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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* FCC Moves To Convert Phone Fund To Broadband Fund
* US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects
* Oxford University Tests Universal Flu Vaccine
* New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts
* Putting Up With Consolitis
* China Building City For Cloud Computing
* Takedown Letters For WP7 <em>Tetris</em> Clones
* Computer Industry Mourns DEC Founder Ken Olsen
* Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack
* LG Wants PlayStation 3 Banned From US Market
* Designers Create Meat Eating Furniture
* Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Sandy Bridge Chip
* The Notable Decline of Identity Fraud
* 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat
* Verizon iPhone Is Now Jailbreakable
* TI Plans Minority Report UI Using ARM SoC + Projector
* Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation
* US Seeks Veto Powers Over New TLDs
* Only 39% Curse At Their Computers?
* Samsung Rains Paper Airplanes From Space
* NASA's Ares 1 To Be Reborn As the Liberty Commercial Launcher
* How Machine Learning Will Change Augmented Reality
* The Relationship Between FOSS and Democracy
* Kyocera and Sprint Now Hyping a Dual-Screen Android Smartphone
* Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again
* Robot Jet Fighter Takes First Flight
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| FCC Moves To Convert Phone Fund To Broadband Fund
| from the only-a-decade-or-so-behind dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 07, @19:34 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/2348235/FCC-Moves-To-Convert-Phone-Fund-To-Broadband-Fund?from=newsletter
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medv4380 writes "The Federal Communications Commission is expected to
change the Universal Service Fund so that [0]the funds are directed
toward broadband infrastructure instead of rural phone infrastructure.
'... while the world has changed around it, USF ��� in too many ways ��� has
stood still, and even moved backwards. The program is still designed to
support traditional telephone service. It���s a 20th century program poorly
suited for the challenges of a 21st century world.' You can see [1]a
transcript of what was presented to the FCC (PDF) online."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/2348235/FCC-Moves-To-Convert-Phone-Fund-To-Broadband-Fund?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2011/02/fcc_to_move_toward_overhaul_of.html
1. http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0207/DOC-304489A1.pdf
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| US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects
| from the any-way-the-wind-blows dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 07, @20:18 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/2352230/US-To-Fire-Up-Big-Offshore-Wind-Energy-Projects?from=newsletter
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coondoggie writes "The US government today took a bold step toward
perhaps [0]finally getting some offshore wind energy development going
with $50 million in investment money and the promise of renewed effort to
develop the energy source. The plan focuses on [1]overcoming three key
challenges (PDF) that have made offshore wind energy practically
non-existent in the US: the relatively high cost of offshore wind energy;
technical challenges surrounding installation, operations, and grid
interconnection; and the lack of site data and experience with project
permitting processes."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/2352230/US-To-Fire-Up-Big-Offshore-Wind-Energy-Projects?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-tries-fire-mighty-offshore-wind-energy-pro
1. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/national_offshore_wind_strategy.pdf
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| Oxford University Tests Universal Flu Vaccine
| from the one-size-fits-all dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 07, @22:16 (Medicine)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0051221/Oxford-University-Tests-Universal-Flu-Vaccine?from=newsletter
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[0]dbune writes "A [1]universal flu vaccine has been tested by scientists
at Oxford University. '... the vaccine targets proteins inside the flu
virus that are common across all strains, instead of those that sit on
the virus's external coat, which are liable to mutate. If used widely a
universal flu vaccine could prevent pandemics, such as the swine flu
outbreaks of recent years, and end the need for a seasonal flu jab.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0051221/Oxford-University-Tests-Universal-Flu-Vaccine?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dbune.com/news/health/4201-oxford-university-tests-universal-flu-vaccine.html
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/06/flu-universal-vaccine-test-success
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| New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts
