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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Woz Misquoted About Android Dominating IOS
* US Robots Win Big Down Under
* <em>RuneScape</em> Developer Victorious Over Patent Troll
* Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone
* Why Don't We Finish More Games?
* Laser Camera Can See Around Corners
* Wii 2 Unlikely For 2011, Maybe In 2012
* Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way
* New Bill Would Put DHS In Charge of 'Critical' Private Networks
* Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents'
* Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X
* Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown
* Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality
* The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List
* Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust
* Arduino-Based, High Powered LED Lighting Over Wi-Fi
* eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses
* Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws
* Like Democracy, the Web Needs To Be Defended
* Oregon Senator Seeks To Block COICA
* Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA
* ARM Readies Cores For 64-Bit Computing
* Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results?
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| Woz Misquoted About Android Dominating IOS
| from the too-not-good-to-be-true dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday November 18, @22:14 (Google)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0014218/Woz-Misquoted-About-Android-Dominating-IOS?from=newsletter
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bonch writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's [0]quote that Android
would dominate over iOS was widely covered by the tech press, but after
seeking clarification, Engadget reports that [1]Wozniak was misquoted by
Dutch paper De Telegraaf. 'Almost every app that I have is better on the
iPhone,' says Woz, claiming that he would never say that Android was
better than iOS. 'I'm not trying to put Android down, but I'm not
suggesting it's better than iOS by any stretch of the imagination. But it
can get greater marketshare and still be crappy.' Woz has an Engadget
account and has posted further comments to the linked article."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/0014218&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/18/1433244/Woz-Says-Android-Will-Dominate
1. http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/18/exclusive-woz-misquoted-almost-every-app-that-i-have-is-bette/
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| US Robots Win Big Down Under
| from the but-did-the-teams-afterward-get-bombed dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 19, @01:19 (Australia)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/004203/US-Robots-Win-Big-Down-Under?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "US teams dominated the [0]MAGIC 2010
autonomous robotics competition, [1]mapping and neutralizing simulated
bombs at the 250,000 sq. meter Royal Showgrounds in Adelaide, Australia.
Leading the pack with a team of fourteen robots was [2]Team Michigan,
principally from the University of Michigan, followed by the
[3]University of Pennsylvania, and [4]RASR. This contest marks the
beginning of practical robots that not only think for themselves, but
also actively coordinate with a human commander."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/004203&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://defense-update.com/wp/20101117_magic_2010.html
1. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/robots-get-down-and-dirty/story-e6frea83-1225952814560
2. http://april.eecs.umich.edu/magic/
3. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/media/feature-magic-2010.php
4. http://www.roboticresearch.com/programdetail.php?pid=48
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| <em>RuneScape</em> Developer Victorious Over Patent Troll
| from the vanquishing-trolls dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @02:35 (Patents)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0550219/RuneScape-Developer-Victorious-Over-Patent-Troll?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Gamasutra reports that a US District Court
judge has dismissed the patent infringement lawsuit brought against
RuneScape developer Jagex [0]discussed previously on Slashdot. Judge
David Folsom last week [1]dismissed online chat company Paltalk's claims
that Jagex infringed on Paltalk patents relating to online network
communications. The judge's ruling only resolved Jagex's case. Microsoft
settled with Paltalk for an undisclosed sum in 2009 after the online
communication technology company sued over the patents in a $90 million
claim. That settlement opened the door to Paltalk's claims against other
game companies, including Blizzard, Turbine, SOE and NCSoft. Paltalk
alleged in the Jagex-related suit that it had suffered 'tens of millions
of dollars' in damages. Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard said in a statement, 'It
is exceedingly unfortunate that the US legal system can force a company
with a sole presence in Cambridge, UK to incur a seven-digit expense and
waste over a year of management time on a case with absolutely no merit,'
and that Jagex 'will not hesitate to vigorously defend our position
against any patent trolls who bring lawsuits against us in the future.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/0550219&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/18/0347209/Major-MMO-Publishers-Sued-For-Patent-Infringement
1. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31597/UKBased_RuneScape_Dev_Jagex_Wins_Patent_Infringement_Lawsuit.php
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| Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone
| from the gesticulate-wildly dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 19, @04:26 (Businesses)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/18/2321245/Paying-With-the-Wave-of-a-Cellphone?from=newsletter
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holy_calamity writes "Tech Review discusses how it will soon be possible
to pay in stores by [0]waving your cellphone over a contactless reader,
thanks to new handsets due next year, and RFID stickers and cases offered
today by firms including Visa. It's convenient for shoppers, but a major
driver of the technology is the opportunity for retailers to gain access
to their customers' cellphones and social networks for marketing
purposes."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/18/2321245&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/26647/
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| Why Don't We Finish More Games?
