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In this issue:
* Graphene Nobel Prize Committee Criticized For Inaccuracies
* Japanese Game Developers Go West
* Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized
* China Demonstrates 25+ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
* Traffic Jams In Your Brain
* P2P Litigation Crippled In DC District Court Ruling
* British Gov't Releases Spending Data
* The Future of Android — Does It Belong To Bing and Baidu?
* Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill
* Chess Terminator Robot Takes On Former World Champ
* Facebook Messaging Blocks Links
* Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design
* Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003?
* Scalpers Bought Tickets With CAPTCHA-Busting Botnet
* Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids?
* Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business
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| Graphene Nobel Prize Committee Criticized For Inaccuracies
| from the you-guys-missed-my-first-monograph dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday November 19, @22:16 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0058246/Graphene-Nobel-Prize-Committee-Criticized-For-Inaccuracies?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "A leading researcher in the field of graphene
has published a [0]letter to the Nobel committee asking them to address
significant problems with the factual accuracy of the [1]supporting
documents that laid the case for awarding Andrei Geim and Konstantin
Novoselov the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. [2] Nature talks with letter
author Walt de Heer about his claims that, aside from factual
inaccuracies, the document diminishes the role of other groups and 'reads
like a nomination letter.' At least one change has already been made by
the committee."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/0058246&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.gatech.edu/graphene/
1. http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/NobelBackgrounder.17November2010.pdf
2. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101118/full/news.2010.620.html
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| Japanese Game Developers Go West
| from the bring-ideas dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @22:27 (Businesses)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/2141249/Japanese-Game-Developers-Go-West?from=newsletter
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donniebaseball23 writes "More and more Japanese game studios and
publishers are looking toward the West. But as the industry becomes more
global, is this really such a bad thing? From the article: 'Gameplay is
an art that transcends borders, and it simply makes good business sense
to keep your eyes open for opportunities no matter where they present
themselves, as Zenimax, EA and THQ clearly have. Far from ruining the
Japanese gaming industry, it [0]may in fact save some of the best
Japanese developers from considering retirement or a career change.
They'll be able to make games on their own terms with their own original
IP, and shouldn't it ultimately be about these creative types being able
to realize their visions?""
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/2141249&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/opinion-japan-goes-west/
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| Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized
| from the why-do-you-hate-america dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @01:06 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0332243/Whitehat-Hacker-Moxie-Marlinspikes-Laptop-Cellphones-Seized?from=newsletter
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Orome1 writes "The well-known whitehat hacker and security researcher who
goes by the handle [0]Moxie Marlinspike has recently experienced
firsthand the electronic device search that travelers are sometimes
submitted to by border agents when entering the country. He was returning
from the Dominican Republic by plane, and when he landed at JFK airport,
he was greeted by two US Customs officials and taken to a detention room
where they kept him for almost five hours, took his laptop and two cell
phones and asked for the passwords needed to access the encrypted
material on them."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/0332243&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10187
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| China Demonstrates 25+ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
| from the we-can-seeeeee-you dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @03:57 (The Military)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0322235/China-Demonstrates-25-Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles?from=newsletter
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overThruster writes "The Wall Street Journal and Defense News report that
China had [0]more than 25 different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on
display at the Zhuhai Airshow. In addition to a jet powered UAV that is
potentially faster than US made drones such as the Predator and Reaper,
the Chinese have developed an unmanned 'thopter' for surveillance. 'ASN
showed off 10 different UAVs, including the new ASN-211 Flapping Wing
Aircraft System, which simulates a bird in flight. The prototype on
display has a take-off weight of only 220 grams with a maximum speed of
six-to-10 meters a second and an altitude ranging from 20-200 meters. A
spokesperson said the micro-UAV would mainly be used for low-altitude
reconnaissance for troops in the field.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/0322235&from=newsletter
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| Traffic Jams In Your Brain
| from the call-mine-the-concentrator dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @07:01 (Math)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0528237/Traffic-Jams-In-Your-Brain?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Carl Zimmer's latest foray into neuroscience
examines why the brain [0]can get jammed up by a simple math problem:
'Its trillions of connections let it carry out all sorts of sophisticated
computations in very little time. You can scan a crowded lobby and pick
out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even
today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task
that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.'
