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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Number of Facebook Friends Linked To Anxiety
* Anatomy of the HBGary Hack
* Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest
* London Stock Exchange Tackles System Problem
* Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee
* Foreign Hackers Attack Canadian Government
* Sony's Official Statement Regarding PS3 Hacking
* Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax
* 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts
* Microsoft Bans Open Source From the Windows Market
* Supermassive Black Holes Not So Big After All
* Cyber War Mass Hysteria Is Hindering Security
* How <em>Watchmen</em> Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies
* Libya Warns Against Use of Facebook
* 80% of Browsers Found To Be At Risk of Attack
* Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves
* Google Asks USPTO To Reexamine Four Oracle Patents
* Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks
* National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide
* Scientists Invent World's First Anti-Laser
* Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version)
* Steve Jobs Health Worries Escalate
* Americans Trust Docs, But Not Computerized Records
* Ants Build Cheapest Networks
* X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On
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| Number of Facebook Friends Linked To Anxiety
| from the more-friends-more-problems dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @19:50 (Facebook)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2249243/Number-of-Facebook-Friends-Linked-To-Anxiety?from=newsletter
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "WebProNews reports that according to a new
survey, the more Facebook friends you have, the [0]more likely you are to
feel stressed out by the site. 'The results threw up a number of
paradoxes,' says Dr Kathy Charles, who led the study. 'For instance,
although there is great pressure to be on Facebook there is also
considerable ambivalence amongst users about its benefits.' Causes of
stress included deleting unwanted contacts, the pressure to be
entertaining, and having to use appropriate etiquette for different types
of friends. 'Like gambling, Facebook keeps users in a neurotic limbo, not
knowing whether they should hang on in there just in case they miss out
on something good.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2249243/Number-of-Facebook-Friends-Linked-To-Anxiety?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2011/02/16/too-many-facebook-friends-causes-stress
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| Anatomy of the HBGary Hack
| from the plan-of-attack dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @21:49 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0041208/Anatomy-of-the-HBGary-Hack?from=newsletter
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PCM2 writes "Recently, Anonymous took down the Web sites of network
security firm HBGary. Ars Technica has [0]the scoop on how it happened.
Turns out it wasn't any one vulnerability, but a perfect storm of SQL
injection, weak passwords, weak encryption, password re-use, unpatched
servers, and social engineering. The full story will make you wince ��� but
how many of these mistakes is your company making?"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0041208/Anatomy-of-the-HBGary-Hack?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest
| from the john-henry-hangs-up-his-hammer dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @23:51 (AI)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0045231/Watson-Wins-Jeopardy-Contest?from=newsletter
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NicknamesAreStupid writes "The word is in, [0]Watson beats the two best
Jeopardy players. Sure, it cost IBM four years and millions of dollars
and requires a room full of hardware. In thirty years it will all fit in
your pocket and cost $19.99. Resistance is futile; you will be
trivialized."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0045231/Watson-Wins-Jeopardy-Contest?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| London Stock Exchange Tackles System Problem
| from the fix-the-glitch dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 17, @02:33 (Novell)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0348221/London-Stock-Exchange-Tackles-System-Problem?from=newsletter
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DMandPenfold writes "The London Stock Exchange has taken steps to
[0]resolve a system problem that occurred at 4.30pm Tuesday, which saw a
delay to the start of the closing auction and knocked out automatic
trades during a 42 second period. The problem occurred a day after the
high profile [1]launch of its new matching engine on the main equities
market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0348221/London-Stock-Exchange-Tackles-System-Problem?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3261296/london-stock-exchange-tackles-closing-auction-system-problem/
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/026254/London-Stock-Exchange-Finishes-Switch-To-Linux
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| Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee
| from the are-we-supposed-to-call-them-an-evil-empire-yet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 17, @03:21 (Businesses)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0526200/Valve-Beats-Google-Apple-For-Profits-Per-Employee?from=newsletter
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AndrewGOO9 writes "It should come with little surprise that Gabe Newell
is well on his way to being one of the wealthiest men in gaming. In an
age when console gamers would have many believe that the PC was on its
way out the door, Newell and Valve's Steam stand as sentinels of the
platform, offering a ridiculous amount of content to the 30 million
users. With the lion's share of the downloadable market on the PC, it's
no wonder that [0]Steam has become the go-to for many and an incredible
financial opportunity for Newell and Valve. According to Forbes, 'Newell
says that, [1]per employee, Valve is more profitable than Google and
Apple. A potential buyer was rumored to have made an acquisition offer a
few years back for the Steam piece only, but Newell supposedly refused to
split the online storefront from Valve's game-publishing arm.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0526200/Valve-Beats-Google-Apple-For-Profits-Per-Employee?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/valve-beats-out-apple-google-for-profitability-per-employee
1. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newell-videogames-valve-online-mayhem.html
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| Foreign Hackers Attack Canadian Government
