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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California
* Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells
* AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo
* Pizza Lovers Suffer Data Breach From Hell
* Valve Apologizes For 12,000 Erroneous Anti-Cheating Bans
* FTC Wants Browsers To Block Online Tracking
* Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar
* ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand
* The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band
* Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL?
* FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity
* NASA's Top 10 Space Junk Missions
* Suspected Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested
* Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies
* Android Data Stealing App Downloaded By Millions
* Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says
* LCD 'Engine' For Spacecraft Attitude Control
* HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion
* A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV
* Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books
* Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay?
* Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star
* KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing
* Thermoelectrics Could Let You Feel the Heat In Games
* Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games
* World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production
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| Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California |
| from the no-rebate-for-you dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 28, @20:22 (Power) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/224254/Chevy-Volt-Not-Green-Enough-For-California |
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thecarchik writes "The first two plug-in cars from major manufacturers
will go head-to-head on warranties and lease prices: $350 a month for the
2011 Chevrolet Volt, $349 for the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Now the choice shifts
to other measures, including electric and overall range, as well as the
plug-in perks that states like California offer to early adopters to
encourage them to opt for electric cars. This is where it gets
interesting. While California loves the Nissan Leaf, current regulations
deny Chevy Volt buyers two significant perks: [0] a $5,000 rebate, and
permission to drive solo in HOV Lanes."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/28/224254
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| Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells |
| from the windows-to-the-power-pole dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 28, @21:09 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2223205/Fly-Eyes-Used-For-Solar-Cells |
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disco_tracy writes "Researchers took [0]corneas from blow flies, fixed
them on a glass substrate, added a polymer to protect the shape and then
coated nine-eye arrays in nickel within a vacuum chamber. The result was
a master template that retained those useful nanoscale features and can
be used to make solar cells."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/28/2223205
Links:
0. http://news.discovery.com/tech/fly-eyes-used-for-solar-cells.html
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| AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo |
| from the enough-rope-to-hang-yourself dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 28, @22:37 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2210217/ATampT-Wont-Block-Black-Hat-Eavesdropping-De|
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[0]snydeq writes "AT&T says it [1]won't interfere with a highly
anticipated talk on intercepting cell phone calls at the Black Hat
conference this week. Hacker Chris Paget last week said that he plans to
demonstrate on Saturday [2]how to set up what's essentially a fake cell
tower that allows him listen in on nearby mobile calls. But Tuesday, he
wrote on his blog that he had '[3]heard that AT&T may be considering
suing me to stop my talk.' AT&T, however, has insisted it has no plans to
interfere with the talk."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/28/2210217
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/security-central/att-wont-stop-black-hat-demo-cell-phone-eavesdropping-949
2. http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking/defcon-hackers-target-cell-phone-security-742
3. http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=244
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| Pizza Lovers Suffer Data Breach From Hell |
| from the hell-of-a-breach dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @01:12 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2216220/Pizza-Lovers-Suffer-Data-Breach-From-Hell |
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netbuzz writes "Some 230,000 New Zealanders have been informed that their
[0]personal information has apparently fallen into the hands of hackers
who compromised the network of a locally famous food chain, Hell Pizza.
