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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0414251/the-destruction-of-iraqs-once-great-universities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vvYc82lRah1zhUlVvIhpSCcWA64/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vvYc82lRah1zhUlVvIhpSCcWA64/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vvYc82lRah1zhUlVvIhpSCcWA64/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vvYc82lRah1zhUlVvIhpSCcWA64/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Harperdog writes "Hugh Gusterson has written a devastating article about what has happened to Iraq's once great university system, and puts most of the blame for its total collapse on the U.S. Quoting: 'While American troops guarded the Ministries of Oil and the Interior but ignored cultural heritage sites, looters ransacked the universities. For example, the entire library collections at the University of Baghdad's College of Arts and at the University of Basra were destroyed. The Washington Post's Rajiv Chandresekara described the scene at Mustansiriya University in 2003: "By April 12, the campus of yellow-brick buildings and grassy courtyards was stripped of its books, computers, lab equipment and desks. Even electrical wiring was pulled from the walls. What was not stolen was set ablaze, sending dark smoke billowing over the capital that day."'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Destruction+of+Iraq's+Once-Great+Universities%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FycJV42"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F0414251%2Fthe-destruction-of-iraqs-once-great-universities%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0414251/the-destruction-of-iraqs-once-great-universities?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0414251/the-destruction-of-iraqs-once-great-universities?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653923&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rQEwjSJagdY" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0421258/worlds-largest-virtual-optical-telescope-created?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GMd_1v9bvYihEOfPJ8ycp8HX-QU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GMd_1v9bvYihEOfPJ8ycp8HX-QU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GMd_1v9bvYihEOfPJ8ycp8HX-QU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GMd_1v9bvYihEOfPJ8ycp8HX-QU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>erice writes "Astronomers in Chile linked four telescopes together to form a single virtual mirror 130 meters in diameter. Previous efforts had linked two telescopes but this is the first time that all four had been linked. 'The process that links separate telescopes together is known as interferometry. In this mode, the VLT becomes the biggest ground-based optical telescope on earth. Besides creating a gigantic virtual mirror, interferometry also greatly improves the telescope's spatial resolution and zooming capabilities.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=World's+Largest+Virtual+Optical+Telescope+Created%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwinJv6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F0421258%2Fworlds-largest-virtual-optical-telescope-created%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0421258/worlds-largest-virtual-optical-telescope-created?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0421258/worlds-largest-virtual-optical-telescope-created?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653927&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CbG9j-1gCtE" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:26:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/059230/facebook-on-collision-course-with-new-eu-privacy-laws?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aEpB3xjRDAH0h6abHydIKcbSWE0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aEpB3xjRDAH0h6abHydIKcbSWE0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aEpB3xjRDAH0h6abHydIKcbSWE0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aEpB3xjRDAH0h6abHydIKcbSWE0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "Facebook and other U.S. internet companies are faced with a new EU data protection regime, the Christian Science Monitor reports. U.S. concepts of free expression and commerce will battle European support for privacy and state legislation. 'Companies must understand that if they want access to 500 million consumers in the EU, then they have to comply. This is not an option,' said a spokesman for the EU Justice Commissioner."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Facebook+On+Collision+Course+With+New+EU+Privacy+Laws%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwJQlED"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F059230%2Ffacebook-on-collision-course-with-new-eu-privacy-laws%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/059230/facebook-on-collision-course-with-new-eu-privacy-laws?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/059230/facebook-on-collision-course-with-new-eu-privacy-laws?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653973&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8C2DpiNOHYw" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:14:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0451249/researchers-feel-pressure-to-cite-superfluous-papers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g9YJDfYQfxBjXMM58i-FcIjHS8k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g9YJDfYQfxBjXMM58i-FcIjHS8k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g9YJDfYQfxBjXMM58i-FcIjHS8k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g9YJDfYQfxBjXMM58i-FcIjHS8k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>ananyo writes "One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published. The figures, from a survey published in the journal Science (abstract), also suggest that journal editors strategically target junior faculty, who in turn were more willing to acquiesce. The controversial practice is not new: those studying publication ethics have for many years noted that some editors encourage extra references in order to boost a journal's impact factor (a measure of the average number of citations an article in the journal receives over two years). But the survey is the first to try to quantify what it calls 'coercive citation,' and shows that this is 'uncomfortably common.' Perhaps the most striking finding of the survey was that although 86% of the respondents said that coercion was inappropriate, and 81% thought it damaged a journal's prestige, 57% said they would add superfluous citations to a paper before submitting it to a journal known to coerce. However, figures from Thomson Reuters suggest that social-science journals tend to have more self-citations than basic-science journals."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Researchers+Feel+Pressure+To+Cite+Superfluous+Papers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzrEMW4"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F0451249%2Fresearchers-feel-pressure-to-cite-superfluous-papers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0451249/researchers-feel-pressure-to-cite-superfluous-papers?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0451249/researchers-feel-pressure-to-cite-superfluous-papers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653953&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/D694lwvQvYU" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:08:00 +0100 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0019200/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6eYKMqpA5h2g3g0m4PcZ04aEEU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6eYKMqpA5h2g3g0m4PcZ04aEEU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6eYKMqpA5h2g3g0m4PcZ04aEEU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6eYKMqpA5h2g3g0m4PcZ04aEEU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>__roo writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that an increasing number of companies are replacing traditional meetings with daily stand-ups. The article points out that stand-up meetings date back to at least World War I, and that in some place, late employees 'sometimes must sing a song like "I'm a Little Teapot," do a lap around the office building or pay a small fine.' Do Slashdot readers feel that stand-up meetings are useful? Do they make a difference? Are they a gimmick?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Are+Daily+Stand-Up+Meetings+More+Productive%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyJ5v7X"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F0019200%2Fask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0019200/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/0019200/ask-slashdot-are-daily-stand-up-meetings-more-productive?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653739&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/L4_zd3nBKJk" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:06:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2330213/doctors-cheating-on-board-certifications?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O4o3RPNkW3mfjtTJeRA-UNt-kng/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O4o3RPNkW3mfjtTJeRA-UNt-kng/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O4o3RPNkW3mfjtTJeRA-UNt-kng/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O4o3RPNkW3mfjtTJeRA-UNt-kng/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Maximum Prophet writes "After taking board exams, doctors have been routinely getting together to remember and reproduce as much of the exam as they can. These notes are then bound and reproduced. According to the American Board of Dermatology, the exams are protected by copyright laws, and any reproduction not approved by the board is illegal. While I have no doubt that the Board believes this, and pays lawyers to believe it as well, I don't think they understand copyright. Perhaps they should invest in better testing methods."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Doctors+'Cheating'+On+Board+Certifications%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fz5xChO"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F2330213%2Fdoctors-cheating-on-board-certifications%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2330213/doctors-cheating-on-board-certifications?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2330213/doctors-cheating-on-board-certifications?