| from the creating-a-meatspace-api dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 08, @00:12 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0112246/New-Hampshire-Begins-Open-Data-Efforts?from=newsletter
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Plugh writes "The Free State Project was created to move 20,000
small-government activists to New Hampshire (here's the [0]Slashdot story
from 2002). IT people, with our ability to work anywhere, were some of
the first to move. Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH
legislature, these geeks are [1]starting to affect government
data-sharing policy."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0112246/New-Hampshire-Begins-Open-Data-Efforts?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/story/02/10/21/1325228/The-Free-State-Project
1. http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/new-hampshire-opens-its-states-legislative-data
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| Putting Up With Consolitis
| from the my-keyboard-doesn't-have-a-trigger dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 08, @01:09 (PC Games (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/054235/Putting-Up-With-Consolitis?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader tips an article about 'consolitis,' the term given to
game design decisions made for the console that [0]spill over and
negatively impact the PC versions of video games. "Perhaps the most
obvious indicator of consolitis, a poor control scheme can
single-handedly ruin the PC version of a game and should become apparent
after a short time spent playing. Generally this has to do with auto-aim
in a shooter or not being able to navigate menus with the mouse. Also,
not enough hotkeys in an RPG ��� that one���s really annoying. ... Possibly
the most disastrous outcome of an industry-wide shift to console-oriented
development is that technological innovation will be greatly slowed.
Though a $500+ video card is considered top of the line, a $250 one will
now play pretty much any game at the highest settings with no problem.
(Maybe that���s what everyone wanted?) Pretty soon, however, graphics chip
makers won���t be able to sustain their rate of growth because the software
is so far behind, which will be bad for gamers on consoles as well as
PC."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/054235/Putting-Up-With-Consolitis?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.firingsquad.com/games/Firing_Points_Consolitis/
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| China Building City For Cloud Computing
| from the lando-for-mayor dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 08, @02:07 (Cloud)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0320246/China-Building-City-For-Cloud-Computing?from=newsletter
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CWmike writes "First it was [0]China's 'big hole' sighting that brought
us the supercomputing race. Now [1]China is building a city-sized cloud
computing and office complex that will include a mega data center, one of
the projects fueling that country's double-digit growth in IT spending.
The entire complex will cover some 6.2 million square feet, with the
initial data center space accounting for approximately 646,000 square
feet, says IBM, which is collaborating with a Chinese company to build
it. A Sputnik moment? Patrick Thibodeau reports that these big projects,
whether supercomputers or sprawling software development office parks,
[2]can garner a lot of attention. But China's overall level of IT
spending, while growing rapidly, is only one-fifth that of the US."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0320246/China-Building-City-For-Cloud-Computing?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/141206/IBM-Warns-of-China-Closing-the-Supercomputer-Gap
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9208398/China_building_a_city_for_cloud_computing
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9206558/Obama_turns_attention_to_supercomputing_
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| Takedown Letters For WP7 <em>Tetris</em> Clones
| from the at-least-they're-consistent dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 08, @03:24 (Cellphones)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0458258/Takedown-Letters-For-WP7-Tetris-Clones?from=newsletter
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karios writes "Today I [0]received a takedown letter from a law firm
representing the Tetris Company for copyright violations involving my
game Tetrada, which I published on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. The
witch hunt, [1]after hitting Android, iOS and other platforms, continues
on Windows Phone 7. It's a pity, since some of the tetromino games in the
Marketplace were pretty decent."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0458258/Takedown-Letters-For-WP7-Tetris-Clones?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.karios.gr/?p=233
1. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/079200/emTetrisem-Clones-Pulled-From-Android-Market
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| Computer Industry Mourns DEC Founder Ken Olsen
| from the rest-in-peace dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 08, @05:13 (Digital)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0330247/Computer-Industry-Mourns-DEC-Founder-Ken-Olsen?from=newsletter
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alphadogg writes "Kenneth Olsen, the computer industry pioneer who
co-founded and led minicomputer king Digital Equipment Corp. for 35
years, [0]died at the age of 84 on Sunday in Indianapolis. As DEC's
leader, Olsen oversaw the company's epic battles vs. IBM and its
mainframes for the hearts and business of IT shops ��� a fight DEC
eventually lost as the era of fast, cheap and networked PCs took hold in
the 1980s and 1990s. During its heyday, DEC's PDPs, VAXes and DECnet
network technology [1]became staples in many organizations, and today's
IT industry remains filled with companies whose founders once worked at
DEC or with its gear. Digital was acquired in 1998 by Compaq. Dan
Bricklin, co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet and DEC alum, tweeted:
'Ken Olsen is in the elite club of tech founders w/Gates & Jobs, and set
the stage for them. What he did we take for granted today.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0330247/Computer-Industry-Mourns-DEC-Founder-Ken-Olsen?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020711-kenneth-olsen-dec-obit.html
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20030941-265.html
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| Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack
| from the scorched-earth dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 08, @08:14 (Sony)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0433217/Sony-Lawyers-Expand-Dragnet-Targeting-Anybody-Posting-PS3-Hack?from=newsletter
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markass530 writes with this excerpt from Wired: "Sony is threatening to
[0]sue anybody posting or 'distributing' the first full-fledged jailbreak
code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. What's more, the
company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to [1]surrender
the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who
have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube
page. The game maker is also demanding that Twitter provide the
identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of
the hack in December."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0433217/Sony-Lawyers-Expand-Dragnet-Targeting-Anybody-Posting-PS3-Hack?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/sony-lawsuit-factory/
1. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/02/googlehotz.pdf
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| LG Wants PlayStation 3 Banned From US Market
| from the if-you-can't-beat-'em-sue-'em dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @08:50 (Patents)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1320256/LG-Wants-PlayStation-3-Banned-From-US-Market?from=newsletter
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FlorianMueller writes "On Friday LG filed a [0]complaint against Sony
with the [1]US International Trade Commission, claiming the PlayStation 3
infringes four Blu-ray Disc patents and demanding a permanent ban of the
PS3 (and possibly other products) from the US market. LG, which boasts
that it owns 90,000 patents worldwide, appears to take this step in
retaliation for a previous Sony complaint about various LG smartphones,
which the ITC is already [2]investigating. This is reminiscent of
Motorola's [3]infringement action against the Xbox 360 that is part of
its [4]wider dispute with Microsoft. In [5]other words, you touch my
smartphones and I bomb your game consoles."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1320256/LG-Wants-PlayStation-3-Banned-From-US-Market?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itcblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/LGbluray-complaint-4feb11.pdf
1. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/10/us-international-trade-commission-as.html
2. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-on-itc-investigations-involving.html
3. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/22/0815234/ITC-Investigates-Xbox-360-After-Motorola-Complaint?from=rss
4. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45876349/MicrosoftVsMotorola-10-12-23
5. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/02/lg-wants-playstation-3-banned-from.html
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| Designers Create Meat Eating Furniture
| from the eating-the-couch-potato dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 08, @09:16 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1331248/Designers-Create-Meat-Eating-Furniture?from=newsletter
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Sonny Yatsen writes "NPR's Robert Krulwich explores the work of several
