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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly
* Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones
* The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis
* Australian Telco Telstra Complies With GPL
* UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours
* LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective
* Python 3.2 Released
* Laptop Design For Disassembly
* Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week?
* Late Night Gaming Banned In Vietnam
* Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers
* Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops?
* Motorola Xoom Won't Have Flash Support At Launch
* <em>The Legend of Zelda</em> Turns 25
* WA Election To Try Online Voting
* Physicists Build Bigger 'Bottles' For Antimatter
* Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers?
* Anonymous Denies Targeting Westboro Baptist Church
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| Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly
| from the welcome-back dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @19:51 (Sci-Fi)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/222240/Science-Channel-Buys-Rights-To-Firefly?from=newsletter
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[0]citking writes "The Science Channel has [1]purchased the rights to
Firefly and plans to air all episodes in order and in high definition. In
addition, [2] physicist Dr. Michio Kaku will appear to explain the
theoretical science behind the show's sci-fi concepts. There's a brief
interview in the article as well with Nathan Fillion, who chimes in with
his thoughts on Firefly and playing Mal."
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/222240/Science-Channel-Buys-Rights-To-Firefly?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:jayNO@SPAMcitking.net
1. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/17/firefly-returns/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku
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| Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones
| from the eye-in-the-sky dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @21:13 (The Military)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/2217224/Automatic-Life-Jacket-Detection-For-Drones?from=newsletter
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[0]garymortimer writes "Sentient, an Australian company that makes drone
software, has given UAVs the ability to search for [1]small, high
visibility objects such as life jackets. From the article: 'Kestrel
Maritime is a software solution that processes electro-optical (EO) and
infrared (IR) full motion video (FMV) from manned and unmanned vehicles
(UAVs). The Life Jacket Detection enhances Kestrel Maritime EO capability
to automatically detect small, high visibility objects whilst searching
wide maritime areas.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/2217224/Automatic-Life-Jacket-Detection-For-Drones?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.suasnews.com/
1. http://www.suasnews.com/2011/02/3861/automated-life-jacket-detection-enhances-search-and-rescue-operations/
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| The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis
| from the mining-the-moon dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 20, @23:40 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0156224/The-Outfall-of-a-Helium-3-Crisis?from=newsletter
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[0]astroengine writes "The United States is currently [1]recovering from
a helium isotope crisis that last year sent low-temperature physicists
scrambling, sky-rocketed the cost of hospital MRI's, and threw national
security staff out on a search mission for alternate ways to detect dirty
bombs. Now the panic is subsiding, what is being done to conserve, or
replace, helium-3?"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0156224/The-Outfall-of-a-Helium-3-Crisis?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.astroengine.com/
1. http://news.discovery.com/earth/the-outfall-of-a-helium-3-crisis.html
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| Australian Telco Telstra Complies With GPL
| from the man-pays-utility-bill dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday February 21, @02:07 (Australia)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0221230/Australian-Telco-Telstra-Complies-With-GPL?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Late last year, Australia's biggest telco
Telstra was sharply criticised for using GPL'd code in several of its new
products ��� but not publicly distributing changes it made to the code when
doing so. However, it looks as though [0]the company has now come clean,
publishing a source code CD of the files changed in its development
effort and acknowledging the GPL and Lesser GPL. It's good to see
companies responding to the open source community this way and engaging ���
makes a change from the past!"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0221230/Australian-Telco-Telstra-Complies-With-GPL?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/02/21/telstra-frees-t-hub-open-source-code/
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| UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours
| from the what-time-is-now dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday February 21, @05:11 (Government)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/024234/UK-Government-Wants-to-Spring-Ahead-Two-Hours?from=newsletter
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[0]Anonymous Coward writes "In England it has been proposed that [1]the
clocks move forward by 2 hours this summer to give us more daylight time
in the day, and hopefully in turn stimulate the economy. My question is
what impact will this hold for computers that automatically adjust the
time to British Summer Time? Could this cause another 'millennium Bug'
fiasco?"
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/024234/UK-Government-Wants-to-Spring-Ahead-Two-Hours?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.adamonsecurity.com/
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8335839/Coalition-may-put-clocks-forward-two-hours.html
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| LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective
| from the up-is-down dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday February 21, @08:11 (Books)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0234230/LotR-Rewritten-From-a-Mordor-Perspective?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "It's been said that history is written by
the winners but Laura Miller writes in Salon about a counterexample as
she reviews a new version of Lord of the Rings. The Last Ring-bearer was
published to acclaim in Russia by Kirill Yeskov, a paleontologist whose
job is reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life.
