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In this issue:
* Naming Bi-Directional Streams In an API?
* Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative Agenda
* Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub
* Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam
* UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband
* FCC Wants Net Neutrality Suits Stopped
* Linux.conf.au Talks Available Online
* Connecticut AG Opts For Street View Settlement, Without Seeing the Data
* Nook Color Is Now a $250 Honeycomb Tablet
* Atomic Disguise Makes Helium Look Like Hydrogen
* Example.com Has Changed
* New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting
* Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk
* Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram
* Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference?
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| Naming Bi-Directional Streams In an API?
| from the will-never-forget-what-me-old-dad-used-to-say dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 29, @19:08 (Programming)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2259241/Naming-Bi-Directional-Streams-In-an-API?from=newsletter
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DingoTango writes "My coworker and I are designing an infrastructure API
to manage data streams. It will allow a client developer to set up
streams going to and from some invoked server functionality, and allow a
server developer to write services that both consume and produce
streaming data. Our quite civil disagreement involves naming: From the
perspective of the client platform, the client's output stream goes to
the server, and input stream comes from it. For the purpose of any
ensuing discussion, let's call this the 'Local' perspective. However, if
the client developer considers the service to be a widget, then the
stream going to the service is the input stream and the stream coming
from it is the output. Let's call this the 'Widget' perspective. As this
is an infrastructure utility, we aren't able to name the streams
according to function. What say ye, Slashdot? Is there any precedence,
experience, or ungrounded yet vociferous opinion that will resolve this
for us?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2259241/Naming-Bi-Directional-Streams-In-an-API?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative Agenda
| from the reasonable-measures dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 29, @19:54 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0044222/Internet-Kill-Switch-Back-On-the-US-Legislative-Agenda?from=newsletter
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suraj.sun points out a story at Wired that US lawmakers have revived the
idea of a government-controlled "[0]Internet Kill Switch," which reads,
in part: "The bill, which has bipartisan support, is being floated by
Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The proposed legislation,
which Collins said would not give the president the same power Egypt's
Hosni Mubarak is exercising to quell dissent, sailed through the Homeland
Security Committee in December but expired with the new Congress weeks
later. 'My legislation would provide a mechanism for the government to
work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency,'
Collins said in an e-mail Friday. 'It would give our nation the best
tools available to swiftly respond to a significant threat.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0044222/Internet-Kill-Switch-Back-On-the-US-Legislative-Agenda?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/kill-switch-legislation/
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| Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub
| from the oh-you-own-what-we-say-you-own dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday January 29, @23:05 (Sony)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0330257/Sony-Sends-DMCA-Takedown-Notice-To-GitHub?from=newsletter
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Plombo writes "Sony's war against PS3 hacking continues. On January 27,
Sony Computer Entertainment America [0]sent a DMCA takedown notice to
GitHub demanding the removal of 6 repositories under the 'circumvention
device' clause of the DMCA. All of the repositories in question were
related to jailbreaking or homebrew development for the PS3."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0330257/Sony-Sends-DMCA-Takedown-Notice-To-GitHub?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.markdown
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| Open-source Challenge To Exchange Gains Steam
| from the without-exchange-there-is-no-civilization dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @02:11 (Microsoft)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0516246/Open-source-Challenge-To-Exchange-Gains-Steam?from=newsletter
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jbrodkin writes "An open-source, cloud-based e-mail alternative to
Microsoft Exchange called Open-Xchange has signed up two new service
providers and [0]predicts it will have 40 million users by the end of
2011. Based in Germany, Open-Xchange has tripled its user base from 8
million to 24 million paid seats since 2008, with the help of three dozen
service providers including 1&1 Internet, among the world's largest Web
hosting companies. Microsoft is still the 800-pound gorilla, with a
worldwide install base of 301 million mailboxes in 2010, expected to
reach 470 million by 2014. But Open-Xchange is luring numerous service
providers who are wary of Microsoft's attempts to compete against its own
partners by selling hosted e-mail services directly to its customers."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0516246/Open-source-Challenge-To-Exchange-Gains-Steam?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012811-open-source-challenge-microsoft.html?hpg1=bn
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| UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband
| from the such-a-nice-round-number dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @05:10 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0522235/UK-Research-Aims-For-100x-Speedup-In-Fiber-Based-Broadband?from=newsletter
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Mark.JUK writes "The UK governments Minister for Science, David Willetts,
has awarded ��7.2 million to help support the University of Southampton's
newly rebuilt [0]Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) and the
development ('Photonics HyperHighway') of new technologies that would be
capable of making broadband internet access over fibre optic cables
[1]100 times faster than today." What would you like to do with 100 times
your own current network speed?
