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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren
* World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought
* Beware of Using Google Or Open DNS For iTunes
* Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance
* Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months
* Solar Cells Integrated In Microchips
* FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info
* One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List
* 'Zombie' Satellite Returns To Life
* China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested
* Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming
* Cheap GSM Eavesdropping a Reality
* 'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide
* Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated
* Tech History Behind New York's New Year's Eve Ball
* Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum?
* YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy
* R2-D2 Creator Grant McCune Dead At 67

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| PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren
| from the not-very-sportsmanlike dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @19:36 (PC Games (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/233249/PC-Gamers-Crush-Console-Brethren?from=newsletter
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[0]l_bratch writes "Since December 22nd DICE have been running a
competition between each target platform of their latest Battlefield
expansion — Bad Company 2: Vietnam. Players were required to complete a
large number of 'team actions' in game, in order to unlock a hidden,
remastered version of the Operation Hastings map from the original
Battlefield: Vietnam. [1]PC gamers have completed the task, whereas
gamers on both console platforms are only about halfway there."

Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/233249/PC-Gamers-Crush-Console-Brethren?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:l_bratch@yahoo.co.uk
1. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106526-PC-Gamers-Beat-Console-Crowd-to-Bad-Company-2-Vietnam-Map-Unlock

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| World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought
| from the consolidating-knowledge dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @20:31 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0012217/Worlds-Plant-Life-Far-Less-Diverse-Than-Thought?from=newsletter
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Meshach writes "A report out of FOX News (I know, I know) says that
[0]there are far fewer unique species of plants than previously thought.
The report states that only about a third of named species are actually
unique. The rest have been 'discovered' multiple times, often by separate
scientists."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0012217/Worlds-Plant-Life-Far-Less-Diverse-Than-Thought?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/30/worlds-plant-life-far-diverse-previously-thought/

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| Beware of Using Google Or Open DNS For iTunes
| from the speak-friend-and-enter-slowly dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @23:20 (Google)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0110226/Beware-of-Using-Google-Or-Open-DNS-For-iTunes?from=newsletter
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Relayman writes "Joe Mailer wanted to download an iTunes movie recently
and his Apple TV told him it would take two hours. When he switched his
DNS resolver settings, the [0]download time dropped to less than 20
seconds. Apparently, iTunes content is served by Akamai which uses
geolocation based on the IP address of the DNS request to determine which
server should provide his content. When you use Google or Open DNS to
resolve the Apple domain name, all the requests to Akamai appear to be
coming from the same location and they're all directed to the same server
pool, overloading that pool and causing the slow downloads. The solution:
Be wary of using Google or Open DNS when downloading iTunes files or
similar large files. Use your own ISP's DNS servers instead or run your
own resolving DNS server."

Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0110226/Beware-of-Using-Google-Or-Open-DNS-For-iTunes?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://joemaller.com/2577/itunes-slowdowns-with-google-dns/

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| Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance
| from the hey-man-those-are-just-like-rules dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 31, @02:17 (GNU is Not Unix)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0116250/Most-Android-Tablets-Fail-At-GPL-Compliance?from=newsletter
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polar_bear` writes "Red Hat's Matthew Garrett has been checking to see
who's [0]naughty and nice. Most Android tablet vendors? Naughty, naughty,
[1]naughty, when it comes to GPL compliance. The current crop of Android
tablets fails miserably when it comes to GPL compliance, with most of the
vendors flouting the GPL and failing to ship source."

Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0116250/Most-Android-Tablets-Fail-At-GPL-Compliance?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/android_tablets/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/most-androids-fail-gpl-compliance

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| Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months
| from the more-than-he-could-chew dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @03:25 (Piracy)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0528237/Seller-of-Counterfeit-Video-Games-Gets-30-Months?from=newsletter
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wiredmikey writes "The FBI reported this week that Qiang 'Michael' Bi, of
Powell, Ohio was [0]sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling more
than 35,000 illegally copied computer games over the Internet between
2005 and 2009. According to a statement of facts read during Bi's plea
hearing, agents executed a search warrant at Bi's house and found
multiple CD duplicators and more than 1,000 printed counterfeit CDs. Some
of the CDs were still in the duplicator. During their investigation,
agents learned that Bi would buy a single copy of a game, illegally
duplicate it and sell the copies on eBay.com and Amazon.com. He also set
up a website for customers to download the games they bought. Bi accepted
payment through eBay and PayPal accounts in his name and in others'
names."

Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0528237/Seller-of-Counterfeit-Video-Games-Gets-30-Months?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.securityweek.com/seller-counterfeit-videogames-gets-30-months-prison

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| Solar Cells Integrated In Microchips
| from the new-breed-of-calculator-watches dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 31, @05:08 (Power)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0446241/Solar-Cells-Integrated-In-Microchips?from=newsletter
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cylonlover writes "In a new, more efficient approach to solar powered
microelectronics, researchers have produced a [0]microchip which directly
integrates photovoltaic cells. While harnessing sunlight to power
microelectronics isn't new, conventional set-ups use a separate solar
cell and battery. What sets this device apart is that high-efficiency
solar cells are placed straight onto the electronics, producing
self-sufficient, low-power devices which are highly suitable for
industrial serial production and can even operate indoors."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0446241/Solar-Cells-Integrated-In-Microchips?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.gizmag.com/microelectronics-built-in-solar-cells/17407/

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| FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info
| from the now-turn-around-reeeeal-slow dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday December 31, @08:03 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0453259/FBI-Raids-Texas-ISP-For-Anonymous-DDoS-Info?from=newsletter
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jcombel writes with this link to The Smoking Gun, which says "As part of
an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month
against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, the FBI has [0]raided a
Texas business and seized a computer server that investigators believe
was used to launch a massive electronic attack on PayPal."
[1]Computerworld has a story, as well.