designers who are working on [0]carnivorous furniture. These creations,
include a clock that feeds on dead flies, and a table that lures mice
into a guillotined death. 'We want robots to be able to get their own
energy from the environment,' says co-designer Prof. Melhuish. Let's hope
they come up with a lounge chair that eats cockroaches sometime soon."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1331248/Designers-Create-Meat-Eating-Furniture?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/07/133432897/meat-eating-furniture?sc=fb&cc=fp
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| Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Sandy Bridge Chip
| from the oh-that'll-be-fine dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @09:34 (Intel)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/144234/Intel-Resumes-Shipping-of-Faulty-Sandy-Bridge-Chip?from=newsletter
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arcticstoat writes "After causing chaos among motherboard makers by
revealing a flaw in its 6-series motherboard chipsets, Intel has
announced plans to [0]recommence shipments of the faulty silicon, before
the fixed chips have even started shipping. Intel claims it decided to
start reshipping the chipsets after lengthy discussions with computer
manufacturers. "As a result of these discussions and specific requests
from computer makers,' says the company, 'Intel is resuming shipments of
the Intel 6-series chipset for use only in PC system configurations that
are not impacted by the design issue." The announcement follows Intel's
recent exposure of a well publicised design fault that affects the 3Gbps
SATA ports (typically ports 2 to 5) in Intel's P67 and H67 chipsets. As
such, we assume that the new systems based on the faulty chipsets will
either come with a separate SATA controller card, or that they will only
use the two (unaffected) 6Gbps SATA ports provided by the chipset."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/144234/Intel-Resumes-Shipping-of-Faulty-Sandy-Bridge-Chip?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/02/08/fixed-sandy-bridge-chip-sets-to-be-in-the-c/1
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| The Notable Decline of Identity Fraud
| from the call-me-shirley dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @10:16 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1437221/The-Notable-Decline-of-Identity-Fraud?from=newsletter
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Orome1 writes "In 2010 the [0]number of identity fraud victims decreased
by 28 percent to 8.1 million adults in the United States, three million
fewer victims than the prior year. Total annual fraud decreased from $56
billion to $37 billion, the smallest amount in the eight years of the
study. While overall fraud declined, consumer out-of-pocket costs rose
significantly, mainly due to the types of fraud that were successfully
perpetrated and an increase in "friendly fraud." The number of identity
fraud incidents decreased by 28 percent over the past year, which brought
them down to levels not seen since 2007. The mean fraud amount per victim
declined from $4,991 in 2009 to $4,607."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1437221/The-Notable-Decline-of-Identity-Fraud?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10551
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| 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat
| from the another-38-percent-lie dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @11:00 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1527251/619-of-Undergraduates-Cybercheat?from=newsletter
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RichDiesal writes "A recent study of 1222 undergraduates found that
[0]61.9% of them "cybercheat," which involves using the Internet
illicitly to get higher grades. Some of the quotes from students are a
bit troubling. As one 19-year-old engineering student put it, "As more
and more people are using the Internet illegally (i.e. limewire etc.), I
feel that the chances of being caught or the consequences of my actions
are almost insignificant. So I feel no pressure in doing what ever
everybody else is doing/using the Internet for.""
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1527251/619-of-Undergraduates-Cybercheat?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://neoacademic.com/2011/02/04/online-plagiarism-and-cybercheating-still-strong/
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| Verizon iPhone Is Now Jailbreakable
| from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @11:44 (Iphone)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1618234/Verizon-iPhone-Is-Now-Jailbreakable?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The Chronic Dev Team have rolled out
Greenpoison RC5_4 aka Greenpois0n RC5 b4 for both the Mac and Windows
platform, which brings [0]untethered jailbreak for the Verizon iPhone."
Since [1]500k iPhones were sold on the first day it'll be interesting to
see how [2]verizon throttles users.