| from the attention-deficit-dis-hey-what's-that dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @06:07 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0614250/Why-Dont-We-Finish-More-Games?from=newsletter
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IGN has an opinion piece discussing why, as video games get shorter, we
seem [0]less likely to finish them than in the past. For example, BioWare
said only 50% of Mass Effect 2 players finished the campaign. The article
goes into several reasons gamers are likely to drop games without beating
them, such as lowered expectations, show-stopping bugs, and the ease with
which we can find another game if this one doesn't suit us. Quoting: "...
now that gamers have come to expect the annualized franchise, does that
limit the impetus to jump on the train knowing another one will pull up
to the station soon enough? ... In the past, once you bought a game, it
was pretty much yours unless you gave it to somebody else or your family
held a garage sale. The systemic rise of the used games market now offers
you an escape route if a game just isn't your bag. Is the middle of a
game testing your patience? Then why not sell it back to your local game
shop, get money back in your pocket, or trade it in for a game that's
better ��� or at least better suited for your tastes? After all, the sooner
you ditch it either at a shop or on an online auction site, the more
value you stand to get in return."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/0614250&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://psp.ign.com/articles/113/1135373p1.html
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| Laser Camera Can See Around Corners
| from the good-skill-to-pick-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 19, @07:20 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0449226/Laser-Camera-Can-See-Around-Corners?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers at MIT have developed a [1]laser
camera that can 'see' around corners and take pictures of a scene not in
its direct line of sight. The camera system fires extremely short bursts
of light that can reflect off one object, such as the open door of a
room, and then off a second object inside the room before [2]reflecting
back to the first object and being captured by the camera, after which
algorithms can use the information to reconstruct the hidden scene
exploiting the fact that it is possible to capture light at extremely
short time scales, about one quadrillionth of a second. By continuously
gathering light and computing the time and distance that each pixel has
traveled, the camera creates a '3D time-image' of the scene it can't
directly see. 'It's like having X-ray vision without the X-rays,' says
Professor Ramesh Raskar. 'We're going around the problem rather than
going through it.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/0449226&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot
1. http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/11/17/Laser-camera-sees-around-corners/UPI-39981290042558/
2. http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/femto/
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| Wii 2 Unlikely For 2011, Maybe In 2012
| from the still-a-few-more-old-franchises-to-resurrect dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @08:28 (Nintendo)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0554250/Wii-2-Unlikely-For-2011-Maybe-In-2012?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "As discussed on Slashdot earlier this year,
the lack of a next-generation Wii may be [0]hurting Nintendo. That
doesn't seem to concern the company's US chief, Reggie Fils-Aime, [1]who
said this week that a Wii 2 might not appear until 2012. He wants to sell
a few million more consoles before a successor is launched. So, no Wii 2
for 2010 or 2011 ��� meanwhile, the PS3 and Xbox consoles get motion
control support and other content enhancements. What does that mean for
the success of Nintendo's gaming console business? [2]Has the innovator
been out-innovated due to a sluggish product roadmap?"
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/0554250&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/07/0413208/Wii-2-Delay-Is-Hurting-Nintendo
1. http://kotaku.com/5688540/wii-2-is-not-a-must-for-late-2011
2. http://www.cio.com.au/article/368660/wii_worry_convergence_powers_gaming_ahead/
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| Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way
| from the just-visiting dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 19, @09:08 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0433257/Extra-Galactic-Planet-Discovered-In-Milky-Way?from=newsletter
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[0]astroengine writes "Between six to nine billion years ago, the Milky
Way collided with another galaxy. As you'd expect, this caused quite a
mess; stars, dust and gas being ripped from the intergalactic interloper.
