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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs
* Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall
* LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'
* Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics
* White Space Radio To Be Tested In Cambridge
* Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game
* Star Wars Books Released As Ebooks
* 'Digital Universe' To Add 1.8 Zettabyte In 2011
* Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning
* US Congress To Use Skype For Video Teleconference
* Happy Tau Day
* The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla
* The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second
* San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales
* Passcodes Prove Predictable
* Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan
* Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market
* 30 Creative 404 Error Pages
* France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power
* Opera 11.50 Released
* A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand
* Google Launches Google+ Social Network
* British NHS Patient Records Go To the Cloud
* How Printed Circuit Boards Are Made
* Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite
* Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel
* Supreme Court To Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking
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| Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs
| from the batten-down-the-hatches dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @21:08 (Government)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/011234/Wildfire-Threatens-Los-Alamos-Labs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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1sockchuck writes "A fast-moving [0]wildfire has closed the Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL), a Department of Energy facility responsible
for weapons design and a vast array of research, as well as two of the
world's [1]top supercomputers. Lab officials said all radioactive and
hazardous material had been accounted for and protected."
This story continues at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/011234/Wildfire-Threatens-Los-Alamos-Labs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/06/27/Wildfire-prompts-closure-of-Los-Alamos-lab/UPI-38821309172957/?spt=hs&or=tn
1. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/27/fire-threatens-los-alamos-supercomputing-lab/
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| Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall
| from the spring-cleaning-comes-late dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday June 27, @23:23 (Windows)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2355205/Rootkit-Infection-Requires-Windows-Reinstall?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "Microsoft is telling Windows users that they'll have to
[1]reinstall the OS if they get infected with a new rootkit. A new
variant of a Trojan Microsoft calls Popureb digs so deeply into the
system that the only way to eradicate it is to return Windows to its
out-of-the-box configuration, Chun Feng, an engineer with the Microsoft
Malware Protection Center (MMPC), [2]said last week on the group's blog.
'If your system does get infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise
you to fix the MBR and then use a recovery CD to restore your system to a
pre-infected state,' said Feng. A recovery disc returns Windows to its
factory settings."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2355205/Rootkit-Infection-Requires-Windows-Reinstall?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217953/Rootkit_infection_requires_Windows_reinstall_says_Microsoft
2. http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/06/22/don-t-write-it-read-it-instead.aspx
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| LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'
| from the why-do-you-say-even dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 28, @01:02 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0416208/LSD-Alleviates-Suicide-Headaches?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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sciencehabit writes "Patients suffering from the agony of cluster
headaches will take anything to dull the pain, even LSD, it turns out.
Results from a pilot study reveal that six patients treated with
2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a [0]significant
reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free of the attacks for
weeks or months. And some of these patients are still reporting
significant relief more than a year after they were treated with the
compound." I'm told, by people with reason to know, that the
hallucinogenic variety has the same effect on cluster headaches.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0416208/LSD-Alleviates-Suicide-Headaches?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/lsd-alleviates-suicide-headaches.html?ref=hp
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| Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics
| from the not-k-osher dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 28, @02:20 (Cloud)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0431229/Facebook-Blocks-KDE-Photo-App-Deletes-Users-Pics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Znarl writes with a report from Joe Brockmeier, who writes that: "KDE
users have gotten a rather unpleasant surprise from Facebook: Not only is
the site blocking KDE apps like Gwenview from uploading, the social media
giant has also [0]taken down photos uploaded with the KDE plugins. Yet
another reason that users might think twice before depending on Facebook
for photo storage."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0431229/Facebook-Blocks-KDE-Photo-App-Deletes-Users-Pics?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/75598
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| White Space Radio To Be Tested In Cambridge
| from the pssh-pssssshhhhhhh-pssshhhhh dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 28, @05:14 (Communications)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0115245/White-Space-Radio-To-Be-Tested-In-Cambridge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]judgecorp writes "White space radio, the technology which could
provide broadband networks by using TV spectrum more efficiently, will be
[1]tested in Cambridge. A consortium including Microsoft, BT and the BBC
will check the technology does not interfere with TV, and test it for
mobile broadband and telemetry. The regulator, Ofcom, has already set out
[2]likely terms for legalising white space radio and seems on track to
[3]approve it soon."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0115245/White-Space-Radio-To-Be-Tested-In-Cambridge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/
1. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/bt-bbc-and-microsoft-back-cambridge-white-space-trial-32678
2. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/ofcom-outlines-plans-for-spectrums-white-spaces-13042
3. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/interview/white-space-radio-trial-checks-nuts-and-bolts-32696
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| Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game
| from the unreplayable-not-yet-a-scrabble-word dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 28, @08:13 (DRM)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2331211/Capcom-Announces-Unreplayable-Game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Hatta writes "Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS will be
an experience that [0]can be completed once per customer. Using a single,
unwipable save slot Capcom ensures that a second hand customer gets a
second rate experience. If you buy this game used, you will be stuck with
the previous owner's progress, unable to start the game fresh."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2331211/Capcom-Announces-Unreplayable-Game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://dvice.com/archives/2011/06/capcom-tries-to.php
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| Star Wars Books Released As Ebooks
| from the some-of-them-are-truly-awful dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday June 28, @08:36 (Books)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0423236/Star-Wars-Books-Released-As-Ebooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Tomorrow all of the Star Wars books that have
not previously been released as ebooks [0]are being released. This
includes the Zahn books that started the Star Wars book explosion, as
well as older books such as Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye,
which was written prior to certain revelations in The Empire Strikes Back."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/0423236/Star-Wars-Books-Released-As-Ebooks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://newebookreleases.blogspot.com/2011/06/science-fiction-6212011-6282011-star.html
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| 'Digital Universe' To Add 1.8 Zettabyte In 2011
| from the less-than-half-of-it-is-porn dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, @08:51 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1231248/Digital-Universe-To-Add-18-Zettabyte-In-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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1sockchuck writes "More than [0]1.8 zettabytes of information will be
created and stored in 2011, according to the fifth IDC [1]Digital
Universe study. A key challenge is managing this data deluge (typified by
the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which generates [2]1 petabyte of data
per second)."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1231248/Digital-Universe-To-Add-18-Zettabyte-In-2011?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/28/digital-universe-to-add-1-8-zettabytes-in-2011/
1. http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/idc-digital-universe/iview.htm
2. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2081263/cern-experiments-generating-petabyte
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| Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning
| from the something-to-think-about dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, @09:25 (The Military)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/137201/Among-the-Costs-of-War-20B-In-Air-Conditioning?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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TechkNighT_1337 submitted one of the most well spun little news nuggets
I've read in awhile: "The amount the U.S. military spends annually on
[0]air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion. That's more
than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during
the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new
democracies in Egypt and Tunisia."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/137201/Among-the-Costs-of-War-20B-In-Air-Conditioning?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-conditioning
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| US Congress To Use Skype For Video Teleconference
| from the skype-your-congressman dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, @10:06 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1356254/US-Congress-To-Use-Skype-For-Video-Teleconference?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dkd903 writes "The US House of Representatives Committee on
Administration has announced that [0]Skype will be made available to the
Members of Congress and their staff to improve efficiency and cut down on
time spent traveling."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1356254/US-Congress-To-Use-Skype-For-Video-Teleconference?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2011/06/28/us-house-of-representative-skype/
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| Happy Tau Day
| from the look-how-round-it-is dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 28, @10:48 (Math)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1422214/Happy-Tau-Day?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Forget about [0]Pi Day, today we celebrate something twice as good:
[1]Tau Day. For far too long, Pi has been the bride and Tau has been the
bridesmaid. As Michael Hartl points out in [2] The Tau Manifesto, "Pi is
a confusing and unnatural choice for the circle constant." He is giving a
talk at the California Institute of Technology based on the Manifesto,
with pie served at the end. "Twice as many as you might expect," he says.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
1. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/06/24/tau.day.math/
2. http://tauday.com/
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| The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla
| from the beam-me-up-snotty dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, @11:40 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1538243/The-Enterprise-Is-Wrong-Not-Mozilla?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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There's been a lot of noise about Mozilla's [0]new rapid release leading
to [1]conflict with Enterprise users. [2]Kethinov found an Ars article
that points out that "Now that Mozilla has released Firefox 5, version 4,
just three months old, is no longer supported. [3]Enterprise customers
aren't very pleased with this decision, and are claiming it makes their
testing burden impossible. We're not convinced: we think Mozilla's
decision is the right one for the Web itself.'"
