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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy
* Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back
* Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank
* Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum
* UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus'
* 80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now In WebM
* The Great Cyberheist
* Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick
* Replacing Sports Bloggers With an Algorithm
* Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook
* Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool
* Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers
* The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet
* Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction
* Which Language To Learn?
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| CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy
| from the namespace-collision dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 12, @20:36 (Software)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/0029203/CDE-mdash-Making-Linux-Portability-Easy?from=newsletter
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ihaque writes "A Stanford researcher, [0]Philip Guo, has developed [1]a
tool called CDE to automatically package up a Linux program and all its
dependencies (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it
can be run out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of
complicated work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing
with dependency version hell. He's got binaries, source code, and [2]a
screencast up. Looks to be really useful for large cluster/cloud
deployments as well as program sharing. Says Guo, 'CDE is a tool that
automatically packages up the Code, Data, and Environment involved in
running any Linux command so that it can execute identically on another
computer without any installation or configuration. The only requirement
is that the other computer have the same hardware architecture (e.g.,
x86) and major kernel version (e.g., 2.6.X) as yours. CDE allows you to
easily run programs without the dependency hell that inevitably occurs
when attempting to install software or libraries. You can use CDE to
allow your colleagues to reproduce and build upon your computational
experiments, to quickly deploy prototype software to a compute cluster,
and to submit executable bug reports.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/0029203&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://stanford.edu/~pgbovine/
1. http://stanford.edu/~pgbovine/cde.html
2. http://vimeo.com/16684443
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| Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back
| from the face-of-god-next-step dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 12, @23:20 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/0042200/Paper-Airplane-Touches-Edge-of-Space-Glides-Back?from=newsletter
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itwbennett writes "Brits Steve Daniels, John Oates and Lester Haines just
became the envy of geeks the world over. The trio 'built a one-wing
glider from paper, [0]lofted it to the edge of space at 90,000 feet with
a helium balloon, and [1]posted sound and video recordings from the plane
as it glided safely back to the ground,' writes blogger Kevin Fogarty.
The Register newspaper sponsored the stunt and [2]reported each step of
the process. And British defense-contractor Qinetiq supplied the cameras
and testing chambers, says Fogarty."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/0042200&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/127519/paper-airplane-touches-edge-space-glides-back-safely
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/registerparis/
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/paris/
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| Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank
| from the not-better-or-worse-just-different dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 13, @02:08 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/057239/Facebook-Postings-Lead-To-Arrest-for-Heresy-In-the-West-Bank?from=newsletter
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forand writes "Using screen shots of a customer's Facebook profile,
owners of a West Bank internet cafe [0]helped Palestinian intelligence
forces capture a man accused of heresy." According to sources quoted in
the story, residents of both Gaza and the West Bank face ongoing scrutiny
of their online activities; in Gaza, "Internet cafe owners are forced to
monitor customers' online activity and alert intelligence officials if
they see anything critical of the militant group or that violates Hamas'
stern interpretation of Islam."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/057239&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40143564
