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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers
* The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud
* Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox
* Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP
* Nintendo Trying To Win Back Core Gamers With Wii U
* Chinese City Wants To Build a Censorship-Free Hub
* Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax
* Los Alamos Fire Idles NSA Supercomputer
* AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU
* Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities
* Electronic Skin Gives Robots a Sense of Touch
* Lawsuit Claims <em>LegalZoom</em> Is Practicing Law Without a License
* Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible
* IBM Creates Multi-Bit Phase Change Memory
* The Science of Human-Robot Love
* AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly
* Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies
* Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop
* UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic
* Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price
* Early UNIX Contributor Robert Morris Dead at 78
* Future Actions Predicted From Brain Activity
* NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project
* Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam
* Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit
* Anonymous Leaks New Batch of Data
* LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA
* Solar Impulse Airplane Makes Public Debut In Paris
* Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size
* BitTorrent Chat Demystified
* Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau
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| Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers
| from the +1-or-better-update-to-hit dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 29, @20:18 (Botnet)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/2240245/Massive-Botnet-Indestructible-Say-Researchers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "A new and improved [1]botnet that has infected more
than four million PCs is 'practically indestructible,' security
researchers say. TDL-4, the name for both the bot Trojan that infects
machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is 'the
most sophisticated threat today,' said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey
Golovanov in [2]a detailed analysis on Monday. Others agree. 'I wouldn't
say it's perfectly indestructible, but it is pretty much indestructible,'
Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks and an
internationally-known botnet expert, told Computerworld on Wednesday. 'It
does a very good job of maintaining itself.' Because TDL-4 [3]installs
its rootkit on the MBR, it is invisible to both the operating system and
more, importantly, security software designed to sniff out malicious
code. But that's not TDL-4's secret weapon. What makes the botnet
indestructible is the combination of its advanced encryption and the use
of a public peer-to-peer (P2P) network for the instructions issued to the
malware by command-and-control (C&C) servers. 'The way peer-to-peer is
used for TDL-4 will make it extremely hard to take down this botnet,'
said Roel Schouwenberg, senior malware researcher at Kaspersky. 'The TDL
guys are doing their utmost not to become the next gang to lose their
botnet.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/2240245/Massive-Botnet-Indestructible-Say-Researchers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218034/Massive_botnet_indestructible_say_researchers
2. http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792180/TDL4_Top_Bot
3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158538/Microsoft_says_rootkit_caused_Windows_blue_screens
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| The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud
| from the lets-see-what-you-got-there dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 29, @22:14 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0050236/The-Patriot-Act-and-the-EU-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ISoldat53 writes "Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK said
that the Patriot Act allows [0]government access to data in its cloud
services even in Europe. Though he said that 'customers would be informed
wherever possible,' he could not provide a guarantee that they would be
informed if a gagging order, injunction or U.S. National Security Letter
permits it."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0050236/The-Patriot-Act-and-the-EU-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox
| from the put-down-the-controller dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @00:21 (The Courts)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0056200/Irish-Judge-Orders-13-Year-Old-To-Surrender-Xbox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In Belfast a High Court judge has [0]ordered
a 13 year old to surrender his Xbox to the authorities. The boy was
charged with a series of robberies and in the bail application the judge
asked the boy what he owned that meant a lot to him. The teenager said it
was his Xbox games system. The judge told the youth that the surrender of
the Xbox would show him what it was like to have something he really
valued taken from him."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0056200/Irish-Judge-Orders-13-Year-Old-To-Surrender-Xbox?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0629/xbox.html
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| Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP
| from the that-should-do-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @02:55 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0240212/Movie-Industry-Files-Injunction-Against-UK-ISP?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]daedae writes "The Motion Picture Association (MPA), which represents
studios including Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney, have [1]filed
suit in the UK against BT, Britain's largest ISP. The studios are asking
for an injunction which would force BT to block access to Newzbin, on the
grounds of massive losses to Usenet piracy."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0240212/Movie-Industry-Files-Injunction-Against-UK-ISP?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.uptonart.net/
1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5inf7GDtThNyPf-HxTknar4i491Lg?docId=CNG.6e145485d1197582aa5fe96d397320c0.991
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| Nintendo Trying To Win Back Core Gamers With Wii U
| from the modern-warfare-yoshi's-revenge dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 30, @04:04 (Nintendo)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/068209/Nintendo-Trying-To-Win-Back-Core-Gamers-With-Wii-U?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Speaking at a shareholder meeting yesterday, Nintendo president Satoru
Iwata discussed the company's goals for the Wii's successor, which aims
to [0]pick up the subset of gamers turned off by imprecise motion control.
