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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon
* Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled
* Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student
* SurfSens Brings Surfing Into the Computer Age
* Facebook Said To Resume Talks With Skype
* Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains?
* Nokia Sells Qt
* The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science
* Intel's New Core I7-990X Extreme Edition Tested
* Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted?
* Hackers Target French Government Computers For G20
* Firefox 4 RC Vs. IE9 RC: the First Duel
* Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution
* Software Matches Police Sketches To Mugshots
* Piracy In Developing Countries Driven By High Prices
* William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission
* Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future
* Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development
* Crew Builds a Flying House Modeled After <em>UP!</em>
* Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson
* Facebook May Bust Up the SMS Profit Cartel
* The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
* UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones
* 3D Printers Create Edible Objects
* Cold Warriors Question Nukes
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| Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon
| from the where-the-tang-mines-will-be dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday March 06, @19:02 (Moon)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/06/2357245/Chandrayaan-1-Spots-Giant-Underground-Chamber-On-the-Moon?from=newsletter
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[0]siliconeyes writes "Scientists at the Indian Space Research
Organization have discovered a [1]giant underground chamber on the moon,
which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned
missions to moon. An analysis by an instrument on Chandrayaan-1 revealed
a 1.7-km long and 120-metre wide cave near the moon's equator that is in
the Oceanus Procellarum area of the moon that could be a suitable 'base
station' for future human missions."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/06/2357245/Chandrayaan-1-Spots-Giant-Underground-Chamber-On-the-Moon?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://jainanuj.com/
1. http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/ISRO_finds_cave_in_moon_can_be_used_as_base_station_for_astronauts-nid-79567.html
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| Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled
| from the filled-with-chese dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday March 06, @20:15 (Japan)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/0114230/Android-Copy-of-Danish-Man-Unveiled?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The Geminoid family, a series of
ultra-realistic androids, each a copy of a real person, has a new member:
Geminoid DK, a [0]robot clone of a Danish researcher and the most
realistic Geminoid yet. The robot has lifelike facial features and
movements, blinking, smiling, frowning with incredible realism. The
Danish researcher, Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University, teamed up with
Japanese animatronics firm Kokoro and roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro to
create his robot twin, which he plans to use to study human-robot
interaction and cultural differences in the perception of robots. This is
the first Geminoid that is not based on a Japanese person; it's also the
first bearded one."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/0114230/Android-Copy-of-Danish-Man-Unveiled?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/latest-geminoid-is-disturbingly-realistic
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| Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student
| from the sounds-like-a-deal dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday March 06, @23:03 (Australia)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/06/2328236/Melbourne-College-May-Give-iPad-To-Every-Student?from=newsletter
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[0]daria42 writes "It looks like Apple's hyped iPad tablet may find a
functional use beyond the early technology adopter set. In Australia, a
Melbourne University college recently completed a trial where a limited
number of students were given an iPad to aid in their studies. The
outcome? The college has now [1]recommended every student be given one of
the Apple devices, following in the footsteps of the University of
Adelaide, which is handing out iPads to every first year science student.
Sure beats lugging around the old textbooks!"