In fact, to this day, the dust hasn't quite settled and [1]astronomers
have spotted an odd-looking exoplanet orbiting a metal-poor star 2,000
light-years from Earth. Through a careful process of elimination, the
extrasolar planet (known as HIP 13044b) actually works out to be an
extragalactic planet, a surviving relic of the massive collision eons
ago."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/0433257&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/space/adopted-planet-milky-way.html
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| New Bill Would Put DHS In Charge of 'Critical' Private Networks
| from the too-big-to-404 dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @09:50 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1316215/New-Bill-Would-Put-DHS-In-Charge-of-Critical-Private-Networks?from=newsletter
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GovTechGuy writes "A new bill unveiled Wednesday by House Homeland
Security chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) would give the Department of
Homeland Security the authority to [0]enforce federal cybersecurity
standards on private sector companies deemed critical to national
security. The Homeland Security Cyber and Physical Infrastructure
Protection Act of 2010 authorizes DHS to establish and enforce risk and
performance-based cybersecurity standards on federal agencies and private
sector companies considered part of the country's critical
infrastructure. Such firms include utilities, communications providers
and financial institutions."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1316215&from=newsletter
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| Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents'
| from the collateral-profit dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @10:31 (Piracy)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1339220/Anti-Piracy-Lawyers-Knew-Letters-Hit-Innocents?from=newsletter
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nk497 writes "A UK legal watchdog has claimed lawyers who sent out
letters demanding settlement payments from alleged file-sharers [0]knew
they would end up hitting innocent people. The Solicitors Regulators
Authority said the two Davenport Lyons lawyers 'knew that in conducting
generic campaigns against those identified as IP holders whose IP numeric
had been used for downloading or uploading of material that they might in
such generic campaigns be targeting people innocent of any copyright
breach.' The SRA also said the two lawyers lost their independence
because they convinced right holders to allow them to act on their behalf
by waiving hourly fees and instead taking a cut of the settlements. The
pair earned ��150,000 of the ��370,000 collected from alleged file-sharers.
Because they were looking to recoup their own costs, the lawyers ignored
clients' concerns about the negative publicity the letter campaign could
��� and eventually did ��� cause, the SRA claimed."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1339220&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/362980/anti-piracy-lawyers-knew-letters-targeted-innocent-people
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| Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X
| from the barn-doors-and-horses dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @11:14 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1414248/Adobe-Launches-Sandboxed-Reader-X?from=newsletter
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CWmike writes "Adobe on Wednesday released Reader X, the next version of
its popular software that [0]includes a 'sandbox' designed to protect
users from PDF attacks. Protected Mode is Adobe's response to experts'
demands that the company beef up the security of Reader, which is
aggressively targeted by attackers. Calling the sandbox a 'new
advancement' in protective measures, Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of
security and privacy, admitted it will not stymie every attack. But [1]he
argued it will help. 'Even if exploitable security vulnerabilities are
found by an attacker, Adobe Reader Protected Mode will [2]help prevent
the attacker from writing files or installing malware on potential
victims' computers,' Arkin said in a post to a company blog late on
Thursday."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1414248&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197230/Adobe_launches_sandboxed_Reader_X
1. http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/11/adobe-reader-x-is-here.html
2. http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/10/inside-adobe-reader-protected-mode-%E2%80%93-part-2-%E2%80%93-the-sandbox-process.html
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| Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown
| from the as-are-most-things dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @11:55 (Networking)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1527217/Claims-About-Chinas-April-Internet-Hijack-Are-Overblown?from=newsletter
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sturgeon writes "Yesterday, [0]we discussed what most of the world's
major media outlets were reporting on [1]China's April 2010 hijack of
'15% of Internet traffic,' including sensitive US government and defense
sites. The alarm came following a [2]US Government report (see page 244)
on China / US economic and security relations released on Tuesday.