Yeskov performs essentially the same feat in his book. The Last
Ring-bearer is set during and after the end of the War of the Ring and
[1]told from the perspective of the losers. In Yeskov's retelling,
[2]available in translation as a free download, the wizard Gandalf is a
war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative
of Mordor and its southern allies because science 'destroys the harmony
of the world and dries up the souls of men' and Aragorn is depicted by
Yeskov as a ruthless Machiavellian schemer who is ultimately the puppet
of his wife, the elf Arwen. Sauron's citadel Barad-dur is, by contrast,
described as 'that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and
astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only
civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely
pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/0234230/LotR-Rewritten-From-a-Mordor-Perspective?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html
2. http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/270570.html
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| Python 3.2 Released
| from the watch-out-for-teeth dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 21, @08:55 (Programming)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1336215/Python-32-Released?from=newsletter
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digitalderbs writes "[0]Python 3.2 was released on Feb 20th 2011 with
many [1]new improvements. New features include many useful updates to the
unittest module, a stable ABI for extensions, pyc repository directories,
improvements to the email and ssl modules and many others. This also
marks the first release in the 3000-series that is no longer backported
to the 2.0-series."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1336215/Python-32-Released?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/
1. http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html
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| Laptop Design For Disassembly
| from the no-disassemble-stephanie dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 21, @09:53 (Earth)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1444230/Laptop-Design-For-Disassembly?from=newsletter
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[0]retroworks writes "Stanford and Finland are cooperating on a project
to [1]make a 'modular' laptop which can be more easily disassembled and
upgraded, and eventually recycled. Video presentation by
smarterplanet.com is a sober answer to the [2]Jaime Guittierez 'Clean the
Fan' video."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1444230/Laptop-Design-For-Disassembly?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/video/fighting-e-waste-with-recyclable-laptops/496473/
2. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1943659
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| Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week?
| from the because-they-can dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 21, @10:56 (Intel)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1547245/Apple-To-Unveil-Light-Peak-New-MacBook-Pros-This-Week?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Apple will reportedly soon make an
announcement regarding a [0]new high-speed connection technology. And as
luck would have it, this comes hot on the heels of a report that Apple
will release a slew of new MacBook Pros later this week. For some time
now, reports have abounded detailing Apple and Intel's cooperation on a
new transfer technology dubbed Light Peak capable of transferring data at
10GB/s both up and down. Could this find its way into Apple's new lineup
of MacBook Pros as has been previously rumored?"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1547245/Apple-To-Unveil-Light-Peak-New-MacBook-Pros-This-Week?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.edibleapple.com/apple-to-unveil-high-speed-connection-technology-light-peak/
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| Late Night Gaming Banned In Vietnam
| from the sleep-is-important dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 21, @11:51 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1652211/Late-Night-Gaming-Banned-In-Vietnam?from=newsletter
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R3d M3rcury writes "Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication
[0]has asked ISPs to block access to on-line games between 10:00PM and
8:00AM. 'The request, made on Wednesday, is another move from the
authority to mitigate the [1]side effects of online games. The request
follows numerous stiff measures by the ministry to tackle the issue,
including cutting internet access to agents at night beginning last
September.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1652211/Late-Night-Gaming-Banned-In-Vietnam?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://vietnamnews.vnanet.vn//Social-Isssues/208613/Late-night-game-parlours-to-be-banned-after-10pm.html
1. http://www.vietnamnews.com.vn/Social-Isssues/207133/Online-games-remain-headache-for-schools.html
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| Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers
| from the we-measure-uptime-in-years dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 21, @12:44 (Unix)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1734259/Why-You-Shouldnt-Reboot-Unix-Servers?from=newsletter
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[0]GMGruman writes "It's a persistent myth: reboot your Unix box when
something goes wrong or to clean it out. Paul Venezia explains why you
should almost [1]never reboot a Unix server, unlike say Windows."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1734259/Why-You-Shouldnt-Reboot-Unix-Servers?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/when-in-doubt-reboot-not-unix-boxes-061
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| Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops?
| from the keep-it-simple-stupid dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @13:30 (Books)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1754254/Would-the-Developing-World-Use-E-Readers-More-Than-Laptops?from=newsletter
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[0]Barence writes "Stuart Turton writes about [1]how the local children
reacted to his Kindle on a recent visit to the Nagpur region of India.
'About 20 kids stood in a big group, just watching me: big eyes, curious
expressions, ridiculously cute and all intent on the Kindle,' he writes.
'Just turning the page caused them to drag their friends over, and
there's no reality where changing the font size of your book should make
you cooler than a Jimmy Hendrix guitar solo. That was just the warm-up
act though; it was the text-to-speech feature that pretty much made me
the best friend of the entire village. A charity could do a lot worse
than to load a few up with dictionaries, school books and novels and send
them to some remote schools in developing nations,' he observes."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1754254/Would-the-Developing-World-Use-E-Readers-More-Than-Laptops?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/21/dont-send-the-developing-world-pcs-send-them-kindles/
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| Motorola Xoom Won't Have Flash Support At Launch
| from the it's-finished-when-it's-almost-finished dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @14:19 (Graphics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1844203/Motorola-Xoom-Wont-Have-Flash-Support-At-Launch?from=newsletter
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Several readers have sent word that Motorola's Xoom tablet, marketed as
the iPad's first significant competitor, [0]won't ship with Flash support.
