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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success
* Ford Building Cars That Talk To Other Cars
* Engineer Designs His Own Heart Valve Implant
* Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law
* How Gaming Can Save the World
* Social Media As a Weapon In Egypt
* The Rise and Fall of Graphic Adventure Games
* Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater"
* Google Censors "Piracy Terms" From Instant Search
* Hackers Bringing Telnet Back
* Police Arrest Five Over Anonymous Attacks
* Sony Reveals the Next Generation Portable Console
* Want Your Own Bunker Like WikiLeaks Or Pirate Bay?
* NYTimes On Dealings With Assange
* Peter Jackson Hospitalized w/ Stomach Ulcer
* Hackers Increasingly Using Twitter For Botnets
* Court Rules Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security
* Clear Has Nationwide Outage
* Official — Economic Crash Not Computers' Fault
* Kinect's Grandaddy Running On an Apple IIe In 1978
* Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border
* Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013
* Android 3.0 Platform Preview and SDK Is Here
* SourceForge Down After Attack [Updated]
* Sony Wins Restraining Order Against Geohot
* Openleaks Goes Live
* KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released
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| Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success
| from the stop-figiting dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 26, @19:06 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/2237250/Self-Control-In-Kids-Predicts-Future-Success?from=newsletter
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SpuriousLogic writes "A new study suggests that a child's future success
depends on [0]the amount of self-control they exhibit. From the article:
'The international team of researchers looked at 1,037 children in New
Zealand born in the early 1970s, observing their levels of self-control
at ages 3 and 5. At ages 5, 7, 9 and 11, the team used parent, teacher
and the children's own feedback to measure such factors as impulsive
aggression, hyperactivity, lack of persistence and inattention. At age
32, they used physical exams, blood tests, records searches and personal
interviews of 96% of the original participants to determine how healthy,
wealthy and law-abiding the subjects had turned out to be. The results
were startling. In the fifth of children with the least self-control, 27%
had multiple health problems. Compare that with the fifth of kids with
the most self-control ��� at just 11%. Among the bottom fifth, 32% had an
annual income below approximately $15,000, while only 10% of the top
fifth fell into that low-income bracket. Just 26% of the top-fifth's
offspring were raised in single-parent homes, compared with 58% of those
in the bottom fifth. And 43% of the bottom fifth had been convicted of a
crime, far outstripping the top fifth's 13% rate.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/2237250/Self-Control-In-Kids-Predicts-Future-Success?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-heb-tiger-mother-20110124,0,337942.story
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| Ford Building Cars That Talk To Other Cars
| from the who-does-your-tires? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 26, @19:58 (Transportation)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/233204/Ford-Building-Cars-That-Talk-To-Other-Cars?from=newsletter
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thecarchik writes "Ford's new system works over a [0]dedicated
short-range WiFi system on a secure channel allocated by the FCC. The
company says the system one-ups radar safety systems by allowing full
360-degree coverage even when there's no direct line of sight. Scenarios
where this could benefit safety or traffic? Predicting collision courses
with unseen vehicles, seeing sudden stops before they're visible, and
spotting traffic pattern changes on a busy highway. The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported in October that
[1]vehicle-to-vehicle warning systems could address nearly 80 percent of
reported crashes not involving drunk drivers. As such, it could
potentially save tens of thousands of lives per year."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/233204/Ford-Building-Cars-That-Talk-To-Other-Cars?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.allcartech.com/blog/1054336_ford-previews-vehicle-to-vehicle-tech-at-washington-auto-show
1. http://www.allcartech.com/blog/1054335_talking-car-technology-could-reduce-accidents-save-lives
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| Engineer Designs His Own Heart Valve Implant
| from the when-you-want-something-done-right dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 26, @22:05 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0048202/Engineer-Designs-His-Own-Heart-Valve-Implant?from=newsletter
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nametaken writes "In 2000, Tal Golesworthy, a British engineer, was told
that he suffers from Marfan syndrome, a disorder of the connective tissue
that often causes rupturing of the aorta. The only solution then
available was the pairing of a mechanical valve and a highly risky blood
thinner. To an engineer like Golesworthy, that just wasn't good enough.
