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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5
* Can the Atrix 4G Really Become Your Next PC?
* New Hampshire Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Robo-Calling Malware
* WB To Appeal Australia's Effective Ban on <em>Mortal Kombat</em>
* New Optical Fiber Replaces Glass With Semiconductive Core
* If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows'
* The Decline and Fall of System Administration
* Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market
* Supreme Court Rules On Corporate Privacy
* Kepler Finds Bizarre Systems
* Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera
* Bing Becomes No.2 Search Engine at 4.37%
* SCO Found No Source Code In 2004
* World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope
* Book Review: Arduino: a Quick-Start Guide
* IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3
* Gosper's Algorithm Meets Wall Street Formulas
* High-Bandwidth Users Are Just Early Adopters
* Asus Motherboard Box Doubles As PC Case
* Terror Arrest Used As Fodder To Fund Real ID Act
* Making Data Centers More People-Friendly
* Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered Or Feared
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| Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5
| from the way-better-than-a-hi-fi-jumprope dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday March 01, @19:05 (Classic Games (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/2319227/Futureproofing-Artifacts-Spacewar-1962-In-HTML5?from=newsletter
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[0]trebonian writes "In 1997 we posted a playable version of the
Spacewar!, the first graphical computer game. Spacewar! was written by
Russell et al at MIT in the early '60s. We did not re-implement the game.
Rather, we found the original source code, rebuilt it to get an authentic
binary and ran it on a PDP-1 emulator that we wrote in Java. We chose
Java to implement the PDP-1 because we believed at the time ��� correctly
as it turned out ��� that a Java version would survive the browser wars.
Also, it would not require any effort to keep it running on all platforms
well past the turn of the millennium, and through the traffic peaks of
Spacewar's 40th and 45th birthday. It's now getting close to 15 years
later. We would not want to bet that in another 15 years a Java program
will still run on the latest popular platforms. As a hedge to the future,
and in an effort to continue the preservation of this significant digital
artifact, we've now [1]ported the PDP-1 emulator to Javascript/HTML5.
This should see the game through Spacewar!'s 50th (and hopefully 60th)
birthday. Expect another update around 2025."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/2319227/Futureproofing-Artifacts-Spacewar-1962-In-HTML5?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:trebonian@gmail.com
1. http://spacewar.oversigma.com/html5/
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| Can the Atrix 4G Really Become Your Next PC?
| from the seems-clunky-from-here dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday March 01, @20:07 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/012238/Can-the-Atrix-4G-Really-Become-Your-Next-PC?from=newsletter
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[0]GMGruman writes "The Motorola Atrix 4G got a lot of attention at CES
because of its ability to dock to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and run
the full desktop Firefox browser in addition to its Android apps. Now
that it is shipping, I took the Atrix 4G and its Multimedia Dock and
related peripherals out this week [1]for a test-drive to see if delivers
on this 'post-PC' promise. The verdict: It's a good first half-step
toward mobile devices being your primary computer. The [2]end of the
Windows hegemony is in sight."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/012238/Can-the-Atrix-4G-Really-Become-Your-Next-PC?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/can-the-atrix-4g-really-become-your-next-pc-843
2. http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile/2011-the-year-personal-computing-will-reinvent-itself-967
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| New Hampshire Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Robo-Calling Malware
| from the you-must-stay-in-this-beautiful-state dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday March 01, @23:02 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/0236254/New-Hampshire-Man-Sentenced-To-7-Years-For-Robo-Calling-Malware?from=newsletter
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alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "A New Hampshire
man who made $8 million by installing unwanted dial-up software on
computers and then forcing them to call expensive premium telephone
numbers was [0]handed down an 82-month sentence this week. Prosecutors
say that between 2003 and 2007, Asu Pala and others put together a
lucrative business by setting up premium telephone numbers in Germany ���
similar to the 1-900 numbers used in the US ��� and then infecting German
PCs with software that would automatically dial the numbers for short
periods of time." Do that many people still have modems attached?