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653691&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/QjaTNvL4avA" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:04:00 +0100 http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2259208/yes-we-can-profile-you-a-brief-primer-on-campaigns-and-political-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eV5Zx5y5fBJwEYs7fFtT0tp9McQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eV5Zx5y5fBJwEYs7fFtT0tp9McQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eV5Zx5y5fBJwEYs7fFtT0tp9McQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eV5Zx5y5fBJwEYs7fFtT0tp9McQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "In the Stanford Law Review Online, Professor Daniel Kreiss discusses 'the history of political data, focusing on the recent proliferation in voter data and development of new voter-modeling techniques,' and how 'these data practices undermine privacy and democratic practice, even as they increase participation and voter turnout.' He writes: 'Underlying all of this is a vast data infrastructure that has made targeted online advertising and marketing possible, and has contributed to a revival of field campaigning over the last decade. Online advertising and field campaigning rely on voter modeling based on hundreds of data points culled from surveys, public records, and commercial information sources such as credit histories. This data details the location, demographics, political affiliations, social networks, behavior, and interests of citizens.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Yes+We+Can+(Profile+You)%3A+a+Brief+Primer+On+Campaigns+and+Political+Data%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwscnyC"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F2259208%2Fyes-we-can-profile-you-a-brief-primer-on-campaigns-and-political-data%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2259208/yes-we-can-profile-you-a-brief-primer-on-campaigns-and-political-data?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2259208/yes-we-can-profile-you-a-brief-primer-on-campaigns-and-political-data?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653657&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/tHkBivWfUd4" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:20:00 +0100 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/233232/apple-clarifies-ibooks-author-licensing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u00P2pYpSomg8AIAx_E3-QT-IHs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u00P2pYpSomg8AIAx_E3-QT-IHs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u00P2pYpSomg8AIAx_E3-QT-IHs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u00P2pYpSomg8AIAx_E3-QT-IHs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>bonch writes "After drawing criticism over iBooks Author's licensing language, Apple has modified it in a software update to make clear that Apple is claiming rights to the .ibook format itself and not the content therein: '[The license restriction] does not apply to the content of such works when distributed in a form that does not include files in the .ibooks format.' In other words, the content may be sold on competing book stores as long as it is not packaged using iBooks Author."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Apple+Clarifies+iBooks+Author+Licensing%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FACTtfs"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F233232%2Fapple-clarifies-ibooks-author-licensing%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/233232/apple-clarifies-ibooks-author-licensing?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/233232/apple-clarifies-ibooks-author-licensing?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653661&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CyXDpjk4BU8" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:59:00 +0100 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2244204/satellite-phone-encryption-cracked?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qH3T9IMxwpcgj4ugBsbaasDkEDY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qH3T9IMxwpcgj4ugBsbaasDkEDY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qH3T9IMxwpcgj4ugBsbaasDkEDY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qH3T9IMxwpcgj4ugBsbaasDkEDY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>New submitter The Mister Purple writes "A team of German researchers appears to have cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 encryption algorithms used by many (though not all) satellite phones. Anyone fancy putting a cluster together for a listening party? 'Mr. Driessen told The Telegraph that the equipment and software needed to intercept and decrypt satellite phone calls from hundreds of thousands of users would cost as little as $2,000. His demonstration system takes up to half an hour to decipher a call, but a more powerful computer would allow eavesdropping in real time, he said.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Satellite+Phone+Encryption+Cracked%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyX8rZa"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F2244204%2Fsatellite-phone-encryption-cracked%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2244204/satellite-phone-encryption-cracked?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2244204/satellite-phone-encryption-cracked?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653643&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/UofnshLNyY0" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:00 +0100 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2240204/canadas-internet-among-best-report-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGlgfXTdhyXnoDO4ZKAJD52WALs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGlgfXTdhyXnoDO4ZKAJD52WALs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGlgfXTdhyXnoDO4ZKAJD52WALs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGlgfXTdhyXnoDO4ZKAJD52WALs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>silentbrad writes "Canadians enjoy among the fastest, most widely available and least expensive broadband Internet in the developed world, says a report released Thursday. The report, based on the results of 52 million speed tests of broadband users across the G7 countries and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership, was produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc., the country's largest broadband service provider. It disputes the OECD's own report, published in July, that ranked Canada's high-speed Internet offerings significantly below those of other countries. The report comes days after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission revealed a sharp jump in the number of complaints it has received regarding Internet traffic-management practices, or 'throttling' in recent months." And it's about to get a little better &mdash; reader ForgedArtificer points out that Rogers has promised to end all throttling over their network by the end of the year.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Canada's+Internet+Among+Best%2C+Report+Says%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxunrPv"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F2240204%2Fcanadas-internet-among-best-report-says%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2240204/canadas-internet-among-best-report-says?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2240204/canadas-internet-among-best-report-says?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653641&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/jo_-pAiMNy8" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:56:00 +0100 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/214202/83-year-old-woman-gets-new-3d-printed-titanium-jaw?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aQK6uE_D-cyXkGWKtG52xsRHnP8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aQK6uE_D-cyXkGWKtG52xsRHnP8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aQK6uE_D-cyXkGWKtG52xsRHnP8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aQK6uE_D-cyXkGWKtG52xsRHnP8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>arnodf writes "The University of Hasselt (in Belgium) announced today (Google translation of Dutch original) that Belgian and Dutch scientists have successfully replaced an 83-year-old woman's lower jaw with a 3D-printed model. According to the researchers, 'It is the first custom-made implant in the world to replace an entire lower jaw. ... The 3D printer prints titanium powder layer by layer, while a computer controlled laser ensures that the correct particles are fused together. Using 3D printing technology, less materials are needed and the production time is much shorter than traditional manufacturing. The artificial jaw is slightly heavier than a natural jaw, but the patient can easily get used to it."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=83-Year-Old+Woman+Gets+New+3D-Printed+Titanium+Jaw%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzkBe8b"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F214202%2F83-year-old-woman-gets-new-3d-printed-titanium-jaw%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/214202/83-year-old-woman-gets-new-3d-printed-titanium-jaw?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/214202/83-year-old-woman-gets-new-3d-printed-titanium-jaw?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653551&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Nim_9TGTqIk" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0100 http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1611259/seattle-library-lets-man-watch-porn-on-computers-despite-complaints?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OP8fy6jekkroZ3QB8tE7_TU98Go/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OP8fy6jekkroZ3QB8tE7_TU98Go/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OP8fy6jekkroZ3QB8tE7_TU98Go/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OP8fy6jekkroZ3QB8tE7_TU98Go/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>The Lake City library is making news for their staunch position on the First Amendment, censorship, and the right to watch porn in the library. The problem started when library patron Julie Howe found a man watching some questionable material and asked him to move to another computer. The man refused and the librarian also refused to intervene when asked saying that the library doesn't censor content. "We're a library, so we facilitate access to constitutionally protected information. We don't tell people what they can view and check out," Seattle Public Library spokeswoman Andra Addison told Seattle PI. "Filters compromise freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment. We're not in the business of censoring information."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Seattle+Library+Lets+Man+Watch+Porn+On+Computers+Despite+Complaints%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyEbpWV"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1611259%2Fseattle-library-lets-man-watch-porn-on-computers-despite-complaints%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1611259/seattle-library-lets-man-watch-porn-on-computers-despite-complaints?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1611259/seattle-library-lets-man-watch-porn-on-computers-despite-complaints?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653111&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RJpKmgzhpzI" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:57:00 +0100 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/209220/web-guru-to-the-blind?