He said, "Wii was not accepted by core gamers because they did not want
to abandon their preferred control approach. Additionally, Wii did not
use HD because HD cost/performance at the time was low. Wii U makes it
easier to use conventional controls. Also, the Wii U controller is not as
big or heavy as it looks." Earlier comments from Shigeru Miyamoto
indicate the new console will have more to offer in terms of online
capabilities, but Nintendo [1]isn't going to focus too heavily on that.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/068209/Nintendo-Trying-To-Win-Back-Core-Gamers-With-Wii-U?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-29-why-core-gamers-will-accept-wii-u
1. http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2011/06/22/nintendos-miyamoto-not-our-goal-to-become-the-number-one-online-gaming-company/
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| Chinese City Wants To Build a Censorship-Free Hub
| from the welcome-to-the-free-zone dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @05:24 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0325239/Chinese-City-Wants-To-Build-a-Censorship-Free-Hub?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The city of Chongqing's proposed Cloud Computing
Special Zone would be home to 'a handful of state-of-the-art data centers
and is designed to attract investment from multinational companies and
boost China's status as a center for cloud computing,' writes the IDG
News Service's Michael Kan. The part that's drawing the ire of Chinese
Internet users: This [1]censorship-free hub would only be for foreign
companies."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0325239/Chinese-City-Wants-To-Build-a-Censorship-Free-Hub?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/government/178857/chinese-city-draws-ire-controversial-cloud-zone
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| Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax
| from the tax-the-tubes dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @08:11 (Businesses)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0323220/Amazon-Drops-California-Associates-to-Avoid-Sales-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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PCM2 writes "Residents of California who participate in the Amazon
Associates Program received an email warning them that [0]the program
will be terminated as soon as a new California law goes into effect. The
law, which CA governor Jerry Brown signed, would require online retailers
to collect sales tax on purchases. According to Amazon's statement, 'We
oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It
is supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside
California, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their
competitors.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/0323220/Amazon-Drops-California-Associates-to-Avoid-Sales-Tax?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/29/amazon-kills-associa.html
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| Los Alamos Fire Idles NSA Supercomputer
| from the disko-inferno dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 30, @08:52 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1233210/Los-Alamos-Fire-Idles-NSA-Supercomputer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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ygslash writes "Among the many facilities shut down [0]since Monday at
[1]Los Alamos National Laboratory due to the approaching wildfire is
[2]Cielo, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The
National Nuclear Security Administration's three national laboratories -
Los Alamos, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermore - all share computing time on
Cielo, according to [3]Associated Press." Update: 06/30 14:48 GMT by [4]S
: As readers have pointed out, this article refers to the National
Nuclear Security Administration, not the National Security Agency.
Summary updated to reflect that.
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1233210/Los-Alamos-Fire-Idles-NSA-Supercomputer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/011234/Wildfire-Threatens-Los-Alamos-Labs
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cielo_(computer)
3. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hBb4nkUP_1VW-cx5UdKYMR7C78dg?docId=835e1320bcda48948f96b41a9140212b
4. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
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| AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU
| from the welcome-to-the-doldrums dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 30, @09:27 (AMD)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1327252/AMD-Llano-APU-Review---Slow-CPU-Fast-GPU?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Vigile writes "Though we did see the fruits of AMD's Fusion labor in the
form of the Brazos platform late in 2010, Llano is the first mainstream
part to be released that combines traditional x86 CPU cores with
Radeon-based SIMD arrays for a heterogeneous computing environment. The
[0]A-series of APUs reviewed over at PC Perspective starts with the
A8-3850 that is a combination of a true quad-core processor and 400
shader processors similar to those found in AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series
of GPUs. The good news for the first desktop APU is that the integrated
graphics blows past the best Intel has to offer on the Sandy Bridge
platform by a factor of 2-4x in terms of gaming. The bad news is the CPU
performance: running at only 2.9 GHz the Phenom-based x86 portion often
finds itself behind even the dual-core Intel Core i3-2100. On the bright
side you can pick one up next month for only $135."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1327252/AMD-Llano-APU-Review---Slow-CPU-Fast-GPU?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities
| from the conspiracy-mode-engaged dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 30, @10:06 (Facebook)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1357210/Facebook-More-Hated-Than-Banks-Utilities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "According to the [1]American Customer Satisfaction
Index, Facebook raises a lot of ire among its customers ��� more than Bank
of America or AT&T Mobility. This bodes ill for the company ��� as blogger
Chris Nerney points out, many of the others on the most-hated list are
[2]utilities and other companies with monopolies, which can hold
customers despite bad service. At least Facebook edged out MySpace."
