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In this issue:
* The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration?
* EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy
* New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP
* 'Free' H.264 a Precursor To WebM Patent War?
* Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices
* iFixit Moves Into Console Repair
* Flight Data Recorders, Decades Out of Date
* GMail Introduces Priority Inbox
* The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science
* The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located
* 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
* Homebrew Cray-1
* Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends
* 9 Ideas For Coping With Space Junk
* Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC -- For Now
* No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice
* Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine
* Taiwan Tabloid Sensation Next Media Recreate News
* Misconfigured Networks Main Cause of Breaches
* SCO Assets Going To October Auction
* NASA Buying Private Companies' Suborbital Rocket Flights

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| The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? |
| from the resources-beyond-imagining dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 30, @20:10 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/237217/The-Best-Near-Term-Future-of-Space-Explo|
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An anonymous reader writes "Much fanfare has been made about manned
missions to moons and planets, but little has been done about travel to
the asteroids — until now. NASA is working on [0]plans for a trip to the
asteroids by 2025. This type of mission has great potential for positive
economic return based on the fact that no effort has to be spent on
getting in and out of a distant planet's gravity well. Yes, we should go
to the planets, but we should master mining the asteroid belt for
resources first because it is easiest. What do you think?"

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/30/237217

Links:
0. http://www.space.com/news/asteroid-mission-plans-orion-spacecraft-100830.html

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| EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy |
| from the miles-per-gallon-per-dead-otter dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 30, @22:05 (Transportation) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/2325259/EPA-Proposes-Grading-System-For-Car-Fuel-E|
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suraj.sun writes with this snippet from CNET: "The EPA and Department of
Transportation on Monday [0]proposed a fuel economy label overhaul to
reflect how electric and alternative fuel vehicles stack up against
gasoline passenger vehicles. ... The changed label, mandated by the 2007
energy law, includes the same information on city and highway miles per
gallon and estimated driving costs based on 15,000 miles a year now
available. But the new labels add more comparative information, rating
cars on mileage, greenhouse gas contribution, and other air pollutants
from tailpipe emissions. That means that consumers can look at a label to
see how one vehicle compares to all available vehicles, rather than only
cars in a specific class. One label proposes grades, ranging from an
A-plus to a D. There are no failing grades, since vehicles need to comply
with the Clean Air Act."

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/30/2325259

Links:
0. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20015069-54.html

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| New QuickTime Flaw Bypasses ASLR, DEP |
| from the once-more-unto-the-breach dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 31, @00:07 (Security) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/0140238/New-QuickTime-Flaw-Bypasses-ASLR-DEP |
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Trailrunner7 writes "A Spanish security researcher has discovered [0]a
new vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime software that can be [1]used to
bypass both ASLR and DEP on current versions of Windows and give an
attacker control of a remote PC. The flaw apparently results from a
parameter from an older version of QuickTime that was left in the code by
mistake. It was discovered by Ruben Santamarta of Wintercore, who said
the vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a malicious Web site. On
a machine running Internet Explorer on Windows 7, Vista or XP with
QuickTime 7.x or 6.x installed, the problem can be exploited by using a
heap-spraying technique. In his explanation of the details of the
vulnerability and the exploit for it, Santamarta said he believes the
parameter at the heart of the problem simply was not cleared out of older
versions of the QuickTime code. 'The QuickTime plugin is widely installed
and exploitable through IE; ASLR and DEP are not effective in this case
and we will likely see this in the wild,' said HD Moore, founder of the
Metasploit Project."

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/0140238

Links:
0. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-remote-flaw-apple-quicktime-bypasses-aslr-and-dep-083010
1. http://reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=1

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| 'Free' H.264 a Precursor To WebM Patent War? |
| from the neverending-cycle dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 31, @02:13 (Patents) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/0257214/Free-H264-a-Precursor-To-WebM-Patent-War |
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[0]webmink writes "The MPEG LA seem [1]unwilling to explain why they have
extended their [2]'free' H.264 streaming video policy now. This article
unpacks the history of MPEG LA and then suggests the obvious — it's all
because of WebM — and the worrying — maybe it's preparing the ground for
[3]opening a third front in the patent war against Google."