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| Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum
| from the not-just-apple-Is-any-more dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 13, @05:02 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/0743257/Fight-Begins-To-Secure-Turing-Papers-For-Bletchley-Park-Museum?from=newsletter
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Blacklaw writes "Auction house Christie's is [0]planning to sell
offprints of Alan Turing's early work for an estimated ��500,000 ��� and the
fight has begun to raise the money [1]so UK codebreaking museum and
charity Bletchley Park can house the documents in the building where
Turing performed his war-winning work and birthed the concept of a modern
'universal computer.' If the money isn't raised, the papers could
disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/0743257&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=10&intObjectID=5370960&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8
1. http://www.justgiving.com/Turing-Papers
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| UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus'
| from the this-campaign-can't-bomb dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 13, @07:50 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/0246217/UK-Twitter-Users-Declare-Im-Spartacus?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Tweeters have [0]joined forces to support
Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for a Twitter message
threatening to blow up an airport. A so-called 'I'm Spartacus' campaign
encouraging users to 're-tweet' his words has also become a huge hit. The
hashtag #IAmSpartacus is currently the number one trending topic on
Twitter in the UK, with #twitterjoketrial in second place. Chambers is
believed to be the first person convicted in the UK for posting an
offensive tweet. After the hearing, actor and Twitter fan Stephen Fry
tweeted that he would pay Chambers' fine. Comedian Dara O'Briain tweeted
that the verdict was 'ludicrous' while Peep Show actor David Mitchell
said it was 'punishment for flippancy.'" I suspect not as many people
will re-tweet [1]on behalf of Garreth Compton.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/0246217&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11742182
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/11/1711214/UK-Politician-Arrested-Over-Twitter-Stoning-Joke
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| 80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now In WebM
| from the webm-good dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 13, @09:12 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/0735251/80-of-Daily-YouTube-Videos-Now-In-WebM?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "OSNews has an [0]update on the WebM project
from a presentation given by Google's John Luther and Matt Frost at the
Streaming Media West conference. OSNews writes, 'Earlier this year,
Google finally did what many of us hoped it would do: release the VP8
codec as open source. It became part of the WebM project, which combines
VP8 video with Vorbis audio in a Matroshka container. The product manager
for the WebM project, John Luther, [1]gave an update on the status of the
project (PDF) ��� and it's doing great.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/0735251&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.osnews.com/story/24021/WebM_Update_80_of_Daily_YouTube_Videos_Now_in_WebM
1. http://www.streamingmedia.com/conferences/west2010/presentations/SMWest-2010-WebM.pdf
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| The Great Cyberheist
| from the meelions-and-meelions dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @10:19 (Businesses)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1340245/The-Great-Cyberheist?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "In this week's cover story, the NY Times Magazine
[0]delves into the mind of Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who is currently
[1]doing time (the longest sentence ever handed down for computer crime
in the US) for masterminding [2] attacks on the nation's leading
retailers, reportedly costing TJ Maxx, Heartland, and other victimized
companies more than $400 million. And that may just be the tip of the
iceberg. 'The majority of the stuff I hacked was never brought into
public light,' said one of Gonzalez's partners-in-crime. Another claims
there 'were major chains and big hacks that would dwarf TJX. I'm just
waiting for them to indict us for the rest of them.' Online fraud is
still rampant in the U.S., but statistics show a major drop in 2009 from
previous years when Gonzalez was active. While reportedly not a gifted
programmer, even the Feds that Gonzalez two-timed admired his ingenuity,
likening him to top CEOs. When asked how Gonzalez rated among criminal
hackers, a prosecutor replied: 'As a leader? Unparalleled. Unparalleled
in his ability to coordinate contacts and continents and expertise.
