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In this issue:
* Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared
* Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine
* Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T.
* Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer
* Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing
* Forging a Head: The Upside of Scientific Hoaxes
* US Offered To Draft NZ 3-Strikes Law, Fund Copyright Initiative
* Playstation To Restore Services This Week
* Share Your iPhone Location Data Like You Mean It
* Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home?
* Google Talk Enables Video Chat On Android Phones
* Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math
* AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic
* European Commission Paints Itself Into ACTA Corner
* OpenBSD 4.9 Released
* Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed
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| Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared
| from the just-warming-it-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @20:09 (Math)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/008220/Blue-GeneP-Reaches-Sixty-Trillionth-of-Pi-Squared?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Reader Dr.Who notes that an Australian research team using IBM's [0]Blue
Gene/P supercomputer has calculated the [1]sixty-trillionth binary digit
of Pi-squared, a task which took several months of processing. Snipping
from the article, the Dr. writes: "'A value of Pi to 40 digits would be
more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to
an error less than the size of a proton.' The article goes on to cite use
of computationally complex algorithms to detect errors in computer
hardware. The article references a [2]blog which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. I am presently
employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named
PI."
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/008220/Blue-GeneP-Reaches-Sixty-Trillionth-of-Pi-Squared?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene#Blue_Gene.2FP
1. http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2011/04/28/supercomputers-crack-sixty-trillionth-binary-digit-pi-squared
2. http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/
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| Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine
| from the hate-to-borscht-yore-bubble dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @22:35 (Books)
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/0231227/Idle-Fairytale-Character-Map-Raises-Ire-In-Russia-and-Ukraine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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The downside of not having ones base of children's stories crafted and
maintained by trained storytime engineers from the Disney Corporation has
reared its warty head in Russia and Ukraine. A map of purportedly Russian
folktale characters' haunts has [0]drawn fire from Ukrainians, who object
to what they see as the appropriation (from Ukraine) of such famous
characters as miraculously strong Ilya Muromets, the gold-producing
Speckled Hen, and Kolobok ("a cheerful talking cake who flees animals
eager to eat him"). This seems like nothing that couldn't be cleared up
with some artfully mis-pointed highway signs and a few tons of
papier-mâché.
Discuss this story at:
https://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/0231227/Idle-Fairytale-Character-Map-Raises-Ire-In-Russia-and-Ukraine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T.
| from the holy-moley dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @23:22 (Education)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/0216210/Amar-Bose-To-Donate-Company-To-MIT?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MBC1977 writes with this eyebrow-raising news from CNN: "'The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Friday that [Amar] Bose,
the 81-year-old founder of the sound system company that bears his name,
has donated the majority of Bose Corp.'s stock to the school.' Very cool
indeed!"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/0216210/Amar-Bose-To-Donate-Company-To-MIT?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:nydevildog_1977@yahoo.com
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| Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer
| from the cookie-monster-swedish-chef dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @02:37 (Government)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/208236/Sweden-May-Mandate-Opt-in-For-Cookie-Transfer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Vitdom writes "The present government in Sweden has published a
proposition regarding 'Better rules for electronic communication.'
Amongst other proposed amendments, it suggests that websites [0]must
inform the user of the 'purpose' regarding each individual cookie
transferred to the user's browser upon connection. Secondly, it is
suggested that the user must give his consent before the transfer of the
cookie in question. The proposition is to be voted by the Swedish
parliament on the 18 May this year. If accepted, the law will be in
effect in June."
Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/208236/Sweden-May-Mandate-Opt-in-For-Cookie-Transfer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing
| from the all-it-needs-is-celebrity-endorsement dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @05:33 (KDE)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/026256/Kdenlive-08-Adds-Advanced-Features-for-NLV-Editing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]dmbkiwi writes "For a long time I've been a big fan of Kdenlive. I've
written two articles about it. One is a [1]general overview of video
editing on Linux and the other is more [2]specific to Kdenlive. For a
number of years, video editing on Linux – at least at a consumer level —
has been patchy at best. This is somewhat ironic given the heavy use of
Linux in major Hollywood blockbuster film production. However, with the
advent of Kdenlive, things are looking pretty good and with the release
of version 0.8, there have been some [3]great features added for the more
advanced users, while still retaining a simple and easy to use UI."
Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/026256/Kdenlive-08-Adds-Advanced-Features-for-NLV-Editing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. mailto:dmbkiwi@yahoo.com
1. http://everydaylht.com/howtos/multimedia/video-editing/
2. http://everydaylht.com/howtos/multimedia/kdenlive/
3. http://everydaylht.com/2011/04/30/kdenlive-0-8-released-best-non-linear-editor-for-linux/
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| Forging a Head: The Upside of Scientific Hoaxes
| from the may-I-interest-you-in-some-goat-organs? dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @08:24 (It's funny. Laugh.)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/0245205/Forging-a-Head-The-Upside-of-Scientific-Hoaxes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "In a very funny piece over at Science Careers
(published by the journal Science), scientist-comedian Adam Ruben
suggests that a lot of good can come from a well-intentioned hoax.
