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In this issue:
* Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android
* Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday
* Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond
* 36-Hour <em>Lemmings</em> Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist
* UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist
* ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates
* First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed
* YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails
* Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners
* Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really.
* Congress Mulls China's Networked Authoritarianism
* "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family
* The State of iPad Satisfaction
* Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook
* Regular Domains Have More Malware Than Porn Sites
* Exoplanet Reports Exaggerated
* Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use
* Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste
* France Says D-Star Ham Radio Mode Is Illegal
* Some Google Searches Now Blocked In China
* IEEE Supports Software Patents In Wake of Bilski
* Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds'
* Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help
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| Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android |
| from the who-needs-social dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 29, @21:15 (Security) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/29/1840241/Hack-ATampT-Voicemail-With-Android |
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An anonymous reader writes "It is shockingly easy to gain access to an
AT&T customer's voicemail using caller ID spoofing techniques. What's
worse is that [0]AT&T knows about it. On your Android phone, download one
of the two caller ID spoofing programs. Input the number of your target
as the destination number and then enter the same number as the spoofed
caller ID. Then connect your call. If the target has not added a
voicemail password (the default is no password), you will be dropped into
a random menu of their voicemail and eventually can drill up or down to
get what you want. You can change greetings, erase messages, send
voicemails out of the target account, and much more. How many politicians
up in arms about Google Wi-Fi sniffing will want to know more about
this?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/29/1840241
Links:
0. http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/popups/voicemail-security.jsp
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| Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday |
| from the perhaps-metafont-ported-to dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 29, @23:12 (Announcements) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/29/2233219/Knuth-Plans-Earthshaking-Announcement-Wedn|
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[0]I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Donald Knuth is planning
to make an [1]'earthshaking announcement' on Wednesday, at TeX's 32nd
Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference.
Unfortunately, nobody seems to know what it is. So far speculation ranges
from proving P!=NP, to a new volume of The Art of Computer Programming,
to his retirement. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever has been ported to [2]MMIX?"
Let the speculation begin.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/29/2233219
Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/support
1. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html#lectures
2. http://slashdot.org/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX
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| Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond |
| from the can't-get-there-from-here dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 30, @02:13 (Supercomputing) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/0111234/Scaling-To-a-Million-Cores-and-Beyond |
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mattaw writes "In my blog post I describe a system designed to test a
route to the potential future of computing. What do we do when we have
[0]computers with 1 million cores? What about a billion? [1]How about 100
billion? None of our current programming models or computer architecture
models apply to machines of this complexity (and with their corresponding
component failure rate and other scaling issues). The current model of
coherent memory/identical time/everything can route to everywhere; it
just can't scale to machines of this size. So the scientists at the
University of Manchester (including [2]Steve Furber, one of the ARM
founders) and the University of Southampton turned to the brain for a new
model. Our brains just don't work like any computers we currently make.
Our brains have a lot more than 1 million processing elements (more like
the 100 billion), all of which don't have any precise idea of time (vague
ordering of events maybe) nor a shared memory; and not everything routes
to everything else. But anyone who argues the brain isn't a pretty spiffy
processing system ends up looking pretty silly. In effect, modern
computing bears as much relation to biological computing as the ordered
world of sudoku does to the statistical chaos of quantum mechanics.
