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In this issue:
* Why Teach Programming With BASIC?
* Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City
* Elliptic Labs To Bring Touchless Gestures To iPad
* Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything
* How Zynga's <em>CityVille</em> Drew 70 Million Players In Less Than a Month
* Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy
* The Empire Strikes Back Added To National Film Registry
* Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers
* Paul Allen Amends Lawsuit Against Facebook, Apple
* Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies
* IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough
* German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs
* Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks
* Drupal 7 Module Development
* Court Rules Website Doesn't Have To Remove Defamatory Comments
* Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good
* Wikileaks and Democracy In Zimbabwe
* Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South
* Tales From the Tech Trenches
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| Why Teach Programming With BASIC?
| from the because-of-the-great-name dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 28, @20:06 (Education)
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0036216/Why-Teach-Programming-With-BASIC?from=newsletter
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[0]chromatic writes "To answer the perennial question "How can we teach
kids how to program?", we created [1]a web-based programming environment.
As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern
languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but
[2]BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of
programming."
Discuss this story at:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0036216/Why-Teach-Programming-With-BASIC?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.modernperlbooks.com/
1. https://clubcompy.com/
2. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1319327833/clubcompy-kids-heart-computers/posts/46045
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| Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City
| from the you-must-be-shorter-than-this-line-to-ride dept.
| posted by timothy on Tuesday December 28, @23:11 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/020236/Paris-To-Test-Banning-SUVs-In-the-City?from=newsletter
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thecarchik writes "Paris may be the first city to experiment with such a
policy. Next year, it will begin to test [0]restrictions on vehicles that
emit more than a certain amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilometer —
the measure of a car's contribution to greenhouse gases. An official
within the Parisian mayor's office, Denis Baupin, identified older
diesel-engined cars and sport-utility vehicles as specific targets of the
emissions limit. Residents and travelers have responded by buying
thousands of electric cars, including the low-speed fiberglass [1]G-Wiz —
despite major safety concerns with the vehicle."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/020236/Paris-To-Test-Banning-SUVs-In-the-City?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1052945_paris-to-test-banning-gas-guzzlers-yes-suvs-in-city-core
1. http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1042380_g-wiz-the-electric-car-that-started-a-revolution
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| Elliptic Labs To Bring Touchless Gestures To iPad
| from the unhand-me-sir-unhand-me dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday December 29, @02:09 (Input Devices)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0340232/Elliptic-Labs-To-Bring-Touchless-Gestures-To-iPad?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Elliptic Labs will reveal their Touchless
Gesture User Interface technology at CES 2011. Elliptic Labs sprung forth
from the signal processing environment at the University of Oslo and what
they've come up with is an [0]iPod dock which creates a 'touchless zone'
that extends out about 1 foot in front and to the sides of the iPad
screen. Users can then initiate a number of gestures, much like on
Microsoft Kinect, to manipulate onscreen content."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0340232/Elliptic-Labs-To-Bring-Touchless-Gestures-To-iPad?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.edibleapple.com/elliptic-labs-to-bring-kinect-like-technology-to-the-ipad/
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| Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything
| from the why-didn't-the-mice-think-of-that? dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday December 29, @05:11 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0621237/Living-Earth-Simulator-Aims-To-Simulate-Everything?from=newsletter
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H3xx writes "An international group of scientists are aiming to create a
simulator — nicknamed The Living Earth Simulator — that will collect data
from billions of sources and use it [0]to replicate everything happening
on Earth, from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to
international financial transactions or congestion on highways. The
project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking
place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies
and the environmental forces that define the physical world. Perhaps this
is Asimov's concept of [1]Psychohistory come to fruition."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0621237/Living-Earth-Simulator-Aims-To-Simulate-Everything?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
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| How Zynga's <em>CityVille</em> Drew 70 Million Players In Less Than a Month
| from the none-of-us-are-as-dumb-as-all-of-us dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 29, @06:42 (Facebook)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0717229/How-Zyngas-CityVille-Drew-70-Million-Players-In-Less-Than-a-Month?from=newsletter
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An article at Gamasutra takes an in-depth look at how Zynga's new
browser-based social game CityVille managed to [0]accumulate tens of
millions of players in the relatively short time since its launch early
this month. Quoting: "The Facebook interface induces a high degree of
user blindness. It does not do a great job of exposing new games and
applications, and lacks a directory or a 'Featured in the App Store'
style of editorial (as Apple does for the iPhone), which means that for
most developers there are huge problems in getting their games in front
of users' eyeballs. With all of the free advertising channels on the
platform now constrained or dead, this has meant that the Facebook
economy has been acquiring an increasingly Darwinian shape. Where it used
to be an egalitarian environment in which any developer could strike it
big, over the last year it has become top-heavy with larger developers
accruing exponential success, and cutting off oxygen to smaller companies
by default."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0717229/How-Zyngas-CityVille-Drew-70-Million-Players-In-Less-Than-a-Month?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6244/cityville_explained_part_1.php
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| Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy
| from the rumbling-grumbling dept.