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0453259/FBI-Raids-Texas-ISP-For-Anonymous-DDoS-Info?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/affidavit-details-fbi-operation-payback-probe
1. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9202838/FBI_raids_ISP_in_Anonymous_DDoS_investigation?taxonomyId=86

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| One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List
| from the brb-gotta-make-a-phone-call-or-two dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @08:55 (Government)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1254208/One-Tip-Enough-To-Put-Name-On-Terrorist-Watch-List?from=newsletter
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Frosty P writes "As a result of the US Government's complete failure to
investigate credible warnings about 'Underwear Bomber' [0]Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab from none other than Abdulmutallab's father, senior
American counterterrorism officials say they have altered their criteria
so that [1]a single-source tip can lead to a name being placed on the
watch list. Civil liberties groups warn that it is now even more likely
that individuals who pose no threat will be swept up in America's
security apparatus, leading to potential violations of their privacy and
making it difficult for them to travel. 'They are secret lists with no
way for people to petition to get off or even to know if they're on,'
said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union."

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1254208/One-Tip-Enough-To-Put-Name-On-Terrorist-Watch-List?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904172.html

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| 'Zombie' Satellite Returns To Life
| from the it's-a-trick,-run dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @09:46 (Communications)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/140215/Zombie-Satellite-Returns-To-Life?from=newsletter
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realperseus writes "The American telecommunications satellite [0]Galaxy
15 has [1]been brought under control after spending most of the year
traversing the sky and [2]wreaking [3]havoc upon its neighbors. The
satellite is currently at 98.5 degrees west longitude (from 133 west). An
emergency patch was successfully uploaded, ensuring that the conditions
which caused it to 'go rogue' will not occur again. Once diagnosis and
testing have been completed, Intelsat [4]plans to move the satellite back
to 133 west."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/140215/Zombie-Satellite-Returns-To-Life?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_15
1. http://www.space.com/news/galaxy15-zombie-satellite-comes-back-to-life-101229.html
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/09/2256256/Geostationary-GPS-Satellite-Galaxy-15-Out-of-Control
3. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/zombie-satellite-forces-evasive-maneuvers-100517.html
4. http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/105946

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| China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested
| from the neverending-battle dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @10:39 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1516220/China-Censors-60000-Porn-Sites-5000-Arrested?from=newsletter
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lothos writes with news that China has [0]arrested thousands more people
and shuttered 60,000 websites in an ongoing anti-pornography crackdown.
"Wang Chen, director of the Information Office of the State Council, said
at a news conference that some 350 million pieces of pornographic and
indecent internet content were eliminated, according to the Xinhua
report. The government launched a special campaign a year ago to rid the
internet of pornographic and vulgar content, Xinhua reported. Overall,
the campaign included 2,197 criminal cases involving 4,965 people who
violated Chinese law by disseminating pornography via the internet or
mobile phones, the news agency said. Of those, 58 people received prison
sentences exceeding five years."

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1516220/China-Censors-60000-Porn-Sites-5000-Arrested?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/china.pornography/

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| Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming
| from the zuckerberg-beat-you-to-the-punch dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @11:34 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/161251/Google-Patenting-Exponential-Friend-Spamming?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "'The web is better when it's social,' [0]declared Google
as it unveiled its [1]OpenSocial initiative. Sounds great, right? Well,
maybe not so much, unless you're keen on giving companies the capability
to 'exponentially' bombard you with advertising across all of your social
networking sites. On Thursday, the USPTO published Google's patent
application for [2]Propagating Promotional Information on a Social
Network, which the search giant explains 'generally relates to creating
and providing promotional information (e.g., advertising, public service
announcements, etc.) to users of a social network (e.g., FACEBOOK,
MYSPACE, ORKUT, LINKEDIN, TWITTER, etc.).' By doing so 'across multiple
social networks,' Google adds, 'the impact of the other promotional
information may exponentially expand to other users of a social network."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/161251/Google-Patenting-Exponential-Friend-Spamming?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://blog.opensocial.org/2007/11/web-is-better-when-its-social.html
1. http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
2. http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220100332330%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20100332330&RS=DN/20100332330

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| Cheap GSM Eavesdropping a Reality
| from the poking-holes-in-the-ether dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @12:26 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1634251/Cheap-GSM-Eavesdropping-a-Reality?from=newsletter
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Techmeology writes "GSM eavesdropping has been demonstrated at the Chaos
Computer Club Congress in Berlin [0]using a €10 Motorola phone and open
source GSM firmware. Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut replaced the
firmware on the phone, enabling them to process all the data it received.
They used already available rainbow tables to decrypt data being sent to
and from other mobile phones. They have no plans to release the hack
publicly, however they expect others to successfully attempt the hack.
Mr. Nohl said the objective was to raise awareness of GSM's insecurity."