Unparalleled in that he didn't just get a hack done ��� he got a hack done,
he got the exfiltration of the data done, he got the laundering of the
funds done. He was a five-tool player.' Accounting for time served and
good behavior, Gonzalez is expected to get out of prison in 2025." Last
June Rolling Stone ran a long profile of Albert Gonzalez written by
Sabrina Rubin Erdely; they have [3]dusted it off now that producer Eric
Eisner has embarked on the [4]development of a feature film based on
Erdely's piece.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1340245&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/124256/20-Years-For-Gonzalez-In-TJX-Hacker-Case
2. http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/03/29/1618239/TJX-Is-Biggest-Data-Breach-Ever&tid=172
3. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/17389/233391
4. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118027373?refCatId=13
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| Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick
| from the truth-of-kernel dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @11:25 (Programming)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1351204/Kernel-Tracing-With-LTTng-On-Ubuntu-Maverick?from=newsletter
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francis-giraldeau writes "[0]Linux Tracing Toolkit (LTTng) provides
high-performance kernel tracing for Linux. This is the killer app for
system level debugging and performance tuning. It's now easier than ever
to install, with packages released for [1]Ubuntu Maverick. The short
[2]introduction to kernel tracing shows how to interpret a simple kernel
trace and relate it to strace. I would like to ask Slashdot readers what
they would expect as features for a kernel tracing analysis tool, because
I'm starting my PhD on this topic and looking for ideas. Also, I wonder
why LTTng is not mainline yet. Will Linus Torvalds see the light in
2011?"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1351204&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://lttng.org/
1. https://launchpad.net/~lttng/+archive/ppa/+index
2. http://multivax.blogspot.com/2010/11/introduction-to-linux-tracing-toolkit.html
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| Replacing Sports Bloggers With an Algorithm
| from the something-about-overlords dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @12:33 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1454259/Replacing-Sports-Bloggers-With-an-Algorithm?from=newsletter
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[0]tesmar tips a report up at TechCrunch that begins "Here come the robo
sports journalists. While people in the media biz worry about content
mills like Demand Media and Associated Content spitting out endless
SEO-targeted articles written by low-paid Internet writers, at least
those articles are still written by humans. We may no longer need the
humans, at least for data-driven stories. A startup in North Carolina,
StatSheet, today is launching a remarkable network of 345 sports sites,
one dedicated to each Division 1 college basketball tam in the US. For
instance, there is a site for the Michigan State Spartans, North Carolina
Tar Heels, and Ohio Buckeyes. [1]Every story on each site was written by
a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet's content algorithms.
'The posts are completely auto-generated,' says founder Robbie Allen.
'The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate
the posts.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1454259&from=newsletter
Links:
0. mailto:tyleresmart@gmail.com
1. http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/automated-news-sports-statsheet/
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| Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook
| from the graven-images dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @13:35 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/177231/Saudi-Arabia-Bans-Facebook?from=newsletter
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gandhi_2 sends in a brief Associated Press piece on [0]Saudi Arabia's
blocking of Facebook. "An official with Saudi Arabia's communications
authority says it has blocked Facebook because the popular social
networking website doesn't conform with the kingdom's conservative
values. ... He says Facebook's content had 'crossed a line' with the
kingdom's conservative morals, but that blocking the site is a temporary
measure." [1]Some reports indicate that at least some individual Facebook
pages can be reached from inside the kingdom. There hasn't been an
official announcement; the source noted above requested anonymity.
Earlier this year when [2]Pakistan and [3]Bangladesh banned Facebook, it
was over particular content ��� cartoons of Mohammed ��� and the Saudi ban
may prove similar once more details emerge.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/177231&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iILDGwFR-5nxbYbTGSXgyhv8IZWQ?docId=5122083
1. http://www.batangastoday.com/facebook-blocked-in-saudi-arabia/5799/
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/19/216245/Pakistan-Court-Orders-Facebook-Ban-Over-Mohammed-Images
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/30/2127234/Bangladesh-Blocks-Facebook-Over-Muhammad-Cartoons
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| Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool
| from the dual-use dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @14:46 (Censorship)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1548243/Fedora-Project-Drops-SQLNinja-Hacker-Tool?from=newsletter
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[0]simonb writes, "In what can only be described as a fit of insanity,
the [1]Fedora Board have declared a 'hacker tool' not fit for entry into
their software repositories. Today your SQL injection tools, tomorrow
your nmap?" The Register links the [2]Fedora board's meeting minutes.
From the story: "The move came on Monday in a unanimous vote by the
Fedora Project's board of directors rejecting a request that SQLNinja be
added to the archive of open-source applications. It came even as a long
list of other hacker tools are included in the bundle and was harshly
criticized by some security watchers. 'It seems incredibly short sighted
to reject software based on perceived legal usage,' said Jacob Appelbaum,
a full-time programmer for the Tor Project. 'They have decided to become
judges of likely usage based on their own experience. That is a path of
madness.' ... [T]he board unanimously decided to add a new statement to
Fedora's legal guidelines concerning the inclusion of hacking tools. ...