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/06/2328236/Melbourne-College-May-Give-iPad-To-Every-Student?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.delimiter.com.au/
1. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/03/07/trinity-ipad-trial-recommends-wider-rollout/
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| SurfSens Brings Surfing Into the Computer Age
| from the lacks-a-good-place-for-snacks dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday March 07, @02:09 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/0123220/SurfSens-Brings-Surfing-Into-the-Computer-Age?from=newsletter
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cylonlover writes "In an activity that for many of its participants is
akin to a religion, the merging of surfing and technology might seem a
bit like blasphemy. But while surfing is still about lifestyle for many
of us, these days it's also a competitive sport offering huge amounts of
prize money, so it's no surprise to see the emergence of boards packing
more than just polyurethane within their fiberglass shells. With the aim
of 'turning feelings into facts and figures,' research company Tecnalia
and Spanish surfboard manufacturer Pukas have teamed up to create a
[0]surfboard that packs a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS compass, pressure
sensors and strain gauges to measure the flex of the board."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/0123220/SurfSens-Brings-Surfing-Into-the-Computer-Age?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/sensor-packed-surfboard/18055/
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| Facebook Said To Resume Talks With Skype
| from the but-are-they-using-a-skype-connection dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday March 07, @05:02 (Cloud)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/0525247/Facebook-Said-To-Resume-Talks-With-Skype?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "You may soon be able to start a Skype video
call with your friends on Facebook. The latest rumor suggests that
[0]Facebook and Skype have resumed talks about integrating the video
conferencing technology on the social network. The two companies first
[1]talked about a potential partnership in September 2010, but they could
not reach an agreement. When Skype 5.0 was released in October 2010, the
new version offered voice calling between Facebook friends, but it did
not include a video chatting feature."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/0525247/Facebook-Said-To-Resume-Talks-With-Skype?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/rumor-facebook-resumes-talks-with-skype/533?tag=mantle_skin;content
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/30/1930239/Facebook-Skype-Getting-Really-Friendly
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| Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains?
| from the tell-me-when-neo-takes-his-pill dept.
| posted by timothy on Monday March 07, @08:08 (Education)
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/014206/Is-Software-Driving-a-Falling-Demand-For-Brains?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times that
[1]information technology seems to be reducing, not increasing, the
demand for highly educated workers (reg. may be required), because a lot
of what highly educated workers do could actually be replaced by
sophisticated information processing. One good recent example is [2]how
software is replacing the teams of lawyers who used to do document
research. 'From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people
who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to
be billed out,' says Bill Herr, a lawyer at a major chemical company who
used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end.
'People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don't.' If true this
raises a number of interesting questions. 'One is whether emphasizing
education ��� even aside from the fact that the big rise in inequality has
taken place among the highly educated ��� is, in effect, fighting the last
war,' writes Krugman. 'Another is how we [can] have a decent society if
and when even highly educated workers can't command a middle-class
income.' Remember the Luddites weren't the poorest of the poor, they were
skilled artisans whose [3]skills had suddenly been devalued by new
technology."
Discuss this story at:
https://search.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/014206/Is-Software-Driving-a-Falling-Demand-For-Brains?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/falling-demand-for-brains/
2. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html&OQ=_rQ3D4&OP=b122cb0Q2F.9Q27h.WgnHOggpo.oFqq.FI.Fe.HnRQ27Q22nQ27.FemQ27PQ5Bm5cp(m
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
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| Nokia Sells Qt
| from the yeah-who-needs-it dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 07, @08:46 (Windows)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1337211/Nokia-Sells-Qt?from=newsletter
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Google85 writes "Now that Nokia has shifted to a Windows Phone-centric
smartphone strategy, it's only natural for the company to [0]divest
itself of responsibility with regard to the Qt framework. It has been
announced Digia will acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services
business from Nokia, including the transfer of some 3,500 desktop and
embedded customers actively using Qt today."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1337211/Nokia-Sells-Qt?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/07/nokia-sells-qt-licensing-and-services-business-to-digia/
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| The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science
| from the truth-is-out-there dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @09:28 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/141210/The-Encroachment-of-Fact-Free-Science?from=newsletter
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G3ckoG33k writes "Fact-free science is not a joke; it is very much on the
move, and it is quite possibly the most dangerous movement in centuries,
for the entirety of mankind. One can say it began as counter-movement to
Karl Popper's ground-breaking proposals in the early 20th century, which
insisted that statements purporting to describe the reality should be
made falsifiable. A few decades later, some critics of Popper said that
statements need peer acceptance, which then makes also natural science a
social phenomenon. Even later, in 1996, professor Alan Sokal submitted a
famous article [0]ridiculing the entire anti-science movement. Now New
York Times has an article describing [1]the latest chilling acts of the
socially relativistic, postmodern loons. It is a chilling read, and they
may be swinging both the political left and right. Have they been
successful in transforming the world yet? How would we know?"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/141210/The-Encroachment-of-Fact-Free-Science?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27FOB-WWLN-t.html
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| Intel's New Core I7-990X Extreme Edition Tested
| from the sounds-a-little-core-nee dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 07, @10:18 (Intel)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/151206/Intels-New-Core-I7-990X-Extreme-Edition-Tested?from=newsletter
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[0]MojoKid writes "Intel recently launched a speed bump of their flagship
Extreme Edition [1]Core i7 processor, [2]known as the Core i7-990X. Its
multiplier is unlocked and it's clocked at 3.45GHz stock speed with a
Turbo Boost top-end speed of 3.73GHz. Intel claims its the fastest
desktop chip on the planet; like geek tiger blood for your PC. The new
Core i7-990X is also based on the 32nm Gulftown core and the performance
metrics show it's easily the fastest 6-core chip for the desktop
currently but of course it'll cost you as well."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/151206/Intels-New-Core-I7-990X-Extreme-Edition-Tested?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://slashdot.org/story/10/03/11/1320216/Intels-Core-i7-980X-Six-Core-Benchmarked
2. http://hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?articleid=1639
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| Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted?