So [0]he constructed his own implant that does the job better than the
existing solution--and became the first patient to try it."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0048202/Engineer-Designs-His-Own-Heart-Valve-Implant?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law
| from the no-data-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @00:30 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0320209/Swedish-ISPs-To-Thwart-EU-Data-Retention-Law?from=newsletter
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aaardwark writes "After a leaked document from the department of justice
showed police will be able to demand extensive private information for
minor offenses, [0]some Swedish ISPs have decided to fight back
(translated article). By routing all traffic through VPN, they plan to
make the gathered data pointless. ISP Bahnhof says they will give you the
option to opt out of VPN, but giving up your privacy will cost extra."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0320209/Swedish-ISPs-To-Thwart-EU-Data-Retention-Law?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| How Gaming Can Save the World
| from the low-emissions-and-low-carb dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 27, @02:19 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0635230/How-Gaming-Can-Save-the-World?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Game designer and all-around interesting
person [0]Jane McGonigal just published a book arguing that playing games
will help solve the urgent problems of the real world. To mark the
publication, Discover Magazine has a Q&A with McGonigal on several
topics, such as: [1]exactly how much gaming is too much? 'There was a
really significant study that tracked 1,100 soldiers for a year, and
looked at how they were spending their free time with things they
considered coping mechanisms���using Facebook, listening to music, reading,
working out, or playing video games. They correlated this with incidences
of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicide attempts,
and domestic violence. The found that by a very wide margin, the most
psychologically protected individuals���who had the lowest rates of any of
these negative experiences���were people who were playing video games 3 to
4 hours a day. ... That was fascinating���it was more beneficial than
anything but working out 7 hours a day.' She also talks about how
relationships forged in games can change the world, and which world
problems exactly is she trying to solve via games. (Hint: think big.)"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0635230/How-Gaming-Can-Save-the-World?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
1. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/01/25/jane-mcgonigal-the-gaming-fix-for-the-real-world/
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| Social Media As a Weapon In Egypt
| from the prepare-to-be-unfriended dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @03:16 (The Internet)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0340230/Social-Media-As-a-Weapon-In-Egypt?from=newsletter
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oxide7 writes "The internet and social media sites have become [0]a
battlefield between the Egyptian government and protesters. From the
article: 'Facebook has at least two pages, Operation Egypt and one titled
Egypt's Protests. The former carries calls to arms, asking for volunteers
to mount distributed denial of service attacks. The latter has posted
messages and videos, such as one that said the Ministry of Awqaf which is
in charge of religious endowments, might work with the Ministry of the
Interior to stop Friday prayers.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0340230/Social-Media-As-a-Weapon-In-Egypt?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/105506/20110126/internet-a-battlefield-in-egypt.htm
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| The Rise and Fall of Graphic Adventure Games
| from the mind-the-alligators dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 27, @04:39 (Classic Games (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0648238/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Graphic-Adventure-Games?from=newsletter
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The Opposable Thumbs blog has a detailed retrospective on almost [0]three
decades of history in the graphic adventure genre. While this type of
game has fallen from favor in recent times, many classic titles made
indelible marks on the memories and preferences of an entire generation
of gamers. If you played video games in the '80s and '90s, you'll
probably see something you recognize. Quoting: "In its
sometimes-turbulent thirty-year history, the graphic-adventure genre has
driven technology adoption, ridden at both the crest and trough of the
graphics and audio waves, touched the lives of millions of people, and
shaped the rise (and, in some cases, fall) of several big-name people and
companies in the gaming industry. It's a genre that has often been held
back by its own insularity, suffering from an unwillingness to adapt to
changing market conditions or to further push the boundaries of
interactivity. Adventure games certainly did these things, but the
efforts to truly innovate seemed to peak in the mid-'90s, before rapidly
falling off���with only a few exceptions. The improving fortunes of
adventure game developers in recent years may at least in part be
attributable to their efforts to innovate���Telltale with the episodic
structure, Quantic Dream with a new control system (for better or worse),
and Japanese developers such as Cing with Nintendo DS titles that
introduce elements from visual novels.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0648238/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Graphic-Adventure-Games?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/01/history-of-graphic-adventures.ars/
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| Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater"
| from the what-does-the-PR-dept-have-to-say? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @05:52 (Microsoft)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0425212/Xbox-Live-Labels-Autistic-Boy-Cheater?from=newsletter
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Jellis55 writes "Jennifer Zdenek, the mother of an 11-year-old boy who
lives with autism, is outraged at Microsoft Xbox Live for labeling her
son a 'cheater' and taking away everything he's earned online. She says
her son, Julias Jackson, is so good at playing X-Box games, [0]Xbox LIVE
thought he cheated. She says her son got online last week to play Xbox
LIVE and saw that he was labeled a cheater and had zero achievements.