Unfortunately, few bothered with fact checking or actually reading the
report. The actual study never makes any estimate of Internet traffic
diverted during the hijack ��� it only cites a blog post to suggest large
volumes of traffic were involved. And curiously, the cited blog at the
heart of the report [3]never mentions traffic at all ��� only routes. You
have to go to [4]an interview with a third-party security researcher in a
minor trade magazine to first come up with the 15% number (and this
article never explains where the number came from). In a review of real
data and actual facts, Arbor Nework's Craig Labovitz has a blog post
[5]looking at the traffic volumes involved in the incident (only a couple
of Gigabits per second, or a 'statistically insignificant' percentage of
Internet traffic)."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1527217&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/16/1838223/For-18-Minutes-15-of-the-Internet-Routed-Through-China
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/09/1930220/Chinese-ISP-Hijacks-the-Internet-Again
2. http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2010/10_annual_report.php
3. http://bgpmon.net/blog/?p=282
4. http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=249
5. http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2010/11/china-hijacks-15-of-internet-traffic/
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| Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality
| from the your-teleporter-concept-will-need-a-redesign dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @12:37 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1548249/Uncertainty-Sets-Limits-On-Quantum-Nonlocality?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Research in today's issue of the journal
Science [0]helps explain why quantum theory is as weird as it is, but not
weirder. Ex-hacker Stephanie Wehner and physicist Jonathan Oppenheim
showed that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle sets limits on
Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance.' Wired reports that the
discovery was made by 'thinking of things in the way a hacker might' to
uncover a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum
physics ([1]abstract, [2]supplement). Oppenheim [3]describes how
uncertainty and nonlocality are like coding problems, enabling us to make
a quantitative link between two of the cornerstones of quantum theory."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1548249&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/entangled-uncertainty/
1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6007/1072.short
2. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2010/11/17/330.6007.1072.DC1/Oppenheim.SOM.pdf
3. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/uncertainty-nonlocality.html
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| The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List
| from the nobody-cares-about-the-bottom-490-or-so dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @13:20 (Supercomputing)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1651227/The-Problem-With-the-Top500-Supercomputer-List?from=newsletter
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[0]angry tapir writes "The Top500 list of supercomputers is dutifully
watched by high-performance computing participants and observers, even as
they vocally doubt its fidelity to excellence. [1]Many question the use
of a single metric ��� Linpack ��� to rank the performance of something as
mind-bogglingly complex as a supercomputer. During a panel at the SC2010
conference this week in New Orleans, one high-performance-computing
vendor executive joked about stringing together 100,000 Android
smartphones to get the largest Linpack number, thereby revealing the
'stupidity' of Linpack. While grumbling about Linpack is nothing new, the
discontent was pronounced this year as more systems, [2]such as the
Tianhe-1A, used GPUs to boost Linpack ratings, in effect gaming the
Top500 list." Fortunately, Sandia National Laboratories is heading an
effort to [3]develop a new set of benchmarks. In other supercomputer
news, it turns out the Windows-based cluster that lost out to Linux
stumbled [4]because of a bug in Microsoft's software package. Several
readers have also pointed out that [5]IBM's Blue Gene/Q has taken the top
spot in the [6]Green500 for energy efficient supercomputing, while [7]a
team of students built the third-place system.