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iVz3y-Zbb6W48vSJIune5SQKfTw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iVz3y-Zbb6W48vSJIune5SQKfTw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iVz3y-Zbb6W48vSJIune5SQKfTw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iVz3y-Zbb6W48vSJIune5SQKfTw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>the_newsbeagle writes "Chieko Asakawa went blind at age 14, learned to program mainframe computers by sense of touch, and has spent her 27 years at IBM-Tokyo bringing personal computing and the Internet to the blind. From the article: 'By 1997 she had developed a plug-in that worked with the Netscape browser, mapping Web navigation commands to the computer keyboard's number pad and using text-to-speech technology to read out content. Computer stores around the world sold IBM's Home Page Reader, and Asakawa says its effect on the blind community was immediate, electric, and sometimes touching. ... Other browsers for the blind followed IBM's groundbreaking efforts, and Asakawa moved on to addressing a deeper problem: the fact that designers were unintentionally creating inaccessible websites. She and her team wrote a program called aDesigner ... to allow designers to experience a site as blind users do and to suggest ways to improve navigation for audio browsers.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Web+Guru+To+the+Blind%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fzc6rwO"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F209220%2Fweb-guru-to-the-blind%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/209220/web-guru-to-the-blind?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/209220/web-guru-to-the-blind?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653477&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7QeKZDfQZ4I" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:00 +0100 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2012207/steve-appleton-micron-ceo-dies-in-plane-crash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7uxVGj4Tkof0-hbueEHsJu9xos/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7uxVGj4Tkof0-hbueEHsJu9xos/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7uxVGj4Tkof0-hbueEHsJu9xos/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7uxVGj4Tkof0-hbueEHsJu9xos/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>CR0WTR0B0T writes "Micron CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash around 9AM on Friday, February 3rd. He was flying an experimental fixed-wing single engine Lancair, which crashed in between two runways at the Boise airport."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Steve+Appleton%2C+Micron+CEO%2C+Dies+In+Plane+Crash%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxGhSRC"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F2012207%2Fsteve-appleton-micron-ceo-dies-in-plane-crash%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2012207/steve-appleton-micron-ceo-dies-in-plane-crash?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/2012207/steve-appleton-micron-ceo-dies-in-plane-crash?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653483&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WcGCMIAcJnk" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:09:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1935257/actas-eu-future-in-doubt-as-poland-suspends-ratification?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9i-VWLhqD7jueNAMu0LOHq5vC_k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9i-VWLhqD7jueNAMu0LOHq5vC_k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9i-VWLhqD7jueNAMu0LOHq5vC_k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9i-VWLhqD7jueNAMu0LOHq5vC_k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>superglaze writes "Poland has suspended its ratification process for ACTA, throwing the copyright crackdown into doubt for the whole European Union. ACTA is being handled as a 'mixed agreement' in the EU due to its criminalization clauses, so if a single EU member state (such as Poland) fails to ratify it, it is null and void across the entire union. If that were to happen, at least six of the remaining international signatories would have to ratify ACTA for it to apply anywhere in the world. Outside the EU, only eight countries &mdash; including the U.S. &mdash; have signed."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=ACTA's+EU+Future+In+Doubt+As+Poland+Suspends+Ratification%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fw666hv"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1935257%2Factas-eu-future-in-doubt-as-poland-suspends-ratification%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1935257/actas-eu-future-in-doubt-as-poland-suspends-ratification?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1935257/actas-eu-future-in-doubt-as-poland-suspends-ratification?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653437&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HOCXfr7eibE" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:50:00 +0100 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1930219/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQqIYbOHWLPxU0DGaqeaV608iZQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQqIYbOHWLPxU0DGaqeaV608iZQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQqIYbOHWLPxU0DGaqeaV608iZQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WQqIYbOHWLPxU0DGaqeaV608iZQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>eldavojohn writes "Describing Notifications as 'somewhere between email and IM,' Mozilla has announced this push technology as a way to receive notifications from websites without having to keep them open in your browser &mdash; as well as receiving them on your mobile device. A JavaScript API reveals early interface ideas by the team. This core concept is not new &mdash; both Google and Apple have their own push notification systems for Android and iOS respectively. However, 'It's important to note that this push notification system is distinct from the existing desktop notification mechanisms that are already defined in pending standards. The desktop notifications that websites like GMail and Seesmic Web display to Chrome users, for example, will only work when the website is left open in a tab. Mozilla's push notification system moves beyond that limitation.' Mozilla is attempting to take push notifications to the entire web for any website to use."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Firefox's+Web+Push+Notification+System+Announced%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwNByXu"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1930219%2Ffirefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1930219/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1930219/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653413&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OwB6I9P4r1U" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:07:00 +0100 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1839236/did-north-korea-conduct-secret-nuclear-tests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r53I2DJNm9GKTAnE62egtuOYMso/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r53I2DJNm9GKTAnE62egtuOYMso/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r53I2DJNm9GKTAnE62egtuOYMso/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/r53I2DJNm9GKTAnE62egtuOYMso/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>gbrumfiel writes "In May of 2010, North Korea made the bizarre claim that it had achieved nuclear fusion. Many, many commentators (including faithful Slashdot readers) mocked the dear leader for his outlandish boast, but could there have been a kernel of truth in the claim? Apparently some odd radioactivity was spotted by detectors surrounding the North just days after the announcement. Now, a new analysis by a Swedish scientist suggests that the radiation may have leaked from covert experiments into boosting fission warheads. The evidence is tentative at best, and many are skeptical, but it does seem that something odd was up on the Korean peninsula that spring."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Did+North+Korea+Conduct+Secret+Nuclear+Tests%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fz72gA5"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1839236%2Fdid-north-korea-conduct-secret-nuclear-tests%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1839236/did-north-korea-conduct-secret-nuclear-tests?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1839236/did-north-korea-conduct-secret-nuclear-tests?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653337&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/SYXS8XxNBlk" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:25:00 +0100 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1822230/windows-phone-8-detailed-uses-windows-8-kernel?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GcIHiaBel5lfKR95sEc-5FZ4rto/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GcIHiaBel5lfKR95sEc-5FZ4rto/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GcIHiaBel5lfKR95sEc-5FZ4rto/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GcIHiaBel5lfKR95sEc-5FZ4rto/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>MrSeb writes "Thanks to a leaked video &mdash; a video that Microsoft made for Nokia &mdash; we now have lots of details about Windows Phone 8 (WP8). From deep Windows 8, Skype, and SkyDrive integration, through to the addition of NFC 'wallet' payments and BitLocker encryption, it sounds like Windows Phone 8 will be close to iOS and Android in terms of features. The interesting stuff is under the hood, though: WP8 will have the Windows 8 kernel instead of the Windows CE kernel of its predecessors. Through the Win 8 kernel, WP8 will support native code and multi-core processors. It will also have the same network stack, security, and multimedia support as Windows 8. While Win 8 apps won't be directly compatible with Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone manager Joe Belfiore says developers will be able to 'reuse &mdash; by far &mdash; most of their code.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Windows+Phone+8+Detailed%2C+Uses+Windows+8+Kernel%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAB4qXp"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1822230%2Fwindows-phone-8-detailed-uses-windows-8-kernel%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1822230/windows-phone-8-detailed-uses-windows-8-kernel?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1822230/windows-phone-8-detailed-uses-windows-8-kernel?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653309&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/A2f1ErTCH04" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:42:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1716210/riaa-wants-to-scrap-anti-piracy-open-act?