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/0236254/New-Hampshire-Man-Sentenced-To-7-Years-For-Robo-Calling-Malware?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030111-man-gets-7-years-for.html
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| WB To Appeal Australia's Effective Ban on <em>Mortal Kombat</em>
| from the wonder-how-they-like-the-name-gamepron dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday March 02, @02:07 (Australia)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/0152218/WB-To-Appeal-Australias-Effective-Ban-on-Mortal-Kombat?from=newsletter
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dotarray writes "Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have confirmed
that they are [0]appealing the Australian Classification Board's decision
to [1]effectively ban the reboot of Mortal Kombat in that country. The
publisher has also confirmed that there is no intention to censor or
modify the game ��� because then it 'wouldn't be Mortal Kombat.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/0152218/WB-To-Appeal-Australias-Effective-Ban-on-Mortal-Kombat?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/03/01/mortal-kombat-wb-to-appeal-australian-banning/
1. https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/25/0632213/Australia-Bans-New-Mortal-Kombat
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| New Optical Fiber Replaces Glass With Semiconductive Core
| from the nougat-was-tempting-but dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday March 02, @05:00 (Networking)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/0443211/New-Optical-Fiber-Replaces-Glass-With-Semiconductive-Core?from=newsletter
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cylonlover writes "Fiber optic cables can transmit over a terabyte of
information per second ��� but that doesn't mean there still isn't room for
improvement. One of those improvements, which was officially announced
today, involves [0]replacing the silica glass core of fiber optic strands
with semiconductive zinc selenide. This new class of fiber optics,
invented and created at Penn State University, is said to 'allow for a
more effective and liberal manipulation of light.' The technology could
have applications in the fields of medicine, defense, and environmental
monitoring."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/0443211/New-Optical-Fiber-Replaces-Glass-With-Semiconductive-Core?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/fiber-optics-with-zinc-selenide-core/18020/
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| If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows'
| from the this-one-I-hope-apple-loses dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday March 02, @08:08 (Microsoft)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/050202/If-App-Stores-Trademark-Is-Generic-So-Is-Windows?from=newsletter
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[0]Toe, The writes "In response to Microsoft's [1]attempt to dismiss
Apple's 'App Store' trademark application, Apple [2]references
Microsoft's claim to the Windows trademark. 'Having itself faced a
decades-long genericness challenge to its claimed WINDOWS mark, Microsoft
should be well aware that the focus in evaluating genericness is on the
mark as a whole and requires a fact-intensive assessment of the primary
significance of the term to a substantial majority of the relevant
public.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/050202/If-App-Stores-Trademark-Is-Generic-So-Is-Windows?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~Toe,%20The
1. http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/12/microsoft-files-objection-to-apples-app-store-trademark-appli/
2. http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/03/apple-fights-for-app-store-trademark.html
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| The Decline and Fall of System Administration
| from the hail-the-fallen-heros dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @08:51 (Unix)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/132215/The-Decline-and-Fall-of-System-Administration?from=newsletter
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[0]snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia questions whether server
virtualization technologies are contributing to the [1]decline of real
server administration skills, as more and more sysadmins [2]argue in
favor of re-imaging as a solution to Unix server woes. 'This has always
been the (many times undeserved) joke about clueless Windows admins: They
have a small arsenal of possible fixes, and once they've exhausted the
supply, they punt and rebuild the server from scratch rather than dig
deeper. On the Unix side of the house, that concept has been met with
derision since the dawn of time, but as Linux has moved into the
mainstream ��� and the number of marginal Linux admins has grown ��� those
ideas are suddenly somehow rational.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/132215/The-Decline-and-Fall-of-System-Administration?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/data-center/the-decline-and-fall-system-administration-375
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1734259/Why-You-Shouldnt-Reboot-Unix-Servers
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| Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market
| from the steve-jobs-is-laughing dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @09:28 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1429221/Google-Pulls-21-Malware-Apps-From-Android-Market?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "CNN reports that Google has [1]pulled 21
free apps from the Android Market that, according to the company, are
aimed at gaining root access to the user's device, gathering a wide range
of available data, and downloading more code without the user's
knowledge. Unfortunately although Google has moved swiftly to remove the
apps, they have already been downloaded by at least 50,000 Android users.
