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In this issue:
* Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions
* Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64
* <em>Tron: Legacy</em> &mdash; Too Much Imagination Required?
* London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day
* Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data
* Microsoft Kinect With <em>World of Warcraft</em>
* NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March
* 4chan Has Been DDOSed
* The Right's War On Net Neutrality
* Solar Panels For Your Pants
* Open Source After 12 Years
* Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted!
* Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery
* Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet
* Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet
* France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax?
* Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning?
* Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists?
* Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question

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| Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions
| from the taxpayer-funded-fondlecrats dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 27, @19:12 (Security)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/27/238258/Auditors-Question-TSAs-Tech-Spending-Security-Solutions?from=newsletter
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Frosty P writes "Government auditors have faulted the TSA and its parent
agency, the Department of Homeland Security, for [0]failing to properly
test and evaluate technology before spending money on it. The TSA spent
about $36 million on devices that [1]puffed air on travelers to 'sniff'
them out for explosives residue. All 207 of those machines ended up in
warehouses, abandoned as unable to perform as advertised, deployed in
many airports before the TSA had fully tested them. Since it was founded
in 2001, the TSA has spent roughly $14 billion in more than 20,900
transactions with dozens of contractors, including $8 billion for the
famous new body scanners that have recently come under scrutiny for being
unable to perform the task for which they are advertised. 'TSA has an
obsession of finding a single box that will solve all its problems.
They've spent and wasted money looking for that one box, and there is no
such solution,' said John Huey, an airport security expert."

Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/20/AR2010122005599.html
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104361.html

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| Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64
| from the and-nostalgia-flavored-candy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 27, @20:10 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/27/2327219/Greed-Zealotry-and-the-Commodore-64?from=newsletter
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jira writes "On the occasion of the [0]Commodore 64's rebirth as an
Atom-equipped nettop, the Guardian's Jon Blyth [1]remembers what the
original Commodore 64 taught him. Among other things: 'But look at it,
all brown, ugly and lovely. It taught me so much. The Commodore 64 taught
me about zealotry. After upgrading from the inferior ZX Spectrum, I would
try to convince the Sinclair loyalists to follow me. I would invite them
to my house, and let them see that with just eight colors and a
monophonic sound chip, their lives lacked true depth. My evangelism
quickly faded into impatience. So, I can now see why American Baptists
get so miffy about atheists — it's horrible dealing with people who don't
realize how much better you are.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/27/2327219/Greed-Zealotry-and-the-Commodore-64?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Commodore_64_Reborn_as_Atom_Equipped_Nettop/551-113883-585.html
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/27/commodore-64x-computer

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| <em>Tron: Legacy</em> &mdash; Too Much Imagination Required?
| from the who-needs-it-when-we-have-cgi dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Monday December 27, @23:11 (Movies)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0147222/Tron-Legacy-mdash-Too-Much-Imagination-Required?from=newsletter
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MoldySpore writes "Stepping back from the positive and negative reviews
of the new Tron sequel, Tron: Legacy (which has so far amassed over
$111,000,000 world-wide), something occurred to me after seeing the movie
and reading the numerous reviews. It seems many of the reviews, and
perhaps the reviewers themselves, can be split into two categories:
[0]those who saw the original Tron when it came out and can put the new
movie in context, and [1]those who either watched Tron recently to
prepare for the sequel or never saw it and jumped right into the new
movie." Read on for the rest of MoldySpore's thoughts.

This story continues at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0147222/Tron-Legacy-mdash-Too-Much-Imagination-Required?from=newsletter

Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101215/REVIEWS/101219986/1023
1. http://www.badassdigest.com/2010/12/13/review-tron-legacy-is-terrible

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| London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day
| from the now-to-be-installed-in-your-home dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 28, @02:18 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/021254/London-Police-Credit-CCTV-Cameras-With-Six-Solved-Crimes-Per-Day?from=newsletter
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[0]stoilis writes "CCTV cameras across London [1]help solve almost six
crimes a day, the Metropolitan Police has said. According to the article,
'the number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up
from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year. The rise in the number of
criminals caught also raises public confidence and counters bad publicity
for CCTV.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/021254/London-Police-Credit-CCTV-Cameras-With-Six-Solved-Crimes-Per-Day?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:giannis@stoiGINSBERGlis.grminuspoet
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12080487