| posted by timothy on Wednesday December 29, @08:03 (Privacy)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0644234/Wired-Responds-In-Manning-Chat-Log-Controversy?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Earlier this week Glenn Greenwald wrote in Salon
about the arrest of US Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as
WikiLeaks' source and criticized Wired's [1]failure to disclose the full
chat logs between Manning and FBI informant Adrian Lamo. Now Wired's
editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen have
[2]responded to criticisms of the site's Wikileaks coverage stating that
not one single fact has been brought to light suggesting Wired.com did
anything wrong in pursuit of the story. 'Our position has been and
remains that the logs include sensitive personal information with no
bearing on Wikileaks, and it would serve no purpose to publish them at
this time,' writes Hansen."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0644234/Wired-Responds-In-Manning-Chat-Log-Controversy?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/28/1946213/Is-Wired-Hiding-Key-Evidence-On-Bradley-Manning
2. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/greenwald/
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| The Empire Strikes Back Added To National Film Registry
| from the what-no-phantom-menace dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 29, @08:54 (Star Wars Prequels)
| https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/135218/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-Added-To-National-Film-Registry?from=newsletter
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aztec1430 writes " Airplane!," "The Empire Strikes Back," "The Exorcist,"
and "All the President's Men," were [0]among the 25 films named by the
Library of Congress to the National Film Registry on Tuesday for their
cultural, historical or aesthetic significance. Now which version was
added? and will each new Lucas-a-fied version need to be resubmitted
every year? ;)"
Discuss this story at:
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/135218/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-Added-To-National-Film-Registry?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers
| from the not-like-the-other dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 29, @09:47 (The Media)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1417246/Why-WikiLeaks-Is-Unlike-the-Pentagon-Papers?from=newsletter
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daveschroeder writes "The recent release of classified State Department
cables has often been [0]compared to the Pentagon Papers. Daniel
Ellsberg, the US military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, has
said he [1]supports WikiLeaks, and sees the issues as similar. [2]Floyd
Abrams is the prominent First Amendment attorney and Constitutional law
expert who represented the New York Times in the landmark [3] New York
Times Co. v. United States (403 U.S. 713 (1971)) Supreme Court case,
which allowed the media to publish the Pentagon Papers without fear of
government censure. Today, Abrams explains [4]why WikiLeaks is unlike the
Pentagon Papers, and how WikiLeaks is negatively impacting journalism
protections: "Mr. Ellsberg himself has recently denounced the 'myth' of
the 'good' Pentagon Papers as opposed to the 'bad' WikiLeaks. But the
real myth is that the two disclosures are the same.""