Unsurprisingly, the most important thing about Google+ is that [3]it's
not Facebook.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1357210/Facebook-More-Hated-Than-Banks-Utilities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://www.acsimatters.com/
2. http://www.itworld.com/software/178661/facebook-really-hated-more-bank-america
3. http://xkcd.com/918/
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| Electronic Skin Gives Robots a Sense of Touch
| from the we're-gonna-need-more-lotion dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @10:51 (Input Devices)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/142249/Electronic-Skin-Gives-Robots-a-Sense-of-Touch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Zothecula writes "Providing robots with sensory inputs is one of the keys
to the development of more capable and useful machines. Sight and hearing
are the most common senses bestowed upon our mechanical friends, but even
taste and smell have gotten a look. There have also been a number of
efforts to give robots the sense of touch so they can better navigate and
interact with their environments. The latest attempt to create a touchy
feely robot comes from the Technical University Munich (TUM) where
researchers have produced small [0]hexagonal plates, which when joined
together, form a sensitive skin."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/142249/Electronic-Skin-Gives-Robots-a-Sense-of-Touch?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/hexagonal-plate-robotic-skin/19072/
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| Lawsuit Claims <em>LegalZoom</em> Is Practicing Law Without a License
| from the how-quickly-can-a-computer-finish-law-school? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @11:37 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1443234/Lawsuit-Claims-LegalZoom-Is-Practicing-Law-Without-a-License?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Bob the Super Hamste writes "Fortune has an interesting piece about a
federal class action law suit against LegalZoom claiming that [0]its
software is illegally practicing law without a license. The law suit
seeks to recover money from LegalZoom for every resident in Missouri who
has used LegalZoom regardless of how satisfied the users were of the
service. Currently Missouri law states that an individual who paid money
to a non lawyer for legal services is entitled to sue the provider for 3
times the amount paid."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1443234/Lawsuit-Claims-LegalZoom-Is-Practicing-Law-Without-a-License?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/30/can-software-practice-law/?iid=HP_River
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| Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible
| from the let-the-market-decide dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @12:18 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1534210/Spamming-Becoming-Financially-Infeasible?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Making money in spam isn't as easy as it used to
be. '[1]It's not something financially feasible for anyone to even
consider,' said Robert Soloway, who in his heyday made $20,000/day as a
spammer. 'Spam ��� the Internet's original sin ��� dropped for the first time
ever at the end of 2010,' writes IDG News Service's Robert McMillan. 'In
September, Cisco System's IronPort group was tracking 300 billion spam
messages per day. By April, the volume had shrunk to 34 billion per day,
a remarkable decline.' Soloway says spam filters have become too good."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1534210/Spamming-Becoming-Financially-Infeasible?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/security/178991/internet-evolves-there-place-spam
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| IBM Creates Multi-Bit Phase Change Memory
| from the look-what-we-found dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @13:01 (IBM)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1629224/IBM-Creates-Multi-Bit-Phase-Change-Memory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Lucas123 writes "In what is likely to be a strong rival to NAND flash
memory, IBM today announced it has been able to successfully store more
than one bit of data per cell in a more stable non-volatile memory called
[0]phase-change memory (PCM). Unlike NAND, Previously, PCM couldn't
contend with flash because of its low capacity points. PCM does not
require that data be erased before new data is written to it, which
reduces write amplification or wear out and it has 100 times the write
performance of flash. IBM researchers say they plan to license the
technology to memory manufacturers instead of producing it themselves."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1629224/IBM-Creates-Multi-Bit-Phase-Change-Memory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| The Science of Human-Robot Love
| from the don't-let-anyone-catch-you-loving-the-robot dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 30, @13:31 (AI)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1547223/The-Science-of-Human-Robot-Love?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "By harnessing a new sphere of science called
'lovotics', Hooman Samani, an artificial intelligence researcher at the
Social Robotics Lab at the National University of Singapore, believes it
is possible to [0]engineer love between humans and robots. Samani's
robots have artificial psychological and biological systems that mimic
the human brain and endocrine systems, and use movements, sounds, and