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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1634251/Cheap-GSM-Eavesdropping-a-Reality?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12094227

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| 'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide
| from the add-water-and-stir dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @13:33 (Mars)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1747218/Colonizing-the-Red-Planet-a-How-To-Guide?from=newsletter
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Velcroman1 writes "A manned mission to Mars would be the greatest
adventure in the history of the human race. And one man knows how to make
it a reality. In fact, he just wrote the book on it — literally. Joel
Levine, senior research scientist with NASA's Langley Research Center and
co-chair of NASA's Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group, just
published '[0]The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet.' The
book [1]reads like a who's who of Mars mission science, featuring
senators, astronauts, astrophysicists, geologists and more on getting to
Mars, studying its atmosphere and climate, the psychological and medical
effects on the crew and other details. The most interesting bit: Levine
presents a solution for funding the trip, something unprecedented for
NASA: advertising. 'The suggestion is marketing to different corporations
and professional sports leagues for advertising, which is something NASA
never does.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1747218/Colonizing-the-Red-Planet-a-How-To-Guide?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://journalofcosmology.com/Contents12.html
1. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/30/nasa-scientist-publishes-colonizing-red-planet-guide/

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| Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated
| from the matter-of-time dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @14:24 (Cellphones)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/188222/Windows-Phone-7-Marketplace-Hack-Demonstrated?from=newsletter
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[0]broggyr writes "Seems it didn't take long to [1]hack the Windows Phone
7 marketplace. Quoting WPCentral: 'For developers, the weakness in
Microsoft's DRM for Windows Phone 7 applications has been well known for
quite some time, and there have been calls for Microsoft to address these
concerns ... Since then, a "white hat" developer has provided WPCentral
with a proof-of-concept program that can successfully pull any
application from the Marketplace, remove the security and deploy to an
unlocked Windows Phone with literally a push of a button. Alternatively,
you could just save the cracked XAP file to your hard drive. Neither the
app nor the methodology is public, and it will NOT be released ... It is
important to note that this was all done within six hours by one
developer.'"

Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/188222/Windows-Phone-7-Marketplace-Hack-Demonstrated?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:broggyr@@@gmail...com
1. http://www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-marketplace-app-security-cracked-proof-of-concept-video

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| Tech History Behind New York's New Year's Eve Ball
| from the powered-by-dick-clark's-mojo dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @15:20 (Technology)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1939226/Tech-History-Behind-New-Yorks-New-Years-Eve-Ball?from=newsletter
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[0]Toe, The writes "A perennial icon of New Year's Eve is [1]the geodesic
ball which first dropped in Times Square in 1907. Over the past century,
there have been seven iterations of this ball. The first one, made out of
iron and wood, weighed 400 pounds and sported one hundred 25-watt bulbs.
The current ball weighs almost six tons and uses 32,256 Philips Luxeon
Rebel LEDs. The designers expect there to be [2]more tech improvements to
the ball soon. What do you think of the ball and the bizarre status it
holds in our culture? How would you change it for years to come?"

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/1939226/Tech-History-Behind-New-Yorks-New-Years-Eve-Ball?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~Toe%2C+The
1. http://www.timessquarenyc.org/nye/nye_ball.html
2. http://techland.time.com/2010/12/31/the-technological-history-behind-the-nye-ball/

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| Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum?
| from the ra-on-probation dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @16:13 (Earth)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/2057218/Our-Lazy-Solar-Dynamo-mdash-Hello-Dalton-Minimum?from=newsletter
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tetrahedrassface writes "Solar maximum is supposed to be occurring, and
everything from satellite communications to your toaster or radio
[0]could be affected. The only problem is that this just isn't happening,
and NASA continues to revise downward the original prediction. In fact,
the new forecast for Solar Cycle 24 is a lot smaller, and is now pegged
at [1]almost 40% of what was previously predicted. Recently, two
scientists at the [2]National Solar Observatory have followed the lead of
a prominent [3]Russian scientist, who almost five years ago forecast a
dearth of sunspots and the subsequent cooling of Earth for the next
several cycles. With Britain currently experiencing [4]the coldest winter
in over 300 years, and no new sunspots for the last week, are we heading
for a [5]Dalton Minimum, or worse still, yet another [6]Maunder?"