| from the trust-no-1 dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 07, @11:00 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1552215/Can-For-Profit-Tech-Colleges-Be-Trusted?from=newsletter
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[0]snydeq found a story questioning "[1]the quality of education on offer
at institutions such as University of Phoenix, DeVry, ITT Tech, and
Kaplan in the wake of increasing scrutiny for [2]alleged deceptive
practices [PDF] that leave students in [3]high debt for jobs that pay
little. 'For-profit schools carry a stigma in some eyes because of their
reputation for hard sales pitches, aggressive marketing tactics, and
saddling students with big loans for dubious degrees or certificates,'
Robert Scheier writes. 'Should IT pros looking to increase their skills,
or people seeking to enter the IT profession, consider such for-profit
schools? And should employers trust their graduates' skills?'"
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1552215/Can-For-Profit-Tech-Colleges-Be-Trusted?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-training/profit-tech-colleges-can-it-pros-and-employers-trust-them-685
2. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10948t.pdf
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102200093.html
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| Hackers Target French Government Computers For G20
| from the we-meant-to-do-that dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 07, @11:48 (Security)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1639246/Hackers-Target-French-Government-Computers-For-G20?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "IT staff spent the weekend in a
[0]massive cleaning effort to remove traces of a 'spectacular' attack on
computers at Bercy, the head office of the French Ministry of Economy,
Finance and Industry, a government minister said Monday."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1639246/Hackers-Target-French-Government-Computers-For-G20?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.softview.co.in/2011/03/hackers-target-french-government.html
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| Firefox 4 RC Vs. IE9 RC: the First Duel
| from the there-will-be-many-more dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 07, @12:23 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1653255/Firefox-4-RC-Vs-IE9-RC-the-First-Duel?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 4 vs. IE9 is going to be an epic
battle in a reigniting browser war in which Microsoft wants its IE to be
seen as a capable browser again. Mozilla struggled to keep the pace with
Chrome and IE9, but is about to release the first release candidate,
which is expected to be the final version of Firefox 4 as well. This
first review of JavaScript, Flash and HTML5 tests seems to indicate that
[0]both browsers are about even at the bottom line, while Firefox has the
JavaScript edge and IE is ahead in HTML5 performance."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1653255/Firefox-4-RC-Vs-IE9-RC-the-First-Duel?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.conceivablytech.com/6020/products/firefox-4-rc-vs-ie9-rc-the-first-duel
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| Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution
| from the there's-an-app-for-that dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday March 07, @12:42 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1655249/Hungary-Uses-iPad-To-Draft-New-Constitution?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]Hungary is drafting its new constitution
on, believe it or not, an iPad. Jozsef Szajer, a Hungarian politician and
member of the European Parliament, wrote an enthusiastic blog post last
week detailing how he's using Apple's tablet device to flesh out
Hungary's new constitution, the country's first since 1949. Not only is
Szajer using the iPad to churn out new constitutional drafts, but he's
also using it to review new draft proposals. Apparently all aspects of
the new Hungarian constitution are being vetted via the iPad in one form
or another."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1655249/Hungary-Uses-iPad-To-Draft-New-Constitution?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Software Matches Police Sketches To Mugshots
| from the find-the-perp dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday March 07, @13:06 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1738232/Software-Matches-Police-Sketches-To-Mugshots?from=newsletter
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Zothecula writes "We've seen it in numerous TV shows and movies ��� the
witness to a crime looks through a book of mug shots, then works with a
police sketch artist to come up with a likeness of the nasty person they
saw. After looking through hundreds of mug shots, however, it's possible
that the tired-brained witness could look right at a photo of the guilty
party and not recognize them. It's also possible that there is a mug shot
of the criminal on a database somewhere out there, but that this
particular witness will never see it. A computer system being pioneered
at Michigan State University, however, could be the solution to such
problems ��� it [0]automatically matches faces in police sketches to mug
