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In this issue:
* Taxes On Cell Phones Hit All-Time High
* Remote Bug Found In Ubuntu Kerberos
* Facebook-Direct Phones — and Facebook Right On the SIM
* On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks
* Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering
* R-Rating Sunk <em>BioShock</em> Movie Plans
* TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1
* <em>Braid</em> Creator on 'Evil' Social Games
* Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU
* Clinton Calls For "Ground Rules" Protecting Internet
* How Do Seeders Profit From BitTorrent?
* Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA
* Pentagon To Spend $500 Million On Cyber Defense
* Teenager Tries To Hire Hitman Via Facebook
* Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps
* Dual-core Smartphone Runs Android and Ubuntu
* Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice
* The True Cost of Publishing On the Amazon Kindle
* Book Review: jBPM Developer Guide
* Man Open Sources His Genetic Data
* How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble
* Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All
* Google Announces One Pass Payment System
* Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill
* US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites
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| Taxes On Cell Phones Hit All-Time High
| from the what-the-tax-market-will-bear dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, @19:31 (Cellphones)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2327244/Taxes-On-Cell-Phones-Hit-All-Time-High?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "As a breakdown of [0]the top ten states with the
highest and lowest taxes shows, the wireless consumers in Nebraska,
Washington, and New York pay more than 20 percent of their wireless bills
in taxes and fees, mostly due to the proliferation of archaic or
duplicated surcharges. Experts from KSE Partners spent five years
monitoring the federal, state, and local taxes imposed on wireless
consumers. According to their analysis, wireless taxes grew three times
faster than the retail sales rate between 2007 and 2010. The reason
behind this is that legislators and Congressmen are targeting the
wireless industry for tax money to relieve the burden from more
recession-starved industries. In fact, a few states even tax wireless
consumers for non wireless-related projects; for instance, Utah funds its
poison-control centers with a poison-control surcharge found on wireless
bills, and in 2009 Wisconsin imposed a police and fire protection fee to
subsidize local departments."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2327244/Taxes-On-Cell-Phones-Hit-All-Time-High?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380386,00.asp
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| Remote Bug Found In Ubuntu Kerberos
| from the owning-up-to-it dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, @19:47 (Bug)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2344257/Remote-Bug-Found-In-Ubuntu-Kerberos?from=newsletter
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Trailrunner7 writes "There's a [0]remote vulnerability in the Kerberos
implementation in several versions of Ubuntu, which could allow an
attacker to cause a denial-of-service on vulnerable servers. The bug is
in Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10. The bug is in
the Ubuntu implementation of the Kerberos authentication protocol. Ubuntu
has released a slew of new packages to fix the flaw. The group said that
in most cases, a normal system update will add the new fixes."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2344257/Remote-Bug-Found-In-Ubuntu-Kerberos?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Facebook-Direct Phones — and Facebook Right On the SIM
| from the how-far-can-this-go? dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, @20:20 (Facebook)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0044254/Facebook-Direct-Phones-mdash-and-Facebook-Right-On-the-SIM?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Gemalto, a Dutch digital security company,
has announced [0]Facebook for SIM at the Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona. The company's software development team has effectively shrunk
Facebook down so that it fits onto a standard SIM card, enabling
[1]anyone with a GSM phone to enjoy the service even if without a data
plan. In fact, the company is claiming the Facebook application is
compatible with 100 percent of SIM-compliant mobile phones. As a result,
it works on prepaid as well as on subscription-based mobile plans. In
doing so, Gemalto is offering Facebook to millions of mobile phone users
regardless of their handset type. Facebook for SIM doesn't require a data
connection because it taps into a handset's SMS connectivity to allow the
user to interact with the service; users can sign up for Facebook, log in
directly, and even check out friend requests, status updates, wall posts,
and messages, all via the dedicated SIM application." And if that's just
a bit too Facebook-centric for you, a notch down are two phones from HTC
just announced in Barcelona, the [2]Salsa and the ChaCha, with dedicated
Facebook buttons.