lights to show their mood and level of affection for a human."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1547223/The-Science-of-Human-Robot-Love?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/88740-lovotics-the-new-science-of-human-robot-love
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| AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly
| from the for-some-values-of-monopoly dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @13:43 (AT&T)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1746216/ATampT-Meet-the-New-US-GSM-Monopoly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "Why should consumers care about the
[1]AT&T/T-mobile merger? Already, Verizon has [2]dropped unlimited data
plans and the US trails Japan, South Korea, and others in variety and
performance of mobiles. Don't think for a second that those aren't the
direct result this new monopoly, says blogger Tom Henderson. '...Those
pesky State agencies that used to have regulatory authority has been
usurped by the US Federal Government,' writes Henderson. 'This wasn't an
accident. Who would you rather deal with, 43 different state regulatory
authorities, or [3]those convenient people on Capitol Hill?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1746216/ATampT-Meet-the-New-US-GSM-Monopoly?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/21/1928240/Why-the-ATampT-and-T-Mobile-Merger-Is-Bad-For-Consumers
2. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1341248/Verizon-To-Drop-Unlimited-Data-Plans-In-Two-Weeks
3. http://www.itworld.com/networking/178605/attt-mobile-why-new-monopoly-bad-consumers
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| Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies
| from the not-that-I-can-recall-at-this-time-sir-no dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @14:11 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1810207/Climate-Skeptic-Funded-By-Oil-and-Coal-Companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Honken writes with a report from The Guardian that "'One of the world's
most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change
has admitted to being [0]paid more than $1m in the past decade by major
US oil and coal companies.' This somewhat contradicts that [Harvard
researcher Willie] Soon in a 2003 US senate hearing said that he had 'not
knowingly been hired by, nor employed by, nor received grants from any
organisation that had taken advocacy positions with respect to the Kyoto
protocol or the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1810207/Climate-Skeptic-Funded-By-Oil-and-Coal-Companies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/28/climate-change-sceptic-willie-soon
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| Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop
| from the as-long-as-you-have-a-desktop-already dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @14:25 (Handhelds)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/180250/Ciscos-Tablet-Act-Like-a-Desktop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]holy_calamity writes "Cisco's Cius tablet, due next month, is bulkier
than the iPad 2 and has a smaller screen but it also [1] brings tricks
other tablets don't have. It can be connected to a keyboard, monitor and
mouse to act like a desktop. Using an app to connect to a virtual desktop
replicates a full PC experience, Cisco claims. The Cius also encrypts all
data and is easily controlled by IT managers, who can control access to
apps and other features."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/180250/Ciscos-Tablet-Act-Like-a-Desktop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37936/
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| UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic
| from the want-one-for-the-block-committee dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @14:42 (Communications)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1837241/UAV-Hoisted-Tower-Powered-By-Laser-Over-Fiberoptic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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carstene writes "LaserMotive, winners of the 2009 NASA power beaming
contest, has a new invention, a [0]virtual comm or surveillance tower.
It's a quadcotper that can run indefinitely, powered by laser beam over a
fiber optic cable. This allows the "tower" to reach great heights and
avoids most laser safety issues."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1837241/UAV-Hoisted-Tower-Powered-By-Laser-Over-Fiberoptic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://contest.techbriefs.com/safety-and-security-2011/1738
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| Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price
| from the you-ungrateful-whelps dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @15:12 (Cloud)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/1911231/Office-365-Suffer-18-Days-Outage-Still-Pay-Half-Price?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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rtfa-troll writes "Microsoft is [0]preparing its customers for plenty of
outage time according to the Register, with a scheme for Office 365 which
will give customers some money back. The offer seems to be Microsoft's
answer to [1]Google offering a '100% uptime guarantee' (they even pay for
maintenance time) The most interesting thing about the scheme is that you
can have a one and a half day outage every month (or is that 18 solid
days a year?) and still expect to pay half price. I wonder Microsoft have
put the [2]Sidekick management in charge of their customer's data.