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1651227&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/
1. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/368598/supercomputing_top500_brews_discontent/
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/14/1923240/Windows-Cluster-Hits-a-Petaflop-But-Linux-Retains-Top-5-Spot
3. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210875/Sandia-upgrades-supercomputer-benchmarks
4. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/software-bug-derailed-windows-bid-top-linux-s
5. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101119/tc_pcworld/ibmtopsgreen500list
6. http://www.green500.org/
7. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/19/students-build-leading-green-supercomputer/
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| Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust
| from the gabbroic-added-to-spellchecker dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @14:01 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1736251/Life-Found-In-Deepest-Layer-of-Earths-Crust?from=newsletter
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michaelmarshall writes "For the first time, [0]life has been found in the
gabbroic layer of the crust. The new biosphere is all bacteria, as you
might expect, but they are different from the bacteria in the layers
above; they mostly [1]feed on hydrocarbons that are produced by abiotic
reactions deep in the crust. It could mean that similar microbes are
living even deeper, perhaps even in the mantle."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1736251&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827874.800-life-is-found-in-deepest-layer-of-earths-crust.html
1. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0015399
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| Arduino-Based, High Powered LED Lighting Over Wi-Fi
| from the hacking-up-some-trippiness dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @14:45 (Hardware Hacking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1825242/Arduino-Based-High-Powered-LED-Lighting-Over-Wi-Fi?from=newsletter
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Gibbs-Duhem writes "This awesome [0]video was produced by some MIT
engineers recently. They've started a [1]fully open-source, open-hardware
high power LED lighting project that they designed to be modular enough
to control with the [2]Arduino (or any other control system). Using their
open-source firmware, you can set up the Arduino to connect to Wi-Fi and
receive [3]Open Sound Control packets. Then, they went further and
released open-source software for [4]PureData and Python to do music
analysis and make the lights flash brilliantly in time with the music! A
[5]full Instructable was also posted in addition to the existing
[6]documentation for design and assembly on their website."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1825242&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_tH7BxYDjE
1. http://saikoled.com/
2. http://arduino.cc/
3. http://opensoundcontrol.org/
4. http://puredata.info/about-pure-data
5. http://www.instructables.com/id/Ultra-bright-LED-Color-Changing-Spotlight-using-Op/
6. http://saikoled.com/documentation/
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| eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses
| from the bringing-the-wisdom-of-youtube-commenters-to-federal-justice dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @15:25 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1911214/eJuror-Will-Lead-To-New-List-of-Jury-Duty-Excuses?from=newsletter
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coondoggie writes "Now you can say your jury duty request got lost in the
cloud, or that the network was down, or the Internet ate it. That's
because the US District Court system is [0]close to completing a rollout
of its national eJuror system that lets prospective jurors have the
option of responding to their jury questionnaire or summons online. About
80 of the 94 US district courts have had [1]the eJuror software installed
and more than half of those courts [2]are already live on the system."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1911214&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-court-ejuror-system-could-lead-whole-new-l
1. http://www.uscourts.gov/Multimedia/Videos.aspx?video_url=http://www.uscourts.gov/video/source/News/AO-OPAF2010-046JNeJurorL.f4v&video_image=/uscourts/video/News/jn_20101105_preview480x270.jpg&video_id=jn_20101105
2. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_660414.html
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| Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws
| from the computer-may-or-may-not-generate-black-holes dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @16:07 (Businesses)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/1931231/Lawsuit-Shows-Dell-Hid-Extent-of-Computer-Flaws?from=newsletter
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Geoffrey.landis writes "According to an article in the New York Times,
documents revealed in a lawsuit against Dell show that the computer maker
[0]hid the extent of possible damages due to a faulty capacitor in the
computers it shipped from 2003 to 2005. Dell employees were told, 'Don't
bring this to customer's attention proactively,' and '[1]emphasize
uncertainty.' (PDF) 'As it tried to deal with the mounting issues, Dell
began ranking customers by importance, putting first those who might move
their accounts to another PC maker, followed by those who might curtail
sales and giving the lowest priority to those who were bothered but still
willing to stick with Dell.' In other words, the most loyal customers got
the worst treatment."