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1618234/Verizon-iPhone-Is-Now-Jailbreakable?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.geekword.net/greenpois0n-rc5-jailbreak-ios-4.2.6/
1. http://www.thestreet.com/story/10998797/1/verizon-iphone-sales-topped-500k.html
2. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/iphone-verizon-sucks/
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| TI Plans Minority Report UI Using ARM SoC + Projector
| from the welcome-to-the-future dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @12:28 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1639206/TI-Plans-Minority-Report-UI-Using-ARM-SoC--Projector?from=newsletter
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siliconbits writes "Texas Instruments wants to deliver a [0]Minority
Report-like user interface by combining its just-announced OMAP 5
platform, which is based on two Cortex A15 cores, with one of its own DLP
pico projectors and a camera. The US semiconductor giant wants to pioneer
the use of so-called next generation natural user interfaces by adding
hardware support for stereoscopic 3D, gesturing including proximity
sensor and interactive projection. This is reminiscent of the SixthSense,
a wearable device invented by Pranav Mistry, which was demoed back in
March 2009 by the then-PhD student of MIT's Media Lab Fluid Interfaces
Group at TED."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1639206/TI-Plans-Minority-Report-UI-Using-ARM-SoC--Projector?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/02/08/ti-plans-minority-report-ui-arm-soc-projector/
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| Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation
| from the good-luck-with-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @13:10 (Microsoft)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1810227/Ballmer-Turns-To-Geeks-For-Salvation?from=newsletter
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jfruhlinger writes "One of the critiques of Steve Ballmer as Microsoft
CEO is that, as someone who came up through sales, he doesn't really get
what running an innovative tech company is about. With the company board
starting to question his performance ��� he didn't get his bonus last year
because of the Kin debacle, for instance ��� it appears that Ballmer is
planning to install engineers in high places to [0]turn the company
around."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1810227/Ballmer-Turns-To-Geeks-For-Salvation?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/business/136249/ballmer-turns-geeks-save-his-own-butt
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| US Seeks Veto Powers Over New TLDs
| from the start-requiring-more-vowels dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @14:00 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/190206/US-Seeks-Veto-Powers-Over-New-TLDs?from=newsletter
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suraj.sun writes "The Obama administration is quietly seeking the power
for it and other governments to [0]veto future top-level domain names, a
move that raises questions about free expression, national sovereignty,
and the role of states in shaping the future of the Internet. At stake is
who will have authority over the next wave of suffixes to supplement the
venerable .com, .org, and .net. At least 115 proposals are expected this
year, including .car, .health, .nyc, .movie, and .web, and the
application process could be finalized at a meeting in San Francisco next
month."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/190206/US-Seeks-Veto-Powers-Over-New-TLDs?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030809-281.html
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| Only 39% Curse At Their Computers?
| from the i-make-up-for-them dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @14:47 (Idle)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1928227/Only-39-Curse-At-Their-Computers?from=newsletter
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netbuzz writes "That's what we are to believe based upon [0]a survey of
14,284 individuals conducted by security vendor Avira. That survey found
that 39 percent of respondents 'cursed or yelled at the computer out
loud.' And no computer is needed to calculate the implication: 61% of
those participating in the poll believe themselves to have never once
uttered a profanity or raised their voice in the direction of a
malfunctioning machine. Are the majority of us genuinely possessed of
such remarkable self-control? Or might some of these self-reported stoics
be exercising a bit of selective memory?"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1928227/Only-39-Curse-At-Their-Computers?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/only-39-are-honest-about-cursing-computers-su
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| Samsung Rains Paper Airplanes From Space
| from the space-maketing dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 08, @15:28 (Businesses)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1344214/Samsung-Rains-Paper-Airplanes-From-Space?from=newsletter
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itwbennett writes "Note to Samsung: If you want to prove how reliable
your SD memory cards are, don't hire 'the U.K.'s leading paper plane
professional' to build you 100 special paper aircraft. And then
definitely don't use a giant helium balloon to send them 122,503 feet
into space. Because while some of the planes will fly as far as Sydney
and Bangalore, chances are that all the press you'll get will be about
[0]the crazy stunt and no one will remember a thing about the SD cards."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1344214/Samsung-Rains-Paper-Airplanes-From-Space?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/136204/samsung-rains-paper-airplanes-space-heads-earthians
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| NASA's Ares 1 To Be Reborn As the Liberty Commercial Launcher
| from the burninate-the-peasants dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @15:32 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2024248/NASAs-Ares-1-To-Be-Reborn-As-the-Liberty-Commercial-Launcher?from=newsletter
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MarkWhittington writes "When President Barack Obama canceled the
Constellation space exploration program, it was thought the Ares 1, the
much-maligned planned rocket that would have launched the Orion into low
Earth orbit, was dead and gone. However, it looks like ATK, the aerospace
firm that manufactures solid rocket boosters for NASA, has entered into a
joint venture with Astrium, the European firm that builds the Ariane V to
[0]build a commercial version of the Ares 1."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2024248/NASAs-Ares-1-To-Be-Reborn-As-the-Liberty-Commercial-Launcher?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| How Machine Learning Will Change Augmented Reality
| from the i-can't-even-people-learn dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @16:20 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2121234/How-Machine-Learning-Will-Change-Augmented-Reality?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Augmented reality is already adding digital
information to the world around us ��� but the next step to making it truly
useful will be when it starts to use [0]elements of machine learning to
understand the real world, Mike Lynch, boss of machine learning software
specialist Autonomy told silicon.com ��� also explaining machine learnings
links with the theorems devised by 18th century cleric Thomas Bayes."