| from the take-off-hackers dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 17, @05:03 (Canada)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0357257/Foreign-Hackers-Attack-Canadian-Government?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes " According to the CBC: 'An unprecedented
[0]cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign
hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at
least two key departments off the internet, CBC News has learned. The
attack, first detected in early January, left Canadian counter-espionage
agents scrambling to determine how much sensitive government information
may have been stolen and by whom.' It should be noted that the
Auditor-General warned of this months ago and was ignored by everyone as
she usually is. It should also be noted that public sentiment towards
China is getting very, very testy."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0357257/Foreign-Hackers-Attack-Canadian-Government?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2011/02/16/pol-weston-hacking.html
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| Sony's Official Statement Regarding PS3 Hacking
| from the as-disappointing-as-you'd-expect dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 17, @06:36 (Piracy)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0531224/Sonys-Official-Statement-Regarding-PS3-Hacking?from=newsletter
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tekgoblin writes "Sony has stepped up its stance on anyone circumventing
protection of any kind on the PlayStation 3 and released a statement
addressing it. Most recently Sony had [0]barred George Hotz (Geohot) from
releasing any more information about the console whatsoever. Now, [1]Sony
has their eyes set on other users that may be trying to use pirated
software or modded PlayStation consoles on their network. [2]The
statement reads: 'Notice: Unauthorized circumvention devices for the
PlayStation 3 system have been recently released by hackers. These
devices permit the use of unauthorized or pirated software. Use of such
devices or software violates the terms of the "System Software License
Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System" and the "Terms of Services and
User Agreement" for the PlayStation Network/Qriocity and its Community
Code of Conduct provisions. Violation of the System Software Licence
Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System invalidates the consumer guarantee
for that system. In addition, copying or playing pirated software is a
violation of International Copyright Laws. Consumers using circumvention
devices or running unauthorized or pirated software will have access to
the PlayStation Network and access to Qriocity services through
PlayStation 3 system terminated permanently.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0531224/Sonys-Official-Statement-Regarding-PS3-Hacking?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/27/2157211/Sony-Wins-Restraining-Order-Against-Geohot
1. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/02/16/sony-releases-official-statement-regarding-ps3-hackers/
2. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/02/16/official-statement-regarding-ps3-circumvention-devices-and-pirated-software/
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| Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax
| from the break-out-plan-c dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 17, @08:04 (Businesses)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0340218/Nokia-Plan-B-Was-Just-a-Hoax?from=newsletter
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suraj.sun writes "There's been a lot of chatter about a '[0]Nokia Plan B'
over the past 48 hours ��� the site was put up by nine young investors who
outlined an audacious plan to rally shareholders, get themselves elected
onto Nokia's board, and radically change the company's direction by
firing Stephen Elop and committing massive resources to MeeGo. There's
just one problem, though: [1]the nine young investors don't really exist
��� according to the last tweet on the @NokiaPlanB Twitter account, it was
all a hoax perpetuated by 'one very bored engineer who really likes his
iPhone.' Ouch. That explains why the now-defunct site abruptly gave up
the cause this morning after just 36 hours of existence."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0340218/Nokia-Plan-B-Was-Just-a-Hoax?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/1635200/Nokia-Shareholders-Fight-Back
1. http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/16/nokia-plan-b-was-just-a-hoax-all-along/
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| 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts
| from the still-fixing-tickets-too dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @08:49 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1330238/10-of-IT-Pros-Can-Access-Previous-Jobs-Accounts?from=newsletter
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dinscott writes "According to a survey that examines how IT professionals
and employees view the use of policies and technologies to manage and
protect users' electronic identities, the sharing of work log-ins and
passwords between co-workers is a regular occurrence. It's no wonder then
that half of them are concerned about insider threats to network security
in their company's current infrastructure! But [0]one of the most
surprising results shows that one in 10 IT professionals admit they have
accounts from previous jobs, from which they can still access systems
even though they've left the organization."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1330238/10-of-IT-Pros-Can-Access-Previous-Jobs-Accounts?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10620
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| Microsoft Bans Open Source From the Windows Market
| from the well-thats-not-very-sporting dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @09:29 (Microsoft)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1429229/Microsoft-Bans-Open-Source-From-the-Windows-Market?from=newsletter
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Blacklaw writes "Microsoft has raised the ire of the open source
community with its Windows Marketplace licence by [0]specifically
refusing to allow software covered under an open licence to be
distributed. The licence, which anyone wishing to distribute Windows,
Windows Phone, or Xbox applications through the company's copy of Apple's
App Store is required to agree to, is the usual torrent of legalese ��� but
hides a nasty surprise for those who support open source ideals."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1429229/Microsoft-Bans-Open-Source-From-the-Windows-Market?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/17/microsoft-bans-open-source-marketplace/
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| Supermassive Black Holes Not So Big After All
| from the puck-will-be-disappointed dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @10:18 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1439216/Supermassive-Black-Holes-Not-So-Big-After-All?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Supermassive black holes are between [0]2 and