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/2057218/Our-Lazy-Solar-Dynamo-mdash-Hello-Dalton-Minimum?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-Y3XSQbKCahKzfYTs5zQTnx89gw?docId=CNG.bdf9ddce1297325e1b97e06696026e73.111
1. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/27/nasas-sunspot-prediction-roller-coaster/
2. http://wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/2010/09/are-sunspots-dissapearing-new-paper-rocks-solar-physics-world/
3. http://www.physorg.com/news75818795.html
4. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8230318/Britain-could-be-heading-for-coldest-winter-in-300-years.html
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Minimum
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

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| YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy
| from the legislation-to-facilitate-prosecution dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @17:10 (Google)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/2127230/YouTube-Legally-Considered-a-TV-Station-In-Italy?from=newsletter
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orzetto writes "Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that [0]YouTube
and similar websites based on user-generated content will be considered
TV stations (Google translation of [1]Italian original) in Italian law,
and will be subject to the same obligations. Among these, a small tax
(500 €), the obligation to publish corrections within 48 hours upon
request of people who consider themselves slandered by published content,
and the obligation not to broadcast content inappropriate for children in
certain time slots. The main change, though, is that YouTube and similar
sites will be legally responsible of all published content as long as
they have any form (even if automated) of editorial control. The main
reason for this is probably that it will force YouTube to assume
editorial responsibility for all published content, which facilitates the
[2]ongoing € 500M lawsuit of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
against YouTube because of content copyrighted by Berlusconi's TV
networks that some users uploaded on YouTube. Berlusconi's Spanish TV
station, TeleCinco, was [3]previously defeated in court on the grounds
that YouTube is not a content provider."

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/2127230/YouTube-Legally-Considered-a-TV-Station-In-Italy?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=it&tl=en&u=http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/12/31/news/agcom_equipara_youtube_alle_tv-10738254/&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhj5our1vpJ0O9JZXiBafoE-xPLybg
1. http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/12/31/news/agcom_equipara_youtube_alle_tv-10738254/
2. http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200807301025DOWJONESDJONLINE000654_FORTUNE5.htm
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/23/1341257/YouTube-Wins-vs-Telecinco-In-Spain

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| R2-D2 Creator Grant McCune Dead At 67
| from the deedle-boop-tweet dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @18:06 (Movies)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/2135227/R2-D2-Creator-Grant-McCune-Dead-At-67?from=newsletter
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CBC reports on sad news for Star Wars fans: "Grant McCune, a special
effects artist who earned an Oscar for his work on the 1977 film Star
Wars, has died. He was 67. [0]McCune died Monday at his home in Hidden
Hills, Calif., of pancreatic cancer. McCune created scenes with
miniatures, models and special effects for dozens of movies, including
Spaceballs, Ghostbusters II and 2008's Rambo. He began in special effects
in 1975 when he and friend Bill Shourt were hired to make a giant white
shark model for Steven Spielberg's Jaws. They got no credit for the film,
but McCune caught the eye of the film community and he became chief model
maker for Star Wars, where he created R2-D2 and many of the creatures
that populate the film."

Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/2135227/R2-D2-Creator-Grant-McCune-Dead-At-67?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/12/30/grant-mccune-obit.html

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PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren
from the not-very-sportsmanlike dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @19:36 (PC Games (Games))
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World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought
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posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @20:31 (Earth)
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Beware of Using Google Or Open DNS For iTunes
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Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance
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posted by timothy on Friday December 31, @02:17 (GNU is Not Unix)
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0116250/Most-Android-Tablets-Fail-At-GPL-Compliance?from=headlines

Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months
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posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @03:25 (Piracy)
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Solar Cells Integrated In Microchips
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posted by timothy on Friday December 31, @05:08 (Power)
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FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info
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posted by timothy on Friday December 31, @08:03 (Crime)
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Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming
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posted by Soulskill on Friday December 31, @11:34 (Google)
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Cheap GSM Eavesdropping a Reality
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Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated
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Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum?
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YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy
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R2-D2 Creator Grant McCune Dead At 67
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[Drug and Device Law] A Happy New Year To Our Readers

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On this last day of the 2010, we'd like to wish our readers a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. To all our defense side readers, we further wish you success in winning your cases.

Now, because we are the Drug and Device Law Blog, we can't just leave our post just at that. Two things:

Yesterday the Montana Supreme Court, reaffirmed the learned intermediary rule, although holding that the duty to warn extended to all of the medical personnel - including nurses - who treated the plaintiff. Stevens v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., DA 10-0029 slip op., at 30 (Mont. Dec. 30, 2010) ("[w]e concur with authorities who consider the learned intermediary to be the healthcare professional actually responsible for making decisions related to the patient's care"). It did so, however, in the context of ruling for the plaintiff on limiting the rule to prescribing physicians.

And aside from generally reaffirming the rule, Stevens is a not anything to be happy about this new year. For one thing, it adopts cross-jurisdictional class action tolling, contrary to all but a couple of states. That's pretty bad - don't let anybody tell you the Montana Supreme Court is "conservative" on tort issues. It isn't.

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Point #2. Full-blown chaos has developed in the Pennsylvania federal district courts on the Azzarello/Restatement Third issue - demonstrating, we think, precisely why stare decisis is a good idea.

Since we wrote our last post on the subject back in March, three more cases have been decided. Two of them, Covell v. Bell Sports, Inc., 2010 WL 4783043 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 8, 2010), and Hoffman v. Paper Converting Machine Co., 694 F. Supp.2d 359 (E.D. Pa. 2010), did the right thing and followed applicable Third Circuit precedent - Covell on the admissibility of industry and governmental standards, 2010 WL 4783043, at *4-7, and Hoffman on feasible alternative designs. 694 F. Supp.2d at 365-66.