Quoting: "Support for Adobe's Flash technology has been an argument for
the Android operating system since Apple CEO Steve Jobs notoriously said
that Flash is a dying technology and that it won't make it onto iOS
devices for several reasons. Flash support appeared in Android with
version 2.2 and Google even flaunted it as a killer feature for tablets
running Honeycomb (3.0), like the Motorola Xoom. But it looks like Adobe
and/or Google have yet to put the finishing touches on Flash's
implementation in Android 3.0. An advertisement for the Xoom on Verizon's
site says (in 6 point text at the bottom) that Adobe Flash support on the
Xoom is expected in Spring 2011, meaning this functionality won't be
available at the launch of the first Honeycomb tablet on February 24.
Considering how slow carriers and manufacturers are when it comes to
software updates, this Spring 2011 update could mean more like late
Spring 2011 ETA."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1844203/Motorola-Xoom-Wont-Have-Flash-Support-At-Launch?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article/220221/hard_sell_motorolas_800_xoom_tablet_no_flash_support.html
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| <em>The Legend of Zelda</em> Turns 25
| from the it's-dangerous-to-go-alone-take-this dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @15:09 (Classic Games (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1930238/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Turns-25?from=newsletter
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[0]harrymcc writes "The Legend of Zelda originated 25 years ago today,
when Nintendo released the original game for its Famicom console in Japan
on February 21st, 1986. Benj Edwards is celebrating with [1]a look at
some of the franchise's odder sidelights, from a version broadcast by
satellite to the unexpected true story of where the game got its name."
If you're in the mood for more nostalgia, 1Up has [2]a collection of
articles delving into the past two and a half decades of Zelda. And since
it's cool, here's a link (sorry) to a guy who [3]hacked an oscilloscope
to display Gameboy games, using 1993's Link's Awakening as a
demonstration.
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1930238/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Turns-25?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.technologizer.com/
1. http://technologizer.com/2011/02/21/legend-of-zelda/
2. http://www.1up.com/news/legend-of-zelda-turns-25
3. http://flashingleds.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/nintendoscope/
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| WA Election To Try Online Voting
| from the opportunity-cost dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @15:57 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/2034241/WA-Election-To-Try-Online-Voting?from=newsletter
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AuMatar writes "According to the Seattle Times, the King Conservation
District is [0]going to allow online voting to combat chronic low
turnouts. You can already view [1]the voting portal. As a citizen of WA
seriously concerned with politics, anything that completely removes a
paper trail like this scares me. Luckily, this is probably the least
important election in the state. I wonder if anyone will hack the
election so 300% of voters vote for Firefly or Stephen Colbert or
something."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/2034241/WA-Election-To-Try-Online-Voting?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014288352_internetvote21m.html
1. https://evote.electiontrust.com/voting-webapp/?electionId=c36429bb2e1ab792012e1adddf970006
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| Physicists Build Bigger 'Bottles' For Antimatter
| from the go-big-or-go-home dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @16:47 (News)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/2058243/Physicists-Build-Bigger-Bottles-For-Antimatter?from=newsletter
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intellitech writes "Once regarded as the stuff of science fiction,
antimatter ��� the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable
universe ��� is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world. While
physicists routinely produce antimatter with radioisotopes and particle
colliders, cooling these antiparticles and containing them for any length
of time is another story. Clifford Surko, a professor of physics at UC
San Diego, who is constructing what he hopes will be [0]the world's
largest antimatter container, said physicists have recently developed new
methods to make special states of antimatter in which they can create
large clouds of antiparticles, compress them and make specially tailored
beams for a variety of uses."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/2058243/Physicists-Build-Bigger-Bottles-For-Antimatter?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/02-15BuildBigger.asp
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| Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers?
| from the lazy-spam-prevention dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @17:33 (Communications)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/215258/Ask-Slashdot-Is-There-a-War-Against-Small-Mail-Servers?from=newsletter
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[0]softegg writes "My company hosts our own mail server. We have
high-speed business connections through Verizon and Comcast. Recently,
Verizon and Comcast have been blocking port 25, causing our private mail
server to stop functioning. Additionally, a lot of ISPs just started
blocking any mail coming from any IP in the address block of cable
modems. This caused us to start laundering our mail through a third-party
service called DNSExit. Now, McAfee's MAPS anti-spam system tells us they
are blocking DNSExit for spam. Essentially, we are finding ourselves
increasingly cut off from sending any outgoing mail. What is a small
company supposed to do if you want to host your own mail?"
Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/215258/Ask-Slashdot-Is-There-a-War-Against-Small-Mail-Servers?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.softegg.com/
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| Anonymous Denies Targeting Westboro Baptist Church
| from the listen-to-admiral-ackbar dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday February 21, @18:24 (The Internet)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/2210212/Anonymous-Denies-Targeting-Westboro-Baptist-Church?from=newsletter
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[0]lenwood writes "Last week we discussed news that the hacking group
Anonymous was [1]staging an attack against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist
Church. It turns out that [2]this was a publicity stunt staged by WBC
themselves. Anonymous [3]issued a press release disassociating themselves
from this."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/2210212/Anonymous-Denies-Targeting-Westboro-Baptist-Church?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.lenwood.cc/
1. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/02/18/2336216/Anonymous-Goes-After-GodHatesFagscom
2. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/20514-hacktivists-deny-attack/
3. http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=494
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