10 times less massive than previously thought, according to new
calculations published by German astrophysicists ([1]abstract)."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1439216/Supermassive-Black-Holes-Not-So-Big-After-All?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4060/supermassive-black-holes-not-so-massive
1. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09761.html
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| Cyber War Mass Hysteria Is Hindering Security
| from the hysteria-is-hawesome dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @10:59 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1441208/Cyber-War-Mass-Hysteria-Is-Hindering-Security?from=newsletter
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jhernik writes "International cyber threat initiatives are [0]in danger
of becoming overblown, the US government's security chief told the RSA
Conference in San Francisco. 'Cyber war is a terrible metaphor,' said the
US government's cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt. 'Don't make it
something it's not.' Internet attacks from hackers, spies and terrorist
groups deserves serious attention, he said, but this should not be 'to
the extent of mass hysteria.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1441208/Cyber-War-Mass-Hysteria-Is-Hindering-Security?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/rsa-cyber-war-mass-hysteria-is-hindering-security-21276
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| How <em>Watchmen</em> Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies
| from the oh-the-irony dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @11:46 (Movies)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1527253/How-Watchmen-Killed-R-rated-Fantasy-Movies?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Of all the Hollywood properties consigned to
development hell in the reductionist policy of the last 3-4 years of bad
economy, the very last to have a prospect of a green light are
[0]expensive fantasy and SF projects that fall outside the 'family' remit.
Not even the addition of James Cameron to David Fincher's Heavy Metal
remake has stopped its begging-bowl passage from studio to studio; Robert
Rodriguez's propriety of the Barbarella remake likewise toured the world
in vain, apparently unmindful of the very unusual set of cultural and
demographic circumstances that caused a major studio to back an 'erotic
space opera' in 1968 ��� and to the fact that these circumstances are not
likely to reoccur. David Fincher lamented in 2008 that the creation of
dazzling artificial movie worlds is limited to family-friendly output ���
but in the long wake of the box-office disappointment of the 'R'-rated
Watchmen movie, there seems no current prospect that the adults will ever
get to play with the kids' toys again." The most frustrating part of this
is that Watchmen was actually *good*.
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1527253/How-Watchmen-Killed-R-rated-Fantasy-Movies?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Libya Warns Against Use of Facebook
| from the don't-do-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @12:22 (Facebook)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/173244/Libya-Warns-Against-Use-of-Facebook?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Many Libyan Internet activists have declared
their support for the pro-democracy movements and revolutions in the
Middle East. After seeing the power of the people succeed in Tunisia and
Egypt, they created groups on Facebook to call for political and economic
reforms in Libya. Libya's dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, has responded by
[0]warning against the use of Facebook."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/173244/Libya-Warns-Against-Use-of-Facebook?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| 80% of Browsers Found To Be At Risk of Attack
| from the zomg-we're-all-gonna-die dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, @13:00 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1740227/80-of-Browsers-Found-To-Be-At-Risk-of-Attack?from=newsletter
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CWmike writes "About [0]eight out of every 10 Web browsers run by
consumers are vulnerable to attack by exploits of already-patched bugs, a
security expert said Thursday. The poor state of browser patching stunned
Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, which presented data from the company's
free BrowserCheck service Wednesday at RSA. 'I really thought it would be
lower,' Kandek said. [1]BrowserCheck scans Windows, Mac and Linux
machines for vulnerable browsers, as well as up to 18 browser plug-ins,
from Adobe's Flash to Windows Media Player. When browsers and plug-ins
are tabulated together, between 90% and 65% of all consumer systems
scanned with BrowserCheck since June 2010 reported at least one
out-of-date component. In January 2011, about 80% of the machines were
vulnerable. The most likely plug-in to require a patch: [2]same as last
year, Oracle's Java."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1740227/80-of-Browsers-Found-To-Be-At-Risk-of-Attack?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209958/Bulk_of_browsers_found_to_be_at_risk_of_attack
1. https://browsercheck.qualys.com/
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9192098/Users_neglect_Java_patches_leave_attack_door_wide_open
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| Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves
| from the skynet-is-upon-us dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @13:43 (AI)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1828232/Sysbrain-Lets-Satellites-Think-For-Themselves?from=newsletter
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cylonlover writes "Engineers from the University of Southampton have
developed what they say is the world's first control system for
[0]programming satellites to think for themselves. It's a cognitive
software agent called sysbrain, and it allows satellites to read
English-language technical documents, which in turn instruct the
satellites on how to do things such as autonomously identifying and
avoiding obstacles."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1828232/Sysbrain-Lets-Satellites-Think-For-Themselves?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/sysbrain-allows-satellites-to-act-autonomously/17899/
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| Google Asks USPTO To Reexamine Four Oracle Patents
| from the seriously-your-honor?-seriously? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @14:27 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1855200/Google-Asks-USPTO-To-Reexamine-Four-Oracle-Patents?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Google leaves no stone unturned in its
defense against Oracle's patent and copyright infringement [0]allegations.