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/1931231&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/technology/19docs.html
1. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/uncertainity.pdf
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| Like Democracy, the Web Needs To Be Defended
| from the time-to-arm-the-internet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @16:46 (The Internet)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/2023201/Like-Democracy-the-Web-Needs-To-Be-Defended?from=newsletter
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[0]climenole tips a great article by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in Scientific
American. Quoting: "The Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool
because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of
individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently
and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, to expand its
capabilities based on those principles. The Web as we know it, however,
[1]is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful
inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large
social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users
from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet providers are being tempted
to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals. Governments
��� totalitarian and democratic alike ��� are monitoring people's online
habits, endangering important human rights. If we, the Web's users, allow
these and other trends to proceed unchecked, the Web could be broken into
fragmented islands. We could lose the freedom to connect with whichever
Web sites we want."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/2023201&from=newsletter
Links:
0. mailto:climenole@%5B%5Dil.com%5B'gma'ingap%5D
1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
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| Oregon Senator Seeks To Block COICA
| from the standing-up dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @17:28 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/218251/Oregon-Senator-Seeks-To-Block-COICA?from=newsletter
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jfruhlinger writes "The COICA copyright bill may have [0]sailed through
committee, but that doesn't mean it's a done deal. Senator Ron Wyden of
Oregon, calling it the 'wrong medicine' to block copyright violations, is
threatening to put a hold on the bill, which would [1]block its adoption
through at least the end of the year."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/218251&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/18/2156252/Senate-Panel-Approves-Website-Shut-Down-Bill
1. http://www.itworld.com/internet/128312/senator-threatens-block-online-copyright-bill
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| Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA
| from the sees-right-through-them dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @18:08 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/2126204/Bruce-Schneier-vs-the-TSA?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier has [0]posted a huge recap of
the controversy over TSA body scanners, including more information about
[1]the lawsuit he joined to ban them. There's too much news to summarize,
but it covers everything from [2]Penn Jillette's and [3]Dave Barry's
grope stories, to [4]Israeli experts who say this isn't needed and hasn't
ever stopped a bomb, to the [5]three-year-old girl who was traumatized by
being groped and much, much more." Another reader passed along a related
article, which says, "Congressman Ron Paul lashed out at the TSA
yesterday and [6]introduced a bill aimed at stopping federal abuse of
passengers. Paul���s proposed legislation would pave the way for TSA
employees to be sued for feeling up Americans and putting them through
unsafe naked body scanners."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/2126204&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html?nc=96
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/158250/EPIC-Files-Lawsuit-To-Suspend-Airport-Body-Scanner-Use
2. http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html
3. http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2010/11/groin-update.html
4. http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2941610&sponsor=
5. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/17/1620203/TSA-Pats-Down-3-Year-Old
6. http://www.tgdaily.com/event-coverage-brief/52602-new-bill-aims-to-eliminate-tsa-scanning-groping
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| ARM Readies Cores For 64-Bit Computing
| from the exponential-growth dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @18:50 (Upgrades)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/2136242/ARM-Readies-Cores-For-64-Bit-Computing?from=newsletter
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[0]snydeq writes "ARM Holdings will unveil new plans for [1]processing
cores that support 64-bit computing within the next few weeks, and has
already shown samples at private viewings, InfoWorld reports. ARM's move
to put out a 64-bit processing core will give its partners more options
to design products for more markets, including servers, the source said.
The next ARM Cortex processor to be unveiled will support 64-bit
computing. An announcement of the processor could come as early as next
week, and may provide further evidence of a [2]collision course with
Intel."
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/2136242&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/hardware/arm-readies-processing-cores-64-bit-computing-649
2. http://www.infoworld.com/d/hardware/arm-vs-atom-battle-next-digital-frontier-762
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| Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results?
| from the where-the-pigeons-roost dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 19, @19:33 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/234216/Hard-Coded-Bias-In-Google-Search-Results?from=newsletter
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bonch writes "Technology consultant Benjamin Edelman has developed a
methodology for determining [0]the existence of a hard-coded bias in
Google's search engine which places Google's services at the top of the
results page. Searching for a stock ticker places Google Finance at the
top along with a price chart, but adding a comma to the end of the query
removes the Google link completely. Other variations, such as 'a sore
throat' instead of 'sore throat,' removes Google Health from its top
position. Queries in other categories provide links to not only Google
services but also their preferred partners. Though Google claims it does
not bias its results, Edelman cites a 2007 admission from Google's
Marissa Mayers that they placed Google Finance at the top of the results
page, calling it 'only fair' because they made the search engine. Edelman
notes that Google cites its use of unbiased algorithms to dismiss
antitrust scrutiny, and he recalls the DOJ's intervention in airlines
providing favorable results for its own flights in customer reservation
systems they owned."
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http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/234216&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.benedelman.org/hardcoding/
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