shots."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1738232/Software-Matches-Police-Sketches-To-Mugshots?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/software-developed-to-match-police-sketches-to-mug-shots/18060/
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| Piracy In Developing Countries Driven By High Prices
| from the hmm-how-can-we-blame-the-terrists-for-that dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @13:47 (Piracy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/180210/Piracy-In-Developing-Countries-Driven-By-High-Prices?from=newsletter
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langelgjm writes "The [0]Social Science Research Council, an independent,
non-profit organization, today released a [1]major report on music, film
and software piracy in developing economies. It's a product of three
years of work, and the authors conclude that piracy is primarily driven
by excessively high prices and that anti-piracy education and enforcement
efforts have failed. Still, chief editor Joe Karaganis believes that
businesses can survive in these high piracy environments. The report is
free to readers in low-income countries, but behind a paywall for certain
high-income countries, although the SSRC notes, 'For those who must have
it for free anyway, [2]you probably know where to look.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/180210/Piracy-In-Developing-Countries-Driven-By-High-Prices?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Science_Research_Council
1. http://piracy.ssrc.org/about-the-report/
2. http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-report/
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| William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission
| from the discovery-cancelled dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday March 07, @13:58 (NASA)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1713223/William-Shatner-Wakes-Up-Crew-for-Final-Discovery-Mission?from=newsletter
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The Space Shuttle Discovery left the International Space Station this
morning for the last time. To commemorate the ship's accomplishments over
27 years of service, the crew was greeted to [0]a morning wake-up message
from Capt. Kirk. "Space, the final frontier," Shatner said in a
prerecorded message. "These have been the voyages of the space shuttle
Discovery. Her 30-year mission: to seek out new science, to build new
outposts, to bring nations together on the final frontier, to boldly go
and do what no spacecraft has done before."
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1713223/William-Shatner-Wakes-Up-Crew-for-Final-Discovery-Mission?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110307/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle
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| Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future
| from the worried-about-cloudy-weather dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @14:29 (Businesses)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1853215/Hard-Disk-Sector-Consolidates-Amid-Uncertain-Future?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "The WSJ reports that Western Digital will
buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for about $4.3 billion in cash
and stock, [1]leaving only four key hard disk drive vendors ��� Seagate,
Western Digital, Toshiba and Samsung. The hard drive world has been seen
as ripe for consolidation, particularly as the rise of tablet computers
such as the Apple iPad ��� which don't use hard drives for data storage ���
is [2]casting doubt on the future of hard disks. Compared to hard drives,
solid-state drives promise greater power efficiency, performance,
resistance to physical shock, and run more quietly since they contain no
moving parts. But one area that solid-state drives do not improve on
their spinning predecessors is in their inevitable movement towards
failure. 'SSDs are going to fail just like hard drives will,' says Chris
Bross, Senior Enterprise Recovery engineer at Drivesavers Data Recovery.
'Every storage device will have issues regardless of their underlying
technology.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1853215/Hard-Disk-Sector-Consolidates-Amid-Uncertain-Future?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens/slashdot/
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/03/07/western-digital-hitachi-consolidating-hard-disk-industry/
2. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/114679/20110221/momentus-xt-failure-seagate-hard-drives-appple.htm
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| Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development
| from the strangely-does-not-name-him-truman dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @15:11 (Science)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1953213/Scientist-Records-First-5-Years-of-His-Sons-Life-Analyzes-Language-Development?from=newsletter
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jamie tips a story about MIT cognitive scientist Deb Roy, who started a
project five years ago, upon bringing his newborn son home from the
hospital, to [0]record his family's movement and speech inside their
house. Since then, Roy has used various techniques to analyze and distill
the 200 terabytes of raw data into useful and interesting visualizations.