The company says it suspects 'a rogue employee,' but one security expert
says Hell's ordering portal is 'about 50 steps of fail.' Several New
Zealand celebrities are among the victims and at least one is taking the
matter in stride, musing: 'My Twitter has been hacked, my Facebook has
been hacked and I'm pretty sure half of New Zealand has my phone number
already. I have nothing bad to say about Hell.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/28/2216220
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/64257
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| Valve Apologizes For 12,000 Erroneous Anti-Cheating Bans |
| from the making-it-right dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 29, @02:36 (PC Games (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/0539233/Valve-Apologizes-For-12000-Erroneous-Anti|
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Earlier this week, there were reports that large numbers of Modern
Warfare 2 players on Steam were [0]getting erroneously banned by Valve's
Anti-Cheat software. While such claims are usually best taken with a
grain of salt, the quantity and suddenness caused speculation that
Valve's software [1]wasn't operating correctly. A few days later, Valve
president Gabe Newell [2]sent out an email acknowledging that roughly
12,000 players had been [3]inappropriately banned over the preceding two
weeks. "The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between
the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version. This was caused by
a combination of conditions occurring while Steam was updating the disk
image of a game." Valve reversed the bans and gave free copies of Left 4
Dead 2 to everyone who was affected.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/0539233
Links:
0. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/26/valve-anti-cheat-software-goes-a-bit-glados/#more-34342
1. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1380149
2. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/27/valve-apologise-for-vac-goof/
3. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/27/valve-says-sorry-banned-gamers/
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| FTC Wants Browsers To Block Online Tracking |
| from the poof-just-like-that-he's-gone dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @04:19 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/0233238/FTC-Wants-Browsers-To-Block-Online-Tracking|
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storagedude writes "The FTC wants a do-not-track mechanism that would
allow Web users to [0]opt out of online behavioral tracking, similar to
the national do-not-call registry. The agency's preferred method for
accomplishing this would be a browser-based tool that would give users
the option of blocking data collection across the Web. The only problem
is that the agency may not have the authority to require this, thanks to
concerted lobbying efforts by the advertising industry. The first step
may just be voluntary measures, to be released this fall."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/0233238
Links:
0. http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/article.php/3895466
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| Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar |
| from the sunlight-is-free dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @05:25 (Earth) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/0249234/Nuclear-Energy-Now-More-Expensive-Than|
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js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a
historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of
solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the
cheapest of renewable technologies, [0]is now cheaper than nuclear, at
around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that
[1]financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power
plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50
percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through
federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be
that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US
government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the
market."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/0249234
Links:
0. http://theenergycollective.com/oshadavidson/40559/study-solar-power-cheaper-nuclear
1. http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=/2010/07/27/business/global/27iht-renuke.html&OQ=_rQ3D5Q26pagewantedQ3D1Q26srcQ3Dbusln&REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR
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| ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand |
| from the one-card-bandit dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @07:57 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/0127221/ATM-Hack-Gives-Cash-On-Demand |
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[0]angry tapir writes "Windows CE-based ATMs [1]can easily be made to
dole out cash, according to security researcher Barnaby Jack. Exploiting
bugs in two different ATM machines at Black Hat, the researcher from
IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record
sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. Jack believes a
large number of ATMs have remote management tools that can be accessed
over a telephone. After experimenting with two machines he purchased,
Jack developed a way of bypassing the remote authentication system and
installing a homemade rootkit, named Scrooge."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/0127221
Links:
0. http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/
1. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/354962/atm_hack_gives_cash_demand/
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| The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band |
| from the thank-god-that-is-solved dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @08:47 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1218234/The-Physics-of-a-Rolling-Rubber-Band |
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sciencehabit writes "Modern physics can get complicated. Sure,
researchers know exactly what forces act on a ball rolling down an
incline — an experiment that helped Galileo develop universal laws for
movement and acceleration. But what happens when a deformable shape like
a [0]a rubber band rolls around? A new study reveals that the faster it