Microsoft continues to ignore her requests to take 'cheater' off of his
account."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0425212/Xbox-Live-Labels-Autistic-Boy-Cheater?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-xbox-labels-autistic-child-01252011,0,5767271.story
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| Google Censors "Piracy Terms" From Instant Search
| from the problem-solved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @08:07 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0430225/Google-Censors-Piracy-Terms-From-Instant-Search?from=newsletter
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Chaonici writes "A few weeks ago, Google promised that, on behalf of the
entertainment industries, they would begin filtering 'piracy related'
terms from their search system. Now, TorrentFreak reports that Google has
lived up to their promise, and certain keywords (such as 'bittorrent' and
'rapidshare') will [0]no longer produce results with the Autocomplete or
Instant Search features. The standard search feature, however, continues
to display results as normal. Simon Morris of BitTorrent Inc.,
RapidShare, and Jamie King (the founder of [1]Vodo) are critical of the
change, pointing out the many legitimate uses of popular file-sharing
technology."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/0430225/Google-Censors-Piracy-Terms-From-Instant-Search?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/
1. http://vodo.net/
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| Hackers Bringing Telnet Back
| from the gopher-still-dead dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 27, @08:52 (Botnet)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1334224/Hackers-Bringing-Telnet-Back?from=newsletter
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alphadogg writes "A [0]new report from Akamai Technologies (CT: Requires
login) shows that hackers appear to be [1]increasingly using the Telnet
remote access protocol to attack corporate servers over mobile networks.
The report, which covers the third quarter of 2010, shows that 10 percent
of attacks that came from mobile networks are directed at Port 23, which
Telnet uses. That marks a somewhat unusual spike for the aging protocol
used to log into remote servers but that has been gradually replaced by
SSH."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1334224/Hackers-Bringing-Telnet-Back?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012711-hackers-turn-back-the-clock.html
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| Police Arrest Five Over Anonymous Attacks
| from the ddos-is-bad-mmkay dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 27, @09:32 (Crime)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1413211/Police-Arrest-Five-Over-Anonymous-Attacks?from=newsletter
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nk497 writes "Five people have been [0]arrested in the UK, accused of
taking part in Anonymous' DDOS attacks in support of WikiLeaks. The five
men ��� aged from 15 to 26 ��� are still being held by police for
questioning. Met Police said the investigation was a collaborative effort
between forces in the UK, EU and the US."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1413211/Police-Arrest-Five-Over-Anonymous-Attacks?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/364732/police-arrest-five-over-anonymous-attacks
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| Sony Reveals the Next Generation Portable Console
| from the faster-smaller-quieter dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 27, @10:09 (PlayStation (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1432205/Sony-Reveals-the-Next-Generation-Portable-Console?from=newsletter
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UgLyPuNk writes "Of course it's not called the PSP2, because that would
be too obvious and straightforward for the games industry. For the
moment, at least, you'll be looking forward to [0]news about the NGP ���
the Next Generation Portable." ARM�� Cortex-A9 core (4 core), SGX543MP4+,
Front and Rear camera. Rear touch pad, GPS.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1432205/Sony-Reveals-the-Next-Generation-Portable-Console?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/01/26/sony-reveals-the-next-generation-portable/
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| Want Your Own Bunker Like WikiLeaks Or Pirate Bay?
| from the who-doesn't-want-a-bunker? dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @10:46 (The Military)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1441218/Want-Your-Own-Bunker-Like-WikiLeaks-Or-Pirate-Bay?from=newsletter
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talljamesnixon writes "Fancy starting up your own secure ISP? [0]A
bomb-proof Cold War nuclear bunker like the ones that hosted The Pirate
Bay and WikiLeaks has come on the market for just ��400,000 ($635,000).