"For example, Roy was able to track the length of every sentence spoken
to the child in which a particular word ��� like 'water' ��� was included.
Right around the time the child started to say the word, what Roy calls
the 'word birth,' something remarkable happened. 'Caregiver speech dipped
to a minimum and slowly ascended back out in complexity.' In other words,
when mom and dad and nanny first hear a child speaking a word, they
unconsciously stress it by repeating it back to him all by itself or in
very short sentences. Then as he gets the word, the sentences lengthen
again. The infant shapes the caregivers��� behavior, the better to learn."
Roy also compiled videos showing each time his son used certain words
over a period of many months, clearly illustrating how those parts of the
child's linguistic capabilities evolved over time.
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1953213/Scientist-Records-First-5-Years-of-His-Sons-Life-Analyzes-Language-Development?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.fastcompany.com/1733627/mit-scientist-captures-his-sons-first-90000-hours-on-video
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| Crew Builds a Flying House Modeled After <em>UP!</em>
| from the carl-approved dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday March 07, @15:51 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/191232/Crew-Builds-a-Flying-House-Modeled-After-UP?from=newsletter
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The people at National Geographic have [0]built a house modeled after the
one in the movie UP! for a new TV series called How Hard Can It Be?. The
house flew for about an hour and reached 10,000 feet. There was no report
of anyone spotting The Beast of Paradise Falls.
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/191232/Crew-Builds-a-Flying-House-Modeled-After-UP?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://gizmodo.com/#!howhardcanitbe
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| Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson
| from the falling-back-on-the-old-destroy-all-humans-play dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @15:54 (AI)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2038203/Go-For-It-On-Fourth-Down-Ask-Coach-Watson?from=newsletter
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[0]jbrodkin writes "If humans can't beat a computer at 'Jeopardy!' why
should we trust them to make the right call on fourth down in the Super
Bowl? That was the fundamental question asked by some researchers at the
recent MITSloan Sports Analytics Conference. With thousands of variables
to consider on the basketball court or other fields of play, it only
makes sense to [1]let computers handle questions of strategy, says Tarek
Kamil, whose company built a chip-containing basketball which takes 6,000
measurements per second. 'Fifty years from now, we're going to laugh
about how we used to give coaches this much responsibility,' he says."
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2038203/Go-For-It-On-Fourth-Down-Ask-Coach-Watson?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/4855
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030711-sports-analytics-conference.html?hpg1=bn
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| Facebook May Bust Up the SMS Profit Cartel
| from the bytes-and-cents dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @16:40 (Facebook)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2139223/Facebook-May-Bust-Up-the-SMS-Profit-Cartel?from=newsletter
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[0]AndyAndyAndyAndy writes "Fortune had an interesting article recently
about wireless providers and their exorbitant profit margins for SMS
handling, especially when looking at modern data plans. 'Under the cell
phone industry's peculiar pricing system, downloading data to your
smartphone is amazingly cheap ��� unless the data in question happens to be
a text message. In that case the price of a download jumps roughly
50,000-fold, from just a few pennies per megabyte of data to a whopping
$1000 or so per megabyte.' A young little application called [1]Beluga
caught the attention of Facebook, which purchased the company a Thursday.