goes, the more squashed it gets (video included)."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1218234
Links:
0. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/07/the-physics-of-a-rolling-rubber-.html
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| Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? |
| from the can't-happen-fast-enough dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @09:18 (Social Networks) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1229216/Could-Open-Source-Render-Facebook-the-Next|
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joabj writes "Now that Facebook has amassed more than [0]500 million
users, a growing number of open source social networking developers are
wondering if Facebook's photo sharing, status updates and other features
wouldn't work better as Internet-wide standardized services. At the OSCON
conference last week, the head of [1]Identi.ca, an open source
Twitter-like microblogging service, likened today's social networking
services to the enormously proprietary online services of the early
1990s, like AOL or Prodigy. He [2]suggested that just like SMTP and
Sendmail standardized what were previously propriety e-mail services, so
too could open source social networking stacks, like [3]OStatus, render
walled garden services like Facebook obsolete."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1229216
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article/201650/facebooks_half_billion_users_fun_facts.html?tk=hp_blg
1. http://identi.ca/
2. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179785/Could_open_source_tools_make_Facebook_the_next_AOL_
3. http://ostatus.org/
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| FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity |
| from the because-they-can dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @10:00 (Government) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1311223/FBI-May-Get-Easier-Access-To-Internet-Activ|
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olsmeister writes "It appears the White House would like to make it
[0]easier for the FBI to obtain records of a person's internet activities
without a court order to do so, via the use of an [1]NSL. While they have
been able to this this for a long time, this may expand the type of
information able to be gathered without a court order to include things
like web browsing histories."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1311223
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806141_pf.html
1. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/nsl_faqs030907.htm
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| NASA's Top 10 Space Junk Missions |
| from the play-debris-for-me dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @10:45 (Earth) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/146252/NASAs-Top-10-Space-Junk-Missions |
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[0]Ant writes "NASA has identified the [1]top ten space junk missions and
said over 19,000 pieces of space junk are known to exist..." That's
nothing: You should see my living room.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/146252
Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/64242
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| Suspected Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested |
| from the still-think-it's-a-silly-name dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @11:26 (Botnet) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1427248/Suspected-Mariposa-Botnet-Creator-Arrested |
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mehemiah writes "The writer of the [0]Mariposa Botnet has been
[1]arrested through international effort. The FBI said this arrest and
the arrests of three alleged operators in February were the result of a
two-year joint investigation into the Mariposa Botnet, which may have
infected as many as eight million to 12 million computers around the
world."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1427248
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/0328246/Mariposa-Botnet-Beheaded
1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100728/pl_afp/usspainsloveniaitcomputersecuritycrimeinternet
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| Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies |
| from the cart-before-the-horse dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, @11:36 (Medicine) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1445212/Man-Wants-to-Donate-His-Heart-Before-He-Di|
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Gary Phebus wants to donate his heart, lungs, and liver. The problem is
[0]he wants to donate them before he dies. Gary was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in
2008. Phebus says he'd like to be able to donate his organs before they
deteriorate, and doesn't consider his request suicide because he's "dead
anyway."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1445212
Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,597966,00.html?test=latestnews
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| Android Data Stealing App Downloaded By Millions |
| from the nobody-is-safe dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @12:04 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1545238/Android-Data-Stealing-App-Downloaded-By-|
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wisebabo writes "A wallpaper utility (that presents purloined copyrighted
material) 'quietly [0]collects personal information such as SIM card
numbers, text messages, subscriber identification, and voicemail
passwords. The data is then sent to www.imnet.us, a site that hails from
Shenzen, China.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1545238
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| Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says |
| from the they-can't-fool-pudge dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 29, @12:46 (Earth) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/167253/Global-Warming-Undeniable-Report-Says |
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BergZ writes "Scientists from around the world are providing even [0]more
evidence of global warming. 'A comprehensive review of key climate
indicators confirms the world is warming and the past decade was the
warmest on record,' the annual State of the Climate report declares.