The apps are all pirated versions of popular games and utilities which
once downloaded, [2]root the user's device using a method like
rageagainstthecage, then use an Android executable file (APK) to nab user
and device data, such as your mobile provider and user ID, and finally
act as a wide-open backdoor for your device to quietly download more
malicious code. "If you've downloaded one of these apps, it might be best
to take your device to your carrier and exchange it for a new one, since
you can't be sure that your device and user information is truly secure,"
writes Jolie O'Dell. "Considering how much we do on our phones ��� shopping
and mobile banking included ��� it's better to take precautions.""
Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1429221/Google-Pulls-21-Malware-Apps-From-Android-Market?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/02/google.malware.andriod/
2. http://recoverdeletedtextmessages.net/hacking-tip-how-to-root-an-android-phone/
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| Supreme Court Rules On Corporate Privacy
| from the dirty-laundry-must-air-dry dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @10:09 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/159242/Supreme-Court-Rules-On-Corporate-Privacy?from=newsletter
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heptapod writes "[0]The Supreme Court unanimously decided ([1]PDF) Monday
that AT&T can't keep embarrassing corporate information that it submits
to the government out of public view; "personal privacy" rights do not
apply to corporations. "We trust that AT&T will not take it personally"
concluded the ruling."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/159242/Supreme-Court-Rules-On-Corporate-Privacy?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/supreme-court-att-cant-keep-bad-behavior-a-secret.ars
1. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1279.pdf
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| Kepler Finds Bizarre Systems
| from the spinning-round-and-round dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @10:47 (NASA)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1528216/Kepler-Finds-Bizarre-Systems?from=newsletter
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RedEaredSlider writes "The Kepler Space Telescope has run across some
[0]truly bizarre solar systems. Among the candidates: a system with
full-on planets orbiting in a Trojan configuration, one with planets that
all orbit their planets in less than 10 days, and one in which resonances
between small and large worlds essentially keep the thing together."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1528216/Kepler-Finds-Bizarre-Systems?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117984/20110302/kepler-finds-strange-worlds-fastest-planet.htm
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| Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera
| from the lens-of-the-beholder dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @11:17 (Technology)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1531249/Panasonic-Launches-Beautifying-Camera?from=newsletter
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The new Panasonic LUMIX FX77 camera can take the red out of your eyes and
add it to your lips and cheeks. Released last Friday, the camera has [0]a
"beauty re-touch" feature that can whiten your teeth, change the size of
your eyes, and can apply rouge, lipstick, or eye shadow. From the
article: "There has been huge customer demand for such a product, said
Akiko Enoki, a Panasonic project manager in charge of developing the
camera. 'According to data we've acquired, around 50 percent of our
digital camera clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in
a photograph,' she said. 'So we came up with the idea so our clients can
fix parts they don't like about their faces after they've taken the
picture.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1531249/Panasonic-Launches-Beautifying-Camera?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://asia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20110302/tod-odd-us-japan-camera-odd-a929486.html
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| Bing Becomes No.2 Search Engine at 4.37%
| from the now-thats-a-gap dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @11:32 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1614217/Bing-Becomes-No2-Search-Engine-at-437?from=newsletter
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suraj.sun writes "[0]Bing has overtook Yahoo for the first time worldwide
in January and increased its lead in February according to web analytics
company, StatCounter. Its research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds
that globally Bing reached 4.37% in February ahead of Yahoo! at 3.93%.
Both trail far behind Google's 89.94% of the global search engine
market." Just a little more plagiarizing to go!