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6AxL73nCmiRGXaHq9WQJACZ-WM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6AxL73nCmiRGXaHq9WQJACZ-WM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6AxL73nCmiRGXaHq9WQJACZ-WM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T6AxL73nCmiRGXaHq9WQJACZ-WM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>silentbrad writes with these selections from an article at Ars Technica: "The Recording Industry Association of America found itself in an unusual position this week: opposing an anti-piracy bill that's gaining momentum in Congress ... the RIAA argues the bill won't be effective at shutting down rogue sites. The trade group warns of 'indefinite delays' as claims of infringement are investigated. And it complains that the process envisioned by OPEN would allow for 'endless submissions by parties such as Google,' further gumming up the process. All the while, the alleged rogue site would be able to continue operating. The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will 'put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft.' The trade group complains that sites aren't held responsible for the infringing activities of their users, a rule the trade group says 'excuses willful blindness and outright complicity in illegal activity.' RIAA also says it's 'virtually impossible' to prove that a site infringed willfully, as OPEN requires."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RIAA+Wants+To+Scrap+Anti-Piracy+OPEN+Act%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAtuovS"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1716210%2Friaa-wants-to-scrap-anti-piracy-open-act%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1716210/riaa-wants-to-scrap-anti-piracy-open-act?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1716210/riaa-wants-to-scrap-anti-piracy-open-act?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653209&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZlWGUhXn8Tw" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0100 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1627206/whats-the-damage-measuring-fsck-under-xfs-and-ext4-on-big-storage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BPs6KGo5TVnw0WAPnycOhe6JAX4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BPs6KGo5TVnw0WAPnycOhe6JAX4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BPs6KGo5TVnw0WAPnycOhe6JAX4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BPs6KGo5TVnw0WAPnycOhe6JAX4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling problem really is."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=What's+the+Damage%3F+Measuring+fsck+Under+XFS+and+Ext4+On+Big+Storage%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxoWJmz"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1627206%2Fwhats-the-damage-measuring-fsck-under-xfs-and-ext4-on-big-storage%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1627206/whats-the-damage-measuring-fsck-under-xfs-and-ext4-on-big-storage?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1627206/whats-the-damage-measuring-fsck-under-xfs-and-ext4-on-big-storage?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653149&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WhQ7naZAtd8" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:40:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/163243/anonymous-posts-audio-of-intercepted-fbi-conference-call?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6puZqPWylNG9yXumrdMRFFNL3S4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6puZqPWylNG9yXumrdMRFFNL3S4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6puZqPWylNG9yXumrdMRFFNL3S4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6puZqPWylNG9yXumrdMRFFNL3S4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>DrDevil writes "A member of the computer hacking group Anonymous has hacked into a telephone conference between the FBI and Scotland Yard (London Police) and posted it on the internet. The Daily Telegraph has a comprehensive article on the hack. The audio of the call can be heard here." Reader eldavojohn snips as well from the AP's story as carried by Google: "Those on the call talk about what legal strategy to pursue in the cases of Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis &mdash; two British suspects linked to Anonymous &mdash; and discuss details of the evidence gathered against other suspects."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Anonymous+Posts+Audio+of+Intercepted+FBI+Conference+Call%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAoVaSj"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F163243%2Fanonymous-posts-audio-of-intercepted-fbi-conference-call%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/163243/anonymous-posts-audio-of-intercepted-fbi-conference-call?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/163243/anonymous-posts-audio-of-intercepted-fbi-conference-call?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653101&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/04wH_l84P2U" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:19:00 +0100 http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1537237/chinese-boy-claims-to-have-cat-like-night-vision?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uliRZlSBdPY43S__fqQKCXxhA0g/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uliRZlSBdPY43S__fqQKCXxhA0g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uliRZlSBdPY43S__fqQKCXxhA0g/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uliRZlSBdPY43S__fqQKCXxhA0g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Oswald McWeany writes "Reports swirling around the Internet are that a boy in China may have cat-like night vision. The boy with eerie blue-eyes was able to fill out a questionnaire in the dark and his eyes reflect like a cat's when a light is shined on them. No reports yet if he marks his territory or is litter box trained."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Chinese+Boy+Claims+To+Have+Cat-Like+Night+Vision%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwOxXBu"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1537237%2Fchinese-boy-claims-to-have-cat-like-night-vision%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1537237/chinese-boy-claims-to-have-cat-like-night-vision?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1537237/chinese-boy-claims-to-have-cat-like-night-vision?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2653057&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/nE29NZj4Q9M" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0100 http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1446207/thanks-to-drm-some-ubisoft-games-wont-work-next-week?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NNKcLjxfMpOinX9vFJdDSNaZaaY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NNKcLjxfMpOinX9vFJdDSNaZaaY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NNKcLjxfMpOinX9vFJdDSNaZaaY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NNKcLjxfMpOinX9vFJdDSNaZaaY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>hypnosec writes "Several of Ubisoft's biggest titles won't be playable as of next week thanks to a server move by the publisher and the restrictive DRM that was used in their development. This isn't just multiplayer either. Because Ubisoft thought it would be a smart plan to use always on DRM for even the single player portion of games like Assassin's Creed, even the single player portion of that title won't be playable during the server move. Some of the other games affected by this move will be Tom Clancy's HAWX 2, Might &amp; Magic: Heroes 6 and The Settlers 7. The Mac games that will be broken during this period are Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers. This move was announced this week as part of a community letter, with Ubisoft describing how the data servers for many of the publisher's online services would be migrated from third party facilities to a new location starting on the 7th February. The publisher didn't reveal how long the transfer would take."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Thanks+to+DRM%2C+Some+Ubisoft+Games+Won't+Work+Next+Week%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FvZohCJ"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1446207%2Fthanks-to-drm-some-ubisoft-games-wont-work-next-week%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1446207/thanks-to-drm-some-ubisoft-games-wont-work-next-week?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1446207/thanks-to-drm-some-ubisoft-games-wont-work-next-week?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652959&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/MmSq6iXNh2Q" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:37:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1435209/alzheimers-transmission-pathway-discovered?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ksmnVxCD7xmMEsv3ylcXN7kbefQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ksmnVxCD7xmMEsv3ylcXN7kbefQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ksmnVxCD7xmMEsv3ylcXN7kbefQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ksmnVxCD7xmMEsv3ylcXN7kbefQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>smitty777 writes "Two separate studies by the Taub Institute and Harvard have discovered the pathway used by Alzheimer's Disease to spread through the brain. The studies indicate it's not a virus, but a distorted protein called Tau which moves from cell to cell. Further, the discovery 'may now offer scientists a way to move forward and develop a way to block tau's spread in Alzheimer's patients, said Karen Duff, a researcher at Columbia's Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's disease and co-author of one study published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. "It's enlightening for us because it now provides a whole other area for potential therapeutic impact," said Duff. "It's possible that you can identify the disease and intervene (with potential tau-blocking drugs) before the dementia actually sets in."'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Alzheimer's+Transmission+Pathway+Discovered%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwkNvtq"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1435209%2Falzheimers-transmission-pathway-discovered%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1435209/alzheimers-transmission-pathway-discovered?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1435209/alzheimers-transmission-pathway-discovered?