Compiled by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries, including Canada,
the report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said
its analysis of 10 indicators that are 'clearly and directly related to
surface temperatures, all tell the same story: [1]Global warming is
undeniable.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/167253
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7914611/Met-Office-report-global-warming-evidence-is-unmistakable.html
1. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/29/climate-change-study-noaa.html
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| LCD 'Engine' For Spacecraft Attitude Control |
| from the little-more-to-the-left dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday July 29, @13:29 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1716243/LCD-Engine-For-Spacecraft-Attitude-Cont|
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[0]Bruce Perens writes "Japan's IKAROS satellite, which earlier
[1]performed the first successful demonstration of a solar sail, has
broken more new ground. Liquid-crystal displays — yes, like in your video
monitor — were fabricated into strips on the edges of the solar sail. By
energizing some of the LCDs and changing the reflective characteristics
of parts of the sail from specular to diffuse, JAXA scientists
successfully [2]generated attitude control torque in the sail, changing
the spacecraft's orientation."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1716243
Links:
0. mailto:bruce@pe%5B%5Ds.com%5B'ren'ingap%5D
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/2317241/Ikaros-Spacecraft-Successfully-Propelled-In-Space
2. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/07/20100723_ikaros_e.html
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| HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion |
| from the thick-viscous-stew dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @14:14 (Networking) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/182202/HDMI-Labeling-Requirements-Promise-a-Stew-o|
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An anonymous reader writes "In many ways HDMI has revolutionized the way
we connect devices. By unifying video and audio into a single cable
manufacturers have been able to make their products easier to set up than
ever before. Until recently there hasn't actually been much difference in
HDMI cables. But things are about to get confusing with the introduction
of HDMI 1.4. By the 1st of January 2012 manufacturers of products with
HDMI ports won't actually be able to call HDMI 1.4 by its real name. In
fact, come November 18 this year those selling cables won't be able to
use HDMI 1.4 or HDMI 1.3 to delineate between different products. Instead
cables that support version 1.4 of the HDMI standard will have to use one
of five different labels. The new labels? Well, as this story explains,
they're going to cause a [0]new level of confusion for anyone hooking up
a home cinema. Add to this the fact that the HDMI organisation keeps the
details of its specifications secret, and translation between version
numbering and marketing-speak will be well nigh impossible."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/182202
Links:
0. http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/221343,hdmi-and-its-stupid-labelling-requirements.aspx
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| A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV |
| from the thought-experiments-welcome dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @15:00 (Wikipedia) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1837252/A-20-8-Bit-Wikipedia-Reader-For-Your-TV |
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired about another
entry in the ongoing quest for low-tech-high-tech educational tools to
take advantage of distributed knowledge: "The Humane Reader, a device
designed by computer consultant Braddock Gaskill, takes two 8-bit
microcontrollers and packages them in a [0]'classic style console' that
connects to a TV. The device includes an optional keyboard, a micro-SD
Card reader and a composite video output. It uses a standard micro-USB
cellphone charger for power. In all, it can hold the equivalent of 5,000
books, including an offline version of Wikipedia, and requires no
internet connection. The Reader will cost $20 when 10,000 or more of it
are manufactured. Without that kind of volume, each Reader will cost
about $35."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1837252
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader
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| Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books |
| from the nice-tattoo dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @15:46 (Books) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1933215/Stieg-Larsson-Is-First-Author-To-Sell-1M-E|
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that the late Swedish
journalist Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The
Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, has
become the [1]first author to sell more than one million e-books on
Amazon. The Swedish noir thrillers features [2]Lisbeth Salander, an
asocial and extremely intelligent hacker and researcher, specialized in
investigations of persons, and investigative journalist Mikael Blomqvist.
Quercus has sold 3.3M copies of Larsson's books in the UK, and estimates
that worldwide sales of the three novels are somewhere between 35-40M
copies."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1933215
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/28/stieg-larsson-1m-ebooks-amazon
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo
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| Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? |
| from the wonder-what-the-dept-of-education-pays dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @16:29 (Data Storage) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/1952235/Internal-Costs-Per-Gigabyte-mdash-What|
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CodePwned writes "I recently took over a position at a rather large
company where I discovered my group was paying $30 per gigabyte per
month! That's $360 per year per gigabyte to our own IT department. While
I understand costs are different depending on the scale, redundancy,
backup and support methods, there doesn't seem to be any good papers on
what range you should expect your costs to be. So far, my research shows
an average of $1 per gigabyte or less for internally hosted space. What
do you pay?"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/1952235
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| Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star |
| from the if-you-call-that-early dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @17:22 (Perl) |
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/2046242/Perl-6-Early-With-Rakudo-Star |
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Perl 6 may have been "[0]finally coming within reach" in 2004, but now
it's even closer. Reader rnddim writes "The Perl 6 implementation
[1]Rakudo Star has [2]been released today [3] [3]for 'early adopters.'
