Rabu, 02 Mei 2012

Correction: Slashdot Newsletter 2012-05-02

Editor's Note: Due to some technical issues, your newsletter might have appeared wonky today. Please accept our apologies and the corrected version below. Thanks for reading!
 
 
2012 Next Generation Firewall Security Value Map
NSS Labs, a global leader of independent security product testing and certification, just released the results of an in-depth assessment involving seven Next-Generation Firewall products. Read the results in this new resource. 
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Identifying the Top Opportunities to Create Business Value
This white paper will help organizations that are making decisions about BPM deployment: - Understand the overall value and benefits of BPM - Identify the types of process problems that BPM can address - Determine where process problems exist in their organizations - Learn to discover and prioritize BPM projects 
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From the Department of unbounded-can-of-worms
An anonymous reader writes "An article at Dr. Dobb's looks into the consequences of a dangerous idea from Oracle during their legal battle with Google: 'that Google had violated Oracle's Java copyrights by reimplementing Java APIs in Android.' The...
 
From the Department of you-have-been-called-out
Fluffeh writes "Breaking up terrorist plots is one of the main goals of the FBI these days. If it can't do that, well, it seems making plots up and then valiantly stopping them is okay too — but the NY Times is calling them on it. 'The...
 
From the Department of what-does-that-guy-know?
judgecorp writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has praised the user interface of Microsoft's Windows Phone, saying that aspects of its user interface are more 'beautiful' than comparable sides to the iPhone. The comments, in a New Domain, follow...
 
From the Department of check-it-out
By now you’ve noticed that Slashdot is growing. We recently introduced Slashdot TV, which offers up everything from “amateur” rocket launches to the return of Leisure Suit Larry. We revamped our newsletters. Now we’re...
 
From the Department of will-just-be-in-the-other-room-looking-for-more
According to CNN, which credits Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit, German investigators have uncovered a trove of more than 100 Al Qaeda documents recovered from a "digital storage device" (and memory cards) which were found hidden in the...
 
From the Department of did-not-see-that-one-coming
New submitter Eirenarch writes "Xamarin has just announced that they got the Java part of Android ported to C# via machine translation. The resulting OS, called XobotOS, is available on Github. They claim some serious performance gains over...
 
From the Department of expectations-met
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority Watch list. While inclusion on the list is designed to generate embarrassment on target...
 
From the Department of under-the-bus
theodp writes "Meet Engineer Doe. A NY Times report has identified Marius Milner as the software engineer at the center of the uproar over a Google project that used Wi-Fi sniffing Google Street View cars to collect e-mail and other personal data...
 
From the Department of hail-mary
arcite writes "Research in Motion Ltd's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, unveiled BlackBerry 10 in Florida today. Will new features such as a virtual keyboard that learns from typing behavior and a camera that easily focuses on faces be enough to scrape...
 
From the Department of monocle-polishing-terrorists-are-stealing-our-yachts
New submitter Curseyoukhan writes "The phrase 'cyber war' is being used to scare us into coughing up money and liberties, just like 'anarchist' once was, and 'terror' still is. To quote H.L. Mencken, 'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep...
 
From the Department of mcdonalds-makes-the-tastiest-burgers
An anonymous reader writes "While the celebs are already charging big money for their Tweets, an Aussie startup is ranking everyday people and turning them into product salespeople. After a successful start Down Under they have now hit Silicon...
 
From the Department of plotting-the-most-complex-map
hessian sends this excerpt from Medical Xpress "Autism has a strong genetic basis, but so far efforts to identify the responsible genes have had mixed results. The reason for this is that autism is influenced by many different genes, and different...
 
From the Department of is-that-your-watch-or-my-geiger-counter?
New submitter Lasrick writes "Skip past the dry abstract to Jan Beyea's main article for a thorough exploration of what's wrong with current 'safe' levels of low-level radiation exposure. The Bulletin is just releasing its 'Radiation Issue,' which...
 
From the Department of new-jersey-isn't-a-city-oh-wait
darthcamaro writes "A strange thing happened at the end of 2011. For the first time in years, global broadband adoption and speeds dropped. According to Akamai, broadband adoption declined by 4.6 percent and average speeds declined by 14 percent....
 
From the Department of something-free-in-your-neighborhood
An anonymous reader writes "Today the 5.1 release of OpenBSD has surfaced. As usual, it includes improved hardware support, but also OpenSSH 6.0 and over 7000 ports, with major performance and stability improvements in the package build process...
 
 
 
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