Smith said the language is intended to clarify its stance on a class of
software that can be used both to secure and penetrate protected
networks."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1548243&from=newsletter
Links:
0. mailto:simonb@kaizo.org
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/fedora_hacker_tool_ban/
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-11-08
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| Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers
| from the pennies-at-a-time dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @15:50 (Botnet)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1732205/Researchers-Take-Down-Koobface-Servers?from=newsletter
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splitenz notes the first actions in the [0]war against the Koobface
botnet, taken on the heels of a [1]comprehensive report (PDF) on the
operations of the botnet and the criminal gang behind it. The researchers
who analyzed Koobface are the same ones who [2]brought Ghostnet to light.
"Security researchers, working with law enforcement and Internet service
providers, have disrupted the brains of the Koobface botnet.The computer
identified as the command-and-control server used to send instructions to
infected Koobface machines was offline late Friday (US Pacific time).
Criminals behind the botnet made more than $US2 million in one year.
Facebook accounts are used to lure victims to Google Blogspot pages,
which in turn redirect them to Web servers that contain the malicious
Koobface code. This action is only a stage in the war against Koobface."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1732205&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111310-researchers-take-down-koobface.html
1. http://www.infowar-monitor.net/reports/iwm-koobface.pdf
2. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/06/167213/A-Years-Further-Research-On-an-Espionage-Network
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| The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet
| from the meet-the-new-boss dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @16:58 (Businesses)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1758242/The-Monopolies-That-Dominate-the-Internet?from=newsletter
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Tim Wu has a piece up at the Wall Street Journal pointing out that the
free-market, open Internet ��� "competition in its purest form" ��� has
evolved to be [0]dominated by monopolies. Wu argues that this is nothing
new, and that each wave of information technology in the US has followed
a similar pattern. "Today's Internet borders will probably change
eventually, especially as new markets appear. But it's hard to avoid the
conclusion that we are living in an age of large information monopolies.
Could it be that the free market on the Internet actually tends toward
monopolies? Could it even be that demand, of all things, is actually
winnowing the online free market ��� that Americans, so diverse and
individualistic, actually love these monopolies? ... Info-monopolies tend
to be good-to-great in the short term and bad-to-terrible in the long
term."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1758242&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704635704575604993311538482.html?mod=rss_Technology
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| Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction
| from the galileo-meets-picasso dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @18:01 (Books)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1823215/Edward-Tuftes-Library-Up-For-Auction?from=newsletter
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px2 writes "I was poking around Christie's auction house after taking a
look at the [0]Apple 1 when I came across this: [1]Beautiful Evidence:
The Library of Edward Tufte. He's unloading everything from Galileo and
Da Vinci firsts to a rotating Japanese astronomical text from 1801. I
guess he didn't conjure his ideas on information design from thin air."
Based on Christie's estimates, the collection of 29 artifacts could fetch
in excess of two and a quarter million dollars.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1823215&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/1914246/Old-Apple-1-Up-For-Auction-Expected-To-Go-For-160000
1. http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSaleID=22834
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| Which Language To Learn?
| from the future-proofing-the-skillset dept.
| posted by kdawson on Saturday November 13, @19:12 (Education)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/11/13/1742253/Which-Language-To-Learn?from=newsletter
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LordStormes writes "I've been a Java/C++/PHP developer for about 6 years
now. However, I'm seeing the jobs for these languages dry up, and Java in
particular is worrisome with all the [0]Oracle nonsense going on. I think
it's time to pick up a new language or risk my skills fading into
uselessness. I'm looking to do mostly Web-based back-end stuff. I've
contemplated Perl, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Go, and several other languages,
but I'll put it to you ��� what language makes the most sense now to get
the jobs? I've deliberately omitted .NET ��� I have no desire to do the
Microsoft languages."
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/13/1742253&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/1439236/The-Coming-War-Over-the-Future-of-Java
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