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1538243/The-Enterprise-Is-Wrong-Not-Mozilla?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/21/1756243/Mozilla-Ships-Firefox-5-Meets-Rapid-Release-Plan
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1442205/Firefox-Is-For-Regular-Users-Not-Businesses
2. http://kethinov.com/
3. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/firefox-update-policy-the-enterprise-is-wrong-not-mozilla.ars
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| The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second
| from the good-bye-gold-standard dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, @12:20 (News)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1616231/The-Future-of-Time-UTC-and-the-Leap-Second?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]rlseaman writes "UTC ("Coordinated Universal Time") is very close to
being [0]redefined to no longer track Earth rotation. Clocks everywhere ���
on your wall, wrist, phone or computer ��� would stop keeping Solar time.
'American Scientist' says: 'Before atomic timekeeping, clocks were set to
the skies. But starting in 1972, radio signals began broadcasting atomic
seconds and leap seconds have occasionally been added to that stream of
atomic seconds to keep the signals synchronized with the actual rotation
of Earth. Such adjustments were considered necessary because Earth's
rotation is less regular than atomic timekeeping. In January 2012, a
United Nations-affiliated organization could [1]permanently break this
link by redefining Coordinated Universal Time.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1616231/The-Future-of-Time-UTC-and-the-Leap-Second?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3141
1. http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2011/4/the-future-of-time-utc-and-the-leap-second
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| San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales
| from the no-kitty-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 28, @12:44 (Earth)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1350256/San-Francisco-Considers-Ban-On-All-Pet-Sales?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that the Humane Pet
Acquisition Proposal is on its way to the Board of Supervisors of San
Francisco. It would [1]ban the sale of any animal that walks, flies,
swims, crawls or slithers ��� unless you plan to eat it. Representatives of
the $45-billion to $50-billion-a-year pet industry call the San Francisco
proposal 'by far the most radical ban we've seen' nationwide and argue
that it would force small operators to close. Animal activists say it
will save small but important lives, along with taxpayer money, and end
needless suffering. 'From Descartes on up, in the Western mindset, fish
and other nonhuman animals don't have feelings, they don't have emotions,
we can do whatever we want to them,' says Philip Gerrie, coauthor of the
proposal. 'If we considered them living beings, we would deal with them
differently.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1350256/San-Francisco-Considers-Ban-On-All-Pet-Sales?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-goldfish-20110627,0,6881137.story
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| Passcodes Prove Predictable
| from the ladies-love-alliteration dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, @13:02 (Iphone)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1624214/Passcodes-Prove-Predictable?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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mikejuk writes "Research reveals something we all suspected but couldn't
prove ��� in a four digit pin the [0]most popular first digit is one, the
most popular second digit is two. Entropy only really kicks in on the
third and fourth digits. What is more looking at the frequencies of four
digit groups just 10 different passcodes would be enough to unlock one in
seven iPhones!"
