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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* LulzSec Announces That It Is Done
* Head of ChronoPay Arrested In Moscow
* Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash
* UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told
* The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland
* Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand
* Citi Hackers Got Away With $2.7 Million
* KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile
* Ask Slashdot: Stepping Sideways Into Programming?
* If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print
* Twitter As Realtime Sports Reporter
* Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals
* Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant
* Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market
* Is Google Playing Fair With Groupon, et al?
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| LulzSec Announces That It Is Done
| from the oh-they-all-say-that dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday June 25, @20:01 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/25/2345208/LulzSec-Announces-That-It-Is-Done?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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MaxBooger writes "LulzSec, the notorious hacker group that's been on a
rampage, just[0] announced that it's disbanding. This follows 50 days'
chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov
at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal
system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks.
Obviously, it's possible that the group will not abide by its promise to
quit. Nobody knows."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/25/2345208/LulzSec-Announces-That-It-Is-Done?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.businessinsider.com/lulzsec-finished-2011-6
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| Head of ChronoPay Arrested In Moscow
| from the thought-this-was-a-free-country dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday June 25, @23:06 (Crime)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/25/2333243/Head-of-ChronoPay-Arrested-In-Moscow?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian
payment-processing company, ChronoPay, [0]was arrested in Russia on
suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against
one of his company's main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a
series of high-profile actions against people and groups around the world
suspected of being involved in the global cybercrime ecosystem."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/25/2333243/Head-of-ChronoPay-Arrested-In-Moscow?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/head-russian-payment-processor-chronopay-arrested-062511
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| Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash
| from the like-comcast-but-open-source dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @02:18 (Networking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0322238/Afghans-Build-Open-Source-Internet-From-Trash?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Residents of Jalalabad have built [0]the
FabFi network: an open-source system that uses common building materials
and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals
across distances of up to several miles."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0322238/Afghans-Build-Open-Source-Internet-From-Trash?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.shareable.net/blog/afghans-build-open-source-internet-from-trash-0
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| UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told
| from the aerosolized-weapons-grade-asperger's dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @05:20 (Crime)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0333240/UK-Hacker-Ryan-Cleary-Has-Aspergers-Syndrome-Court-Told?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Ryan Cleary, the British teenager accused of
launching DDoS attacks at the likes of the Serious Organised Crime Agency
(Soca) has been [0]diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a court heard
[Saturday]."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0333240/UK-Hacker-Ryan-Cleary-Has-Aspergers-Syndrome-Court-Told?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/6/25/hacker-ryan-cleary-has-aspergers-syndrome/
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| The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland
| from the best-laid-dams dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @08:24 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Joe Herring writes that sixty years ago, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers began the process of taming the Missouri by
constructing massive dams at the top to moderate flow to the smaller dams
below, generating electricity while providing desperately needed control
of the river's devastating floods. But after about thirty years of
operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout
the seventies and eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure
to include specific environmental concerns into their Master Water
Control Manual, the 'bible' for the operation of the dam system, as
preservation of habitat for at-risk bird and fish populations soon became
a hot issue among the burgeoning environmental lobby. The Corps began to
utilize the dam system to mimic the previous flow cycles of the original
river, [1]holding back large amounts of water upstream during the winter
and early spring in order to release them rapidly as a spring pulse.
'Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had the Corps been true to
its original mission of flood control, the dams would not have been full
in preparation for a spring pulse,' writes Herring. 'The dams could
further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need to
[2]inundate a sizable chunk of nine states.' The horrifying consequence
is water rushing from the dams on the Missouri twice as fast as the
highest previous releases on record while the levees that protect the
cities and towns downstream were [3]constructed to handle the flow rates
promised at the time of the dam's construction."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0539215/The-Intentional-Flooding-of-Americas-Heartland?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_purposeful_flooding_of_americas_heartland.html
2. http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64396
3. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/us-flooding-iowa-idUSTRE75O1WB20110625
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| Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand
| from the make-your-kids-do-the-dishes dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @09:22 (Input Devices)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0543202/Sony-Develops-Technology-To-Hack-Your-Hand?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "A device created by the University of Tokyo
and Sony Laboratories called PossessedHand allows researchers to
[0]control a subject's hand via electrical stimulation. While currently
being used to teach students to play the koto, a Japanese traditional
stringed instruments, just imagine the possibilities! Twilight Zone
anyone?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/0543202/Sony-Develops-Technology-To-Hack-Your-Hand?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Citi Hackers Got Away With $2.7 Million
| from the us-dollars-even dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @10:26 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1334209/Citi-Hackers-Got-Away-With-27-Million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes "Citigroup [1]suffered about US$2.7 million in
losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its
website and post fraudulent charges. Citi acknowledged the breach earlier
this month, saying hackers had accessed more than 360,000 Citi credit
card accounts of U.S. customers. The hackers didn't get into Citi's main
credit card processing system, but were reportedly able to obtain the
numbers, along with the customers' names and contact information, by
logging into the Citi Account Online website and guessing account
numbers."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1334209/Citi-Hackers-Got-Away-With-27-Million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/391482/citi_hackers_made_2_7_million/
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| KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile
| from the less-unitary dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @11:27 (KDE)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1417255/KDE-47-RC-Is-Here-GRUB2-Integration-KWin-Mobile?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dkd903 writes "[0]KDE 4.7 is almost here and brings along with it a
number of features and performance improvements such as a better Dolphin
with a faster file search, ability of KWin to run on Mobile devices,
Grub2 integration in KDM and offline search support in the KDE virtual
globe, Marble." Here's [1]KDE's own announcement of the release
candidate; the final release is planned for July 27. Reader jrepin quotes
the KDE announcement: "With API, dependency and feature freezes in place,
the KDE team's focus is now on fixing last-minute showstopper bugs and
finishing translation and documentation that comes along with the
releases."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1417255/KDE-47-RC-Is-Here-GRUB2-Integration-KWin-Mobile?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2011/06/26/kde-47-rc/
1. http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.7-rc1.php
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| Ask Slashdot: Stepping Sideways Into Programming?
| from the implantable-nodules-from-thinkgeek dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @12:30 (Education)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1559239/Ask-Slashdot-Stepping-Sideways-Into-Programming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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thundertron writes "I'm a 28-year-old, non-technical, UX-focused Product
Manager at a startup. Overall I'm very happy with my work, but I'm
endlessly frustrated that I'm not committing code. I love the few
occasions where I commit some front-end code or put together a fairly
sophisticated query, but if the onus were on me to put together an entire
site my hands would be tied. I've thought about going back to school (or
even taking time off from my career to take courses) in CS to immerse
myself in programming. The flip side is that I know I won't want to do
that forever ��� I won't want to be employed primarily as an engineer
because I like too many other aspects of the business. My best option
seems to be to dive into Ruby on Rails and just pick up what I can in my
spare time. Perhaps others in the Slashdot community have some
suggestions/recommendations?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1559239/Ask-Slashdot-Stepping-Sideways-Into-Programming?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print
| from the see-subclause-in-above-subparagraph-g-to-wit dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @13:54 (The Almighty Buck)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1754242/If-Youre-Working-For-Stock-Read-the-Fine-Print?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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cratermoon writes with a story of interest to anyone interested in
working at a start-up, or compensated even partly in company stock:
"Former Skype guy Yee Lee finds out that for people working at companies
controlled by private equity firm Silver Lake, [0]'vested' doesn't mean
what you think it means, and gets no money from the stock options he
thought he could exercise. 'Skype spokesman Brian O'Shaughnessy said,