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652945&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/9RmbWUenl1E" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:54:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1414238/credit-suisse-traders-manipulated-it-systems-to-hide-500m-losses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Ky8q1tmDuJGDXe8h8T9OzfSAfQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Ky8q1tmDuJGDXe8h8T9OzfSAfQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Ky8q1tmDuJGDXe8h8T9OzfSAfQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Ky8q1tmDuJGDXe8h8T9OzfSAfQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>New submitter Qedward writes with a snippet from ComputerWorld UK: "Two traders at Credit Suisse have pleaded guilty to wire fraud and falsifying data after authorities said they had manipulated the bank's record systems, as the credit crunch approached, in order to help conceal over half a billion dollars' worth of losses. The traders admitted to circumventing a mandatory real time reporting system introduced by Credit Suisse, manually entering false profit and loss (P&amp;L) figures as the products they handled collapsed in value. They did so, according to the accusations, under heavy pressure from their manager, who has also been charged."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Credit+Suisse+Traders+Manipulated+IT+Systems+To+Hide+%24500m+Losses%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FziVVWV"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1414238%2Fcredit-suisse-traders-manipulated-it-systems-to-hide-500m-losses%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1414238/credit-suisse-traders-manipulated-it-systems-to-hide-500m-losses?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1414238/credit-suisse-traders-manipulated-it-systems-to-hide-500m-losses?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652911&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EGnJmHjCts4" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:12:00 +0100 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/147201/google-starts-scanning-android-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x0fBFEy5yxSduhBKZ8uU1lcmS6w/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x0fBFEy5yxSduhBKZ8uU1lcmS6w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x0fBFEy5yxSduhBKZ8uU1lcmS6w/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x0fBFEy5yxSduhBKZ8uU1lcmS6w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>eldavojohn writes "A recent blog post has Android developers talking about Google finally scanning third party applications for malware. Oddly enough, Google claims this service (codenamed 'Bouncer') has been active for some time: 'The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This drop occurred at the same time that companies who market and sell anti-malware and security software have been reporting that malicious applications are on the rise.' So it appears that they allow the software to be sold even before it is scanned and it also appears that no one has been bitten by a false positive from this software. Apparently Bouncer is not as oppressive as Apple's solution although given recent news its effectiveness must be questioned. Have any readers had their apps flagged or pulled by Bouncer?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Starts+Scanning+Android+Apps%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwhpYXW"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F147201%2Fgoogle-starts-scanning-android-apps%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/147201/google-starts-scanning-android-apps?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/147201/google-starts-scanning-android-apps?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652903&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/A0E0s4aB3Ko" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:31:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1344208/researchers-create-glass-just-3-atoms-thick?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RxR4VILO_NDgejij5JZW1aOF5cA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RxR4VILO_NDgejij5JZW1aOF5cA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RxR4VILO_NDgejij5JZW1aOF5cA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RxR4VILO_NDgejij5JZW1aOF5cA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>sciencehabit writes "Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe an air leak caused the copper to react with the quartz, which is also made of silicon and oxygen, producing a glass layer with the graphene. The glass is a mere three atoms thick &mdash; the minimum thickness of silica glass&mdash;which makes it two-dimensional. The team notes that the structure 'strikingly resembles' a diagram drawn by a glass theorist attempting to unravel its structure back in 1932. Such ultra-thin glass could be used in semiconductor or graphene transistors." See Nano Letters for an abstract (and another picture) to the paywalled article.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Researchers+Create+Glass+Just+3+Atoms+Thick%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAu1n71"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1344208%2Fresearchers-create-glass-just-3-atoms-thick%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1344208/researchers-create-glass-just-3-atoms-thick?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1344208/researchers-create-glass-just-3-atoms-thick?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652873&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sO_SxPSmP98" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:10:00 +0100 http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1322205/how-the-gop-and-the-tea-party-helped-kill-sopa?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/s_bfWEnkwQQpwqPI1ua-soUai-E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/s_bfWEnkwQQpwqPI1ua-soUai-E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/s_bfWEnkwQQpwqPI1ua-soUai-E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/s_bfWEnkwQQpwqPI1ua-soUai-E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Hugh Pickens writes "Strengthening intellectual property enforcement has been a bipartisan issue for the past 25 years, but Stewart Baker writes in the Hollywood Reporter that when the fight went from the committees to the floor and Wikipedia went down, the Democratic and Republican parties reacted very differently to SOPA. 'Despite widespread opposition to SOPA from bloggers on the left, Democrats in Congress (and the administration) were reluctant to oppose the bill outright,' writes Baker. 'The MPAA was not shy about reminding them that Hollywood has been a reliable source of funding for Democratic candidates, and that it would not tolerate defections.' That very public message from the MPAA also reached another audience &mdash; Tea Party conservatives. Most of them had never given a second thought to intellectual property enforcement, but many had drawn support from conservative bloggers and they began to ask why they should risk the ire of their internet supporters to rescue an industry that was happily advertising how much it hated them." (Read on, below.)<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+the+GOP+(and+the+Tea+Party)+Helped+Kill+SOPA%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FA8OXV8"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F1322205%2Fhow-the-gop-and-the-tea-party-helped-kill-sopa%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1322205/how-the-gop-and-the-tea-party-helped-kill-sopa?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1322205/how-the-gop-and-the-tea-party-helped-kill-sopa?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652831&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JZEmvQ628jY" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:50:00 +0100 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0432218/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dCmQLEq5KRydxobGa297Zca10bs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dCmQLEq5KRydxobGa297Zca10bs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dCmQLEq5KRydxobGa297Zca10bs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dCmQLEq5KRydxobGa297Zca10bs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source &mdash; a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of course, Perl. This is a successful enterprise giving something back to open source &mdash; which is how it should be."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Craigslist+Donates+%24100%2C000+To+the+Perl+Foundation%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyS0J63"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F0432218%2Fcraigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0432218/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0432218/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2652039&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1t-U96SGn_w" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:08:00 +0100 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0324204/apple-loses-german-court-bid-to-ban-samsung-galaxy-tab-101n-nexus-phone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z736lVF6hfJPgAREkK3je_wcu28/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z736lVF6hfJPgAREkK3je_wcu28/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z736lVF6hfJPgAREkK3je_wcu28/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z736lVF6hfJPgAREkK3je_wcu28/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>chrb writes "Apple has failed to get a patent ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the Nexus phone in Germany. Presiding Judge Andreas Mueller stated, 'Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection.' The patent in question covered list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display. This news follows the recent Appeals court ruling that upheld the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Apple+Loses+German+Court+Bid+To+Ban+Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+10.1N%2C+Nexus+Phone%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwZxd4u"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F0324204%2Fapple-loses-german-court-bid-to-ban-samsung-galaxy-tab-101n-nexus-phone%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0324204/apple-loses-german-court-bid-to-ban-samsung-galaxy-tab-101n-nexus-phone?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0324204/apple-loses-german-court-bid-to-ban-samsung-galaxy-tab-101n-nexus-phone?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651975&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BvHm2FMGWrc" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:33:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0321243/norway-brings-dna-sequencing-to-national-healthcare?