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1417246/Why-WikiLeaks-Is-Unlike-the-Pentagon-Papers?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/26/AR2010072605410.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/08/2023257/Pentagon-Papers-Ellsberg-Supports-Wikileaks
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Abrams
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States
4. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204527804576044020396601528.html
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| Paul Allen Amends Lawsuit Against Facebook, Apple
| from the gunning-for-the-top dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 29, @10:42 (Patents)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/153210/Paul-Allen-Amends-Lawsuit-Against-Facebook-Apple?from=newsletter
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itwbennett writes "A Federal judge dismissed Paul Allen's [0]initial
patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, Facebook, Google and others
earlier this month because it was too vague and gave Allen until Dec. 28
to [1]file an amendment providing more details of his claims. His lawyers
responded with a 35-page document filed late Tuesday. The amendment
details features of the defendants' websites that are alleged to infringe
on the patents and also includes a last-minute amendment that targets
Google's Android mobile operating system in a move that [2]could spell
trouble for phone manufacturers and app developers."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/153210/Paul-Allen-Amends-Lawsuit-Against-Facebook-Apple?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/legal/118942/allen-sues-google-apple-others-over-patents
1. http://www.itworld.com/legal/131951/paul-allen-amends-lawsuit-against-facebook-apple-and-others
2. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/12/paul-allens-interval-licensing-refiles.html
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| Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies
| from the actually-they-do-prosper dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 29, @11:42 (Education)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1622245/Cheaters-Exposed-Analyzing-Statistical-Anomalies?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Proctors and teachers can't watch everyone while
they take tests — not when some students can text with their phones in
their pockets, so with tests increasingly important in education — used
to determine graduation, graduate school admission and, the latest, merit
pay and tenure for teachers, Trip Gabriel writes that [1]schools are
turning to "data forensics" to catch cheaters, searching for data
anomalies where the chances of random agreement are astronomical. In
addition to looking for copying, statisticians hunt for illogical
patterns, like test-takers who did better on harder questions than easy
ones, a sign of advance knowledge of part of a test or look for unusually
large score gains from a previous test by a student or class. Since
Caveon Test Security, whose clients have included the College Board, the
Law School Admission Council and more than a dozen states and big city
school districts, began working for the state of Mississippi in 2006,
cheating has declined about 70 percent, says James Mason, director of the
State Department of Education's Office of Student Assessment. "People
know that [2]if you cheat there is an extremely high chance you're going
to get caught," says Mason."
Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1622245/Cheaters-Exposed-Analyzing-Statistical-Anomalies?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/10361/1113930-298.stm
2. http://www.caveon.com/articles/df_innovations06.htm
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| IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough
| from the thanks-for-asking dept.
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 29, @12:41 (IBM)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/171246/IBM-Makes-a-Super-Memory-Breakthrough?from=newsletter
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adeelarshad82 writes "IBM says they have [0]made a significant leap
forward in the viability of "Racetrack memory," a new technology design
which has the potential to exponentially increase computing power. This
new tech could give devices the ability to store as much as 100 times
more information than they do now, which would be accessed at far greater
speeds while utilizing "much less" energy than today's designs. In the
future, a single portable device might be able to hold as much memory as
today's business-class servers and run on a single battery charge for
weeks at a time. Racetrack memory works by storing data as magnetic
regions (also called domains), which would be transported along nanowire
"racetracks." Instead of forcing a computer to seek out the data it
needs, as traditional computing systems do, the information would
automatically slide along the racetrack to where it could be used."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/171246/IBM-Makes-a-Super-Memory-Breakthrough?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2374767,00.asp
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| German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs
| from the easy-as-taking-music-from-a-baby dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @12:56 (Education)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/169253/German-Kindergartens-Ordered-To-Pay-Copyright-For-Songs?from=newsletter
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BBird writes "Deutsche Welle reports: 'Up until this year, preschools
could teach and produce any kind of song they wanted. But now they have
to [0]pay for a license if they want children to sing certain songs. A
tightening of copyright rules means kindergartens now have to pay fees to
Germany's music licensing agency, GEMA, to use songs that they reproduce
and perform. The organization has begun notifying creches and other
daycare facilities that if they reproduce music to be sung or performed,
they must pay for a license.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/169253/German-Kindergartens-Ordered-To-Pay-Copyright-For-Songs?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14741186,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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| Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks
| from the get-out-of-town dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @13:34 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1815238/Amazon-Cloud-Not-Big-Enough-For-Feds-and-WikiLeaks?from=newsletter
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theodp writes "Dave Winer was [0]already upset that Amazon Web Services
(AWS) pulled the plug on WikiLeaks for posting classified U.S. government
documents. So, he wasn't exactly thrilled to receive email three weeks
later from an AWS PR flack boasting that 'the U.S. federal government
continues to be [1]one of our fastest growing customer segments'. Writes
Winer: 'It makes perfect sense that [2]the US government is a big
customer of Amazon's web services. It also makes perfect sense that
Amazon wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize that business. There
might not have even been a phone call, it might not have been necessary.'