Situated several metres under the rolling hills of Scotland, the
Cultybraggan bunker cost ��30 million to build, has space for 150 staff
and includes its own BBC studio, canteen, telephone exchange and
dormitories."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1441218/Want-Your-Own-Bunker-Like-WikiLeaks-Or-Pirate-Bay?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/26/own-wikileaks-or-pirate-bay-bunker-400k/
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| NYTimes On Dealings With Assange
| from the i-thought-he-was-a-mastermind dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 27, @10:51 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1513225/NYTimes-On-Dealings-With-Assange?from=newsletter
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kaapstorm found an NYT story on Assange saying "Assange slouched into The
Guardian office, a day late. Schmitt took his first measure of [0]the man
who would be a large presence in our lives. 'He's tall ��� probably
6-foot-2 or 6-3 ��� and lanky, with pale skin, gray eyes and a shock of
white hair that seizes your attention,' Schmitt wrote to me later. 'He
was alert but disheveled, like a bag lady walking in off the street,
wearing a dingy, light-colored sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white
shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his
ankles. He smelled as if he hadn't bathed in days.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1513225/NYTimes-On-Dealings-With-Assange?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Peter Jackson Hospitalized w/ Stomach Ulcer
| from the sauron-is-watching dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 27, @11:29 (Lord of the Rings)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1521210/Peter-Jackson-Hospitalized-w-Stomach-Ulcer?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien suffered from a
perforated ulcer before dying in 1973. Now today, New Zealander Sir Peter
Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and
soon-to-be-director of the two Hobbit movies, was [0]hospitalized with a
perforated stomach ulcer, and underwent surgery. This is only expected to
slightly delay the filming of The Hobbit, and he's expected to make a
full recovery."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1521210/Peter-Jackson-Hospitalized-w-Stomach-Ulcer?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/4589305/Peter-Jackson-stomach-ulcer-scare
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| Hackers Increasingly Using Twitter For Botnets
| from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 27, @12:10 (Botnet)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1551218/Hackers-Increasingly-Using-Twitter-For-Botnets?from=newsletter
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Trailrunner7 writes "Spammers aren't the only ones who have figured out
that social networks like Twitter and Facebook are good for business.
Sophisticated hackers conducting targeted attacks are also [0]using the
networks as a tool to manage malware installations on victims' networks.
Mandiant's latest "M-Trends" report, released on Thursday, says that the
company has observed an increasing number of so-called "Advanced
Persistent Threats" that are hijacking legitimate social networks and Web
based services, including Facebook, Google Chat and MSN as command and
control networks for malware installations. The revelation is part of a
larger trend that saw sophisticated attacks on commercial entities
outstrip attacks on the networks of government agencies and defense
industry players, Mandiant reported."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1551218/Hackers-Increasingly-Using-Twitter-For-Botnets?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Court Rules Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security
| from the but-I-want-to-cast-magic-missile dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @12:52 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/168200/Court-Rules-Dungeons-and-Dragons-Threatens-Prison-Security?from=newsletter
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KermodeBear writes "Dungeons and Dragons ��� originally Satan's Game ��� has
now been found to [0]encourage gang-like behavior. In a finding by a
three judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, D&D 'can mimic the
organization of gangs and lead to the actual development thereof.' From
the ruling: 'during D&D games, one player is denoted the "Dungeon
Master." 'The Dungeon Master is tasked with giving directions to other
players, which Muraski testified mimics the organization of a gang.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/168200/Court-Rules-Dungeons-and-Dragons-Threatens-Prison-Security?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Clear Has Nationwide Outage
| from the do-you-see-what-they-see? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @13:31 (Networking)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1820247/Clear-Has-Nationwide-Outage?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Based on reports from Clear's forum, the