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0044254/Facebook-Direct-Phones-mdash-and-Facebook-Right-On-the-SIM?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=117659344956890
1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/gemalto-creates-sim-card-that-brings-facebook-to-feature-phones/113
2. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/htc-unveils-two-facebook-phones/126
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| On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks
| from the all-in-all-it's-been-a-good-run dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, @23:16 (The Military)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0250202/On-Retirement-Israeli-General-Takes-Credit-for-Stuxnet-Attacks?from=newsletter
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dinscott writes "Last month, The New York Times ran a story about Stuxnet
having been developed by the Americans and the Israelis as a part of a
joint project, but it was based on claims by confidential sources. It now
seems that the information from these sources was correct. The Haaretz ���
Israel's oldest daily newspaper ��� reports on a surprising video that was
played at a party organized for General [0]Gabi Ashkenazi's last day on
the job."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0250202/On-Retirement-Israeli-General-Takes-Credit-for-Stuxnet-Attacks?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10596
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| Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering
| from the buffering-is-the-new-chinese-water-torture dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @02:10 (Media)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0345242/Proposed-Standard-Would-Address-Video-Buffering?from=newsletter
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Lucas123 writes "Sony, SanDisk and several other technology providers
have formed a group and proposed a standard that [0]would use predictive
software to pre-load content onto mobile devices in order to preempt
buffering issues due to bandwidth bottlenecks, which industry experts say
will only worsen over time. 'Intelligently coordinating content delivery
in advance to local device storage lets consumers enjoy their video,
games, periodicals, books and music when they're ready,' said Susan
Kevorkian, a research director at IDC. The proposed standard also raises
the question: do we really want Amazon downloading everything it thinks
you want to your tablet?"
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0345242/Proposed-Standard-Would-Address-Video-Buffering?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| R-Rating Sunk <em>BioShock</em> Movie Plans
| from the look-at-little-sister dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 16, @03:49 (Movies)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0540232/R-Rating-Sunk-BioShock-Movie-Plans?from=newsletter
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Back in 2008, it was announced that BioShock would be getting a movie
adaptation. Those plans never really materialized, and [0]director Gore
Verbinski has now explained why: "I couldn't really get past anybody that
would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating.
Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version.
Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the
whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four
days later, you're still shivering and going, 'Jesus Christ!' It's a
movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a
whole underwater world, so the price tag is high. We just didn't have any
takers on an R-rated movie with that price tag."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0540232/R-Rating-Sunk-BioShock-Movie-Plans?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-15-verbinksi-explains-bioshock-movie-stall
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| TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1
| from the you-get-to-keep-the-remote-though dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @05:13 (Television)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2354228/TiVo-To-Brick-All-Remaining-UK-PVRs-On-June-1?from=newsletter
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handelaar writes "Perhaps in order to 'encourage' existing users of UK
Tivo units to change their TV service to [0]Virgin Media, pay ��149 for a
new 'Virgin TiVo' that they won't actually own, plus ��34.50 per month in
service charges, Tivo is [1]to cancel all EPG data service to all the
Tivos still in use in the country ��� and existing units will become
basically nonfunctional at that time. [2]The faithful aren't amused,
having stuck by the company for several years, and mostly paying ��120 per
annum for service until now. 50% of UK residents aren't able to avail of
this generous upgrade offer even if they want to ��� the cable company in
question only covers about half the country."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2354228/TiVo-To-Brick-All-Remaining-UK-PVRs-On-June-1?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.virginmedia.com/
1. http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/318/kw/uk
2. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=464818
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| <em>Braid</em> Creator on 'Evil' Social Games
| from the i-don't-care-about-your-virtual-farm dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 16, @06:29 (Social Networks)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0527218/Braid-Creator-on-Evil-Social-Games?from=newsletter
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PCGamer recently spoke with Jonathan Blow, creator of the popular indie
platformer Braid, about his views on the rise of social games over last
few years. He thinks [0]many games in that category aren't actually very
social, and when asked if he thought such games are evil, he replied,
"Yes. Absolutely." Quoting: "[With certain social games] it���s about the
game exploiting your friends list that you already made, so it���s not
really about meeting people. And it���s not really about doing things with
them because you���re never playing at the same time. It���s about using your
friends as resources to progress in the game, which is the opposite of
actual sociality or friendship. Maybe not exactly, but it���s not the same
thing, right? They���re really just called social games because they run on
social networks."