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKNWXars3g5hWDO-o8N-mJwbtCc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKNWXars3g5hWDO-o8N-mJwbtCc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKNWXars3g5hWDO-o8N-mJwbtCc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKNWXars3g5hWDO-o8N-mJwbtCc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>ananyo writes "Norway is set to become the first country to incorporate genome sequencing into its national health-care system. The Scandinavian nation, which has a population of 4.8 million, will use 'next-generation' DNA sequencers to trawl for mutations in tumors that might reveal which cancer treatments would be most effective. In its three-year pilot phase, the Norwegian Cancer Genomics Consortium will sequence the tumor genomes of 1,000 patients in the hope of influencing their treatments. It will also look at another 3,000 previously obtained tumor biopsies to get a better idea of the mutations in different cancers, and how they influence a patient's response to a drug. In a second phase, the project will build the laboratory, clinical and computing infrastructure needed to bring such care to the 25,000 Norwegians who are diagnosed with cancer each year. Similar projects are under way in the United Kingdom and at research hospitals in the United States, France and elsewhere. But Norway's will be among the first to look for tumor mutations using next-generation DNA sequencing rather than conventional genetic testing."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Norway+Brings+DNA+Sequencing+To+National+Healthcare%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyVLxBv"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F0321243%2Fnorway-brings-dna-sequencing-to-national-healthcare%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0321243/norway-brings-dna-sequencing-to-national-healthcare?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0321243/norway-brings-dna-sequencing-to-national-healthcare?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651971&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-t9GZhWSy_w" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:05:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0216251/new-exoplanet-is-best-yet-candidate-for-supporting-life?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LXGn9E05ahwpfg2r8gCwn-pc95Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LXGn9E05ahwpfg2r8gCwn-pc95Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LXGn9E05ahwpfg2r8gCwn-pc95Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LXGn9E05ahwpfg2r8gCwn-pc95Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>First time accepted submitter uigrad_2000 writes "With all the new exoplanets discovered recently with Kepler, it seemed a sure thing that the first exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star would be found soon. The irony is that Kepler was not involved. GJ 667Cc is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, and lies in the habitable region of its host star, reports Scientific American. It was discovered by comparing public data from the ESO to recent observations from Hawaii and Chile. As opposed to the stars Kepler is watching, this is only 22 light-years away, making it even more interesting."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+Exoplanet+Is+Best+Yet+Candidate+For+Supporting+Life%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAd3cC3"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F0216251%2Fnew-exoplanet-is-best-yet-candidate-for-supporting-life%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0216251/new-exoplanet-is-best-yet-candidate-for-supporting-life?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0216251/new-exoplanet-is-best-yet-candidate-for-supporting-life?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651915&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/XGGliwoqktQ" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:31:00 +0100 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0045210/the-it-certs-that-no-longer-pay-extra?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KRXJAVaVk98ilyfrVOQGQqu6Lpw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KRXJAVaVk98ilyfrVOQGQqu6Lpw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KRXJAVaVk98ilyfrVOQGQqu6Lpw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KRXJAVaVk98ilyfrVOQGQqu6Lpw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>snydeq writes "Overall employment in tech is improving, but the certs you could once count on for a job or extra pay are losing their value, InfoWorld reports. 'Businesses no longer value what are increasingly considered standard skills, and instead are putting their money both into a new set of emerging specialties and into hybrid technology/business roles.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+IT+Certs+That+No+Longer+Pay+Extra%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwNEdv2"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F03%2F0045210%2Fthe-it-certs-that-no-longer-pay-extra%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0045210/the-it-certs-that-no-longer-pay-extra?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/0045210/the-it-certs-that-no-longer-pay-extra?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651841&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/PhkZlp2jBZA" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2332222/flying-robots-flip-swarm-and-move-in-formation-at-upenn?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NaFSKMQCysX9u0Ic_k8RA50ia3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NaFSKMQCysX9u0Ic_k8RA50ia3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NaFSKMQCysX9u0Ic_k8RA50ia3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NaFSKMQCysX9u0Ic_k8RA50ia3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>techgeek0279 writes "The University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory has released a video of flying nano quadrotor robots. Inspired by swarming habits in nature, these agile robots avoid obstructions and perform complex maneuvers as a group."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Flying+Robots+Flip%2C+Swarm+and+Move+In+Formation+At+UPenn%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwaLzPD"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F2332222%2Fflying-robots-flip-swarm-and-move-in-formation-at-upenn%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2332222/flying-robots-flip-swarm-and-move-in-formation-at-upenn?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2332222/flying-robots-flip-swarm-and-move-in-formation-at-upenn?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651777&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/L8nqiHpXA-U" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:10:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2310240/next-gen-spacesuits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t32hICiOLcaKLxuaihuksRoECFw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t32hICiOLcaKLxuaihuksRoECFw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t32hICiOLcaKLxuaihuksRoECFw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t32hICiOLcaKLxuaihuksRoECFw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>ambermichelle writes "Outer space is a hostile environment for humans, characterized by an airless vacuum, thermal extremes, ionizing radiation and speeding micro meteoroids. Less well-known are the dangers posed by long-term exposure to microgravity or zero-g conditions, which over time severely saps the strength of astronauts' muscles and bones. Several researchers are working to develop new spacesuit designs that could help counteract these threats as well as avoid some of the familiar drawbacks of current spacesuit models such as bulk, weight and rigidity."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Next-Gen+Spacesuits%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fw5Nu4G"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F2310240%2Fnext-gen-spacesuits%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2310240/next-gen-spacesuits?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2310240/next-gen-spacesuits?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651747&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/S8q768t5fDs" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:23:00 +0100 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/231257/kelihos-botnet-comes-back-to-life?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sClT8v7-Zry7ObYc_MPdpb3DXbM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sClT8v7-Zry7ObYc_MPdpb3DXbM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sClT8v7-Zry7ObYc_MPdpb3DXbM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sClT8v7-Zry7ObYc_MPdpb3DXbM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>angry tapir writes "A botnet that was crippled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September is spamming once again and experts have no recourse to stop it. The Kelihos botnet only infected 45,000 or so computers but managed to send out nearly 4 billion spam messages a day, promoting, among other things, pornography, illegal pharmaceuticals and stock scams. But it was temporarily corralled last September after researchers used various technical means to get the 45,000 or so infected computers to communicate with a "sinkhole," or a computer they controlled."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Kelihos+Botnet+Comes+Back+To+Life%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fy83Qf6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F231257%2Fkelihos-botnet-comes-back-to-life%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/231257/kelihos-botnet-comes-back-to-life?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/231257/kelihos-botnet-comes-back-to-life?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651737&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NWVFpULTPbI" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:40:00 +0100 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2150243/super-bowl-bust-feds-grab-307-nfl-websites-48m?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YYYQ_8AwRaE01gJrb7O5jUWU4jo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YYYQ_8AwRaE01gJrb7O5jUWU4jo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YYYQ_8AwRaE01gJrb7O5jUWU4jo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YYYQ_8AwRaE01gJrb7O5jUWU4jo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>coondoggie writes "Speaking at a National Football League press conference ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said special agents this week seized a total of 307 websites and snatched up 42,692 items of phony Super Bowl-related memorabilia along with other counterfeit items for a total take of more than $4.8 million &ndash; up from $3.72 million last year."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Super+Bowl+Bust%3A+Feds+Grab+307+NFL+Websites%3B+%244.8M%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fx8qs6l"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F2150243%2Fsuper-bowl-bust-feds-grab-307-nfl-websites-48m%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2150243/super-bowl-bust-feds-grab-307-nfl-websites-48m?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2150243/super-bowl-bust-feds-grab-307-nfl-websites-48m?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651633&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/KKLq0EbRZKo" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:58:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2050246/how-far-should-gpl-enforcement-go?