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/0111234
Links:
0. http://mattaw.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-of-computing-spinnaker-million.html
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain
2. http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/people/sfurber/
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| 36-Hour <em>Lemmings</em> Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist |
| from the found-a-cliff-real-quick dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 30, @03:33 (Classic Games (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/0518238/36-Hour-Lemmings-Port-Gets-Sony-Cease-and|
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[0]Zerocool3001 writes "The recently featured [1]36-hour port of the
original Palm version of Lemmings to the iPhone and Palm Pre has
[2]received a cease and desist letter from Sony. Only one day after
submitting the app for approval on the two app stores, the developer has
put up a post stating that he 'did this as a tribute to the game — we can
only hope that Sony actually does a conversion for platforms like iPhone
and Palm Pre in the near future.' The [3]text of the cease and desist
letter is available from the developer's website."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/0518238
Links:
0. http://tfallatwitsend.com/
1. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/06/28/0253226/Porting-Lemmings-In-36-Hours
2. http://www.mobile1up.com/lemmings/blog/
3. http://www.mobile1up.com/lemmings/blog/sony-letter.txt
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| UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist |
| from the mightier-than-the-truncheon dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 30, @05:14 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/0019229/UK-Police-Threaten-Teenage-Photojournalist |
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IonOtter writes "In what seems to be a common occurrence, and now a
[0]costly one, Metropolitan Police in the UK still don't seem to be
[1]getting the message that assaulting photographers is a [2]bad idea. UK
press photographer Jules Matteson details the event in his blog, titled
[3]The Romford Incident. The incident has already been picked up by
[4]The Register, [5]The Independent, and the [6]British Journal of
Photography, which contains an official statement from the Metropolitan
Police."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/0019229
Links:
0. http://www.marcvallee.co.uk/blog/2010/06/press-greek-embassy-case/
1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-uturn-on-photographers-and-antiterror-laws-1834626.html
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8632038.stm
3. http://julesmattsson.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-romford-incident/
4. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/police_photo_bother_romford/
5. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/officers-claim-they-dont-need-law-to-stop-photographer-taking-pictures-2012827.html
6. http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1719526/photojournalist-detained-army-cadet-pics
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| ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates |
| from the so's-yer-old-man dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 30, @08:13 (Music) |
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1019224/ASCAP-War-On-Free-Culture-Escalat|
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An anonymous reader writes "After ASCAP [0]declared war on free culture
and [1]Creative Commons responded on the incident, the war of words is
escalating. Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has been following this story
closely. The [2]EFF responded to the ASCAP letter, saying 'we don't think
that ASCAP characterized EFF and its work accurately. We believe that
artists should be compensated for their work, and one proposal we have
for that is Voluntary Collective Licensing.' The response from the EFF
came with a study and a letter written by one irate ASCAP member who
donated to the EFF and to Public Knowledge as a result of the ASCAP
letter. [3]Public Knowledge also responded to the letter, saying, 'It's
obvious that the characterization of Public Knowledge is false. Public
Knowledge advocates for balanced copyright and an open Internet the
empowers creators and the public. What we oppose are overreaching
policies proposed by large corporate copyright holders that punish lawful
users of technology and copyrighted works.' Now the National Music
Publishers Association has weighed in to support ASCAP, saying that
organizations like Public Knowledge and the EFF 'have an [4]extremist
radical anti-copyright agenda,' according to a [5]transcript of a speech
posted on Billboard. Public Knowledge has [6]dismissed those allegations,
saying 'anybody who has spent more than five minutes on our website or
talking to our staff knows that these things are not true.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1019224
Links:
0. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/2048216/ASCAP-Declares-War-On-Free-Culture-EFF
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/26/1349247/Creative-Commons-Responds-To-ASCAP-Letter
2. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89532/eff-comments-on-the-ascap-letter/
3. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89597/public-knowledge-weighs-in-on-ascap-letter/
4. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89600/copyright-war-escalates-with-nmpa-joining-ascaps-attack-on-free-culture/
5. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004099016
6. http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/what-ascap-doesnt-understand
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| First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed |
| from the say-cheese-guys dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 30, @08:58 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/120221/First-Direct-Photo-of-Exoplanet-Confirme|
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An anonymous reader noted a report confirming the first ever [0]exoplanet
actually photographed from telescopes on earth. Every other exoplanet so
far 'observed' has been done by measuring wobbles of stars pulled by
planetary gravity. But this one is a photograph. And that's just plain
cool.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/120221
Links:
0. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/first-alien-planet-photographed-confirmed-100629.html
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| YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails |
| from the something-to-think-about dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 30, @09:40 (Youtube) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1251246/YouTube-Explains-Where-HTML5-Video-Fails |
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awjr writes "YouTube have pretty much [0]come down on the side of Flash
having major issues with the lack of features that the HTML5 <video> tag
has and may never have."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1251246
Links:
0. http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
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| Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners |
| from the token-white-guy dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30, @10:14 (Businesses) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1325258/Chinese-Companies-Rent-White-Foreigners |
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The job market may look bad here, but if you're in China, and you happen
to be white, all you need is a suit and tie. An increasing number of
Chinese companies are willing to [0]pay any price to have a few
fair-skinned faux employees walking around. From the article: "'Face, we
say in China, is more important than life itself,' said Zhang Haihua,
author of Think Like Chinese. 'Because Western countries are so
developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a
company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very
important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress
someone, they may roll out a foreigner.' Or rent one."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1325258
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| Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. |
| from the you're-holding-it-wrong dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 30, @10:16 (Cellphones) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/130205/Apple-Hires-Antenna-Engineers-Really |
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kangsterizer writes "Sometimes, news items are just about a good laugh.