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https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0527218/Braid-Creator-on-Evil-Social-Games?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU
| from the superman-approved dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @08:08 (Graphics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0335245/Nvidia-Demos-Kal-El-Quad-Core-Tegra-Mobile-CPU?from=newsletter
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MojoKid writes "Nvidia just took the wraps off their first quad-core
Tegra mobile processor design at the Mobile World Conference today and
it's a sight to behold. [0]Dubbed Kal-El, the new chip will be capable of
outputting 1440P video content and offer 300 DPI on devices with a 10.1"
display. Nvidia is claiming that Kal-El will deliver 5x the performance
of Tegra 2 and ship with a 12-core GeForce GPU as well. The company has
also posted two different videos of Kal-El in action."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/0335245/Nvidia-Demos-Kal-El-Quad-Core-Tegra-Mobile-CPU?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/News/Nvidia-Demos-Next-Generation-KalEl-QuadCore-Processor/
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| Clinton Calls For "Ground Rules" Protecting Internet
| from the how-about-hands-off dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @08:51 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1322236/Clinton-Calls-For-Ground-Rules-Protecting-Internet?from=newsletter
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dbune writes "Hillary Clinton has called for [0]ground rules to protect
the World Wide Web against wrongdoing and harm after the world watched as
Egyptian authorities cut Internet access during its recent political
crisis. She said 'For the United States, the choice is clear; on the
spectrum of Internet freedom, we place ourselves on the side of
openness.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1322236/Clinton-Calls-For-Ground-Rules-Protecting-Internet?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| How Do Seeders Profit From BitTorrent?
| from the my-monitor-is-smudged dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @09:30 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1342236/How-Do-Seeders-Profit-From-BitTorrent?from=newsletter
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arcticstoat writes "As you may remember, a recent study claimed that just
[0]100 users were responsible for downloading 75% of BitTorrent content,
and were doing it for money, raising a lot of questions about the study.
How do you profit from seeding, and how can the same 100 users be
responsible for 75% of downloading and 66% of uploading. The details of
the study are clarified in [1]an interview with one of the key
researchers, showing that the study's actual statistic is that 66% of the
original seeds indexed on the Pirate Bay come from just 100 users, and
these seeds then go on to account for 75% of downloads. The interview
also details how it's possible for this small number of seeders to
[2]make a profit from seeding, via embedding links to their own indexing
sites in the filenames and bundled TXT files, which then get money from
advertising if downloaders decide to visit the site, assured of quality
downloads. Meanwhile, other ways of profiting include 'premium'
registered accounts."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1342236/How-Do-Seeders-Profit-From-BitTorrent?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/1611226/100-P2P-Users-Upload-75-of-Content
1. http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/interviews/2011/02/16/torrent-seeders-driven-profit/1
2. http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/interviews/2011/02/16/torrent-seeders-driven-profit/3
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| Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA
| from the why-can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @10:18 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1459204/Attacked-By-Anonymous-HBGary-Pulls-Out-of-RSA?from=newsletter
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itwbennett writes "HBGary Federal cancelled a talk the company's CEO
Aaron Barr was planning to give at the BSides San Francisco conference on
his investigation of WikiLeaks. 'I was receiving death threats,' Barr
said in an interview Tuesday. 'There was lots of talk that was being made
of in the Anonymous IRC channels of harassing us at our booth and sending
people to heckle [HBGary speakers at the conference].' The company has
also decided to [0]pull its booth from the RSA Conference floor after it
was vandalized on Sunday, said Jim Butterworth, HBGary's vice president
of services. 'We... came back the next morning and it was very apparent
that the group responsible for the activities in the news had decided to
make another statement,' he said."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1459204/Attacked-By-Anonymous-HBGary-Pulls-Out-of-RSA?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/security/137213/hacked-and-now-vandalized-hbgary-pulls-out-rsa
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| Pentagon To Spend $500 Million On Cyber Defense
| from the thats-a-lotta-copies-of-mcaffees dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @11:01 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1553256/Pentagon-To-Spend-500-Million-On-Cyber-Defense?from=newsletter
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hostedftp found a story about the Pentagon's plan to [0]shell out half a
billion dollars on cyber defense in the next year. The article says, "The
$500 million is part of the Pentagon's 2012 budget request of $2.3
billion to improve the Defense Department's cyber capabilities."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1553256/Pentagon-To-Spend-500-Million-On-Cyber-Defense?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Teenager Tries To Hire Hitman Via Facebook
| from the assassin-request dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @11:01 (Crime)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1420214/Teenager-Tries-To-Hire-Hitman-Via-Facebook?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Hiring a hitman can cost a pretty penny these
days. Why buy an ad in the classifieds section when you can simply use
Facebook? Of course, you may end up having to face 11 to 22 years in
prison, but that's worth the risk, right? That's what happened to
19-year-old Corey C. Adams of Pennsylvania. Last June, Adams' 20-year-old
victim said after she left a party, he jumped into her car and raped her.