'Hoaxes have infiltrated science for centuries,' Ruben writes, 'from fake
fossils (Piltdown Man, archaeoraptor, Calaveras skull) to fake medical
conditions (cello scrotum, the disappearing blonde gene) to fake animals
(Ompax spatuloides, Pacific Northwest tree octopus, Labradoodle).' In
contrast to fraud, Ruben argues, [0]such hoaxes do a great service to
science by illustrating 'failures of our most important tool: our
skepticism.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/0245205/Forging-a-Head-The-Upside-of-Scientific-Hoaxes?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| US Offered To Draft NZ 3-Strikes Law, Fund Copyright Initiative
| from the we-were-just-in-the-neighborhood dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @09:29 (Government)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1242259/US-Offered-To-Draft-NZ-3-Strikes-Law-Fund-Copyright-Initiative?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has just [0]posted hundreds of
cables from US personnel in New Zealand that reveal regular government
lobbying on copyright, offers to draft New Zealand
three-strikes-and-you're-out legislation, and a recommendation to spend
over NZ$500,000 to fund a recording industry-backed IP enforcement
initiative. The funding raises the question of whether New Zealand is
aware that local enforcement initiatives, including raids and court
cases, have been funded by the US government."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1242259/US-Offered-To-Draft-NZ-3-Strikes-Law-Fund-Copyright-Initiative?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5769/125/
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| Playstation To Restore Services This Week
| from the no-schwag-for-geohot-I-bet dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @10:33 (PlayStation (Games))
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1325206/Playstation-To-Restore-Services-This-Week?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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iSimon19 writes with word that after last week's unscheduled service
[0]disruption and [1]security breach, "On their blog last night,
Playstation representatives announced they were [2]restoring services
throughout the week. This also included giving all users a month of
Playstation Plus free, as well as select downloads for free with their
'Complimentary Offering and "Welcome Back" Appreciation Program.'"
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1325206/Playstation-To-Restore-Services-This-Week?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/04/23/2143213/Sony-Blames-External-Intrusion-For-Lengthy-PSN-Outage
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/27/142238/77-Million-Accounts-Stolen-From-Playstation-Network
2. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/30/press-release-some-playstation-network-and-qriocity-services-to-be-available-this-week/
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| Share Your iPhone Location Data Like You Mean It
| from the and-or-like-it's-1999 dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @11:36 (IOS)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1514256/Share-Your-iPhone-Location-Data-Like-You-Mean-It?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The crazy guys over at [0]crowdflow.net are
begging you for the location data that your iPhone collected without you
being aware of it. All your data will be anonymized, and the whole
combined data set of all donations will be shared under an
OpenDataCommons license. Those people are data and visualization geeks
and create [1]beautiful visualizations like this from the data. They
previously did a visualization of [2]data retention caused by the German
'Vorratsdatenspeicherung.' Please consider donating your location data.
...and be fast, too, since the upcoming iOS software update ([3]see Apple
press release) will prevent further evaluation of the collected data."
Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1514256/Share-Your-iPhone-Location-Data-Like-You-Mean-It?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://crowdflow.net/
1. http://crowdflow.net/blog/2011/04/28/wifi-stations-in-berlin/
2. http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention
3. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html
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| Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home?
| from the shred-then-reassemble-of-course dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @12:40 (Data Storage)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1625208/Ask-Slashdot-How-Do-You-File-Paper-Documents-At-Home?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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swamp boy writes "How do you file paper documents at home? I'm mostly
asking about things like monthly paper-based statements that get mailed
to you (credit cards, gas cards, medical bills, health insurance
explanation of benefits, electricity bill, natural gas bill, water bill,
etc.). Do you push to have as many sent electronically as possible? Do
you scan the paper documents to store electronically and then shred the
paper document? How do you manage and organize the ones stored
electronically? I've been doing this the old-fashioned way with manila
file folders, but as time goes by I keep thinking that I should opt for
digital storage. What works for you?"
Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1625208/Ask-Slashdot-How-Do-You-File-Paper-Documents-At-Home?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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| Google Talk Enables Video Chat On Android Phones
| from the have-your-robots-call-my-robots dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @13:48 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1741246/Google-Talk-Enables-Video-Chat-On-Android-Phones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]MojoKid writes "Google recently launched [1]Google Talk with video and
voice chat for Android phones. With the service, users will be able to
video or voice chat with their friends and family directly from an
Android phone. Calls can be placed over 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connections.