WiMax provider has been experiencing a [0]loss of service problem all
over the country. The troubled WiMax provider (also known as Clearwire)
has had many user complaints of throttling, over billing, overloaded
towers and system congestion, and of misrepresentation of the service
offerings in ads and by resellers, so this is can't be good news for
Clear's management. Reports are scattered among multiple forum threads,
but at least one Clear rep was reported by a user to have acknowledged it
was a nationwide issue."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1820247/Clear-Has-Nationwide-Outage?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://forums.clear.com/clearcom/topics/nationwide_outage_jan_26_2011
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| Official — Economic Crash Not Computers' Fault
| from the how-about-moral-hazard-and-too-big-to-fail dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @14:17 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/196239/Official-mdash-Economic-Crash-Not-Computers-Fault?from=newsletter
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itwbennett writes "A 2-year government investigation has found what we
pretty much all knew to be true: High speed [0]trading systems were not
the cause of the 2008 economic crash. 'The crisis was the result of human
action and inaction, not of Mother Nature or computer models gone
haywire,' according to a leaked copy of the report's conclusions revealed
in the New York Times."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/196239/Official-mdash-Economic-Crash-Not-Computers-Fault?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/government/134997/official-trading-software-did-not-cause-financial-crash
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| Kinect's Grandaddy Running On an Apple IIe In 1978
| from the sue-that-man-into-the-future dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @15:00 (Input Devices)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1945245/Kinects-Grandaddy-Running-On-an-Apple-IIe-In-1978?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "30 years before words like performance
capture, augmented reality, or avatars were around ��� let alone
commonplace ��� experimental film and video artist [0]Tom DeWitt created a
system that features aspects of all of them. Pantomation let users
interact in real-time with a digital environment and props. It was built
using Apple IIe's, analog video gear, and lots of custom hacking and
patching. He's currently working on a holographic 3D system that's
similarly ahead of its time."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1945245/Kinects-Grandaddy-Running-On-an-Apple-IIe-In-1978?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbTn8CGjVSs
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| Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border
| from the things-have-been-rough-for-Wile-E dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 27, @15:35 (United States)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1451241/Drug-Catapult-Found-At-US-Mexico-Border?from=newsletter
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suraj.sun writes "According to a Fox News report: 'Drug smugglers trying
to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a
new approach ��� [0]a medieval catapult, capable of launching 4.4 pounds of
marijuana at a time. National Guard troops operating a remote video
surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed
several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the
International Border fence last Friday evening. The 3-yard tall catapult
was found about 20 yards from the US border on a flatbed towed by a
sports utility vehicle, according to a Mexican army officer with the 45th
military zone in the border state of Sonora.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/1451241/Drug-Catapult-Found-At-US-Mexico-Border?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/26/drug-catapult-mexico-border/
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| Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013
| from the looks-fun-for-texas-highways dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @15:43 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/206227/Volkswagen-Unveils-313-MPG-XL1-Slates-Production-For-2013?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Volkswagen just unveiled a new car at the
Qatar Motor Show that gets an astounding 100km for less than a liter of
diesel fuel ��� that's the equivalent of 313 miles per gallon! The [0]XL1
concept car is an upgraded version of the VW L1 vehicle, and it features
an ultra-efficient diesel engine in addition to an electric motor that is
powered by a lithium-ion battery. The vehicle is currently slated to
enter production in 2013 and is expected to cost approximately $29,500."
Autoblog [1]calls it 261 mpg, which isn't too shabby, either. At less
than a thousand pounds empty, I hope this comes with a really good bike
lock.