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| Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data
| from the heads-up dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 28, @05:14 (Privacy)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0610222/Mozilla-Posts-File-Containing-Registered-User-Data?from=newsletter
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wiredmikey writes "Mozilla yesterday sent an email to registered users of
its addons.mozilla.org site, letting them know that it had mistakenly
posted a file to a publicly available Web server which [0]contained data
from its user database including email addresses, first and last names,
and an md5 hash representation of user passwords."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0610222/Mozilla-Posts-File-Containing-Registered-User-Data?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/mozilla-mistakenly-posts-file-containing-registered-user-data

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| Microsoft Kinect With <em>World of Warcraft</em>
| from the get-some-exercise-while-you-raid dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 28, @06:26 (Input Devices)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0928236/Microsoft-Kinect-With-World-of-Warcraft?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Southern
California Institute for Creative Technologies have developed software
that enables control of PC video games using the Microsoft Kinect sensor.
Their toolkit, known as the [0]Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton
Toolkit (FAAST), emulates custom-configured keyboard controls triggered
by body posture and specific gestures. This [1]video shows a user playing
the online game World of Warcraft using the Kinect. Potential
applications of this technology include video games for motor
rehabilitation after stroke and reducing childhood obesity through
healthy gaming."

Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0928236/Microsoft-Kinect-With-World-of-Warcraft?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/faast/
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62wj8eJ0FHw

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| NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March
| from the not-even-firing-money-into-space dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 28, @08:13 (Government)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/0918200/NASA-To-Continue-Funding-Canceled-Ares-Project-Until-March?from=newsletter
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[0]wooferhound passes along this quote from the Orlando Sentinel: "Thanks
to congressional inaction, [1]NASA must continue to fund its defunct Ares
I rocket program until March — a requirement that will cost the agency
nearly $500 million at a time when NASA is struggling with the expensive
task of replacing the space shuttle. About one-third of that money — $165
million — will go to Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, which has a $2 billion
contract to build the solid-rocket first stage for the Ares I, the rocket
that was supposed to fill the shuttle's role of transporting astronauts
to the International Space Station. ... The odd scenario, in which NASA
is throwing money at a canceled rocket program but can't fund a
modernization program, is because of several twists in the legislative
process that started a year ago and came to a head this month. At the
root of the problem is a 70-word sentence inserted into the 2010 budget —
by lawmakers seeking to protect Ares I jobs in their home states — that
bars NASA from shutting down the program until Congress passed a new
budget a year later. That should have happened before the Oct. 1 start of
the federal fiscal year. But Congress never passed a 2011 budget and
instead voted this month to extend the 2010 budget until March — so NASA
still must abide by the 2010 language."

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Links:
0. http://timatwooferhounddotcom/
1. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-ares-rocket-constellation-20101227,0,2096166.story

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| 4chan Has Been DDOSed
| from the happens-to-everyone dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @09:11 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1322240/4chan-Has-Been-DDOSed?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "According to the [0]4chan status page all of
the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1322240/4chan-Has-Been-DDOSed?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://status.4chan.org/

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| The Right's War On Net Neutrality
| from the when-right-is-wrong dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @10:01 (The Internet)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1441255/The-Rights-War-On-Net-Neutrality?from=newsletter
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[0]jamie writes "To understand the debate being waged in the United
States over Net Neutrality, it's important to understand just how
drastically one side has been misled. The leaders of the American Right
are [1]spreading the lie that Net Neutrality is a government takeover of
the internet, with the intention of silencing conservative voices.
(Limbaugh: "All you really have to know about Net Neutrality is that its
biggest promoters are George Soros and Google.") This may be hard to
believe to those of us who actually know what it's about — reinstating
pre-2005 law that ensured internet providers could discriminate on the
basis of volume but not content. Since the opposing side is so badly
misinformed, those of us who want the internet to remain open to
innovation and freedom of expression have to help educate them before the
debate can really be held."