Looking forward my expense forms have getting eaten by the cloud so I
have to fill them in again."
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Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/microsoft_cloud_uptime/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/google-tightens-apps-uptime-guarantee-624
2. http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/10/15/microsofts-pinkdanger-backup-problem-blamed-on-roz-ho/
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| Early UNIX Contributor Robert Morris Dead at 78
| from the elder-statesman dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @16:07 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/203224/Early-UNIX-Contributor-Robert-Morris-Dead-at-78?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dtmos writes "Robert Morris, a major contributor to the Unix password and
security features while at Bell Labs, [0]has passed at the age of 78. His
interesting life was made even more interesting by his son, [1]Robert
Tappan Morris, who invented the computer worm."
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Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/technology/30morris.html&OQ=_rQ3D4&OP=2bdb667bQ2FQ25Q2BsXQ25Q22CSQ7DeCCQ27zQ25zNQ3CQ3CQ25NbQ25Q23NQ25Q27sSF!C5CZQ5CQ25Q23NgCee)Q7D3FQ27g5
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
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| Future Actions Predicted From Brain Activity
| from the let-me-tell-you-about-my-mother dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @16:26 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2014244/Future-Actions-Predicted-From-Brain-Activity?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Bringing the real world into the brain
scanner, researchers say they can now determine the action a person was
planning, mere moments before that action is actually executed. In the
study at the University of Western Ontario, human subjects had their
brain activity scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
while they performed one of three hand movements. By using the signals
from many brain regions, the researchers could predict, better than
chance, [0]which of the actions the volunteer was merely intending to do,
seconds later."
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Links:
0. http://scienceblog.com/45995/scientists-predict-future-actions-based-on-brain-activity/
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| NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project
| from the so-he's-against-economic-stimulus dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @16:49 (Software)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2025206/NYC-Mayor-Demands-600M-Refund-On-Software-Project?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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alphadogg writes "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is demanding that
systems integrator Science Applications International Corporation
[0]reimburse more than $600 million it was paid in connection with the
troubled CityTime software project, a long-running effort to overhaul the
city's payroll system. 'The City relied on the integrity of SAIC as one
of the nation's leading technology application companies to execute the
CityTime project within a reasonable amount of time and within budget
given the system's size and complexity,' Bloomberg wrote in a letter
Wednesday to SAIC CEO Walter Havenstein. CityTime was launched in 2003 at
a budget of $63 million, but costs swelled dramatically as the project
stumbled along for nearly a decade."
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Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/063011-nyc-mayor-demands-600m-refund.html
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| Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam
| from the only-part-of-the-sky-is-falling dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @17:10 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/217224/Bizarre-Expanding-Light-Halo-Seen-By-Hawaii-Webcam?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]The Bad Astronomer writes "A webcam mounted at the CFHT observatory in
Hawaii caught a strange, expanding halo of light on the night of June 22.
[1] Announced on the Starship Asterisk forum, readers quickly honed in on
the likely culprit: the terminal charge from the third stage of a
Minuteman III missile. Very similar to the [2]Norway Spiral of 2009, and
scientific sleuthing at its best!"
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Links:
0. mailto:thebadastronomer@NospAM.gmail.com
1. http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=24251
2. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/09/awesomely-bizarre-light-show-freaks-out-norway/
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| Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit
| from the try-this-handy-therapeutic-coma dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @17:31 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/213236/Microsoft-Says-Reinstall-Overkill-In-Removing-Rootkit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Microsoft has clarified the [1]advice it gave users
whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit dubbed
Popereb that buries itself on the hard drive's boot sector, [2]noting
Wednesday that a complete OS reinstall is not necessary. 'If your system
is infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise fixing the MBR using
the Windows Recovery Console to return the MBR to a clean state,' MMPC
engineer Chun Feng [3]wrote in an updated blog entry. Feng provided links
to instructions on how to use the Recovery Console for Windows XP, Vista
and Windows 7. Once the MBR has been scrubbed, users can run antivirus
software to scan the PC for additional malware for removal, Feng added.