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ge_k89qyAxkUx-BPSs665CcG20Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ge_k89qyAxkUx-BPSs665CcG20Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ge_k89qyAxkUx-BPSs665CcG20Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ge_k89qyAxkUx-BPSs665CcG20Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>itwbennett writes "The debate over enforcement of the GPL flared up again this week when Red Hat kernel developer Matthew Garrett wrote in a blog post that Sony is looking to rewrite BusyBox to sidestep the GPL. Which is a perfectly legal undertaking. But it raises the question: 'Is there social pressure within the Linux kernel community to not undertake GPL compliance action?' writes blogger Brian Proffitt. 'This may not be nefarious: maybe people just would rather not bother with enforcing compliance. Better, they may argue, to just let the violation go and get on with developing better code.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+Far+Should+GPL+Enforcement+Go%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FA8MkA4"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F2050246%2Fhow-far-should-gpl-enforcement-go%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2050246/how-far-should-gpl-enforcement-go?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2050246/how-far-should-gpl-enforcement-go?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651539&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/GwmwJUC1TNw" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:13:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2027216/fda-regulating-your-stem-cells-as-interstate-commerce?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TrhdTIl9-MuUlOtHK67nziVcNuQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TrhdTIl9-MuUlOtHK67nziVcNuQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TrhdTIl9-MuUlOtHK67nziVcNuQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TrhdTIl9-MuUlOtHK67nziVcNuQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>New submitter dcbrianw writes "A non-surgical procedure that treats joint pain involves removing stem cells from a patient's blood and reinserting them into the joint. The facility conducting these procedures resides in Colorado, but because it orders equipment to perform the procedure from outside of Colorado, the FDA claims it must regulate this process and that it can classify stem cells as a drug. This issue opens the debate of what the FDA, or other regulatory bodies, may regulate within each of our own bodies." Quick: Name five activities with no possible plausible effect on interstate commerce.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=FDA+Regulating+Your+Stem+Cells+As+Interstate+Commerce%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzE8FXt"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F2027216%2Ffda-regulating-your-stem-cells-as-interstate-commerce%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2027216/fda-regulating-your-stem-cells-as-interstate-commerce?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2027216/fda-regulating-your-stem-cells-as-interstate-commerce?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651505&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ltf_qUTJfW0" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:32:00 +0100 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2056247/dc-comics-prevails-in-batmobile-copyright-dispute?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FwUJzdPQLWEczO9sGs1zR0sxONk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FwUJzdPQLWEczO9sGs1zR0sxONk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FwUJzdPQLWEczO9sGs1zR0sxONk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FwUJzdPQLWEczO9sGs1zR0sxONk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>think_nix writes "Wired reports of U.S. District Judge Ronald S. W. Lew siding with DC Comics in the federal copyright court case against Gotham Garage owner Mark Towle. DC accused Towle of selling 'unlicensed replica vehicle modification kits based on vehicle design copyrights from plaintiff's Batman property, including various iterations of the fictional automobile, the Batmobile.' Lew noted that 'DC Comics pleads sufficient facts to support its allegations. Although, generally copyright law does not apply to "useful articles" such as autos.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=DC+Comics+Prevails+In+Batmobile+Copyright+Dispute%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwxVVYa"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F2056247%2Fdc-comics-prevails-in-batmobile-copyright-dispute%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2056247/dc-comics-prevails-in-batmobile-copyright-dispute?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/2056247/dc-comics-prevails-in-batmobile-copyright-dispute?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651565&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/uSCP-sf7skE" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:01:00 +0100 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1954238/amd-says-its-ambidextrous-hints-it-may-offer-arm-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ob7S3oocA2eYhi1dC_h5jGjGapY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ob7S3oocA2eYhi1dC_h5jGjGapY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ob7S3oocA2eYhi1dC_h5jGjGapY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ob7S3oocA2eYhi1dC_h5jGjGapY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>J. Dzhugashvili writes "Today at its Financial Analyst Day, AMD made statements that strongly suggest it plans to offer ARM-based chips alongside its x86 CPUs and APUs. According to coverage of the event, top executives including CEO Rory Read talked up an 'ambidextrous' approach to instruction-set architectures. One executive went even further: 'She said AMD will not be "religious" about architectures and touted AMD's "flexibility" as one of its key strategic advantages for the future.' The roadmaps the execs showed focused on x86 offerings, but it seems AMD is overtly setting the stage for a collaboration with ARM."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=AMD+Says+It's+'Ambidextrous%2C'+Hints+It+May+Offer+ARM+Chips%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzIzpcp"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1954238%2Famd-says-its-ambidextrous-hints-it-may-offer-arm-chips%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1954238/amd-says-its-ambidextrous-hints-it-may-offer-arm-chips?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1954238/amd-says-its-ambidextrous-hints-it-may-offer-arm-chips?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651467&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3uHH1v63rfc" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:47:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1844205/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qZZ3EHaP5dMGR1a6v_kj60M3BOc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qZZ3EHaP5dMGR1a6v_kj60M3BOc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qZZ3EHaP5dMGR1a6v_kj60M3BOc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qZZ3EHaP5dMGR1a6v_kj60M3BOc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Hugh Pickens writes writes "BBC recently asked physicist and Cambridge University professor Dave Ansell to draw up a balance sheet of the mass that's coming in to the earth, and the mass going out to find out if the earth is gaining or losing mass. By far the biggest contributor to the world's mass is the 40,000 tonnes of dust that is falling from space to Earth every year. 'The Earth is acting like a giant vacuum cleaner powered by gravity in space, pulling in particles of dust,' says Dr. Chris Smith. Another factor increasing the earth's mass is global warming which adds about 160 tonnes a year because as the temperature of the Earth goes up, energy is added to the system, so the mass must go up. On the minus side, at the very center of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a sphere of uranium five mile in diameter which acts as a natural nuclear reactor so these nuclear reactions cause a loss of mass of about 16 tonnes per year." (Read more, below.)<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Is+the+Earth+Gaining+Or+Losing+Mass%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyhShNI"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1844205%2Fis-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1844205/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1844205/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651333&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RGEVht_N8us" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:06:00 +0100 http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1757239/oklahoma-politician-wants-to-tax-violent-video-games?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T3r2miicwfoFb9tBGCjnvSQNNcY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T3r2miicwfoFb9tBGCjnvSQNNcY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T3r2miicwfoFb9tBGCjnvSQNNcY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T3r2miicwfoFb9tBGCjnvSQNNcY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>dotarray writes "According to an Oklahoma politician, video games help cause many problems affecting the youth of today, but they can also help solve those same problems. Representative William Fourkiller, a Democrat, has proposed a 1% tax on every video game sold which has a Teen, Mature or Adults Only rating. He explains that half of the money would go towards helping to get kids playing outside, while the other half would be placed into a bullying prevention fund."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Oklahoma+Politician+Wants+To+Tax+Violent+Video+Games%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxOboQX"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1757239%2Foklahoma-politician-wants-to-tax-violent-video-games%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1757239/oklahoma-politician-wants-to-tax-violent-video-games?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1757239/oklahoma-politician-wants-to-tax-violent-video-games?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651279&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4b5ury6GUN0" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:00 +0100 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1737254/in-xhengzhou-thousands-vie-for-foxconn-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cLWXGgr6pqGrgY2L_Emi19XL2aw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cLWXGgr6pqGrgY2L_Emi19XL2aw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cLWXGgr6pqGrgY2L_Emi19XL2aw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cLWXGgr6pqGrgY2L_Emi19XL2aw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>hypnosec writes "Foxconn is supposedly looking to enhance its workforce in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou and despite the less-than-satisfactory working conditions in the company, thousands of aspirants are lining up for jobs in its factories. Not caring about the harsh working conditions at Foxconn, thousands of people congregated outside a labor office in Zhengzhou, the largest city of Henan province in North central China, impatiently waiting for a chance to work at Foxconn. Foxconn, which is engaged in assembling iPhones and iPads for Apple, is planning to hire an additional 100000 employees as it is aiming at augmenting its iPhone production."