimation
New submitter everithe writes "Dear Slashdot, I am nearing the end of my undergraduate years and hoping to continue on in academia, probably focusing on condensed matter physics. Recently I've noticed some alarming pessimism among Slashdotters...
 
From the Department of it's-only-wafer-thin
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the NYT's "Bits" column: "Justin Watt, a Web engineer, was browsing the Web in his room at the Courtyard Marriott in Midtown Manhattan this week when he saw something strange. On his personal blog,...
 
From the Department of will-the-right-people-get-blamed-though?
00_NOP writes "The One Laptop Per Child project has disappointed in Peru, reports the Economist, apparently because in general teachers did not make creative use of the technology. As in other cases the computers seem to have been regarded as ends...
 
From the Department of harder-to-pronounce-too
An anonymous reader writes "As congressmen in Washington consider how to handle the ongoing issue of cyberattacks, some legislators have lent their support to a new act that, if passed, would let the government pry into the personal correspondence...
 
From the Department of you-ruined-all-the-backups-here-is-20-bucks
Lucas123 writes "Paper products maker Kimberly-Clark drove the morale of its IT infrastructure group into the ground after massive firings and outsourcing. When they hired a new VP of Infrastructure four years later to turn things around, he...
 
From the Department of thousand-flowers-all-bloom-differently
New submitter BBCS writes "The National Copyright Administration of the People's Republic of China ('NCAC') is seeking public comments on a controversial draft amendment to China's copyright law. A number of recording artists and musicians have...
 
From the Department of pumping-is-fun
First time accepted submitter samazon writes "According to a recently proposed abstract by the United States Geological Survey, hydraulic fracturing, or more specifically the disposal of fracking wastewater, may be directly correlated to the...
 
From the Department of your-dna-in-a-box
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook already shares its Law Enforcement Guidelines publicly, but we've never actually seen the data Menlo Park sends over to the cops when it gets a formal subpoena for your profile information. Now we know. This...
 
From the Department of first-you-divide-it-into-bits
mikejuk writes "The problem to be solved sounds trivial — cut up a cake so that each person thinks they get a fair share. This classical problem gets even more difficult if the 'players' can't all see what is going on at the same time...
 
From the Department of does-this-pass-the-skiff-test?
Hugh Pickens writes "Innovation News reports that the U.S. Navy plans to upgrade its robotic Fire Scouts with electronic 'brains' that are able to automatically recognize small pirate boats spotted through 3D laser imaging by bouncing millions of...
 
From the Department of let-the-dingos-eat-her
Fluffeh writes "Richard Bell, an Australian Film Maker, on a fellowship in New York, produced and directed approximately 18 hours of raw footage for a film with the help of an assistant called Tanya Steele and paid her for these services. Ms...
 
From the Department of many-have-tried
An anonymous reader writes "I was looking at multimedia players from brands such as SumVision, Noontec and Western Digital. They all seem to be some device which accepts a USB hard-drive and commands from an IR remote control, and throws the...
 
From the Department of why-in-my-day-we-didn't-have-binary
CowboyRobot writes "Stanford's CPU DB project (cpudb.stanford.edu) is like an open IMDB for microprocessors. Processors have come a long way from the Intel 4004 in 1971, with a clock speed of 740KHz, and CPU DB shows the details of where and when...
 
From the Department of I-prepare-for-unsurvivable
CowboyRobot writes "The National Weather Service has begun testing the way it labels natural disasters. It's hoping that the new warnings, which include words like 'catastrophic,' 'complete devastation likely,' and 'unsurvivable,' will make people...
 
 
 
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