The app [2]aims to bring messaging under the umbrella of data plans, and
features group messaging, picture and video messaging, and integration
with other apps. The author argues that, if successful, Beluga (or
whatever Facebook ends up calling it) could potentially be the
Skype/Vonage or Netflix-type competitor to the old-school cellular
carriers and their steep pricing plans."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2139223/Facebook-May-Bust-Up-the-SMS-Profit-Cartel?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:afacini@gmail.commmmzorz
1. http://belugapods.com/
2. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/04/facebook-takes-aim-at-the-text-messaging-cartel/
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| The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
| from the yeah-but-how's-the-suspension dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @17:24 (Transportation)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2218242/The-Car-Faster-Than-a-Speeding-Bullet?from=newsletter
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[0]pbahra writes "Formula 1 is seen as the apogee of engineering
excellence and automotive power. So it says something that in Bloodhound
SSC ��� the car that, if all goes well, [1]in 2013 will shatter the current
land speed record ��� the Cosworth Formula 1 engine is just the fuel pump.
'We are creating the ultimate car; we're going where no-one has gone
before,' said Richard Noble, the project director. The car, which Mr.
Noble says takes ��10,000 a day just to keep it ticking over, will be
powered by not one, but two other engines. The smaller one, the EJ200, is
normally found in the British Royal Air Force's Typhoon jet. Its job is
to get the 13.4 meter long car up to 350 mph. That's when the big one
kicks in. The big one is the 18-inch diameter, 12-foot-long Falcon
rocket, the largest of its kind ever made in the UK. Its job is to
catapult the car through the sound barrier to its maximum speed of 1,050
mph. That is, literally, faster than a speeding bullet."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2218242/The-Car-Faster-Than-a-Speeding-Bullet?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:parminder.bahra@wsj.com
1. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/03/07/the-car-faster-than-a-speeding-bullet/
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| UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones
| from the time-for-some-kid-friendly-encryption-services dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @18:09 (Education)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2244222/UK-Schools-Consider-Searching-Pupils-Smartphones?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "What right to privacy do school pupils have
on their mobile phones? UK education officials are considering ways to
clamp down on cyber-bullying and classroom disruption by [0]allowing
teachers to search and delete content from student handsets if it is
deemed unsuitable. However, questions remain whether such a move would
give teachers too much power and infringe on student rights."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2244222/UK-Schools-Consider-Searching-Pupils-Smartphones?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/education/365761/schools-consider-searching-pupils-smartphones
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| 3D Printers Create Edible Objects
| from the I'll-gladly-ay-you-tuesday-for-a-printed-cheeseburger-today dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Monday March 07, @18:15 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1830247/3D-Printers-Create-Edible-Objects?from=newsletter
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[0]MrShaggy writes "An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed
up to construct novel edible objects with [1]3D printers that use pureed
foods in place of ink. From the article: '"It lets you do complex
geometries with food that you could never do by hand," said Jeffrey
Lipton, a researcher and graduate student at the lab. "So far, we've
printed everything from chocolate, cheese and hummus to scallops, turkey,
and celery," Lipton told CBC Radio's Spark in an interview that aired
Sunday.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/1830247/3D-Printers-Create-Edible-Objects?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://chrislightgmailcom/
1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/28/technology-3d-printers.html
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| Cold Warriors Question Nukes
| from the nukes-invoke-their-right-to-remain-silent dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday March 07, @18:43 (The Military)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2336234/Cold-Warriors-Question-Nukes?from=newsletter
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[0]Martin Hellman writes "George Shultz served as President Reagan's
Secretary of State, and Bill Perry as President Clinton's Secretary of
Defense. Henry Kissinger was National Security Advisor and Secretary of
State to both President Nixon and Ford. Sam Nunn was Chair of the Senate
Armed Services Committee for eight years. Their key roles in the Cold War
has led many to call them 'Cold Warriors.' That status makes their
recent, repeated calls for fundamentally re-examining our nuclear posture
all the more noteworthy. Their most recent attempt to awaken society to
the unacceptable risk posed by nuclear weapons is an Op-Ed in today's
Wall Street Journal titled [1]Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear
Proliferation. (That link requires a subscription to the Journal. There
is also a [2]subscription-free link (PDF) at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative.) [3]Key excerpts and links to other resources are available
as well."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/03/07/2336234/Cold-Warriors-Question-Nukes?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703300904576178760530169414.html
2. http://www.nti.org/c_press/Deterrence_in_the_Age_of_Nuclear_Proliferation.pdf
3. http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/cold-warriors-question-nukes/
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