You may or may not like Apple, but the way it has been handling its
antenna issue has been like a small tech soap opera — Steve Jobs, the
CEO, saying 'not to hold the phone that way,' rumors of software issues,
and the latest but most crunchy part, since the antenna issue has been
widely discovered, on 23 June, several 'antenna engineer' positions
opened up at Apple. Seems someone got fired: [0]Antenna engineer job
position 1, [1]Antenna engineer job position 2, [2]Antenna engineer job
position 3." I just figure they did all their testing in California,
where AT&T dropping calls is as common as $4 coffees.
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/130205
Links:
0. http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=55852&CurrentPage=1
1. http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=55849&CurrentPage=1
2. http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=55854&CurrentPage=1
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| Congress Mulls China's Networked Authoritarianism |
| from the taking-notes-for-our-version dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 30, @11:01 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1452229/Congress-Mulls-Chinas-Networked-Authoritari|
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eldavojohn writes "Rebecca MacKinnon tipped her hand about her
[0]congressional statements on China and how much Americans are invested
in China's censorship, delivered today at a hearing on 'China's
Information Control Practices and the Implications for the United
States.' In an attempt to describe what China is pioneering, she coins
the term 'networked authoritarianism.' Of most concern was Baidu, which
has two Americans on its board of directors (out of five) as well as a
lot of funding from American investors and mutual funds. From [1]her
testimony (PDF): 'As I have described in my testimony, the Chinese
government has transferred much of the cost of censorship to the private
sector. The American investment community has so far been willing to fund
Chinese innovation in censorship technologies and systems without
complaint or objection. Under such circumstances, Chinese industry
leaders have little incentive and less encouragement to resist government
demands that often contradict even China's own laws and constitution.' Is
Congress genuinely concerned or are they just curious how they can make
'networked authoritarianism' work for them?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1452229
Links:
0. http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2010/06/googles-china-troubles.html
1. http://rconversation.blogs.com/files/rm_uscc_final.pdf
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| "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family |
| from the is-this-real-life? dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30, @11:27 (Social Networks) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1343209/David-After-Dentist-Made-150k-For-Family |
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It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old
David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video
of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has [0]made the
DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but
the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the
article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available
all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore
family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million
views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet
celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we
mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts
featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."