Then along comes this stinkeroo, Sweitzer v. Oxmaster, Inc., 2010 WL 5257226 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 23, 2010), where the court admits it's result "may appear to be at odds with certain Third Circuit Court of Appeals case law" - that is to say Berrier v. Simplicity Manufacturing, Inc., 563 F.3d 38, 53 (3d Cir. 2009), where the Third Circuit, after an exhaustive review of Pennsylvania law, predicted that Pennsylvania would adopt the Third Restatement of Torts.

Sweitzer decides to ignore Berrier based upon such profundities as "that result has not materialized" and it has "not found any Supreme Court or Superior Court post-Bugosh decision that has applied the Third Restatement." Well, duh. It hasn't materialized - that's why we refer to Erie predictions as "predictions." And sure, there isn't any Pennsylvania state precedent - we're still waiting on the Supreme Court, and the Superior Court, as a lower court, is bound - just as Sweitzer is supposed to be bound by Berrier.

But Sweitzer ignores the Third Circuit essentially because it's uncomfortable with what the Third Circuit did in Berrier. It's decision to exclude industry standards evidence, 2010 WL 5257226, at *10-11, puts it in direct conflict with the earlier Covell decision. Thus, we have chaos. Despite an on-point Third Circuit decision, we have the spectacle of the Pennslyvania district courts running around like chickens with their heads cut off deciding the same issues willy-nilly based upon personal preferences without regard for binding precedent.

It's obvious from the snide remark in Sweitzer - "Without addressing the question of whether or not Berrier amounts to excessive prognostication under Erie," 2010 WL 5257226, at *4 - that this particular judge doesn't think much of Berrier. Whether or not Berrier was right, it's binding. Rather than descending into decisional chaos, however, the jurisprudential thing to do would be to certify the issue for interlocutory appeal. Then the Third Circuit could kick the issue over to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (like it tried to do in Berrier), and maybe this time the right court could decide once and for all what Pennsylvania law is.

Albus Dumbledore should have been a federal judge. Sometimes courts have to choose what is right over what is easy.

So Happy New Year to all - and may the new year be an improvement on the old.

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> >> >> charges, we will despatch your parcel immediately. The date and time of
> >> >> departure and expected date of delivery will be sent to you. It will
> >> take 48
> >> >> hours to get your parcel delivered to you. *
> >> >> **
> >> >> *You will be required to sign for the parcel and to do this, you will
> >> need
> >> >> either your international passport as identification or your driver's
> >> >> license.The check issued to you can be cash at any Bank in the any where
> >> in
> >> >> the world.We will issue you the tracking number as soon as we recieve
> >> the
> >> >> payment for sending you your winning package.*
>
> >> >> *Note that your price is protected by hard cover insurance policy,which
> >> >> makes it impossible to deduct any amount from your money before it has
> >> been
> >> >> remitted to you.This means that the above charges cannot be deducted
> >> from
> >> >> the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is
> >> tranferred
> >> >> to you.DISCLAIMER:NOTE THAT IF YOU DO NOT MAKE THE PAYMENT OF THE
> >> DELIVERY
> >> >> CHARGE OF YOUR WINNING AMOUNT WITHIN TWO(2) WORKING DAYS, YOUR WINNING
> >> >> AMOUNT WOULD BE FORFEITED.***
> >> >> *
>
> >> >> Do have a wonderful day in anticipation to hearing from you ASAP.
>
> >> >> Yours Sincerely,
> >> >> Mr ANDERSON J. MAXWELL
> >> >> *

Re: Attn: Mr. Dean

Posted by Law

TOP SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL

RE: THE IRREGULARITIES IN 2010

MR. JEFFREY DEAN,

I HAVE DISCUSSED WITH ALL THE BANKS, GOVERNMENTS, AND UNITED
NATIONS. NO INSTANT SOLUTION HAS BEEN FOUND YET. KEEP IN TOUCH ALWAYS.

SINCERELY YOURS,

DIRECTOR OF MTW (MAGIC TECH WORLDWIDE)

2010/12/31

On 12月27日, 下午6時15分, Jeffery Dean <online866...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Attn: Mr. Chang
>
> Season greetings Mr. Chang,
>
> Kindly inform me when the payment can be issue as the board request to this information.
>
> I await your earliest response.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffery Dean

[Slashdot] Stories for 2010-12-31

Posted by Law

Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet
* Nintendo Warns 3D Games Can Ruin Children's Eyes
* Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit
* Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs
* OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities
* Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair
* Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use?
* Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year
* Amazon Censorship Expands
* The Significant Decline of Spam
* Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage
* The 10 Worst Tech Products of 2010
* Skype For IPhone Now Makes Video Calls
* Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011
* VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China
* Android Trojan Found, Spreading From Chinese App Stores
* What Can a Lawyer Do For Open Source?
* New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have
* Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries
* A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred
* Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today

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| South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet
| from the whole-lot-of-batteries dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @19:05 (Earth)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2257229/South-Korea-Launches-First-Electric-Bus-Fleet?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "The Seoul Metropolitan Government just rolled
out the [0]world's first commercial all-electric bus service. The buses
were designed to be as efficient as possible — each bus can run up to
about 52 miles on a single charge and they have a maximum speed of about
62 miles per hour. The vehicles' lithium-ion battery packs can be fully
charged in less than 30 minutes and they also feature regenerative
braking systems that reuse energy from brakes when running downhill."