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0522235/UK-Research-Aims-For-100x-Speedup-In-Fiber-Based-Broadband?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/
1. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/01/29/scientists-win-uk-government-money-to-develop-100-times-faster-broadband.html
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| FCC Wants Net Neutrality Suits Stopped
| from the you-bet-they-do dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @08:18 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0333252/FCC-Wants-Net-Neutrality-Suits-Stopped?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "The [0]FCC moved to dismiss the net neutrality
challenges filed by MetroPCS and Verizon, claiming they were 'filed
prematurely.' Verizon and MetroPCS have both sued the FCC, arguing that
the commission did not have the authority to hand down its December net
neutrality rules. The FCC maintains that it does indeed have the right to
regulate broadband, thanks to provisions in the Communications Act."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0333252/FCC-Wants-Net-Neutrality-Suits-Stopped?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376900,00.asp
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| Linux.conf.au Talks Available Online
| from the use-dash-flip-as-necessary dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @09:20 (Australia)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1313215/Linuxconfau-Talks-Available-Online?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Despite the floods, [0]linux.conf.au 2011
went ahead in [1]Brisbane. Videos of the talks given at the conference
are [2]available via blip.tv. Highly recommended are [3]Vint Cerf's
keynote and Keith Packard's talk on [4]X and the future of Linux graphics."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1313215/Linuxconfau-Talks-Available-Online?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://lca2011.linux.org.au/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane
2. http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/posts?view=archive
3. http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/
4. http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4693305/
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| Connecticut AG Opts For Street View Settlement, Without Seeing the Data
| from the spitzer-would-have-thrust-harder dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @10:17 (Google)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/149232/Connecticut-AG-Opts-For-Street-View-Settlement-Without-Seeing-the-Data?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "Verifying Google's data snare is crucial to assessing a
penalty and assuring no repeat,' said Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal last December in response to Google's [0]'accidental'
collection of payload data from WiFi networks. 'We will fight to compel
Google to come clean-granting my office access to improperly collected
materials and protecting confidentiality, as the company has done in
Canada and elsewhere.' That was then. Luckily for Google, there's a new
AG in town, and Blumenthal successor George Jepsen said Friday that his
office [1]will enter into settlement negotiations with the company
without reviewing the pilfered data, which Google has steadfastly refused
to share with it. 'This is a good result for the people of Connecticut,'
Jepsen said in a statement. A separate Jepsen press release [2]suggested
some of the blame for the privacy offenses laid with Google's victims,
who were advised to 'turn off your wireless network when you know you
won't use it' to thwart those who 'may be watching your Internet activity
without your knowledge."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/149232/Connecticut-AG-Opts-For-Street-View-Settlement-Without-Seeing-the-Data?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8a23b394-5fab-11df-a670-00144feab49a.html#axzz1COcF71vW
1. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110128/connecticut-wont-press-for-google-wispy-data-looks-to-settle/
2. http://www.ct.gov/ag/lib/ag/press_releases/2011/012811dataprivacy.pdf