eWEEK reports on the latest development: Google has [1] asked the USPTO
to reexamine four of the seven patents asserted by Oracle. Patent watcher
and skeptic Florian Mueller believes 'the world would be a [2]better
place without those virtual machine patents,' which he considers
excessively broad and not really technical inventions. He also reports on
a Google letter to the court, asking for permission to file a motion to
throw out Oracle's copyright infringement allegations as soon as
possible, without further discovery."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1855200/Google-Asks-USPTO-To-Reexamine-Four-Oracle-Patents?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/0255205/Oracle-Sues-Google-For-Infringing-Java-Patents?from=rss
1. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Google-Asks-Patent-Office-for-Second-Opinion-on-Oracles-Android-Claims-100246/
2. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-asks-patent-office-to-reexamine.html
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| Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks
| from the tim-wants-targets-you-want-privacy-win-win dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @15:13 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1911217/Confidential-Data-Not-Safe-On-Solid-State-Disks?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "I always thought that the SSD was a
[0]questionable place to store private data. These [1]researchers at
UCSD's Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory have torn apart SSDs and have
found remnant data even after running several open source and commerical
secure erase tools. They've also proposed some changes to SSDs that would
make them more secure. Makes you think twice about storing data on SSDs ���
once you put it on, getting it off isn't so easy."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1911217/Confidential-Data-Not-Safe-On-Solid-State-Disks?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/tech.html#Wei
1. http://nvsl.ucsd.edu/sanitize/
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| National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide
| from the this-took-a-fifth-of-a-billion-dollars-to-determine? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @15:59 (Government)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1941210/National-Broadband-Map-Shows-Digital-Divide?from=newsletter
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "PC Magazine reports that the Commerce
Department has unveiled a national broadband inventory map, which will
allow the public to [0]see where high-speed Internet is available
throughout the country. Users can search by address, view data on a map,
or use other interactive tools to compare broadband across various
geographies, such as states, counties or congressional districts.
Commerce officials say the information can help businesses decide if they
want to move to a certain location, based on broadband availability. The
map, costing about $200 million and financed through the 2009 Recovery
Act, [1]shows that 5-10 percent of Americans lack broadband access at
speeds that support a basic set of applications. Another 36 percent lack
access to wireless service. Community anchor institutions like schools
and libraries are also 'largely underserved,' the data finds, and
two-thirds of surveyed schools subscribe to speeds lower than 25 Mbps and
only 4 percent of libraries subscribe to speeds greater than 25 Mbps.
'The National Broadband Map shows there are still too many people and
community institutions lacking the level of broadband service needed to
fully participate in the Internet economy,' says Larry Strickling,
assistant secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA). 'We are pleased to see the increase in broadband
adoption last year, particularly in light of the difficult economic
environment, but a digital divide remains.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1941210/National-Broadband-Map-Shows-Digital-Divide?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380525,00.asp
1. http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology
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| Scientists Invent World's First Anti-Laser
| from the what-about-my-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-laser? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @16:21 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2045216/Scientists-Invent-Worlds-First-Anti-Laser?from=newsletter
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Velcroman1 writes "Two scientists at Yale University have built the
laser's first doppelganger: the anti-laser. While a conventional laser
emits a constant beam of light in one direction, the anti-laser simply
does the opposite. It takes that same steady light stream and interacts
with it in such a way that it absorbs and cancels out the light. And
scientists hope the strange creation could help the fight against cancer.