Discuss this story at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1343209
Links:
0. http://gawker.com/5575665/david-after-dentists-family-made-150000-off-their-viral-video
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| The State of iPad Satisfaction |
| from the ya-take-the-good-ya-take-the-bad dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 30, @11:43 (Handhelds) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1453244/The-State-of-iPad-Satisfaction |
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harrymcc writes "We know that the iPad is selling like hotcakes, but
[0]how satisfied are the people who buy it? Over at Technologizer, we
conducted a survey of 6,000 iPad early adopters. There are a few places
where they were critical — the majority, for instance, aren't happy with
Apple's App Store approval process. Overall, however, they're
overwhelmingly upbeat."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1453244
Links:
0. http://technologizer.com/2010/06/30/ipad-survey/
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| Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook |
| from the read-all-about-it dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30, @12:18 (Book Reviews) |
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/132208/Plone-3-Products-Development-Cookbook |
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RickJWagner writes "This book takes an interesting path to teaching Plone
3 development. Unlike most software instructional books, it starts way
back in the often-unread Preface by listing 10 requirements a mythical
customer is asking the reader to implement in Plone 3. The requirements
are realistic and I think would probably be quite a stretch for an
inexperienced Plone developer. The rest of the book is dedicated to
implementing those 10 features, and coaching the reader on Plone 3
development along the way." Read on for the rest of Rick's review.
This story continues at:
https://books.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/132208/Plone-3-Products-Development-Cookbook
Discuss this story at:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/132208
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| Regular Domains Have More Malware Than Porn Sites |
| from the wouldn't-have-seen-that dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 30, @13:06 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1618216/Regular-Domains-Have-More-Malware-Than-Porn-|
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SnugglesTheBear writes "New research pours scorn on the comforting but
erroneous belief that Windows surfers who avoid smut and wares on the Web
are [0]likely to avoid exposure to malware. A study by free anti-virus
firm Avast found 99 infected legitimate domains for every infected adult
website. In the UK, Avast found that more infected domains contained the
word 'London' than the word 'sex.' Among the domains labeled as infected
by Avast was the smartphones section of the Vodafone UK website. The
mobile phone operator's site contained a malicious JavaScript redirect
script that attempted to take advantage of an unpatched Windows Help and
Support Centre flaw (CVE-2010-1885) to infect the machines of visiting
surfers."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1618216
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/30/unsafe_surfing/
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| Exoplanet Reports Exaggerated |
| from the visit-the-off-world-colonies dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @13:50 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1716251/Exoplanet-Reports-Exaggerated |
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[0]The Bad Astronomer writes "The [1]reports of the first direct picture
of an exoplanet are misleading. The real news is that an image of a
probable exoplanet taken in 2008 using a telescope in Hawaii have [2]been
confirmed — it's a planet. In fact, exoplanets have been directly imaged
before; the first was in 2005. More images of other planets were released
in 2008. To be specific: this new planet is the first to be directly
imaged orbiting a sun-like star using observations made from the ground.
That's actually still quite a technological achievement, but don't be
misled by hyperbolic headlines."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1716251
Links:
0. mailto:thebadastronomerNO@SPAMgmail.com
1. https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/120221/First-Direct-Photo-of-Exoplanet-Confirmed?art_pos=43
2. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/30/another-direct-picture-of-a-planet-orbiting-an-alien-star-confirmed/
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| Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use |
| from the it-cannot-be-it-must-not-be dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @14:32 (Democrats) |
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/189212/Liberal-Watchdog-Questions-White-House-|
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MexiCali59 writes "Liberal watchdog CREW has joined Republican
Congressman Darrell Issa in calling for an investigation into whether
White House staffers regularly use [0]private email accounts to
communicate with lobbyists. The allegations, first reported last week by
the New York Times, would likely constitute a violation of federal law as
well as an ethics pledge created by Obama upon taking office last year."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/189212
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| Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste |
| from the what-about-the-oil-from-anything-guy? dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @14:51 (Biotech) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1830205/Doubled-Yield-For-Bio-Fuel-From-Waste |
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hankwang writes "Dutch chemical company DSM announced a new [0]process
for production of ethanol from agricultural waste. Most bio-fuel ethanol
now is produced from food crops such as corn and sugar cane. [1]Ethanol
produced from cellulose would use waste products such as wood chips,