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/2668-passcodes.html
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| Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan
| from the but-mom-who-uses-math-in-real-life dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @13:42 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1715216/Mathematics-Museum-To-Open-In-Manhattan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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eldavojohn writes "If math gives you a raging brainer prepare yourself
for [0]MoMath opening next year to '[1]expose the breadth and the beauty
of mathematics' in New York City. After raising $22 million from donors,
Glen Whitney wants to challenge the average American's perception of
mathematics. Whitney has proven himself with [2]Math Midway a sort of
traveling carnival exhibit, and prior to that worked on algorithms at
Renaissance Technologies."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1715216/Mathematics-Museum-To-Open-In-Manhattan?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://momath.org/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/science/28math.html&OQ=_rQ3D4Q26pagewantedQ3Dall&OP=24a2c67dQ2F)ueB)-MQ3EpZMMf3)3EQ22Q22)E0)3K)pQ3E,eAQ3Ee)3KQ5BQ60f.g.fQ5Bt
2. http://mathmidway.org/
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| Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market
| from the fifteen-minutes-should-be-enough dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @14:21 (Android)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1729229/Google-Pulls-Paid-Apps-From-Taiwanese-Android-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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tlhIngan writes "Taiwan recently mandated that online download sites
(like Apple's App Store and Google's Marketplace) must comply with a law
stating consumers have 7 days to return goods bought sight-unseen. While
[0]Apple has complied, Google has refused to comply. Taiwan [1]fined the
search giant NT$1M (approx. US$34,600). In retaliation, Google [2]pulled
the paid apps section of the Market for users in Taiwan."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1729229/Google-Pulls-Paid-Apps-From-Taiwanese-Android-Market?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20110625000102&cid=1102&MainCatID=11
1. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-06-27/news/29708910_1_google-plans-google-s-android-market-download-apps
2. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2011/06/28/2003506866
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| 30 Creative 404 Error Pages
| from the creative-technical-difficulty dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 28, @14:42 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1558220/30-Creative-404-Error-Pages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "It's frustrating when you explore the web and
encounter the famous message: 404 Error ��� Page Not Found. What could make
it a little better is [0]a customized 404 message. Here are some really
good ones that should inspire other web designers."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1558220/30-Creative-404-Error-Pages?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.flashuser.net/inspiration/30-creative-404-error-pages.html
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| France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power
| from the but-nuculars-will-make-mah-bebbe-a-commie dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @15:00 (Earth)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1827210/France-To-Invest-One-Billion-Euros-In-Nuclear-Power?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "France will invest one billion euros in
[0]future nuclear power development while boosting research into security,
President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday." The Guardian has [1]a more
detailed article. It's not a huge investment, but it is nice to see
continued commitment to [2]Generation IV reactors by at least one Western
country.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1827210/France-To-Invest-One-Billion-Euros-In-Nuclear-Power?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/nuclearpower/8601594/France-to-invest-one-billion-euros-in-nuclear-power.html
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/27/nicolas-sarkozy-france-nuclear-power
2. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf77.html
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| Opera 11.50 Released
| from the opera-50.11-to-be-released-next-week dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @15:18 (Opera)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1831237/Opera-1150-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "With a shiny new version of Presto that's
apparently up to 20% faster, cool tweaks to Speed Dial, and a bunch of
other [0]features and bug fixes, the crazy Norwegians have just
[1]launched the latest version of desktop Opera."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1831237/Opera-1150-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1150/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/internet/88276-opera-11-50-boost-speed-up-to-20-brings-password-sync-and-speed-dial-power-up
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| A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand
| from the print-your-dishes-off-the-grid dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @15:41 (Printer)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1856230/A-Solar-Powered-3D-Printer-Prints-Glass-From-Sand?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Tx-0 writes in with a story in Colossal Art & Design. From the article:
"Industrial designer and tinkerer [0]Markus Kayser spent the better part
of a year building and experimenting with two fantastic devices that
harness the sun's power in some of the world's harshest climates. The
first he calls a Sun Cutter, a low-tech light cutter that uses a large
ball lens to focus the sun's rays onto a surface that's moved by a
cam-guided system. ... Next, Kayser began to examine the process of 3D
printing. Merging two of the deserts most abundant resources, nearly
unlimited quantities of sand and sun, he created the Solar Sinter, a
[1]device that melts sand to create 3D objects out of glass."
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Links:
0. http://www.markuskayser.com/
1. http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/markus-kayser-builds-a-solar-powered-3d-printer-that-prints-glass-from-sand-and-a-sun-powered-laser-cutter/
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| Google Launches Google+ Social Network
| from the building-another-walled-garden dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @16:19 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1922232/Google-Launches-Google-Social-Network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Randyll writes "Today, Google announced its decisive [1]entry into the
world of social networks by introducing [2]Google+, a social network tied
around Google services. Its aim is to be different from other networks
with emphasis on privacy and a different kind of social networking.
Instead of connecting with your friends, Google+ aims to [3]center
connections around specific groups���colleagues, projects, or groups of
friends���with the ability to use high-quality video chats and a unique and
rich web-based user experience. It is currently in beta with [4]opt-in
invites." Several other readers submitted speculation about another
[5]mysterious new Google service as well.