She went to police. He went to Facebook. Specifically, his status update
read: '[0]I got 500 on a girls head who wants that bread? Hit me up
anyway possible.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1420214/Teenager-Tries-To-Hire-Hitman-Via-Facebook?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Firefox 5 To Integrate Tab Web Apps
| from the i-prefer-diet-tab dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @11:45 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1626222/Firefox-5-To-Integrate-Tab-Web-Apps?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "We are hearing that Firefox 4 is now
scheduled for a late March release and that the company has some issues
fixing the right bugs as more non-blocking than blocking bugs are
patched. However, on a positive note, the UI design team has posted some
[0]intriguing mockups of partial Firefox 5 interfaces. The big change
will be the creation of a site-specific browser, which [1]turns websites
into tab apps within Firefox 5. This is the first time we are seeing
Mozilla's ideas on how to deal with the app-ification of the Internet and
a strategy to keep the web browser relevant."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1626222/Firefox-5-To-Integrate-Tab-Web-Apps?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.conceivablytech.com/5673/products/firefox-4-in-march-a-first-look-at-firefox-5/
1. http://areweprettyyet.com/5/desktopApps/
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| Dual-core Smartphone Runs Android and Ubuntu
| from the two-is-better-than-one dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @12:23 (Android)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1655209/Dual-core-Smartphone-Runs-Android-and-Ubuntu?from=newsletter
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nk497 writes "ARM is showing off a test handset at Mobile World Congress,
which [0]runs Android 2.3 and Ubuntu 10.04 at the same time on a Texas
Instruments OMAP 4 chip. ARM envisages a time when the only computer
you'll ever need is your smartphone and with Nvidia announcing it will be
putting quad-core mobile processors into tablets by autumn and
smartphones by Christmas, that prospect looks to be approaching faster
than anyone expected." Video is attached if you're curious.
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1655209/Dual-core-Smartphone-Runs-Android-and-Ubuntu?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/16/the-dual-core-phone-that-runs-android-and-ubuntu/
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| Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice
| from the forks-and-spoons dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, @13:00 (Open Source)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1740257/Compared-and-Contrasted-OpenOffice-V-LibreOffice?from=newsletter
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GMGruman writes "Oracle's imposition of fees for some OpenOffice
capabilities caused some of the venerable open source office suite's
creators to head out on their own and create LibreOffice as a truly free
OSS tool. InfoWorld's Neil McAllister [0]reviews the two OSS productivity
tools side by side to figure out where they differ, and whether you can
jettison Oracle's OpenOffice safely for the fully free LibreOffice."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/open-office-dilemma-openofficeorg-vs-libreoffice-716
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| The True Cost of Publishing On the Amazon Kindle
| from the cost-analysis dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @13:43 (Businesses)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/182254/The-True-Cost-of-Publishing-On-the-Amazon-Kindle?from=newsletter
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Barence writes "Ever wondered why Kindle newspapers and magazines don't
have many photos? PC Pro has done an [0]analysis of the costs of
publishing on the Kindle and discovered that Amazon effectively taxes
newspapers and magazines for including more images. Amazon applies
'delivery charges' to publishers at the cost of $0.15 per MB/10p per MB.
At those prices, PC Pro claims it's cheaper to mail out a physical
magazine than have it delivered electronically on the Kindle. What's
more, publishers have no control over the price of their newspaper or
magazine: Amazon sets the prices itself, leading to huge customer
complaints for titles such as The Economist."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/182254/The-True-Cost-of-Publishing-On-the-Amazon-Kindle?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/15/the-true-cost-of-publishing-on-the-amazon-kindle/
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| Book Review: jBPM Developer Guide
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @14:26 (Book Reviews)
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1330220/Book-Review-jBPM-Developer-Guide?from=newsletter
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RickJWagner writes "jBPM is a mature, open source [0]business process
management (BPM) solution. This book, written in a developer-centric
manner, guides the reader through the framework and exposes many
important considerations for production use. BPM tools are used to define
and execute business processes. They usually come with a graphical
editor, which is used to drag and drop boxes onto a graph. The boxes
represent activities performed by programs, activities performed by
humans, and decision points. If this all sounds like 'graphical
programming', it isn't. The picture does draw out the desired series of
steps, but there's always configuration and maybe some programming
involved as well." Read below for the rest of Rick's review.
This story continues at:
https://books.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1330220/Book-Review-jBPM-Developer-Guide?from=newsletter
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management
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| Man Open Sources His Genetic Data
| from the man-of-the-people dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @15:11 (Biotech)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1938210/Man-Open-Sources-His-Genetic-Data?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Manu Sporny, founder and CEO of Digital
Bazaar, has decided to use GitHub to store a very interesting project.