Discuss this story at:
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| The Relationship Between FOSS and Democracy
| from the i-vote-for-better dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 08, @17:00 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2145215/The-Relationship-Between-FOSS-and-Democracy?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Free software is about freedom. So it
shouldn't be any surprise that the ideals behind the free software
movement have spread to the place where freedom is most affected:
government. The old definition of [0]e-democracy is, basically, "using
computers in politics and governance." So a politician sending out a
batch e-mail is e-democracy. The new movement is about removing the power
from politicians and [1]making governance collaborative. The analogy to
FOSS is remarkable: think of the current governments as the old guard
computing companies, and the collaborative governance movement as the
geeks with crazy notions of a different way of organizing things. FOSS
looked like an impossible pipe-dream when it started. Tell that to the
Apache group today."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2145215/The-Relationship-Between-FOSS-and-Democracy?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy
1. http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Collaborative_governance
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| Kyocera and Sprint Now Hyping a Dual-Screen Android Smartphone
| from the my-phone-will-soon-be-smarter-than-I-am dept.
| posted by Roblimo on Tuesday February 08, @17:42 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2118244/Kyocera-and-Sprint-Now-Hyping-a-Dual-Screen-Android-Smartphone?from=newsletter
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Sprint and Kyocera want you to believe that two screens are better than
one, even on a pocket-sized phone. The new [0]Android-powered Kyocera
smartphone, the Echo, will feature two touchscreen surfaces in a hinged
design. The article says: "The Echo���s highlights can be seen in the
phone���s obvious multitasking potential. The phone can be operated like
most other touchscreen smartphones in its single-screen mode, but in
'Simul-task mode' users can run separate apps on each screen ��� like, say,
open a text on the upper screen while reading an email on the lower one."
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Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/kyocera-echo/
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| Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again
| from the Which-pedal-did-you-say-was-the-brake? dept.
| posted by Roblimo on Tuesday February 08, @18:15 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2232236/Drivers-Blamed-For-Out-of-Control-Toyotas---Again?from=newsletter
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "An intensive 10 month investigation into
possible causes of unintended acceleration in Toyota cars found no fault
with the automaker's electronic throttle control systems, the Department
of Transportation [0]announced Tuesday." Didn't the NHTSA say
[1]essentially the same thing last July?
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2232236/Drivers-Blamed-For-Out-of-Control-Toyotas---Again?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/08/autos/nhtsa_nasa_toyota_final_report/index.htm?hpt=T2
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/14/0115223/Toyota-Sudden-Acceleration-Is-Driver-Error
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| Robot Jet Fighter Takes First Flight
| from the look-ma-no-hands dept.
| posted by Roblimo on Tuesday February 08, @18:50 (Robotics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2350232/Robot-Jet-Fighter-Takes-First-Flight?from=newsletter
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lysdexia writes "The [0] X-47B is a Tailless Flying Robotic Overlord,
which requires neither puny human pilot nor extraneous remote control.
First flight was 29 minutes, climbing to a height of 5000 ft. Next step:
landing on aircraft carrier."
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/2350232/Robot-Jet-Fighter-Takes-First-Flight?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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