Amazon, which [3]wowed the White House with its ability to scale video
slideshow site Animoto, was able to [4]get its foot in the Federal door
as a [5]Recovery.gov redesign subcontractor."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1815238/Amazon-Cloud-Not-Big-Enough-For-Feds-and-WikiLeaks?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://scripting.com/2010/12/03.html
1. http://scripting.com/stories/2010/12/28/usGovtABigUserOfAmazonWebS.html
2. http://aws.amazon.com/federal/
3. http://www.slideshare.net/datacenters/the-economic-gains-of-cloud-computing-4495310/7
4. http://www.recovery.gov/News/chairman/Pages/may132010.aspx
5. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign
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| Drupal 7 Module Development
| from the read-all-about-it dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @14:26 (Book Reviews)
| https://books.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1346255/Drupal-7-Module-Development?from=newsletter
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[0]Michael J. Ross writes "While it is possible to create a simple
website using a base installation of Drupal, the real power of this
content management system is achieved through the use of modules, which
can be thought of as add-ons that extend the capabilities of Drupal in
specific ways — oftentimes in conjunction with other modules. These
modules are developed and contributed by PHP programmers who understand
how to use one or more of the Drupal application programming interfaces
(APIs) to access information stored in a Drupal database, such as
content, user profiles, and theme settings. These APIs have changed with
Drupal version 7, and thus Drupal coders could benefit from a book that
explains how to create Drupal 7 contrib modules." Read on for the rest of
Michael's review.
This story continues at:
https://books.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1346255/Drupal-7-Module-Development?from=newsletter
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.ross.ws/
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| Court Rules Website Doesn't Have To Remove Defamatory Comments
| from the set-in-stone dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @15:23 (Censorship)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1929228/Court-Rules-Website-Doesnt-Have-To-Remove-Defamatory-Comments?from=newsletter
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DustyShadow writes "In the case of Blockowicz v. Williams, The US Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals refused to force [0]Ripoff Report to remove
allegedly defamatory comments posted by a user. The Ripoff Report has a
well-publicized no-takedown policy, even if the author wants to remove
his/her post, so the Ripoff Report refused. The Blockowiczs then claimed
that the Ripoff Report violated FRCP 65(d) because the Ripoff Report was
'in active concert or participation' with the initial posters by
[1]refusing the injunction's removal order. The district court (and the
Court of Appeals) disagreed with the Blockowiczs. Absent the 'active
concert or participation,' the website was outside the court's control.