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1614217/Bing-Becomes-No2-Search-Engine-at-437?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gs.statcounter.com/press/bing-overtakes-yahoo-globally-for-first-time
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| SCO Found No Source Code In 2004
| from the dying-from-nor-surprise dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @12:13 (Caldera)
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/174206/SCO-Found-No-Source-Code-In-2004?from=newsletter
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doperative writes "A consultant hired by SCO in 2004 to compare UNIX and
Linux, with the thought he could be used as an expert at trial, says
that, after days and days, [0]his comparison tool found 'very little
correlation'. When he told that to SCO, it paid him and he never heard
from SCO again."
Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/174206/SCO-Found-No-Source-Code-In-2004?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110301153719104
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| World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope
| from the i-can-see-my-neutron-from-here dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @13:00 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1757235/Worlds-Most-Powerful-Optical-Microscope?from=newsletter
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gamricstone writes "Scientists have produced the world's [0]most powerful
optical microscope, which could help understand the causes of many
viruses and diseases. Previously, the standard optical microscope can
only see items around one micrometre ��� 0.001 millimetres ��� clearly. But
now, by combining an optical microscope with a transparent microsphere,
dubbed the 'microsphere nanoscope', the Manchester researchers can see 20
times smaller ��� 50 nanometres ((5 x 10-8m) ��� under normal lights. This is
beyond the theoretical limit of optical microscopy. 'Seeing inside a cell
directly without dying and seeing living viruses directly could
revolutionize the way cells are studied and allow us to examine closely
viruses and biomedicine for the first time.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1757235/Worlds-Most-Powerful-Optical-Microscope?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301121952.htm
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| Book Review: Arduino: a Quick-Start Guide
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @13:45 (Books)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1329225/Book-Review-Arduino-a-Quick-Start-Guide?from=newsletter
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Muad writes "Maik Schmidt is our guide in the Pragmatic Bookshelf's
venture into the world of electronics. This is a compact work, like all
others in the series, it goes straight to applicable examples and makes
you get your hands dirty with real work. The Arduino platform has been
described in many ways, but the best I have heard so far insightfully
labels it 'The 555 of the future,' referring to the ubiquitous timer chip
so many simple electronic projects make use of. If you haven't been
hiding under a rock for the past few years, you have doubtlessly seen the
plethora of material on the subject that's out there: even O'Reilly,
which usually does not ship multiple titles on a single subject, has a
variety of them. Most of these works are rather similar, the ones I
prefer are Massimo Banzi's Getting Started with Arduino (O'Reilly, 2008),
by one of the original developers of the platform, and the strongly
related Getting started with Processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. These
are brief books in the 100-page range, not exhaustive works, but covering
the core philosophy and basic operation of the tools is sometimes the
best way to jump into a new subject. Read below the rest of Federico's
review
This story continues at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1329225/Book-Review-Arduino-a-Quick-Start-Guide?from=newsletter
Discuss this story at:
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| IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3
| from the thats-a-paddling dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @14:13 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/1823257/IPad-2-33-Thinner-2x-Faster-iOS-43?from=newsletter
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Steve Jobs was on hand today deliver a speech at Apple's iPad 2 event.
The [0]new iPad will feature Dual-core processors, 2x faster CPU, and 9X
faster graphics, front and rear cameras. And it's 33% thinner. Prices
range from $499 to $829 depending on if you want 3G and 64 gigs and it
ships March 11. iOS 4.3 will ship at the same time.
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.apple.com/ipad/
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| Gosper's Algorithm Meets Wall Street Formulas
| from the hypergeometric-overlords dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday March 02, @15:00 (Math)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/199259/Gospers-Algorithm-Meets-Wall-Street-Formulas?from=newsletter
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[0]peter.hill.1980 writes "Wall Street's money making formulas need to be
as explicit as possible for efficiency purposes. An old, existing and
famous formula ��� binomial options pricing formula ��� has now been
[1]scrutinized for theoretical optimality in a forthcoming paper by
Evangelos Georgiadis of MIT using [2]Gosper's Algorithm, proving that no
general explicit or closed form expression exists for pricing."