This release of Rakudo is different from the normal monthly compiler
releases in that is it bundled with a draft of a Perl 6 book, and several
modules. It's not complete, and it's not as fast as it should be, but
Rakudo in its current state is proving to be usable and useful. Rakudo
Star releases will come monthly or as major features or bugfixes are
made. It is [4]available for download at github.com."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/2046242
Links:
0. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/04/11/08/1511201/Perl-6-Grammars-and-Regular-Expressions
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakudo_Perl
2. http://rakudo.org/announce/rakudo-star/2010.07
3. http://www.perl.com/pub/2010/07/welcome-rakudo-star.html
4. http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads
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| KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing |
| from the that's-software-compilation-to-you dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @17:40 (KDE) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/216239/KDE-SC-47-May-Use-OpenGL-3-For-Compositing |
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE
SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some
details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's
blog post, they are [1]looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing
effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer
objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB
framebuffers."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/216239
Links:
0. http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-rc3.php
1. http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/07/next-generation-opengl-compositing-in-4-6/
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| Thermoelectrics Could Let You Feel the Heat In Games |
| from the better-than-bullet-wounds dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @18:03 (Games) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/2154209/Thermoelectrics-Could-Let-You-Feel-the|
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myshadows writes "Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo
Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give [0]a sensory
addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. 'As the range of
interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask
what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50
years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics.
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to
incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers.
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a
pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly
heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a
virtual environment.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/2154209
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=377&bpid=25544
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| Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games |
| from the eternal-debate-continues dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @18:54 (Piracy) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/2241252/Sometimes-Its-OK-To-Steal-My-Games |
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spidweb writes "One Indie developer has written a nuanced article on a
[0]how software piracy affects him, approaching the issue from the
opposite direction. He lists the ways in which the widespread piracy of
PC games helps him. From the article: 'You don't get everything you want
in this world. You can get piles of cool stuff for free. Or you can be an
honorable, ethical being. You don't get both. Most of the time. Because,
when I'm being honest with myself, which happens sometimes, I have to
admit that piracy is not an absolute evil. That I do get things out of
it, even when I'm the one being ripped off.' The article also tries to
find a middle ground between the Piracy-Is-Always-Bad and
Piracy-Is-Just-Fine sides of the argument that might enable single-player
PC games to continue to exist."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/2241252
Links:
0. http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2010/07/sometimes-its-ok-to-steal-my-games.html
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| World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production |
| from the probably-can't-use-the-hov-lanes-though dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, @19:40 (Transportation) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/29/2312246/Worlds-Fastest-Hybrid-OKd-For-Production |
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thecarchik writes "The [0]Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid supercar, first shown
as a concept at this spring's Geneva Motor Show, got official approval as
a production model today from the company's board of directors. Just
consider the specs: a 500-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-8 engine with a
9200-rpm redline, 0-to-62-mph acceleration of 3.2 seconds, and top speed
of 198 miles per hour. Oh, and did we mention it gets 78 miles per gallon
on [1]the European cycle? The astounding fuel efficiency comes courtesy
of an E-Drive mode that lets the 918 Spyder drive [2]up to 16 miles on
pure electric power, though [ahem] not at 198 mph."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/29/2312246
Links:
0. http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1047665_porsche-918-spyder-gets-official-production-greenlight
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_European_Driving_Cycle
2. http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1047680_porsche-918-spyder-worlds-fastest-priciest-hybrid-oked-for-production
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