A. Douglas Stone, one of the two researchers behind the project, said he
came up with the idea for a 'nega-laser' [0]when working with equations
for a random laser with his partner in crime, Hui Cao. 'I figured, if we
just somehow illuminated the cavity, and replaced the gain medium with
something that tends to absorb light, we could essentially reverse the
process,' Stone said. Oh, that makes sense."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2045216/Scientists-Invent-Worlds-First-Anti-Laser?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/17/scientists-invent-worlds-anti-laser/
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| Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version)
| from the enough-line-breaks-are-indistinguishable-from-encryption dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @16:46 (Encryption)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/210213/Encrypting-Phone-Storage-and-Transmission-2011-Version?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Soon I'll be moving to one of the hot,
culturally restrictive countries which has recently been in the news ...
and which monitors and filters web traffic. ISPs and cellular providers
are both owned by the government. Needless to say, I'm concerned about
privacy and am even posting to my fellow Slashdotters as an anonymous
coward. Which smart phones are the best for a) encrypted storage, and b)
encrypted transmission? I'm not worried about encrypting SMSs or
traditional voice traffic, but I would like all IP traffic as secure as
possible. Setting up a server in my less restrictive home country is an
option. What storage encryption and transmission encryption would you
recommend for that situation? I'm willing to buy yet another device, if
necessary. (No, I won't get a SatPhone.) I currently have a Nokia N900
running Maemo5 and another device running Symbian S60v3. I was hoping to
have a secure OS like BackTrack running on the N900, but it looks like
the software was never totally ported for the device."
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/210213/Encrypting-Phone-Storage-and-Transmission-2011-Version?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Steve Jobs Health Worries Escalate
| from the hope-he's-got-more-tricks-up-his-sleeve dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @17:08 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2136258/Steve-Jobs-Health-Worries-Escalate?from=newsletter
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PolygamousRanchKid writes with this sad snippet from the San Francisco
Chronicle: "We all know that Steve Jobs is sick. What's not known is
[0]how sick he is, and that's worrying investors of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)
this morning, as well as everyone else. Jobs did have pancreatic cancer a
few years ago, but he had a transplant and was able to come back to work.
Last time, he gave some kind of time frame for returning to work. This
time, he did not. Supposedly the National Enquirer is set to run pictures
of Jobs with him looking frail and gaunt. Jobs was spotted leaving the
Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California, according to
RadarOnline.com."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2136258/Steve-Jobs-Health-Worries-Escalate?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/17/benzinga869515.DTL&tsp=1
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| Americans Trust Docs, But Not Computerized Records
| from the and-scarcely-themselves dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @17:30 (Privacy)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2122200/Americans-Trust-Docs-But-Not-Computerized-Records?from=newsletter
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Lucas123 writes "A soon-to-be-released survey from CDW shows that
Americans trust their physicians to use their health information
responsibly, but they're very concerned that once in electronic format,
their personal health information [0]may suddenly show up on the Internet.
Their fears may not be unfounded. CDW said that survey data showed 30%
and 34% of doctors lack basic anti-virus software and network firewalls,
respectively. Most amusingly, however, nearly a quarter of the 1,000
patient respondents said they don't even trust themselves with access to
their own electronic health records."
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2122200/Americans-Trust-Docs-But-Not-Computerized-Records?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Ants Build Cheapest Networks
| from the where's-antdude-when-you-expect-him-most? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @18:13 (Network)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2243203/Ants-Build-Cheapest-Networks?from=newsletter
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schliz writes "When building a network from scratch, Argentine ants tend
to connect their nests in the way that, while more inconvenient for
individual ants, [0]requires the minimum amount of trail. Researchers
studying 'supercolonies' of the ants found them building networks that
closely resembled the mathematical shortest path ��� a [1]Steiner tree.
They hope to apply their work to self-healing, organic computing networks
of self-organising sensors, robots, computers, and autonomous cars." This
story adds to the [2]earlier report of ants' networking prowess.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2243203/Ants-Build-Cheapest-Networks?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/248359,ants-build-cheapest-networks.aspx
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_tree_problem
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/12/1745238/Next-Generation-of-Algorithms-Inspired-by-Ants
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| X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On
| from the must-tweet-on-arrival dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, @18:59 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2317250/X-Prize-30-Million-Robot-Race-To-the-Moon-Is-On?from=newsletter
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coondoggie writes "The master competition masters at X Prize Foundation
are at it again. Today the group [0]announced the 29 international teams
that will compete for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, the
competition to put a robot on the moon by 2015. To win the money, a
privately-funded team must successfully place a robot on the Moon's
surface that explores at least 500 meters and transmits high definition
video and images back to Earth. The first team to do so will claim a $20
million Grand Prize, while the second team will earn a $5 million."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/2317250/X-Prize-30-Million-Robot-Race-To-the-Moon-Is-On?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/x-prize-30-million-private-race-moon
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