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2257229/South-Korea-Launches-First-Electric-Bus-Fleet?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://inhabitat.com/south-korea-unveils-worlds-first-commerical-electric-bus/

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| Nintendo Warns 3D Games Can Ruin Children's Eyes
| from the don't-sit-so-close dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @20:11 (Medicine)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/234205/Nintendo-Warns-3D-Games-Can-Ruin-Childrens-Eyes?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Fox News reports that Sony has posted a
cautionary note on its Japanese website that 'vision of children under
the age of six has been said [to be in the] developmental stage,' adding
that 3D content 'delivers 3D images with different left and right images,
[which] [1]has a potential impact on the growth of children's eyes.' The
notice went to say that Sony recommends that all viewers [2]take regular
breaks while watching 3D video or playing stereoscopic 3D games (google
translation). Dr. Michael Ehrenhaus, an ophthalmologist with New York
Cornea Consultants, thinks Nintendo and Sony may be getting ahead of
themselves with these disclaimers. 'It's hard to say that it'll ruin
development,' says Ehrenhaus."

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https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/234205/Nintendo-Warns-3D-Games-Can-Ruin-Childrens-Eyes?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/29/games-ruin-childrens-eyes-nintendo-warns/
2. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.co.jp%2Fn10%2F3DSevents%2Finfo.html

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| Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit
| from the going-for-the-logs dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @21:18 (Games)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2312254/Real-Life-Frogger-Ends-In-Hospital-Visit?from=newsletter
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BigSes writes "A 23-year old man has been hospitalized after police in
South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version
of the video game Frogger. Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken
to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck Monday evening. Before he
was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his
friends. Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled 'go' and [0]darted into
oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway. Has it come time to ban some
of the classics before someone else goes out and breaks a few bricks with
their heads after eating a large mushroom?"

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https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2312254/Real-Life-Frogger-Ends-In-Hospital-Visit?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101229/ap_on_re_us/us_frogger_wreck

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| Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs
| from the judge-them-by-their-size-do-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @22:17 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2322251/Intel-Intros-310-Series-Mini-SSDs?from=newsletter
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crookedvulture writes "Intel has added a couple of [0]tiny 310 Series
solid-state drives to its storage lineup. Measuring just 51 x 30 x 5.8mm,
the mini-SATA SSDs are about a tenth the size of a standard notebook hard
drive. Impressively, their performance ratings track with full-sized
SSDs. Intel is pushing the 310 Series as a solution for dual-drive
notebooks that combine solid-state and mechanical storage to give users
the best of both worlds. Next-gen notebooks just got a little more
interesting."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2322251/Intel-Intros-310-Series-Mini-SSDs?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20176

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| OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities
| from the naming-names dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, @01:21 (Microsoft)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/032209/OSI-Refers-Novell-Patent-Deal-To-Authorities?from=newsletter
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[0]WebMink writes "Worried that the unholy alliance of Microsoft, Apple,
Oracle and EMC — hardly known for their collaboration — is establishing a
patent troll called CPTN to attack open source software, the Open Source
Initiative has [1]announced that they have referred the Novell deal over
to the German competition authorities."

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/032209/OSI-Refers-Novell-Patent-Deal-To-Authorities?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://webmink.com/
1. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/osi-refers-novell-acquisition-to-competition-authorities/index.htm

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| Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair
| from the because-they-can dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, @02:40 (United Kingdom)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2351259/Periodic-Table-Etched-Onto-a-Single-Hair?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "The University of Nottingham's Nanotechnology
Center decided to help Professor of chemistry, Martyn Poliakoff celebrate
his special day by [0]'etching' a copy of a Periodic Table of Elements
onto a single strand of the scientist's hair using a 'very sophisticated'
electron ion beam microscope. The microscope creates a very fine etching
of the periodic table only a few microns across by shooting a 'focused
ion beam' of gallium ions at the hair. The technology here is nothing
revolutionary, but it is inspiring to see a grown man get so giddy with
the prospect of seeing science in action."

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https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2351259/Periodic-Table-Etched-Onto-a-Single-Hair?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2374796,00.asp

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| Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use?
| from the no-farmville-for-you dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, @04:00 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/0413244/Should-Colleges-Ban-Classroom-Laptop-Use?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "If you were a college prof, think you could successfully
compete for the attention of a lecture hall of Mac-packing students? CS
student Carolyn blogs that [0]a debate has sprung up on her campus about
whether it is acceptable to use a laptop in class. And her school is
hardly alone when it comes to struggling with appropriate in-classroom
laptop use (vendor/corporate trainers would no doubt commiserate). The
problem, she says, is that the OCD Facebookers aren't just devaluing
their own education — there's a certain distraction factor to worry
about. 'Students,' she suggests, 'should also communicate with each other
more and tell their classmates when their computer use bothers them. I'll
admit it, when I'm trying to pay attention to the lecture, even someone's
screensaver in the row ahead of me can be a major distraction.'"