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=In+Xhengzhou%2C+Thousands+Vie+For+Foxconn+Jobs%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAcFlKM"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1737254%2Fin-xhengzhou-thousands-vie-for-foxconn-jobs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1737254/in-xhengzhou-thousands-vie-for-foxconn-jobs?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1737254/in-xhengzhou-thousands-vie-for-foxconn-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651239&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/AvUgLyI75Fk" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:44:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1750207/spacex-tries-out-its-new-superdraco-rocket-engine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qJYC0S2nINplTj0-CQ0plAwpyp8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qJYC0S2nINplTj0-CQ0plAwpyp8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qJYC0S2nINplTj0-CQ0plAwpyp8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qJYC0S2nINplTj0-CQ0plAwpyp8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>cylonlover writes "SpaceX, the California company that is developing the reusable Dragon spacecraft, recently test-fired its new SuperDraco engine. Presently, the Dragon capsule is equipped with less-advanced Draco engines, which are designed for maneuvering the spacecraft while in orbit and during reentry. The SuperDraco, however, is intended to allow the astronauts to escape if an emergency occurs during the launch."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=SpaceX+Tries+Out+Its+New+SuperDraco+Rocket+Engine%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwTHujO"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1750207%2Fspacex-tries-out-its-new-superdraco-rocket-engine%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1750207/spacex-tries-out-its-new-superdraco-rocket-engine?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1750207/spacex-tries-out-its-new-superdraco-rocket-engine?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651259&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/J6lFpYGLbaQ" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:22:00 +0100 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1719221/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jlkw021vYv8XfqiOERQJvGh8erc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jlkw021vYv8XfqiOERQJvGh8erc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jlkw021vYv8XfqiOERQJvGh8erc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jlkw021vYv8XfqiOERQJvGh8erc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>schwit1 passes on this snippet from Public Intelligence: "A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called 'Communities Against Terrorism,' lists the use of 'anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address' as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using 'software to hide encrypted data in digital photos' or other media. In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone 'overly concerned about privacy' or attempting to 'shield the screen from view of others' should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities. ... The use of PGP, VPNs, Tor or any of the many other technologies for anonymity and privacy online are directly targeted by the flyer, which is distributed to businesses in an effort to promote the reporting of these activities."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Do+You+Like+Online+Privacy%3F+You+May+Be+a+Terrorist%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxXDrVV"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1719221%2Fdo-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1719221/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1719221/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651221&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1pk4V_q4MhM" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:00 +0100 http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1654236/french-court-calls-free-google-maps-unfair-competition?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BJpQX9klNsr-d0moOB3MFsFg2ac/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BJpQX9klNsr-d0moOB3MFsFg2ac/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BJpQX9klNsr-d0moOB3MFsFg2ac/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BJpQX9klNsr-d0moOB3MFsFg2ac/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>jfruh writes "A French court has ruled that Google is unfairly subsidizing its free mapping products, making for unfair competition with paid services. This might seem ridiculous, but keep in mind that Google started charging for use of its mapping API once the free version had come to dominate the market."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=French+Court+Calls+Free+Google+Maps+Unfair+Competition%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FA0bqDi"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1654236%2Ffrench-court-calls-free-google-maps-unfair-competition%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1654236/french-court-calls-free-google-maps-unfair-competition?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1654236/french-court-calls-free-google-maps-unfair-competition?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651177&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5yWJnPTVw78" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:21:00 +0100 http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1625236/slovenian-ambassador-regrets-signing-acta-agreement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m9SYpPcBVvj47VWSLVDIWSl2V1w/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m9SYpPcBVvj47VWSLVDIWSl2V1w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m9SYpPcBVvj47VWSLVDIWSl2V1w/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/m9SYpPcBVvj47VWSLVDIWSl2V1w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>metacell writes "Slovenia's ambassador to Japan, Helena Drnovek Zorko, writes: 'I signed ACTA out of civic carelessness, because I did not pay enough attention. Quite simply, I did not clearly connect the agreement I had been instructed to sign with the agreement that, according to my own civic conviction, limits and withholds the freedom of engagement on the largest and most significant network in human history, and thus limits particularly the future of our children.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Slovenian+Ambassador+Regrets+Signing+ACTA+Agreement%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FyQKXeJ"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1625236%2Fslovenian-ambassador-regrets-signing-acta-agreement%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1625236/slovenian-ambassador-regrets-signing-acta-agreement?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1625236/slovenian-ambassador-regrets-signing-acta-agreement?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651117&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Lwfu5hMmW2c" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:01:00 +0100 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1524200/verisign-admits-company-was-hacked-in-2010-not-sure-what-was-stolen?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aAm25BArecNvEHy81is3B1N96cw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aAm25BArecNvEHy81is3B1N96cw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aAm25BArecNvEHy81is3B1N96cw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aAm25BArecNvEHy81is3B1N96cw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>mask.of.sanity writes "Verisign admitted it was hacked repeatedly last year and cannot pin down what data was stolen. It says it doesn't believe the Domain Name System servers were hacked but it cannot rule it out. Symantec, which bought its certificate business in 2010, says also that there was no evidence that system was affected. Verisign further admitted in an SEC filing that its security team failed to tell management about the attacks until 2011, despite moving to address the hacks."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Verisign+Admits+Company+Was+Hacked+In+2010%2C+Not+Sure+What+Was+Stolen%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAefuYM"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F1524200%2Fverisign-admits-company-was-hacked-in-2010-not-sure-what-was-stolen%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1524200/verisign-admits-company-was-hacked-in-2010-not-sure-what-was-stolen?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1524200/verisign-admits-company-was-hacked-in-2010-not-sure-what-was-stolen?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651017&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZvPnpxiTKf8" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:00 +0100 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/163225/1st-video-of-moons-far-side?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KHtwjSECLf_3wj5-L8Q9p5LIYQo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KHtwjSECLf_3wj5-L8Q9p5LIYQo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KHtwjSECLf_3wj5-L8Q9p5LIYQo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KHtwjSECLf_3wj5-L8Q9p5LIYQo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>chill writes "A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side &mdash; a view people on Earth never see. Because the moon is tidally locked with Earth, it only presents one face to the planet's surface (the near side). The side of the moon that faces away from Earth is the far side. Only robotic spacecraft and Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon in the 1960s and 1970s have seen the far side of the moon directly."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=1st+Video+of+Moon's+Far+Side%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FybuCi3"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F02%2F163225%2F1st-video-of-moons-far-side%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/163225/1st-video-of-moons-far-side?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/163225/1st-video-of-moons-far-side?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2651073&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vkTA7TCeP2I" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:20:00 +0100