Some scientists think mental tasks can get stuck in bottlenecks because
everything has to go through a certain neural network they call 'the
router.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/0528237&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://discovermagazine.com/2010/nov/15-the-brain-router-in-our-heads-processing-bottleneck/
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| P2P Litigation Crippled In DC District Court Ruling
| from the civil-procedure dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @09:25 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0538211/P2P-Litigation-Crippled-In-DC-District-Court-Ruling?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "In a stunning defeat for the US Copyright
Group, DC District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer is forcing copyright
holders to sue only those over whom the DC court has personal
jurisdiction. The USCG has [0]sued in the DC court more than 4,500 people
on behalf of a German producer that created the Far Cry movie. But the
Judge is having none of that; in [1]her ruling [Friday], Judge Collyer
stated that only those who are in the DC court's jurisdiction can be sued
��� shrinking what could have been a windfall of defendant's cash to
perhaps a mere trickle."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/0538211&from=newsletter
Links:
0. https://www.eff.org/cases/uscg-v-people
1. http://www.slyck.com/story2132_John_Does_Win_Big_In_Far_Cry_Case_US_Copyright_Group_Lawsuit_Campaign_Potentially_Crippled
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| British Gov't Releases Spending Data
| from the let's-play-catch-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @10:29 (United Kingdom)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1422219/British-Govt-Releases-Spending-Data?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "In a move sure to have transparency activists
salivating, the UK government has released some 195,000 lines of data
detailing its financial outgoings. The BBC reports that 'All [0]spending
of more than ��25,000 made between May and September was published ��� in
line with a pre-election commitment by the Conservatives ��� although some
departments also published spending over ��500. People are being
encouraged to pick through the enormous quantity of online information to
spot waste and hold ministers to account.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1422219&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11792894
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| The Future of Android — Does It Belong To Bing and Baidu?
| from the jaws-of-victory dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @11:32 (Google)
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1431246/The-Future-of-Android-mdash-Does-It-Belong-To-Bing-and-Baidu?from=newsletter
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[0]hype7 writes "Given the [1]recent [2]publicity about Android and
Google, the Harvard Business Review are offering [3]another interesting
perspective. They argue that Google runs a serious risk of losing control
of Android, as competitors such as [4]Bing and [5]Baidu move in. It
certainly presents an interesting possibility ��� that Android could win
but Google wouldn't see any benefit out of it."
Discuss this story at:
http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1431246&from=newsletter
Links:
0. mailto:u3295110.anu@edu@au
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/18/1433244/Woz-Says-Android-Will-Dominate
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/0014218/Woz-Misquoted-About-Android-Dominating-IOS
3. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/11/did_google_train_its_own_enemi.html
4. http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-google-bing-2010-9
5. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703294904575384600415735996.html
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| Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill
| from the west-coast-style dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @12:37 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1437259/Oregon-Senator-Stops-Internet-Censorship-Bill?from=newsletter
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comforteagle writes "Senator Wyden of Oregon has [0]objected to a bill in
committee that if passed would have given the government the [1]ability
to censor the Internet. His objection effectively stop its current
passing, forcing it to be introduced again if the bill is to continue ���
which it may not. Oregonians, please send this man pats on the back."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1437259&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/oregon-senator-vows-block-internet-censorship-bill/
1. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3804/show
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| Chess Terminator Robot Takes On Former World Champ
| from the robots-control-you dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @13:36 (Classic Games (Games))
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/162211/Chess-Terminator-Robot-Takes-On-Former-World-Champ?from=newsletter
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Zothecula writes with this excerpt from Gizmag: "For almost as long as
we've had computers, humans have been trying to make ones that play
chess. The most famous chess-playing computer of course is IBM's Deep
Blue, which in 1997 defeated the then World Champion Garry Kasparov. But
as powerful as Deep Blue was, it didn't actually move the chess pieces on
its own. Perhaps that's a trivial task in comparison to beating the best
chess player of all time, but it's still exciting to discover this recent
[0]video of a chess robot that more closely fits the true definition of a
chess automaton." My favorite part: "Note that around the 2:45 mark
Kramnik extends his hand offering a draw, but the robot ��� since it's not
fitted with any kind of optical device ��� just keeps playing, very nearly
taking off Kramnik's hand in the process!"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/162211&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/chess-terminator-robot-takes-on-kramnik-in-match/16996/
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| Facebook Messaging Blocks Links
| from the deep-packets dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @14:30 (Facebook)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1636209/Facebook-Messaging-Blocks-Links?from=newsletter
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jhigh writes "With the launch of the new Facebook messaging system
designed to encourage account holders to utilize Facebook for all of
their messaging needs, one would think that Facebook would recognize that
it cannot continue to block content that it disagrees with. However,
Wired reports that Facebook messaging, like the rest of the social
networking application, [0]continues to block links to torrents and other
file sharing sites, even when users are sending messages via their
facebook.com email address. Say what you want about the morality of using
file sharing services to share copyrighted material, if Facebook wishes
to become a player in the email market, they cannot block content."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1636209&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/facebook-link-blocking/
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| Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design
| from the always-at-war-with-eurasia dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @15:34 (Microsoft)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1850212/Microsoft-Says-Kinect-Left-Open-By-Design?from=newsletter
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kai_hiwatari writes "Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty
for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it
clear that they didn't condone it. Now Microsoft [0]seems to have
realized the potential of their device and has made a U-turn. Alex
Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect
open by design. Kipman said, 'What has happened is someone wrote an
open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection,
which we didn't protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the
sensor.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1850212&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2010/11/20/microsoft-says-yes-to-kinect-hacking/
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| Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003?