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/0413244/Should-Colleges-Ban-Classroom-Laptop-Use?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=549

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| Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year
| from the five-button-discount dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 30, @06:06 (Piracy)
| https://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=?from=newsletter
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Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for
pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won
the dubious honor of being [0]the most pirated game of 2010. The PC
version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox
360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated
Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to
accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision,
the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+
players have [1]racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since
the game's launch in early November.

Discuss this story at:
https://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-most-pirated-game-of-2010-101228/
1. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32204/Activision_Over_20_Million_Black_Ops_Players_Log_More_Than_600_Million_Hours.php

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| Amazon Censorship Expands
| from the seven-words-you-can-never-read dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, @08:03 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/0426212/Amazon-Censorship-Expands?from=newsletter
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Nom du Keyboard writes "Recently word leaked out about Amazon [0]removing
titles containing fictional incest. Surprisingly that ban didn't extend
to [1]the 10 titles of Science Fiction Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein
that incorporate various themes of incest and pedophilia. Now, it seems
that the censorship is expanding to [2]m/m gay fiction if it contains the
magic word 'rape' in the title. Just how far is this going to be allowed
to proceed in relative silence, and who is pushing these sudden decisions
on Amazon's part?"

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/0426212/Amazon-Censorship-Expands?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/0153255/Amazon-Taking-Down-Erotica-Removing-From-Kindles
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Sexual_issues
2. http://jamthecat.blogspot.com/2010/12/boycott-amazoncom.html

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| The Significant Decline of Spam
| from the no-just-stop-it dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 30, @09:21 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1411242/The-Significant-Decline-of-Spam?from=newsletter
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Orome1 writes "In October Commtouch reported an 18% drop in global spam
levels (comparing September and October). This was largely attributed to
the closure of Spamit around the end of September. Spamit is the
organization allegedly behind a fair percentage of the worlds pharmacy
spam. Analysis of the spam trends to date reveals a [0]further drop in
the amounts of spam sent during Q4 2010. December's daily average was
around 30% less than September's. The average spam level for the quarter
was 83% down from 88% in Q3 2010. The beginning of December saw a low of
nearly 74%."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1411242/The-Significant-Decline-of-Spam?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10381

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| Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage
| from the don't-die-during-christmas dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 30, @10:17 (Communications)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1448235/Lessons-Learned-From-Skypersquos-Outage?from=newsletter
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aabelro writes "On December 22th, 1600 GMT, the Skype services started to
become unavailable, in the beginning for a small part of the users, then
for more and more, until the network was down for about 24 hours. A week
later, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, explained what happened in a
[0]post-mortem analysis of the outage."

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1448235/Lessons-Learned-From-Skypersquos-Outage?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/12/Lessons-from-Skype-Outage

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| The 10 Worst Tech Products of 2010
| from the end-of-the-year-cliche dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 30, @11:09 (Hardware)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1449240/The-10-Worst-Tech-Products-of-2010?from=newsletter
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Barence writes "PC Pro has a count down of the [0]ten worst tech gadgets
of the year. Included in its hall of shame are: iPad Made Simple, 'a book
containing 704 pages of advice on how to use a device that's universally
acknowledged as being ridiculously easy to use'; the Dell Inspiron Duo,
'a tablet that leaves you longing to return to a keyboard and a
touchpad'; and the £99 Next Tablet, the highlight of which was the
'eight-page Quick Start Guide.'"

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1449240/The-10-Worst-Tech-Products-of-2010?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/30/the-ten-worst-products-of-2010/

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| Skype For IPhone Now Makes Video Calls
| from the well-isn't-that-special dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 30, @12:13 (Iphone)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/173259/Skype-For-IPhone-Now-Makes-Video-Calls?from=newsletter
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tekgoblin writes "Today Skype has released an update that allows
[0]iPhone users to make video calls from their device. There had been
rumors that this update was in the works and now they have been made
fact. So, was the Skype outage the other day part of this internal
update? Possibly. But Skype has proven to be one of the most important
communication tools in the world and now has gotten even better."

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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/173259/Skype-For-IPhone-Now-Makes-Video-Calls?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.tekgoblin.com/2010/12/30/skype-for-the-iphone-now-makes-video-calls/

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| Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011
| from the i-like-new-stuff dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 30, @13:08 (Technology)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1758249/Most-Anticipated-Tech-Products-of-2011?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "2011 is just around the corner, and with the new
year comes expectations. Based on hype and recent announcements, PCMag
put together a list of [0]twelve most anticipated tech products of 2011.
Some are new, like the technology to bridge Wi-Fi, PowerLine, and
Ethernet or the 3D camcorders, which will let you create content for your
3D TV. Others will just carry over from what we anticipated in 2010 but
never materialized like iPhone on the Verizon network or Phones with dual
core processors."

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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1758249/Most-Anticipated-Tech-Products-of-2011?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374755,00.asp

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| VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China
| from the hush-it's-just-wise-regulation dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @14:01 (The Internet)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1837256/VoIP-Now-Technically-Illegal-In-China?from=newsletter
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ironfrost writes "A recent ruling by China's Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology (MIIT) has [0]declared that VoIP services are
illegal, except for the ones operated by state-owned telecom operators
China Telecom and China Unicom. According to the article, "the decision
is expected to make Skype, UUCall and other similar services unavailable
in China", and is widely seen as a way to protect the traditional telecom
operators' profits. Here's a [1]more in-depth story in Chinese ([2]Google
Translate version)."