"You've got to be in it to win it. The company chose to include that
clause in the contract in order to retain the best and the brightest
people to build great products. This individual chose to leave, therefore
he doesn't get that benefit."' [1]Fortune also has the story." Some of
the commentary on the confusing language surrounding the stock grant says
the company was doing nothing out of the ordinary, but it seems that's
because opaque language is the norm.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1754242/If-Youre-Working-For-Stock-Read-the-Fine-Print?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_27/b4235038625596.htm
1. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/24/skype-vesting_controversy/
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| Twitter As Realtime Sports Reporter
| from the lts-f-cmprssion'ld-b-hndy dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @14:51 (Communications)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1839257/Twitter-As-Realtime-Sports-Reporter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes that a "group of researchers at Rice University think that
'[t]he global human population can be regarded as [0]geographically
distributed, multimodal sensors.' When it comes to sporting events, it
seems that all you have to do is look to the Twitter frequency. The
system that they created seems to work for most games. The exception to
this is the Super Bowl for the reason that the sheer number of tweets
about the game saturated the Twitter distribution system and so they
couldn't pick out the maximum in tweet frequencies. They also have some
interesting observations on how fast tweets follow an event." Sports
reporting via Twitter makes me think of the stories about Ronald Reagan's
broadcasting exploits creating "live" play-by-play based on telegraphed
updates ��� and [1]sometimes the wire went dead. I wonder whether the
control-happy local franchises will do anything to prevent in-person fans
creating and sharing such instant play-by-play accounts.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1839257/Twitter-As-Realtime-Sports-Reporter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/2657-twitter-as-realtime-sports-reporter-.html
1. http://radio.about.com/od/djsandhostsqt/a/aa060704a.htm
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| Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals
| from the or-join-the-texas-exes dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @16:02 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1958256/Black-Market-Database-Access-To-Scholarly-Journals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "University libraries offer access to a vast
array of valuable materials ��� if you have a login and password. Now
people are [0]buying and selling university credentials online, or giving
them away on warez sites. They're used by upstart companies abroad who
need access to the latest industrial compounds or other valuable info on
databases like SciFinder."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1958256/Black-Market-Database-Access-To-Scholarly-Journals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Publisher-Steps-Up/128031/
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| Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant
| from the sky-falling-river-rising dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @17:01 (Power)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2032225/Flood-Berm-Collapses-At-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]mdsolar writes "A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a
Nebraska nuclear power station [1]collapsed early Sunday, but federal
regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no
danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for
refueling, and there is no water inside the plant, the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission said. Also, the river is not expected to rise
higher than the level the plant was designed to handle. NRC spokesman
Victor Dricks said the plant remains safe."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2032225/Flood-Berm-Collapses-At-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/26/national/main20074500.shtml
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| Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market
| from the some-transfer-protocols-are-eeeevil dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @18:10 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/227250/Google-Boots-Transdroid-From-Android-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]fysdt writes with a TorrentFreak story that starts: "Google has
[1]pulled one of the most popular torrent download managers from the
Android Market because of policy violations. Before Google booted the
application, Transdroid had been available for two years and amassed
400,000 users during that time. Thus far Google hasn't specified what the
exact nature of Transdoid's violations are, but it's not unlikely that
they relate to copyright infringement."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/227250/Google-Boots-Transdroid-From-Android-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://snipd.net/
1. http://torrentfreak.com/google-boots-transdroid-torrent-manager-from-android-market-110626/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+(Torrentfreak)
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| Is Google Playing Fair With Groupon, et al?
| from the maybe-there's-a-perfectly-reasonable-explanation dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @19:34 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2322240/Is-Google-Playing-Fair-With-Groupon-et-al?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes with the claim (illustrated with what seems
like damning screen-shot evidence) that "Google is using Gmail's priority
inbox to give [0]special treatment to its own daily deal emails over all
the rest."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/2322240/Is-Google-Playing-Fair-With-Groupon-et-al?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://kaseymoffat.blogspot.com/2011/06/googles-anti-competitive-strategy-for.html
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