Rather than a piece of software, he is [0]listing his own genetic data as
an open source project. He has released all his rights to the data and
made around [1]1 million of his genetic markers public domain. As to why
he decided to do what many may feel is a risky sharing of data so
personal and unique to himself, Manu explains: 'I've thought long and
hard about each of those questions and the many more that you ask
yourself before publishing this sort of personal data. There are large
privacy implications in doing this. However, speaking solely for myself,
I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.' Manu hasn't gone into great
detail as to his thought processes yet, but promises to on his blog at a
later date."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://manu.sporny.org/2011/public-domain-genome/
1. http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/man-decides-to-open-source-his-genetic-data-using-github-20110214/
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| How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble
| from the bigger-and-badder dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @15:56 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/201209/How-To-Build-a-Telescope-That-Trumps-Hubble?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "In cleanrooms around the country NASA and its
contractors are building the [0]James Webb Space Telescope, a marvel of
engineering scheduled to launch in 2014. This gallery shows [1]the
features that will allow Webb to take the universe's baby pictures in
infrared ��� most notably an 18-segment mirror and a 5-layer sunshield. I
can't wait until Webb settles into its Lagrangian point way out beyond
the moon and gets to work."
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/201209/How-To-Build-a-Telescope-That-Trumps-Hubble?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/index.html
1. http://discovermagazine.com/photos/15-how-to-build-a-telescope-even-more-powerful-than-hubble/
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| Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All
| from the plud-privacy dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @16:40 (Open Source)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/208228/Freedom-Box-Foundation-Wants-Plug-Servers-For-All?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "From the NYTimes.com article: 'A Columbia law
professor in Manhattan, Eben Moglen, [is] [0]putting together a shopping
list to rebuild the Internet ��� this time, without governments and big
companies able to watch every twitch of our fingers. ... Put free
software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a
Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen
said. This month, he created the Freedom Box Foundation to organize the
software.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/208228/Freedom-Box-Foundation-Wants-Plug-Servers-For-All?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?ref=todayspaper
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| Google Announces One Pass Payment System
| from the one-pass-to-pay-them-all dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @17:22 (Android)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2132225/Google-Announces-One-Pass-Payment-System?from=newsletter
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eldavojohn writes "Riding the tail of Apple's [0]30% announcement,
Google's Eric Schmidt has [1]announced One Pass, a new method for users
to pay for content. The BBC is reporting that [2]Google is taking a 10%
cut. One Pass will work on Google sites and on phones and tablets as the
announcement notes: 'Readers who purchase from [3]a One Pass publisher
can access their content on tablets, smartphones and websites using a
single sign-on with an email and password. Importantly, the service helps
publishers authenticate existing subscribers so that readers don't have
to re-subscribe in order to access their content on new devices.' This is
to be handled through Google Checkout."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2132225/Google-Announces-One-Pass-Payment-System?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/1856211/Apple-To-Keep-30-of-Magazine-Subscription-Revenue
1. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/simple-way-for-publishers-to-manage.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12489318
3. http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/
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| Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill
| from the kickig-a-dead-horse dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @18:05 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/227237/Lawmaker-Reintroduces-WikiLeaks-Prosecution-Bill?from=newsletter
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angry tapir writes "New legislation in the US Congress targets
[0]WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for espionage prosecution.
Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, introduced the Securing
Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination, or SHIELD, Act
(read the bill [1]here [PDF]). The bill would clarify US law by saying it
is an act of espionage to publish the protected names of American
intelligence sources who collaborate with the US military or intelligence
community."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/227237/Lawmaker-Reintroduces-WikiLeaks-Prosecution-Bill?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/376845/lawmaker_reintroduces_wikileaks_prosecution_bill/
1. http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/The%20SHIELD%20Act_0.pdf
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| US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites
| from the our-bad dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @18:53 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2239245/US-Govt-Mistakenly-Shuts-Down-84000-Sites?from=newsletter
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Chaonici writes "Last Friday, the United States Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) seized ten websites accused of selling counterfeit goods
or trafficking in child pornography. However, in the process, about
[0]84,000 unrelated websites were taken offline when the government
mistakenly seized the domain of a large DNS provider, FreeDNS. By now,
the mistake has been corrected and most of the websites' domains again
point to the sites themselves, rather than [1]an intimidating domain
seizure image. In a press release, the DHS praised themselves for taking
down those ten websites, but completely failed to acknowledge their
massive blunder."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2239245/US-Govt-Mistakenly-Shuts-Down-84000-Sites?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/
1. http://torrentfreak.com/images/C3_Banner_2011_02.jpg
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