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/0257214

Links:
0. http://webmink.net/
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014864-264.html
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/26/1859245/MPEG-LA-Announces-Permanent-Royalty-Moratorium-For-H264
3. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/08/hold-the-h264-celebrations/index.htm

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| Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices |
| from the prison-reform-step-by-step dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 31, @05:10 (United States) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/0145252/Building-Prisons-Without-Walls-Using-GPS-D|
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Graeme Wood writes in the Atlantic that
increasingly [1]GPS devices are looking like an appealing alternative to
conventional incarceration, as it becomes ever clearer that traditional
prison has become more or less synonymous with failed prison. 'By almost
any metric, our practice of locking large numbers of people behind bars
has proved at best ineffective and at worst a national disgrace,' writes
Wood. But new devices such as ExacuTrack suggest a revolutionary
possibility: that we might do away with the current, expensive array of
guards and cells and fences, in favor of a regimen of close, constant
surveillance on the outside and swift, certain punishment for any
deviations from an established, legally unobjectionable routine. 'The
potential upside is enormous. Not only might such a system save billions
of dollars annually, it could theoretically produce far better outcomes,
training convicts to become law-abiders rather than more-ruthless
lawbreakers,' adds Wood. 'The ultimate result could be lower crime rates,
at a reduced cost, and with considerably less inhumanity in the
bargain.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/0145252

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/prison-without-walls/8195/

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| iFixit Moves Into Console Repair |
| from the red-ring-of-rebirth dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 31, @06:28 (Hardware Hacking) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/036239/iFixit-Moves-Into-Console-Repair |
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sk8pmp writes with news that iFixit, a website known for Apple gadget
teardowns and repair guides, is expanding into the game console market,
[0]launching a series of troubleshooting and repair guides to help gamers
[1]fix their own machines. They're also starting to sell replacement
parts and the tools necessary to work on them. "Right now there are
repair guides for 24 gaming consoles, including 206 repairs and upgrades.
Some of these fixes deal with major issues, such as the infamous Red Ring
of Death from the Xbox 360, but others are simpler. For instance, right
now there is no easy way to clean out the fans inside your console. 'I
think this is probably the number one cause of overheating these days now
that manufacturers have mostly gotten their act together,' Wiens said.
'This is routine maintenance, and it's mind-boggling that the
manufacturers don't provide people with an easy way to open the case up
and blow it out.' You'll also learn how to replace broken LCD screens on
your portables, replace the motherboard on your PlayStation 3, and do
just about anything else you might want to do to these systems, from the
simple to the harrowing."

Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/036239

Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/own-your-gaming-console-ifixit-now-offers-tools-guides-parts.ars
1. http://www.ifixit.com/Browse/Game_Console

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| Flight Data Recorders, Decades Out of Date |
| from the jet-lagging-behind dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 31, @08:12 (Transportation) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/0316231/Flight-Data-Recorders-Decades-Out-of-D|
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[0]Tisha_AH writes "For the past fifty years [1]the technology behind
aircraft flight data recorders has remained stagnant. Some of the
advances of cloud computing, mesh radio networks, real-time position
reporting and satellite communications are held back by a combination of
aircraft manufacturers, pilots unions and the slow gears of government
bureaucracy. Many recent aircraft loss incidents remain unexplained, with
black boxes lost on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, buried under the
wreckage of the World Trade Centers or with critical information
suppressed by government secrecy or aircraft manufacturers. Many devices
still rely upon tape recorders for voice and data that only record a very
small sampling of aircraft dynamics, flight and engine systems or crew
behaviors. Technologically simple solutions like battery backup,
continual telemetry feeds by satellite and hundreds of I/O points,
monitoring many systems should be within easy reach. Pilot unions have
objected to the collection and sharing of detailed accident data, citing
privacy concerns of the flight crew. Accidents may be due to human error,
process problems or design flaws. Unless we can fully evaluate all
factors involved in transportation accidents, it will be difficult to
improve the safety record. Recommendations by the NTSB to the FAA have
gone unheeded for many years. With all of the technological advancements
that we work with in the IT field, what sort of best practices could be
brought forward in transit safety?"

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/0316231

Links:
0. mailto:Tisha.Hayes@gmail.com
1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/beyond-the-black-box/0

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| GMail Introduces Priority Inbox |
| from the we-have-priority dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @11:05 (Communications) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/156240/GMail-Introduces-Priority-Inbox |
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[0]jason-za writes with this quote from a Google announcement: "People
tell us all that time that they're getting more and more mail and often
feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean — here at Google we run
on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of
messages a day — mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and
automated mail that's often not important. It's time-consuming to figure
out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we're happy to
[1]introduce Priority Inbox (in beta) — an experimental new way of taking
on information overload in Gmail."

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/156240

Links:
0. http://jason-za.blogspot.com/
1. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html

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| The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science |
| from the that-would-take-awhile dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @11:43 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1525228/The-Map-of-Critical-Thinking-and-Modern|
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Jamie noticed an interesting map of [0]critical thinking and science done
in a sort of subway style. You can track Newton and Einstein and Tesla
and so on. It's actually pretty interesting to navigate.