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| Nook Color Is Now a $250 Honeycomb Tablet
| from the sorry-son-no-warranty-past-this-point dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @11:18 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1451251/Nook-Color-Is-Now-a-250-Honeycomb-Tablet?from=newsletter
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Barnes & Noble markets the [0]Nook Color as an e-reader with tablet
functionality handily built in, but that designation undersells it a bit
��� it's just as easy to see it as an Android tablet with a 7" multitouch
display and a Cortex A8 processor that happens to have strong
book-reading features. Compared to the current big name in 7" Android
tablets, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, it's quite underspec'd (no camera or GPS
receiver, Wi-Fi but no 3G), but it also costs only $250. A few days ago,
Android hackers [1]managed to put Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) onto the Color,
though in a mostly crippled state. Now Liliputing points out that they've
[2]enabled hardware acceleration, too. Pretty neat that one of the
cheapest capacitive-screen tablets you can get handles an operating
system that a few weeks back was [3]expected to require heavier iron. As
[4]comments at Engadget point out, it's not the very smoothest
performance, but this is an early build by enthusiasts, and doesn't look
too shabby. The [5]developer's announcement of the port points out that
this is a work in progress: "What is not working... pretty much
everything else, no accelerometer, no wlan, no sound. Haven't started
working on those things yet."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1451251/Nook-Color-Is-Now-a-250-Honeycomb-Tablet?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nook_Color
1. http://liliputing.com/2011/01/google-android-honeycomb-ported-to-the-nookcolor-doesnt-really-work-yet.html
2. http://liliputing.com/2011/01/android-3-0-honeycomb-on-the-nookcolor-now-with-video.html#more-31443
3. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/05/019259/Honeycomb-To-Require-Dual-Core-Processor
4. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/30/android-honeycomb-port-for-nook-color-gets-graphics-acceleration/
5. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10998319&postcount=116
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| Atomic Disguise Makes Helium Look Like Hydrogen
| from the no-this-is-me-in-a-nutshell dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @12:17 (Canada)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1517213/Atomic-Disguise-Makes-Helium-Look-Like-Hydrogen?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "In a feat of modern-day alchemy, atom
tinkerers have fooled hydrogen atoms into [0]accepting a helium atom as
one of their own, reports New Scientist. Donald Fleming of the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues managed to
disguise a helium atom as a hydrogen atom by replacing one of its
orbiting electrons with a muon, which is far heavier than an electron.
The camouflaged atom behaves chemically like hydrogen, but has four times
the mass of normal hydrogen, allowing [1]predictions for how atomic mass
affects reaction rates to be put to the test."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1517213/Atomic-Disguise-Makes-Helium-Look-Like-Hydrogen?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20049-atomic-disguise-makes-helium-look-like-hydrogen.html
1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6016/448
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| Example.com Has Changed
| from the foo-baz-is-now-frum-burz dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @13:25 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1823241/Examplecom-Has-Changed?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The familiar [0]example.com domain, reserved
for private testing, has [1]been updated. Visiting the domain in a web
browser no longer displays any content; instead, visitors are redirected
to an explanatory page on IANA's website at [0]iana.org/domains/example/.
Other example domains such as example.net are also affected.