| from the if-that-then-this dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @16:36 (Communications)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1855257/Did-an-Apple-Engineer-Invent-FB-Messages-In-2003?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "Q. How many Facebook engineers does it take in 2010 to
duplicate a lone Apple engineer's 2003 effort? A. [0]15! On Nov. 15th,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg [1]introduced Facebook Messages, which uses
whatever method of communication is appropriate at the time ��� e.g.,
email, IM, SMS. A day later, ex-Apple software engineer Jens Alfke was
granted a patent for his 2003 invention of a [2]Method and apparatus for
processing electronic messages, which ��� you guessed it ��� employs the most
appropriate messaging method ��� e.g., email, IM, SMS ��� for the job. Citing
Apple's lack of passion for social software, Alfke [3]left Apple in 2008.
After a [4]layover at Google, Alfke landed at startup [5]Rockmelt, whose
still-in-beta 'social web browser' also sports a [6]pretty nifty
communications platform."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1855257&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2010/11/16/whats-facebook-messages-facebook-made-a-video-to-explain/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/15/1838247/New-Facebook-Messaging-System-Announced
2. http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7836136
3. http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/01/gone-indie/
4. http://www.linkedin.com/in/jensalfke
5. http://www.rockmelt.com/
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bAPKPhoTqFY
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| Scalpers Bought Tickets With CAPTCHA-Busting Botnet
| from the free-market-solution dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @17:35 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/1950257/Scalpers-Bought-Tickets-With-CAPTCHA-Busting-Botnet?from=newsletter
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alphadogg writes "Three California men have pleaded guilty to charges
they built a network of [0]CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online
ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen
concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the
Stars. The men ran a company called Wiseguy Tickets, and for years they
had an inside track on some of the best seats in the house at many
events. They scored about 1.5 million tickets after hiring Bulgarian
programmers to build 'a nationwide network of computers that impersonated
individual visitors' on websites such as Ticketmaster, MLB.com and
LiveNation, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said Thursday in a press
release. The network would 'flood vendors computers at the exact moment
that event tickets went on sale,' the DoJ said. They had to create shell
corporations, register hundreds of fake Internet domains (one was
stupidcellphone.com) and sign up for thousands of bogus e-mail addresses
to make the scam work."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/1950257&from=newsletter
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-wiseguy-scalpers-bought-tickets-with.html
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| Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids?
| from the grey-putty-and-wires dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @18:31 (Christmas Cheer)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/195242/Thought-Provoking-Gifts-For-Young-Kids?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Societal norms and my sibling's procreative
endeavors have put me in the position of having to buy gifts twice a year
for young children. What makes them happy are unremarkable bits of
plastic. They already have innumerable unremarkable bits of plastic (from
their parents and grandparents). My preference would be to get them gifts
that challenge them to think creatively (or at least to think), which
they'll be able to pick up and enjoy even after they outgrow their
train/truck/homemaking fetishes. Beyond the Rubik's Cube, what thinky
toys from your childhood are still in production? What new thinky toys
have you discovered that work for the 5���10 age range?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/195242&from=newsletter
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| Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business
| from the try-this-electric-notepad-bill dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @19:33 (Businesses)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/2312209/Why-Tablets-Havent-Taken-Off-In-Business?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "On PC World's blog, Keir Thomas suggests
reasons [0]why tablets have never taken off in business, and explains how
Apple's iPad was able to waltz in and steal the entire market. It's all
about giving users freedom to figure out how useful tablets can be, he
says, rather than forcing them into narrow usage scenarios: 'There's a
lot to be said for having faith in users to make best use of their
computer, without pushing and pulling them in ways you think are best for
them.'"
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http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/20/2312209&from=newsletter
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