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1922232/Google-Launches-Google-Social-Network?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://aneatscidotfi/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/technology/29google.html
2. http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/
3. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)
4. https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleplus/
5. http://www.wdyl.com/
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| British NHS Patient Records Go To the Cloud
| from the what-could-go-wrong dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @17:00 (Cloud)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2024221/British-NHS-Patient-Records-Go-To-the-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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smitty777 writes "The Telegraph is reporting on an effort by the NHS to
put a [0]London hospital's patient records in the cloud. One of the more
interesting aspects of this is the suggestion that patients would have
control over who has access to their medical data. Many have
[1]understandable security concerns, which are even more relevant
considering the recent [2]issues with Dropbox cloud storage."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2024221/British-NHS-Patient-Records-Go-To-the-Cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8600080/Patient-records-go-online-in-data-cloud.html
1. http://www.backup-technology.com/5988/the-medical-cloud/
2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231000593/dropbox-cloud-authentication-bug-sparks-class-action-suit.htm
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| How Printed Circuit Boards Are Made
| from the can-i-have-an-electroplating-machine-for-xmas dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @17:40 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/213207/How-Printed-Circuit-Boards-Are-Made?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Ever wanted to see how printed circuit boards
are made en masse at a professional production house? Well, here you go.
The folks over at Base2 Electronics recently got to [0]tour Advanced
Circuits, a PCB production house. They took some rather incredible
pictures and explained the process along the way."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/213207/How-Printed-Circuit-Boards-Are-Made?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://www.base2.us/index.php?page=ac
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| Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite
| from the half-the-features-but-cloud-cloud-cloud dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday June 28, @18:19 (Cloud)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2137211/Microsoft-Launches-Office-365-Cloud-Suite?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft took its cloud suite [0]Office 365
out of beta today and the opinion mongers are in overdrive. Is Office 365
[1]missing features, is it [2]too complex, or should it [3]be taken
seriously? And how does it [4]stack up against Google Apps?"
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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2137211/Microsoft-Launches-Office-365-Cloud-Suite?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/jun11/06-28MSOffice365PR.mspx
1. http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231000630
2. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/complexity-of-office-365-is-a-good-thing-for-google-apps/3055
3. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/06/28/137474281/five-reasons-office-365-should-be-taken-seriously
4. http://boxfreeit.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:a-buyers-guide-google-apps-versus-microsoft-office-365&catid=12:productivity
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| Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel
| from the trimming-parsecs-off-the-kessel-run dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 28, @18:57 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2229224/Fusion-Thrusters-For-Space-Travel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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kgeiger writes "John J. Chapman, a physicist and electronics engineer at
NASA's Langley Research Center, [0]envisions a laser-pumped fusion drive.
Chapman estimates the drive can produce thrust 40 times more efficiently
than existing ion engines such as those on the Dawn mission now exploring
the asteroid belt."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2229224/Fusion-Thrusters-For-Space-Travel?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/a-fusion-thruster-for-space-travel/0
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| Supreme Court To Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking
| from the only-criminals-go-somewhere-incriminating dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 28, @19:36 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2322238/Supreme-Court-To-Weigh-In-On-Warrantless-GPS-Tracking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]CWmike writes "In a move with far-reaching privacy implications, the
U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case involving [1]the
government's authority to conduct prolonged GPS tracking of suspects in
criminal cases without first obtaining a court warrant. The government
has argued that it has the authority to conduct such searches; privacy
advocates have argued that such tracking violates Fourth Amendment
protections against unreasonable search and seizure. The Supreme Court's
decision in the case will be pivotal because lesser courts around the
U.S. have appeared split on the issue in recent years, with some
[2]upholding warrantless GPS tracking and others rejecting it. Last
August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit
sided with the subject of the Supreme Court hearing, Antoine Jones, a
Washington, D.C. man who was convicted in 2008 on charges of possessing
and conspiring to distribute more than 50 kilograms of cocaine, and
[3]rejected claims by the government that federal agents have the right
to conduct around-the-clock warrantless GPS tracking of suspects."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/2322238/Supreme-Court-To-Weigh-In-On-Warrantless-GPS-Tracking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://twitter.com/mikeatcw
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217985/Supreme_Court_to_weigh_in_on_warrantless_GPS_tracking
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/10/1549252/Warrantless-GPS-Tracking-Is-Legal-Says-WI-Court
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/06/1915207/Court-Rejects-Warrantless-GPS-Tracking
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