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1837256/VoIP-Now-Technically-Illegal-In-China?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90860/7246526.html
1. http://www.21cbh.com/HTML/2010-12-29/xNMDAwMDIxMzQxNQ.html
2. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.21cbh.com%2FHTML%2F2010-12-29%2FxNMDAwMDIxMzQxNQ.html

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| Android Trojan Found, Spreading From Chinese App Stores
| from the step-one-install-skype dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @14:51 (Security)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1856242/Android-Trojan-Found-Spreading-From-Chinese-App-Stores?from=newsletter
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wiredmikey writes that researchers from Lookout Mobile have discovered a
sophisticated Trojan targeting Android devices, who "say the mobile
malware is 'The most sophisticated Android malware we've seen to date,
Geinimi is also the first Android malware in the wild that displays
botnet-like capabilities. Once the malware is installed on a user's
phone, it has the potential to receive commands from a remote server that
allow the owner of that server to control the phone.' What makes the
Trojan different from most 'standard' mobile malware is that Geinimi is
being 'grafted' onto repackaged versions of legitimate applications,
primarily games, and distributed in third-party Chinese Android app
markets ..."

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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1856242/Android-Trojan-Found-Spreading-From-Chinese-App-Stores?from=newsletter#commentlisting

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| What Can a Lawyer Do For Open Source?
| from the is-there-a-juris-doctor-in-the-house? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @15:46 (Open Source)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/2020233/What-Can-a-Lawyer-Do-For-Open-Source?from=newsletter
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zolltron writes "I have a friend who went to law school. He really
enjoyed intellectual property law, and he seems to genuinely regret that
he didn't end up as an IP lawyer. But, what's done is done, and he's not
going to radically change career trajectories now. But, I think he might
be interested in volunteering a little of his time if there was an
interesting project he could get behind. Computer folks are always trying
to figure out how to get involved in open source even if it won't be
their full time job. So, now I ask you Slashdot, how can my friend use
his expertise to help an open source project?"

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https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/2020233/What-Can-a-Lawyer-Do-For-Open-Source?from=newsletter#commentlisting

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| New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have
| from the I'll-have-a-squashed-strawberry-alley-cat dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, @16:03 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1521252/New-App-Mixes-New-Drinks-With-What-You-Have?from=newsletter
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[0]Pickens writes "The magic of a new app called 'Top Shelf' is that if
you want to mix a new drink, the app thinks the way most of us do —
instead of going out to buy the ingredients, it shows you how to build
[1]a new drink with the ingredients you have available? Feeling
indecisive? Let Top Shelf pick a random recipe for you. You can get a
random drink from the entire database, a specific category, your
favorites, search results, or the liquor cabinet."

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https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/1521252/New-App-Mixes-New-Drinks-With-What-You-Have?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.drinksapp.com/#

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| Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries
| from the can-you-see-the-primary-from-here? dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @16:50 (Democrats)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/213246/Democrats-Crowdsourcing-To-Vote-Palin-In-Primaries?from=newsletter
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SharpieMarker writes "In what could be the most extreme and influential
crowdsourcing project ever, Democrats are beginning to organize to
[0]purposely vote for Palin in the 2012 Republican primaries. Their
theory is by having Palin as an opponent, Obama will have the best odds
at winning reelection. Recent polls have shown that Obama comfortably
leads Palin by 10-20 points, but Obama is statistically tied with Romney
and barely ahead of Huckabee. They even have a [1]state-by-state primary
voting guide to help Democrats navigate various states' rules for voting
Palin in Republican primaries."

Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/213246/Democrats-Crowdsourcing-To-Vote-Palin-In-Primaries?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.primariesforpalin.com/?page_id=2
1. http://www.primariesforpalin.com/?page_id=24

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| A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred
| from the just-feed-it-carrots dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @17:42 (Robotics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/2213231/A-Guitar-Robot-That-Can-Really-Shred?from=newsletter
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botPatrol writes "As reported today by Create Digital Music and the Wired
blog, PAM (Polytangent Automatic (multi-)Monochord) is a [0]robot who has
discovered a love for vintage Metallica riffs, and [1]can churn them out
non-stop at superhuman speeds without ever requiring anger management
therapy or treatment for drug abuse." (Read more, below.)

This story continues at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/2213231/A-Guitar-Robot-That-Can-Really-Shred?from=newsletter

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Links:
0. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/12/rock-robots-pam-can-seriously-shred-open-source-marie-could-do-even-more/
1. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/12/marie-robot-music-ensemble/

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| Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today
| from the fond-memories-good-music dept.
| posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @18:35 (Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/2248221/Kodachrome-Takes-Its-Final-Bow-Today?from=newsletter
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Ellis D. Tripp writes "Today marks the end of an era for photo geeks,
with the [0]shutdown of the world's last Kodachrome film processing line.
Dwayne's Photo, of Parson, KS will pull the plug on their K-14 processing
equipment at the end of business today."

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/30/2248221/Kodachrome-Takes-Its-Final-Bow-Today?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2010/12/they_took_our_kodachrome_away.html

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