Several security researchers agreed with Microsoft's revisions, but a
noted botnet expert doubted that the advice guaranteed a clean PC. But an
internationally-known botnet expert disagrees. Joe Stewart, director of
malware research at Dell SecureWorks, said, 'Once you're infected, the
best advice is to [reinstall] Windows and start over ... [MBR rootkits]
download any number of other malware. How much of that are you going to
catch? This puts the user in a tough position.' MBR rootkit malware is
among the most advanced of all threats."
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Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2355205/Rootkit-Infection-Requires-Windows-Reinstall
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218062/Microsoft_clarifies_MBR_rootkit_removal_advice
3. http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/06/22/don-t-write-it-read-it-instead.aspx
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| Anonymous Leaks New Batch of Data
| from the free-for-all dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @17:54 (Privacy)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2151216/Anonymous-Leaks-New-Batch-of-Data?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Orome1 writes "Anonymous has made available for download [0]another batch
of data, including those belonging to the Zimbabwean government, Mosman
Municipal Council, Universal Music Group Partners (umusic.com's
usernames/passwords and other data), Viacom (internal mapping of Viacom
and its servers) and Brazilian Government (dumps and passwords)."
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Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11244
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| LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA
| from the totally-clutchable-strawman dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @18:12 (Censorship)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/226223/LulzSec-Anonymous-Reason-For-PROTECT-IP-Act-Says-RIAA?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that the RIAA is using the
latest activities of hacktivists [0]to bolster its claim that America
needs the PROTECT IP Act, the act that would place a layer of censorship
on the internet in the U.S."
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Links:
0. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/94073/riaa-anonymous-lulzsec-hacks-prove-need-for-protect-ip-act/
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| Solar Impulse Airplane Makes Public Debut In Paris
| from the how-does-it-lift-all-those-horses dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @18:31 (Power)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2226206/Solar-Impulse-Airplane-Makes-Public-Debut-In-Paris?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dsmendes writes "The Solar Impulse airplane made its debut at the Paris
Air Show with a 20 minute public voyage [0]powered by nothing but solar
cells, with 12,000 cells on the wings powering 4 10-horsepower motors."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2226206/Solar-Impulse-Airplane-Makes-Public-Debut-In-Paris?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://inhabitat.com/solar-impulse-airplane-makes-public-debut-at-paris-air-show/
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| Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size
| from the gordian-knot-sledgehammer dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @18:57 (Math)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2231256/Algorithm-Solves-Rubiks-Cubes-of-Any-Size?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from New Scientist: "Only
the most hardcore puzzle-solvers ever go beyond the standard 3x3x3
Rubik's cube, attempting much larger ones. Now an algorithm has been
developed that [0]can solve a Rubik's cube of any size. It might offer
clues to humans trying to deal with these tricky beasts. Erik Demaine, a
computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found
that the maximum number of moves that will ever be required for a cube of
side n is proportional to n/log n. 'It gives me a couple of ideas how to
solve this thing faster,' says Stewart Clark, a Rubik's cube enthusiast
who owns an 11x11x11 cube."
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Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20636-rubiks-cubes-of-any-size-can-now-be-solved.html
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| BitTorrent Chat Demystified
| from the like-chat-roulette-but-different dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @19:20 (Cloud)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2314221/BitTorrent-Chat-Demystified?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Can you really do [0]group chat with no
central server? BitTorrent's Patrick Williams has developed a new app
that leverages a distributed architecture to eliminate the need for any
servers ��� even to host a buddy list. He says [1]magnet links are the
key."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://blog.bittorrent.com/2011/06/30/uchat-we-just-need-each-other/
1. http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/05/what-is-a-magnet-link-and-how-does-it-differ-from-torrents/
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| Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau
| from the spit-it-out dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, @19:42 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/30/2330216/Hard-Drive-Overclocking-Competition-From-Secau?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Blittzed writes "We were reminiscing about the good old days of
overclocking CPUs and memory, and the subject of hard drive overcloking
came up. The discussion / argument we were having in the research lab
ended up in a bet which now has to be settled. So, we are putting our
money where our mouth is, and putting up $10,000 to anyone who can
[0]read a 500GB drive in under an hour. We will also consider other
attempts with a smaller amount of money in the event that the one hour is
not possible. There are a few rules (e.g. the drive still needs to work
afterwards), but otherwise nothing is ruled out. Specific details can be
found on the URL. Go let the white smoke out!"
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Links:
0. http://harddisk.secau.org/
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