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https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1441255/The-Rights-War-On-Net-Neutrality?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:jamie@slashdot.org
1. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/27/931393/-The-Rights-war-on-Net-Neutrality

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| Solar Panels For Your Pants
| from the put-some-power-in-your-pocket dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 28, @10:46 (Power)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/131224/Solar-Panels-For-Your-Pants?from=newsletter
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[0]Phoghat writes "A new line of clothes come with its own [1]solar
panels to charge small electronics in your pocket. It might be overdoing
the 'Green' technology but for the low, low price of $920, you can own a
pair of Go Urban Cargo Pants, which boasts 'fly front, low-slung
drawstring waist, and two back patch pockets with button down flaps,' but
the main reason you might want them is the: "'two side cargo pockets with
independently functioning power supply.'"

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Links:
0. mailto:tjsobieski@gmail.com
1. http://news.discovery.com/tech/solar-panels-for-your-pants.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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| Open Source After 12 Years
| from the seems-like-only-yesterday dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @10:58 (Open Source)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1548226/Open-Source-After-12-Years?from=newsletter
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GMGruman writes "12 years ago, seven people in a room coined the term
"open source" and launched what initially seemed like a quixotic
exercise. Today, open source is mainstream, with original believers such
as Red Hat worth billions and superpowers such as Oracle buying in. But
[0]open source has changed along the way, says InfoWorld's Peter Wayner,
and may change more in coming years."

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1548226/Open-Source-After-12-Years?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/print/146750

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| Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted!
| from the yes-have-some dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @11:54 (Ubuntu)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1615233/Ubuntu-Powered-Tablet-Spotted?from=newsletter
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dkd903 writes "The year 2010 had been all buzz with tablets and a similar
trend is expected during the year 2011 too. We have already seen a lot of
Android powered tablets. But how does [0]a tablet powered by Ubuntu
sound? A Chinese manufacturer TENQ has launched a tablet called P07. The
device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot
time reported to be almost instant."

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Links:
0. http://gadgetizor.com/the-tablet-season-brings-a-new-ubuntu-powered-tablet/6304/

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| Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery
| from the it's-just-a-fruit-stand dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @12:50 (Apple)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1630256/Apples-1-Billion-Data-Center-Mystery?from=newsletter
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1sockchuck writes "One of year's most tantalizing technology secrets
involves Apple's $1 billion investment in a new data center in North
Carolina. Is it the Death Star in Apple's plan for galactic domination?
Some Apple watchers predict it will be the hub for a [0]21st century
broadcasting network. Other enthusiasts are doing flyovers to [1]film
videos of the 500,000 square foot facility. There's also an [2]unofficial
FAQ about the new data center. What is Apple up to with this huge
facility?"

Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1630256/Apples-1-Billion-Data-Center-Mystery?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.cultofmac.com/apples-data-center-is-21st-century-broadcasting-network-says-cloud-expert-exclusive/67232
1. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/2011256/New-Video-of-Apples-Enormous-iDataCenter
2. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-apple-data-center-faq/

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| Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet
| from the keep-'em-dominated dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @13:49 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/180212/Chinese-Written-Language-To-Dominate-Internet?from=newsletter
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Zothecula writes "In the beginning, the language of the World Wide Web
was English. Times change though, and the United States' military's gift
to civilization knows no national boundaries, and growing worldwide
adoption of the internet has changed the audience make-up to such an
extent that [0]the dominant language of the internet is about to become
Chinese. That's not to say the Chinese are all that comfortable with this
either. There has just been an official decree requiring the use of
Chinese translations for all English words and phrases in newspapers,
magazines and web sites. While all countries have watched the unregulated
global nature of the internet erode traditional cultural values and the
integrity of national languages, it seems the Chinese powers-that-be have
concluded that the purity of the Chinese language needs to be preserved."

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Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/chinese-language-to-dominate-the-internet/17378/

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| Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet
| from the not-on-purpose dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @14:49 (Handhelds)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1910216/Dell-Reveals-Specs-For-the-Looking-Glass-Tablet?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "Dell hasn't officially unveiled its Looking Glass
tablet, but it's [0]on record at the FCC. The spec sheets reveal a device
with a 7-inch screen, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, and an SD card slot. The
Looking Glass will likely be announced at next week's Consumer
Electronics Show (CES), which is sure to have no shortage of new tablets.
Dell filed the documents for device approval by the FCC on December 17.
The Looking Glass is expected to be one of the first devices to pack an
Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, a powerful chip for mobile devices that can
support both typical functions (like e-mail and Web browsing) as well as
advanced graphics — all while preserving battery life."