Ripoff Report has [2]released a statement concerning this case: 'In
keeping with our core mission of protecting speech to the fullest extent
of the law, we decided that it was not just our right but also our duty
to ask questions and dig deeper before we could comply with such an
order. Other sites claim they support free speech, but when the going
gets rough, they will usually protect their bottom line rather than the
Constitutional rights and freedoms this country was founded upon. Unlike
other sites, even when the speech involved is harsh or negative and even
if our position sometimes generates negative press for us, we think that
the First Amendment requires us to put our principles before our
pocketbook and fight against censorship.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/1929228/Court-Rules-Website-Doesnt-Have-To-Remove-Defamatory-Comments?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.ripoffreport.com/
1. http://blog.internetcases.com/2010/12/28/internet-website-defamation-injunctio/
2. http://www.ripoffreport.com/prostitutes/megan-blockowicz-mar/megan-blockowicz-mary-blockow-47e98.htm
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| Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good
| from the forever-is-a-long-time dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @16:19 (Sony)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/204253/Playstation-3-Code-Signing-Cracked-For-Good?from=newsletter
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ReportedlyWorking writes "It appears that Sony's PS3 has been fatally
compromised. At the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, a team named
'fail0verflow' revealed that they had calculated the Private Keys, which
would let them or anyone else, [0]generate signed software for the PS3.
Additionally, they also claim to have a method of jailbreaking the PS3
without the use of a Dongle, which is the current method. If all these
statements are true, this opens the door to custom firmware, and homebrew
software. Assuming that Sony doesn't take radical action and invalidate
their private keys, this could mean that Jailbreaking is viable on all
PS3, regardless of their firmware! From the article: 'Approximately a
half hour in, the team revealed their new PS3 secrets, the moment we all
were waiting for. One of the major highlights here was, dongle-less
jailbreaking by overflowing the bootup NOR flash, giving complete control
over the system. The other major feat, was calculating the public private
keys (due to botched security), giving users the ability to sign their
own SELFs Following this, the team declared Sony's security to be EPIC
FAIL!'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/204253/Playstation-3-Code-Signing-Cracked-For-Good?from=newsletter#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://psgroove.com/content.php?581-Sony-s-PS3-Security-is-Epic-Fail
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| Wikileaks and Democracy In Zimbabwe
| from the loose-ips dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @17:12 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2117222/Wikileaks-and-Democracy-In-Zimbabwe?from=newsletter
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OCatenac writes "The Atlantic has an interesting story on [0]the
collateral damage of exposing diplomatic communications in Zimbabwe. From
the article: 'The reaction in Zimbabwe was swift. Zimbabwe's
Mugabe-appointed attorney general announced he was investigating the
Prime Minister on treason charges based exclusively on the contents of
the leaked cable. While it's unlikely Tsvangirai could be convicted on
the contents of the cable alone, the political damage has already been
done. The cable provides Mugabe the opportunity to portray Tsvangirai as
an agent of foreign governments working against the people of Zimbabwe.
Furthermore, it could provide Mugabe with the pretense to abandon the
coalition government that allowed Tsvangirai to become prime minister in
2009.' Undoubtedly there are lots of things that our governments hide
from us which should not be hidden but it's a shame that no one from
Wikileaks could be troubled to consider the potential repercussions of
this particular exposure."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2117222/Wikileaks-and-Democracy-In-Zimbabwe?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South
| from the wandering-borealis dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @18:08 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2121227/Solar-Storms-Could-Bring-Northern-Lights-South?from=newsletter
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RedEaredSlider writes "Increased solar activity could give residents of
the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the [0]chance to see the
northern lights for the first time in several years. The National Weather
Service's Space Weather Prediction Center says the sun is entering a
period of high activity, marked by more sunspots and a greater chance of
a coronal mass ejection, or CME, hitting the Earth. That would result in
auroras being visible much further from the poles than they usually are."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2121227/Solar-Storms-Could-Bring-Northern-Lights-South?from=newsletter#commentlisting
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| Tales From the Tech Trenches
| from the try-plugging-it-in dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 29, @18:33 (Idle)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/2126237/Tales-From-the-Tech-Trenches?from=newsletter
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GMGruman writes "Anyone in IT has a story or two involving stupid users,
crazy co-workers, kludgy technology, and airhead managers. Lisa
Blackwelder has collected [0]top tales of the tech trenches, covering
user antics, office politics, and unusual technical challenges that IT
pros faced (usually) with aplomb, insight, and savvy."
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