Is this a bad change? Will the redirect cause problems for anybody?"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1823241/Examplecom-Has-Changed?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.iana.org/domains/example/
1. http://www.highseverity.com/2011/01/examplecom-has-changed.html
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| New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting
| from the did-you-approve-this-message? dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @14:31 (United States)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1911232/New-Hampshire-Bill-Could-Lead-To-Adoption-of-Approval-Voting?from=newsletter
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Okian Warrior writes "The people at FreeKeene report: 'Four Republican
[0]state representatives have sponsored a bill that would [1]replace
first-past-the-post voting with approval voting for all state offices and
presidential primaries. Under this system, voters would select every
candidate they approve of (regardless of party), and the candidate with
the highest overall vote total wins. This reduces strategic voting, and
would often make elections easier for moderate and libertarian
candidates. The bill, HB240, will have a public hearing Tuesday, February
1st, with the House Election Law committee.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/1911232/New-Hampshire-Bill-Could-Lead-To-Adoption-of-Approval-Voting?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://freekeene.com/2011/01/28/will-nh-adopt-approval-voting/
1. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=292&sy=2011&txtsessionyear=2011&txtbillnumber=HB240
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| Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk
| from the I-prefer-to-think-of-them-as-our-fingers dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @15:55 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2055211/Sensor-Measures-In-Fingertips-If-Driver-Is-Drunk?from=newsletter
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Economic Times reports on the first
working prototypes of a new technology that would [0]measure blood
alcohol content in a driver's fingertips, using sophisticated touch-based
sensors situated in steering wheels and door locks and engineers say that
unlike court-ordered breath-analyzer ignition locks, which require a
driver to blow into a tube and wait a few seconds for the result, their
systems will analyze a driver's blood-alcohol content in less than one
second. Anti-drunken driving crusaders believe that [1]almost 9,000 road
traffic deaths could be prevented every year if alcohol detection devices
were used in all vehicles to prevent alcohol-impaired drivers from
driving their vehicles. 'We believe this might turn the car into the cure
for the elimination of drunk driving,' says Laura Dean-Mooney, president
of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. But [2]not everyone is enamored of the
device which could be available to automakers in eight to 10 years. 'For
ordinary, law-abiding citizens, it's an invasion of their privacy,' says
Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2055211/Sensor-Measures-In-Fingertips-If-Driver-Is-Drunk?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/auto/automobiles/future-cars-to-decide-if-driver-is-drunk/articleshow/7390187.cms
1. http://www.dadss.org/
2. http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1312732
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| Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram
| from the but-thanks-for-bing-there-for-us dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @17:02 (Google)
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2142259/Google-Would-Beat-Bing-At-Jeopardy-Says-Wolfram?from=newsletter
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destinyland writes "Stephen Wolfram, the physicist behind the Wolfram
Alpha 'answer engine,' believes that [0]Google would beat Bing in any
contest based on questions from Jeopardy. 'Wolfram [1]took a sample of
Jeopardy clues and fed them into search engines,' explains one technology
blog. 'When it came to the first page, Google got 69 percent correct,
just beating Ask with 68 percent and Bing on 63 percent. ... To put that
into context, the average human contestant gets 60 percent of answers
correct, while champion Ken Jennings has a record of 79 percent.'
Interestingly, Wikipedia came in last, scoring 23%, though they may have
more to do with how Wikipedia handles searches. In two weeks, IBM's
Watson computer will compete on Jeopardy against two of the show's
all-time human champions."
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2142259/Google-Would-Beat-Bing-At-Jeopardy-Says-Wolfram?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/01/jeopardy-ibm-and-wolframalpha/
1. http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2011/01/27/google-would-just-beat-bing-at-jeopardy/
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| Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference?
| from the try-a-different-scale dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, @18:07 (United Kingdom)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2210225/Kilogram-Gets-Controversial-Why-Not-Split-the-Difference?from=newsletter
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gbrumfiel writes "As Slashdot has noted, [0]the kilogram has a problem.
The SI unit is officially defined as the weight of a 130-year-old
platinum-iridium cylinder in France. But the physical object appears to
be getting lighter. Scientists want to replace the cylinder with a new
standard based on [1]Planck's constant, but two experiments designed to
facilitate the switch keep coming up with different results. Now one
researcher is proposing a solution: [2]just average the two diverging
experiments and use that value as the official definition. Not everyone
thinks that averaging the two amounts to sound research: 'Deciding to
just average these two results would be perfectly proper mathematics, but
it would not be science,' says Michael Hart, a physicist at the
University of Manchester, UK."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2210225/Kilogram-Gets-Controversial-Why-Not-Split-the-Difference?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/29/1915244/US-Objects-To-the-Kilogram
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant
2. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110128/full/news.2011.51.html
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