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://nonethatiknowof/
1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1773170
2. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GospersAlgorithm.html
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| High-Bandwidth Users Are Just Early Adopters
| from the leader-of-the-pack dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @15:45 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2027209/High-Bandwidth-Users-Are-Just-Early-Adopters?from=newsletter
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[0]silverpig writes "Cisco has released a whitepaper on mobile data usage
which has some interesting data in it. The top 1% of users consume 20% of
the bandwidth, but that share is down from 30% previously. 'Regular'
users are catching up as they watch more video. [1]High-bandwidth users
of today will be relatively average users by 2015, so network operators
should look to those users for insight in designing their future
networks."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2027209/High-Bandwidth-Users-Are-Just-Early-Adopters?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://wifitalk.ca/
1. http://www.wifitalk.ca/canada/mobile-data-usage-explodes/
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| Asus Motherboard Box Doubles As PC Case
| from the two-in-one dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @16:28 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2030201/Asus-Motherboard-Box-Doubles-As-PC-Case?from=newsletter
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[0]itwbennett writes "Taiwan's Asus has a novel idea to cut down on
shipping waste: [1]What if the shipping container became the PC case?
That's the idea behind a box the company will begin using to ship one of
its Mini ATX motherboards. It holds the motherboard snug for shipping and
is constructed so additional components required to make a PC can be
added, said Debby Lee, a spokeswoman for the Taipei-based company. An
[2]example of the box is showing at this week's Cebit trade show in
Hanover, Germany."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2030201/Asus-Motherboard-Box-Doubles-As-PC-Case?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/138740/asus-motherboard-box-doubles-a-pc-case
2. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/138767/cebit-asus-motherboard-box-doubles-pc-case-video
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| Terror Arrest Used As Fodder To Fund Real ID Act
| from the excuses-excuses-excuses dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @17:13 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2136228/Terror-Arrest-Used-As-Fodder-To-Fund-Real-ID-Act?from=newsletter
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[0]BeatTheChip writes "There's been a lot of buzz in recent days
concerning [1]the deadline to deliver on the federal Real ID Act.
Congress is looking for corners to cut. One tactic is to attach emergency
policy to the Real ID in order to sustain funding for its development by
authoring members in Congress. In an effort to link the two, Rep. Lamar
Smith and others asked DHS to increase enforcement of the Real ID Act
over a terror suspect apprehended by lawful means."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2136228/Terror-Arrest-Used-As-Fodder-To-Fund-Real-ID-Act?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.beatthechip.org/
1. http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/terror-arrest-does-not-justify-real-id-revival/
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| Making Data Centers More People-Friendly
| from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-sys-admins dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @18:00 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/2211236/Making-Data-Centers-More-People-Friendly?from=newsletter
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1sockchuck writes "Data centers are designed to house servers, not
people. This has often meant trade-offs for data center staffers, who
brave 100-degree hot aisles and perform their work at laptop carts. But
some data center developers are rethinking this approach and designing
[0]people-friendly data centers with Class-A offices and amenities for
staff and visitors. Is this the future of data center design?"
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| Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered Or Feared
| from the everyone-likes-an-ani-hero dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 02, @18:51 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/233214/Should-Cyber-Vigilantes-Be-Cheered-Or-Feared?from=newsletter
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[0]snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Ted Samson raises several challenging
questions in the wake of HBGary, first and foremost being, [1]should the
cyber vigilante acts of 'hacktivists' such as Anonymous be embraced? No
doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling, Samson writes, 'but also
troubling is how quickly some members of Congress seek to use illegally
acquired information to further their own political agenda.' The
underlying message seems to be that cyber vigilantes may have more leeway
than those who engage in equally illegal, though decidedly nontechnical
methods to expose their targets."
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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/t/hacking/should-we-cheer-or-fear-cyber-vigilantes-anonymous-122
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