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/206227/Volkswagen-Unveils-313-MPG-XL1-Slates-Production-For-2013?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://inhabitat.com/volkswagen-to-unveil-235mpg-car-at-2011-qatar-motor-show/
1. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/27/volkswagen-xl1-limited-production/
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| Android 3.0 Platform Preview and SDK Is Here
| from the to-enslave-you-with-passion dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @16:15 (Android)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2047208/Android-30-Platform-Preview-and-SDK-Is-Here?from=newsletter
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mikejuk writes "Google has released the [0]Android 3.0 SDK, to allow
developers time to create the apps that will run on the flood of tablet
devices that should be availalble later in the year. The preview includes
improved 2D and 3D graphics, new user interface controls, support for
multicore processors, DRM and enterprise security features. It is
complete with a 3.0 emulator that you can use to try applications on, but
you can't add them to the app market just yet."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2047208/Android-30-Platform-Preview-and-SDK-Is-Here?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/83-mobliephone/1910-android-30-platform-preview-and-sdk.html
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| SourceForge Down After Attack [Updated]
| from the their-bad-childhood-affects-you dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @16:29 (Open Source)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2059200/SourceForge-Down-After-Attack-Updated?from=newsletter
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Animats writes "SourceForge, a hosting site for many open source
projects, is down today. Management claims they were attacked: 'We
[0]detected a direct targeted attack that resulted in an exploit of
several SourceForge.net servers, and have proactively shut down a handful
of developer centric services to safeguard data and protect the majority
of our services.' Currently, CVS and SVN access to source code, even for
reading, is unavailable, and there is no announced restoration time."
(SourceForge and Slashdot are both part of Geeknet, Inc.) Update: 01/27
22:17 GMT by [1]T : Mark Ramm of SourceForge contributes an update and
some clarification: the site is up, and SVN is available, though CVS
isn't. There's also a [2]follow-up post on the site's blog.
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2059200/SourceForge-Down-After-Attack-Updated?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/sourceforge/2011/01/27/service-downtime/
1. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
2. http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/sourceforge/2011/01/27/sourceforge-net-attack-update/
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| Sony Wins Restraining Order Against Geohot
| from the do-you-defend-him-to-your-death? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @17:13 (Encryption)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2157211/Sony-Wins-Restraining-Order-Against-Geohot?from=newsletter
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tekgoblin writes "The courts have just [0]issued a temporary restraining
order against George Hotz (Geohot). Sony filed this lawsuit because they
were unhappy that Geohot had released the Playstation 3 decryption keys
so other people could play unsigned games on it. [Geohot is prohibited
from] 'offering to the public, creating, posting online, marketing,
advertising, promoting, installing, distributing, providing, or otherwise
trafficking' in any software or methods for circumventing the PS3's
protection methods. No longer can he 'provide links from any website to
any other website' relating to such matters, or publish any information
obtained by hacking the PS3. And more to the point, he can no longer
'engage in acts of circumvention of TPMS in the PS3 System to access,
obtain, remove, or traffic in copyrighted works.' Pretty much he can't
talk or think about the PS3 for some time."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2157211/Sony-Wins-Restraining-Order-Against-Geohot?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/01/27/sony-wins-restraining-order-against-geohot/
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| Openleaks Goes Live
| from the your-safe-house-or-mine? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @17:59 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2244203/Openleaks-Goes-Live?from=newsletter
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Underholdning writes "Ars technica leaks the story of [0]OpenLeaks
launching. OpenLeaks is an alternative to WikiLeaks, with a few
differences. 'OpenLeaks will not accept or publish documents on its own
platform, but rather create many "digital dropboxes" for its community
members, each adapted to the specific needs of our members so that they
can provide a safe and trusted leaking option for whistleblowers.' Time
will show if this will live next to WikiLeaks, or they will compete. For
more information, check out the [1]OpenLeaks website."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2244203/Openleaks-Goes-Live?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/openleaks-launches-website-and-mission-but-platform-still-in-progress.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
1. http://openleaks.org/
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| KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released
| from the after-much-waiting dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, @18:40 (KDE)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2327228/KDE-Software-Compilation-460-Released?from=newsletter
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jrepin writes "KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases,
providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications
and KDE Platform. [0]These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new
features in each of KDE's three product lines. The KDE Plasma Workspaces
come with a new Activities system, which should make it easier to manage
different tasks."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2327228/KDE-Software-Compilation-460-Released?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/
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