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/1525228

Links:
0. http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/08/modern-science-map.html

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| The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located |
| from the can-we-have-a-party-here dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @12:16 (Security) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1527215/The-Nuclear-Bunker-Where-Wikileaks-Will-Be-|
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An anonymous reader writes "Engadget has photos of '[0]Pionen White
Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which Wikileaks will [1]locate some of
its servers. It was excavated 98 feet underground, in a rock hill in the
center of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War.' [2]It looks like they
hired the same interior designer who decorated Batman's lair."

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/1527215

Links:
0. http://gizmodo.com/5626381/this-is-the-nuclear-bunker-where-wikileaks-will-be-located
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/17/1951214/Wikileaks-Now-Hosted-By-the-Swedish-Pirate-Party?from=rss
2. http://gizmodo.com/5626342/pionen-white-mountains/gallery/8

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| 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away |
| from the drink-em-if-you-got-em dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 31, @12:54 (Idle) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/167202/3-Drinks-a-Day-Keeps-the-Doctor-Away |
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Nzimmer911 writes "[0]Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a
20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: 'But a new paper
in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests
that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol
does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude
former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are
higher than those of heavy drinkers.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/167202

Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201433200

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| Homebrew Cray-1 |
| from the when-i-was-a-child dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @13:00 (Supercomputing) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/161207/Homebrew-Cray-1 |
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egil writes "[0]Chris Fenton built [1]his own fully functional 1/10 scale
[2]Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the
couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of
the power-hungry [3]ECL technology, however, the scale model is built
around a [4]Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is
[5]available if you want to build one for your own living room. The
largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/161207

Links:
0. http://chrisfenton.com/
1. http://chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitter-coupled_logic
4. http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/DO-SP3E1600E-DK-UNI-G.htm
5. http://chrisfenton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cray1.zip

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| Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends |
| from the all-you-need-is-love dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 31, @13:48 (Idle) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1613238/Resort-Attracts-Men-With-Virtual-Girlfrien|
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disco_tracy writes "Long a favorite of lovers and honeymooners, a
Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in
the wired age. A resort based on a game called 'Love Plus,' encourages
players to [0]develop long-term relationships with virtual women.From the
article: 'Local souvenir shops in the resort town have caught on and
capitalized on the love-struck new clientele, selling Love Plus-themed
souvenirs, from good-luck charms to steamed buns and fish sausages. The
local Ohnoya hotel even offers traditional rooms to the unusual couples,
which feature two sets of futon beds and another barcode panel that
allows the men to visualize their girlfriends in a flattering summer
kimono.'"

Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/1613238

Links:
0. http://news.discovery.com/tech/love-plus-dating-game.html

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| 9 Ideas For Coping With Space Junk |
| from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-net dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @14:35 (Earth) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1645235/9-Ideas-For-Coping-With-Space-Junk |
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An anonymous reader writes "The space age has filled Earth's orbit with
all manner of space junk, from spent rocket stages to frozen bags of
astronaut urine, and the problem keeps getting worse. [0]NASA's orbital
debris experts estimate that there are currently about 19,000 pieces of
space junk that are larger than 10 centimeters, and about 500,000
slightly smaller objects. Researchers and space companies are plotting
ways to clean up the mess, and a new photo gallery from Discover Magazine
[1]highlights some of the proposals. They range from the cool & doable,
like equipping every satellite with a high-tech kite tail for deployment
once the satellite is defunct, to the cool & unlikely, like lasers in
space."

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/1645235

Links:
0. http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#3
1. http://discovermagazine.com/photos/30-space-junk-how-to-clean-up-the-space-ages-mess/

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| Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC -- For Now |
| from the ominous-chords-go-here dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @15:21 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1832217/Your-Smartphone-Is-Safer-Than-Your-PC----For|
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[0]snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on [1]the future of
mobile security — one that will see a significant rise in exploits as
valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date,
sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes relatively
secure, when compared with their desktop brethren. But as devices store
more valuable information than email, they will become more enticing to
hackers currently breaking into Windows PCs. And the biggest bulls-eye
appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most
like that of the desktop PC but also because [2]there are so many
variants in use — too many for Google or the carriers to patch securely.
And as the [3]PDF-jailbreak vulnerability showed, sandboxing has its
limits when it comes to securing the browser — the most likely point of
entry for exploits not due to the rise of extensions, helper objects, and
plug-ins on the mobile Web."