citrus peel, and straw. The new process is claimed to increase the yield
by a factor of two compared to existing processes, thanks to new enzymes
and special yeast strains."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1830205
Links:
0. http://www.dsm.com/en_US/html/media/press_releases/29_10_dsm_announces_breakthrough_in_technology_for_second_generation_biofuels.htm
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulosic_ethanol
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| France Says D-Star Ham Radio Mode Is Illegal |
| from the centralized-decision-making dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @15:15 (Communications) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1836231/France-Says-D-Star-Ham-Radio-Mode-Is-Illega|
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gyrogeerloose writes "Citing 'national security concerns,' the French
Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes
(ARCEP, France's equivalent of the US's FCC) has ruled that [0]D-Star, an
amateur radio digital signal mode used world-wide, is [1]illegal because
it could allow operators to connect to the Internet.The ARCEP also cites
alleged concerns regarding cryptography and national security as well as
the use of a proprietary codec. While it's true that the D-Star codec is
proprietary, its owner has openly licensed it (for a fee, of course) to
any manufacturer who wants to build it into their equipment. Any licensed
amateur radio operator who lives within the EU can sign an [2]online
petition protesting this decision."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1836231
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR
1. http://draf.asso.fr/index.php?post/2010/06/28/D-STAR-situation-in-France
2. http://draf.asso.fr/index.php?pages/Digital-Voice-Internet-Access-in-France-Petition
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| Some Google Searches Now Blocked In China |
| from the trial-balloon-target-practice dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @16:00 (Censorship) |
| https://search.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/1947225/Some-Google-Searches-Now-Blocked-In-Chin|
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bannable writes with this from the Wall Street Journal: "Google Inc. said
that its Web search service in mainland China was [0]partially blocked
Wednesday, the deadline for the company to extend its Internet operating
license in the country. The company said the blockage appeared to affect
only search queries generated by mainland China users of the company's
Google Suggest function, which automatically recommends search queries
based on the first few letters a user types into the search box."
Discuss this story at:
http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/1947225
Links:
0. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703426004575339031742893338.html
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| IEEE Supports Software Patents In Wake of Bilski |
| from the they're-going-to-hell-for-that dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @16:47 (Patents) |
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/2027226/IEEE-Supports-Software-Patents-In-Wake|
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Mark Atwood points out this [0]critical commentary on the IEEE's response
to the outcome of [1]In Re. Bilski, which points out the contrast between
work done by IEEE luminaries like Donald Knuth and lobbying for software
patents.
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/2027226
Links:
0. http://techrights.org/2010/06/30/ieee-for-swpats-monopoly/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/28/151228/Supremes-Throw-Out-Bilski-Patent?from=rss
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| Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds' |
| from the respond-below-with-wit-and-vigor dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @17:32 (It's funny. Laugh.) |
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/2128211/Fark-Creator-Slams-the-Wisdom-of-Crowd|
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GovTechGuy writes with some harsh words from Fark.com founder Drew
Curtis, speaking at a conference Tuesday in Washington, DC: "'The "wisdom
of the crowds" is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life.
Crowds are dumb,' Curtis said. 'It takes people to move crowds in the
right direction, [0]crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.'
Curtis pointed to his own experience moderating comments on Fark, which
allows users to give their often humorous take on the news of the day. He
said only one percent of Web comments have any value and called the rest
'garbage.' Another example Curtis pointed to is the [1]America Speaking
Out website recently launched by House Republicans to allow the public to
weigh in on the issues and vote for policy positions they support. Curtis
called the site an 'absolute train wreck.' 'It's an absolute disaster.
It's impossible to tell who was kidding and who wasn't,' Curtis said."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/2128211
Links:
0. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/106231-fark-creator-says-wisdom-of-crowds-is-overrated
1. http://www.americaspeakingout.com/
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| Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help |
| from the close-your-spy-network dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30, @19:10 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/06/30/2226248/Russian-Spy-Ring-Needed-Some-Serious-IT-Help|
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coondoggie writes "The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the
United States faced some of the [0]common security problems that plague
many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords
on slips of paper, and laptop help desk issues that take months to
resolve."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/06/30/2226248
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/063010-russian-spy-ring.html?hpg1=bn
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