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Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374740,00.asp

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| France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax?
| from the sounds-brilliant-to-me dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @15:52 (Microsoft)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1932251/France-Planning-Non-Windows-Tablet-Tax?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Lots of countries around the world have
private copying 'levies,' which are effectively taxes on products that
store data, which is put into a pool to be handed out to copyright
holders, as a sort of payment for the 'copying' that individuals do. This
was quite popular with blank CDRs, for example, but has been expanded in
certain countries to cover hard drives, iPods and other such devices.
Over in France, they're looking to [0]expand the levy to tablet computers,
but apparently if that tablet computer is running Microsoft Windows, it
will be exempted from the tax. iPads and Android-powered tablets will
have the tax. Why? Well, the argument is that if a tablet is running
Windows, it's really a 'computer.' But if it's running one of those
'mobile' operating systems, suddenly it's a brand new category. Not
surprisingly, makers of Android tablets — including the French company
Archos — are not at all happy about this."

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Links:
0. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101227/18004912429/france-wants-to-extend-private-copying-levy-to-tablets-not-if-they-run-microsoft-windows.shtml

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| Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning?
| from the also-who-killed-jfk dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @16:45 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1946213/Is-Wired-Hiding-Key-Evidence-On-Bradley-Manning?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon that for more
than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed but
[1]refuses to publish the key evidence in the arrest of US Army PFC
Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. "In late May,
Adrian Lamo — at the same time he was working with the FBI as a
government informant against Manning — gave Poulsen what he purported to
be the full chat logs between Manning and Lamo in which the Army Private
allegedly confessed to having been the source for the various cables,
documents and video which WikiLeaks released throughout this year,"
writes Greenwald. Wired has only published about 25% of the logs writes
Greenwald and Poulsen's concealment of the chat logs is actively blinding
journalists who have been attempting to learn what Manning did and did
not do. "Whether by design or effect, Kevin Poulsen and Wired have played
a critical role in concealing the truth from the public about the Manning
arrest," concludes Greenwald. "This has long ago left the realm of mere
journalistic failure and stands as one of the most egregious examples of
active truth-hiding by a 'journalist' I've ever seen.""

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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/27/wired/

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| Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists?
| from the look-at-all-the-kung-fu-pandas dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, @17:41 (Education)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/2122211/Can-Movies-Inspire-Kids-To-Be-Future-Scientists?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "MSNBC reports on a recent panel that discussed
studies showing that people, especially children, often model their
behavior on what they see on the big (or small) screen and science shows
up in many Hollywood films. In fact, 22 of the 60 top-grossing movies of
all time are science-fiction or superhero flicks, including history's No.
1 box office hit, Avatar. The movie science doesn't even have to be
entirely accurate, some of the panelists added when asked to consider the
role and impact of science in cinema. As long as it plants a seed of
curiosity in viewers, it may [1]spur them to investigate scientific
issues on their own — and perhaps consider a career in science down the
road. 'It's not an educational medium, it's an emotional medium,' says
Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the SETI Institute in Mountain View,
Calif. 'Kids get turned on by the emotion.' Interestingly enough although
movies work hard to get the science right, many make errors ranging from
the understandable to the egregious, but that's ok, say the panelists.
'Even if a film or media product is not very accurate, that becomes a
teaching moment,' says Arvind Singhal. 'So there's room for everything.'"

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Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40829505/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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| Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question
| from the you've-got-vdi dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 28, @18:50 (Networking)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/2340211/Thin-Client-Or-Fat-Client-That-Is-the-Question?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "If virtual desktops are so great, asks Jonathan Eunice,
then why isn't everyone using them? However encouraged folks are by the
progress virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has made, and however
enthused they may be about extending the wins of server virtualization
over into the desktop realm, [0]you don't see analysts and developers
eating the virtual desktop dog food. And even the folks you meet from
Citrix, Microsoft, Quest, VMware, and Wyse — the people selling VDI — use
traditional 'fat' notebooks. So, are you using virtual desktops? Why, or
why not?" I wonder how long the abbreviation VDI will stick around.

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