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/1832217

Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://infoworld.com/d/mobilize/mobile-security-your-smartphone-safer-your-pc-now-570
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/1616221/Google-Android-mdash-a-Universe-of-Incompatible-Devices
3. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/08/03/210205/iPhone-Jailbreak-Uses-a-PDF-Display-Vulnerability

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| No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice |
| from the stacking-your-nines dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @16:10 (Red Hat Software) |
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/191228/No-More-Need-To-Reboot-Fedora-w-Ksplice |
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An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux
kernel updates without a reboot, is now [0]free for users of the Fedora
distribution. Using Ksplice is like 'replacing your car's engine while
speeding down the highway,' and it can potentially save your Linux
systems from a lot of downtime. Since Fedora users often live on the
bleeding edge of Linux development, Ksplice makes it even easier to do
so, and without reboots!"

Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/191228

Links:
0. http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/31/ksplice-now-free-for-fedora-users/

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| Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine |
| from the I've-tasted-this-before dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 31, @17:03 (Idle) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1713210/Whisky-Made-From-Diabetics-Urine |
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It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that
tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine.
Researcher and designer James Gilpin [0]uses the sugar rich urine of
elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky. From the
article: "The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers,
including Gilpin's own grandmother, Patricia. The urine is purified in
the same way as mains water is purified, with the sugar molecules removed
and added to the mash stock to accelerate the whisky's fermentation
process. Traditionally, that sugar would be made from the starches in the
mash."

Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/1713210

Links:
0. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/24/pissky

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| Taiwan Tabloid Sensation Next Media Recreate News |
| from the what's-the-story dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @17:04 (It's funny. Laugh.) |
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/2023243/Taiwan-Tabloid-Sensation-Next-Med|
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[0]Ant writes "[1]Next Media Animation (NWA) became popular due to its
[2]animated and sometimes humorous renderings for world news. Their
official videos can be [3]found on YouTube." They start by covering the
Tiger Woods animation that made these guys known, and then talk about the
process and the people behind it. I've attached an Apple video that you
might have bumped into recently as well... it's worth the watch if you
haven't seen it yet.

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http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/2023243

Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://nma.com.tw/
2. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_appledaily/all/1
3. http://www.youtube.com/user/NMAWorldEdition

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| Misconfigured Networks Main Cause of Breaches |
| from the probably-including-you dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @17:54 (Networking) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/2054225/Misconfigured-Networks-Main-Cause-of-Breache|
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An anonymous reader writes "Responses to a survey from attendees of the
DEFCON 18 conference revealed that [0]73% came across a misconfigured
network more than three quarters of the time – which, according to 76% of
the sample, was the easiest IT resource to exploit. Results revealed that
18% of professionals believe misconfigured networks are the result of
insufficient time or money for audits. 14% felt that compliance audits
that don't always capture security best practices are a factor and 11%
felt that threat vectors that change faster than they can be addressed
play a key role."

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/2054225

Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9801

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| SCO Assets Going To October Auction |
| from the vultures-are-circling dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 31, @18:40 (Businesses) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/213213/SCO-Assets-Going-To-October-Auction |
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An anonymous reader noted that the SCO Group is having a [0]bankruptcy
auction in October. The article says 'After bankruptcy in September 2007,
SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2
million and debt totaling $5.2 million.' I wonder if we could all chip in
and buy something as a sort of 'Thanks for being a pimple on the face of
humanity' present.

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/31/213213

Links:
0. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-30/bear-island-paper-spheris-fairpoint-national-envelope-bankruptcy.html

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| NASA Buying Private Companies' Suborbital Rocket Flights |
| from the dc-we-have-a-problem dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday August 31, @19:29 (NASA) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/236209/NASA-Buying-Private-Companies-Suborbital|
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FleaPlus writes "NASA is spending a total of $475,000, split between
Masten Space Systems and John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, for a series
of [0]seven test flights of the companies' reusable suborbital rockets
over the next several months, going to altitudes as high as 25 miles.
NASA's goal is to foster a more [1]cost-effective and flexible way to
conduct microgravity and upper-atmosphere research. Jeff Bezos's
suborbital spaceflight company [2]Blue Origin has also been making steady
progress this year on their $3.7M contract to test pusher-escape system
and composite pressure vessel technologies, which NASA is interested in
for orbital spaceflight."

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0. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/30/5002737-nasa-funds-suborbital-cruisers
1. http://www.spacenews.com/commentaries/next-generation-suborbital-spaceflight-research-bonanza-100-kilometers.html
2. http://www.parabolicarc.com/2010/08/25/public-finally-peek-blue-origins-work/

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