According to Google, the new features will first roll out to the Nexus S
phones over the next few weeks as part of the Android 2.3.4 over-the-air
update. Google Talk with video and voice chat will launch on other
Android 2.3 and higher devices in the future as well. The video demo in
the article shows it in action."
Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1741246/Google-Talk-Enables-Video-Chat-On-Android-Phones?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Google-Talk-Enables-Video-Chat-On-Android-Smartphones/
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| Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math
| from the asking-to-be-reduced-to-bits-of-energy dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @14:50 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1746231/Patent-5893120-Reduced-To-Pure-Math?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "US Patent #5,893,120 has been [0]reduced to
mathematical formulae as a demonstration of the oft-ignored fact that
there is an [1]equivalence relation between programs and mathematics. You
may recognize [2]Patent #5,893,210 as the one over which [3]Google was
ordered to pay $5M for infringing due to some code in Linux. It should be
interesting to see how legal fiction will deal with this. Will Lambda
calculus no longer be 'math'? Or will they just decide to fix the
inconsistency and make mathematics patentable?"
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1746231/Patent-5893120-Reduced-To-Pure-Math?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2011/04/patent-5893120-reduced-to-mathematical.html
1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Curry-Howard-Lambek_correspondence
2. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,893,120.PN.&OS=PN/5,893,120&RS=PN/5,893,120
3. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2045786/google-loses-usd5-million-linux-patent-verdict
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| AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic
| from the famous-memory-part dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @15:53 (Transportation)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1817200/AF-447-Flight-Recorder-Found-In-the-Atlantic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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romiz writes "The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447
flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, [0]has
been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, and brought back to the
surface in good shape. This is the data recorder, which saves the flight
parameters. The search is still continuing in hope of finding the voice
recorder containing the sounds recorded in the plane's cockpit."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1817200/AF-447-Flight-Recorder-Found-In-the-Atlantic?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.af.447/info01mai2011.en.php
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| European Commission Paints Itself Into ACTA Corner
| from the no-no-you-are-twisting-mein-woerter dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @16:56 (EU)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1918210/European-Commission-Paints-Itself-Into-ACTA-Corner?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Halo1 writes "Last week, the European Commission published a [0]rebuttal
to an extensive and strongly condemning [1]opinion document about ACTA by
prominent European academics. Ante Wessels from the [2]FFII went through
the Commission's reply and discovered that after correcting the mistakes
they made, they [3]actually confirm the opinion they were trying to
refute. The Commission primarily appears to suffer from a lack of reading
comprehension, amnesia regarding what it said earlier, and not being
fully aware of its competences."
Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1918210/European-Commission-Paints-Itself-Into-ACTA-Corner?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2011/april/tradoc_147853.pdf
1. http://www.iri.uni-hannover.de/acta-1668.html
2. http://www.ffii.org/
3. http://acta.ffii.org/wordpress/?p=598
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| OpenBSD 4.9 Released
| from the release-the-kraken dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @17:59 (Operating Systems)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/2057227/OpenBSD-49-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "The release of [0]OpenBSD 4.9 has been
announced. New highlights included since 4.8: enabled NTFS by default
(read-only), the vmt(4) driver by default for VMWare tools, SMP kernels
can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores, support for AES-NI
instructions found in recent Intel processors, improvements in suspend
and resume, OpenSSH 5.8, MySQL 5.1.54, LibreOffice 3.3.0.4, and [1]bug
fixes." Also in BSD news, an anonymous reader writes "[2]DragonFly BSD
2.10 has been released! The latest release brings data deduplication
(online and at garbage-collection time) to the HAMMER file system.
Capping off years of work, the MP lock is no longer the main point of
contention in multiprocessor systems. It also brings a new version of the
pf packet filter, support for 63 CPUs and 512 GB of RAM and switches the
system compiler to gcc 4.4."
Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/2057227/OpenBSD-49-Released?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
Links:
0. http://www.openbsd.org/49.html
1. http://www.openbsd.org/plus49.html
2. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release210/
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| Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed
| from the translucency-failure dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday May 01, @19:04 (Crime)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/2256239/Sony-10-Million-Credit-Cards-May-Have-Been-Exposed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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WrongSizeGlass writes "The LA Times is reporting that Sony has revealed
that [0]10 million credit card accounts may have been exposed two weeks
ago when a hacker broke into the company's computers in San Diego and
stole data from 77 million PlayStation Network accounts. Sony said it
will provide credit card protection services for the 10 million customers
whose data were compromised. Sony last week said it had encrypted credit
card data, but not other account information, including names, addresses,
email addresses and birth dates."
Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/2256239/Sony-10-Million-Credit-Cards-May-Have-Been-Exposed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting
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